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Books & Authors
Combining over 140,000 titles 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award-winner and librarian's favorite lists, this readers' advisory database helps bring readers and literature together. |
Contemporary Literary Criticism
More than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study. Search by author name, title of work, nationality, subject/genre, ethnicity, critic name, and more. |
eSequels
A reader's guide to novels in series, eSequels helps you find the newest title by your favorite author or spot a title or series that you may have missed, and lists novels in the correct reading sequence. (Gloucester cards only) |
Firstsearch
The world's largest network of library content and services. Search many libraries at once for an item and then locate it in a library nearby. (No remote access) To access the public side of Firstsearch, visit Worldcat. |
Novelist
A readers' advisory database, Novelist provides reviews, Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, Annotated Book Lists and much more for over 135,000 fiction and non-fiction titles. (NOBLE cards only) |
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AtoZDatabases Premier Reference and Marketing Database including 30 million business profiles & 220 million residents. (Gloucester cards only) |
Business Insights: Essentials
Company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. |
Business Source Premier
The industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. (NOBLE cards only) |
General BusinesFile ASAP
Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings. |
Regional Business News
Comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. (NOBLE cards only) |
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Continuing Education & Careers |
Criminal Justice Collection Whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection provides users with access to a variety of materials, iincluding more than 700 journals. |
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Brings you job and industry profiles, job-hunting and workplace skills, career and industry resources, and college planning and financial aid tips. (Gloucester cards only) |
Vocations and Careers Collection
Covers the college and job search and provides current and applicable content for all vocational milestonesfrom nearly 400 journals. General career guides as well as highly specialized industry journals. |
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EBSCO eBooks
EBSCO offers electronic books from some of the world’s most renowned publishing houses, including Springer, Taylor & Francis and Wiley InterScience®. (NOBLE cards only) |
Overdrive
Adult, teen and children's audiobooks available for check-out with your library card. Download to your smartphone, iPad, PC, Kindle, Nook, and more! (NOBLE cards only)
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Virtual Reference Library
24/7 reference eBooks, including encyclopedias and specialized sources for multidisciplinary research. |
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Britannica Online
Offers reference materials for adults, as well as children. Included are a dictionary, thesaurus, videos, images, primary sources, and e-books. |
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Genealogy & Local History
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Ancestry Library Edition
Ancestry Library Edition makes family research easy for beginners while still providing in-depth tools for even the most advanced genealogists. (No remote access) |
HeritageQuest
Includes the complete U.S. Federal Census from 1790-1940. More than 20,000 book titles, including nearly 8,000 family histories and over 12,000 local histories. Includes more than 250 primary-source documents such as tax lists, city directories, probate records, and more. (Gloucester cards only) |
Massachusetts History Online
Use this collection for full-text articles from 50 magazines and local newspapers for coverage of Massachusetts people, places and historical events. |
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Environmental Studies & Policy Collection
Includes magazines and academic journals, and provides instant access to multiple viewpoints, including perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, and corporate interests. |
GreenFILE
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. (NOBLE cards only) |
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Health Source
Provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. (NOBLE cards only) |
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Medline
Medline provides 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. (NOBLE cards only) |
Nursing and Allied Health
All aspects of the Nursing profession--from direct patient care to health care administration--are covered in this collection. |
Nursing Resource Center
Designed for nursing students, this brings together disease and drug overviews, care plans, anatomy and physiology diagrams, and more. |
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AskArt
Provides extensive biographical information about American artists as well as book and periodical references. Includes International artists' auction records and images. Over 6,000 museums and dealers are also referenced. (No remote access) |
Auto Repair Reference Center
Auto Repair Reference Center contains repair and maintenance information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles. (Gloucester cards only) |
Culinary Arts Collection
Includes major cooking and nutrition magazines, and culinary journals. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information. |
Freegal Downloadable Music
Download over 3 million songs, including Sony Music's catalog of legendary artists and 10,000 music labels from 65 countries. Sawyer Free Library card-holders are allowed 3 free MP3 downloads every week. (Gloucester cards only) |
Gardening, Landscape & Horticulture Collection
Ideal for gardeners, landscape architects, farmers and biotechnologists, this collection of journals includes content relating to both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies. |
Hospitality, Tourism & Leisure
Find information on the history of the hospitality and tourism field, also. Study specialized aspects of the industry including cultural aspects of travel, leisure activities, economic aspects of tourism, and more. |
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Homework Help: High School - College |
Academic OneFile
Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. |
Academic Search Elite
This resource offers full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. A multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Elite covers virtually every area of academic study. (NOBLE cards only) |
Biography in Context
Nearly a million biographical entries spanning history and geography. Search by name, occupation, Nationality, birth place, or death place. |
Global Issues in Context
Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics and current events. |
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary sources, documents, statistics, images, videos, and audio files. |
U.S. History in Context
Comprehensive, contextual, media-rich search results from an extensive colection of historical information, including Primary Source Microfilm's digital archives, Macmillan Reference USA, Charles Scribner's Sons, and full-text periodicals and academic journals. |
World History in Context
Offers students and researchers access to periodicals, reference works, and primary documents. Includes historical maps, atlases, and audio and video selections from NPR, archival newsreels, and more. |
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Homework Help: Kindergarten - Middle School |
InfoTrac Junior Edition
A periodical database 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, and more. |
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Middle Search Plus & Primary Search
Popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Includes biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps and flags. (NOBLE cards only) |
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Mango Languages
Mango is an online language learning system that teaches real conversation skills for practical communication through repetition of conversation and phrases spoken by native speakers. Languages include Spanish, French, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, English for Spanish speakers, and more. (Gloucester cards only) |
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Magazines, Newspapers & Journals |
Boston Globe
Full text from 1980-current. Includes published obituaries. |
General OneFile
Use this comprehensive periodical resource for any subject. Coverage goes back to 1980 with over 12,000 titles (7,800 full-text including The New York Times back to 1985). |
General Reference Center Gold
A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources--newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more. |
MasterFILE Premier
More than 1,730 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. (NOBLE cards only) |
New York Times
Full-text of The New York Times, including the NYT Book Review and NYT magazine from 1985-current. |
Newspaper Source
Cover-to-cover full text articles for 28 national (U.S.) & international newspapers; selected full text for more than 260 regional (U.S.) newspapers; and 20,000+ full text television and radio news transcripts. (NOBLE cards only) |
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Educator's Reference Complete
More than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. |
ERIC
The 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. (NOBLE cards only) |
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
LISTA indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. (NOBLE cards only) |
Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. (NOBLE cards only) |
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