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Young Adult and Children's Databases

 

CultureGrams - delivers concise and up-to-date cultural information on the countries of the world describing backgrounds, peoples, customs, lifestyle and society. It also includes reports for US states, a searchable glossary of over 4,000 cultural terms, a photo gallery, recipe collection and famous people biographies.

 

Encyclopedia- Funk & Wagnalls New World- Over 25,000 encyclopedic entries, updated annually.

 

Infotrac Junior Edition - is designed for elementary school students, with easy access to full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, and sports.

 

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, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.  

 

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Mas Ultra School Edition- Provides full text and abstracts of more than 550 popular, general interest and current events publications, mostly magazines, including National Geographic and Consumer Reports.

 

Middle Search Plus- Provides full text for over 120 magazines covering general topics appropriate for middle and jr. high school students.

 

Searchasaurus- (EBSCOHost) provides information and magazine articles for children middle school age and younger.

 

Student Research Center -search by topic or by keyword to find useful homework sources that cover a wide variety of topics (e.g., math, history, science, social studies, arts, and current events). For grades 6-12.

 

Teen Health and Wellness:   The Teen Health & Wellness Database does a great job providing teens with information that is relevant to the issues that they face.  Beginning with the databases home page, teens are drawn to this interactive site.  Teens are able to read personal stories from other teens, as well as asking a doctor questions and participating in a survey.  They are also able to search by topic for articles that cover a wide range of interests.  Each article that is written is reviewed by a medical doctor.  Overall, this is a valuable database to have for teens.

 

Ask Colorado -free online information service allowing you to chat live with a librarian in Colorado 24/7 (except major holidays).

 

 

   

 

 

Last Updated: January 29, 2010