Subscription Databases
Gale Student Resources in Context
Provides articles, primary documents, podcasts, images, and videos across disciplines.
password: school

JSTOR
Search journals, primary sources, and books.
On campus students do not need any login information, from home they need to select Login with Google and enter their newroads login info.
 

Proquest
A database of articles from periodicals and scholarly journals; includes all academic disciplines. Through the Proquest link students can access historical newspapers and SIRS, a tool that aims to present issues from multiple perspectives.
user name: nrs
password: n3wr0ad$
Public Websites and Databases
American Fact Finder (U.S. Census Bureau)
Data from the US Decennial Census, the American Community Survey, the Economic Census, and more.

Avalon Project
A vast trove of digital documents related to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government.

Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
Large collection of digitized books and articles in Spanish.

British Museum Collection Database
Feature more than 50,000 images that reflect the range of the British Museum's collections.

CIA Factbook
Information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

Digital Public Library of America
Brings together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.

The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
An online collaborative encyclopedia intended to document all of the 1.9 million living species known to science. It is compiled from databases and from contributions by experts and non-experts throughout the world.

Getty Publications Virtual Library
Free access to an online repository of 250 Getty publications dating from 1966.

Google Scholar
Search engine to locate articles, theses, and books from academic publishers, professional societies, universities and other web sites.

Great Directors -- Senses of Cinema
Online journal offering on critical essays on the life and work of notable international film directors.

The Internet History Sourcebooks Project
A collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts, including primary documents, presented by Fordham University.

OverDrive
A collection of popular books and e-books across multiple genres.
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Portrait of Los Angeles County
Measure of America report that examines well-being and equity in Los Angeles County.

UN Data
The United Nations' statistical database that includes data published by the UN and its affiliates.
Public Libraries
Our local public libraries offer extensive resources for students, researchers, readers, and artists; these include online tutoring services for homework help.
New Roads School is a college preparatory K-12 private independent school in Santa Monica, CA, serving over 514 elementary school, middle school and high school children from the greater Los Angeles area. New Roads School provides an inspired educational program from which an authentically diverse student population, mirroring the rich diversity of Los Angeles, develops a personal dedication to learning, a respect for independent thinking, and an expanding curiosity about the world and its people.
NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATORY POLICY AS TO STUDENTS New Roads School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.