Databases

Note

Most of these databases can be used from a school computer without a username or password. However, when accessing one of these resources from home or anywhere off-campus, please follow these instructions.

District Databases
School Databases

District Databases

CultureGrams
This database provides maps, statistics, background information, political organization, and social customs for the United States, Canada, and more than 200 countries.
Digital Literacy
Empower learners with digital citizenship skills to navigate today’s virtual landscape. Interactive activities guide students through project-based learning activities using digital tools to create podcasts, multimedia presentations, social media campaigns, and more. Database articles explore cyberbullying, digital research skills, citizen journalism, and more.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education Streaming provides exclusive curated collections, instructional strategies, pre-built lessons and a library of more than 111,000 standards-aligned digital resources that give teachers the resources they need to reach all learners.
EBSCO Academic
EBSCO Academic includes Academic Search Elite (peer-reviewed academic journals), ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), the Professional Development Collection, and eBook Open Access Monographic Collection (high-quality open access (OA) e-books from the world’s most trusted university presses and scholarly publishers).
EBSCO Academic Search Elite
Academic Search Elite contains full-text peer-reviewed articles from more than 2100 journals for academics or college-bound students.
Ebsco Consumer Health
A comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content.
EBSCO Databases
Links to all EBSCO databases which access popular and academic periodicals, ebooks, and reference resources.
EBSCO Explora - High School
This database includes topic overviews that provide students with a starting point for research and 60,000 top videos from the Associated Press. Databases Searched: Biography Reference Source, High School and Middle School Book Collection Nonfiction, Consumer Health, History Reference Source, Literary Reference Source, MAS Ultra - School Edition, Newspaper Source, Science Reference Source.
EBSCO MAS Ultra School Edition
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
EBSCO MEDLINE
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.
EBSCO Newspaper Source
This database provides full text articles for more than 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, more than 370 regional (U.S.) newspapers, and full-text television & radio news transcripts from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc. Including St. Louis Post-Dispatch
EBSCO Nonfiction Book Collection - High School
The Nonfiction Book Collection contains nearly 8,000 eBook titles from across all academic subject areas, from History to Language & Literature to Science & Technology. Content includes a selection of classic literary works, important historical documents and general reference materials.
EBSCO Read It!
Read It! from EBSCO is designed for middle and high school students and adults who have a basic foundation in English grammar and reading but need adapted reading material for a variety of subjects. It offers resources to help build background knowledge, conduct research and improve study skills.
EBSCO Science Reference Center
This database contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals and other source.
Financial Literacy
The Rosen Financial Literacy database makes economics and personal finance easy to understand and highly engaging. Articles explore macro-, micro-, and global economics as well as personal and household finance. Users will learn to manage credit and debt, save and invest with confidence, plan for college and retirement and avoid fraud and scams.
Heritage Quest
This database delivers an essential collection of genealogical and historical sources—with coverage dating back to the 1700s.
Hippocampus
HippoCampus offers multimedia lessons and course materials to help you with your instruction, homework, and assignments.
Learning Express Library (HS)
An online program with practice tests and tutorials to help students and staff succeed on the academic (ACT, SAT, PSAT, etc.) or licensing tests. Get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. When using this link, you do not need to be in a RSD building to register and create an account.
Noodletools
Noodletools provides a comprehensive and accurate citation composer (MLA, APA, and others) with fully-integrated note-taking and the research process.
SIRS Discoverer
SIRS Discoverer is a general reference database designed for young researchers.
SIRS Issues Researcher
An editorially curated pro/con database that meets the research needs of students and educators by providing premium content correlated to key curricular standards and subjects.
St. Louis County Library Databases
All RSD students have a St. Louis County Library Virtual Library Card which can be used to access databases.
TeachingBooks.net
TeachingBooks.net provides engaging author programs and K-12 book resources.
Teen Health and Wellness
This award-winning resource provides middle and high school students with up-to-date, nonjudgmental, self-help support. Articles are correlated to state, national and provincial standards. Topics covered include diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, mental health, suicide, bullying and LGBTQ+ information.

School Databases

Destiny Discover
Use your Destiny username and password to access eBooks.
Gale Biography
Virtually every course of study, from history to science to literature, is ultimately tied to the study of people. Biography in Context delivers outstanding research support with 600,000+ biographical entries, on more than 528,000 individuals, spanning history and geography.
Gale eBooks
Includes ebook versions of Drama for Students, Shakespeare for Students, Literary Movements for Students, Novels for Students, Epics for Students, and Short Stories for Students as well as history texts like American Decades, Ancient Civilizations, World Mythology, Civil and World Wars, World Religions, etc.
Gale in Context: Global Issues
Global Issues in Context offers global perspectives on issues of international importance and current world events and topics in the news related to these issues. Not a pro and con database, Global Issues in Context is a truly non-U.S.-centric resource that ties together a variety of sources to present a rich analysis of issues — providing information seekers with a framework to better understand 21st-century issues and events while highlighting global connections and the interdependence of all nations.
New York Times
While on campus, you can access the New York Times digital edition. Follow the instructions on this document.
Salem Press Online
Includes ebook versions of a wide variety of reference materials including biography, history, science, health, and literature criticism.

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