The
following databases are available for research use for the Newton Country Day
School Community.
If
you have any questions using these databases, please see Mrs. Tuck or Miss
Kinney.
| ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and educational purposes. | |
| A to Z Maps Online is a database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. | |
| These publications include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. | |
| Search Encyclopedia Britannica Online. | |
| The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities. | |
| Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select is an extensive collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors. | |
| Over 5,000 videos available anytime, anywhere, for everyone. | |
| Grolier Online contains the online Encyclopedia Americana and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. | |
| Search in five databases: American Government, American History, World Geography, World History the Modern Era, and World History Ancient and Medieval Eras. | |
| Contains seven subject databases and searches for full text periodical articles. | |
| Search online newspapers from around the world. | |
| Covers in-depth investigations of today's top issues. | |
| Search full text articles from area newspapers including the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald. | |
| Search the New York Times online from 1985-the present | |
| Free online full-textadvanced scientific and medical articles. |
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| Science Online offers comprehensive coverage of a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive essays, diagrams, illustrations, images, biographies, experiments, activities, and definitions. | |
| Science news written especially for students. | |
| Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of Twayne Literary Masters books on individual authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles. | |
| The WorldBook Online is an online encyclopedia with multimedia capability. |