MVRHS Library

		Martha's Vineyard Regional High School Library

An educational and research oriented library resource for the school and community members of the island of Martha's Vineyard

The High School has implimented Edline as a common source of course information for Students, Parents and Teachers. Parents and each individual student will need to activate an account at Edline. Classes, assignments, test schedules, syllabi and reading links will all be available in one location. Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks

Research Help

Search the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School Library's card catalog. Since it is now on line, the card part is a metaphor. The database is not updated every day so it's a better indication of the contents of the collection rather than what is checked in or out right now.

Academic Earth offers free access to video courses and academic lectures from leading colleges and universities. Lectures and whole courses online are accompanied with lecture guides and reading lists. These are videos from some of the leading American universities:Berkeley, Columbia, Harvard, Michigan, MIT, NYU, Princeton, Stanford, UCLA and Yale

TED Talks. Smart people talking about interesting things. Each talk is about 20 minutes, highly visual, perfect for a projector presentation. Check out the ones rated jaw dropping, they really are.

Google Scholar allows you to search for scholarly literature. Google says, "From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, pre-print repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations."

Newspapers and Magazines Online links to local papers, important national papers, current news searchers, lists of newspapers world wide and magazine databases.

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Search Engines

Search Engines There are other good search engines besides Google. Here are some of the better ones with a brief description of their features, tips, deep search engines and a link to a site with 2500 search engines. Try a search engine with a different look.

Other Reference Sources Sites of other useful reference material.

Subscription Services.

Subcription databases are generally available only in the MVRHS, however some allow Home Access to public library patrons in Massachusetts.

Enter MA Library Card:

Enter your Massachusetts library card number for out-of-school access to books, newspapers and magazine articles.

These are a huge collection of reference materials that is otherwise difficult to find. Search the archives of the Boston Globe, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, many magazines, scientific journals and much, much more.

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