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All databases provided by PFTSTA and JP Schools are password protected
See Mrs. Griffin for passwords or visit the Library Google Classroom
The link to Gale Power Search is a one stop shop for fifteen different databases. This includes Gale eBooks a database of over 300 encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Other databases contain thousands of full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia with articles, documents, and images to answer your research questions.
Put Gale on your iPhone or Android smartphone
With over 73,000 articles, Encyclopedia Britannica is one of the most complete and accurate information sources in the world. It contains both short and book-length articles on every subject.
Find wide-ranging statistics and analysis about world entities from every region of the globe.
World Book Student includes the articles of the World Book Encyclopedia, a Biography Center, dictionary, atlas, an extensive multimedia collection, thousands of editor-selected Web sites, correlations to curriculum standards, and much more.
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Try World Book Advanced designed for high school and college students. It is a reference tool that includes encyclopedic, multimedia, e-book, and primary source databases, fully integrated in a single search.
This is a collection of non-fiction books geared to middle school that includes many biographies.
Use this bibliography and citation maker to create your citations for research papers and assignments. Noodle Tools will create your parenthetical citations, too. Taylor has a subscription to this service. Please see the Library Google Classroom for the school code. There are instructions in the Google Classroom with steps on how to use Google as a single sign-on to NoodleTools. Email Mrs. Griffin for help: christan.griffin@jpschools.org.
Where to go for more help with your research and citations
Where to go for more help with your research and citations
Find tutorials to help you with your research and citations.
Need Help with the Research Process? Open this link.
Watch this video from Common Craft on how to create good search strategies.
Reasons why Wikipedia is not a source that you should be citing in a research paper.
Databases from Jefferson Parish Library and the State Library of Louisiana
Databases from Jefferson Parish Library and the State Library of Louisiana
You will need your JP Library card number to access databases
Video instructions on how to access EBSCO provided by the public library
Free Databases
Free Databases
Free resources from the State Library of Louisiana
JSTOR is a subscription database but has hundreds of open access eBooks available for free. You can create a free account with JSTOR and read 100 articles a month for free, find out here.
The library staff at the Smithsonian has collected a list of databases that are available for free. Many were created for professionals in their field.
Jurn is a directory that offers scholarly works in the arts, humanities, sciences, business, and economics. Here you will find open access electronic journals
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