Online Resource List
Biography Resource Center (LVPL)
A comprehensive biographical reference database. It provides full text coverage of the sources most often cited as key to biographical reference collections. |
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Business Resource Center
Brings together a wide variety of global business information, enabling users to efficiently research business case studies, competitive intelligence, and career and investment opportunities. |
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Career Library
Contains an alphabetical listing of careers and information about each career, including hours, education and training required, and employment outlook.
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Careers Internet Database
Career-related resources, including education planning, a salary calculator, new career reports and career testings, plus scholarship, internship, grant and contest listings. |
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Columbia's International
Affairs Online - CIAO
CIAO is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs, including a full-text online database for political science, diplomatic history, international law and business, and country analysis. Also supports Model UN and other simulations.
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CultureGrams
Gain in-depth information on 190 countries and territories and the 50 United States.
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Curriculum Resource Center (LVPL)
Contains hundreds of maps, charts, pictures, and encyclopedia entries that you can use to supplement lectures and classes. You will find here a wide array of information—from how to perform a famous scientific experiment to the rules of baseball to how a bill is debated in Congress. Search for entries on a particular topic, or browse the database for new ideas. |
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CQ Researcher
In-depth analysis of contemporary issues. Commentary by experts, lawmakers, and citizens on all sides of controversial issues. Covers social, economic, political and environmental issues. Includes graphs, charts, and statistics. |
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- Encyclopedia Americana
An on-line encyclopedia that includes an international current events database and newspapers from around the world.
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FirstSearch
FirstSearch is an online library resource with searchable information on a range of subjects from 16 databases. |
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Gale Power Search
Search Opposing Viewpoints, SRC - Student Resource Center, and Gale Virtual Reference Library all at the same time. This database link may be helpful when trying to find related information on a particular topic.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
Access to several electronic reference books (eBooks) available through Lakes Community High School. Use the eBook the same way you would use the print version of the book by viewing the eTable of Contents, eBook of Index, or List of Illustrations, PLUS you can search for information within the book using keywords.
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- General Reference Center Gold (LVDL)
Integrates a vast array of key business and general interest titles. From national news magazines and encyclopedias to core business journals. The database has the full text image resources you need, all searchable in one self-service database.
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- Health and Wellness Resource Center (LVDL)
Delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources. Additionally, consumers, students, and professionals are provided with descriptions of and links to several pertinent Web sites, selected for their usefulness and appropriateness.
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- Heritage Quest (LVDL)
ProQuest Information and Learning's HeritageQuest Online provides libraries with a unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Beginning or professional genealogists can now use this powerful online library, with original page images for all documents, from the convenience of their home or at the library. Indexes and original page images mean no additional trips, inter-library loan requests or work by researchers or staff.
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Journal Storage (JSTOR)
JSTOR maintains a trusted archive of important scholarly journals and provides access to these journals as widely as possible. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated.
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NoveList
NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for more than 125,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We’re Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. |
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Opposing
Viewpoints
A library of facts and
arguments about current events topics including statistics and government
information within the framework of a pro/con issue. |
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PsycNET
Provides access to PsycARTICLES, which contains searchable full-text articles from journals published by APA, EPF (the Educational Publishing Foundation), and allied publishers. |
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Science Online
A science database that provides information about the many scientific fields.
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SIRS Decades
Primary and secondary source articles highlighting key events, movements, people, and places in 20th-century America. Coverage includes documents, letters and memos, editorial cartoons, streaming video, websites, photographs, maps, advertisements, and published articles from their respective time periods. |
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SIRS Government Reporter
Provides current and historic government documents; landmark andrecent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, information about federal departments, agencies, elected leaders and more.
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SIRS Researcher
SIRS Researcher is an excellent source for full text articles on social issues. Also contains many articles pertaining to diseases.The SIRS Government Reporter contains primary government sources. SIRS Reniassance provides current coverage on music, literature, film and performing arts. |
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SRC - Student Resource Center
A fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 300 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips. |
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- Testing & Education Resource Center (LVDL)
College Search, Graduate Search, Specialty&Career Program Search and Test Preparation materials. All available online! Find the college or vocational school that's right for you. Over 44 college and career test preparations to help improve your score. All the information you need to realize your educational and/or career goals.
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- World of Poetry
181,000 full text poems and several sets of critical context essays.
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