Online Resource Databases

The Library’s online resource databases contain magazine, journal, and newspaper articles as well as primary documents, reference materials, and multimedia on both current and historical events, health, sciences, and humanities.

To search these databases, you will need a password. Note:  the password is listed next to the name of each database below.

To Research a topic - select a Category:

• Biographies (Searching for People)
• General Interest
• Health
• Images (in art, architecture, humanities and social sciences)
• Literature
• Magazines and Newspapers
• Maps
• Science
• Social Issues
• Social Sciences
• Spanish Language Materials
• World Cultures

Biographies (Searching for People)

Biography Resource Center (password: san_log)
Search for people---both current and historic from all eras and fields of endeavor---based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as keyword. Includes full-text articles in periodicals, biographical directories with images and links to web sites.
 

General Interest

Discovering Collection (password: san_log)
Reference and primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (password: san_log)
Includes encyclopedias and specialized reference sources.

General Reference Center Gold (password: san_log) Newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications.

Student Edition - K12 (password: san_log)
Includes magazines, newspapers and reference books.

Student Resource Center- Gold– (password: san_log)
Includes reference material and more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips, and podcasts.

 

Health

Health & Wellness Resource Center (password: san_log)
Contains medical, statistical, health, and wellness information.

Teen Health and Wellness provides information and self-help on health topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, and family life.
Username:  Baisl
Password:  Trial
*Note:  this trial database is only available to our school through March 15, 2010.
 

Images

ARTstor (http://www.artstor.org) is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences. ARTstor includes photographs, maps, paintings, charts, graphs, prints, and drawings from museums, individual photographers, scholars, special collections at libraries, and photo archives.
Note:  To use this database from a computer off campus, you need to first login and register (on the home page of the ARTstor website) from a computer in the San Francisco Waldorf High School library.

 

Literature

Literature Resource Center (password: san_log) Biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers.

Scribner Writers Series (password: san_log)
Scribner Writers Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 2,000 authors and literary genres drawn from the acclaimed Scribner print series.

The Twayne Authors Series - (password: san_log)
Twayne World, English, and US Authors Comprises 600 full-text titles from the Twayne Literary Masters series.

 

Magazines and Newspapers

Expanded Academic ASAP (password: san_log)
Includes scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers with images.

Infotrac Onefile (password: san_log)
Includes news and periodical articles.

 

Maps

A to Z Maps Online

Go to www.atozmapsonline.com
Username:  sfwaldorf
Password:  sfwaldorf then click "go"

 

Science

Science
The Science website, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), provides scientific research, news, and opinion.

username: sfwaldorf
pass: steiner

The Science website offers access to:

* Science magazine, 1997 - present
* ScienceCareers, sciencejobs, funding and career-building
* ScienceExpress, selected original, peer-reviewed hot research weeks ahead of its print publication date
* ScienceNOW, an online daily news service
* Science Signaling, articles, protocols, teaching resources, and other resources on cellular signal transduction
* Science of Aging Knowledge Environment (SAGE KE) provides a centralized bank of information about the aging process for aging-field researchers, featuring news, reviews, commentary, a gene database, and other tools from October 2001 through mid-2006

Science News
The online edition of Science News magazine, 2000-present

To login, use:

e-mail: mmcgill@sfwaldorf.org
password: sfwaldorf

Scientific American Digital The online edition of Scientific American Magazine, 1993-present
username: sfwaldorf
password: sfwaldorf

 

Social Issues

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (password: san_log) Contains today's social issues, featuring viewpoint articles, and topic overviews.

Social Issues Resource Series (SIRS)

username: sfwaldorf
password: sfwaldorf

 Features thousands of articles and analysis of today’s most controversial social, scientific, economic, political and global issues. Pro/con viewpoints of issues are represented in news articles, primary source documents, websites, and multimedia.

 

Social Sciences

History Resource Center: U.S. (password: san_log)
Themes, events, individuals and periods from pre-Colonial times to the present, includes primary documents.

History Resource Center: World (password: san_log)
Reference materials, articles from scholarly publications, and primary sources.

 

Spanish Language Materials

Informe (password: san_log)
Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.

 

World Cultures

A to Z World Culture  Trial subscription for May and June 2010.

Username:  sfwaldorf
Password:  sfwaldorf  then press "go"