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Databases

Research in Context (Gale)
Current, authoritative, media-rich information with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources,.
Student Resources in Context (GALE)
A database that provides students with cross-curricular and authoritative content to empower development critical thinking.
Newspaper Source (EBSCO)
Provides a full-text digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires and news magazines. In addition, it offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.
TOPICSEARCH (EBSCO)
Explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms.
Britannica School
Discover encyclopedia articles, multimedia, primary sources, games, and other learning resources that support student research and reinforce curriculum standards.
Issues & Controversies
Helps researchers understand today’s crucial issues by exploring hundreds of hot topics in politics, government, business, society, education.

United States Supreme Court
Oyez
Oyez (pronounced oh-yay), a free law project from Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII), Chicago-Kent College of Law and Justia.com, is a multimedia archive devoted to making the Supreme Court of the United States accessible to everyone. It is a complete and authoritative source for all of the Court’s audio since the installation of a recording system in October 1955. Oyez offers transcript-synchronized and searchable audio, plain-English case summaries, illustrated decision information, and full text Supreme Court opinions. Oyez also provides detailed information on every justice throughout the Court’s history and offers a panoramic tour of the Supreme Court building, including the chambers of several justices.
Landmark Cases of the Supreme Court
Landmarkcases.org provides resources about important U.S. Supreme Court cases
US Supreme Court (FindLaw)
SCOTUSblog
Discussion of recent developments in U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence.
Annenberg Classroom
Provides insight into how the branches of government operate .

MLA 8
The guidelines are published in the MLA Handbook, the latest edition -- the 8th -- was published in April 2016 and uses one universal citation format for all types of sources regardless of publication format.

EasyBib
Automatic works cited and bibliography formatting for MLA, APA and Chicago/Turabian citation styles. Now supports 7th edition of MLA.