Research Databases
For Students
Discovering Collection: ICONN database containing information about People, Places, and Events--history, biography, literature, social studies, and science. Audience: Middle School and up. [Available to all Connecticut residents with current public library cards. If you are in need of a library card, please visit your home town library. Wilton residents may apply online.]For Students
EBSCO MAS Ultra: EBSCO general magazine index. Contains full text for more than 350 periodicals covering general reference, health, science, and more. Also offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 500 periodicals. Includes over 3,000 charts, tables, and graphs, coverage of the CIA World Factbook, and Essential Documents in American History. Periodicals include, Advertising Age, American Economist, American Family Physician, American Fitness, Black Enterprise, Business Week, Canadian Banker, Canadian Geographic, Christianity Today, ComputerWorld, Discover, Economist, Forbes, Foreign Affairs, Good Housekeeping, Guitar Player, Hispanic Times Magazine, and more. Full text files go back to January, 1985; indexing and abstracts go back to January of 1984. [Available to Wilton residents with current Wilton Library cards--if you are a Wilton resident in need of a card, stop by the library or fill out this application.]
Encyclopedia Americana: In depth and worldwide current events for older students and adults. [Available to Wilton residents with current Wilton Library cards -- if you are a Wilton resident in need of a card, stop by the library or fill out this application.]
Expanded Academic ASAP: ICONN's database containing articles aimed primarily high school students and up. Offers balanced coverage of every academic concentration--from advertising and microbiology to history and women's studies. Contains 3,000 indexed and 1,900 full-text titles in a wide variety of disciplines including social science journals, humanities journals, science and technology journals, national news periodicals, general interest magazines, newswires, The New York Times, and more. More than 1,400 journals are peer reviewed, and more than 20 years of backfile are covered. [Available to all Connecticut residents with current public library cards. If you are in need of a library card, please visit your home town library. Wilton residents may apply online.]
InfoTrac Junior Edition: ICONN'S database of specially selected resources for students in grades 6-8. Designed for junior high and middle school students, InfoTrac Junior Edition features the titles most critical to their curriculum. [Available to all Connecticut residents with current public library cards. If you are in need of a library card, please visit your home town library. Wilton residents may apply online.]
InfoTrac Student Edition: ICONN'S database of specially selected resources for high school students. Contains a variety of full-text sources that include the leading magazines, newspapers and reference books that librarians prefer and students enjoy. [Available to all Connecticut residents with current public library cards. If you are in need of a library card, please visit your home town library. Wilton residents may apply online.]
Kids InfoBits: ICONN'S database that targets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate and visual graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine and reference content. [Available to all Connecticut residents with current public library cards. If you are in need of a library card, please visit your home town library. Wilton residents may apply online.]
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center: Divided by topic, this database includes essays from the Opposing Viewpoints books, news stories, links to pertinent web sites, discussion topics, images, and primary documents for many of today's "hot button" issues from abortion to youth. [Available to Wilton residents with current Wilton Library cards -- if you are a Wilton resident in need of a card, stop by the library or fill out this application.]
Science Reference Center: ICONN's database designed to support middle and high school curriculum by encompassing all disciplines of science. Contains more than 630 full-text titles including leading science encyclopedias, reference books, and periodicals, as well as biographies and images. Topics include: biology, chemistry, earth and space science, environmental science, health and medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science and society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife. [Available to all Connecticut residents with current public library cards. If you are in need of a library card, please visit your home town library. Wilton residents may apply online.]
Student Research Center: ICONN's database that provides secondary school students with a new interface that allows students to pre-determine which content sources will be included in their search (magazines, newspapers, biographies, country reports, film and video). [Available to all Connecticut residents with current public library cards. If you are in need of a library card, please visit your home town library. Wilton residents may apply online.]
Students doing research for school projects might also want to check out our school project pages for K-5 and 6-12, search engines for kids, ask an expert sites, and homework helpers.