Online library: Questia media.www.questia.com, Internet, $3.50-$20 per student/year (free one-year subscription available) This online academic library supports the majority of secondary school curriculum topics. Consisting of 50,000 full-text books and 400,000 journal, magazine and newspaper articles, it features a comprehensive suite of digital research (Digital Research, Inc., Monterey, CA) A software company founded in 1976 by Gary Kildall that spearheaded the microcomputer revolution with its CP/M operating system. Other DRI products included the GEM windows environment, FlexOS realtime operating system and DR DOS, a DOS-compatible operating system with advanced features. In 1991, DRI was acquired by Novell. See SCO. tools. Students can create a personal online research environment where they highlight text, take notes in the margin, bookmark A stored location for quick retrieval at a later date. Web browsers provide bookmarks that contain the addresses (URLs) of favorite sites. Most electronic references, large text databases and help systems provide bookmarks that mark a location users want to revisit in the future. See Favorites, bookmark portal and bookmarklet. pages and create citations, quotations and bibliographies. One librarian at every |
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