Darien High School Library Online Databases

Online Databases and Research Web Pages Listed Alphabetically

Free Trial - ProQuest Central - supports advanced research and college-prep curricula with access to millions of full-text articles from more than 3,500 scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers

• ABC-CLIO's - World Geography- Current and historical information on countries from around the world.
• Access Newspaper Archive - Historical newspaper database from 1759 to 1977. Must be accessed from school IP
• Alpha Language Dictionary-
• American Memory - Library of Congress historical photo archives
• Bartleby- Online Books
• CIA World Factbook -
• The Commons - Library of Congress and Flickr pair up to bring you these non-copyrighted photos
• Country Studies - Library of Congress website that contains the online versions of books previously published (1988-98) in hard copy by the Federal Research Division
• CQ Electronic Library - Includes CQ Supreme Court Decisions and CQ Researcher
• Dialog - ASR students only
• Discovery Education Streaming - Previously United Streaming. Provides videos and video clips on curriculum related topics.
• Encyclopedia Britannica- Online encyclopedia for detailed information on all subjects.
• Eyewitness To History - "History through the eyes of those who lived it"
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• Federal Statistics-
• GreenFILE - 300,000 scholarly indexes, general interest titles, government publications and more, containing information on environmental concerns.
• iCONN Resources | iCONN Multi-Database Search - The Connecticut Digital Library
• InfoPlease Almanac -
• Internet Public Library-
• The Library of Congress-
• LitFinder  - (Formerly World's Best Poetry, Story Finder,  Essay Finder, Play Finder, Speech Finder)
• Literature Resource Center - Includes:  Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography
• Magill's Medical Guide
• NoodleTools - Online resource for generating MLA citations
• Novelist: NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists.
• One Look Dictionary Search - Search a word or phrase for meaning
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection- Online Maps Both Historic and Modern
• Perseus Collection - Greek & Roman Materials from the Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University.
• Pro/ConOnline - Supreme Court Debates, International Debates, Congressional Digest.
• ProQuest- Search in newspapers, magazines, journals and reference works on all topics.
  • ProQuest Newspapers - iCONN
  • Proquest Historical Newspapers - Picture the past through more than 150 years of The New York Times—from the advertisements and cartoons to the opinions and news published since 1851.
• ReQuest - Find books throughout Connecticut's libraries
• Thomson Gale Search - Cross Searchable Databases