These resources are provided by WCPS and the Maryland State Department of Education

For additional online resources go to
Links for Students
Links for Teachers

For more details about InfoTrac and SIRS, click here.

 SHHS Online Resources
Some resources require a special username/password to login. See the librarian for login information.
  • Web-based software training for more than 100 applications.
  • Short, easy-to-view-and-understand tutorials
  • Anytime/anywhere training resources
  • See librarian for username and password
  • Accessible from home and school
  • Experience the cultures of more than 200 countries.
  • Includes maps, flags, statistics, and indepth info in 25 categories
  • Tour the 50 states plus D.C.
  • State facts, symbols, time lines, and more
  • Includes world photo gallery, famous people, and recipes
  • See librarian for username and password
  • Accessible from home and school
  • Search for people---both current and historic from all eras and fields of endeavor---based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as keyword and full text.
  • Includes biographies from online reference sources and hundreds of periodicals. Also includes tens of thousands of images and links to hand-picked web sites.
  • No password needed at school
  • See librarian for username and password for home access
  • Provides more than 8,700 pro/con viewpoint articles and more than 140 full-text journals, plus topic overviews, primary source documents, biographies of social activists/reformers, court-case overviews, statistical charts/tables, images, podcasts, web links and more.
  • No password needed at school
  • See librarian for username and password for home access
  • Provides topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and the latest in scientific developments from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to web resources.
  • No password needed at school
  • See librarian for username and password for home access
  • Magazine and newspaper articles, primary source documents, multimedia content, and the Gale "Discovering," "Exploring," and "Junior Reference Series"
  • No password needed at school
  • See librarian for username and password for home access
  • Over 180,000 of the best online resources, aligned with state standards and organized by readability and grade level
  • Resources are carefully selected by educators to ensure they are safe, age-appropriate and 100% academically relevant
  • See librarian for username and password
  • Accessible from home and school
  • Largest historical newspaper database online
  • Contains tens of millions of newspaper pages from 1759 to present
  • Searchable by keyword and date
  • No password needed at school
  • No home access
  • Online version of Magill's Medical Guide. The Guide covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders.
  • No password needed at school
  • To use at home, click on Remote Access tab then enter password.(See librarian for remote access password.)
  • More than 5,000 relevant primary and secondary source documents related to key topics in 20th century American history.
  • See librarian for username and password
  • Accessible from home and school
  • General reference database for children in grades 1-9 with full-text articles and images.
  • Features include science experiments, crafts, writing activities, biographies, fiction articles, and country facts. Discoverer WebFind is a database of carefully chosen Internet resources on a variety of topics appropriate for students in grades 1-9.
  • See librarian for username and password
  • Accessible from home and school
  • Collection of six databases for students in grades 6-12. Full-text articles, graphics, photographs, government documents, ebooks, and previewed web sites
  • See librarian for username and password
  • Accessible from home and school
  • Contains original movies revealing the book creation process, audio excerpts of professional readings, and book guides and resources which span thousands of children's, YA, and non-fiction titles.
  • No password needed at school
  • See librarian for username and password for home access

    • For more information about the InfoTrac and SIRs online resources, click here.