Thanks to everyone for your helpful responses. My original post was:
"I'm in the process of trying to choose an online Science database for
the teachers and students at my high school. Does anyone have experience
with either ProQuest eLibrary Science or Facts on File Science Online
that you could share? Or is there another one that you can recommend?"
RESPONSES included:
"..we are pleased with e-library Science but we have no honors
classes--we do have astronomy, oceanography, meteorology, and the usual
up to and including physics."
"We had a month preview of Facts On File Science and loved it. There
were tons of usable resources in it..."
"I use, and like, Today's Science by FACTS.com. It seems to be
reasonably priced and has lots of higher level articles."
"I looked at eScience and was less than impressed. .. I did look at
Access Science and I think we will go with that. It isn't a collection
of articles as such, but provides a wealth of information similar to
what you would get with a specialized encyclopedia."
"I always try to show off the science database (Facts on File) to our
science teachers and students. I especially like the science project
database...It allows you to look up experiments by subject, grade, time
needed, etc. It's fabulous and they keep adding to it."
"You'll find links to several excellent (free) online science databases
at
http://www.shambles.net/science/ <http://www.shambles.net/science/> In
particular PSIG and SCIRUS."
"I tried Facts on File Science Online. It has Great diagrams, charts,
etc. that the teachers use for handouts, etc. There are articles,
definitions,biographies, experiments, etc. But even though I truly
promoted andpushed students to use it, they wouldn't. The teachers
wouldn't accept the articles for the science current event articles
because the articles were not from journals or magazines. And in our
third year of using it, I checked the yearly usage and found it was
accessed only about 50 times. So....We now have Gale Science Resource
Center. It's GREAT. Thank heaven our state paid for it, because it is
costly. But so much more useable and acceptable to our science
teachers."
"In my opinion, Thompson Gale's Science Resource Center is awesome!
Science teachers love it, students love it..."
"Ebsco has a new science database that will be coming out later this
summer / early fall. It's supposed to be pretty good..... Thomson Gale
also recently released their Science Resource Center (which is pretty
good)."
"I quite like AccesScience by McGraw Hill, the folks who printed the big
Science encyclopedia set...I consider it 'higher level' though, so may
be too high for gr 9/10 depending on your population. We use a general
encyclopedia online for the 9/10s."
"I had my science teachers evaluate eLibrary Science and whichever one
the Gale Group offers. (Science Resource Center?) The teacher who
teaches chemistry and physics said he preferred eLibrary Science from
ProQuest, so we'll probably go with that one."
Thanks again.
Anne Talbott
Library Technology Specialist/Webmaster
Lakeridge High School
(503) 534-2402
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