Home Access Databases

Home Access Databases

| In-Library Only Databases

The following databases are available from home, as well as at any of the Cambridge Public Libraries.

Academic OneFile: Academic OneFile is a source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's English language journals and reference sources. It has extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, & millions of full text articles available in both PDF and HTML.

Expanded Academic ASAP: An index of 1,580 academic and general interest periodicals, covering the period 1980 to the present. Subjects covered include the arts, humanities, social sciences, sciences and technology.

General Businessfile ASAP: Indexes over 900 general business and finance periodicals, trade journals, and local business journals with full-text for 460 titles, covering the period 1982 to the present. Includes Company Profiles, a directory of 180,000 public and private companies and over 50,000 investment reports.

General Reference Center Gold: A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources in one easy-to-use interface. Use General Reference Center Gold to find articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals, many with full-text and images. Find the latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.

Health Reference Center-Academic: Contains articles from medical reference books, over 500 pamphlets, and 165 medical magazines, including 110 in full-text, covering the period 1994 to the present.

InfoTrac OneFile: InfoTrac OneFile is a one-stop 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. Millions of full-text articles.

InfoTrac Student Edition: Formerly SuperTOM, this database is designed for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Kids InfoBits: Targets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5.

Massachusetts History Online: Contains full-text articles gathered from almost 50 sources that directly relate to Massachusetts history.

Biography Resource Center: This database combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes 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. With the Complete Marquis Who's Who(R), find quick reference information on an additional 900,000 people.

Consumer Health Complete: A great resource for health information.

Contemporary Literary Criticism: "CLC-Select" is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works, and sources for further study.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online: Full-text online of the classic encyclopedia.

Gale Virtual Reference Library: The Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Historical New York Times: Full-text access to the New York Daily Times from 1851-1857 and the New York Times from 1857-2005.

Horn Book Guide Online: Searchable by author, illustrator, title, subject, and bibliographic data, as well as by rating assigned the book in the original Horn Book review.

Lit Finder: Includes Poem Finder (800,000 poem citations and 100,000+ poems in full-text), Story Finder (thousands of full-text short stories), and Essay Finder (thousands of full-text essays).

Literacy Reference Center: Highly graphical interface intended for public, academic and high school libraries. The primary goal of LRC is to assist high school and undergraduate English and Humanities students with homework and research assignments of a literary nature.

Massachusetts Newsstand: Boston Globe (1980-Current), Boston Herald (1991-Current), Berkshire Eagle (2005-Current), BusinessWest (Chicopee) (1992-Current), North Adams Transcript (2005-Current), Patriot Ledger (Quincy) (1991-Current), Plymouth County Business Review (1991-Current), Sentinel & Enterprise (Fitchburg) (2005-Current), The Sun (Lowell) (2004-Current), Telegram & Gazette (Worcester) (1989-Current), Gazette (Haverhill (12/31/92 - 8/9/97), Standard Times (New Bedford (1/4/92 - 8/19/97).

netLibrary: A collection of 3000 newly published ebooks in the following subject categories: business, buying and selling a home, careers, Complete Idiot's Guides, computer how-to books, consumer health, consumer law, psychology, self-help, sports coaching, sports how-to-books, study guides, travel, and web development.

New York Times: From 1980 to the present.

NoveList: Electronic readers' advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles.

Oxford English Dictionary Online: Full access to the Second Edition and New Edition (in progress) of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection: Brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The Premium Collection enhances the 100+ books in the Core Collection with an expanding range of key titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions series plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

Qikan Library: Access to over 100 full-text popular magazine publications from mainland China. Subjects include the arts, current events, business, health, children's literature and much more. Most titles viewable in both simplified and classical viewing styles. Coverage: 2005-present.

ReferenceUSA: Provides information on over 12 million U.S businesses.

The Testing & Education Reference Center: Search hundreds of occupations, take a career assessment and build a stellar resume; search for colleges, distance (online) learning opportunities, programs for international students, and nursing schools; search thousands of graduate, law, M.B.A., nursing, and distance learning (online) opportunities; search vocational schools, career colleges, information technology programs, executive education programs, and private secondary schools; prepare for the GED; civil service and military entrance exams; licensing tests for law enforcement, real estate, the postal service, and many other fields; plus college and graduate school admissions exams.

Ulrich's Online: Ulrich's Periodicals Directory is a bibliographic database providing detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world.

World Book Encyclopedia: World Book Online is based on the World Book Encyclopedia, developed by World Book Publishing, Inc. It includes access to over 31,000 encyclopedia articles, 6,000 Web links, 25,000 periodical articles, 800 videos, animations, and sounds, 400 interactive maps, and 3-D bubble views.