HIT: Recommendations for Networked CD-ROM resources

[Nancy Graf <ngraf@3-cities.com>]

Someone asked the question last week about recommendations for
networkable CD-ROMs.  Here are my recommendations that I use for the
CD-ROM workshop I do. =20





RECOMMENDATIONS
CD-ROM NETWORKABLE  RESOURCES=20
Nancy Graf
Hanford Secondary School LMC
509/375-9671
Email: ngraf@3-cities.com
HOMEPAGE:     =20
http://revolution.3-cities.com/~ngraf/
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ENCYCLOPEDIAS:

Americana Encyclopedia
        A slightly more sophisticated general encyclopedia that can be search
by word or phrase.   Information can be printed or downloaded to a=20
formatted disk (Windows).

Britannic Encyclopedia=20
        Using a very power search and retrieval engine, Encyclopedia Britannic
has the wide breadth of knowledge, quality of information and capability
including:   Propedia (an outline of total scope of knowledge of the
Britannic, nations of the world and the Merriam-Webster Collegiate
dictionary.. Also  has a link to Britannic Online, the Internet
connection.

Information Finder Encyclopedia (World Book)
        An easier-to-use full text encyclopedia that can be searched by  key
word or topic.  Includes photos, maps and charts in some cases.=20
Includes a dictionary, quick facts, and cross references.



MAGAZINE INDEXES


Discoverer (SIRS)
        A magazine database for middle school which cover  which includes 4000
magazine and newspaper articles by subjects such as animals, art, drugs
and alcohol, environment, history, people social issues ands
technology.  Includes a dictionary.

Magazine Article Summaries (MAS)
        A full text magazine index to over 150 magazines.  Many are full text
meaning the text is available for printing.  Look for =93Hanford
subscribes to this magazine =93and  =93full text available.=94  If we
subscribe,  you  will need to write down the name and date of the
magazine for someone to retrieve it for you.  Remember, we only have
space for 5 years of our  older magazines.  If your citation is previous
to that, you will need to go to the public library.

WilsonDisc
        Another full text database.  Whichever you buy is the right one.  Kids
will never know there are others.  This one may be a bit cheaper but the
quality is still there and the list of magazines indexed is a good one.


SIRS Government Reporter
        A database of U.S. documents (by subject, department, keyword or
country), U.S. Supreme Court decisions, historical documents and
government directories.  Here you can find  the name, addresses and
phone numbers  of those people in Congress as well as Federal Agencies
of the government with names and addresses.


SIRS Renaissance
        Contains current perspectives on the  Arts and Humanities using full
text articles and a supplemental almanac of award recipients and
glossary of terms in such areas as:  Architecture and design, film,
radio, television and video, music, philosophy and religion. cultures,
performing arts and visual arts.



SIRS  Social Issues Researcher
        Contains full text articles form a variety of magazines and newspapers
on social issues.  It is indexed by subject or key word.  There are also
current event (newsline) articles by date.

OTHER:

Athena Mythology =20
         This database contains everything you want to know about Mythology
listed alphabetically by key word or a character profile.  Also included
is the full text of some myths.


Columbia World of Quotations
        A database of quotations accessed by subject, person, nationality,
profession, particular period of time or gender of the author or
speaker.  Gives exact wording, title of work, where it appeared and date
of quotation.

Current Biography
        A full text database of biographies and obituaries of Americans since
1983 and an index to  Current Biography back to 1948.  Current Biography
text version is located in the reference section.  Dewey  number  921

Exegy
        A full text database of information on countries of the world .=20
Includes for each country  is information such as maps. sports, flags,
biographies of famous people, facts at a glance, organizations and
documents.

Granger=92s Index to Poetry
        A database of poetry that can be searched by keyword or phrase from a
poem or by author.  Most entries just tell you where to find the full
text of the poem in a book,  but  there are about 3500 full  text poems
or quotes from  poems.