Transparent Language: Free access to learning a variety of languages online through Transparent Language. (Transparent Language is taking the place of Mango Languages. Mango will be available until July 30, 2023.) Features include:
- 110+ languages, including American Sign Language.
- 30+ English as a second language courses.
- US Citizenship Test Prep Course.
- KidSpeak for Libraries. These are activities designed just for kids ages 6 and up to learn English, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, French, and German.
Gale News Stand: Contains over 1,100 newspapers, 33 of which are New York State newspapers, including the Albany Times Union, New York Times, Newsday, Buffalo News, Post-Standard (Syracuse), Watertown Daily Times, Times Herald-Record (Middletown) and others.
Khan Academy: Khan Academy is an American non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by Sal Khan. Its goal is to create a set of online tools that help educate students. The organization produces short video lessons. Its website also includes supplementary practice exercises and materials for educators
Elementary School Support
Britannica School from Encyclopedia Britannica (Elementary): Offers thousands of up-to-date, curated, and curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, recommended Websites
Kids InfoBits: Contains over 100 age-appropriate magazines for grades K-5. Also includes Merriam-Webster’s Elementary Dictionary, maps, flags, seals, charts and graphs.
Middle School Support
Britannica School from Encyclopedia Britannica (Middle): Offers thousands of up-to-date, curated, and curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, recommended Websites.
Research in Context: Offers magazines, newspapers, primary sources, over 12,000 videos and more on a variety of topics. Supports national and state curriculum standards in language arts, social studies and science.
High School Support
Britannica Academic from Encyclopædia Britannica: Combines Encyclopedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools providing the variety of reliable sources that college students need to consult when conducting thorough collegiate research—all from one resource. Written by Nobel laureates, historians, curators, professors, and other notable experts.
Britannica School from Encyclopedia Britannica (High School): Offers thousands of up-to-date, curated, and curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, recommended Websites
Opposing Viewpoints in Context: Covers today’s hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration. Helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more.
Diversity Studies Collection: For social science, history and liberal arts coursework, this collection of more than 150 journals explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community
Free Digital Tours
- The Louvre, Petite Gallerie: Visit the museum rooms and galleries, admire the palace architecture and enjoy the views!
- Musee d’Orsay: Travel to this former railway station, which opened as a museum of French Impressionist and post-impressionist art in 1986. since 1986.
- Rijksmuseum: From your comfy chair with your nose on top of The Battle of Waterloo? Want to not just watch the Night Watch but really experience it? Or put together your own ideal exhibition? All of that is possible for free and from the comfort of your own home!
- Van Gogh Museum: The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam houses the largest collection of artworks by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) in the world. The permanent collection includes over 200 paintings by Vincent van Gogh, 500 drawings and more than 750 letters.
- Vatican Museum: 360 degree tours of multiple museums within Vatican City.
- Uffizi Galleries: Thanks to the passion for the arts and the patronage of the Medici and della Rovere families (connected through the marriage, in 1634, of Ferdinando II de’ Medici and Vittoria della Rovere, who as a dowry brought the enormous art collection of the duchy of Urbino to Florence), the Uffizi’s holdings of Venetian painting of the 1500s are amongst the most important in the world. The galleries dedicated to them were restored and opened in 2019.
- Reina Sofia: Founded in 1990 after originally being created as an art centre, Museo Reina Sofía is among the culminating events of the Spanish transition to democracy, recovering Pablo Picasso’s Guernica as well as an outstanding representation of the international avant-gardes and neo-avant-gardes.
- Acropolis Museum: The Acropolis Museum is an archaeological site-specific museum, housing more than 3.000 famous artefacts from the Athenian Acropolis, the most significant sanctuary of the ancient city. Located in the historical area of Makriyianni, southeast of the Rock of the Acropolis, the Museum narrates the story of life on the Rock from prehistoric times until the end of Antiquity.
- The State Hermitage Museum: The State Hermitage Museum is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was founded in 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great acquired a collection of paintings from the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky.
- Pergamon Museum: The Pergamonmuseum was designed by Alfred Messel; its construction was overseen by Ludwig Hoffmann and lasted twenty years, from 1910 to 1930. A smaller building initially stood on the same site for a just few years before being torn down. It housed the important excavation finds unearthed by the Berlin museums, such as the frieze panels from the Pergamon Altar, reclaimed from the earth in digs that lasted from 1878 to 1886.
- British Museum: The British Museum’s remarkable collection spans over two million years of human history and culture. Over 6 million visitors every year experience the collection, including world-famous objects such as the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures, and Egyptian mummies.
- Tate Britain: Tate Britain (known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery) is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London. It is part of the Tate network of galleries in England, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is the oldest gallery in the network, having opened in 1897.
- National Museum of Anthropology: The National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City – devoted to the archaeology and history of Mexico’s pre-Hispanic civilisations.
- The MET: This award-winning series of six short videos invites viewers around the world to virtually visit The Met’s art and architecture in a fresh, immersive way. Created using spherical 360° technology, it allows viewers to explore some of the Museum’s iconic spaces as never before.
- MoMA: Founded in 1929, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in midtown Manhattan was the first museum devoted to the modern era. Today MoMA’s rich and varied collection offers a panoramic overview of modern and contemporary art, from the innovative European painting and sculpture of the 1880s to today’s film, design, and performance art.
- J. Paul Getty Museum: The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center features works of art dating from the eighth through the twenty-first century, showcased against a backdrop of dramatic architecture, tranquil gardens, and breathtaking views of Los Angeles.
- National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (South Korea): Since opening its door in 1969, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Korea has lived through the history of Korean art. In the process, MMCA established itself as a representative institution of Korean modern art.
- Museu Nacional, Brazil: A Virtual Tour Against Destruction: The National Museum in Rio de Janeiro is Brazil’s oldest natural history institution, founded in June 1818 by King João VI of Portugal, Brazil, and the Algarves. Originally it was called the Royal Museum, because when the Royal family migrated to Brazil, their whole empire was transferred there, making Portugal and Algarves part of the Kingdom of Brazil. Soon after, the museum was used to stimulate scientific research in the kingdom.