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General /
Multi-disciplinary Academic Databases
 
Articles - find peer reviewed scholarly
articles using citation and full text databases
Citation Guides - correct
format for proper documentation
E Books - use free electronic texts when
you can't find the printed book
Encyclopedias - background material and quality Web
links for further information
Newspapers - all types of news outlets, current and
archival
Quick Reference -
quality, credible, and timely reference
resources -mostly all are free
Web Directories - subject guides
to selective and carefully chosen sites on the Web
Web Search in a Nutshell -
getting started in library research
Subscription Databases Available
Only to the WSC Community:
Book Index with Reviews -
access to over 4 million book titles as well as close to 700,000 music
and DVD/video titles, updated constantly. Easy to
use.
Biography
Resource Center.
Includes full
text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search by nationality, birth or
death year, ethnicity, occupation, gender - or combine criteria for a highly
customized search. Includes the full text of standard
reference titles such as Webster's Biographical Dictionary,
Encyclopedia of World Biography (25 vols.),
Dictionary of American Biography
(20 vols.), Newsmakers
and 20 titles in the
Who's Who
series.
More Biography Resources
Encyclopedias
Britannica Online.
Browse
and search the complete encyclopedia plus hundreds of articles not in the print set. Also
access to the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (10th edition), and thousands of
links to other WWW sites evaluated and selected by Britannica editors.
Encyclopedia Americana - In addition
to encyclopedia content, also contains a dictionary, thesaurus, atlas
and more. User-friendly Web search features; selected and evaluated
sources for links to further information.
Note: Access to
this database is made possible by the Massachusetts
Board of Library Commissioners, and the six Massachusetts Regional Library Systems.
Grolier Multimedia
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derived from the Academic American
Encyclopedia database, an 11-million-word repository of text and
thousands of images maintained by the encyclopedia's editorial and technical staff.
Also contains dictionaries, an atlas, timelines, news, today's date in
history, along with thousands of still images, videos and sound files.
McGraw Hill's
Encyclopedia of Science and
Technology contains the complete text
of the best-selling 10th
edition. The online site also includes over 2,000 in-depth biographies of
leading scientists through history, weekly news updates on breakthroughs
and discoveries in science and technology, resources for students, and
links to Web sites for further research.
Gale
Virtual Reference Library. Available through InfoTrac. Contains full text of several standard
reference works in the humanities and social sciences as well as
numerous medical encyclopedias.
Oxford
Reference Online.
From one of the world's most respected reference
publishers, the Premium collection brings together 170 well-known and trusted
sources such as the complete Dictionaries
series, Oxford Companion series plus the complete Oxford
Dictionary of Quotations. Specialized subject sources in foreign languages,
mythology, science, medicine, philosophy, and more.
Articles in Databases
Academic
One File
- research needs across all academic
disciplines.
Indexes
peer-reviewed, full text articles available in HTML or PDF formats from
the world's leading journals and reference sources. Also has full text
New York Times content back to 1995, hundreds of podcasts and
transcripts from radio and television broadcasts.
Search Tips
(PDF)
It is possible to conduct a single
"Power Search" search in Academic One File and
up to 8 databases in the collection of database titles.
Note: Access to
the Thomson Gale
Group of databases is made possible by the Massachusetts
Board of Library Commissioners, and the six Massachusetts Regional Library Systems.
Academic Search
Complete-
largest academic, multi-disciplinary
database; full text for 4,500 publications. Most
comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than
5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals.
Search
Tips (PDF)
Public Affairs International. Public
affairs and worlds issues with coverage from 1972 to the present. An
index to over 1/2 million articles, books, government documents,
Internet sites and documents from more than 120 countries. Obviously useful for global issues
such as affirmative action, AIDS, ethnicity, climate change, political
persecution, women's rights, war and conflict, etc.
Facts.com
- Search the World Almanac, Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia, and news coverage -
archive and current - from the reliable Facts on File company.
Continuing news coverage provided by Reuters.
FirstSearch
service. Note: To use this database, the user
can only be logged onto the computer next to the Reference Desk in the
Library.
28
databases available on a per search basis; these titles supplement our web
based subscription databases.
Newspapers
Research Guide to current and archival news sources. Includes
newspapers, television, Web and other media outlets.
Includes links to Massachusetts Newsstand providing full text
coverage of 14 important newspapers in the State; also contains
National Newspapers, a database providing full text for 27 important
national and regional newspapers.
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