Electronic Databases For Kids

(Subscription services available free through your library)
Use your library card number to login from computers outside the library.

 

Got homework? You need databases!!

Magazines Articles and more

• Searchasaurus -- an easy way to get to kid friendly magazine articles, pictures, and maps.
  
• Kidsearch --- for grades k-8. Find magazine articles, country reports, encyclopedia articles, tv and radio transcipts, maps, photos, and more. Select the reading level you prefer
  
• Student Research Center -- for grades 6-12. Find magazine articles, encyclopedia articles, reference works, primary materials, biographies, photos, maps, and more.
  
• Science Resource Center
  
• Biography Resource Center
  
• History Resource Center --US
  
• History Resource Center -- World
  
• Literature Resource Center
  
  

Encyclopedias

• Animals (Ebsco)
• Encyclopedia Americana
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• America the Beautiful
• New Book of Knowledge
• New Book of Popular Science
• Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
• La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre
• (en Español)
• Lands and Peoples
• Worldmark Encyclopedia of Nations

Books!

• Novelist K-8 --   Guide to children's fiction - find books by your favorite author, get suggestions on what you might like, read reviews, and see whether the book is in the library. Reading levels are included

Test Prep and college search

Testing and Education Reference Center -- Information on college, graduate school, and special education; online interactive test preparation,

Databases are available to Wicomico Public Library card holders. You will be asked to log in with your library card number. This is found on the back of your library card, just above the bar code.

Please let us know if you experience problems accessing the databases, either by emailing askus@wicomico.org or by telephone at 410-749-3612, ext. 36.

Wicomico Public Library
122 S. Division Street, Salisbury, MD 21801
Phone: 410-749-3612 Fax: 410-548-2968

Policy For Access To Electronic Information