School Library Resources
Online Catalogs
INFOhio
Public and Academic Libraries
Reference Databases
- Academic Search Premier -- This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles.
- Banco de Contenidos aulaPlaneta -- Upper-level Spanish-language database that includes more than 140,000 articles and 9,000 images, videos, animations, sounds, and interactive media. Designed for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and ESL/ELL students.
- Book Nook -- Explore, create, share, and view video book trailers. Includes tips and tools for creating a book trailer.
- Consumer Health Complete –Provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine.
- 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.
- Digital Video Collection -- Includes hundreds of digital videos that have been made available at no cost to Ohio K-12 districts.
- EBSCOhost. (Multidatabase Search- AP students and Staff) -- Articles from more than 6,000 magazines, newspapers, and journals are indexed, most in full text, from children's magazines to professional research. Also includes access to reference and other eBooks.
- Explora (Grades 9-12) -- Articles from more than 6,000 magazines, newspapers, and journals are indexed, most in full text, from popular culture magazines to professional research. Students can also access reference and other eBooks.
- Gale/Infotrac
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- Biography in Context -- Expansive collection of lives and accomplishments of international noteworthy figures past and present.
- Global Issues in Context– offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Find: articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information; rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs
- Opposing Viewpoints in Context– Social issues full-text articles, statistics, primary documents, multimedia, and links to websites
- Professional Collection – Journal articles for educators.
- U.S. History in Context - information on hundreds of the most significant people, events, and topics in U.S. history. Access full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files, and links to reliable websites.
- Virtual Reference Library – A collection of searchable e-books
- World History in Context –information on hundreds of the most significant people, events, and topics in world history. Access full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files, and links to reliable websites
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- Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center – Look for the Kids' Crafts button on the landing page. Full text magazines, reference books, recipes, hobby profiles, and videos with "how-to" instructions and creative ideas covering a variety of hobbies including arts and crafts, collecting, gardening, indoor and outdoor recreations, kids' crafts, needlecrafts, papercrafts, model building, performing arts, and science & technology.
- ISearch – Search all the Infohio sources at once with ISearch. Operates similar to any search engine, but returns only the best information via Infohio.
- Literary Reference Center – Provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.
- Literature Online: American and English Literature – Full-text, searchable works available online to supplement the library’s print collections. Poetry, drama, and fiction are included.
- Noodletools -- Works Cited guidelines and assistance. This resource is easier to use if you log in through Class Link.
- OCIS Ohio Career Information System -- Links to Ohio college/career information.
- Oxford Research Encyclopedia -- Full text academic encyclopedia articles from subject-based encyclopedias covering climate science, communications, criminology, economics and finance, education, environmental science, global public health, history, international studies, linguistics, literature, planetary science, politics, psychology, social work, and more.
- Points of View Reference Center – Presents articles supporting multiple sides of current issues from which students can develop persuasive arguments and essays while developing their analytical thinking skills.
- Science Online -- Thousands of essays on major topics and issues in science, math and technology, along with illustrations, experiments, activities and biographies.
- Science Reference Center – Easy access to a multitude of full-text, science-oriented content. Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, and periodicals.
- Today's Science – Connects real-world discoveries with the science classroom. Features over 6,000 high-interest science news articles and includes research topics, conversations with scientists, videos, and discussion questions. Also includes curriculum tools for educators.
- World Book Advanced Encyclopedia – Online version of the High School/ College level encyclopedia published by World Book.
- World Book Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos -- Online version in the Spanish language encyclopedia published by World Book.
- World Book L'Encyclopédie Découverte – Online version in the French Language encyclopedia published by World Book.
- World Book Timelines – Build and share timelines. Use your own events and images or add content and images from World Book.
Instructional Videos
eBook Instructional Videos
NoodleTools Instructional Videos
Book Talks by Mrs. Nichols
Click here to find book talks and other reading recommendations from Mrs. Nichols
Book Madness
Thank you for participating in Book Madness. This year's winner was Dr. Seuss.
See you next year in March!
Westlake High School Library
Library Hours:
Monday-Friday
7:30-3:15
School Librarian
Nichols@wlake.org
Library Assistant
Camilia Saliba