Research and References

American Physical Society Journals – The American Physical Society is the world’s second largest organization of physicists and publishes more than a dozen scientific journals including the prestigious Physical Review and Physical Review Letters. (Only accessible from within the library)

 

Ancestry.com – HART LIBRARY CARDHOLDERS have access to ANCESTRY.COM from home.

 

Britannica Academic – Delivers fast and easy access to high-quality, comprehensive information. The rich combination of the venerable Encyclopædia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools provides the variety of reliable sources that students need to consult when conducting thorough collegiate research.

 

Britannica Elementary – Encyclopedia Britannica for elementary school students. Lets students look for people, places and things, watch and learn with videos and animations, and have fun with games and activities.

 

Britannica High – Encylopedia Britannica for high school students. Helps students get quick facts and in-depth information on a wide variety of subjects. Start research projects with multiple resources in one place and find multimedia to use in projects and presentations.

 

Britannica Middle – Encyclopedia Britannica for middle school students. Helps students find fast answers and get homework help, explore videos and articles on famous people and places as well as discover maps, photos, and illustrations for school projects.

 

DaybyDayNYsp.org – es un calendario interactivo en español para desarrollar un amor por la lectura. El calendario presenta libros de imágenes, canciones, y actividades familiares.

 

Directory of Open Access Journals – A service that covers free, full-text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

 

Educator’s Reference Complete – A collection of more than 1,100 peridiocals and 200 reports is a great resource for any educator–from the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at the collegiate an graduate level. Educator’s Reference Complete seeks to provide full text for titles in the Eric database and covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty–such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. It also provides insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy.

 

Fulton History – A historic newspaper website which contains archives of over 1000 New York newspapers, and some from other states and Canada.

 

Gale Academic OneFile – contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world’s leading journals and reference sources, including full-text articles from the New York Times go back to 1985.

 

Gale General OneFile – This one-stop source for news and magazine articles on a wide range of topics has millions of full-text articles, many with images. It indexes over 13,000 popular magazines covering a wide variety of subjects with full-text is available for over 6,000 of them and is updated daily.

 

Gale In Context Elementary – Designed for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5, this database features a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface. Move from a broad subject to a narrower topic using the subject-based topic tree. Full-text content is curriculum-related and age appropriate.

 

Gale in Context Opposing Viewpoints – The number one online resource for today’s burning issues. This database will help students research, analyze, and organize a wide range of data for performing research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, presentations, and more.

 

Oxford Islamic Studies – This database brings together the best current scholarship in the field of Islamic studies. Aimed at students, scholars, government officials, community groups, and librarians its purpose is to foster a more accurate and informed understanding of the Islamic world. It features reference content and commentary by renowned scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture, and is regularly updated.

 

Secrets of the Sequences – With initial funding from the Pfizer Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences, VCU has assembled 50 of the best videos from the public television series, “Secrets of the Sequence” to assist teachers in the application of genetic research across the biology curriculum. Funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute has allowed for the creation of additional videos, which are also included on this site.

 

Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law – brings together a multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. Please note: Home access is not available. This resource is offered at no cost by HeinOnline.

 


Español

Britannica Primaria – Geared towards elementary school students, the leading resource for accurate and age-appropriate content in Spanish. New features make it more valuable than ever for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish.

 

Britannica Secundaria – Geared towards high school students, the leading resource for accurate and age-appropriate content in Spanish. New features make it more valuable than ever for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish.

 

DaybyDayNYsp.org – es un calendario interactivo en español para desarrollar un amor por la lectura. El calendario presenta libros de imágenes, canciones, y actividades familiares.

 

Gale OneFile Informe Académico – Meets the research needs of Spanish-speaking users with a wide range of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America. Informe Académico provides quality reference material–not simply translations of English-language materials–on a powerful, easy-to-use interface configured for Spanish-speaking users, allowing researchers to analyze topics and conduct research in Spanish.

 

Tumblebooks en español – es una colección de TumbleBooks: libros animados con ilustraciones que hablan y enseñan a los niños a leer en inglés en un formato que les encantará. Los libros de TumbleBooks se crean a partir de libros ilustrados ya existentes, a los que se les añade animaciones, sonido, música y narraciones para dar vida a un libro electrónico ilustrado que se puede leer o escuchar.