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SUBSCRIPTION
DATABASES
All of the following
databases can be accessed from within the school or from any computer with
Internet access.
To use these
databases from outside CCHS, you will need usernames and passwords.
Stop by the library
anytime to pick up a bookmark listing all the databases and the necessary
information for accessing them.
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LITERATURE Comprehensive
database with more than 126,500 full-text poems and thousands of essays,
plays, speeches and stories. |
LITERATURE 600
full-text titles from Twayne’s
World Authors, US Authors and British Authors series. |
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LITERATURE Content
based on national curriculum standards in history, literature, science and
social studies, including thousands of primary source documents. |
LITERATURE Explores
prehistoric and classical gods and goddesses as well as contemporary myths
found in literature and popular culture. |
LINKS
TO OTHER WEBSITES
A searchable
electronic archive of American poetry from prior to 1920, including mostly 19th
century poetry.
The Complete Works of William
Shakespeare
An online version of
the complete works of William Shakespeare from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. Includes links to
other sites on Shakespeare’s works, life and times.
Fully searchable
online encyclopedia covering classical mythology, folklore, legends and more.
Great Books Online (Bartleby.com)
An amazingly extensive collection of
full-text reference books and classic works of fiction and nonfiction,
including the complete plays of Shakespeare, the King James bible,
Gray’s Anatomy and many others.
Searchable online literature including
over 1,900 full books and over 3,000 poems and short stories by more than 250
authors. Includes full
text of many classics such as Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and George Orwell’s 1984.
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
A collection of
information and links to other Shakespeare resources on the Internet. Categories include works, life and times,
theatre, criticism and the Renaissance.
Full text of nearly
2,000 poems along with over 500 author biographies and more than 400 essays and
interviews. From
the