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Wild West Research
(February 2012)

LIBRARY ONLINE RESOURCES

• Subject search: “Westward Expansion”, "Frontier and Pioneer Life", West (U.S.)--History",  "Gold",   "California--Gold", "Transcontinental Railroad".

• Keyword search on specific person's name or topic.

• Power Search for advanced searching options.

Noodlebib to create a bibliography, store web links, write note-cards, and save documents.

 Encyclopedias, Databases & Websites
          (passwords on back of ID cards)

   Biography in Context (Gale) 

   Biography Reference Center (EBSCO)

•  DE Streaming (UnitedStreaming)
     User name and passwords have changed.  Available from your teacher or the library.
   Database of digital video films, video clips, images, sounds, clip art, and articles.
•  EBSCO Databases
     Multiple databases in many subject areas that include background and critical analyses,    biographies, full text magazine & newspaper articles, photographs & illustrations, primary  documents, and video & audio clips.
•  Encyclopedia of World Biography (ebook)
     Access from Library Webpage, click on Webcollection.  Enter title search for Encyclopedia for World Biography, click on Available via Gale Virtual Reference Library.  Click here to access.
•  Gale Resources
     Multiple databases in many subject areas that include background and critical analyses, biographies, full text magazine & newspaper articles, photographs & illustrations, primary documents, and video & audio clips.

History Reference Center (EBSCO) "Wild West Page"
           U.S. History>Expansion & Manifest Destiny (1784-1860)>Wild West

•  S.C.O.R.E. History/Social Science
     Database of web-based resources in history/social science, language arts, mathematics, and science that support California academic standards.

   Shmoop: The West
   Developed by educators to support high school & college level students

•  World Book Online
     Contains every article from the 22-volume print encyclopedia plus thousands more related articles from newspapers and magazines, state-of-the-art multimedia, maps, editor- reviewed Web sites, and Spanish edition.

Reference Books & Print Encyclopedias

•  Encyclopedia Americana (print) focuses on U.S. History.
•  Encyclopedia of the American West (REF 978 ENCYC)
•  The World Book Encyclopedia (print)
•  Western Expansion Almanac (REF 973 WES)