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Online Resources
Newspapers, Magazines, Student Sources & More

General Research Encyclopedias Newspapers Homework Help
Business and Consumer Health For The Reader Professional & Academic
RPL Catalog More Library Catalogs Subject Guides Answers To Go

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Answers To Go

  • Answers To Go is the @ home library for residents of northeast Massachusetts. Contact Answers To Go to ask questions and get answers from a real reference librarian, in real time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

General Research (full-text magazine and journal articles)

  • EBSCOHost (available to card-holders of NOBLE member libraries)
    The comprehensive databases range from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases. Click EBSCOHost for descriptions of all the databases.
  • InfoTrac® Web (Main Menu) Provides access to popular magazines, scholarly journals, encyclopedias, newspapers, newswire services, business directories, investment reports, health pamphlets, prescription drug information, and literature reviews.
  • bigchalk eLibrary Easy to use! eLibrary is a full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps.

Newspapers

  • Proquest Newspapers Instant full-text access to individual newspaper titles - Boston Globe (1980-current), Boston Herald (1991-current).
  • New York Times Search the full text of The New York Times (starting in 1995).
  • bigchalk eLibrary Easy to use! eLibrary is a full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps.
  • Newspaper Source Selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers

Business and Consumer Research

  • Infotrac OneFile A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics. Includes fulltext acccess to Consumer Reports and Consumer Guide.
  • Business Source Premier This source contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals as well as as country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch and detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies.
  • General BusinessFile ASAP 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. Go directly to "Advanced search" to locate investment reports by ticker symbol.
  • Business and Company ASAP Same content as General BusinessFile ASAP without investment analysts' reports. Recommended for high school and public libraries.

Health

Encyclopedias

  • Grolier Online Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia and New Book of Knowledge.
  • Virtual Reference Library A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.

Homework Help

  • ABC CLIO World Geography Everything your students need for an in-depth understanding of the world—its landforms, weather systems, and resources—as well as its colorful and often conflicting human cultures.
  • ABC CLIO Ancient History covers human history in all corners of the globe—from prehistoric times to the beginnings of the Renaissance.
  • ABC CLIO World History covers key historical developments from 1500 to the present day.
  • ABC CLIO American History From the first explorers in the New World to the developments in today's headlines, this American History source investigates the people, events, and themes of our nation's evolution.
  • Access Science provides a collection of science reference materials—online and fully searchable. Offering easy accessibility to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, and more.
  • bigchalk eLibrary Easy to use! eLibrary is a full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps.
  • Biography Resource Center (with Marquis Who's Who)
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
  • EBSCO Middlesearch Plus Provides full text for 140 popular magazines for middle and junior high school research.
  • Greenwood Daily Life Online Through History and World Cultures Today Providing a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary resource that supports history, social studies, English, and language students, Daily Life Online gives life to history and context to current events
  • Grolier Online Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia and New Book of Knowledge.
  • Infotrac High School 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.
  • Infotrac Middle School Designed for junior high and middle 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.
  • Infotrac Kids Designed for K-6 students, includes 75 full-text magazines and reference books to introduce children to the research process.
  • Literary Reference Center A comprehensive literary database. LRC contains detailed information on most studied authors and their works.
  • Newspapers See the Newspapers Links above for fulltext access to the Boston Globe, Boston Herald and more.
  • Virtual Reference Library A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.

Subject Guides

  • Search NOBLE WEB for links to subject related web sites.

For the Reader

  • Readers' Advisory Service an online book source used to search for specific titles and authors or browse book themes, series, characters, award winners and more.
  • Literary Reference Center A comprehensive literary database. LRC contains detailed information on most studied authors and their works.
  • Biography Resource Center includes biographies, full-text magazine articles, images, and website links.
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism Select is an extensive collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors.
  • Contemporary Novelist Contains biographical/critical essays on the most important living novelists writing in English worldwide..
  • The Reading Public Library For the Reader page includes book club links, best seller lists and more perks for readers.

Professional & Academic

More Library Catalogs and Special Collections

  • Massachusetts Virtual Library Catalogs If you can't find what you're looking for in the NOBLE catalog, you can search the catalogs of other Massachusetts library systems through the statewide Virtual Catalog.
  • OCLC® WorldCat WorldCat offers information on more than 46 million records of holdings in libraries throughout the world. To find out if a book is in Reading,look for NOBLE entries. Contact the Reading Public Library for information on retrieving items in the World Cat catalog.

  • Boston Public Library
    Any individual who lives, works, attends school, or owns property in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and is at least 13 years of age may register for a BPL eCard. BPL eCards are virtual library cards that allow users immediate remote access to all of the Boston Public Library's electronic resources, including 140 online databases, downloadable audio, video and music. Find out how to get your eCard at Boston Public Library Online Registration and eCard FAQ.
  • Massachusetts Digital Commonwealth The Digital Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a portal to the rich cultural heritage held in museums, historical societies, colleges, libraries and other cultural repositories in Massachusetts. From this site you can search or browse the digital collections of member institutions throughout the state for manuscripts, images, historical documents, and sound recordings, providing you with enhanced access and retrieval of information.
  • Massachusetts Special Collections Directory A guide and locator of collections residing in Massachusetts libraries, archives, historical societies and town clerk's offices.
  

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