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Law and Government Websites & Databases

Law Library of Congress - The largest library in the world, is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and is home of the U.S. Copyright Office

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection - Full-text and abstracts from psychology journals. Useful in your research for sociology and your sociological imagination project.

• Academic Search Premier - Contains full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications. The database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,052 journals in the collection. Contains information in most areas of academic study. 

• Colorado Historic Newspapers - Newspapers published in Colorado between 1859 and 1924.

• Colorado Newspapers - Full text of local Colorado newspapers including, but not limited to, Arvada Press, Denver Post, Lakewood Sentinel, Rocky Mountain News

• Denver Post - Full text articles from 1989 to present

• Explora for Teens - Search across several EBSCO databases at once. Find information for school assignments from magazines, newspapers and reference books on a variety of topics as well as videos, primary sources, images and biographies. 

• Gale Virtual Reference - A collection of electronic reference books covering many subject areas. Download PDF chapters to your computer or mobile device. 

• Global Issues in Context - Provides up to date information about current world issues and international news stories. 

• Government - Resources include online databases, links to websites with information on property records search, Jefferson County Inmate Lookup, Jefferson County Zoning Complaints.

• New York Times - Full text of the new York Times from 1851 to the present.

• NewsBank - Print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. 

• Opposing Viewpoints - Find information about current social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, news and more.
  When to use: Brainstorming topics for the QI research paper

• Points of View Reference Center - Reliable information for multiple sides of current issues.
  When to use: Brainstorming topics for the QI research paper

• Scholastic GO! - More than 45,000 full articles with links to research-oriented websites.