JRHS Databases

GaleNet Resources – GaleNet contains Literature Resource Center (information on more than 90,000 authors) and Student Resource Center Silver (thousands of primary documents, biographies, essays, critical analyses, and full-test coverage of over 800 magazines), Biography Resource Center and General Reference Center.

http://infotrac.galegroup.com

Password necessary from Library or email Librarians from Home Page

ann_reinke@ccpsnet.net

Grolier Online – Indexes three general encyclopedias in addition to New Book of Popular Science, Lands and People, America the Beautiful, and Encyclopedia of American Studies. Links to journal articles and web sites verified by the editors of Grolier.

www.go.Grolier.com

Password necessary from Library or email Librarians from Home Page

ann_reinke@ccpsnet.net

NewsBank – News articles covering social, economic, environmental, government, science, and health. Sources: U.S. and international newspapers, wire services, broadcasts, magazines, and digests from science and health journals dating to 1986.

http ://infoweb.newsbank.com

Password necessary from Library or email Librarians from Home Page

ann_reinke@ccpsnet.net

Other resources available .

With a Chesterfield County Public Library card you can access more databases through http://library.co.chesterfield.va.us and www.finditva.com (Library of Virginia)Databases especially helpful for JRHS assignments include eLibrary (searches newspapers, magazines, books, pictures, maps and TV/radio transcripts) and SIR (general reference, U.S. government, and arts & humanities.)