Databases

• Culturegrams – Concise, reliable and up-to-date country reports, including photos, videos, interviews, famous people, recipes, flags, graphs and tables.
  
  
  • Kids Edition 
  • Provinces Edition
  • States Edition
  • World Edition
    
    
• eLibrary Elementary (ProQuest) - reference resource, designed specifically to engage and guide beginning and younger researchers.
  
  
• Grolier
  
  
  • The New Book of Knowledge – Reference and other books for elementary and higher
  • Multimedia Encyclopedia – Quick reference with multi-media for middle school and higher
  • Encyclopedia Americana – In-depth information for older students and adults
  • America the Beautiful – State-by-state history and current events for elementary and middle schools.
    
    
• ProQuest– Journal articles, Trade publications and Consumer publications
  
  
  • The Arts and Humanities – Music, Theater, Film, TV, Dance, Architecture, Art, Design 
  • Business – Accounting, Finance, Economics
  • Health and Medicine – Nursing, Allied Health, Public Health, Pharmacology
  • History – Civilizations, Historical studies, Military history, Events, Us and World history
  • Literature and Language – English, American Literature, World Literature, Linguistics
  • National Newspapers Core – Local, regional and national news coverage
  • Science and Technology – Agriculture, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Computing, Engineering
  • Social Sciences – Sociology, Psychology, Communications, Political Sceince, Linguistics, Criminology, Education
    
    
• SIRS
  
  
  • Decades – 20th Century American Sources 
  • Discoverer – General Reference Database Designed for Young Researchers 
  • Government Reporter – Historic and Government Documents, Directories and Almanacs 
  • Interactive Citizenship – What Citizens Need to Know, Series of Interactive Books
  • Issues Researcher – Covers the leading issues most studied and debated by students.
  • Renaissance – Current Perspectives on the Arts and Humanities 
  • Spotlight on Women’s History Month – Celebrating the societal, political and cultural influences of women today and throughout history. 
  • WebSelect – Editorially Selected Web Sites

Maryland Public Libraries

• Wicomico County Free Library
  
  
• • Sailor
    
    
    • Auto Repair Reference Center – Find step-by-step auto repair procedures written specifically for the Do-it-yourselfer, but comprehensive enough for professional technicians.
    • Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia – Useful to both adults and students, this encyclopedia provides reliable information on a wide variety of topics.
    • Heritage Quest – Trace your family history and/or American cultural history.
    • History Reference Center – Search History oriented reference books, encyclopedias, history journals, documents, biographies, images, videos and maps.
    • MAS Ultra – School Edition – Magazine Articles Summaries Ultra guides high school students to numerous full text research sources, as well as health and personal interest topics. 
    • MasterFILE Premiere – Search a wide variety of journal articles, magazine articles, primary source documents, reference book entries and images.
    • Middle Search Plus – Helps connect middle school students to a wide range of age appropriate magazines, biographies and reference works. This database includes photos, flags, maps and an unabridged dictionary of the English language. 
    • Science Reference Center – Science oriented reference sources, science journals, biographies and science related animations, videos and images. 
    • Student Research Center – Search a wide variety of information in magazines, reference books, photos, flags and country reports among other sources. For Middle and High School students. 

Instructional Links

• Compass Learning  
• Discovery Education Streaming 
• Vocabulary.com