Cobb Virtual Library Online Resources

Key features of the most frequently used databases

Overview for In-Service Module #1

CultureGrams

• Cultural and geographical information on countries and territories

• Coverage of all 50 U.S. states

• Maps, statistics, famous people, photos and recipes

GALILEO Databases

• Literary Reference Center• EBSCO Host• Compton’s by Britannica• SIRS Discoverer• SIRS Researcher• Digital Library of Georgia• Kids.gov• New Georgia Encyclopedia

GALILEO Databases

• Password for home access changes quarterly

• Virtual collection of digitized books, images, manuscripts and media, with an emphasis on material important to the history and culture of the State of Georgia

• Access to more than 100 databases indexing thousands of periodicals

• Links to Georgia state agencies and public libraries

Grolier Online Resources

• Three general encyclopedias – Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia and the New Book of Knowledge

• Two specialized encyclopedias – The New Book of Popular Science and Lands and Peoples

• Dictionary and thesaurus• Each source links to periodical articles and

WWW resources• “Features” link provided for each source

World Book Online

• Student

• Discover

• Inventions and Discoveries

• Living Green

• Early Peoples

World Book Online

• Reliable, authoritative, easy-to-understand information

• Contains all articles from current 22-volume print set, plus an additional 3700 essays

• Links to articles from more than 260 U.S. and international magazines and newspapers

• Links to over 15,000 recommended WWW resources

• Pictures, maps, animations, videos and sounds

Gale Resources

• Student Resource Center: Junior

• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

• Science Resource Center

Gale Resources

Student Resource Center: Junior:

• Comprehensive keyword search for database information covering curriculum areas of history, literature, science and social studies

• Includes full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary documents, creative works, video and audio clips

Gale Resources

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center:• Information on today’s social issues• Full-text viewpoint articles and topic

overviews• Includes primary source documents,

statistics, and links to Websites• Essays which can be printed or e-mailed

from within the database

Gale Resources

Science Resource Center:

• Offers in-depth topic overviews from all science disciplines

• Includes over 14,000 pictures, illustrations, audio and video clips

• Links to more than 500 Web sites relevant to the curriculum

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