EBSCO Explora (Secondary Schools)
Login Information: Log in using the generic digital resources username and password. If you don’t know the generic login, ask your school’s Teacher Librarian.
Suitable for: Grades 8 to 12
Brief Description: A single interface that searches multiple EBSCO databases curated for high school students.
Vendor Description: Explora supports both student research and classroom instruction by providing a simple search that delivers relevant results, topic overviews that give students a starting point for research, a mobile-friendly interface, and Text-to-speech for HTML articles to assist struggling readers or ESL students.
Databases included:
| Name: | Description: |
|---|---|
| Canadian Reference Centre | Contains Canadian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books. Includes full text biographies, and a collection of over 502,000 images. Updated daily. |
| Academic Search Premier | Provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. Covers a variety of subject areas. |
| MasterFILE Premier | Covers virtually every subject area of general interest by providing full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals. Also contains over 164,400 primary source documents. Updated daily. |
| Consumer Health Complete | Provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. Updated weekly. |
| Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia | Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. |
| Primary Search | Provides full text for more than 70 popular magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a Lexile reading level indicator. |
| Middle Search Plus | Provides full text for more than 140 middle school magazines. Full text articles are assigned a Lexile reading level. Includes biographies, historical essays, and primary source documents. |
| Canadian Literary Centre | Contains book and reference content from Essays on Canadian Writing Press (ECW Press). The database includes book reviews, essays, author biographies, and more. Updated daily. |
| Literary Reference Center | Provides full-text plot summaries, articles/essays of literary criticisms, author biographies and interviews, literary journals, book reviews, poems, and short stories. |
| Canadian Points of View Reference Centre | Resources that explore opposing sides of current issues from Canadian perspectives. |
Student Resources:
- MLA, APA, and other Citation style guides can be found by clicking on 
>Citation Styles. (Bottom left of the page.)
- Generate citations by clicking on the "Cite" button on above any article.
Teacher Resources:
- Help documents and tutorials about searching, browsing, saving and other features of Explora can be found Here.
