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Please contact the library staff for the URL, user name
and passwords for our online services.
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The start page for The Gale Group will read Infotrac and then ask for a username and password.
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ABC-Clio's World Geography comes up on the World
Geography sign-in page where it asks for a user
name and password.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition will ask for the username and password the first time you log on at a computer. After that, the home page will always come up without asking for the logon information.
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Web Feet will always ask for the Borrower's I.D. before allowing you access to the information.
ASK THE LIBRARIAN FOR THE USERNAME AND
PASSWORD TO USE AT HOME
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Listed below are The Gale Group Databases that the Westminster
Library subscribes to:
TRY THIS DATABASE FIRST!
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 Edtion 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 web sites, 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
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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. You can also explore a key question on a geography-related topic among the world's nations. 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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PASSWORD TO USE AT HOME.
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