Why is this list so much shorter? What happened?
As of July 1st, Massachusetts residents lost access to 21 databases due to cuts in federal funding. Learn more on the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners’ webpage on Federal Funding at Risk.
A Memorial Hall Library card provides access to the databases below. Additional resources are available from the Boston Public Library. For help, contact the Reference Desk at 978-623-8430.
This article database includes full-text and abstracts of scholarly, trade, and general-interest periodicals covering topics in the areas of current events, general sciences and technology, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
AtoZdatabases includes 30 million business profiles and contact information for 220 million residents. It also includes a component for job searching. This database can be used to find businesses based on employee size, sales volume, type of business and location.
Birds of the World contains 10,721 species accounts of every bird species in the world. BOW merges and enhances content, data, multimedia, figures, and illustrations from four different ornithological volumes: Birds of North America (BNA), Neotropical Birds, Handbook of Birds of the World (HBW Alive), and Bird Families of the World. This content is integrated with multimedia from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Macaulay Library and millions of bird records from eBird.
A comprehensive reference resource with components for students and adults. A dictionary, a thesaurus, multimedia, and primary source materials are included.
This online book contains over 8000 entries that record first happenings, discoveries, and inventions in American history. Best used with the keyword search function or by following links within its expanded contents. A print edition can be found at the library.
Mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for grades 9–12 covering current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. Please see Middle School (Gale In Context) for a similar database for middle school students.
This database was formerly known as InfoTrac Student.
Magill’s Medical Guide covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders. This is the online version of the five-volume print set, which can be found in the library.
Nursing and Allied Health (Gale OneFile) provides access to academic journals and other reference content covering all aspects of the nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration. The database offers current and authoritative content for professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale in Context) is covers timely issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. This cross-curricular resource supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions.
Actually two online books — one covering the Colonial Era to the Civil War, the other from 1860 to the present — The Value of a Dollar gives the costs of thousands of items at various points in history as well as how much money people had to buy them at the time. Each section contains currency conversion tables. Both volumes are available in print at the library.
