Student Databases

These online resources are purchased so that your child has access to reliable, credible research sources.
Edline will have the list with the web links, user names and passwords posted. Your child can
also pick up a hard copy in the media center!

Annals of American History
Speeches, historical accounts, memoirs, poems, images & multimedia
Auto Repair Center
CultureGrams
Enhance curriculum with age-appropriate, high-quality digital content from primary & secondary sources spanning thousands of titles & multiple media types

Encyclopedia Britannica: School Edition
Encyclopedia Britannica: Academic Edition
Enciclopedia Juvenil
Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol
Global Reference Center: French,
Japanese, Chinese, Korean & Spanish
History Reference Center
U.S. & World
Issues and Controversies
Hot topics that include pros & cons
MasterFile Premier
1,700 full text periodicals, 510,000 photos, maps & flags, 107,000 primary sources & over 500 reference books
Noodletools
Organizes research through notecards and provides source citation in MLA format.
Science Reference Center
SIRS Decades
5,000+ primary & secondary source
articles highlighting key events, movements,
people, and places in 20th-century America.

SIRS Discoverer
Grades 1-9 – over 1,900 periodical articles & images, 9,000+ weblinks and 29,000 graphics, photos, maps & charts
SIRS Knowledge Source
Portal for SIRS databases.

Student News Net
Timely, relevant news & current events. Designed for grades 4-8, related learning activities & lesson plans teach students how to organize facts, make connections, & use information in problem-solving activities.
Student Resource Center Junior
Includes history, literature, science, social studies reference material, more than 340 full-text periodicals & newspapers, primary sources, creative works & multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals,
U.S. History in Context
Most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History. Rference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

* See Ms. Cavey or Ms. Pagan for access to databases that require passwords.

Questions about Media Center page content please contact Ms. Cavey