Boyd J. Michael, III Technical High School Libguide

• Provides full access to New York Times and International New York Times content, including breaking news, multimedia, reviews and opinion, blogs, videos and more.  NYTimes.com is updated 24/7 with corresponding time stamps. 

• Provides searchable, archived full access to NYT articles published between 1851 through 1922, and between 1981 through current day.

CultureGrams
 

• Portal to all CultureGrams editions: World, States, Kids, and Provinces.

• Concise, reliable, and up-to-date reports provide cultural, historical and geographical information supporting a wide range of readers. Includes video clips and slideshows, a worldwide photo gallery, interviews with adults and children, and a unique recipe collection with five local recipes for each country. 

• Create-your-own data tables and charts to help put dozens of facts into comparative perspective.

World Book Online

• Includes all the articles from the print encyclopedia plus thousands of additional articles, learning resources, and research tools.

• Includes encyclopedia, multimedia, e-book, and primary source databases along with lesson plans focusing on one or more primary source images.

• Timelines - Hundreds of customizable, interactive timelines of important events throughout history.

• Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos – encyclopedia in Spanish.

Gale in Context

•  Designed for middle or high school learners.

•  Explore thousands of topics across subjects including literature, science, history, and social issues using different sources.

Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints
 

• Find overviews, news, and opinions on hundreds of today’s important social issues.

•  Provides pro/con viewpoint essays, full-text journal articles, topic overviews, primary source documents, biographies of social activists and reformers, court-case overviews, statistical charts and tables, images, podcasts, web links and more.

•  Text-to-speech technology is available on every page and documents may be translated into Arabic, French, Spanish, Japanese, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese, and Korean.

•  Content correlated to national and state curriculum standards.

Gale Onefile News
 

•  Access major U.S. and international newspapers online to search articles instantly by title, headline, data, or other fields.

Gale General Onefile
 

•  Access general interest magazines and key serials in a single resource.

•  Best for general research.

Gale Academic OneFile Select
 

• Research academic topics ranging from art and literature to economics and the sciences.

•  Ideal for smaller academic libraries.

Gale Literary Index
 

• Search this digital master index that contains complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings in products published by Gale.

•  This resource combines and cross-references author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for titles of works into one source.

•  Gale Literary Index provides quick and easy access to author and title listings from over 130 literature products from Gale and the imprints.

Gale Presents:
Peterson’s Test & Career Prep
 

• Search thousands of college and graduate schools, identify scholarships, take practice tests, create resumes, and explore careers.

National Geographic Kids
 

• Explore amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space.

• Resource is aimed for children aged 6 - 14.

SIRS Discoverer
 

• Multidisciplinary content covering areas such as history, health, language arts, math, science, social studies and technology.  

• All content is 100% full text & selected from 2,200+ reliable, high-quality global sources. 

• Access to the content features logical subject tree hierarchy, age-appropriate search/filter capabilities (including by Lexile range), streamlined results to help young learners connect with and comprehend content. 

SIRS Issues Researcher
 

• Offers balanced content selections from more than 2,000 international sources and includes magazine articles, graphics, charts, maps, primary sources, government documents, websites, multimedia, and timelines. 

• Analysis and opinions cover the pros/cons and everything in between of 360+ social, scientific, health, historic, economic, and political issues. 

• Content includes engaging essential questions and viewpoint articles to help build a solid foundation for understanding complex global issues.  

• Research guides organize a student’s research inquiry process.

• Lexile reading levels and scores are included to support individualized instruction.

SAILOR list of Databases powered by WCFL
 

• This list of databases supports information needs in this collection, whether the interest is personal, professional, recreational or educational.

  • RAIL + Student ID number needed to access resources. Please select WCFL as your provider.

• Learn one of over 70 languages and learn cultural insights and grammar with self-paced courses delivered through native speaker dialogue.

MARYLAND STATE LIBRARY
RESEARCH GUIDE

• Working with libraries across the state, SLRC provides cooperative, cost effective, resources and services for Maryland libraries and their customers.
• An online collection of web resources and information that may contain anything from in-depth assistance on researching a particular topic, to an annotated list of links on a broad subject or a current event.