CultureGrams
Gain in-depth information on more than 200 countries and territories, the 50 United States, and the Canadian provinces.
Discovery Education streaming
Teachers can use this extensive site to locate video segments, images, encyclopedia articles, audio files, quizzes, events, lesson plans, animations, clip art, and more. Please contact the Librarian for information about creating an account.
Encyclopedia Americana
An online encyclopedia that includes an international current events database and newspapers from around the world.
FirstSearch
FirstSearch is an online library resource with searchable information on a range of subjects from 16 databases.
Gale Power Search
Search Opposing Viewpoints in Context, Student Resources in Context, 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.
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.
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.
Literature Resource Center
A current, comprehensive, and reliable online resource for research on literary topics, authors, and their works. Its coverage includes all genres and disciplines, all time periods, and all regions of the world. Includes scholarly articles, full-text poetry, book reviews, author biographies, and links to author websites.
NoodleTools
A notetaking and bibliographic database.
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.
Opposing
Viewpoints in Context
A library of facts and
arguments about current events topics including statistics and government
information within the framework of a pro/con issue.
Science Online
A science database that provides information about the many scientific fields.
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.
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.
SIRS Researcher
Resources in this social issues database include government documents, primary sources, reference, graphics, newspapers, and magazines.
Student Resources in Context
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. |
