ACADEMIC RESEARCH
BUSINESS EDUCATION/EMPLOYMENT/TEST PREPARATION ELECTRONIC BOOKS
ENCYCLOPEDIAS/DICTIONARIES GENEALOGY GENERAL HEALTH HISTORY/SOCIAL STUDIES LANGUAGES 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 ASAP - 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
Business and Company Resource Center - A fully integrated resource bringing together company
profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories and periodicals.
Consumer Reports - Thousands of product reviews and ratings updated regularly; valuable buying
advice; reliable data and much more.
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.
Encyclopedia of Associations - The only comprehensive source for detailed information on
non-profit American membership organizations of national scope.
General Business File ASAP - Provides access to articles on company performance and activity,
industry events and trends from trade publications, journals, newspapers, brokerage reports and
company directory listings.
Job and Career Accelerator - Job & Career Accelerator is the industry's most comprehensive, online job search system that puts job seekers on the Fast Track to getting hired.
Morningstar Investment Research Center [Plymouth Patrons Only] - Offers accurate, up-to-date
data on 35,000 stocks and funds, along with industry and market data.
Plymouth County Business Review (1991-present) - Full text business news for Plymouth County
and Southeastern Massachusetts.
RDS Business Suite - An exciting Web-based subscription service that gives you balanced and
highly focused full-text coverage of company and industry news, management practices, and
market research information.
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.
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 Complete - 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.
Job and Career Accelerator - Job & Career Accelerator is the industry's most comprehensive, online job search system that puts job seekers on the Fast Track to getting hired.
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
Infobase Ebooks [Plymouth Patrons Only]
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 In Context - Award-winning biographies of people both current and historic
from all fields of endeavor. Content includes images and links to vetted websites.
Consumer Reports - Thousands of product reviews and ratings updated regularly; valuable buying
advice; reliable data and much more.
Encyclopedia of Associations - The only comprehensive source for detailed information on
non-profit American membership organizations of national scope.
Info Trac 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 K-12 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.
Student Resources in Context - Covering all core curriculum areas including history, literature,
science, social studies and more, this resource provides a premium selection of reference
material, more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources and multimedia.
Health
Health and Wellness Resource Center - Instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical
reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700
health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest
publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles.
Health Reference Center Academic- Multi-source database provides access to the full-text of
nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information.
Teen Health and Wellness - This award winning, critically acclaimed online resource provides
middle school and high school students with nonjudgmental, straightforward, standards-aligned,
curricular and self-help support. Topics include diseases, drugs, nutrition, bullying and more.
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 In Context - Award-winning biographies of people both current and historic
from all fields of endeavor. Content includes images and links to vetted websites.
Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context - Engaging online experience for those seeking contextual
information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues.
Global Issues in Context - International viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics,
and current events.
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.
U.S. History in Context - An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information
on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. 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.
World History in Context - An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual
information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in world history.
Languages
Mango Languages - An online language learning system teaching practical conversations skills
for a variety of popular languages. Engaging interactive lessons are not only fun, they are
designed to increase your ability to use the language skills you develop. It's a fast, easy and
effective way to learn to speak a foreign language.
Literature
Biography In Context - Award-winning biographies of people both current and historic
from all fields of endeavor. Content includes images and links to vetted websites.
Books and Authors - Combining over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors and thousands of read-alike,
award winner and librarians' favorite lists, Books and Authors helps bring readers and literature
together.
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select - 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.
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.
Literature Resource Center - Current, comprehensive, and reliable online resource for research
on literary topics, authors, and their works from all genres, time periods, and all regions of the
world.
LitFinder - 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.
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
Massachusetts Newsstand (ProQuest Newspapers) - Full-text coverage of major Massachusetts
newspapers including the Boston Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, plus selected
coverage of other regional sources.
Boston Globe (1980-present)
Boston Herald - click Massachusetts Newsstand (above) and then click Publications. Scroll to
Boston Herald to search abstracts from July 26, 1991-May 31, 2011.
Cape Cod Times (1999-present)
New York Times (1980-present)
Patriot Ledger (full text 2000-present) - [Plymouth patrons only]
Patriot Ledger (Quincy) - click Massachusetts Newsstand (above) and then click Publications.
Scroll to Patriot Ledger to search abstracts from January 4, 1995-June 23, 2011.
Plymouth County Business Review (1991-present)
Standard-Times (New Bedford) (1992-1997)
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.
Gale Science in Context - An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information
on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. The new solution merges Gale's
authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles,
experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly
portal experience.