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Welcome! We are happy to provide high quality full-text Web-based services. Please remember to make use of our excellent print resources for news stories prior to 1996. Many of these subscriptions are available to you at home through password access. Please ask Mrs. Valenza for a password. If your teacher wants you to use scholarly articles, consult this explanation or these from several universities. NOTE: eLibrary and EBSCOhost allow you to filter for scholarly materials.  NEW! Click here for a database list by subject.  Use the Password List when you are at home.  Local library catalogs


ALEXANDRIA from home

ACCESS PA POWER LIBRARY!  

 

PA State database for interlibrary loan

Search the MCLINC Remote Databases  with the barcode on your public library card!(Includes the Philadelphia Inquirer.)

Local Library Catalogs

TitanicArchive

MartinLutherKing Junior Archive

AbrahamLincoln

Archive

College BasketballArchive

ProBaseball Archive


 

 

 


Research Channel

Video Library

E3 Electronic

Field Trips

Video Pathfinder

Biography Resource Center

Literature Resource Center,

 Student Resource Center Gold

Expanded Academic ASAP

General Reference Center Gold

Opposing Viewpoints

Science Resource Center

Health Module

Scribner Writers Series

NEW! Virtual Reference Library

 

Bloom's Literary Reference

 

 

Novels/Poetry for Students


Arts and Humanities

Renaissance

Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion

 

 

Literary criticism, biography, book reviews.  Requires password.

 

NetLibrary

CQ Researcher

Historic Documents

Encyclopedia of American Government

 

Greenwood Daily Life

Greenwood Critical Companions 

 

Information about nations and states

 

See Mrs. V. for password.

 


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!)

Understanding a changing world

From exploration to present--essays, overviews, images, documents, more

Foundations, branches of goverment, policy, more

 

ABC-CLIO

ANCIENT/

MEDIEVAL HISTORY

 

NewspaperArchive.com Free Archives

TitanicNewspaperArchive 
CollegeBasketballArchive.com
ProBaseballArchive.com
MartinLutherKingJuniorArchive.com  AbrahamLincolnArchive.com
WinterGamesArchive.com 
 

Google News Archive

 

From 1500 to present--essays, overviews,  primary sources, maps, more!

State profiles, spotlights, geographical issues, more


encyclopedia

 

Concise edition


For Younger Students

 

 

 

 


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:


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