ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION DATA BASES

The Media Center subscribes to the following online reference databases:
Databases are site licensed and have remote access.  To begin any home access: http//www.berlinwall.org, go to library/media center, go to reference data bases.

SIRS Knowledge Source plus Pro v. Con
http://sks.sirs.com/

From home:

 http://sks.sirs.com

User name: CT0560H

Password: 06037

 

SIRS Decades

http://decades.sirs.com

From home: http:/decades.sirs.com

User name: berliremote

Password: REMOTE 001

3 integrated databases: SIRS Researcher; Government Reporter;and Renaissance. Articles on scientific, social, civic, health, economic, and arts-related issues. Articles on controversial issues in Pro v. Con database.

 

 

 

 

 

Database arranged by 20th Century decades. Very useful for Sicial Studies and literary context researches. Articles and pictures from each decade.

 

Electric Library:
elibrary.bigchalk.com

From Home: www.elibrary.bigchalk.com

User name: berliremote

Password: REMOTE 001

 

 Huge database of newspaper and magazine articles; maps; photographs; reference books, such as The World Almanac and Book of Facts; and radio and televison transcripts.

Galenet:
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/s0073

From home: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/s0073

User name: Berl30200

Password:Berl30200

Databases include: Student Resource Center Gold plus Health Module and Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center.

 

Facts.com&Issues Controversies
http://www.2facts.com

From home:

http://www.2facts.com/

User name: berlinct

Password: facts

 

Databases of articles from Facts on File World News Digest and selected articles from 5 other databases. Useful for maps and up-to-date geographic information. Includes database on controversial issues.

Connecticut Digital Library
http://www.iconn.org

From home: http://www.icon.org

Password:Public library card #

Note click here for iConn.org galenet resources. (This works inside building only)

 

Maps on Line

http://www.atozmapsonline.com/a-z_maps_online_home.asp?c=berlinhs

From Home: same address

User Name: bhs

Password: redcoat

Consists of information resources, including access to licensed databases. It is available to every citizen in Connecticut with a public library card. Includes Infotrac, Galenet Discovering Collection, Wilson Biographies Plus, Proquest newspapers, such as The New York Times, the Hartford Courant, the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Boston Globe, EBSCO Science Reference Center, EBSCO History Reference Center, and countless reference sources.

 

 

 

 

 

Volumnious and searchable collection of all kinds of maps: geographic, political, topographical, oceanic, celestial, and more. Especially useful for social studies and science searchers.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN ONLINE

 

 

This newly designed archive currently contains the entire editorial contents of Scientific American Magazine, from January 1993 to the present. The issues are presented in PDF format, which maintains the integrity of the printed page with all the graphics.

http://nature.com

From Home: same address

User name: berlin

Password: lmc

 

 

Salem History  

http://history.salempress.com

Fromhome:

http://history.salempress.com

Click on  "Remote Access Login"

Password: redcoats

 

Sharpe Online Reference

http://www.sharpe-online.com

From home: once on BHS site, just click on the address. No password required

 

AUTO REPAIR REFERENCE CENTER

http://search.ebscohost.com/

From home:

same address

User name: berlin

Password: lmc

Salem History is a robust online database that includes the complete content of printed reference sets. Purchasing printed reference delivers online access at no additional cost. Salem currently offers this service with four series of historical reference: 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a comprehensive and searchable collection of U.S. history and culture articles.  "Quick Search" a term, choose an articles from the summaries.  Term will be highlighted whenever used in the article.

 

 

 

  

This database describes and details the care and repair of automobiles from 1945 to the present.