general resources

General Resources

  • For video tutorials on how to use our databases, go to the Research Help Page.

    General Interest Databases

    eLibrary - General database with a large variety of topics.  Includes newspaper & magazine articles, articles from scholarly journals, exepts from books and more.  

     Proquest - Proquest has links to a variety of databases, including literature, business, health & medicine, science & technology and newspapers.

    To log in from home, click on the link above.  When the "Find Your Library" box appears, click on More Access Options.  In the Proquest Account section, use the district login and password provided by the library staff or your teacher.

    Britannica School - the go-to site for learning more about any subject—for all grades and all reading abilities—offering thousands of up-to-date, curated, and curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, recommended Web sites, and three separate databases—Elementary, Middle, or High.

    Citation Help

    Purdue OWL

    A great page if you need help citing your sources

     Easy Bib - Check for unintentional plagiarism, add citations directly into your paper, and get advanced grammar help.