Art - Digital Books - Reading Suggestions - American History
Biographies - Business - Health - Literature - Magazines - Newspapers
Reference - Social Issues and Controversies - Science - Students K-12
The following databases are funded by the C/WMARS library network and require a valid library card number to access:
Art
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.
Digital Books
NetLibrary
Electronic books on popular topics such as travel, computers, consumer health, and business.
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Reading Suggestions
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.
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American History
African-American History Online
Provides expansive and in-depth coverage of the people, events and topics important to the study of African-American history.
American History Online
A database spanning more than 500 years of political, military, social and cultural history and highlighting the important people and events of the American experience.
American Women’s History Online
Provides expansive and in-depth coverage of the people, events, legislations and issues important to the study of the history of women in the United States.
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:
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.
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Biographies
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.
Business
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.
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Health
Health Reference Center Academic
Full-text resources including consumer health, nursing and allied health.
Literature
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
An extensive collection of critical essays and biographical information on contemporary writers.
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Reference
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Over 20 full-text reference books covering the arts, biography, business, environment,
history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, geography, and science.
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.
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Magazines
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.
Professional Collection
Over 300 full-text journals for educators, administrators, and librarians.
InfoTrac OneFile
A comprehensive periodical resource that puts more than 39 million database records at researchers’ fingertips.
Qikan Library
Access to over 100 full-text popular magazine publications from mainland China.
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Newspapers
NewsBank
Provides full-text access to individual newspaper titles.
Boston Globe - 1980-current
Boston Herald - 1991-current
Worcester Telegram & Gazette - 1988 - present
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Science
Science Online (grades 6-12)
Science Online provides diagrams, experiments, essays, definitions and biographies
arranged by topic and contains hyperlinks that create paths through the content.
Social Issues and Controversies
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.
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Students K-12
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.
Kids’ Infobits (grades K-12)
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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