An online research database is simply a searchable collection of information managed by a trustworthy information/media organization or company.
Online subscription databases contain the most comprehensive, the most up-to-date, and the most reliable sources of information. We strongly recommend using our databases when doing research, rather than surfing the Internet for information.
Our databases are accessible at school and anywhere.
Please contact a school librarian for assistance with accessing and/or navigating these databases.
Bryant students and staff can access passwords with this link (when first signing into their NYC DOE email accounts).
General Encyclopedias (English)
High School, Middle School & Elementary School Levels: Britannica Online School Edition
Academic (Advanced) Level: Britannica Academic
Articles include images, multimedia, and recommended websites.
General Encyclopedias (Spanish Language)
A Spanish language encyclopedia for schools presented on two levels, Primary (Primaria) and Secondary (Secondaria).
Search for Academic Articles (English & Spanish)
Gale Infotrac: Academic OneFile: A full-text periodical database for scholarly academic research.
Gale Informe Académico: Una coleccion de revistas hispanicas con textos completos. Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines, originally written in the languages of Spanish and Portuguese.
New York Times Newspaper Articles
Gale Database of New York Times Articles: Search the full text of The New York Times for news articles and commentary from 1985 (Does not include content from the NY Times Magazine).
Test & Career Prep
Gale Presents Peterson's Test and Career Prep
Features free digital TEST Preps courses, college and career searching, and citizenship information (login through geolocation: accessible to all NY State residents).
Research Controversal Issues
Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Comprehensive coverage of the controversial issues of our time. Features: overviews, news articles, editorials, court case histories, primary documents, statistics, and podcasts.
Resources for High School Students
Offers cross-curricular content within business and economics, geography, government, history, literature, science and health, social issues, and more.
Biographical Articles
Comprehensive biographical articles of historically significant figures to present-day newsmakers. Includes reference articles, magazine and journal articles, images and videos.
World History Resources
Articles about world history, from ancient cultures to today's headlines. Includes primary sources, reliable reference works and multimedia content.
American History Resources
Contains comprehensive, media-rich information on significant people, events, and topics in U.S. history, including over 5500 primary documents.
Articles on Current World Issues
Gale in Context: Global Issues
Provides content on important global issues facing the world today, integrating news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more.
Science and Technology Research
Includes national and global publications as well as 200+ experiments, projects, and top reference content.
Professional Resources for Educators
Gale In Context: For Educators
Supplemental content for teachers to help with differentiation. It pulls the content from all of the other In Context databases. Includes standards-aligned content with lesson plans and instructional tools (Teachers access with their own NYC DOE Google credentials in order to save their own folders of content.).
ELA TEACHING RESOURCES
Queens Public Library (QPL) Resources
Features print materials and research databases on all subjects and levels.
You will need a valid Queens (or MyLibraryNYC) library card.
New York Public Library (NYPL) Resources