Online Databases

 Thousands of up-to-date, curated, and curriculum-relevant articles [from both academic journals and popular magazines], images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, and recommended Web sites.

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A set of 6 comprehensive ProQuest databases, providing authoritative information on a variety of topics to assist student research.

ProQuest Central Student is a multidisciplinary resource that brings together many of ProQuest's most important, complete databases in science, technology, education, social sciences, humanities, and news. This database solves the problem of preparing students for college level academics by giving them access to a variety of sources, types of content, and multiple subjects using an interface that is widely used in higher education and prep schools.  Washington Post, NY Times, and Wall Street Journal is amongst the many digital subscriptions that are available. 

Designed with high school students and educators in mind, Explora provides a safe, trustworthy environment for students to look up articles and facts for research papers, class projects or homework.

Provides rich content that can help students realize and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues, and develop analytical thinking skills. The database covers over 400 topics, presenting an overview, point, counterpoint, and guide to critical analysis along with related information, including articles and images. 

A multidisciplinary database providing thousands of full-text, peer-reviewed journals to support scholarly research in key areas of study.

Focused on English Language Learners, Read It is a place to find reading material about many subjects. Articles are short and written to support your reading skills as you learn about topics in English that you need for school and everyday life.

An excellent source of reliable information on life sciences, physical sciences, mathematics, technology and more. Includes full-text coverage for more than 200 science periodicals, 275,000 high-quality science images, 2,900 full-text, full-length biographies, 800 full-text science essays, 800 full-text science reference books, and 500 science videos.

 A new resource with authoritative, curriculum-aligned digital content that helps students experience science, not just study it. Manipulate 3D interactive models to visualize and understand concepts in biology, chemistry, earth, and space science.

Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.

Find articles, books, and more in National Geographic Kids to take classroom assignments and projects to the next level.

An excellent source for both American and world history. Includes 640,000 full-text records from peer-reviewed journals, reference books, periodicals, 74,000 primary source documents, 81,000 biographies of historical figures, 2,000 full-text reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, and 44,000 images and 80+ hours of video. 

An encyclopedia, biography, and dictionary source for classic and popular literature. It has a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It gives students, professors and researchers a foundation of literary reference works to meet their research needs. 

The San Francisco Chronicle is the largest newspaper in Northern California, the second largest on the West Coast, and each month reaches over 6 million users across the country.  SF Chronicle is committed to coverage of subjects that are uniquely important to our readers: local issues and those topics with national impact such as economy, politics, technology and ecology, as well as breaking news, crime, education and national and foreign news.
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Students and staff are able to access all articles posted in NYTimes.com  while on campus.  There is no need to log in while on school wifi.