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Electronic Resources Provided by the HHS Library

For home access, see your librarian for Logins and Passwords or go to HHS Library Course on Blackboard.com

eBooks

Electronic books (accessed through the iBistro online catalog) require a password when using remote access. 

ABC CLIO

ABC-CLIO covers American government and history; US state geography, world geography, world history, ancient and medieval eras and world history through the modern era.

Academic Online

AcademicOneFile provides millions of peer-reviewed, full-text journal and reference articles from the physical and social sciences, arts, theology, medicine, literature and more for the professional community (1980-present; updated daily).

CQ Electronic

CQ Electronic Library offers three products.  CQ Researcher focuses on current and controversial issues.  CQ Weekly covers legislation in the US Congress including updates of legislative news and analysis. CQ’s Vital Statistics on American Politics presents data on American politics from 1788.

Culture Grams

CultureGrams provides a wealth of information about the countries of the world.

ELibrary

eLibrary  includes newspaper and magazine articles, TV transcripts, maps, images and much more.

  Bio Resource

Gale Biography in Context provides valued biographies of people past and present from many fields and eras, along with reliable links to related materials.

GALE

Gale Cengage Learning provides a suite of databases including Academic OneFile, Gale Biography In Context, Literature Resource Center, Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context, Gale Science in Context, Gale Virtual Reference Library (eBooks), Testing and Education Reference Center, InfoTrac Newsstand, Contemporary Literary Criticism, LegalTrac and many others.   

Search all databases or select specific database(s).

Opposing View

Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context provides original viewpoint articles, overviews, full-test magazine, academic and newspaper articles, primary sources, statistics, links, podcasts, images and more on current social issues.

Passport

Grolier Online is a large collection of encyclopedias including Lands and People, The New Book of Popular Science, Nueva enciclopedia Cumbre en línea , and many more.

LitFinder

LitFINDER gives access to poetry, criticism, essays and stories.

MC Marshall Cavendish provides a suite of databases including America in the 20th Century, Ancient and Medieval World, Exploring Ancient Civilizations, Supreme Court Milestones, Earth and Physical Sciences, Elements, Exploring Earth and Space Sciences, Exploring Life Science, Growing Up with Science, Habitats of the World, Insects and Spiders of the World, International Wildlife, Life Science.

Noodle

NoodleBib  provides an accurate MLA and APA-style bibliography composer.

Click Current Users: Sign In.  Then click: Create a Personal ID.  Fill in the online form.

ProQuest

ProQuest includes searchable newspaper and magazine articles.
Type in User Name and Password if needed, then click on the My Products Page.

SIRS

SIRS Knowledge Source includes the Researcher (current topics), Government Reporter, and Renaissance (humanities) databases.

SoundzAbound

Soundzaboundroyalty free music!  All students and teachers must credit Licensor, song title, Artists and songwriters as specified on each separate work.

TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of books that includes animation.  Most titles are picture books.  Read along in English, Spanish or French.
TumbleReadables is an online collection of read-along books.  It includes books of different levels. 

WorldBook

World Book Online includes a Spanish language encyclopedia, an Explore VA section, atlas, dictionary and more, all of which is continually updated.

 

*This web page contains links to one or more pages that are outside the FCPS network. FCPS/HHS does not control the content or relevancy of these pages.



Questions?   Find an error? Contact Curator: Stephanie Stewart, smstewart@fcps.edu   Last updated: 29-Jan-2012

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