NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL BELMONT
Library
Research Databases
Research Databases
How to use the Research Databases
The research databases are available 24/7. Login is required when accessing remotely. The login id is provided in parentheses beside each of the databases. The databases have been divided into the following subject areas: Periodicals, Reference, Health & Wellness, Government, Literature, Science, Social Science, World Languages and World Religions.
Periodicals
Expanded 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 Onefile Database (ndhs)
General OneFile provides periodical and news. Content includes more than 12,000 titles, with nearly 30 years of coverage.
General Reference Center Gold Database (ndhs)
General Reference Center Gold covers national news magazines and core business journals over the past 25 years.
Reference
AtoZMaps Online (ndhs/tigers)
The worlds largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. New maps are added to the collection every month.
Biography in Context (ndhs)
The Biography Resource Center contains more than 440,000 biographies on more than 340,000 people from around the world and throughout history.
Britannica Image Quest (ndhs/tigers)
Provides access to more 
than two million rights-cleared images from over 50 of the best collections in the world.
Discovering Collection Database (ndhs)
Discovering Collection covers major curriculum subjects including Li
terature, 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)
Britannica Online offers full text encyclopedia articles as well as
access to selected websites and 
visual material.
Infotrac Student Edition Database (ndhs)
Infotrac Student Edition provides full-text content from 14 r
eference books from many subject areas including science, history, literature politics, sports andthe environment.
Student 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, entri
es 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 & 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 & 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)
The 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 decis
ions 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.
Literature
Bloom's Literary Reference Online (ndhs/tigers)
Examines great writers, important 
works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.
Literature 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 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 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
Genes and Disease Online (ndhs/tigers)
Social Science
American History Online (ndhs/tigers)
Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, andcultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience.
Annals of American History (ndhs/tigers)
Annals of American History provide
s access over 2,000 primary source documents datingback to 1493. Includes speeches, essays, biographies, landmark court decisions, editorials, poems, songverses, and more.
CountryReports.org (ndhsb/tigers)
CountryReports.org offers cultural, historical and statistical information. Some content is also available in French and Spanish.
Global 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.
Modern World History Online (ndhs/tigers)
Covers the people, places, and events
in the broad expanse of history from mid-15th century to the present.
Opposing 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!
US History in Context (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.
World History in Context (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.
World Languages
ˇInforme! (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.
World Religions
Facts on File World Religions Online (ndhs/tigers)
Explores the world's major re
ligions and spiritual traditions and their impact on society and cultures.
Professional Collection for Teachers (ndhs)
Professional 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
