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EBSCO Subscription: PHS Library Online Resources at Home     NetTrekker: An Online Resource Subscription provided by PUSD
EBSCO Subscription: PHS Library Online Resources at Home
Did you know your family has a subscription to 500 magazines, 230 newspapers, 150 health journals 84,074 biographies, 83,000 primary source documents, 350 reference books and an image collection of 193,000 photos, maps, and flags? The Paradise High School Library provides students and staff with all of these resources free of charge as part of our commitment to make reliable, verifiable information available from both school and home.

All of these resources are searchable, full-text, available online twenty-four hours a day. Simply go to the library web site:

http://phs.pusdk12.org/PHS-Library/index.html

scroll down to "research tools" and click on the "Login to EBSCOHost" icon.

From home, you will need:
-user ID: phsmags
-password: bobcats
 Once you are in, you have a choice of databases: Student Research Center, which allows you to search all databases; General Reference, which allows you to choose magazines, newspapers, or health resources by checking them; and Topic Search to research by narrowing your subject.
For questions, contact:
Becky Safarik, PHS Librarian, at 872-6425, ext. 3095, or email at bsafarik@pusdk12.org

NetTrekker: An Online Resource Subscription provided by PUSD

Register with netTrekker: It's FREE TO YOU!



Click on the link below to get started:

http://school.nettrekker.com/frontdoor/

NetTrekker is a subscription product. Since Paradise Unified School District has purchased netTrekker, individual registration is fast, easy, and best of all Free!

Create a username, password, and choose a student role. Next select your state and school, and enjoy this great resource. Please use your first and last name with no capital letters or spaces as a user name: firstlast

NetTrekker is the award-winning search engine for schools. It supports differentiated instruction with standards-based online resources, organized by readability level to help every student achieve.

An individual registration provides you with full access to all of netTrekker, including personalized tools such as preferences and saved searches and the ability to share your search folders with others at your school. You can search for articles and pictures and games too!

In addition to searching on a topic of your choice here are just some of the resources:


Encyclopedias/Internet Libraries:
Bartleby.com
The Canadian Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Mythica
Encyclopedia Smithsonian
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
MSN Encarta Encyclopedia
LibrarySpot.com
Internet Public Library KidSpace

The English Language:
Merriam-Webster Word Central
The Elements of Style
The Book of English Usage
Guide to Grammar and Writing
Grammar Handbook
Landmarks Citation Machine
KnightCite Bibliography Maker
iTools! Language Tools
Gale Cengage Learning Glossary of Literary Terms

Quotations:
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
QuoteLand

Books Online:
The Online Books Page
Project Gutenberg

Online Museums:
Smithsonian Institution
Library of Congress Exhibitions
National Air and Space Museum

Ask An Expert:
Askanexpert

 

Maps, Geography & Almanacs:
The World Factbook
HRW World Atlas
IPL KidSpace: Stately Knowledge
NationalAtlas.gov
National Geographic: Maps & Geography
The Atlas of Canada
PCL Map Collection
VirtualSources.com
Portals to the World
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Old Farmer's Almanac
USGS
World Almanac for Kids Online

Measurement and Conversion:
A Dictionary of Units
Commonly Used Metric System Units,
   Symbols, and Prefixes
Anotoine Frame-of-Reference Method
Exchange Rates
Convert Plus Online Units Conversion

Calculators & Graphs:
Calculators On-Line Center
Coolmath: Graph It!
NCES's Create a Graph

Math Assistance:
Glencoe: Math Multilingual Glossary
MathWorld
S.O.S. Mathematics
Dr. Math



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