New Canadian Correlations Available

SIRS Discoverer now provides correlated resources to Canadian standards. Educators can search for provincial content standards correlated to articles with the new Canadian content standards search tool.

Click on the Educator's Resources (within Database Features, or in our bottom toolbar), then go to "SIRS Resources Correlated to Standards."

When you click Select State (which will be reworded soon!), Alberta and Ontario standards will appear, with correlated resources.

Newly Updated Citation Guidelines Online

Also residing within SIRS Discoverer's Educator's Resources feature is the tool "How to Cite a Source." Examples of the most popular and newly updated citation styles for a variety of print and digital resources are just a click away.

From our guidelines: "Source information, sometimes called bibliographic information, is important for thorough research. Whenever you use information from SIRS Discoverer® for a report or other assignment, you must identify (cite) the original publication that contained the information, SIRS Discoverer, and in some cases The World Almanac® for Kids or Compton's by Britannica® Encyclopedia. Because it is such an important element of research, source information is available in several places in SIRS Discoverer. It appears automatically with all search results, and a link is also provided from the full-text of each article. Source information is included with all pictures, maps and charts as well. Examples for citing information from all databases within SIRS Discoverer on the Web are available below using Modern Language Association format, American Psychological Association format and Turabian format. Ask your instructor which citation format (MLA, APA or Turabian) is preferred."

New Content Additions

Biography for Beginners | Favorable Impressions

In the last Explorations newsletter, we alerted you to the addition of Biography for Beginners, by Favorable Impressions. Having established an esteemed reputation for creating outstanding reference publications, the Favorable Impressions titles display a high level of care and commitment. Each publication is reviewed by Advisory Boards comprised of school librarians, public librarians, and reading specialists.

As promised, we have added another title in the Biography for Beginners series. In Biography for Beginners: All Authors, students can read about the personal and working lives and oeuvres of such notable authors as Dr. Seuss, Jan Brett, and others.

Expect to see more Biography for Beginners titles added to eLibrary Elementary and SIRS Discoverer in the future.

2008 World Almanac for Kids

SIRS Discoverer now features the 2008 World Almanac for Kids. Published annually since 1996 and with more than 3 million copies sold to date, The World Almanac for Kids provides young learners with the information they need and crave on thousands of subjects.

This title is created by the editors of The World Almanac, the "bestselling American reference book of all time." Discoverer offers the title's completely updated version each year. It's filled with colorful, fun, and informative images, puzzles, games, activities, and jokes. Kid-friendly facts on myriad topics are great for school reports and homework. Approved and supported by educators, kids, their parents, and the media, World Almanac for Kids continues to serve as the premiere almanac designed specifically for young learners.

Famous Faces from TIME

Check out TIME's collection of primary documents in Famous Faces from TIME. Teachers can access and use original magazine covers from 1925 to the present, to help students discover history.

A 16-page Teacher's Guide is included, and each entry contains a profile of a "Famous Face." The profiles help students read for understanding, increase vocabulary, and raise global awareness by making personal connections to the world around them.

Famous Faces from TIME addresses the constant demand for biographies in elementary, as well as the continual request for primary documents. Learn about the lives and works of such notables as Albert Einstein, Charles Lindbergh, Eleanor Roosevelt, Fidel Castro, and others in this acclaimed title.

National Geographic Young Explorer

As you read in the last issue of Explorations, SIRS Discoverer recently added National Geographic Little Kids to its wealth of unique titles. The National Geographic Society's first magazine specifically designed and written for three to six year-olds, NG Little Kids presents a wonderful opportunity to inspire a love of learning in children, while bringing animals, nature, math, and science to the youngest learners.

This month, ProQuest announces the addition of National Geographic Young Explorer to SIRS Discoverer!

NG Young Explorer is a "classroom magazine" written at the kindergarten to Grade 1 reading level, and builds children's reading skills while teaching them the science, social studies content, and vocabulary they need to succeed in school.

The title accomplishes this with real-life reading experiences through theme-based and timely nonfiction stories; vivid photographs; and instructive maps, charts, and diagrams. NG Young Explorer helps develop literacy skills while teaching standards-based science and social studies content; introduces word patterns and rhymes through engaging poems; and reinforces learned skills in the classroom with a take-home section. While building confidence in reading, the title grows with students--the reading level increases after each issue! Further, the thematic topics covered in NG Young Explorer can be easily integrated with the curriculum.

Complete titles from NG Young Explorer found in Discoverer include Baby Animals; Visit the Zoo; Splash Into Weather; It Is Fall; Meet the Wampanoag; Meet Martin; and A Sunflower Grows.

eLibrary Elementary Solution Updates

Titles within Toucan Valley, a series of 14 new reference books, continue to be added. The following titles have already been added to the product: California Explorers; California Indians; California Missions; Mission Life; California History by Decades; California Ranchos; and California Explorers.

New titles include Northeast Indians, Texas Indians, Religions of the World, Wonders of the World, Countries of the World, Early Civilizations, and Presidents.
The Oxford University Press collection of science biographies are being added, including Galileo Galilei: First Physicist, Gregor Mendel and the Roots of Genetics, Isaac Newton and the Scientific Revolution, Linus Pauling and the Chemistry of Life, and Johannes Kepler and the New Astronomy.

Other Oxford University Press collections that have recently been added include Exploring the Ocean, a four-volume set of books, each one describing a specific aspect of the ocean.