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The library subscribes to a number of databases to fulfill your needs for rigorous academic research or personal curiosity and learning. Databases and websites may be accessed from home using our PDS library login. Please ask Ms. Matlack for the account info if you do not already know it.
Scholarly & Reference Databases
Scholarly & Reference Databases
A non-profit digital image library for education and scholarship. The digital library includes more than one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. CQ Researcher provides award winning in-depth coverage of the most important issues of the day. Our reports are written by experienced journalists, footnoted and professionally fact-checked. Full-length articles include an overview, historical background, chronology, pro/con feature, plus resources for additional research. Graphics, photos and short "sidebar" features round out the reports. Shorter "Hot Topics" articles provide a solid introduction to subjects most in demand by students.A powerful online reference system offering a variety of proprietary full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers. It includes Novelist, French and Spanish online databases, Points of View Database, and full text access to journals, magazine, and more.Global Issues in Context spans continents and cultures to bring essential, balanced information to researchers across many academic disciplines. Integrating news, global viewpoints, reference, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics and more in a single search, Global Issues in Context not only focuses on broad issues such as poverty and nuclear proliferation, it also prompts a close appraisal of targeted issues.Facts on File covers a wide variety of topics with more than 3,000 titles and spans a multitude of subject areas such as U.S. history, world history, language and literature, science and technology, careers, social issues, and many others.JSTOR currently offers more than 10 million academic journal articles, 50,000 books, and 2 million primary source documents in 75 disciplines
Newspapers & Magazines
Newspapers & Magazines
A full-text newspaper database that lets you search newspapers electronically by title, headline, date, author, section or other assigned fields, eliminating random searches through newspaper archives for specific articles page after page. Online access to The New York Times website (access with "news" login)
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
The Wilson Family Library @ PDS Upper School
Amy Matlack, Upper School Librarian
amatlack@pds.org
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