| Biography Resource Center |
InfoTrac |
A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than 275,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas |
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Business |
| Business Source Premier |
EBSCO |
Provides full text 2,260 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more. |
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| General BusinessFile ASAP |
InfoTrac |
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. |
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| Insurance & Liability Collection |
InfoTrac |
This collection, comprised of nearly 40 journals, takes a broad view of the insurance and liability industry, covering such topics as labor relations, mortgage banking, legal issues, and more. |
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| LexisNexis |
Lexis/
Nexis |
Allows access to a wide range of full-text newspapers (including the New York Times and Boston Globe) as well as business, legal, and reference information sources. |
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| Regional Business News |
EBSCO |
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
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| Research Starters - Business |
EBSCO |
Research Starters are study and research guides designed specifically for advanced high school students, college students and selected graduate students. They consist of comprehensive, yet concise topic summary articles of about 3,000 words in length written by researchers, scholars and other subject matter experts. |
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| Hospitality & Tourism Reference Collection |
InfoTrac |
This collection of nearly 500 journals provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism field. |
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| Career Guidance |
| Ferguson's Career Guidance Center |
Facts on File |
Provides profiles of more than 2,050 of today's most popular jobs in more than 94 industries. |
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| Communication Studies |
| Communication & Media Collection |
InfoTrac |
A custom collection of more than 100 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field: key subjects covered include advertising and public relations, linguistics, and literature. |
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| Computer and Information Science |
| Computer Database |
InfoTrac |
Use this database to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology. |
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| Criminal Justice |
| Criminal Justice Collection |
InfoTrac |
Whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection rises to the challenge. |
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| Criminal Justice Periodicals |
Proquest |
Search a comprehensive collection of U.S. and international criminal justice journals including information for professionals in law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security. |
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| Dictionaries |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library |
Infotrac |
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. |
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Credo Reference |
Credo |
An online reference library that provides you with access to a collection of reference books. Credo Reference includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, not to mention a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law. |
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| OED Online |
OED |
OED (Oxford English Dictionary) Online contains the complete text of the twenty-volume Second Edition and three-volume Additions Series. The online version also contains draft material from the current OED project, representing the latest progress towards a completely revised and updated Third Edition. |
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| Diversity |
| Diversity Studies Collection |
InfoTrac |
A must-have for social science, history and liberal arts coursework, this collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community. |
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| Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Issues Collection |
InfoTrac |
This collection of nearly 40 journals aims to provide balanced coverage of this significant aspect of our culture, covering such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and many more. |
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| Education |
| Chronicle of Higher Education |
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The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more. (Note: this is non-subscription access so most full-text is missing - for full-text article access use LexisNexis) |
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| Educator's Collection |
InfoTrac |
Perfect for educating future teachers and administrators, this set covers the latest technologies, developments, instruction and coaching breakthroughs. Included in this set are 250 journals |
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| Educator's Reference Complete |
InfoTrac |
Use this mainly full-text collection of over 1100 periodicals and 200 reports for educational research from preschool to college. Every educational specialty can be found here including technology, health and bilingual education, testing, and issues in administration, funding and policy. |
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| ERIC |
EBSCO |
ERIC, the U.S. Department of Education Educational Resource Information Center database, contains citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals, as well as full text of more than 2,200 digests. |
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| Primary Search |
EBSCO |
Provides full text for over 50 children's magazines and over 100 children's pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student. |
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| Professional Development Collection |
EBSCO |
Provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 440 full text journals, designed for professional educators. |
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| Research Starters - Education |
EBSCO |
Research Starters are study and research guides designed specifically for advanced high school students, college students and selected graduate students. They consist of comprehensive, yet concise topic summary articles of about 3,000 words in length written by researchers, scholars and other subject matter experts. |
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Vocations & Careers
Collection |
InfoTrac |
Provding content from nearly 400 journals, this collection provides content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals. |
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| Electronic Books |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library |
Infotrac |
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. |
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| NetLibrary |
NetLibrary |
Access to approximately 7,000 books, online. |
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| Digital Book Catalog |
Overdrive |
Digital Audio Books and eBooks for your enjoyment. Browse and search hundreds of great titles and download them to computers, transfer them to portable devices, or burn them onto CDs for reading and listening anywhere, anytime. |
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| Encyclopedias |
Credo Reference (formerly known as XreferPlus) |
Credo |
An online reference library that provides you with access to a collection of reference books. Credo Reference includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, not to mention a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law. |
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| Encyclopedia Americana |
Grolier |
In-depth research and worldwide current events coverage. |
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| Gale Virtual Reference Library |
Infotrac |
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. |
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| Grolier's Multimedia Encyclopedia |
Groliers |
A quick reference tool for middle school and high school students. |
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| General |
| Academic OneFile |
InfoTrac |
Academic OneFile is a source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, |
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| Academic Search Premier |
EBSCO |
Provides full text for nearly 3,200 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. |
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Credo Reference |
Credo |
An online reference library that provides you with access to a collection of reference books. Credo Reference includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, not to mention a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law. |
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| EBSCOhost |
EBSCO |
A collection of 13 general, academic and subject-specific databases (including the nursing and allied health database CINAHL) that index, abstract, and provide the selected full-text of magazine, journal, and newspaper articles. |
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| Expanded Academic ASAP |
InfoTrac |
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers - with full text and images. |
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| FirstSearch |
OCLC |
FirstSearch is a unique collection of 70+ general and specialized databases that can be used to find books, articles, Internet resources, and more. Provides coverage of virtually all academic areas and disciplines. (Restricted to faculty use only) |
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| Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia |
EBSCO |
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. |
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| General Reference Center Gold |
InfoTrac |
Use this general interest database to search magazines, reference books, and newspapers for information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc. |
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| InfoTrac |
InfoTrac |
A collection of general-academic and subject-specific databases that index, abstract, and provide the selected full-text of magazine, journal, and newspaper articles. |
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General OneFile |
InfoTrac |
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles. Updated daily. |
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| Issues and Controversies |
Facts on File |
A comprehensive source of current, in-depth and objective information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day. |
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| MasterFILE Premier |
EBSCO |
Provides full text for nearly 1,860 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more. |
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| Pop Culture Collection |
InfoTrac |
This collection provides useful information for any researcher in a social science, history, art or liberal arts course. This collection is made up of 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals, complemented by 8 eBook titles. |
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| Health/Nursing |
| Biomedical Reference Collection |
EBSCO |
Provides access to 100 full text journals covering such disciplines as clinical medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the preclinical sciences. |
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| CINAHL with Full-Text |
EBSCO |
Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. |
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| Health Reference Center: Academic |
InfoTrac |
Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health & Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc.The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only. |
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| Health Source: Consumer Edition |
EBSCO |
With Health Source: Consumer Edition you can search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 160 journals including the British Medical Journal and The Lancet, as well as abstracts and indexing for over 170 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. |
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| Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition |
EBSCO |
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 520 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 550 journals. |
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| MEDLINE |
EBSCO |
MEDLINE® w/MeSH 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 uses (MeSH) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,000 current biomedical journals. |
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| Nursing Reference Center |
EBSCO |
NRC provides a user-friendly point-of-care resource intended for staff nurses, nurse administrators, nursing students, nurse faculty, and hospital librarians. It delivers the best available and most recent clinical evidence and knowledge on conditions and diseases via a nursing-specific graphical interface. |
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| History |
| African-American History Online |
Facts on File |
Provides expansive and in-depth information on the people, events, and topics important to the study of African-American history. |
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| American History Online |
Facts on File |
Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience. |
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| American Women's History Online |
Facts on File |
Covers the important people, events, legislation, and issues relevant to the study of women's history in the United States. |
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| Massachusetts History Online |
InfoTrac |
Use this collection for full-text articles from 50 magazines and local newspapers for coverage of Massachusetts people, places and historical events.
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| K-12 Databases |
| Junior Edition K-12 |
InfoTrac |
This periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
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click here for online guide |
| Kids InfoBits |
InfoTrac |
This periodical database is designed for elementary school students, with easy access to full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
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| MAS Ultra: School Edition |
EBSCO |
Provides full text for over 460 general interest and current events magazines. |
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| Student Edition |
InfoTrac |
This database is designed for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
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click here for online guide |
| Legal Studies |
| LexisNexis |
Lexis/
Nexis |
Allows access to a wide range of full-text newspapers (including the New York Times and Boston Globe) as well as business, legal, and reference information sources. |
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| Westlaw Campus |
Westlaw |
In addition to primary legal materials (federal and state cases, statutes and administrative law), Westlaw Campus offers secondary resources such as American Law Reports (ALR), American Jurisprudence 2nd (Am. Jur. 2d) and law reviews. [NOTE: On first screen, scroll to bottom and click on "I agree"] |
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Library Science |
| The Charleston Advisor |
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The Charleston Advisor publishes critical reviews of online resources for libraries. To maintain a high level of accuracy and integrity, all reviews are peer-reviewed by experienced librarians. Our reviewers come from all areas of librarianship and from all types of libraries, ensuring that products are rerviewed by people who actually use them. |
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| Information Science & Technology Collection |
InfoTrac |
Comprised of content from nearly 100 leading industry journals, this collection provides current and accurate information for the information professional. Coverage includes such topics as data processing techniques, metadata architectures, and more. |
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| Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts |
EBSCO |
LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. |
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| Literature |
| Contemporary Literary Criticism |
InfoTrac |
Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works, and sources for further study |
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| Literary Reference Center |
EBSCO |
A full text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. |
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| Massachusetts |
| Massachusetts History Online |
InfoTrac |
Use this collection for full-text articles from 50 magazines and local newspapers for coverage of Massachusetts people, places and historical events.
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| Military Studies |
| Military & Government Collection |
EBSCO |
Provides full text for over 320 military related periodicals and general interest magazines. |
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| Military & Intelligence Database |
InfoTrac |
A custom colletion of over 400 journals, covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. Key subjects include ocioeconomic effects of war, governmental policies, the structure of armed forces, and many more. |
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| War & Terrorism Collection |
InfoTrac |
A definitive collection for students of history, social science and current events, providing insight into conflicts and their multiple causes. References include 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals. |
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| Music |
| Naxos Music Library |
Naxos |
Provides access to over 75,000 tracks and more than 5,000 CDs with over 2,500 composers represented. The library offers the
complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues as well as Jazz and World
music and educational products. |
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| Newspapers |
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Berkshire Eagle |
Proquest |
Full-text coverage for Pittsfield, MA, Berkshire County, and 4 nearby New York communities from 2005. |
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Boston Globe
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Proquest |
Full-text coverage from 1980. |
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Boston Herald
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Proquest |
Full-text coverage from from 1991. |
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BusinessWest (Chicopee)
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Proquest |
Full-text bi-weekly business journal for western MA from 1992. |
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Gazette (Haverhill, MA)
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Proquest |
Full-text local news from 12/31/92 to 8/9/07. |
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| LexisNexis |
Lexis/
Nexis |
Allows access to a wide range of full-text newspapers (including the New York Times and Boston Globe) as well as business, legal, and reference information sources. |
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| Massachusetts Newsstand |
Proquest |
Full-text coverage of 12 Massachusetts newspapers. |
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| Newspaper Source |
EBSCO |
Provides full text for 139 regional U.S. newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, six newswires, and nine newspaper columns, The Christian Science Monitor and The Los Angeles Times, for a total of 174 full text newspapers and other sources. |
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| The New York Times |
InfoTrac |
Full-text of The New York Times from 1995-
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North Adams Transcript
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Proquest |
Full-text news, commentary, obituaries, classified and information on the northern Berkshire region from 2005. |
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The Patriot Ledger (Quincy, MA) |
Proquest |
Full-text coverage from 1991. |
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Plymouth County Business Review
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Proquest |
Full-text business news for Plymouth County & southeastern MA from 1991. |
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Sentinel & Enterprise (Fitchburg, MA)
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Proquest |
Full-text coverage of news for Fitchburg from 2005. |
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Standard Times (New Bedford)
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Proquest |
Full text local news from 1/4/92 to 8/19/97. |
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The Sun (Lowell, MA)
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Proquest |
Full-text coverage of news from Lowell, MA & the Merrimack Valley from 2004. |
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Worcester Telegram and Gazette
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Proquest |
Full-text coverage of Worcester and Central Massachusetts news from 1989. |
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| Open/Free Access Journals |
| Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ) |
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This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, and aims to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 2622 journals in the directory. Currently 789 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 130318 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
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| Highwire Press |
Stanford |
A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1036 journals and 4,238,530 full text articles from over 130 scholarly publishers. HighWire-hosted publishers have collectively made 1,691,047 articles free. |
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| Professional Development |
| Professional Collection |
InfoTrac |
Full-text periodicals for teachers and school administrators. |
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| Professional Development Collection |
EBSCO |
Provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 440 full text journals, designed for professional educators. |
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| Psychology |
| Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection |
EBSCO |
A comprehensive database with nearly 480 full text titles covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. |
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| Psychology Collection |
InfoTrac |
This collection gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops over time. Users will have access to 200 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals, complemented by 16 eBook titles. |
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| Readers' Advisory |
| NoveList |
EBSCO |
An electronic readers' advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. NoveList allows readers to use a favorite author or title as a template to locate other authors and titles of interest. Readers can also enter words that describe the contents of a book they would like to read, and NoveList retrieves titles that contain these words in the book's subject headings field. |
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| Religion & Philosophy |
| Religion & Philosophy Collection |
EBSCO |
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. |
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| Religion & Philosophy Database |
InfoTrac |
This custom collection provideds coverage of different religions, philosophies and how they impact our daily lives. Two hundred and fifty subject-appropriate full-text periodicals are included. |
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| Science |
| Environmental Issues & Policy Collection |
InfoTrac |
A custom collection of nearly 200 journals providing robust coverage of environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests. |
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| Gardening, Landscape & Horticulture Collection |
InfoTrac |
A custom collection of nearly 50 journals focused on key issues in gardening, landscapting, and other areas of horticulture. |
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| General Science Collection |
InfoTrac |
A custom collection of over 200 journals, providing researchers with the information needed to stay current on the latest scientific developments -- including such topics as particle physics, advanced mathematics, and nanotechnology. |
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| GreenFILE |
EBSCO |
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. |
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| Science Full-Text Select |
Wilson |
This 100% full text science database includes all content from Wilson’s Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, and General Science Full Text, plus additional related full text science titles indexed by other Wilson databases including Readers’ Guide Full Text and Wilson OmniFile Full Text. |
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| Science Online |
Facts on File |
A curriculum-oriented database that offers a
comprehensive, authoritative overview of the sciences. Diagrams, experiments, essays, definitions, and biographies are arranged by topic and contain thousands of hyperlinks
that create thematic paths through the content. |
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| Specialized |
| Global Road Warrior |
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Designed for business travelers, this database covers 175 countries, providing business culture insights, key facts and telecommunications information. An excellent resource for travelers or for understanding those from other nations. |
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| Serials Directory |
EBSCO |
Provides up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information and pricing for over 178,500 U.S. and international periodicals. |
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| WorldCat |
OCLC |
OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. |
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