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To access the databases from home, you will need to configure the proxy settings (login required) in your browser.  Only TJHSST students and staff may access these resources. 
 

ABC - CLIO 

  • World Geography
  • World History: Modern Era
  • World History:  Ancient and Medieval Eras
  • American History
  • American Government
  • United States at War
  • State Geography

Access Science 

The online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, updated daily and with RSS feed.
 

Annals of American History 

Original source documents such as speeches, essays, editorials, biographies, etc., from 1493 to the present.  Includes photos and multimedia of notable events.

Britannica's Online Reference

CQ Researcher 

Full text of current and previous weekly issues to 1991, each exploring a single "hot" news issue in depth.
 

Columbia Earthscape 

"Comprehensive aggregation of resources in the Earth and Environmental sciences."
 

EBSCOHost Research 

  • EBSCOHost includes magazine and newspaper articles, MasterFile Premier, Newspaper Source, Health Source
  • Scientific American Archive: entire contents from 1993 to the present
  • Professional Development Collection; ERIC
  • NoveList - fiction reviews, annotations, read-alikes

eHRAF (Human Relations Area Files)

Collections of Ethnography: A cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life.

Grolier Online 

  • Groliers Multimedia Encyclopedia
  • Encyclopedia Americana
  • Lands and Peoples
  • New Book of Knowledge
  • New Book of Popular Science
  • America the Beautiful

JSTOR

A trusted archive of important scholarly international journals in the following multidisciplinary collections: Arts & Sciences, Biological Sciences, Business, Health, Language & Literature, Mathematics & Statistics, Music.

Lexis-Nexis Scholastic 

  • Federal and state legal research, court cases, laws, etc.
  • Legislation, Federal and state bills, speeches
  • Worldwide statistics
  • News in English and several foreign languages; wire stories, and radio and TV transcripts (1980-present) 

NoodleTools 

Allows the user to generate, edit, and publish a bibliography using current MLA or APA rules.  NoodleTools takes care of punctuation, alphabetization and formatting, resulting in a polished list for import into Word.

Oxford English Dictionary 

The most complete dictionary in the world, with definitions, 
etymology, and quotations. 

Polling the Nations: The Ultimate Survey Database

Compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by over 1,000 polling organizations in over 100 countries, 1986 to the present. 

ProQuest Direct 

  • AP Science - Advanced scientific and medical periodicals
  • Platinum Periodicals - full text premier collection
  • Historical Newspapers (Traditional): New York Times, 1851 - present; Washington Post 1877 - present
  • National and International newspapers
  • SIRS Knowledge Source
  • Occupational Outlook Handbook
  • World Factbook and Ethnic Cultures of America

Science Direct 

Elsevier's scientific, technical and medical journals and online databases with over 2 million full text articles.

Thompson Gale InfoTrac

Search these databases separately:

Biography Resource Center - the best source for biography

Literature Resource Center - Biographies and literary criticism from various Gale series. 

LitFinder for Schools - short stories, plays, poems, author biographies, speeches

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select - 11,000 essays

Science Resource Center - Articles from over 200 academic journals

What Do I Read Next?


Cross-Searchable databases include:

Gale Virtual Reference Library [aka eBooks]
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - today's hottest issues

Professional Collection - educational issues

A variety of databases that include full-text periodicals, newspapers, primary sources and multimedia covering general research topics, computer, religion, philosophy, legal, health, women in history, business, military and child development topics

Wilson's Science Databases 

  • Applied Science and Tech Plus - index, plus full text and images from leading science and tech journals
  • Biological and Agricultural Index - index of 300 leading periodicals
  • General Science Full Text - peer-reviewed science magazines and journals indexed from 1984, full text from 1995 to the present


World Book Online

Digital encyclopedia - articles, atlas, dictionary, multimedia

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Last updated October 2008 

Web site by  M. Masone