MAGNOLIA News: Discovering Collection Now Available from Gale

Discovering Collection Now Available from Gale
[posted 08/20/2001]

The relevance of people, places, events and primary source documents to current events becomes clear when students can view them within their historical context. Discovering Collection helps make that connection with content and key resources culled from Discovering Program titles DISCovering Authors, U.S. History, Science and Biography, and the entire contents of the Junior Reference Collection (also known as U·X·L Online).

Thousands of overview essays, critical analyses, biographies, timelines and multimedia elements comprise the new Discovering Collection, a completely original, comprehensive online resource. The database's intuitive interface and easy-to-navigate functionality make it effortless for students to research papers and class assignments in five core subject areas: history, literature, biography, science and social studies.

The New Discovering Collection helps students make the connection with the following:

New and revised! Integrated, cross-curricular content
New! Student-friendly interface
More than 11,500 Biographies
More than 24,000 Essays
21,079 Timeline Events
More than 3,200 Plot Summaries
24-hour Web Access from school and home

Databases included in the Discovering Collection:

DISCovering® Authors
DISCovering® Biography
DISCovering® Science
DISCovering® US History
DISCovering® World History
DISCovering® Multicultural America
EXPLORING Novels
EXPLORING Short Stories
EXPLORING Poetry
EXPLORING Shakespeare
U·X·L® Biographies
U·X·L® Jr. Discovering Authors
U·X·L® Jr. Worldmark Encyclopedia of Canadian Provinces
U·X·L® Jr. Worldmark Encyclopedia of Nations
U·X·L® Jr. Worldmark Encyclopedia of States
U·X·L® Jr. Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
U·X·L® Multicultural
U·X·L® Science
Worldmark Encyclopedia of Nations
Worldmark Encyclopedia of States
Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures