Why search here?
Four separate topical databases make this is good place to begin your research.
What's included?
Reference overview articles and many primary source documents, including images. There are no secondary sources in the ABC-Clio databases.
Why search here?
This is a useful database to find non-text sources.
What’s included?
Photojournalism and audio files from over 100 years of news coverage from the Associated Press. Articles are generally more than 10 years old.
Why search here?
Begin your research by reading authoritative tertiary sources like the ones found here.
What’s included?
In-depth overview articles, often with links to supporting primary source materials. Also includes a world atlas with statistical information on individual countries plus the ability to compare any two countries.
How to use this:
Menlo has a limited number of licenses for this Chinese-language news site that is oriented toward Chinese language learners. If interested, contact Ms. Shi in the middle school, or Mrs. Rettberg in the library.
Why search here?
An archive and cross-searchable library of full-text articles from government research organizations, independent think tanks, university analysis centers, and scholarly journals.
What's included?
Over 500,000 pages aggregated from 300 international publishing institutions; documents and articles devoted to research, analysis, and scholarship on international politics, security studies, global finance, diplomatic practice, humanitarian law, global governance, and more.
Founded in 1843 to support the cause of free trade, The Economist publishes a range of articles that cover technology to geopolitics, finance and economics. Contact Ms.Otero to request an article.
A British-based newspaper that focuses on business and economic current affairs, includes US and international coverage.
Get access to premium content and 20 articles to share with individual non-subscribers each month as part of the SSI FT Professional subscription. Staff and students can create their own individual accounts to read the FT outside school premises.
Why search here?
This is an excellent database for finding information about issues affecting the world at large.
What’s included?
Tertiary, secondary and primary source materials, statics, and viewpoint essays. Topics include a wide variety of environmental and social issues.
Why search here?
Find news reporting from major United States newspapers on a variety of historical events.
What’s included?
Archived newspaper articles from past issues of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and Chicago Tribune.
Why search here?
This history database is both a useful research starting point and a good place to find sources to fill research gaps.
What’s included?
This is a very large collection of tertiary, secondary and primary sources. Use the Advanced Search screen to narrow your search to a particular type of source.
Why search here?
This database provides quick access to authoritative secondary source material. Primary sources are now available too—under Refine Results, scroll to Primary source content to select source types.
What’s included?
Look here for a very large collection of peer-reviewed journal articles and images, plus a smaller collection of e-books and technical reports. Use Advanced Search to select articles from a particular topical area. Now has primary source content too.
Why search here?
Look here for access to millions of images across a variety of topical areas, supporting research in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
What’s included?
More than two million images with wide-ranging material such as Native American art from the Smithsonian, treasures from the Louvre, modern architectural plans from Columbia University, and more.
Why search here?
This provides access to the current issues of the New York Times.
How to access:
Click the database title, then follow the instructions to set up a subscription to the NYT. Initial setup must be done online, but once you have an account, offsite access is available.
A multi-platform publication known worldwide for its in-depth reporting, political and cultural commentary, fiction, poetry, and humor. Contact Ms.Otero to request an article.
Why search here?
Can’t decide what to read next? Not sure which book is next in a series? Look here for answers to your fiction reading questions.
What’s included?
This is a large database of fiction titles that can be sorted by genre, publication date, awards won etc. Not all of these books are in the Menlo School Library collection.
Why search here?
Provides rare, hard-to-access primary sources with insights on unorthodox (by contemporary standards) fringe groups from both the right and left of the political spectrum.
What's included?
Over 600,000 pages of content, including campaigning materials, propaganda, government records, oral histories, and various ephemera that allow researchers to explore extremism and radicalism.
Why search here?
This is an excellent source for secondary source articles related to psychology.
What's included?
Hundreds of full-text psychology journals, including many indexed in APA PsycInfo. It offers particularly strong coverage in child and adolescent psychology and counseling.
Why search here?
Chronicles the plight of refugees and displaced persons across Europe, North Africa, and Asia from 1935-1950. These primary sources recount the causes, effects and responses to refugee crises before, during and shortly after World War II.
What's included?
Over 590,000 pages of pamphlets, ephemera, government documents, relief organization publications, and refugee reports.
Why search here?
Provides rare, hard-to-access primary sources with insights on unorthodox (by contemporary standards) fringe groups from both the right and left of the political spectrum.
What's included?
Over 600,000 pages of content, including campaigning materials, propaganda, government records, oral histories, and various ephemera that allow researchers to explore extremism and radicalism.
Why search here?
This is an excellent source for secondary source articles related to psychology.
What's included?
Hundreds of full-text psychology journals, including many indexed in APA PsycInfo. It offers particularly strong coverage in child and adolescent psychology and counseling.
Why search here?
Chronicles the plight of refugees and displaced persons across Europe, North Africa, and Asia from 1935-1950. These primary sources recount the causes, effects and responses to refugee crises before, during and shortly after World War II.
What's included?
Over 590,000 pages of pamphlets, ephemera, government documents, relief organization publications, and refugee reports.