Library Catalogs
NOBLE / Peabody Library Catalog Virtual Catalog (staff login) MassCat WorldCatOnline Research Resources
(full-text, professional, journal articles, reference books, newspapers, encyclopedias)
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Automobile Repair and Maintenance
•Auto Repair Reference Center - for vehicles from 1945 - 2009.
Biography Resources
•EBSCO: MasterFile Premier- Choose "biographies" for publication.
•INFOTRAC: Biography Resource Center with Marquis Who's Who
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Business Resources
•EBSCO: Business Source Premier- Full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Includes all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.
•EBSCO: Regional Business News. Covers 75 newspapers, newswires and journals from the U.S.
•INFOTRAC: General Business File ASAP
Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics.
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Consumer
Encyclopedias
•EBSCO: Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia- over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
•Grolier OnLine- 36,000 entries intended for students in middle school and up and as a quick reference look-up tool for public library patrons of all ages. New Book of Knowledge: 9,000 articles suitable for grade 3 and up as well as ESL. Provides description of complex subjects in an easy-to-understand manner. (Click here for remote access.)
•INFOTRAC: Gale Virtual Reference Library
Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the World, World Almanac, Book of Facts*, and more.
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Flu Information
• Masspro: Looking for a Flu Clinic?
• EBSCO: Influenza Free Evidence-Based Information Portal
For Students
•EBSCO: Academic Search Elite- Full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study. More than 100 journals have PDF images back to 1985.
•INFOTRAC: Academic OneFile
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•INFOTRAC: Expanded Academic ASAP
Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers (many with full text and images!) across all academic disciplines.
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•INFOTRAC: Student Edition
Designed for high-school students, database accesses 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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•INFOTRAC: Gale Virtual Reference Library
Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the World, World Almanac, Book of Facts*, and more.
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•INFOTRAC: Junior Edition
(K - Gr. 12)- Designed for students in junior high and middle school 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 & more.
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•INFOTRAC: Kids InfoBits
(K - Gr. 5)- Especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten--Gr. 5
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EBSCO Kids Search- Designed for youth in Grades K8th
•EBSCO: Middle Search Plus- Full text for 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research. Also contains 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags.
•EBSCO: Primary Search- Full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. Full text information dates as far back as 1990 and are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
For Teachers
EBSCO: Professional Development Collection- Highly specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.
INFOTRAC: Educator's Reference Complete
Full text periodicals for teachers and school administrators.
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EBSCO: ERIC- Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
Genealogy
Ancestry.com- "In-library" use only. Instant access to a wide range of unique resources for genealogical and historical researchincluding 4 billion names in over 3,400 databases; includes records from the United States census; military records; court, land, and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists, and more.
Heritage Quest- Includes the digitized UMI Genealogy & Local History Collection, 1790-1930 U.S. Federal Census, the Periodical Source Index (PERSI), and the Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files.
Obituaries
Boston Globe,(1872--1922); New York Times, (1851--1994) and other majors newspapers.
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General Resources
Congressional Quarterly Politics
EBSCO: MasterFILE Premier- Magazine and newspaper articles, full text reference books, primary source documents and images.
INFOTRAC: Infotrac OneFile
One-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics.
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INFOTRAC: General Reference Center Gold
Latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, arts & sciences, sports & hobbies.
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eLibrary- Information from books, magazines and newspapers that includes maps, images, radio and television transcripts. Click here for access from home.
EBSCO: GreenFile: All things environmental from Air & Waste to Zoologica Scripta.
• NOBLE Internet Subject Guides
Health Resources
INFOTRAC: Health Reference Center Academic
Integrates the full text and images of respected nursing, allied health and medical journals, consumer health magazines, newsletters, pamphlets, newspaper articles, topical overviews, and reference books.
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EBSCO: Health Source: Consumer Edition- Information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
EBSCO: Health Source: Nursing / Academic Edition- 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines along with abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.
EBSCO: MEDLINE- 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.
• Healthcare.gov- Launched by the U.S. government, this site is designed to help Americans understand the Health Care Reform Act.
Job Search Resources
•Job Search: Online and Print Resources (pdf brochure)
• Job Seekers Find Valuable Support at the Library
• LearingExpress: Job and Career Accelerator
Languages: Free Tutorials
Law
Please see the Reference Librarian for access to Code of Massachusetts Regulations (CMR). This is only available in the library.
Magazines
eLibrary (click here for home access)
INFOTRAC: General Reference Center Gold
Latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, arts & sciences, sports & hobbies.
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Massachusetts Resources
INFOTRAC: Massachusetts History Online
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Massachusetts Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections Directory- Guide and locator of collections residing in Massachusetts libraries, archives, historical societies and town clerk's offices.
Massachusetts Recovery and Reinvestment Plan
• State Library of Massachusetts: DSpace
• Goods and Services Bulletin
Newspapers
ProQuest CSA: Massachusetts Newstand
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Banner (West Boylston)
Berkshire Eagle 2005 to current
Boston Globe 1980 to current
Boston Globe (pre-1997 full text)
Boston Herald 1991 to current
Business West (Chicopee) 1992 to current
The Item (Clinton)
Montachusett T&G (Worchester)
New England Business (Dublin)
North Adams Transcript 2005 to current
Patriot Ledger(Quincy) 1991 to current
Plymouth County Business Review 1991 to current
The Record (Shrewsbury)
Sentinel & Enterprise(Fitchburg) 2005 to current
Sun, The (Lowell) 2004 to current
Telegram & Gazette(Worcester) 1989 to current
Gazette(Haverhill, Mass.) 12-31-92 to 8-9-97
Standard Times(New Bedford) 1-4-92 to 8-19-97
INFOTRAC: New York Times 1995+
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EBSCO: Newspaper Source- Selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. It also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 260 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
eLibrary: Newspapers, wire services, TV and radio covering the U.S. and the world, from The Australian to Xinhua (China) (click here for home access)
Readers and Literature Resources
EBSCO: Literary Reference Center- Critiques of authors and their works.
EBSCO: Novelist- Fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews,
INFOTRAC: Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
More than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors. Allows users to search by author name, title of work, nationality, subject/genre, ethnicity, critic name, and more.
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OCLC WorldCat- Cooperative database of bibliographic records contributed by more than 57,000 libraries, making it the worlds largest, most complete, and most consulted library catalog.
Super Searches/BPL Electronic Resources
INFOTRAC: Powersearch
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EBSCO: Super Search- Use this link to search multiple databases.
Test Preparation
LearningExpressLibrary- A comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons succeed on academic or licensing tests.