| On-Line Resources and Links to State of Minnesota ELM (Electronic Library Minnesota) Databases
These sites are available from any home computer with a username and password. Ask the media specialist or your teacher.
| Student Research Center
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The EBSCO’s Student Research Center (SRC) makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type – -magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc. |
| Points of View |
Points of View is designed to assist researchers in understanding the full scope of controversial subjects. High school and undergraduate students can use Points of View as a guide to debate, developing arguments, writing position papers, and for development of critical thinking skills. Each Points of View Essay includes a series of questions and additional material to generate further thought. Also included are thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications. |
| Consumer Health Complete |
EBSCO’s interface designed for the everyday consumer of health care information. CHC provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. Consumers can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles.
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| History Resource Center: US |
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.
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| SIRS Decades |
SIRS Decades: 20th Century American Sources, is an electronic subscription resource containing Primary Source and reference content from the 20th century. Content is organized into curricular topics pertaining to American History, culture, and daily life of the time. Primary source types include: Advertisements, Editorial Cartoons, Letters, Memos, Messages, Maps and Charts, Original Documents, Original Works of Art, Photographs, Poems and Literary Works, Posters, Published Articles, Speeches and Addresses. |
| History Reference Center |
History Reference Center is the world’s most comprehensive full text history reference database designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. The database features full text for more than 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers. Further, the database contains more than 59,600 historical documents; more than 49,600 biographies of historical figures; more than 110,200 historical photos and maps; and more than 80 hours of historical video. |
| Student Resource Center Gold |
The Student Resource Center has reference works, newspaper and magazine articles, journals, pamphlets, primary sources, full-text plays and poems, and multimedia files including pics, videos, animations, and sound files. |
| The Readers’ Guide Full Text |
Readers’ Guide Full Text, Select Edition is a 100% full-text database containing comprehensive indexing, abstracting, and full text of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada. Subjects Covered — Aeronautics, African-Americans, Aging, Astronomy, Automobiles, Biography, Business, Canada, Children, Computers, Consumer Education, Current Events, Education, Environment, Fashion, Film, Fine Arts, Food, Foreign Affairs, Health, History, Hobbies, Home, Journalism, Leisure Activities, Medicine, Music, News, Nutrition, Photography, Politics, Religion, Science, Sports, Television |
Science Reference Center
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Full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources covering the areas of biology, environmental and life sciences, and more. Each article is coordinated to state and national standards.
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| EBSCO MegaFILE |
Combines the largest and most essential databases from EBSCO furnished by the State of Minnesota into a single, easy-to-use product |
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MasterFILE Premier, designed specifically for public libraries, provides full text for more than 2,050 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,700 titles.
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| Academic Search Premier |
This is a great resource. As a high school student, you should get used to using this database, because if you go to college, you will use this all the time. |
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Business Source Premier, designed specifically for business schools and libraries, 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. This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more. Business Source Premier contains full text from the world’s top management and marketing journals.
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Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
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Use this database to search for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, etc. Searches magazines, newspapers, and reference books |
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The following references are in the Junior Reference Collection:
8,000 essays, over 8,500 photographs and illustrations, over 5,000 Timeline Events, more than 50 audio and video files, 3,000 biographies, 3,000 topic overview |
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Provides in-depth content for five core curriculum areas, specifically literature, history, biography, science, and social studies. The Discovering Collection is aimed at grades 6-12 and contains all the content in Junior Reference Collection plus the DISCovering products to offer thousands of overview essays, literary criticisms, timelines, primary source documents, audio and video clips, and over 15,000 maps, images, and flags. |
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Offers a balanced coverage for any professional educator in the following areas: arts and humanities; child and adolescent psychology and development; drug and alcohol abuse; health/nutrition/fitness; learning disabilities; literature; school law; science and technology; social sciences; and sports/athletic training.
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¡Informe! was created exclusively for Spanish-speaking users, providing indexing, images, and full-text of popular Hispanic magazines—not just translations. Also included is a thesaurus and interface that are uniquely designed for Spanish-speaking users. |
| CultureGrams |
This credible, concise, yet comprehensive reference covers the cultures of 182 different countries and territories. to all three CultureGrams editions: World, Kids, and States. |
| Country Watch |
CountryWatch is a world leader in providing country specific geopolitical intelligence on each of the 192 countries of the world. |
| Salem Press |
Salem Press supports some of the Reference books that we own in the media center. |
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ProQuest Newsstand Complete is an accessible and thorough Web-based database with citations and abstracts from over 350 newspapers, over 250 of which provide full text, enabling users to search the latest news from around the world. Coverage, updated daily, of local, state, regional, national, and international newspapers is available, including full-text access to 27 major newspapers: the Star Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Barron’s, and USA Today, to name just a few. Access a wide range of articles, not only top news stories, but arts, sports, and entertainment stories as well.
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| Educator’s Reference Complete |
Expanded Academic ASAP |
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