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Databases index periodical literature and general reference sources. They provide abstracts and/or the full text of articles published in magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference works. Databases are updated daily.

New Databases

Global Issues in Context

World History in Context

A to Z World Culture

Middle School Databases

Annals of American History Online

Biography in Context (Biography Resource Center)
An excellent source of full text biographical information from ancient times to the present. This database also includes some images and references to other sources. For more biographies, see Recommended Web Sites by Subject/History.

Cobblestone
Provides access to the full text of articles in Cobblestone, Calliope, Classical Calliope, Faces, and Odyssey magazines, covering the following subject areas: American history, world history, contemporary world cultures, geography, physical science, astronomy, earth science, archaeology, and general social studies and science topics.

eLibrary
Over 2,500 full-text and multimedia reference sources, including magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts--plus maps, pictures, and multimedia (audio/video) files.

InfoTrac Junior Edition
This database is designed for students in Middle School with over 330 titles, cross-searchable with ebooks, and provides access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, and sports.

InfoTrac Student Edition
With over 1,100 titles, cross-searchable with ebooks, this database provides access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazine and newspaper articles, podcasts, and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, and sports.

InfoTrac General OneFile
Provides access to a wide variety of full-text magazines, newspapers and reference works on current events, arts, science, popular culture, history, government, health, and social sciences.

US History Collection - Gale
Well-rounded coverage of current thinking and events as well as scholarship in the field of US History. This database provides access to the full text of over 450,000 articles.

Upper School Databases

ProQuest
An essential research tool that provides abstracts and full-text articles from over 2,000 general interest and subject specific magazines, scholarly journals, and newspapers.

Academic ASAP
Provides access to articles in scholarly journals, news magazines and newspapers from the arts and humanities to social sciences, science and technology.

Annals of American History Online

eLibrary
Over 2,500 full-text and multimedia reference sources, including magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts--plus maps, pictures, and multimedia (audio/video) files.

Gale Database Collection
This collection includes the following cross-searchable databases: Expanded Academic ASAP, Biography Resource Center, General Reference Center Gold, InfoTrac OneFile, InfoTrac Student Edition, Computer Database, LegalTrac, Gale Virtual Reference Library, Military & Intelligence Database, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and InfoTrac Religion & Philosophy among others.

Global Issues in Context

InfoTrac General OneFile
Provides access to a variety of full-text magazines, newspapers and reference works on current events, arts, science, popular culture, health, government, history, and social sciences.

InfoTrac Newsstand
A fulltext newspaper database covering thousands of national, state, and local newspapers from 1980 to the present.

InfoTrac Student Edition
With over 1,100 titles, cross-searchable with ebooks, this periodical database provides access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, and sports.

US History Collection - Gale

SAT Word Wizardry by Logophilus (aka Brett)

Twitter: @membean

Cool word world SAT sphere

Word roots podcasts and vocabulary blogs!

Peruse the power of word origins! Welcome to SAT Vocabulary Words of the Week, focusing on English vocabulary derived from Greek and Latin roots. Thank you for attending to this column this school year. I hope you have found it instructive! I will begin again in mid-August as the 2013-2014 school year gets under way. In the meantime, if you cannot wait, you can listen to many podcasts that describe the Greek and Latin root word origins of English vocabulary.

PSAT and SAT Word of the Day: unilateral: A unilateral decision is entirely one-sided, involving only one side of an issue or one country among many.

Word Etymology: A unilateral decision is completely “one-sided.”

SAT same sense: autonomous, polarization, nonpartisan

SAT opposite sense: bipartisan, coalition, unanimous

Friday Fun Word: iotacist: someone who is prone to an excessive use of the letter "i"; suovetaurilia: a Roman sacrifice to Jupiter of a white sow, white sheep, and white bull to kick off the five-year census in the Campus Martius in Rome

Check out this informative archive of blogposts and podcasts focusing on PSAT and SAT Latin and Greek roots to further your knowledge of SAT and PSAT vocabulary!

Here find a fascinating compendium of graphic Latin and Greek root word trees.

SAT English Vocabulary Links

Getting ready for the SAT? Check out Brett's new SAT vocabulary learning Memory Engine at membean.com. It's a fun way of learning and remembering all the SAT vocabulary you'll ever need!

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Donate land to the rain forest by playing a fun word game, designed by cruciverbalists, at charitii.

English vocabulary Greek and Latin roots and prefixes podcasts and blog links: Latin root word cis, -cide:cut; Latin root word fall: trick; Latin root words mit + miss: send; Latin root word form: shape; Latin root cogn: learn; Greek root word morph: shape, form; Greek root word chron: time; Greek root word graph: write; Latin root word ject: thrown; Latin root word fer: carry; Latin root word lat: carry; Latin root words duc and duct: lead; Latin root word fic: make,do; Latin root word fac: make, do; Latin root word plic: fold; Greek root word log: "word" and suffix -logy: "study of"; Latin root words dic and dict: "say, "tell"; Latin root word vert: "turn"; Latin root word vers: "turn"; Latin root word tract: "drag, pull"; Latin root word cept: "taken, take"; Latin root words cip, cap, ceiv: "take"; Latin root word ten: "hold"; Latin root words tin, tain, tent: "hold"; Latin root words ven, vent: "come"; Latin root word mal: "evil, bad"; English prefix re-: "back, again"; English prefix re-: "thoroughly; English root words sid and sed "sit"; Greek and Latin etymology podcast; English morphology podcast; Latin root word ced: "go, move"; Latin root word cess: "go, move"; English prefix pre-: "before, in front"; Latin root words grad and gress: "step"; Latin word roots clus, clud, and clos: "shut"; English prefix trans-: "across"; English prefix inter-: "between"; Latin root word magn: "big, large, great"; English prefix ex-: "out of, from"; English intensive prefix ex-: "very, thoroughly"; English intensive prefixes; Latin root word pend: "hang"; Latin root word ped: "foot"; English prefix sub-: "under, below"; English prefix super: "over, above"; English prefix circum: "around"; English prefix pro-: "forward, forth"; English prefixes contra-, counter-: "opposite, against; English prefix uni-: "one"

For definitions of the fun words below, see #greatrarewords on Twitter.

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