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You can access the following databases from your home using the information below and the password sheet that can be picked up in the Library Media Center.
Badgerlink
BadgerLink is a project of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI), Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning. Its goal is to provide access to quality online information resources for Wisconsin residents in cooperation with the state's public, school, academic, and special libraries and Internet Service Providers. BadgerLink resources are available through this site and through links on many library web pages. Most libraries also provide access to BadgerLink from public access computers within the library.
The Department of Public Instruction currently contracts with five vendors (EBSCO, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., Gale/Cengage Learning, Heritage Microfilm, Inc., and TeachingBooks.net, LLC) to provide access to a large volume of full-text information. Users can search approximately 20,000 full-text magazines, journals, newspapers, reference materials and other specialized information sources. Included are over 8,000 full text magazines and journals, over 1,500 newspapers and newswires, and approximately 6,800 full text books. Full text articles are taken from 2,900 historical newspaper titles. In addition the BadgerLink vendors provide access to automobile repair manuals, company profiles, country economic reports, industrial reports and yearbooks, biographies, primary historical documents, charts, images, schematics, maps, poems, essays, speeches, plays, short stories, author audio programs and book readings, author video programs, book reviews or discussion guides, and many other full text resources not available through regular internet search engines. When these resources are available through search engines such as Google, it is because Wisconsin has licensed the content to appear when searched through these search engines.
BadgerLink also connects users to WISCAT (the online catalog of Wisconsin library holdings), OCLC WorldCat (an international database of library holdings), directories of libraries, digitized library collections, and other information.
BadgerLink services began in July, 1998. The project is funded through the Universal Service Fund at over $2.2 million annually.
http://www.badgerlink.net/lib_card.html At this site choose Wauwatosa - Wauwatosa School District as your library in the drop-down box and enter your school district’s initials followed by your student ID number without any spaces. (Ex. wsd12345)
CQ RESEARCHER
CQ Researcher is often the first source that librarians recommend when researchers are seeking original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Founded in 1923 as Editorial Research Reports, CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published weekly in print and online 44 times a year by CQ Press, a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc.
Each single-themed, 12,000-word report is researched and written by a seasoned journalist. The consistent, reader-friendly organization provides researchers with an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.
CQ Researcher received the American Bar Association's 2002 Silver Gavel Award for a nine-part series on liberty and justice issues, as well as the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Journalism Excellence in 1999 for a ten-part series on health care.
CQ Researcher Online offers access to CQ Researcher reports dating back to 1991. PDF files are available for reports from January 1996; color PDFs are available for reports published after January 2001.
OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS RESOURCE CENTER
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues print series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Thomson Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources. The result is a dynamic online library of current event topics: the facts as well as the arguments of each topic's proponents and detractors. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center's unique features include Viewpoint articles — frameworks that allow students to explore each topic's many facets — and exclusive electronic access to Thomson Gale's Information Plus series featuring statistics and government data placed in context.
SIRS: RESEARCHER
SIRS Researcher is a highly-acclaimed general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues.
Articles and graphics are carefully selected from 1,500 domestic and international publications according to strict criteria with regard to content and age appropriateness.
SIRS: DECADES
SIRS Decades: 20th Century American Sources, is an electronic subscription resource containing Primary Source and reference content from the 20th century. Content is organized into curricular topics pertaining to American History, culture, and daily life of the time. Primary source types include: Advertisements, Editorial Cartoons, Letters, Memos, Messages, Maps and Charts, Original Documents, Original Works of Art, Photographs, Poems and Literary Works, Posters, Published Articles, Speeches and Addresses.
THE WORLD AND I ONLINE
The World & I is a multifaceted monthly publication that presents a broad range of thought-provoking reading in politics, science, culture, humanity, and more in these seven sections– Current Issues, The Arts, Life, Natural Science, Culture, Book World, and Modern Thought.
Since its inception in 1986, The World & I has been accumulating a wealth of timeless articles written by scholars and experts--all of which are now available in our Online Edition. Free from gratuitous sex and violence, The World & I Online comprises the entire publication. Special features include over 1,000 Teacher’s Guide activities that meet the National Standards, a Book Review Archive with a search capability of its own, and a series of Special Collections.
Our Special Collections feature topics such as Worldwide Folktales, Peoples of the World, Profiles in Character, Millennial Moments, In the Footsteps of Lincoln, The Constitution and the Making of America, and more. Beautiful visual aids breathe life and meaning into the articles.
Over 10,000 schools now subscribe to The World & I. The publication has proven to be the leader year after year, in delivering an education program that no other magazine has offered before.
Proquest CultureGrams
Since its beginnings in 1974, the aim of CultureGrams has been to foster understanding and appreciation of the world's countries and peoples by creating and publishing excellent content. Today the CultureGrams series is one of the most trusted and widely used cultural reference and curriculum products in the education, government, and non-profit arenas. In 2004, the CultureGrams product line was acquired by ProQuest Information and Learning, a global leader in collecting, organizing, and distributing value-added information to researchers, faculty, and students in over 160 countries.
WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA
Since 1917, World Book, Inc. has set the standard for providing accuracy, objectivity, and reliability in research materials for both children and adults. Based in Chicago, Illinois, World Book is an industry leader in the production of award-winning encyclopedias, reference sources, and digital products for the home and schools.
For almost 90 years, World Book has been committed to publishing encyclopedias and other reference products that meet the highest standards of editorial excellence while keeping pace with the technological developments that define the computer age.
Biography Resource Center
Comprehensive, current, and easy to use, Biography Resource Center helps illuminate the lives of the world’s most important and intriguing figures. We support the study of notable individuals in the arts, business, government, history, popular culture, sports, and more, making Biography Resource Center the ideal resource for biographical research across curriculum areas and at all academic levels.
URL: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/tosaeast?db=BIORC
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