Librarian Ms. Keane's Virtual Library


Databases available in Rundlett Middle School
Nettrekker
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EBSCO Databases

Ask at the library for the username and password
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
Newspaper Source provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 700 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, more than 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
Middle Search Plus provides full text for nearly 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
  Primary Search provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
  This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
  Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 139,800 articles from more than 4,800 diverse sources.
  This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
  Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 8,800 serials, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
NoveList NoveList K-8 allows you to discover the fiction titles that are popular with young readers as well as titles to use in your classroom. The NoveList Learning Center provides a complete introduction to the product and shows you how to use NoveList to meet the reading needs of your students. You can access the Learning Center by clicking on its link in the left hand column of your screen.
Thompson/Gale

Ask at the library for the username and password
 Biography Resource Center
Available through the Concord Public Library -- you need a library card to access them

Consumer Health Complete is a medical resource with full-text encyclopedias, reference books, health reports, drug and herb information, alternative health sources, and current health news.  You may use your library card barcode number to access this resource, or you may log in with a password provided by calling the Reference Desk at 225-8590.

Contemporary Authors Literature Resource Center has complete biographical and bibliographical information on more than 120,000 American and International authors from the early twentieth century to the present.  You may use your library card number or a password to access this database.  Please call the Reference Desk at 225-8590 for the password.

Digital Sanborn Maps are large-scale plans of cities and towns created on a scale of 50 feet to 1 inch. Concord residents may access Sanborn maps for New Hampshire from 1867-1970. Please call the Reference Desk at 225-8590 to obtain the required password.

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center is a comprehensive career research database, providing detailed and up-to-date profiles of more than 2,900 of today's most popular jobs in 93 industries. This database now contains hundreds of new in-depth job and industry descriptions from the new edition of Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance and from the popular Career Opportunities series.  You may access this database with your library card number or with a password available by calling the Reference Desk at 225-8590.

Issues & Controversies @ FACTS.com is an authoritative online source of up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day.  You may access this database with your library card number or with a password available by calling the Reference Desk at 225-8590.

NewsBank is a newspaper resource that provides access  to full-text articles from the Concord Monitor, the Manchester Union Leader and the New Hampshire Sunday News.  The full-text articles begin in October 2002 for the Concord Monitor and in 1989 for the Manchester Union Leader, and continue to the present.  Concord residents may call the Reference Desk at 225-8590 to  obtain a user name and password.   Library cardholders  may access this database with their library card barcode number or with a password provided by calling the Reference Desk at 225-8590.  

Today’s Science@FACTS.com is an authoritative yet accessible database with information on the latest developments in science. It bridges the gap between textbooks and what's happening in science now.  You may access this database with your library card number or with a user name and password available by calling the Reference Desk at 225-8590.
Other sources of information
 Booktalks Quick and Simple  Over 5,000 booktalks that will help you decide what book to read
Blue Duke Reads  What is the Blue Duke reading now?  Check out his blog and find out.
Reading List wiki  Over 1,200 thematic reading lists!
The Librarian's Favorites Great Stone Face Nominees (Grades 4-6)
Isinglass Teen Nominees (Grades 7-8)

Last revised November 8, 2006 - njk