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InfoTrac Junior Edition
This periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. (This database is provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners)
Kids InfoBits (InfoTrac)
Kids InfoBits targets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate and visual graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine and reference content. (This database is provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners)
InfoTrac Student Edition
This database is designed for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. (This database is provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners)
Literature
Resources from Gale
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text
literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in
all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
Also includes LitFinder's full-text poems, short stories,
speeches, and plays. (This database is provided by the Massachusetts
Library System)
Science
in Context
From earth science and life science, to space, technology, mathematics
and science history and biography, Science in Context provides
high school and university students with reference articles, dictionaries,
biographies, experiments, videos, images and web links. (This
database is provided by the Massachusetts
Library System)
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Searchasaurus
Home
Access | In
Library Access
Includes EBSCO's Encyclopedia of Animals, the Funk
& Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, the American Heritage Children's
Dictionary, and the Primary Search full text collection of more
than 70 popular elementary school magazines.
Home access for this database is available only to Newton residents
with a Newton library card number beginning 21323.
TumbleBookLibrary
TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of animated, talking
picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format
they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by adding animation, sound,
music and narration to existing picture books in order to produce
an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to
you.
Home access for this database is available only to Newton residents
with a Newton library card number beginning 21323.
World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras
Home Access | In Library Access
Covers world history from prehistoric times to the year 1500, primarily for middle and high school students. Browse subject overviews in "Topic Explorations," or search by type of resource or topic. The database includes biographies, primary-source documents, essays, maps, quotations, timelines, photos, audio and video, statistics, and more.
Home access for this database is available only to Newton residents with a Newton library card number beginning 21323.
Newton
Free Library Reference Department
Additional database resources are available through the Newton
Free Library Reference Department.
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