Classroom Video On Demand is a comprehensive streaming video subscription service for high schools, featuring unlimited access to more than 5,000 educational programs that can be viewed in class, at the library, or from home.  Our subscription includes the "Master Collection" and the "Career and Technical Education" videos.

Digital versions of various reference books.

Offers authoritative reference content alongside magazine and journal articles, primary sources, videos, audio podcasts, and images. Covering a vast array of people from historically significant figures to present-day newsmakers, it’s continuously updated to ensure researchers have access to the very latest information.

Designed to support global awareness, Gale In Context: Global Issues ties together a wealth of authoritative content that empowers researchers to critically analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world. Integrating news, global viewpoints, reference, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more in a single search, Gale In Context: Global Issues brings essential, balanced information to researchers across many academic disciplines, as well as newsworthy topics.

Access award-winning journalism from The New York Times online using your computer, phone, or tablet. Additional features include interactive pieces, The Learning Network (content and resources meant to support educators and student learning), NYT Espanol, TimesMachine (archive of 150 years of NYT journalism), The Daily news podcast, and InEducation (curated resources pairing news to content areas).

Digital access to Salem History, Salem Literature, Salem Health, Salem Science, and Salem Careers.

This digital subscription includes access to daily editions of the Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper.

All RSD students have a SLCL Virtual Library Card which can be used to access databases.

All RSD students have a SLCL Virtual Library Card which can be used to access databases and eMedia including ebooks and audiobooks.  Hoopla and Kanopy are not available with a Virtual Library Card. 

This database provides maps, statistics, background information, the political organization, and social customs for the United States, Canada, and more than 200 countries.

Empower learners with digital citizenship skills to navigate today’s virtual landscape. Interactive activities guide students through project-based learning activities using digital tools to create podcasts, multimedia presentations, social media campaigns, and more. Database articles explore cyberbullying, digital research skills, citizen journalism, and more.

Access to a rich collection of more than 50,000 video segments from among 5,000 full-length educational videos from Discovery School and other award-winning producers.

Academic Search Elite contains full-text peer-reviewed articles from more than 2100 journals for academics or college-bound students.  

Consumer Health Complete is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. Consumer Health Complete provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. In addition, Consumer Health Complete includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs. The database is updated on a weekly basis.

Links to all EBSCO databases which access popular and academic periodicals, ebooks, and reference resources.

This database includes topic overviews that provide students with a starting point for research and 60,000 top videos from the Associated Press. Databases Searched: Book Collection Nonfiction: High School Edition, Book Collection Nonfiction: Middle School Edition, MAS Ultra - School Edition, Newspaper Source, Science Reference Center. 

Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.

This database provides  full text articles for more than 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, more than 370 regional (U.S.) newspapers, and  full-text television & radio news transcripts from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc.  Includes the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The Nonfiction Book Collection contains nearly 8,000 eBook titles from across all academic subject areas, from History to Language & Literature to Science & Technology. Content includes a selection of classic literary works, important historical documents and general reference materials

Science Reference Center is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.

The Rosen Financial Literacy database makes economics and personal finance easy to understand and highly engaging. Articles explore macro-, micro-, and global economics as well as personal and household finance. Users will learn to manage credit and debt, save and invest with confidence, plan for college and retirement and avoid fraud and scams.

This complimentary research database provides scholarly, government and general-interest sources covering the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and governments and what can be done at each level to minimize negative impacts.

This database delivers an essential collection of genealogical and historical sources—with coverage dating back to the 1700s.

HippoCampus offers multimedia lessons and course materials to help you with your instruction, homework, and assignments.

Organized into targeted learning centers, LearningExpress Library supports those looking to improve core academic skills, pass the GED, prepare for college (ACT, SAT, PSAT, AP), join the military, obtain occupational certification, find a job, change careers, become a U.S. citizen and much more.  When using this link, you do not need to be in a RSD building to register and create an account.

Online map resources for the classroom.

The Web's most comprehensive and accurate MLA and APA bibliography composer with fully-integrated note-taking.

General reference database designed for young researchers

An editorially curated pro/con database that meets the research needs of students and educators by providing premium content correlated to key curricular standards and subjects.

Engaging author programs and K-12 book resources.

This award-winning resource provides middle and high school students with up-to-date, nonjudgmental, self-help support. Articles are correlated to state, national and provincial standards. Topics covered include diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, mental health, suicide, bullying and LGBTQ+ information.