FCPS Online Catalog

iBistro is the online Catalog to all books, ebooks, videos, and DVDs in the Fairfax County Public Schools libraries.

Blackboard.com

All CHS students are enrolled in the Chantilly High School Library organization on Blackboard.com

Go to PASSWORDS for Research Database home access information

Research Databases:

For home access to our databases, see a librarian for passwords
or go to the CHS Library community on Blackboard.com

ABC-CLIO Social Studies databases

American Government
American History
World History - Modern Era
World Geography

Academic OneFile

The online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.

Access Science
(Click on "subscriber logon" when you get into the site.)

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
Science News
Biographies
Science & technology trends and development

Auto Repair Reference Center (ARRC)

Provides automotive repair information on most major manufacturers of domestic & imported vehicles for approximately 25,000 vehicles from 1945 to present.

Biography Resource Center (GALE)

Biography Resource Center provides in-depth coverage of current and historic people from almost every field of endeavor. Itprovides access to reference resources, full-text articles, and portraits.

Business & Company Resource Center

Provides detailed company and industry news, brand information, investment reports, etc.

Career Cruising

Helps to find the right career match, explore different career options or plan future education/training.

Contemporary Literacy Criticism

Contemporary Literacy Criticism Select is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors.

CQ Reasercher CQ Weekly

Congressional Quarterly Weekly Reports cover legislation in the U.S. Congress. The CQ Researcher database features in-depth reports on current and controversial issues. CQ Public Affairs Collection provides statistical overviews, contact information, and public policy information.

Elibrary

Elibrary features more than 1,500 full-text sources, including magazines, newspapers, books, television/radio transcripts, maps, pictures, and audio/video clips.

EbscoHost High School Databases

EbscoHost databases feature full-text articles from hundreds of magazines as well as regional, national and international newspapers.

EbscoHost Professional Resources

Click on the Professional Resources link.
Gale Professional Collection

Gale Virtual Resource Library
E-Books
Click on "Show All" to see titles available to CHS students.

Grolier Encyclopedia

Grolier
New Book of Knowledge
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
Lands and Peoples
America the Beautiful

Ebsco Health Information

Gale Health & Wellness Resource Center

Historical Newspapers

ProQuest Historical Newspapers delivers the complete run of several newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and Los Angeles Times.

Lit Finder

LitFinder provides access to thousands of full-text poems, plays, speeches, essays and stories.

Literature Resource Center (GALE)

Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.

Novelist

NoveList is a fiction database that provides plot summaries, subject heading access, reviews, Author Read-alikes, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Feature Articles for over 120,000 fiction titles.

Opposing Viewpoints (GALE)

Opposing Viewpoints brings together viewpoint articles, topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, biographies of social activists, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazines.

Oxford English Dictionary

Oxford English Dictionary provides the meaning, history, and pronunciation of more than half a million words, both current and obsolete.

ProQuest Platinum

ProQuest Platinum provides articles from more than 2,000 newspapers, magazines, journals, and reference words.

Gale Professional Collect

Science Resource Center

Science Resource Center provides thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, the latest scientific developments in academic journals, and links to quality websites.

SIRS Decades

Features 5,000+ primary and secondary source articles that highlight key events, movements, people, and places in 20th-century America

SIRS Discoverer

SIRS Discoverer is a general reference database for young researchers.

SIRS Knowledge Source

SIRS Knowledge Source provides access to articles from SIRS Researcher for general reference, SIRS Renaissance for arts and humanities, and SIRS Government Reporter for U.S. Government information.

Thomson Gale Group Databases includes:

Business Resource Center for business and company research.

General Referance Center for articles from newspapers, reference books and magazines

Health Resource Center

Science Resource Center for scientific research.

Student Resource Center for biographies, primary documents, critical analyses and periodical articles.