Summary of Massachusetts Online Databases

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Due to state budget cuts, the following databases are no longer available effective January 1, 2003: InfoTrac OneFile, PROMT, Contemporary Authors (all author entries are contained in Biography Resource Center), Health and Wellness Resource Center, Business and Company Resource Center. Another database entitled Business and Company ASAP has been added to make business and company searching easier for some school and public library users. It has all of the content from General BusinessFile ASAP without Investext.


Please Note: You must already be logged in to this system via your CLAMS card to access these. See previous page.

 

 Infotrac provides access to popular magazines, scholarly journals, encyclopedias, newspapers, newswire services, business directories, investment reports, health pamphlets, prescription drug information, and literature reviews.

Databases include: Biography Resource Center (includes content from Contemporary Authors), Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Expanded Academic ASAP, General BusinessFile ASAP, General Reference Center Gold, Health Reference Center Academic, Info Trac K-12 Kids Edition, Info Trac K-12 Junior Edition, Professional Collection.

This database is provided to you by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the Six Regional Massachusetts Library Systems.

 

 NewsBank's Comprehensive Newspapers is an online resource that provides instant full-text access to individual newspaper titles. With Comprehensive newspapers, you will receive the full text of all staff-written news features, special interest stories, editorials, daily columns, letters to the editor, sports reports, and much more.

Boston Globe (1980-current)

Boston Herald (1997-current)

Worcester Telegram & Gazette (1989-current)

Springfield Union-News (1988-current)

This database is brought to you by the Southeastern Massachusetts Regional Library System

 

 NetLibrary: Now you can view electronic books on popular topics such as travel, computers, consumer health and business on the web.

This database is provided to you by the Statewide Reference and Referral Center at the Boston Public Library, funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

 

 SIRS Researcher® is a highly-acclaimed general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues.

This database is brought to you by the Southeastern Massachusetts Regional Library System.

 

 SIRS Discoverer is designed to develop research, reading and other skills in young researchers. It also includes several reference products, e.g., encyclopedia and an almanac.

This database is brought to you by the Southeastern Massachusetts Regional Library System.

 

 Books in Print with Reviews / Books Out Of Print (from Ebsco) --a listing of more than 46,000 titles currently in print, with more than 350,000 full text reviews and links to web sites associated with subject searches. Also, records on out-of-print titles.

This database is brought to you by the Southeastern Massachusetts Regional Library System

 

 Easy to use! Electric Library is a full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps. Key in your request in natural language, and you won't be disappointed.

This database is brought to you by the Southeastern Massachusetts Regional Library System.

 

 Read the latest news from the South Shore by accessing full-text articles from the Quincy Patriot Ledger (1995 to present.)

This database is brought to you by the Southeastern Massachusetts Regional Library System.