IMPORTANT REMINDER:
You will need a username and password to use most of the databases listed below. A list of usernames and passwords can be found on your library pink sheet (check your binder) or you can pick up another list outside the computer lab in the MS Library.
African American Studies Center
- Detailed articles about African American history including biographies, timelines, primary source documents, images and more.
- This resource contains the complete print encyclopedia set plus thousands of additional articles and editor-reviewed Web sites.
- Brief cultural and geographic information about most countries of the world.
- Detailed information about cultures throughout the world including information from the past and present.
Digital Library for Earth System Education NO PASSWORD REQUIRED
- Search this site for internet based resources in earth science and is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
- Current newspaper and magazine articles, book reviews, radio broadcasts, videos and much more about almost every topic under the sun
- Maps and much, much more for printing and using for projects and studying.
Grove Art and Grove Music Online
- Information about art and music including images and audio clips as well as biographical and historical essays.
History Resource Center (World and US)
- History timelines, biographies, essays, newspaper and magazine articles, primary source documents and more.
National Science Digital Library NO PASSWORD REQUIRED
- This site contains a collection of web-based resources in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
- NetTrekker contains over 180,000 educator-selected resources customized for elementary (k-5) and secondary (6-12) levels.
- Need a dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus or other reference material? It's probably available here.
- This service provides access to thousands of current periodicals and newspapers, many updated daily and containing full-text articles from 1986.
- Topics in math, biology, chemistry, physics and every scientific or technological issue you could think of are included. It also contains biographies, current articles from newspapers and magazines as well as reference books (such as science encyclopedias).
- Biographical subjects ranging from antiquity to the present and representing all fields and nationalities are indexed . Citations reference selected periodicals, current books of individual and collective biography, and incidental biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books
- The history of folklore folk life throughout the world including many original folktales.