Databases – John C. Fremont Library District

What is a database?

Databases are resources the library provides (and usually pays for) that contain articles, facts, statistics, and images, from magazines, newspapers, scholarly journals, and reference books. We can help with seeking consumer information, researching a medical condition, doing homework, repairing a car, or getting up to speed on any topic. John C. Fremont Library District’s databases will connect you to authoritative information. Login 24/7 with your library card.

Getting Started – Database Tutorials

EBSCOhost Main Database Selection Menu

EBSCOhost is a single access point to most of the individual databases listed A-Z below. Click “General Research Databases” to select and broaden your search across multiple databases at one time

A to Z Food America

Contains more than 2,000 state, regional, and ethnic recipes—including food culture articles—as well as historical and reference articles including an ingredients section. A to Z Food America is the largest food database of its kind focused solely on diverse American cuisine.

A to Z Maps Online

The world’s largest database of downloadable, royalty-free maps. More than 100,000 maps are available in 48 categories. Users will find world, regional, country, and state maps as well as environmental, climate, antique, and other maps. The database also contains extensive teaching tools for educators with lesson plans. It even has interactive video guides for state, country, and world geography.

A to Z The USA

Information about the people, culture, geography, government, history, indigenous peoples, food, and symbols of the US states and the United States itself. Offers an in-depth understanding of the USA.

A to Z World Culture

Includes 121 topics for 175 countries. Starting with a country snapshot and cultural overview, topics including climate; food and recipes; history; language; maps; money, and much more. A to Z World Culture includes teaching tools and lesson plans for educators.

A to Z World Food

Contains more than 7,000 traditional recipes from 174 countries, along with thousands of ingredients, food culture, and reference articles, making it the largest food database of its kind.

A to Z World Travel

AtoZ World Travel is a comprehensive travel resource containing 202 Travel Guides covering 75 topics for each of 202 world cities. Topics include travel essentials, security, neighborhoods, excursions, food and restaurants, culture, language, and more.

Business Searching Interface

Browse and search for company profiles, industry information, market research, and country economic data.

Colorado Grants Guide

A searchable database for grant funding research. This comprehensive resource guide contains more than 1,000 funder and grant profiles from local foundations and trusts, corporations, national funders, and government agencies that support Colorado nonprofit organizations. Research funders and find critical information like giving interests, application criteria, guidelines, deadlines, and past grantee information.

Colorado Historic Newspapers

A service of the Colorado State Library, the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) currently includes more than 909,000 digitized pages, representing more than 200 individual newspaper titles published in Colorado primarily from 1859 to 1923

Connect for Health Colorado

Where Coloradans go for exclusive savings on health insurance.

eBenefits: My Gateway to Benefit Information

eBenefits is a portal; a central location for veterans, service members, and their families to research, find, access, and, in time, manage their benefits and personal information

Encyclopedia Britannica

Use this powerful resource to search or browse for information in encyclopedias, magazines, videos and websites.
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Explora Primary Schools

Explora is an easy-to-use tool that can help you complete research and classroom assignments. Discover reliable information on topics covering a wide range of subjects including art & music, literature, language arts, geography, history, social studies, world cultures & languages, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, health, and sports. Search results are aligned with a student’s grades in school.

Explora Middle Schools

Explora High Schools

Explora General Research

Easy-to-use tool for research to help you find primary source documents, informational texts, and curriculum support materials, with information on thousands of topics that cover a wide range of subjects.

Explora Public Libraries

Whether your patrons are searching for current events, consumer health or career information, Explora serves as a simple yet powerful access point.

Explora Educators’ Edition

The Educator’s Edition of Explora highlights content relevant to teachers, including lesson plans, curriculum standards, and other professional development resources.

Fuel Economy dot Gov

The official U.S. government source for fuel economy information.

Learning Express

Interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help students and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests. Also includes New GED test materials.

Lingo LITE

Possessing an understanding of a foreign language is essential in today’s globalized world. Even learning basic terms such as “hello” and “thank you” in another language is beneficial. Lingo LITE™ is an image- and video-based foreign language learning tool for 260 of the most basic words and terms in 30 languages. Users may select from any of 30 interface languages.

Live Lingua

Learn Spanish, French, Italian, or other languages with online tutoring from a native speaker. This is not a free resource.

Trulia Real Estate Search

Trulia provides comprehensive real estate guides with up-to-date information about housing prices, real estate trends, market activity, and neighborhood information (schools, crime, community info).