Online
Databases
These programs are available to all BHS students through
remote access. User names and passwords may be
obtained from the high school media center staff.
This resource fully
captures animal and plant anatomy and physiology. The text stresses the interrelationship
between organ systems and the ways in which particular organisms can be studied
and compared
This
database provides a comprehensive collection of more than 500 magazines and
journals supporting high school science studies. Disciplines covered include
earth, life, physical, medical, and applied sciences.
Atomic Learning is an
online technology training and professional development tool for educators and
students.
Provided
here is information on companies, markets, and industries. Business and trade journal articles are also
available.
Business and
Company Resource Center 
This
database provides company profiles, investment reports, company histories, chronologies,
and periodicals.
This
collection provides periodicals focusing on topics in economics.
A "one-stop-shopping"
site for
Communications
and Mass Media Collection
A
collection of more than 250 journals focused on all aspects of the
communications field.
Use
this database to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews
Whether
studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or forensic
scientist, this collection offers more than 700 journals.
The
Culinary Arts Collection includes cooking and nutrition magazines covering
recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.
Find
more than 900 national and international newspapers here.
The three databases listed
below are available from EBSCO Host.
Primary Search – for
younger students
Funk & Wagnalls
Ebsco Animals – general information on animals
Environmental
Studies and Policy
This database includes
coverage of environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives
from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate
interests.
From the humanities to
social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs
across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and
newspapers is available.
Fine Arts and
Music Collection
This database provides
more than 150 full-text magazines and journals that will provide support for
research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
Gardening,
Landscape and Horticulture
A collection of journals
focused on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of
horticulture.
Find information on
company performance, industry trends economics and politics. Also, access broker research reports, trade
publications, newspapers, etc.
A source
for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics in the humanities
and social sciences.
Includes access to the Encyclopedia
Americana, New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia
Encyclopedia as well as Roget's II: The New
Thesaurus and the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language,
Fourth Edition.
Health
and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module
Provides
access to reliable medical materials. Included are nearly 400 health
and medical journals, hundreds of paphlets, and over
700 hundred health-related videos.
Materials contained in this
Health Reference
Center Academic
Database provides access
to nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health
information sources. The material
contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.
Search a collection of
more than 1,000 newspapers.
Issues
and Controversies on File
This journal examines
currently controversial issues from all sides and provides the history and
current status of the issue as well.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and
maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide
access to these journals as widely as possible.
JSTOR offers researchers the
ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages
as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated.
The
Library of Congress Databases and E-Resources
This collection contains
over 200 databases, with new databases added regularly. These
range from indexes and abstracts for magazines and scholarly journals,
to full text resources.
Join the New York Public
Library to access their many great databases.
Search this database of
over 25 NYS published newspapers, including The
New York Times.
This database contains
news articles covering social, economic, environmental, government, sports,
health, and science issues and events from more than 500 newspapers, wire services,
and broadcasts.
Access to
Nursing and
Allied Health Collection
This database offers
researchers looking for answers to nursing or allied health questions millions
of articles found in over 1,100 journals.
Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing
Oxford
English Dictionary Online
The Oxford English
Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English
language it is a 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.
Popular Magazines
offers full-text coverage of 1,000 magazines, covering current events, sports,
science, health and more.
Contained here are
newspaper articles, magazine articles, and interviews. Foreign resources and scholarly articles are
available here.
This collection provides a
basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind
develops and diminishes over time.
Reference
Library (electronic books)
Electronic books on
mathematics, law, science, and social issues are available here. Titles include: West’s
Encyclopedia of American Law, Real-Life
Math, and Infectious Diseases in
Context.
Salem
Literature (electronic
books)
Salem Literature provides the electronic
version of the Critical Insights
print series. Classic and current literary
criticism of authors and individual works are covered in articles by literary
scholars.
The SIRS database contains full-text articles on social issues. The “Leading Issues” section is particularly
useful.
Twayne Author Series:
Twayne English, World, and US Authors
200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual world, US, or
English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles are available.
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