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AGRICOLA  

AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) serves as the catalog and index to the collections of the National Agricultural Library, as well as a primary public source for world-wide access to agricultural information. The database covers materials in all formats and periods, including printed works from as far back as the 15th century.  It is the most comprehensive source of bibliographic citations covering US agricultural and life sciences information. 

ARTstor

ARTstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.   The database's community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library

The ACM Digital Library is the ultimate online resource for those interested in the computing industry.  It offers over 40 publications, all full-text Conference Proceedings, publication archives dating back to the 1950s, almost 2 million pages of text, more than one million bibliographic citations, and a state-of-the-art search engine. 

Building Green Suite

A resource encompassing practical information on a wide range of topics related to sustainable building--from energy efficiency and recycled-content materials to land-use planning and indoor air quality.  The database integrates online versions of GreenSpec product listings, high-quality articles about green buildings, peer-to-peer comments, and more than 200 project case studies.

EBSCO

Provides a wide range of bibliographic and full-text databases. Databases are designed for many topics included in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

EDGAR  

EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Its primary purpose is to increase the efficiency and fairness of the securities market for the benefit of investors, corporations, and the economy by accelerating the receipt, acceptance, dissemination, and analysis of time-sensitive corporate information filed with the agency.

Emerald

A business management database service with full text access to over 100 management journals, complete with full text archives back to 1994. Disciplines covered include strategy, leadership, information management, marketing and human resource management.

Homeland Security Digital Library Collection

HSDL Collection (full) includes over 77,500 documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management from a wide variety of sources including federal, state and local governments; international governments and institutions; nonprofit organizations and private entities.

InfoTrac

Another general interest, academic and bibliographic set of databases. Educators will find the Educator's Reference Complete database particularly helpful.

Lexis/Nexis Academic

An in-depth group of databases designed to provide access to news, legal and periodical resources for all avenues of research.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)

Established in 1972, NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service) is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.   NCJRS resources are available to anyone interested in crime, victim assistance, and public safety including policymakers, practitioners, researchers, educators, community leaders, and the general public.  The NCJRS Abstracts Database contains summaries of the more than 200,000 criminal justice, juvenile justice, and substance abuse resources.

NMRLS

Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System (NMRLS) provides access to InfoTRAC and Massachusetts Newsstand (see Proquest above) as well as the following databases:

• ELibrary (Information from books, magazines, and newspapers. Includes maps, pictures and transcripts from TV and radio.)
  
  
• Grolier Online including Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
  
  
• InfoTRAC's Informe (Spanish language)
  
  
• OCLC WorldCat (A major locator resource in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese)
  
  
• Massachusetts Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections Directory

Proquest

Criminal Justice Periodicals

A criminal justice periodical database service that indexes over 100 journals, newsletters, and law reporters (with many articles available in full text). Subjects covered include arrest (police methods), crime prevention, evidence, forensic science, jail administration, victimless crimes, violence and more.

Massachusetts Newsstand

Full-text coverage of 12 Massachusetts newspapers, including the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Lowell Sun, and Worcester Telegram & Gazette.

PubMed Central   

PubMed Central is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM). PubMed Central aims to fill the role of a world class library in the digital age.

Sage Premier

The SAGE Premier package includes leading international peer-reviewed titles, including high-impact research journals published on behalf of over 245 scholarly and professional societies. The journals cover a wide range of subject areas, including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine, allowing libraries to support the varied teaching and research needs of their students and faculty.

THOMAS   

THOMAS was launched in January of 1995, at the inception of the 104th Congress. The leadership of the 104th Congress directed the Library of Congress to make federal legislative information freely available to the public. Since that time THOMAS has expanded the scope of its offerings to include bills, resolutions, activity in Congress, the Congressional Record, schedules, calendars, committee information, Presidential nominations, treaties, and additional government resources.

WilsonWeb Education Full Text

Education Full Text consists of an international range of English-language journals, monographs, and yearbooks, including many journals not covered by ERIC's CIJE. The database offers abstracting and indexing of several hundred journals with full text and page images from nearly half.  This database is updated daily.

Additional Resources...

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