Library Technology Program - Databases

Licensed Databases and Resources
Contact library staff for current passwords.

Databases for Elementary, Middle and High Schools

• EBSCO
  http://search.ebscohost.com
  
  EBSCO Primary Search: full-text articles and Lexile levels from nearly 70 elementary school magazines & 100 student pamphlets. Includes the Encyclopedia of Animals, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, the American Heritage Children’s Dictionary and an image collection.

  EBSCO Middle Search Plus: full-text articles from 148 journals and indexing and abstracting for 178 journals for the middle school level.

  EBSCO Mas Ultra: full-text articles from 711 journals and indexing and abstracting for 791 journals for high school level.
  
   
• iBistro
  http://sirsi.d11.org/uhtbin/cgisirsi/ruOm1UlHOq/LRS/269660009/60/1
  Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC/Library Catalog) for all students and staff in elementary, middle and high schools in District 11.
  
   
• SchoolRooms
  http://d11.schoolrooms.net
  SchoolRooms, a learning portal of K-12, allows the user to do one (federated) search for our electronic materials including D11 library catalogs, licensed databases, and content standards-based educational websites from inside D11. Outside D11, the databases will only be available with a password (which school library staff share with students).
  

Databases for Elementary and Middle School

• Grolier Online
  http://go-passport.grolier.com
  Includes 7 encyclopedia databases: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia, New Book of Knowledge, La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre, America the Beautiful, Lands and People, and New Book of Popular Science. Contains over 100,000 full-text periodicals, 5 dictionaries, 2 thesauri, and interactive atlas & images.
  

Databases for Middle School

• Sirs Discoverer
  http://discoverer.sirs.com
  General reference resource on social issues for students grades 1-9.  Contains full-text articles and images from over 1,600 domestic & international newspapers, magazines & government documents.
  

Database for Middle School and High School

• Newsbank
  http://www.infoweb.newsbank.com
  Current & archived information from over 2,000 national & international newspapers as well as other primary sources: newswires, transcripts, business journals, periodicals, government documents and more.
  

Database for High School

• SIRS Researcher
  http://sks.sirs.com
  General reference database on social issues for high school students.  Contains thousands of full-text articles from 1,500 domestic & international publications.