Online Databases

Your child's school subscribes to several online databases for your student's use at school.  You may also use these databases at home if you have a computer with internet access.  

Each site requires a username and password.  This information has been provided to your student.  If it is not readily available to you, please call the elementary school librarian.  

I encourage the use of these resources.  The information will always be factual and reliable.  Unlike internet search engines, with these databases, you will not have to deal with web sites that are not appropriate or content that is questionable or objectionable.  

Click on the colored link for each database, enter the username and password, and look around at what's available.  

Junior Library users can now search EbscoHost's Searchasaurus from home. This useful service will help both children and their parents by enabling them to search thousands of articles, an online general encyclopedia and a ton of information about animals from around the world.

Parents, teachers and children will find Ebsco's Novelist K-8 a useful addition to our online resources. Find out about the latest releases, search for novels and picture books by your favorite author or about a subject of particular interest.

Ebsco Kids Search is designed especially for youth in grades K-5. Kids Search makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type - -magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.

Primary Package includes the following databases.  One log-in gives you access to all.:

• Primary Search provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
• EBSCO Animals provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
• Professional Development Collection provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.
• ERIC contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full-text documents from ERIC
• Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 28 U.S. and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 260 U.S. newspapers. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

e-Library with a young learner-tested design makes research a blast! Stocked with age-appropriate articles, videos, sounds, pictures, and much more.

SIRS Discoverer is an award-winning interactive reference database for elementary and middle school-aged children, as well as for students with limited English at the high school level. This online resource is designed to develop research, reading, writing, language and computer skills. The database consists of full-text articles constructed from more than 1,200 magazines, newspapers and U. S. government documents.

World Book Online: Tap into on-line homework help that you can trust. World Book information follows school curriculums. Your username and password may be used for the World Book homepage which contains links to activities, quizzes, and lots more information.