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E-books
E-books exist as both a traditional book with pages and in a searchable, electronic version. You can go to a list of some of our e-books by clicking on the below link. You can also search the WHS catalog for e-books on your topic. If a resource is available as an e-book, its catalog entry will have a small purple "e" directly below the title. Click on the title. Then scroll down to the "Available to Wellesley High School" link.

**[|ABC-Clio eBooks]** Over 500 social studies titles available with tables of contents and indexes or full text searches. Includes a broad range of topics including politics, religion, law and business, pop culture, science and technology, history, sociology and more.

**[|Gale Virtual Reference Library]** Reference books with fulltext search capability. U.S. history is heavily covered in this collection. These ebooks are also available in print at the WHS library.



[|InfoBase] Access to books on careers, diseases, genetics, literary criticism, World Health Organization, histor

[|From WHS/][|From Home] Access to hundreds of articles from books published by Salem Press including topics such as transportation, crime, politics, ecology, economics, law and more.
 * Salem History**

Databases
[|From WHS] [|From Home] A comprehensive collection of primary and secondary sources, covering ancient world history; modern world history; US history; American government; United States at war; state geography; and issues: understanding controversy and society.
 * ABC-Clio Social Studies Databases **

[|From WHS/From Home] Royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate, and other thematic maps. New maps are added to the collection every month.
 * A to Z Maps Online **

[|African American Studies Center] Henry Louis Gates' database covering biographical, art, cultural, political and economic topics in African American history from Oxford University Press.

[|American History in Video] Provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion.



Offers in-depth coverage of political and social issues, with regular full text reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.
 * [|CQ Researcher]**

[|Credo Reference] A database that features online content from a hundred reference books, newspaper, and websites in a broad range of subjects.

In-depth information on the cultures of more than 200 countries also includes maps, statistics, and glossaries.
 * [|CultureGrams]**

 Includes encyclopedia articles from //Encyclopedia Americana// and //Grolier//. Provides external links to related journal articles and websites.
 *  [|Grolier Online] **

[|Historical Newspapers (Graphical)] Articles from historical newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and Boston Globe. Contains full-page scans of newspapers from 1851-2001.

[|Global Issues in Context]



[|From WHS][|From Home] Several general databases containing current (1980-present) magazine, newspaper, academic journal and reference book articles on many topics, including current events, health care, politics, sports, social science, hobbies. Includes following subject-specific databases:
 * Infotrac **
 * Massachusetts History Online
 * Biography Resource Center
 * Contemporary Literary Criticism
 * History Resource Center

[|From WHS / From Home:] Contains full text for thousands of scholarly journal articles.
 * JSTOR **

[|From WHS / From Home:] Provides up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.
 * Literature Resource Center **

[|From WHS][| /][|From Home:] Full-text access to newspaper articles from The Boston Globe (1980-present), The Boston Herald (1991-present), and other local Massachusetts newspapers.
 * Massachusetts Newsstand **

[|From WHS & Home:] Minuteman or Boston Public Library Card # (enter number without spaces)
 * New York Times (1980-current) **

[|From WHS & Home] Minuteman or Boston Public Library Card # (enter number without spaces) A database that provides access to 100,000 full text reviews of novels, as well as young adult book discussion guides, curriculum-related materials, and more.
 * NoveList **

[|Pop Culture Universe] Pop Culture Universe is digital library of information on American and world popular culture, past and present. Built on hundreds of award-winning titles for all levels of researchers.

[|From WHS / From Home] Provides topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations, as well as articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics, and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify content directly correlated to state and national standards guide.
 * Science in Context (Gale) **

[|United Streaming] World Book Online [|From WHS][|/From Home] A general encyclopedia that includes atlases, a dictionary and a Massachusetts Resource Guide.