thewiseowl

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**Why NCWiseOwl rather than the web?**

NC WiseOwl (NC Online Windows for Learning) has been providing online subscription resources for our schools for the last decade. Our mission is to ensure that all of our public and charter school students have access to a collection of online resources for use in research projects and homework assignments, without regard to the economic status of their local school system. NC WiseOwl has three major strengths as an educational resource:
 * I'm glad you asked that. Here's a good reason from their [|site]**
 * **"OVERVIEW**
 * **Quality:** Information on the Internet at-large is often unreliable and inappropriate for use in the K-12 education field. WiseOwl’s subscription databases provide access to articles from thousands of magazines, from online encyclopedias and reference sources, and from a variety of other sources that are only available to paying customers.
 * **Economy:**By purchasing databases at the state level we are able to achieve an economy-of-scale that saves taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars over the cost of individual school systems purchasing the same resources.
 * **Safety:** The World Wide Web was never intended as a K-12 educational tool. Using WiseOwl for online research places students in a safer, advertising-free environment with age-appropriate information and tools that assist students with the research process." ||

**What's in it for me?**
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 * The following databases are included in the Student Research Center:**
 * [|MAS Ultra - School Edition]
 * [|Middle Search Plus]
 * [|Newspaper Source]
 * [|Science Reference Center]
 * [|Science Reference Center]
 * [|TOPICsearch]
 * [|Image Collection]
 * [|Health Source: Consumer Edition]
 * Britannica Encyclopedia
 * Info Trac Student
 * Grolier Online Encyclopedia
 * The eBook Center
 * Science streaming videos in the Video Collection
 * The Science page