Electronic Resources - Go to http://greenhopehigh.wcpss.net/media

Below are descriptions of each database or resource (listed in alphabetical order), which should help in finding the right resource for your project.

User Names and Passwords:
User names and passwords are needed for most of the resources. We are not allowed to post user names or passwords online. To gain access to a printable password page, please contact a media specialist. If you already know the password for the printable password page, proceed here. You will be taken to an Adobe .PDF file. You need the Adobe Reader to open this file. If you need to download a free copy of the Adobe Reader, you can do it here

RESOURCE NAME (ALPHABETICAL) WHAT DO I USE IT FOR?  
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (Gale)    Extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors and their works.

http://www.galenet.com/servlet/GLD/form?locID=morr11627&l=3
 
CultureGrams Online Explores the culture of 181 countries and all 50 states. Includes photo gallery, famous people, and recipes. Great for social studies and foreign language classes.

http://onlineedition.culturegrams.com/
 
Discovering Collection (Gale) Reference content for the core curriculum areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies.

http://www.galenet.com/servlet/DC?locID=morr11627
 

Encyclopedias
Grolier Online
(via NC WiseOwl)



E-Books
(via NC WiseOwl)

Grolier Online includes, Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Mutimedia Encyclopedia, New Book of Knowledge, La Nueva Enciclopedia, New Book of Popular Science, Lands & People, America the Beautiful.

http://go-passport.grolier.com/splash

Includes full text of 16 reference enyclopedias: including Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures, U*X*L* Encyclopedia of Biomes, College Blue Book, Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and more

http://www.ncwiseowl.org/zones/resources/ebooks.htm

 
Gale Virtual Reference Library

Gale Virtual Reference Library offers you an online collection of premier reference eBooks. You can search a single eBook or across an entire eBook collection.

Includes full text from the following reference books: Gale Enclopedia of Medicine and Novels for Students.

http://find.galenet.com/gvrl/start.do?prodId=GVRL&userGroupName=morr11627

 
General Reference Center Gold
(NC Wise Owl)

Current events, popular culture, business and industry, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies in articles from newspapers, reference books and periodicals.

http://web5.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/0/1/1/purl=rc6_GRGM?sw_aep=ncowl

 
K-12 Teaching and Learning Center Collection of web resources for use by teachers and students which include a student research center and a teacher toolkit.

http://k12tlc.net/
 
NC WiseOwl

NC WiseOwl, a project sponsored by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, is a web site that has several databases, including Infotrac, a great periodical database.

http://www.ncwiseowl.org/

 
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center 
(Gale)  

Complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

http://www.galenet.com/servlet/OVRC?locID=morr11627

 
ProQuest Professional Education More than 600 mostly full-text professional education journals. Great for staff who are working on their national boards, or for school improvement issues.

http://www.proquest.com/
 
SAS InSchool Interactive lessons and tutorials in English, Social Studies, Math, Spanish and Science.

http://www.sasinschool.com/ProductEntrance/login.jsp
 
Science Resource Center (Gale)   Science database that provides a one-stop resource for all science-related research needs. Focuses on key concepts taught in school classrooms such as earth science, science history, life science, physical science, science and technology, space and much more.

http://www.galenet.com/servlet/SciRC;jsessionid=0E102075CDDCC919557B308ABEE35759?locID=morr11627
 

Scientific American
(digital)

Digital subscription to the magazine which includes access to the digital format and instant access to the archive. Only one user can be login at a time.

http://www.sciamdigital.com/index.cfm?fa=Main.ViewMain

 
Scribner Writers Series 
(Gale)  
15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series.

http://www.galenet.com/servlet/Scribner?locID=morr11627
 
SIRS Decades - 5,000 hand-selected primary and secondary source articles highlighting key events, movements, people and places in 20th century America.

http://decades.sirs.com/
 
Student Resource Center - Gold
(Gale)  
A fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips. Includes Student Resource Center-Health Module.

http://www.galenet.com/servlet/SRC?locID=morr11627
 
Twayne's Authors Series
(Gale)  
Full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.

http://www.galenet.com/servlet/Twayne?locID=morr11627
 
Unitedstreaming Video Over 26,000 film and video clips for you to access at school. Video can be downloaded or played (recommended).

http://www.unitedstreaming.com/
 


Copyright 2007 WCPSS & Green Hope High School Media Center.