Education

Atlascope is a tool for exploring historic urban maps in metropolitan Boston and telling stories about how places have changed over time. It currently includes 70 atlases of Boston and its inner suburbs.

Full-text news and scholarly journal articles, audiovisual materials, reports, and primary source material covering all academic disciplines.  Includes translation and citation tools and a TopicFinder to expand your research. Coverage: 1980-present.

Full-text journal and magazine articles, newspapers, and audiovisual material covering a diverse set of general interest and academic topics.

Encyclopedias and other specialized reference sources covering the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences, including medicine, business, law, and more.

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Full-text articles from hundreds of scholarly journals from the mid-19^th century to the early 21^st century covering a wide range of subjects, including complete runs of many historical journals. The most recent 3-5 years of current journals are not available in full-text.

Car, motorcycle, and CDL practice tests and handbooks, presented in partnership with driving-tests.org.

Full-text journal articles in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, including ethnic studies, women’s studies, history, and more. Coverage: 1972-present.

Indexes articles, book reviews, poems, and short stories from general-interest U.S. periodicals, including Time, Newsweek, and Ladies’ Home Journal.

Provided by Oxford University Press, Very Short Introductions offer concise introductions to a diverse range of subject areas from Climate to Consciousness, Game Theory to Ancient Warfare, Privacy to Islamic History, Economics to Literary Theory.

Find a new job or discover a new career with searchable listings for jobs and schools, writing tools, tips and advice, and even simulated job interviews.

Access Foundation Center databases, directories, fundraising and philanthropy publications, and training resources from a single link.  Includes Foundation Directory Online Professional, and Foundation Grants to Individuals Online.

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Access outside of BPL locations to the Foundation Directory Online Essential product graciously permitted by the vendor for the duration of our closure.

Foundation Maps is Foundation Center’s premier data visualization tool and the easiest way to see who is funding what and where around the world. With millions of grants from 2006 to the present, innovative ways to visualize funding data, and the flexibility and precision to tailor research, Foundation Maps helps funders and nonprofits access the knowledge they need to make strategic decisions and strengthen their impact.

This collection focuses on finding the right career and an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career. It offers content from nearly 400 journals from general career guides to trade publications.

Test preparation materials and practice exams for K-12 subjects, high school equivalency, college and graduate admissions, military, U.S. citizenship, and professional licensing and certification exams. Includes the Job & Career Accelerator to help you achieve your career goals.

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Video courses in business, software, technology, and creative skills, taught by recognized industry experts.

To use our free collection of Lynda.com tutorials, do not visit Lynda.com directly. Always follow links from bpl.org to access our Lynda.com Library subscription sign in portal.

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An interactive language-learning resource supporting dozens of languages, including Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), English, Hindi, and Spanish.

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Indexes British and U.S. dissertations from the early 20^th century to the present, including the entries in Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, 1933-1955. Some entries include links to full-text versions of the dissertations.

Three levels of age-appropriate encyclopedia content for adults, middle and high school students, and children. Includes articles, primary sources, audiovisual materials, dictionaries, a world atlas, web links, and a country comparison feature.  Research tools include citation assistance and a step-by-step planner and tutorial for research and reports.

Three comprehensive encyclopedias for elementary, middle, and high school students.

Consiste en dos recursos principales: Enciclopedia Moderna (para edades de escuela secundaria y posteriores) y Britannica Escolar Online (para edades de 6 a 12).

Consists of two resources: Enciclopedia Moderna (for high school students and above) and Britannica Escolar Online (for ages 6-12).

Encyclopedias for children from Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Indexed full-text biographies and news items covering a wide range of individuals from many fields, gathered from reference sources and periodicals.

Current news, journal articles, primary sources, statistics, audiovisual material, and web links. Over 600 topic pages offer organized collections of resources about events, countries, organizations, and subjects of national and international concern.

Journal, magazine, and news articles, reference books, audiovisual material, maps, experiments, and web links. Over 600 topic pages offer organized collections of resources about scientists and scientific subjects.

Test preparation materials and practice exams for K-12 subjects, high school equivalency, college and graduate admissions, military, U.S. citizenship, and professional licensing and certification exams. Includes the Job & Career Accelerator to help you achieve your career goals.

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The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, created in 2004, is a nonprofit organization established as a public-private partnership between the Library and philanthropist Norman Leventhal.

Online eBooks for teens, grades 7-12.

Apps available using links below. Log in on the School tab:

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Free access provided by TumbleBooks through August 2020.

Online eBooks for kids, grades K-6.

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Free access provided by TumbleBooks through August 2020.

Online math eBooks, grades K-6.

Free access provided by TumbleBooks through August 2020.

An interactive learning environment for ages 4 to 7 that gives early learners developmentally appropriate skill-building activities. Includes art and reading activities, games, a visual atlas, audiovisual materials, vocabulary builders, and more.

An index and full-text digital library of English-language education research, including journal articles, government publications, reports, theses, dissertations, books, conference proceedings, and audiovisual materials. All items are described using the ERIC Thesaurus, a special collection of subject terms for education topics. This resource is created and maintained by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences.

Journal and magazine articles and reports covering early childhood through higher education, as well as administration, funding, child and adolescent development and psychology, technology, multilingual and multicultural education, special education, professional development, and more.

The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, created in 2004, is a nonprofit organization established as a public-private partnership between the Library and philanthropist Norman Leventhal.