A New World Power

This e-book chronicles the political and social history of the United States in the aftermath of one world war through its engagement in another.

Academic Search Premier

Scholarly, multidiscipline, full text database for academic research. Covers the academic disciplines being offered in colleges and universities.

AGRICOLA

In-depth coverage of all agricultural subjects from food & human nutrition to agricultural engineering & technology, to earth & environmental sciences.

America Between the Civil War and the 20th Century: 1865-1900

This e-book looks at American history between the Civil War and the 20th century and includes firsthand accounts that reveal the prevailing ideologies of the time and shed light on significant people and events.

American Decades Primary Sources: 2000-2009

This e-book volume covers the first decade of the twenty-first century from monumental events and groundbreaking individuals to the details of Americans’ daily lives. Topics include world events, the arts, business and the economy, education, fashion, government and politics, law and justice, lifestyles and social trends, media, medicine and health, religion, science and technology, and sports.

American Decades: 2010-19

American Eras, Primary Sources: Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1877)

A student-friendly reference offering full or excerpted primary sources representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements, and events from the era. This e-book includes essays on events, publications, lifestyles and individuals important to the Civil War and Reconstruction Era in U.S. history.

American Eras, Primary Sources: Development of a Nation (1783-1815)

A student-friendly reference offering full or excerpted primary sources representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements, and events from the era. This e-book includes primary sources documenting events, publications, lifestyles, and individuals important to the early Republic period in U.S. History.

American Eras, Primary Sources: Development of the Industrial United States (1878-1899)

A student-friendly reference offering full or excerpted primary sources representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements, and events from the era. This e-book includes essays on events, publications, lifestyles, and individuals important to the era of industrial development in U.S. history.

American Eras, Primary Sources: Early American Civilizations and Exploration to 1600

A student-friendly reference offering full or excerpted primary sources representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements, and events from the era. This e-book includes essays on events, publications, lifestyles, and individuals important to the era of early American civilizations and exploration before 1600.

American Eras, Primary Sources: Reform Era & Eastern US Development (1815-1850)

A student-friendly reference offering full or excerpted primary sources representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements, and events from the era. This e-book includes essays on events, publications, lifestyles, and individuals important to the Reform Era and Eastern United States development in U.S. history.

American Eras, Primary Sources: Revolutionary Era (1754-1783)

A student-friendly reference offering full or excerpted primary sources representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements, and events from the era. This e-book includes essays on events, publications, lifestyles, and individuals important to the Revolutionary Era in U.S. history.

American Eras, Primary Sources: The Colonial Era (1600-1754)

A student-friendly reference offering full or excerpted primary sources representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements, and events from the era. This e-book includes essays on events, publications, lifestyles, and individuals important to the American colonial era.

American Eras, Primary Sources: Westward Expansion (1800-1860)

A student-friendly reference offering full or excerpted primary sources representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements, and events from the era. This e-book includes essays on events, publications, lifestyles, and individuals important to the Westward Expansion Era in U.S. history.

Business Source Premier

Find content from journals covering all areas of business including marketing, management, accounting, finance, and economics. Includes company profiles with SWOT analyses.

Chilton Library

Step-by-step instructions for your auto repair needs. Includes videos and animations, close-up images, wiring diagrams, diagnostic information, and maintenance and specification tables.

Contemporary Novelists

This e-book includes biographies, bibliographies, and critical essays on approximately 650 contemporary writers.

Contemporary Poets

This e-book provides bibliographies and biographical information on 787 of the world’s most important contemporary English-language poets.

Digital Public Library of America

Discover 33,092,706 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.

Drugs & Controlled Substances: Info for Students

This single-volume e-book provides detailed information on the physiological and psychological effects of addictive drugs and substances, from illegal drugs to commonly abused classes of prescription and over-the-counter drugs. Arranged alphabetically by drug name, each entry follows a standard format, allowing researchers to find the information they need easily and also to facilitate comparison between drugs.

EBSCOhost

EBSCOhost is an intuitive online research platform with quality databases and search features to help researchers of all kinds find the information they need fast. The updated User Interface offers updated accessibility features and is mobile-friendly.

Encyclopedia of Drug Abuse

This e-book covers the full range of illegal and legal drugs and how they impact society. Taking a global perspective, this new title looks at the worldwide drug trade and the effects of drug abuse in countries and cultures around the world, as well as in the United States.

Encyclopedia of Recreation & Leisure in America

This two-volume e-book encyclopedia provides a comprehensive survey of American pastimes from the Colonial era to the present.

Encyclopedia of Science, Technology & Ethics

This e-book encyclopedia considers both the professional ethics of science and technology, and the ethical and political issues raised by science and technology in an increasingly complex and global society. This broad coverage supports the numerous courses in applied and professional ethics and policy related to the practice of science and technology in education.

Encyclopedia of the New American Nation

A three-volume survey of the formative years of the United States, starting just prior to the American Revolution and ending with the inauguration of Andrew Jackson in 1829. Presents 671 alphabetically arranged entries focusing on the major political markers and milestones, as well as the art, music, literature, and daily life of this period. For secondary and college students, researchers, and general readers.

Ethics, Science, Technology and Engineering: A Global Resource

This e-book considers both the professional ethics of science and technology and the ethical and political issues raised by science and technology in an increasingly complex and global society. This broad coverage supports the numerous courses in applied and professional ethics and policy related to the practice of science and technology in education, including new analytical and interpretive essays on events, scholarship, people, and legal decisions.

Exploring Science Through Science Fiction

The material in this e-book forms the basis of an interdisciplinary, college-level course that uses science fiction films as a vehicle for exploring science concepts. The science content is arranged according to major themes in science fiction, with a progression from the highly objective and discipline-specific to the multi-disciplinary and thought-provoking.

Food: In Context

This e-book examines food in relationship to nutrition, world health issues, agriculture, environmental concerns, current events and political decision-making.

Gale Encyclopedia of Diets

This e-book covers special diets, popular weight-loss programs, dietary concerns, nutritional basics, and some effects of a person’s dietary choices on one’s health. Topics are organized around the development and history of a diet, its basic principles, any key figures that influence the trend, and any public or regulatory concerns associated with the practice. Provides information across all age groups from infants to the elderly.

Gale Encyclopedia of Prescription Drugs: A Comprehensive Guide to the Most Common Medications

This encyclopedia features entries on the most commonly prescribed drugs. It describes potential side effects, drug and food interactions, recommended dosages, and warnings/precautions.

Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual & Unexplained

This e-book has information on topics relating to magic, witchcraft, the supernatural, and other mysterious phenomena with a thorough look at the history of each topic, people and practices, popular literature, television programs, and movies related to the subject.

Gale Encyclopedia of US Economic History, 2nd Edition

This e-book was designed to answer such key questions as: How has the U.S. Constitution shaped the economy of the United States? What were the consequences of Prohibition on consumer behavior? It presents 1,000 entries, era overviews, event/movement profiles, biographies, business/industry profiles, geographic profiles, and more.

Grzimek’s Animal Life Encycolpedia

This e-book features articles that familiarize readers with animals found everywhere on the globe, detailing their life cycles, predators, food systems, overall ecology, and much more.

Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia: Evolution

This e-book covers evolution in detail and explores it from a scientific viewpoint. Includes comprehensive coverage of recent ideas and discoveries in the field of evolution.

History Reference Source

Full-text content of historical documents, biographies of historical figures, photos, maps, video, and other history reference materials.

Human Diseases and Conditions, 3rd ed., 2017:

This e-book presents information on numerous diseases and conditions. Articles include a definition of the disease or condition, an explanation of how it works in the body, information on causes, symptoms and diagnosis, treatment or cure, and lifestyles.

Human Geography: People and the Environment

This e-book provides insight into both regional and global issues by addressing fundamental and advanced topics critical to the study of human geography and places special emphasis on exploring the impact of human habitation and economic activity on the environment.

Idaho Digital Repository [STACKS]

A searchable, centralized collection of digital publications that are created by Idaho state agencies for the purpose of public information. [Stacks] does not contain any material created on the city or county level, nor historical material created by other entities not considered state agencies. Although there may be some slight overlap between [Stacks] and the Idaho State Archives, the Archives primarily provides public access and archival management for the State’s permanent records –  records of enduring legal, historical, or cultural value. 

Idaho Science Journal

Every day, Idaho scientists conduct research to describe, define, investigate, and understand the world in which we live. Idaho Science Journal takes a look at the work of some of the state’s most interesting researchers.

LearningExpress Library

A comprehensive collection of test preparation tools, skill-building materials, and career resources. Use to prepare for college and career, education tutoring, software tutorials, and workforce development.

LearningExpress Library: College Center

For college students, resources to help strengthen academic skills, prepare for placement tests, and get ready for graduate school entrance exams.

Life and Career Skills Series: Health & Wellness

This e-book guides readers in making healthy choices about hygiene, diet, exercise, and medical care. They present easy-to-understand information about health-care coverage options and offer overviews of the types of available medical care, from general practitioners to alternative medicine and mental health providers.

Life and Career Skills Series: Personal Finance

This e-book guides readers in making prudent decisions about spending, saving, and borrowing, walking them through major life events, such as buying or renting a home, purchasing or leasing a car, and saving for college and retirement. It also offers practical guidance about purchasing insurance, applying for government benefits, and being an informed consumer.

Life and Career Skills: Series: Social Skills

This e-book helps readers understand and hone the social skills necessary for success. Although the essays offer advice applicable to many aspects of life, the focus is primarily on the workplace. The essays guide readers in effective communication and conduct, emphasizing the characteristics of verbal, nonverbal, and written communication, stressing the importance of ethics and etiquette, and providing tips for conflict resolution and teamwork.

Literary Reference Source

Provides information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.

Literary Themes for Students: Race & Prejudice

This e-book covers a wide range of circumstances in which individuals experience prejudice in American, British, and world literature. The discussion goes well beyond race, religion, and gender into ethnicity, social status, mental and physical health, and personal beliefs and behaviors.

Literary Themes for Students: The American Dream

This e-book provides readers with an overview of literary works that explore the theme of the American dream. Analyzes poetry, plays, short stories, novels, and works of nonfiction that address this theme in some capacity and how that theme has been treated in literature at different times in history and across diverse cultures.

Literary Themes for Students: War & Peace

Makers at Work

As all the interviews in this work show, makers have something in common: reverence for our technical past coupled with an aversion to convention. If they can’t invent new processes or products, it’s simply not worth doing.

MEDLINE

Content from biomedical and health journals used by health care professionals, nurses, clinicians and researchers engaged in clinical care, public health and health policy development.

Newspaper Source Plus

Full text coverage of major newspapers, videos, and podcasts covering critical news topics.

Next Steps Idaho

College and career planning resources for high school students from the Idaho State Board of Education.

Novelist Plus

Find fiction reading recommendations for all ages. Search by book title, author, genre, or key plot points. Find information about a book series and discussion guides for book groups.

Nutrition & Well-Being A-Z

This e-book examines the relationship between food and health on a historical, national and personal level. It analyzes how nutrition has affected quality of life, health, and fitness in various countries at different times in history.

Open Textbook Library

The Open Textbook Library contains peer-reviewed textbooks on a variety of subjects. The textbooks can be downloaded at no cost, or printed at low cost.

Outdoor Idaho

Outdoor Idaho celebrates the incredible richness of Idaho. Filmed entirely on location, the program explores the beauty, the drama, and the science of nature, while examining the significant environmental and resource issues facing the intermountain West. Since 1983, Outdoor Idaho has produced nearly 300 programs, winning hundreds of national and regional awards.

Political Theories for Students

This e-book provides in-depth information on major political theories and systems from all time periods. Each entry begins with a general overview of the system/theory followed by a discussion of the principal aspects of the theory, the theory’s philosophy, and an analysis of the historical context in which the theory was developed, including critical response.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

Access to top psychology and behavioral sciences journals.

Real Life Math

This e-book provides an understanding of commonly studied math concepts by illustrating their use in everyday life in everyday tasks, such as buying insurance, constructing a budget, reading graphs, adjusting cooking recipes, or planning for retirement. Topics are designed to support the modern mathematics curriculum and contain examples related to the global economy.

Real Life Math: Everyday Use of Mathematical Concepts

This e-book provides many insights into the many connections between mathematics applications and the real world. Nearly 50 math concepts are presented with multiple examples of how each is applied in everyday environments, such as the workplace, nature, science, sports, and even parking.

Religion and Philosophy Collection

Scholarly content for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies.

Scientific Thought in Context

This e-book includes original essays written by leading experts in the field, primary source documents that articulate the interrelation of science and society, and sidebars on the cultural, economic, and political issues surrounding scientific thought — providing insights on leading social issues and exploring the impact of science on society through the ages.

Shakespeare for Students

This e-book is a collection of essays by Shakespeare scholars that have been selected for students at the high school or undergraduate college level. Each entry includes an introduction, a plot synopsis, a character list, a discussion of the work’s principal themes, information about the style and literary devices used, a conversation about the work’s historical context, and a critical overview.

The College Blue Book

Guide to thousands of 2-and 4-year schools in the U.S. and Canada. Covers the expected listings and detailed descriptions, degree programs offered, scholarships, and occupational education programs.

The Growth of a Superpower

This e-book examines the trajectory of American history between the administrations of Harry Truman and Barack Obama and the factors that have shaped and sustained its development.

US Imperialism and Progressivism

This e-book examines American history between the end of the Civil War and the end of World War I, considering in depth both the imperialist and progressive influences that heralded the country’s future position as a major force on the international stage.

VideoHound’s Golden Movie Retreiver

This e-book reviews movies that are available on DVD or tape. Each entry includes title, alternate title, one-to-four-bone rating, year released, MPAA rating, brief review, length, format, country of origin, cast, technical personnel, awards, and made-for-television/cable/video designations.

World Book Advanced

Encyclopedia for high school or new college students. Includes multimedia, e-book center with public domain content, and primary source documents.