History & Culture
Kids Search is designed to help elementary and middle school students with research. Students may browse by topic, or access the dictionary, encyclopedia, or image library. Topics include Animals, Arts & Music, Geography, Health, In the News, Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, and Sports. There are resources for teachers, too.
Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best online resources for education and research. This service is created by a network of United Kingdom universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in the database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database contains over 115,000 records. The Home page also includes a V...
Opposing Viewpoints In Context (OVIC) is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. OVIC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to websites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national an...
This project from the Colorado State Library includes digital copies of more than 60 Colorado newspapers, dating from the 1850s to the 1920s. The database includes thousands of articles, graphics, letters to the editor and advertisements.
The Colorado Virtual Library (CVL), presented by the Colorado State Library, provides access to the combined information resources of Colorado libraries. You can do a quick search by author, title, or keyword, or you can search by type of library: public, K-12 schools, academic (colleges and universities), and certain "other" libraries (special libraries like the Denver Museum of Nature ...
EbscoHost is a powerful online reference system that offers a variety of proprietary full-text databases. Search for magazine articles on general topics, business, science, and careers. EbscoHost is also available in: Deutsch Espagnol
Learning Express provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. (The first time you use this database, you will need ...
AskColorado is an online information service provided by Colorado libraries. Chat live with a librarian 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (except major holidays). AskColorado is a human-powered search engine for all Colorado students and residents.