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LIBRARY

Hinduism
200 WIL The illustrated dictionary of religions
290 SCH The religions of mankind : Their origin and development
291 BRE Religions of the world
291HAR Religions of the world
291 ILL The illustrated guide to world religions
291 REN The handy religion answer book
291 SMA The world's religions
291.1 ROB Myths and legends of all nations
Reference
REF 031 WOR World Book Encyclopedia
REF 103 MAS Masterpieces of world philosophy in summary form
REF 291 ATL Atlas of the World's Religions
REF 291 WOR World Religions
REF 305.8 CUL Cultures of the world
REF 305.8 WOR Worldmark encyclopedia of cultures and daily life
REF 390 GRE The Greenwood encyclopedia of daily life
REF 920.02 MCG McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of world biography
Databases
New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd ed.
New Catholic Encyclopedia is a standard of reference in public, academic and high school libraries worldwide. Prized for its scholarly presentation of persons and subjects related to Catholicism and the humanities.
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/eBooks?ste
=22&docNum=CX3407799999&q=whea91493
Dictionary of National Biography
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography includes the stories of 50,000 men and women who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the explorer Pytheas of the fourth century B.C. to modern figures who died before December 31, 2000. 10,000 portrait illustrations illuminate the articles.
www.oxforddnb.com
EBSCO Ultra Online
Perhaps the best research tool for literary, fine arts, history, social studies information. If you have an English project, use this site. Be sure to click on Full Text when looking for direct sources and quotes.
http://search.epnet.com
eLibrary
eLibrary Curriculum Edition--the ultimate easy-to-use curriculum and reference resource--delivers one of the largest collections of periodical and digital media content designed specifically for K-12 schools and libraries.
www.proquestk12.com/myproducts
Encyclopedia Britannica
Britannica Online School Edition: The most comprehensive K-12 reference resource, with separate units for elementary, middle school, and high school. To access the following additional databases, click on the Additional Britannica Databases button.
Annals of American History : Online access to 2,100 original source documents in U.S. history, providing a year-by-year documentary of American thought and action through speeches, writings, memoirs, poems and interviews.
www.school.eb.com
First Search
The most comprehensive database for all subject areas. Take some time to look at this one; it will be well worth the effort. This has fourteen different databases to explore.
http://firstsearch.oclc.org
Gale Virtual Reference Library
GVRL is a collection of ebooks that cover the following topics; arts, biography, business, education, environment, history, information and publishing, law, literature, medicine, multcaultural studies, nation and world, religion, science and social science.
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/whea91493 
The History Study Center
History Study Center is a collection of primary and secondary sources on global history from ancient times to the present day
www.proquestk12.com
Websites
The History Channel
The cable TV station that covers historical events is depth.
www.history.com
Religious Tolerance
This site sponsired by the Ontario Consultants of Religious Tolerance in the sanctity of each individual person, a discrinmation free society andReligious Tolerance...In the importance of democracy within religious, political and other structures…"
http://www.religioustolerance.org/
BBC Religion and Ethics
Part of the BBC website that focuses on world religions and ethics. Use the drop-down menu to find your topic.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/
Search Engine
Ask.com
Ask.com is a search engine that is a result of the merging of Teoma and Ask Jeeves, resulting in one of the world's most powerful and unique search engines. Ask is still the only, major search technology based upon the clustering concept of subject-specific popularity: ExpertRank.I
www.ask.com
Citation Aids
http://www.easybib.com
The free automatic bibliography composer.
Create MLA-style bibliographies, then save them to Word.
http://www.northern.wvnet.edu/~tcraig/wc.html
Probably the best site for learning how to document sources, both in print and electronic format. Very clear.
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/
Link for documenting sources in research papers.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html
Excellent resource for MLA formatting with many good examples of papers, works cited pages, etc.

 

 

 


 
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