Complete series on the lives and careers of popular and significant authors and illustrators of books for children and teens.

Contains information on core subjects from Science to Literature to History of student-focused subject material. Includes content of Discovering Collection database.

Covers the world's most influential people, merging reference content with periodicals and multimedia, allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, gender, keyword and full text.

A collection of reference eBooks on a wide variety of topics. Portions of the books can be downloaded onto eReader devices.

Access to thousands of full-text poems, stories, essays, plays and speeches.

Broad range of subject content containing criticisms, biographies, primary sources, reviews, and multimedia on writers and works around the world.

An online resource for finding great fiction books for kids, especially pre-K through eighth grade.

An online resource for finding great books. Reviews, book discussion guides and annotated book lists are constantly updated. Find books by the same author, or similar books by another author. Browse by subject, genre, and theme for over 150,000 titles. 

Bibliographic and ordering information on over 300,000 serials worldwide--covering print, electronic, and microform resources from more than 90,000 publishers and providers. Updated weekly.

Quick reference and scholarly articles from a broad range of subjects in over 100 titles that include key titles from the Oxford Companion series and the complete Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.