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ABC-CLIO
Five databases with information and resources for in-depth and comprehensive social studies research. The databases are:
- American Government
- American History
- World Geography
- World History: Ancient and Medieval and
- World History the Modern Era.
AP Images
Search over 1,000,000 photographs taken by Associated Press (AP) dating as far back as 1826.
CultureGrams
This database contains 206 country-specific reports. These provide complete coverage of every sovereign country recognized by the United Nations, plus several foreign dependencies.
eLibrary
This database provides access to full text articles from over 2,000 publications, including international newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, TV and radio transcripts.
Gale Databases
Eleven databases for users of all ages with information on just about anything you want to know. Databases that are of particular interest to high school students include: Literature Resource Center, Science Resource Center, Biography Resource Center and Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center.
Grolier
Outstanding online multimedia resources designed for student use and to support the curriculum. The five Grolier encyclopedias include, Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, New Book of Knowledge, Cumbre en Linea, New Book of Popular Science, Lands and People, America the Beautiful.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.
Marshall Cavendish
Marshall Cavendish resources include, America in the 20th Century, Ancient and Medieval World, Earth and Physical Sciences, Elements, Exploring Ancient Civilizations, Exploring Earth and Space Science, Exploring Life Science, and Growing Up With Science.
MyOn Books
MyOn.com contains hundreds of easy to read and high interest books in a wide variety of subjects and interests; these include fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels, science, social studies and math. Students may have books read to them with highlighted text.
Oxford Grove Art Online
Oxford Grove Art Online is an innovative new gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Oxford Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location. With the 2008 complete redesign of Oxford Grove Art Online, as well as the addition of substantial new Oxford reference content, Oxford Art Online offers the most extensive and easily searchable online art resource available today, a virtual art reference library of unparalleled scope and depth.
Proquest Historical Newspapers Timeline Search
One database that can be used to search national, international and historical newspapers, including the New York Times since 1857 and the Wall Street Journal since 1899, and the Washington Post since 1877.
TumblebookLibrary
TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of animated, talking picture books which teach young children the joys of reading in a format they'll love.
World Book
Access the popular World Book Encyclopedia online.
See your library media specialist for the user names and passwords for home access.