Since its beginnings in 1974, the aim of CultureGrams has been to foster understanding and appreciation of the world's countries and peoples by creating and publishing excellent content. Today the CultureGrams series is one of the most trusted and widely used cultural reference and curriculum products in the education, government, and non-profit arenas. In 2004, the CultureGrams product line was acquired by ProQuest, a global leader in collecting, organizing, and distributing value-added information to researchers, faculty, and students in over 160 countries.

Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, the most popular search method is moving from a broad subject to a narrower topic using the subject-based topic tree. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

TeachingBooks.net is a time-saving portal to thousands of online resources you can use to explore children's and young adult books and their authors.

CobblestoneOnline.net is a unique database of thousands of articles from the award-winning magazines of Cobblestone Publishing. Now with just a few clicks on the Web, you can access an entire collection of articles from Cobblestone, Faces, Calliope, Classical Calliope, Odyssey, AppleSeeds, Dig, Footsteps, and California Chronicles magazines. 

This site includes thousands of articles, state-of-the art multimedia, editor-reviewed Web sites, periodicals, and more. The World Book web site offers an encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, homework help, study aids, and curriculum guides. World Book is the publisher of the World Book Encyclopedia.

netTrekker is a leader in the delivery of digital K-12 educational content and is dedicated to enhancing the education of today's youth with highly effective technologies that deliver rich educational content to every child in a safe, relevant, easy-to-use format. With the mission to help every child learn and a belief that technology can transform education, netTrekker was first to market with a standards-based educational search tool.

An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145,000 words that you explore using an interactive map. It's a tool for people who think visually. The most fun you've ever had with words. The Visual Thesaurus was built using Thinkmap, a data visualization technology.

Maps101.com is a web-based interactive database of teacher lesson plans, geography tools, online learning games, dynamic interactive map modules and over 4,000 viewable and printable history, thematic, reference, outline, current events and animated maps.

AP Images, a division of the Associated Press, is the essential source of editorial and creative photographs, videos, graphics and interactives for professional image buyers.

Discovery Education streaming integrates seamlessly into any curriculum with 5,000 full-length videos segmented into 41,000 content-specific clips tied directly state and national standards.

Gale provides access to over 20 full-text databases on a wide variety of subjects including business, education, health, science, technology and homework help. Information is from journals, magazines, pamphlets, and reference books. Multimedia resources are included for some databases.

NewsBank, inc. has been one of the world’s premier information providers for more than 35 years. NewsBank’s comprehensive, Web-based research products satisfy the diverse needs of publishers, public libraries, colleges and universities, schools, government and military libraries, genealogists, professionals and researchers.

Pattonville's NetLibrary offers more than 7,000 titles. You'll find essential reference materials, the latest computer science and IT titles, classic fiction, and more.