Midwest Central Middle School Media Links

The links provided on this page are gateways to the “invisible web”—information on the Internet that is not accessible with a search engine.

Online Catalogs

MCMS Library—a public access catalog providing access to the materials in the MCMS library and all other libraries in the Resource Sharing Alliance

Online Encyclopedias

Grolier—an access point for Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, and Lands and Peoples

Grolier Remote--access to Grolier resources from home.  First-time users must establish a username and password.  Click on the Grolier Remote link and follow the instructions on the enrollment page.

World Book Online—a source for basic information, maps, and pictures

Magazine, Journal, and News Resources

EBSCO—several databases containing full-text articles from all kinds of periodicals, health sources and professional education resources

(ERIC abstracts available)

FIRST SEARCH—databases providing access to full text articles, online catalog, and web sites 

Social Issues Resources Series(SIRS)—an online database of information written about controversial issues   

                    To access SIRS from home use www.sirs.com 

                    Customer ID: IL0180H (case sensitive)

                    Password: 61546

Art, Literature, History and Science Resources

Grove's Dictionary of ArtA database containing 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory to the present day

Proquest's CultureGrams--a great resource for finding information about countries and states

For remote access to CultureGrams, go to http://online.culturegrams.com 

Login ID:

midwesthome

Password:

cgrams

 

History Study Center--a database of articles relating to history and of primary source documents 

For remote access to History Study Center, go to http://www.proquestk12.com

Login ID:

02-67619REMOTE

Password:

bigchalk

 If you have questions or comments regarding this page, e-mail our librarian      deehohen@midwestcentral.org

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