Addison Trail Student Information Center - Database Help
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
Jim Rohn ( - ____) US success author
In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.

There are many to help.  Take the first step and ask.  The following provides a description and either help or tours of the various databases.

What is the difference between a magazine and a journal? ANSWER Click here
Can I use the Internet to find articles from magazines, newspapers or journals? ANSWER Click here

Home access is available for all databases.  See one of the Library staff to get your copy of Usernames and Passwords for each one.  To email your request: ebuch@dupage88.net    
Article you need is not found?  Let us help.
 


Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
 

Magazines and Newspapers

Reference Databases

Britannica Online
Online version of the scholarly encyclopedia with additional articles not found in the print edition. Accommodates query and browse searching and provides links to remote web sites. Help

Oxford English Dictionary (OED)Tour

Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol

Encyclopedia of World Biography (eBook)

NoodleTools Help

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library provides  access to more than 1,000 electronic reference titles — eBooks — in virtually any subject, including health, science, art, history, biography and many more.

ProQuest
The library's primary magazine, journal and newspaper database. Contains articles from over 2,500 publications, such as Time, BusinessWeek, the Chicago Tribune, the Daily Herald, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the New York Times. Coverage dates for each title vary and articles from over 1,400 of the publications are available in full-text. Help

First Search
A collection of academic and professional magazine and journal databases on specialized topics. Coverage dates for each title vary and some databases are full-text. Also includes WorldCat, a national catalog of books, audiovisual items, and other materials in libraries of all types.

 

English
Gale Resource Center Gold

Gale Virtual Reference Library
provides  access to more than 1,000 electronic reference titles - eBooks - in virtually any subject, including health, science, art, history, biography and many more.

Learning Literature
Literature offers a comprehensive literary resource for original full-text works, author biographies, and contemporary criticisms-in one integrated source. The database features more than 80,000 searchable works of poetry, prose, and drama from around the world-and from medieval times to the present. Relevant secondary source materials place works in context for students.

LitFinder
Web access to 100,000 full-text poems and thousands of short stories. Also includes criticism, essays, biographies, and glossary. 

Modern American Literature (eBook)

Novelist
NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction.

Reference Guide to World Literature (eBook)

Virtual Thesaurus (Lesson Plans)

Social Studies
American Decades (eBook)
American National Biography

Annals of American History

AP Images
160 years of photographs, audio, graphics from the Associated Press. Text news from 1997 to present; economic indicators.

Culture Grams
Dictionary of National Biography
History Study Center - History Study Center brings together in one place a variety of resources for students, including reference materials, images (photographs and illustrations, video and interactive maps), and Study Units, which gather primary and secondary sources into over 500 survey and specific topics frequently taught in American and World History classes.

Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-Bottoms: Pop Culture of 20th-Century America (eBook)

Dictionary of National Biographies

Gale Resource Center Gold

Gale Virtual Reference Library provides  access to more than 1,000 electronic reference titles — eBooks — in virtually any subject, including health, science, art, history, biography and many more.

World Data Analyst

Science and Health
Accu Weather
Radar, satellite maps, streaming video, forecasts, historical data.

AccessScience
provides the finest collection of science reference materials—online and fully searchable. This online encyclopedia is tailored to researchers and students looking for the most relevant, readable, and trusted sources of information available.

Gale Virtual Reference Library provides  access to more than 1,000 electronic reference titles — eBooks — in virtually any subject, including health, science, art, history, biography and many more.

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia (eBook)

Health and Wellness: Illness Among Americans (eBook)

Science of Everyday Things (eBook)

CQ Researcher
Current controversial issues.  Congressional Quarterly Researcher reports cover political and social issues, topics in health, international affairs, education, environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Opposing views presented. 1991 to present.
Find a Topic

ERIC
Journal articles and reports in education

SIRS   

Electric Library
Magazines, newspapers, pictures, maps, radio and TV transcripts.  A reference archive of full text periodicals and newspapers, international newswires, TV and radio transcripts, maps, photographs, and major works of literature, art, and reference.

Gale Resource Center Gold

PerAbs
full text articles; news and current events; radio/TV transcripts; general and academic journals.

WilsonSelectPlus
articles in science, humanities, education, business.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


FirstSearch Specialty Databases

 

---ABI INFORM - U.S. and international articles on business.
ArticleFirst An OCLC index of articles from content pages of journals
Clase Periodicals -Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities
Ebooks - OCLC catalog of online electronic books available worldwide
ECO - Electronic Collections Online. Full text of scholarly journals
GPO -U.S. government publications. Must be ordered.
Illinois Catalog - OCLC catalog of materials in Illinois libraries
Medline - All areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing
PapersFirst - Citations only to an index of papers presented at conferences worldwide
PerAbs - full text articles; news and current events; radio/TV transcripts; general and academic journals.
Proceedings - Citations to an index of worldwide conference proceedings
---Union Lists - Lists of Periodicals held by OCLC member libraries
WilsonSelectPlus - articles in science, humanities, education, business.
WorldCat - find books and other materials (OCLC) in libraries worldwide.

 


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