Internet Online Databases
Our databases can be
accessed from the Salesian High Library page on our school web site. All
of them can also be accessed from home with a password. A list of these
passwords can be obtained in the library.
| The SIRS Knowledge Source | |||||||||
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This database is best for
the LATEST information. It is actually three
databases in one. SIRS
Issues Researcher covers the leading issues most studied and
debated by students. Learn how to use the SIRS
Issues Researcher by
clicking here.
SIRS Government
Reporter
includes a tremendous amount of information from the US government. SIRS
Renaissance contains reference book articles on the arts. This database
is great for current events projects, American history
classes, and religion
and Civil Liberties classes
working on contemporary issues.
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| SIRS Decades: 20th Century American Sources | |||||||||
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SIRS Decades:
20th Century American Sources, is an electronic subscription
resource containing Primary Source and reference content from the 20th
century. Content is organized into curricular topics pertaining
to American History, culture, and daily life of the time. Primary
source types include: Advertisements,
Editorial
Cartoons, Letters, Memos, Messages, Maps and Charts,
Original
Documents, Original Works of Art,
Photographs,
Poems
and Literary
Works, Posters,
Published
Articles, Speeches and
Addresses.
This database
is great for American history
classes, and religion
and Civil Liberties classes
working on contemporary issues.
The
Gilder
Lehrman
Institute of American History pays for the yearly cost of the
subscription
to this service.
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| The
Student Resource Center |
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Our school's most
important online database, The Student
Resource Center is a giant compendium of
information about virtually all school topics. Its
information consists of reference book
articles, newspaper, magazine,
and journal
articles, primary documents,
images,
videos,
and music. The database contains specialized Topic Tree
searches in Cultures, Geography,
Literature, Science, U.S. History and World History. The
Toolbox includes
valuable help and advice for writing research
papers. Click here to download and read The Student Resource Center Navigation Guide. Click here to download and read The Student Resource Center Search Tips. |
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| The US
History Resource Center |
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The US
History Resource Center is similar to the
Student Resource Center. Both are products of
Thomson
Gale and have the same interface and specialized searches.
This database, however, consists on information
about American history only.
The Gilder
Lehrman
Institute of American History pays for the yearly cost of the
subscription
to this service.
Click here to download and read The U.S. History Resource Center Navigation Guide. |
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| The Science Resource Center | |||||||||
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The Science Resource Center is an in-depth, curriculum-oriented science database that provides a one-stop resource for all science-related research needs. This 24/7 resource reflects curriculum trends and focuses on key concepts taught in school classrooms, including...
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| Facts on File
Databases |
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Salesian High's
Collection of Facts on File
databases includes...
The
Gilder
Lehrman
Institute of American History pays for the yearly cost of the
subscription
to this service.
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| Issues and Controversies in American History | |||||||||
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World and
I is a clear, concise, and
balanced explanations of the most contentious issues in American
history, placing students in the middle of the great historical
debates, and allowing them to view these issues as they were being
argued. Biographies,
timelines, background articles, photographs, and maps
augment the curriculum-based coverage of historical events.
Carefully
selected primary documents, linking directly to the factual coverage,
give the points of view on all sides of the debates as they were
promulgated at the time.
For complete information about this database, click here. The
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American
History
pays for the yearly cost of the subscription to this service.
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| NOVEL
(or New
York Online
Virtual
Electronic
Library) Databases from Gale Cengage |
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New York State has
provided to schools and libraries a collection of Gale
Cengage databases through the NOVELNY program. Included
are the following
databases:
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| PowerSearch enables you to search through all of the NOVELNY Gale databases and the Gale databases provided by Salesian High School all at once! Click here to download and read the PowerSearch Navigation Guide. Click here to download and read PowerSearch Search Tips. | |||||||||
| ProQuest Platinum |
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Also provided by the
NOVELNY program, ProQuest Platinum
provides periodical articles covering a broad range of material:
business, education, general reference, health, language arts,
sciences, social sciences, and many other curriculum-specific subject
areas. To learn more about ProQuest Platinum, click here. |
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| World and I School
Online |
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"World
and I" has been an important
magazine
for high school students for many years. All of their articles
are
now online and searchable for research. New articles (with many
illustrations)
are added to the database each month.
There are also individual sections
on Social
Studies
(including a giant section on the Civil War), Language
Arts, Science, the Arts, and Spanish,
as well as a section for teachers called Teacher's
Corner.
The
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American
History
pays for part of the yearly cost of the subscription to this service.
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