Databases Good for Kids

 

American National Biography         FULL TEXT

Full-text profiles of more than 18,000 deceased individuals from all eras and walks of life who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. Many biographies include pictures. Searchable by keyword, name, gender, occupation, birth date and place. Also features links to select web sites. Includes the following special search collections: Black History, Women's History, Asian Pacific American Heritage, Hispanic Heritage, and American Indian Heritage.

Annals of American History Online 1493-present    FULL TEXT

Annals of American History illuminates U.S. history from 1493 to modern times in over 2,000 primary documents—the original words of history-makers. Read works by historical figures such as Davy Crockett, Henry Ford, Madeleine Albright, John Hancock, Malcolm X, and Edgar Allen Poe. Included are historical accounts, speeches, memoirs, poems, editorials and cultural criticism, as well as more than 500 pictures, hundreds of video clips & audio of famous speeches. Also includes a historical timeline of events.

Biography Reference Bank        FULL TEXT

(© H. W. Wilson) -- More than 72,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 20,000 photographs of the subjects. Many of the biographies are enhanced with full text, abstracts, and citations. The biographies are searchable by name, profession, title, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, titles of works, date of birth, date of death, keyword, and presence of images.

Biography Resource Center          FULL TEXT

(© The Gale Group) -- A database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Searchable by person, birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender.

Black History Month Resource Center         FULL TEXT

Includes over 75 biographies, a four-century-long historical timeline, excerpts from the Schomburg Center Guide to Black Literature and an assortment of activities like the Black History Month quiz.

Business Leader Profiles for Students          FULL TEXT

Gale Virtual Reference Library - Covers 350 prominent individuals who have made significant contributions to business and industry. Profiles range from 1,250 to 2,500 words in length.

CLEVNET Library Catalog

The online catalog of the holdings of the CLEVNET Libraries.

Contemporary Novelists         FULL TEXT

Gale Virtual Reference Library - Contains biographical/critical essays on the most important living novelists writing in English worldwide.

Contemporary Poets          FULL TEXT

Gale Virtual Reference Library - Provides biographical and bibliographical information on 789 of the world's most important contemporary English-language poets, including 120 new to this edition. Entries include personal and career information, addresses, a detailed bibliography, a list of further reading sources, and more. Each entry also includes a signed critical essay covering each poet's career and works, written by an expert in the field.

Discovering Collection         FULL TEXT

(© The Gale Group) -- This cross-curricular reference resource combines thousands of biographies, topical overviews, and critical analyses in the subjects of History, Science and Literature in a single database that supports classroom learning.

EBSCO Animals          FULL TEXT

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.

EBSCOhost MasterFILE Premier          FULL TEXT

Full text articles from nearly 1,800 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multicultural periodicals. It also offers indexing and abstracts for over 2,700 periodicals. Full text backfiles go as far back as January of 1990, while indexing and abstracts backfiles go as far back as January of 1984. Updated daily.

Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos

World Book Encyclopedia in Spanish. La Enciclopedia estudiantil hallazgos en línea es una enciclopedia de conocimientos generales. Contiene información sobre gente, lugares, objetos, acontecimientos e ideas. Aprovecha esta enciclopedia para investigar y divertirte.

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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia        FULL TEXT

This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Kids Search         FULL TEXT

(Ebscohost) Kids Search is designed especially for youth in grades K-8. Kids Search makes it easier for students to look for their subjects of interest by automatically searching across all applicable databases simultaneously. Important features and functionality of Kids Search include a completely new, visually appealing look and feel; the ability to search by topic, subtopic, or keywords; simultaneous searching across all subscribed databases; the ability to sort results by relevance, as well as by date; the option of filtering search results by source type; and the ability to add search results, images, or persistent links to searches to the Folder.

Literature Resource Center 1926-         FULL TEXT

(© The Gale Group) -- Access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary dicipline. Covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers. Coverage of 2,000 of the most studied authors. Searchable by author name, title, genre, literary movement or literary theme. Combines Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and more.

MAS Ultra  - School Edition       FULL TEXT

AS Ultra - School Edition

(EBSCOhost) Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for more than 700 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating as far back as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, more than 350 full text reference books, 84,011 biographies, 83,472 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily.

Middle Search Plus 1984-       FULL TEXT

(EBSCOhost) Middle Search Plus provides full text for nearly 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high 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. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,011 biographies, 83,472 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily. 

Nonfiction Classics for Students          FULL TEXT

Gale Virtual Reference Library - Provides in-depth literary and historical background on the most commonly studied nonfiction essays, books, biographies, and memoirs in a streamlined, easy-to-use format. Covering 15-20 works per volume, this reference series gives high-school and undergraduate students an ideal starting point for class assignments, term papers, and special projects.

Novelist K-8 
                                                                                             
"Curriculum-connected Book Lists for the Librarian on the Go!" Explore NoveList's expert-created Grab and Go Topical Book Lists, covering a range of topics for grade levels from Kindergarten through Eighth.       
Primary Search (Grades K-6)         FULL TEXT

(EBSCOhost) Elementary school students should click here to go to Searchasaurus, a research tool from EBSCOhost.

Science Online | Facts on File           FULL TEXT

Searchasurus          FULL TEXT
                                                                                 
(EBSCOhost) Research tool for elementary age students.
Student Research Center

EBSCO's Student Research Center 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.

TOPICsearch        FULL TEXT

This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 102,800 articles from more than 2,500 diverse sources, including more than 1,550 full text periodicals.

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World Book Kids        FULL TEXT           

                                                                                     

World Book Spanish version      FULL TEXT