Remote Access Databases

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Remote Access Databases
(Use your Whittier Public Library card to use these databases from home)

Magazine and Newspaper Articles

EBSCOhost Web
(Magazines)

Provides citations, abstracts and selected full text from general interest magazines, scholarly journals, health resources and encyclopedia entries.
Los Angeles Times
via ProQuest

Provides full text articles from the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
NewsBank
(Newspapers)

Provides full text articles from the Whittier Daily News, Orange County Register and other newspapers.
   

General Research

Business Encyclopedias Health Reader's Advisory Test Prep

Business Source Premier
Full text for more than 2,300 journals, covering marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
An encyclopedia which includes full-text articles, pictures, videos, animations, web links, a dictionary and atlas.

Consumer Health Complete
Provides journal articles, fact sheets and pamphlets, information on alternative medicines, encyclopedia articles, evidence-based reports and more.

NoveList
Readers can find books to enjoy based upon titles or authors they've read or topics that interest them.

Learn-a-Test
Offers online practice tests for many academic and career-based standardized tests.

Regional Business News
Incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Nueva enciclopedia
Cumbre en lìnea

A Spanish encyclopedia which includes full-text articles, over 300 maps, 270 flags, plus 500 tables and fact boxes.
   

 

High School Databases

COIN Career Library
Get all the information you need to help you choose the right college and a great career.
Student Research Center
High School

Lets students search magazines, newspapers, maps, biographies, primary source documents and more.
Literary Reference Center
Provides information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.
Gale Biography
Resource Center

Provides biographical research information

 

Middle School Databases

Student Research Center
Middle School

Lets students search magazines, newspapers, maps, biographies, primary source documents and more.
Amazing Animals
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals.
America the Beautiful
Gives a state-by-state history and current events, browsable fast facts, geography, government and culture, etc.
Lands and Peoples
Provides maps, flags, facts and figures, photographs, weblinks for countries all over the world.
The New Book of
Popular Science

Search for science projects by keyword; browse biographies of scientists; find science encyclopedias and science in the news.

Just for Kids!

Kids Search
Contains full text for nearly 70 popular, elementary school magazines. Plus allows students to search the Encyclopedia of Animals, American Heritage Children's Dictionary and Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia. Also provides thousands of images.

Searchasaurus
Find photos, search the Encyclopedia of Animals, lookup words in a dictionary, and find articles and information through searching magazines and encyclopedias.

     

 


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