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America the Beautiful
This state-by-state encyclopedia includes fast facts, history and geography, economy and culture, government, cities, spotlights, and profiles of famous residents of all 50 states plus American territories. |
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Citing Sources
Websites and databases have authors just like books. Here's how to list online resources for your paper in footnotes or bibliographies. |
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EBSCO Animals (an EBSCOhost database)
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. |
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Evaluating Sources
The Internet is an unregulated community with no oversight for content. Here are a few things to consider when evaluating Web content. |
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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (An EBSCOhost database)
Provides over 25,000 entries covering a variety of subject areas. |
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Global Road Warrior
A guide to over 150 countries. Perfect for travelers or students. Find out how much to tip in Bolivia, what type of government exists in Mali, the type of food eaten in Norway, and much, much more. |
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Lands and Peoples
An encyclopedia of countries, cultures, and current events geared toward student users. |
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LearningExpressLibrary
Interactive test preparation guides for the ASVAB, GRE, SAT, U.S. Citizenship and more.
To create your account, sign in as a new user entering your library card number as your Username. |
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LitFinder
Contains a wealth of primary literature content, including full text poems, short stories, essays, speeches and plays from all time periods and more than 600 nationalities. Biographies, work summaries, and photographs of authors are also included in the database. Information can be searched by keyword, author, subject, work title, nationality, and more. |
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MAS Ultra – School Edition (an EBSCOhost database)
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides the full text of over 600 popular general interest and current events publications. |
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MasterFILE Premier(an EBSCOhost database)
Contains full text articles from over 2, 050 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and more. |
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
One-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to related sites. |
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PCL Children's Homework Help
Provo City Library resources provided to help students grades K-8. |
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PCL YA Teen Homework
Resources selected by librarians to assist students grades 6 and up. |
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SIRS Discoverer
General reference database for grades 1 to 9. Includes full text articles and images from over 1,600 U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, and government documents. |
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SIRS Government Reporter
Information published by and about the U.S. Federal Government, including full-text documents, summaries, and graphics covering a wide variety of topics. |
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SIRS Renaissance
Current perspectives on the Arts & Humanities with full-text articles from more than 1,200 U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, and journals. |
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SIRS Researcher
General reference database containing thousands of full text articles from 1,600 U.S. and international publications exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political, and global issues. |
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TOPICsearch (an EBSCOhost database)
A current events database which explores social, political, and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. |
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World Book Online
Based on the print version, this database also contains extensive graphic and multimedia enhancements, special reports on selected topics, and links to external Web sites selected by World Book editors. |
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