Databases
Gale: (click to enter the database)
Opposing Viewpoints - provides a complete one-stop source for information on highly debated social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
Science Resource Center - contains thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures, and illustrations. The latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify content directly correlated to state and national standards.
Literature Resource Center - provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and discipline; covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
Student Resource Center Gold - a fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (e-books) - e-book format of these titles: Encyclopedia of World Biography, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders, and Encyclopedia of the Nations.
To access Gale, you must get a valid password. Passwords are available from Mrs. James in the Library.