e-Databases

Note: When accessing these resources off campus, you will need user names and passwords. You may obtain these from the Instructional Media Center.

  Student in Context
Provides coverage of a broad spectrum of student-focused subject matter.

  Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

  Global Issues in Context
Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues.

  Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Delivers a range of perspectives on important and most debated topics.

  Literature Resource Center
Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

  U.S. History in Context
Offers outstanding primary and secondary U.S. history sources combined with media-rich selections.

  World History in Context
Offers outstanding primary and secondary world history sources combined with media-rich selections.

  Science in Context
Provides a comprehensive selection of the finest science content available, supporting high school curricula and university coursework.

  Educators Reference Complete
This collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports is a great resource for any educator.

Focuses on the academic study of sustainability and the environment.  Resource provides news, background information, video, unique commentaries, primary source documents and statistics, covering relevant categories including energy systems, healthcare, food, climate change, population, economic development.  This eSource offers interactive maps, multimedia, customizable journals and news, refereed case studies, and Web 2.0 tools to facilitate content portability.

World's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine, journal, and newspaper articles

FirstSearch Home

General databases like ArticleFirst, ECO, and WorldCat as well as specialized databases such as ABI Inform, ERIC, and MEDLINE

Offers in-depth coverage of 175 countries in the areas of culture, business, and travel.  Presents the traditions, habits, and the social norms of people around the globe.  From cultural stereotypes and superstitions, to social and business etiquette, to women's role in society, this database includes 9 downloadable maps per country, images of coins and banknotes, dating rituals, holidays and festivals, classic recipes for each country, visa and passport information, and much more.

Provides readers' advisory resource for fiction and nonfiction and helps you with the question of what to read next.

~ CAMIO

CAMIO contains about 95,000 works of fine and decorative art from leading museums around the world.  Teh scope of the collection ranges from 3000 B.C. to the present, representing premiere examples of Asian, African, Latin American, and Western art. The content includes high-resolution images of photographs, paintings, sculpture, decorative and utilitarian objects, prints, drawings and watercolors, jewelry and costumes, textiles, books, installations, and architecture--plus audio-video and mixed media.  Benefits of the interface include downloading high-resolution images, the ability to e-mail images and teh metadata for further study, and fast, powerful, Web-based searching.  All content is rights-cleared for educational use.

Almost one million descriptions of archival collections owned worldwide.  Aids in searching for historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives

  ~ Issues & Controversies

Provides information about today's crucial issues by exploring hot topics in politics, government, business, education, and popular culture.  Updated weekly, with a 13-year backfile.

Provides more than 5,000 high-school-level videos for science, math, literature and language arts, health, business and economics, and visual and performing arts.  Features exclusive content from Films for the Humanities & Sciences, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, PBS, the BBC, National Geographic, and many more.

Over 27,000 video clips as well as a comprehensive set of speeches, images, songs, research articles and activities from the top educational publishers such as A&E, History, Bio, Encyclopedia Britannica, PBS, National Geographic & Sunburst Visual Media