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Auto Repair Reference Center
The Auto Repair Reference Center is a powerful online reference
system offering easy access to a wide variety of information pertaining
to automobiles. You can search the database by year of vehicle locating
the make, model, and engine type. You can research even deeper and
find information on topics as various as repair procedures, wiring
diagrams, specifications, and maintenance intervals of automobiles.
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to Auto Repair Reference Center - Type in your library card
number at the prompt.
BookFlix
Scholastic BookFlix is a new online literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks with related nonfiction eBooks to build a love of reading and learning.
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Curriculum Resource Center -
Facts on File
This award-winning electronic library of printable, curriculum-related
handouts for middle school, high school, and junior college levels
offers supplementary materials in core subject areas—-including
U.S. and world history, science, and geography. Comprehensive and
easy to use, it provides access to a broad selection of visual content,
including maps, science diagrams, science experiments, historical
images, historical timelines, and other handouts.
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to Curriculum Resource Center - Type in your library card number
at the prompt.
Issues and Controversies - Facts
on File
Search for current information on the most prominent issues of
the day, and read objective analysis and explanations of opposing
viewpoints.
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to Issues and Controversies - Type in your library card number
at the prompt.
EBSCO's Literary Reference Center
Your Massachusetts public or campus library card and a computer with Internet access will transform your PC into an information mecca accessing millions of commercial full-text magazine and newspaper articles, as well as thousands of books. The latest magazines are often online BEFORE they even hit the newsstands!
EBSCO's Literary Reference Center
Gale InfoTrac Databases
Connect to InfoTrac and search for magazine and journal articles
and reference information in the following databases:
Cross-Searchable Databases:
- InfoTrac OneFile
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News and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business,
current events, education, the environment, health, hobbies, politics,
science, social sciences, sports, technology, general interest
topics. Millions of full-text articles, updated daily.
- Expanded Academic ASAP
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From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology,
this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines.
Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many
with full text and images!
- General
Business File ASAP -
- Business
and Company ASAP -
- General Reference Center Gold
- A general interest database that
integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books,
magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events,
popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences,
sports, hobbies, and more.
- Health Reference Center Academic
- Integrates the full text and images
of respected nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer
health magazines; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles;
topical overviews; and reference books.
- Student
Edition - This periodical
database is designed for high-school students with access to a
variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference
books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular
culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
- Professional
Collection - Full-text
periodicals for teachers and school administrators.
- Gale
Virtual Reference Library -
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias
and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content
may vary if you use the database at different libraries.
Additional Databases:
- Biography Resource Center
+ Marquis Who's Who® -
Integrates Thomson Gale biographies with full-text magazine articles,
images, and website links. Search for current or historic people
by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates
and places, or gender, or by keyword and full text. The optional
Marquis Who's Who® module provides quick
reference information on over 1 million additional people whose
entries have appeared in more than 20 Marquis sources published
from 1985 to the present.
- Junior Edition - K12
- This periodical database is designed
for students in junior high and middle school with access to a
variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference
books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular
culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
- Contemporary Literary Criticism
- Select - an extensive
collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary
authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical introduction,
a principal works list, critical essays, and sources for further
study.
- Kids InfoBits -
for K-5 researchers. It is developmentally appropriate, visually
graphic, and 100% full-text. Covering curriculum-related topics,
the content is chosen from the best age-appropriate reference
sources and magazines.
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to InfoTrac - Type in your library card number at the prompt.
Governor's Budget FY2009
Governor Deval Patrick's budget recommendation for fiscal year 2009.
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Grove Art Online
Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The
Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford
Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke (2001). We offer ongoing
additions of new and updated articles, over 1,500 thumbnail art
images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles, extensive
image links, and sophisticated search and navigation tools.
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to Grove Art Online
Grolier Encyclopedias Online
The library offers access to both Grolier's Encyclopedia Americana and Multimedia
Encyclopedia. The Encyclopedia Americana is a resource for high school, college and beyond,
providing information and maps on a wide variety of topics. It also includes magazine
articles and links to many websites. The Encyclopedia Americana is updated quaterly.
Grolier's Multimedia Encyclopedia is a resource for middle school and beyond. It provides
resources on getting started on a research topic and many current events links. It's an
excellent source of quick reference information, incorporating many media formats into the
text. The Multimedia Encyclopedia is updated monthly. Grolier Encyclopedias Online
HeritageQuest Online
HeritageQuest Online provides web access to U.S. federal census
records, family genealogies, local histories, tax lists, city directories,
land and probate records, birth, marriage and death records, genealogical
and local history serials, and more.
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to HeritageQuest Online
Massachusetts Trial Court Law
Libraries
Provice access to online legal information through
the Public Law Libraries of Massachusetts. Seventeen public law libraries
located across Massachusetts, dedicated to serving the bench, bar
and public.
Massachusetts
Trial Court Law Libraries
Medline Plus
Medline Plus is a comprehensive health and wellness reference source administrated by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
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NewsBank
Our NewsBank resources include America's Obituaries and Death Notices,
America's Newspapers, and the Boston Globe E-Edition.
The America's Newspapers service includes full-text articles from
a wide selection of local, regional, and national newspapers, including
The Boston Globe, Boston Herald,
Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times,
Chicago Tribune, and the New York Times.
America's Obituaries and Death Notices is the largest and most
comprehensive collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices.
Extensive editorial review of all newspaper sections ensures thorough
selection of obituaries for easy access. An easy-to-use interface
allows searching by name, date range, or text such as institutional
name, social affiliation(s), geographic location(s), philanthropic
activities, etc.
The Boston Globe E-Edition: the electronic image edition
is an exact digital reproduction of the printed edition, with keyword
searching and ability to browse the full publication. All pages,
including advertising, photos and graphics are included.
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to Newsbank - Type in your library card number at the prompt.
NoveList
NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access,
reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles.
It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such
as 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.
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to NoveList - Type in your library card number at the prompt.
Price It! Antiques and Collectibles
Price It! Antiques and Collectibles offers library patrons a fast,
reliable and easy way to find out what their collectibles and antiques
are worth. The simple interface gives users access to over 23 million
price records gathered from both brick-and-mortar and online auction
companies. 2 million more records are added monthly, offering timely
insight into fickle markets, and data going back to 1998 gives
collectors longer-term perspective.
Price
It! Antiques and Collectibles - Type in your library card number
at the prompt.
Reference
USA -- Business and Residential Information
The ReferenceUSA Business database contains detailed information
on more than 13 million U.S. businesses, with the ability to search
by company name, type of business, geography, business size and
more. The separate Residential database contains information
for 120 million U.S. households.
Connect
to Reference USA - Type in your library card number at the
prompt.
Science Online - Facts on File
Science Online is a curriculum-oriented database that offers a
comprehensive, authoritative overview of the sciences. Diagrams,
experiments, essays, definitions, and biographies are arranged by
topic and contain thousands of hyperlinks that create thematic paths
through the content. Science Online contains extensive information
on a broad range of scientific disciplines. The content is organized
by subject area and by the National Science Education Standards.
All material can be saved, e-mailed, or printed for educational
purposes.
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to Science Online - Type in your library card number at the
prompt.
The Street
TheStreet.com Ratings is the source for accurate ratings that
you can rely upon to make sound, informed financial decisions.
We are proud to offer a complete line of products designed to direct
consumers and business professionals alike toward safe investment
and insurance options while avoiding unnecessary risks that could
lead to financial losses.
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to The Street - Type in your library card number at the
prompt.
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Value Line
Value Line Investment Survey is an independent investment information service. Weekly issues cover individual stock reports, industry reviews, economic statistics, and other financial information.
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Worcester Telegram and Gazette
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World Book Online
World Book Online is an encyclopedic reference database that includes specialized features for children and young adults.
World Book Online: Type in your library card number at the prompt.
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Also available for in-library
use only:
Ancestry Library Edition
Ancestry Library Edition is an enhanced version of the popular consumer
genealogy database, Ancestry.com. Key collections in Ancestry
Library Edition include:
* Immigration Collection: New York Passenger
Lists, San Francisco Passenger Lists, and New York Petitions for
Naturalization
* U.S. Data Collection including U.S. Birth,
Marriage and Death Collection, World War I Draft Registration Cards,
and Social Security Death Index
* U.S. Census Collection including U.S. Census
1790-1930 images and indexes
* UK and Ireland Collection including England
and Wales Census Images and Indexes, England and Wales Civil Registration
Index 1837-present, and England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales Parish
and probate records 1500s-1837
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to Ancestry Library Edition - This
link will only work if you're using a computer at the Shrewsbury
Library. Come join us!
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary is generally regarded as the most
comprehensive and scholarly dictionary of the English language,
and is the starting point for much scholarly work regarding words
in English. This unique and powerful resource is widely considered
the definitive record of the meaning, history and evolution of
more than 600,000 words over the last 1,500 years. Unlike our 20
volume printed edition, our new electronic version of this resource
is always up to date and is accessible both inside the library
and from home.
Oxford
English Dictionary - This link will only work if you're using a computer at the Shrewsbury Library. Come join us!
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