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An efficient alternative to search engines,
subscription databases are a wonderful way to track down what you need for
research quickly. The online information provided by these databases has also
been reviewed by knowledgeable people. Access the following links from school
or home. However, you'll need user names and passwords to access them from
home. Mrs. Van Keuren can provide them to you.
Explore more than 200 countries.
Find country profiles and overviews, history, important statistics about
population, climate, economics, culture, biographies, influential
organizations, primary source documents, maps, flags, and photos.
Access full-text articles and
transcripts from more than 850 magazines, newspapers, books and radio programs
from eLibrary. History Study Center covers 14 centuries of history, and
Proquest Learning includes author biographies, full-text literature journals
and reference sources.
Use this database’s Student
Research Center to find more than 51,000 entries in the Columbia Encyclopedia,
full-text articles in over 145 magazines, plus newspaper articles.
Updated monthly, this resource
"contains thousands of new and expanded articles, extensive hyperlinks,
bibliographies and links to other sources of information on the Web."
Click on “Access from Home/ Office” and enter
your library card barcode number
Connect to a variety of links
including newspapers such as the Hartford Courant and New York Times, plus
magazines and journals.
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