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| Campus Login: None needed |
| Home Login: Database access is limited to AISD staff and students. Students can obtain the password from the teacher or librarian. Teachers and staff can obtain passwords on the Staff Shared folder. <Passwords are to be shared only with Austin ISD students and staff > |
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Description |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica |
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In-depth enclopedia resource, normally geared to
intermediate level users. Also includes some magazine articles, authorized
websites, and teacher resources |
| Facts.com Reference Suite |
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Middle & High Schools can access Facts on File World Digest, Issues & Controversies on File and Today's Science on File. All Schools can access the World Almanac and Book of Facts. |
Curriculum Resource Center
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CRC offers
biographical information with photographs, flags, timelines, career information,
science project experiments and diagrams, and in math reinforcement activities |
Ebsco Databases -
Searchasauraus
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EbscoHost
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In two levels, this
resource offers access to magazine articles on all topics, ERIC full text,
professional education journals and some newspapers. Pamphlets, health
database and some online reference books (such as a medical dictionary,
a drug index, & the CIA Fact Book) are also included. Some image files
are also available. |
| Maps101 |
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Wonderful resource for maps. Includes Educational
Games |
| Newsbank for Kids |
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Newsbank
for Kids & Newsbank. Current newspaper articles, newswires and transcripts
with graphics, opposing viewpoints and regional perspectives. Includes Big6
resource center, interactive research tools, visual graphic maps and a KidsPage
with educational activities. |
| World Book Online Reference Center |
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Encyclopedia geared to elementary & middle schools.
Also includes tables, animations, pictures, audio clips, historic articles
from previous World Book Year Books, Texas Resource pages, special reports,
teacher resources, and other resources such as "Today in History"
and "Through the Year" |
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| Enciclopedia Universal in Espanol |
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Includes Diork's Enciclopedia Hispanica (Diorki is
a publisher based in Madrid), timelines, world atlas & dictionary |
| Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos (World Book) |
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The Estudiantil Hallazgos is a Spanish translation
of World Book's Student Discovery Encyclopedia |
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