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Art Online NoveList
Arts & Humanities
Business, Economics, Company, Directories &
Personal Finance Electronic
Books
General Magazines for
K-12 Students Medicine & Health
Newspapers
Non-English Language Scholarly
Journals
Science & Technology Social
Sciences
The following databases are funded
by the C/WMARS library network and require a valid library
card number to access:
Grove
Art Online
Grove Art Online provides web
access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art, ed.
Jane Turner
(1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art,
ed. Hugh Brigstocke (2001). There
are over 165,000 articles with over 3000 thumbnail art images and
line drawing displayed in the
text of articles, extensive image links, and sophisticated search
and navigation tools.
NoveList
NoveList is a fiction
database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations,
and
much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other
content of interest to fiction
readers, such as Author Read-a-likes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion
Guides, Book Talks,
and Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists and teachers
there are Picture Book
Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction.
The following databases are
funded by the MA Board of Library Commissioners and the MA
Regional Library Systems and are accessed through the MBLC website.
They require a valid
library card number to login.
Gale Group Databases
– InfoTrac
The Gale’s Group of proprietary reference databases
provides full-text articles from periodicals,
journals, research reports and reference books back to 1980. Databases
include:
Arts
and Humanities
Academic
OneFile
Academic OneFile contains 8,000 academic journals,
mainly in full-text, available in HTML and
PDF formats. It also contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts
from NPR, CNN, and the
CBC, as well as full-text New York Times content to 1995.
Biography
Resource Center w/ Marquis Who’s Who
This database contains biographies
covering literary figures, science, multicultural studies,
business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history,
current events and the arts.
Includes over one million thumbnail biographies from the Complete
Marquis Who’s Who, the
Who's Who of African Americans, and 250 full-text periodicals.
Contemporary
Literary Criticism Select
An extensive collection of critical
essays and biographical information on contemporary writers.
Expanded
Academic ASAP Plus
Scholarly content covering arts and
humanities, the social sciences and general sciences.
General
Reference Center Gold
Full-text magazines, newspapers and
reference books containing information on current events,
popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences,
sports, hobbies and more.
Grolier
Online
Encyclopedia Americana blends the print edition with
the currency of an online reference work.
Its 45,000 articles and more than 25 million words have been contributed
by over 6,000 specialists
in their respective disciplines and cover all academic fields and
curriculum topics. Updated quarterly,
the Americana Online can now be used either as a stand-alone source
of current information on
almost any topic or as a guide to the resources of the World Wide
Web.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia contains thousands
of new and expanded articles, extensive
hyperlinking, bibliographies and links to other sources of information
on the Web.
Updated monthly.
InfoTrac
OneFile
A comprehensive periodical resource that puts more
than 39 million database records at researchers’
fingertips.
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Business,
Economics, Company Directories and Personal Finance
Academic
OneFile
Academic OneFile contains 8,000 academic journals,
mainly in full-text, available in HTML and
PDF formats. It also contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts
from NPR, CNN, and the
CBC, as well as full-text New York Times content to 1995.
Business
and Company ASAP
Full-text business and management articles.
Expanded
Academic ASAP Plus
Scholarly content covering arts and
humanities, the social sciences and general sciences.
General
Business File ASAP
This database contains full-text business
and management topics. Includes directory listings
for over 150,000 companies as well as an investment analysts’
report on major companies
and industries.
InfoTrac
OneFile
A comprehensive periodical resource that puts more than 39 million
database records
at researchers’ fingertips.
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Electronic
Books
Gale
Virtual Reference Library
Over 20 full-text reference books covering
the arts, biography, business, environment,
history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, geography,
and science.
NetLibrary
Electronic books on popular topics such as
travel, computers, consumer health, and business.
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General
Academic
OneFile
Academic OneFile contains 8,000 academic journals, mainly in full-text,
available in
HTML and PDF formats. It also contains hundreds of podcasts and
transcripts from
NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full-text New York Times content
to 1995.
Biography
Resource Center w/ Marquis Who’s Who
This database contains biographies
covering literary figures, science, multicultural
studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government,
history, current events
and the arts. Includes over one million thumbnail biographies from
the Complete Marquis
Who’s Who, the Who's Who of African Americans, and 250 full-text
periodicals.
Expanded
Academic ASAP Plus
Scholarly content covering arts and
humanities, the social sciences and general sciences.
General
Reference Center Gold
Full-text magazines, newspapers and
reference books containing information on current
events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts
and sciences, sports, hobbies
and more.
Grolier
OnLine
Encyclopedia Americana blends the print
edition with the currency of an online reference work.
Its 45,000 articles and more than 25 million words have been contributed
by over 6,000
specialists in their respective disciplines and cover all academic
fields and curriculum topics.
Updated quarterly, the Americana Online can now be used either as
a stand-alone source of
current information on almost any topic or as a guide to the resources
of the World Wide Web.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia contains thousands of new and expanded
articles, extensive
hyper-linking, bibliographies and links to other sources of information
on the Web. Updated monthly.
InfoTrac
OneFile
A comprehensive periodical resource that puts more than
39 million database records at
researchers’ fingertips.
PowerSearch
Not sure which subject category your topic belongs in? PowerSearch
makes it possible to find
subjects from A-Z in one or several of the Thomson Gale’s
periodical databases in a single search.
Qikan
Library
Access to over 100 full-text popular magazine publications from
mainland China.
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Magazines
for K to 12 Students
Facts
on File: Issues and Controversies
A comprehensive online source of current, in-depth
and objective information on
the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day.
Grolier
Online
Encyclopedia Americana blends the print edition with the currency
of an online reference work. Its
45,000 articles and more than 25 million words have been contributed
by over 6,000 specialists in
their respective disciplines and cover all academic fields and curriculum
topics. Updated quarterly,
the Americana Online can now be used either as a stand-alone source
of current information on
almost any topic or as a guide to the resources of the World Wide
Web.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia contains thousands of new
and expanded articles, extensive
hyper-linking, bibliographies and links to other sources of information
on the Web.
Updated monthly.
InfoTrac
Junior Edition
(grades 5 to 12)
Mainly full-text magazines, newspaper and reference books for junior
high and middle school
students covering current events, the arts, science, popular culture,
health, people, government,
history, sports and more.
InfoTrac
Student Edition
(grades 9 to 12)
Mainly full-text magazines, newspaper and reference books for grades
9 to 12 covering current
events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government,
history, sports and more.
InfoTrac
OneFile
A comprehensive periodical resource that puts more
than 39 million database records at
researchers’ fingertips.
Kids
InfoBits -
(K to 5 students)
Covering 75 full-text curriculum-related magazines and 7 reference
books. It features a
developmentally appropriate and visual graphic interface and a subject-based
topic tree search.
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Medicine
and Health
General
Reference Center Gold
Full-text magazines, newspapers and
reference books containing information on current events,
popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences,
sports, hobbies and more.
Health
Reference Center Academic
Full-text resources including consumer health, nursing and allied
health.
InfoTrac
OneFile
A comprehensive periodical resource that puts more than 39 million
database records
at researchers’ fingertips.
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to Top
Newspapers
Academic
OneFile
Academic OneFile contains 8,000 academic journals, mainly in full-text,
available in HTML
and PDF formats. It also contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts
from NPR, CNN, and
the CBC, as well as full-text New York Times content to 1995.
Boston
Globe
- 1980-current
Boston
Herald - 1991-current
NewsBank
Provides full-text access to individual newspaper titles.
The
Republican (Springfield,
MA) - 1988 to current
Worcester
Telegram & Gazette –
1989 to current
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Non-English
Language
Qikan
Library
Access to over 100 full-text popular magazine publications from
mainland China.
Scholarly
Journals
Academic
OneFile
Academic OneFile contains 8,000 academic journals, mainly in full-text,
available in
HTML and PDF formats. It also contains hundreds of podcasts and
transcripts from
NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full-text New York Times content
to 1995.
Expanded
Academic ASAP Plus
Scholarly content covering arts and humanities, the social sciences
and general sciences.
Health Reference Center Academic.
Full-text resources including consumer health, nursing and allied
health.
InfoTrac
OneFile
A comprehensive periodical resource that puts more
than 39 million database
records at researchers’ fingertips.
Professional
Collection
Over 300 full-text journals for educators, administrators, and librarians.
Qikan
Library
Access to over 100 full-text popular magazine publications from
mainland China.
Back
to Top Science
and Technology
Academic
OneFile
Academic OneFile contains 8,000 academic journals, mainly in full-text,
available
in HTML and PDF formats. It also contains hundreds of podcasts and
transcripts
from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full-text New York Times
content to 1995.
Biography
Resource Center w/ Marquis Who’s Who
This database contains biographies
covering literary figures, science, multicultural studies,
business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history,
current events and the arts.
Includes over one million thumbnail biographies from the Complete
Marquis Who’s Who,
the Who's Who of African Americans, and 250 full-text periodicals.
Expanded
Academic ASAP Plus
Scholarly content covering arts and
humanities, the social sciences and general sciences.
General
Reference Center Gold
Full-text magazines, newspapers and
reference books containing information on current
events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts
and sciences, sports,
hobbies and more.
Grolier
Online
Encyclopedia Americana blends the print edition with the currency
of an online reference
work. Its 45,000 articles and more than 25 million words have been
contributed by over
6,000 specialists in their respective disciplines and cover all
academic fields and curriculum
topics. Updated quarterly, the Americana Online can now be used
either as a stand-alone
source of current information on almost any topic or as a guide
to the resources of the
World Wide Web.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia contains thousands of new and expanded
articles,
extensive hyper-linking, bibliographies and links to other sources
of information on the Web.
Updated monthly.
Health
Reference Center Academic
Full-text resources including consumer health, nursing and allied
health.
InfoTrac
OneFile
A comprehensive periodical resource that puts more than 39 million
database records
at researchers’ fingertips.
Science
Online
(grades 6 to 12)
Science Online provides diagrams, experiments, essays, definitions
and biographies
arranged by topic and contains hyperlinks that create paths through
the content.
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to Top
Social
Sciences
Academic
OneFile
Academic OneFile contains 8,000 academic journals, mainly in full-text,
available
in HTML and PDF formats. It also contains hundreds of pod casts
and transcripts
from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full-text New York Times
content to 1995.
Biography
Resource Center w/Marquis Who’s Who
This database contains biographies
covering literary figures, science, multicultural
studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government,
history, current events
and the arts. Includes over one million thumbnail biographies from
the Complete Marquis
Who’s Who, the Who's Who of African Americans, and 250 full-text
periodicals.
Expanded
Academic ASAP Plus
Scholarly content covering arts and
humanities, the social sciences and general sciences.
Facts
on File: Issues and Controversies
A comprehensive online source of current,
in-depth and objective information on the
most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day
General
Reference Center Gold
Full-text magazines, newspapers and
reference books containing information on current
events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts
and sciences, sports, hobbies and more.
Grolier
Online
Encyclopedia Americana blends the print edition with the currency
of an online reference
work. Its 45,000 articles and more than 25 million words have been
contributed by over
6,000 specialists in their respective disciplines and cover all
academic fields and curriculum
topics. Updated quarterly, the Americana Online can now be used
either as a stand-alone
source of current information on almost any topic or as a guide
to the resources of the
World Wide Web.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia contains thousands of new and expanded
articles,
extensive hyper-linking, bibliographies and links to other sources
of information on the Web.
Updated monthly.
InfoTrac
OneFile
A comprehensive periodical resource
that puts more than 39 million database records at
researchers’ fingertips.
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