Proquest -- SIRS Discoverer, Culture Grams and Professional Education
• Periodicals, journals, works of fiction, and encyclopedia
• World Almanac for Kids, Roget's II Thesaurus, and the American Heritage dictionary
• Three thousand U.S. and world printable maps (detailed, historical and outline)
• SIRS photo essays may be searched by topic and self-emailed to the user
• Training pod casts
• “Born this Month,”15 Top Pick subjects and a monthly challenge quest
• Culture Grams, written by natives of the countries includes facts, customs, lifestyles, maps, recipes, currency, photos, data, audio pronunciations of the country name and a sound track of the national anthem
• Teacher lessons to support student use of the package
• 400 professional journals with full-text articles
• Database searches to include: title, keyword, subject/topic, author, Boolean logic, natural language,
date, reading level, Lexile level, and type of media
• Results sorted by relevance, date, or Lexile level, ascending or descending order
• Pathfinders to finding information
• Ability to setup an alert feature in the Professional Education database allowing teachers to remain updated on research topics

Thomson Gale -- Kids InfoBits and the Jr. Reference Collection
• Periodicals, journals, newspapers, primary sources, maps, flags and seals of states and countries
• Columbia Encyclopedia, Junior Worldmark, and Encyclopedia of the States
• Merriam-Webster's Kid Dictionary
• Multi-media, images, graphics, charts, and graphs
• Blackbirch Press Books with full text and embedded charts and graphics
• The Junior Reference Collection containing all of the UXL publications
• Online resources for teachers
• Search features including a drill-down topic list, a search trail, and subject branching
• Guided tours, tip sheets, and self starting tutorials