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MHS Library Databases: World Cultures & Geography

Research Resources

Best Bets for Research

Gale eBooks (MHS) This link opens in a new window
Encyclopedias & reference sources for all subjects. [🔐login info]
Gale In Context: High School (MHS) This link opens in a new window
Articles (popular & scholarly), news, video, audio & image sources for all subjects.[🔐login info] [✅searching tips]
Credo Reference (MHS) This link opens in a new window
Encyclopedias, reference titles, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and atlases on all subjects. [🔐login info]
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. [🔐login info - access Explora Secondary in Clever ]
Britannica School This link opens in a new window
Articles, images, and more. Use tools to cite, read aloud, change reading level. [🔐login info - access Britannica in Clever] [✅searching tips]

Geography & Culture Resources

Databases

Gale in Context: Global Issues (MHS) This link opens in a new window
Topic overviews, international viewpoints, news & multimedia content for global issues. [🔐login info] [✅searching tips]
CultureGrams (MHS & NHS) 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. [🔐login info ]
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Britannica School Atlas - High This link opens in a new window
Full-color maps that reflect today's world; access data on population, languages, and monetary units. [🔐login info]

Websites

Google Earth
3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery.
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
An array of earth, water, biological, and mapping data.
CIA World Factbook
Provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.

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