Online Research
Database Subscription Services
The following sites are available on the Library computers. If
you wish to access these subscription services from home you must
first
stop into the KHS Library to get your user name and password!
From time to time, we are able to obtain time-limited trial subscriptions to
new research databases, and those will be highlighted here:
The Library regularly subscribes to the following online services:
The award-winning 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. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports. Numerous charts, graphs and sidebar articles
-- plus a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of
contacts -- round out each report. Every 12,000-word report is written by an
experienced journalist and features comments from experts, lawmakers and
citizens on all sides of every issue. Numerous charts, graphs and sidebar
articles -- plus a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a
list of contacts -- round out each report.
Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center is an excellent educational database from Thomson Gale, a
company that has provided information resources to libraries for more than 50
years. As the title indicates, current and relevant topics are presented
from opposing viewpoints, providing materials for in-depth study and
intelligent, thought-provoking analysis. Topics range from political
(e.g., censorship, political corruption), scientific (e.g., marine resources
conservation, renewable energy), biomedical (e.g., drugs and athletes, medical
ethics), to psychology/sociology (e.g., eating disorders, media violence) and
much more.
The History
Resource Center: U.S. and
History Resource
Center: World contain full text reference materials, periodicals,
primary sources, maps, and graphic from over 1,000 original sources, each with
a Commentary that provides analysis of the historic significance of the
content, many with facsimile views of the original pages. Search Tips help
students search the database effectively and a well-organized Student Research
Guide explains terminology and techniques for historical research and writing.
SIRS Knowledge Source
provides integrated online access to full-text articles and internet
resources from SIRS reference databases, along with a dictionary, a thesaurus,
maps of the world, and citation help, all in a comfortable, easily navigated
user interface. Student research topics are suggested, and rotating topic areas
are highlighted.
SIRS Researcher Topics for student reference, social
issues, health, science, and business, categorized into topics of Leading
Issues, Today’s News, Natural Disasters, Focus on Terrorism, etc.
SIRS Government Reporter Country profiles,
historic and governmental documents, directories, and almanacs.
SIRS Renaissance Current perspectives on the arts
and humanities, a glossary of the arts, and profiles of notable artists.
Find
Articles is a free online database of published articles from hundreds
of journals throughout the world and across dozens of subject areas
Provided by the State of Maine
FREE! No Password needed.
Maine's Virtual Library is a searchable collection of magazines,
newspapers, journals, dictionaries, encyclopedias, images, and other
sources available 24 hours a day. Within the state all
you need is a computer and internet access. MARVEL!
includes Academic Search Premier, Contemporary
Authors and Contemporary Literary Criticism, Health Source, MasterFile
Premier, Novelist, Proquest Newspapers (including coverage of Wall
Street Journal, New York Times, Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald
and hundreds of national and international newspapers), in addition to
other sophisticated research tools from EBSCO Online. Just
follow the link!
Windows on Maine features material from the
historical series HOME: the Story of Maine and Maine Public
Broadcasting Network's signature science series, QUEST: Investigating
our World. Integrated technologies, including streaming video, audio,
animation, interactive resources including Flash, searchable text,
photographs, datasets, hot spots, web links and transcripts, document
Maine's history and the Gulf of Maine ecology as impacted by its
dominant and changing resources: the forest and the sea. Also
offers K-12 teachers online professional development programming through
the Annenberg/CPB educational
distribution network.
KHS Library subscribes to The New York Times Book
Review and thus we have access to their TimesSelect,,
a service from The Times providing exclusive online access to Op-Ed
columnists, The Times Archives back to 1851,
and features
and analysis by select columnists from Business, New York/Region, Sports and the
International Herald Tribune. Selected Times articles are posted on TimesSelect
even before they are published in Sunday's Times. At TimesSelect,,
readers can access articles enriched with the sights and sounds of video, audio,
slide shows and interactive graphics.
SALEM HEALTH
Magill's Medical Guide
Salem Health brings online access to Salem Press' award-winning health
reference works with Magill's Medical Guide, a state-of-the-art
online reference source that is as up-to-the-minute as you can find.
Magill's Medical Guide has been glowingly reviewed by every major
reference reviewer and provides general readers with an authoritative
reference source that helps bridge the gap between medical encyclopedias for
professionals and popular self-help guides.
The Guide covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures,
specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars
addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for
all diseases and disorders.
This electronic resource includes extremely flexible search and browsing
capabilities. Students can save articles and searches to personalized logon
areas for later retrieval. Article citation information is included with every
article.
Don't forget - To access these online databases
from home you must
first
stop into the KHS Library to get your user name and password!