Bank Street College Children's Library

Children's Databases

Britannica
Content of print version, plus Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Interactive maps, daily features, spotlights, related Web site links.

EBSCOAnimals
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.>

Funk and Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

The Groliers Encyclopedias(Access at Bank Street)
Grolier Encyclopedias include Encyclopedia Americana, The New Book of Knowledge, and La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre.

Infotrac Jr.
Junior is designed especially for junior high and middle schools. It features the titles most critical to their libraries and the curriculum as identified by school librarians. Infotrac Junior Edition provides information back to 1995. Additionally, the databases include full text newspaper articles from the Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service and 300+ full color Rand NcNally maps.

MAS Ultra(High School level research)
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 700 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, more than 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost

Masterfile Select
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 700 general reference publications with coverage dating as far back as 1984. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Select also includes 35 full text reference books and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

Primary Search
rovides full text for 50 children’s magazines and over 100 children’s pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student.

Topic Search
This current events database contains articles from over 1,100 magazines, 150 newspapers, 400 pamphlets, 1,500 popular biographies, 800 book reviews and 15,000 public opinion polls.

Twayne's Author Series
provides short biographies on well-known American, British, and world authors, from ancient times to the present. Major works by each author are also discussed.

Worldbook
This encyclopedia is aimed at grades 3 and up, is designed to cover curriculum topics, and includes "Today in History," and "Behind the Headlines" features.