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Containing over 100,000 encyclopedia articles, Encyclopedia Britannica Online provides comprehensive coverage in all academic disciplines. Show full description

Containing over 100,000 encyclopedia articles, Encyclopedia Britannica Online provides comprehensive coverage in all academic disciplines.

With content designed specifically colleges and universities, this database is an excellent resource for background information on projects in history, arts, society, humanities, geography, science and technology. Britannica Online incorporates all articles from the print set with interactive, online features to offer a dynamic online resource:

• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus
• Current full text magazine and journal articles
• Live news feeds from the New York Times
• Maps, photos, illustrations, video and multimedia clips
• World Data Analyst tool to compare countries and create graphs and charts
• Links to recommended websites
• Notable Quotations and Gateway to the Classics

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Grolier Online provides encyclopedic style information in curriculum aligned databases. Included are: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, New Book of Knowledge as well as Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus and American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th edition). Show full description

Grolier Online provides encyclopedic style information in curriculum aligned databases. Included are: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, New Book of Knowledge as well as Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus and American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th edition).

Encyclopedia Americana offers the arts, society, geography, history, philosophy, religion, sports, science, and technology to assist with class work, homework, and research projects. Articles include links to further readings, a bibliography, selected full text articles, web page links, and links to related Encyclopedia Americana articles.

The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia includes concise articles on geography, history, government, language, literature, religion, technology, the arts and sciences featuring extensive media resources including photographs, videos, and interactive maps. Also included are an atlas and dictionary. Educators: articles can be grouped by lexile level and are aligned to standards.

The New Book of Knowledge is an easy to use reference designed for the K-12 audience. This database uses engaging graphics and age-appropriate text to motivate elementary and middle school students through the research process, including: educational games, activities, quizzes and more. Educators: teacher resources integrate current events across the curriculum.

For Educators, a section of the Grolier Online web site, is designed exclusively for teacher’s and library media specialists. Included are lesson plans, tools, projects and activities to help educators integrate Grolier Online resources into the curriculum. Features:

• LESSON PLANS include standards, learning objectives, extension activities, discussion points, and assessment measures. Educators can browse by grade or subject, or by state or national standards, to find the lesson plan that best aligns with their needs.
• SEARCH BY LEXILE LEVEL to find resources at the reading level students need. Over 117,000 articles are now leveled using the Lexile Framework to help you differentiate instruction.
• PRO/CON DEBATES present opposing views for lively debates on topics of interest and include lesson plans to help promote crucial thinking skills.
• TEACHING THE NEWS brings current events into the classroom or library with an in-depth lesson plan on select articles.
• PRINTABLE RESOURCES make it easy to supplement lessons, reinforce learning objectives, and support homework assignments.
• WEB LINKS provide direct access to sites for professional development, teaching strategies, and information literacy.

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The OED (Oxford English Dictionary) Online is the accepted authority on the history and development of the English language since 1150. OED Online is a guide to the meaning, history and pronunciation of over half a million words, both past and present.

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The OED (Oxford English Dictionary) Online is the accepted authority on the history and development of the English language since 1150. OED Online is a guide to the meaning, history and pronunciation of over half a million words, both past and present.

OED traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, including classical literature, specialist periodicals, film scripts and cookbooks.

The OED Online covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. This historical dictionary offers etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings and shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.

As a historical dictionary, OED entry structure is different from dictionary of current English. For each word:

• Groupings of senses (definitions) are in chronological order with the earliest meaning first
• Recently developed senses (definitions) are at the end of the entry

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