Shawnee Heights High School Library: Research It

Search for books, DVDs, and e-books.

Google Mail and Docs

Includes EBSCO & Encyclopedia Britannica. See Mrs. Weishaar if you are unable to log in at home.

To access databases, click on "Research It."

Portal to government agencies

BASE provides more than 100 million documents from more than 5,000 sources. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access).

Science, technology and medicine publisher of 243 open access, online, peer-reviewed journals.

Computer science

An electronic archive for self-archived papers in any area of psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics, and computer science.

CORE’s mission is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public.

Open access to e-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics.

The UK's largest organization for funding research on economic and social issues.

Research news from universities in the US, UK, Canada and Australia. Some articles have a link to the original studies.

Electronics, electrical engineering, computer science; Full text is not free.

A collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts

US National Library of Medicine

News about the latest scientific discoveries.

Astronomy, physics

Millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works.

Open access journals and books in the areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences.

Every Web site in SweetSearch has been evaluated by their research experts.

Computational knowledge search engine

Primary source documents from the National Archives

Primary documents in text, image, and audio about the experiences of ordinary Americans throughout U.S. history

Images from Life Magazine, 1936-2000

Front pages of newspapers from around the world

Please see Mrs. Weishaar for username and password if needed.

Be sure to use the "Find Prior Art" search on the Google page for a patent.

Animals is an international open access journal devoted entirely to animals, including zoology and veterinary sciences, published monthly online by MDPI.

Animal Studies Journal provides a forum for current research in human-animal Studies. ASJ publishes international cross-disciplinary content with a particular, but not exclusive, interest in Australian, New Zealand and Asia-Pacific scholarship.

The Animal Studies Repository is an open access collection of academic, archival, and assorted other materials related to the various disciplines within the fields of animal studies and animal welfare science.

BASE provides more than 100 million documents from more than 5,000 sources. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access).