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Willmar Senior High Media Center Online Resources
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- MNopedia Minnesota Encyclopedia - An online encyclopedia about Minnesota developed by the Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) and its partners.

- Minnesota Motor Vehicle Crash Facts 2011 MN Dept. of Public Safety- click on Reports / Statistics

WHS Media Center

WHS Library/Media Online Catalog
eBook Collection at netLibrary
Minnesota Video Vault - Twin Cities Public Television
Minnesota Reflections - brings you nearly 31,000 images offering a broad view of Minnesota's history for
researchers, educators, students, and the public.
Landmark's Citation Machine - MLA (use this to create your bibliography)
      Eazy Bib.com (bibliography & citation maker)
      bibme.org (Welcome to BibMe! The fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills)
      Citation Maker (Welcome to Citation Maker)
Open Directory - The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the
Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.
Primary Sources - Princeton - UC Santa Cruz - U of MN

Useful Links

Find Domain Name Ownership: DNS Stuff | Network Solutions | Easy Who Is
Wayback Machine - history of a website - archive.org
Cost of keywords - overture.com
Get Audience Data for any Site on the Internet - quantcast.com
Check external links - www.altavista.com (link:URL)
Computer User High-Tech Dictionary at computeruser.com
Search Engine Watch - searchenginewatch.com
Calculate reading level of any text - OKAPI!

AskMN is an online service for information and research help available to all Minnesota residents and students 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
AskMN is a cooperative service of Minnesota libraries.

Online Subscription Resources

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Britannica Encyclopedia Online
School Edition (K-12)
     High School
     Middle School
     Elementary School
     Preschool
Academic Edition (College)

ProQuest Newspapers - This link will take you to a screen where you can perform a search across all of the newspapers in the ProQuest Newsstand Complete collection!

ProQuest direct links:
Souix Falls-Argus Leader
St. Cloud Times
The Historical Minneapolis Tribune (1867-1922)

Gale Group Online Resources - Includes:

General Science Collection
A collection of over 200 journals, providing researchers with the information needed to stay current on the latest
scientific developments -- including such topics as particle physics, advanced mathematics, and nanotechnology.

Junior Reference Collection
Covering the core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, JRC provides a
premium selection of reference, primary sources, and multimedia content, including audio and video clips and more
than 7,400 photographs. For Middle Schools only.

Discovering Collection
Covering the core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, DC provides a
premium selection of reference, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and
audio clips.

Informe 1994 - Ago. 2009
A collection of hispanic magazines with full text. Covers business, health, technology, culture, current topics and
other subjects.

Informe 1994 - Ago. 2009
Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de
actualidad y otras materias.

Professional Collection
Full Text Periodicals for the Professional Development Collection

Expanded Academic ASAP 1980 - Aug 2009
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs
across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full
text and images!

Educator's Reference Complete 1980 - Aug 2009
A selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier
reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and
best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database. The
database is updated daily and provides 24-hour access from school or home.

Student Resource Center - Gold
Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Gold
provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary
sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts. Premier reference
content includes the American Journey Series, American Decades, Career Information Center and the SRC Health
Module. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals, an integrated national and state curriculum
standards search with content correlated to the standards, and popular topic picklists.

Student Edition - K12
Now with over 1100 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed for high-school
students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and reference
books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history,
sports and more.

Kid's Edition - K12
Formerly PrimaryTOM, this periodical database with almost 125 titles, is designed for elementary school students,
with easy access to full-text magazines, from publishers such as Cobblestones and Scholastic and Time,
newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health,
people, government, history, sports and more.

Junior Edition - 2006-April 2009
Now with over 330 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed for students in
junior high and middle school 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.

Kids InfoBits Aug 2009
Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5.
Featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, the most popular search method is moving from
a broad subject to a narrower topic using the subject-based topic tree.

EBSCO - Includes:

Interface Options

Database Selection Menu

Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text for more than
3,700 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and
searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than
2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Business Source Premier is superior to the
competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM,
accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

Regional Business News
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News
incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within
the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Business Searching Interface

MasterFILE Premier
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,750 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 nearly 500 full text reference books, full text from 86,017
biographies, 105,786 full text primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 341,655 photos, maps and flags.
This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

EBSCO MegaFILE
A multi-disciplinary database providing full text for over 19,100 total publications and indexing & abstracting for
nearly 24,000 publications. Coverage spans every area of academic study and general interest subject area and offers
information dating as far back as the 1800s. In addition, the database contains more than 85,800 biographies,
118,000 primary source documents, 10,150 company profiles and an image collection of more than 293,000 photos,
maps and flags. EBSCO MegaFILE is comprised of EBSCO’s Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier
and Regional Business News databases.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50
priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes
librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and
more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

Alt HealthWatch
This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health
care and wellness. It offers libraries full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed
journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and
book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered
by complementary and alternative medicine. This database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as
1984, and full text going back as far as 1990.

Consumer Health Complete

ERIC
The Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,300,000 records and links to more than 317,000
full-text documents dating back to 1966.

Health Source - Consumer Edition
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing
information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports
medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer
health magazines.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Editionalso features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic
drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.

MAS Ultra-School Edition
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 500 popular, high
school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670
biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 453,000 photos, maps & flags,
color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.

Middle Search Plus
Provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database
are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and
historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and
an Image Collection of over 453,000 photos, maps and flags.

Points Of View Reference Center

Primary Search
Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text
articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as
far back as 1990.

Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high
quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than
200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text
education journals in the world.

Science Reference Center
Science Reference Center is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full
text science-oriented content. This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference
books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science,
health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists,
technology and wildlife.

Student Research Center

OCLC WorldCat - The most comprehensive and up-to-date bibliographic resource available.  Founded in 1967, OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization. More than 71,000 libraries in 112 countries and territories around the world use OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend and preserve library materials.

Other OCLC databases:
  GPO - U.S. Government Publications
OAISter - Union Catalog of Digital Resources
ECO - An OCLC collection of scholarly journals
World Almanac & Book of Facts - Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four almanac
Medline - All areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing
CAMIO - OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online
ArchiveGrid - Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million
                          collection descriptions

Willmar Senior High Online Resources

Access Science

(McGraw-Hill)
Over 8,500 online articles from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology 10th edition.
Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology.
110,000+ definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms.
13,000 illustrations and graphics, and bibliographies containing more than 28,000 literature citations.
Content contributed by more than 5,000 researchers, including 36 Nobel Prize winners.
Biographies of more than 2,000 well-known scientists from the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography®.
The latest news in science and technology from Science News® and ScienCentral® videos.
Continuously updated, fully-searchable, media-rich content, terms, images and videos.

Atomic Learning

(tutorials for Microsoft products and more)

Bloom's Literary Reference Online
Facts On File: Read about the fascinating lives of world-famous writers.
Study the great works of world literature—from influential novels, poems, and plays to important works of
nonfiction.

Discovery Education
Discovery Education STREAMING Plus contains a growing library of over 9,500 videos, 77,000 content-specific clips, and more than 150,00 multimedia assets which integrate seamlessly into any curriculum.

Facts On File

Includes:
-Issues & Controversies (includes World Almanac)
-Issues & Controversies in American History
-Today's Science

Hoover's Online

Access comprehensive company database.
Review key executive profiles.
Analyze complete industry coverage.

Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary

The most definitive online dictionary

Minnesota Career Information System

Career Information System

NetTrekker

Connect to over 300,000 of the best online resources, aligned with state standards and organized by readability
and grade level.

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Internet Resources (Nonsubscription - Free to anyone on the internet):

Encyclopedia Of Life - The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is an ambitious project to organize and make available via the Internet virtually all information about life present on Earth. At its heart lies a series of Web sites—one for each of the approximately 1.8 million known species.

Libraries/Reference Online
♦ Minnesota Digital Library
♦ Search Pioneerland Public Library Includes Willmar
♦ MnLink Minnesota Library Information Network
♦ Library of Congress
♦ The Internet Public Library
♦ Refdesk.com
♦ Librarian's Index to the Internet
♦ INFOMINE Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
♦ ABOUT
♦ New York Public Library Digital Library

Urban Legends & Hoaxes
♦ www.snopes.com We are following the more expansive popular (if inaccurate) use of "urban legend" as a term that embraces not only urban legends but also common fallacies, misinformation, old wives' tales, strange news stories, rumors, celebrity gossip, and similar items.
♦ www.advocacy-net.com/scammks.htm Scams, hoaxes, and so forth, on the Internet from A to Z

Internet Fraud
♦ www.ic3.gov Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3's mission is to serve as a vehicle to receive, develop, and refer criminal complaints regarding the rapidly expanding arena of cyber crime.

Online Shopping Tips/Advice
♦ www.about.com/shopping Online Shopping
♦ www.scambusters.com A comprehensive web sites devoted to online scams, including shopping and banking.
♦ www.webassured.com The "bad guys" are not hiding on the street... they're hiding behind their Computer Screens.
♦ www.planetfeedback.com We will empower consumers and increase their control. The Internet is the most consumer-centric medium in history – and we will help consumers use it to their greatest personal advantage.
♦ www.epinions.com Read and write reviews on millions of products and services.
♦ www.bizrate.com Free comparison shopping site.
♦ www.consumersearch.com PC World declares ConsumerSearch the best source of expert product reviews on the Internet, the Wall Street Journal dubs ConsumerSearch a publisher of "uber-reviews," and Yahoo! Internet Life names ConsumerSearch an "Incredibly Useful Site".
♦ www.pricewatch.com Where vendors compete to offer the lowest price Minute by minute price coverage.
♦ http://www.ftc.gov/onlineshopping/ Federal Trade Commission - Facts for Consumers: Shop Online Safely

Internet Search

♦ Engines/Directories

        ♦ University of Minnesota - Investigate the Web
                Search Engines
                Meta-Search Engines
                People Search
                Subject Directories
                Learn About Search Engines