Accessing research databases with your Public Library Card With your local library card, you have access to many high-quality research databases. Just click on the following links: MBLC Magazines and Newspapers (Mass. Board of Library Commisioners) Noble Libraries | Noble research links | Merrimac Valley Libraries | Merrimac Valley links | Boston Public Library research links   NOBLE (North of Boston Library Exchange) Member Libraries: Public Libraries: Academic Libraries: Beverly Public Library www.noblenet.org/beverly Bunker Hill Comm. College Library www.noblenet.org/bhcc Danvers Peabody Institute Library www.danverslibrary.org Endicott College Halle Library www.endicott.edu/library Everett Public Libraries www.noblenet.org/everett Gordon College Jenks Library www.gordon.edu/library Gloucester Sawyer Free Library www.sawyerfreelibrary.org Merrimack College McQuade Library www.noblenet.org/merrimack Lynn Public Library www.noblenet.org/lynn Middlesex Community College Library www.middlesex.mass.edu/library Lynnfield Public Library www.noblenet.org/lynnfield Montserrat College of Art Scott Library www.montserrat.edu Marblehead Abbot Public Library www.abbotlibrary.org North Shore Community College Library www.northshore.edu/library Melrose Public Library www.melrosepubliclibrary.org Northern Essex Comm. College Libraries www.necc.mass.edu/departments/library Peabody Institute Library www.peabodylibrary.org Phillips Academy Holmes Library www.andover.edu/library/home.htm Reading Public Library www.readingpl.org Salem State College Library Building temporarily closed – see www.noblenet.org/ssc www.salemstate.edu/libraryupdate Revere Public Library www.reverepubliclibrary.org     Salem Public Library www.noblenet.org/salem     Saugus Public Library www.noblenet.org/saugus     Stoneham Public Library www.stonehamlibrary.org     Swampscott Public Library www.noblenet.org/swampscott     Wakefield Beebe Memorial Library www.wakefieldlibrary.org     Winthrop Public Library www.noblenet.org/winthrop       Access to NOBLE Online Resources (via http://www.nmrls.org/answers/dbnoble.html) As a NOBLE member library card holder, you may access high-quality local, state, and regionally funded databases of full-text periodicals, health and business resources, and biographical and literary databases from home. Select a resource by Subject Area or Database. When prompted, input your 14-digit NOBLE member library patron barcode and begin searching! This will initiate a 2-hour cookie session. After this time period, you will be required to enter your barcode again. Search the NOBLE online catalog at http://catalog.noblenet.org/search/X With your NOBLE library card, you have access to the following databases: Databases for General or Multidisciplinary Research: eLibrary A full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps   EBSCOHost databases A suite of databases covering various subject areas and levels of research ¨      MasterFILE Premier   ¨      Middle Search Plus ¨      Newspaper Source ¨      Business Source Premier ¨      Regional Business News ¨      ERIC (education research topics) ¨      Professional Development Collection ¨      MEDLINE (medical research topics) ¨      Health Source - Consumer Edition ¨      Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition ¨      Clinical Pharmacology GaleGroup InfoTrac databases A suite of databases covering various subject areas, appropriate for different audiences ¨      Academic OneFile ¨      Biography Resource Center ¨      Contemporary Literary Criticism Select ¨      Educator's Reference Complete ¨      Expanded Academic ASAP ¨      General BusinessFile ASAP ¨      General Reference Center Gold ¨      Health Reference Center Academic ¨      Info Trac K-12 Junior Edition ¨      Info Trac K-12 Student Edition ¨      Info Trac OneFile ¨      Kids InfoBits ¨      Massachusetts History Online ¨      Gale Virtual Reference Library OCLC WorldCat Contains more than 46 million bibliographic records of books, journals and other published materials held in libraries worldwide.  Note: You can not search for individual articles here.     Databases for Younger Students: Grolier Online Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia and New Book of Knowledge GaleGroup InfoTrac Junior For 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.   Newspaper Databases: eLibrary A full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps   ProQuest Massachusetts Newsstand ¨      Berkshire Eagle, 2005 - ¨      Boston Globe, 1980 - ¨      Boston Herald, 1991 - ¨      BusinessWest (Chicopee), 1992 - ¨      North Adams Transcript, 2005 - ¨      Patriot Ledger (Quincy), 1991 - ¨      Plymouth County Business Review, 1991 - ¨      Sentinel & Enterprise (Fitchburg), 2005 - ¨      The Sun (Lowell), 2004 - ¨      Telegram & Gazette (Worcester), 1989 - ¨      Gazette (Haverhill, MA.), 12/31/92 – 8/9/97 ¨      Standard Times (New Bedford), 1/4/92 – 8/19/97     Business Databases: General BusinessFile ASAP For business and management topics. Includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies as well as investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries Business & Company ASAP Same content as General BusinessFile ASAP without investment analysts' reports. May be easier for high school, smaller public, and community college clientele to use.       MVLC (Merrimack Valley Library Consortium) Libraries and Access to Databases   MVLC (Merrimack Valley Library Consortium) Member Libraries:  Amesbury Public Library www.amesburylibrary.org Andover Memorial Hall Library www.mhl.org Billerica Public Library www.billericalibrary.org Boxford Town Library www.boxfordtownlib.org Burlington Public Library www.burlingtonpubliclibrary.org Carlisle Gleason Public Library www.gleasonlibrary.org Chelmsford Public Library www.chelmsfordlibrary.org Dracut Parker Memorial Library www.dracutlibrary.org Dunstable Free Public Library www.mvlc.org/libraries/dunstab1.htm Essex Burnham Free Library www.mvlc.org/libraries/essex2.htm Georgetown Peabody Library www.georgetownpl.org Groveland Langley-Adams Library www.mvlc.org/libraries/grovelan2.htm Hamilton-Wenham Public Library www.hwlibrary.org Haverhill Public Library www.haverhillpl.org Ipswich Public Library www.town.ipswich.ma.us/library Lawrence Public Library www.lawrencefreelibrary.org Littleton Hoar Library www.littletonlibrary.org Lowell Pollard Memorial Library www.pollardml.org Manchester Public Library www.manchesterpl.org Merrimac Public Library www.merrimaclibrary.org Methuen Nevins Memorial Library www.nevinslibrary.org Middleton Flint Public Library www.flintlibrary.org Newbury Town Library www.newburylibrary.org Newburyport Public Library www.newburyportpl.org N. Andover Stevens Memorial Library www.stevensmemlib.org N. Reading Flint Memorial Library www.flintmemoriallibrary.org Rockport Public Library www.rockportlibrary.org Rowley Public Library www.s201089495.onlinehome.us/RPL Salisbury Public Library www.salisburylibrary.org Tewksbury Public Library www.tewksburypl.org Topsfield Town Library www.topsfieldtownlibrary.org Tyngsborough Public Library www.tynglib.org West Newbury G.A.R. Memorial Library www.mvlc.org/Libraries/wnewbury2.htm Westford Fletcher Library www.westfordlibrary.org Wilmington Memorial Library www.wilmlibrary.org   Access to Merrimack Valley Library Consortium Online Resources (via http://www.nmrls.org/answers/dbmvlc.html) As a MVLC member library card holder, you may access high-quality local, state, and regionally funded databases of full-text periodicals, health and business resources, biographical and literary databases from in your public library or from home.  Home access is possible by inputting your 14-digit public library patron barcode, without spaces, when prompted. Search the MVLC online catalog at: http://www.mvlc.org/catalog.htm Databases for General or Multidisciplinary Research: eLibrary A full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps   InfoTrac (Gale) ¨      General Reference Center Gold Full-text magazines, newspapers & reference books containing information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc.   ¨      Academic OneFile Contains 8,000 academic journals, mainly in full-text. It also contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full-text New York Times from 1995 -.   ¨      Biography Resource Center Biographies covering literary figures, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, current events and the arts.     ¨      InfoTrac PowerSearch   A collection of databases covering many subject areas that can be searched either all at once or individually .Includes:   Gale OneFile, Expanded Academic ASAP, Health Reference Center Academic, General BusinessFile ASAP, General Reference Center Gold, Student Edition (high school students), Gale Virtual Reference Library, Academic OneFile, Massachusetts History Online, New York Times, Educator’s Reference Complete   Additional databases (search individually): Contemporary Literary Criticism, Biography Resource Center, Junior Edition K12 OCLC WorldCat Contains more than 46 million bibliographic records of books, journals and other published materials held in libraries worldwide.  Note: You can not search for individual articles here.     Newspaper Databases: eLibrary A full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps   ProQuest Massachusetts Newsstand ¨      Berkshire Eagle, 2005 - ¨      Boston Globe, 1980 - ¨      Boston Herald, 1991 - ¨      BusinessWest (Chicopee), 1992 - ¨      North Adams Transcript, 2005 - ¨      Patriot Ledger (Quincy), 1991 - ¨      Plymouth County Business Review, 1991 - ¨      Sentinel & Enterprise (Fitchburg), 2005 - ¨      The Sun (Lowell), 2004 - ¨      Telegram & Gazette (Worcester), 1989 - ¨      Gazette (Haverhill, MA.), 12/31/92 – 8/9/97 ¨      Standard Times (New Bedford), 1/4/92 – 8/19/97     Literature and Book Databases: EBSCOHost Web   ¨      Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage extends back as far as the mid-1960s.   ¨      NoveList (readers advisory tool) a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction.   ¨      Literary Reference Center a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works and is an essential resource for public, academic and high school libraries.     Boston Public Library and Access to Databases   Search the BPL online catalog at: http://www.bpl.org – then click on the button ‘Explore the BPL Catalogs’   Get an eCard for the Boston Public Library at http://www.bpl.org/general/circulation/ecards.htm   ¨      Who can get one?  Anyone who lives, works, attends school, or owns property in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and is at least 13 years of age may register for an eCard.   ¨      Why get one?  BPL eCards are virtual library cards that allow users immediate remote access to all of the Boston Public Library's electronic resources, including magazine databases, downloadable audio, video and music.  eCard users who wish to check out library materials will be asked to upgrade to a standard BPL card   Access to online BPL resources (via http://www.bpl.org/electronic/index.htm)   There are dozens of databases to choose from--too many to list here--most offering remote access (but not all – some will have a red "X" indicating that they may only be accessed from the BPL).   --Choose a subject area from the list:   Architecture Encyclopedia History Newspapers Science Art General Images Philosophy Sociology Biography Genealogy Law Political Science Sports Business Government Literature Psychology Statistics Education Health Music Religion World Language   --Or search for a database if you already know the title.  For example, click ‘J’ to search the JSTOR database.   Other benefits:   --Search full text e-journals by journal title.  For example, if you have a citation to a journal article and need the full text, input the journal title, and if the BPL subscribes to that journal online (or if it’s included in one of their databases), the system will direct you to the full article.   --Include full text BPL content in Google Scholar results. This means that when you search Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com), free access to full text articles will be tagged with a BPL link. ---------- Created by P. Durisin Barbera Library Consultant, Waring School November 8, 2007