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Carol Sibley, Curriculum Librarian

 
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K-12 Online Full Text Databases

For off campus access to electronic databases, click here.

Children's Magazine Guide
Provides fast access to a wealth of annotated citations of recent articles (fiction and nonfiction) from more than 65 magazines for children and teenagers.  Recommended websites are also included.

Discovering Collection
Use this comprehensive database to retrieve in-depth reference content for the core curriculum areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies.  Includes multimedia.

Horn Book Guide Online
Provides short reviews of virtually every hardcover book for young people published in the United States since 1989.  The reviews include strengths and weaknesses for each title, as well as a rating from 1 (outstanding) to 6 (unacceptable).  Search by author, illustrator, title, subject, publication date, rating, etc.  

Junior Edition  
Designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, health, people government, history, sports and more.  Includes detailed maps.

Junior Reference Collection
Covers science, biographies, authors, multicultural topics, and people and places.  Includes timelines.

Kid's Edition  
Designed for elementary school students, with easy access to full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Kids InfoBits
Kids InfoBits meets the research needs of students in kindergarten through grade 5.  It features a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine, newspaper and reference content for information on current events, the arts, government, health, history, people, science, sports and more.

Kraus Curriculum Development Library, Electronic Edition
A searchable collection of nearly 5,000 curriculum guides, including frameworks, objectives, teaching units, lesson plans, etc.  covers early childhood through adult basic education.

Student Edition  
Designed for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history sports and more.

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