Calhoun High School Online Resources
 The following subscription resources are available for Calhoun High School Students to use at school and at home. See your librarian for password information.
 
NOTE: NOVEL Databases are from the New York Online Virtual Electronic Library. After clicking on the link, scroll down the Gale database page and select the link(s) for the database(s) you want to access.

NEW! ABC-CLIO:  All ABC-CLIO databases
Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society  (ABC-CLIO) - Issues addresses more than 200 of today's most significant social issues, compiling information in more than 3,500 articles and 7,500 multimedia primary sources. 
Pop Culture Universe: Icons, Idols, Ideas  (ABC-CLIO) - This electronic reference contains a comprehensive and authoritative collection of information on popular culture in America and the world, both past and present.
 
World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society (ABC-CLIO) World at War provides comprehensive information and unique insights into the military conflicts that have defined our world from its beginning to today.  It includes complete overviews of 27 wars, with timelines, causes and consequences, portraits of opponents, and links to supporting facts, figures, primary sources, and audiovisual content.

World Geography: Understanding a Changing World  (ABC-CLIO) - World Geography focuses on the geographic, political, social, economic, and cultural forces that influence our world. 
 
World Religions:  Belief, Culture and Controversy (ABC-CLIO) - This database contains thousands of reference items that cover matters of belief, practice, celebrations, and holidays; important individuals and events; significant and sacred places; and much more.
 
Bitstrips for Schools – Groundbreaking web-based software that engages students in reading and writing using a medium they love – Comics! Our easy, fun and social tools empower any student to create amazing comics, and provides an exciting new way to teach your curriculum.
BrainPop Animated curriculum-based Science, Health, Technology, Math, Social Studies, Arts & Music and English movies, quizzes, activity pages and school homework help for K-12 kids.
 

NEW! Britannica’s Image Quest Easy access to more than two million rights-cleared images from one convenient site!

 
Business & Company Resources Center (NOVEL) Includes a wide variety of global business information including company profiles, investment reports, company histories, business magazines and newspapers.

CountryWatch Provides current and comprehensive socio-demographic, cultural, historical, economic, political, environmental and investment information, along with news, analysis, maps, data and statistics on all of the world's 192 countries.

Custom Newspapers (NOVEL) This full-text newspaper database has several New York Newspapers including the New York Times from 1995 on, and over fifty national and international newspapers.

Discovery Education This streaming video resource for teachers, integrates seamlessly into any curriculum with 9,000 full-length videos segmented into 71,000 content-specific clips tied directly to state and national standards.

Gale's Academic OneFile (NOVEL) This database contains over 12,000 journals and reference sources, many of which are peer-reviewed and full text. It has extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more.

Gale's General OneFile (NOVEL) News and periodical articles on a wide range of topics This general periodical database contains over 12,000 periodicals, newspapers, reference books and multimedia sources, over half of which are full text. The backfile extends nearly 30 years. Subjects include humanities, education, environmental issues, technology, health care, politics and more.

Global Issues in Context (Gale Database) offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.

Grolier Online Encyclopedias (NOVEL) Includes Encyclopedia Americana Online, Grolier's Multimedia Encyclopedia Online and The New Book of Knowledge Online.

Health Reference Center Academic (NOVEL) This health database includes over 2800 journals and magazines, many of which are full text. It contains nursing and allied health journals, other medical journals, newsletters and consumer health magazines

Literary Referency Center (Ebsco)
Comprehensive full-text database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.

New York State Newspapers (NOVEL) Full text of 28 major newspapers published in the state of New York, including the New York Times from 1985, The Daily News, the New York Post, and the last 5 years of Newsday.

Noodle Tools is a suite of interactive tools designed to aid students with their online research. It includes NoodleBib a Web application that allows you to create and edit your MLA bibliographies online.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context (Gale Database) A complete one-stop source for information on social issues, including viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

ProQuest (NOTE: NEW INTERFACE)
Databases Include:
AP Science, a comprehensive collection of more than 500 magazines and journals designed to support advance placement and college-prep level science studies.
ProQuest K12 HS/MS/JH A collection of over 680 magazine titles on a wide range of topics, scholarly journals, and national newspapers.
Proquest Historical New York Times Contains the entire backfile (1851-2005) of the New York Times.

Salem Health- The online companion to Magill's Medical Guide. provides all the content of the printed resource: 1,017 articles, 644 sidebars, hundreds of photographs, illustrations, indexes, appendixes, and directories.
 
Science in Context (Gale Database) This database contains reference material as well as: Topic overviews, Biographies, Periodical articles from noted publications like "Science Weekly", "Science News" and "The Science Teacher", Images and videos, Detailed experiments from Experiment Central, and more to support science and math curriculum.

Soundzabound Music Library Royalty free, copyright compliant, audio files that can be use as background music for your podcasts, videos, PowerPoint, and any other forms of multimedia.

Student Resources in Context (Gale Database) Contains thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, integrated Health Module, American Decades and Eras and full text coverage of well over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than eight hours of audio and video clips and Podcasts.

Turnitin Online plagiarism prevention.

Twayne Authors Series - (NOVEL) Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles