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Ebsco includes the following databases:

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Middle Search Plus: Middle Search® Plus contains full text for nearly 150 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies, historical essays and student pamphlets. Additionally, Middle Search Plus contains primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History, reference books including the Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia and American Heritage® Dictionary, 4th Edition from Houghton Mifflin, the Encyclopedia of Animals, and an Image Collection.

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Primary Search: Primary Search® contains full text for more than 50 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets. Additionally, Primary Search includes the Encyclopedia of Animals, and features the Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, which provides students with easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids. This database also provides the American Heritage® Children’s Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags.

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Topic Search: This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 50,000 articles from more than 3,000 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO’s  unparalleled periodicals collection, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, government information and EBSCO’s Current Issues database.

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Searchasuarus (Children's Databases): Erupting volcanoes, a dinosaur guide and compass make navigation fun for elementary to middle school age users. Searchers can click on a tropical island that represents a database. In addition to keyword, natural language and subject searching, users may select to search by hot topics from the Searchasaurus map. Throughout the search process, the Searchasaurus dinosaur accompanies users and offers a link to a new search or, via his compass, a link back to the Searchasaurus map, making it easy for young users to navigate through their searches. From the result list, users can access complete articles from magazines, encyclopedias, books and more.

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Ultra Online Package: Complete: Consisting of six databases, the Ultra Online Package offers the most complete collection of full text reference resources available for secondary schools. This full text package contains databases designed not only for students, but also for educators. The Ultra Online Package contains the following databases:
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MAS Ultra (School Edition)
This comprehensive database, designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines including America’s Civil War, American Heritage, American History, American Visions, Archaeology, Astronomy, Bioscience, Careers & Colleges, Civil War Times Illustrated, CQ Weekly, Discover, Economist, History Today, Nation, National Review, New Republic, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, Smithsonian, World War II, etc. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for 88,000 biographies and 60,000 primary source documents. Additionally, MAS Ultra (School Edition) contains more than 540 pamphlets, nearly 150 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book and World Almanac & Book of Facts), an Image Collection of 116,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDF’s and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.

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Newspaper Source
This database provides selected full text coverage for more than 200 newspapers and other sources. This collection includes cover-to-cover full text for USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor and The Times (London) as well as selected full text from hundreds of regional newspapers including: Atlanta Journal & Constitution, Boston Globe, Detroit Free Press, Miami Herald, San Jose Mercury News, etc. Full text transcripts are also included from Face the Nation, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, 60 Minutes, O’Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes, CNN®,CNBC, National Public Radio (NPR), etc.

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Health Source®: Consumer Edition
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide. This resource provides access to nearly 200 full text, consumer health periodicals, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Fit Pregnancy, Harvard Health Letter, HealthFacts, Men’s Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, Women’s Health Weekly, and many others. Also included in this database is searchable full text for nearly 1,200 health-related pamphlets; 20 health reference books, including books published by the People’s Medical Society; 7,000 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); and Stedman’s Medical Dictionary. This full text database covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children’s health, women’s health, etc.

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ERIC®
This database was created to assist teachers, administrators and researchers in gaining immediate access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC® includes full text for more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals. Available with this database is EDRS (ERIC Document Reproduction Services) which offers E*Subscribe users a link for EBSCOhost subscribers of ERIC. E*Subscribe offers unlimited access for approximately 92% of ERIC documents electronically in PDF format. In addition, EBSCO SmartLinks™ provide the ability to link from citations in ERIC to full text articles in the Professional Development Collection™.

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Professional Development Collection™
This is the most comprehensive and most valuable collection of full text education journals in the world. Professional Development Collection™ includes full text for over 500 high quality education journals including:
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Booklist, Education, Education Digest, Education Week, Educational Leadership High School Journal, Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Research, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Phi Delta Kappan, Reading Teacher, School Library Journal and many others.

 

Web page designed and updated by Thomas David Rompf, Head of Information Services.  Last updated 02/29/2008

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