District 279 Virtual Media Center ~ ELMElectronic Library for Minnesota
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From this page you can access the ELM databases from home. |
Click on the links below to log in to the ELM databases.
PLEASE NOTE: Logging in to the databases is like logging in to school computers, except…
for PC computers, your username must be prefaced with “Osseo\”. For example:
- Osseo\johnsonb ; Osseo\1515896 ; Osseo\cistu
If you have problems logging in, please talk to your school’s library media specialist.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Access to four encyclopedias that ensure consistency with classroom topics and age-appropriate language. Designed for all levels of learning K-12.
EBSCO Host
- Academic Search Premier
Full text for thousands of scholarly publications across all academic disciplines. Updated daily.
- Business Source Premier
Full text for scholarly journals and trade publications across all business subject areas. Includes detailed company profiles, industry, market research, and country economic reports, and much more. Includes the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fortune and thousands of others titles. Updated daily.
- GreenFILE
Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment, and what can be done to minimize these effects. The scholarly, government and general-interest titles included in this multidisciplinary database cover topics such as global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
- MasterFILE Premier
Full text for popular magazines in all subject areas. Includes reference books, book reviews, biographies, primary source documents, and images. Excellent coverage of consumer information, education, health, science, social science, arts, current events, and more. Includes Consumer Reports, Parenting, Sports Illustrated, Time, Newsweek, People, and thousands of other titles. Updated daily.
- MegaFILE
Save time and search all four of the above EBSCO databases at once. The EBSCO MegaFILE is comprised of the complete content and functionality of Academic Search Premier, MasterFILE Premier, Business Source Premier, and Regional Business News.
- Regional Business News
Full text for business journals, newspapers and newswires from metropolitan and rural areas across the U.S. Updated daily.
EBSCO:
- Alt Health Watch
Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Offers full-text articles for more than 180 international journals and reports plus hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research, and book excerpts.
- Consumer Health Complete
Designed to support the information needs of patients and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine.
ERIC®, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. ERIC contains more than 1,282,000 records and links to more than 314,000 full-text documents.
- Health Source: Consumer Edition
Collection of consumer health information providing access to nearly 80 full-text, consumer health magazines, pamphlets, 130+ health reference books, 5,100 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish), Lexi-PAL Drug Guide and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary.
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides access to nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, including strong coverage of nursing and allied health.
- Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts ™ (LISTA)
A world-class bibliographic database providing coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
- MAS Ultra-School Edition
Specifically for high school students, contains full text for popular, high school magazines, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps and flags, and reference books. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
- Middle Search Plus
Contains full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines, biographies and historical essays, primary source documents, and reference books. An image collection of over 400,000 photos, maps, and flags is also included.
- Points of View Reference Center
Full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of over 250 current issues.
- Primary Search
Full text for more than 70 popular, elementary school magazines, as well as encyclopedias and dictionaries written for kids, plus an image collection of photos, maps, and flags. All articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
- Professional Development Collection
Specialized collection for professional educators, researchers, and librarians. Covers children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice. Includes full text of nearly 520 education journals and more than 200 educational reports.
- Science Reference Center
Full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources covering the areas of biology, chemistry, environmental and life sciences, and more. Each article is correlated to state and national curriculum standards.
Gale
- Discovering Collection
Designed for students grades 8-12, this database includes literary criticisms, timelines, primary source documents, audio and video clips, maps, images, flags and more.
- Educator's Reference Complete
This resource focuses on K-12 teachers, education students, and administrators. It features over 1,100 periodicals that cover education from preschool to college, including every educational specialty, like bilingual studies, health, technology and testing (also administration, funding and policy in education). Provides full-text for nearly half of the citations that appear in the ERIC database, which is citation-only.
- Expanded Academic ASAP
This premier database for high school-age and up offers balanced coverage of every academic concentration — from advertising and microbiology to history and women's studies. The scope and depth of the database includes more than 2,500 full-text titles (journals) in a wide variety of disciplines and also includes national news periodicals, general interest magazines, newswires, etc.
- General Science Collection
With this database, stay current on the latest scientific developments in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, and more. Includes over 200 journals like Scientific American, Archeology, Physics Today, Info Today, Mathematics Magazine, etc.
- ¡Informe! (Spanish-language interface)
¡Informe! (English-language interface)
El texto completo de 50 de los más populares periódicos y diarios de habla hispana y bilingües, incluyendo el periódico en español El Nuevo Herald (Miami, FL). Full text of 50 of the most popular Spanish-language and bilingual periodicals including El Nuevo Herald (Miami, FL), a Spanish-language newspaper.
- InfoTrac Junior Edition
Designed for middle school students, this database has full-text articles from magazines, newspapers, and reference books in just about every subject area.
- InfoTrac Student Edition
Designed for high school students, this database has full-text articles from magazines, newspapers, and reference books. Historical images and maps included. Covers a wide variety of subjects.
- Junior Reference Collection
Designed for students grades 6-8, this database has information from reference books about people, places, history, science and more. Includes photos and maps.
- Kids InfoBits
Designed for elementary school students grades K-5, this database has articles from magazines, newspapers, and reference books on animals, famous people, science, countries and states, and more.
- Professional Collection
Designed for the educator, this database has full text for education journals across a variety of fields such as child and adolescent psychology, drug and alcohol abuse, learning disabilities, sports/athletic training etc. Updated daily.
- Student Resource Center Gold
This flexible research tool for grades 7-12 covers the major subject areas and features content based on national curriculum standards. This database draws from newspapers and periodicals, as well as biographical entries, literary criticism, and primary source documents. It also includes images, video clips, and audio (including podcasts).
- ProQuest Newsstand Complete
Full text for the Star Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Barron's, USA Today, and hundreds of other newspapers. ProQuest Newsstand Complete title list >>>
- The Historical Minneapolis Tribune (1867-1922)
Features complete page images scanned from the Minneapolis Morning Tribune (1909-1922). Includes indexes and abstracts for 1867-1908.
NetLibrary eBooks
*to access NetLibrary, you must first set up an account within a public library using your public library card*
Full text of over 14,000 electronic books in the arts, humanities, social sciences, life and physical sciences, business, computers and more. Includes Cliff's Notes.
The OCLC databases are only available from within the District 279 network.
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