ECASD LibGuides: MHS Library Databases: World Languages

Best Bets for All Research

FInd articles, news, images, videos, and more on all subjects from these general sources.

Gale In Context: High School (MHS) This link opens in a new window
Articles (popular & scholarly), news, video, audio & image sources for all subjects.
Gale: How To This link opens in a new window
Tips and tricks for finding, saving, citing articles, images, and other materials in Gale.

FACT-FINDING or GATHERING BACKGROUND INFO

[fact-finding vs. research]

Gale eBooks (MHS) This link opens in a new window
Encyclopedias & reference sources for all subjects.
Infobase: Credo Reference (MHS) This link opens in a new window
Encyclopedias, reference titles, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and atlases on all subjects.
Explora Secondary This link opens in a new window
High-quality articles, carefully curated topic categories with overviews that provide a starting point for research.
Britannica School This link opens in a new window
Articles, images, and more. Use tools to cite, read aloud, change reading level.
Britannica: How To This link opens in a new window
Tips and tricks to finding articles, images, and other materials in Britannica.

World Culture Databases

ProQuest: CultureGrams (MHS) This link opens in a new window
Photos, slideshows, videos, interviews, customs, recipes, flags, graphs, infographics, line/political/physical maps, reports and more of the US and countries around the world.
NHS LOGIN - Username: nhs Password: huskies

Databases with Translation Tools

Many of our databases have English interfaces (search pages), but translation can be turned on at the article level. There are many language options within this feature.

Gale Power Search (MHS) This link opens in a new window
Search across all MHS Gale databases at once.
Explora Secondary This link opens in a new window
High-quality articles, carefully curated topic categories with overviews that provide a starting point for research.
Infobase: Credo Reference (MHS) This link opens in a new window
Encyclopedias, reference titles, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and atlases on all subjects.

Databases in Spanish

Recommended Websites

A Basic Dictionary of ASL Terms
Here are a few American Sign Language terms to help those of you who are trying to communicate with a person who signs, but does not hear. Also included is the basic alphabet and numbers 1-10.
Dictionary of Spanish
Translate words to-and-from English and Spanish.
WordReference.com Online German, Spanish, French and Italian Dictionaries
A dictionary publisher provides dictionaries from several of the world's languages. Translates both directions.

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