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Academic/Educators Research
Educator’s Reference Complete
Academic journals, full-text reports and reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education.
Academic OneFile Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from journals and reference sources. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
Expanded Academic ASAP Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers – many with full text and images!
Health Reference Center Academic Multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources.
Automotive/Small Engine Repair
ALLDATA online (in-library use only)
Factory correct automotive information for your vehicle.
Biography
Biography Resource Center Includes full-text articles from magazines and newspapers, images, and links to vetted websites.
FACTS ON FILE Science On-line Includes biographies of scientists
Business, Company Directories & Personal Finance
Financial Ratings Series
Financial Ratings Series, published by Grey House Publishing, combines the strength of Weiss Ratings and TheStreet Ratings to offer the library community with a single source for financial strength ratings and financial planning tools covering Insurance, Banks, Mutual Funds and Stocks.
General Business File 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.
Small Business Resource Center 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.
Encyclopedia of Small Business 2nd Ed. Designed to provide entrepreneurs with how-to information that they can apply to their own business. Includes financing, financial planning, business plan creation, market analysis, sales strategy, tax planning, and human resource issues.
Careers & Testing
Career Cruising Online career guidance and planning system. Helps people of all ages to find the right career, explore education and training options, and build their own portfolio. An easy-to-navigate database for career exploration and development
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center An easy-to-navigate database for career exploration and development
JuJu – Job Search Engine
Monster.com – Job Search Site
Consumer Guides
Financial Ratings Series
Financial Ratings Series, published by Grey House Publishing, combines the strength of Weiss Ratings and TheStreet Ratings to offer the library community with a single source for financial strength ratings and financial planning tools covering Insurance, Banks, Mutual Funds and Stocks.
Countries and Cultures
Cultures, Customs, Holidays, & Foods
United States
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America Essays on specific culture groups in the United States, emphasizing religions, holidays, customs, and languages in addition to providing information on historical background and settlement patterns.
World
Geography
Current Events
Genealogy
Ancestry.com (In-House Library use only). The world’s largest online family history resource.
New England Historical Genealogical Society (In-House Library use only). Founded in 1845, it is the country’s leading resource for family history research.
RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project .
A huge database of user-submitted family trees (using GEDCOM files). The search capabilities are pretty detailed, so you can really do a narrow search for the exact person you are looking for. Currently, there are more than 450 million individuals recorded in this database.
Family Search .
Genealogical data collected by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS Church). Don’t let the church affiliation fool you. There are vital records for millions of people in their databases and not just Mormons. Read more about the LDS Church’s genealogy connection.
Ellis Island Passenger Records .
Unless you have Native American heritage, you’re going to come across a point in your search when your ancestors immigrated. If you live in the United States, that means your relatives likely came via Ellis Island. You can search passenger lists and see ship manifests.
Cyndi’s List .
Not a database like the previously mentioned sites, but probably the largest collection of genealogy-related links there is. You will be able to find the most specific or obscure website you could possibly need. A great resource.
GenForum .
Sometimes your next best lead will come from a complete stranger who happens to have the information you need. The GenForum message boards cover a huge number of surnames, and people post their needs in hopes that someone else can help. Excellent for genealogy networking.
Distant Cousin .
An online collection of scanned American vital record documents. There are obituaries, city directories, marriage records and more. All free.
GenCircles .
Another collection of user-submitted family trees. They have ‘smartmatching’ which can help you find connection between people in your tree and others in their database.
General Reference
Forvo “All the words in the world. Pronounced.” Good for pronouncing place names.
BigChalk E-Library full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps.
General OneFile News and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Updated daily.
General Reference Center Gold A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources – newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications.
Gale Virtual Reference Library Database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Student Reference Center Popular school magazines, non-fiction books, encyclopedias and a dictionary appropriate for high school students. In-Library Use
Infotrac Student Edition – High School A resource designed for high-school students with magazines, newspapers and reference books.
World Book General encyclopedia and reference resource that includes all of the articles from the print set, plus thousands more. In addition, there are pictures, maps, videos, animations, sounds, and simulated historic Web sites.
Estudiantil — a Spanish language edition
eHow – The world’s most popular place to find How To instructions.
PowerSearch Search subjects in one or several periodical databases in a single search.
Government / Legal / Taxes
Gale LegalForms Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen’s language.
Massachusetts Public Record.com — Search MA for Free Public Records, Criminal Records and Court Records
Pension Rights Center — Consumer organization dedicated solely to protecting and promoting the retirement security of American workers, retirees, and their families.
The Forum For Massachusetts Law — “Source for free legal information in Massachusetts”
Tax Forms
Government Officials
Mass. General Laws
Senior Law
Health and Medicine
FolioMed provides its customers with proprietary databases of physicians and healthcare facilities in the Northeastern US.
Health Reference Center Academic Multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources.
Medline Plus Medical Information
History
General
Ebsco History Reference Center History articles from magazines and non-fiction books. In-library use
Ancient
Middle Ages
Exploration
World History
American History
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers Digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers
Wars
Books and Authors
Biography Resource Center Full-text articles from magazines and newspapers, images, and links to vetted websites.
Books & Authors is a resource that offers ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors and topics.
Literature for Students Covers a range of literary genres in detail, from novels and nonfiction to Shakespeare. Each entry includes: An introduction/overview of the work, A brief biography of the author, A plot summary, An annotated character list, A discussion of the work’s principal themes, Understandable essays on the work’s, construction (setting, dialogue, imagery), Historical and cultural context sections, Excerpted critical commentary
Literary Themes for Students Literary Themes of Race and Prejudice, The American Dream, and War and Peace.
Scribner Writers Series Signed essays on authors. Searchable by author, genre, time period, language, and ethnicity.
OneLook.com – Dictionaries
BookFinder.com – Used books.
Chambal.com – Used and new books.
New York Times Book Review – You must register, but this is a free site.
netLibrary – eBooks
What Do I Read Next? Recommended titles, plot summaries, and awards information.
Maps
Movies, TV, and the Media
Music and Spoken Word
Freegal Music Downloads – Download 3 songs per week to your computer. Fairhaven cardholders only with clear records.
National Jukebox – Historical recordings from the Library of Congress
Newspapers and Magazines
Newspapers
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers Digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers.
Bershire Eagle Full text coverage for Pittsfield, Massachusetts and Berkshire County, as well as 4 New York communities.
New York Times 1980 – present Full-text coverage of the New York Times (1980 to current) along with full text of the New York Times Magazine (1997 to current) and the New York Times Book Review (1997 to current.)
Magazines
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 from 1995.
Expanded Academic ASAP Scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers.
General OneFile News and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
Health Reference Center Academic Multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources.
Qikan Library Access to over 100 full-text popular magazine publications from mainland China. Subjects include the arts, current events, business, health, children’s literature and much more. Most titles viewable in both simplified and classical viewing styles. Coverage: 2005-present.
PowerSearch Search subjects in one or several periodical databases in a single search.
Popular Culture and Fashion
Religion and Mythology
Science and Technology
General
FACTS ON FILE Science On-line Includes diagrams, biographies and science experiments
Chemistry & Elements
Life Science
Birds of North America Online Cornell University’s BNA Online provides comprehensive life histories for each of the 716+ species of birds breeding in the USA (including Hawaii) and Canada.
In-Library Access Link or At Home Access link (needs your Millicent Library barcode)
Earth/Space Science
Technology
Weather
Environment
Science Experiments
FACTS ON FILE Science On-line Includes diagrams, biographies and science experiments
Social Issues
Gallup.com Provides data-driven news based on US and world polls, daily tracking and public opinion research.
Opposing Viewpoints Features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites
