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Ebsco Online
For a tutorial on how to use the database,
please see the following links from Ebsco:
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. |
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