Gather a large list of books, articles, and other sources of
information on your topic. Even if you are not sure the source
will have what you want, keep accurate information on EVERY source
in case you do need it later. If you are using Web pages, you
might want to print out the first page of the document, making
sure the URL is printed on the page.
Locate your sources through the online patron catalog, in print
and online reference works, databases and journal indexes, other
bibliographies, and sources suggested by your teacher or librarian.
The following are examples of high-quality subscription databases
available through district libraries and the ACCESS PA Power Library
program. Many of these sources are available from home with a
password. Make sure you get a password list from your librarian.
These resources are
accessible at http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/catalogs.html
Journal and News Indexes
| AP
Photo Archive |
An
extension collection of current and historical photos from
the 150-year archive of the Associated Press |
| Congressional
Quarterly Researcher |
A weekly publication covering the “most
current and controversial issues of the day, with complete
summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, annotated
bibliographies, chronologies and more” |
| EBSCOHost |
Magazines;
newspapers; an encyclopedia; health, business and animal
databases; special databases for middle and primary students,
and the Professional Development Collection for teachers
and educational research. |
| bigchalk
|
Magazine
and newspaper articles, news transcripts, images, reference |
| ProQuest
Historical Newspapers
History
Online, Literature Online
|
The New
York Times back to 1851 in PDF format
Materials from
journals, books, and
overviews
|
| Facts.com |
News,
historical archives, Issues and Controversies on
File, Science News on File) |
| GALENet |
Magazines,
newspapers and reference sources. Also Biography Resource
Center, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, Literature
Resource Center. |
| SIRS
Discoverer |
Elementary
and middle school article reprints |
| SIRS
Knowledge Source |
Three
databases: SIRS Researcher for science, social science,
history reprints; SIRS Renaissance (for humanities)
and SIRS Government Reporter (for documents and government-produced
sources) |
Encyclopedias
(Use these for beginning research and as an index
to the Internet)
Grolier/ Americana/ New Book of
Knowledge
|
Rich content, a variety of reference tools, highly
selective links, and multimedia features, with text to
meet the needs of students K-12
|
World Book Online
|
Full text, images, maps and multimedia from this
standard student tool, particularly useful K-9
|
Curricular Resources: GaleNet
| Literature Resource Center |
Biographies
and critical analysis of the works off more than 90,000
writers, culled from reference works and literary journals |
| Biography Resource Center |
Profiles of 185,000 people
in the news and throughout history culled from major reference
sources and nearly 250 periodicals |
| Student Resource Center |
Comprehensive database offering thousands of curriculum-related primary
documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical
analyses, full-text coverage of 800 magazines, over 10,000
photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of
audio and video clips |
| Beyond
Books |
Online,
enhanced textbooks covering a broad curriculum |
| Facts.com
Curricular Resource Center |
Maps,
diagrams, timelines and experiments in PDF format |
ABC-CLIO Databases
|
State,
national, international geography and history |
These resources are accessible at http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/catalogs.html
Your teacher may require you to use a combination of primary
and secondary sources.
You probably use secondary sources-essays, criticism,
reference
books, articles-regularly.
Visit our Primary
Source Pathfinder
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