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=Database Lessons= ==Only one database per student. To sign up for a database click the Edit button (far right) and enter your name in the space provided. You must be logged in to our course wiki to see the Edit button. Be sure to Save the page prior to exiting.==

To access the databases in this list, go to the Salem State College Library Web site [] and locate the words Database by Name. Click on the letter that your database name begins with, and scroll down until you find your database. So if your database is called Searchasauras, click on the letter S, and scroll down until you see Searchasaurus. The database name is a link to that database. You will login using your SSC user name and password. If you have trouble logging in, you should contact the Salem State College Library Reference Desk for assistance.

1. Primary Search EBSCO Database

Lesson by Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
 * (Kathleen Marcoux)**

2. Middle Search Plus

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Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 453,000 photos, maps and flags.

3. MAS Ultra School Edition

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 * Kathleen Porter**

Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 460,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.

4. Book Index with Reviews

Lesson by : Book Index with Reviews (BIR) is a comprehensive database that provides information on over 3.8 million book titles in a wide range of formats, including large print, books on tape, etc. Fiction and non-fiction titles for juvenile and adult audiences are included in the database, in all genres. The product contains over 800,000 full-text searchable reviews from the following sources: Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, CHOICE, and others.
 * (Eileen FitzGerald)**

5. MasterFile Premier

Lesson by (enter your name to sign up for this database): Designed specifically for public libraries, // MasterFILE Premier // contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. This database also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 460,000 photos, maps & flags. // MasterFILE Premier // offers PDF backfiles (as far back as 1975) for key publications including // American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Judaism, Library Journal, National Review, Saturday Evening Post //, etc.

6. Searchasaurus EBSCO Database

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This is a collection of online reference sources, a dictionary, an encyclopedia, a picture collection and a visual search collection designed for some of our younger searchers.

7. Student Edition

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Now with over 1100 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

8. Infotrac Junior Edition Lesson by
 * Tracy Ryan-Doherty**

Now with over 330 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

9. Kids Info Bits

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 * (Deborah Caudill):**

Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, the most popular search method is moving from a broad subject to a narrower topic using the subject-based topic tree. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

10. Biography in Context **Gale Infotrac Database**

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This database integrates award-winning biographies from respected Gale sources with related full-text articles from hundreds of magazines and newspapers, as well as tens of thousands of images and links to vetted websites. Search for people---both current and historic from all eras and fields of endeavor---based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as keyword and full text. Or, combine search criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.

11. Contemporary Literary Criticism Select **Gale Infotrac Database**

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Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select is an extensive collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study. Updated monthly, Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select allows users to search by author name, title of work, nationality, subject/genre, ethnicity, critic name, and more.

12. Opposing ViewPoints Resource Center **Gale Infotrac Database**

Lesson by **Christine Colonero**
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards

13. RefWorks

Lesson by (enter your name to sign up for this bibliographic citation manager): RefWorks is a web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases and other various sources. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds.

14. ProQuest Newspapers

Lesson by : Includes 16 local and national newspapers.
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15. Grolier Online

Lesson by : This is a collection of online encyclopedias.
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16. World Book Advanced

(This is not the World Book Kids Version)
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This is not the online version of the print World Book.

17. Wilson Select Plus First Search Database

Lesson by : Full text articles in science, humanities, education and business .
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**18. KidsSearch EBSCO Database** **Lesson by**

**This periodical database is designed for elementary school students, with easy access to full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. **
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