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!
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• 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.
• Massachusetts Newstand: Full-text access to 12 Massachusetts newspapers
• New York Times: 1995-Current
• 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.