Subscription Online Databases from Blair: Databases A to Z

Cross referenced entries spanning over 500 years of African American History.

Government, Military & Political Events, Social & Cultural Issues and Discoveries, Inventions & Firsts

Information about the political and economic systems of the United States and analysis and research support concerning key questions in the history and function of American government

Primary source documents, reference and full-text journal articles covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history

Read the original words of more than 1,500 authors who made and analyzed American history through their speeches, writings, memoirs, poems, and interviews.

Access technical service bulletins/recalls, specifications, labor time guide, factory drawings, step-by-step photographs and more.

Videos and other activities that are student centered. Great for introducing a new lesson or topic to illustrate complex subject matter or reviewing before a test.

Teachers: fully compatible with interactive whiteboards, learner response systems, projectors, Macs, and PCs.

Videos and other activities that are student centered. Great for introducing a new lesson or topic to illustrate complex subject matter or reviewing before a test.

Teachers: fully compatible with interactive whiteboards, learner response systems, projectors, Macs, and PCs.

A great encyclopedia to start your research with current information. the content is written by experts. Access to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, News, Spotlight and Research tools.

An extensive collection of Encyclopædia Britannica’s foreign language content, offering trustworthy information in SPANISH, JAPANESE, KOREAN, SIMPLIFIED CHINESE, AND FRENCH. Users will find comprehensive global coverage of art, geography, history, politics, science, sports, technology, and more.

Contains more than two million rights-cleared images from some of the best collections in the world.

Includes the traditional encyclopedia for quick facts and in-depth information with three different levels.

Britannica's Spanish language encyclopedia.

Create charts and comparisons of various health, economic, demographic, and development indicators.

Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics

Search for instructional video from a variety of producers such as Films for the Humanities and Sciences, the BBC and more.

Teachers: Capture links and create playlists to customize a video program for your students. See the media center staff for help.

Students will use this online learning tool in Social Studies classes to supplement classroom learning. Your teachers will provide login information for you.

Use your Gale Cengage password

A treasure trove of cultural information about 182 countries of the world and the United States.

An online workbook for Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese or Latin language students. The site stores a large amount of practice activities, with more exercises added during the year by our users.

download and save digital video clips from the digital video library.

Students: Use your MCPS Google username and password to login.
Teachers: Use your MCPS Google usernames and password to login.

Details about past eras that make historical accounts relevant and meaningful from their modern-day perspectives.

This database is designed for middle and high school students providing coverage of current events, primary source documents, and film and video from books, encyclopedias, newspapers, magazines and government reports.

Global perspectives on issues of international importance and current world events and topics.

An extensive collection of Encyclopædia Britannica’s
foreign language content, offering trustworthy information in Spanish, Japanese,
Korean, Simplified Chinese, and French.
Users will find comprehensive global coverage of art, geography, history, politics,
science, sports, technology, and more.

Provide periodicals, historical documents, biographies, photos/maps and historical video.

Povides an overview to frequently studied events from the Colonial period until today.

Academic journal articles from a wide variety of international academic resources.

Includes the social history of our nation, covering everything from the foods people ate and the ways they dressed to entertainment and popular pastimes.

Full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. Also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.

Contains full texts and citations to journal articles, primary sources, and images. Also includes some complete etexts of books.

The largest, most comprehensive American dictionary available

Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and a School Image Collection of photos, maps and flags

Use Noodletools to create your works cited list. Share your list electronically with your teacher.

Online access to Nature, one of the most frequently cited science multidisciplinary journals. Provides access to a backfile for previous issues.

Newsela builds reading comprehension through leveled articles, real-time assessments and actionable insights.

Articles from many sources exploring all sides of controversial issues.

Find journal articles on a variety of topics. Many of the sources are international in perspective.

Collection of author biographies, contemporary criticism, reviews, and multimedia resources. Great for poetry readings.

Provides newspapers, journals and reference resources.

A comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full-text science-oriented content.

Full text, full color articles from the journal. Students can access virtual classrooms their teachers have set up.

Online access to Scientific American Mind including original graphics. To get to Blair's subscription, click on the link at the bottom left of the front page of Scientific American.

Articles highlighting key events, movements, includes documents, letters and memos, editorial cartoons, streaming video, websites, photographs, maps, advertisements, and published articles. SIRS will work better in Google Chrome Browser.

Curriculum related newspaper and magazine articles. Also provides links to external websites. Use your planbook to find the home use username and password. SIRS will work better in Google Chrome Browser.

Use this database to find quality articles and great websites. Look for "Leading Issues" and find pro/con articles. Also click on the icon for Global Impact for a more international perspective on your topic. Use your planbook to find the home use username and password. SIRS will work better in Google Chrome Browser.

Reference source on people, places, and events in history, web links. Includes periodical articles, scientific terms and concept.

Excerpts from books read by authors and actors, both in print and audio. Teachers should come to media center to register.

Practice tests and books for PSAT, SAT, ACT, AP exams, CLEP, GED, TOEFL and more.
Teachers: Use TERC to access full texts Peterson's test prep books. Additional study tools include flash cards and academic skills question banks.

An online collection of books reads out load and highlights the text. Contains everything from classics like Romeo and Juliet to contemporary stories perfect for pleasure reading.

An online collection of books that you can read or have read to you. Many are bilingual titles which allow the user to read the book in two languages.
Teachers Note: Many of the books contain lesson plans.

Provides reference, newspaper, video, images, and other primary sources. Search by topic then narrow.

Provides overviews of conflicts, the opponents, causes & consequence, statistics, images, maps, and video to conflicts from exploration of the New World to the present.