Alphabetical List of Online Resources
A-Z Magazine List
A-Z Magazine List allows you to browse a list of journals, magazines and
newspapers by title or subject to see if the PCCLD library has online access to the full-text.
Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier contains full text for more than 3,619 scholarly
(peer-reviewed) journals.
African-American History Online
African-American History Online provides expansive and in-depth information
on the people, events and topics important to the study of the African-American experience.
American History Online
American History Online spans more than 500 years of political, military,
social and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience.
American Indian History Online
American Indian History Online offers thorough access to more than 15,000
years of Native American culture, history and heritage.
American Women's History Online
American Women's History Online covers the important people, events,
legislation and issues relevant to the study of women's history in the United States.
Ancient and Medieval History Online
Ancient and Medieval History Online explores the pre-modern world with
in-depth focus on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas and Asia.
Ask Colorado
Got questions? AskColorado's got answers. Connect live with a librarian and get homework research help. The librarians are happy to help you locate
resources, but cannot do your homework for you. You will be getting help from a real person, not a search engine - so please be polite.
Biography Resource Center
Biography Resource Center is your one-stop resource for more than 435,000 full-text biographies on notable figures in literature, science, history,
government, business, art, religion, entertainment, sports and much more.
BookNews Newsletters
Looking for a new book or author? Review our current newsletters or sign up
to receive a copy each month in your email - try Mystery, Home & Garden, Children's Picture Books and many more.
Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier provides full text articles for more than 8,800
publications in the areas of business, marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, banking and finance.
Chilton's Automotive Repair
Designed for do-it-yourself car buffs and mechanics of any experience,
Chilton's Auto Repair offers quick online access to repair, maintenance and
service information on over 50 years of cars, trucks, vans and SUVs.
CIA World Factbook
CIA World Factbook provides national-level information on countries, territories, and dependencies.
Colorado Grants Guide - in Library use only - Rawlings, Barkman, Lamb & White
Colorado Grants Guide is an annual directory of philanthropic and
charitable-giving resources for Colorado grantseekers.
Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection
Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection (CHNC) currently includes 117
newspapers published in Colorado from 1859 to 1928.
Colorado Legal Services
Colorado Legal Services website provides self-help legal information, information about the courts and the opportunity to prepare some
civil court forms online.
Colorado Secretary of State - Business Center
Learn about beginning a business in Colorado, search for and register trademarks and trade names, file documents and more.
Contemporary Authors/Contemporary Literary Criticism - PCCLD has a limited amount of user logins - if you can't get in,
try Litfinder or Bloom's Literary Reference Online.
Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical
information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
Contemporary Literary Criticism is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors.
Culturegrams
Culturegrams provides concise information on daily life and culture,
including the history, customs, recipes and lifestyles of the world's people
for 187 countries and information on all 50 United States including geography, history, population, culture and symbols.
Curriculum Resource Center
Curriculum Resource Center provides a library of printable teacher-handout
material for the middle school, high school and junior college curriculum.
Curriculum Resource Center: Junior Edition
Curriculum Resource Center: Junior Edition provides a library of printable
teacher-handout materials and other content geared for elementary-level students.
Encyclopedia of Animals
Encyclopedia of Animals provides thousands of easy-to-read entries about
mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals.
ERIC - Educational Resource Information Center
ERIC provides access to education literature and resources including full
text of more than 2,200 digests and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 education and education related journals.
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center is a comprehensive career research database
providing detailed and up-to-date profiles of more than 2900 of today's most popular jobs in 93 industries.
Foundation Center Directory Online - 3rd floor Rawlings use only
Foundation Center Directory Online profiles foundation grantmakers, including
some corporate grantmakers and public charities.
Foundation Grants to Individuals - 3rd floor Rawlings use only
Foundation Grants to Individuals allows searching detailed descriptions of more
than 6,000 foundation programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers.
Fuente Academica
Fuente Academica is a collection of full-text scholarly academic journals in
Spanish from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia provides over 25,000 easy-to-read
encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids covering a variety of subject areas.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a collection of searchable specialized
reference books online in the areas of history, culture, religion and the environment.
GreenFILE
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment, including
content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides
indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records.
Health Reference Center
Health Reference Center is a comprehensive encyclopedic database containing
thousands of entries on conditions & diseases, health & wellness, mental health and the human body.
Health Source Consumer
Health Source Consumer provides access to more than 130 full-text consumer health
periodicals, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Harvard Health Letter,
Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others.
Health Source Nursing/Academic
Health Source Nursing/Academic provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals
focusing on many medical disciplines with a strong coverage of nursing and allied health.
Heritage Quest
HeritageQuest Online™ is an essential collection of unique material for both
genealogical and historical researchers, with coverage dating back to the late 1700s.
Issues and Controversies
Issues and Controversies explores more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture.
Updated weekly, with links to a 12-year backfile, Issues and Controversies offers in-depth articles made to inspire thought-provoking debates.
Kelly Blue Book
Before you buy, sell, or trade in your car, find out what it's worth using the Kelly Blue Book used-car price and value
lookup tool. Information is also included for motorcycles, personal watercraft and snowmobiles.
Kidsearch
Kidsearch is an easy way for students in grades K-8 to search online resources
by topic by clicking on the picture based icons or by typing a search in the "find" box.
LearningExpress Library
Learning Express Library provides online practice tests that are previews
of the official exams including the GED, ASVAB, SAT, ACT, firefighter, realtor and more as well as computer tutorials for
Microsft Word, Excel, Powerpoint and other computer programs.
LISTA - Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports and proceedings.
Literary Reference Online
Literary Reference Online examines great writers, important works, memorable
characters and influential movements and events in world literature.
Litfinder
Litfinder is an online literary database that includes more than 126,500 full-text
poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts and thousands of full-text stories, essays, speeches and plays.
Lois Law - in Library use only - Rawlings, Barkman, Lamb & White
(PCCLD has a limited amount of user logins - if you reach the "all passwords in use" screen, please try back later.)
Lois Law offers a powerful digital gateway to state and federal primary law. PCCLD's subscription only includes the Primary Law sections.
MarketWatch
Need to find historical stock quotes? Just enter the stock symbol and the date, then click on the --> and the stock price for that day will be displayed.
MAS Ultra
MAS Ultra, designed specifically for high school students, contains full text
for more than 700 popular high school magazines.
MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and
health-related organizations.
MedicLatina
MedicLatina is a collection of over 100 full-text peer-reviewed medical research
and investigatory journals in Spanish from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers.
Merriam Webster Online
Merriam Webster Online allows you to find dictionary definitions, use an online thesaurus and more.
Middle Search Plus
Middle Search Plus provides full text for nearly 140 popular magazines for middle
and jr. high school research as well as 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents,
and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags.
Modern World History Online
Modern World History Online covers the people, places and events in the broad
expanse of world history - from mid 15th century to the present.
NADA Guides
Go to NADA Guides which includes pricing information for new and used cars, trucks, vans and SUVs as well as classic, collectible, exotic and
special interest vehicles, boats, motorcycles, RVs, personal watercraft, ATVs, and snowmobiles.
Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music
available online, including over 130,000 tracks of classical jazz, world, folk and Chinese music.
The music on Naxos can be accessed from any audio-enabled computer with an internet connection,
either by individual tracks or complete CDs.
NetLibrary
Netlibrary is an internet-based electronic library that offers an easy-to-use
system for accessing the full text of online books that are called eBooks.
Newspaper Source
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 20 national (U.S.) &
international newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today,
The Washington Post, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc.
Next Good Book
Next Good Book lets you use the collective opinions of thousands of readers to find your next good book. You can create online bookshelves to keep track
of what you are reading and can choose to share your shelves with other readers.
Nolo's Search for Federal Laws
Search the U.S. Code by Title and Section, search the Code of Federal Regulations, or link to the Federal Register to find rules
that have not yet been added to the CFR and/or finalized by federal agencies or executive departments.
Nolo's Search for State Laws
Choose a state to locate the state's statutes. After you choose a state, you can search the statutes by entering keywords in a search query
box or browse the statutes by selecting the most likely title or code from the Table of Contents.
NoveList Plus
Looking for the perfect book - find new fiction and non-fiction titles to read. Search for your
favorite author, title or series and find similar titles, book reviews, reading group guides and
more. All titles link to the library catalog and if PCCLD owns it, you can quickly place a hold
on the title to be picked up at the branch nearest you.
Novelist K-8 Plus
Novelist K-8 Plus is a great way for kids to locate age-appropriate fiction and nonfiction reading
materials. Kids can search by author, title, series, theme or topic. All titles link to the library catalog
and if PCCLD owns it, you can quickly place a hold on the title to be picked up at the branch nearest you.
Online Book Clubs
Join our Online Book Clubs - you can choose from fiction, nonfiction, business,
romance and more. Each day we'll email you a 5-minute portion of a book.
Opposing Viewpoints
Opposing Viewpoints is an online library of current event topics providing a comprehensive
review of both sides of controversial issues.
Personal and Business Forms
Personal and Business Forms provides printable forms for a wide range of personal,
business and government categories, including individual income taxes.
Prevention Information Center
Prevention Information Center (PIC) is a library and information center providing access to a broad spectrum of substance abuse prevention
and health promotion materials. PIC shares resources you can use to enhance your services to individuals, organizations, and communities
throughout Colorado.
Primary Search
Primary Search provides full text for nearly 70 popular elementary school magazines
as well as an image collection of over 192,999 photos, maps and flags.
Professional Development Collection
Professional Development Collection is designed for professional educators and provides
a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including
more than 350 peer-reviewed titles.
Regional Business News
Regional Business News provides full text articles for more than 50 regional business
publications, including business journals, newspapers and newswires.
Rosetta Stone - Rosetta Stone has recently discontinued online access to their product for public libraries. Because of this, we regret to
announce that we will no longer be able to provide this service after January 14th, 2008. We do offer other options for language instruction including books, audio books and books on cd that can be located using our
library catalog.
Sanborn MapsPCCLD has access to digital maps for Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming
Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970, provides digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale
maps charting the growth and development of more than 12,000 American towns and cities.
Science Online
Science Online is a curriculum-oriented database that offers extensive definitions,
essays, timelines, diagrams, biographies and over 600 experiments indexed by grade range and subject categories.
Searchasaurus
Searchasaurus is an exciting and easy way for young researchers to search online.
Small Engine Repair Reference Center
Small Engine Repair Reference Center is the definitive online tool for small engine repair assistance, including: ATVs, motorcycles,
snowmobiles, snowblowers, boats, personal watercraft/jet skis, commercial mowers, farm tractors, generators, outdoor power equipment, tillers,
and other small engines. It offers assistance in providing routine maintenance, such as tune-ups and brake service, as well as extensive repairs
involving engine and transmission disassembly.
Student Research Center
Student Research Center is designed specifically for secondary school students and
provides information from magazines, newspapers, biographies, country reports and film & video.
Teacher Reference Center
Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 periodicals
and indexing of 1,300 book chapters.
Today's Science
Today's Science is an exciting database that bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today. Today’s Science explains
important topics such as biology, chemistry, environment, space, physics and technology.
Topic Search
Topic Search is a current events database that allows researchers to explore social,
political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms.
Typing Lessons
This online course includes typing lessons and exercises to help you increase your typing skills.
World Atlas
World Atlas combines detailed, printable full-color maps of countries, provinces,
and states with up-to-date statistical and local information.
World Cat
WorldCat is an online resource that lists the items that many US libraries own,
like a giant online library catalog.