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Britannica Online Resources
Search reference articles, journals and magazines, the web’s best sites, multimedia, curriculum content and more.
Gr. K-8. Incluyen artículos de la enciclopedia, las herramientas de educador, actividades estudiantiles, imágenes, audio y video, publicaciones periódicas actuales y los sitios web relacionados.
Gr. 9-12. Incluyen artículos de la enciclopedia, las herramientas de educador, actividades estudiantiles, imágenes, audio y video, publicaciones periódicas actuales y los sitios web relacionados.
Speeches, essays, biographies, landmark court decisions, editorials, images and more that bring American history to life from 1493 to the present.
Comprehensive current and historical statistics on the countries of the world for historical and cross-national comparisons and the creation of tables and charts or exporting for deeper analysis.
General Popular, Academic, and Reference Databases
Resource for beginning learners and researchers in grades 1-9; articles and images from more than 1,900 newspapers, magazines, and documents, along with 9,000+ educational web links.
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Designed for high school students. Includes mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books covering current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
A comprehensive periodical resource for any subject. Coverage goes back to 1980 with over 9,200 titles (5,156 full-text).
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A periodical resource of full-text peer-reviewed content; 10,000+ journals and reference works covering all subjects. Includes full-text of The New York Times back to 1995 and NPR & CNN transcripts & podcasts.
More than 70 full-text reference books covering the arts, biography, business, the environment, history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, geography, and science.
In Context Databases (Web-like design, rich multimedia–images, audio, video)
Covers today’s hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration. Over 14,000 pro/con viewpoint essays and 5,000+ topic overviews. More than 400 titles from the Greenhaven Press Series.
Covers earth science, life science, space, technology, and math & science history. 22,000+ topic overviews, 7,000 biographies, and 170+ experiments. Publications like Science Weekly, Science News and The Science Teacher.
A complete overview of U.S. history; covers the most-studied events, issues & current information. Full-text periodicals, reference works, primary documents & scholarly analysis. Includes Newsweek, American Heritage and The Historian.
Covers 5,000 years from antiquity to the present. Multicultural and global scholarly analysis, full-text periodicals, reference works, and primary documents. 600+ historical maps, atlases and other images.
Understand today’s world issues from a global perspective. Covers a wide variety of subject areas: sociology, current events, civics, politics, science, economics, cultural/religious studies, women’s studies, and human rights.
Nearly a million biographical entries spanning history and geography. 600,000+ biographies covering more than 525,000 individuals. Reference material, periodical information and multimedia content. High interest topic pages.
Literature & Reading Databases
135,000+ author biographies; 850,000+ full-text articles, critical essays and reviews from scholarly journals and literary magazines. 11,000+ overviews of frequently studied works. 30,000+ full-text poems, short stories and plays.
Critical essays on contemporary writers. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, and sources for further study.
What should I read next? Search according to author, title, series, awards and other criteria. Learn about the themes, origins, and author of the book you are currently reading.
Health Databases
Thousands of full-text medical journals, magazines, newspapers, reference works, and multimedia.
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Full-text nursing & allied health journals. Articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health & safety, alcohol & drug abuse, prescription drugs, etc.
Newspaper & Local Databases
Full-text coverage from 1985 to today (also included in Academic OneFile).
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Full-text coverage from 1980 to today.
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A collection of full-text articles from 50 magazines and local newspapers that covers Massachusetts people, places and historical events.
Business Databases
Company profiles, financial data, investment reports, industry information, business periodicals and more.
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Use this database to research all business and management topics. Includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies as well as investment analysts’ reports on major companies and industries.
Boston Public Library
Use your Boston Public Library card to access additional resources such as Credo Reference, JSTOR, Grove Music Online, Learning Express Library, Overdrive (eBooks, audio books, music and video), Powerspeak Languages, Tutor.com SkillsCenter and many other databases.
