SPEEDWAY HIGH SCHOOL

Media Center Research Sites

American History Online:  comprehensive reference to individuals, events, and topics in United States history.  Organized by content type, topic, era, and activity as well as by the National Standards for U.S. History.

Birds of Indiana:  an electronic reproduction of the book The Birds of Indiana.

Bloom's Literary Reference Online:  examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.

Business and Company Resource Center:  integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.

Chronicle Career Library of Occupational Briefs: 650 four-page comprehensive descriptions of professional, technical, blue-collar jobs with information on more than 2,500 careers.

Citation Machine: an interactive web tool designed to assist students to credit information sources.

CQ Researcher:  explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week.  Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology.

General Business File:  access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals, and company directory listings with full text and images available.

High School Ace:  noncommercial gateway to excellent free online academic resources for high school students.

History Resource Center: US: provides access to historical (primary) documents, reference articles, and full-text journal articles covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.

History Resource Center: World: comprehensive collection of reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic research materials for the study of world history from ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance.

Indianapolis Star:  complete full-text content of local and regional news from 1999 to date.

INHealthConnect:  Browse for web sites of local health services, programs and providers across Indiana.

Inspire Virtual Library:  offers access to a full range of commercial databases and other electronic resources to support educational, cultural, personal, and economic interests.

Internet Public Library:  includes directories of online texts, newspapers, magazines, reference materials; plus special sections for youth and teens.

Issues and Controversies:  Today's hottest topics, including all the key facts, points of view, statistics, primary source materials, bibliographic citations, and pertinent web addresses, plus charts, chronologies, sidebars, photos, maps and cartoons.

Issues and Controversies in American History:  Leads students on in-depth explorations of the great issues in American History.  This database provides the background, outcomes and contemporary points of view for the major topics in the American History curriculum.

LitFINDER:  provides access to Poem Finder, Story Finder, and Essay Finder.

Literature Resource Center:  covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.

Magill's Medical Guide:  an up-to-date and easy-to-use compendium of medical information suitable for student research as well as use by general readers, including patients and caregivers.

MedlinePlus:  Online for you and your family's health with accurate, current, commercial free and totally  private health information.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center:  provides one-stop source for information on social issues.  Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

Science Resource Center: covers earth, life, physical, space, and history. The latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites.

SIRS Discoverer:  interactive reference tool for elementary and middle school students.

SIRS Knowledge Source:  consists of SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter.

Student Resource Center:  contains thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips.

What tree is it?:  tree recognition guide.

The World Atlas On-line:  provides more than 500 full color reproducible maps and a wealth of statistics and data on more than 200 nations, territories, regions, and continents.

These databases are brought to you by:

INSPIRE databases are funded by the residents of Indiana through the Indiana General Assembly and by the Indiana State Library through a federal LSTA grant.	Some of these databases are provided by the Library Fund of The Indianapolis Foundation: An Affiliate of the Central Indiana Community Foundation.

August 15, 2008