The sites listed below are to be used by Mildred E. Strang Middle School Students and Staff.
In School
Use: In school, click on the underlined link. No username or
password required!
OR
Click on the icons you'll find on the desktop in the Internet folder.
Remote (from home) Access: Click
on the underlined link.
Enter username and password as provided on the handout available in the Library Media Center.
ABC-CLIO World History covers people,
places, events, trends, statistics, news, attractions, politics, culture,
environment, government, and history of the world.
http://www.worldhistory.abc-clio.com/Login.asp
Accessible
Archives contain the rich, comprehensive material found in leading
historic periodicals and books. Eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid
descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through
advertisements and genealogical records are now available in a user-friendly
ON-LINE environment.
CultureGrams
offers 176 concise cultural
reports. This collection is a gold mine of information for junior high and high
school projects and reports. The easy-to-read format and up-to-date information
provide students with a solid foundation on which to build their cultural
knowledge base. Currently in its 27th year, this established collection offers
information ranging from the country's history, greetings, and gestures to its
government and economy.
http://onlineedition.culturegrams.com/
Dialog
@ Carl offers approximately 270 databases covering subjects such as
business and industry, computing and information science, education, environment
and energy, general and consumer information, grants, health and medicine,
humanities and art, law and government, news, patents, copyrights and trade
names, reference, sciences, social sciences, technology and engineering, and
many newspapers.
EBSCO
Databases including MasterFILE Select, Primary Search and Topic Search
Here you will find an amazing selection of periodicals, pamphlets and reference
books on a variety of topics.
http://search.epnet.com/login.asp?group=empire
Health
Reference Center contains mostly full text articles from 1996+
including topics such as fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, public health,
occupational health and safety, alcohol/drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs and
more.
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/nysl_me_mildrest
Maps
101 is an online database
which provides subscription access to history maps, interactive maps, U.S. maps,
world maps, flags, atlases, lesson plans and thousands of educational resources
to support learning of social studies, history and geography in today's
classroom
World
Book Encyclopedia
http://www.worldbookonline.com
World's
Best Poetry, Story Finder and Essay Finder
World’s Best Poetry
Provides the most comprehensive collection of
full-text poetry available, and material that explains it from poem
explanations to biographies to a glossary to pictures. Story Finder
provides thousands of full-text short stories plus explanations, biographies,
pictures and more. Essay Finder is unique database of full-text essays
and discursive writing. The essays focus on the humanities and social sciences,
and include biographies and literary criticism. Subjects include literature,
history, economics, sociology, art and architecture, philosophy, psychology,
science and drama.
Web Feet is a service that carefully selects web sites
and other resources in all subject areas as well as useful general knowledge and
personal interest sites. It is fully searchable with hundreds of new
records added each month.
Last updated: June 9, 2003 by Donna Baratta
