New for 2002-2003: an easy-to-use Reference Center, student activities, and teacher materials.

EBSCOhost More than 6,000 titles are indexed in EBSCOhost, most in full text. Other resources are included, such as Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia. Beginning in July 2002, all Ohio library patrons -- in school, public, and academic institutions -- have access to EBSCOhost through a cooperative purchase of Libraries Connect Ohio (INFOhio, OPLIN, and OhioLINK).

Page Composer, a companion product, creates Web pages with links to EBSCOhost articles. For example a class syllabus can be created that lists assignments and links to relevant articles.

SIRS Discoverer Deluxe An informative database of full-text articles, SIRS Discoverer Deluxe helps develop research, reading, writing, language, and computer skills while making learning fun and intuitive for the young researcher. Students can do research, read stories, learn about important people, places and events, find fun projects to do, and much, much more. Included is the Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia of 26,000 entries.

American National Biography Published in 1999 in 24 volumes, American National Biography is now available online to all students and teachers in all Ohio K-12 schools through INFOhio. The electronic version contains all of the more than 18,000 articles in the print edition, as well as thousands of illustrations and more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross references. ANB also contains links to selected Web sites. Users can perform a Quick Search by Name or can use a more powerful search engine to specify various search criteria.