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Databases
- General
- Art
- California/ US Specific
- Health/Wellness
- History/ Social Studies
- Literature/ Reading
- Math/ Science
- SCCLD Resources
General
A multidisciplinary academic resource designed to meet the extensive research needs of high school students enrolled in various advanced and college-prep courses. The database has more than 5,400 full-text academic journals and magazines, and over 592,000 photos, maps and flags. |
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Works similarly to Wikipedia, but is considered a more trustworthy source. Britannica School also includes Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, periodicals, atlas, world data, the Classics, biographies, news, multimedia, and more. |
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The Spanish version of Britannica. It gives you the same quality of articles, the same great citation and filtering options, but in Spanish! |
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This collection contains thousands of fiction and nonfiction e-book titles including classic literary works, contemporary fiction, important historical documents and general reference materials. |
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EBSCOhost Research Databases A dedicated search interface for all of our EBSCO school databases. When you use Host, you have the option to search by topic or by alphabet, to select all of the EBSCO databases that HHS subscribes to or a select few. Our EBSCO school databases give students access to high-quality articles licensed from reputable publishers. |
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Database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Students will find deep research that includes history-themed essays and literary criticism. |
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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. |
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Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context Resource for debaters and includes pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, interactive maps, infographics, and more. A category on the National Debate Topic provides quick and easy access to content on frequently studied and discussed issues. Periodical content covers current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, political science, and more. Specific titles include The New York Times, Newsweek, Foreign Policy, American Scientist, and Education Week. |
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A simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research. |
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Scholarly journal articles from titles in various disciplines including economics, history, political science, and sociology, business, education, law and psychology. |
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Points of View Reference Source Designed to provide students with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Also included are articles from periodicals, books, biographies, radio and television transcripts, primary source documents, images and videos. |
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Covers every course, and emerging topics. More than 160 subjects are represented, across more than 10,000 full-text titles, with over 5,000 being academic journals. It includes videos across subjects such as business, entrepreneurship, science, psychology, social sciences, health and more. Adding to the diversity of content are transcripts of top radio and television programs, as well as blogs, news wires, and government reports. |
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Reference for concise and reliable cultural information on the countries of the world, providing country reports that go beyond mere facts and figures to deliver a one-of-a-kind perspective on daily life and culture, including the background, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people. Individual reports covering 200+ countries, all 50 United States, and the Canadian provinces, are written and reviewed by in-country experts and are updated as new information becomes available. |
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A collection of millions of ebooks from 1,300+ leading publishers covering all academic disciplines. |
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General reference aggregation of periodical and digital media content with editorial guidance for novice researchers. |
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ProQuest’s flagship information literacy product. It was built to help students do more effective scholarly research and to support educators as they teach the core information literacy principles of finding, evaluating, and using information. More than 80 short videos are organized into nine Learning Modules that answer questions like "How do I choose a topic?" "Where do I find information?" and "How do I evaluate sources?" |
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Read It! (English Language Learner Reference Center from EBSCO) A multi-purpose online information resource with materials designed to help ELLs conduct research, build background knowledge and develop study skills, as well as facilitating their future transition to non-ELL materials. |
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An accessible database in clear, understandable language covering curriculum areas such as current events, history, health, language arts, math, science, social studies, and technology. |
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Article selections from more than 2,000 international sources. Analysis and opinions cover the pros, cons, and everything in between of 345+ social, scientific, health, historic, economic, political, and global issues. Editorially created content with engaging Essential Questions with answers, and viewpoint articles help build solid foundations for understanding complex global issues. |
Art
Alexander Street: Performing Arts Collections A diverse collection of Music, Dance and Theatre content, covering hundreds of genres and a wide range of content types, from instruction to performance. Leading content providers include the L.A. Theatre Works, National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Qwest TV, Smithsonian, Broadway On-Demand, and many more. |
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Google Arts & Culture is a non-commercial initiative. They work with cultural institutions and artists around the world. Together, their mission is to preserve and bring the world’s art and culture online so it’s accessible to anyone, anywhere. |
California/ US Specific
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Calisphere provides unique and historically important artifacts for research, teaching, and curious exploration. Discover over two million photographs, documents, letters, artwork, diaries, oral histories, films, advertisements, musical recordings, and more. The collections in Calisphere have been digitized and contributed by all ten campuses of the University of California and other important libraries, archives, and museums throughout the state. |
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The Online Archive of California (OAC) provides access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by more than 300 contributing institutions including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California and collections maintained by the 10 University of California (UC) campuses. |
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RAND US contains nearly 200 Social Science databases covering all 50 U.S. states. The CA collection contains these U.S. databases, plus about 80 detailed databases on California. |
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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) provides information on what workers do; the work environment; education, training, and other qualifications; pay; the job outlook; information on state and area data; similar occupations; and sources of additional information for more than 300 occupational profiles covering about 4 out of 5 jobs in the economy. |
Health/Wellness
Cameron's Collection |
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History/ Social Studies
A multidisciplinary academic resource designed to meet the extensive research needs of high school students enrolled in various advanced and college-prep courses. The database has more than 5,400 full-text academic journals and magazines, and over 592,000 photos, maps and flags. |
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Works similarly to Wikipedia, but is considered a more trustworthy source. Britannica School also includes Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, periodicals, atlas, world data, the Classics, biographies, news, multimedia, and more. |
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The Spanish version of Britannica. It gives you the same quality of articles, the same great citation and filtering options, but in Spanish! |
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EBSCOhost Research Databases A dedicated search interface for all of our EBSCO school databases. When you use Host, you have the option to search by topic or by alphabet, to select all of the EBSCO databases that HHS subscribes to or a select few. Our EBSCO school databases give students access to high-quality articles licensed from reputable publishers. |
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Database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Students will find deep research that includes history-themed essays and literary criticism. |
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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. |
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Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context Resource for debaters and includes pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, interactive maps, infographics, and more. A category on the National Debate Topic provides quick and easy access to content on frequently studied and discussed issues. Periodical content covers current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, political science, and more. Specific titles include The New York Times, Newsweek, Foreign Policy, American Scientist, and Education Week. |
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A simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research. |
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Features full text for more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers.The database also includes full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals and contains nearly 57,000 historical documents; more than 77,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 113,000 historical photos and maps; and more than 80 hours of historical video. |
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Scholarly journal articles from titles in various disciplines including economics, history, political science, and sociology, business, education, law and psychology. |
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Points of View Reference Source Designed to provide students with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Also included are articles from periodicals, books, biographies, radio and television transcripts, primary source documents, images and videos. |
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Covers every course, and emerging topics. More than 160 subjects are represented, across more than 10,000 full-text titles, with over 5,000 being academic journals. It includes videos across subjects such as business, entrepreneurship, science, psychology, social sciences, health and more. Adding to the diversity of content are transcripts of top radio and television programs, as well as blogs, news wires, and government reports. |
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Reference for concise and reliable cultural information on the countries of the world, providing country reports that go beyond mere facts and figures to deliver a one-of-a-kind perspective on daily life and culture, including the background, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people. Individual reports covering 200+ countries, all 50 United States, and the Canadian provinces, are written and reviewed by in-country experts and are updated as new information becomes available. |
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General reference aggregation of periodical and digital media content with editorial guidance for novice researchers. |
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RAND US contains nearly 200 Social Science databases covering all 50 U.S. states. The CA collection contains these U.S. databases, plus about 80 detailed databases on California. |
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An accessible database in clear, understandable language covering curriculum areas such as current events, history, health, language arts, math, science, social studies, and technology. |
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Article selections from more than 2,000 international sources. Analysis and opinions cover the pros, cons, and everything in between of 345+ social, scientific, health, historic, economic, political, and global issues. Editorially created content with engaging Essential Questions with answers, and viewpoint articles help build solid foundations for understanding complex global issues. |
Literature/ Reading
This collection contains thousands of fiction and nonfiction e-book titles including classic literary works, contemporary fiction, important historical documents and general reference materials. |
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Database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Students will find deep research that includes history-themed essays and literary criticism. |
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A simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research. |
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Scholarly journal articles from titles in various disciplines including economics, history, political science, and sociology, business, education, law and psychology. |
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Features an expansive collection of author biographies, plot summaries and full-text essays from leading publishers. It also includes literary reference books and monographs, cover-to-cover full text for literary magazines and book reviews from the most prestigious publications. It offers poems from hundreds of sources, short stories, classic texts, author interviews and much more. |
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Reading recommendations for both fiction and nonfiction, for all ages. NoveList's expertise in books and reading means that you'll always get the best help for finding just the right books. |
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Read It! (English Language Learner Reference Center from EBSCO) A multi-purpose online information resource with materials designed to help ELLs conduct research, build background knowledge and develop study skills, as well as facilitating their future transition to non-ELL materials. |
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An accessible database in clear, understandable language covering curriculum areas such as current events, history, health, language arts, math, science, social studies, and technology. |
Math/ Science
EBSCOhost Research Databases A dedicated search interface for all of our EBSCO school databases. When you use Host, you have the option to search by topic or by alphabet, to select all of the EBSCO databases that LHS subscribes to or a select few. Our EBSCO school databases give students access to high-quality articles licensed from reputable publishers. |
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Gale In Context: Environmental Studies Broadens student understanding of environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content |
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Gale Interactive: Science Allows students to manipulate 3D interactive models to visualize and understand biology, chemistry, earth, and space science concepts. |
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Gale Presents: National Geographic Kids Allows students to adventure in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space. |
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Free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). |
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RAND US contains nearly 200 Social Science databases covering all 50 U.S. states. The CA collection contains these U.S. databases, plus about 80 detailed databases on California. |
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Contains full text science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife. |
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This is a comprehensive and interactive mathematics encyclopedia. |
SCCLD Resources
Comprehensive information about historical and contemporary figures from throughout time, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. |
A variety of historical data from primary sources and reference documents. It also includes photographs, illustrations, and maps. |
World History in Context A broad collection of scholarly analysis, full-text periodicals, reference works, and primary documents that cover the events, movements, and individuals that have shaped world history |
Comprehensive access to encyclopedia articles, web links, periodical articles, videos, maps and more. Includes encyclopedias especially for students and Spanish-speakers. |
Business Source Complete Full-text articles from business journals and magazines, including peer-reviewed journals. Search company profiles, industry information, market research reports, and country economic data. By EBSCO. |
Provides full-text access to National Geographic books and magazines, along with videos, full-color maps and atlases, and downloadable images. Features content on travel, science & technology, history, environment, animals, photography, and peoples & cultures. |
Nature, first published in 1869, is a weekly international journal publishing peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology. Provides interdisciplinary articles and news of upcoming trends. |
Founded in 1880 with seed money from Thomas Edison, Science magazine publishes research in all the sciences. See full-text articles from Science magazine; abstracts only are available from Science journals. |
Scientific American (2012-today) Online version of the Scientific American magazine. Updated monthly, the magazine features articles by scientists, including Nobel Prize winners, and top journalists in all fields of science and technology. |
An interactive online learning platform for skill-building courses, occupation practice tests, career and academic test & skill-building ebooks. Find self guided help with reading, writing, and math. Available in English and Spanish. New users will be asked to create a user name and password when they first access the resources. |
Evaluating Sources
Critically analyzing information sources
Distinguishing scholarly journals from non-scholarly periodicals
Preparing an annotated bibliography
(from the Olin Library, Cornell University)
Research Tools
NoodleTools keeps you organized so that you can focus on what matters. Capture your source references, notes and ideas all in one place. |
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ProQuest’s flagship information literacy product. It was built to help students do more effective scholarly research and to support educators as they teach the core information literacy principles of finding, evaluating, and using information. More than 80 short videos are organized into nine Learning Modules that answer questions like "How do I choose a topic?" "Where do I find information?" and "How do I evaluate sources?" |
- Academic Guides & Resources
- Community & Open Ed. Resources
- Looking for a book to read? Check out these sites!
- Recommended Reading
- MLA Resources
- Research Projects
- Teen Publication Opportunities
- Community & Open Educational Resources
- Online Support
Academic Guides & Resources
Project Gutenberg
This website has over 60,000 ebooks available for free.
Country Research
The document above is a link to resources if you are in a Spanish 3 Class at FHS and need assistance resarching countries.
Study Guides and Strategies
Study guides available on several different topics and offered in over thirty different languages.
Study Skills and Strategies
The site contains helpful study skills and strategies links.
Proquest K-12 Homework Help
Resources to help with your homework needs.
ACT Test Prep and Sample Tests
Review the ACT test-taking tips and sample test questions.
SAT and Subject SAT Test Questions and Test Taking Tips
Information on the SAT, practice questions and test taking tips.
SAT Prep
Over 3,000 multiple-choice questions divided into 21 groups. There is also a database browser to review and print the questions and the correct answers.
AP Test Taking Tips and Sample Questions
Another College Board website that includes test taking tips and sample questions for AP tests.
Sample Test Questions
Try out the sample tests for the ACT, SAT, and several AP tests.
Community & Open Ed. Resources
Looking for a book to read? Check out these sites!
Recommended Reading
Good Reads- Read other users reviews of books across all ages and genres.
Reading Rants! - Not your ordinary teen booklist.
Teens Point - A site of teen reviewed books, movies, music and more!
Teen Ink - Want to write your own reviews of books, movies, music, and more? Go to Teen Ink and read reviews by others and submit your own original work!
No Flying, No Tights - A site that reviews graphic novels (i.e. comic books)
American Library Association's Outstanding Books for the College-Bound.
Books for the Teen Age - Recommendations from the New York Public Library.
Teenreads.com - Reviews of newly released books for young adults.
And for teachers and parents: California Department of Education Recommended Literature (K-12). Search by title, author, grade level, genre, or book classification.
The Hub (reviews by teens)
Teen BookFinder (recommendations and Top Ten lists)
Epic Reads (reviews, contests and giveaways)
NoveList (personalized reading recommendations)
MLA Resources
MLA Formatting and Style Guide
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
See MLA Format link below for how-to videos and more instructions.
- Use the MLA Template It should help guide you through the basics.
- Looking for a deeper dive into citing sources? Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL) is an excellent resource! Easy to search, easy to use, researchers use OWL because it offers extensive instructions & samples for ALL formats you might need to use at LHS: MLA, APA, & Chicago.
Homestead English Foundations Packet
MLA Checklist: Citing Your Sources
MLA Formatting and Style Guide
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
For fun: Pick a Puppy And We'll Guess What MLA Guideline You Always Forget
Research Projects
Below are links to specific tabs in the Senior Research Project website. Please log in to your FUHSD account before using the links. Access to website and link are only for FUHSD students.
Teen Publication Opportunities
Submit a book review or literature-related post to the HHS library blog!
Want a larger audience? Try these print and online publications for teen writing.
Teen Ink and their listing of outside pubs
Canvas teen literary magazine
Cicada magazine
Young Authors guide from NewPages
The Telling Room contest/prize list
Scholastic writing competitions
Community & Open Educational Resources
LEARNING
A free, online social studies course for middle- and high-school students that spans 13.8 billion years. It weaves insights from many disciplines to form a single story that helps students develop a framework to organize and connect what they’re learning both in and out of school. |
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CK-12 provides open-source content and technology tools. Teachers and students have free access to customizable educational content in multiple modalities suited to multiple student learning styles, levels, resources and use content acceptance will allow teachers, students and others to innovate and experiment with new models and modalities of learning. |
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An open source project that enables sharing and distribution of interactive digital content anywhere on any device, and on any digital learning system. |
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Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. They tackle math, science, computing, history, art history, economics, and more, including K-14 and test preparation (SAT, Praxis, LSAT) content. |
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KQED and PBS have curated free, curriculum-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more just for California teachers and students. |
LIBRARIES
Digital Public Library of America The DPLA is an all-digital library that aggregates metadata from libraries, museums and institutions around the country. We provide an easy to use search interface so you can get the power that comes with searching millions of records at once. |
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The largest library in the world, with millions of books, films and video, audio 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. |
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Santa Clara County Library District Students in the FUHSD system have a special student eAccount to access the Santa Clara County library system.
Use your student eAccount to access the resources below, plus all other Santa Clara County Library online resources. |
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WorldCat.org is a great resource for locating unique, trustworthy materials that you often can’t find anywhere except in a library. And by connecting thousands of libraries’ collections in one place, WorldCat.org makes it easy for you to browse the world’s libraries from one easy search box. |
OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Below are materials that you may be able to use freely, reuse at no cost, and without needing to ask permission. ALWAYS double check the sites creative common licenses.
Use their search engine to find content that you can share, use, and remix under the creative common licenses. |
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Icons are some of the most universal communication tools available, crossing language and cultural boundaries. Our community of designers from 120+ countries is building the most diverse and extensive collection of iconography ever created. |
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A public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum. |
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A library of over 1 million stock images and videos. Royalty free and safe for commercial use, with no attribution required. |
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Pixabay is a vibrant community of creatives, sharing royalty-free HD photos and stock images, new illustration vectors, high-quality videos, popular animated GIFs and best audio music that are free to download. All contents are released under the Pixabay License, which makes them safe to use without attribution - even for commercial purposes |
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Unsplash is a platform powered by a community that has gifted hundreds of thousands of their own photos to fuel creativity around the world. They give you access to over 3 million photos under the Unsplash license—which makes them free to do-whatever-you-want with. |
Online Support
Prefer to Speak instead of type? Try voice typing in Chrome.
Want help with Spelling and Grammar? Add LanguageTool to your Chrome Tool bar.
Do you need a summary of a long text? Use Resoomer to help summarize. Be warned, like using any summary website, it might summarize and leave out the details you need for quizzes and tests.
Using Chrome and want a screen reader? Try Read Aloud.
Are you on a Chromebook and want a screen reader? Try-Select and-Speak
Are you on a Chromebook and need more options? Try this site for built in accessibility features.
Find A Book!
Sora (e-Books & Audiobooks)
How to Access Ebooks
SCCLD Card
For immediate online access please visit http://student.sccl.org to check out ebooks, download music, or get free homework help.
Student eAccounts are in the following format: S + Student ID + FUHSD…
Eg: S1234567FUHSD
Your FUHSD Student ID number can be found on your ID card, schedule or by asking a teacher.
The pin number is birth month and birth day…for example May 1 is 0501.
Here is a video showing you how to login.
Library Staff
The Fremont High School Library is a teaching library where traditional print materials merge with new media technology to provide students and staff access to reliable and accurate information resources to support learning.
Dana Kuhlmann
Teacher Librarian
(408) 522-2493
Ruben Zamora
School Library Specialist
(408) 522-2437
Circulation Desk
(408) 522-2435
Hours
Library Rules
Treat all people and the environment with respect – maintain an academic environment at all times. In an effort to do this please follow these guidelines:
1. Students can be be asked to by staff to verify unscheduled blocks.
2. Please use a quiet voice in the library. Your voice should not be heard past your table.
3. To preserve the environment, please eat all food outside the library.
4. Keep library chairs in place at tables. There are 4-chair tables and 6-chair tables. That is the maximum number of seats at one table. Standing or sitting around tables blocks pathways and is not permitted. Sitting or standing in the library stacks also blocks walkways is not permitted.
5. Play card or other games outside of the library.
6. Silence cellphones before entering the library. Step outside the library to take a phone call, play songs, or play videos.
Students violating any of the above may lose library privileges for the day or a more extended period of time. Serious or repeated violations will be handled by an Assistant Principal and will result in disciplinary action.
TUTORIAL Policy
- Tutorial is required academic time. Access to the library is by appointment only.
- Students using school desktops in the library during tutorial are expected to do academic work.
- All electronic devices, personal or school, will be placed in phone grids and not accessible during Tutorial. If a student is found with a device the device will be taken by staff and may be given back at the end of Tutorial. If a device is taken more than once it will be given to the Climate Office.
- Use a quiet voice in the Library, If you are working on a group assignment, your voice should not be heard past your table.
- Keep Library chairs in place at tables. There are 4-chair tables and 6- chair tables. That is the maximum number of seats at one table.
- If space is limited, you may be instructed to find another study location.
- Use time in the library productively. Students not using Tutorial appropriately will be asked to leave or denied entry.
Students For Success Policy
- SFS is in room 76 Mondays-Thursdays from 1:30pm-5pm.
- Student tutors are available - subjects will vary.
STUDENT USE OF MATERIALS
- Students must check out materials with a library staff member before taking them from the building.
- Materials are checked out for a two-week period, but may be renewed for more time.
- Students will be charged the cost of replacing any lost or damaged materials.
- Library copies of text books must be used in the library and are not available for check out.
- Overdue or unreturned materials may cause a loss of check-out privileges.
Information for Staff
Policies & Procedures for Staff
Santa Clara County Library Staff Account |
How to Access your student SCCLD library eAccount: For immediate online access please visit http://student.sccl.org Staff eAccounts are in the following format: S + Staff ID + FUHSD, password 1912 Eg: s1234fuhsd |
Last-minute reservations |
Call the library. If a class is not already in the library or lab, you are welcome to bring your class. |
Materials for Teacher Use |
Teachers may check out videos and books for extended periods of time for classroom and personal use. There is no deadline on checkout unless another patron requests the material. All materials are collected at the end of the school year for inventory purposes. |
Sending a group to library during the class period |
Individual students and small groups (2-5 students) can be sent to the library with a pass. The pass should have the full names of students and the teacher name (printed rather than signed so that we can read it). There should be times noted for when the students left the classroom and when they are expected to return. Larger groups should be accompanied by the whole class and teacher. Students may be sent back if we lack space or computers for them. |
Supervision |
Teachers are required to supervise their classes in the library. Monitoring student computer and Internet use is part of teacher supervision. |
Substitutes |
Students tend not to stay on task in the library when supervised by a substitute. Please do not schedule a library day when you know you will be absent, unless you have made prior arrangements with Dana Kuhlmann to assist with the lesson. For unexpected absences, please schedule an alternate activity in the classroom, if possible. Substitutes should not send students to the library without prior authorization from library staff. |
Teachers need to be familiar with the library and computer lab as to better assist the students needing help. We will be happy to walk you through the basics of the library and use of the computer resources.
Please advise your students to compose work in their school Google Drive or they could email it to themselves. Please discourage students from using their network student folders to save their work, as it may not be there the next time they use those computers.
Teachers should avoid sending their class to the library with a substitute when they are absent. If this is unavoidable, please have a solid lesson plan provided to use in advance.
Library and Computer Lab Signups
Please note that the Library and Computer Lab Signup is a shared document. Any changes you make are seen immediately by ALL users. In order to make online sign-ups work successfully, please follow these rules:
- Add your information in the empty boxes only – please do not alter any other box or sign-up in purple sections marked with an “X."
- Please do not change the formatting, fonts, colors, etc. on any of the sign-up pages.
- Generally you should only be using an area for half a block (45 minutes) and signing up for no more than three (3) consecutive days. If for some reason you require more time, please discuss it with Dana Kuhlmann or Ruben Zamora in advance.
- Since these documents are easily accessible to all, please sign-up your classes only. Do not sign-up for another teacher.
- Do not let students sign-up for you.
- If you need help from Dana Kuhlmann for your lesson or support in the library, please contact her by email or phone to indicate what help is needed and/or to set up a time to discuss the assignment. Attaching a copy of your lesson plan or assignment to your email is always helpful.
- Please avoid signing up for the Library if you will be absent and a substitute will be supervising your class. If this is unavoidable, please have a solid lesson plan provided to use in advance and let either Dana Kuhlmann or Ruben Zamora know.
- Please read the above Library Policies and Procedures before bringing your class to the Library.
- Please make sure you are familiar with the Computer Labs before you and your class use them.
- Contact Dana Kuhlmann or Ruben Zamora ASAP if you have any questions or need help with the sign-up sheets.
When you sign-up for the first time, you will be prompted to change your password, which we recommend you do immediately. For logging in and password issues, please email Dana Kuhlmann.