Don't know where to start? You can start with these general multidiscipline databases:
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Pre-College level databases, including databases for K-12 students.
Freely available databases on the Web that anybody can access.
Find newspaper, magazine, trade, and scholarly articles covering a wide range of popular academic subjects.
Open Access Find primary sources, such as historical newspaper articles, pamphlets, diaries, correspondence and more, from specific time periods in U.S. history marked by the opposition African Americans have faced on the road to freedom.
Achieve your dreams through college and career planning. Incudes information on careers, educational programs and schools, and financial aid resources.
Open Access Data Commons is an open knowledge repository that combines data from public datasets such as US Census, CDC, World Bank, Eurostats, OECD, etc., into one single searchable platform.
Open Access Find all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.
Pre-College Designed for pre-college researchers. Find articles and digital media content on a wide variety of popular topics. All articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
Pre-College Easy to read encyclopedia designed for elementary school students.
Encyclopedia includes 23 new ethnic groups and contains 152 revised ethnic entries on specific minority groups in the U.S. Also covers ethnoreligious groups such as Jews, Chaldeans and Amish.
Find full-text articles on authors, their works, and literary movements.
Find academic and peer-reviewed articles in a wide range of research topics. Especially recommended for the sciences, history, and humanities.
Pre-College Find high school level information. All articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
Pre-College Designed for the general public. Find articles and other on a wide range of public interest topics.
Pre-College Designed for Middle School. All full text articles, including biographies, are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
Open Access The National Academies Press (NAP) publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and medicine.
Open Access Find career information on duties, education and training, pay, and outlook for hundreds of occupations. Published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Open Access PLOS Biology (eISSN-1545-7885) is an open-access, peer-reviewed general biology journal. New articles are published online weekly; issues are published monthly.
Open Access PLOS ONE (eISSN-1932-6203) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication that covers all scientific disciplines.
Pre-College Designed for elementary school students. All articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
Open Access Find citations to worldwide literature on PTSD and other psychological effects of trauma. Maintained by US Dept. of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD.
Open Access Find biomedical literature from MEDLINE, PubMed Central, and NCBI Bookshelf.
Open Access Here you will find a collection of links to information about Thurston County in the areas of criminal justice, demographics, the economy, local government finance, and human services.
Open Access The Census Bureau is the federal government’s largest statistical agency. They provide current facts and figures about United State’s people, places, and economy.
Open Access Find data on employment, wages, inflation, productivity, and many other labor related topics
Provides detailed studies of tribes from all over the United States and Canada, including small tribes and some that no longer exist.
Open Access Published every two years by the Office of Financial Management, the Data Book contains eleven major sections: Population, Economy, State Government Finance, Human Services, Criminal Justice, Education, Natural Resources, Environment, Energy, Transportation, and Local Government.
Open Access Digital collections on Washington State history.
Open Access Data and research on a variety of issues related to the state budget, public policy and demographics. Topics include the economy, labor force, criminal justice, health care, and education.
Profiles of women who fought against stereotypes throughout history and all over the world to forge new discoveries and theories that would eventually change the way we view science.
Covers cultural groups in Asia, Europe, the Americas and Africa.
