WHS REFERENCE DATABASES A-Z

 

  • AccuNet Photo Archive  -- Historical and current photos and images from Associated Press
  • American Government –Combines reference, curriculum, and current events which are updated daily.
  • Art Collection--Online image collection of art work including paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, textiles, costumes, jewelry, etc.
  • Biography Reference Bank -- Articles about more than a half-million people, most in full text, from around the world, both living and dead.
  • Country Reports – Provides unique, culturally-rich content, with over 26,000 pages of content covering a wide-range of topics including statistical data and cultural information.
  • Country Watch -- Data on 190 countries and 260,000 news articles.
  • Digital Video Collection -- Includes hundreds of digital videos that have been made available at no cost to Ohio K-12 districts.
  • EBSCOhost. (Secondary search) -- Articles from more than 6,000 magazines and newspapers are indexed, most in full text, from children's magazines to professional research.
  • Gale/Infotrac
    • Biography Resource -- Expansive collection of lives and accomplishments of international noteworthy figures pas and present..
    • Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center – Social issues fullt-text articles, statistics, primary documents, links to websites
    • Professional Collection – Journal articles for educators.
    • Student Resource Center Gold – Multi-database with thousand of primary documents, full-text magazine/newspaper articles, photographs
    • Virtual Reference Library – A collection of searchable e-books

American Civil War Reference Library,

American Revolution Reference Library
Beacham's Guide to the Endangered Species of North America

Chemistry: Foundations and Applications

Countries and Their Cultures

Drugs and Controlled Substances: Information for Students

Early Civilizations in the Americas  

Encyclopedia of American Religions

Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice

Encyclopedia of the American Constitution

Encyclopedia of World Biography

Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America

Modern American Literature

UXL Complete Health Resource

Vietnam War Reference Library

  • Learning Express Library -- Interactive online practice tests and tutorial series designed to students succeed on academic tests, i.e. ACT, AP, SAT, etc.
  • Litfinder -- Links to poems, biographies, short stories, etc.
  • Literature Online Chadwyck-Healey  -- Full-text, searchable works available online including poetry, drama and fiction.
  • NewsBank Newspapers -- A collection of full-text newspapers available online. More than 15 titles are Ohio publications.
  • Noodletools  -- Works Cited guidelines
  • OCIS  Ohio Career Information System -- Links to Ohio college/career information.
  • Oxford Reference Online -- More than 100 complete reference titles, fully indexed and cross-searchable, from a wide range of disciplines.
  • Proquest Historical Newspapers – Fulltext articles from the New York Times dating back to 1850.
  • School Rooms -- Thousands of K-12 Web sites to explore! Links to magazine and newspaper articles, encyclopedia articles and more from the Core Collection.  
  • Science Online -- Thousands of essays on major topics and issues in science, math and technology, along with illustrations, experiments, activities and biographies.
  • SIRS Discoverer -- Database of full-text articles for the young researcher. Students can read stories, learn about important people, find fun projects to do, and much more.
  • Today’s Science by Facts on File – Science news written especially for students.
  • World Book Advanced Encyclopedia – Online version of the High School/ College level encyclopedia published by World Book.
  • World Book Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos -- Online version of the Spanish language encyclopedia published by World Book.
  • World Book L'Encyclopédie Découverte – Online version on the French Language encyclopedia published by World Book.