The following subscription-based resources are provided for you
by the CPS Department of Libraries and Information Services. They
are available to all CPS students and teachers. Log-on information
can be obtained from your school librarian or principal.
GENERAL REFERENCE
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Student Resource Center - Gold
A fully integrated database for high school containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, essays, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and audio and video clips. |
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Student Resource Center - Junior
The middle school version of Student Resource Center-Gold.
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Kids InfoBits
For K–5 students. Features a visually graphic interface, a topic tree search and age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine, newspaper and reference content. |
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Britannica
In addition to millions of articles on as many topics, this online encyclopedia includes Internet links, journal and magazine articles, teacher resources, timelines, dictionary and atlas resources. Select the appropriate grade level. |
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Encyclopedia Universal en Espanol
Our subscription includes Britannica's Spanish language version. |
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NewsBank
A fully integrated database for high school containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, essays, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and audio and video clips. |
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Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
Search a wide variety of media with the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia-the powerful database that contains both resources for students and activities for teachers and librarians to use with their students. |
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Grolier - America the Beautiful
This online database for state research reports allows searches of over 1,400 colorful, easy-to-read, highly interactive articles with over 2,300 of the most useful Web links. |
LANGUAGE ARTS
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LitFINDER
Full-text of 126,500 poems, 5,000 short stories, 2,800 essays, 1,800 speeches, and 1,000 plays.
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HEALTH
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Student Resource Center - Health Module
Over 1,400 essays on medical and health-related topics including diseases, treatments, and major historical figures in the medical and science fields. Full-text medical and health periodicals, pamphlets, a timeline, photographs and diagrams. Fully integrated into Student Resource Center Gold.
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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TeachingBooks,net
TeachingBooks.net provides original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators and a wealth of multimedia resources on K-12 books that generate enthusiasm for books and reading.
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Professional Collection
The Gale Professional Collection includes a custom collection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators and administrators.
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Log-on
information can be obtained from your school librarian
or principal. More specific log-on information can be
found on the Library
databases page of the Department
of Libraries and Information Services Web site.
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Find more reference material in these subject-specific Web Guides:
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R E S E A R C H T I P S |
Researching a topic for a class paper or project? Use our step-by-step Research Guide to help you through the process of research, including some helpful hints to keep in mind while you browse.
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