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Research Station

Research Station


 
Start your research paper or project with these online databases and encyclopedias.
Contact your Media Specialist for password information. 
 
 
 GALILEO is an online library portal to authoritative, subscription-only information that isn’t available through free search engines or Web directories.
 
 Created specifically for middle schoolers, Research in Context offers content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more.
 
Britannica School Middle offers thousands of curated article entries, magazine, and journal articles; videos; images; audio clips; and primary sources provide the most current, real-world content for discovery and exploratory learning.
 
World Book Student: Designed for students in middle school, includes articles from The World Book Encyclopedia, a Biography Center, dictionary, atlas, an extensive multimedia collection, and much more. 
 
Student Resources In Context offers continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links. 
 
World Book Advanced: Designed for high school and college students, World Book Advanced is a powerful reference tool that includes an online encyclopedia, multimedia, and primary source databases, fully integrated in a single search. 
 Britannica School High offers thousands of curated article entries, magazine, and journal articles; videos; images; audio clips; and primary sources provide the most current, real-world content for discovery and exploratory learning.

Citation and Writing Help

 
 
 

Citation Machine™ automatically generates citations in MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian, and thousands more!

 
 
Save hours by making a Works Cited page automatically!
  The fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It’s the easiest way to generate citations to build a works cited page. And it’s free.
  The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue.