McLean High School Library

2008-09

Online Databases available at MHS
Ask a librarian for a home access information sheet or check
Blackboard for user names and passwords.

	Government, American History, World Geography, and World History: Ancient times and the Modern Era.
	Biographical information from reference books and periodicals. Searching can be done using biographical facts such as year of birth, occupation, or nationality.
	Public policy information. CQ Weekly has legislative news and analysis. CQ Researcher analyses current issues.
Click here	Collection of databases, including MAS Ultra-School Edition, ERIC, Health Source, Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia, EBSCO Animals, Newspaper Source, Primary Search.
Expanded Academic ASAP	Topics from all academic disciplines including the arts, humanities, science and technology in scholarly journals, as well as magazine and newspaper articles.
	Collection of databases, including Military & Intelligence Database, InfoTrac Religion & Philosophy, Computer Database, LegalTrac and Contemporary Literacy Criticism
	All aspects of literature including authors, literary genres, literary movements and time periods, as well as literary criticism.
	Encyclopedias include: Grolier, Americana, Cumbre en Linea, New Book of Knowledge, Popular Science, Lands and Peoples, and America the Beautiful.
	JSTOR offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.
	Today's news, legal issues, and statistics. THIS DATABASE IS AVAILABLE ONLY AT SCHOOL.
	Social issues are presented through overviews, differing viewpoints, and statistics. Sources include reference books, magazine and newspaper articles, and primary documents.
	Topics from all academic disciplines in newspapers (including Wall Street Journal and New York Times) and periodicals. The reference collection includes Ethnic Cultures of America, Occupational Outlook Handbook, and World Fact Book.
	Science resources include topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations. Features include the latest scientific developments from magazine and academic journals as well as links to quality web sites.
	Subjects include literature, history, science, and biographies. Sources include reference books, magazines, journals, and primary documents. Multimedia gallery of photographs, illustrations, as well as audio and video clips.