Online Resources

Gale
Student Resource Center - Gold
Student Resource Center - Gold provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts. Premier reference content includes the American Journey Series, American Decades, Career Information Center and the SRC Health Module.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.
In addition we have categorized eBooks into sub-collections based on Topics to make it easily accessible for students.
Science Resource Center
Researching science topics has never been easier -- with Science Resource Center, thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations are just a few clicks away and the latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites.
Literature Resource Center - LRC
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
Gale WebFeet
Gale takes the guesswork out of Internet research with WEB FEET, a subject guide designed for school and public librarians and their students and patrons. The database is composed of thousands of descriptions of Web sites that have been selected by a team of librarians, educators, subject-area specialists, and editors for their quality, credibility, and usefulness.

Questia
Questia is the world's largest online library of books, with over 72,000 full-text books, 2 million articles, and an entire reference set complete with a dictionary, encyclopedia, and thesaurus. This academic library includes digital productivity tools for highlighting text, taking notes, and generating footnotes and bibliographies in seven different styles.

EbscoHost
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MAS Ultra - School Edition
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra Ð School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 341,655 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
Health Source - Consumer Edition
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full-text, consumer health magazines.
Newspaper Source
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 35 national & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 375 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.
Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.

ERIC
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,243,000 records and links to more than 224,000 full-text documents from ERIC.
TOPICsearch
TOPICsearch contains full text for over 105,000 articles from 1,622 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
Student Research Center
EBSCO's Student Research Center makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.
Points of View Reference Center
Points of View Reference Center is a full text database designed to provide students and schools with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study and are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles from the world's top political and societal publications.
GreenFile
EBSCO offers GreenFILE, a research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. GreenFILE's initial release includes A&I for more than 600 titles, including comprehensive coverage from to volume 1, issue 1 to present for Bioscience (back to 1964), Conservation Biology (back to 1987), Journal of Ecology (back to 1913) and Journal of Environmental Planning & Management (back to 1948). The total number of records is approximately 295,000, and full text is provided for more than 4,600 records from open access titles.

Proquest
SIRS Knowledge Source
A comprehensive portal offering centralized access to all SIRS products which target the needs of students with best-of content selected to support research, study, and homework in key curricula subjects.
SIRS Researcher¨--topical pro/con coverage of current and enduring issues, including over 100 Leading Issues
SIRS¨ Government Reporter resources by and about the U.S. government
SIRS¨ Renaissance--current perspectives on the arts and humanities
SIRS¨ WebSelect--a collection of more than 20,000 reliable and credible websites covering all SKS topics
eLibrary Science
Offers laser-focused science content and tools along with unique video and dozens of manipulative found in no other online science reference product.
SIRS Discoverer
General reference resource for young researchers that makes learning fun and intuitive. Helps students in grades 1-9 develop their research, writing, language and computer skills.

NoodleTools
NoodleTools provides innovative software that teaches students and supports teachers and librarians throughout the entire research process.
Search intelligently
Assess the quality of results
Record, organize and synthesize information using online note cards
Format your bibliography in MLA, APA, or Chicago/Turabian style

Turnitin Originality Checking
Originality Checking allows educators to check students' work for improper citation or potential plagiarism by comparing it against continuously updated databases. Every Originality Report provides instructors with the opportunity to teach their students proper citation methods as well as to safeguard their students' academic integrity.

Quia
Quia provides a wide variety of tools, including:
Templates for creating 16 types of online activities, including flash cards, word search, battleship, challenge board, and cloze exercises.
Complete online testing tools that allow teachers to create quizzes, grade them with computer assistance, and receive detailed reports on student performance.
Access to over 3 million online activities and quizzes in 300 categories. Teachers from around the world have created all of the shared activities.
A class Web page creator that includes a course calendar and an easy way to post Quia activities for students and parents.
Online surveys for gathering student and teacher feedback.

SATPrep
American Heritage is working in conjunction with Teach America and offers a comprehensive SAT prep program for all AHS students.
Class
Small group tutoring (special rate)
One on one tutoring (special rate)
On-line video instruction.

Naviance
Naviance is the leading provider of planning and advising systems for K-12 schools and a powerful resource for college admissions professionals who need to communicate with counselors, students, and parents.