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Research Databases

   

EBSCOhost Research Databases - Hundreds of thousands of resources, EBSCOhost connects students and teachers with EBSCOhost and Student Research Center.  These two databases provide full text periodicals, full text biographies, primary source documents, essays, encyclopedias, almanacs, reference books, pamphlets, newspapers, transcripts, photos, maps.
   

eLibrary - History Study Center - ProQuest Learning Literature - eLibrary helps students find the answers they need from more than 2,000 full-text and multimedia sources.  History Study Center offers reference materials that covers from ancient to modern, old world to new world.  ProQuest Learning: Literature includes 3,000+ author biographies; 40 full-text literature journals; full-text literary works; key criticisms and reference sources.
   
Encyclopedia Britannica Online - reliable consistent site, provides access to full updated contents of the four Britannica products; plus the web's best sites, thousands of video and audio clips, hundreds of magazines and journals.
   

Facts on File - World News Digest brings together and enhances nearly seven decades of news from the renowned Facts On File World News Digest in print.  Issues and Controversies explores more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture.  Today's Science bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today.  Bloom's Literary Reference Onlineexamines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.  Ferguson's Career Guidance Center provides detailed profiles of more than 3,300 jobs and 94 industries, invaluable advice on career skills, more than 55,000 resource entries, and much more!
   

Gale Research - a platform unlike any other finding information on authors, literature, history, primary source documents and more.  Includes more than 5,000 full-text magazine/journal articles, pictures, and videos.
   

World Book Online Reference Center - includes 25,000 encyclopedia articles, plus tens of thousands of additional reference articles, 10,000 photographs and maps, over 100 videos and animations, and over 9,000 audio clips
   
Maps101 - Printable Maps - Current Events - an online map and geography learning resource center including more than 4,000 easy-to-print maps, daily and weekly current events articles, and dynamic interactive mapping features and satellite imagery.
   

Internet Recommendation


netTrekker - the award winning search engine for schools, includes exciting new features that assist teachers and school librarians as they differentiate their instruction to help every child achieve.

Foster HS Research Guide

Foster High School Research Guide - to be used in conjunction with current MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers ~ Compiled by FHS English Department.  Last updated:  June 2009.

Bibliography Sites


bibme  - fill-in-the-blankformat for bibliographic citations (MLA and APA) and prints them out.
EasyBib  - fill-in-the-blankformat for bibliographic citations (MLA and APA) and prints them out.
   

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