Research Links


SIRS Knowledge Source™

User ID = CA0659H
Password = 23260

World Book Encyclopedia

    a premier online reference source that contains every article from the 22-volume print set plus thousands more. The site has state-of-the-art multimedia, maps, editor- reviewed Web sites, and more.
User ID = newport4
Password = student

ABC - CLIO

    a closely held publisher of educational and reference products. The company focuses on history and social studies resources for the scholar, student, teacher, and librarian in universities and secondary schools.
User ID = newport
Password = newport
User ID = newport
Password = newport
User ID = newport
Password = newport

LitFINDER - (source for The World's Best Poetry)

    Students and librarians love this collection because it provides not only the most comprehensive collection of full-text Poetry available, but also explanatory materials which provide a wonderful context for the works including biographies, a glossary and pictures. (Poetry only; collections of stories, speeches, Criticism & Biographies, and plays not included in subscription)
User ID = student
Password = nhhs

Internet Public Library

    Online links to materials including State Archives (California and others), Global Newspapers, Thesauri, Dictionaries, Almanacs and much, much more! Provided by Univeristy of Michigan School of Information
no user ID required

Digital Books

    Need materials but can't get to a Library or bookstore? Online resource offers about 88,000 of its 128,000 digitally-published books, texts, and documents for free, while others are available at a very modest price. Persevere to find a title that you can use. Some may require "reader" application software, some are subscription access.
Simply identify yourself.

    LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. You can listen and you can even volunteer to read if you would like to record chapters of public domain materials.
Audio, Podcasts, volunteering, too

Science Search Engines

    Scirus A free, scientific-only search engine gives students, scholars, and other academics another tool to conduct effective, comprehensive internet searches to find bona fide scientific information
very, very powerful

    CrossRef A free, scientific-only search engine for effective, comprehensive internet searches to find bona fide scientific information
very, very powerful

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