Upper School Reference

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GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Upper School students may only use general encyclopedias for background information and identifying search terms; you may not quote or cite a general encyclopedia

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WRITING TOOLS

OED is the authority on evolution of the English Language and provides date charts, pronunciation, etymology, and quotations.
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The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning.
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NEWSPAPERS

The Wall Street Journal homepage

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MAGAZINE ARTICLES

Full text magazine and newspaper articles; journals of business, health, education; government documents and Education Resources Information Center [ERIC] .
A trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible.
see librarian for remote access

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CURRENT EVENTS

Search news, legal research, legislation, statistics, and primary documents in U.S. History. Also link to related sites.

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Covers world and national current events including pre-1980 archives, Reuters News Service, Issues & Controversies, Science on File, World Almanac.
Includes articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues.
Social Issues Resource Series
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BIOGRAPHY

An exploration of American history through the lives of the men and women who shaped the nation.
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The most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.
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55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2003.
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HISTORY

A comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts



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The most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.
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PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIAL

The website currently includes 74 document projects with 2,200 documents, more than 29,000 pages of additional full-text documents, and 1,600 primary authors.
Historical (primary) documents, reference and full-text journal articles, covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.
The most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.
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A comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts
Primary & secondary resources, topic explorations, cybrarian, lesson plans.

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ARTS AND LITERATURE


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ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
Includes Poem Finder, Story Finder and Essay/Speech/Play Finder.

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GALE GROUP DATABASES

Biographies from Gale Group sources, and articles from 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 custom search.
Historical (primary) documents, reference and full-text journal articles, covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.
Contains primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text articles, photographs, illustrations, and audio and video clips.
Includes biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.

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COLLEGE LEVEL RESOURCES

These sophisticated databases require strong reading and searching skills, please feel free to ask for help using these valuable resources.
A trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible.
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OED is the authority on evolution of the English Language and provides date charts, pronunciation, etymology, and quotations.
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ACCESS PENNSYLVANIA DATABASES

Pennsylvania Online World of Electronic Resources:
Statewide catalog of participating libraries

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LOCAL PUBLIC LIBRARIES

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SCIENCE

eLibrary Science includes more than 20 high-quality, high-interest reference titles, such as Animal Life and Plant Life from the Magill's Encyclopedia of Science program; science-related titles from the Great Events in History series, and other award-winning titles such as the Encyclopedia of Genetics.

Salem Press Health is a robust online database that includes the complete content of the printed version of Magill's Medical Guide and Salem Health: Cancer

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