Research & Learning

Start your own research using the links below, or use the “Hot Topics” starter pages on the left. For further assistance use the “Need Help?” links on the right to contact the Information Desk.

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General

  • EBSCOHost Master File This comprehensive source includes full-text magazine and journal articles, many with images. A great place to find a specific article, start a research project or look for what’s new on a topic.
  • InfoTrac® OneFile A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.
  • bigchalk eLibrary Easy to use! eLibrary is a student oriented full-text database of selected magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps.
  • World Book Online Info Finder
    World Book Online Info Finder contains content and features designed for school-aged patrons’ homework and research needs. Based on the World Book Encyclopedia, the site features rich collections of multimedia on a variety of topics, science fair projects; a Biography Center; links to world newspapers, correlations to curriculum standards, and much more.
  • World Book Online Reference Center
    World Book Online Reference Center is a powerful reference tool for advanced researchers and information seekers. The site features thousands of e-books, tens of thousands of articles, and hundreds of thousands of primary source documents and features developed especially for public library patrons such as Computer and Web Tutorials, How To… documents, and Government Resources.
  • 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.
  • Global Issues in Context
  • Opposing ViewPoints in Context

Newspapers

  • Proquest Newspapers Instant full-text access to 18 Massachusetts newspapers.
    Boston Globe (1980-current)
    Boston Herald (1991-current)
  • New York Times Search the full text of The New York Times (starting in 1995).
  • 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

Science and History

More Homework Help and Subject Guides

Professional and Academic

  • ERIC Education Digests The Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,300,000 records and links to more than 317,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966
  • Professional Development – Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles.
  • Academic Search Elite – This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985.
  • 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 more.
  • Expanded Academic – Offers balance coverage of every academic concentration from advertising and micribiology to history and women’s studies.
  • Google Scholar – Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

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. You’ll need your library card number and PIN number to log in.
  • 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.
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