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DATABASES

 

User Names & Passwords

 

  • AMERICAN ARCHIVES OF PUBLIC BROADCASTING:
    The collection of 40,000 hours contains thousands of high-quality programs that have had national impact. The vast majority of this initial American Archive content, however, consists of regional and local programs that document American communities during the last half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first. This extraordinary collection includes local news and public affairs programs, local history productions that document the heritage of local communities, and programs dealing with education, environmental issues, music, art, literature, dance, poetry, religion, and even filmmaking on a local level.

 

 

 

  • BLOOM'S LITERATURE ONLINE (FACTS ON FILE):
    Contains a wide range of reference essays and scholarly criticism examining great authors and their works, more than 800 full-length videos of great literary works, hundreds of full-text classic works, and guidance on how to write good essays on the most assigned authors and works.

 

 

  • CAREER GUIDANCE (FACTS ON FILE): Ferguson's Career Guidance Center offers resources for users to assess their career goals and interests, plan their education, learn workplace skills, find apprenticeships and internships, conduct a job search, and more.

 

  • CURRICULUM RESOURCE CENTER (FACTS ON FILE): For teachers seeking material to supplement their coursework in core subject areas including U.S. and world history, science, and geography.  This electronic library of curriculum-related handouts provides access to a broad selection of visual content, including maps, science diagrams, science experiments, historical images, historical timelines, and more.

 

  • EBSCO HOST:
    Offers high-quality articles licensed from reputable publishers, citation assistance, enhanced accessibility, and other useful search options.

 

  • EDWEEK: Education Week is the #1 source of non-partisan, high-quality news, and insights covering the K-12 education sector. Specializing in education, the seasoned journalists on our full-time newsroom staff have worked for many of the country’s leading media outlets, including The Washington Post, ABC News, and The Los Angeles Times. 

 

  • EXPLORA (EBSCO):
    A full-text database providing popular middle school magazines, reference e-books, and thousands of primary source documents and videos. Subjects include history, current events, science, and sports.

 

  • FACTS ON FILE:
      • History Research Center
      • African American History
      • American History
      • American Indian History
      • Ancient & Medieval History
      • Blooms Literature Online
      • Biographies Online
      • Curriculum Resource Center
      • Career Guidance Center
      • Health Reference Center
      • InfobaseBooks
      • Modern World History
      • Science Online
      • World Geography & Culture
      • World News Digest

 

  • HEALTH REFERENCE CENTER (FACTS ON FILE):
    Includes comprehensive, in-depth coverage of body systems, current health issues, major diseases, and conditions, treatments, and procedures, as well as health and nutrition information. Topic Centers highlight specially selected content to help users to find a starting point for their studies and offer videos and collections of illustrations.

 

  • HISTORY RESEARCH CENTER (FACTS ON FILE):
    An easy-to-use, customized search engine that allows users to search across multiple Facts On File databases, including African-American History, American History, American Indian History, Ancient and Medieval History, and Modern World History.

 

  • LITERACY REFERENCE CENTER (EBSCO): Features an expansive collection of classic and contemporary full-text poems, short stories, and novels.  Includes plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, author biographies and interviews, as well as full-text access to literary journals and book reviews.

 

  • NOVELIST:  (EBSCO)
    Your next great read is just clicks away. Novelist has you covered.

 

  • POINTS OF VIEW REFERENCE CENTER (EBSCO): Offers resources that present multiple sides of an issue, covering hundreds of topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument, and counterpoint (opposing argument.

 

  •  SCIENCE ONLINE (FACTS ON FILE):  
    Offers a comprehensive overview of a broad range of scientific disciplines and includes topic centers featuring specially selected content on core science disciplines.

 

  • VISUAL THESAURUS:
    An interactive dictionary and thesaurus that creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words.

 

  • WORLD BOOK ONLINE:
    An online encyclopedia that includes over 40,000 articles, multimedia resources, ebooks, primary sources, and other reference tools.

 

  • WORLD GEOGRAPHY & CULTURE (FACTS ON FILE):
    Profiles every country of the world in depth, offering more than 40 entries and 100 statistical indicators covering all aspects of each nation's geography, history, society, and culture.

 

  • WORLD NEWS DIGEST (FACTS ON FILE):
    The go-to resource for context and background on key issues and events in the news, is continuously updated with authoritative news summaries and background articles on the issues that matter today.