Full-text online encyclopedia appropriate for students of all ages. Articles are cross-linked within the encyclopedia. For example, the ecology article links to articles on environment, natural selection, biosphere, parasites, and many more related concepts.
Format: Full-text, Coverage: Current, Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Use quotation marks to phrase search. Allows Boolean AND, OR and NOT searching. HELP link on each screen, which includes Citation information. Can print, save, or email results.
Designed for high school libraries, covering a wide range of subjects. Full text for more than 550 popular magazines, more than 430 full-text reference books, more than 120,000 biographies, more than 73,000 primary source documents, & more than 1.6 million photos, maps, flags and color PDFs. Articles indicate reading level.
Format: Majority full-text; some additional full-text via link resolver, Coverage: Varies by title, begins 1/84 - present, Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Use quotation marks to phrase search. Allows Boolean AND, OR and NOT searching. May limit to full-text, scholarly journals, date, length, publication name and type. HELP link on each screen, which includes Citation information. Can print, save, or email results. Some full-text publications may have the most current 3-12 months in abstract only, due to publisher restrictions.
Multi-disciplinary database with full-text coverage of more than 2,300 magazines and journals. Emphasis is popular, rather than scholarly publications. Contains over 870 full-text reference books, over 73,000 full-text primary source documents, more than 1.6 million photos, maps and flags, and over 70,000 videos from the Associated Press.
Format: Majority full-text; some additional full-text via link resolver. Coverage: As early as 1975 - present, Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Use quotation marks to phrase search. Allows Boolean AND, OR and NOT searching. May limit to full-text, scholarly journals, date, length, publication name and type. HELP link on each screen, which includes Citation information. Can print, save, or email results. Some full-text publications may have the most current 3-12 months in abstract only, due to publisher restrictions. Add keyword BIOGRAPHY to easily search 88,000 biographies.
Developing Keywords
Make a research question from your topic.
For example: "What is currently being done to help conserve the endangered Giant Panda population?"