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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
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.
Student Resource Center - Junior
The middle school version of Student Resource Center-Gold.
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.
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.
Encyclopedia Universal en Espanol
Our subscription includes Britannica's Spanish language version.
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.
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.
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
LitFINDER
Full-text of 126,500 poems, 5,000 short stories, 2,800 essays, 1,800 speeches, and 1,000 plays.
HEALTH
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.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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.
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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L O G - O N  I N F O R M A T I O N
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.

M O R E
Find more reference material in these subject-specific Web Guides:
:: African-American Studies Web Guide
:: Chicago Web Guide
:: Fine Arts Web Guide
:: Language Arts Web Guide
:: Mathematics Web Guide
:: Science Web Guide
:: Social Studies Web Guide
:: Technology Web Guide

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