Use the Databases at Home!
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You can access a wealth of knowledge through our online databases even in the convenience of your own home! All you have to do is get the instruction form with passwords from the media center and you can peruse encyclopedia articles, magazine articles, and newspaper articles at your own leisure. You can even use an online dictionary and thesarus!
To go to the Magothy River Middle School online card catalog:
http://opac.aacps.org/ms/mago/default.htm (Bookmark this!)
Look on the left side and either click on Dictionary or Online Databases
To access the online databases:
ABC-CLIO – This database includes American Government, American History, State Geography, World Geography, United States at War, World History: The Modern Era, and World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras.
User Name: Password:
EBSCO Host – This database includes Middle Search Plus, Newspaper Source, EBSCO Animals, Searchasaurus, TOPICsearch, Health Source-Consumer Edition, ERIC, Student Research Center, Kids Search, Professional Development Collection, and Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia.
User Name: Password:
Grolier – This database includes America the Beautiful, Encyclopedia Americana, Lands and Peoples, New Book of Knowledge, and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.
User Name: Password:
NewsBank – This database includes NewsBank MS Edition and the Washington Post.
User Name: Password:
ProQuest CultureGrams – This database includes Kids Edition, States Edition, and World Edition.
User Name: Password:
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
User Name: Password:
ProQuest SIRS – This database includes Discoverer WebFind, SIRS WebSelect, SIRS Discoverer, SIRS Researcher, SIRS Renaissance, SIRS Government Reporter, SIRS Interactive Citizenship, and SIRS Decades.
User Name: Password:
Thomson Gale History Resource Center – This database includes US History and World History.
User Name: Password:
Thomson Gale Science Resource Center
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World Book Online – This database includes World Book Online Reference Center and Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos.
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