Digital Research Databases
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Issues & Controversies To help students, researchers, and readers understand the critical issues we face today, Issues & Controversies explores and analyzes hundreds of hot topics in politics, business, government, crime, law, energy, education, health, family, science, foreign policy, race, rights, society, and culture. Updated weekly, with a wire-service newsfeed providing the latest headline stories, Issues & Controversies offers in-depth articles designed to inspire thought-provoking debates and research papers. Since its inception in 1995, Issues & Controversies has been a core student and educator resource for understanding and writing about contemporary events and conflicts, as well as for debate prep. It also provides comprehensive coverage and analysis every year of the National High School Debate Topic. Click "Create Account" in upper right corner. Enter S6digitstudentID as username, and YYYYMMDD birthdate as password in order to save articles. |
ARTstor
by ARTstor
A subscription digital library including more than 1.9 million high-quality images for education and research from a wide variety of international contributors, with a complete set of tools to catalog, manage, and distribute digital media collections.
ARTstor is accessible from campus computers, but students must register while on campus for off-campus access and to take advantage of the many features available to registered users.
1) Select “Register” in the upper right corner
2) Use your school school Gmail and an alphanumeric password of at least 7 characters.
Gale & TexQuest Navigator
by lthslibrary learningcommons
After selecting a grade level of resources, choose Lake Travis ISD from the dropdown menu and enter the traditional password for our learningcommons.
Access a large collection of authoritative digital resources:
- College & Career Readiness
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Full Text eBooks
- Primary Sources
- Recursos en Español
- Reading & Literature
- Science & Math
- Social Studies
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Gale Global Issues Gale In Context: Global Issues offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, relevant sources for analysis of these issues. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. |
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Gale Research Menu A comprehensive suite of Gale Research Products including eBooks, Auto Mechanic Repair Modules, Global Issues, World History, U.S. History, and High School Periodicals & Research. |
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Gale U.S. History in Context Contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History. Gale U.S. History merges authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience. |
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Gale World History in Context Uncover information on hundreds of the most significant people, events, and topics in world history from a variety of sources. |
JSTOR
by lthslibrary learningcommons
JSTOR is a growing digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.
Access is IP authenticated on the LTHS campus.
For remote access, must use the lthslibrary learningcommons ID & PW.
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The Atlantic & Its 168 Years of Archives The Atlantic is a digital resource providing informed, independent, fact-based journalism as long as you are IP authenticated on campus. That’s right--all articles, full magazine issues, podcasts and audio articles, Atlantic Games, and the complete 168 years of archives are available to you at no cost at theatlantic.com while you are on campus at LTHS. Because the resource is IP authenticated, no login or password information is required. Enjoy instant access while on campus. (Unfortunately, no off-campus or mobile access is available.) |
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National Geographic Archive National Geographic Virtual Library(NGVL) supports a range of scholarly research needs in the areas of science, history, technology, the environment, cultures, and more. |
Salem Press
by lthslibrary learningcommons
A database of critical insights on themes concerning Literature, Applied Science, and Biomes and Ecosystems, Health, & Careers.
Explore the resource by using the lthslibrary learningcommons ID & PW!
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World Book Encyclopedia Excellent encyclopedic research site with multiple resources and tools such as text-to speech capability, a built-in translator, illustrations and sound files. |