Successful Research & Resources

Successful Research

1. Choose a paper topic
2. Find background information
3. Search smarter, faster, better (see your librarian for help!)
4. Find primary documents
5. Evaluate your sources
6. Cite your sources

Research Guide for Students

Resources

American Memory
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

APA Formatting and Style Guide APA (American Psychological Association) is used to cite sources within the social sciences. This resource offers examples for the general format of APA research papers.

BiblioBoard
Find thousands of e-books at BiblioBoard, from romances, kids books, sci-fi, graphic novels, and comics from indie publishers, as well as classics and more! Explore thousands of primary source materials, hundreds of teaching guides, and much more. No password required.

Calumet City Public Library
Dedicated to the spirit of community and to the principles of intellectual freedom, the Calumet City Public Library provides up-to-date, accurate information to assist patrons in meeting their personal, educational, professional and recreational needs. This is achieved by a professional staff utilizing traditional resources in conjunction with multimedia and state-of-the-art library technologies. Special emphasis is placed on providing high demand, high interest materials in varied formats for patrons of all ages.

Chicago Tribune
Full text of the Chicago Tribune newspaper. You must log in with a username and password; please ask your teacher or the librarian if you do not have it.

CIA World Factbook The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, a World Oceans map, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map.

Citation Machine APA/MLA citation generator   

Congressional Digest An impartial presentation of opposing views on contentious national questions, PRO&CON®.

Country Reports Over 35,000 pages of online content on the cultures and countries of the world. With unique content from around the world.

Destiny TF North Online Book Catalog

Easy Bib Automatic Bibliography & Citation Maker

EBSCOHost Contains full-text sources from magazines, newspapers, primary source documents, biographies, almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference resources.

First Search
Information found here is considered scholarly and well researched. Databases included are WorldCat, ABI Inform, PerAbs, and Wilson Select.

Library of Congress Provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document a rich, diverse and enduring source of knowledge to inform, inspire and engage them and support their intellectual and creative endeavors.

MLA Formatting and Style Guide MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. This resource offers examples for the formatting of MLA research papers.

The New York Times
Students and staff have full access to The New York Times while on the school network.

OttoBib.Com Generates citations for bibliographies or works cited pages for books by ISBN number or title.

RefDesk.Com
An online reference center with links to sources found in most public libraries. (Almanacs, Atlases, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Thesauri, etc.)

SWAN
Online access to the Metropolitan Library System's libraries. Students can search all seventy-five libraries in the Metropolitan Library System's holdings by author, keyword, subject, and title.

Teacher Reference Center (TRC)
This index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.