Title

Description

Subject

Art | Auto Repair | Biography | Business | Career | Cross-Curricular | Current Events | Destiny
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Art

Arts & Humanities Through the Eras

Profiling milestones and movements in the arts, literature, music, and religion from a specific period, each volume in this five-volume set helps students and researchers understand the various disciplines of the humanities in relation to each other, as well as to history and culture.

Art

Grove Music Online

Grove Music Online includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition; The New Grove Dictionary of Opera; and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition.  A subscription to Grove Music Online now also includes access to the full text of the Oxford Companion to Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music, and linking from Grove articles to RILM, DRAM, NAXOS and Classical Music Library for subscribers to these sites.

Art

Oxford Dictionary of Art.

Grove Art Online features over 45,000 signed articles, 5,500 images, 40,000 image links, timelines of world art, MoMA lesson plans, and links to ARTstor (for subscribers to this service) and Art Resource.  A Grove Art Online subscription now also includes access to the full text of the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and the Oxford Companion to Western Art.

Art

Automobile Repair

AARC Auto Repair Manual

Exclusive photographs and diagnostics designed by instructors, wiring instructions & step-by-step repair procedures, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) maintenance schedules, recalls and Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs) for automobiles and light trucks.

Automobile Repair

Biography

Encyclopedia of World Biography

 Features biographies of notable historic and current figures from American history, world history, literature, science and math, arts and entertainment, and the social sciences. Entries focus on the people most often studied in middle and high school.

Biography

Business

Business Source Premiere

Provides full text for more than 7,400 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for nearly 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications including the world's top management and marketing journals.  Provides full text for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922.

Business

Regional Business News

Career

CFNC

CFNC (College Foundation of North Carolina) is an amazing resource to help you choose a career. plan, apply and pay for college.

Career

COIN

This amazing career resource will help you determine which careers are right for you, research occupations, search for colleges, create a resume and much more.

Career

The College Blue Book

Guide to thousands of 2- and 4-year schools in the U.S. and Canada, their programs, degrees, and financial aid sources. Features detailed descriptions, degree programs offered, scholarships, and occupational education programs.

Career

Cross Curricular

Academic Search Premiere

This scholarly collection provides journal coverage for most academic areas of study, including biological sciences, economics, communications, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences and women's studies.  Updated daily.

Cross Curricular

Cross-Curriculum

Cross-Curriculum
(ebooks)

Power
Search

The ability to Selected Cross-Searchable Products

Cross Curricular

WiseOwl

NC WISE OWL is a Web site that has, as its centerpiece, several subscription databases: InfoTrac Gold Reference Edition, the Junior Reference Center, Scribner Writers Series, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia,  Lands & Peoples, Popular Science, America the Beautiful, and a collection of searchable eBooks in the Virtual Reference Center.

Cross Curricular

SAS Curriculum Pathways

Teachers, developers, artists and other specialists clarify content in the core disciplines. We target content difficult to convey with conventional methods—topics where doing and seeing provide information and encourage insights in ways that textbooks cannot.

Cross-Curricular

Infotrack
Student Edition
(Wiseowl Resource)

Now with over 1100 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Cross-Curricular

Student Research Center
(Gale)

This collection contains:  Arts & Media, English & Language Arts, Business, Careers, Current Issues, Health, History, Math, Science, Social Studies, Sports and  Technology resources in one database with options to choose the following media:  Magazines, Newspapers, Books and Encyclopedias, Biographies, Radio & TV News Transcripts, Country Resports, State/Provice Reports, Primary Scource Documents, Photos, Maps, and Flags. Teacher Resources are also available with advanced search options.

Cross-Curricular

Gale Virtual Reference Library
(Gale)

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office). 1980 - AUG, 2009

Cross-Curriculum

General OneFile
(Gale)

A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

Cross-Curriculum

Current Events

NBC News Archives
 

NBC News Archives provides access to decades of history, lifestyles and topical news as well as introduce you to newsmakers, athletes, and entertainers through in-depth interviews.

Current Events

eBooks

Online Books

Listing over 35,000 free books on the Web

ebooks

Open Library

Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive, and is funded in part by a grant from the California State Library. We have a small team of fantastic programmers who have accomplished a lot, but we can't do it alone! This is an Open project - the software is open, the data is open, the documentation is open, and the site is open.

ebooks

Project Gutenburg

Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.

ebooks, audio books, DVDS, sheet music

Encyclopedias

Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre en linea

A Spanish-language encyclopedia containing 15,000 articles, 6,500 photographs and more than 15,000 Internet links.

Encyclopedias

Health

CINAHL with Full Text

Encyclopedia of Nursing & Health

Written for students and professionals in the field. Entries cover topics in body systems and functions, conditions and common diseases, issues and theories, techniques and practices, and devices and equipment. Also discusses the roles of all major health professionals.

Health

Health Source Consumer Edition

History

American Memory

Free and open access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. 

History/SS

Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents

Historical documents pre-historical through the present.

History/Primary Sources

ABC-CLIO

American History, World History: The Modern Era, World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras, State Geography, World Geography, American Government, United States at War: Understanding Conflict and Society, and Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society— provide a comprehensive collection of references, curriculum, and current events that together simplify historical research and help students make sense out of world as they  occur.                             

History/SS

Index

Gale's Literary Index

Gale's Literary Index is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references over 165,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for over 215,000 titles into one source.

Index Only

Law History

The Avalon Project

Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy

Law/History

Literature

Bloom's Literary Reference Online
(Facts on File)

Facts On File's extensive print literature collection, hundreds of Harold Bloom's essays examining the lives and works of great writers throughout history and the world, as well as thousands of critical articles published by noted scholars under the Bloom's Literary Criticism imprint.

Literature

Literary Criticism
(Wiseowl Resource)

Journals:  151,226 articles updated as recently as August 6, 2009

Literature

Literary Reference Center
(Wiseowl Resource)

. Literary Reference Center includes thousands of plot summaries, synopses, and work overviews; articles of literary criticism; author biographies; full text of over 430 literary journals; book reviews; classic and contemporary poems and short stories; full text of over 7,000 classic novels; author interviews; and images of key literary figures.

Literature

Literature Resource Center
(Gale)

Literature Resource Center's rich critical, biographical and contextual materials support interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy, and the development of critical thinking skills. Researchers at all levels will find the information they need on authors and their works in all genres and disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

Literature

Scribner Writers' Series

Scribner Writers Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 2,000 authors and literary genres drawn from the acclaimed Scribner print series.

Literature

Teaching
Books.net

Original movies revealing the book creation processes filmed in the studios of award-winning authors and illustrators! Book guides and engaging resources, which span thousands of children's, YA and non-fiction titles. Audio excerpts of professional book readings.

Literature

Medicare

Medline Plus

MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.

Medicine

Multicultural Studies

Encyclopedia of Multicultural America

Contains 152 original essays+ on specific minority and ethnic groups in the U.S., with an emphasis on culture (religions, holidays, customs, language) in addition to information on historical background and settlement patterns.

Multicultural Studies

Newspapers

Newspaper Source Plus

Provides cover-to-cover full text for 149 national & international newspapers. Examples include The New York Times, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), The Age, The Australian, The Toronto Star, and The Irish Times. Provides selective full text for 410 U.S regional newspapers. Also includes full-text television & radio news transcripts. List of papers covered

Newspapers

Online Catalog (OPAC)

Destiny
(OPAC)

Destiny is our Online card catalog.  Here you can search the Marvin Ridge High School Media Center collection including books and ebook resources.

Online Catalog

Primary Sources

Smithsonian Photography Initiative

 Welcome to the Smithsonian Photography Initiative. We hope this website will introduce you to Smithsonian's extraordinary collections of photographs and to an understanding of the integral roles photographs play in our lives.  See terms of use here.

Primary Sources/Photography

Calisphere

More than 150,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts — reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history.

Primary Sources

Eastern North Carolina Digital Library

Contains 399 fiction and non-fiction volumes, 150+ museum artifacts, maps and educational material pertaining to the history of the 41 counties in Eastern North Carolina.

Primary Sources

Professional

ERIC

ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a national information system supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Library of Education, and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. It provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1000 educational and education-related journals. Please click here for the latest information about the ERIC database.

Professional

Educator's Reference Complete

Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database. The database is updated daily and provides 24-hour access from school or home.

Professional

PD360

A film library of Best Practices videos.

Professional

Professional Custom Journals

Collection of Professional Journal Articles

Professional

Readers' Advisory

Novelist Plus

This Readers' Advisory Service is searchable by author, title, series name, Lexile level (reading level), and plot (including character, topic, time period, and setting) to retrieve descriptions, reviews, discussion guides, and feature articles related to books of interest both fiction and non-fiction titles.

Readers' Advisory

Reference

General Reference Center Gold

A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more. [1980 - AUG, 2009 ]

Reference

Grolier Online

The leading age-appropriate, academically-relevant online research and reference resource.

Reference

Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

Reference

WorldBook Online Reference Center

The World Book Online Reference Center includes:  25,000 encyclopedia articles, plus tens of thousands of additional reference articles |10,000 photographs and maps | over 100 videos and animations |over 9,000 audio clips |a multitude of primary sources | a plethora of online texts and much, much more.            

Reference

Grolier's Online Dictionaries

The following dictionaries are available: The American Heritage Student Dictionary, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Ed., The American Heritage Spanish to English Dictionary, The American Heritage English to Spanish Dictionary, Roget's II The New Thesaurus, 3rd Ed.

Reference
Dictionaries

Atlas

US and World Atlas in English and Spanish.

Reference/
English/Spanish

Religion

Encyclopedia of Religions

The second edition of a resource that is considered a standard reference in the field. Presents a cross-cultural approach that emphasizes religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture. The original 2,750 entries have been retained, many heavily updated, and approximately 600 entirely new articles have been added by an international team of scholars and contributors.

Religion

Science

Animal Sciences

A wide range of scientific, historical and cultural information about the animal world. Covers careers in the animal sciences in addition to biological concepts, the history of zoology, biographies of scientists, and ethical issues such as the practice of animal experimentation.

Science/Animal

Gale World of Earth Science

This new title in Gale's World Of...Series is a comprehensive guide to the concepts, theories, discoveries, pioneers and issues relating to topics in earth science. World of Earth Science's encyclopedic approach offers approximately 650 entries in a convenient A-Z format, cross-reference headings and is written in easy to understand language.

Science/Earth

GreenFILE

GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
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New Book Of Popular Science

Contents include:  Astronomy, Space Science, Mathematics, Past and Future; Earth Sciences, Energy, Environmental Sciences; Earth Sciences, Energy, Environmental Sciences;  Plant Life, Animal Life; Mammals, Human Sciences; Technology.

Science

Science
Wiseowl Resource
 

A well rounded science collection offering in-depth information for scientific research consisting of over 200 journals encompassing the most popular scientific titles such as Scientific American, Archeology, Physics Today, Info Today, Mathematics Magazine and many more. 

Science

Science Online

Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments.

Science

Today's Science

Bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today.

Science/Earth

World of Earth Science
(Galegroup)

This new title in Gale's World Of...Series is a comprehensive guide to the concepts, theories, discoveries, pioneers and issues relating to topics in earth science. World of Earth Science's encyclopedic approach offers approximately 650 entries in a convenient A-Z format, cross-reference headings and is written in easy to understand langage.

Science/Earch

Encyclopedia of Biomes

Information on 12 of the Earth's major biomes and its many component ecosystems. Articles cover climate, vegetation, animal life, food web, plant and animal adaptations, endangered species, human effects on the biome, and more.

Science/Earth

Social Issues

Opposing Viewpoints

A virtual library of resources from Gale designed to aid students in the study of today's hottest social issues.

Social Issues

Opposing Viewpoints: Critical Thinking

A special Research Guide section on the Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center provides students with analysis and critical thinking tools they can use to evaluate facts and arguments and to decide for themselves whether to accept, reject, or suspend judgment about a claim.

Social Issues

Social Studies

Africa, An Encyclopedia for Students

This work presents Africa, from Egypt to Cape Town and from prehistoric times to the present day.  This set spans many disciplines, covering animals, foods, holidays and festivals, tribal groups, ecology, music and art, trade and economy, geography, religion, folklore, and fossil and skeletal discoveries.

Social Studies

America the Beautiful

Here you will find the geography, history, people, economy, and government of each state.

Social Studies

Encyclopedia of Foods and Recipes

Comprehensive coverage of the foods and recipes from 70 representative countries and culture groups worldwide -- from Algeria to Zimbabwe.

Social Studies

Encyclopedia of Landforms & Geology

Focuses on the physical and geological aspects, structure, and features of 48 of the earth's landforms - what they are, how they look, how they were created, how they change over time, and major geological events associated with them.

Social Studies

Encyclopedia of Modern Asia

Presents more than 2,600 alphabetically arranged entries covering such subjects as countries, cities, regions, natural features, religions, social issues, languages, people, events, customs, politics, and economics.

Social Studies

Encyclopedia of Multicultural America

Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America contains 152 original essays (about 8,000-12,000 words each) on specific minority and ethnic groups in the U.S., with an emphasis on culture (religions, holidays, customs, language) in addition to information on historical background and settlement patterns. The Encyclopedia also covers ethnoreligious groups such as Jews, Chaldeans and Amish.

Social Studies

Encyclopedia of World Cultures
(Galegroup)

An easy-to-use, systematic guide to the history and current status of more than 290 cultural groups outside the United States. In nine volumes, the Encyclopedia is intended to offer students background and current status on cultures of the countries they are most likely to study.

Social Studies

History Resource Center: World 
(Galegroup)

History Resource Center: World is a comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronlogic research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals.

Social Studies

History Resources US
(Galegroup)

History Resource Center: U.S. provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes citations from over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index, as well as the entire "American Journey Online" series.

Social Studies

Lands and Peoples

Lands and Peoples is an encyclopedia of countries, cultures, and current events for middle and high school student that includes a full compliment of 350 maps and 270 flags, 500 four-color photos, approximately 2,500 external web links, 3,000 internal article-to-article links, and Teachers' Guides.

Social Studies

Software Tutorials

Atomic Learning

Atomic Learning provides web-based software training for more than 110 applications students and educators use everyday.

Software Tutorials

Teacher Resources

Teacher Resources

Activities Archive of homework assignments, in-class exercises and lesson plans, and writing projects for Spanish-language classes using material from La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre.

Teacher Resources/
Spanish

Video

Discovery Education

Curriculum coordinated videos, lesson plans, atlas with video links, an assignment builder and writing prompt builder.  

Video

(Galegroup)
PBS Video Collection

More than 360 titles that can help you meet the demands of your ever-changing and increasingly interactive educational environment.

Video

United Streaming

High-quality digital resources in easy-to-use formats in all core-curricular subject areas.

Videos