• Elementary students--use Grolier Kids.
• Middle School students--use Grolier Pathfinder.
• Five encyclopedias, dictionary, atlas, weblinks and periodical links from encyclopedia entries.
• Birmingham Schools subscribe to this database, so a password is required for home use.

SIRS Discoverer

• Click on the Encyclopedia icon to search just the encyclopedia articles.
• Also contains periodical articles and images!
• Birmingham Schools subscribe to this database, so a password is required for home use.

Encyclopedia.com

• The Internet's premiere free encyclopedia.
• Search or browse over 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia.

e-->encyclopedia

• Brought to you by Google.

Compton’s Encyclopedia

• Especially great for astronomy and weather info.

MSN Encarta

• Including Tools for Students.

Wikipedia

• The encyclopedia that anyone can edit.  This means that there is a huge selection of articles, but you have to be cautious...not everyone is an expert!

Encyclopedia of World History

• Browse or search for the time period and country you’d like to know more about.