Oswego East High School

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Advanced Placement Source

Advanced Placement Source is designed to meet the extensive needs of high school students enrolled in various AP courses. It offers a world of knowledge for students who seek to achieve academic excellence. Advanced Placement Source contains more than 5,550 full-text academic journals and magazines and over 502,000 photos, maps and flags. Advanced Placement Source can be found under the EBSCOhost icon in your MyPortal app.

Educational Resource Information Center 

Explora Discovery Service

This EBSCO Discovery Service search interface  is constructed to take advantage of student information seeking behavior, emphasizing ease of use and delivery of relevant search results, topic overviews, streaming videos, and full-text articles. Explora offers grade appropriate content, direct access to non-fiction and primary source resources, teaching materials aligned to Common Core and state curriculum standards, and tools for collaboration and professional development.

Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia

Health Source - Consumer Edition

• Advance Placement Source

  Advanced Placement Source contains more than 5,550 full-text academic journals and magazines and over 502,000 photos, maps and flags

   
• American Memory: Library of Congress

  Digitized collections of United States history including maps, papers and photographs

   
• Berklee Careers in Music

  Berklee College of Music provides information about careers in the music industry

   
• Britanica School Edition

  Encyclopædia Britannica Online is the website of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. and its Encyclopædia Britannica, with more than 120,000 articles that are updated regularly. It has daily features, updates and links to news reports from The New York Times and the BBC. User Name and Password needed to access this database

   
• Career Cruising

  Career Cruising is a self-exploration and college/career planning software program that helps people of all ages explore and plan for school, career, and life.

   
• CareerShip

  Develop a career plan. Focus on what you want to do and how to get there. Research careers at Careership.

   
• CIA: The World FactBook

  The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, a World Oceans map, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map.

   
• Dictionary.com

  An online dictionary and thesaurus.

   
• Digital Public Library of America

  Discover 33,099,326 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States

   
• EBSCO

  EBSCO is the leading provider of research databases

   
• Education Planner

  Information about careers, schools, scholarships and student aid.

   
• Encyclopedia of American Studies

  Published by Johns Hopkins University Press for the American Studies Association (ASA), the Encyclopedia of American Studies covers the history, philosophy, arts, and cultures of the United States in relation to the world, from pre-colonial days to the present, from various perspectives and the global American Studies movement.

   
• ERIC - Educational Resource Information Center

  Provides access to education literature and resources. The database contains more than 1.3 million records and provides access to information from journals

   
• Explora

  This EBSCO Discovery Service search interface is constructed to take advantage of student information seeking behavior, emphasizing ease of use and delivery of relevant search results, topic overviews, streaming videos, and full-text articles.

   
• Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia

  This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas

   
• Google Maps

  World-wide satellite, street and weather maps.

   
• Health Source

  Provides information on many health topics

   
• InfoPlease Maps

  World atlas and map library.

   
• Latin American Studies

  Links to articles and information about Latin American countries.

   
• Library of Congress

  Search the digital collections of the Library of Congress for primary source articles, images, recordings and more. The American Memory collection has been combined with the main LofC collections.

   
• LIFE Photo Archive

  Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google

   
• Mapping Your Future

  Mapping Your Future is a nonprofit organization committed to helping students, families, and schools navigate the higher education and student loan processes

   
• MAS Ultra (EBSCO)

  Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines.

   
• MedlinePlus

  MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library, it brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand

   
• Merriam-Webster

  Dictionary and Thesaurus

   
• myFuture

  My Future™ helps young adults plan their next steps in life by bringing together the most recently available information about colleges, careers and military service opportunities from the U.S. Departments of Commerce, Defense, Education and Labor.

   
• National Center fro Complementary and Integrative Health

  All Health Topics from A-Z. Research-based info from acupuncture to zinc.

   
• Newspaper Source

  Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 (U.S.) & international newspapers.

   
• NextStepU

  Find Your Path to Success. Helping you with your next step in college, career and life planning.

   
• Occupational Information Network - o*NET

  O*NET provides career exploration tools, job analysis questionnaires, employer guides, and technical reports.

   
• Occupational Outlook Handbook

  The Bureau of Labor Statistics latest Occupational Outlook Handbook.

   
• Oxford Dictionary Online

  Dictionary, grammar and thesaurus

   
• Points of View Reference Center

  Contains resources that present multiple sides of an issue

   
• ProCon

  ProCon.org is the country's leading source for pro, con, and related research on controversial issues.

   
• Springer Nature

  Provides access the to full depth and breadth of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and humanities - Must be on campus to gain access

   
• Teen Health & Wellness

  The award-winning Teen Health & Wellness provides middle and high school students with up-to-date, nonjudgmental, straightforward curricular, and self-help support. Articles are correlated to state, national, and provincial standards, including Common Core Health and Science.
 Topics covered include diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, mental health, suicide, bullying, LGBTQ issues, and more.

   
• Topic Search

  Teachers, librarians and student researchers can use this database to explore current events, social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics

   
• Visual Dictionary Online

  Welcome to the Visual Dictionary Online, the dictionary with a new point of view. A quick glance at the index is all it takes to connect words with images.