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Lafayette High
Blevins Elementary and Lafayette High were honored as 2019 National Schools of Character Learn about America's Most Challenging High Schools as chose by the Washington Post

17050 Clayton Rd, Wildwood, MO 63011 | Phone (636) 733-4100 | Fax (636) 733-8819

Databases

 

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 District Databases
  • **SLCL Databases - ALL
    All RSD students have a SLCL Virtual Library Card which can be used to access databases.
  • **SLCL Virtual Branch
    All RSD students have a SLCL Virtual Library Card which can be used to access databases and eMedia including ebooks and audiobooks. Hoopla and Kanopy are not available with a Virtual Library Card.
  • CultureGrams
    This database provides maps, statistics, background information, the political organization, and social customs for the United States, Canada, and more than 200 countries.
  • Discovery Education Streaming
    Access to a rich collection of more than 50,000 video segments from among 5,000 full-length educational videos from Discovery School and other award-winning producers.
  • Ebsco Academic Search Elite
    Academic Search Elite contains full text for more than 2,100 journals and over 1,700 peer-reviewed, full-text journals
  • 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: Book Collection Nonfiction: High School Edition, Book Collection Nonfiction: Middle School Edition, MAS Ultra - School Edition, Newspaper Source, Science Reference Center.
  • Ebsco MAS Ultra School Edition
    This database is designed specifically for high school libraries.
  • 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. Includes the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • EBSCO Science Reference Center
    This database contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals and other source.
  • Greenfile
    This complimentary research database provides scholarly, government and general-interest sources covering the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and governments and what can be done at each level to minimize negative impacts.
  • 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
    Learning Express Library is designed to help people succeed on tests--SAT, ACT, GRE, LSAT, Advanced Placement, etc. When using this link, you do not need to be in a RSD building to register and create an account.
  • Maps 101
    Online map resources for the classroom.
  • Noodletools
    The Web's most comprehensive and accurate MLA and APA bibliography composer with fully-integrated note-taking.
  • SIRS Discoverer
    General reference database designed for young researchers
  • SIRS Knowledge Source
    Provides relevant, credible information on social issues, the arts, history, and government topics.
  • TeachingBooks.net
    Engaging author programs and K-12 book resources.

 School Databases
  • Destiny Discover
    Use your Destiny username and password to access ebooks.
  • Family Connections
    Naviance Family Connections helps students and families connect what students do in the classroom to their life goals, including finding colleges and careers based on their personal skills and areas of interests.
  • 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: Biography
    Provides contextual information on the world's most influential people. Over 600,000 biographical entries cover a range of historically significant figures and present-day newsmakers.
  • Gale in Context: Global Issues
    Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information.
  • Salem Press Online
    Includes Salem History, Salem Literature, Salem Science, Salem Health