[LM_NET] HIT: MS databases

[TinaHudak <tinahudak@COMCAST.NET>]

Dear Folks:


Thank you to all who responded.  Here is a hit, as requested.


Currently we have ruled out KidDiscoverer - we felt that it was too "young" and the 
websites they link to were not what we hoped for.... and will be looking at 
e-Library.  We already have Infotrac, Grolier online and I do not want to overhwlem 
the students, as we post websites too.


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If you're talking about paid subscriptions, I would
recommend SIRS  Discoverer.  Not only would it
have really thorough coverage of many topics, but
it gives various reading "difficulty" levels to the articles
listed: general, easy, moderate and challenging.

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Nettrekker is great

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I like using Electric Library (E-Library) for middle schoolers because it is 
visually attractive to most students and easy to use.  It isn't "baby-ish" (with 
graphics that seem too young for some of the older students) and it contains a 
great deal of information for all levels (5-college level). ---In fact, I used 
it for several graduate level research because it also contains scholarly 
materials from great journals. 

I also like it because it gives the Lexile reading levels-- for some of the 
stude

nts / teachers, this makes a difference.  I LOVE the book cart (for the 
teachers)---it allows teachers to select online articles to put in their 
specifi


c folders within the database, so the students can access "Mrs. Smith's 
articles" without searching endlessly.

The database also provides radio and television transcripts, photos, and a 
subject search area which allows students to locate information based upon a 
subject that they KNOW they need to research (but aren't quite capable of 
looking for the articles themselves.)

If you contact the company (ProQuest) they will probably allow you to try the 
database free for a few weeks.

http://www.proquestk12.com/trialsignup.shtml

(No, I don't work for the company...but there are just some resources that I 
love!  This is one of them!)

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For current events, I recommend MiddleSearch which is an EBSCO product.  My 
students really use our subscription and it's very user friendly.--
“I don’t want them to believe me, I just want them to think.”   Marshall McLuhan
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Christine Hudak, Assistant Librarian LS
St. Albans School for Boys
Washington, DC
202.537.6466
tina_hudak@cathedral.org

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