Databases

Scholarly Articles

Anatomy of a Scholarly Article

Databases of interest for ELL Students are listed below:

Associates Programs Source Plus (EBSCO)
- Why search here?
  Associates Programs Source is a database designed specifically for the research needs of two-year college students. Providing hundreds of full-text journals, it covers the most relevant subjects for associates programs.
- What's included?
  Topics covered include biotechnology, graphic arts, criminal justice, alcohol and drug abuse counseling, biotechnology, computer and data processing, cosmetology, culinary arts, electrical technology, fashion design, fire science, forensics, graphic arts, health information technology, interior design, law enforcement and criminal justice, travel and tourism, veterinary assisting, and more.
Britannica Reference Center
- Why search here?
  This award-winning resource for children and adults is easy to use and contains easy to find, trusted information. Users can switch between 3 reading levels on each article, listen to article read aloud, and use Merriam-Webster’s double click dictionary to learn definitions and hear pronunciations. Articles can also be translated into over 80 languages.
- What's included?
  Encyclopedia content geared to various reading levels, which includes maps, videos, biographies, and links to related web sites.
Explora
- Why search here?
  The Explora experience for schools and public libraries ensures that students, educators and library patrons can quickly find the reliable information they need to complete homework and research projects, deliver robust school curriculum, achieve their professional goals and satisfy their intellectual curiosity.
- What's included?
  Explora offers a simple search that quickly delivers relevant results including articles, e-books, essays and primary source documents. As well as high-quality articles, carefully curated topic categories that provide users with a visual entry point to browse popular research topics and subject areas, topic overviews that provide students a starting point for research, and powerful filters for narrowing search results by source type, date range, Lexile range, and content provider
Global Issues (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window
- Why search here?
  Global Issues provides authoritative content from over 800 geographically diverse newspapers, magazines, and journals, including 334 newspapers that are published in countries other than the United States. Offering a truly global view, users can find information on business and economics, conflict and diplomacy, society and culture, environment and climate change, and more.
- What's included?
  User can browse by issue, region, or topics such as Business and Economy, Health and Medicine, Society and Culture, Government, Politics, and more.
MasterFile Premier This link opens in a new window
- Why search here?
  Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFILE Premier provides a robust collection of full-text magazines, e-books and primary source documents. It also includes an extensive image collection.
- What's included?
  MasterFILE Premier contains full text for general reference magazines and publications covering a wide range of subject areas including business, health, education, general science and multicultural issues. It also includes an extensive image collection of more than 2 million photos, maps and flags.
MAS Ultra - School Edition (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
- Why search here?
  Designed for high school libraries, MAS Ultra - School Edition is a full-text reference database of popular magazines and e-books covering many subjects, including history, science and health. It also includes thousands of full-text primary source documents and videos from the Associated Press.
- What's included?
  This database is geared to the high school market provides full text from over 460 periodicals covering general reference, health, science, and other areas. Included in this resource is coverage of the CIA World Factbook; and Essential Documents in American History. provides full text for top high-school magazines. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). It also includes full-text biographies, primary source documents, reference books, and an image collection of more than 2 million photos, maps, flags, and color PDFs.
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale in Context)
- Why search here?
  Opposing Viewpoints contains articles, reports, opinions, general information, and more that provide different viewpoints on controversial topics and popular social issues. A great place to search lists of topic or research ideas for assignments.
- What's included?
  Content in this database includes topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites. Includes an easily searchable list of some of the most hotly-debated topics.
Research in Context
- Why search here?
  Gale’s Research In Context is designed to bridge the gap between Kids InfoBits for elementary school students and the subject-specific Gale In Context family, developed primarily for high school and undergraduate students. Categories cover the most-studied topics like cultures, government, people, U.S. and world history, literature, and many more. Engaging reference, periodical, and multimedia content is also available in a mobile responsive interface. Research In Context contains national and state curriculum standards for grades 6 to 12 in language arts, social studies, and science.
- What's included?
  Geared to middle school students, this database includes support to complete assignments in science, history, social studies, and literature.

Lexile

Grade	Lexile Reading Level
Grade 1	200 to 400
Grade 2	300 to 500
Grade 3	500 to 700
Grade 4	650 to 850
Grade 5	750 to 950
Grade 6	850 to 1050
Grade 7	950 to 1075
Grade 8	1000 to 1100
Grade 9	1050 to 1150
Grade 10	1100 to 1200
Grade 11 & 12	1100 to 1300

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