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Please see Mrs. S. Allen-Williams in the Media Center or your teacher for the login and password to access this site which is free of charge for administrators, supervisors, teachers and students associated with Hillside High School.
Use the power of EBSCOhost to search not only all EBSCO products, but also all other electronic resources, including those from other database aggregators, OPACs, publisher packages, A-to-Z services, and virtually any other electronic resource available.
EBSCO Service provides fast, simple, unified access to all of the library’s full-text content (electronic and print) including the catalog, journals,books, magazines, and special collections as well as searchable metadata for tens of thousands of journals & magazines and millions of books, videos and music CDs.
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world's premier database of journal and non-journal education literature.
The following is the information required to access the databases:
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Password: infolink
Hillside High School Media Center electronic books offers over 125 electronic books on a variety of subject matters and interest.
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UNC University Library offers indepth tutorials and sample citing information in various formats. A citation builder is also provided.
UNC’s Citation Builder is designed to let you quickly build citations for various citation styles. Cite a book (in entirety), chapter, or an essay from a book, magazine article, newspaper article, scholarly journal article, web site. The Citation Builder is based on the following citation manual: MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th Ed.
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A great online library and reference information portal. Find top dictionaries, encyclopedias, and newspapers, maps genealogy tools and more.
Provides free usage of the following types of Dictionaries,Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. Computing Dictionary, Medical Dictionary, Legal Dictionary,Financial Dictionary, Acronyms, Idioms, Columbia Encyclopedia and Wikipedia Encyclopedia.
Internet Public Library.
Source for speciality dictionaries, thesaurus, languages, crosswords and more.
The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 130 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 29 million books and other printed materials, 2.7 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps, and 58 million manuscripts. Library of Congress Exhibitions Online and Virtual Tours.
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An online library of literature. On this site you will find the full and unabridged texts of classic works of English literature.
The online Medieval and Classical Library.
Explore the latest scientific research, philosophical thinking, and expressions of human creativity. Here's the best intelligent, informed science and technology coverage and analysis you can find on a daily basis, sourcing a huge range of great writers and excellent publications.
International News, Ideas, Innovation - Since 1956 New Scientist has been keeping its readers up to date with the latest science and technology news from around the world.
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Is the leading national money and lifestyle magazine for young adults ages 18 to 25. They cover topics such as Careers, Technology, Automotive, Investing,Travel and Entertainment.
The Web Site of the National Geographic Society.
Reliability, not popularity, is the criterion for their answers. Answers.com contains only up-to-date, accurate definitions and explanations from authoritative sources like Houghton-Mifflin, Columbia University Press,Merriam-Webster, Market Watch, Investopedia and Who2. In addition, you can trust students with Answers.com content, eliminating the need to do research in potentially out-of-date or unsafe sites on the Web. Watch demonstration and if you like this site download and follow instructions. After installation has been completed utilize the following: Hint- Hold down Alt key while clicking on word to retrieve answer.
The official State of New Jersey Website.
New Jersey Public Television and Radio
Various great Internet reference sites and links for students and
educators.
The official web site of the United Nations.
The goal of this Web site is to provide all the necessary tools for students to conduct research and to present their findings. Site provides a Quick Click to Search Engines, annotated Research, Writing, and Style Guides (MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian, CGOS, CBE, Harvard), and Worlds of Knowledge housing some of the best education Web sites in a Virtual Library arranged by the Dewey Decimal Classification System. The DDC was created by Melvil Dewey in 1873 and was first published in 1876.
Web sites in this virtual library are organized somewhat loosely by subject according to recent editions of the DDC.
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(pronounced /ˌwɪkiˈpie di.ə/ or /ˌwiki-/) is a multilingual Web-based free-content encyclopedia. Wikipedia has more than 3,500,000 articles,including more than 1,002,000 in the English-language version. Wikipedia is regularly cited in the mass media and academia. It is often cited not as a subject but as a source on other subjects.
This site provides the United States National Archives of Historical Documents. Also provides classroom resources and tips on teaching with documents.
United States National Archives of Historical Documents
Contains annotated links to websites that will help you answer many common reference questions. It has been modeled after the Librarian's Index to the Internet, but with more focus on New Jersey information.
Is a suite of interactive tools designed to aid students and professionals with their online research. From selecting a search engine and finding some relevant sources, to citing those sources in MLA or APA style, NoodleTools makes online research easier! Scroll down to the free tools and click on "Choose the Best Search for Your Information Needs."
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
Let's Do Dewey has evolved as a training exercise for the student employees at the James E. Walker Library at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Although it is intended for college students, the site is meant to be fun and may be suitable for much younger students.
This is a website about the Dewey Decimal System. The Dewey Decimal System is a system we use to classify books by grouping them in 10 categories. Check out this thinkquest site to test your knowledge on the Dewey Decimal System used at libraries to search for books.
The WordReference Dictionaries are free online translation dictionaries. The most popular dictionaries are the Spanish, French and Italian Dictionary.
The WordReference Dictionaries
An excellent site providing definitions to over 3 million words from 742 online dictionaries.
Links to museums around the globe.
CIA production which offers maps and summaries of countries.
Several divisions of The Library of Congress and other institutions provide a collection of presidential inaugurations.
A collection of interactive sites on the Web that estimate, calculate, evaluate and translate.
Welcome to the web's most comprehensive site for famous quotes, since 1994.They have over 27,000 quotations online from over 3,100 authors,and more are added daily.
This site contains lists of heads of state and heads of government of all countries and territories, going back to about 1700.
Recalls, Market Withdrawals, & Safety Alerts. FDA works with industry and our state partners to publish press releases and other public notices about recalls that may potentially present a significant or serious risk to the consumer or user of the product.
FDA - Food and Drug Administration
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper. Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government, only 1%-3% are so important for legal or historical reasons that they are kept forever.
The measurement converter was especially designed to make your units conversion job a whole lot easier. Here you'll find instant conversions for thousands of various units and measurements, both common (e.g. U.S. or metric).
Conversion Tables and Instant Measurement Conversion
As you play "The Challenge",they track the words you miss, and add them to a list of words that you are learning. Over time, they continue to quiz you on these words, until you can demonstrate that you have mastered them. Also try "The Dictionary" the world’s smartest and fastest dictionary. Just start typing a word and the dictionary will display the most likely results. Start typing a word and get instant results. Sign up or log in to see how it works.
A Wealth of Knowledge provided while exploring over 5,536,002 items from libraries, archives, and museums.
Digital Public Library of America
"Links to on-line Smithsonian Resources from Art to Zoology. Founded in 1846, the Smithsonian is the world's largest museum and research complex, consisting of 19 museums and galleries, the National Zoological Park and nine research facilities."
Discover the images of the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Dive into the wonder of everything from Black Holes to X-ray Binaries.
Putting Breaking Medical News Into Practice.
Current news from overseas pertaining to science and the environment.
Science news, great photos and sky alerts.
Current news on the forefront in science.
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About.com authorities share information tips and strategies to improve your grades, study habits, research skills and more.
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Project Gutenberg offers over 50,000 free e-books: choose among free e-pub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.