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Searching Tips and Database Research Basics from Black Hawk College
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Encyclopedias
Encyclopedias
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Britannica School offers thousands of up-to-date, curated, and curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, recommended Web sites, and three separate databases—Elementary, Middle, or High.
- Salem Press Encyclopedia Sets (password required)
- Psychology and Mental Health (online only)
- Adolescent Health & Wellness (print too)
- Salem Health: Community & Family Health Issues (print too)
Databases
Databases
- Teen Health & Wellness
- The critically acclaimed, award-winning resource Teen Health & Wellness provides middle and high school students with nonjudgmental, straightforward, curricular and self-help support, aligned to state, national, and provincial standards. Topics include diseases, drugs and alcohol, nutrition, mental health, suicide and bullying, green living, LGBTQ issues, and more.
- Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module (Gale)
- Including the respected Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Health & Wellness Resource Center delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources. Additionally, consumers, students, and professionals are provided with descriptions of and links to many pertinent websites, selected for their usefulness and appropriateness.
- Student Edition (Gale) Grades 9 - 12
- With over 1100 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.