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netTrekker

Academic research engine with over 160,000 teacher-reviewed Web sites organized by curriculum and aligned with state standards and benchmarks. Tutorial Available

 

Ebsco

User-friendly interfaces with quality full text content from popular magazines, education journals, newspapers, newswires, transcripts, pamphlets, reports, primary source documents, biographies, almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, photos, maps, flags, and other reference sources valuable to today's schools. Tutorial Available

Gale Magazine Databases

Magazine indexes of full text magazines. For professional resources use either Professional Collection or Expanded Academic ASAP. For very current topics use the Newspaper ASAP.

Facts on File

Brings together complete content from the Facts On File World News Digest since 1940 and selected content from six other core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 60+ years.

Britannica

This resource has 3 levels of encyclopedias and a third one in Spanish. Tutorial Available

Newsbank

Plano ISD uses this in the libraries for research at the High schools and Senior Highs. Access from home available with password from your Librarian. Tutorial Available

ASK Eric

A search service on the ERIC database

Information Please Almanac

Used for statistical information

Gale Literature Database

Research site for criticisms etc.. Access from home available with password from your Librarian.


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Last Update: June 2006. Copyright 1996-2006 Plano ISD.