Addison Trail Student Information Center - Quick Start

"Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly." - Roger Ebert

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Career Cruising*

Global Issues in Context Virtual Reference Library Student Resource Center - Gold Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center LitFinder Literature Resource Center The ACT Practice

Magazines/Periodicals

• e-library* Literature Center
  e-library History Center

• FirstSearch*

• ProQuest Platinum*

• Wilson Select*

• Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol

Biography

• Encyclopedia Britannica*

• Encyclopedia of World Biography (eBook)*

• Librarians Index to the Internet: People

Career & Future Plans

• Career Cruising*

• Career Information Center (eBook)*

Communication Arts

• Acronym Finder

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

• Gale Resource Center Gold*

• Internet Public Library: Lit Crit

• Librarians' Internet Index: Literature

• Gale LitFinder*

• NoodleTools*

• NoveList:
  Novelist Plus*
  Novelist K-8*

• Learning Literature by Proquest

• Virtual Thesaurus Remote/home

• Webster's Third New International Dictionary*

Fine Arts

• Art History Timelines

Images (free & legal)

• AP Images*

• Pics4Learning

Math

     Fun Facts
      Real life Math (eBook)*

Science & Health

• AccessScience*

• Anatomy

• Center for Disease Control

• Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia (eBook)*

• Health and Wellness: Illness Among Americans (eBook)*

• MedLine (FirstSearch)*

• Medline Plus

• National Marine Sanctuaries

• Pharmaceutical Drug Info

• ProQuest Platinum*

• Physics Phenomena

• Teen Health & Wellness

• Science of Everyday Things (eBook)*

Social Issues - Pros & Cons

• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

Social Studies - Countries/Geography

• Background Notes

• CIA World Fact Book

• Global Issues in Context

• Infoplease Atlas

• Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography (eBook)*

• States & Capitals

• World Almanac

• World Data Analyst*

Social Studies - Government, Issues

• American National Biography*

• Annals of American History*

• Census Data  US Census

• Congress.org

• Congressional Information Center

• FirstGov (federal)

• Government, Politics, and Protest: Essential Primary Sources (eBook)* 

• Teen Births by state

• THOMAS (Library of Congress)

Social Studies - Government/Illinois

• DuPage County Offices

• Find It! (Illinois)

• Illinois Periodicals Online

• National Survey of State Laws (eBook)*

Social Studies - History

• AP Images*

• American Memory (Library of Congress)

• Annals of American History*

• History Behind the Headlines: The Origins of Conflicts Worldwide (eBook)*

• History Study Center*

• Historyteacher.net

• Lincoln

General

• American Art 
  Museum of Online Museums

• Awesomestories.com*

• Create a Graph

• e-library*

• Encyclopedia Britannica*

• Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol

• FirstSearch*

• Gale Virtual Reference Center*

• High School Ace

• Librarians' Internet Index

• Library Spot

• Mirriam-Webster Dictionary & Thesaurus

• NoodleTools*

• Real life Math (eBook)*

• Scavenger Hunts

• Short Stories for Students (eBook)*

• Visual Thesaurus*

• Webster's Third New International Dictionary*