CPL Databases: Alphabetical Listing

The following is an alphabetical list of database subscriptions available to Chelmsford Public Library patrons. Some databases are available in library only, some are available both in library and at home.

These databases are available for viewing both and

America’s Obituaries & Death Notices

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	Access: [ In Library ] [ At Home: ]
	Subjects: • Newspapers • Genealogy		The largest and most comprehensive newspaper collection of obituaries and death notices. Search by name, date range, or text (e.g., residence, occupation, hobbies, family members, or other personal information).

Ancestry Library

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	Access: [ In Library ]
	Subjects: • Genealogy		Contains the U.S. Census Collection; U.S. Data Collection; U.K. and Ireland Collection; Birth, Marriage, and Death Records; Immigration Collection; Military Collection; Family and Local History Records; Court, Land, and Probate Records; and more.

Biography Resource Center & Marquis Who's Who

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	Subjects: • Biography • History		Biographies from respected Gale Group sources with related full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals, as well as tens of thousands of images and links to hand-picked web sites. Search for people, both current and historic from all eras and fields of endeavor. Who's Who provides access to quick biographical reference information on more than 1 million additional people.

Boston Consumers' Checkbook

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	Access: [ In Library ]
	Subjects: • Consumer Information		This nonprofit website rates local service firms and provides unbiased consumer rating and information on local auto repair shops, home repair services, health care providers, and more.

Boston Globe

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	Subjects: • Newspaper		1980-current. Full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community.

Chelmsford Independent

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	Subjects: • Newspapers		Full-text content of weekly newspaper of Chelmsford, Massachusetts (published every Thursday). Paid advertisements are excluded. [12/8/2005-Current]

COIN Career Library

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	Subjects: • Education • Employment		Offers resources for college & career research and planning, including an occupation video library, resume builder, financial aid information, practice tests, and more.

College Source

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	Access: [ In Library ] [ At Home: User & Password are first 5 digits of your library card number ]
	Subjects: • Education • Youth-Oriented		A virtual library with 25,916 college catalogs in full cover-to-cover, original page format representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools.

Consumer Reports

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	Access: [ In Library (Ask at Reference Desk for login) ]
	Subjects: • Consumer Information		Provides ratings, buying guides, product reviews and consumer information from the experts at Consumer Reports magazine and Consumers Union.

Contemporary Literary Criticism

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	Subjects: • Books		11,000+ critical essays on contemporary authors, including biographical/critical introduction, list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study.

eLibrary

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	Subjects: • General • Books • Newspapers		A full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps.

Expanded Academic ASAP

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	Subjects: • General		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.

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center

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	Subjects: • Employment		Profiles more than 2,000 of today's most exciting jobs in more than 90 industries. Contains in-depth job descriptions complete with job-specific resource listings, detailed industry descriptions, career resources, career preparation information (including scholarships, academic programs, and non-academic programs), and web resources.

General BusinessFile ASAP

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	Subjects: • Business		Full-text management topics. Includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies as well as investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries.

General Reference Center Gold

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	Subjects: • General • History		Full-text magazines, newspapers & reference books containing information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc.

GreenFILE

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	Subjects: • General		Scholarly and general interest titles, and government documents and reports covering the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment through the areas of agriculture, education, law, health and technology.

Grolier Online

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	Subjects: • General • Youth-Oriented		America the Beautiful, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and New Book of Knowledge.

Health Reference Center Academic

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	Subjects: • Health		Full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources, intended for informational purposes only.

Heritage Quest

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	Subjects: • Genealogy		Over 20,000 Family and Local Histories; 1790-1930 U.S. Federal Census; Periodical Source Index (PERSI); Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; Freedman's Bank Records; and more.

¡Informe! (Revistas en Español)™

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	Subjects: • en Español		The first reference database to provide indexing, full text, and images of the most popular Hispanic magazines.

InfoTrac® Junior (Standard and Graphical)

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	Subjects: • Youth-Oriented		Designed for students in junior high and middle school with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books.

InfoTrac® Student Edition

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	Subjects: • Youth-Oriented		Periodicals database is designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books.

InfoTrac® PowerSearch

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	Subjects: • General		PowerSearch makes it possible to find subjects from A-Z in one or several of the Thomson Gale's periodical databases in a single search.

Kids InfoBits

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	Subjects: • Youth-Oriented		Covering 75 full-text curriculum-related magazines and 7 reference books, InfoBits targets the research needs of K- 5 students.

Literary Reference Center

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	Subjects: • Books		Full-text information on thousands of authors and their works. Includes plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, author biographies, literary journals, poems, short stories, classic texts, author interview and more.

Lowell Sun

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	Subjects: • Newspaper		Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.

Magill's Medical Guide (Salem Health)

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	Access: [ In Library ] [ At Home ] -- How to Use
	Subjects: • Health		Online access to Salem Press' Magill's Medical Guide. It is an up-to-date and easy-to-use compendium of medical information for student researchers, patients and caregivers, covering diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format.

Morningstar Mutual Funds Online

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	Access: [ In Library (Ask at Reference Desk for login) ]
	Subjects: • Business		Online access to Morningstar Mutual Funds--the trusted source for investment information, data, and analysis of stocks, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds, separate accounts, and variable annuity/life subaccounts. Morningstar tracks, analyzes, and publishes information on nearly 100,000 investment securities.

NetLibrary eBook collection

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	Access: [ In Library ] [ At Home ] -- How to Use
	Subjects: • Books • eBooks		Electronic books and articles on popular topics such as travel, computers, consumer health, and business, available in English, French, Italian and Latin. The full-text of all these ebooks is online.

New England Ancestry

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	Access: [ In Library ]
	Subjects: • Genealogy		The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) is the oldest genealogical society in the country. For over 150 years, NEHGS has helped new and experienced researchers trace their heritage in New England and around the world. Their databases contain a wide assortment of genealogical information, some overlapping what Ancestry Library provides.

New York Times

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	Subjects: • Newspaper		Full-text articles for The New York Times, including The New York Times Book Review, and The New York Times Magazine. (2000 to current).

NewsBank (Newspapers & Magazines)

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	Subjects: • Newspapers		Full-text access to America Obituaries ↦ Death Notices, New York Times (2000-current), New York Times Magazine (2000-current), New York Times Book Review (2000-current), and America's News Magazines.

NoveList

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	Subjects: • Books		A fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 125,000 fiction titles. It also includes Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists.

ProQuest (Massachusetts Newspapers)

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	Subjects: • Newspapers		Full-text access the Boston Globe (1980-current), Boston Herald (1991-current), Lowell Sun (2004-current), Worcester Telegram & Gazette (1989-current), and more MA newspapers.

Overdrive Downloadable Audiobooks

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	Access: [ In Library ] [ At Home ]
	Subjects: • Books		Audiobooks, radio shows and music you can download and listen to on your computer, your mobile mp3 player, or even burn to CD!

Reference USA

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	Access: [ In Library ] [ At Home ]
	Subjects: • Business		A database that contains detailed information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses It provides addresses, sales information, executive names; it is searchable by state, city, zip code, area code, SIC code, and yellow page headings; and searches can be customized by company size, sales volume, geographic location, and industry.

Special Collections Directory (Manuscripts
and Archives of Massachusetts)

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	Access: [ In Library ] [ At Home ]
	Subjects: • Books		A guide and locator of collections residing in Massachusetts libraries, archives, historical societies and town clerk's offices.

Testing & Education Reference Center

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	Subjects: • Career • Education		Offers high school, college & career information, tools, practice tests and study guides, as well as application and resume builders, and profiles of colleges and professions.

ValueLine

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	Access: [ In Library (Ask at Reference Desk for login) ]
	Subjects: • Business		Online access to The Value Line Investment Survey, the most widely used independent investment service in the world. The Value Line Investment Survey is a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy.

Virtual Catalog (Massachusetts Libraries)

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	Subjects: • Books		Real-time searching of many public and academic libraries in Massachusetts. Items can requested directely by patrons (see our Virtual Catalog page for more information).

WorldCat

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	Subjects: • Books		Offers more than 46 million bibliographic records--representing 400 languages--and holdings information vital for collection development, cataloging, authority control, and retrospective conversion services. Also online at http://www.worldcat.org.



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