Alphabetical List of Databases and
Web Sites
Academic
Search Premier 
Provides
full text for more than 4,500 journals, of which more than 3,700
are peer-reviewed. PDF backfiles to 1975 or earlier
are available for well over one hundred journals. Search here for more scholarly
resources.
All Science Fair Projects 
Find ideas for elementary, middle, and high school leve science projects. Search by topic.
APA, MLA, Turabian, and Chicago Citation Styles
Citation guidelines for research papers.
AtoZ Databases
AtoZ Databases - A directory of US business and residential information. A to Z is ideal for generating sales leads and mailing lists, doing market research, and finding employment opportunities. The residential data will help you to locate friends and family. Allows custom searching to create lists of businesses by type of product, location, and more. See also ReferenceUSA, which is a very similar database.
Biography in Context 
This database combines biographies from several authoritative reference sources as well as full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.
Business
Source Premier
Indexing (1984-present) and full text (1990-present) for journals covering
business, management, economics, and more.
Byki Online Library Edition
See Transparent Language Online.
Chilton Automotive Repair Manuals
This is the online version of Chilton Manuals and includes repair instructions, tune-up specifications, wiring diagrams and more. This replaces our online Mitchell's Manuals.
CliffsNotes
Use Literature Notes to get information about the life and background of an author in addition to book summaries and character descriptions.
Consumer
Health Complete
A comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. Provides
content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine
to complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine. Covers such topics as
aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics,
men's and women's health, and children's health.
Consumer
Health Complete in Spanish (Salud en Espanol)
Salud en Español provee reportes completos basados en evidencias y fichas
de datos relacionados a todos los aspectos de la salud y el bienestar. Reportes
específicos por tema que cubren todos los aspectos de la salud, dan
información general importante en relación a enfermedades, afecciones
y procedimientos de diversos tratamientos.
CountryWatch
Get information about a country's
government, economy, trade, environment, population, current events,
geography, and business.
Daily Life Through History
Learn about daily life throughout history and across many world cultures. Organized by time period, region and topic, Daily Life Online combines information from numerous reference works, monographs, and primary documents and is a great resource for students from middle school all the way through college.
EBSCO
Search for magazines, journal and newspaper articles going back to 1975, many
with with full-text. It also has photos, maps, and primary source documents.
EyeWitness to History
History from the Ancient World to present.
Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia
Use this encyclopediato find out about any person, place or event you want to learn more about.
GreenFILE
Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to
the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest
titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable
agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides
indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access
full text for more than 4,700 records.
Health Source Consumer Edition
This database has information on health topics like medicine, nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health.
HelpNow!TM for Homework
Free homework help for all ages. Tutors are available
from 4 pm to 11 pm to help you with math, science, social studies,
writing, Spanish, and English. Spanish-speaking tutors are also available.
Any time of day, you can take practice tests, study flashcards, hold
a study group online, and create and share movie-like notes and ideas.
How Stuff Works
Unlock the mystery about how things work. Find explanations for things related to science, home, health, money, travel, and people.
JobNowTM Chat online from 4 pm to 11 pm with experts about improving your resume and building your interviewing skills. Use resume templates, get job search tips, and take a career assessment
Learning Express Library
Take SAT prep classes or take SAT, ACT, AP practice tests. Get your score right away with explanations to the correct answers. You can also find practice exercises to improve your reading, writing, spelling, and math skills.
Library
of Congress: American Memory
"American Memory provides
free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words,
sound recordings, still moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music
that document the American experience."
Literature Resource Center
Use this database for your English homework and projects. It has information about authors' lives and about the books they've written. This is the place to search for literary criticism.
MAS
Ultra - High School Edition
Designed specifically for high school students, this database contains full
text of more than 500 popular, high school magazines back to 1975. Also
provides full text reference books, biographies,
primary
source documents, photos, maps and flags.
MasterFILE Premier
Use this database to find articles going back
as far as 1975, as well as pamphlets, reference books, biographies,
and primary source documents. MasterFILE Premier also contains photos,
maps, and flags.
MedlinePlus
Search over 650 health topics from the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
Middle
Search Plus
Provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. Full text
is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. This database
also contains primary source documents, photos, maps and flags.
Newsbank
- access from outside of library
Full text articles from nearly 2000 U.S. local, regional, national
and international newspapers, newswires, video feeds, and business
journals, some from 1970-present. Includes full coverage (except
advertising) of the Nashua Telegraph from 1998 to the present,
the Union Leader
from 1989 to the present, the Boston Globe from 1980 to the present
and the Concord Monitor from 10/2002 to the present. Due to copyright
limitations, newspapers published by Knight-Ridder, Inc. are only
accessible within the library.
Newsbank
- access from within the library
Full text articles from over 2000 U.S. local, regional, national
and international newspapers, newswires, video feeds and business
journals, some from 1970-present. Includes full coverage (except
advertising) of the Nashua Telegraph from 1998 to the present, the
Union Leader from 1989 to the present, the Boston Globe from 1980
to the present and the Concord Monitor from 10/2002 to the present.
Newspaper Archive (available in library only)
Access.NewspaperArchive.com is a gateway to searching and reading
historical newspapers online. Containing tens of millions of searchable
newspaper pages dating as far back as the 1700s, the archive is an
excellent source of primary source documents. Use the archive to
view, save and print full-page newspapers from around the world.
Newspaper
Source
Provides cover-to-cover full text for 35 national & international newspapers.
The database also contains selective full text for 375 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.
Novelist
If
you're looking for a suggestion of a good book to read, use Novelist.
This database is all about fiction. You can look up authors, books,
plots, and book series.
Novelist
K-8
A collection of fiction titles in which readers can find read-alikes, authors,
titles, and booklists geared to younger readers.
Points of View Reference Center
This is the place to go for information about controversial issues, like
the death penalty or cloning or gambling. It has articles, essays, statistics,
and primary sources.
Proquest News
Full text articles from more than 1300 U.S. local,
regional, national, and international newspapers, news blogs, newswires,
trade journals, and a small number of scholarly journals. Includes
full coverage (except advertising) of the Boston Globe from 1/1/1980
to the present, the New York Times from 6/1/1980 to the present,
the Washington Post from 1/1/1987 to the present, the Concord Monitor
from 1/1/2004 to the present, and the Union Leader from 1/7/2010
to the present. This database does not include the Nashua Telegraph,
however. Use Newsbank for
access to the Nashua Telegraph.
Reference
USA
Directory of U.S. business information (including
contact names and estimated sales), telephone numbers and
addresses, and U.S and Canadian high-tech companies (CorpTech). Allows
custom searching to create lists of businesses by type of product,
location, and more. See also, AtoZ, which is a very similar database.
Regional
Business News
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business
publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals,
newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United
States. It is updated daily.
Shakespeare Resource Center
Find biographical information about Shakespeare and his works as well as background and historical information about the Globe Theatre and Elizabethan London.
Student Research Center (Ebsco)
This database is designed especially for middle and high school students. It has articles, pamphlets, reference books, biographies, and primary source documents.
TOPICSearch
Find information about a current
events topic, and it can also give you ideas if you're having trouble
picking a current events topic to research.
Transparent
Language Online
Transparent Language Online is a language learning system that uses flashcards
to teach you foreign language words or phrases. Many languages have additional
learning tools such as an essential skills course, language reference
information, and blogs written in the language. Transparent Language Online
also has courses for native speakers of other languages who want to learn
to speak English. It's personalized to allow you to track your progress and
refresh your memory about items you may have forgotten.
US
Supreme Court Decisions Issued Between 1937-1975 (full text)
Search for US Supreme Court
Decisions by case name or keyword.
Worldbook Online
Find articles, pictures, video, audio, an atlas, a dictionary, and current events. It also has information to help you with research.
