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CORE COLLECTION
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Item bullet Annals of Am. History
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Item bullet Digital Video Collection
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Item bullet Enc. Universal en Español
Item bullet LearningExpress Library
Item bullet Literature Online
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Item bullet Ohio Landsat 7 Images
Item bullet Oxford Reference Online
Item bullet Sanborn Insurance Maps
Item bullet SIRS Discoverer
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CORE COLLECTION BY GRADE LEVEL
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CORE COLLECTION BY MATERIAL TYPE

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INFOhio's Core Collection provides state-funded resources free to all Ohio's K-12 students and teachers for the 2007-2008 school year.

A username and password are required for home access; see your school library media specialist.

Several resources are funded in part through an Institute of Museum and Library Services LSTA grant awarded by the State Library of Ohio.  
How to Use INFOhio's Core Collection of Electronic Resources

INFOhio's Core Collection of Electronic Resources, 17 tools selected for K-12 research, provides state-funded resources free to all Ohio K-12 students and and educators for the 2007-2008 school year. A username and password are required for home access; see your school library media specialist, technology coordinator or classroom teacher.

MATERIALS BY GRADE LEVEL

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MATERIALS BY SUBJECT

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MATERIALS BY TYPE
Almanacs

SIRS Discoverer. World Almanac for Kids: Search the table of contents or by keyword.

Atlases and Maps

Britannica Online School Edition. Various maps included in Multimedia.

Enciclopedia Universal en Español. Spanish language atlas in Atlas del Mundo.

Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection. World Maps provides locator, physical and political maps for each country.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps. 40,000+ maps (1847-1970) of Ohio towns and cities.

SIRS Discoverer. 500+ printable maps, including historical and outline maps.

Biographies

AccessScience. 2,000 biographies of famous scientists.

American National Biography. 18,000+ articles about famous Americans no longer living.

EBSCOhost. In Search Results when searching a single database.

Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection. Brief entries in the Who's Who... series.

SIRS Discoverer. 1,900+ biographies in Database Features.

Dictionaries and Thesauruses

AccessScience. Science and technology definitions for older students.

Britannica Online School Edition. Merriam-Webster direct search or by clicking within articles.

EBSCOhost. American Heritage Children's Dictionary in Searchasaurus.

Enciclopedia Juvenil. Spanish language dictionary.

Enciclopedia Universal en Español. Spanish language dictionary.

Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection. 120+ complete reference titles, fully indexed and cross-searchable, for facts, figures, definitions, quotations and translations.

SIRS Discoverer. American Heritage Dictionary and Roget's II: New Thesaurus.

e-Books

Literature Online from Chadwyck-Healey. Full-text, searchable works, including poetry, drama and fiction.

LearningExpress Library. Study guides and test-preparation books to prepare for high-stakes tests—to advance in school, or pass licensing, certification, or competitive entry-level exams.

Encyclopedias

AccessScience. Science and technology articles for older students.

Britannica Online School Edition. 100,000+ articles in three encyclopedias, elementary and up.

EBSCOhost. Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia in Searchasaurus and All Database Search. Encyclopedia of Animals.

Enciclopedia Juvenil. Spanish language encyclopedia for younger Spanish-speaking students and beginning Spanish students.

Enciclopedia Universal en Español. Spanish language encyclopedia.

Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection. 13,000+ brief entries in World Encyclopedia.

SIRS Discoverer. Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia in Reference box.

World Data Analyst. Detailed statistics for 200+ countries that can be compared in tables and charts. Highest and lowest statistics available.

Foreign Language

Enciclopedia Juvenil. Spanish language encyclopedia and other tools for younger Spanish-speaking students and beginning Spanish students.

Enciclopedia Universal en Español. Spanish language encyclopedia and other tools.

Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection. Bilingual dictionaries for English and French, German, Italian, Latin and Spanish.

Images and Pictures

AccessScience. Organized by special topics in the Image Gallery.

American National Biography. 2,500+ images of famous Americans.

Annals of American History. 500+ images.

The ART Collection. 70,000+ digital images of paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, textiles, costumes, jewelry and more, from earliest times to the present.

Britannica Online School Edition. Various images included in Multimedia.

EBSCOhost. Pictures in Searchasaurus; Images in the other databases.

Enciclopedia Juvenil. 1,000+ images.

Enciclopedia Universal en Español. Ilustraciones links within articles.

Ohio Landsat 7 Satellite Images. Satellite views of Ohio updated regularly.

Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection. 6,000+ illustrations in Visual English Dictionary.

SIRS Discoverer. Pictures in Database Features.

Learning Activities

Britannica Online School Edition. Learning Materials for Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies plus The Learning Zone for PreK-2.

Enciclopedia Juvenil. Learning Materials for Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies in Spanish.

Enciclopedia Universal en Español. SLearning Materials for Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies in Spanish.

LearningExpress Library. 100+ programs to learn, practice and prepare for tests on a variety of subjects in elementary, middle and high school.

SIRS Discoverer. Activities in Database Features.

Magazine and Journal Articles

AccessScience. Selected, recent articles in Headline News.

Britannica Online School Edition. Selected EBSCO articles in Additional Content.

EBSCOhost. 6,000+ magazine subscriptions, most in full text, from children's magazines to professional research.

SIRS Discoverer. Full-text articles for the young researcher from 1,200+ magazines and government documents; searchable by keyword, subject heading and subject tree.

Multimedia

AccessScience. Animation link near top of selected articles; Explorations near bottom of main page.

Annals of American History. 200+ audio and video clips.

Britannica Online School Edition. 2,000+ audio and video clips.

Digital Video Collection. More than 200 videos, with more than 700 instructional modules, for almost all subjects and grade levels.

Newspaper Articles

EBSCOhost. 300+ full-text newspaper subscriptions, U.S. and international.

NewsBank Newspapers. 30 full-text newspapers, including 17 Ohio titles.

SIRS Discoverer. Full-text articles for the young researcher from 200+ newspapers; searchable by keyword, subject heading and subject tree.

Primary Source Documents

Annals of American History. 2,000+ documents from 1493 to the present.

EBSCOhost. In Search Results, when searching a single database.

Quotations

Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection. Three quotation dictionaries.

Test Practice and Tutorials

LearningExpress Library. Practice tests and tutorials in several subjects from upper elementary to post high School, with scoring and analysis.

Timelines

Annals of American History. Content organized by time periods in U.S. history.

Britannica Online School Edition. Timelines linked from each encyclopedia's main page, interactive with articles.

Enciclopedia Universal en Español. Spanish language timeline in Cronologías.

Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection. 20th century events,  grouped by theme and country.

Web Sites

AccessScience. Sites related to 19 major science and technology topics.

American National Biography. Selected sites in Online Resources

Britannica Online School Edition. Selected sites in articles' Additional Content.

Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection. 1,000+ selected site from Links in menu bar.

SIRS Discoverer. WebFind™ selected sites; searchable by keyword, subject heading and subject tree.

 

Last Updated on August 8, 2007

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