New Features in Electronic Resources
Online Databases Available at SHS
by Tracie Burcham
September 02, 2008
to the
online databases offered at Sublette Middle/High School
What is a database?
A database is an organized collection of computer records. In libraries, one of the most common types of databases consists of records describing articles in periodicals otherwise known as a periodical index.
Get the log-in and password information from Mrs. Burcham, Librarian, and these databases can be accessed from home.
| Current issues and
opinions about society, environment, health, education and science |
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| Providing targeted
resources for student research |
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| An award-winning database
designed with the young researcher in mind. |
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World Book Encyclopedia* World Book Advanced* |
World Book Encyclopedia
online contains the entire 22 volume print edition plus multimedia, interactive atlas, dictionary. World Book Advanced is for secondary and college students, and integrates primary and secondary source databases in a single search. |
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Middle Search Plus* Magazine Article Summer* Primary Search* |
These databases are
provided by the Kansas State Library System and contain comprehensive database, designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines. Middle Search Plus is designed for middle school student. |
| Includes author
biographies, literary essays, overviews, plots, criticism and critical essays on poetry, children literature, classical and medieval works, novel selections form a wide variety of sources and much more. |
* These databases are provided by the State Library of Kansas. These can also be accessed from home with a Kansas Library Card. The cards can be obtained from the local public library. *
