The following resources are ‘free’ through various grant funding:
*EBSCO – http://search.ebscohost.com – A great resource for full-text magazines, encyclopedic entries, professional devleopment collection, ERIC and more. Primary Search is perfect for Elementary Schools.
*Gale – http://infotrac.galegroup.com – Custom and New York Newspapers; Encyclopedia of World Biography; Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations; UXL Encyclopedia of Science; Business and Company ASAP; The Twayne Author Series (Twayne World, English and US Authors); Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module; ***American Decades Primary Sources; Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History: Government and Politics; Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History: War; Working Americans, 1880-2007 Immigrants; .
*Grolier – http://go.grolier.com – Encyclopedia Americana; Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia; The New Book of Knowledge
Hudson River Valley Heritage – http://www.hrvh.org/ - Providing online access to historical materials from New York State’s Hudson River Valley
Medline Plus – http://medlineplus.gov/ - A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health
*ProQuest Platinum – http://proquest.umi.com/login – Provides searchability to over 2,000 full-text publications including scholarly journals and peer-reviewed documents.
**Teachingbooks – http://www.teachingbooks.net - Bring award winning authors and illustrators into your classroom as you teach them. Includes author programs, book guides, book readings, author websites and an educator area.
**Tumblebooks - http://www.tumblebooklibrary.com – Sit back and listen or read along at your own speed including other languages (French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese and Russian); find lesson plans and/or have students complete a TumbleBook Report.
*The following databases are provided by the New York State Library Division of Library Development through a LSTA grant.
**The following databases are provided through School Library System funding
*** The American history databases are provided through the Teaching American History Grant federal funding
