Online Databases

Please refer to the sheet sent home by the Media Center with passwords on it for these databases. If you need a new set of passwords, contact the Media Center.

EBSCO Host: There are nine different databases included here: Middle Search Plus (middle school level magazines), Primary Search (elementary school level magazines), Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia, EBSCO Animals, Newspaper Source, Professional Development Collection (designed for educators), ERIC (education-related digests), Health Source, and TOPICsearch.
Bigchalk: This includes our subscription to Elibrary Classic. Elibrary is an index of periodicals that includes full text. In addition to magazines, Elibrary searches newspapers, reference books, pictures, maps, and TV and radio transcripts.
Grolier Online: This highly regarded online encyclopedia includes seven different reference sources: Encyclopedia Americana (a focus on American history), Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (a general encyclopedia), The New Book of Knowledge, The New Book of Popular Science, Nueva encyclopedia Cumbre en Lines (a Spanish encyclopedia), Lands and Peoples (geography and current events), and America the Beautuful (focus on the states).
Infotrac: This includes our subscription to the Gale Junior Reference Collection. It is a collection of some of Gale's best products, combined in one database, including documents, photographs and illustrations, video and audio clips, as well as collegiate, biographical and geographic dictionaries. The products included are UXL Biographies, UXL Discovering Authors, UXL Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Canadian Provinces, UXL Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, UXL Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States, UXL Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures, UXL Multicultural, and UXL Science. It's a great source for biographies.
World Book Online: World Book is the most highly regarded encyclopedia for elementary school students. "With all the articles from the 22 volume print set plus over 3,700 more, World Book Online includes more that 11,000 pictures and maps, 115 videos and animations, 9,500 sounds, 128 panoramic 360 degree views, 60,000 cross-reference links, and links to more that 120 important periodicals."