Teachers, please try these databases and provide feedback by March 31st.
The following trials end March 31st and will inform future subscriptions. If you use news articles (including the New York Times) in any of your classes, please trial these resources to gain the same or better, broader access and provide feedback.
All Gale Databases are now accessed via Google SSO.
CVUSD Libraries have transitioned access for all Gale databases from Geolocation technology to Google Single Sign-on.
The following Gale e-resources are accessible 24/7 via Google Single Sign-on. Students and teachers can now “sign in with Google” to gain access.
Site libraries have begun to transition their links to the new secure links. Most of CVUSD libraries do not yet have an e-resource management function built into their websites, so this transition make take certain sites longer to implement than others. Thank you for your patience as our libraries modernize!
Why the change?
Authentication to Gale databases via Google Single Sign-on provides three key benefits:
1. Secure 24/7 easy access for students using their existing Google accounts. No usernames and passwords.
2. Students can download articles and push citations directly into their Google Drives and Google docs and teachers can integrate library databases into Google classroom.
3. Librarians can review usage data specific to CVUSD for assessment. Usage data is anonymized.
Who supports these databases?
The California State Library sponsors access to the Gale Science, Environmental Science and National Geographic databases with a statewide, negotiated publisher license on behalf of all K-12 schools. The statewide license is funded by the California Department of Education (CDE.)
CVUSD sponsors access to the Gale Biography database at CVHS. It is funded by California Lottery funds for schools. It is not available via the California State Library.
CVHS Library now offers access to Gale in Context: Biography.
Biographical research just got better for CVHS students!
Gale In Context: Biography offers authoritative reference content covering historically significant people to present-day changemakers. It is continuously updated to ensure students have access to the very latest information.
For those who remember the (International) Dictionary of National Biography, this is the database has exclusive rights to that content. The editorial group for the DNB continues to research and create entries in this contemporary e-resource.
Access
Students, teachers and staff can access the database through the Library's Database A-Z List. Access is now offered via Google Single Sign-on (SSO).
Navigation: Databases A-Z
Teachers, please do not bookmark library databases. Instead, guide students to access the library homepage, find the Database A-Z list and select a database. This is not only an essential media and information literacy skill that all students need to learn before college, but it is also important as libraries regularly update links to keep our users connected. The publishing and cybersecurity industries change rapidly. Providing durable digital access is a core e-resource management service that modern libraries provide their communities. Please take advantage of it!
Guide students to the Database A-Z list.
Make an appointment with Ms. Stambaugh if you would like training or would like her to come to one of your classes.
Subject Guides
In the next few weeks, Ms. Stambaugh will update the library subject guides on the library website to integrate Gale in Context: Biography into the guides.
Subject guides help students and teachers find the best databases available to them in their discipline.
CVHS Library celebrates Women's History Month with book displays that invite students to explore women's equality.
Do women have equal rights today?
How do we make the case today for equality? What would be the benefits to society if women had equal rights? How does not having them hold everyone back?
Great titles encourage and challenge students to explore these questions and formulate strong arguments.
For more resources:
CVUSD is adding new e-resources to support teachers and students. CVHS will gain access to several of them.
CVHS teachers will find access to the following e-resources on the Library's Database A-Z list in the upcoming weeks:
The following resources will become available for other sites:
Ms. Stambaugh is currently working with each publisher/vendor to finalize licenses and establish 24/7 access. Whenever possible, Google Single Sign-on will be enabled.
Once access is enabled with Google SSO, each resource will gradually be included in library subject guides and instructional offerings for all teachers and classes.
CVHS students, teachers and staff now have access to current editions of the New York Times while on the high school campus, compliments of CVHS Library.
Visit the library website for access to the New York Times (Current Edition) via the Databases A-Z or News Resources.
Knowledge for class. Knowledge for life.
Whether you are prepping course materials or planning for the weekend ahead, discover original, quality journalism that helps you
understand the world — and make the most of every part of life.
About our institutional subscription
All CVHS users have access to
For older issues, citation management tools, and to download articles, use Proquest. Links to the New York Times via Proquest are on the library website.
Seek the truth. Find new perspectives. Inform your conversations on current topics!
This month, CVHS Library celebrates the history and contemporary works of Native American, Indigenous and First Nations authors and activists. A special exhibit documents the historic Klamath River Dam removals and Yurok youth eco-activists. CVHS environmentalists can gain inspiration from this decades-long effort to restore the natural flow of the Klamath River.
Biography
Fiction
Activism, Agency and Resistance
Yurok Youth EcoActivism and the Klamath Dam Removals
History
CVHS Library announces its first Subject Guide to support Modern World History. Subject guides connect teachers and students to library resources in a specific subject area or topic.
The Modern World History guide is tied to curriculum standards and provides access to the primary and secondary sources discussed in the textbook as well as additional resources in the library (in print and digital format.) By using the guide, students and teachers can broaden their learning about key moments in history from the Enlightenment to present day with excellent information resources.
The first page of the Modern World History guide provides comprehensive access for most topics covered in high school. The secondary pages of the subject guide focus on specific units, in this case, a specific historical period (e.g. the Industrial Revolution.) Over time, the secondary pages will be built to cover additional units (e.g. the Great Depression), and additional resources in all formats will be featured (books, eBooks, documentary film, etc.)
Subject guides appear on the library website:
Subject guides can also be accessed in the library's main search menu:
For more information about subject guides for teachers and department chairs, and how to request priority development of a guide for your department, please visit the Teacher Services page.
CVHS Teachers can now place immediate holds or place holds for future dates on multiple copies of the same title using Destiny Back Office. With new faculty privileges, teachers can see real-time inventory and availability, including for Book Club titles. Teachers can also place holds for longer periods of time than typical circulation periods.
This applies only to library holdings, and it includes Book Club titles. (Textbooks must still be coordinated with Ms. Oliver.)
For more information and how-to videos, visit Teacher Services: Reserve Books on the library website. For step by step instructions, visit our FAQ How can I reserve books in advance for a class?
Castro Valley High School teachers, students and staff now have access to JSTOR Secondary Schools Collection through the library. Check it out on the Library Database A-Z list. The database landing page has access information and more.
The JSTOR Collection contains over 2,600 journal titles from the major academic societies, associations and industry publishers worldwide.
Subject areas: Arts & Sciences, Life Sciences, Business, Jewish Studies, Lives of Literature, Public Health, Security Studies, Sustainability, and Primary Source collections. Images can be searched by many facets (e.g. “graphic design”)
Journal title list and holdings.
JSTOR is a premier e-Resource for students in Advanced Placement and Honors courses. Please use it in AP and Honors courses to prepare CVHS students for college-level research. CVHS students will gain access to the full research version of JSTOR in their future college and university libraries.
Teachers, please register for a lunchtime PD session in Fall 2025-2026 if you would like a hands on walk through or if you would like to learn from your fellow teachers, workshop style.