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Username and passwords required for home access to these databases can be found in the GW Student Agenda.  For updates on passwords and usernames are listed in the student agenda or see Mrs. Gingras or Mrs. Kulhanjian in the media center.

Nettrekker – A great search engine for students!

See Mrs. Gingras or Mrs. Kulhanjian

for the username and password.

Noodletools – Works Cited Generator

Subscription Service

Name of Database

Description

ABC-CLIO

American History Database

  

provides articles, images, biographies and “This Day in History” for topics related to the history of America

EBSCOHOST 

Sampling of Ebsco Databases

  • Biography Collection Complete
  • Ebsco Animals
  • Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia
  • History Reference Center
  • Literary Reference Center
  • MAS Online
  • Middle Search Plus
  • Newspaper Source
  • Novelist
  • Novelist K-8
  • Point of View
  • Primary Search
  • Science Reference Center
  • TopicSearch

 

Ebsco offers full-text articles from hundreds of magazines and newspaper articles, along with articles from the World Almanac, Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedia.

 

FACTS ON FILE

 

 

 

 

Facts on File continued

 

  • African-American History Online
  • American Indian History Online
  • Ancient & Medieval History Online
  • Health Reference Online
  • Literary Reference Online
  • Modern World History Online
  • Science Online
  • World Atlas

 

Facts on File offers over 10 different fully searchable databases:

 

Marshall Cavendish Digital

  • Earth & Physical Science
  • How Things Work

 

Research Marshall Cavendish’s encyclopedias online.  Information updated quarterly!

 

Rosen Publishing Online

 

  • Teen Health & Wellness

Get accurate, valid and timely information on a host of topics related to health and wellness.  Topics include diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, family life and more. 

Thomson-Gale E-Books

E-Book Titles:

  • Topics covered include:
  • Biography
  • Environment
  • History
  • Law
  • Literature
  • Medicine
  • Multicultural Studies
  • Religion
  • Science
  • Social Science

Full-text newspapers!

 

 

This collection includes the complete contents of 66 reference books published by Thomson-Gale.  Includes illustrations, photos, timelines, table of contents and index for each book.  View in HTML or PDF, the choice is yours!

 

 

"This newspaper collection is provided by the New Jersey State Library and includes: New Jersey newspapers, the New York Times (full-text from January 1, 2000 to the present), plus many more national and international newspapers." (Cengage Learning - Infotrac)


World Book Encyclopedia Online 

  • World Book Kids
  • World Book Online Reference Center
  • World Book Advanced

Are you tired of finding web sites that you can't understand? Use World Book Online instead which offers a wealth of information written for middle school students


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