Electronic Resources

GENERAL REFERENCE DATABASES

Passwords are required for these sites.   To obtain the passwords, please see the High School Librarian.

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Career Cruising -- Search career profiles, build a personal portfolio of career interests, create a resume, find access to colleges and universities in the USA.

Discovery Collection --  Provides in-depth content for five core curriculum areas: Literature, History, Biography, Science and Social Studies. This collection offers thousands of informative reference articles.

Gale Virtual Reference Library --  A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research including: American history, law, business and medicine.

World Book Encyclopedia -- Includes all the information found in the print set, plus a Spanish ency., original books and source documents, Behind the Headlines, Today in History, etc...

Opposing Viewpoints -- Essays on controversial subjects from abortion to water pollution.

Post Star Newspaper -- Daily local, national and international news coverage.

TeachingBooks.Net -- Use this database to find original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of professional book readings, guides to thousands of titles and a wealth of multimedia resources on children's and young adult literature.

 

THOMSON GALE DATABASES:

        National Newspaper Index                 Custom Newspapers                           NewYork Newspapers

        Business & Company Center              Health & Wellness Center                 !Informe! Revista en Espanol

        Twayne's Author Series                       Student Edition                                    Junior Edition

    

EBSCO DATABASES:

      General Science Collection                                            Masterfile Select (magazines)            EBSCO Espanol

    Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia              Kid Search                                              EBSCO Animals

 

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Page created:  January 1999  Last updated: January 2007