Online Encyclopedias, Online Atlases,
Research Databases,
Search Engines,
Web Links by Subject, and Other Libraries
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Students, click on the "Call Me" link to the left to get access to after school research help. |
Online Encyclopedia, Image Quest, and Atlases
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Research Databases
Usernames and passwords are available in the NHS Library.
EBSCOhost
Inside EBSCO . . .
MAS Ultra: Contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines and more than 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags.
Newspaper Source: Selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 260 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
Health Source: provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
Topic Search: Social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 139,800 articles from more than 4,800 diverse sources
MAS Ultra: Contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines and more than 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags.
Newspaper Source: Selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 260 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
Health Source: provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
Topic Search: Social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 139,800 articles from more than 4,800 diverse sources
Biography Reference Center
A comprehensive collection of biographies on notable personalities from around the world— from past to present, obscure to prominent, notorious to reputable . Browse by picture, or search by name, lifespan, occupation, ethnicity, or genre.
(Username and Password is same as EBSCOhost)
(Username and Password is same as EBSCOhost)
SIRS Knowledge Source
Features thousands of relevant full-text articles and analysis on today's HOTTEST AND MOST CONTROVERSIAL social, scientific, health, historic, economic, political, and global issues
SIRS Decades
Features 5,000+ hand-selected primary and secondary sources articles that highlight KEY EVENTS, MOVEMENTS, PEOPLE, AND PLACES in 20th-century America (that's the 1910s, '20s, '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, and '90s!)
Historical Newspapers
Search the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times Newspapers from 1850 to 2002 by using the timeline, keywords, or topic browse.
Search Engines and Directories
ipl2: Information You Can Trust
http://www.lii.org/
A directory of information compiled by library professionals. Quality links! Also, has a 24/7 "Ask a Librarian" feature.
InfoMine: Scholary Internet Resource Collections
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
"INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information."
http://www.lii.org/
A directory of information compiled by library professionals. Quality links! Also, has a 24/7 "Ask a Librarian" feature.
InfoMine: Scholary Internet Resource Collections
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
"INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information."
The "Big Four" Search Engines
Google
http://www.google.com/
A powerful search engine. Very fast and easy.
Bing
http://www.bing.com
Good for entertainment and travel. Extensive directory and search capabilities. Includes "Save & Share" -- the enhanced history experience for Bing, which lets you save, organize, and share your recent searches.
Yahoo!
http://www.search.yahoo.com/
A directory of places on the World Wide Web organized according to subject and searchable by keyword.
Ask
http://www.ask.com/
Search engine that allow natural language searches and has a Q&A feature.
http://www.google.com/
A powerful search engine. Very fast and easy.
Bing
http://www.bing.com
Good for entertainment and travel. Extensive directory and search capabilities. Includes "Save & Share" -- the enhanced history experience for Bing, which lets you save, organize, and share your recent searches.
Yahoo!
http://www.search.yahoo.com/
A directory of places on the World Wide Web organized according to subject and searchable by keyword.
Ask
http://www.ask.com/
Search engine that allow natural language searches and has a Q&A feature.
Specialized Search Engines
Sweet Search
http://www.sweetsearch.com
Every Web site in SweetSearch has been evaluated by research experts.
http://www.sweetsearch.com
Every Web site in SweetSearch has been evaluated by research experts.
Yippy
http://www.yippy.com/
Automatic categorization and meta-search software. The results of a keyword search are clustered by category.
Lycos
http://www.lycos.com/
Has a reputation for its large, extensive coverage of the Web.
Mamma
http://www.mamma.com/
The "Mother of all search engines." One option allows you to search through newspapers
AltaVista
http://www.altavista.com/
Search engine with relevant results with multi-lingual search capability.
Dogpile
http://www.dogpile.com/
Meta-search engine that searches six search engines at once.
Gigablast
http://www.gigablast.com/
Search engine that offers "Freshness Dating" as well as "gigabits"—key themes and topics that appear within your search results.
Goodsearch
http://www.goodsearch.com/
A Yahoo-powered search engine that donates money to your favorite charity or school each time you search the web..
http://www.yippy.com/
Automatic categorization and meta-search software. The results of a keyword search are clustered by category.
Lycos
http://www.lycos.com/
Has a reputation for its large, extensive coverage of the Web.
Mamma
http://www.mamma.com/
The "Mother of all search engines." One option allows you to search through newspapers
AltaVista
http://www.altavista.com/
Search engine with relevant results with multi-lingual search capability.
Dogpile
http://www.dogpile.com/
Meta-search engine that searches six search engines at once.
Gigablast
http://www.gigablast.com/
Search engine that offers "Freshness Dating" as well as "gigabits"—key themes and topics that appear within your search results.
Goodsearch
http://www.goodsearch.com/
A Yahoo-powered search engine that donates money to your favorite charity or school each time you search the web..
Web Links by Subject
American South in the 1930s
Greek Mythology
World War I
Career Research
Poetry
More coming soon!
Local Public and Academic Libraries
Public Libraries
Torrance Public Libraries
http://www.library.torrnet.com/
Inglewood Public Library
http://www.inglewoodlibrary.org/
Palos Verdes Public Library
http://www.pvld.org/
Gardena Public Library
www.colapublib.org/libs/gardena
Hawthorne Public Library
www.colapublib.org/libs/hawthorne
Academic Libraries
El Camino College
www.elcamino.edu/library
Los Angeles Harbor College
www.lahc.edu/library
California State University, Dominguez Hills
http://library.csudh.edu/
California State University, Long Beach
www.csulb.edu/library
University of California, Los Angeles
http://www.library.ucla.edu/
Torrance Public Libraries
http://www.library.torrnet.com/
Inglewood Public Library
http://www.inglewoodlibrary.org/
Palos Verdes Public Library
http://www.pvld.org/
Gardena Public Library
www.colapublib.org/libs/gardena
Hawthorne Public Library
www.colapublib.org/libs/hawthorne
Academic Libraries
El Camino College
www.elcamino.edu/library
Los Angeles Harbor College
www.lahc.edu/library
California State University, Dominguez Hills
http://library.csudh.edu/
California State University, Long Beach
www.csulb.edu/library
University of California, Los Angeles
http://www.library.ucla.edu/
