Library

• Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society: Thousands of primary and secondary sources, as well as photos, illustrations, audio, and video on current trends and controversies in society.
• World Geography: Understanding a Changing World: Biographies, photographs, maps, thousands of primary and secondary sources, country profiles, and statistical data graphing tools.
• World History: The Modern Era: World history from 1500 onward via dozens of era explorations, video modules, primary and secondary sources, audio interviews, and more.
• World Religions: Belief, Culture, and Controversy: Maps, photos, illustrations, a statistical comparison tool, and primary and secondary sources covering more than fifty religions.

Over 170 searchable e-books, richly illustrated and covering fields such as Photography, Design, Illustration, Film, to name a few, along with artists interviews, case studies, guidelines for portfolio development, and more.

BASO offers the following publications:

• Biblical Archaeology Review, 1975-present.
• Bible Review, 1985-2005.
• Archaeology Odyssey, 1998-2006.
• The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land, vol. 5, 2008.
• Smithsonian Institution Symposia:
  • The Rise of Ancient Israel, 26 October 1991.
  • The Search for Jesus: Modern Scholarship Looks at the Gospels, 11 September 1993.
  • Feminist Approaches to the Bible, 24 September 1994.
  • Aspects of Monotheism: How God is One, 19 October 1996.

Designed for high school students, CREDO offers 400+ top-tier reference titles, 11,000+ topic pages, a mind-map brainstorming tool, instructional videos, thorough coverage of academic integrity and source evaluation, and simple-to-use collaboration tools for educators.

Destiny is the key to finding fiction, nonfiction, and reference books in the library's collection, as well as OverDrive ebooks, audiobooks, and streaming media such as movies.

Students and educators can log in to their personal Destiny profile and leave reviews of books and other media for current and future Gibbons students and educators to read and be advised by!

Drama Online offers students and educators e-books on theory and craft, play scripts, audio plays, filmed productions of Shakespeare's plays performed in the Globe Theatre, and many more resources covering every aspect of the theater.

Our EBSCO suite of databases includes the following:

• AP Source
  • 5,500+ full-text academic journals
  • 502,000+ photos and maps
• MAS Complete
  • 560+ popular high school magazines
  • 420 full-text reference books
  • 103,000+ biographies
  • 73,000+ primary source documents
  • 1.3 million+ image collection
• Newspaper Source Plus
  • 1,200+ newspapers
  • 40+ news magazines
  • 130 newswires
  • 67 million full-text articles
  • 1.4 million television and radio news transcripts
• TOPICsearch
  • Sources specifically chosen to support classroom discussion.
    • Biographies
    • Book reviews
    • Government publications
    • Periodicals
    • Public opinion polls
    • International newspapers
• Literary Reference Center Plus
  • 130,000+ full-text poems
  • 36,000 plot summaries and synopses
  • 750+ full-text literary journals
  • 900,000+ book reviews
  • 2,600+ reference books
  • 260,000 author biographies
  • 7,000+ full-text classic novels
  • 32,000+ short stories
  • 10,000+ author interviews
  • 107,000+ literary criticism essays
• Religion and Philosophy Collection
  • 495 full-text journals
• Consumer Health Complete
  • Medical dictionary
  • Several hundred full-text medical journals and magazines
• Teacher Research
  • 1.3+ million ERIC records
  • 323,000+ ERIC full-text documents
  • 1,200+ full-text journals
  • 500+ full-text books

A great time saver, EBSCO Discovery Service provides the ability to search all EBSCO and Gale databases, JSTOR, World Book Encyclopedia Online, and NewsBank at the same time.

Encyclopedia Britannica offers interactive maps, articles, resources guides, primary sources, timelines, educator tools, and dictionaries.

The Gale Group suite of databases includes the following:

• Biography in Context
  
  • Full-text, image, audio, and video content
  • 650,000+ biographical entries
  • 400,000+ international figures from all times periods and areas of study
  • 4,500+ portal pages
  • 170+ authoritative sources such as the Encyclopedia of World Biography and the Writer's Directory
  • Millions of articles drawn from hundreds of newspapers and periodicals
• Opposing Viewpoints in Context
  • Full-text, image, audio, and video content
  • 19,000+ reference articles, including topic overviews
  • 12,000+ charts, graphs, and other statistical information
  • 300+ profiles of federal agencies and special-interest groups
  • Coverage of the annual debate topic selected by the National Speech and Debate Association
  • 20,000+ pro/con viewpoints
• Science in Context
  • Full-text, image, audio, and video content
  • 200+ experiments and projects from U*X*L Experiment Central
  • Millions of articles drawn from hundreds of newspapers and periodicals

• Student Resources in Context
  
  • Full-text, image, audio, and video content
  • 150+ authoritative sources such as the Gale Encyclopedia of Science and American Decades
  • Full-text newspapers and periodicals such as the Economist and the New York Times
  • Interactive maps

• U.S. History in Context
  
  • Full-text, image, audio, and video content
  • Millions of articles drawn from hundreds of newspapers and periodicals
  • Authoritative sources such as the Dictionary of American History and U*X*L Encyclopedia of American Economic History
  • 5,000+ primary source documents

• World History in Context
  
  • Full-text, image, audio, and video content
  • 1,700 primary source documents
  • Hundreds of authoritative sources such as the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust and the Dictionary of the Middle Ages
  • 2,000+ maps
  • Full-text journals and periodicals such as the History Today and the Spectator

• Literature Resource Center
  • Full-text, image, audio, and video content
  • Critical essays
  • Book reviews
  • Scholarly articles
  • In-depth biographical essays
  • Thousands of full-text poems and stories
  • Audio interviews
  • Links to vetted literary sites

• Gale Virtual Reference Library
  • Hundreds of full-text reference sources
  • Citation tools

Grove Art Online is the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of the visual arts, with 30,000 signed and peer-reviewed articles contributed by nearly 7,000 international scholars. Grove Art features entries on artists, architects, craftsmen, patrons, movements, locations, and periods, as well as bibliographies for further research and thousands of searchable images made available through Oxford’s partnerships with museums, galleries, and other outstanding arts organizations. ~from OUP website

Updated frequently, Grove Music Online is an essential tool for anyone interested in researching, teaching, or just learning more about music. Written and edited by nearly 9,000 subject experts, Grove’s 51,000 articles offer clear overviews of topics from a scholarly perspective and include extensive bibliographies, which are curated to guide users through existing scholarship. Grove’s 33,000 biographical articles provide life information and detailed works lists for composers, performers, and other important musical figures. Grove Music Online also features more than 5,000 images, musical examples, and links to audio and video examples. It is the perfect starting point for scholarly research, but with a clear and engaging writing style, Grove is easily accessible to amateur music-lovers as well. ~from OUP website

JSTOR offers hundreds of current and archival journals, books, and primary sources.

The Loebs' famous green-, red-, and purple-covered volumes--more than 520 fully searchable Greek, Latin, and English texts--give access to virtually all of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance thought.

NewsBank allows students to "explore diverse perspectives, topics and trends that align with curricular areas such as English, Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, Technology, Arts, History and more to foster critical thinking skills. Features reliable, credible information from a wide variety of international, national and local news sources. Also available remotely 24/7 from home on any device."

Published by the Catholic News Service, Origins Online provides encyclicals, speeches, pastoral letters, diocesan policy statements, and more.

OverDrive offers the easiest e-content reading and viewing imaginable: fiction, nonfiction, and graphic novels that open directly in a laptop's, tablet's, or smartphone's browser, no additional software needed, and audiobooks and streaming video that do the same.

OBSO offers side-by-side commentaries of user-selected Bible editions, dozens of full-text reference sources, as well as images, maps, timelines, and lesson plans.

From French and Spanish to Arabic and Chinese, and more, these language dictionaries go beyond reverse translation and venture into grammar, pronunciation, and writing lessons for the specific language. Using corpora to identify new words and meanings in other languages alongside more traditional methods, such as suggestions submitted by users and their own editorial community, Oxford Dictionaries Premium runs reading programs where nominated readers look for new words or new senses of existing words. And ODP invites language communities to submit words for inclusion directly to some of its language sites. ~paraphrased from OUP website

Designed to combat the misinformation that characterizes so much of the internet, these comprehensive collections of in-depth, peer-reviewed summaries on an ever-growing range of topics are the result of investment by Oxford University Press in the Oxford Research Encyclopedias project. ~paraphrased from OUP website

Launched by Oxford University Press in 1995, Very Short Introductions offer concise introductions to a diverse range of subject areas from Performing Arts, Music, and History to Mathematics, Sociology, and Chemistry.

All titles provide intelligent and serious introductions to a huge range of subjects, written by experts in the field who combine facts, analysis, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make challenging topics highly readable.

World Book Encyclopedia Online offers interactive maps, articles, resources guides, timelines, educator tools, and a Spanish-language encyclopedia.