ONLINE DATABASES

• CQ Researcher Plus Archive
• CQ Global Researcher
• JSTOR
• Britannica School
• Britannica Image Quest

GALE DATABASES

• Global Issues in Context
• Literature Criticism Online
• Gale Virtual Reference Library (eBooks)

EBSCO DATABASES

• Advance Placement Source
• ELL Reference Center
• Health Source - Consumer Edition 
• History Reference Center
• Literary Reference Center
• MAS Ultra - School Edition
• Newspaper Source
• Points of View Reference Center
• Science Reference Center
• Student Research Center 
• TOPICsearch

How do I access online databases from home?

Login to School Loop and from your dashboard, you will see a News item titled "Quality Research From Home! (Access codes)" in the right-hand column. The passwords will be listed in the body of the message. please note there are different usernames and passwords for some of the databases. 

What databases should I explore to find general information about a topic?

• Britannica School 
• Student Research Center (EBSCO Database)

What databases should I peruse to discover a research topic?

• Global Issues in Context (Gale Database)
• CQ Researcher
• CQ Global Researcher

What databases should I use to search for current events?

• TOPICsearch (EBSCO Database)
• Newspaper Source (EBSCO Database)
• MAS Ultra – School Edition for access to a variety of magazines (EBSCO Database)

What are the best databases we have for finding articles from academic journals?

• Advanced Placement Source (EBSCO Database)
• JSTOR

What databases should I explore to find information on a topic from a variety of viewpoints?

• CQ Researcher
• CQ Global Researcher
• Points of View Reference Center (EBSCO Database)

What databases should I explore to find historical information?

• CQ Researcher
• Advanced Placement Source (EBSCO Database)
• History Reference Center (EBSCO Database)

What databases should I explore to find information on an author and their literary work?

• Literature Criticism Online (Gale Database)
• Literary Reference Center (EBSCO Database)

What database should I use to find images?

• Britannica Image Quest

The Advanced Placement Source is a multidisciplinary academic resource designed to meet the extensive research needs of high school students enrolled in various advanced and college-prep courses. The database has more than 5,400 full-text academic journals and magazines, and over 592,000 photos, maps and flags.

Each single-themed CQ Researcher weekly report offers in-depth, unbiased coverage of a pressing political or social issue such as health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Archive coverage begins with 1923, making it a great way to research both current and historical topics.

A supplement to CQ Researcher, CQ Global Researcher offers focused, readable, single-topic reports on world issues.

Britannica School works similarly to Wikipedia, but is considered a more trust-worthy source. Britannica School also includes Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, periodicals, atlas, world data, the Classics, biographies, news, multimedia, and more.

Britannica Image Quest gives you access to more than two million rights-cleared images from over 50 of the best collections in the world, including: Getty Images, National Geographic Society, MedicalRF and many more.

The English Language Learner Reference Center is a multi-purpose online information resource with materials designed to help ELLs conduct research, build background knowledge and develop study skills, as well as facilitating their future transition to non-ELL materials.

Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues

The Health Source: Consumer Edition database gives you access to over 80 full text consumer health magazines, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Harvard Health Letter, and many others.  Also included in this database is searchable full text for current health-related pamphlets and nearly 130 full text health reference books. This full-text database covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, women's health and more.

The History Reference Center features full text for more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers.The database also includes full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals and contains nearly 57,000 historical documents; more than 77,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 113,000 historical photos and maps; and more than 80 hours of historical video.

JSTOR consists entirely of scholarly journal articles from titles in various disciplines including: economics, history, political science, and sociology, business, education, law and psychology.

Literary Reference Center combines information from major respected reference works, books, and literary journals, as well as original content. Includes plot summaries, synopses, articles of literary criticism, author biographies, full text from literary journals, book reviews, poems, short stories, author interviews, and images of key literary figures.

Literature Criticism Online represents a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. This database includes tens of thousands essays.  

MAS Ultra School Edition gives you access to hundreds of popular high school magazines including Bioscience, Careers & Colleges, Congressional Digest, Discover, National Review, New Republic, New Scientist, Popular Science, Scientific American, Smithsonian, World War II and many more. This database also provides full text for tens of thousands of biographies and primary source documents, hundreds of reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia and the CIA World Fact Book).

Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for more than 330 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full-text television and radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, and NPR.

Points of View Reference Center is designed to provide students with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Also included are articles from periodicals, books, biographies, radio and television transcripts, primary source documents, images and videos.

The Science Reference Center contains full text science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.

The Student Research Center is a basic database students can search by topic heading, make use of an online dictionary and encyclopedia, explore the top searches of the day.

TOPICsearch is a current events database that contains full text for over 140,000 articles from nearly 260 diverse sources including international newspapers, EBSCO's collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information. Students can search this database to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in the news including controversial opinions and viewpoints.

The Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. This database also include the ASCD Professional Collection which consists of 56 ASCD Professional Development titles.