Embedded Files
As a Medina Jr-Sr High School student you have access to the databases/resources listed below. Databases can be accessed from home with valid passwords. Please see Mrs. O'Toole in the library with any questions regarding their use.
Please join this Google Classroom to access database user names and passwords: sroaltu
Covers today's hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. This cross-curricular research database supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes.
Facts on File- Issues and Controversies
Explores and analyzes hundreds of hot topics in politics, business, government, crime, law, energy, education, health, family, science, foreign policy, race, rights, society, and culture.
World Book Advanced for grades 8 and up provides in-depth articles, e-books, databases, sound and video files, and a wealth of primary source materials.
The go-to site for learning more about any subject—for all years and all reading abilities—offering thousands of up-to-date, curated and curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, and maps.
Gale In Context- Middle School
Explores the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, history, & literature.
Provides a complete overview of our nation’s past that covers the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and people.
Offers up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews.
Facts on File- Bloom's Literature
This resource features essays and criticism on thousands of great writers and their works.
Provides access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world.
Includes articles from the New York Times.
Provides access to over 6,000 news sources, some of which go back to the 1980s.
Includes a variety of databases on various topics such as: health, business, social sciences, fine arts, science, and more.
A wide variety of resources − books, magazines, newspapers, research and reference sources and more are available to New York State residents.
Free trial of many non-fiction titles.
O/N BOCES provides us with 85 Ebooks and several online encyclopedias from Gale on various subjects.
Web-based student research service that helps you correctly cite sources in MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian citation styles
Provides legal movie streaming to K-12 students inside and outside of the classroom.
Insignia- Media Catalog for teachers
Provides access to the O/N BOCES multiple copy collection and other platforms such as Swank, Learn 360, Soundzabound, Rosen Learning Center, PBS Learning Media.
Provides access to eBooks and audiobooks from your school and public library.
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