Database Subscriptions
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| Young Researchers | |
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| World Book for Kids | A first encyclopedia for young readers. Also includes recommended web sites for younger students. Grades 4-5 |
| Kids Info Bits – Gale | A general database for kids with magazine articles and reference materials. Grades 4-6 |
| Kids Edition – Gale | This periodical database with almost 125 titles has easy access to full-text magazines from publishers such as Cobblestones, Scholastic and Time, as well as newspapers and reference. Grades 4-6 |
| Sirs Discoverer | includes magazines, newspapers, references, and recommended web sites. Reading level of articles is indicated. Grades 4-8 |
| World Almanac for Kids | A fun collection of unique and interesting facts organized by subject for younger kids to enjoy. Grades 4-6 |
| World Book for Kids Dictionary | Has easy to understand definitions and sentences for young readers. Grades 4-6 |
| Encyclopedias | |
| World Book for Kids | A first encyclopedia. Also includes recommended web sites for younger students. Grades 4-5 |
| World Book Encyclopedia | Basic encyclopedia for general information on commonly researched subjects. Entries also include recommended web sites, multi-media resources, and a dictionary. Grades 4-8 |
| Encyclopedia Britannica | Complete encyclopedia, with related Internet sites and index guides. Includes three different reading levels. Grades 4-8 |
| World Almanac Encyclopedia | General encyclopedia for better readers. Grades 6-8 |
| General Reference Books | |
| Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus | Includes definitions and audio file of the pronunciation. Grades 5-8 |
| World Book for Kids Dictionary | Has easy to understand definitions and sentences for young readers. Grades 4-6 |
| World Almanac | On-line version of the traditional book of facts. Grades 4-8 |
| World Almanac for Kids | A fun book of unique and interesting facts organized by subject for younger kids to enjoy. Grades 4-6 |
| Oxford English Dictionary | The most complete and authoritative dictionary. Includes chronological history of printed use of the words and their varied meanings. Grades 8 and above |
| Multimedia | |
| United Streaming | Digital video-on-demand from Discovery Education. Grades 4-8 |
| Current Events and Contemporary Issues | |
| SIRS Researcher | The Social Issues Research Service provides analysis of the leading issues of the day and an easy to use pro vs. con presentation of major subjects. Includes periodicals and reference articles. Grades 6-8 |
| Congressional Quarterly | Offers unbiased, comprehensive reporting and analysis of current news issues. Grades 7-8 |
| Issues and Controversies | This service of facts.com offers analysis of today’s most controversial issues. Includes pro vs. con perspectives on currently debated topics. Grades 6-8 |
| Lexis-Nexis Scholastic | A full text database for news and current issues: newspapers, transcripts, legal research, legislation, and statistics. Grades 6-8 |
| ABC-CLIO Issues | Covers issues of society, gender/ethnicity, criminal justice, government/politics, environment, science/technology. Includes a brief overview, people and organizations involved in the issues, timeline, statistics, and current outlook. Grades. 6-8 |
| History | |
| ABC-CLIO World History | Includes individual sites for Ancient and Medieval History, American History, and Modern World History. Includes essays, primary source documents, biographies, and timelines etc. Grades 6-8 |
| History Study Center | History Study Center is a collection of primary and secondary sources on global history from ancient times to the present day. Also includes multimedia and history journals. Grades. 6-8 |
| Annals of American History | A database of primary source documents organized according to time periods. Sources including speeches, reports, memoirs, images, and poems. Grades 7-8 |
| Gale-History Resource Center U.S. | History Resource Center: U.S. provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. Grades 7-8 |
| Issues and Contoversies in American History | A collection of essays on controversial issues in American History. Most entries include arguments for both pro and con. Grades 7- 8 |
| American National Biography | One of the best resources for researching the lives of past Americans. This database can be searched either by name or within the “special collections” archive. Includes illustrations and additional online resources. Grades 7-8 |
| Science | |
| Access Science | Provides a collection of reference materials through the The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science. It offers illustrations, headline news, biographies, and more. Grades 6-8 |
| Today’s Science | A collection of scientific essays on a variety of topics. Includes articles clustered by topic for further investigation. Grades 6-8 |
| Literature | |
| Proquest Learning - Literature | Includes biographical information on authors, study guides for many works, criticism, and videos of poets reading their own work. Grades 7-8 |
| Literature Resource Center - LRC | Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. Grades 7-8 |
| Literary Reference Center - Ebsco Host | Includes access to Encyclopedia of Literature and entries on commonly taught works and important writers. Grades 7-8 |
| Art History | |
| Grove Dictionary of Art | This is a resource for all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the present. Grove also includes an excellent image database. Be sure to investigate Bridgeman, a storehouse for their collection of art images. Grades 7-8 |
| Periodical Collection | |
| Newspaper Source from Ebsco Host | Includes 25 national and international newspapers, over 250 regional newspapers and television and radio news transcripts. Updated daily. Grades 6-8 |
| Lexis-Nexis Scholastic | A full text database for news and current issues: newspapers, transcripts, legal research, legislation, and statistics. Grades 6-8 |
| E-Library | Full text articles from newspapers, magazines, news wires, plus television, radio and government transcripts. Also includes complete works of literature, maps, etc. Grades 5-8 |
| Sirs Discoverer | A database for younger readers that includes magazines, newspapers, references, and recommended web sites. Reading level of articles is indicated. Grades 4-8 |