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The most frequently-used databases
Academic Video Online (AVON aka Alexander Street)
Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers video titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. Curated for the educational experience, the massive depth of content and breadth of content-types (such as documentaries, films, demonstrations, etc.) makes this database a useful resource for faculty and students alike.
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Gale in Context High School
The most popular of our general, multimedia databases. Good starting point for most research assignments.
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Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Opposing Viewpoints is designed for any/all research on potentially controversial subjects. A multimedia, multidisciplinary database.
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ABC CLIO Databases
New suite of history specific databases designed for high school students. Excellent for any/all social studies research assignments.
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Academic Video Online (AVON aka Alexander Street)
Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers video titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. Curated for the educational experience, the massive depth of content and breadth of content-types (such as documentaries, films, demonstrations, etc.) makes this database a useful resource for faculty and students alike.
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Classroom Video on Demand
Thousands of curriculum related clips to use for research and/or your multimedia presentations. Designed specifically for secondary students.
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EBSCO Explora
EBSCO Explora offers all the rich resources, particularly periodical literature, contained in the EBSCO Ultra package but with a new and easier interface. Use the front page topic finders to quickly point you in the right direction for your research needs.
Feature Films for Education
Teach with the best that Hollywood has to offer and harness the storytelling power of film as a tool for engaging and inspiring students. The Feature Films for Education Collection offers hundreds of full-length feature films for educational instructional purposes. Brought to you in partnership with Criterion Pictures USA, an Anuvu company, this outstanding collection focuses on both current and hard-to-find titles, including dramas, literary adaptations, blockbusters, classics, science fiction, documentaries, animation studies, Academy Award® winners, and more.
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Gale in Context World History
Gale In Context: World History reaches back to the ancient world—and forward to today's headlines—to deliver a chronicle of the people, cultures, events, and societies that have formed the history of the human race. Rare primary sources, reliable reference, and multimedia content are aligned to curriculum and put this vast subject into context for students.
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Gale Literature Resource Center
Gale Literature Resource Center is Gale’s most current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature resource, offering the broadest and most representative range of authors and their works, including a deep collection of full-text critical and literary analysis for literary studies. Researchers can find up-to-date analysis, biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world.
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Gale Science in Context
Multimedia science resources with the award-winning Gale interface and topic portals.
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National Geographic Virtual Library
Want to go on journey that's always enlightening, often surprising, and unfailingly fascinating? It all starts with National Geographic Virtual Library. Thanks to Gale's partnership with National Geographic, you have access to the complete archive of National Geographic magazine at your fingertips — every page of every issue — along with a cross-searchable collection of National Geographic books, maps, images and videos.
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Newsbank
This collection of primary source databases supports a variety of subject areas. America’s Historical Newspapers provides content from 1690 through 2000 with an easy to use timeline that highlights major events studied in US history. Additionally, NewsBank contains Access World News, which features current full text articles from approximately 10,000 news sources from over 200 countries around the world.
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ProQuest Academic Complete
When it comes to a breadth of ebooks, Academic Complete® ebook database is the answer. Celebrating 20 years as the trusted ebook subscription for academic libraries, this complete-yet-affordable subscription comes with a growing selection of 234,000+ titles that support curricula, graduation rate trends and emerging courses.
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Smithsonian Open Access
Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
Twayne's Author Series
The acclaimed Twayne's Author Series of literary criticism offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres. This online series features the content of more than 600 books that comprise three print series --United States Authors, English Authors and World Authors -- each of which were carefully coordinated with input from librarians and educators to include authors universally studied in high schools and colleges. Twayne's Author Series is an ideal starting point for research papers on literary works and figures, special projects and presentations.
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World Cat
WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.