Card Catalog
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| Online Database and Web Resources 2007-2008 | |||
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EBSCOhost offers a wide variety of reference and literacy resources for students and teachers in K-12 schools. These award-winning, web-based products combine user-friendly interfaces with quality full text content from popular magazines, education journals, newspapers, newswires, transcripts, pamphlets, reports, primary source documents, biographies, almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, photos, maps, flags, and other reference sources valuable to today's schools. | search.epnet.com | Username/Password: See Librarian |
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Reference resources for social studies, history, geography, current events, with teacher materials and links to textbooks. Includes essays, biographies, maps, images, eBooks, primary documents, activities and more. | worldhistory.abc-clio.com worldgeography.abc-clio.com americanhistory.abc-clio.com stategeography.abc-clio.com americangovernment.abc-clio.com |
Username/Password: 4-digit school unit number |
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Millions of articles on as many topics. Includes Internet links, magazine articles, teacher resources, timelines and more. Select the appropriate grade level. Includes Britannica's Spanish language version. |
school.eb.com spanish.eb.com |
Username/Password: 4-digit school unit number |
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Grolier Multimedia and America the Beautiful reference materials for elementary, middle grades and up. | go.grolier.com | Username/Password: 4-digit school unit number |
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4,000+ maps, current events materials, handouts, quizzes, games, lesson plans. | www.maps101.com | Username/Password: 4-digit school unit number |
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Chicago Tribune Historical Archive (1845 to 1984), Chicago Tribune (1985 to present), Chicago Sun-Times (1986 to present). Also includes the Big6 Resource Center, Special Reports, & Map Database. | infoweb.newsbank.com | Username/Password: 4-digit school unit number |
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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. | www.teachingbooks.net | Username/Password: No password needed within CPS network Password outside CPS: cps |
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CPL provides subscriber access to over 30 databases for children and adults, including JuniorQuest Magazines; ProQuest Newspapers; SIRS Discoverer; Spanish-language databases; and WorldBook. | www.chipublib.org | Select Find It! then use your CPL card number to access databases. |
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Reference and reading materials specially created in support of the CPS curriculum for teachers and students. | ecuip.lib.uchicago.edu | No password needed |
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Professional and educational magazine and journal articles. Includes ERIC, WorldCat, Article-First, WilsonSelect, and others. | firstsearch.oclc.org | Username/Password: See Librarian |
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Cable programming details, lesson guides, links, and technology-related information. | www.ciconline.org/default | No password needed. |
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Free online source for African American biographies, history, timelines, events. | www.thehistorymakers.com | No password needed. |
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Free online resource for American history. A digital collection of more than 8 million primary source materials, including historic maps, documents, audio and video. | www.loc.gov | No password needed. |
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Free, comprehensive reference source of Chicago history. | encyclopedia.chicagohistory | No password needed. |
 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. | access.gale.com/cps |
Username/Password: 4-digit school number |
 Student Resource Center-Junior |
The middle school version of Student Resource Center-Gold. | access.gale.com/cps | Username/Password: 4-digit school number |
 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. | access.gale.com/cps | Username/Password: 4-digit school number |
 Professional Collection |
The Gale Professional Collection includes a custom collection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators and administrators. | access.gale.com/cps | Username/Password: 4-digit school number |
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LitFinder for Schools includes all of the full-text poetry, short stories, essays, plays, and speeches contained in LitFinder, including 126,500 poems, 5,000 short stories, 2,800 essays, 1,800 speeches, and 1,000 plays. | access.gale.com/cps | Username/Password: 4-digit school unit number |
 Gale Virtual Reference Library |
Thomson Gale E-Books: Multi-volume reference sets on Africa, African Americans, American Decades, World Biographies, Endangered Species, Energy, Civil War, American Revolution, World Wars I & II, Harlem Renaissance, Countries, Women Writers, Modern Literature, and other topics. | access.gale.com/cps | Username/Password: 4-digit school unit number |
 Student Resouce Center-Health Module |
Over 1,400 essays on medical and health-related topics including diseases, treatments, and figures in the fields of science and health. Includes full-text medical and health periodicals, pamphlets, timeline, photographs and diagrams. | access.gale.com/cps | Username/Password: 4-digit school unit number |