The document provides information on online reference sources available to Howard County middle school students both at school and at home. It lists 10 resources that students have access to, including databases on American history, world cultures, citation tools, science, current events, and literature. Students need to contact their school library media specialist for login information to access most of the sources.

1. eTools: Information on Demand
Online reference sources available to all Howard County Public School
middle school students both at school and at home
Note: Contact your school's library media specialist for log in information.
From the explorers of the Americas to today's headlines,
American History investigates the people, events, and
themes of our nation's evolution. Using primary and
secondary sources to integrate American politics, science,
culture, philosophy, and economics, this authoritative
American History
database explores the ongoing development of the United
http://www.socialstudies.abc-clio.com
States.
CultureGrams offers concise, reliable, and up-to-date
country reports on over 200 cultures of the world. It goes
beyond mere facts and figures to deliver an insider's
CultureGrams perspective on daily life and culture, including the history,
http://online.culturegrams.com customs, and lifestyles of the world's people.
Generate, edit, and publish an MLA Works Cited list or APA
References list that complies with the rules of the current
MLA Handbook and APA Publication Manual. NoodleBib
NoodleBib 6 takes care of punctuation, alphabetization and formatting,
http://www.noodletools.com/login.php producing a polished source list for import into Word.
Science Resource Center is an in-depth, curriculum-
oriented science database that provides a one-stop
resource for all science-related research needs. This
resource reflects curriculum trends and focuses on key
concepts taught in school classrooms such as earth
science, science history, life science, physical science,
Science Resource Center science and technology, space and much more.
See your school’s library media specialist for the url.
SIRS Decades features more than 5,000 hand-selected
primary and secondary source articles highlighting key
events, movements, people, and places in 20th-century
America. Coverage includes documents, letters and memos,
SIRS Decades editorial cartoons, streaming video, websites, photographs,
http://sks.sirs.com maps, advertisements, and published articles.
SIRS Knowledge Source is a comprehensive online
interface providing integrated access to thousands of full-
text articles, documents, and graphics from SIRS
Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, and SIRS
SIRS Knowledge Source Renaissance. Thousands of full-text articles from domestic
http://sks.sirs.com and international sources exploring social, scientific, health,
historic, business, economic, political and global issues are
available.
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2. Student Resource Center Jr. is a fully integrated
database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted
primary documents, biographies, topical essays,
background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage
of over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000
photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of
Student Resource Center Jr. audio and video clips. Includes Student Resource Center-
See your school’s library media specialist for the url. Health Module.
TeachingBooks.net is a timesaving portal to thousands
of online resources of book-related resources you can use
to explore children's and young adult books and their
authors. It provides immediate access to useful materials
and exciting programs (short movies, audio book readings,
book discussion guides, and more) that add a multimedia
dimension to reading in the classroom, library media
http://www.teachingbooks.net/signin.cgi
center, and home.
World Book Online Reference Center is an excellent
source of reliable, easy to understand information for
World Book Online Reference Center students. World Book Online offers all the features of the
http://www.worldbookonline.com print encyclopedia plus links to maps, web sites, and other
print articles.
Use your Howard County Library card and pin number
(request a pin number from the library) to access many
online reference sources. To locate the online resources,
Howard County Library click on “Databases.”
http://www.hclibrary.org
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