Research Tools

    
           
    . Parish Hill Middle/High School pays a yearly fee to provide on-line databases to our students and staff. These resources include encyclopedias, newspapers, biographies and many specialized collections.They are avilable to you at school and from home.    
           
      To use these resources from home you will need our school's username and password list (available in the library). Use of the Connecticut Digital Library from home requires a public library card with a barcode.    
           
      Make these information-rich sites the first stop when researching on the Internet.    
         
   
  Connecticut Digital Library   InfoTrac, Wilson Biographies, Galenet Discovering, Health and Wellness
   
  Newsbank   Comprehensive, full text news resource, maps
   
  Sirs Discoverer   Middle school database, full text articles, encyclopedia, country facts, World Almanac for Kids, Spotlight of the Month
   
  Grolier   Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Americana, Lands & People
   
  Facts.com   Today's Science on File. Objective analysis and clear explanations of opposing points of view, primary source documents, newspaper editorials
   
  Encyclopedia Britannica   All the articles from the print volumes, plus Feature of the Month, web links
   
  World's Best Poetry and Story Finder   Over 50,000 poems and explanations, biographies
   
  Culture Grams   Cultures of 181 countries, maps, photos, famous people, recipes
   
  ABC-CLIO   Complete history reference: World History, American History, World Geography, American Government
   
   
  Grove Art   Articles on fine arts, decorative arts, and architecture; Art images with links to hundreds of museums and galleries
   
  Grove Music   People and places, instruments and techniques, genres and styles, over 500 audio musical examples
   
   
  Encyclopedia of American Government   CQ Encyclopedia of American Government (EAG) provides answers to the full range of questions that students have about the institutions of U.S. government. Based on the CQ Press ready-reference American Government A to Z series, EAG offers thousands of concise, up-to-date explanations of the who, how, and why of American democracy.
   
  Opposing Viewpoints   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 USA 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.
   
  Big Chalk   Students find the answers they need from more than 2,000 full-text and multimedia sources, and can access History Study Center and ProQuest Learning: Literature.
   
   
   

 

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