Online
Subscriptions for WCPSS
High School
These subscriptions are available to students and staff at school and at home. See your Library Media Coordinator for the home access ID and password for each informational database.
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Cumbre 
An online Spanish Language Encyclopedia included in the Grolier databases.
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Encarta
Encyclopedia is only accessible at the school site.
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Gale Databases
Looking for literary topics, including criticism? Try…..
Contemporary Literary
Criticism Select
Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select is an extensive collection of critical
essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical
introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.
Scribner Writers Series
Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed
essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed
Scribner print series.
The Twayne Authors Series - Twayne World,
English, and US Authors
Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200
frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or
English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.
Looking for information in literature, history, sociology, science, political science, biographies, current events, primary source material, links to web sites, magazine and newspaper articles, and pictures! Try…..
Student Resource Center - Gold
1980 - Present
A fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted
primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information,
critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines, newspapers,
over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio
and video clips. Includes Student Resource Center-Health Module.
Discovering Collection
Oct 2002
Use this comprehensive database to retrieve in-depth reference content for
the core curriculum areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science,
and Social Studies.
Junior Reference Collection
A comprehensive, cross-curricular database for schools and libraries featuring
current, relevant, organized, and easy-to-read information from the U*X*L
product line, covering science, biographies, authors, multicultural topics,
and people and places.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Jan, 2005
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues
series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content
from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete
one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles,
topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text
magazine and newspaper articles.
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K-12 Teaching and Learning
Center 
The K-12 Teaching & Larning Center is a site on the Internet to which teachers can come for information, ideas, useful tools and direct support.
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NC Wise Owl 
A collection of informational databases designed for
use by students, staff and parents. Includes the following:
Infotrac (newspapers and magazines)
Grolier Online which includes: Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia,
The New Book of Knowledge, The New Book of Popular Science, Lands and People,
America the Beautiful
Junior Reference Collection
SASinschool
Kaleidoscope
Suggested sites for Media and Technology, Professional Resources,
Resources for Parents, Secondary Resources
E-book Reference Library. These titles are standard multi-volume
reference materials that have been digitized and can be searched within
each title as well as among all titles. See current titles below:
Gale Virtual Reference Library Africa: An Encyclopedia for Students, Animal Sciences, Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health, Encyclopedia of World Foods & Recipes, Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Encyclopedia of Biomes, Encyclopedia of Landforms and Geology, Encyclopedia of World Biography
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NoveList K-8
Looking for a good book to read?
Looking for information about books and authors? Looking for a book about
other cultures?
“Users can also browse hundreds of theme-oriented book lists for readers
at all grade levels through Explore Fiction, and look for award-winning
and recommended titles in Best Fiction. Many title records have direct links
to Web sites with information about the author or with teacher resource
materials.”
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For Teachers and Staff
Proquest Education Journals
Offering complete information on hundreds of educational topics, this database covers almost 400 leading journals in the field. Nearly all of them offer articles in the three most popular formats. 1988 to date.