Database Guide and Login Information
- Databases are a collection of digital resources, including newspapers, magazines, academic journals, reference materials, primary sources, images, video and audio clips.
- Databases are an excellent place to find research sources because each resource has been vetted. This means the information you find there is reliable.
- Many of our databases integrate with Google allowing you to save articles to your Drive. Most databases also provide MLA source citation, so you can easily cite your research sources.
Gale Reference Library and Databases (password from home: lacolina)
Our online reference library has ebooks and e-reference books to support research for your school projects, including Walk Through the Middle Ages, Science Fair, Genetic Diseases, and more.
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Access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals like The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, Smithsonian, and more. You can find images, videos, and audio selections here too.
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Need to learn about a famous or influential person? You can find an article here. There are 650,000 biographical articles about figures from every time period and area of study.
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Find information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. Resources include full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.
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Other Databases at La Colina
ABC-CLIO databases connect students, scholars, and teachers with curated collections of primary sources, expert perspectives, and reference material on essential subjects in U.S. history and government, world history, geography, and a range of multicultural disciplines.
Username: lacolina Password: lions 
SIRS Discoverer is a general reference database providing safe, reliable, curriculum-aligned content features for students and educators.
Username: sbunified Password: schools |
Search Encyclopedia Brittanica online to find a variety of content types, including articles, images, videos, dictionary, magazines, Web's Best Sites, Primary Sources & Ebooks, and Year in Review
Username: santabarbara Password: sbusd 
SIRS Issues Researcher delivers the pros and cons on today’s complex social issues with relevant, credible information that tells the whole story on the major questions of the day.
Username: sbunified Password: schools |
All the great content of Encyclopedia Brittanica online including articles, images, videos, dictionary, magazines, Web's Best Sites, Primary Sources & Ebooks in Spanish!
Username: santabarbara Password: sbusd 
TeachingBooks.net offers users vetted resources, including meet the author videos and book talks, author interviews, book guides, and lesson plans.
Username: sbunified Password: teachingbookssk |
Culturegrams™ is an online resource of reports on 209 countries, each U.S. state, and all 13 Canadian provinces and territories. Reports contain information on daily life and culture, including the history, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people, as well as audio, video, images, maps, infographics, and classroom exercises.
Username: sbunified Password: schools |
