If you’re looking for quality resources for research, databases are a great place to start!

There are databases for all kinds of things. Here are our recommendations:

• EBSCO Explora and Britannica School (also available in Spanish as Britannica Escolar) for anything
• NCpedia and NC Digital Heritage Center for North Carolina resources
• Ebooks from EBSCO and NCKIDS Digital Library for ebooks

Databases like for you to use keyword searches, and websites are good at natural language searches.

• Keyword searches like individual words, not sentences. Searches look like “literature AND Shakespeare AND influence”
• Natural Language searches like sentences or questions. Searches look like “how does Shakespeare influence literature today”