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           Resources by Academic Subject Area
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Reference Tools

  1. Atlas
  2. Atomic Learning (Short tutorials on almost everything)
  3. Auto Repair
  4. Destiny (MRHS Online Catalog)
  5. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language,
  6. The American Heritage Student Dictionary
  7. The American Heritage Spanish to English Dictionary
  8. The American Heritage English to Spanish Dictionary

           Roget's II New Thesaurus.

All Subjects

  1. American Memory
  2. Destiny
  3. EBSCO Student Research Center  (NC WISEOWL RESOURCE CONTAINS INFORMATION ON A VARIETY OF SUBJECTS.  It includes:  Magazines, Books, Newspapers, Biographies and photos.  See Below
    A Arts & Media
    B English & Language Arts
    C Business
    Careers
    Current Issues
    Health
    History
    H Math
    Science
    Social Studies
    Sports
    Technology
  4. Encyclopedia of Foods and Recipes
  5. Destiny (Online Catalog)
  6. Encyclopedia of World Cultures
  7. eBooks (NC WISEOWL RESOURCE)
  8. Infotrac Student:  The Bottom Line: General Reference Center Gold is a gold mine of general information, with very broad subject scope and over 8.3 million citations as of this writing. Multiple powerful search options make it an excellent ready-reference resource.
  9. Junior Reference Collection  Searth for information on Cultures, Geography, Literature, Science, US History and World History OR select from popular topics.
  10. NBC News Archives
  11. Newspaper Source Plus
  12. PBS Videos
  13. WiseOwl  (Powersearch)
  14. SAS (Curriculum Pathways
  15. GALE Junior Reference Collection (Cultures, Geography, Literature, Science, US History, World History.
  16. Issues

Arts and Media

  1. Arts & Humanities Through the Eras
  2. EBSCO Student Research Center
  3. Newspaper Source Plus
  4. PBS Videos

Business

  1. Business Source Premier

Careers

  1. CFNC (Career Information Foundation of North Carolins)
  2. COIN Career Library
  3. Newspaper Source Plus

English and Language Arts

  1. Destiny
  2. The Literary Reference Center (NC WISEOWL RESOURCE)
  3. GALE Junior Reference Collection
  4. Newspaper Source Plus
  5. Novelist Plus  (NC WISEOWL RESOURCE)
  6. PBS Videos
  7. TeachingBooks.net
  8. SAS in Schools
  9. Schribner's Writer Series (NC WISEOWL RESOURCE)
  10. WiseOwl: Literary Criticism
  11. WiseOwl  (Powersearch)

Social Studies

  1. Africa Encyclopedia
  2. Destiny
  3. Encyclopedia of Foods and Recipes
  4. Encyclopedia of Landforms & Geology
  5. Encyclopedia of Modern Asia
  6. Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
  7. Encyclopedia of Religions
  8. Encyclopedia of World Biography
  9. Lands and Peoples
  10. ABC Clio (American Government
  11. GALE Junior Reference Collection
  12. Newspaper Source Plus
  13. PBS Videos
  14. WiseOwl (ebooks) WiseOwl (America the Beautiful)
  15. WiseOwl  (Powersearch)

Science and Health

  1. Animal Sciences
  2. Destiny
  3. Encyclopedia of Biomes
  4. Encyclopedia of Nursing & Health
  5. GALE Junior Reference Collection
  6. Gale World of Earth Science
  7. HealthSource
  8. Newspaper Source Plus
  9. PBS Videos
  10. WiseOwl  (Powersearch)
  11. WiseOwl (ebooks) Animal Science, Biomes, Nursing and Health, Earth Science
  12. Science)

Math

  1. Destiny
  2. Newspaper Source Plus
  3. SAS (Curriculum Pathways)

Foreign Languages

  1. Destiny (Search for books or view in  French or Spanish)
  2. Encyclopedia of Foods and Recipes
  3. Encyclopedia of World Cultures
  4. WiseOwl (Spanish English Dictionary)
  5. Microsoft Word (School Computers) Word has Spell Check in:  French, German, Spanish and Chinese.
  6. PBS Videos
  7. WorldBook (Spanish Language Encyclopedia)
  8. Literature Resource Center (Preferences can be set to English, French or Spanish)
  9. Newspaper Source Plus
  10. WiseOwl  (Powersearch)(Preferences can be set to English, French or Spanish)
  11. SAS (Spanish)


Primary Sources

  1. EBSCO Student Research Center
  2. Issues (Each Issue contains PS)
  3. Worldbook (Primary Sources:  option in Advanced Search)
  4. ABC Clio  (Tab in result list)
  5. NBC News Archives
  6. Newspaper Source Plus

Professional

  1. Academic Search Premier
  2. Educators' Reference Desk (ERIC)
  3. ERIC
  4. GEM: Gateway to Educational Materials
  5. Learn NC
  6. Library & Tech Abstracts
  7. North Carolina Curriculum Matrix 
  8. Teacher Reference Center
  9. Thinkfinity


Citing Sources

  1. Citation Maker
  2. Citation Machine