Kinnelon Schools Board of Education

Kiel/Sisco

Stonybrook

Pearl R. Miller

Kinnelon HS

PRM Library-Media Center
Research Resources
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*Student Resource Center* Student Resource Center - Junior offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Junior provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 340 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals, an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards, and popular topic picklists. For Middle Schools only.

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*Gale Virtual Reference Library* Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).

	Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center	back to menu


*Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center* is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.

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*Custom Newspapers* - This newspaper collection is provided by the New Jersey State Library and includes: New Jersey newspapers, the New York Times (full-text from January 1, 2000 to the present), plus many more national and international newspapers.

	LitFinder for Schools	back to menu


LitFinder for Schools - Covering world literature and authors throughout history, LitFinder for Schools contains a wealth of literary works, including over 150,000 full-text poems, short stories, speeches, and dramatic works. For students seeking a deeper view into literature, LitFinder for Schools also includes biographies, work summaries, author images and a full glossary of literary terms. From Shakespeare's sonnets to the poetry of Maya Angelou or short stories by Edgar Allan Poe to works by Annie Proulx, LitFinder for Schools has you covered.

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*Facts On File* - Facts on File offers biographies, timelines, historical documents and photographs as well as hyperlinks to related web sites. The Curriculum Resource Center provides maps, flags, science experiments, science diagrams and images of people and events.

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*World Book Online* - provides access to the complete encyclopedia along with web links, links to periodical references related to the subject, pictures, maps, a dictionary, videos, animations, sounds, spell-check, etc.

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*Grolier Online* - Grolier online provides access to the complete authoritative contents of the Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia with picture, maps, sound and video clips as well as internet access linked to the refereed encyclopedia contents.

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Current Biography Illustrated - This database reflects the entire contents of the printed monthly Current Biography-a trusted resource in library collections since 1940. This is where your patrons will find reliable information about the people making tomorrow's headlines plus historical figures back to World War II. Famous First Facts - Reflecting the content of the acclaimed Famous First Facts, Fifth Edition in print, the electronic edition of Famous First Facts offers fast access to entries on thousands of inventions, discoveries, and first happenings in American history-from the date of the earliest human artifacts found in America, in 10,000 B.C., through 1997. Search by subject categories, keywords, personal names, city, state, date, and year. Coverage begins from the date of the earliest human artifacts found in America in 10,000 B.C.

	ThinkMap Visual Thesaurus	back to menu


*Visual Thesaurus* takes a unique, and remarkably beautiful approach to presenting the results of a word lookup. Discover and learn from nearly 140,000 words, meanings, and relationships.

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*Issues and Controversies* - Recently redesigned, Issues and Controversies helps researchers understand the crucial issues we face today, exploring more than 800 hot topics in politics, government, business, education, and popular culture. Updated weekly, with links to a 13-year backfile, Issues and Controversies offers in-depth articles made to inspire thought-provoking debates. Today's Science - Today's Science bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today. Updated weekly and containing thousands of links to a 16-year backfile, Today's Science explains important developments in biology, chemistry, the environment, space, physics, and technology.

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*Proquest* Online ProQuest is a resource of electronic collections containing millions of documents originally published in magazines, newspapers, and journals. You can search these collections for documents on subject that interest you or that will help with your research or school work.

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*Proquest Historical Newspapers* full text and full image access to articles from the New York Times dating back to 1851.

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*Educational Resources Information Center -* ERIC provides unlimited access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials, with hundreds of new records added twice weekly. If available, links to full text are included.

	EBSCO Information Services	back to menu


*EBSCO* offers a wide variety of periodical references for students and teachers. Full text access comes from popular magazines, educational journals, newspapers, newswires, transcripts, pamphlets, reports and primary source documents. There is a link to images, for photographs, maps, flags,etc.

	InfoTrac Custom Newspapers	back to menu


Newspapaer - New Jersey State Library - features more than 33.5 million full-text articles from more than 150 newspapers from around the world. Selected articles from more than 300 additional sources of news and business information supplement the collection. Users can customize their collection by selecting from a growing list of important publications including regional, national and international sources.

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*Jersey Clicks* access to 15 full text databases including health, history,business, education, science, current events, literature and popular fiction.

M. A. I. N.
Morris Automated Information Network

Morris County Library

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M.A.I.N. is a consortium of 37 Morris County public libraries. Search our combined catalog, which lists books, videos, audio books and music recordings. Materials can be ordered on line by clicking on the request link. Here, you can link to many other databases including: Ebsco, Novelist, newspapers on line, Informe, Magill on literature, etc.