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Scroll down to find Craven-Pamilco-Carteret County Libraries & enter password (can be accessed at home - see Media Center Staff for more information)
NC LIVE provides North Carolina residents and students with access to high quality information - searchable collections of magazine, newspaper, and journal articles, electronic books, historical materials, maps, and more - covering a wide range of topics.
Brochures available in the Media Center for more information. . .
No password necessary to access these resources at school. This site includes:
Full text magazines & journal articles
Grolier Online - online encyclopedia (username: wiseowl, password: wiseowl)
Lands & Peoples Encyclopedia - good for geographical & cultural research
Jr. Reference Center - an overall good starting point for all research
Popular Science - science based encyclopedia
America Beautiful - history & geography of the US
Scribner Writers - information on writers lives & literature
Brochures
Available in the Media Center for more information. . .
”Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.”
Please be careful with this web site because although the articles are valid, you may not be able to access them all.
Gale Virtual Reference Libraries
Includes the following reference sources that you can search for free. . .
Arts & Humanities Through the Eras
U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
U*X*L
Encyclopedia of Biomes
U*X*L
Encyclopedia of Landforms and Other Geologic Features
Africa:
An Encyclopedia for Students
Encyclopedia
of Modern Asia
Gale
Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Gale
Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
Junior
Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Blackbirch
Kid's Visual Reference of the United States
Blackbirch
Kid's Visual Reference of the World
Junior
Worldmark Encyclopedia of Foods and Recipes of the World
Encyclopedia
of Religion
Animal
Sciences
World
of Earth Science
Questia - The World's Largest Online Library of Books
Questia is the first online library that provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles. You can search each and every word of all of the books and journal articles in the collection. You can read every title cover to cover. This rich, scholarly content -- selected by professional collection development librarians -- is not available elsewhere on the Internet. Undergraduate, high school, graduate students, and Internet users of all ages have found Questia to be an invaluable online resource. Anyone doing research or just interested in topics that touch on the humanities and social sciences will find titles of interest in Questia.
This site is your library for information on the Internet. It is much easier to search here than on Google to find relevant and usable sources for your class assignments.
Resources & links for subjects including raw data for math projects as well as free (and copyright free) images and media to use in your power point presentations, etc.
Publisher of literature, reference and verse. Includes online encyclopedias free of charge. A great searchable site for all things literal, historical and cultural.
Free online e-books. Includes classic works written before 1920. Can't find a book at the library? Check this site out.