for Students & Faculty
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Online Databases for Students & Faculty |
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| Use the passwords/usernames to access these databases from home. If you access them from the Island Trees District Website's Library Media Center Web pages, the URL will not be required but the sites will require a password. | ||||||
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Provides impeccable content, helpful study tools, and innovative ways of matching current events with enduring themes of American Politics and public policy at all levels-from grassroots activism to the White House | |||||
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Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, thousands of biographies, subject entries, chronology entries, primary source documents, maps, and images. | |||||
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From the first explorers in the New World to the developments in today's headlines, this database investigates the people, events, and themes of our nation's evolution. | |||||
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Timelines, biographies, encyclopedic articles, maps, charts, picture galleries, and documents. | |||||
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A comprehensive database that brings together a wide variety of global business information. | |||||
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Access business and trade journals, newspapers & Company Directory profiles. | |||||
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Unitedstreaming is a digital video-based learning resource from Discovery Education with on-demand access to 50,000 content-specific segments from 5,000 full-length educational videos. | |||||
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Full text of general reference publications with coverage dating as far back as 1984, full text reference books, an image collection of photos, maps, and flags, current events database, encyclopedia, popular science magazines, a newspaper source of national (U.S.) and international newspapers. Also contains full text television & radio news transcripts…updated daily. | |||||
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Database of full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts, plus thousands of maps pictures, web links, and audio/video files. | |||||
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Database of ebooks…encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for Business, History, Law, and Medicine/Science Research. | |||||
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Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge with NBK NEWS. | |||||
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A source for both medical care professionals and consumers concerning important current health information. | |||||
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Use this Resource Center to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, Herbal remedies, and alternative or complementary treatments. | |||||
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HISTORY REFERENCE CENTER (click EBSCO Host, choose History Reference Center) |
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Features full-text articles of leading history periodicals, as well as newspapers articles, reference books, encyclopedias, historical documents, biographies, photos and maps. | |||||
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Contains over 40 full text Spanish-Language and bilingual magazine articles, reports, and maps. | |||||
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INFOTRAC (Click on STUDENT EDITION) |
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Full-text Periodicals, reference books, maps, historical images, full-text newspaper articles from Knight Riddler News Service. | |||||
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Go behind the headlines and beyond the opinions to gain real understanding of today's most pressing social issues. Users can search 150 of the most significant social issues and 4,000 reference entries, including thousands of images and audiovisual sources, by reference category, broad subject, or single issue. | |||||
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Examines the lives and works of great writers throughout history. An archive of 35,000 characters, extensive glossary and subject entries featuring historical events and their impact on literature. Includes hyperlinked entries on world writers, literary criticism, and literary genres and movements. | |||||
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MAGILLS ON LITERATURE PLUS (click EBSCO Host, choose Magill's Online Literature) |
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Plot summaries, critical analyses, author biographies, character profiles, book reviews, etc. | |||||
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Custom Newspapers - Search a collection of newspapers, both national and international | |||||
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New York State Newspapers - Search ten major newspapers published in the state of New York, including the New York Times and The New York Post. | |||||
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Guides students through the process of creating an MLA Works-Cited list. | |||||
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OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS (click on Proceed) |
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Dynamic online library of current event topics-the facts, as well as the arguments, of each topic's proponents and detractors. Students interact with entries and are asked to think critically about specific topics. | |||||
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Delivers more than 300 magazine and journal titles with nearly 100% full-text coverage. This is a support resource for the continuing professional and educational de3velopment of teachers and administrators. | |||||
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An authoritative easy-to-use website for curriculum-relevant maps covering everything from the world right down to your community. | |||||
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Curriculum-oriented database that offers students and researchers a comprehensive, authoritative overview of the sciences through diagrams, definitions, biographies, and essays. Following included: Agriculture, Astronomy and Space Technology, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Science, Exploration, General Science, Genetics, Health and Medicine, Marine Sciences, Physics, Technology and Transportation. | |||||
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Provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-specific content. Designed to support middle and high school curriculum. Encompasses all disciplines of science: biology, chemistry, earth, space, life, physical, and environmental sciences as well as health and medicine, science in society, science as inquiry, history of science, technology, scientists, and wildlife. | |||||
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Diverse and constantly growing online collection of author programs and k-12 book-related materials. It includes: original movie revealing the book creation process, audio excerpts of professional book readings, and book guides and engaging resources, which span thousands of children's YA and non-fiction titles. | |||||
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Features the content of over 600 books: United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors. | |||||
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Spanning the globe from 1500 to the present, this comprehensive database enhances any world history collection by combining a wealth of research sources with overviews and activities that provide context. | |||||
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Timelines, biographies, encyclopedic articles, maps, charts, picture galleries, and documents. | |||||
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