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"To be information literate, a person must be able to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate and effectively use the needed information." ALA 1989
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Global Issues in Context - Gives perspectives on International news and events --- Great resource Science Social Studies, Civics and Business. password: squalicum
Click Here for Access from home: Password: squalicum
Science Resource Center Science Resource Center has 2,785,145 Science specific documents to help you with your research. Quality information to save you lots of time!
Proquest a credible and reliable resource which provides comprehensive, easy-to-use research solutions to power high-end research and learning. User name: 10-18602 password: bigchalk. Then choose "My Products Page" and then the ProQuest link at the bottom of the page.
ProQuest from Home User name: 10-18602 REMOTE password: bigchalk Then choose "My Products Page". You should then be able to get to ProQuest!
netTrekker an educational search engine that brings the best of the web to students. Access from home: User name: bsdsqualicum Password: bsdhome
the African American Experience the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture. Access from home: User name: storm Password: storm
the Latino American Experience the history and culture of Latinos which spans from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas, through the Spanish and Mexican settlement of what is now parts of the United States, to the triumphs and challenges facing present-day U.S. Latinos. Access from home: User name: storm Password: storm
Opposing Viewpoints information on today's hottest social issues which features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. Access from home: click here Password: squalicum
World Geography Access from home: User name: squalstorm Password: squalstorm
World Book online Access from home: User name: bellingham Password: bellingham
Noodle Tools: an interactive notetaking, citation generating website that helps you to organize your research, create MLA bibliographies and outlines for your research.
Knight Cite an interactive web tool designed to assist high school students in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties.
Bellingham Public Library if you have a library card, you have online access to the BPL databases and catalogs.
Internet Public Library the first public library of and for the Internet community
Library of Congress Home Page the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections.
Librarians' Internet Index dozens of high-quality websites carefully selected, described, and organized by subject for easy access.
Library of Congress American Memory is a digital record of American history and creativity, with access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
WWW.Virtual Library is the oldest catalogue of the web, and is the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the Web.
Multinomah County Library Social Issues - Pro and Con similar to opposing viewpoints, it meets the needs of high school students researching current social issues from multiple perspectives.
Choose the Best Search Engine helps you to pick the best information source to meet your research or information needs. Very helpful!!
Ixquick Customizable search engine: skims the top 10 results of favorite search engines to give you "the best of the best".
WebBrain A new interactive way to visually search the Web so you can explore a dynamic picture of related information, instead of searching through long lists of text.
Google Scholar Advanced Search -- Use THIS!!
KillerInfo sends your query to the search engines you choose and returns results. Those results will then be clustered and displayed for you to browse.
Invisible Web Directory Access the "invisible web" through LII (look for "databases" in your results)
CompletePlanet A comprehensive listing of dynamic searchable databases in the "hidden web". Helps you to find databases with highly relevant documents that cannot be crawled or indexed by surface web search engines.
Academic Info an independent online subject directory of over 25,000 hand-picked educational resources for high school and college students.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A scholarly and dynamic resource maintained by experts in the field of philosophy.
Encyclopedia of Life The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is an ambitious to organize and make available via the Internet virtually all information about life present on Earth. At its heart lies a series of Web sites—one for each of the approximately 1.8 million known species—that provide the entry points to this vast array of knowledge. Very cool!
Scirus Science Information and Resources the most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. With over 450 million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.
Monterey Bay Aquarium The aquarium project was initiated in 1977 by a group of four marine biologists at Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, and it opened October 20, 1984. Great resource!
OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources which provides access to these digital resources by "harvesting" their descriptive records.
Roget's Thesaurus allows one to be more precise, express oneself more colorfully, or avoid repetition.
Bartleby Reference combines the best of both contemporary and classic reference works into a comprehensive public reference library.
News Now World wide news updated every 5 minutes.
FindArticles Business, education and reference articles and trusted resources for business challenges.
100 Milestone Documents These documents chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965.
In the First Person - Primary Source in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world.
Do History - invites you to explore the process of piecing together the lives of ordinary people in the past. It is an experimental, interactive case study based on the research that went into the book and film A Midwife's Tale.
Digital History High-quality historical resources, primary sources, multimedia, subject guides
Running for Office: Candidates, Campaigns, and the Cartoons of Clifford Berryman - Political cartoons from the first half of the 20th century provide relevant commentary and fascinating insight into the campaigns and elections of today. From the National Archives Project.
Eyewitness Gripping eyewitness accounts—in the form of letters, diaries, audio and film recordings—chronicle dramatic moments in U.S. history. From the National Archives Project.
Noodle Tools MLA Bib Express - a citation generator into which you simply copy and paste what you need into your document.
OWL Purdue University- MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. This resource offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.
MLA Style Guide - quick MLA formatting examples for proper citations.
Colorado University Style Guide - a comprehensive guide to editorial style for print and electronic media.
Bib Me! A free citation machine to help you cite your sources properly.
9th Grade Online Research Project
Thesis Generator to help you create a basis for your research paper! Borrowed from Springfield High School.
Thesis Builder ElectraGuide is a tool that wants to help high school students: find a topic, create a good thesis statement, generate an outline.
Developing a working Source List for a research paper.
Research Worksheet a fill-in-the-blank tool for gathering information and doing research
Schrock's Web Evaluation Sheet Helps you identify the quality and relevence of a website before you use it.
Grammar Girl Quick and dirty tips for better writing
CiteSeer - Helps cite sources properly.
MAPLight is a groundbreaking public database that illuminates the connection between campaign donations and legislative votes in unprecedented ways. MAPLight.org makes money/vote connections transparent, to help citizens hold their legislators accountable.
Open Secrets is your nonpartisan guide to money’s influence on U.S. elections and public policy. Whether you’re a voter, journalist, activist, student or interested citizen, use our free site to shine light on your government.
Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Leave a tribute, a story or photograph about any of the 58,256 veterans killed or missing in the Vietnam War.
Library of Congress Photos - the Library of Congress' Prints and Photographs Division contributed more than 3,000 images to Flickr, the photo-sharing social-networking Web site.
10 x 10 Single images composed hourly of 100 words and pictures that "matter most" on a global scale
First Monday a peer-reviewed Internet journal supported by the University of Illinois
