Downloadable audio and ebooks on a variety of topics, including language learning, history, biography, classic literature, and more. Compatible with all popular e-readers that support apps. An app is available for download. Users will need to make a personal account to use this resource.
History Study Center is a unique reference tool that delivers a comprehensive collection of primary and secondary source material that meets the needs of both AP and mainstream courses in Social Studies.
History Study Center consists of seven integrated resources that can be easily cross-searched through a single interface:
Study Units—500+ History Topics containing editorially selected materials
Reference Works—20,000+ articles from atlases, biographical collections, encyclopedias, and research guides, more added monthly
Picture Library—3,000+ captioned historical photos, political cartoons, woodcuts, more
Video Library—hundreds of historical video clips, captioned for context and easy searching
Web Gateway—annotated links to thousands of reliable websites, from the major primary source collections down to individual pages
KnowledgeNotes™ History Guides—text-based topic guides about trends, events, and the science of history
Journal Library—cover-to-cover full text of 80 journals
Open Education North Carolina Collection contains free, open textbooks that have been curated for the most frequently taught courses across North Carolina's 2 and 4-year colleges and universities. Faculty can adopt these open educational resources (OER) to save their students money and lower the overall cost of higher education.
Open Education North Carolina is an initiative that aims to reduce the cost of higher education for North Carolina students by providing free, open textbooks for 30 of the most frequently-taught courses across North Carolina’s 2 and 4-year colleges and universities.
Read more about the initiative at: https://www.nclive.org/oenc
Full-text works of poetry, prose and drama, and secondary sources such as author biographies, literary criticisms, essays, reviews and interviews. Designed with schools and public libraries in mind.
ProQuest Learning: Literature delivers more than 180,000 searchable works of literature from medieval times to the present. Students can find author biographies, contemporary criticism, reviews, and multimedia resources organized into more than 3,000 Author Pages.
ProQuest Learning: Literature also features 100+ searchable full-text literary journals and magazines for the latest in literary criticism.
Content and Features
100% full-text
180,000 searchable works of poetry, prose, and drama
110+ Literary review and criticism sources
3,500 author biographies
Multi-media images, audio, video, websites
Dedicated author landing pages
20 Reference book sources
950+ Recorded poems read by poets
220+ KnowledgeNote™ Study Guides literary text guides
Cambridge University Press essays on 37 noted American authors and works
Study Pages with selected criticism, multi-media, and reference for genres, literary periods, literary movements, and Shakespeare
