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Multimedia Databases
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Britannica ImageQuest: 3 million+ rights-cleared images for use in school projects |
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Discovery Education: Offers digital media content covering a wide range of topics |
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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researchIT CT Resources for High School Libraries: Click for a complete listing of Ebsco databases plus additional researchIT CT resources. Provides access to a wide variety of databases including newspapers, eBooks, and more. Note: To access from home, enter the barcode number on the back of your public library card. New- "Research It Best Bets" for K-12! |
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Gale Databases: click for a complete listing of Gale databases |
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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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Explora for High Schools: High quality articles from reputable publishers. Searches Ebsco's High School Resources. |
e-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: This cross-curricular database provides content representing a wide spectrum of works, including popular series from top book publishers. |
Periodicals
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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 full text for hundreds of popular high school magazines, |
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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. |
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Newspaper Source Plus: This database contains comprehensive full text for major newspapers. Videos and podcasts are coming soon. |
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. |
Health
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Health and Wellness: Access full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and much more. This comprehensive 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 for researchers of all levels. |
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Teen Health & Wellness: A comprehensive database that allows teens to research health-related issues important to their well-being. It’s both a research/report tool and a self-help resource. |
Science
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Science in Context: Understand context for hundreds of science topics through overviews, journals, news, interactive experiments, and more. |
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Science Reference Center: Contains full text for hundreds 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 to the environment. Includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. |
Social Studies & Civics
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World History in Context Uncover information on hundreds of 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 hundreds of the most significant people, events, and topics in U.S. history from a variety of sources. |
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History Reference Center: Features full text from reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers. |
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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. |
Biographical Resources
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Biography in Context: Discover the world's most influential people by searching narrative biographies, news, magazine, and multimedia content. |
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Biography Reference Center: This resource provides superior coverage for several 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. |
Law
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Legal Information Reference Center: Full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books and thousands of legal forms, with more content being added on a regular basis. |
Spanish
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Referencia Latina: This spanish-language database offers 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 availability of the most current articles from prominent Latin American newspapers. |
Teachers
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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: Full-text education journals, peer-reviewed titles, and educational reports |
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ERIC: ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is an authoritative database of indexed and full-text education literature and resources. Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education, it is an essential tool for education researchers of all kinds. |
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Explora Educator's Edition: Selected lesson plans, curriculum standards, and valuable sites for teachers. |
CONTACT
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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
