EBSCO – search ebscohost.com
Gale – infotrac.galegroup.com
Learning Express
HeritageQuest
Simply double click the i
To access JHS OPAC from home or offsite:
Go to http://joplin.goalexandria.com
You log in with your student number
Your password is your last name
Other sources to try are:
1. National Geographic has a great deal of information for all grade levels.
2. High School subscribes to Expert Space by Scholastic (not through the library)
which is a reading leveled search engine. It returns high quality results.
3. Google books has a great deal of information for all grade levels.
4. Google Scholar has journals and articles for higher grade levels and advanced
studies.
5. Google docs has a search engine built into it, making searching easy.
6. Encyclopedia of Life http://eol.org/
7. Encyclopedia of Earth http://www.eoearth.org/
8. Stanford Philosophy Encyclopedia http://plato.stanford.edu/
9. John Marshall Law School Online Legal Dictionary and
Encyclopedia http://blog.jmls.edu/library/2010/09/10/wex-free-online-legaldictionary-and-encyclopedia/
10. University of Tennessee Philosophy http://www.iep.utm.edu/
11. Yale Religion Resources http://guides.library.yale.edu/freeweb
12. Rochester Medical Center Health Encyclopedia http://
www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/
13. St. Cloud State University African America History Encyclopedia http://
libdata.stcloudstate.edu/page.phtml?page_id=89
14. Blekko
www.blekko.com
Free Blekko, Inc. Blekko is a free alternative to search engines and does
not contain sponsored advertisements.
15. StudyBlue Mobile App
www.studyblue.com/mobile-flashcards-app/.
Free.StudyBlue Inc.
This study app for iPHone or Android allows students to create their own
flashcards and note cards, upload pictures and notes with the phone camera,
and keep track of their studying success rate.
16. Visual thesaurus.
http://www.lexipedia.com/
17. Lingro
Lingro is a cool tool for both the “wow” factor and for its usefulness. Simply type in
a website address on the Lingro website and it instantly turns the website into a
clickable dictionary that translates text in 12 languages. Lingro hides in the background
until
students need it. To use, students simply click on any word and several definitions
of the
word are instantly displayed. I could see this as very useful tool for just-in-time
support
for English language learners.
http://lingro.com/
18. Word Hippo
An all-in-one reference tool, Word Hippo does the following: defines a word,
provides a meaning, provides a word that is opposite, pronounces a word, provides
rhyming words, places the word in many different contexts, and translates the word.
http://www.wordhippo.com/