Research and Resources

ABCmouse.com Early Learning Academy is a children's resource that offers individual learning activities—books, songs, games, animations, puzzles, art activities, and printables— each thoughtfully and creatively designed to be developmentally appropriate and highly engaging for young learners.

Academic Search Premier is an academic collection by EBSCO of full text, peer-reviewed journals. Journal articles are available in full text, many from peer-reviewed academic journals. Find full text coverage of a broad array of subject areas, including biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, and religion & theology.

Discover more about your heritage with Ancestry. This far reaching tool contains unparalleled data coverage of the U.S., the U.K., and Canada, including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from other areas. Curious about your origins, or filling in gaps in your family tree, Ancestry can help!

This Gale database contains biographies with award-winning reference titles and new or updated bios added annually.

BookFlix is an exciting online literacy resource that pairs interactive, fictional video storybooks with related nonfiction eBooks. The animated classic storybooks introduce early learners to the delights of reading while the paired nonfiction text allows for deeper discovery of the subject. BookFlix engages young students, reinforces reading skills, and introduces early readers to a world of knowledge and exploration.

Business Source Premier provides full text articles from academic journals with peer-reviewed titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998. Coverage is available in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics and the database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

Looking for reliable, detailed, and accurate repair information about your car, truck, van or SUV? Chilton is used by professional technicians with library access for you too. Chilton includes vehicle specific step-by-step procedures, diagrams, photographs, and illustrations for maintenance in addition to a labor estimating tool.

Colorado Grants Guide is the essential tool for new and established nonprofit and community-based organizations. This comprehensive, searchable, online database contains profiles of local foundations and trusts, corporations, national funders, government agencies and religious organizations that support Colorado nonprofit organizations.

Offering intuitive searching of full-text journals, magazines, health reference books, and evidence-based health reports, Consumer Health Complete is your health information resource for information about: addiction, aging, anxiety, cancer, diabetes, fitness, menopause, nutrition, relationships, and more. From CDC, FDA, and NIH health pamphlets, to images, animations, and built in Merriam-Webster Medical Desk Dictionary help.

ConsumerReports.org offers articles, blogs, forums, and videos to enable consumers to make better purchasing decisions on products from dishwashers to digital cameras to infant car seats, to save money on home improvement plans, to shore up personal finances, improve their health, and more.