{"id":761,"date":"2025-07-04T18:03:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T22:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/?page_id=761"},"modified":"2025-09-12T12:38:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:38:32","slug":"research-tools","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/school-resources\/library\/research-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The NWSS and district catalogues and resources give Grade 8 to 12 students access to educational and reference tools. When accessed from school computers, no login or password is required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For home access, students can log in to the <a href=\"https:\/\/search.follettsoftware.com\/metasearch\/ui\/34429\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/search.follettsoftware.com\/metasearch\/ui\/34429\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Library Catalogue (Destiny Discover)<\/a> and select <strong>Research Tools Passwords<\/strong> to view the necessary usernames and passwords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/research.ebsco.com\/c\/63ai55\/?db=aph%2Crch%2Ccjh\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/research.ebsco.com\/c\/63ai55\/?db=aph%2Crch%2Ccjh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EBSCOhost<\/a> &#8211; Academic Search Premier, Canadian Literary Center, Canadian Reference Center &#8211; Multidisciplinary databases with full-text journals, magazines, and academic resources.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JSTOR <\/a>&#8211; Access to over 1,400 academic journals and primary sources, including current issues of select titles.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oed.com\/loginpage\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.oed.com\/loginpage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oxford English Dictionary<\/a> &#8211; Authoritative and historic English language reference.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/link.gale.com\/apps\/WHIC?u=40nwss\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/link.gale.com\/apps\/WHIC?u=40nwss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GALE in Context: World History<\/a> &#8211; Insight into world history figures, events, and culture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Focused Education resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe src = \"https:\/\/focusedresources.ca\/district-access-iframe\/\" width = \"100%\" height = \"1000px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" >\n<\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NWSS and district catalogues and resources give Grade 8 to 12 students access to educational and reference tools. When accessed from school computers, no login or password is required. For home access, students can log in to the Library Catalogue (Destiny Discover) and select Research Tools Passwords to view the necessary usernames and passwords. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":371,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-761","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/761\/revisions\/975"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/nwss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}