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<p class="fontlook">The following online subscription databases are available to Carrollton students or faculty members. On campus access (at school) you will not need to use a userID/password; from home you will access via EzProxy using your Outlook UserID/password. If you need assistance or additional information, please contact the library staff: Ms. Robbie Rand or Mrs. Yesinia Pineros at the Founders Library.

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<p class="fontlook">The <B>ABC-CLIO Schools</B> series of interactive subscription websites challenges students to evaluate historical evidence, interpret current events, and make comparative analyses. The seven websites—<B>American Government, American History, State Geography, United States at War, World Geography, World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras, and World History: The Modern Era</B>—open with breaking news, feature stories, and engaging daily activities. Students can search by text, reference category, period, or region, depending on their abilities, learning styles, and assignments. They can also access subject-specific lessons and activities by time period, place, or concept.

<p class="fontlook"><I>**This database is also available on the EbscoHost-Carrollton Database List Page.</I>

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<p class="fontlook"><B>EBSCOhost® </B><BR>
Approximately 250 full text and secondary databases are made available via EBSCOhost®. EBSCOhost is the most used reference resource around the world. A customizable, intuitive search experience, EBSCOhost is designed to cater to various user needs and preferences at every level of research. Unmatched content, usability and service make EBSCOhost® databases the most-used, for-fee, online information resources for tens of thousands of institutions worldwide.


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<p class="fontlook"><B>Student Research Center</B><BR>

<p class="fontlook">EBSCO has created a search interface designed specifically for secondary school students according to their needs and search abilities. <I>Student Research Center</I> provides students in secondary schools with the most appropriate research tools for easily obtaining the information that they seek from their EBSCO databases.

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<p class="fontlook"><B>Kids Search</B><BR>

<p class="fontlook">EBSCO has created a search interface designed specifically for elementary/middle school students according to their needs and search abilities. The Kids Search interface combines a state-of-the-art search engine (powered by EBSCOhost®) with a child-friendly, graphically-rich design that is both powerful and fun to use.


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<p class="fontlook"><I>Encyclopædia Britannica Online Academic Edition</I> brings together the world-renowned content of the
encyclopedia, with the speed and convenience of the Internet. Additional features of this database are World Data, Notable Quotations, and Gateway to the Classics.



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<p class="fontlook">This version of LexisNexis® (Scholastic) is specifically designed to provide high school students with Web-based, desktop access to authoritative research sources. 
LexisNexis Scholastic Edition includes major U.S. and international newspapers; leading magazines, wire services and broadcast news transcripts; statistics and historical information; non-English language publications; and Federal and state case law, codes and legislation, both enacted and pending.  It provides users experience searching for vital source material using the kind of technology students will invariably encounter as they progress to a college or university.



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<p class="fontlook"><B>ACCESS WORLD NEWS</B><BR> 
The world’s most comprehensive collection of full-text newspapers globally, Access World News provides extensive coverage at every level—local, state, regional, national and international. This fully searchable Web-based resource features the vast majority of the top U.S. newspapers by circulation, along with hundreds of hard-to-find local and regional titles, most of which are unavailable elsewhere. Additionally, Access World News offers hundreds of international news sources from scores of countries on six continents, translated into English when written in other languages. Each provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community, as well as a distinctive focus offering a variety of viewpoints on local and world issues. Paid ads are excluded. Local papers are the Miami Herald and South Florida Sun Sentinel.

<p class="fontlook"><B>NEWSBANK:</B> News articles covering social, economic, environmental, government, sports, the arts, people, health and science issues and events. Sources: U.S. and international newspapers, wire services, broadcasts, magazines, and digests from science and health journals dating to 1986.

<p class="fontlook"><B>Electronic Image Editions:</B><BR>
An electronic image edition is an exact digital reproduction of the printed edition, with keyword searching and ability to browse the full publication. All pages, including advertising, photos and graphics are included. Editions are: El Pais (Spain) (Spanish) and Le Monde (France) (French).  





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<p class="fontlook">Elementary school students greatly benefit from learning tools that facilitate "discovery learning," including fun activities that capture student’s attention and imagination and generate a thirst for knowledge. NewsBank's KidsPage does just that.

<p class="fontlook">The ideal resource for grades 1-6, KidsPage offers Web-based, primary source information that covers all subject areas and is updated daily. Also, the KidsPage search option takes the mystery out of research, actually leading novice searchers from one     topic to the next.



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From School:

<p class="fontlook"><I>The Oxford English Dictionary</I> is widely acknowledged to be the most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of English in the world. It also traces the evolution of more than 600,000 words over the last 1,500 years through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of sources – from classic literature and periodicals to film scripts and pop songs.

