Key Databases for EFL
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Encyclopedia Britannica Academic Edition
Encyclopedia Britannica Academic Edition contains the online version of the standard encyclopedia, an Arabic Translation Tool plus full-text journal and magazine articles and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. BookFlix – Video storybooks Read along with online video storybooks for preschoolers – grade 3. Then try games and activities to show what you’ve learned. CREDO This online database has 597 selected titles from 80+ publishers. Credo Reference authoritative content covers various major subject areas which include arts, medicine, psychology, history, technology, and literature. It offers a mixed collection of reference resources such as general and subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, bibliographies, chronologies, handbooks, atlases, and more. Its platform aggregates content to provide researchers with a cross-searchable learning experience via its signature concept map. Biography in Context Biography in Context delivers outstanding research support with nearly a million biographical entries spanning history and geography. Just like all the new revolutionary In Context products, it’s a curriculum-aligned resource that offers media-rich content in context that's updated daily to meet the needs of today’s user. In it you’ll find: Grolier Online Grolier Online is a collection of online resources such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, interactive maps, world newspapers, informational video clips, and more for students in elementary, middle, and high schools, along with their librarians and educators. JSTOR The JSTOR archive includes more than 1,500 leading academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The entire back runs of journals (from volume 1, issue 1) are provided with an embargo for the most recent 3 years. Literature Resource Center Literature Resource Center is a comprehensive online literature database that provides access to full text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines covering all genres, disciplines, and time periods. Literature Online (LION) Literature Online is the leading online resource for the study and teaching of literature in English. It is a fully integrated service that combines the texts of over 355,000 literary works with a vast library of key criticism and reference resources. Literature Online’s collection of accurate poetry, prose and drama is relied upon by researchers around the world on a daily basis and the essential criticism and reference resources, including an ever-growing library of full-text journals and author biographies, helps keep you up to date on the latest research into every aspect of literary and linguistic study. Novelist Plus – (EBSCO) Novelist Plus is a reading guide and advisory tool suitable for all age groups. It contains recommendations for fiction and nonfiction, author read-a-likes, book discussion guides, award lists, book cover images, and nearly 40,000 first chapter excerpts. |
Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The Core Collection contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books, giving subscribers unprecedented access to a comprehensive information resource SIRS Discoverer SIRS Discoverer is a general reference resource for beginning learners and researchers. It is aimed towards students in the primary and preparatory grades. SIRS Discoverer helps students with the skills of research, writing, and language. SIRS Researcher SIRS Researcher is a general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues. Articles and graphics are selected from over 1,600 international publications. TumbleBook AudioBookCloud TumbleBook AudioBookCloud is a large assortment of streaming audiobooks that is easily accessible. The collection includes fiction, nonfiction, classics, and Spanish language audio books for children, teens. TumbleBookCloud TumbleBookCloud is an online collection of eBooks and read-along chapter books, graphic novels, educational videos, and audio books that is suitable for children, middle schoolers, teens, and adults. TumbleBookCloud Junior TumbleBookCloud Junior is an online collection of eBooks and read-along chapter books, non-fiction books, graphic novels, educational videos, and audio books designed specifically for kids in grades three to six. TumbleBook Library TumbleBook Library provides access to a great source of animated talking picture books, puzzles, games, quizzes, videos, and learning language sources for children and teens. It can also be used as a tool for instructors. VAST: Academic Video Online – (Alexander Street Press) VAST: Academic Video Online is a large multidisciplinary database of searchable streaming videos to meet learning, teaching, and research interests. It has thousands of full video titles and many of them are award-winning films from notable producers and distributors. BookFlix – Video storybooks Read along with online video storybooks for preschoolers – grade 3. Then try games and activities to show what you’ve learned. |
