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School access does
not require a username or password. Required passwords for outside
access are published in a brochure available from the Media Center. |
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Resource |
Description |
Category |
ABC-CLIO
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ABC-CLIO Schools' award- winning
databases: 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 the world. |
History/Geography |
Auto Repair
Reference Center
(Wiseowl) |
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.
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Automobile Manual |
Atomic
Learning |
Atomic Learning
provides web-based
software training
for more than 110
applications
students and
educators use
everyday. Our short,
easy-to-view-and-understand
tutorials are an
integral part of a
professional
development program,
a valuable
curriculum
supplement, and an
anytime/anywhere
training resource.
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Tutorials |
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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 |
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CFNC |
The College Foundation of NC will
help you with planning your career,
applying
to colleges and finding financial
aid. |
Career |
Coin Career
Library (CCL)
(Wiseowl) |
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 |
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. |
OPAC |
EBSCO Databases
EBSCO |
From any EBSCO Database click on
Choose Databases.This
link will take you to a screen with
a title list of databases.
Select the databases you want to
search, and click OK. |
Cross-Curricular |
EBSCOhost Research Databases |
Provides a listing of all databases
available through the EBSCOhost
interface. Also provides links to
individual databases titles. You may
select mulitiple databases and
search them simultaneously. |
Cross-Curricular |
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 auithor names,
including pseudonyms and
variant names, and listings
for over 215,000 titles into
one source.
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Literature |
Grolier
Online Encyclopedia
(Wiseowl) |
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Grolier Online includes seven
encyclopedia databases:
Encyclopedia America, Grolier
Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New
Book of Knowledge, La Nueva
Enciclopedia Cumbre, America the
Beautiful, In addition it
includes:
World Newspapers database
Dictionaries
Atlas. |
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Encyclopedias |
Grove Music Online
(Grove)
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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. |
Music |
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History
Resource Center: US
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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. - |
History/Social Studies |
Image Search
(Wiseowl) |
Over
180,000 photographs and images
including current events, sports,
maps, entertainment, the sciences
and historical interests |
Images |
Infotrack
Student Ed.
(Wiseowl) |
A one-stop, multi-source general
reference center designed especially
for K-12 students. It provides a
combination of indexing abstracts,
images and full text for general
interest magazines, maps, reference
books and newspaper articles. |
Cross-Curricular |
Junior Reference Collection
(Wiseowl) |
InfoTrac K-12 Junior Edition offers
indexing, abstracts and full text
for general interest magazines,
reference books, and thousands of
newspaper articles. Also contains a
list of
popular topics. |
Cross-Curricular |
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Literary Reference
Center
(Wiseowl) |
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 |
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Literary
Criticism
(Gale) |
Literary Criticism
with
151,977 articles updated as recently
as August 19, 2009 |
Literature |
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Kids
InfoBits |
Kids InfoBits is a database
developed especially for beginning
researchers in Kindergarten through
Grade 5. Featuring a developmentally
appropriate, visually graphic
interface, the most popular search
method is moving from a broad
subject to a narrower topic using
the subject-based topic tree. The
curriculum-related, age appropriate,
full-text content is from the best
elementary reference sources and
magazines. This database covers
geography, current events, the arts,
science, health, people, government,
history, sports and more. (Wiseowl) |
Cross-curriculum |
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.
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News Source |
Newspaper Source Plus
(Wiseowl) |
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
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News Source |
NoveList K-8
Plus
(Wiseowl)
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Designed especially for elementary
and middle school students,
NoveList K-8 Plus is an online
database with fiction and nonfiction
titles chosen specifically to
support the school curriculum as
well as the pleasure reading needs
of students. |
Literature |
NoveList Plus
(Wiseowl) |
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. |
Literature |
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Opposing Viewpoints
(Gale) |
A virtual library of resources from Gale
designed to aid students in the study of today's hottest social issues.
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Social Issues |
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Opposing Viewpoints: Critical
Thinking
(Gale) |
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. |
Critical Thinking |
Oxford Dictionary of Art.
(Oxford) |
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 |
Oxford English Dic
tionary
(Oxford) |
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. |
Dictionaries |
Newspaper Source Plus
|
Newspaper Source Plus
includes 1,520 full-text newspapers,
providing more than 28 million
full-text articles. In addition, the
database features more than 601,300
television and radio news
transcripts, videos & podcasts. |
News Source |
PBS Video Collection |
380 educational and documentary
videos from the Public Broadcasting
Service. These videos, available in
Flash-based streaming format, are
now permanently available online and
free of charge to the North Carolina
K-12 public school community.
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Videos |
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PD360 |
A film library of Best Practices
videos. |
Professional |
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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 |
Science Online
(Facts on File) |
Presents a broad range of scientific
disciplines through extensive
definitions, essays, diagrams,
biographies, and experiments. |
Science |
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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.
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Scribner |
Student
Research Center
(Wiseowl) |
This collection contains:
Arts & Media,
English & Language Arts,
Business,
Careers,
Current Issues,
Health,
History,
Math,
Science,
Social Studies,
Sports
and
Technology
resources from:
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 |
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 |
United Streaming
|
High-quality digital
resources in easy-to-use formats in all core-curricular subject areas. |
Videos |
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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 |
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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.
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Encyclopedia |
