Students, here are some links to consider when doing research related to World Cultures. Most of these links are also apps on your webdesk inside a folder called: "Library Digital Resources." If you are at home and the link does not let you in, go to your webdesk and find the app. It will authenticate there. The picture of the app is included next to each one below.
Search Apps
Culturegrams does not work here. You have to use it through the webdesk for it to authenticate.
Cultural reports for 200 countries, 50 U.S. states, 13 Canadian provinces and territories. Includes photo gallery, recipe collection, famous people, graphs and tables, National anthem sound files, flags. Click for Video Tutorial
Provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Includes a variety of maps, flags of the world, and a Country Comparison. Click for Video Tutorial
The following 3 resources are all in the ABC-Clio app. Whether you are clicking here or on the webdesk, you will need to select "Classlink" then Otto, and then it will get you to the resource. On the webdesk app, it signs you into all of them, and you just have to select the specific one you want.
Includes Full-text Country overviews, including culture, political history, economy, political and topographical maps, biographies of notable political and cultural figures. Click for Video Tutorial
Includes Full-text Primary and secondary sources, topic overviews, biographies, exploration of historical controversies and dilemmas. Click for Video Tutorial
Includes Full-text Primary sources including treaties and proclamations, speeches, newsreel footage and photographs, era explorations, biographies of notable figures, country overviews and exploration of historical controversies. Click for Video Tutorial
Current Issues & News
Get the complete historical background and contemporary status of each issue and the supporting facts, figures, and timelines. Click for Tutorial Video
Premier online resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration. Click for Video Tutorial
Includes Full-text Updated daily Articles from 1000 newspapers from around the world 1980 to present day. Click for Video Tutorial
Citing Your Sources
It is very important that you give credit to any of your sources so that you don't plagiarize which means stealing or taking credit for someone else's work. For a social studies project, you want to cite in MLA style. Every single one of these resources already gives you a citation for their articles or books. However, if you need to create one from scratch, here are some links online to citation makers, and there are videos explaining how to cite different sources. Every year some citation machines quit working or you have to pay, so that's why we keep adding different ones to try out, but they all work the same way. If you are using Google Docs, there's an even easier way to do this. Follow the instructions on the Google Slides.