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
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.
Contemporary
Literary Criticism: An extensive collection of critical
essays on contemporary writers. Each entry also contains a biographical/critical
introduction, a list of principal works, and sources for further study.
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.
Gale
Virtual Reference Library: A mix of more than 20
full-text reference books covering the arts, biography, business,
the environment, history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies,
geography, and science.
General
Business File: Use this database to research all
business and management topics. Includes directory listings for over
150,000 companies as well as investment analysts' reports on major
companies and industries.
General
Reference Center Gold: Use this general interest
database for full-text and images from magazines, reference books,
and newspapers for information on current events, popular culture,
the arts and sciences, sports, etc.
Grove
Art Online: Offers comprehensive, reliable information
on all aspects of world art.
Health
Reference Center: Full-text
database that provides full-text nursing & allied health journals,
plus current and reliable personal health information.
Info
Trac Onefile: Use this comprehensive periodical resource
for any subject. Coverage goes back to 1980- with over 9,200 titles
(5,156 full-text)
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.
InfoTrac
Junior Edition: Designed for junior high and middle
school students. Includes mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and
reference books covering current events, the arts, science, popular
culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Infotrac
Student Edition: Designed for secondary school students.
Includes mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books
covering current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health,
people, government, history, sports and more.
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.
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. Login: Patron
ID = your library card number.
Science
Online:Provides
diagrams, experiments, essays, definitions and biographies arranged
by topic.
Featured
Databases
American Women's History Online Covers the important people, events, legislation, and issues
relevant to the study of women's history in the United States.
American History Online
Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural
history, highlighting the important people and events of the American
experience.
African-American History Online
Provides expansive and in-depth information on the people, events,
and topics important to the study of African-American history.
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