ABC-CLIO
Social Studies contains lessons and activities that use primary
and secondary sources in American History, World History, American Government
and World Geography for making information connections to events both
past and present
American History in Video provides a searchable online collection of video available for the study of American history which features documentaries and series from The History Channel®, A&E Network®, and Biography® as well as newsreels, public affairs videos and archival footage.
AP
Images is a primary source database from the Associated Press
which includes photographs, sound bites, graphics and text spanning 160
years of history to use in research papers, reports, and PowerPoints.
Biography
in Context gives access to information from Thomson
Gale Group publications along with full-text periodical articles. Search
on date, ethnicity, occupation and other criterion.
Blooms Literary Reference Online examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature through articles, essays and video.
CultureGrams provides historical and contemporary insight on the world’s people
bringing both facts and a local perspective on daily life, history and
culture.
eLibrary has periodical and digital media content, with more than 1,200 magazines,
newspapers, books, TV/radio transcripts, maps, images, Web links and audio/video
titles.
eLibrary
Science offers science resources including video and interactive
content designed to support the study of earth, life, physical, medical
and applied sciences.
FCPL
Databases offer additional sources in a vast array of subjects.
Gale
Online Resources provides a suite of products including Business
& Company Resource Center; Expanded Academic ASAP, General Reference
Center Gold, Health and Wellness Resource Center, InfoTrac K12 Databases,
and Infotrac Onefile.
Global Issues in Context offers global perspectives from a variety of sources on issues of international importance and current world events and topics in the news related to these issues of 21st century importance.
GreenrThe Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues including energy systems, health care, agriculture, climate change, population, and economic development. Portals include authoritative analysis, academic journals, news, case studies, legislation, conference proceedings, primary source documents, statistics, and rich multimedia.
Grolier
Online includes the New Book of Knowledge, Grolier Multimedia
Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Americana, The New Book of Popular Science,
Lands and People and America the Beautiful.
Grzimek’s Animal Life provides students and researchers with a dynamic, interactive resource that fosters more discussion and critical thinking skills. This product uses the content from the encyclopedia to provide unequaled coverage on more than 4,000 species, and includes more than 11,000 images, videos, illustrations, and maps.
JSTOR gives access to academic journal articles across the humanities, social
sciences and sciences for Advanced Placement research.
Literature
Resource Centeris a source for literary journals, author
biographies, critical essays, plot summaries, etc.
LitFinderoffers access to full-text poetry, short stories, speeches
and plays along with biographies, criticisms and a glossary.
Marshall Cavendish is a cross-searchable selection of web-based reference works for science and social studies including: Social Studies: Americain the Twentieth Century, Ancient and Medieval World, Exploring Ancient Civilizations, Supreme Court Milestones, Civil War, Colonial America Science: Earth and Physical Sciences, Elements, Exploring Earth and Space Science, Exploring Life Science, Growing Up with Science, Habitats of the World, Insects and Spiders of the World, International Wildlife, Life Science.
NoodleBibis a tool which assists in composing MLA or APA style bibliographies.
Opposing
Viewpoints in Context is a resource for social issues research. Access
view point articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary source documents,
links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
Pop Culture Universe is a digital library of information on American and world popular culture, past and present. Includes full text reference works, images and links to vetted websites.
Science
in Context includes topic overviews, experiments, biographies,
pictures and illustrations from periodicals, reference books, and scientific
journals.
SIRS
Decades: 20th Century American Sources,
is an electronic subscription resource containing Primary Source and
reference content from the 20th century.
SIRS
Discoverer is a reference tool for research, reading, writing,
language and computer skills for middle school and ESOL students.
SIRS Knowledge Source contains three databases: Researcher (current issues), Government Reporter, and Renaissance (the humanities).
Salem
Health is an online reference tool that gives access to Magill’s Medical
Guide.
Soundzabound offers a wide variety of copyright safe music, audio themes and sound effects to use with podcasts, PowerPoint™, videos, news shows, video yearbooks, digital storytelling, presentations, TV broadcasts, web design and more!
Student
Resources in Context contains primary documents, essays,
biographies critical analyses, background information and full text coverage
from magazines and newspapers including photographs, illustrations, audio
and video.
Testing and Education Resource Center is a resource with practice AP, SAT, ACT and other tests. Test ebooks and a resume maker are also available on this website. After signing in with the hayfield password, users will be required to create their own user name and password to use the resources on this site.
TumbleReadablesis an online collection of read-along titles which features adjustable online text and complete audio narration. The collection features chapter books, early readers, YA/Teen Novels, high interest/low level books for both middle school and high school students, plus classics of American and English literature.
U.S. History in Context delivers comprehensive, contextual, media-rich search results from the most extensive online collection of historical information available today.
Remote access users
see links at bottom of WB ORC home page
World
Book Online is a continually updated, multipurpose reference
encyclopedia with pictures, maps, videos, animation, sound, and links
to periodicals and Websites.
*World
Book Advanced High school level version of the standard
print encyclopedia
World History in Context is a comprehensive online collection that uses an intuitive, Web-like interface to provide multicultural, global and research-based dynamic content that supports today’s history research requirements.
