(NEW as of 9/28/2020!) Full-text journals and magazines for high school students enrolled in various Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) courses
AtoZ Food America is a database unlike any other on the market today. From regional cookbooks to an exploration of immigrant culinary influences, from fun collections of historic cookbooks and television commercials to “how to” food preparation videos, AtoZ Food America has something sure to educate and entertain everyone.
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With thousands of global recipes, hundreds of fascinating culture and ingredient articles, and essential culinary resources, AtoZ World Food brings international cuisines to you, from Albanian byrek to Zimbabwean matemba!
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An online video collection supporting early childhood education professionals worldwide in their efforts to craft thriving environments for children and adults.
Swank Digital Campus provides colleges and universities with a streaming collection of films, documentaries and TV shows, available both on and off campus.
Good Starting Point Databases
Don't know which database to choose? Try one of these multidisciplinary databases, which cover a variety of topics, as your starting point.
Academic OneFile (Gale)Academic OneFile provides extensive coverage to full text articles from a variety of academic disciplines.
Academic Search UltimateThis combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (BadgerLink)Complete online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Additional features include videos, magazine and journal articles, dictionary, thesaurus, notable quotations, and relevant Web links.
Films on DemandFilms on Demand is a database that provides access to over 6,000 streaming videos appropriate for academic research.
Global Newsstream (ProQuest)The most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. Provides one of the largest collections of news from the US, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia, and allows easy access to multiple perspectives, resources, and languages on topics.
Nexis UNI (formerly LexisNexis)Database of full text online news, business, financial, legal, medical, biographical, government and domestic and international newspaper resources.
MasterFILE Complete (BadgerLink)Popular full-text magazines, reference books and other sources from the world's leading publishers.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1990-Current)Find Milwaukee metropolitan, state and national issues and events including business, education, government, politics, sports and more.
America's News (Newsbank)Research current and archived news content for information on topics, events, issues, people, businesses, and more through this in-depth resource of more than 6,000 resources, including the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Newspaper Source Plus (BadgerLink)Full-text coverage of today's major newspapers, for students and researchers. Includes 1570 full-text newspapers made up of US regional and national, international (mostly British Commonwealth) and campus papers; newswires; and TV/radio news transcripts (including ABC, CBS, NPR, CNN and others).
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context)One-stop source for information on social issues. Provides current event topics and the facts as well as the arguments of each topic's proponents and detractors.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.
Keywords: Language, Etymology
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