Online Database Information for Students
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Online Database Information for Students
2007-08 School Year
Home and School Use
SIRS Researcher is a general reference database with thousands of full text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political, and global issues.
This database is available at both home and school at this URL: http://sks.sirs.com
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Wilson OmniFile Full Text Select - is a multidisciplinary, 100% full text database. It provides indexing, abstracts, and full text articles from over 1,500 magazines and journals dating back to January 1994.
Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated - contains more than 95,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 26,000 photographs of the subjects. Many of the biographies are enhanced with full text, abstracts, and citations from H. W. Wilson databases
At school and at home the Wilson databases are available at:
URL: http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/nebraskaccess/ Click on the “login” button.
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Culturegrams provides concise, reliable, and up-to-date country reports on 182 cultures of the world. This database delivers a concise perspective on daily life and culture, including the history, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people. This database is available for both home and school use.
This database is available at: http://www.culturegrams.com and click on “Subscribers.”
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Proquest –Professional Education
This database delivers more than 300 magazine and journal titles addressing all aspects of K-12 education, with most in full text format. You can access this information at home or at school by following these steps:
Go to: http://www.bigchalk.com
The Nebraska Career Connections is a collaborative effort of several state agencies and nonprofit organizations to coordinate resources and services online. Use this as a resource for career exploration and planning, educational planning and preparation, job seeking, and skill development.
Go to: http://nebraskacareerconnections.org/
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Atomic learning provides a large online library of short and easy-to-understand tutorials which focus on answering common questions encountered when learning and using software. Both home and school use allowed.
The database can be found at: http://www.atomiclearning.com
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Rand McNally Classroom – Online Maps
Rand McNally Classroom provides curriculum-related maps of all kinds in an online format. Hundreds of different up-to-date maps created by Rand McNally’s cartographers are available to both students and teachers. Other features, such as a current events section are also available. Home and school use provided.
The database can be found at http://www.randmcnallyclassroom.com
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The world’s best selling encyclopedia is available 24/7 online. Check out the extra digital features! Available for both home and school use.
The database can be found at http://www.worldbookonline.com/
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Professional Collection
A custom selection of more than 250 full-text journals for educators. Balanced coverage for any professional educator.
Student Resource Center – Health Module
A database containing over 1,400 essays on medical and health-related topics that include diseases, treatments, diagnostic equipment, and major historical figures in the fields of medicine, chemistry, biology, and related areas. Includes over 60 full-text medical and health periodicals, almost 200 pamphlets from authoritative sources, a timeline describing over 500 events from the history of medicine and health sciences, and 300 photographs and diagrams.
Literature Resource Center
Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
Science Resource Center
Researching science topics has never been easier! With Science Resource Center, thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures, and illustrations are just a few clicks away. The latest is scientific developments are covered in over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality websites are provided.
Student Resource Center – Gold
A fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips.
Scribner Writers Series
Scribner’s Writer’s Series include 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series.
The Twayne Authors Series – Twayne World, English, and US Authors
Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.
Biography Resource Center
This database combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.
History Resource Center: US
The History Resource Center: U.S. provides integrated access to over 1,000 historical (primary) documents, more then 30,000 reference articles, and over 65 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.
History Resource Center: World
History Resource Center : Modern World has always featured extensive coverage of the 20th century. History Resource Center: World broadens this focus both geographically and chronologically, with the addition of new content on the ancient Mediterranean, Near East, Asia, Middle East, Latin America, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Junior Reference Collection
A comprehensive, cross-curricular database for schools and libraries featuring current, relevant, organized, and easy-to-read information from the U*X*L product line, covering science, biographies, authors, multicultural topics, and people and places.
Testing & Education Reference Center
Taking a college entrance or licensing exam? Looking for a college or graduate school? Need help finding scholarships? Use this database to search thousands of college and graduate school entries. Identify scholarships that meet their financial needs. Take on-line practice tests and use test prep eBooks to obtain your education goals.
Gale Group databases are available for both home and MNHS use.
The database can be found at: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/omah80657
Millard North’s Library Card Catalog is on-line at:
http://www.mpsomaha.org/mnhs/academics/Mediacenter/mediaindex.htm
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