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CPL Databases: Alphabetical Listing
American Ancestors (formerly New England Ancestry)
Access: [ In Library ]
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.
Ancestry Library
Access: [ In Library ]
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.
Books and Authors
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
Over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner and librarian's favorites lists, Books & Authors helps bring readers and literature together.
Boston Consumers' Checkbook
Access: [ In Library ]
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
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
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.
Business and Company Resource Center
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
Provides access to a wide variety of global business information including competitive intelligence, career and investment opportunities, rankings, company profiles & histories and much more.
Chelmsford Newspapers Obituary Search
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
Search obituaries in the Chelmsford Newsweekly (6/20/1940 - 8/26/1993) and the Chelmsford Independent (1/2/1986 - present). When you locate the correct obituary, click the name to submit a request to Reference staff to retrieve if from our microfilm records for you.
Note: Obituaries not in this archive may have appeared in the Lowell Sun newspaper, which is available on microfilm at Lowell's Pollard Memorial Library. You can also contact the Lowell Sun's obituary department at obituaries@lowellsun.com or 978-970-4652.
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
11,000+ critical essays on contemporary authors, including biographical/critical introduction, list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study.
Encyclopedia of American Immigration (Salem History)
Access: [ In Library ] [ At Home ]
Online access to Salem Press' Encyclopedia of American Immigration, covering the various cultures and significant individuals that immigrated to the US, and their impact after arriving. The Salem History database also searches Great Lives from History: Inventors and Inventions and Milestone Documents in World History.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
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.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
A mix of more than 20 full-text reference books covering the arts, biography, business, the environment, history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, geography, and science.
General BusinessFile ASAP
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
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
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
Full-text magazines, newspapers & reference books containing information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc.
Global Issues In Context
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
International viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global and current events, including analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues.
Great Lives from History: Inventors and Inventions (Salem History)
Access: [ In Library ] [ At Home ]
Online access to Salem Press' Great Lives from History: Inventors and Inventions, offering in-depth biographical essays on important men and women inventors of all time, from around the world. The Salem History database also searches Encyclopedia of American Immigration and Milestone Documents in World History.
GreenFILE
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
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.
Health and Wellness Resource Center
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
Access to ~400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, health-related videos, and articles from general interest publications.
Health Reference Center Academic
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
Full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources, intended for informational purposes only.
InfoTrac® Junior (Standard and Graphical)
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
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
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
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
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
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
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
Covering 75 full-text curriculum-related magazines and 7 reference books, InfoBits targets the research needs of K- 5 students.
LitFinder
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
Covers world literature and authors throughout history, with wealth of literary works including full-text poems and poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays.
Literature Resource Center
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
Critical, biographical and contextual materials on authors and their works in all genres and disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
Lowell Sun
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
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)
Access: [ In Library ] [ At Home ]
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. The Salem Health database also searches Psychology & Mental Health.
Massachusetts History Online
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
Use this collection for full-text articles from 50 magazines and local newspapers for coverage of Massachusetts people, places and historical events.
Milestone Documents in World History (Salem History)
Access: [ In Library ] [ At Home ]
Online access to Salem Press' Milestone Documents in World History, which combines in-depth analysis with over 125 iconic primary source documents from ancient times to the present and from virtually every geographical region. The Salem History database also searches Great Lives from History: Inventors and Inventions and Encyclopedia of American Immigration.
Morningstar Mutual Funds Online
Access: [ In Library (Ask at Reference Desk for login) ]
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
Access: [ In Library ] [ At Home ] -- How to Use
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 York Times
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
Full-text articles for The New York Times, including The New York Times Book Review, and The New York Times Magazine. (2000 to current).
Opposing Viewpoints In Context
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
Information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues from full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.
Overdrive Downloadable Audiobooks & Ebooks
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
Audiobooks, radio shows and music you can download and listen to on your computer, your mobile mp3 player, or even burn to CD!
Psychology & Mental Health (Salem Health)
Access: [ In Library ] [ At Home ]
Online access to Salem Press' Psychology & Mental Health, covering notable theories, people, social issues, life stages, the physiology and anatomy of the nervous system, and diagnoses, disorders, treatments, tests, for various mental illnesses or conditions, all in a simple, easy to use A-Z format. The Salem Health database also searches Magill's Medical Guide.
ProQuest (Massachusetts Newspapers)
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
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.
RDS Business Suite
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
Balanced and highly focused full-text coverage of company and industry news, management practices, and market research information, featuring leading worldwide business sources, plus tens of thousands of tables with strategic data.
Reference USA
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
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.
Rocket Languages
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
Presents a multi-faceted comprehensive method (video, audio, games, quizzes, etc) for learning conversational language skills, including grammar and culture lessons, with both online and downloadable learning options. Languages include: French, German, Italian, Spanish (Latin American), Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Arabic, English (from Spanish), American Sign Language.
Safari Computer Ebooks
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
Online collection of over 3,000 computer and technical ebooks, covering programming, design, desktop publishing, ecommerce, online business, hardware and more, from publishers such as O'Reilly, Wiley, Pretence Hall, and many more.
Please Note: Only 5 people can be using Safari at a time. If the database won't let you in, please try back later. If access problems persit, please contact the Reference Desk.
Firefox Users: You may be required to delete your browser's cookie before accessing Safari. To do this, go to Tools > Options > Privacy, and look for the Show Cookies option, then search for and remove the Safari cookie. If access problems persit, please contact the Reference Desk.
Science In Context
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
Contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics, with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.
Special Collections Directory (Manuscripts
and Archives of Massachusetts)
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
A guide and locator of collections residing in Massachusetts libraries, archives, historical societies and town clerk's offices.
Student Resources In Context
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
Covering history, literature, science, social studies, and more, with reference material, full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, video and audio clips and podcasts.
U.S. History In Context
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
Contextual information on hundreds of significant people, events and topics in U.S. History, from full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.
Virtual Catalog (Massachusetts Libraries)
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
Real-time searching of many public and academic libraries in Massachusetts, which patrons can use to request items directely from library outside of MVLC.
WorldCat
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
Searches the catalogs of libraries world-wide (more than 46 million records in 400 languages). Use this to see if an item is available in a library near you. (Please note: this is limited to OCLC member libraries only, small or rural libraries may not be included)
World History In Context
Access: [ In Library & At Home ]
Information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in World History, from full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.
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