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RESEARCH DATABASES

Galenet
user name: tuls54886; password: tuls54886
The place to start. The "one-stop" research center that includes reference articles, magazine & newspaper articles, primary documents, and multimedia links.

  • A) Student Resource Center: Primary and secondary sources for research on all topics including literature.
     
  • B) Opposing Viewpoints Series: offers pro and con viewpoints on contemporary social issues. You've used the books before, now access it online! The keyword access makes the online version easier to use.
     

Facts on File (Reference articles and primary sources.)
user name: cascia; password: hall

  • A) Science Online: Conveys the visual nature of science in a clear and easy-to-comprehend manner, enabling students to access printable diagrams, definitions, biographies, and essays in a specific subject area with a single click. Thousands of hyperlinks allow users to follow a diagram to a definition and on to a related essay or biography.
     
  • B) American History Online: A comprehensive reference to the most important individuals, events, and topics in United States history. Spanning more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, this reference source is organized by content type, topic, era, and activity. Thousands of fully hyperlinked entries allow users to follow a topic to related biographies, primary source documents, and images. Web links direct users to some of the web's best educational sites.
     
  • C) Bloom's Literary Reference Online: Examines great writers and important works. Includes biographies of authors, literary criticism, key plot points, major themes, social context, characters, and a glossary of literary terms.
     
  • D) World Atlas: Includes printable political and outline maps and regional thematic maps; country and U.S. states profiles; and a comparison/ranking tool which compares and ranks countries and U.S. states using selected statistics. 
     

Federal Statistics Online
Statistics from more than 100 US Federal agencies. Search by topic, state, county, city, congressional district, or agency.

Issues and Controversies
user name: casciaprep; password: facts
Lengthy research material on current social issues. Includes history of the problem, alternatives debated, bibliography, contact information, keywords and points, and updates.

SIRS Discoverer
user name: OK2165H; password: 74114
SIRS Discoverer is a general reference resource ideal for Middle School students. It offers encyclopedia and reference articles as well as full-text articles from magazines and newspapers. Also includes: photos, maps, links to web sites, a dictionary and a thesaurus.

CQResearcher
user name: cascia; password: cascia
Lengthy research materials on current social issues including issues, background chronology, current situation, pro and con, outlook, bibliography, and the "next step". Requires that you download documents as b/w pdf and open with Adobe Acrobat Reader on a Macintosh computer. Dells print normally.

EBSCO
user name: cascia; password: hall

  • A) Magazine, scholarly journals, and newspaper indexes. ATTENTION SENIORS: LOOK HERE FOR SCHOLARLY JOURNALS FOR YOUR SENIOR THESIS.(Choose Academic Libraries. Then there are 14 different databases to choose from. Choose Academic Search Elite and any other databases that relate to your topic. You may choose more than one at a time.) When searching, click on 'Full Text' box. Click on 'Also Search Within the Full Text of Articles.' If you don't, you won't get as many 'hits.'
     
    • 1. Academic Search Elite. Full text for over 2,000 serials.
    • 2. Business Source Elite. Full text for over 1,100 business publications.
    • 3. Health Source - Consumer Edition. Consumer health information: medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, child care, sports medicine and general health.
    • 4. Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition. Over 500 scholarly journals focusing on medicine.
    • 5. Professional Development Collection. Designed for professional educators. Over 500 education journals.
    • 6. ERIC. References, citations and abstracts from over 1,000 education journals.
    • 7. Newspaper Source. Selected articles for ca. 30 national and international newspapers.
    • 8. MasterFILE Premier. Full text for more than 1,700 general reference publications.
    • 9. MAS Ultra - School Edition. Designed specifically for high school libraries. Full text for over 700 high school magazines, as well as pamphlets, reference books, primary source documents, photos, maps and flags.
    • 10. Middle Search Plus. For Middle School students. Articles, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps and flags.
    • 11. Primary Search. For elementary students.
    • 12. Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia.
    • 13. EBSCO Animals.
    • 14. MEDLINE. Authoritative medical information.
  • B) Student Research Center. SRC was developed to offer middle and high school students an easy-to-use, graphically appealing interface, which highlights content such as biographies, maps and encyclopedias. A dictionary and Columbia Encyclopedia are also included.
     
  • C) Literary Reference Center. An easy to use database containing information about authors and specific literary works. Includes literary criticism. Masterplots, reviews and a literary glossary.  

World Factbook
Profiles of the countries of the world. Includes basic information about the geography,people,government, and economy.

Oklahoma Union Catalog
The statewide database used for interlibrary loan purposes. Use this database to find books located in libraries across the state which may be useful for research papers and especially for senior thesis papers. We can try to borrow these books for you via interlibrary loan. WARNING! This is a great thing, but it does take time to initiate a request and there is shipping time involved. If you want to take advantage of this service, DO IT EARLY IN YOUR RESEARCH. You may search this database by keyword or use advanced search to search by author, title or subject heading. Extra special time saving feature to locate the most relevant books on your topic when you do not know what the official subject heading is: Type in your keyword. Hit enter to get a listing of books with that keyword in them. Select the record for what looks like the best book on your topic. Then click on the subject heading in the record and the computer will produce a list of books with that same subject heading.

The Academy of American Poets
The best poetry site! Includes a large database of poems and links to related sites. Search by poet or by poem. This is the only poetry site that includes links to critical essays. Click on 'Literary Links' on the left column of the screen. Then click 'Browse Poet Links' for critical essays and the texts of poems.

Bartleby.com
Great for St. Augustine papers and senior thesis. Divided into four parts: Reference, Verse, Fiction and Non-fiction. The full texts of major works are available and searchable by keyword. You can search St. Augustine's Confessions and works by philosophers for a single word. Includes an extensive collection of poetry, but no criticism.

Poetry Archive
Search by category (Poems on war, etc.) or by poet. Ignore the ads. The information is good. This is the site to check for poems and poets to compare and contrast.

Representative Poetry Online
Poems. No criticism.

American Verse Project
A collection of poems by American Poets. No criticism..

Electronic Poetry Center
Does not include many poets, but does have links to interviews for those poets it does include.

Modern American Poetry
Only 161 American poets, but does include criticisms of specific poems by them.