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Books & Reading
Academic OneFile
Academic Onefile contains 8,000 academic journals, the majority in full-text, available in HTML and PDF formats. In addition it contain...
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages, and provides specialized s...
NoveList
NoveList is an electronic readers’ advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. Through its a...
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg offers over 46,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online....
What Should I Read Next?
Enter a book you like and the site will analyse our huge database of real readers’ favorite books to provide book recommendations and...
Career
Vocations and Career Collection
Finding the right career can be a daunting and high stakes task: finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and mai...
Consumer
Consumer Reports
Known as one of the most trusted resources for information and advice on consumer products, this award-winning website contains informa...
Criminal Justice
Congress.gov
The official website for U.S. federal legislative information. The site provides access to accurate, timely, and complete legislative i...
Criminal Justice Collection
The Criminal Justice Collection database focuses on all aspects of the criminal justice field. Publications include: American Criminal ...
Culinary
Culinary Arts Collection
The Culinary Arts Collection includes 150 of the major cooking and nutrition magazines from 1980 to present. Coverage includes thousand...
Directories
Massachusetts Municipal Directory
Find detailed information about 351 Massachusetts communities via a directory and interactive map. The service is run by the Massachuse...
Economics
Bureau of Labor
Information, publications, and data sets on labor and economic issues....
Fuel Economy Guide
Developed by the US Department of Energy and the US Environment Protection Agency, the Fuel Economy Guide features data for new and use...
Encyclopedia & General Reference
Catholic Encyclopedia
The Catholic Encyclopedia, as its name implies, proposes to give its readers full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of ...
Digital Media Catalog (Overdrive)
The Digital Media Catalog (OverDrive) provides popular audiobooks and eBooks for users to download. There is also a collection of Publ...
Jewish Encyclopedia
This website contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906. The...
PowerSearch
Gale PowerSearch is a platform unlike any other, providing libraries with a sophisticated, yet simple, solution for managing a wealth o...
General Research
ArXiv
Open access to almost 1,000,000 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Stat...
Avalon Project
Produced by Yale Law School, the Avalon Project is a collection of digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics,...
Census.gov
The U.S. Census Bureau provides access to data about the United States in a variety of formats. This page collects all of their data ac...
Data.gov
This searchable catalog includes over 70,000 datasets on a wide range of topics. Datasets from federal, state, academice and other inst...
Digital Public Library of America
The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely...
Global
Global Issues in Context
Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are...
Government
TRAC
Comprehensive information about staffing, spending, and enforcement activities of the federal government...
Health
Health Reference Center Almanac
Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health & Safe...
Medfield Cares About Prevention
Medfield Cares About Prevention (MCAP) is a coalition that incorporates a collaborative community and evidence-based approach to help p...
MedLine Plus
MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health’s Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Lib...
History
World History in Context
World History in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant...
Newspaper
Boston Globe
Redeem your promotional code here for access to the New York Times website. Each code is good for 72 hours, after 72 hours a new code w...
InfoTrac Newsstand
A full-text newspaper resource with access to more than 1,100 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading tit...
The New York Times (At Home)
Redeem your promotional code here for access to the New York Times website. Each code is good for 72 hours, after 72 hours a new code w...
References for Kids
InfoTrac K-12 Student Edition
Designed for junior high and middle school students. Includes mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books covering curre...
Short Stories for Students
Provides critical overviews of short stories from all cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and s...
Student Edition
This database is designed for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and referen...
Religion
Catholic Encyclopedia
The Catholic Encyclopedia, as its name implies, proposes to give its readers full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of ...
Social
Adoption Resources
The following tools focus on supporting the adoption process, sharing the latest research on adoption, and connecting parties involved ...
Medfield Cares About Prevention
Medfield Cares About Prevention (MCAP) is a coalition that incorporates a collaborative community and evidence-based approach to help p...
Travel
Coast Guide Online
Coast Guide Online is an interactive mapping tool developed by the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM). It includes m...
Massachusetts Municipal Directory
Find detailed information about 351 Massachusetts communities via a directory and interactive map. The service is run by the Massachuse...