| Arts |
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An extensive, authoritative and easily searchable online art database from the Grove Dictionary of Art and the Oxford University Press art resources. |
| Biography |
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Biographies of both contemporary and historical persons. |
| Encyclopedias |
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Britannica |
An authoritative encyclopedia containing both short and book-length articles on every subject. |
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Grolier
Online |
Grolier Online contains
the online Encyclopedia Americana and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. |
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The WorldBook Online is
an online encyclopedia with multimedia capability. |
| General Research |
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Over 5,000 videos
available anytime, anywhere, for everyone. |
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Includes content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. |
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Gale Databases |
Over 25 databases for searching magazines, professional journals, and reference books and a wide variety of topics. |
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Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. |
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Save time and filter your inernet searches, find the best of the web here. |
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Use your Boston Public Library e-card number to access the thousands of academic and scholarly articles from JSTOR. |
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Contextual information on a broad range of topics, people, places, and events. This site merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience. |
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Full-text electronic versions of hundreds of print reference, almanacs, encyclopedias, and non-fiction titles from Gale Publishing. |
| Health |
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Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health & Safety, Alcohol and Drug Abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. |
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Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, numerous reference volumes, over 700 health videos and health-related articles from 2,200 general interest publications. |
| History & Social Studies |
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American Government explains the foundations of our government, connects these concepts to the issues of the day, and examines the strengths and weaknesses of the political and economic systems of the United States by comparing them to those of other countries. |
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From the explorers of the Americas to the issues of today's headlines, American History investigates the people, events, and stories of our nation's evolution. |
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Background
Notes |
These publications
include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions,
economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies,
and areas of special sovereignty. |
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CIA World Fact Book |
The World Factbook provides information
on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications,
transportation, military, and transnational
issues for 266 world entities. |
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This database seamlessly from past to present, providing context for contemporary life and culture. Shows how fascinating and fun it is to explore how others lived and live their lives, and how their lives shaped ours. |
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Perspectives on international news and events. Global Issues in Context offers global perspectives on issues of international importance and current world events and topics in the news related to these issues. |
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History |
Search in seven databases:
American Government, American History, Daily Life in History, World Geography, World History the
Modern Era, World History Ancient and Medieval Eras, and World Religions. |
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Issues
and Controversies |
Covers in-depth investigations
of today's top issues. |
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Information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. This resource features continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites. |
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References works, magazines, journals and primary sources related to U.S. history. |
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A
collection of maps and information about culture, people, economy, and land
of countries around the world. |
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Provides online tools that develop students' global literacy, focusing on the geographical, political, social, economic, and cultural forces that are increasingly important in our globalized world. |
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Covers human history in all corners of the globe—from prehistoric times to the beginnings of the Renaissance. |
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Covers a broad range of topics in depth—the evolution of modern Europe since the Renaissance; concurrent developments in Asia, Africa, and the Islamic world; the global impact of the Industrial Revolution; and the last 100 years of conflicts and international cooperation. |
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World History in Context |
References works, magazines, journals and primary sources related to world history. |
| Literature & Criticism |
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Offers ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics. Combining over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner and librarian's favorites lists, Books & Authors helps bring readers and literature together. |
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Contemporary Literary
Criticism--Select is an extensive collection of more than 11,000 critical
essays on contemporary authors. |
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Google Books indexes millions of books from the library collections of research institutions like Harvard University, Oxford University, the New York Public Library and many others. |
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Download free books and texts. The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books. |
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Covering world literature and authors throughout history, LitFinder contains a wealth of literary works including over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. |
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Full-text literary criticism. biographical information, overviews, and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. |
| Magazines and Newspapers |
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Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. |
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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! |
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A one-stop source for 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. |
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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. |
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Search
online newspapers from around the world. |
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Search
full text articles from area newspapers including the Boston Globe and
the Boston Herald. |
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Search the New York Times online from 1985-the present |
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Now with over 1100 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. |
| Religion |
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A digital resource that covers religion across the globe, making research on faith and belief across humanity easier, and enabling a deeper understanding of the complex issues facing us in the 21st century. |
| Science and Math |
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McGraw-Hill's AccessScience is the online version of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. AccessScience contains biographies of leading scientists, articles, news, image galleries, and animations related to science and technology. |
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Free
online full-text advanced scientific and medical articles. |
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Information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. This service combines authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites. |
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A gateway to government science information provided by U.S. Government science agencies, including research and development results. |
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Science
Online offers comprehensive coverage of a broad range of scientific disciplines
through extensive essays, diagrams, illustrations, images, biographies,
experiments, activities, and definitions. |
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Today's
Science |
Science
news written especially for students. |
