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As a MVLC
member library card holder, you may access high-quality local, state, and regionally funded databases of full-text periodicals, health and business resources, biographical and literary databases from in your public library or from home!
Note: Home access is possible by inputting your 14-digit public library patron barcode, without spaces, when prompted.
Digital Downloads from MVLC!
- Overdrive [Click here!]
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium is proud to announce the arrival of digital audio books for your enjoyment. Listen to them via your PC or MP3 player. Most titles can be burned to CD.
General Research (full-text magazine and journal articles)
- EBSCOHost [In the Library | From Home]
Includes Novelist
- eLibrary [In the Library | From Home]
A full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps.
- InfoTrac® PowerSearch [In the Library | From Home]
PowerSearch makes it possible to find subjects from A-Z in one or several of the Thomson Gale's periodical databases in a single search.
- General Reference Center Gold [In the Library | From Home]
(Thomson Gale) Full-text magazines, newspapers & reference books containing information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc.
Newspapers
eLibrary [In the Library | From Home]
A full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps.
- Proquest [In the Library |
From Home]
Massachusetts Newsstand includes:
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Berkshire Eagle 2005 to current
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Boston
Globe 1980 to current
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Boston Herald 1991 to current
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BusinessWest
(Chicopee) 1992 to current>
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North Adams Transcript 2005 to current
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Patriot
Ledger (Quincy) 1991 to current
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Plymouth County Business Review 1991 to
current
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Sentinel & Enterprise (Fitchburg) 2005 to current
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Sun, The
(Lowell) 2004 to current
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Telegram & Gazette (Worcester) 1989 to current
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Gazette (Haverhill, Mass.) 12-31-92 to 8-9-97
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Standard Times (New Bedford)
1-4-92 to 8-19-97
Business Research
- General BusinessFile ASAP [In the Library | From Home]
(Thomson Gale) Full-text business and management topics. Includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies as well as investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries.
Encyclopedias
Youth Oriented Study
eLibrary [In the Library | From Home]
A full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps.
- Grolier Online
[In the Library | From Home]
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia and New Book of Knowledge.
- Infotrac Junior (Standard and Graphical) [In the Library | From Home]
(Thomson Gale) Designed for students in junior high and middle school with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books.
- Kids InfoBits [In the Library | From Home]
(Thomson Gale) Covering 75 full-text curriculum-related magazines and 7 reference books, InfoBits targets the research needs of K- 5 students.
Recursos en Español
- ¡Informe!
(Revistas en Español)™ [In the Library | From Home]
(Thomson Gale) The first reference database to provide indexing, full text, and images of the most popular Hispanic magazines.
Other Research Databases
- OCLC® WorldCat: http://worldcat.org
PATRON FRIENDLY interface. NO password required. Note: Less sophisticated searching than FirstSearch, below.
- OCLC® WorldCat [In the Library | From Home]
(the OCLC Online Union Catalog) Offers more than 46 million bibliographic records--representing 400 languages--and holdings information vital for collection development, cataloging, authority control, and retrospective conversion services.
- Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections Directory
A guide and locator of collections residing in Massachusetts libraries, archives, historical societies and town clerk's offices.
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