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Access to Ebsco's GreenFILE, Literary Reference Center, Points of View, or Vocational & Career Collection

Ebsco's GreenFILE
GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.

eLibrary/Science
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Offers laser-focused science content and tools along with unique video and dozens of manipulatives found in no other online science reference product."

GALE'S STUDENT RESOURCE CENTER
A wide-range of full-text documents from a variety of sources including magazines and newspapers, primary source documents, timelines, biographies, essays, and speeches.

INFOTRAC

Full-text 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 (including biographies of contemporary authors), politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Cross searchable Databases include:

  • Expanded Academic ASAP
    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.

  • Gale Virtual Reference Library
    Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedia and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. 

  • General Reference Center Gold
    A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources – newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications.  Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies and more.

  • 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, newspaper journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full text and images available.

  • 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 in InfoTrac’s award-winning Health Reference Center. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.

  • Student Edition
    This periodical database is designed for high school students 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 and more.

  • Biography Resource Center + Marquis Who's Who®
    Integrates Thomson Gale biographies with full-text magazine articles, images, and website links. Search for current or historic people by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, or by keyword and full text.

  • Junior Edition - K12  
    This periodical database is 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 and more.

  • Contemporary Literary Criticism - Select
    Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select is an extensive collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study. Updated monthly, Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select allows users to search by author name, title of work, nationality, subject/genre, ethnicity, critic name, and more.

  • Kids InfoBits
    Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, the most popular search method is moving from a broad subject to a narrower topic using the subject-based topic tree. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
  • MASSACHUSETTS HISTORY ONLINE
    Contains full-text articles gathered from almost 50 sources that directly relate to MA history.

    THE NEW YORK TIMES
    Search the full text of The New York Times (starting in 1995).

LITERARY REFERENCE CENTER
A full text database of detailed information on the most studied authors and their works from antiquity to the present day.

MASSACHUSETTS NEWSSTAND
Full text coverage of major Massachusetts newspapers including the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Quincy Patriot Ledger, and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette plus selected coverage of other regional sources.

POINTS OF VIEW REFERENCE CENTER
A full text database that provides a series of articles, essays, images and primary sources presenting multiple sides of over 200 current issues.

Vocational & Career Collection
The Vocational & Career Collection from EBSCO provides full text coverage for more that 400 trade and industry-related periodicals including Advertising Age, Automotive News, Design News, eWeek, Science News, Restaurant Business, and many more.

World Book Online Multimedia, online encyclopedia with Spanish Intermediate Encyclopedia (Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos).

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last updated September 2008