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TCIS Learning Commons ID&Password:
For Students: Email "library.passwords@tciscommunity.com"
For Teachers: Email "library.password@tcis.or.kr"
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"Should I Be Using Google or the Library Resources for a Paper?" - NEIU Ronald Williams LIbrary
However, if you MUST Google, be Google SMART!  Use Google Search Operators to find the best information. 

Subscription Databases

for Elementary students

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A great introductory database for K-2 students.
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Searchasaurus is the interface for EBSCO's Primary Search. It contains many of the same results as Explora, but is a little easier for Grades 2-4.
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EBSCO's new interface for older primary students: Grades 4+.

for everybody

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News for students from the UK: G. 5-10. English, Spanish, German, French.
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The Day articles grouped by the IB Learner Profile.
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Search EBSCO's Student Research Center using a new interface called Explora.
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Use this resource to see both sides of the argument.
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Oxford Music Online is for students to search for scholarly works about music.

for Secondary students

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Aluka will eventually be integrated into JSTOR. Explore African World Heritage Sites and the Struggles for Freedom in southern Africa.
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This JSTOR database holds digitised images of plants and international research.

News

Korean News

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English language summary of the day's news in Korea.
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The Korea Herald English Version.
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Korea Joongang Daily Newspaper.

International News

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Choose your reading level! You have to create a teacher or student login, first.
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News for students from the Smithsonian: English K-4 | 5-8 | 9-12 Spanish
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See what news stories are being searched right now across the world.
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Online Newspaper Directory (International).
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English-language news service publicly funded in America.
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English-language news service owned by the British public. It is funded through a license fee paid by UK households and through its own commercial arms.
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English-language news service based in Jerusalem.
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English-language news service owned by the government of Qatar.

Personal News

Create your own news feed based on what your family, friends, and connections share on social media as well as other sources of information.

Deep Web - Academics

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Deep Web Academic Search Engine.
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The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts (Literature & Philosophy).
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Search millions of free academic articles, chapters, and theses.
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Free books and periodicals.
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Maintained by the Université de Liège.
Avoid predatory publishers / journals.  Mr. Jeffrey Beall at Scholarly Open Access maintains a list of predatory, untrustworthy journals. 

Other Sources of Good Information

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A directory maintained by librarians.
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NYPL's collection of digital images.
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News & entertainment video archive: 1896-1972
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Watch videos about history, science, and our changing landscape.
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Here's the same thing on YouTube.

The Dewey Decimal System for the Internet