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Grolier Online is a subscription service that provides online encyclopedias to the students in the School District of Waukesha.

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La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre Grolier Online's Spanish-language encyclopedia. Released in August 2004, La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre online now features--in addition to more than 18,000 articles, 7,500 images, and hundreds of fact boxes and tables--timelines covering world history, Spanish-language news stories, a dynamic Spanish atlas, category browse, teacher resources, and the "Aula de español" module, developed for Spanish-language learners. A colorful new interface accompanies enhancements to functionality such as a text-only, ADA-compliant version; search using Spanish characters; bilingual Help and About pages; print/e-mail utility; separate search results for articles and media.

Encyclopedia Americana is a standard in school, academic, and public libraries, and is easy to search online. This database helps middle- to upper-grade students find a wealth of information to assist with homework and research projects.  

  • 45,000 articles contributed by over 6,000 specialists
  • Further Reading: Articles link to OCLC's WorldCat® online union catalog
  • More than 100,000 full-text periodical articles—provided by EBSCO     PublishingCompany
  • 9,000 bibliographies
  • Web Links: 155,000 continually updated links to Web sites, all with short introductions, make it easy to find exactly what you're searching for

Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia  is a quick reference with rich media and news for middle school and high school students.  This powerful database reduces search time across a wide varity of media.

  • Search by word or browse by subject—search results include multimedia!
  • The encyclopedia's 40,000 quick-reference articles are all written by experts in their fields.
  • How-to-Cite-this-Article teaches students how to cite references correctly.
  • Over 7,500 photographs and illustrations, plus 190 flags, are all printable.
  • Videos, animations, dynamic maps and sound all add richness to the encyclopedia—you can even listen to 150 national anthems!
  • The most relevant, age-appropriate periodicals are linked to 24,000 encyclopedia articles.
  • 114,000 links to prescreened, constantly monitored Web sites are frequently updated.

 

 

 

 


 

 
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