Online Databases &
Research Tools
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PLEASE NOTE:
When accessing the databases from HOME, you must enter 12345678 and your student id number. Your PIN is the last 4 numbers of your student id.
Databases Available Through Douglas County Libraries:
Culture Grams Concise, reliable, and up-to-date reports on more than 200 countries, each U.S. state, and all 13 Canadian provinces and territories.
Other Credible Sources for Researching Countries
CIA World Fact Book The CIA World Fact Book provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
Worldometer is run by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers with the goal of making world statistics available in a thought-provoking and time-relevant format to a wide audience around the world.
History Facts on File Choose to search American World History, Modern World History, and Ancient and Medieval History online with this powerful tool.
Gale in Context: Biography Biography in Context delivers outstanding research support with nearly a million biographical entries spanning history and geography.
Gale in Context: Global Issues Issues and countries form the core of this dynamic product, which uses a wealth of resources to explain the historical and contemporary conditions necessary to understand global issues, conflicts and events.
Gale in Context: Middle School provides engaging reference, periodical, and multimedia content supporting national and state curriculum standards for grades 6 to 12 in language arts, social studies, and science. (Use Google Single Sign In)
Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints Supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts; presents all sides of important issues, and empowers learners to develop information literacy and critical thinking skills.
Teen Health & Wellness (Username & Password: sierrams6651) provides middle and high school students with up-to-date, nonjudgmental, straightforward curricular, and self-help support. Topics covered include diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, mental health, bullying, and more.
World Almanac for Kids includes exclusive online-only material as well as content from award-winning Chelsea House and Facts On File sets and series. Each topic area provides resources for homework, reports, and projects, and students can explore age-appropriate subjects.
World Book Online (Username & Password (if needed): dcsd) provides timely, reliable, and readable articles, as well as hundreds of maps, videos, and other media for an immersive learning experience.
Other Credible Sources for Research
Newsela: An Instructional Content Platform that supercharges reading engagement and learning in every subject.
BrainPop: A resource, for upper elementary and middle schoolers. Includes resources for a number of different subjects: STEM, Social Studies, English, Health, Arts & Music. Use CLEVER to access.
The Denver Post Access today's newspaper for local, national, and world news.
Colorado Encyclopedia is an online resource for all things Colorado. The site includes articles on Colorado's diverse people and places--past and present.
Library of Congress The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, and it serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world.
ProCon.org Provides resources for critical thinking and to educate without bias. Controversial and important issues are researched and presented in a balanced, comprehensive, straightforward, transparent, and primarily pro-con format.