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Multimedia
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Britannica ImageQuest: 3 million+ rights-cleared images for use in school projects |
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Academic Video Online: Streaming videos of documentaries, films, demonstrations, etc. spanning a wide range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. |
Discovery Search
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Infobase's Source Reference: an information skills platform that promotes knowledge-building, problem-solving, and critical thinking to give users the information skills necessary for success throughout their academic, professional and personal lives. |
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researchIT CT Resources for High School Libraries (including EbscoHost): A complete listing of Ebsco databases plus additional researchIT CT resources. Provides access to a wide variety of databases including newspapers, eBooks, and more. Use OneSearch to search all researchIT CT resources simultaneously. New: "Research It Best Bets" for K-12! |
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Explora for High Schools: High-quality articles from reputable publishers. Searches Ebsco's High School Resources. |
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Gale Databases: Click for a complete listing of Gale databases |
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ProQuest Platform (PQP): Searches all ProQuest databases simultaneously. |
General Reference
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Britannica School: Quick facts and in-depth information on a variety of subjects, includes multimedia |
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Opposing Viewpoints: Find overviews, news, and opinions on hundreds of today's important social issues. |
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Global Issues in Context: Analyze important global issues and events through topic overviews, international viewpoints, news, and multimedia content. |
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High School in Context: Explore thousands of topics across subjects including literature, science, history, and social issues using different sources. |
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Topic Search: Explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries, and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. |
eBooks (Reference & NonFiction)
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Gale eBooks: Explore this database of encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform. |
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Ebsco's Non-Fiction Book Collection for High Schools: Cross-curricular content representing a wide spectrum of works, including popular series from top book publishers. |
Periodicals (Magazines & Newspapers)
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JSTOR: Peer-reviewed scholarly journals, respected literary journals, academic monographs, research reports, and primary sources from libraries’ special collections and archives. |
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Academic One File: Quickly access articles from a database of scholarly journals and other trusted periodicals. Best for academic research. |
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Academic Search Premier: Access to acclaimed full-text journals, magazines, and other valuable resources. |
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MAS Ultra: Designed specifically for high school libraries. Contains videos from the Associated Press and full text for popular high school magazines, ebooks, and primary source documents. |
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Master FILE Premier: Provides full-text of magazines, reference books, and primary source documents and an Image Collection with photos, maps, and flags. |
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researchIT CT News & Issues (ProQuest): Search all newspaper databases together or individually. Includes The Christian Science Monitor, Hartford Courant, National Newspapers Core, New York Time, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Hartford Courant (1764-1922), The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Hartford Courant (1992-present) |
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Newspaper Source Plus: This database contains comprehensive full text for major newspapers. Videos and podcasts are coming soon. |
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Popular Magazines |
English
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Bloom's Literary Reference Online: Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature. |
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MagillOnLiterature Plus: Biographical essays of the most studied authors, glossary terms of literary words and phrases, as well as essays on specific literary genres, themes, and settings. |
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Writer's Reference Center: A one-stop location for all of the tools necessary to write and research effectively. From the mechanics of writing and grammar to style and research, this resource thoroughly covers the fundamentals of quality writing. |
Health
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Health and Wellness: Access full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and more. This consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices. |
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Teen Health & Wellness: Articles on health-related issues important to teens' well-being. Use as both a research/report tool and a self-help resource. |
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Health Source: Consumer Edition: Access to full-text consumer health magazines and searchable full-text for current health pamphlets. |
Science & MATH
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Science in Context: Understand the context of science topics through overviews, journals, news, interactive experiments, and more. |
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Science Reference Source: Contains full text of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources. |
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GreenFILE: A collection of scholarly, government, and general-interest titles covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. |
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Rosen Digital’s Financial Literacy: Makes economics and personal finance easy to understand. Articles explore macro-, micro-, and global economics as well as personal and household finance. Learn to manage credit and debt, save and invest with confidence, plan for college and retirement, and avoid fraud and scams. |
Social Studies, Civics, & LAW
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History Reference Source: Features full text from reference books, encyclopedias, and non-fiction books. |
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World History in Context Uncover information on the most significant people, events, and topics in world history from a variety of sources. |
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U.S. History in Context: Uncover information on the most significant people, events, and topics in U.S. history from a variety of sources. |
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African-American History Online: Offers subject entries, primary sources, images, general and topic-specific timelines, biographies, maps and charts, historical videos, and more. |
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Exploring Race in Society: Covers topics associated with race, ethnicity, diversity, and inclusiveness. |
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Hartford Courant - Historical Newspapers (1764-1922): Find out what was going on in CT between 1800-up to the end of the Civil War. Scroll to the bottom of the page and select Proquest Historical Newspapers - Hartford Courant 1764-1922. |
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Legal Information Source: Full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books and thousands of legal forms. |
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Search All HeinOnline Databases at once or search each individually: Civil Rights and Social Justice: Covers the expansion of civil rights in America through government publications (including the Commission on Civil Rights), legislation, Supreme Court briefs, and more. Gun Regulation and Legislation in America: Essential periodicals, compiled legislative histories, CRS reports, Congressional hearings, United States Supreme Court briefs, monographs, and other related materials on the regulating of firearms in America. LGBTQ+ Rights: A collection of subject-coded materials charting the gay rights movement in America, showing the civil rights codified into law in the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as the inequalities that still exist today. Open Society Justice Initiative: Contains reports, handbooks, briefing papers, legal and policy submissions, and fact sheets from the Open Society Justice Initiative exploring and advocating on issues of human rights and justice. Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law: Essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. Includes statutes passed by every colony and state, as well as federal statutes, and all related state and federal cases. |
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DiscoverGov: One-stop searching across multiple U.S. Federal Government databases. Retrieves reports, articles, and citations while providing direct links to selected resources and publications available online. |
Biographical Resources
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Biography in Context: Discover the world's most influential people by searching narrative biographies, newspapers, magazines, and multimedia content. |
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Biography Reference Source: Provides coverage of the most popular and heavily-researched biographies and genres, including those contained within Biography Today and Biography (both dating back to the first issue published). |
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Biography Reference Bank: Offering the in-depth, original profiles of Current Biography and World Authors series, the thorough periodical coverage of Biography Index, and the specialist biographical content of Junior Authors & Illustrators. |
Career Readiness
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Learning Express - Workforce Solutions: Interactive tutorials, practice tests, e-books, flashcards, and articles for academic skill-building, standardized test preparation, career development, and more. |
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Career Exploration Research Guide |
Spanish
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Referencia Latina: Spanish-language database offering content from a variety of sources including encyclopedia entries, images, an atlas, health reports, a Spanish-English dictionary, and full text from reference books and general interest magazines in a broad array of subject areas. Daily updates ensure the availability of the most current articles from prominent Latin American newspapers. |
EDUCATION
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Teacher Reference Center: Provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines |
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Professional Development Collection: Provides full-text of education journals, peer-reviewed titles, and educational reports |
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Education Resources Information Center (ERIC): Full-text education literature and resources sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education. An essential tool for education researchers. |
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Explora Educator's Edition: Selected lesson plans, curriculum standards, and valuable sites for teachers. |
Library of Congress Collections
Library of Congress - free access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience
- Digital Collections
- Student Discovery Sets from The Library of Congress - Available as iBooks.
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers -Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present
- World Digital Library - Cultural heritage materials from around the world. Click the "Collection Items" tab to filter by date, era, country, continent, topic, and type of source.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES
National Archives Catalog - Search primary source material for classroom projects
- Primary Sources from DocsTeach Thousands of online primary source documents from the National Archives to bring the past to life as classroom teaching tools.
- Online Exhibits
- Our Documents - 100 Milestone Documents of American History
OTHER PRIMARY SOURCE COLLECTIONS
- Google Arts & Culture - Exhibits and collections from museums and archives around the world, including Google's Art Project, Historic Moments, and World Wonders projects.
- Smithsonian Learning Lab - Search the museum's collection. More than a million images, recordings, and texts displayed visually.
- Masters of Tradition - Explore a map of artists that represent various cultures and their artistic traditions (from Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage)
- American Archive of Public Broadcasting - Watch and listen to historic programs of publicly funded radio and television across America
- Digital Public Library of America - A virtual library of Americana from libraries around the US. Search millions of items by timeline, map, virtual bookshelf, format, subject, and partner.
- Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets - Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide.
- Europeana Collections - search photos, artwork, artifacts, books, videos, sounds from across Europe
- The Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy from the Yale Law School. The database spans from ancient and medieval documents to the present.
- Making of America - Primary documents related to American social history from antebellum period through reconstruction
- New York Public Library Digital Gallery - Digitized images including historical documents, photographs, art pieces, and maps.
- Life Magazine Photo Archive - Search images by keyword, decades (1860-1970), people, places, events, and sports topics
- Spartacus Educational - Free encyclopedia articles that directly connect to primary sources.
Connecticut History
- CT Digital Collections - from ResearchIT.CT
- CT Digital Archive - Diaries, founding documents of CT, witchcraft trials, newspapers of CT...
- Newspapers from the CT State Library
- Newspapers of Connecticut - includes resources from the Connecticut State Library, the Museum of Connecticut History, and the State Archives.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Hartford Courant
- Connecticut Native Americans
- Genealogy Resources
- ConnecticutHistory.org
- Museum of Connecticut History - focus on CT's government, industrial, and military history.
- TeachItCt - Inquiry based activities, links to local events and field trips
Data SETs
- 100+ of the Best Free Data Sources for Your Next Project
- A Little Stats - Categorized lists of data sets created by a high school teacher
- American FactFinder - most popular data sets from US Census Bureau
- Bureau of Justice - information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics - anything pertaining to working conditions and labor demographics
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics - stats related to transportation and commuting
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Data & Statistics- public health data
- Data.gov - statistical data from the many government department websites
- Federal Reserve of Economic Data (FRED)
- Gallup - public opinion survey research
- Global Health Observatory Data Repository - health data and related topics on global level
- Google Dataset Search (beta)
- Google Public Data - Easily search large datasets from the US and world. (Tutorial from R. Byrne)
- Google Trends - Explore what the world is searching
- National Center for Education Research: NAEP Data Finder - national and state results for all main subject areas assessed, including mathematics, reading, writing, and science
- National Center for Education Statistics
- NYC Open Data - find NYC data about education, recreation, local gov...
- Open NASA - access NASA's datasets
- Pew Research Center - "non-partisan fact tank" that conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research.
- President's Council on Fitness, Sports, & Nutrition - insight into our country’s physical activity, nutrition, and obesity
- Resource Watch - "data for a sustainable future"
- Statista - Statistics and studies from over 18,000 sources
- UNData - international datasets and links to data portals for many countries
- U.S. Department of Education Data & Statistics - data related to the Dept. of Ed.
- U.S. Energy Information Administration - click on "Sources and Uses" at top of the page to get started
- Weather Underground - weather forecasts and historical weather data
- World Health Organization - stats on global health issues
CONTACT
(203) 262-3200 x 1111
Hours: M-F, 7:20am - 2:05pm
Kelly Pelletier, Library Media Specialist
Heather Messina, Library Media Specialist
Michael Murphy, Computer Teacher / IT
Wendy Gaipa, Secretary
