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Listed below are The Gale Group Databases that the Westminster Library subscribes to:

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This is the librarians' choice for "if I could only take one database to a desert island list, Student Resource Center Gold would be it." This database has a little bit of everything. It pulls form over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, and reference books. It also has primary sources and thousands of multimedia graphics (even some video clips!).
Username: west60137
Password: west60137

Student Resource Center Search Tips

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The Student Resource Center - Health Module has everything you wanted to know about health but were afraid to ask. An excellent science resource that doesn't try to sell you something and gives you answers to questions about health that would normally be blocked by the HBUHSD filters. A database on medical and health-related topics that include diseases, treatments, diagnostic equipment, and major historical figures in the fields of medicine, chemistry, biology, and related areas. Includes a timeline describing over 500 events from the history of medicine and health sciences, and 300 photographs and diagrams.
Username: west60137
Password: west60137

Student Resource Center -- Health Module Search Tips

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Formerly SuperTOM, Student Edition is designed for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Username: west60137
Password: west60137

For helpful hints on how to use Student Edition, click here.

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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference sources to provide a complete 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.
Username: west60137
Password: west60137

For helpful hints on how to use OVRC, click here

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Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, dictionaries, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school or your public library).
Username: west60137
Password: west60137

Books In Our Collection:

American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present, 2nd ed., 4 vols., 2000

Dictionary of American History, 3rd ed., 10 vols., 2003

Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd ed., 5 vols., 2004

Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2 ed., 23 vols., 1998

Nonfiction Classics for Students, 5 vols., 2001

Novels for Students, v. 1 - 24

Poetry for Students, v. 1 - 24

For helpful hints on how to use Virtual Reference Library, click here.

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Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition includes:

• Encyclopædia Britannica
• Compton's Encyclopedia
• Britannica Elementary (Britannica Jr.)
• Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
• Enciclopedia Juvenil (Under Additional Britannica Databases)
• Annals of American History (Under Additional Britannica Databases)
• World Data Analyst (Under Additional Britannica Databases)
• Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged Online (Under Additional Britannica Databases)
• Journals and Magazines
• The Web's Best Sites
• Videos
• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate and Student Dictionaries
• Learning Materials
• Teachers' Resources

When you search for a keyword or phrase in all Britannica, the site sifts through all of the content listed above for answers (Dictionary/Thesaurus searches are separate). Your search results can come from four encyclopedias, magazine articles, the Internet Guide, and Videos & Media. All results are ordered by relevance: how closely the content matches your search word(s).
Username: hbuhsd
Password: surfcity

Encyclopædia Britannica Online Help Tips

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WEB FEET is a research tool designed to help you save time and find the best resources available on the Internet.  It is not a search engine, but rather collections of pre-selected sites reviewed by librarians, educators, subject-area specialists, and editors.  It offers you the best Web sites for thousands of curriculum areas, general knowledge topics, and common personal interests.   Marina subscribes to WEB FEET Core collection, which has web sites for middle school to adult.  This site has a Borrower's I.D. that you may need to log on to the site.
Borrower's ID: west01196

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The World Geography Online database will provide you everything you ever wanted to know about any country in the world. The CLIOview section will allow you to statistically compare countries in a variety of areas. This site will also provide daily UPI news stories focusing on events from around the world. Feature Stories, Terms of the Day, and Holidays & Celebrations are also included as part of the web site. Geography students, this one's for you!
Username: lions1
Password: golions

To view the user's guide to World Geography Online, click here.

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