Research and Learn at DPL
Explore and stay informed on local, national and international topics, people and events in areas such as business, health, education, jobs and careers, political and social issues and more. Features a wide variety of credible, vetted news sources from around the world to around the corner, including Foster’s Daily Democrat. Also available remotely 24/7 on any device. Click here to check it out!
EBSCOhost is a multidisciplinary database that provides full text for thousands of general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Ebsco covers virtually every subject area of general interest and the databases are updated daily.
EBSCO also offers Consumer Reports! NEW to DPL and available to you any time with your library card number! Try it out today for product reviews and information!
Try out Explora by EBSCO for general research queries, magazines articl
es and journals! Or, check out the categories below for direct links to some of our most popular EBSCO research databases. Your library card number is required for remote or device access.
- EBSCOhost: Consumer Health Complete - This database provides access to full-text consumer health magazines and reference books. It also includes searchable full text for current health pamphlets
- EBSCOhost: Salud en Espanol (CHC Spanish Version) - This database provides access to full-text consumer health magazines and reference books in Spanish. It also includes searchable full text for current health pamphlets
- EBSCO's BusinessSource Premier - BusinessSource Premier offers information from business publications as well as tens of thousands of company profiles.
- EBSCOhost: Academic Search Premier - Academic Search Premier is a leading multidisciplinary research database that provides full-text access to peer-reviewed journals, magazines and other valuable resources.
- EBSCOhost: Masterfile Premier - Masterfile Premier
provides full-text magazines, reference books and 
primary source documents. It also includes an extensive image collection containing photos, maps and flags.
- EBSCOhost Regional Business News - Regional Business News provides full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. Users can search newspapers, magazines and other resources from trusted news sources.
- Explora Educator's Edition: Teacher Resources from EBSCO.
- Novelist Plus and Novelist K-8 are both available through EBSCO!
Access to the New York Times!
Compliments of Durham Public Library
In-library Access: From a library computer, visit nytimes.com and create or log-in to your NYTimes.com account
Outside the library:
- Click here to redeem the promotional code, you must create or log-in with a NYTimes.com account
- Promotional code is active for 72 hours. After 72 hours, you can redeem a new code by clicking here. There are no limits on how many codes you can use
- Promo code access includes NYT apps, "Today's Paper", and 5 Premium Archive (1923-1980) articles per day
Features:
- Unlimited access to NYTimes.com content
- International Edition and Chinese Edition
- Historic Coverage 1851-1922 and 1981 to Current (1923-1980 only with off-site coupon, 5 articles per day)
- Newsletters, Alerts & Times Wire
- Real-Time Market Data & Company Research Pages
- Mini Crossword puzzles (Full crossword puzzle not included)
More Free Online Databases and Learning!
- Autobytel - Founded by a retired car salesmen, Autotropolis is dedicated to educating you, the consumer, on the automobile(s) you are looking to buy. In addition to connecting you with the dealerships who strive to be the most competitive and customer service oriented in the industry.
- Consumer Price Index - Consumer Price Index cost of living information, nationally and regionally and by category.
- Edmunds - New and used car prices, car reviews, safety information
- GCF LearnFree - For more than a decade, the GCFLearnFree.org program has helped millions around the world learn the essential skills they need to live and work in the 21st century. From Microsoft Office and email to reading, math, and more, GCFLearnFree.org offers more than 180 topics, including more than 2,000 lessons, 800+ videos, and 55+ interactives and games, completely free.
- Library of Congress - The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office.
- Project Gutenberg - A library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education.
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BookShare.org - Bookshare was created to make a wide variety of ebooks and audiobooks available to those with reading barriers. offer totally customized reading experiences with karaoke-style highlighted readalongs, braille offerings, choices or fonts and font sizes, audio voice options and speeds and other options.
Check out these great references always available at DPL!
Take a look at our Citizenship Corner and Financial Wellness Resource Center for information to grab 'n go!
