Learning resources

Newspapers

Newsbank Main Menu
Search The Cape Cod Times, The Republican, and a variety of American magazines (Baby Talk, Family Life, Foreign Affairs, Newsweek, Parenting, Popular Science, Slate, Slateline.org, and Washington Family Magazine).

Massachusetts Newsstand
Access to 14 Massachusetts newspapers, including The Boston Globe, The Sun, and others.

The New York Times
Find current and past articles from this popular newspaper here.

Boston Globe and Boston Herald Obituary Database
Find obituaries that were published in one of these newspapers since 1953.

Biographies, Books and Literature

Biography In Context
This database delivers outstanding research support with nearly a million biographical entries spanning history and geography. It contains 600,000+ biographies covering more than 525,000 individuals.

Books and Authors
Staff favorite! This fantastic database has many features to help you answer that old question, “what should I read next?” The WHO WHAT WHERE WHEN feature lets you browse titles by Character, Subject, Location and Time Period, and get a visual representation of your matching books.

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
This database connects you with extensive biographical and critical information. Search by author name, title, subject/genre or critic name to find information quickly.

Literature Resource Center
Here you can access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of novelists, poets, essayists, and journalists from every age and literary discipline.

LitFinder
This is a great resource to find full-text literary works, such as: poems, short stories, novels, essays, plays and speeches.

Business

Business and Company Resource Center
The power to answer all types of business queries is now at your fingertips. Here you have access to a wide variety of global business information including competitive intelligence, career and investment opportunities, business rankings, company histories and much more.

Business Economics Theory

General BusinessFile ASAP
Staff Favorite for Job Seekers! The General BusinessFile database contains articles from business, economic, management, trade, and industry publications. The database includes profiles on public and private companies, standard codes and industry descriptions, investment reports and forecasts for US and international companies and industries prepared by Wall Street and international brokerage firms.

Small Business Collection Ideal for business students and entrepreneurs, this collection provides full text periodicals with case-studies and more.

Current Events

Global Issues in Context
provides in one resource a multitude of ways to stay up-to-date with economic, environmental, health, military, political, and social global issues. You can search by broad topics and geographic areas, delve into a specific topic, explore individual country portals, and read news from around the world.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context
This resource covers current social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration. Students can research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more.

Education

Educator’s Reference Complete
This collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports is a great resource for any educator — from the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at the collegiate and graduate level.

Encyclopedias

World Book Online
An online encyclopedia with information for young, middle and older students.

Genealogy

Ancestry.com, Library Edition
Start exploring your family history. Use this database to access a wide range of records, including: US Census records, Immigration Records such as passenger lists and immigration documents, Military Documents, Vital Records and more!

Heritage Quest Online
This database contains six data sets: U.S. Federal Censuses, from 1790-1030; Genealogy and local history books; Periodical Source Index (PERSI), the most comprehensive index to genealogy and local history periodicals–with over 2 million records covering titles published around the world since 1800; Revolutionary War records, with original images to help identify over 80,000 U.S. Navy, Army, and Marine officers and enlisted men; Freedman’s Bank Records, which contains more than 480,000 names of bank applicants and their dependents and heirs from 1865-1874, which is very useful to people searching for African American ancestors in the Civil War era; and, LexisNexis U.S. Serials Set, with memorials, petitions, and actions made to the U.S. Congress since 1789.

General

Full suite of Gale databases
Simultaneously search all of the Gale database products that this library provides access to.

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 from 1995.

Expanded Academic ASAP
Specifically created for research across all academic disciplines, Expanded Academic ASAP offers balanced coverage of every academic concentration – from advertising and microbiology to history and women’s studies.

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.

Government

The 187th General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Go here to find laws, look up a legislator, find information about the state budget, and much more. A very comprehensive website. This is the online version of the library’s copies of the General Laws of Massachusetts.

Federal Tax Forms and Information
Links to printable federal tax forms. Information on e-filing can be found here

Questions about your federal taxes? Try this searchable tax guide: Publication 17

Massachusetts State Tax Forms and Information
Links to printable state tax forms. Information on e-filing can be found here

Health

Health Reference Center Academic
Updated daily, this resource provides over 160 full-text journals in medicine, nursing, allied and consumer health. Includes full-text reference books, pamphlets, overviews of clinical topics, and indexing and abstracts for over 1500 additional titles covering patient and consumer health information.

Health and Wellness Resource Center
Got a health question? Need a “go-to” source with credible information that is in-depth yet simple to navigate? Here is your source. From medical students to the merely curious, this database will lead you to the medical information solutions you’re looking for—quickly and accurately!

History

U.S. History
This compilation of journals provides full coverage of American History, useful both to the novice historian as well as to the advanced academic researcher.

World History
This collection provides well-rounded coverage of both the current thinking and events in World History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field. Suitable for all levels of research, from beginning to advanced.

Science

Science In Context
From earth science and life science, to space, technology, mathematics and science history and biography, this database is designed to boost achievement for students and researchers, suitable for 9-12 students, and more advanced researchers.

General Science Collection
A collection of over 1,000 peer-reviewed journals, providing the information you need to stay current on the latest scientific developments.

Youth

InfoTrac K-12 Junior Edition
Full-text resources for junior high and middle school.

InfoTrac K-12 Student Edition
This 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.

Kids InfoBits
Staff favorite for Youth! This exciting database is designed especially for students in kindergarten through grade five. Complete with an engaging, developmentally appropriate graphic interface, premier reference content and the best magazines for elementary students, Kids InfoBits addresses the way kids learn and conduct research — and makes it fun!