Databases

These subscription databases are available for use both at School and at home.  A list of logins and passwords for using the databases from off campus is available to Episcopal students at the Circulation Desk.

 

 

  • BrainPop - This site creates animated, curriculum-based content that engages students, supports educators, and bolsters achievement.
  • Britannica Online - This encyclopedia can be searched at the elementary, middle or high school levels and includes many special features.
  • Country Reports - This site offers current content covering a wide-range of topics including history, customs and cultures, economy, population, government, current events, US state reports, learning games, and more.
  • Destiny OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) - Search for books, audiovisual materials, and more in the Episcopal library.  Search by subject, title, author, call number, series, keyword, or ISBN/LCCN.   Click on DESTINY QUEST to see the Top 10 Books, New Arrivals and other library resources.  Use Destiny as a GUEST by clicking on the link to Bryan Library.   To access your personal account information, click on the link to Bryan Library, then click on the LOGIN button in the upper RIGHT corner of the CATALOG search page.  Use your network login and password to view your library account information.
  • e-Books - Published by Chelsea House and Facts on File, this selection of e-books includes materials from many curriculum areas.  They contain the full-text of their print counterparts, are fully searchable and available 24/7 to multiple users. Logins and passwords are available at the library desk.
  • Gale Databases - Gale Databases offer easy access to a selection of reference materials, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips. Once logged in, you can access the following resources: Gale World History and Gale Student Resources.
  • The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture - This site is the most current and comprehensive reference resource for the visual arts of the Classical period. It features an abundance of in-depth articles on this field of enduring importance—from biographies to thematic entries on architecture, ceramics, metalwork, mosaics, painting and sculpture.
  • The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art - This site offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date information on all aspects of this fundamental area of the visual arts. This reference work provides fascinating historical and current uses of materials and techniques in a wide range of areas from painting and sculpture to non-traditional media such as digital and video art.
  • Lit in Context (on the Select-a-Product drop-down, select literature in Context Original10 subscriber; then put in user and password according to the sheet available in the library) - Provides students with social and cultural background to literary classics. It includes links to many source documents and web-based activities. Selections include The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Crucible, Hamlet, Macbeth, Of Mice & Men, The Red Pony, The Pearl, Pride & Prejudice, The Scarlet Letter, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Things Fall Apart, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
  • Maps 101 - This site supplements and complements traditional history, social studies and geography curriculum materials. Maps101.com is a web-based interactive database of teacher lesson plans, geography tools, online learning games, dynamic interactive map modules and over 4,000 viewable and printable history, thematic, reference, outline, current events and animated maps.
  • NoodleTools - Assistance in the preparation of APA and MLA bibliographies.
  • OCLC First Search - OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) is a system that provides bibliographic citations, and sometimes an abstract, for books and journal articles located in libraries throughout the world. First Search provides access to the Interlibrary Loan System, whereby students can borrow books and receive journal articles from libraries throughout the US.
  • Oldmagazinearticles.com - This is a primary source website. Magazine articles, essays, poetry, cartoons and photographs found on the site have all been collected from a number of different libraries, bookshops and yard sales throughout the United States and Europe.
  • Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance - The Oxford English Dictionary - This encyclopedia provides authoritative and up-to-date information about theatre and performance from ancient Greek theatre to the latest developments in London, Paris, New York, and around the globe. In addition to performances in playhouses, it covers dance, opera, radio, film, television, and popular performance, including carnivals, circus, and public executions.
  • Oxford English Dictionary - The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
  • Oxford Reference Online - Premium Collection - The Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection offers a huge range of fully-indexed, extensively linked, up-to-date, and cross-searchable dictionary, language-reference, and subject-reference works published by Oxford University Press.
  • The Oxford Companion to World Exploration - This reference offers information on all topics of exploration worldwide, including advances in navigation, the discovery of the New World, polar expeditions, and the space age.
  • Proquest Databases - These databases include access to a variety of periodical, newspapers and reference materials. Click on the link for more details on each database. Once logged in, you can access the following resources: Proquest Platinum, SIRS Knowledge Source, SIRS Decades.
  • Science Full Text - Includes all the full-text content from Wilson's acclaimed applied science & technology full-text, biological & agricultural index plus, and general science full text, plus additional related full-text science titles.
  • TeachingBooks - TeachingBooks.net an easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. Our online database is developed and maintained to include thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities.
  • The World and I Online - WorldandISchool.com is an interdisciplinary resource that encompasses a broad range of articles by scholars and experts, all aligned to each state's standards for social studies, language arts, and science. Originally published monthly in print as The World & I, our site includes the complete contents since 1986 and continues to publish a new issue online each month.

For access to online computer research resources from school or home, go to Links by subject or General research links.