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APPENDIX
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Online Reference Sites and Databases
OTTOSON SUBSCRIPTIONS
Username: Ottoson
Password: middle
Username: arli74305
Password: aril_log
Username: ottoson
Password: welcome
Username: Ottoson
Password: middle
Grolier Online Encyclopedia subscription includes the Multimedia
Encyclopedia, Lands and Peoples and Book of Popular Science. Articles may
be emailed to student's homes from school without having a school email
account as well as accessible remotely from your house. Features how to cite
sources, has links to periodicals and web sites on topic.
Website: go.grolier.com
A Gale Thompson InfoTrac product that has a clear search and discovery
home page. It is great for middle school subjects and assignments. Includes
photos, magazine articles, timelines, and clear info on citing sources.
Website: infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/arli74305
CultureGrams™ This is a site that student's have used with good results in
print editions. Now available for computers for geography, language and
others classes to gather facts about customs and data on countries of the
world. Includes World Edition, Kids Edition and States Edition.
Website: online.culturegrams.com
CountryReports Another source for information about countries of the world.
Learn about cultures, customs, holidays, national symbols, flags, economy,
government and population with handy facts boxes or longer narrative
reports.
Website: www.countryreports.org
Horn Book Guide (For Teachers) Looking for a review, a list of books on a
topic or titles to request for Library purchase or InterLibrary loan? Back lists
for more than a decade and great search criteria helps you learn a great more
about all the good reading out there.
Website: www.hornbookguide.com
METRO WEST SUBSCRIPTIONS
Username: metrowest
Password: regional
World Book Online version of the popular and authoritative reference
encyclopedia. Articles may be emailed to students and it instructs on how to
cite sources.
Website: www.worldbookonline.com
NewsBank The electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and
national U.S. newspapers--all in one easy-to-search database. Includes free
articles for Boston Globe and Boston Herald
Website: infoweb.newsbank.com
Username: melody
InfoTrac A Massachusetts statewide contract with Thomson Gale(tm)
provides access to over 39 million online articles in magazines, reference
books and newspapers, as well as complete biographical and bibliographical
information and references for approximately 100,000 U.S. and international
authors. Includes BIOGRAPHY RESOURCE CENTER
Website: infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/mlin_m_ottoson
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LIBRARY ACCESS
Robbins Library Access the Robbins Library from school or home. Search
the catalog on line for books, videos and databases. You can see if the
Robbins owns the titles, if it's on the shelf, and if you have a Library Card #
you can reserve it until you go there in person to pick it up. Need to get a
book that Robbins doesn't own? You can get to the Minuteman Library
System (all our surrounding towns and then some) on this web site and
request that it be send to Robbins for pick up. Get to Databases through
Robbins like Novelist, Historic NY Times, InfoTrac, and LitFinder. Look at
your user information and renew a book to avoid fines.
Website: www.robbinslibrary.org
Minuteman Library Network More Database access, the holdings of
Massachusetts Public Libraries and a great middle school site: TEEN
LINKS.
Website: www.mln.lib.ma.us
FREE
infoplease An online almanac for quick data that includes an atlas,
dictionary, thesaurus, white pages, biographies, quizzes, the daily headlines,
etc
Website: www.infoplease.com
s9.com This dictionary covers more than 33,000 notable men and women
who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.
Website: www.S9.com
Internet Reference Tools for Students Lots of information in one little site!
Website: www.cvco.org/education/etohc/studentresearch.htm
SEARCH ENGINES
Google is one of the most popular search engines on the web. Seaching can
be narrowed down to images, news, videos, maps and more. Have your ever
tried "MORE"? For school work follow the links: even more to directory to
reference. It may prove more efficient.
Website: www.google.com
Clusty is a whole new way to search the web. It queries several top search
engines and generates a list that groups similar results together into clusters.
Clusters help you see your search results by topic so you can hone in on
exactly what you want to discover.
Website: clusty.com
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KartOO is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. Which means it
searches widely on the net and displays the results visually.
Website: www.kartoo.com
a9 Select from a number of methods for making your search (web, reference
books, blogs, books, people, yellow pages, etc. and the results appear in
easy to read columns.
Website: a9.com
Mooter clusters results into concepts, allowing faster decisions and deeper
digging with less clicks.
Website: www.mooter.com
CITATION HELPER WEBSITES
NoodleTools creates works cited entries, as well as online notecards.
Website: http://www.noodletools.com
EasyBib is a very easy website to use for creating a works cited page,
including many different kinds of sources.
Website: http://www.easybib.com
SourceAid helps with citations in the paper as well as your works cited page.
It allows you to choose from a variety of citation styles, including MLA.
Website: http://www.sourceaid.com/
Citation Machine is the classic online tool for making a works cited page.
Website: http://citationmachine.net/