DoDEA Online Databases Grades K-5
Thomson Gale -- Kids InfoBits and the Jr. Reference Collection
URL based on school name (see Gale spreadsheet)
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Periodicals, journals, newspapers, primary sources, maps, flags and seals of states and countries
Columbia Encyclopedia, Junior Worldmark, and Encyclopedia of the States
Merriam-Webster’s Kid Dictionary
Multi-media, images, graphics, charts, and graphs
Blackbirch Press Books with full text and embedded charts and graphics
The Junior Reference Collection containing all of the UXL publications
Online resources for teachers
Search features including a drill-down topic list, a search trail, and subject branching
Guided tours, tip sheets, and self starting tutorials
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Proquest -- SIRS Discoverer, Culture Grams and Professional Education
URL is http://www.proquestk12.com
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Periodicals, journals, works of fiction, and encyclopedia
World Almanac for Kids, Roget’s II Thesaurus, and the American Heritage dictionary
Three thousand U.S. and world printable maps (detailed, historical and outline)
SIRS photo essays may be searched by topic and self-emailed to the user
Training pod casts
“Born this Month,”15 Top Pick subjects and a monthly challenge quest
Culture Grams, written by natives of the countries includes facts, customs, lifestyles, maps, recipes, currency, photos,
data, audio pronunciations of the country name and a sound track of the national anthem
Teacher lessons to support student use of the package
400 professional journals with full-text articles
Database searches to include: title, keyword, subject/topic, author, Boolean logic, natural language, date, reading
level, Lexile level, and type of media
Results sorted by relevance, date, or Lexile level, ascending or descending order
Pathfinders to finding information
Ability to setup an alert feature in the Professional Education database allowing teachers to remain updated on
research topics
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DoDEA Online Databases Grades 6-8
Thomson Gale -- Student Resource Center Junior, Jr. Reference Collection, InfoTrac Jr.
URL based on school name (see Gale spreadsheet)
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Full-text articles from over 750 magazines and newspapers
Primary source documents are proprietary Gale resources
Hours of audio and video clips, 7,400 photos, and at least 2800 maps and charts
Results display reading levels, number of words in each article and Lexile levels
Hundreds of poems and plays
Collection of UXL titles
Glossaries from Gale proprietary products
Results of searches organized by type/content (reference, newspapers, magazines, journals, primary sources,
multimedia, etc.)
Search interface and the search results viewed in 8 languages
The ability to add more search fields/boxes in advanced searches to allow users to narrow the search or limit the
search by activity
A persistent URL allowing users to save a link (URL) pointing directly back to the location of the article to save links
(URLs) to the search results list that is automatically updated with new articles
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Proquest -- SIRS Discoverer, Culture Grams, eLibrary and Professional Education
URL is http://www.proquestk12.com
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Periodicals, journals, works of fiction, and encyclopedia
World Almanac for Kids, Roget’s II Thesaurus, and the American Heritage dictionary
Three thousand U.S. and world printable maps (detailed, historical and outline)
SIRS photo essays may be searched by topic and self-emailed to the user
Training pod casts
“Born this Month,”15 Top Pick subjects and a monthly challenge quest
Culture Grams, written by natives of the countries includes facts, customs, lifestyles, maps, recipes, currency, photos,
data, audio pronunciations of the country name and a sound track of the national anthem
Teacher lessons to support student use of the package
400 professional journals with full-text articles
Database searches include: title, keyword, subject/topic, author, Boolean logic, natural language, date, reading level,
Lexile level, and type of media
Results may be sorted by relevance, date, or Lexile level, ascending or descending order
Pathfinders to finding information
Ability to setup an alert feature in the Professional Education database allowing teachers to remain updated on
research topics
Book carts and quiz carts for activities, tests, and study units
2500 full-text magazines, newspapers, reference books, and transcripts
Thousands of pictures, maps, weblinks, and audio/video files
History Study Center with primary and secondary sources
Proquest Learning Literature: author biographies, original full-text works, and contemporary criticism
Compton’s, World Almanac, CIA World Factbook, and more
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URL for “eLibrary” remote access is http://elibrary.bigchalk.com
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DoDEA Online Databases Grades 9-12
Thomson Gale -- Student Resource Center Gold, Science Resource Center, InfoTrac
Student Edition, Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, Discovering Collection
URL based on school name (see Gale spreadsheet)
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Full-text articles from over 1,100 magazines and newspapers; professional journals; government documents;
transcripts of radio & television broadcasts; speeches; literary resources; topographical, political and outline country
maps; city maps; encyclopedias; statistics; general dictionaries; subject specific glossaries, directions for experiments;
and other reference resources
Primary source documents
Hours of audio and video clips, 7,400 photos, and at least 2800 maps and charts
Numerous basic, colored diagrams are included in the Science Resource Center
PBS radio broadcast pod casts
The entire line of publisher Greenhaven Press
Opposing Viewpoints covers both sides of controversial topics
The Weekly Spotlight in the Science database
Hundreds of poems and plays
Collection of UXL titles
Glossaries from Gale proprietary products
Search results automatically organized by type/content (reference, newspapers, magazines, journals, primary sources,
multimedia, etc.)
Search interface and the search results viewed in 8 languages
Advanced search with the ability to add more search fields/boxes to allow users to narrow the search or limit the
search by activity
A persistent URL allowing users to save a link (URL) pointing directly back to the location of the article and to save
links (URLs) to the search results list that is automatically updated with new articles as published
Reading levels displayed in results with color-coded symbols and the number of words in each item
Lexile levels indicated in the results list
Timeline feature in the Science database
Entire collection of Plot Summaries included with more than 62,000 biographies, criticisms, essays, and overviews
Research tools on how to do research, how to interpret graphs, how to use graphic organizers, how to cite, etc.
Full citations for each entry
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Proquest -- SIRS Researcher, Culture Grams, SIRS Government Reporter, SIRS
Decades, SIRS Renaissance, eLibrary Curriculum Edition and Proquest Professional
Education
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URL is http://www.proquestk12.com
A million plus images, 150,000 full text literary resources, and 25,000 primary sources
The Decades containing primary documents of the 20th Century, such as editorial cartoons, posters, newspaper
articles, radio and TV transcripts, photos, videos, and audios
Pro vs. Con providing side by side articles reflecting the current writings on both sides of a controversial issue and a
step-by-step process to guide students to form their own analysis
Changing Top 10 Leading Issues indicated by photos allowing the user to "click and go”
Guides to producing outlines, research papers, mini-papers, and presentations
Chadwick-Healy references
The Today’s News section from Reuters
Online surveys with instantly updated results in "That’s Debatable”
Database searches by title, keyword, subject/topic, author Boolean logic, natural language, reading level, Lexile level,
and type of media
Results narrowed and sorted by relevance, date, or Lexile level, ascending or descending order
Ability to search within e-library, Proquest Learning Literature, and the Proquest History Study Center individually or
simultaneously through
Features similar to online communities and social tools
The ability to create, change and share 400 Bookcarts (lists of web links to articles, reference materials, multimedia,
etc.)
Culture Grams, written by natives of the countries includes facts, customs, lifestyles, maps, recipes, currency, photos,
data, audio pronunciations of the country name and a sound track of the national anthem
Teacher lessons to support student use of the package
400 professional journals with full-text articles
Database searches to include: title, keyword, subject/topic, author, Boolean logic, natural language, date, reading
level, Lexile level, and type of media
Pathfinders to finding information
Ability to setup an alert feature in the Professional Education database allowing teachers to remain updated on
research topics
2500 full-text magazines, newspapers, reference books, and transcripts
Thousands of pictures, maps, weblinks, and audio/video files
History Study Center with primary and secondary sources
Proquest Learning Literature: author biographies, original full-text works, and contemporary criticism
Compton’s, World Almanac, CIA World Factbook, and more
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Newsbank -- Access World News and America’s Historical Newspapers
URL is http://infoweb.newsbank.com
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Full texts of over 2000 global sources
Noticias en Espanol with an interface and the news in Spanish
Primary source documents for 230 years of American history and African-American history during the 17th and 18th
Century
Historical publications in digital format provide images of issues and pages in their entirety
Search methods including keyword, headlines, first paragraph, geographic area, broad topics, publication, Boolean
logic, author, date, reading level (easy, medium, and advanced), Lexile level, and format
Searches by Presidential Era or Historical Era
A graphically intuitive map, an alphabetical list of locations and search terms in the database entry
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