General Help
Databases & Sites	Library Catalog	Search Web	Magazines & Newspapers
	Subject Help
Arts & Music	Language Arts	Math & Science	Social Studies

General Databases

	Grolier Online includes text and pictures from the Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Popular Science, Lands and Peoples, America The Beautiful, and American Heritage Dictionary.
	Student Resource Center provides reference documents, articles and dictionary entries covering the physical and applied sciences, literature, biography, history and social studies.
	Kids Search includes magazine articles for elementary and middle school students, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, American Heritage Children's Dictionary, and Encyclopedia of Animals.
	SIRS Discoverer articles and graphics from more than 1,600 magazines, newspapers and government documents selected for elementary and middle school children.
	SIRS Knowledge Source selected full-text articles on social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political and global issues.
	Britannica Elementary encyclopedia for elementary school students.
	Compton's by Britannica encyclopedia for middle school students.
	Encyclopaedia Britannica Online includes the complete Encyclopaedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year together with over 300,000 web sites selected by Britannica editors.

General Homework Help Sites

• BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper links to over 700 sites.
• Kidspace @ The Internet Public Library help for homework subjects, and special projects like science fairs and state facts.
• Homework Center links from the Multnomah County Library.

Library Catalog

Search Web

	Ask for Kids ask a question and get links to answers and related web sites.
	Other Search Tools other ways to search the Net (not limited to kid-friendly sites).

Magazines & Newspapers

Kids Search magazine articles for elementary and middle school students.

SIRS Discoverer articles and graphics from more than 1,600 magazines, newspapers and government documents selected for elementary and middle school children.

Newspaper Source full text of major newspapers and selected coverage from regional papers.

ProQuest Newspapers New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor

MAS Ultra full text articles from nearly 460 periodicals designed for High School students from EBSCO.

¡Informe! 46 full-text, Spanish-language and bilingual magazines.

Magazine Web Sites:

• National Geographic Kids interactive, multi-topic magazine covering animals, entertainment, science, technology, current events, and cultures from around the world.
• The Weekly Reader
• dig archaeology magazine for kids.
• Odyssey: Adventures in Science science magazine for young adventurers.
• Smithsnonian Education A Place for Kids to Learn, Explore and Discover
• Smithsonian for Kids Fun Stuff for Kids Online.
• TIME for Kids weekly classroom news magazine that covers a wide range of real-world topics.