Reference Tools  

To use our reference tools at home, click Home Access and then enter the username and password provided by your school's media specialist.

1) EBSCOhost

EBSCOhost delivers company profiles, market research reports, academic journal articles, trade journal news stories, reference books, biographies and more.

2) Thomson Gale / Electronic Library for Minnesota

Thomson Gale and Electronic Library for Minnesota offer full-text information from magazines, newspapers and reference books. From InfoTrac Kid's Edition to Kids InfoBits to the Spanish-language interface Informe, these tools are tops.

3) World Book Online Reference Center

World Book Kids is based on World Book's award-winning Discovery Encyclopedia, World Book Kids includes thousands of easy-to-read articles, engaging images and illustrations, interactive games and activities, and teacher resources.

World Book Student is the redesigned and upgraded version of World Book Online Reference Center, it includes the articles of the World Book Encyclopedia, a Biography Center, dictionary, atlas, an extensive multimedia collection, thousands of editor-selected Web sites, correlations to curriculum standards, and much more.

World Book Advanced is designed for high school and college students, World Book Advanced is a powerful reference tool that includes encyclopedic, multimedia, e-book, and primary source databases, fully integrated in a single search.

World Book Discover is for differentiated instruction, it includes reference articles, text-to-speech capabilities, learning and life skills activities, research tools, multimedia, and interactive video.

Spanish Student Discovery Encyclopedia is organized so that the student can find information quickly and easily.

4) ProQuest

ProQuest has citations and abstracts from more than 350 newspapers, enabling users to retrieve full-text news from around the world.

 
 

 

   

 

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