Catalogs and Databases (some very good stuff!)    

Welcome! We are happy to provide high quality full-text Web-based services. Please ask Dr. Valenza for a password list for home access. If your teacher wants you to use scholarly articles, consult this explanation or these from several universities. NOTE: JSTOR, eLibrary and EBSCOhost allow you to filter for scholarly materials. 

Click here for a database list by subject.   Local library catalogs  KidSearchPage

Alexandria from home Video Search Pathfinder video   video    (public library card barcode required(Includes the Philadelphia Inquirer.) Local Library Catalogs TitanicArchive MartinLutherKing Junior Archive AbrahamLincoln Archive College BasketballArchive ProBaseball Archive

History Study Center   Professional Development Collection (ed research)     NewspaperSource       Google News Archive New York Times Topics Pages Time Magazine Archive Time Magazine Cover  Search (Check the stacks for the print issues dating back to 1968!)   National Geographic  Publications Index (Check the stacks for our full print collections!)

Biography Resource Center Literature Resource Center,  Student Resource Center Gold Expanded Academic ASAP Opposing Viewpoints Science Resource Center Health Module Scribner Writers Series Gale Virtual Reference Library Literature Criticism Online      Bloom's Literary Reference     Greenwood Critical Companions (literature)   Gale eBooks   Poetry for Students Novels for Students Drama for Students Short Stories for Students   Arts and Humanities Renaissance Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion Research Channel Video Library E3 Electronic Field Trips Video Pathfinder

ABC-CLIO ABC-CLIO ANCIENT/ MEDIEVAL HISTORY   History Reference Center   EBSCO Animals   (Primary Sources)   CQ Researcher Historic Documents Encyclopedia of American Government   NetLibrary   NewspaperArchive.com Free Archives TitanicNewspaperArchive  CollegeBasketballArchive.com ProBaseballArchive.com MartinLutherKingJuniorArchive.com  AbrahamLincolnArchive.com WinterGamesArchive.com

(scholarly resources)   Issues and Controversies World News Digest Today's Science Issues and Controversies (American History) Curriculum Resource Center Bloom's Literary Reference       encyclopedia       For Younger Students     KidsSearchPage

 

EBSCOHost, the AP Photo Archive, netLibrary, Biography Reference Bank, and the Grove Dictionaries are part of the Access PA Power Library. To access these products from home, visit the MCLINC page on the Web and type in the barcode number on your library card. Click here for additional FREE Web reference sources Click here for free online news and media links

Local Library Catalogs

 Access PA—Statewide Library Catalog for Interlibrary Loan!

MCLINC (Public Libraries in Montgomery County)

 Free Library of Springfield Township

Alexandria Patron Catalog: Check out our library holdings wherever you are!

 Atwood Library of Arcadia College http://quest.beaver.edu/

 Chestnut Hill College Logue Library http://webcat.chc.edu/uhtbin/cgisirsi/0/0/49

 Springfield Township Middle School Catalog

Distinguishing among Scholarly, Popular, and Trade Journals

Your teacher may want you to search for scholarly journals to support your arguments.  Here is Springfield's explanation.  The following sites will also help you determine if you are looking at a scholarly article:

• Minnesota Statewide Library System Tutorial (chart compares scholarly, popular, and trade journals) http://www.pals.msus.edu/tutorial/tablesversion/lessons/lesson5/periodicals.htm

• University of Texas at San Antonio http://www.lib.utsa.edu/Research/Subject/scholarlyguide.html

• Hunter Library @ Western Carolina University http://library.wcu.edu/researchref/help/scholpop.htm

• Cornell University Library http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill20.html

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Updated 6/11/08