Career Cruising: Career Cruising is an industry-leading online career guidance and planning system. People of all ages use our tools to find the right career, explore education and training options, and build their own portfolio.

Consumer Health Complete: Consumer Health Complete TM(CHC) is an in-depth, user friendly resource designed to answer everyday consumer health questions in both English and Spanish. CHC covers all areas of health and wellness, from mainstream medicine to perspectives on integrated and holistic medical practices. Users can find information on almost any medical topic, and with a unique user interface that combines images with text to make searching easy, CHC is a great resource for any patron looking for answers to their health questions.

EBSCOhost Research Databases: Your one stop entry point to Consumer Health Complete, Greefile, Literary Reference Center, Novelist, and Science Reference Center. Logging into this resource automatically makes all five of these databases available. You may also choose to log into only one at a time through their separate links above.

FirstSearch (OCLC WorldCat - the OCLC Online Union Catalog): Offers more than 67 million bibliographic records - representing 400 languages - and holdings information vital for collection development, cataloging authority control, and retrospective conversion services.

GreenFILE: GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records.

Infotrac is an access point to a great many databases of newspaper, magazine and journal articles as well as some other resources that can be accessed directly from the main database menu on this page above.

• Massachusetts Newsstand: Full-text access to 12 Massachusetts newspapers
• Academic OneFile: Academic OneFile contains 8,000 academic journals, mainly in full-text, available in HTML and PDF formats. It also contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full-text New York Times content from 1995.
• The Banner (West Boylston): Full-text coverage from 2007.
• Berkshire Eagle: Full text coverage for Pittsfield, Massachusetts and Berkshire County, as well as 4 New York communities 2005 - present
• BigChalk E-Library: Easy to use! BigChalk eLibrary is a full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps. Key in your request in natural language, and you won't be disappointed. (Funded by the Massachusetts Library System).
• Boston Globe: 1980 - present; Complete full-text content of local, regional, national and international developments. Coverage of community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, people in the community, and much more. Paid advertisements, syndicated columns excluded.
• Boston Herald: Complete full-text content. Paid advertisements, syndicated columns excluded. 1991 - present
• Business West (Chicopee): Full text bi-weekly business journal for western Massachusetts. 1992 - present
• Contemporary Literary Criticism Select: An extensive collection of critical essays & biographical information on contemporary writers.
• Educator's Reference Complete: Use this mainly full-text collection of over 1100 periodicals and 200 reports for educational research from preschool to college. Every educational specialty can be found here including technology, health and bilingual education, testing, and issues in administration, funding and policy.
• Expanded Academic ASAP Plus: Scholarly content covering arts & humanities, the social sciences and general sciences.
• Gale Biography in Context (formerly Biography Resource Center): Biographies covering literary figures, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, current events and the arts.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library: Over 20 full-text reference books covering the arts, biography, business, environment, history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, geography, and science.
• Gazette (Haverhill): Full text local news for Haverhill, MA. 12-31-92 to 8-9-97
• General BusinessFile ASAP: 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.
• General OneFile: Gale's General OneFile is a comprehensive periodical resource that puts more than 39 million database records at researchers' fingertips. More than 9,200 titles (5,156 full-text) and backfile coverage from 1980 - from mainstream to specialized sources - and an intuitive search interface make this an unequaled source for virtually every popular, business and professional topic.
• General Reference Center Gold: Full-text magazines, newspapers & reference books containing information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc.
• Grolier Online: Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia: 36,000 entries intended for students in middle school and up and as a quick reference look-up tool for public library patrons of all ages. New Book of Knowledge: 9,000 articles suitable for grade 3 and up as well as ESL. Provides description of complex subjects in an easy-to-understand manner. Funded by the Massachusetts Library System .
• Health Reference Center Academic: Full-text resources including consumer health, nursing & allied health.
• Info Trac Junior Edition (grades 5-12): Mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for junior high and middle school students covering current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
• Info Trac Student Edition (grades 9-12): 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.
• ¡Informe!: ¡Informe! (Revistas en Espanol) (tm) is the first reference database to provide indexing, full text, and images of the most popular Hispanic magazines. It also includes full text pamphlets on a variety of topics, such as health care. Funded by the Massachusetts Library System .
• The Item (Clinton): Full-text coverage from 2007.
• Kids InfoBits: Covering 75 full-text curriculum-related magazines and 7 reference books, InfoBits targets the research needs of K- 5 students. It features a developmentally appropriate and visual graphic interface and a subject-based topic tree search.
• Lowell Sun: Full text coverage of Lowell, Massachusetts and the Merrimack Valley 2004 - present
• Massachusetts History Online: Combining selections from their vast periodical content, Massachusetts History Online contains full-text articles gathered from almost 50 sources that directly relate to Massachusetts history, both past and present, including people, places, historical events and more. Containing data from a range of publications, Massachusetts History Online provides a targeted resource for information relating to the study of Massachusetts History.
• Montachusetts T&G (Worcester): Full-text coverage 2008.
• New York Times: 1995 - Search the full text of The New York Times (starting in 1995).
• North Adams Transcript: Full text news, commentary, obituaries, classifieds and information on the northern Berkshire region. 2005 - present
• OCLC WorldCat: OCLC WorldCat (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. Funded by the Massachusetts Library System .
• Patriot Ledger (Quincy): Read the latest news from South Shore by accessing full-text articles from the Patriot Ledger. 1995 - present
• Plymouth County Business Review: Full text business news for Plymouth County and Southeastern Massachusetts 1991 - present
• PowerSearch: Not sure which subject category your topic belongs in? PowerSearch makes it possible to find subjects from A-Z in one or several of the Gale's periodical databases in a single search. This is especially good for subjects that may be covered more than one database, such as diets, careers, etc.
• The Record (Shrewsbury): Full-text 2007 - 2008.
• Sentinel & Enterprise (Fitchburg): Full text coverage of news for Fitchburg, Massachusetts 2005 - present
• Standard-Times (New Bedford): Full text local news for New Bedford, Massachusetts. 1-4-92 to 8-19-97
• Worcester Telegram & Gazette: Complete full-text. Paid advertisements, syndicated columns are excluded. 1989-Current

Job and Career Accelerator: Helping Job Seekers Get Hired, Every Step of the Way Job & Career Accelerator is the industry's most comprehensive, online job search system that puts job seekers on the Fast Track to getting hired.

Learning Express Library : Whatever your goal, LearningExpress Library's resources will help you succeed. Each of our Learning Centers offers the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, eBooks, and information you need to achieve the results you want - at school, at work, or in life. Looking to land a job? You'll find an entire Learning Center dedicated to helping you get the one that's right for you.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 550 core journals, 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

Literary Reference Center: Literary Reference Center is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. Literary Reference Center contains full text for more than 31,000 plot summaries, synopses and overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism, more than 159,000 author biographies (including more than 22,000 in-depth bios), 450 literary journals, more than 632,000 book reviews, more than 69,000 classic and contemporary poems, more than 18,000 classic and contemporary short stories, more than 5,600 author interviews, more than 8,200 classic texts and much more. Supported by the Alice S. Card Fund

Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections Directory: The Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections Directory are a guide and locator of collections residing in Massachusetts libraries, archives, historical societies and town clerk's offices. This directory provides access in one location to the holdings in more than 650 repositories in the Commonwealth. Often such holdings are not fully cataloged or known outside the library yet are of great potential research value. The holdings are available by town/location, institution, repository, collection description, special collection and through name and/or subject searches. In addition, the directory provides information about the institution, contacts, services available and volume of material, as well as directions to the repository.

NoveList: NoveList is a readers' advisory service that provides access to information on 155,000 fiction titles. It offers a wide range of features that serve fiction readers of all ages including author read-alikes, book discussion guides, reading lists and hundreds of Feature Articles.

ProQuest: Massachusetts Newsstand: Full-text coverage of the the following Massachusetts newspapers:

• 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

Safari Books Online: Safari Books Online is the premier on-demand digital library providing over 12,400 technology, digital media and business books and videos online.

Teacher Reference Center: Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.