Problems with Links?
If the links are not directing you to the database search page, click on Digital Library below to access the full list of databases. Find the database you need there:
Outbreak Project
Part I: Country Research
Click on the continent
then click on the country of your choice
Part II: Disease Identification
DATABASES:
EBSCO: CLICK ON Consumer Health Complete:
Facts on File: Today's Science:
Facts on File: CLICK ON Health Reference Center:
Facts on File: Science Online:
Access from Home
If you want to access databases from HOME, click here:
Your account must be activated to access databases from home. If your account is not activated, then follow instructions to activate your account.
To activate your account and to access from home, you will need your LAUSD SSO (Student Single Sign On). If you don't have this information, you can get it from Ms. Rivas.
Library Books
Books you can find in the STEAM library:
- Unusual Diseases (616 Har)
- Lyme disease (616.9 Kel)
- Pandemics (614.4 Pra)
- Plague (614.5 Emm)
- Killer Viruses (616.9 Hal)
- Chicken Pox (616.9 Gui)
- Streptococcus group A (616.9 Smi)
- Hepatitis (616.3 Abr)
- Yellow Fever (614.5 Shm)
- Viruses (614.5 Shm)
- West Nile Virus (614.5 Sfa)
- Botulism (616.9 Emm)
- Cholera (616.9 Col)
- Diphtheria (616.9 Gui)
- Polio (616.8 Hec)
- Rubella and Rubeola (614.5 Shm)
- Outbreak: disease detectives at work (614.4 Fri)
- Infections, infestations, and diseases (616.9 Duk)
- E. Coli infections (579.3 Man)
- Ebola (614.5 Sti)
- Smallpox (614.5 Fur)
Don't see the book you need? We have more in VAPA and ISLC - come and ask Ms. Rivas what you're looking for!
Citations
Here is some help in citing your sources for these databases or websites:
How to cite an online database:
Editor, author, or compiler name. “Article title.” Name of page.
Date of resource creation. Name of database.
Medium of publication. Date of access.
EXAMPLE
“Job description.” Acupuncturist. 2014. Career Cruising. Web.
2 Dec. 2014.
How to cite a website/page on a website:
Editor, author, or compiler name. “Article title.” Name of Site.
Version number. Name of institution/organization
affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date of
resource creation. Medium of publication. Date of
access.
EXAMPLE
Bernstein, Mark. "10 Tips on Writing the Living Web." A List
Apart: For People Who Make Websites. A List
Apart Mag., 16 Aug. 2002. Web. 4 May 2009.
