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Useful databases

Britannica Academic This link opens in a new window
Britannica Academic is a combination of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, thesaurus, magazines, periodicals, and many other research tools providing a variety of reliable sources students need for research. Provides overview and background as well as bibliographies of trusted sources on many topics.
World Book Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window
Full text of the print set plus a basic Spanish-language encyclopedia, an atlas, etc. Provides overview and background on many topics.
Middle search plus This link opens in a new window
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 a School Image Collection of photos, maps and flags
Masterfile Premier
Full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

Ask a Biologist
From Arizona State University website
Biomes of the world
Created by the Missouri Botanical Garden, with links to tabs on different biomes. 2002
Blue Planet Biomes
Facts about our planet,
its complex patterns of biomes, plants, and animals,
and how climates ultimately determine the biomes
of our Earth.
Earth's Observatory Mission Biomes
Put together by NASA, includes information on precipitation, temperature, vegetation
Earth Floor
Good introductory information on various biomes, if somewhat dated
Khan Academy on ecosystems and biomes
Runs about 7 minutes
Kids Do Ecology Biomes
Created by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis of Santa Barbara, CA
National Geographic- Aquatic Biomes
Info on Aquatic Biomes from National Geographic
National Geographic- Terrestrial Biomes
Land biomes from National Geographic
ORCA Marine biomes
Runs about 4 minutes
The Wild Classroom- Biomes
An organization that takes people to specific biomes to study them.
World Biomes
Links to further websites, sections of books, as well as original material.

Milne Library resources
Search the Derryfield library catalog for books, dvds, and cds that are right here at your fingertips!

People and Places - People on the Move by World Book, Inc Staff
ISBN: 9780716637585
Publication Date: 2010-10-01
"A 7-volume illustrated, alphabetically arranged set that presents profiles of individual nations and other political/geographical units, including an overview of history, geography, economy, people, culture, and government for each. Includes a history of the settlement of each world region based on archaeological findings; a cumulative index; and Web resources"--Provided by publisher.

FactCheck.org
A project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, FactCheck.org is a "nonpartisan, nonprofit 'consumer advocate' for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics."
Snopes
An independent fact-checking organization that researches the origin of rumors, urban legends, and memes. The site is best known for debunking false claims, and also contains a Fake News Archive and a Field Guide to Fake News Sites and Hoax Purveyors.

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Creative commons website
CC Search is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone. Creative Commons, the nonprofit behind CC Search, is the maker of the CC licenses, used over 1.4 billion times to help creators share knowledge and creativity online.
Creative Commons licences explained
International copyright licensing explained in this five minute video

Noodletools
Set up your Noodletools account using your Google credentials and then save your research projects and citations all in one place!
How to cite a cat video!
Purdue's OWL citation help

MLA Handbook by The Modern Language Association of America
ISBN: 9781603292627
Publication Date: 2016-04-01
The Modern Language Association, the authority on research and writing, takes a fresh look at documenting sources in the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook. Works are published today in a dizzying range of formats. A book, for example, may be read in print, online, or as an e-book--or perhaps listened to in an audio version. On the Web, modes of publication are regularly invented, combined, and modified. MLA 8 recommends a universal set of guidelines.
Plagiarism by Barry Gilmore
ISBN: 9780325026435
Publication Date: 2009-02-05
Helps students to understand what exactly plagiarism is, how it happens, and how to avoid it,