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Torrey Pines High School Library Media Center

Research Links


  • OPAC*
    Our online catalog contains our library media center collection, including books, videos, DVDs, study and art prints.
    Nettrekker connects you to evaluated websites for further exploration.

  • Britannica Encyclopedia Online*
    Excellent tool to begin research, keeping in mind that it is a jumping off point to more in-depth study. Also contains recommended web links.

    Acceptable Use Policy
    District guidelines, individually signed by all students and staff, dictating proper use of district computers.
What's New?

TEN ONLINE RESOURCES;
ONE PASSWORD

Corbis Images for Education

  • Corbis Historical Images*
    With more than 400,000 digital images from Corbis' popular art, historical, nature, and science collectionsThis resource is excellent for class projects.

DISCovering Collection

  • Discovering Collection*
    Access to vast databases on topics such as
    Authors, U.S. History, Science, Literature, Biographies, World History, including Shakespeare, Poetry, and Multi-cultural America.
General Reference Center Gold  
  • General Reference Center Gold*
    A general interest database that  finds articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals, with many with full-text and images. Includes the latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies.
History Resource Center: U.S.  
  • History Resource Center:U.S. *
    History Resource Center: U.S.: integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. Citations from over 180 additional history journals and the entire "American Journey Online" series are included.
History Resource Center: World


 
  • History Resource Center:World *
    R
    eference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, primary sources, images, maps and charts provide expansive research for the study of world history, from ancient Europe to Latin America, Far East to the Renaissance, world history.

Literature Resource Center

  • Literature Resource Center*
    Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers around the world from all time periods. Citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present are included.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

  • Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center*
    Both pros and cons of economic, health, government, and political issues, with statistics and relevant, up-to-date information, including specific web links.

Science Resource Center

  • Science Resource Center * Thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations, including the latest scientific developments are in articles from 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. Curriculum-related science topics tools for teachers directly correlated to state and national standards.

Testing & Education Reference Center

  • Testing & Education Reference Center*
    Contains college entrance exams, college searches, scholarships and financial aid specific to your needs; practice AP, ACT, SAT and PSAT exams and test exam feedback.  Fifty (50) Peterson's Guides are available as e-books.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

  • Virtual Reference Library*
    Contains 18 reference sets of ebooks:  including:

    American History Through Literature 1820-1870 , 3v, 2006
    American History Through Literature 1870-1920 , 3v, 2006
    Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion , 3v, 2005
    Encyclopedia of the Great Depression , 2v, 2004
    Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear Through the Ages , 5v, 2004
    Gothic Literature: A Gale Critical Companion , 3v, 2006
    Harlem Renaissance , 2001
    Roaring Twenties Reference Library , 2v, 2006

Work Cited & Bibliography Format Links

*Please go to the Library Media Center desk
 to obtain access rights for school and/or home use.


Online Resources

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