The Foundation for a Meaningful Life
Kindergarten - Grade 9 in Southborough, MA

Fay School Library

Databases

General Reference and Encyclopedias

Access to seven encyclopedia databases: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples, Amazing Animals of the World, and The New Book of Popular Science.
The complete Encyclopædia Britannica (high school), Compton's(middle school) and Britannica Elementary (elementary school).
Specifically designed for K-3 students. Packed with informational articles, ready-made activities, and literacy supports for students of all abilities.
Not just definitions but synonyms and sample sentences for each word. There is also a great grammar section!
Complete source for peer-reviewed scholarly articles across all academic disciplines
Activities, games, videos, and more.

Enciclopedia español para los estudiantes más jóvenes. Encyclopedia Britannica in Spanish (Grades K-8).
Not just definitions but synonyms and sample sentences for each word. There is also a great grammar section.

Over 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience.
Covers the people, places, and events in the broad expanse of history—from mid-15th century to the present.
Explores the pre-modern world with in-depth focus on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
Robust coverage for both novice historians and advanced researchers.
Well-rounded coverage of current thinking and scholarly work.
Access to thousands of images, documents, and sound recordings that have been digitized by member institutions so that they may be available to researchers, students, and the general public.

All MA library databases are here. Cross-searchable! EBooks, newspapers, multimedia, and databases on everything -- science, history, languages, law, travel, forensics, wars, careers, environment, communications, psychology, diversity, and much more!
Hundreds of eBooks covering a variety of topics.
Search across multiple Gale collections of periodical and reference content while efficiently managing your results.
Access the most searched magazines across Gale OneFile focusing on current events, sports, science, and health issues.
The ultimate streaming multimedia resource for the K–12. Hundreds of thousands of media resources such as videos, interactives, printables, audio content, and maps and flags can be filtered by grade level.

Full-text article archive from 1985-present.
Access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world.
Read the Boston Herald page-to-page online! Click Sign in and log in with Google. Scroll down to Boston Herald and click View E-Edition. The username and password are both "fay123."
Explore all sides of an issue covering today's hottest social issues.
A rich resource for debaters. Resources include viewpoints, reference articles, infographics, news, images, video, audio, and more.
Provides exclusive, extensive coverage of hundreds of today's hot topics, with unbiased analysis and rich related resources.

in-depth explanations of important advances in biology, chemistry, environmental science, space, physics, and technology, and features interviews with the scientists doing the research.
A complete reference database covering almost every field of science. Articles are hyperlinked and searchable by keyword, topic, and year.
Updated daily, this collection includes 1.6 million articles and 200 journals.

Articles that explore cultural differences, influences in society, and more
Millions of articles at the fingertips of serious students of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
Covers topics of philosophies and religions in one comprehensive collection, including a broad range of topics from theological approaches to social issues.

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