Transcript Getting Inspired with Inspire

Getting Inspired with Inspire
Linda L.Mills
Library Media Specialist
Greensburg Elementary School
[email protected]
INSPIRE is Indiana’s Virtual Library on the
Internet. It is a collection of commercial
databases and other information resources
that can be accessed by Indiana residents
using any computer equipped with an
Internet connections.
It is paid for by all Indiana citizens.
Anyone can access INSPIRE in Indiana either
at school, home, in their library or at their
place of business and it is free.
Many of the databases are updated on a daily
basis and the currency of data varies by
journal.
Over 2 dozen databases with:
• Thousands of magazines and journals with fulltext
• Hundreds of newspapers from around the U.S.
• Material for students in elementary school in
INSPIRE Kids and junior high and high school in
the Student Research Center
• Other topics and resources include: Academics,
Business, Careers, Literature, Health &
Medicine, Biographies, Education, Spanishlanguage
Any kind of information that you might find
in a magazine or journal plus websites,
pamphlets, images, almanacs, library
catalogs and more can be found in
INSPIRE.
INSPIRE provides cover to cover indexing
and abstracts of all articles that appear in
every periodical with the exception of some
newspapers. Only letters to the editor,
advertisements and some images are
excluded.
http://www.inspire.net/dbinfo.html
Primary Search
• Provides full text articles from over 60 children’s
magazines
• Indexing and abstracts for over 85 magazines
• Includes over 1,100 full-text historical documents
and 100 pamphlets
• Full text of 18 student reference texts, including
World Almanac and the World Almanac for Kids
• Updated weekly and 310 health and science
related pamphlets
• http://www.epnet.com/titleLists/ps-complete.htm
Middle Search Plus
• Provides full text from over 150 general reference,
health and science magazines
• Indexing and abstracts for nearly 200 magazines
• Full text of 265 pamphlets, over 5,000 Magill
Book Reviews, 36 reference books, 1,800 full-text
historical essays
• Full text backfiles go as far back as January of
1990
• http://www.epnet.com/titleLists/mi-complete.htm
Newspaper Source
• Provides selected full text for 200 U.S. and 20
international newspapers, 21 newswires and
newspaper columns, and 26 TV and radio news
transcripts
• Full text includes the Christian Science Monitor,
USA Today, and the Washington Post plus
indexing and abstracting for the New York Times
and the Wall Street Journal
• Updated daily
• http://www.epnet.com/titleLists/nf-complete.htm
Professional Development Collection
• Highly specialized collection of electronic
information especially for professional educators
• Information on everything from children’s health
and development to cutting edge pedagogical
theory and practice
• Abstract and index coverage for over 800 well
known professional development titles
• Full text for over 750 journals
• http://www.epnet.com/titleLists/tf-complete.htm
What Tree is It?
• Full color photographs identify trees by
leaves, fruit or bark.
• Includes information on over 170 different
trees of the Midwest by both common and
Latin names
• http://www.inspire.net/trees/index.html
Image Collection
• Over 100,000 images
• Includes maps and flags of countries and states
• Search by image description, or browse through
images of people, places, or nature
Biography Resource Center
• In-dept coverage of current and hjistoric people
from almost every field of endeavor
• Serach by name, place, date, occupation, etc.
• 300,000 biograpies on more than 220,000 people
• Full text articles from nearly 250 periodicals
• 30,000 citations from Gale’s Almanac of Famous
People
• 7,000 portraits
• http://www.gale.com/tlist/sb5104.html
Funk and Wagnalls New World
Encyclopedia
• Contains over 25,000 records
• Full text for each record
• Updated annually
Lit Finder
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Includes poems, stories, essays, speeches, and plays
125,000 full text poems
850,000 poem citations and excerpts
Thousands of full text classic and contemporary short
stories
• Full text essays and discursive writing based on books
published in the 20th century
• Best and best known speeches of th past 2,500 years
• Over 1,000 plays complete covering the range of
dramatic expression
EBSCO Animals
• Offers in depth information on a variety of
topics relating to animals
• Indexing, abstracts, and full text records
describing the nature and habitat of familiar
animals
• Images available for some records
INSPIRE Pathfinders link
http://www.inspire.net/pathfinders.html
INSPIRE Lesson Plan link
http://www.epnet.com/thisTopic.php?topicID
=351&marketID=20
• Support for Inspire is 24 hours a day, 7 days
a week.
• There are different interfaces to use
including one for students called Kids
Search.
Kids Search makes it easy for student to
search by keyword or by topic to find the
most useful search results. AND results can
be sorted by source type, too.
http://inspire.net
INSPIRE Clearinghouse
•Training and tutorials are found here, thematic units
and lesson plans and Pathfinders.
•http://www.inspire.net/clearing.html
Inspire training
•http://ideanet.doe.state.in.us/olr/library/inspire.html
INSPIRE is definitely the way to
go when you are doing research!!
Try it---you’ll like it!