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LRC Databases

THS Library Resources now provides a variety of Databases accessable to THS students, parents, and teachers.Username and passwords are supplied by the LRC Director.

NewsBank

NewBank’s expansive collections and curriculum integration tools are explicitly designed to help Texas students and educators improve the quality of research, thinking, and learning.
NewsBank’s Texas School Library Solution provides:

  • Support for your school/district curriculum
  • The *BIG6™ information literacy model
  • Correlation to the TEKS with connections to real world content.
  • TCR and Kids Connections Curriculum Resources (add-on)
Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica Online offers three complete online encyclopedias with related Internet links and a multimedia collection. This resource includes access to an online dictionary, atlas, bibliographies, annotated timeline, Spotlight features, Learning Materials, and much more.
EBSCO
EBSCO enables students and teachers access to both EBSCOhost and Searchasaurus, an icon-based middle and primary search tool. These two online databases provide the highest quality full text periodicals, full text biographies, primary source documents, essays, encyclopedias, almanacs, reference books, pamphlets, newspapers, transcripts, photos, maps. These resources complement EBSCO’s superior periodical collection. . All full text articles are rated in accordance with Lexiles (reading level indicators).
  • MagillOnLiterature and MagillOnAuthors (add-on)
  • History Reference Center (add-on)
  • Source Lists (PDF, EXCEL, HTML)
Facts
Facts On File's Online Reference Databases are curriculum-oriented, interactive databases covering a wide range of subjects, such as history, science, careers, literature, geography, and more. Each subject-specific database offers students and researchers an unprecedented depth of coverage -- with extensively hyperlinked full-text records, citation information, and a wide range of printable teacher resources. Our online content is indexed by subject experts and updated regularly to ensure accuracy and currency.
Gale
Our databases are delivered on WilsonWeb, a powerful internet-based information retrieval system, offering a user-friendly interface, multiple search modes, interactive help messages, and full text translation into 8 languages. WilsonWeb’s ease-of-use makes for successful searching even for beginners, while its versatility (including advanced features) allows in-depth, highly-targeted searches for more experienced researchers. The system operates from a fast and reliable bank of servers, continually being improved and expanded with technological advances.

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