| Title |
Subject |
Description |
| A to Z Maps Online |
Maps |
The world's largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. New maps are added to the collection every month. |
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| Academic Onefile |
Academic/Scholarly |
Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources includes extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, and full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily. |
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| Academic Search Premier |
Academic/Scholarly |
This multi-disciplinary database provides full-text for more than 4,500 journals, including full-text for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. |
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| Academic Search Premier |
Literature |
This multi-disciplinary database provides full-text for more than 4,500 journals, including full-text for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. |
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| Biography Resource Center |
Biography |
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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| Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic |
Nursing/Allied Health |
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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| Business Searching Interface |
Business |
A highly focused user interface created especially for the business searcher. BSI provides an easy way to both browse and search for country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research. |
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| Business Source Premier |
Business |
Provides full-text for 3,650 scholarly business journals, including full-text for 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Provides full-text for more than 300 scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Updated daily. |
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| Chronicle of Higher Education |
Education |
The Chronicle of Higher Education is available on campus only. |
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| Chronicle of Higher Education |
News Sources |
The Chronicle of Higher Education is available on campus only. |
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| CINAHL |
Nursing/Allied Health |
CINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for 2,928 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981. |
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| Contemporary Literary Criticism |
Literature |
An extensive collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study. Updated monthly, database allows users to search by author name, title of work, nationality, subject/genre, ethnicity, critic name, and more. |
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| CQ Researcher |
Social Studies |
Founded in 1923 as Editorial Research Reports, CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published weekly in print and online 44 times a year by CQ Press, a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc. |
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| Credo Reference |
Reference |
Credo is an online reference library, providing access to the full-text of hundreds of highly regarded and popular titles. And Credo brings the facts alive with images, sound files, animations, videos and much more. Find speedy, simple answers and authoritative, in-depth articles. Credo Reference contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopaedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range or subject-specific titles covering everything from accounting to zoology, via maps, math, management, martial arts, media studies, medicine, mountains, moons, music, multimedia, mythology.
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| Criminal Justice Periodicals |
Criminal Justice |
ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals Index™ is a comprehensive database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals. The database provides research support for students interested in careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security. The database includes abstract and indexing for 240 titles, with more than 80 available in full-text. |
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| EBSCO Host (all databases) |
General |
Use this link to search all EBSCO databases. Click on "Academic Search Premier…" to view all databses that will be searched. |
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| Educators Reference Complete |
Education |
Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database. The database is updated daily and provides 24-hour access from school or home. |
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| eLibrary |
General |
Students find the answers they need from more than 2,500 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts--plus thousands of maps, pictures, educator-approved websites from Homework Central®, and top-quality multimedia (audio/video) files. |
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| Encyclopedia Britannica Online |
Encyclopedias |
Access to high-quality, comprehensive information. Combines the Encyclopædia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools to provide the variety of reliable sources that students need to consult when conducting thorough research—all from one database. |
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| ERIC |
Education |
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full-text documents from ERIC. |
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| Expanded Academic ASAP |
Academic/Scholarly |
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full-text and images. |
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| Expanded Academic ASAP |
Literature |
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full-text and images. |
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| Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia |
Encyclopedias |
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. |
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| Gale Databases(all databases) |
General |
View all Info Trac databases. |
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| Gale Virtual Reference Library |
Reference |
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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| General Business File ASAP |
Business |
Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full-text and images available. |
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| General Onefile |
General |
This interface allows you to search all InfoTrac databases at once. |
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| General Reference Center Gold |
General |
A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more. |
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| GreenFILE |
Environment |
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. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full-text for more than 4,700 records. |
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| Health Reference Center: Academic |
Nursing/Allied Health |
Multi-source database provides access to the full-text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only. |
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| Health Source: Consumer Edition |
Nursing/Allied Health |
Providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full-text, consumer health magazines. |
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| Health Source: Nursing/Academic |
Nursing/Allied Health |
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names. |
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| Info Trac Student Edition |
K-12 |
Now with over 1100 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. |
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| International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences , 2nd ed., 9v, 2008 |
Encyclopedias |
Covers scholarship and fields that have emerged and matured since the publication of the original international edition. Highlights the expanding influence of economics in social science research and features new articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences. |
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| International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed., 9v, 2008 |
Social Studies |
Covers scholarship and fields that have emerged and matured since the publication of the original international edition. Highlights the expanding influence of economics in social science research and features new articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences. |
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| Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts |
Reference |
Indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. |
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| Literary Reference Center |
Literature |
A comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a comprehensive database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works and is an essential resource for public, academic and high school libraries. |
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| Literature Criticism Online |
Literature |
Literature Criticism Online includes the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals - delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. The net result is tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays at your fingertips. |
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| MAS Ultra - School Edition |
K-12 |
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full-text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full-text reference books, 85,639 biographies, 104,481 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 285,912 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines. |
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| Massachusetts History Online |
Reference |
Contains full-text articles gathered from almost 50 sources that directly relate to MA history. |
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| Masterfile Premier |
General |
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full-text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full-text reference books, full-text from 86,017 biographies, 105,786 full-text primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 341,655 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily. |
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| Medical Journals |
Nursing/Allied Health |
Free Access Medical Journals Via UMASS Medical Library. Access to 4836 medical journals. |
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| MEDLINE |
Nursing/Allied Health |
MEDLINE 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 (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. |
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| Military & Government Collection |
Reference |
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full-text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles. |
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| New York Times Today |
News Sources |
Search the full-text of The New York Times (starting in 1995). |
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| Newsbank |
News Sources |
The electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers--all in one easy-to-search database. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded. Includes Cape Cod Times, and America’s news magazines |
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| Newspaper Source |
News Sources |
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full-text for 35 national & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full-text for more than 375 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full-text television & radio news transcripts are also provided. |
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| Opposing Viewpoints |
Social Studies |
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards. |
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| Pre-CINAHL |
Nursing/Allied Health |
A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to searchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing. |
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| Primary Search |
K-12 |
Primary Search® contains full text for more than 70 popular, elementary school magazines. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Additionally, Primary Search includes the Encyclopedia of Animals™, and features the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, which provides students with easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids. This database also provides the American Heritage® Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection of over 460,000 photos, maps and flags. |
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| Professional Development Collection |
Education |
Designed for professional educators, this comprehensive database provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. |
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| Proquest (all databases) |
General |
Use this link to view all Proquest databases. |
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| ProQuest Newspapers (Includes Wall Street Journal |
Business |
ProQuest Newspapers detailed indexing helps researchers quickly find the news information they need. The indexing covers not only complete bibliographic information but also subjects, companies, people, products, and geographic areas.Includes Boston Globe, Boston Herald, New York Times, Patriot Ledger, Wall Street Journal. |
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| ProQuest Newspapers (Includes Wall Street Journal |
News Sources |
ProQuest Newspapers detailed indexing helps researchers quickly find the news information they need. The indexing covers not only complete bibliographic information but also subjects, companies, people, products, and geographic areas.Includes Boston Globe, Boston Herald, New York Times, Patriot Ledger, Wall Street Journal. |
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| Psychology & Behavioral Science Collection |
Psychology |
This database provides nearly 575 full-text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full-text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. |
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| Regional Business News |
Business |
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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| Religion and Philosophy Collection |
Social Studies |
Religion & Philosophy Collection 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. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers nearly 300 full-text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies. |
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| Salem Health: Cancer |
Nursing/Allied Health |
835 essays on all aspects of cancer for all nonspecialist interest groups - from those who have been diagnosed to caregivers, family members, students, and readers with a general interest in health. The essays address diseases, conditions, symptoms, cancer-related syndromes, chemotherapy and other drugs and drug classes, cancer centers, genetics, the biology of cancer, medical specialties, tests, procedures, complementary and alternative therapies, lifestyles, healthy and preventive strategies, and the many social and personal issues surrounding cancer, from cancer's impact on minority populations to personal finances, insurance, personal relationships, and emotional coping. Written by physicians, nurses, and professional medical writers whose credentials and degrees are clearly listed in the byline to every essay, this comprehensive reference publication will be of interest not only to public library patrons but also to premedical students and those building collections for the patient population. |
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| Salem History: Milestone documents of American leaders |
Social Studies |
A biographical approach to the study of primary source documents from U.S. presidents and other government figures to influential private citizens, this database features important full-text sources written by the people who shaped the nation. Covers more than 120 notable Americans from the Revolutionary era to the present day. Each entry provides a brief overview of the person's life and times as well as in-depth analysis about the key primary source documents that the person produced. The full text of each document is also included, along with vocabulary keys. |
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| Salem History: The Eighties In America |
Social Studies |
Covers events, movements, people, and trends in popular culture, literature, art, sports, science, technology, economics, and politics in both the United States and Canada. The set's 663 articles discuss people, books, films, television series, musical groups, and other important topics representative of that era. Every entry focuses on the topic or person during the 1980's - for this work, defined as January 1, 1980, through December 31, 1989 - in order to explore what made the decade unique. |
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| Science Reference Center |
Science |
Science Reference Center - a comprehensive research database designed to meet every student’s science research needs. Contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources. |
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| Serials Directory |
Reference |
The Serials Directory provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials. It contains nearly 212,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers; data from nearly 108,235 publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet addresses; and Library Classifications for every entry. |
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| Teacher Reference Center |
Education |
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators. |
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