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.

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

  ~ United Streaming

Multimedia content for all subjects.  Includes 4,000 full-length videos segmented into 40,000 content-specific clips.  Students should see IMC Staff or a teacher for password information.  Teachers, please see IMC Staff for account information.

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.

  ~ Novelist

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  Aids in searching for historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives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.