Subscription Databases

Home access usernames and passwords are found in the FCHS Library class in your Blackboard account. See a librarian for more information.


ABC-CLIO

World History: Modern Era, World History: Ancient & Medieval Eras, World Geography, American History, American Government

Documents, court cases, events, policy, people, political news, commentary, cartoons, primary sources, video and audio clips, chronologies, images, flags, and maps.

Switch web site in top right corner to choose the database you want.

SCHOOL & HOME ACCESS URL to all ABC-CLIO databases:
http://www.socialstudies.abc-clio.com/unifiedlogin.aspx?ipaddress=true&schoolid=23759


A
P MULTIMEDIA ARCHIVE

Photos (from 1840s to today), graphics, audio clips and text articles from the Associated Press.

SCHOOL & HOME ACCESS URL:
http://accuweather.ap.org/cgi-bin/aplaunch.pl


COLUMBIA GRANGER'S WORLD OF POETRY

Contains 154,000 full-text poems, literary criticism, and biographical information on poets.

SCHOOL & HOME ACCESS URL: http://www.columbiagrangers.org/grangers/index.jsp


EBSCOHOST

Student Research Center, MasterFILE Premier, MAS Ultra School Edition, Newspaper Source, TopicSearch, Health Source, Novelist, Professional Resources, Education Research Complete

Over 2,000 full text magazines, newspapers, and journals, including primary source documents, photos, maps and flags.

SCHOOL & HOME ACCESS URL:
http://search.ebscohost.com


e
LIBRARY

Over 900 magazines, 230 newspapers, 190 books, 1.3 million radio and television program transcripts, maps, and pictures (Includes Washington Post and New York Times from 1999 on.)

SCHOOL ACCESS URL:
http://elibrary.bigchalk.com


HOME ACCESS URL:
http://www.proquestk12.com


GALE
 

Student Resource Center - Gold Opposing ViewPoints Resource Center
Biography Resource Center Health and Wellness Resource Center
Science Resource Center Business and Company Resource Center
Literature Resource Center What Do I Read Next?
Gale Virtual Reference Center  

SCHOOL & HOME ACCESS URL:
http://access.gale.com/fairfax/library.html?loc=fallschurch


GROLIER ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIAS

General encyclopedias: New Book of Knowledge, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Americana

Geographical encyclopedias: America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples

Science encyclopedia: New Book of Popular Science

SCHOOL & HOME ACCESS URL:

http://go.grolier.com



GROVE ART

Articles about art and art forms, artist biographies, art image collections

HOME ACCESS URL:
http:/www.groveart.com


GROVE MUSIC

Articles about music and musicians, sound files

HOME ACCESS URL:
http://www.grovemusic.com



NOVELIST
(from EBSCOHOST)

Lists over 60,000 fiction books with subject access and reviews to help you find what to read next.

SCHOOL & HOME ACCESS URL:
http://search.ebscohost.com



SIRS KNOWLEDGE SOURCE

SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, SIRS Renaissance, SIRS Discoverer

Selected full-text magazine and newspaper articles and graphics.

SCHOOL ACCESS URL:
http://sks.sirs.com

HOME ACCESS URL:
http://www.proquestk12.com



WORLD BOOK

"World Book Online Reference Center (World Book Enclyclopedia, Spanish Encyclopedia), World Book for Kids (Student Discovery Encyclopedia), World Book Advanced (270,000 Primary Sources, 5500 eBooks)"

SCHOOL & HOME ACCESS URL:
http://www.worldbookonline.com


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Resources

The following are various resources that we found helpful to our students:

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Claudia Johnston
Head Librarian

Phone: 703-207-4013

Email: Claudia.Johnston@fcps.edu

 
Kristen Zemba
Librarian

Phone: 703-207-4013

Email: Kristen.Zemba@fcps.edu
 

Karen Werner Chonko
Administrative Assistant

Phone: 703-207-4013

Email: Karen.WernerChonko@fcps.edu