Most of these databases can be used from home as well as from networked computers at school. When passwords are required, the librarians will provide them to you.

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Britannica Online School Edition
Includes Encyclopaedia Britannica, Compton’s Encyclopedia and Britannica Elementary.

Columbia Granger's Online Poetry
Access through author, title, subject and keywords to thousands of English-language poems.

EBSCO Research Databases
Includes Masterfile Select - Full Text Magazines, General Science Collection, Host Espanol, Searchasaurus, Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Animals and Kids Search.

Gale DISCovering Collection
A diverse database for searching geography and cultures, history, literature, multimedia, science, health and people.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of 304 e-books that includes American Decades, American Decades Primary Sources, American History through Literature, Dictionary of American History, Encyclopedia of European Social History, Climate Change: In Context and The New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Many of these are available in hard copy form in the Libraries as well.

Grolier
Online access to Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, New Book of Knowledge, Neuva Enciclopedia Cumbre en Linea (Spanish-language encyclopedia), New Book of Popular Science and Lands and Peoples.

JSTOR
An extensive archive of scholarly journals, some of which date back to the 1600s.

Merriam-Webster Online

NOVEL
A statewide virtual library provided by the New York State Library, NOVEL offers news from the past 20 years from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post as well as sources on business and health, U.S., world and English authors.

Oxford English Dictionary Online
Authoritative guide to the meaning, history and pronounciation of over half a million words.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Full-text articles and images (including advertisements and editorial cartoons) dating back to the 1850s. Includes The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Daily Tribune.

Reader's Guide Full Text Select
Full-text access to 350 popular periodicals as far back as 1994, including high-quality abstracting and indexing.

SIRS Knowledge Source
Provides access to a wealth of online periodical and reference articles, as well as editorially selected web sites for multidisciplinary student research.

LOWER SCHOOL SEARCH TOOLS

Britannica Elementary

KidsClick
Web search for kids by librarians.

Kids Search
Search by topic-dictionary, encyclopedia, images.

Yahooligans
The Web guide for kids.