Online Resources are password protected databases that you can access 24/7 from school or home. You can get the URL, username and password from Mrs. Bowen, your librarian or Mr. Swick, the library assistant or your teacher. These resources work like a search engine but contain information that is not available for free on the World Wide Web.
Use the menu to navigate the page:
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Please contact the library staff for the URL, user name and passwords for our online services.
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The start page for The Gale Group will read Infotrac and then ask for a username and password.
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ABC-Clio's World Geography comes up on the World Geography sign-in page where it asks for a user name and password.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition will ask for the username and password the first time you log on at a computer. After that, the home page will always come up without asking for the logon information.
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Web Feet will always ask for the Borrower's I.D. before allowing you access to the information.
ASK THE LIBRARIAN FOR THE USERNAME AND
PASSWORD TO USE AT HOME.
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Listed below are The Gale Group Databases that the Marina Library subscribes to:
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This is the librarians' choice for "if I could only take one database to a desert island list, Student Resource Center Gold would be it." This database has a little bit of everything. It pulls form over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, and reference books. It also has primary sources and thousands of multimedia graphics (even some video clips!). (You may have to enter the username once, then your computer should remember the URL.)
Username: hunt45365
Password: HUNT45365
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The Student Resource Center - Health Module has everything you wanted to know about health but were afraid to ask. An excellent science resource that doesn't try to sell you something and gives you answers to questions about health that would normally be blocked by the HBUHSD filters. A database on medical and health-related topics that include diseases, treatments, diagnostic equipment, and major historical figures in the fields of medicine, chemistry, biology, and related areas. Includes a timeline describing over 500 events from the history of medicine and health sciences, and 300 photographs and diagrams. (You may have to enter the username once, then your computer should remember the URL.)
Username: hunt45365
Password: HUNT45365
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Formerly SuperTOM, Student Edition is designed for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. (You may have to enter the username once, then your computer should remember the URL.)
Username: hunt45365
Password: HUNT45365
For helpful hints on how to use Student Edition, click here.
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference sources to provide a complete one=stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. (You may have to enter the username once, then your computer should remember the URL.)
Username: hunt45365
Password: HUNT45365
For helpful hints on how to use OVRC, click here
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Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, dictionaries, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school or your public library). (You may have to enter the username once, then your computer should remember the URL.)
Username: hunt45365
Password: HUNT45365
Books In Our Collection:
Arts and Humanities through the Eras, 5 vols., 2004
Dictionary of American History, 3rd ed., 10 vols., 2003
Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2 ed., 23 vols., 1998-2004
The Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students, 4 vols., 2004
Science and Its Times, 7 vols., 2001
Novels for Students, v. 1 - 24
Poetry for Students, v. 1 - 24
For helpful hints on how to use Virtual Reference Library, click here.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition includes:
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Compton's Encyclopedia
- Britannica Elementary (Britannica Jr.)
- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
- Enciclopedia Juvenil (Under Additional Britannica Databases)
- Annals of American History (Under Additional Britannica Databases)
- World Data Analyst (Under Additional Britannica Databases)
- Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged Online (Under Additional Britannica Databases)
- Journals and Magazines
- The Web's Best Sites
- Videos
- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate and Student Dictionaries
- Learning Materials
- Teachers' Resources
When you search for a keyword or phrase in all Britannica, the site sifts through all of the content listed above for answers (Dictionary/Thesaurus searches are separate). Your search results can come from four encyclopedias, magazine articles, the Internet Guide, and Videos & Media. All results are ordered by relevance: how closely the content matches your search word(s).
Username: hbuhsd
Password: surfcity
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WEB FEET is a research tool designed to help you save time and find the best resources available on the Internet. It is not a search engine, but rather collections of pre-selected sites reviewed by librarians, educators, subject-area specialists, and editors. It offers you the best Web sites for thousands of curriculum areas, general knowledge topics, and common personal interests. Marina subscribes to WEB FEET Core collection, which has web sites for middle school to adult.
Borrower's ID: hunt45365
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World Geography Online will provide you everything you ever wanted to know about any country in the world. The CLIOview section will allow you to statistically compare countries in a variety of areas. This site will also provide daily UPI news stories focusing on events from around the world. Feature Stories, Terms of the Day, and Holidays & Celebrations are also included as part of the web site. Geography students, this one's for you!
Username: vikings1
Password: govikings
To view the user's guide to World Geography Online, click here.
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