Digital Resources: Social Studies/History!

	Academic OneFile. Contains 8,000 academic journals, the majority in full-text, available in HTML and PDF formats. In addition it contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full-text New York Times content from 1985.
	Academic OneFile Select. From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers - with full text and images!
	Biography. An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people.
	Britannica School. Elementary, Middle and High School levels, plus read-alouds for all levels and translation for over 50 languages.
	Digital Commonwealth. Explore historical photographs, documents, sound recordings and more from libraries, museums, and archives across Massachusetts.
	General OneFile. A one-stop source for news and periodical articles, including most of the content across all Thomson/Gale databases. OneFile contains over 5,000 full-text periodical titles, and more than 9,200 titles in all, on a wide range of topics.
	Global Issues. Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues.
	High School Edition. Periodicals and reference book content supporting high school student research.
	Middle School. Periodicals and reference book content supporting Middle school student research.
	Opposing Viewpoints. Continuously updated information and opinions covering hot issues!
	ProQuest Research Companion. ProQuest’s flagship information literacy product. It was built to help students do more effective scholarly research and to support educators as they teach the core information literacy principles of finding, evaluating, and using information.
	Salem History. Includes online access to: The Fifties in America;The Sixties in America;The Seventies in America;The Eighties in America; Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered Events;Great Events From History: the 19th and the 20th Century. Access to this database is limited to Franklin residents.
	U.S. History. An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History.
	World History. An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in World History.
	Universal Class. Over 500 classes, many offering Continuing Education Units, and over 100 video-audit classes!