Electronic Resources/Databases 2011-2012



If the links below do not take you straight into the resource, user names and passwords are here.


ABC-CLIO
History, humanities and social studies resource that includes these databases: American History, World Geography, World History: Ancient and Modern.

BrainPop
An educational website with hundreds of short Flash-based movies for students in grades K-12 covering the subjects of mathematics, technology, health, science, social studies, arts and music, and English.

Discovery Education (formerly United Streaming)
Provides educational and informational video streaming for teachers or students on a wide variety of topics. Sign in, then register to create your own account.

EasyBib — see also NoodleBib
A free automatic bibliographic and citation maker.

JSTOR
Provides searchable electronic archives of over 1,000 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences and sciences.

LibGuides
A LibGuide is an electronically accessible, authoritative list of recommended resources—such as databases, journals, books, web pages, videos, etc. -on a particular subject.

Literary Reference Center
Includes more than 10,000 plot summaries, synopses, and work overviews; 75,000 articles of literary criticism; 130,000 author biographies; full text of more than 300 literary journals; 500,000 book reviews; 25,000 classic and contemporary poems; over 11,000 classic and contemporary short stories; full text of more than 7,500 classic novels; over 3,000 author interviews; and over 1,000 images of literary figures.

NoodleBib — see also EasyBib
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.

Teen Health and Wellness Center—NEW!
Thousands of resources for teens on topics relevant to them, and written for them – like sexuality, dating, stress, alcohol/drugs, eating disorders, even acne. Special features include: Cast Your Vote, a poll on how you and other teens act and feel about a variety of topics, with links to articles; HOTLINES (Get Help Now), easy-to-find access to a variety of national hotlines (Suicide, AIDS, Alcohol/Drugs, Eating Disorders, etc.); Ask Dr. Jan, a place to ask a question and get an answer from a licensed psychologist; Personal Story, a teen story written about a particular situation, like cyberbullying, with the option of confidentially sharing your own story, and many others.

Visible Body- NEW!
Visible Body is a revolutionary 3D human anatomy visualization and learning tool with complete, fully interactive, 3D human anatomy models.