These online databases are being provided free of charge to Sidney Community School through a statewide purchasing consortium through AEA 13.  These products are available for students to use both at school and at home. Contact the school for username & password to access these sites.

    ALEKS is available for a variety of math courses.  ALEKS is a web-based, artificially intelligent assessment

         and learning system. ALEKS uses adaptive questioning to quickly and accurately determine exactly what

         a student knows and doesn't know in a course. ALEKS then instructs the student on the topics he or she

         is most ready to learn.

    EBSCOhost is full-text periodicals, newspapers, and reference tools.  It includes:

            600 periodicals for student research

            270 health-related periodicals

            11,000 photos, maps, flags (Image Collection)

            full-text newspaper articles (national & international)

            thousands of additional biographies, books, pamphlets

    AP Multimedia is a comprehensive database of Associated Press photos from

        the 1840's to the present.  It includes:

            over 500,000 photos

            over 500,000 audio clips accessible with Real Player

            thousands of graphics, maps, and charts

            700,000 short articles containing information about events as they happen

    Clipart is the school edition with 2.5 million searchable clip art, photos, images,

        fonts, & sounds.

    Accuweather is customized, accurate weather information for anywhere on Earth.  It

        includes current conditions, satellite information, 15-day forecast, real-time local

        Doppler radar.

    World Book online contains all the articles from all 22 volumes in the print set, plus

        thousands of additional articles, pictures, videos, & sounds.

    United Streaming is educational video on-demand.  It has 2,600 videos, 26,000 video

        clips, 2,500 images, and more.