Database by Subject: K-12 Resources
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1990 - present |
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Updated monthly. Provides full text for 5,256 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Includes full-page images as well as color embedded images. | |
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1998 - present |
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Collection of science reference materials. Includes access to articles from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, and the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, and more. Tailored to researchers and students. | |
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1970 - present |
No full text |
Updated daily. Contains bibliographic citations with some abstracts covering agriculture, animal husbandry, animal and human nutrition, forestry, plant pathology, plant science, human ecology, agricultural economics and rural sociology. Includes journal articles, books, state extension and experiment station publications and USDA documents. National Agriculture Library | |
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American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library |
Coverage varies |
Some full text available |
American Memory is an ongoing resource of digital images, audio and media clips embracing all aspects of American history and culture. This extensive collection provides access to over 7 million digital reproductions of primary sources from over 100 important historical collections from the Library of Congress and other participating museums and institutions. In addition to the digital resources, the site includes The Learning Page, a teacher's guide to assist in instructional support and learning, and Today in History which gives a brief historical account of an important event in American history occurring on that day. |
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Some full text available |
Constructed as a companion to C-SPAN's 1999 series, American Presidents: Life Portraits, the site features basic biographical information and interesting facts about our nation's presidents along with a wide variety of video and sound clips and links to other sites of interest on the Web. Texts of speeches and addresses are included, as well as extensive bibliographies. | |
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Some full text available |
This site's mission is to be a "portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts" and consists of annotated lists of recommended history sites that are divided by topic and rated by the site's creators for "usefulness and accuracy." Broad periods such as Prehistory, Medieval, and 20th Century history are listed and further subdivided into manageable topics and periods. Best of History Websites also identifies sites that are particularly useful for lesson plans, research and multimedia. Although coverage of the period between the Middle Ages and the modern/20th century is not particularly strong, overall this frequently updated site lives up to its name and its mission. | |
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Coverage Varies |
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The Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. DOAJ aims to cover all subjects and languages. There are over 2796 journals in the directory. Over 800 journals are searchable at article level. | |
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Some full text available |
Updated regularly. Offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. Consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Within some of the full text, image links are available for the Windows client. Images are accessed by double-clicking any image graphic. | |
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Some full text available |
K-12 Education Reference Directory of Resources and Schools, Content for Music, Teachers, Internet, Technology, Literacy, Arts and Linguistics | |
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Published three times per year, Educators' Spotlight Digest is a free, online publication of S.O.S. for Information Literacy, a project of Syracuse University's Center for Digital Literacy, in collaboration with the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). S.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource for educators, currently in development, that promises to make a significant contribution to enhancing the teaching of information literacy skills to children. At no time in history has the ability to locate, organize, evaluate, manage and use information been more critical for today's learners. These skills, collectively referred to as information literacy, lay the groundwork for success in every phase of a student's life both in and out of school. | |
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Coverage Varies |
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Updated regularly. Designed for K-12 educators and students. Connects educators and students to online resources to supplement instruction and research. Content includes curriculum support, full text magazines, newspapers, reference books, and transcripts. Also includes pictures, maps, educator-approved websites, and audio/video content | |
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1966 - present |
No full text |
Updated monthly. Contains over 700,000 citations covering research documents, journal articles, technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular materials in the field of education. | |
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Coverage varies |
Some full text available |
Launched in 2000 by the Learning Network, Fact Monster.com (formerly Infopleasekids.com ) describes its site as combining "essential reference materials, fun facts, features and individualized homework help." Intended for children aged 9 to 14, the well designed and easily navigable resource presents the following 10 subject categories in both text and graphic formats: World & News, U.S., People, Word Wise, Science, Math, Sports, Cool Stuff, Games and Quizzes and Homework Center. Each category has an Almanac, Special Features and a Games and Quizzes section which offer appropriate links. An atlas, almanac, dictionary and an encyclopedia can also be accessed directly from the home page | |
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Some full text available |
This well-organized resource is the online version of the popular Farmers' Almanac. In keeping with the Almanac's goal of being informative as well as entertaining, the site, which provides only a selection of the features contained in the print version, offers astronomical data, gardening information, and cooking and household hints. | |
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Some full text available |
Updated regularly. Fuente Academica is a collection of scholarly journals from Latin American and Spanish publishers. Offers full text (including PDF) for 260 scholarly Spanish language journals. Titles include Revista de Arquitectura, Estudios Sobre Educacion, Revista de Estudios Hispanicos, Comunicacion y Sociedad, Revista de Ciencia Politica, Revista Historia, and more. | |
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Some full text available |
"HyperHistory is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic [simultaneously presented and viewable] lifelines, timelines, and maps." The unique construction of the site allows history to be "viewed" rather than read, although the option of browsing and searching brief text biographies (1010 total) is available. The collection of timelines can be viewed by time period, event (including a new chronology of the 2001-02 terrorist attacks), and person; names on the timeline are color-coded to indicate area of primary influence (science, arts, religion, politics). There is also an extensive collection of event and time period-related maps. The site is complemented by linked text of a "comprehensive world history" that features bibliographies and web links for further research. A valuable site, especially for K-12 and undergraduate use. | |
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Explore a world of children's books at the ICDL, a public library for the world's children. Read 871 free children's books written in 33 different languages. The International Children's Digital Library is a project of the University of Maryland. | |
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Some full text available |
Kidspace is a service of the Internet Public Library (IPL). The IPL is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information. | |
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1975 - present |
Includes full text |
Updated daily. This comprehensive database, designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for more than 700 popular, high school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for 84,074 biographies and 86,135 primary source documents, an Image collection of 188,323 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines. | |
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Coverage Varies |
Some full text available |
Updated daily. Provides indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,780 periodicals and full text coverage for nearly 1,860 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals. | |
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1990 - present |
Some full text available |
Updated daily. Contains full text for nearly 140 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. Also contains primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History and an Image Collection of 188,323 photos, maps and flags. | |
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Some full text available |
NASA.gov, the official web site of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, features an extensive collection of information related to our nation's space program and the cosmos. Redesigned in 2003, the site is well-organized and can be accessed by audience (educators, children, students, or the media) by resource category (about NASA, News and Events, Multimedia, Missions, Popular Topics), or by a handy search engine on each page that facilitates "Finding it @ NASA." | |
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1874 - present |
Some full text available |
The Presidential Timeline provides a single point of access to an ever-growing selection of digitized assets from the collections of the twelve Presidential Libraries of the National Archives. Among these assets you’ll find documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video relating to the events of the presidents’ lives. The goal of the project is to make these resources readily and freely available to students, educators, and adult learners throughout the world. | |
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Mid-1980's - present |
Some full text available |
Updated daily. Designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children's rooms, contains full text for nearly 70 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). In addition to the full text, offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines. Full text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets. Full text backfiles go as far back as 1989, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as 1984. | |
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1965 - present |
Some full text available |
Updated regularly. Provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. Also contains more than 200 educational reports. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 700 journals. | |
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1851-2002 |
Includes full text |
Updated annually. Includes all the articles published since the first issue of the paper in 1851. Provides full text and full image articles with digital reproductions of every page, every article and every issue in PDF format. In addition to news stories, includes editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, photos, and advertisements. | |
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Updated weekly. Includes more than 80 full text journals and books about Texas history, ethnic & cultural diversity, gender studies, literature, public health, business as well as home & garden and sports & leisure. The database contains biographies portraying famous historical and contemporary Texans. Also available in the Texas Reference Center is the Spanish-language newspaper El Sol de Texas with Texas and national news coverage. | |
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Some full text available |
The VCDH at the University of Virginia promotes the teaching and learning of history using digital technologies. Our research projects and outreach programs use the web to serve scholars and educators in universities, colleges, schools, and libraries around the world. |