DATABASES
Databases marked with (PW) are SPA-restricted resources. This means you will need a password to log in off campus. You can access the list of passwords by logging on with your SPA username and password. You should never share these passwords outside of our school community.
General Resources
More than just an encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Britannica Online offers interactive features, comparative country profiles, primary source documents and media.
Provides holistic topic perspectives by integrating a multitude of content, including: Reference articles; periodical and newspaper articles; primary sources; multimedia records, including charts, graphs, maps and tables; and video and audio content from NBC, NPR and many other respected sources.
Includes access to content from the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, St. Paul Pioneer Press and the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Dates of coverage vary. Click here for a quick tutorial on using ProQuest Newsstand.
Statista (PW)
Statista is a statistics/infographics portal that allows access to quantitative data, market reports, statistics and studies from a wide range of sources.
Developed in collaboration with international communities of scholars across all fields of study, Oxford University Press has developed new comprehensive collections of in-depth, peer-reviewed summaries on an ever-growing range of topics.
English and Social Studies Resources
Search 18th and 19th Century newspaper and periodical collections, including eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and genealogical record. Specific collections include material related to the Civil War, slavery, women's suffrage, early American county histories and more.
From the explorers of the Americas to the issues of today’s headlines, investigates the people, events, and stories of the United States' evolution.
Includes newsreel footage, including the complete series of United Newsreel and Universal Newsreel as well as award-winning documentaries.
International in scope, enables students and researchers to discover the everyday details about past eras that make historical accounts relevant and meaningful.
Great Events and Great Lives offer far-reaching view of history, and include worldwide coverage of important events, men and women in all areas of achievement from ancient times to the modern era.
Covers global history from ancient times to the present day. Contents include reference books, essays, journal articles, historical newspaper and magazine articles, maps, rare books, government documents, transcripts of historical speeches, images and video clips. Study Units offer editorially selected material on over 500 historical topics.
Contains full-text and article images from the Minneapolis Tribune (1867-1908) and the Minneapolis Morning Tribune (1909-1922). The newspapers are available through a platform provided by the Minnesota Historical Society in partnership with Minnesota State Library Services.
Collection of images and documents from historical societies, public libraries, special archives, universities, and colleges that depict the history of Minnesota.
Opposing Viewpoints (PW)
Offers contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.
The OED is the definitive guide to the English language. Look up the meaning of over 600,000 words, discover when a word was first used, and track how its meaning may have changed over time.
Pro vs. con essays that present multiple sides of current or controversial issues. Plus magazine and newspaper articles, primary sources, and more related to those issues.
Includes: Chicago Defender (1910-1975); The Guardian (1821-2003); The Observer (1791-2003); Los Angeles Times (1881-1988); Minneapolis Tribune (1867-1922); The New York Times (1851-2008) with Index (1851-1993).
Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, this collection includes 110 document projects and archives with almost 4,200 documents and 56,000 pages of additional full-text documents. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, news from the archives, and teaching tools.
Covers religion around the globe, from prehistory to the present. Includes articles, media, visuals, statistics and timelines.
Science Resources
Consumer Health Complete is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. In addition, Consumer Health Complete includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs. The database is updated on a weekly basis.
Offers basic overview of topics related to science.
Statista is a statistics/infographics portal that allows access to quantitative data, market reports, statistics and studies from a wide range of sources.
World Language Resources
Provides bilingual dictionaries from English into Chinese, French, German, and Spanish. Includes example sentences to understand the translation in context.
This open access collection contains children's stories in Spanish, Karen, Somali, and Ojibwe languages.
GreenFILE (PW)
This comprehensive resource draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more.
A general database focusing on Spanish-language resources.
The WDL brings together the digitized collections of libraries throughout the world. While the content itself is international and represents all time periods, the collections from North American and European libraries are best represented.