Use these great free databases from anywhere in Massachusetts!
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General Reference
General OneFile is a one-stop source for news, magazine, and periodical articles across a wide range of subjects. It serves a wide audience of readers.
Academic OneFile is the premier source of peer-reviewed full-text scholarly content. With millions of full-text articles across disciplines, it is authoritative and comprehensive.
InfoTrac Student Edition provides high school students with access to magazines, newspapers, books, and other reference sources. The database offers audience-appropriate information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports, and more.
Research in Context combines the best of Gale’s reference content with videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more. Use this database to help complete assignments in core subjects including literature, science, humanities, and history.
Biography
Use this database for over 400,000 biographies covering literary figures, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, current events and the arts.
Business
Business Collection provides coverage of all business disciplines, including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. Users will understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through business and trade publications, complemented by a selection of international, U.S., and regional news publications.
Contemporary Studies
Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Issue-specific and country-specific portals bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources.
Continuously updated information and opinions covering hot topics. Perfect for arguments!
Pop Culture Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. The database offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.
Health
Health Reference Center Academic provides access to medical and professional periodicals, health and fitness magazines, and reference books and pamphlets. The database is designed for both nursing and allied health students as well as consumer health researchers. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.
Use the Health & Wellness Resource Center to find information on Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Pregnancy, Prescription Drugs, etc. Easily access over 700 videos from Healthology, many of which are also available in Spanish. The materials contained in this databases is intended for informational purposes only.
Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection provides access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields of fitness and sports. The database offers a wide spectrum of information, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research, and more.
History
Aligned to state and national curriculum standards, U.S. History in Context provides a complete overview of our nation’s past that covers the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and people. Comprehensive, contextual, media-rich information is provided on topics ranging from the arrival of Vikings in North America, to the stirrings of the revolution, through to the Civil Rights movement, 9/11, and the War on Terror.
War and Terrorism Collection provides access to academic journals and magazines of relating to war and terrorism around the world. The database offers balanced coverage of both historic and contemporary topics in the fields of war and terrorism.
World History in Context provides an overview of world history that covers the most-studied events, periods, cultures, civilizations, religions, conflicts, wars, ideologies, cultural movements, and people. World History in Context reaches back to the ancient world – and forward to today’s headlines – to deliver a chronicle of the great cultures and societies that have formed the history of the human race. Rare primary sources, reliable reference and multimedia content put this vast topic into context for students.
Literature and Reading
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 13,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods, and from around the world.
Science
Science in Context provides contextual information on hundreds of today’s most significant science topics. By integrating authoritative, curriculum-aligned reference content with headlines and videos, Science in Context shows how scientific disciplines relate to real-world issues, from weather patterns to obesity.
Social Sciences
Communications and Mass Media Collection provides access to academic journals and magazines focusing on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects covered in the database include advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and more.
Psychology Collection provides access to academic journals and magazines that cover the study of emotions, personality, and the human mind. The database offers content of interest to both researchers and general users.
