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NetTrekker - Educator - evaluated websites

Gale Virtual Reference Library - Reference

ProQuest/E-library Periodicals

MAGAZINES/PERIODICALS
*FirstSearch
Historical Chicago Tribune
*Opposing ViewPoints@ NCHS
*Opposing ViewPoints@ Home
*ProQuest/E-Library

Biography
*American National Biography
Librarians Index to the Internet: People
*ProQuest-Chicago Tribune-Historical
*SIRS Decades
*World book Online Reference Center

Communication Arts
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Internet Public Library: Lit Crit
Librarians' Internet Index: Literature
*Literary Reference Center (EBSCO)
*Novelist
*Oxford English Dictionary
*ProQuest Learning: Literature
*SIRS Decades

Fine Arts
*Grove Art Online
*Grove Music Online

Health
*Teen Health& Wellness
 

 GENERAL REFERENCES
*Awesomestories.com
Dictionary.com
*E-library
*FirstSearch
High School Ace
Internet Public Library
Librarians' Internet Index
Library Spot
Net Trekker
Mirriam-Webster Dictionary & Thesaurus
*Oxford English Dictionary
World Book Online Reference Center

IMAGES (FREE)
*Accunet/AP Multimedia Archive@NCHS
*Accunet/AP Multimedia Archive@Home
Bedford-Martin U.S. History Images
Pics4Learning

Science
*Access Science [click on "Subscriber Log-in"]
*E-library SCIENCE
*FirstSearch (Medline)
 ProQuest

SEARCH ENGINES

All the Web (meta engine)
Beaucoup (engine list)
Direct Search
Find It! (Illinois)
FirstGov (federal)
Google
 		 IMSA Wizard
Infomine
KartOO
Librarians' Internet Index
Vivisimo (meta engine)
Zuula (meta engine)

 

Social Issues - Pros & Cons
*Opposing ViewPoints@ NCHS
*Opposing ViewPoints@ Home
ProCon.org
HOT Research Topics

Social Studies - Countries/Geography
Background Notes
CIA World Fact Book
*Culturegrams
Infoplease Atlas
Latin American Studies
Maps 101

Social Studies - Government, Issues
*Columbia International Affairs Online
Congress.org
Congressional Information Center
FirstGov (federal)
THOMAS (Library of Congress)

Social Studies - Government/Illinois
DuPage County Offices
Find It! (Illinois)
Illinois Periodicals Online
Illinois Statistical Abstracts

Social Studies - History
*Accunet/AP Multimedia Archive@NCHS
*Accunet/AP Multimedia Archive@Home
American Memory (Library of Congress)
Bedford-Martin U.S. History Images
Historical Chicago Tribune
*History Study Center
Historyteacher.net
*SIRS Decades

 

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