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SIRS Researcher is a highly popular general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles on social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues.

NOTE: If you are at home, please go to http://www.proquestk12.com to login and click on the "SIRS Products" button. Username = RC Password= RC

MAS Ultra
(Magazine Article Search Ultra)

Provides full text for more than 700 general interest and current events magazines and more.
Newspaper Source 
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rovides selected full text for over 200 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns, and TV transcripts.
MasterFile Premier
provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes 315 full text reference books, nearly 100,000 biographies, 76,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags.
Explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics.
More than 118,000 articles, updated and revised by Encyclopædia Britannica editors and contributors; over 14,000 illustrations, including photographs, drawings, maps, and flags; and more than 215,000 entries--including definitions, pronunciation guides, and word histories--from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus. User Name: richcentral Password: richcentral

Additional resources for social studies classes:

From ProQuest: Offers invaluable historical reference material that covers 14 centuries of history, from ancient to modern, old world to new world.

NOTE: If you are at home, please go to http://www.proquestk12.com to login and click on the "ProQuest Products" button. Username = RC Password= RC

From the first explorers in the New World to the developments in today's headlines, ABC-CLIO Schools' authoritative American History database investigates the people, events, and themes of our nation's evolution. User Name: richcentral  Password: richcentral

For Literature Classes, Literary Criticism, English Classes:
MagillOnLiterature Plus contains editorially reviewed critical essays, brief plot summaries, extended character profiles, and detailed setting discussions covering works by more than 8,500 long and short fiction writers, poets, dramatists, essayists, and philosophers. 35,000 critical analyses of individual works of literature, 6,500 biographical records, and more than 1,000 images.

For Health, Science, Family & Consumer Sciences Classes:


Health Source
Provides information from 300 journals on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
For Teachers and Administrators:
Professional Development Collection
provides a highly specialized collection of over 550 full text educational journals.
ERIC
contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.


netTrekker transforms the wealth of valuable educational material on the Internet into an organized and easy-to-use resource. Username: richcentral    Password: richcentral

ALLDATA's Online Database of Automotive Repair Information offers the most comprehensive collection of Automotive Diagnostic and Repair data in the world!  Accessible from school only.
Bank of 400,000 animated pictures.  Password is required.  User name: richcentral  Password: richcentral
Get access to great websites, lessons, hot lists, fieldtrips, "Ask an Expert," neat classroom projects and more.
User name: richcentral  Password: richcentral

This site provides guidance and information to help people make important career and educational decisions.

See Mrs. Touretz in the Career Resource Center for the password and details.

The PDR® Electronic Library™ provides drug information, environmental, and health & safety products offer the most complete and easily accessible collection of medical, hazard, and environmental information available today.
Can't login?  Try this: User name:  richcentral  Password:  richcentral
For the Rich Central High School Library Media Center Director only. 
 
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For Rich Central High School Library Media Center Directors only.

 

   
   
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