OCIS – Ohio Career Information System

www.ohcis.intocareers.org

OCIS is an annually updated, comprehensive career and educational guidance system that  provides information and exploration tools for teens and adults.

With OCIS you can easily navigate between occupational information, the related programs of study and training, and the schools that offer the training.

See your Cybrarian at your school for the User Name and Password.

Ohiorc.org – The Ohio Resource Center for Mathematics, Science, and Reading

http://www.ohiorc.org

ORC works to improve teaching and learning among Ohio teachers.  They do this by promoting standards-based, best practices in mathematics, science, and reading for Ohio schools and universities.

OhioLINK – Digital Media Center Database

http://infohio.org/ER/OhioLINKDMC.html

The following databases are available to Ohio’s PreK-12 schools and educators without username or passwords:

Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
Recorded Bird Songs
Approximately 4,000 audio recordings of birds, primarily warblers, can be heard with RealPlayer. And more are coming soon.  Founded by the late Dr. Donald Borror, Professor of Entomology and Zoology at The Ohio State University, the Borror Laboratory is one of the largest collections of recorded animal sounds in the world.

Foreign Language Database
Ohio Five ViewPoints Project videos
Hundreds of QuickTime video clips of native speakers in several languages. The speakers talk about a variety of topics relating to their culture, family, daily life, and more. Each clip has a description and grammar/vocabulary notes.

Historic & Archival Collections
More than 3,000 images are currently available from the National Underground Freedom Center, Ohio State University Department of Archives and Special Collections, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, University of Akron Libraries, and Wright State University Libraries.

Science Database
Historic and recent images
Images currently available include nearly 600 environmental geology images from Oberlin College and 4000 forestry images from The Ohio State University.

Social Sciences Database
Historic and recent images
Images currently available include more than 500 images of Mayan archaeology from Oberlin College and hundreds of paper impressions of Greek and Latin inscriptions contributed by the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies at The Ohio State University.