In support of the current pandemic, Infobase, an educational solutions company providing digital reference content, has made available the following collections:

  • CAREERS

    Ferguson's Career Guidance Center,  a comprehensive resource for career exploration and planning, including  th industry and professions articles, school planning resources, or skills and career advice. 

  • CURRENT ISSUES

Issues & Controversies helps students explore hot topics in politics, government, business, society, education, and popular culture. Each article is presented in a balanced, pro/con format and includes  key facts, arguments, history, and current context—an ideal resource for research papers, debate preparation, and persuasive writing assignments.

World News Digest.  With more than 300,000 original articles and a vast archive covering every major event since the the sixties, this database offers concise summaries of current events and  essays on the top issues of the day.

  • HISTORY

    American History is composed of a variety of learning assets, including articles, images, primary source documents, timelines, videos, and slideshows.

  • LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Bloom's Literature. Edited and curated by Yale University professor Harold Bloom, this database includes critical essays and discussion questions, plus author biographies and character analyses, full-length poems, the full text of hundreds of reference books, full-length videos of classic plays and films.

Writer's Reference Center This database is one-stop location for all of the tools necessary to write and research effectively, from the mechanics of writing and grammar to style and research. It includes vocabulary-building dictionaries and a step-by-step guide to writing a good essay.

  • SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS

Today's Science provides comprehensive and in-depth explanations of some of the most important advances in biology, chemistry, environmental science, space, physics, and technology. Each article includes images and videos.