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Pop Culture Universe
An authoritative digital library of information on American and world popular culture, past and present. Search by decade, subject, quick search, or use the index. Great for College Composition and First Year Seminar students. Helpful in selecting topics and writing argumentative essays. There is much to explore in this rich resource.
InfoTrac Gale Database Collection
Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,650 journals, including full text for more than 3,900 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.
CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher provides in-depth reports on current, hot, and controversial topics such as "Embryo Research," "Rethinking Ritalin," "Drinking on Campus," and "Subsidized Access to the Internet for the Poor." CQ offers balanced introductions to these issues and includes a generous selection of cross-references to past reports, as well as excellent tables and graphs.
Biography Resource Center + Marquis Who's Who®
combines Gale biographies with related full-text articles from magazines and newspapers, thousands of images, and links to vetted websites. Search for current or historic figures based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as keyword and full text. Fully integrated, the Marquis Who's Who® module provides quick reference information on over 1 million additional people whose entries have appeared in more than 22 Marquis sources published from 1985 to the present.
Biography Websites
A list of websites, selected by a reference librarian, for finding various biograpical information.
Literary Reference Center
Select "Browse Authors" for author biographies. Available off campus.
Courtesy of funding provided by the MetroWest Massachusetts Regional Library Consortium.
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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.
Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,650 journals, including full text for more than 3,900 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.
AccessScience
Full-text access to articles and research updates in all areas of science and technology — updated daily.
Directory of Open Access Journals
A searchable directory providing access to scientific and medical journals published online. Search the full-text collection of over 63,000 articles.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic
Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. In addition, this database includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
Health Reference Center Academic: select this database from the list of Gale databases
This database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information. Health Reference Center Academic is also available off campus.
PubMed
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
PubMed Central
The U.S. National Institutes of Health's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
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. 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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ABI/INFORM
Click on "Databases selected" and select the ABI/INFORM databases from the list.
Includes ABI/INFORM Dateline for local and regional business publications; ABI/INFORM Global for journals, company profiles, Wall Street Journal; and ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry for trade and industry periodicals.
CountryWatch
Full-text geopolitical information on each of the 192 countries of the world.
General BusinessFile ASAP
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.
LexisNexis Academic Universe
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information.
ProQuest Entrepreneurship
Select "Business-Entrepreneurship" from the drop down menu of databases.
Worldwide publications and multi-media related to the topic of Entrepreneurship. Scholarly journals, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings. Also includes guides, templates, forms, sample business plans, and tips from successful entrepreneurs.
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ERIC
the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,300,000 records and links to more than 317,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966. This is the ERIC.gov database from EBSCO Publishing
Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,650 journals, including full text for more than 3,900 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.
Educator's Reference Complete: select this database from the list of Gale databases.
Selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many reference sources. 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. Updated daily. Available off campus.
ERIC.gov
Education Resources Information Center, An online digital library of education research and information. Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. Provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.
Teacher Reference Center
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
Courtesy of funding provided by the MetroWest Massachusetts Regional Library Consortium.
Info Trac Educator's eCollection: select this database from the list of Gale databases.
1,683,312 articles updated daily. Available off campus.
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Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select
An extensive collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors. Contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study.
Literary Reference Center
Provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text 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. Available off campus.
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LexisNexis Academic Universe
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information.
Massachusetts Newsstand
Provides full text access to the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, The Berkshire Eagle, BusinessWest (Chicopee), The North Adams Transcript, The Patriot Ledger (Quincy), Plymouth County Business Review, Sentinel & Enterprise (Fitchburg), The Sun (Lowell), Telegram & Gazette (Worcester), Gazette (Haverhill), Standard Times (New Bedford).
Courtesy of funding from the MetroWest Massachusetts Regional Library Consortium.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2005)
Select "News-The Historical New York Times" from the drop down menu of databases.
Coverage: Sept 18,1851-Dec 31, 2005
ProQuest Historical Newspapers The Wall Street Journal (1889 - 1991)
Select "News-The Historical Wall Street Journal" from the drop down menu of databases.
Coverage: July 8, 1889-Dec 31, 1991
ProQuest Newspapers
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Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
A comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. The world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 600 journals.
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, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images!
PsycARTICLES EBSCOhost (Full-text)
American Psychological Association's (APA) definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. Contains more than 134,000 articles from 66 journals published by the APA, and its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychology Association and Hogrefe Publishing Group.
PsycINFO EBSCOhost (Abstracts Only)
American Psychological Association’s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations and the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Contains over 2.5 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the early 1800s. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,200 periodicals in more than 27 languages.
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American National Biography
17,000 full-text biographies of deceased Americans whose lives have 'shaped the nation.' Includes illustrations and web site links. Published by Oxford Univ. Press.
CountryWatch
Full-text geopolitical information on each of the 192 countries of the world.
CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher provides in-depth reports on current, hot, and controversial topics such as "Embryo Research," "Rethinking Ritalin," "Drinking on Campus," and "Subsidized Access to the Internet for the Poor." CQ offers balanced introductions to these issues and includes a generous selection of cross-references to past reports, as well as excellent tables and graphs.
Directory of Open Access Journals
A searchable directory providing access to social science journals published online. Search the full-text collection of over 63,000 articles.
LexisNexis Academic Universe
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information.
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, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images!
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
indexes more than 690 periodicals, 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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