Online Databases @ your OHS Library

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Online Research Databases
@ your Oakton High School Library

  • Passwords are case-sensitive & required for home access.  They are posted on Oakton HS Library Blackboard site under Research Databases.

  • Works Cited: Use MLA format: Citing Web Publications or NoodleBib database.

  • For a list of Databases by subject, click here

 

 
  • American & World History
  • Geography from Ancient to Modern Times
  • Issues
  • History Reference Online (ebooks)
American History Video
  • Newsreels
  • Archival and  public affairs footage
  • Documentaries
Books in Print
Information on print and audio books and videos

CQ Researcher (controversial issues & public policy)

The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry

  • 250,00 full-text poems
  • Subject browse
  • Commentaries on poems
  • Biographies of leading poets

CultureGrams

 

Cultural information on more than 200 countries

 


Magazine & newspaper articles, full text books, transcripts, maps, pictures, web links and audio/video files.

Gale

  • Biography Resource Center
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library
  • Global Issues in Context
  • Literature Resource Center
  • Opposing Viewpoints
  • GREENR
  • Testing & Education Reference Center

  •  Encyclopedia Americana
  • Grolier Multimedia
  • New Book of Knowledge
  • Popular Science
  • America the Beautiful
  • Lands and Peoples
  • Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre en Linea

Archive of scholarly peer-reviewed journals and other materials from a wide range of disciplines.

 

MarshallCavendish

 

 15 databases about sciences, geography, health, biography, and social studies
MYON
 Digital book library of easy readers

  • Record, organize and synthesize information using online notecards
  • Format your bibliography in MLA or APA style

Oxford Art Online

  • Grove Art Online
  • The Oxford Companion to Western Art
  • Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
  • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms

Oxford English Dictionary

Meaning, history, and pronunciation of more than half a million words.

Oxford Music Online

  •  The Oxford Dictionary of Music
  • Grove Music Online
  • The Oxford Companion to Music

 

Magazine and newspaper articles & background information.  Includes: 

  • Researcher
  • Renaissance
  • Government Reporter
Soundzaboudn

Royalty free music library

Tumblebooks
Online book collection of easy readers

TumbleReadables

Online collection of read-along titles, including YA/Teen, Classics, and Shakespeare

Home
  • Online Reference Center
  • World Book Discover
  • World Book Advanced
  • Spanish-Language Encyclopedia

 

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