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To access the OPLIN Databases from home all you have to do is select Westlake Porter Public Library from the drop down list and enter your library card number. When entering your library card number, enter it exactly the way it appears on your card (capital and small letters where appropriate). Do not include spaces. Through remote access you will have access to the following databases.


  • All EBSCOhost Databases
    Select EBSCOhost MasterFILE Premiere from the database list and all these database choices will appear.

    • EBSCOhost MasterFILE Premiere
      "Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Elite also includes 164 full text reference books, nearly 100,000 biographies, 76,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. "

    • Academic Search Premier
      "The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 3,970 scholarly publications, including full text for nearly 2,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost."

    • Alt HealthWatch
      "This alternative health database provides full text for nearly 160 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990."

    • Business Source Premier
      "As the world's largest full text business database, Business Source Premier provides full text for over 2,800 scholarly business journals, including full text for nearly 900 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 300 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost."

    • Clinical Pharmacology
      "Clinical Pharmacology provides access up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs."

    • Computer Source
      "Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for over 350 publications."

    • EBSCO Animals
      "ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals."

    • ERIC
      "ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center contains citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals, as well as full text of more than 2,200 digests."

    • Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia
      "This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas."

    • Health Source Consumer Edition
      "With Health Source - Consumer Edition you can search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, child care, sports medicine and general health. Health Source -Consumer Edition features searchable full text for over 190 journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men's Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for over 205 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications."

    • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
      "This database provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for over 615 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis."

    • MAS Ultra - School Edition
      "Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for over 500 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra-School Edition also provides nearly 550 full text pamphlets, 150 full text reference books, nearly 100,000 biographies, 76,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. "

    • MEDLINE
      "MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals."

    • Middle Search Plus
      "Middle Search Plus provides full text for nearly 150 popular, magazines for middle and junior high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost."

    • Newspaper Source
      "Newspaper Source provides selected full text for over 200 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. "

    • Primary Search
      "Primary Search provides full text for more than 50 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost. "

    • Professional Development Collection
      "Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of over 515 full text journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world."

    • Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
      "This database provides coverage of more than 515 full text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. "

    • Regional Business News
      "This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and news wires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis. "

    • Religion and Philosophy Collection
      "This database provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers nearly 300 full text journals, including nearly 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost."

    • Sociological Collection
      "This database provides coverage of nearly 615 full text journals, including nearly 600 peer-reviewed titles. Sociological Collection offers information in all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. "

    • TOPICsearch from EBSCO
      "This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 64,000 articles from more than 3,000 diverse sources, including nearly 1,600 full text periodicals. "

    • Vocational and Career Collection
      "Vocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for nearly 360 trade and industry-related periodicals. "

  • Annals of American History Online
    "2,100 entries from 1493 to the present, including original source documents such as speeches, essays, biographies, editorials written by contributors like Madeleine Albright, Henry Ford, John Hancock, Malcolm X, and Edgar Allen Poe. From Encyclopaedia Britannica."

  • Art and Architecture Database
    "This database contains the AMICO Library -- a growing online collection of high-quality, digital documentation of works of art from around the world. Images, text and multimedia represent a broad range of works of art in AMICO Member collections, highlighting the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms. Cultures and time periods represented range from contemporary art, Native American and Inuit art, to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, along with Japanese and Chinese works."

  • Biographies Plus Illustrated
    This database from H.W. Wilson is a collection of biographical articles from a variety of sources. It is accessed via the WilsonWeb interface, and users must click the box next to the database name before searching.

  • Discoverer®
    "Discoverer Deluxe Is an award -winning interactive reference database that consist of full-text articles constructed from more than 1,200 magazines, newspapers and U.S. government documents. This online resource is designed to develop research, reading, writing, language and computer skills while making learning fun and intuitive for the young researcher (K-8 reading level)"

  • Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol
    "Encyclopaedia Britannica, with over 47,000 articles; 8300 photos, tables, maps, flags, and images; a dictionary with 65,000 entries; a world atlas detailing countries, maps, statistics, major world cities, and distribution of languages and religions; timelines that show the events of the past in rich graphical form."

  • Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
    "Includes all of the text of the print set, plus thousands of additional articles, digital images, Internet links tied directly to the articles, statistics for over 190 nations, Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (including pronunciation guides and word histories), and special multi-media databases. Allows natural language or Boolean search methods, as well as alphabetic topic browsing. Works with either graphical or non-graphical browsers. Articles can be delivered immediately and directly to the desktop or printed locally."

  • Literature Databases
    "Full-text, searchable works available online to supplement your library's print collections. Poetry, drama and fiction are included."

  • netLibrary

    Access any of the 2,800 eBook titles in the OPLIN collection at netLibrary. E-Books are full-text electronic versions of published books that library patrons can search, borrow, read, and return over the Internet.

    NetLibrary is the leading provider of eBooks and Internet-based content management services for the institutional library market. NetLibrary develops, archives, hosts, and maintains eBook collections for academic, corporate, public, and school libraries.

    This collection is different from the Westlake Porter Public Library collection, users must create a new login with a different user name and password than their Westlake library netLibrary account.


  • NetWellness 2000
    "A non-profit consumer health Web site that provides high-quality information created and evaluated by medical and health professional faculty at the University of Cincinnati, Case Western Reserve University, and The Ohio State University. Includes health news, extensive health reference works, health topics, and Ask an Expert. This area features nearly 200 health professionals, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, dieticians, dentists, genetics counselors, optometrists, athletic trainers, and social workers who answer all legitimate questions, usually within 2 to 3 days. Updated daily."

  • NewsBank
    "A full-text news resource containing comprehensive coverage of current issues and events from 17 Ohio newspapers and 13 national newspapers."

  • NoveList
    "Anyone looking for a new fiction title to read should try NoveList. NoveList allows readers of all ages to use a favorite author or title to discover new books to read. You can also search NoveList's 96,000 title database by subject or genre. With NoveList's Explore Fiction feature, you can browse through 350 different categories of science fiction, romance, mysteries, fantasy, horror, westerns, and adventure."

  • Ohio Historical Society Searchable Databases
    "This collection of searchable databases (many of which were created under the Ohio Vital Information for Libraries Center, a grant-funded project of OHS supported by the State Library of Ohio and OPLIN) includes: "

    Online Documents: Full text documents mounted on the web for your use.
    1. African American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920
    2. Civil War
    3. Fundamental Documents
    4. Military Rosters

    Online Research Tools: Applications created to help you find actual documents held at the Ohio Historical Society Archives Library.
    1. Death Certificate Index
    2. Newspaper index
    3. Ohio History Central (encyclopedia of Ohio History)
    4. Online Collection Catalog
    5. White Castle System, Inc. finding aid

    Online Services: These databases are offered as general services to online patrons.
    1. National Register of Historic Places
    2. Primary Resources for Teachers

    On-location Services: The following is a list of departments that provide services from one or more of our locations throughout the state of Ohio.
    1. Archives/Library
    2. Education Services
    3. Historic Preservation
    4. Local History
    5. State Archives

  • Ohio Sanborn Map Collection
    "The Digital Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps provides a searchable interface for locating historical Maps of Ohio towns and cities. These maps were digitized from microfilm copies by Chadwyck-Healey, a Bell & Howell Information and Learning company. The searchable database is a joint project of OPLIN and OhioLINK.

    From 1876 to 1970, the Sanborn Insurance Company created more than 40,035 maps of Ohio towns and cities. Originally used for fire insurance records, these detailed maps identify individual buildings on each block. Detailed information on the maps includes a given building's occupant status (e.g., hotel or state capitol), the building's height, and building's street address among other things. To date, Ohio's historians, urban geographers and archaeologists, and researchers in architecture and ethnic studies have used the printed maps, which are available in printed form in some Ohio libraries.


  • Searchasaurus
    "Searchasaurus is a search tool designed for children, featuring the following areas: EBSCO's Primary Search, Middle Search Plus, Encyclopedia of Animals, General Encyclopedia, Dictionary, and Pictures. Young researchers can find great information on topics like animals, history, health, science, and what's in the news."

  • Access Science
    "The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology on the Web."

  • Oxford Reference Online
    "Oxford Reference Online brings together 150 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource."
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last updated: 8/15/2006
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