Shrewsbury Public Schools

Information Research Center

ProQuest Direct® is the premier online information service. The package that Shrewsbury Public Schools has purchased provides a powerful, convenient search and retrieval, right from your desktop, to one of the world's largest collections of information, including summaries of articles from over 5,000 publications, with many in full text, full image format.

Click the image below to access Proquest:

The Proquest service can be accessed from home if you have a User Account and Password. They are available from your school's media specialist. Shrewsbury Schools and ProQuest Direct encourage students, staff and family members to use this service from home. These services are not available from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. nightly and Saturdays from 10 p.m. through Sundays until 10 a.m., for maintenance purposes.
For more information and additional resources regarding UMI and Proquest, please click the image to the left.
Format for Work Cited Sheet: MLA STYLE
Additional Resources

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth.

SPS Curriculum Links contain grade specific web resources which will enhance your teaching and learning. Teachers are welcome to suggest additional sites.

This teacher-friendly website contains a comprehensive list of links to curriculum related topics arranged both alphabetically and by subject.

A collection of kid safe search engines designed for elementary students.

Steve Bunes, VP for Development of Edventions has granted SPS permission to use the Starship Search Engine.

Once the user is at the sight and goes back thru StarshipSearch for another search, they are assured of safe access to over 10,000 sights chosen byeducators. This is because StarshipSearch is built on and filters by identified safe, educational sights (URLs) vs words. Click image or link to begin searching

http://www.starshipsearch.com/
Link to Starship Schools Search Engine

A service of the Educational Technology Division of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. Click on the map to find Kid Safe websites of interest for each of our states.