Newberry County Library System

Databases

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Gale in Context: Biography

Subject
Famous People

Biographical information on thousands of people from throughout history. Includes video, audio clips, and images.

Gale in Context: Biography

  • For all age groups
  • Comprehensive resource for biographical information

Details:

  • More than 600,000 biographies of people from around the world and throughout history
  • Full-text articles from hundreds of magazines, daily newspapers and newswires
  • More than 170 Gale reference titles
  • Multimedia content that includes video, audio clips and images
  • Features include ReadSpeaker text-to-speech technology and foreign language translator

Gale in Context: Elementary

Subject
Current Issues
Facts & General Reference
Famous People
Health & Medical
History
Literature & Language Arts
Science & Technology
Social Studies

Articles, images, maps, activities, experiments, and reference information on all subjects.

Gale in Context: Elementary

  • For K-5 students, their teachers and parents
  • Articles, pictures and reference information on all subjects

Details:

  • Full-text articles from 120+ children's magazines, reference sources and newspapers
  • 2,500 searchable images and maps
  • Reading levels assigned to most articles
  • Includes activities, recipes, experiments, poetry and stories by children
  • Teacher Toolbox to help teach research and writing skills

Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints

Subject
Current Issues

Thousands of pro and con viewpoint articles on contemporary social issues, topic overviews, primary sources, images, statistical tables, charts, and graphs.

Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints

  • For middle school students through adults
  • Database of contemporary social issues with content structured to promote critical-thinking skills and information literacy
  • Selected results display Lexile reading levels | About Lexiles

Details:

  • More than 14,000 pro and con viewpoint essays
  • More than 300 primary source documents
  • Periodicals, podcasts, reviewed Web links, images, statistical tables, charts and graphs
  • Content levels may be selected for retrieving appropriate results
  • Includes Lexile reading levels for periodical content
  • Content correlated to social studies and science curriculum standards for middle and high school

Gale PowerSearch

Cross-search feature allows simultaneous searching of one, several or all available Gale databases.

Gale PowerSearch

  • For all age groups
  • Link to the full menu of all Gale databases provided by Discus

Details:

  • A list of database resources covering various topics
  • Cross-search feature allows simultaneous searching of one, several or all available databases

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