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The Robinson Library Media Center offers a wide variety of online research databases
to students and faculty with access from both school and home.

Logins and Passwords for home access available on the "Yellow Sheet" in the Library
OR
FCPS 24/7 Blackboard - Robinson Library Media Center Course

Databases

ABC-CLIO Social Studies Web Sites
Background information, biographies, primary documents, images, timelines, audio clips, and maps.

  • American Government
  • American History
  • Issues
  • United States at War
  • United States Geography
  • World Geography
  • World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras
  • World History: The Modern Era
  • eBooks
    • African American Experience
    • American Indian Experience
    • Daily Life America
    • Daily Life Through History
    • History Reference Online
    • Latino American Experience
    • Pop Culture Universe

AP Images
Associated Press photographs, text, audio clips, and publicity photos (businesses) to use in class projects and presentations - 1850's to present

Columbia International Affairs Online
Political Science, diplomatic history, international law and business, policy formation, country analyses

Pro & Con Online

  • Congressional Digest
  • International Debates
  • Supreme Court Debates

Consumer Reports Online
Independent ratings and recommendations on thousands of products and services

CQ Electronic Library

  • CQ Politics in America-Authoritative information on members of Congress (eBook)
  • CQ Political Handbook of the World (eBook)
  • CQ Vital Statistics on American Politics (eBook)
  • CQ Researcher-Current controversial issues
  • CQ Supreme Court-Updates, commentary, biographies, and institutional history

CultureGrams
State and country information; maps, history, recipes, flags, and biographies

Gale Cengage Learning
Gale/Cengage provides articles from encyclopedias, reference books, newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals for all subjects:
    • Literature Resources
    • Biography in Context
    • Science in Context
    • Global Issues in Context
    • Opposing Viewpoints in Context
    • Student Resources in Context
    • Greenr
    • Testing & Education Resource Center
    • Health & Wellness
    • Grizmek’s Animal Life
    • Virtual Reference Library (eBooks)

 

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
Full text poems, biographies, and criticisms

Grolier Online

  • New Book of Knowledge
  • Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
  • Encyclopedia Americana
  • New Book of Popular Science
  • Lands and People
  • America the Beautiful
Historical Newspapers

New York Times
1851 - 2003
Washington Post 1877 - 1990
Wall Street Journal 1889 - 1989
Christian Science Monitor 1908 - 1993
Los Angeles Times 1881 - 1985
Chicago Daily Tribune 1849 - 1985
JSTOR
IB and AP Research
Journal articles on the college level

 



Marshall Cavendish Digital
Reference articles on science, health, literature, American and World History on a lower reading level
Novelist Plus
Find a good book to read, either fiction or nonfiction.  Find award winners, series, book covers, book discussion guides, curriculum connections.
Oxford Art Online
Encyclopedia of art and historical topics; includes biographies. The Dictionary of Art (34 v.), The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms


Oxford Music Online
Covers the entire history of music with articles and biogrpahies

Oxford English Dictionary

Oxford English Dictionary
Provides the meaning, history, and pronunciation of more than half a million words

ProQuest
Journals, newspapers, magazines, and dissertations

  • Proquest Platinum
  • AP Science
ProQuest

ProQuest eLibrary
More than 2,000 full-text sources, including magazines, newspapers, books, television/radio transcripts, maps, pictures, and audio/video clips.

Salem Health
eBook
of Magill's Medical Guide with text, illustrations and graphs
Salem History
eBook of Great Lives from History
eBook
of Milestone Documents in American History
eBook of The Decades Series (50's - 90's)

Salem Literature
eBook of Masterplots, 4th ed.  Analyzes important works of literature in all genres: fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction, throughout history and around the world.

SIRS Discoverer
Magazines and general reference resource for Middle School

 

SIRS Knowledge Source
Magazine and newspaper articles, and background information for all subjects

  • SIRS Researcher
  • SRS Government Reporter (Supreme Court)
  • SIRS Renaissance (Arts and Humanities)
  • Leading Issues

 

Tumblebook Library
An online collection of animated children’s books with narration and music.  Includes puzzles, quizzes and resources for teachers.
Tumblereadbles
An online collection of read-along books with narration. Sentences are highlighted as they are read aloud, and text size can be adjusted. Includes classics, chapter books, teen novels, high interest/low level books for middle & high school. 


 

 

World Book Student
World Book Reference Center - includes articles, multimedia, web sites, and more

World Book Advanced

  • Primary Source Documents
  • eBooks
  • Encyclopedia Articles
  • Images

World Book Discover

  • Reference Resources for Middle School and ESOL
  • Visual Dictionary
  • Videos, Atlas, Timelines, Read-Aloud, Translator

World Book Kids
Includes Student Discovery Encyclopedia

World Book Spanish Language Encyclopedia

 




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