This webazine will be published quarterly by NISD Library Services to highlight various online databases to which the district subscribes.  There is a core collection for grades K-12 which will always be linked in the margin of this webazine.  Many campuses have additional subscriptions to meet specific campus needs but those will not be highlighted in this publication.  For our first issue we wanted to go into a little more detail about each database.  Within the district no passwords are required for most of them.  For “at home” use they will all require logins and passwords, which can be obtained from each campus librarian.  If you are a district employee not connected to a specific campus, you may obtain the logins and passwords from Library Services (397-8190).

• EBSCO Host
  Periodicals, books, newspapers, medical resources, professional journals, images, Lexile reading levels and translation function for many articles
• Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol
  Spanish encyclopedia provided by Britannica
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online
  Encyclopedias, images, web links, etc.
• Facts on File
  Diagrams, reference materials, maps, etc.
• TeachingBooks.net
  Authors and books, web links
• Thomson Gale
  Newspapers, periodicals, reference books, multimedia, Lexile reading levels and translation function for many articles
• United Streaming (not available for student home use)
  Videos, images, and teacher resources 
• Visual Thesaurus
  Interactive dictionary and thesaurus
• WebCat
  Northside Library Catalog
• World Book Online
  Encyclopedia, web links, Spanish Encyclopedia

If you are a parent you might find some of these of particular interest:

• Personal and Business Forms  Provides printable forms for a wide range of personal, business, and government categories, including individual income taxes.
• Health Reference Center  Provides clear and comprehensive information on conditions and diseases, health and wellness, mental health, etc.

• Consumer Health Complete  Provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. Consumers can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles.

If you are a college student you might find some of these of particular interest: 

• Academic Search Complete  Designed specifically for academic institutions, contains comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text resources, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals.
• ERIC  Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
• Thomson Gale Professional Collection A custom set of journals for today’s professional educator.

En español:

• Fuente Académica  Provides full text (including PDF) for 260 scholarly Spanish language journals. This multi-disciplinary database offers full text content to many academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology.  
• MedicLatina  Provides a Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers.
• Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos Spanish Student Discovery Encyclopedia is organized so that the student can find information quickly and easily.

We hope you will share successful and interesting database experiences with us for future webazine articles.  Enjoy!