Alphabetical listing of databases:

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ABI/INFORM Dateline (ProQuest) - Find local and regional business news coverage of large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. Provides access to business information not typically found in national news sources. Contains news and analysis, information on local markets, and more gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business publications.

ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest) - Business and management database providing extensive coverage of North America and internationally. Full text of 600+ journals, cumulative indexing/abstracting from 1970s onward of 1,500 total journals on business conditions, economics, trends, corporate strategies/tactics, management and marketing techniques, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, as well as information on 60,000+ companies.

ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry (ProQuest) - Search more than 750 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. Provides users with the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and many more.

Abstracts in Social Gerontology (EBSCO) - includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to social gerontology, including the psychology of aging, elder abuse, society and the elderly, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.

Academic OneFile (InfoTrac) - A good general source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Updated daily.

Accounting & Tax (ProQuest) - Indexing/abstracts and selected full text of key journals, newspapers and periodicals. Known as "the quintessential accountant's database." Includes policies, standards and interpretations, tax legislation, compensation, financial management, etc.

Accounting & Tax Newspapers (ProQuest) - Search newspapers for the latest accounting and tax news.

Accounting & Tax Periodicals (ProQuest) - Based on the Accountants' Index, this tool for professionals provides current accounting, taxation, and financial management information. National and international in scope, key publications focus on accounting policies and standards, state and national tax legislation, corporate and individual taxation, compensation and pension plans, and corporate financial management, as well as profiles of accounting firms, CPAs, and management consulting firms.

ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery) - Search and find bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since 1985, including works published by affiliated organizations.

AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) - is a machine-readable database of bibliographic records created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators.

Alt-Press Watch (ProQuest) - A full text database comprised of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.

America: History & Life (EBSCO) - America History and Life provides extensive coverage of the history and culture of America and Canada from "prehistory to the present." It includes journal articles, dissertations, and book reviews published since 1954. Abstracts are provided for most journal article citations.

America’s News Magazines (Newsbank) - Coverage of U.S. and international news, business, lifestyle, entertainment, sports, and science and technology from familiar magazines

Analytical Abstracts (RSC) - "...is the only abstracting service designed specifically to meet analytical chemistry information needs. It provides comprehensive coverage of new techniques and applications." 1980 to present."

Anthropological Literature (OCLC FirstSearch) - Comprehensive international resource for the fields of anthropology, archaeology and related interdisciplinary research.

AnthroSource (U of Cal Press) - is a searchable database of full-text articles from 32 journals, including current issues of 15 peer-reviewed American Anthropological Association publications.

Applied Science & Technology Index (H.W.Wilson) - "covers more than 480 core English-language scientific and technical publications. Topics include engineering, acoustics, chemistry, computers, metallurgy, physics, plastics, telecommunications, transportation, and waste management."

Art Index (H.W.Wilson) - is the basic periodical index in art. It indexes the contents of about 300 journals, mostly in English, in all areas of art, architecture, and design published since 1984. Art Index Retrospective extends the coverage back to 1929, but is available only in the library.

ARTbibliographies Modern (CSA) - Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews. Covers many aspects of modern and contemporary art, including performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theater arts, crafts, jewelry, illustration, and more, as well as the traditional fine arts of painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing. Architecture is not covered. Search DAAI and ART biliographies Modern together: DAAI/ABM

ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (CSA) - "Is published in association with a growing international network of information centers monitoring over 5,000 serial publications, books, reports, conference proceedings, translations and limited distributions literature."

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Berkshire Eagle, The (ProQuest) - Full-text coverage for Pittsfield, MA, Berkshire County, and 4 nearby New York communities from 2005.

Bibliography of the History of Art (OCLC FirstSearch) - BHA is an extensive index to the literature of western art history from the end of the ancient world to the present. It includes books and exhibition catalogs as well as journal articles.

Biography Resource Center w/ Marquis Who's Who - over 400,000 biographies covering literary figures, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, current events and the arts. 

Biosis Previews (OVID) - the world's most comprehensive reference database in the life sciences. It covers original research reports and reviews in biological and biomedical areas.

BooksinPrint.com - Contains over 3.5 million title records with 165,000 records on publishers, distributors, wholesalers and book agents. It also includes information on award winners, bestsellers, over 500,000 full-text reviews and inventory data from 19 well-known wholesalers.

Boston Globe (ProQuest) - Full-text coverage from 1980.

Boston Herald (ProQuest) - Full-text coverage from from 1991.

Britannica Online - The electronic version of the encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and more!

Business & Industry Database (RDS Business Reference Suite) - covers 900+ publications focusing on business, all industries, more than 60% full text, 50 % U.S. and 50% international content. Uses keyword or code searching, companies, lines of business, SIC codes, concepts such as market share.

Business & Management Practices (RDS Business Reference Suite) - focuses on processes, methods, strategies of managing a business. Emphasizes planning for change and growth, decision-making, new technologies, etc. 300 core publications, articles from 300+ other sources, 60% full text.

BusinessWest (Chicopee, MA) (ProQuest) - Full-text bi-weekly business journal for western MA from 1992.

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Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) - Selected science databases including Medline, Oceanic Abstracts, Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts, Artbibliographies Modern and DAAI.

Cape Cod Times (Newsbank) - 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.

CCH® Internet Tax Research NetWork (CCH Inc.) - Leading accounting, federal, state, international and financial content. Also includes the full-text Aspen-Miller GAAP Guide, the GAAP Practice Manual, GAAP Financial Statement DIsclosures and GAAP Update Service.

Chemical Abstracts - Search Chemical Abstracts via SciFinder Scholar®.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCO) - Provides indexing and abstracting for nursing and allied health journals, providing full text for more than 560 journals indexed in CINAHL. The database contains 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937, as well as searchable cited references, legal cases, clinical innovations. critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. Areas covered by the database include nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.

Cochrane Collection, The (EBSCO) - provides access to high quality evidence based research, which is used in clinical and health management decision-making. The Cochrane Collection consists of three sections that can be searched separately:

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)- Contains full text systematic reviews, as well as protocols, focusing on the effects of healthcare. Data is evidence-based medicine and is often combined statistically (with meta-analysis) to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies, each too small to produce reliable results individually.
• Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) - Includes abstracts of published systematic reviews on the effects of health care from around the world, which have been critically analyzed according to a high standard of criteria. This database provides access to quality reviews in subjects for which a Cochrane review may not yet exist.
• Cochrane Controlled Trials Register - A bibliography of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration and others, as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews.

Conference Board Research Collection, The (Conference Board) - research is a searchable Collection of full-text research reports on the latest issues in business management and US and global economics. Proprietary, nonbiased research includes studies of F500 companies on business trends, leadership decisions, performance excellence, corporate governance, HR, productivity, CRM and more. Full-text coverage from 1998 to date.Economics material includes topline US and global economic indicators and analysis and forecasts of regional, national, and international economic conditions.

Contemporary Literary Criticism (InfoTRAC) - An extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary writers. Each entry also contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, and sources for further study.

CorpTech "Explore" Database of U.S. Companies - 94,500 high-technology companies, listings for 287,000 key executives, Internet Pages and e-mail addresses, detailed product lines, import/export information, employment trends.

CQ Researcher - is a collection of reports on controversial issues of current significance. The reports offer topic overviews and background information, opposing viewpoint essays, and much more. The database contains reports dating back to 1991.

CQ Weekly Online - offers weekly analysis of news from Capital Hill as well as Congressional roll call votes. CQ Weekly claims it is “the choice of 95% of members of Congress.” Nevertheless, its articles are written in lay language and are easily understood by those of us living outside the beltway. The database contains information dating back to 1983.

Criminal Justice Abstracts (CAS) - contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.

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DAAI (CSA) - The Design and Applied Arts Index contains over 130,000 annotated references from more than 500 design and craft journals and newspapers published from 1973 onwards, and data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms etc. Research articles are covered, along with topical news items, conference and seminar reports, and book, video and exhibition reviews. DAAI also includes two supplementary databases: Education Directory, an international directory of universities and colleges that offer courses in design and craft subjects, and Periodicals Directory, an international directory of design and craft journals. Search ARTbiliographies Modern and DAAI together: ABM/DAAI

Dissertations & Abstracts (ProQuest) - with more than 2 million entries, PQD&T is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350- word abstracts written by the author. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Titles available as native or image PDF formats include free twenty-four page previews. UMI offers over 1.8 million titles for purchase in microform, paper or electronic formats.

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EconLit (EBSCO) - from the American Economic Association, is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature with citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969. It provides comprehensive information on accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more. Full text of many economics journals can be accessed in ABI/INFORM Global and J-STOR.

Educators Desk Reference (Open Access) - is maintained by the Educational Resources Information Center, a part of the Information Institute of Syracuse at Syracuse University. The site includes most of the information formerly included in AskERIC, including a database of over 2000 lesson plans for grades K-12 and high education.

Educator's Reference Complete (Gale/InfoTRAC) - is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education.

Electric Library (ProQuest) - a comprehensive reference tool providing access to hundreds of popular magazines and scholarly journals. Other sources include newspapers, photographs, maps, TV and radio scripts, and general reference resources.

Emerald Fulltext - 40,000+ searchable articles from over 100 Emerald journals. Subjects covered include management, HRM, marketing, librarianship, mechanical engineering, electronic and electrical engineering. Key journals include: European Journal of Marketing, Management Decision, International Journal of Operations & Production Management.

Engineering Village 2 - provides access to Compendex (Engineering Index online) beginning in 1884.

Entrez, The Life Sciences Search Engine (National Center for Biotechnology Information) - Provides access to searching individual databases (such as PubMed, PubMed Central, OMIN, Human Genome, GenBank) or to searching across all the NCBI databases simultaneously.

ERIC (EBSCO) - offers access to many full-text journal articles as well as full-text ERIC documents available on Department of Education web site. Students and faculty wishing to conduct advanced searches will likely find this version easier to use than the open access version. Users also have access to some full-text journal articles not available through the Department of Education. However, as of July 2005 this version does not include 2005 ERIC documents or journals. The most current information may be searched through the open access database. Also, please note that ERIC discontinued the production of ED microfiche. ED 483 046 is the last document available on microfiche.

ERIC (Open Access) - is a "free" web-based version of ERIC sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. It contains nearly 1.1 million citations to ERIC documents (ED references) and journal articles (EJ references). ERIC also provides users with access to an increasing number of full-text documents. ERIC includes material from 1966 to the present.

Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest) - is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses. This current database begins its coverage in 1990. (Access provided by the MBLC)

Ethnic NewsWatch: A History (ProQuest) - is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses. This database contains the retrospective backfile of Ethnic NewsWatch titles with coverage from 1960 through 1989. (Access provided by the MBLC)

Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale/InfoTRAC) - This database provides citations and full-text access to journals in fields such as astronomy, religion, law, history, psychology, literature, art, sociology, general science, and communications, as well as covering current events.

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Gale Virtual Reference Library (Gale/InfoTRAC) - a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Gazette (Haverhill, MA) (ProQuest) - Full-text local news from 12/31/92 to 8/9/07.

GenderWatch (ProQuest) - A full text database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. With its archival material, dating back to 1970 in some cases, GenderWatch is a repository of an important historical perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles.

General BusinessFile ASAP (Gale/InfoTRAC) - contains 415+ general business magazine, 315+ full-text publications, focusing on company news, business and 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 (Gale/InfoTRAC) - This database provides citations and full-text access to magazines covering current events, popular culture, the arts, sciences, sports, and other general topics (includes full-text access to Consumer Reports).

General Science Index (H.W.Wilson) - "covers 167 popular and professional English-language science periodicals as well as the Science section of the New York Times." (H.W.Wilson) - "covers 167 popular and professional English-language science periodicals as well as the Science section of the New York Times."

GovEngine.com (GovEngine, Inc. a non-profit organization) - provides organized links to federal, state and local government sites.

GPO Monthly Catalog (OCLC FirstSearch) - covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.). Subjects covered include finance, business, demographics, agriculture, medicine, public health, and more.

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Health Reference Center-Academic (Gale/InfoTRAC) - Provides searchable access to popular medical and consumer health information, much of it full-text, including a dictionary, a home medical guide, medical tests, drug information, directories, and pamphlets and articles on health subjects.

Healthy People 2010 - Healthy People 2010 provides a framework for prevention for the Nation. It is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.

Hispanic American Periodicals Index - HAPI (UCLA Latin American Center) - The Hispanic American Periodicals Index includes articles on subjects relating to Hispanics in the United States and Latin American subjects. Coverage begins in 1970. Also consider using the Handbook of Latin American Studies from the Library of Congress.

Historical Abstracts (EBSCO) - Historical Abstracts provides in depth coverage to a large number of journal articles in modern history, which it defines as since 1450. It covers all area of the world except the United States and Canada, which are covered by America History and Life. Coverage begins in 1954. Abstracts are provided for most citations.

Hoover's Company Records (ProQuest) - Find up to date proprietary editorial content covering more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives. Hoover's, widely recognized as a leading provider of corporate data, delivers in depth industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more.

Humanities Index (H.W.Wilson) - Humanities Index is the basic periodical index in the humanities, including literature, history, archaeology, gender studies, and philosophy. It indexes the content of about 300 journals, mostly in English. The electronic version begins in 1984; older articles must be searched in the paper index in the library.

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IEEE IEL (IEEE) - Search and retrieve full text of IEEE and IEE/IET publications including transactions and proceedings from more than 120 IEEE journals, 900 active IEEE standards, and the proceedings of 400 annual conferences. The majority of the content dates back to 1988; content from select publications back as far as 1950.

InfoTrac Searchbank databases (Gale/InfoTRAC) - Health, business, reference, academic and general interest indexes and FULL-TEXT articles.

INSPEC (EBSCO) - INSPEC created by the IET (The Institution of Engineering and Technology), is the leading bibliographic database providing abstracts and indexing to the world's scientific and technical papers in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computing and information technology. Containing over 7 million records, INSPEC provides coverage from over 3,500 journals, 1,500 conference proceedings as well as numerous books, dissertations and reports.

ISI Emerging Markets (ISI) - Internet Securities, Inc. 's Emerging Markets Information Service aggregates and produces unique content including financial, economic and political news and information . It includes full-text news articles, financial statements, industry analyses, equity quotes, macroeconomic statistics, and market-specific information, which are derived directly from thousands of local and leading international information providers, in both English and the local language. Emerging markets covered by Internet Securities include
Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil , Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Central America;
Central & Eastern Europe:Belarus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine; Southeast Europe: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia - Montenegro, Slovenia, Turkey;
Asia:Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam; Central Asia - Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan; Australia; Africa & Middle East: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, UAE, Sub-Saharan Africa.

MENA Other Countries covers Algeria, Bahrain, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Sudan and Syria.

Iter Gateway (Iter) - is a database of more than 945,000 records for articles, essays, books, dissertation abstracts, encyclopedia entries and reviews. This material has been collected from 7,218 publications, including 1,617 journals. Updated daily, with thousands of new records added annually, this powerful research tool is of essential use to scholars of the Middle Ages and / or the Renaissance (400-1700).

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JSTOR - is a full-text online collection of core scholarly journals from their first issues (some date back to the 1800's) to between two and five years prior to the present. Subject coverage includes education, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, anthropology, Asian studies, economics, population studies, sociology and botany and ecology. The journals can be browsed by journal issue or searched by keywords, topics, titles, authors and dates. The journals included in JSTOR are also listed in and linked from the Journals, Magazines & Newspapers in Our Library.

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LISTA (EBSCO) - (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts) - indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

Literary Reference Center - LRC (EBSCO) - is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else.

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Massachusetts Newsstand (ProQuest) - Full-text coverage of major Massachusetts newspapers including the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Quincy Patriot Ledger and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, plus selected coverage of other regional sources.

Massachusetts Special Collections Directory - "A database of over 600 archives and manuscript collections in Massachusetts."

MassChip - Massachusetts Community Health Information Profile (Massachusetts Department of Public Health) -- provides data at the city or town level, "to access health needs, monitor health status indicators, and evaluate health programs." One of the two options, Instant Reports, is available from the library's workstations. This option gives basic data at the community level (i.e. smoking in Fall River ). Custom Reports, more detailed, are available only to those who download the MassCHIP client into their own computer-this is not possible in the library.

MathSciNet - Mathematical Reviews on the Web (American Mathematical Society) - "provides searching of over 59 years of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications."

Medline (EBSCO) - MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals.

Medline, for Medline see Pubmed

MEDLINEplus (National Library of Medicine) - Provided by the National Library of Medicine for the layperson who wants to research health questions. Includes information on specific health topics, full-text publications, dictionaries, newsletters, and directories.

Mental Measurements Yearbook (EBSCO) - from the Buros Institute, contains the most recent descriptive information and critical reviews of new and revised tests from the Buros Institute's 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th Yearbooks. The database covers more than 2,200 commercially-available tests in categories such as personality, developmental, behavioral assessment, neuropsychological, achievement, intelligence and aptitude, educational, speech & hearing, and sensory motor. Each entry includes test name and classification; author(s); publisher, publication date; price; time requirements; score descriptions; levels; and intended populations. ( Updated every six months)

Mergent Online - a comprehensive global company database, both U.S. public and international public-equivalent companies, includes details on items from SEC filings such as business description, history, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt and capital stock. Financial statements are presented in "as-reported" form and in native currencies. Search by company name or ticker symbol, or search across all global boundaries to find companies that match specific financial and/or textual search criteria. Use Company Analysis feature to compile reports on selected companies.

Mintel - Mintel offers market research reports covering US and International marketplaces. Each report combines data & analysis of the competitive landscape, market-share analysis and consumer profiles. Complex demographic issues are broken into easy-to-understand sections, explaining consumer behavior and demonstrating the structure of the market. When you first log on, you will create a user profile that will show you our subscription report areas. Click on a report range to view all reports available.

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO) - is an index of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. Coverage is international and subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.

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National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) - “is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.” This “free” web-based database offers access to many full-text publications as well as citations and abstracts to additional journal articles and reports. Remember to check the library's holdings if NCJRS only provides a citation and abstract. Use the library's Interlibrary Loan service to obtain articles and reports not owned by the library.

National Newspapers (ProQuest) - Coverage of 9 major US newspapers including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, USA TODAY, Boston Globe and the Atlanta Journal/Constitution.

NBER WORKING PAPERS (National Bureau of Economic Research) - The NBER is the nation's leading nonprofit economic research organization. NBER researchers initially report their findings in scientific papers aimed at other professional economists in academic institutions, business, government, and the business media around the world. Nearly 700 NBER Working Papers are published each year, and many subsequently appear in scholarly journals. Full texts of Working Papers published from November 1994 to the present are available online.

NeighborhoodScout® - Includes nearly 200 characteristics in a searchable neighborhood research tool that covers every neighborhood (census tract) in America. NeighborhoodScout can be queried either by selecting lifestyle segmentations such as retirement living, vacation homes, family neighborhoods, and luxury communities, or by selecting combinations of criteria. Criteria include: school ratings, appreciation rates, house values, crime rates, income, ethnicity, and many more. This database requires a username and password and is for UMass Dartmouth students, faculty and staff use only.

NetLibrary (NetLibrary) - is a diverse collection of eBooks (electronic books) that may be "checked out" to read online. You may browse and preview all the eBooks, but to check out a book to read online, you will need to know your UMass Dartmouth Library barcode number. The barcode number is located on your Umass Pass if you've registered with the library.

New York Times (Gale/InfoTrac) - Full-text of The New York Times from 1995-

New York Times (ProQuest) - Full-text coverage of the US newspaper of record. Offers superb coverage of national and international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions, and presidential press conference transcripts.

NewsBank - Massachusetts (Newsbank) - Full-text coverage of major Massachusetts newspapers including the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Worcester Telegram and Gazette and Cape Cod Time (Access provided by SEMLS & MBLC)

NISO (the National Information Standards Organization) - non-profit association accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), identifies, develops, maintains, and publishes technical standards to manage information.

North Adams Transcript (ProQuest) - Full-text news, commentary, obituaries, classified and information on the northern Berkshire region from 2005.

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Oceanic Abstracts (CSA) - "Focuses exclusively on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment. It is totally comprehensive in its coverage of living and non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics."

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Patent and Trademark Office, United States - Search for United States patents 1790 to present through the Patent and Trademark Office (United States). Patents issued since 1976 in full text. full-page images are available since 1790. NOTE: Patents from 1790 through 1975 are searchable only by Patent Number and Current US Classification!
Guided Search from the Patent and Trademark Office, US
Patent Tutorial (Penn State University Library)

Philosopher's Index (CAS) - provides bibliographic access to abstracts from more than 550 journals; it contains backfiles to 1940 and is updated quarterly. International in scope, the database contains references from journals originally published in more than 40 countries in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Czech, Hungarian, Polish and many other languages. Subjects covered include: aesthetics, axiology, philosophy of education, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of history, philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, metaphilosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of science, social philosophy, and the philosophy of religion.

Plymouth County Business Review (ProQuest) - Full-text business news for Plymouth County & southeastern MA from 1991.

ProQuest Direct - includes ABI/INFORM Dateline, ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, Accounting & Tax, Accounting & Tax Newspapers, Accounting & Tax Periodicals, Asian Wall Street Journal,CBCA Reference, Chicago Tribune, Hoover's Company Records, Los Angeles Times, National Newspapers, Massachusetts Newsstand, and the New York Times.

ProQuest Education Journals (ProQuest) - seaches full-text journals in education and related fields.

Providence Journal (ProQuest) - Daily newspaper from Providence, Rhode Island from 1983 to CURRENT

PsycINFO (EBSCO) - PsycINFO contains more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports in the field of psychology. Journal coverage spans 1887 to present, including international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 35 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year. Also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. Incorporates searchable full text articles from 43 journals published by the American Psychological Association and 8 from allied organizations. Contains from each of the 51 journals: journal articles, letters to the editor and errata. PsycArticles

PUBMED (National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM) - Provides free access to the National Library of Medicine’s MEDLINE database. Includes bibliographic citations and abstracts to articles in more than 4600 journals in the fields of pre-clinical sciences, healthcare, clinical medicine, biomedical research, nursing, allied health, among others. Now includes links to full-text articles in PubMed Central.

PubMed Central (National Center for Biotechnology Information) - Provides free access to full text articles in over 130 life sciences journals. It is linked to PubMed and fully searchable.

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RDS Business Reference Suite - includes: Business & Industry Database, Business & Management Practices, and TableBase.

RefWorks - RefWorks is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows users to create their own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases.

ReferenceUSA: Business - 12 million US companies, compiled and verified from public information, with data on sales, number of employees, e-mail addresses, product and service information, and geographic area.

Royal Historical Society Bibliography - in association with Irish History Online and London's Past Online - provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British empire and commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present.

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Safari (ProQuest) - Full-text information technology books from Addison-Wesley, Cisco Press, New Riders, O'Reilly and Associates, Peachpit, Prentice Hall, Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, Que, and Sams. The library has subscribed to a small collection of Safari books (some books will show up as previews not full-text) as a pilot project to test out this product and to better understand your requirements and uses of electronic books. Please send your comments on this service to your library liaison or the collection development librarian, Bruce Barnes, Email Bruce Barnes.

Science.gov (US Govt.) - United States government science cross-agency portal. Search for full text documents and reports of U.S. agencies.

SciFinder Scholar® - from American Chemical Society, is the search interface to the Chemical Abstracts and MEDLINE databases. It provides subject coverage that includes the chemical aspects of astronomy, biology, education, engineering, economics, geology, history, mathematics, medicine, and physics. It is available for use from specially designated workstations in the Reference area on the 2nd floor of the Library. Please ask at the Reference Desk if you cannot locate them. The SciFinder Scholar® client software may also be downloaded for use by UMass Dartmouth students, faculty and staff in campus offices and labs after registering with the Science Librarian. (On Campus Use Only)

Sentinel & Enterprise (Fitchburg, MA) (ProQuest) - Full-text coverage of news for Fitchburg from 2005.

SocINDEX (EBSCO) - offers coverage of all subdisciplines of sociology, including anthropology, criminal justice, political science, social work and social psychology. The database includes full text for more than 300 journals, 545 books and monographs, and 6,711 conference papers.

Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage (S&P) - a comprehensive financial information database with complete, full-text information from nine Standard and Poor's publications, including the Industry Surveys, Stock Reports,Monthly Investment Review, Register of Corporations: Public & Private, Register of Executives, and Stock Reports: Closed End Funds.

Standard Time (New Bedford, MA (ProQuest) - Full-text local news from 1/4/92 to 8/19/97.

Statistical Universe (Lexis-Nexis) - "Statistical Universe enables easy access to statistics produced by the U.S. government, major international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities."

Sun, The (Lowell, MA) (ProQuest) - Full-text coverage of news from Lowell, MA & the Merrimack Valley from 2004.

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TableBase (RDS Business Reference Suite) - uses Business & Industry Database indexing to find database records with forecasts, market share, rankings, users, demographics by industry or country, displayed in full-text tables.

Teacher Reference Center (EBSCO) - provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines. Provides coverage on key educational topics such as assessment, continuing education, current pedagogical research, curriculum development, instructional media, language arts, literacy standards, science and math standards and more.

Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) (ProQuest) - Full-text coverage of  Worcester and Central Massachusetts news from 1989.

Textile Technology Index (EBSCO) - from the Institute of Textile Technology provides international coverage of the literature of textiles and related subjects including journals, books, conferences, theses, technical reports, trade literature, and other material acquired by the Institute's library. Coverage includes the various aspects of textile science research, the production, processing, automation and management systems of these operations, as well as the major resources from the apparel, home furnishings, flooring, and polymer industries.

The Patriot Ledger (ProQuest) - Daily newspaper from Quincy, Massachusetts. Full-text coverage from 1991.

Thomson Research - see Mergent Online

TRIS (U.S. Dept. of Transportation) - Transportation Research Information Services (U.S. Dept. of Transportation)- a bibliographic database that contains over half a million records of published transportation research including technical reports, books, conference proceedings and journal articles. If the item you want is not in full text (or if you must pay for the full text), use the library's interlibrary loan service (under "get" on the library homepage) to request the copy.

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USA.gov - a centralized place to find information from U.S. local, state and federal government agency websites.

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Voyager - To search for books and materials available at UMass Dartmouth

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Wall Street Journal (ProQuest) - The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news. (See Asian & Europe Wall Street Journal below)

Wall Street Journal (Asian) (ProQuest) - Daily business newspaper focusing on Asia and the Pacific Rim from The Wall Street Journal. Comprehensive coverage of Asian stock markets, companies, politics, and other major news.

Wall Street Journal Europe (ProQuest) - The business newspaper focusing on Europe from The Wall Street Journal. Comprehensive coverage of European stock markets, companies, politics and other major news.

Wilson Education Abstracts (ProQuest) - H.W. Wilson's Education Abstracts database with full text and images for many publications. Areas covered include adult education, homeschooling, language and linguistics, special education, and more.

Wilson Web (H.W. Wilson) - Access to the full range of Wilson databases subcribe to by the library. The list includes Applied Science and Technologies Index, Art Index, General Science Index, Humanities Index, Social Sciences Index, and Wilson Bibliographies Plus Index.

WorldCat.org (OCLC) - a database of millions of bibliographic records describing library materials in many media. It includes the catalog records of the holdings of more than 9,000 member institutions, mostly in the United States and Canada. WorldCat includes both records of books and other materials that can be requested on interlibrary loan and of rare, specialized, and unique materials, including rare books, theses, dissertations, manuscripts, and sound and video recordings that libraries are unable to lend through interlibrary loan.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (CSA) - "The database provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy". (Builds on the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts 1975-2000, and ABC POL SCI 1984-2000)

Magazine Indexes

Academic OneFile (InfoTrac) - A good general source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Updated daily.

Electric Library (ProQuest) - a comprehensive reference tool providing access to hundreds of popular magazines and scholarly journals. Other sources include newspapers, photographs, maps, TV and radio scripts, and general reference resources.

Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale/InfoTRAC) - This database provides citations and full-text access to journals in fields such as astronomy, religion, law, history, psychology, literature, art, sociology, general science, and communications, as well as covering current events.

General Reference Center Gold (Gale/InfoTRAC) - This database provides citations and full-text access to magazines covering current events, popular culture, the arts, sciences, sports, and other general topics (includes full-text access to Consumer Reports).

Health Reference Center-Academic (Gale/InfoTRAC) - Provides searchable access to popular medical and consumer health information, much of it full-text, including a dictionary, a home medical guide, medical tests, drug information, directories, and pamphlets and articles on health subjects.

JSTOR - is a full-text online collection of core scholarly journals from their first issues (some date back to the 1800's) to between two and five years prior to the present. Subject coverage includes education, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, anthropology, Asian studies, economics, population studies, sociology and botany and ecology. The journals can be browsed by journal issue or searched by keywords, topics, titles, authors and dates. The journals included in JSTOR are also listed in and linked from the Journals, Magazines & Newspapers in Our Library.

MEDLINEplus (National Library of Medicine) - Provided by the National Library of Medicine for the layperson who wants to research health questions. Includes information on specific health topics, full-text publications, dictionaries, newsletters, and directories.

NetLibrary (NetLibrary) - is a diverse collection of eBooks (electronic books) that may be "checked out" to read online. You may browse and preview all the eBooks, but to check out a book to read online, you will need to know your UMass Dartmouth Library barcode number. The barcode number is located on your Umass Pass if you've registered with the library.

Safari (ProQuest) - Full-text information technology books from Addison-Wesley, Cisco Press, New Riders, O'Reilly and Associates, Peachpit, Prentice Hall, Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, Que, and Sams. The library has subscribed to a small collection of Safari books (some books will show up as previews not full-text) as a pilot project to test out this product and to better understand your requirements and uses of electronic books. Please send your comments on this service to your library liaison or the collection development librarian, Bruce Barnes, Email Bruce Barnes.

Newspaper Indexes

Alt-Press Watch (ProQuest) - A full text database comprised of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.

America’s News Magazines (Newsbank) - Coverage of U.S. and international news, business, lifestyle, entertainment, sports, and science and technology from familiar magazines

Berkshire Eagle, The (ProQuest) - Full-text coverage for Pittsfield, MA, Berkshire County, and 4 nearby New York communities from 2005.

Boston Globe (ProQuest) - Full-text coverage from 1980.

Boston Herald (ProQuest) - Full-text coverage from from 1991.

BusinessWest (Chicopee, MA) (ProQuest) - Full-text bi-weekly business journal for western MA from 1992.

Cape Cod Times (Newsbank) - 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.

Gazette (Haverhill, MA) (ProQuest) - Full-text local news from 12/31/92 to 8/9/07.

Massachusetts Newsstand (ProQuest) - Full-text coverage of major Massachusetts newspapers including the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Quincy Patriot Ledger and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, plus selected coverage of other regional sources.

National Newspapers (ProQuest) - Coverage of 9 major US newspapers including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, USA TODAY, Boston Globe and the Atlanta Journal/Constitution.

New York Times (Gale/InfoTrac) - Full-text of The New York Times from 1995-

New York Times (ProQuest) - Full-text coverage of the US newspaper of record. Offers superb coverage of national and international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions, and presidential press conference transcripts.

North Adams Transcript (ProQuest) - Full-text news, commentary, obituaries, classified and information on the northern Berkshire region from 2005.

Plymouth County Business Review (ProQuest) - Full-text business news for Plymouth County & southeastern MA from 1991.

Providence Journal (ProQuest) - Daily newspaper from Providence, Rhode Island from 1983 to CURRENT

Sentinel & Enterprise (Fitchburg, MA) (ProQuest) - Full-text coverage of news for Fitchburg from 2005.

Standard Time (New Bedford, MA (ProQuest) - Full-text local news from 1/4/92 to 8/19/97.

Sun, The (Lowell, MA) (ProQuest) - Full-text coverage of news from Lowell, MA & the Merrimack Valley from 2004.

Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) (ProQuest) - Full-text coverage of  Worcester and Central Massachusetts news from 1989.

The Patriot Ledger (ProQuest) - Daily newspaper from Quincy, Massachusetts. Full-text coverage from 1991.

Wall Street Journal (ProQuest) - The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news. (See Asian & Europe Wall Street Journal below)

Wall Street Journal (Asian) (ProQuest) - Daily business newspaper focusing on Asia and the Pacific Rim from The Wall Street Journal. Comprehensive coverage of Asian stock markets, companies, politics, and other major news.

Wall Street Journal Europe (ProQuest) - The business newspaper focusing on Europe from The Wall Street Journal. Comprehensive coverage of European stock markets, companies, politics and other major news.

Reference Resources

America’s News Magazines (Newsbank) - Coverage of U.S. and international news, business, lifestyle, entertainment, sports, and science and technology from familiar magazines

Biography Resource Center w/ Marquis Who's Who - over 400,000 biographies covering literary figures, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, current events and the arts. 

BooksinPrint.com - Contains over 3.5 million title records with 165,000 records on publishers, distributors, wholesalers and book agents. It also includes information on award winners, bestsellers, over 500,000 full-text reviews and inventory data from 19 well-known wholesalers.

Britannica Online - The electronic version of the encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and more!

CQ Researcher - is a collection of reports on controversial issues of current significance. The reports offer topic overviews and background information, opposing viewpoint essays, and much more. The database contains reports dating back to 1991.

CQ Weekly Online - offers weekly analysis of news from Capital Hill as well as Congressional roll call votes. CQ Weekly claims it is “the choice of 95% of members of Congress.” Nevertheless, its articles are written in lay language and are easily understood by those of us living outside the beltway. The database contains information dating back to 1983.

Dissertations & Abstracts (ProQuest) - with more than 2 million entries, PQD&T is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350- word abstracts written by the author. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Titles available as native or image PDF formats include free twenty-four page previews. UMI offers over 1.8 million titles for purchase in microform, paper or electronic formats.

Electric Library (ProQuest) - a comprehensive reference tool providing access to hundreds of popular magazines and scholarly journals. Other sources include newspapers, photographs, maps, TV and radio scripts, and general reference resources.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (Gale/InfoTRAC) - a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

GovEngine.com (GovEngine, Inc. a non-profit organization) - provides organized links to federal, state and local government sites.

GPO Monthly Catalog (OCLC FirstSearch) - covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.). Subjects covered include finance, business, demographics, agriculture, medicine, public health, and more.

Literary Reference Center - LRC (EBSCO) - is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else.

Mental Measurements Yearbook (EBSCO) - from the Buros Institute, contains the most recent descriptive information and critical reviews of new and revised tests from the Buros Institute's 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th Yearbooks. The database covers more than 2,200 commercially-available tests in categories such as personality, developmental, behavioral assessment, neuropsychological, achievement, intelligence and aptitude, educational, speech & hearing, and sensory motor. Each entry includes test name and classification; author(s); publisher, publication date; price; time requirements; score descriptions; levels; and intended populations. ( Updated every six months)

NetLibrary (NetLibrary) - is a diverse collection of eBooks (electronic books) that may be "checked out" to read online. You may browse and preview all the eBooks, but to check out a book to read online, you will need to know your UMass Dartmouth Library barcode number. The barcode number is located on your Umass Pass if you've registered with the library.

RefWorks - RefWorks is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows users to create their own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases.

Statistical Universe (Lexis-Nexis) - "Statistical Universe enables easy access to statistics produced by the U.S. government, major international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities."

USA.gov - a centralized place to find information from U.S. local, state and federal government agency websites.

WorldCat.org (OCLC) - a database of millions of bibliographic records describing library materials in many media. It includes the catalog records of the holdings of more than 9,000 member institutions, mostly in the United States and Canada. WorldCat includes both records of books and other materials that can be requested on interlibrary loan and of rare, specialized, and unique materials, including rare books, theses, dissertations, manuscripts, and sound and video recordings that libraries are unable to lend through interlibrary loan.

Special Collections and Archives

Massachusetts Special Collections Directory - "A database of over 600 archives and manuscript collections in Massachusetts."

Business & Economics

ABI/INFORM Dateline (ProQuest) - Find local and regional business news coverage of large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. Provides access to business information not typically found in national news sources. Contains news and analysis, information on local markets, and more gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business publications.

ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest) - Business and management database providing extensive coverage of North America and internationally. Full text of 600+ journals, cumulative indexing/abstracting from 1970s onward of 1,500 total journals on business conditions, economics, trends, corporate strategies/tactics, management and marketing techniques, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, as well as information on 60,000+ companies.