References and Databases

Big Chalk - Username: 12-601/ Password: bigchalk

Provides millions of resources from seven different media types: magazines, newspapers, reference books, TV/radio transcripts, pictures, maps, streaming audio and video.

EBSCO

• 1. Searchable full text for over 170 journals

  2. Abstracts for 930 publications

  3. Coverage of N.Y. Times

Story Finder - provides thousands of full-text short stories, explanations, biographies, and pictures.

Wilson Electronic Series - Wilson biographies plus illustrated information on people around the world.

World's Best Poetry - Contains information about authors, poems, poem explanations, subjects, essays, and glossaries.

Britannica Online

• 1. Encyclopedia Britannica, the Complete Encyclopaedia

  2. Britannica Internet-Guide to the Web's Best Sites

  3. Merriam Webster Online Dictionary

Gale Discovering Series

• 1. Discovering Collection: Comprehensive database in areas of Literature, Biographies, Sciences and Social Studies

  2. History Resource Center--U.S.

     1. • Over 1000 historical documents

        • More than 30000 reference articles

        • Over 65 full-text journals convering themes, events individuals and periods in U.S. History from pre- colonial times to the present.

  3. Literature Resource Center: Provides access to biographies, critical analysis of authors, novelists, poets, essayists, journalists & other written by name, title, literary movement or literary theme.