Enrich your digital collection with one of the most authoritative general reference databases in the world. With contributions from Nobel laureates, historians, curators, professors and other notable experts, Britannica Academic provides trusted information with balanced, global perspectives and insights that users will not find anywhere else.

Customize your curriculum with trusted, highly acclaimed nonfiction content, coupled with a state-of-the-art digital reading platform. Britannica Collective delivers an essential digital learning tool for K-12 classrooms, coupled with objective, engaging, and diverse nonfiction content.

Get your teachers, students, and patrons access to Britannica’s online library of safe and legal digital media to support teaching, content creation, and student engagement. ImageQuest includes 3.5 million images from 64 leading collections that aren’t freely available on the Web. Users can search by keyword, collection, image type, and image ratio.

Do you have the right content behind your curriculum? LaunchPacks gives teachers everything they need to effectively and equitably teach. Build your social studies and science curriculum with best-in-class content.

Learning Zone is a classroom-tested, curriculum-related PK–2 Interactive Learning Environment. Play, discover, create and read—these are the cornerstones of learning for young children. This complete online Solution for early-childhood learning includes an interactive atlas, online art activities, interactive games and learning materials, audio & video and vocabulary builders. The Zone teaches concepts in the areas of geography, numbers, time, sounds and more. Note: Britannica Learning Zone is included with Britannica Online School Edition subscriptions.

The go-to reference resource for all ages. With 3 sites in one, patrons can conduct research, work on special projects, or explore their unique interests. Users can switch between 3 reading levels on each article, listen to article read aloud, and use Merriam-Webster’s double click dictionary to learn definitions and hear pronunciations. Articles can also be translated into over 80 languages. - Britannica Library Children is the perfect place to find unique and safe content that empowers younger users to ignite curiosity and discovery. - Britannica Library Young Adult encourages independent learning with access to multimedia content and the ability to toggle between reading levels. - Britannica Library Reference Center allows users to easily conduct fact-checked research from continually updated encyclopedia articles.

Britannica Online, winner of the 2010 Choice Magazine Award for being a 2010 Outstanding Academic Title has been thoroughly updated with new content and employs a user-friendly interface that specifically addresses the needs of college and university libraries. Britannica Online Academic Edition includes content such as 75,000 Articles from Encyclopaedia Britannica, 700+ Full-Text Magazine Articles from EBSCO, over 23,000 Biographies, Bonus Database World Data Analyst Online and our collection of Notable Quotations. Users enjoy Advanced Search capabilities, an interactive Table of Contents, access to over 100,000 Editor-approved web sites, access to tens of thousands of Primary Sources (including full-text e-books), and the Britannica Workspace, a research organizer. Britannica Online is used by more than 20,000,000 people in over 18 countries!

Original Sources is the reliable fact-checking reference of history-makers’ greatest accomplishments—from the dawn of civilization to the present. Find primary sources across twelve subject areas. This vast collection provides primary sources and personal accounts of humankind’s social, political, legal, and religious development, as well as some of the greatest discoveries, insights, and literary achievements in the words of the actual authors, discoverers, and knowledge-seekers.

Students can toggle between 3 reading levels on each article, have articles read aloud, and use the Merriam-Webster double-click dictionary to hear words pronounced and read their definitions in English or Spanish. Each article can also be translated into over 80 languages. The go-to site for K-12 research. Named best digital tool for teaching and learning and best digital tool for blended learning.

A learning resource collection tailored for the unique needs of Pre-K-2 students and educators. Offers a safe, age-appropriate educational environment to inspire the next generation of scholars.

Introducing a powerful, flexible digital resource that builds literacy while developing content-area knowledge in science and social studies. Expedition: Learn! puts the power of trusted, validated Britannica content at your fingertips with ready-to-use lessons on key concepts in science and social studies.

Research vetted, updated, and age-appropriate content in Spanish. 
Three levels of nonfiction text & multimodal resources. Support native Spanish speakers, bilingual learners, and students learning spanish

Global Reference Center is an extensive collection of Encyclopaedia Britannica’s foreign language content including Spanish (the entire Spanish Reference Center), Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and French (the entire Encyclopaedia Universalis). Users will find comprehensive global coverage of art, geography, history, politics, science, sports, technology, and more. Each site also contains additional local content, including culture, history, and traditions, specific to each product. Brilliant photos, detailed maps, and other imagery accompany the text, engaging readers and encouraging further learning. Clean designs and powerful search engines make it easy to find information. Vast and thorough yet intuitive and fast, the Global Reference Center is ideal for native speakers and students of foreign languages.

Image Quest, the best and broadest collection of proprietary educational imagery includes:

 

• Images from 59 of the best collections: Bridgeman Art Library, Getty Images, the National Portrait Gallery of London, the National Geographic Society and more!
• Currently almost 3,000,000 Images
• Teachers can incorporate the images in their lesson plans and classroom activities
• Students can use the site for homework assignments and course projects
• Organized by subject matter and fully searchable
• All images are rights-cleared for non-commercial, educational use!
  
  • Images can be downloaded, printed, saved in each user’s individual account (“My Images”), or emailed as jpegs or gifs.
  • Each photo or illustration comes with complete metadata, including the source, the copyright holder, caption and keywords

Uses: Constructing instructor lesson plans, assignments, activities & whiteboards; student reports & projects; school Web sites, newsletters, newspapers, flyers and bulletins.

You can trust the source and be certain that you’re using an accurate photo.

 

Merriam-Webster Unabridged is the largest, most comprehensive American dictionary currently available in print or online. This new version is the largest revision/updating in 50 years and includes 5,000 new words and definitions from a wide variety of fields. It also includes:

 

• 700,000 definitions
• 143,000 etymologies
• 100,000 quotations
• 107,000 additional example sentences
• Synonyms & Antonyms
• 1,000 pictorial illustrations

With up-to-date information, definitions, usage notes, a modern layout, and other exciting features, Merriam-Webster Unabridged is the most authoritative source of information on the English language.

Original Sources is a compilation of more than 350,000 primary source documents, including more than 5,000 complete books, and authentic images. Students have access to a virtual library of the creations and discoveries of history's greatest minds, as recorded in the authors’ original words. The library divides the original sources into eight major collections: World History, U.S. History, Science and Mathematics, Social Science, Literature, Political Science and Law, Language (including works in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, and other languages), and Philosophy and Religion. Explore this vast collection with the flexible and intuitive search engine or browse the documents by subject, starting with the early civilizations and up to the present day. This database is available to Academic and Corporate/Government Libraries.

Two Spanish-Language Encyclopedias in One! A complete reference collection for ages 6-12 and through College ages, as well as separate Home Pages for each level, making it the only online Spanish-language database that offers age-appropriate content for everyone.

 

• Britannica Escolar Online provides a Spanish Elementary Encyclopedia with 2,000 articles, images, videos, workspace, atlas and Learning Materials specifically designed for the younger students.
• Enciclopedia Moderna includes over 50,000 articles plus 4,200 images. Complete with dictionary, atlas and timelines, it’s the perfect resource for native speakers, bilingual student and students learning Spanish.

This powerful database of current and historical statistics on 217 countries of the world makes historical and cross-national comparisons easy. Plus, the Analyst Tool allows users to create tables, charts, and even export information to a spreadsheet for further data analysis. World Data Analyst provides Country Snapshots, Country Comparisons and Ranked Statistics. Users can also link to country articles from the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. Students will be able to find answers to the most detailed questions, such as: What countries have the longest life expectancy? Who uses the most electricity? Which country has the largest national park?

Note: World Data Analyst Online is included with Britannica Online Academic Edition subscription.