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ABC-CLIO
CultureGrams
Discovery Education
EBSCO
Gale Infotrac
Journal of the American Medical Association
NoodleTools
SIRS Knowledge Source
WorldBook Online

To use our subscription databases from home, pick up the logins & passwords in the Media Center.

• American Government

  Guides students in connecting the most-talked-about issues of our day with the foundations of government. Analyze political cartoons and learn about different viewpoints through political commentaries. Includes short videos, quotes, abstracts, and more; plus comparisons of the United States' and other nations' political and economic systems, and directories of contact information for nonprofit organizations and government agencies.

• American History

  Explore the history of the United States from the earliest explorations of the New World to the present, and analyze enduring historical dilemmas. Includes primary and secondary sources, biographies, and images.

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CultureGrams

Offers concise, reliable, up-to-date country reports on 190 cultures of the world. It goes beyond mere facts and figures to deliver an insider's perspective on daily life and culture, including the history, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people.

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Discovery Education

NOTE: Formerly United Streaming

A web based video delivery service correlated to school curriculum. Available to all! (Teachers: see media specialists for info on creating a personal account.)

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EBSCO

• Auto Repair Reference Center

  Includes more than 34,000 vehicles covered from 1945 to present, nearly 850,000 drawings and step-by-step photographs, approximately 86,600 technical service bulletins & recalls issued by the original equipment vehicle manufacturer, over 158,600 enhanced wiring diagrams for easy viewing and printing, specifications & maintenance schedules. New repair procedures and updates are continually added. All content created by ASE certified technicians.

• MasterFILE Premier

  Contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. Also contains full text to more than 500 reference books, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags.

• History Reference Center

  Features full text for more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books. Includes full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals. Contains nearly 57,000 historical documents; more than 78,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 37,000 historical photos and maps; and more than 80 hours of historical video.

• Science Reference Center

  Comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full-text science-oriented content. Contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources. Provides articles correlated to state and national curriculum standards.

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Gale Infotrac

• Opposing Viewpoints in Context

  One-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites.

• Science in Context

  Explore thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations. Covers the latest scientific developments in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify content directly correlated to state and national standards.

• Student Resources in Context

  Offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more. Provides more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts.

• Virtual Reference Library

  Includes full-text encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Click on the link for a full list of texts available.

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Journal of the American Medical Association

NOTE: only available in school. No remote access.

NOTE2: only articles that are FREE to You are available.

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NoodleTools

Generate, edit, and publish a Works Cited list. NoodleBib takes care of punctuation, alphabetization and formatting, producing a polished source list for import into Word. Use the Notecard feature to keep track of your notes, and link them to the source the information came from.

Click here for a guide to using NoodleTools. (Word doc)

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SIRS Knowledge Source

Comprehensive online interface providing integrated access to thousands of full-text articles, documents, and graphics from Issues Researcher, Government Reporter, and Renaissance. Thousands of full-text articles from domestic and international sources exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues are available.

NOTE: Government Reporter, Researcher, Renaissance, and WebSelect are cross-searchable (they can all be searched at the same time).

• Decades

  Features more than 5,000 hand-selected primary and secondary source articles highlighting key events, movements, people, and places in 20th-century America. Coverage includes documents, letters and memos, editorial cartoons, streaming video, websites, photographs, maps, advertisements, and published articles.

• Government Reporter

  Historic and Government Documents, Directories and Almanacs.

• Interactive Citizenship

  What Citizens Need to Know series of interactive books.

• Issues Researcher

  Student Reference, Social Issues, Health, Science, and Business.

• Renaissance

  Current perspectives on the Arts & Humanities.

• WebSelect

  Editorially selected web sites.

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WorldBook Online

Excellent source of reliable, easy to understand information. Offers all the features of the print encyclopedia plus links to maps, web sites, and other print articles.

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