Electronic Resource Center
To support your research needs, NHS subscribes to several databases. These databases are digitalized versions of magazines, newspapers, government documents, professional and peer-reviewed journals and other print resources which are indexed and searchable. These databases are available from school or at home.
Online Resources
Research Skills: Informational Paper
Databases, Destiny, Citations, Media Bias, and Printing
- Researching 101: Informational Research
Research Lesson Using Databases and Destiny, creating citations
MLA 8
MLA came out with a new citation plan over the summer. It is designed to make it easier for you to cite any source. Please watch this video before citing, and follow the directions. It is actually pretty simple. Never thought I'd say that about citing! In the attachments, I've given you a worksheet to create your citations. Fill in what you have, leave off what you don't, and if you need more than one container, "insert" another worksheet after #9 of the first. A container is the holder of the work you are citing. Let's say you are citing a magazine article you found in a database. The first container is the magazine the article is in. The second container is the database the magazine is in. Confused? Watch the video!! It'll all make sense
- How to cite MLA 8 video by Kyle Stedman
- MLA 8 Documents
Genealogy Research
Ancestory.com
Build a family tree to see you story emerge.
Newspapers.com
The largest online newspaper archive.
Fold3.com
Discover your family's military past.
InfoBase Learning
Username: nwsc
Password: tigers
American History Online: Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history to cover the American experience.
Bloom's Literature: Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.
Current Issues: Provides exclusive, extensive coverage of hundreds of today's hot topics, with unbiased analysis and rich related resources.
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center: Provides profiles of nearly 3,400 jobs and 94 industries, invaluable advice on career skills, thousands of resource entries, and more!
Science and Mathematics: Bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today.
Today's Science: Provides exclusive, extensive coverage of hundreds of today's hot topics, with unbiased analysis and rich related resources.
World News Digest: Authoritative world news coverage from 1940 through today: provides information, context, and perspective.
Environmental science
Indiana State Library
Databases by Subject
Biographies
- Biography In Context
- Biography Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson)
- Biography Reference Center
- Contemporary Authors
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
- MasterFILE Premier
- Newspaper Source
- WorldCat
Business
- Business Wire News (formerly Regional Business News)
- Business Source Complete
- Census.gov
- Corporate ResourceNet
- Health Business FullTEXT
- Professional Development Collection
- Small Business Reference Center
- Small Business Resource Center
Careers
- Entrepreneurial Studies Source
- IndianaCAREERconnect.com
- Small Business Reference Center
- Testing and Education Reference Center
- Vocational and Career Collection
- Vocational Studies Premier
Education
- ERIC
- Explora for Elementary Schools
- Explora for High Schools
- Explora Educator's Edition
- MAS Ultra - High School Edition
- Middle Search Plus
- Primary Search
- TeachingBooks.net*
- Testing and Education Reference Center
Government and Military
- Census.gov
- Hoosier State Chronicles
- IN.gov
- Indiana History Online
- Military & Government Collection
- Newspaper Source Plus
- Newspapers.com*
- Testing and Education Reference Center
Health & Medicine
- Alt HealthWatch
- Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic
- Consumer Health Complete
- Health Business FullTEXT
- History Reference Center
- Health Source - Consumer Edition
- MEDLINE
- MEDLINE with Full Text
- See More
Literature
- Essay & General Literature Index (H.W. Wilson)
- Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
- Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
- International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text
- Literary Reference Center Plus
- LitFinder
- MagillOnLiterature Plus
- Play Index (H.W. Wilson)
- Read It!
- Short Story Index
- See More
News and History
- History Reference Center
- Hoosier State Chronicles
- Indiana History Online
- Indiana Memory
- MasterFILE Premier
- McClatchy-Tribune Collection
- Newspaper Source Plus
- Newspapers.com*
- Newswires
STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics
- Academic Search Premier
- GreenFILE
- Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center
- Home Improvement Reference Center
- Science In Context
- Science Reference Center
- See More
Student Search K-6
- Biography In Context
- Explora for Elementary Schools
- Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia
- Indiana History Online
- Newspaper Source
- TeachingBooks.net*
- Testing and Education Reference Center
- See More
Student Search 6-12
- Explora for High Schools
- Health Reference Center Academic
- LitFinder
- Middle Search Plus
- Newspaper Source
- Points of View Reference Center
- Testing and Education Reference Center
- TOPICsearch
- Social Sciences Full Text
- See More
World Languages
- Fonte Academica
- Fuenta Academica Premier
- Informe Academico
- Read It!
- Referencia Latina
- Rosetta Stone Level One for Personal Use
- Vente et Gestion
- See More
*Newspapers.com and TeachingBooks.net are free for users in Indiana. Log in to INSPIRE.in.gov for access.
Kokomo Public Library Databases
Use your library card number to access these great databases. The library has many databases for both educational and personal use. Make sure to check them out here!
Salem Press Databases
Click HERE to login at school
Click HERE to login at home
Password: tigerpride
- Literature
- Critical Insights: Authors
- Critical Insights: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Critical Insights: Ernest Hemingway
- Critical Insights: George Orwell
- Critical Insights: John Steinbeck
- Critical Insights: Works
- Critical Insights: Things Fall Apart
- Cyclopedias of Literary Characters & Places
- Cyclopedia of Literary Characters
- Critical Insights: Authors
- History
- Great Events from History
- Great Events from History: Modern Scandals
- Grey House: Value of a Dollar
- The Value of a Dollar, 1860–2014
- The Value of a Dollar, Colonial Era
- Grey House: Working Americans
- Working Americans Vol. 1: The Working Class, 2nd Edition
- Working Americans Vol. 2: The Middle Class
- Working Americans Vol. 3: The Upper Class
- Working Americans Vol. 4: Their Children
- Working Americans Vol. 5: Americans at War, 2nd Edition
- Working Americans Vol. 6, 2nd Ed: Women at Work
- Working Americans Vol. 7: Social Movements
- Working Americans Vol. 8: Immigrants
- Working Americans Vol. 10: Sports & Recreation
- Working Americans Vol. 11: Inventors & Entrepreneurs
- Working Americans Vol. 12: Our History Through Music
- Working Americans Vol. 13: Educators & Education
- Milestone Documents
- Milestone Documents in American History
- Milestone Documents of American Leaders
- World Political Yearbook
- World Political Yearbook 2016
- Great Events from History
- Science
- Encyclopedia of Energy
- Encyclopedia of Energy
- Encyclopedia of Energy
- Health
- General Health
- Addictions & Substance Abuse
- Complementary & Alternative Medicine
- Magill's Medical Guide, Seventh Edition
- Psychology & Behavioral Health
- Psychology and Mental Health
- General Health
SIRS
Username: in0157h
Password: 46901
- Issues Researcher: Covering the Leading Issues most studied and debated by students.
- Pro/Con Database