Databases and Resources by Department

Citation:

Noodletools-  Student research platform with MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian bibliographies, notecards, and outlining. 

OWL Purdue- Excellent resource for all types of writing

MyBib- Easy to use, free citation generator

Chicago Style/Turabian for Students - A guide for students looking to use Chicago/Turabian style

Background Knowledge:

American President: A Reference Resource - Facts, essays, and related content for all the U.S. presidents

CIA Factbook- Country profiles compiled by the Central Intelligence Agency. 

CultureGrams- (Password Below) - Concise, reliable, and up-to-date cultural information on countries across the globe 

Gale ebooks- (Password Below) - Reference library of ebooks

Scholastic Go- (Password Below) - World newspapers, maps, encyclopedias, and articles

Deep Research- Articles

Google Scholar- Scholarly Literature **Caution not everything is free and full text - Please email the LMS if you find something behind a paywall at snatrillo@torrington.org**

***ProQuest Elibrary-  CLICK ON PASSWORDS BELOW FOR AUTOMATIC SIGN-IN Guided Research application, cross-search with other ProQuest databases, maps, images, articles, primary and secondary resources.

***ProQuest SIRS- CLICK ON PASSWORDS BELOW FOR AUTOMATIC SIGN-IN- Analysis and opinions cover the pros, cons, and everything in between on the most researched and debated social issues. Editorially created Topic Overview pages help build a solid foundation for understanding the issue 

ResearchIT CT - database with articles, newspapers, and more!

Primary Sources:

American Presidency Project- Presidential documents and records

Early Carribean Digital Archive- pre-twentieth-century Caribbean texts, maps, and images. Texts include travel narratives, novels, poetry, natural histories, and diaries that have not been brought together before as a single collection focused on the Caribbean

Eurodocs: Online Sources for European History- European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated, videos, sound files, maps, images, databases

National Archives- Data, digitized records, selected series from Access to Archival Databases (AAD), Archives (ERA), all of the web pages from Archives.gov, and all of the web pages from the Presidential Libraries 

Oyez- Supreme Court documents since 1955

ProQuest Black Freedom Primary Sources -a curated selection of primary sources about the struggles and triumphs of Black Americans.  

News sources:

NY Times- Resources for Teachers

C-Span- Resources for Teachers

NewsLIT- Resources for Teachers about News Literacy

The Harlan Institute- Fantasy game for students with a virtual Supreme Court

Uconn Library Link- UConn Library

UConn ECE LibGuide - LibGuide for ECE Courses

ResearchIT CT- EBSCO

Pebble Go (Requires setup with Google Classroom) - Read-aloud articles on limited subjects

Pebble Go Next (Requires setup with Google Classroom) - Authentic read-aloud audio, academic vocabulary words with definitions, images, video, and audio in each article

Scholastic Go!  (Password Below)  - An excellent all-around source for a variety of topics with an easy-to-use interface