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As a NOBLE 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 home.

Select a resource by Subject Area or Database below. When prompted, input your 14-digit NOBLE member library patron barcode and begin searching! This will initiate a 2-hour cookie session. After this time period, you will be required to enter your barcode again.

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 General Research (full-text magazine and journal articles)   [Back to Top]

  • eLibrary Easy to use! eLibrary is a full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps.
  • EBSCOHost Includes MasterFILE Premier, Middle Search Plus, Newspaper Source, Business Source Premier, Regional Business News, ERIC, Professional Development Collection, MEDLINE, Health Source - Consumer Edition, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, and Clinical Pharmacology
  • InfoTrac® Web (Main Menu) - Gale Group, Inc. Provides access to popular magazines, scholarly journals, encyclopedias, newspapers, newswire services, business directories, investment reports, health pamphlets, prescription drug information, and literature reviews. Databases include:
    • Academic OneFile
    • Biography Resource Center
    • Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
    • Educator's Reference Complete
    • Expanded Academic ASAP
    • General BusinessFile ASAP
    • General Reference Center Gold
    • Health Reference Center Academic
    • Info Trac K-12 Junior Edition
    • Info Trac K-12 Student Edition
    • Info Trac OneFile
    • Kids InfoBits
    • Massachusetts History Online
    • Gale Virtual Reference Library

 Newspapers   [Back to Top]

  • eLibrary Easy to use! eLibrary is a full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps.
  • Proquest
    Massachusetts Newsstand includes:
    • Berkshire Eagle 2005 to current
    • Boston Globe 1980 to current
    • Boston Herald 1991 to current
    • BusinessWest (Chicopee) 1992 to current>
    • North Adams Transcript 2005 to current
    • Patriot Ledger (Quincy) 1991 to current
    • Plymouth County Business Review 1991 to current
    • Sentinel & Enterprise (Fitchburg) 2005 to current
    • Sun, The (Lowell) 2004 to current
    • Telegram & Gazette (Worcester) 1989 to current
    • Gazette (Haverhill, Mass.) 12-31-92 to 8-9-97
    • Standard Times (New Bedford) 1-4-92 to 8-19-97

 Business Research   [Back to Top]

  • General BusinessFile ASAP - Gale Group, Inc. Use this database to research all business and management topics. Includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies as well as investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries.
  • Business and Company ASAP - Gale Group, Inc. Same content as General BusinessFile ASAP without investment analysts' reports. May be easier for high school, smaller public, and community college clientele to use.

 Encyclopedias   [Back to Top]

  • Grolier Online Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia and New Book of Knowledge.

 Youth Oriented Study   [Back to Top]

  • eLibrary Easy to use! eLibrary is a full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps.
  • Grolier Online Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia and New Book of Knowledge.
  • Infotrac Junior (Standard and Graphical) - Gale Group, Inc. Designed for junior high and middle school students. Includes mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books covering current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
  • Kids InfoBits - Gale Group, Inc. Kids InfoBits targets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate and visual graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine and reference content.

 Recursos en Español    [Back to Top]

 Other Research Databases    [Back to Top]

This service is provided to the residents of northeast Massachusetts by the Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System through state funding administered by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners