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| Contains Full-Text: | Yes, articles include Lexiles |
| Peer Reviewed: | Yes (but not all journals) |
| Subject Areas: |
Targets elementary students and offers historical documents; reference material; health and science related material, sports and leisure; etc. |
| Description: |
Primary Search,designed
specifically for elementary school libraries and public library
children’s rooms, contains full text for nearly 70 popular, elementary
school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level
indicator (Lexiles). In addition to the full text, this database offers
indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines. Examples of
publications covered in Primary
Search include:
Appleseeds, Boys’ Life, Cobblestone, Cricket, Highlights for Children,
Hopscotch, Jack & Jill, Ladybug, Ranger Rick, Science World, Spider,
SuperScience, Time for Kids, Turtle, and many more. This
database also provides the American
Heritage Children’s Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton
Mifflin, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Many
full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or
scanned-in-color. Full text backfiles go as far back as 1990, while
indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as 1985. © EBSCO Publishing |
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Last Updated 8/25/07