Data Bases & Online resources

Donna said it in her blog--we all stay in our comfort zone and that includes our involvement with databases. I know my weakness is to stay with Google and not venture into databases. Now not too many years ago, I was a better researcher. Remember the Periodic Guide? I followed that timeperiod with a CD tower that held SIRS and EBSCO subscriptions. These got too expensive, morphed into online resources and I confess to have forgotten about them.

So tonight I searched, researched, and learned. 

Destiny, Atomic Learning and Tumblebooks are well known.

New are the resources of ELM.

I think the Junior Reference Collection will be a good place to start with some classes and history day research.

The Kids Infobits should have images integrated into the text.

In the Academic Search Premier I found searches for people produced different results if I put the person's last name in first of last. I had fun searching for a variety of things in this database.

The Discovering Collection is amazing. I did the Metronet checklist with this database. Gale is a very reliable reference supplier and this product is excellent.