North Forsyth Media Center

Resources

Destiny, the online card catalog

• Search Destiny, the online card catalog, by keyword, title, author, or subject.

• If North does not have the resource, you can search at another school and place a hold on the material. The other school will send the resource through the school mail for free.

• MLA citation is available for every resource in Destiny.

WebPath Express

• WebPath Express, through Destiny, finds websites.

• Search by keyword, title, author, or subject.

• MLA citation for every WebPath Express site is available.

Webportal• The documents saved under your student number can be accessed at home.

• To access Webportal, go to WSFCS website. Click on Webportals on the left side under Quick Links. Then choose High School Students. Use your computer login as the username and password.

• Download the document you want. After making changes, upload the document to Webportal.

Newspapers

• The Independent (weekly)

• Wall Street Journal (daily)

• The Winston-Salem Chronicle (weekly)

• The Winston-Salem Journal (weekly)

Magazines• American Baby (monthly)• Architectural Digest (monthly)• Better Homes and Gardens

(monthly)• Black Enterprise (monthly)• Bon Appetit (monthly)• Business Week (weekly)• Car and Driver (monthly)• Career World (monthly)• Consumer Reports (monthly)• Country Living (monthly)• Current (monthly)• Current Health 2 (monthly)• Cycle World (monthly)• Dance (monthly) • Discover (monthly)• Downbeat (monthly)• Ebony (monthly)• Education Digest (monthly)• Essence (monthly)• Family Circle (monthly)• Gentlemen’s Quarterly (monthly)• Good Housekeeping (monthly)• Health (monthly)• House Beautiful (monthly)• Jet (weekly)• Kiplinger’s Personal Finance

(monthly)• Latina (monthly)• Maclean’s (monthly)• Motor Trend (monthly)• National Geographic (monthly)• National Wildlife (bi-monthly)• Natural History (monthly)• Newsweek (weekly)

• Outdoor Life (monthly)• Parents (monthly)• PC World (monthly)• People (weekly)• Plays (monthly)• Popular Mechanics (monthly)• Popular Science (monthly)• Prevention (monthly)• Psychology Today (monthly) • Reader’s Digest – large print (monthly)• Saturday Evening Post (bi-monthly)• School Library Journal (monthly)• Science News (bi-weekly)• Scientific American (monthly)• Selecciones – Spanish Reader’s Digest

(monthly)• Seventeen (monthly)• Smithsonian (monthly)• Southern Living (monthly)• Sporting News (bi-weekly) • Sports Illustrated (weekly) • Teen (monthly)• Time (weekly) • US News and World Report (monthly)• US Weekly (weekly) • Vogue (monthly)• Vogue Patterns Magazine (bi-monthly)• Wildlife in North Carolina (monthly)

NC WiseOwl

• To access a variety of sources

go to NC WiseOwl• NC WiseOwl has online encyclopedias,

magazines, newspapers, and hundreds of databases for research

• Click on High School Zone• There are several resources on the left side• The password to enter the resources is wiseowl

Student Resource Center

• The Student Resource Center is accessed through NC WiseOwl

• There are a variety of ways to search on this page

• Resources include magazines, newspapers, encyclopedias, biographies, reports, documents, etc.

• Different citations are available such as MLA, ALA, and Chicago

• Click on Search Other Databases to get even more resources

EBSCO Databases• EBSCO databases are accessed through

the Student Resource Center by clicking on Search Other Databases

• Different citations are available

• The first page includes resources on topics such as auto repair, health, and literature

• Click EBSCO databases for even more

More EBSCO databases via http://search.ebscohost.com

• Username is northhs• Password is vikings• Different citations are available • The articles can be saved under your student number and accessed

later• History Reference Center

(reference books, encyclopedias, and non-fiction books)

• Science Reference Center (science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc)

• Points of View Reference Center (pro and con articles on current research topics)