WHS Research Databases

researchIT CT offers free online resources as a service of the CT State Library. Here you will find journal, magazine, and newspaper articles for Connecticut public, K12, and academic libraries and their users. They also offer a collectionof downloadable eAudios and eBooksfor Connecticut residents with valid CT public librarycard numbers.

Gale Virtual Reference Library is an eReference source aimed at the needs of students, researchers, professionals and general readers. Offers authoritative, full-text titles (from Gale and a host of premier publishing partners) within 18 subject areas researchers study most.

Discovery Education offers a breadth and depth of digital media content. All content is aligned to state standards, can be aligned to custom curriculum, and supports classroom instruction regardless of the technology platform.

Specifically created for research across all academic disciplines, Expanded Academic ASAP offers balanced coverage of every academic concentration.

Expanded Academic ASAP includes journals and periodicals covering a wide variety of disciplines, from social science, humanities and politics to medicine, general interest and science.

Wolcott High School library provides access to the following ProQuest research tools: eLibrary Curriculum Edition, History Study Center, ProQuest Learning: Literature and SIRS Knowledge Source.

Trusted, authoritative resource for pro/con issues assignments

Supports state, national and international learning standards.

Health and Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Healthprovides accurate, authoritative information on a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative and complementary medical practices.

For researchers at all levels. New periodical and newspapers articles are added daily.

researchIT CT provides access to several popular magazines that can be used for research.

Bloom's Literary Reference Online examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.

American History Online spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history to cover the American experience.

Issues & Controversies provides exclusive, extensive coverage of hundreds of today's hot topics, with unbiased analysis and rich related resources.

Classroom Video On Demand is a comprehensive streaming video subscription service for high schools, featuring unlimited access to more than 5,000 educational programs that can be viewed in class, at the library, or from home.

Contains news articles covering topics in government, politics, social issues, culture, literature, discoveries, inventions and more from hundreds of primary sources. Includes news and eyewitness accounts of events, issues and daily life in the colonies or during the Revolutionary War, westward expansion, the Civil War, Reconstruction, industrialization, the Progressive Era, World War I and other eras.

The award-winning Science Online offers a comprehensive, curriculum-oriented overview of a broad range of scientific disciplines in a variety of useful formats. The accessible content is organized by subject area and type of resource, as well as by Common Core, state, national, and national STEM standards. Users can follow an extensive network of hyperlinks and suggested searches to related topics, and tabbed search results help users find their desired results quickly and easily.

Global Issues In Context spans continents and cultures to bring essential, balanced information to researchers across many academic disciplines. Integrating news, global viewpoints, reference, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics and more in a single search, Global Issues In Context not only focuses on broad issues such as poverty and nuclear proliferation, it also prompts a close appraisal of targeted issues, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Syrian Civil War, Genetically Modified Foods, Internet Control and Security, and Privacy Rights.