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Biography Resource Center (Infotrac)
- Combines more than 50 Gale biographical
databases with full-text periodicals.
Funded by the MBLC.
Contemporary Authors (Infotrac)
— Please use Biography Resource Center.
Contemporary Literary Criticism (Infotrac)—
an extensive collection of critical essays
on contemporary authors with biographical/critical
introductions. Funded by the MBLC.
Educator's Reference Complete (InfoTrac)
- Educator's Reference Complete is a selection
of more than 450 full-text academic journals,
hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier
reference sources. Included 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. (Replaces
the Professional Collection.) Funded by
the MBLC.
eLibrary — full-text
articles and pictures from a wide variety
of sources. Funded by SEMLS.
Expanded Academic ASAP (Infotrac)
— articles from scholarly journals,
news magazines, and newspapers on topics from
arts and the humanities to social sciences,
science & technology. Funded by the
MBLC.
Literary Reference Center (Ebsco)
- Full-text broad spectrum of information
on 1000's of authors and their works across
literary disciplines and timeframes. Includes
27,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews,
140,500 author biographies, 350 literary journals,
54,000 poems, 14,500 short stories, 8400 classic
texts, 4000 author interview and more. Funded
by the MBLC.
General Business File ASAP (Infotrac)
- access to a combination of broker research
reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals
and company directory listings with full text
and images available. Funded by the MBLC.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (InfoTrac)
- a database of encyclopedias and specialized
reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
These reference materials once were accessible
only in the library, but now you can access
them online from the library or remotely 24/7.
Funded by the MBLC.
General Reference Center Gold (Infotrac)
— a general interest database of articles
from magazines, reference books, and newspapers,
many with full-text and images. Funded
by the MBLC.
Health Reference Center - Academic
(Infotrac) - articles on: Fitness,
Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases,
Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety,
Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription
Drugs, etc. Funded by the MBLC.
Junior Edition (Infotrac)
- full-text resources for junior high and
middle school. Funded by the MBLC.
Kid's InfoBits (Infotrac) -
complements primary school curriculum. Funded
by the MBLC.
Massachusetts History Online (InfoTrac)
- Contains full-text articles gathered
from almost 50 sources that directly relate
to MA history.
Newsbank - full-text articles
the Cape Cod Times. Funded by
SEMLS,
ProQuest- Full-text articles
from the Boston Globe (1980 to present),
the Boston Herald (1991 to present,
the New York Times (1980 to present),
the Patriot Ledger (1991 to present),
the Providence Journal (1983 to present)
and Wall Street Journal (1984 to
present,) as well as a variety of other Massachusetts
newspapers. School libraries must access the
New York Times and Wall Street
Journal through eLibrary. Funded
by the MBLC. The NY Times, Wall Street Journal,
and Providence Journal are funded by SEMLS.
Student Edition (Infotrac)
- coverage of topics most often researched
in high school Funded by the MBLC.
Massachusetts Special Collections
Directory - a database of over 600
archives and manuscript collections in Massachusetts.
Funded by the MBLC. |
