Online Research Resources and Databases
Select a database from one or more of the categories above. If you are using these resources from your home computer, you must input your 14 digit barcode (when prompted) to begin searching. These resources provide access to thousands of full-text and abstracted articles in periodicals, health and business resources, biographical and literary databases. For tips on searching databases click here.
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ReferenceUSA - Information on businesses & individuals including healthcare providers, technology companies and much more.
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INFOTRAC: Business and Company ASAP - Access business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full text and images.
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EBSCO: Business Source Premier - Full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Includes all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.
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EBSCO: Regional Business News - Comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications and includes coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
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INFOTRAC: General Business File ASAP - Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics.
- INFOTRAC: Business Index ASAP - Information on management issues, economic indicators and business theories and practices, as well as on the activities of companies and industries worldwide.
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INFOTRAC: Informe - Disponsible de su computadora personal con una tarjeta valida de Peabody Institute Library, Danvers.
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EBSCO: Academic Search Elite - Full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study. More than 100 journals have PDF images back to 1985.
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INFOTRAC: Academic OneFile
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INFOTRAC: Expanded Academic ASAP - Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers (many with full text and images!) across all academic disciplines.
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INFOTRAC: Student Edition - Designed for high-school students, database accesses 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.
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INFOTRAC: Junior Edition [K - Gr. 12] - 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 & more.
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INFOTRAC: Kids InfoBits [ K - Gr.5] - Especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5.
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EBSCO: Middle Search Plus - Full text for 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research. Also contains 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags.
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EBSCO: Primary Search - Full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. Full text information dates as far back as 1990 and are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
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EBSCO: Animals - In-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
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EBSCO: Professional Development Collection - Highly specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.
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INFOTRAC: Professional Collection - Full text periodicals for teachers and school administrators.
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EBSCO: ERIC - Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
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Ancestry.com - Instant access to a wide range of unique resources for genealogical and historical researchincluding 4 billion names in over 3,400 databases; includes records from the United States census; military records; court, land, and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists, and more.
"In-library" use only. How to use
- Heritage Quest - Includes the digitized UMI Genealogy & Local History Collection, 1790-1930 U.S. Federal Census, the Periodical Source Index (PERSI), and the Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files. How to use
- NEHGS (New England Historic Genealogical Society) Resources -
"In-library" use only.
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EBSCO: MasterFILE Premier - Magazine and newspaper articles, full text reference books, primary source documents and images.
- INFOTRAC: Infotrac OneFile - One-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics.
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INFOTRAC: General Reference Center Gold - Latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, arts & sciences, sports & hobbies.
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eLibrary - Information from books, magazines and newspapers that includes maps, images, radio and television transcripts.
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INFOTRAC: Health Reference Center Academic - Integrates the full text and images of respected nursing, allied health and medical journals, consumer health magazines, newsletters, pamphlets, newspaper articles, topical overviews, and reference books.
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EBSCO: Clinical Pharmacology - Up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.
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EBSCO: Health Source: Consumer Edition - Information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
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EBSCO: Health Source: Nursing / Academic Edition - 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines along with abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.
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EBSCO: MEDLINE - Authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more created by the National Library of Medicine.
Law
- Westlaw: "In-Library" use only.
Manuscripts, Archives & Special Collections
Multimedia
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NEWSBANK: Boston Globe
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NEWSBANK: Boston Herald
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NEWSBANK: Worcester Telegram and Gazette
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EBSCO: Newspaper Source - Selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. It also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 260 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
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eLibrary
- Proquest: Historical Boston Globe, 1872-1922 - Digital archive with access to the full content of the historical Boston Globe. You may search and view article & full page images, page through issues and search using a variety of methods. "In-library" use only.
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EBSCO: Novelist - Fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles.
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INFOTRAC: Contemporary Literary Criticism Select - More than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors. Allows users to search by author name, title of work, nationality, subject/genre, ethnicity, critic name, and more.
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OCLC WorldCat - Cooperative database of bibliographic records contributed by more than 57,000 libraries, making it the world’s largest, most complete, and most consulted library catalog.
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