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Here at Cocoa Beach, we have the BEST electronic resources right at your fingertips 24/7. Get reference materials, periodical articles, images, maps, primary sources, electronic books, encyclopedia articles reliable information you need. Use these databases below to get the right information in a flash! Just click on the underlined name of the resource for a direct link to the website.
This link will take you to many electronic databases and electronic books published online by Thomson Gale. The number of magazine, newspaper and journal articles available here is staggering! Don't forget to take a look at their ebooks.
Access this program through Launchpad! See the media specialist or teacher for the off campus password.
Use World Book Online to find information in more than 1.3 million pages of primary source documents–books, documents, selections–fully integrated with the encyclopedia content. Research and teaching tools include timelines, citation builder, and saved research.
Access this program through Launchpad! See the media specialist or teacher for the off campus password.
The Florida Electronic Library is a gateway to select Internet resources that offers access to comprehensive, accurate, and reliable information. Available resources include electronic magazines, newspapers, almanacs, encyclopedias, and books, providing information on topics such as current events, education, business, technology, and health issues.
Brevard Country Public Libraries
Connect here to the Brevard County Public Library System. Use their new online card catalog to find books or dvd/video/audio materials. You can also use your Brevard Public Library Card to place a book on hold and have it sent to the public library closest to your home. You can then check it out from your home library and return it there too!
Project Gutenberg offers over 40,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. They carry high quality ebooks: All their ebooks were previously published by bona fide publishers. They digitized and diligently proofread them with the help of thousands of volunteers. No fee or registration is required, but if you find Project Gutenberg useful, they ask for a small donation (voluntary) so they can buy and digitize more books.
Cambridge University Press - ALL 700 textbooks are currently available FREE in HTML format
COMMONLIT is a collection of free fiction and nonfiction texts for classrooms
OWL - Purdue Online Writing Lab MLA Formating - The Purdue website offers many wonderful examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, end notes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.
OWL writing format & citation resource https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TLojFRNqEk&feature=youtu.be
Where to find good resources for academic research... don't just Google it!
Where to find good resources for academic research... don't just Google it!
Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/ How to use Google Scholar video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egr1khf1hmU
Open Alex https://openalex.org/
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) https://eric.ed.gov/
ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/
Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) https://www.base-search.net/
Connecting Repositories (CORE) https://core.ac.uk/
Semantic Scholar https://www.semanticscholar.org/
Not sure which of the above resources to start with or want to know a little more about each of these resources? No problem... please click on the links below to see an articles about top resources.
https://post.edu/blog/7-great-educational-search-engines-for-college-students/ *please note Microsoft Academy is no longer available.
https://www.rasmussen.edu/student-experience/college-life/15-educational-search-engines/
If you must use Google to research then please watch this video for tips and suggestions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9XZk9CLxK4
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