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Student Research--Selected Databases

Biography (Gale in Context)
An updated experience for those seeking information on the world's most influential people. This resource merges reference content with periodicals and multimedia. Users can browse or search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as by keyword.
Britannica - School
Explore learning materials, a dictionary and thesaurus, atlases, timelines, and other features - all at the appropriate grade level. Includes resources for PreK-2 (Fundamentals), PreK-5 (Elementary), Grades 6-8 (Compton's), and Grades 9-12.
Culturegrams
CultureGrams provides country reports that go beyond mere facts and figures to deliver a one-of-a-kind perspective on daily life and culture, including the background, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people.
eLibrary
Connecting educators and students to the best online resources using videos, timelines, journals, pictures, newspapers, and websites.
Explora High School
A general research portal designed for students in grades 6-12. Content from MasterFILE Complete, History Reference Center, MAS Ultra, Middle Search Plus, and Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia.
Explora Middle School
A research portal for middle grade researchers. Combines content from Middle Search Plus, MAS Ultra - School ed., and Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia.
High School (Gale in Context)
Holistic topic perspectives integrating reference, news, and magazine articles as well as a wide variety of multimedia content such as videos and images.

Formerly called Student Resources in Context.
MAS Ultra - School Ed.
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. Supporting material includes reference books, image collections, maps, & flags.
Middle School (Gale in Context)
A broad-based general research experience aimed at the middle school researcher.

Formerly called Research in Context.
Middle Search Plus
Articles from popular, middle school magazines. Find biographies, historical essays, reference books, the Encyclopedia of Animals, an image collection, maps and flags. Articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexile).
Proquest Central
The largest collection of full text articles available to libraries. Proquest Central covers more than 150 subject areas and has full text coverage of the Wall Street Journal and L.A. Times. If you have problems accessing this database, use this alternate URL
SIRS Issues Researcher
Analysis and opinions cover the pros, cons, and everything in between of more than 300 social, scientific, health, historic, economic, political, and global issues. Issues Researcher merges content from Renaissance and Government Reporter.