Coventry High School: Online Resources

Science in Context provides topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations, as well as articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics, and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify content directly correlated to state and national standards.

Having a clear, compelling point of view on today’s most debated political and social issues requires finding the most credible facts and insights. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints simplifies your search by bringing together thousands of resources to provide authoritative articles, research reports, videos, and statistics. This database steers you away from unreliable content that online browsers sometimes serve up and helps you draw your own conclusions about global warming, the minimum wage, and hundreds of other debated topics.

From Shakespeare to Salinger: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. Whatever the genre, Gale Literature Resource Center is your source for information on literary movements, authors and their works. This database makes it easy to search across more than 165,000 entries, including biographies, overviews, and full-text literary criticism—past and present.

Health Resources from Gale: Rely on information you can feel good about. When it comes to health-related information, the best source is a trusted one. Our library provides health and wellness databases you can access online 24/7—when and where you need them most. Search with confidence knowing you’ll find relevant content from reliable sources. Plus, there are no advertisements to get in the way of you and what you’re researching.

History Reference Center is the world’s most comprehensive full-text history reference database, featuring full text for more than 2,400 reference books, encyclopedias and nonfiction books from leading history publishers. Also includes full text for more than 130 leading history periodicals, and contains more than 61,100 historical documents; more than 66,000 historical biographies; more than 110,200 photos and maps; and more than 80 hours of historical video.

Points of View Reference Center contains resources that present multiple sides of an issue, and provides rich content to help students debate, assess and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills. Points of View Reference Center covers over 400 topics, each with an overview (background and description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument). Each topic features a Guide to Critical Analysis which helps the reader evaluate the controversy and enhances students’ ability to read critically, develop their own perspective on the issues, and write or debate an effective argument on the topic.

EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite is a scholarly resource that provides indexing and abstracts for more than 8,300 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. PDF back files to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals

A comprehensive database provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. Full-text database of more than 35,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews; nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism; more than 252,000 author biographies; also includes over 693,000 book reviews, author interviews and information on classic and contemporary poems , short stories, classic texts and more.

Tutor.com provides online, on-demand academic tutoring, homework help, and test preparation to kindergarten through 12th grade students, plus early college students and adult learners. Tutor is available 7 days a week from 2pm – 10pm

Mango Languages is an online language-learning program that can help patrons learn more than 70 languages including Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Irish, and Italian. Mango Languages for Libraries offers English as a Second Language courses for non-English speakers, and translation services. A mobile version is available in your app store in order to take language lessons anywhere!

Prepare for important exams like the ACT, SAT, AP Tests, and more.

Flipster offers an easy, browse-able reading experience. Users can browse magazines by category as well as perform searches for specific periodicals. An online newsstand provides a carousel of the most recent issues, as well as a carousel of all issues allowing for quick access to magazines. The table of contents contains links for quick access to articles of interest and hotlinks within magazines are hyperlinked, opening in separate tabs when clicked. In addition, there is an option to zoom in and out for better readability.

Convenient, comprehensive collections of acclaimed eBooks in a range of key subjects – more than $180,000 worth of content in each collection. Provide students and patrons with access to this complete library 24/7—365 days a year! Click on the picture to access.