Research Databases @ your OHS Library

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Online Research Databases
@ your Oakton High School Library

  • Oakton HS Library Web Page:  http://www.fcps.edu/OaktonHS/library; select Research Databases
  • 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.

 

 
  • American Government
  • American History
  • World Geography
  • World History, Ancient and Medieval Eras
  • World History, Modern Era (from 1500)
  • United States at War
  • Issues
  • History Reference Online (ebooks)

ABC-CLIO: History Reference Online

 

400+ social studies ebooks

 

  • 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

 

 

Social history databases include:

  • Daily Life Through History
  • World Folklore and Folklife
  • Daily Life America

Magazine & newspaper articles:

  • Student Research Center
  • High School Databases:
  • MAS Ultra School Edition
  • Masterfile Premier
  • General Science Collection
  • Newspaper Source
  • Topic Search
  • Health Source
  • Novelist
  • Professional Resources


 

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

Gallup Brain

 

Search 70 years of public opinion
Including:

  • Gallup Poll Tuesday Briefing articles
  • Gallup Management Journal articles

Gale

 

  • Academic OneFile
  • Biography Resource Center
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library
  • Global Issues in Context
  • Literature Resource Center
  • Opposing Viewpoints
  • Professional Collection
  • GREENR
  • Science Resource 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.

 

  • 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

 

Provides the 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

 

Popular Culture Universe
 Pop culture from 1900-present

 

 

Magazine and newspaper articles & background information.  Includes:  Researcher, Renaissance, Government Reporter (for Supreme Court cases), Discoverer (articles at a lower reading level)

 

Art Museum Image Gallery
Art images from the collections of museums around the world.

Home

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

 

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