K-12 Digital Resources

DPLA: Digital Public Library of America: The DPLA offers a single point of access to millions of items-photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more-from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States.

EBSCO's Explora, a resource for students and public libraries, provides access to articles from general-interest magazines and scholarly journals. 

Gale In Context: Environmental Studies

Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.

Gale Interactive: Science

Manipulate 3D interactive models to visualize and understand concepts in biology, chemistry, earth, and space science

Gale Presents: National Geographic Kids

Explore amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space. Best for children aged 6–14.

These resources are made available to all California students by the the California State Library's California K-12 Digital Resources initiative. 

Learning Express Library offers practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, eBooks, and information you need to achieve the results you want at school, at work, or in life. Explore the Job and Career Accelerator, work toward your High School Equivalency, or discover resources for Spanish speakers! 

PebbleGo by Capstone for K-2 

Access PebbleGo articles and eBooks with this link. PebbleGo is a collection of nonfiction articles specifically designed for K-2 students. Packed with informational text, ready-made activities, and literacy supports for students of all abilities, it boosts engagement and fosters independent learning in core subject areas.

This resource is made available to all California students by the the California State Library's California K-12 Digital Resources initiative. 

ProQuest (Grades 3-12)

 * The icons above and main links below work for accessing these resources on your school campus. Students and staff with the district/school's off-campus access name and access codes should use the "Off-Campus Access" links below when using from public libraries or other non-school locations. 

• CultureGrams - Concise social, cultural, and political information on countries, U.S. states, and provinces around the world. (Grades 3-12)
  CultureGrams Off-Campus Access
• SIRS Discoverer - A general reference database providing safe, reliable, curriculum-aligned content and features for use by students and educators. (Grades 3-9)
  SIRS Discoverer Off-Campus Access
• SIRS Issues Researcher - Pros and cons on 360+ (and growing) complex social issues with relevant, credible information that tells the whole story on the major questions of the day.  (Grades 6+)
  SIRS Issues Researcher Off-Campus Access
• eLibrary - Database Edition General reference aggregation of periodical and digital media content with editorial guidance for novice researchers. (Grades 6+)
  eLibrary Database Edition Off-Campus Access
• ProQuest One Academic - With ProQuest One Academic, four core multi-disciplinary products – ProQuest Central, Academic Complete, Academic Video Online and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global – are now available and cross-searchable on the same user-friendly, responsive, award-winning ProQuest platform.  (Grades 9+)
  ProQuest One Academic Off-Campus Access
• Schools & Educators Complete - eBook subscription database of over 13,000 titles that supports English Language Arts, Science, Math, Social Studies, Health, Physical Education, Information Literacy and Technology. On the sign in screen input your library barcode (Grades 9+, possibly some content for Middle School, also includes professional development content for faculty)

Need help from ProQuest? See our support page. 800-521-0600 | customerservice@proquest.com

These resources are made available to all California students by the the California State Library's California K-12 Digital Resources initiative.