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Research Tools

Databases
These full-text databases are available from within the library and from your home or office. To access from home, use your library card barcode as your ID number.

  • Academic Onefile: Use this comprehensive periodical resource of full-text peer-reviewed content for over 10,000 manually indexed journals and reference works covering all subjects
  • Auto Repair Reference Center: Fix that car!
    Login: Patron ID = your library card number.
  • Biography Resource Center: Use this database for over 400,000 biographies covering literary figures, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, current events and the arts.
  • Educator’s Reference (PROF): Use this mainly full-text collection of over 1100 periodicals and 200 reports for educational research from preschool to college.
  • Expanded Academic ASAP: Use this database to find full-text scholarly journals, new magazines and newspapers for all academic disciplines.
  • Health Reference Center: Full-text database that provides full-text nursing & allied health journals, plus current and reliable personal health information.
  • InfoTrac Kids InfoBits: Targeting the research needs of grades K-5 students. this resources incudes Blackbirch Press curriculum support references, 100 full-text age appropriate magazines and 2 newswires. Graphs, charts, maps and over 2,500 searchable images.
  • Massachusetts History Online: Use this collection for full-text articles from 50 magazines and local newspapers for coverage of Massachusetts people, places and historical events.
  • Massachusetts Newstand: Full-text access to 12 Massachusetts newspapers
  • New York Times: 1995-Current
  • Novelist: Find novels similar to those you've enjoyed. Login: Patron ID = your library card number.

 

Featured Databases


Grove Art Online

Offers comprehensive, reliable information on all aspects of world art.


Science Online

Provides diagrams, experiments, essays, definitions and biographies arranged by topic.


NoveList

Besides locating fiction to read, learn more about books and authors through NoveList's "Author Read-alikes," "Feature Articles," "Book Discussion Guides," and "BookTalks." Materials on books for all ages are included: picture books, children's "chapter" books, young adult titles and books for adult readers.