CPL Databases: Alphabetical Listing

America’s Obituaries & Death Notices	Source:
Access: [ In Library ] [ At Home: ] Subjects:  • Newspapers  • Genealogy    The largest and most comprehensive newspaper collection of obituaries and death notices. Search by name, date range, or text (e.g., residence, occupation, hobbies, family members, or other personal information).

Ancestry Library	Source:
Access: [ In Library ] Subjects:  • Genealogy    Contains the U.S. Census Collection; U.S. Data Collection; U.K. and Ireland Collection; Birth, Marriage, and Death Records; Immigration Collection; Military Collection; Family and Local History Records; Court, Land, and Probate Records; and more.

Biography Resource Center & Marquis Who's Who

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Access: [ In Library & At Home ] Subjects:  • biography  • History    Biographies from respected Gale Group sources with related full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals, as well as tens of thousands of images and links to hand-picked web sites. Search for people, both current and historic from all eras and fields of endeavor. Who's Who provides access to quick biographical reference information on more than 1 million additional people.

Boston Consumers' Checkbook	Source:
Access: [ In Library ] Subjects:  • Consumer Information    This nonprofit website rates local service firms and provides unbiased consumer rating and information on local auto repair shops, home repair services, health care providers, and more.

Boston Globe	Source:
Access: [ In Library & At Home ] Subjects:  • Newspaper    1980-current. Full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community.

Central Register	Source:
Access: [ In Library & At Home ] Subjects:  • General    The weekly source for information about state, county and municipal contracts being put out to bid for the design, construction and reconstruction of public facilities in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Chelmsford Independent	Source:
Access: [ In Library ] [ At Home: ] Subjects:  • Newspapers    Full-text content of weekly newspaper of Chelmsford, Massachusetts (published every Thursday). Paid advertisements are excluded. [12/8/2005-Current]

Consumer Reports	Source:
Access: [ In Library (Ask at Reference Desk for login) ] Subjects:  • Consumer Information    Provides ratings, buying guides, product reviews and consumer information from the experts at Consumer Reports magazine and Consumers Union.

Contemporary Literary Criticism	Source:
Access: [ In Library & At Home ] Subjects:  • Books    11,000+ critical essays on contemporary authors, including biographical/critical introduction, list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study.

eLibrary	Source:
Access: [ In Library ] [ At Home: ] Subjects:  • General  • Books  • Newspapers    A full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps.

Encyclopedia of American Immigration (Salem History)	Source:
Access: [ In Library ] [ At Home ] Subjects:  • Biography  • History    Online access to Salem Press' Encyclopedia of American Immigration, covering the various cultures and significant individuals that immigrated to the US, and their impact after arriving. The Salem History database also searches Great Lives from History: Inventors and Inventions.

Expanded Academic ASAP	Source:
Access: [ In Library & At Home ] Subjects:  • General    From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images.

General BusinessFile ASAP	Source:
Access: [ In Library & At Home ] Subjects:  • Business    Full-text management topics. Includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies as well as investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries.

General Reference Center Gold	Source:
Access: [ In Library & At Home ] Subjects:  • General  • History    Full-text magazines, newspapers & reference books containing information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc.

Goods & Services Bulletin	Source:
Access: [ In Library & At Home ] Subjects:  • General    Listing of purchasing needs of Massachusetts and municipal governments. Goods and services purchased range from pencils to technology consulting.

Great Lives from History: Inventors and Inventions (Salem History)	Source:
Access: [ In Library ] [ At Home ] Subjects:  • Biography  • History    Online access to Salem Press' Great Lives from History: Inventors and Inventions, offering in-depth biographical essays on important men and women inventors of all time, from around the world. The Salem History database also searches Encyclopedia of American Immigration.

GreenFILE	Source:
Access: [ In Library & At Home ] Subjects:  • General    Scholarly and general interest titles, and government documents and reports covering the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment through the areas of agriculture, education, law, health and technology.

Grolier Online	Source:
Access: [ In Library ] [ At Home: ] Subjects:  • General  • Youth-Oriented    America the Beautiful, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and New Book of Knowledge.

Health Reference Center Academic	Source:
Access: [ In Library & At Home ] Subjects:  • Health    Full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources, intended for informational purposes only.

Heritage Quest	Source:
Access: [ In Library ] [ At Home: ] Subjects:  • Genealogy    Over 20,000 Family and Local Histories; 1790-1930 U.S. Federal Census; Periodical Source Index (PERSI); Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; Freedman's Bank Records; and more.

¡Informe! (Revistas en Español)™	Source:
Access: [ In Library ] [ At Home: ] Subjects:  • en Español    The first reference database to provide indexing, full text, and images of the most popular Hispanic magazines.

InfoTrac® Junior (Standard and Graphical)	Source:
Access: [ In Library & At Home ] Subjects:  • Youth-Oriented    Designed for students in junior high and middle school with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books.

InfoTrac® Student Edition	Source:
Access: [ In Library & At Home ] Subjects:  • Youth-Oriented    Periodicals database is designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books.

InfoTrac® PowerSearch	Source:
Access: [ In Library & At Home ] Subjects:  • General    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.

Kids InfoBits	Source:
Access: [ In Library & At Home ] Subjects:  • Youth-Oriented    Covering 75 full-text curriculum-related magazines and 7 reference books, InfoBits targets the research needs of K- 5 students.

Lowell Sun	Source:
Access: [ In Library & At Home ] Subjects:  • Newspaper    Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.

Magill's Medical Guide (Salem Health)	Source:
Access: [ In Library ] [ At Home ] Subjects:  • Health    Online access to Salem Press' Magill's Medical Guide. It is an up-to-date and easy-to-use compendium of medical information for student researchers, patients and caregivers, covering diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format.

Morningstar Mutual Funds Online

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Access: [ In Library (Ask at Reference Desk for login) ] Subjects:  • Business    Online access to Morningstar Mutual Funds--the trusted source for investment information, data, and analysis of stocks, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds, separate accounts, and variable annuity/life subaccounts. Morningstar tracks, analyzes, and publishes information on nearly 100,000 investment securities.

NetLibrary eBook collection	Source:
Access: [ In Library ] [ At Home ] -- How to Use Subjects:  • Books  • eBooks    Electronic books and articles on popular topics such as travel, computers, consumer health, and business, available in English, French, Italian and Latin. The full-text of all these ebooks is online.

New England Ancestry

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Access: [ In Library ] Subjects:  • Genealogy    The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) is the oldest genealogical society in the country. For over 150 years, NEHGS has helped new and experienced researchers trace their heritage in New England and around the world. Their databases contain a wide assortment of genealogical information, some overlapping what Ancestry Library provides.

New York Times	Source:
Access: [ In Library & At Home ] Subjects:  • Newspaper    Full-text articles for The New York Times, including The New York Times Book Review, and The New York Times Magazine. (2000 to current).

NoveList	Source:
Access: [ In Library ] [ At Home: ] Subjects:  • Books    A fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 125,000 fiction titles. It also includes Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists.

ProQuest (Massachusetts Newspapers)	Source:
Access: [ In Library & At Home ] Subjects:  • Newspapers    Full-text access the Boston Globe (1980-current), Boston Herald (1991-current), Lowell Sun (2004-current), Worcester Telegram & Gazette (1989-current), and more MA newspapers.

Overdrive Downloadable Audiobooks	Source:
Access: [ In Library & At Home ] Subjects:  • Books    Audiobooks, radio shows and music you can download and listen to on your computer, your mobile mp3 player, or even burn to CD!

Reference USA	Source:
Access: [ In Library & At Home ] Subjects:  • Business    A database that contains detailed information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses It provides addresses, sales information, executive names; it is searchable by state, city, zip code, area code, SIC code, and yellow page headings; and searches can be customized by company size, sales volume, geographic location, and industry.

Safari Computer Ebooks

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Access: [ In Library & At Home ] Subjects:  • Books & Ebooks  • Business    Online collection of over 3,000 computer and technical ebooks, covering programming, design, desktop publishing, ecommerce, online business, hardware and more, from publishers such as O'Reilly, Wiley, Pretence Hall, and many more. Firefox Users: Some versions of Firefox are not refreshing the Safari cookie properly which causes problems for remote access. Go to Tools->Options, select Privacy, click on Remove Individual Cookies, enter proquest.safaribooksonline.com into the search area, and remove those cookies. Restart your browser and try to access the database again. If problems persist, please contact the Reference Desk.

Special Collections Directory (Manuscripts and Archives of Massachusetts)	Source:
Access: [ In Library & At Home ] Subjects:  • Books    A guide and locator of collections residing in Massachusetts libraries, archives, historical societies and town clerk's offices.

Testing & Education Reference Center	Source:
Access: [ In Library ] [ At Home: ] Subjects:  • Career  • Education    Offers high school, college & career information, tools, practice tests and study guides, as well as application and resume builders, and profiles of colleges and professions.

Virtual Catalog (Massachusetts Libraries)	Source:
Access: [ In Library ] [ At Home: ] Subjects:  • Books    Real-time searching of many public and academic libraries in Massachusetts. Items can requested directely by patrons (see our Virtual Catalog page for more information).