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Online Databases for Children
Grove
Music Online
Full text, includes access to
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz - with sound clips!
Grove
Art Online
Full text of The Dictionary of Art and The Oxford Companion to Western Art. Includes over 3,000 art images and line drawings.
Gale
Group
Biography
Resource Center and the Biography & Genealogy Master Index.
Search for people---both current and historic from all eras and fields by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender.
Facts
on File
World News Digest (news from 1940 - present); Issues & Controversies; Today's Science; World Almanac; World Almanac Encyclopedia.
World Book Online Reference Center
Offers much more than the print version! Includes Encyclopedia, Spanish-language Encyclopedia, Atlas, Explore New York and more!
EBSCO
Searchasaurus
For Grades K - 8, offering keyword
and subject searching, with full text option. Includes images.
Kids Search
For Grades K - 5, search by keyword or by topic. Results can be easily sorted by source type - -magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.
Infotrac Junior
Edition - K-12
For Grades K - 12, with
full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books on current events, the
arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports
and more.
Kids InfoBits
For Grades K - 5, offering curriculum-related, age appropriate, full text content. Reading levels are assigned to each article: "easy" and "more difficult."
ProQuest
Full text and graphics for many national newspapers, including Newsday (1985 - current), The
New York Times (1980 - current), The Washington Post (1987 - current), and The Wall
Street Journal (1984 - current).
Community
Resource Database of Long Island (CRDLI)
Free, online directory of health, human services, education agencies and programs on Long Island.
Country
Watch
Current news on the countries of the world, including
political, economic, business information, daily news and data. Great for flags, maps, currency and more!
Gale
Group
History Resource Center: US and the Student Resource
Center - great for primary sources!
Facts
on File: World News Digest
U.S. and World
News from 1940 - present. Includes maps, photographs, historic documents, news makers, and special overviews of key issues.
ProQuest
Historical Newspapers
The New York Times (1851 to 2003) and Hartford Courant (1764 -current) , using
Adobe Acrobat Reader (Historical databases cannot be searched in combination with non-historical databases).
Gale
Group
Literature Resource Center; Scribner Writers
Series; Student Resource Center-Bronze;
The Twayne Authors Series.
LitFinder
Full-text poems, stories, essays, plays, and speeches.
NoveList K-8
A wonderful resource for lovers of fiction! Search by author, title, series or keyword. Find author read-alikes, award winning book lists and much more!
TumbleBooks Library
An online collection of flash animated, talking picture books to listen to or read along at your own speed. Titles available in English, French, Spanish, and Chinese. Download the free flash 6 plug-in needed to view animated books at the site's help option.
EBSCO:
General Science Collection
Full text articles from more than 60 of the most popular science publications,
providing information on all aspects of the scientific world.
Facts
on File
Today's
Science has science news written especially for students, bridging the gap between textbooks and what's happening in science today.