Ancestry Library
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Ancestry provides faster access to a wider variety of genealogical data than any other genealogy site on the Internet. In fact, Ancestry has thousands of databases of genealogical and historical information that you can search through.

Guide to Ancestry.com

Annals of American History Online
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Find primary documents, original speeches, interviews, and writings. This valuable online chronicle of a nation's history provides a year-by-year documentary of American thought and action from 1493 to 2002. Read the original words of more than 1,500 authors who made and analyzed American history through speeches, writings, and interviews. See also: F&S History.

Atomic Learning
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Atomic Learning has thousands of training videos available to students and teachers. Every teacher and student should have an account on Atomic Learning.

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Go to the "Password Help" page and click on the link for the HCST Resources course in Moodle. The HCST Resources course has the information you need to login to Atomic Learning.

Discovery Education
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Students and teachers can download or stream Discovery Education videos or other electronic resources by logging into the DiscoveryEducation.com website. You will need a passcode to create a  Discovery Education account. The passcode is availble in the HCST Resources Moodle course.

Go to the Password Help Page to find out more about the HCST Resources Moodle course.

EBSCOhost
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Find current information from newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals and more. EBSCOhost provides access to over 10 different databases, and each contains the full text of a wide variety of hundreds of popular newspapers, magazines, and journals for current information, including sources for medical, business and professional development.

Enciclopedia Universal en Español
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Fondo y descripciones Del hallazgo, y detalles de introduccion informal de objetos variados. Utilice este recurso para investigar o navegar en busca de información en la enciclopedia o bien para encontrar palabras en el diccionario. Bueno para detalles de introduccion informal de objetos variados.

Encyclopædia Britannica
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Find overviews, facts, and background in encyclopedic articles, yearbooks, and more. This is the full scholarly Academic Britannica, geared to all level students, including AP, college, and graduate level. It provides hundreds of full length, detailed encyclopedic articles, with graphics, and images, and a special multimedia collection called Spotlights. Britannica's editors have also selected and evaluated thousands of related web sites. See also: F&S History, F&S Science, F&S World Atlas, F&S Health & Living.

Facts on File Databases
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The Facts on File Databases include: American History Online, American Women’s History Online, African-American History Online, American Indian History Online, Modern World History Online, Ancient and Medieval History Online, World Atlas, Science Online, Health Reference Center, Bloom’s Literary Reference Online, Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center, Curriculum Resource Center, Issues and Controversies, Issues and Controversies in American History, and Today’s Science

Gale eBooks
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Direct link to Gale eBooks.

Gale Resources
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All searchable HCST Gale products.

Global Reference Center
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Welcome to Britannica's Global Reference Center, the home of comprehensive online content in a variety of global languages. These extensive and thorough databases are intuitive and fast, delivering trustworthy information from around the globe

Grove Art Online
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Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke (2001). We offer ongoing additions of new and updated articles, over 3,000 thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles, extensive image links, and sophisticated search and navigation tools.

Grove Music Online
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In addition to the regular program of revisions and new articles, Grove Music Online has grown to include The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (published in print in 1992 and online in 1999) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition (2001). Through a partnership with Sibelius notation software, over 500 of Grove's musical examples are now available in sound as well as notated examples.

HeritageQuest Online
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HeritageQuest Online combines digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records with the digitized version of the popular UMI Genealogy & Local History collection and other valuable content

Jersey Cat
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Find books, videos, DVDs and more. The Jersey Cat provides New Jersey residents with access to the online catalogs of over 500 New Jersey libraries and over 4 million library books, videos, CDs, and other library holdings. You can access the service from home, school, or office, and place Inter Library Loan requests for materials you need. Fill out completely with your information, and the school's fullname and address. Requests are received in 1 to 2 weeks.

Literary Resource Center
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Find literary criticism, author biography and story summaries, etc. Literary Reference Center (LRC) provides full-text reference information from antiquity to the present day, from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else.

Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary
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Find word definitions and etymology. Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary Unabridged edition.

Oxford English Dictionary
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The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. As the OED is a historical dictionary, its entry structure is very different from that of a dictionary of current English, in which only present-day senses are covered, and in which the most common meanings or senses are described first.

Safari Montage
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  SAFARI Montage provides K-12 school districts with a comprehensive solution for their digital media distribution and visual instruction needs. The full suite of integrated products gives educators and administrators a single interface for accessing all visual resources from inside the school district intranet or from home. The award-winning SAFARI Montage Video-On-Demand and Digital Media Management enterprise solution is designed to cut costs for school districts by utilizing intelligent digital media delivery, while facilitating visual instruction and learning in the classroom. SAFARI Montage servers come preloaded with educational video titles tied to the curriculum from the industry’s leading video publishers including Schlessinger Media, PBS, The History Channel, National Geographic, Scholastic, Disney Education, BBC, and more.

The New York Times Replica Edition online
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With The New York Times Replica Edition, powered by Newspaperdirect, every page of The Times on your computer looks exactly as it was published in print. It’s not a Web site, but a digital reproduction of the nation’s most honored newspaper page by page, including every article, photograph and advertisement – even the crossword.

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The Star-Ledger Online
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NIE provides The Star-Ledger or The Times, Trenton, to area classrooms. Schools will receive their local newspaper. e-Editions are exact replicas of the printed newspaper in digital form, with additional features.

World Data Analyst
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Find background, overviews, current events, comparative charts and tables. Britannica provices complete country analysis with search tools that help you build comparative charts and tables. There are three entry points: County Snapshots, Country Comparisons, Ranked Statistics. See also: F&S World Atlas.