Online Resources for Schools

Why use EBSCO’s Offering via JCS Online Resources?

Encourages independent learning through trusted sources

All UK / Irish Universities and many colleges / schools use EBSCO services

Useful for teachers as well as students

Can be used in the classroom and in the home

3 Reference Centres being discussed –

Literary Reference Centre

Science Reference Centre

History Reference Centre

Two key points to remember when looking at new resources

Content Interface

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Content provided by reputable publishers, recognised by school library professionals and selected for use in a school environment

Search tool is free of ads, sales messages, explicit material and sponsored results. There is no “phishing” for personal data. Just information to match student and educator needs

Lexile Indicators - users can locate materials suited to individual or group reading needs if this feature is of interest to your school

Students can view, save, print and e-mail citations for chosen articles using various pre-defined academic referencing standards (e.g. MLA or Harvard) directly from the database

Students can save search results in a password-protected folder, offering a secure and organised personal holding area

Free online training offered on a variety of topics, as well as marketing material (posters, flyers etc) to help support the library

Even Google recognises EBSCO content is a recognised starting point for quality research and is a source of credible material

Using EBSCO vs Google

Literary Reference Center Source Types

Author Biographies

Plot Summaries, Synopses,Work Overviews

Literary Criticism Essays

Full-Text Journals

Full-Text Book Reviews

Full-Text Poems, Short Stories & Plays

Full-Text Classic Books

Category EBSCO LRC

179,396

34,381

88,457

450

681,473

75,517

8,231

Literary Reference Center Contains…

Hundreds of literary reference works from many different publishers

•Beacham’s Research Guide to Biography and Criticism

•Comparative in Perspective

•Complete Critical Guide to Alexander Pope

•Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature

•Complete Russian Folktale, The (5 volumes)

•Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature

•Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Shakespeare

•Encyclopedia of British Women Writers

•Encyclopedia of Literature & Criticism (Routledge)

•English Novel in History (3 volumes)

•Handbook of African American Literature

•Literary History of England (2 volumes)

•MagillOnLiterature Plus

•Masterplots & Masterplots II

•Masterworks of Asian Literature

•Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature

•Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets

•Routledge Companion to Russian Literature

•Understanding Literature Series

•Who’s Who in Non-Classical Mythology

The Browse Authors screen provides access to editor-selectedAuthor Profiles and filters by country, culture, genre or movement

History Reference CentreContent Types

Cover-to-cover Historical Encyclopedias& Other History Reference Books

Cover-to-cover History Magazines & Journals

Historical Documents

Historical Biographies

Historical Photos & Maps

Historical Film & Video Clips

1,618

150

56,996

79,418

37,487

2,338

* Figures as of June 7, 2010

Major Reference Works fromOxford University Press

• Oxford History of Christianity

• Oxford History of Ireland

• Oxford History of Italy

• Oxford History of Medieval Europe

• Oxford History of Modern Europe

• Oxford History of Modern War

• Oxford History of Roman Britain

• Oxford History of the Classical World

The Most Used HistoryMagazine in EBSCOhost

Available from:

1975 to Present

Photos & Maps

• More than 113,000 Historical Photos from an image collection

• Photos and Maps from the Encyclopedia of World Historyand other reference books

• Photos and Maps from full-text periodicals

Topics Covered

Science Reference Centre

Biology

Chemistry

Earth &Space Science

Environmental Science

Health & Medicine

History of Science

Life Science

Physics

Science & Society

Science as Inquiry

Scientists

Technology

Wildlife

Full-Text Science Periodicals 180

Full-Text Science Reference Books 625

Full-Text Science Encyclopedias 23

Full-Text Science Essays 812

Full-Text Full-Length Biographies 3,226

Science Animations 61

Science Images 18,025

Science Videos 519

* Figures as of January 2011

Cover-to-Cover Source TypesScience Reference Centre

Examples of Major Periodicals in Full TextScience Reference Centre

* Most of these magazines are exclusive to EBSCO

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