Library
Prattsburgh Central School-ONLINE DATABASES
The following Databases are free to Prattsburgh Central School students and their families.
Use the linked databases below with the passwords provided in the Newsletter or available in Prattsburgh Central School Media Center.
EBSCO (NOVEL): EBSCO Primary Search (with the Searchasaurus/Kid’s Search interfaces) Primary Search includes Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia of Animals and the American Heritage® Children’s Dictionary*, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin
URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?group=empire
FirstSearch: Comprehensive and complete reference service with a rich collection of databases. Includes links to the World Wide Web, over 9 million online full text articles, full image articles from over 4,000 electronic journals, library holdings, and interlibrary loan.
URL: http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org
Gale (NOVEL): Gale Business and Company Resource Center, including Business ASAP, Infotrac Newsstand (formerly InfoTrac Custom Newspapers, National Newspaper Index, and New York Custom Newspapers), Gale Health and Wellness Resource Center, with Alternative Health Module; Twayne’s Author Series
URL: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/nysl_sc_pratt
Newsbank: The electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers--all in one easy-to-search database. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded
URL: http://infoweb.newsbank.com
SIRS Researcher: Is a general reference database with thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political & global issues.
URL: http://www.proquestk12.com
TeachingBooks.Net: Includes engaging resources about books for children and teens. From one easy website, TeachingBooks allows access to in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of professional book readings, guides to thousands of titles and a wealth of multimedia resources on children’s and young adult literature.
URL: http://www.teachingbooks.net
ProQuest K-12: A single point of access site for all your BigChalk subscriptions (Culturegrams, eLibrary, ProQuest, SIRS)
URL: http://www.teachingbooks.net
Grolier Online (NOVEL): Includes Grolier Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, & New Book of Knowledge.
URL: http://go.grolier.com
Students are encouraged to use the Research Databases purchased by the Prattsburgh
Central School district for current and authoritative information. General
Internet search engines are not always reliable.