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Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia Britannica Online School Edition

or try New Interface!

provides general information, reliable web resources, and graphics about a variety of topics. This is a good place to start your research.

Dictionaries

Oxford

Merriam-Webster

Includes dictionary, Spanish-English, Thesaurus, and medical dictionary

One-Look Dictionary

Indexes and Directories

Directories include lists of websites that you can browse through by subject or search by keyward. They provide more reliable information and websites that you can trust! Try these BEFORE you do a Google search!

Internet Public Librarian

Finding Dulcinea 

DMOZ

News Sources

Rock's Backpages Research Database

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Research Resources

EBSCO Database

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EBSCO  contains many great databases which contain full-text articles from periodicals, encyclopedias, primary sources, audio and video clips, e-books and much more.

  • MAS Ultra - School Edition   - Database designed specifically for high school libraries.  A great place to start!

  • TOPICsearch  - Especially helpful for research on current events.
  • Newspaper Source
  • History Reference Center
  • Literary Reference Center
  • Science Reference Center
  • Health Source - Consumer Edition 
  • Green FILE
  • AP Placement Source

How to use and introductory activity for EBSCO 

Advanced Searching in EBSCO Video Tutorial

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logoELLLg.gif   English Language Learners Reference Center

JSTOR

 jstor_logo.gif JStor  is a database of academic journals.  

 How to use JStor ACTIVITY.

Gale eBooks

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Check out these 30 eBooks on a wide range of topics (history, science, literature, and more).  Look up the password in the news section of your Schoolloop portal. 

Primary Sources

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Berkeley Digital Library SunSite Collections

 

Social Justice Documents

Copyright Law, Fair Use Guidelines, and Copyright Friendly Images

Copyright Law

Fair Use Guidelines

Four Points of Fair Use by Common Sense Media

The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use  - Center for Social Media

Fair Use Evaluator

Tools for Supporting the Fair Use Reasoning Process

Fair Use Poster

Copyright Friendly Images

These are images that the artists have given permission for others to use, however, they should still be CITED unless it is says otherwise.

Pics4Learning

Use this site to get pictures to put into your presentations. It is a copyright-friendly site because permission has been given to use all images for educational use. Search Creative Commons

Flikr's Creative Commons

PicDrome - Public Domain Photos

Still can't find the image you want?  Try browsing this list of sites with copyright friendly images.

Windows Live Movie Maker

Support and Suggestions for using Movie Maker

Electronic Searching Strategies

Logins and Passwords

Logins and passwords are needed for EBSCO (remotely), JSTOR, Encypclopedia Britannica, Turnitin, and Noodle Bib. Check School Loop News  for the database passwords document.

Research Process and Getting Started

Beginning Research Tutorial  from UC Irvine

Start Your Research: overview and support throughout the research process, from UC Santa Cruz

Choosing a Research Topic  from American University

Types of Resources

Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary - from Weslyan University Library

Interactive tutorial on sources - from Portland State University

Selecting the best information source - from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne

Types of periodicals and description of scholarly articles - from Mission College

Avoiding Plagiarism

What is Plagiarism?

Video: "A Quick Guide to Plagiarism"

Plagiarism Prevention - From UC Davis

Types of Plagiarism and How to Avoid It 


Turn It In: Submit papers to teachers using Turn It In.

You will need to get the class ID number and password from your teachers.

INSTRUCTIONS for setting up a student account and retrieving your password.

Citing Sources

Citing Tools

NoodleBib  Monta Vista now has a subscription to NoodleBib, an online program that assists students in citing sources and creating works-cited lists in MLA and APA formats.

Knight Cite Free online citation tool.  Easy to use to create individual citations.

MLA Style

MLA Formatting and Style Guide - from Purdue OWL site

Overview of In-Text/Paranthetical Citations (MLA)

How to Use Paranthetical Citations (MLA) - from Purdue OWL site

Sample MLA Formatted Paper

Annotated Bibliographies - OWL Purdue

Annotated Bibliography template

APA Style

APA Formating and Style Guide

Chicago Style

Chicago Manual of Style

Note Taking

Evaluating Sources