ACADEMIC RESEARCH
BUSINESS EDUCATION/EMPLOYMENT/TEST PREPARATION ELECTRONIC BOOKS
ENCYCLOPEDIAS/DICTIONARIES GENEALOGY GENERAL HEALTH HISTORY/SOCIAL STUDIES LITERATURE NEWSPAPERS SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY Academic Research
Academic OneFile - Full-text, peer-reviewed articles from the world's leading journals and reference
sources in the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology,
literature and more. Updated daily.
Expanded Academic - Access articles from scholarly journals, news magazines and newspapers -
many with full text and images for research across all academic disciplines.
PowerSearch - Sophisticated tool for searching multiple databases at once. Enables you to
customize your search by choosing the databases most appropriate to your research needs.
Testing and Education Reference Center - From college prep to career planning, this database
offers resources and tools to help you make informed confident decisions. Includes online and
eBook test prep materials, scholarship and grant information and a career search module that
includes a resume builder, cover letter and interviewing tips and more.
Business
Demographics Now Massachusetts - A business intelligence tool for locating statistical and
demographic information for business and sales planning, customer identification and analysis,
market categorization and more. Offers fast and easy formatted reports.
Career Transitions - Allows users to update personal career information, match skills & interests
with fulfilling career paths, investigate thousands of careers & companies, find educational
opportunities, and search for job opportunities that meet user criteria.
General Business File - Provides access to articles on company performance and activity,
industry events and trends from trade publications, journals, newspapers, brokerage reports and
company directory listings.
Plymouth County Business Review (1991-present) - Full text business news for Plymouth County
and Southeastern Massachusetts.
Reference USA -Directory of over 14 million U.S. businesses and over 100 million U.S.residents.
Small Business Resource Center - Comprehensive database offering content that covers major
areas of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources,
management, marketing, tax and more.
Wall Street Journal (1982-present) - Full-text articles from the Wall Street Journal
Education/Employment/Test Preparation
Career Transitions - Allows users to update personal career information, match skills & interests
with fulfilling career paths, investigate thousands of careers & companies, find educational
opportunities, and search for jobs that meet user criteria.
Educator's Reference Center - Mainly full-text collection of over 1100 periodicals and 200 reports
for educational research from preschool to college. Content focuses on educational principles,
child development and psychology, and best practices in education.
Testing and Education Reference Center - From college prep to career planning, this database
offers resources and tools to help you make informed confident decisions. Includes online and
ebook test prep materials, scholarship and grant information and a career search module that
includes a resume builder, cover letter and interviewing tips and more.
Electronic Books
Credo Reference - Full-text reference eBook content covering every major subject
Gale Virtual Reference Library - Collection of premier reference eBooks
Encyclopedias/Dictionaries
Credo Reference - Full-text reference eBook content covering every major subject
World Book Online - A premier online reference source with thousands of articles, state-of-the-
art multimedia, editor-reviewed websites, periodical content and more.
Genealogy
Ancestry.com [in-library only] - premier family history website including census, military,
immigration and other genealogical resources
HeritageQuest - HeritageQuest Online combines digital, searchable images of U.S. Federal Census
records with the digitized version of the popular UMI Genealogy & Local History collection and
other valuable content.
General
AtoZ Maps - Database of propietary, royalty-free world, country, and state maps. Included in the
4,000 plus maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, percipitation
maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps.
AtoZ The USA - A database that contains exhaustive resources on every state in the union. It
includes not only the standard inventory of state facts, but also more obscure information, such as
soil profiles, bios of past governors, tourist attractions, images of baseball cards and much more.
Auto Repair Reference Center [Plymouth patrons only] - Automotive repair information for more
than 33,000 domestic & imported vehicles, covered from 1945-present. Content includes drawings,
step-by-step photographs, technical service bulletins & recalls, wiring diagrams, specifications &
maintenance schedules.
Biography Resource Center - Award-winning biographies of people both current and historic
from all fields of endeavor. Content includes images and links to vetted websites.
E-Library - A full-text database for K-12 students of consumer-oriented magazines, books,
newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps.
General OneFile - A comprehensive periodical resource that puts more than 60 million articles at
fingertips with a single search query.
General Reference Center Gold - This resource center integrates a vast array of key business and
general interest titles to fully answer your reference questions - all in a single database.
Global Road Warrior - A great resource for travelers and students featuring 175 countries.
InfoTrac K-12 Junior Edition - Now with over 330 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this
periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school.
InfoTrac Student Edition - Now with over 1100 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this
periodical database is designed for high school students.
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 popular search method is moving from a broad subject to a narrower topic using the subject-
based topic tree.
OverDrive Audiobooks and eBooks - Downloadable digital audiobooks are available in both WMA
and MP3 format. eBooks are offered in 2 popular formats, EPUB and PDF. These formats are
compatible with the Sony Reader, as well as, your
Internet-enabled Windows Mobile 5 or 6
device.
Reference USA [Plymouth patrons only] - Directory of over 14 million U. S. businesses and over
100 million U.S. residents.
Health
Health Reference Center- 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.
History/Social Studies
American History [Plymouth patrons only] - From the explorers of the Americas to today's
headlines, American History investigates the people, events, and themes of our nation's evolution
Ancient History [Plymouth patrons only] - Covers human history in all corners of the globe—from
prehistoric times to the beginning of the Renaissance.
AtoZ Maps - Database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps.
Included in the 4,000 plus maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps,
precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps.
AtoZ the USA - A database that contains exhaustive resources on every state in the union. It
includes not only the standard inventory of state facts, but also more obscure information, such as
soil profiles, bios of past governors, tourist attractions, images of baseball cards and much more
Biography Resource Center - Award-winning biographies of people both current and historic
from all fields of endeavor. Content includes images and links to vetted websites.
Demographics Now Massachusetts - A business intelligence tool for locating statistical and demo-
graphic information for business and sales planning, customer identification and analysis, market
categorization and more. Offers fast and easy formatted reports.
Global Road Warrior - A great resource for travelers and students featuring 175 countries.
Massachusetts History Online - Contains full-text articles gathered from almost 50 sources that
directly relate to Massachusetts history.
World Geography [Plymouth patrons only] - World Geography develops students' global literacy,
focusing on the geographic, political, social, economic, & cultural forces that influence our
world.
Literature
Biography Resource Center - Award-winning biographies of people both current and historic
from all fields of endeavor. Content includes images and links to vetted websites.
Contemporary Literary Criticism - 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.
Literary Reference Center- Full-text broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors &
their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. Includes plot summaries, synopses, author
biographies, journals, poems, short stories, classic texts, author interviews and more.
Literature Criticism Online - Largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary with tens
of thousands of hard-to-find essays from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and
periodicals.
Novelist [Plymouth patrons only] - NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading
access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 120,000 fiction titles. Also includes other
content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-Alikes, Book Discussion Guides,
BookTalks, and feature articles.
OverDrive Audiobooks and eBooks - Downloadable digital audiobooks are available in both WMA
and MP3 format. eBooks are offered in 2 popular formats, EPUB and PDF. These formats are
compatible with the Sony Reader, as well as, your Internet-enabled Windows Mobile 5 or 6
device.
Something About the Author Online - Provides comprehensive access to all volumes of the long-
standing Something About the Author series, which examines the lives and works of authors and
illustrators for children and young adults.
Newspapers
ProQuest Newspapers - Find local and national news articles with one search. Full-text access
to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and 12 Massachusetts newspapers.
Boston Globe (1980-present)
Boston Herald (1991-present)
Cape Cod Times (1999-present)
New York Times (1980-present)
Patriot Ledger (Quincy) (1991-present)
Plymouth County Business Review (1991-present)
Providence Journal-Bulletin (1983-present)
Standard-Times (New Bedford) (1992-1997)
Wall Street Journal (1984-present)
Worcester Telegram & Gazette (1989-present)
Science/Technology
Auto Repair Reference Center [Plymouth patrons only] - Automotive repair information for more
than 33,000 domestic & imported vehicles, covered from 1945-present. Content includes drawings,
step-by-step photographs, technical service bulletins & recalls, wiring diagrams, specifications &
maintenance schedules.
Science Reference Center - Provides full text science-oriented content from nearly 640 science
encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals and more.