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For easy reference, please visit this Google Doc (must use your school Google Apps account to access). This document contains the most up-to-date password information for GALILEO, Gale, and Destiny.

Our main book catalog. Search for books in our physical collection here. Log in to see your current checkouts & put books on hold. Your username is your student #. Password is also your student #.

We've got an app that will let you borrow digital e-books, audiobooks, movies, and shows from your school and local public libraries - and it's all free! Go to Quick Reference> All The Books on this website for info on accessing our Overdrive e-books on the Web.

GALILEO is an awesome research resource. Take advantage. To gain access to GALILEO databases off-campus, you need a password. Current password information is available by clicking the All the Passwords (Google Doc) button on this page. Two of the most common GALILEO databases you will use are Student Research Center and Literary Reference Center. One way to find these databases is to go to the main page, click Databases A-Z, and click on the appropriate letter.

Current, authoritative, media-rich information — you’ll find it in Gale In Context student resources, which meet the needs of today’s learners with a user-friendly, mobile responsive design. Eye-catching, engaging, topical databases seamlessly integrate trusted content with curriculum-aligned materials that span core subjects. Password info is available through our All the Passwords Google Doc.

PolitiFact, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others who speak up in American politics. PolitiFact is run by editors and reporters from the Tampa Bay Times, an independent newspaper in Florida, as is PunditFact, a site devoted to fact-checking pundits.

FactCheck.org is a nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. They monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases. Their goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public knowledge and understanding.

Snopes formerly known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a fact-checking website. The site has also been seen as a source for both validating and debunking urban legends and similar stories in American popular culture.

AllSides provides balanced news, diverse perspectives, and real conversation. They expose people to information and ideas from all sides of the political spectrum so they can better understand the world and each other. Their balanced news coverage, media bias ratings, civil dialogue opportunities, and technology platform are available for everyone and can be integrated by schools, nonprofits, media companies, and more.

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association, and produces news reports that are distributed to its members, major U.S. daily newspapers and radio and television broadcasters.

Google News is a news aggregator service developed by Google. It presents a continuous flow of links to articles organized from thousands of publishers and magazines.

Google Books works just like a web search. When Google finds a book with content that contains a match for your search terms, they'll link to it in your search results. If the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given Google permission, you'll be able to see a preview of the book and in some cases the entire text. If it's in the public domain, you're free to download a PDF copy. Pretty cool!

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

ProCon.org, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit nonpartisan public charity, provides professionally-researched pro, con, and related information on more than 50 controversial issues from gun control and death penalty to illegal immigration and alternative energy. Using the fair, FREE, and unbiased resources at ProCon.org, millions of people each year learn new facts, think critically about both sides of important issues, and strengthen their minds and opinions.

FREE archives from hundreds of newspapers. While Google has discontinued this ambitious project to digitize hundreds of years old newspapers, students can still find thousands of back issues to local, national, and international papers here.

The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, a World Oceans map, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map.

You can find a plethora of public domain e-books on this comprehensive site.

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