Discovering Collection

Discovering Collection (Gale) Current edition.      Save to del.icio.us
Full text; includes images, sound and video.

Especially designed to provide overviews for students writing papers in these areas: U.S. and world history, science, literature, geography, cultures (U.S. and world), and social studies. These overviews provide the student with a better understanding of a topic and could be useful for high school students and undergraduates.

Key features of this database:

• Main content coverage:
• Biography: Over 33,000 biographies, from ancient times to present.
• Geography: Overviews and essays on important topics.
• Literature: 60,000+ biographies, criticisms, essays and overviews. Hundreds of plays and poems.
• Science: Thousands of entries that explore history, people, inventions, theories, life forms, etc.
• Social studies: People, places, facts and figures for the United States and nations of the world.
• U.S. and world history: Era overviews, primary documents, essays, etc.
• Includes over 54 full-text reference series with 510 individual volumes.
• Hundreds of audio and video clips.
• Educators can easily pick research correlated to lesson plans by grade and discipline. Especially useful for middle school and high school teachers. National and state curriculum standards are included.
• Documents can be automatically translated to eight different languages: Spanish, French, Japanese, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, or Korean.
• Interface to search the database can be viewed in four languages: English, Spanish, French, or Portuguese.