I have to admit that I picked databases that had some interest to me because I just couldn't wrap my mind around some of them.
The first database I choose was the Science Resource Center. I searched Clinical Microbiology since in my former life I worked as a Medical Technologist for almost 30 years. The articles are marked as Basic, Intermediate or Advanced. I also (in my former life and a city girl) worked in research in Agricultural Microbiology and among other things sewed canvas sheep feces bags. We also worked with cows so I had to look up Rumen Microbiology. You can download an mp3 of the article if you wish.
Next I went to EBSCO Animals and using the basic search entered Shark as my search term which gave me a list of different sharks. Since I am a visual person I went to visual search and got a listing of sharks in a column. You can select columns or blocks to display you information. I liked columns better. When you click on the name of the shark you get a summary in another column but if you click on more you get the entire article. When I added photographs to my search for sharks I didn’t get any returns. I didn’t like that there were no pictures of the sharks especially since it is geared toward school age children. I guess you have to go to Google images to get the pictures.
The last database I went to was Grove Dictionary Music Online and searched the Beatles and Bach. I know totally different genre but they both start with "B". You can print or email the information.
I just want to mention that I love NoveList especially the Read-alikes and Recommended Reads. If you haven’t been to that database then check it out.
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