Chapin Databases
Animal Photos, Spanish Vocabulary & Professional Reading
- Links to the databases are found on the "Online Resources" page under Library Services on the Chapin web site.
- Databases may contain reference articles (like an
encyclopedia)or suites of reference titles; newspaper, magazine,
or scholarly journal articles; photos, online exibits or video clips;
selected web sites; teaching materials, reading levels, study guides or
other learning resources.
- Grolier
Online - Use Search feature to get photos and illustrations - click
"Media" tab in search results.
- Grolier's New Book of Knowledge - "Spotlight" & "NBK News Archive" also feature animal themes with photos and even video clips ("Spotlight" only).
- Britannica
Online School Edition - Search results list images and video clips
under "Multimedia"; seems to have more video clips than the other
encyclopedia databases.
- World
Book Reference Center - Search results list links to photos or
video
clips. World Book Kids even allows you to just search or browse
"Pictures".
- Grolier
Online > Nueva Enciclopedia
Cumbre > Aula de Espanol - Has articles on themes
(countries,
cultural traditions, etc.); month by month calendar of holidays;
vocabulary lists with pictures and pronunciation (can be printed out as
worksheets); even recipes!
- Proquest - "Discovery" section includes many education magazines & book review magazines; search by keyword (Basic Search) or browse specific journal issues under "Publications" tab.
- New York Times - Keep up with
education news in NYC, available through Proquest and the New York
Times web site (log-in to TimesSelect available to Chapin faculty and
students through the Library's subscription).
- JSTOR - See
the other database workshop web page, JSTOR,
NoodleTools, &
Images, for more on this source for scholarly journal articles.
Compiled by Ms. Lutz, 6 Jan 2008