St. David's School Online Subscription Databases 2007-2008
The following databases have been purchased for our school community. Access is available on campus without a password via links in the Library Shortcuts folder on the school network. Direct access from a school computer is also available by going to the URLs listed below. Remote access information follows the descriptions of each resource.
l EBSCO l Grolier Online l Grove Art Online l netTrekker.com l Oxford English Dictionary
Student Research Center, designed for students in grades 6-12, is graphically rich and easy to use. Along with a topics search, it allows selection of the following resource categories: Magazines; Newspapers; Reference Works & Encyclopedias; Biographies; Radio & TV News Transcripts; Country Reports; State/Province Reports; Primary Source Documents; Photos, Maps & Flags. Links to "Dictionary", "Encyclopedia" and "Teacher Resources" are also available on the search page. Included are Academic Search Elite and ERIC databases, among many others.
Remote Access: http://search.epnet.com
Username: sds
Password: library
Grolier Online
This resource includes access to the following six encyclopedia databases, as well as to magazine articles, world newspapers, web sites, media, an interactive atlas, an educators section and other special features. Two separate search modules, one for older students (Passport) and one for younger students (Kids) are provided.
Remote Access: http://go.grolier.com
Username: stdavids
Password: home
Grove Art Online New this Year!
An Oxford University Press product, this database is a comprehensive and authoritative resource for research in the history of the visual arts. Included are 45,000 articles covering all aspects of world art: biographies, art forms, styles, cultures, time periods, images, etc. Over 3,000 thumbnail art images and lind drawings are included within the text of articles, with links to over 40,000 art images on museum and gallery websites around the world.
Remote Access: http://www.groveart.com
Username: stdavids
Password: stdavids
netTrekker d.i. New this Year!
An award-winning educational search engine, this resource offers the best of the web to K-12 students, teacher and parents. Included are over 180,000 hand-selected, educator-approved sites organized by readability level and aligned with state standards. Grade level tabs, a read alound feature and a dictionary/translation key to any word on a website allow for differentiated instruction. An image search provides access to safe images that may be used in classroom presentations.
Remote Access: http://school.nettrekker.com
Username: stdavids
Password: stdavids
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online
The OED is recognized as the authority on the evolution of the English language, listing words from across English-speaking world. The OED gives the meaning, history and pronunciation of words and traces their usage through 2.5 million quotations. This online verson of the second edition is updated quarterly.
Remote Access: http://dictionary.oed.com/entrance.dtl
Username: stdavids
Password: stdavids