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Electronic Resources/Databases 2007-08
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EBSCOHost, especially Student Research Center
Facts on File Issues and Controversies
Teaching Books
Twayne's Authors Series
Access Science (The McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Online)
- New trends and developments in science and technology ("Research Updates") from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology
- Access to 110,000+ definitions from The McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms
- Biographies of scientists
- Late-breaking science and technology news
- Bibliographies containing more than 28,000 literature citations
- Links to evaluated related web sites
- Learning resources and study guides
- Illustrations, animations, and image galleries
- Questions answered in a weekly Q&A
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More than 26,000 pages of web-based content providing statistical data and cultural information about the countries of the world.
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EBooks (from the Gale Virtual Reference Library)
Ebooks are electronic books; they can be searched like databases, but are full-text reproductions of actual published reference books. You will click on the EBooks link, then again on Gale Virtual Reference Library. The titles we have in our own "electronic library" are:
- Ancient Europe, 8000 B.C. to A.D. 1000: Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World (2004)
- Animal Sciences (2002)
- Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-Bottoms: Pop Culture of 20th-Century America (2002)
- Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease (2003)
- Colonial America Reference Library (2000)
- Countries and Their Cultures (2001)
- Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa (2004)
- Encyclopedia of World Biography (2004)
- Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (2000)
- History Behind the Headlines: The Origins of Conflicts Worldwide (2001)
- Middle Ages Reference Library (2001)
- Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students (2004)
- Space Sciences (2002)
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EBSCOHost is essentially a portal to a number of large databases, including:
- Magazines, Journals and Newspapers database - allows you to search full text and abstracts of thousands of articles
- NoveList - can tell you “what to read next,” provides booklists, discussion questions, ways to search for “readalikes,” teacher and reader resources.
- NoveList K-8 - the same resource as above, but focused on the younger reader and their teachers.
- Searchasaurus - like the Magazines, Journals and Newspapers database mentioned above, but geared for younger students and their teachers.
- Student Research Center - searches the same databases as Magazines, Journals and Newspapers and Searchasaurus, but interface is arranged by topic and by format (so you can search in the topic of Health, for example, and in the formats of magazines and Radio and TV News Transcripts, but leave out Books and Encyclopedia and Biography.
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Facts on File Issues and Controversies
Essays written by the editorial board at Facts on File on a wide variety of current issues. Also provides:
- Links to newspaper editorials, biographies, news updates, and relevant websites
- Bibliographies, chronologies, maps, graphs, tables, and photos
- Directory of organizations to contact for further information
- "By The Numbers" statistical snapshot of key issues
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Searches websites for you and organizes them by category. Try it before or with Google.
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Articles and images on every aspect of Georgia as well as convenient links to a multitude of other websites related to the history, culture, and life of the state.
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Will help you organize your research notes and correctly cite your sources. Sign in with the user name and password below, then register to create your own account.
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A kind of internet clearing house, providing links to new sources and reference resources, along with a word of the day, quote of the day, this day in history, today’s birthday and many other regular features.
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Allows you to search the entire content of the Scribner Writers Series. You will find lengthy literary biographies, literary criticism, and research ideas.
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TeachingBooks makes instantly available 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.
Similar to Scribner Writers Series, but content is from the Twayne Literary Masters series. More focused on literary criticism, whereas Scribner’s provides more biographical information.
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Provides educational and informational video streaming for teachers or students on a wide variety of topics. Use the user name and password below, then register to create your own account.
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Online reference center including thousands of encyclopedia entries, dictionaries, video and sound clips, an atlas, "Behind the Headlines," "Back in Time" and many other features. A great first resource.
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Provides links to homework help and writing sites chosen by teachers and writers.
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