NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL BELMONT

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Research Databases

Research Databases

How to use the Research Databases

These research databases are available 24/7. No login is required at school, but login is required when accessing remotely. The login id is provided beside each of the databases. The databases have been divided into the following categories: Newspapers & Periodicals, Reference, Health & Wellness, History, Literature, Science, Social Science, and World Languages. You may search one database at a time, or you may search multiple databases at once by clicking on the PowerSearch icon below. Please note that PowerSearch (ndhs) will cross-search most, but not all, of the databases listed below:Power Search Widget

 

Newspapers & Periodicals

Expanded Academic ASAPExpanded Academic ASAP Database (ndhs)

Expanded Academic ASAP includes journals and periodicals covering a wide variety of disciplines, from social science, humanities and politics to medicine, general interest and science over the past 25 years.

General OneFileGeneral Onefile Database (ndhs)

General OneFile provides periodical and news. Content includes more than 12,000 titles, with nearly 30 years of coverage.

General Reference GoldGeneral Reference Center Gold Database (ndhs)

General Reference Center Gold covers national news magazines and core business journals over the past 25 years.

Facts on File World News Digest (ndhs/tigers)

World News Digest contains essential facts of the news as reported in the major newspapers and news magazines around the world. Also included are maps, photographs, historic documents, and overviews of key issues, newsmakers, and events since 1940.

Reference

Biography Resource CenterBiography Resource Center (ndhs)

The Biography Resource Center contains more than 440,000 biographies on more than 340,000 people from around the world and throughout history.

Discovering CollectionDiscovering Collection Database (ndhs)

Discovering Collection covers major curriculum subjects including Literature, History, Science and Social Studies. It includes primary source documents, topic overviews, literary criticism, biographies and study guide questions.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online Database (ndhs/tigers)

Encyclopedia BritainicaBritannica Online offers full text encyclopedia articles as well as access to selected web sites and visual material.

Infotrac Student Edition DatabaseInfotrac Student Edition Database (ndhs)

Infotrac Student Edition provides full-text content from 14 reference books from many subject areas including science, history, literature politics, sports and the environment.

Student Resource Center Gold DatabaseStudent Resource Center Gold Database (ndhs)

Student Resource Center Gold provides full-text articles from more than 1,200 magazines and newspapers from 1980 to the present, nearly 50,000 biographies, criticisms, essays and overviews, entries from the acclaimed American Decades series, more than 21,000 timeline event descriptions, more than 15,000 photographs, maps and graphics, thousands of primary source documents, including diaries, letters and recordings and hundreds of audio and video clips

Health & Wellness

Health and Wellness Resource CenterHealth & Wellness Resource Center (ndhs)

Health & Wellness Resource Center provides access to thousands of full-text medical journals, magazines, newspapers, reference works, multimedia and more.

Teen Health & Wellness (ndhs/tigers)
Teen Health and Wellness

Teen Health & Wellness provides comprehensive curricular support and self-help tools on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, family life, and more. All content is reviewed by leading professionals in medicine, mental health, nutrition, guidance, and career counseling

Government

CQ Press Supreme Court Collection (ndhs/tigers)

Supreme Court Collection IconThe CQ Press Supreme Court Collectionprovides access to over 5,000 casesummaries and over 8,000 opinion-writing and voting results. It includes an analysis of thousands of Supreme Court decisions within the context of our nation's history and the constitution. Biographies of every justice include a detailed analysis of their judicial philosophies with links to their opinions. The constitution is explained and a historical perspective of the Supreme Court is provided.

History

Annals of American History (ndhs/tigers)

Annals of American HistoryAnnals of American History provides access over 2,000 primary source documents dating back to 1493. Includes speeches, essays, biographies, landmark court decisions, editorials, poems, song verses, and more.

History Resource Center : USHistory Resource Center: US (ndhs)

History Resource Center: U.S. brings together a broad collection of full-text periodicals and scholarly analysis, as well as over 5,000 primary source documents.

History resource Center : WorldHistory Resource Center: World (ndhs)

History Resource Center: World provides a broad collection of full-text periodicals, reference works, scholarly analysis and more than 10,000 pages of primary source documents.

Literature

Literature Resource CenterLiterature Resource Center (ndhs)

Literature Resource Center provides biographical entries on more than 135,000 authors, full-text articles, critical essays and reviews from scholarly journals and literary magazines, overviews of frequently studied works, more than 30,000 full-text poems, short stories and plays, more than 8,500 interviews, nearly 5,000 links to selected Web sites and more than 2,800 author portraits and features 10,000 definitions of literary terms.

Scribner Writers SeriesScribner Writer Series (ndhs)

Scribner Writer Series provides access to more than 2,000 original bio-critical essays on the lives and works of more than 1,400 important authors from around the world.

Twayne's Author SeriesTwayne’s Author Series (ndhs)

Twayne’s Author series offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres.

Science

Facts on File Science Online (ndhs/tigers)

Science Online offers biographies, definitions, experiments and activities, a broad range of essays on current issues in science, technology, and society, a special feature each month, videos, animations, diagrams and images, as well as chronology entries organized in a timeline by time period or scientific topic.

Social Science

opposing ViewpointsOpposing Viewpoints (ndhs)

Opposing Viewpoints brings together all the information that’s needed to fully understand an issue: pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, links to hand-selected web sites, and more!

Global Issues in ContextGlobal Issues in Context (ndhs)

Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issues 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. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.

CountryReports.org (ndhsb/tigers)

CountryReportsCountryReports.org offers cultural, historical and statistical information. Some content is also available in French and Spanish.

World Languages

InformeˇInforme! (ndhs)

ˇInforme! is a full-text electronic reference tool providing full text articles of popular Hispanic magazines in Spanish. It also includes a thesaurus and an interface that are uniquely designed for Spanish-speaking users.

Professional Collection for Teachers (ndhs)

Professional Collection for TeachersProfessional Collection is a custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators that is updated daily and provides 24/7 access from school or home. Professional Collection covers the following subject areas:

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Child and Adolescent Psychology and Development
  • Drug and Alcohol Abuse
  • Health/Nutrition/Fitness
  • Learning Disabilities
  • Literature
  • School Law
  • Science and Technology
  • Social Sciences
  • Sports/Athletic Training

Head Librarian

Claudia Sarconi
650-595-1913 x240

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