Resources - BRLS

Gale Resources via the MBLC (In Library and Remote Use)

For individual links to each database for your library homepage, visit the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners Statewide Database Licensing page.

Gale Group databases included are:

Academic OneFile (Includes The New York Times FullText from 1995 and will be searchable as a separate database).
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Biography Resource Center
This comprehensive online database combines more than 422,000 biographies from Gale sources with full-text magazine articles on contemporary and historic figures in literature, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, arts and other fields.

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
Offers an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors, using several powerful search options and an integrated index that extends to every print volume in this acclaimed series.

Educator's Reference Complete
This collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports is a great resource for any educator -- from the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at the collegiate and graduate level. Content included in the database is almost entirely full-text, with the majority of the titles also covered in the ERIC database. This database covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty -- such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. Educator's Reference Complete also focuses on issues in administration, funding and policy.

Expanded Academic ASAP
This easy to use interface helps researchers from all academic disciplines to find scholarly journals, news magazines and newspapers. **Plus includes access to Ingenta content (4,900 full text).

Gale Virtual Reference Library (eBooks)
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).

To see a listing of the individual eBook titles along with a description for each please go to this page.

General Business File ASAP
Enables precise retrieval of periodicals, newspapers, newswires, company profiles and investment reports in a single search.

General Reference Center Gold
Integrates a vast array of key business and general interest publications - from national news magazines and encyclopedias to trade publications - to present the full-text and image resources students and researchers need.

Health Reference Center Academic
Provides current, reliable health information for your patrons, offering access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in InfoTrac's award-winning Health Reference Center.

InfoTrac Junior Edition
Designed for junior high and middle school students, InfoTrac® Junior Edition features the titles most critical to their libraries and curriculum.

InfoTrac OneFile
Provides instant, user-friendly access to an unprecedented number of periodicals, including 5,050 full-text titles, putting 35 million database records and more than 9,000 titles at users' fingertips with a single search inquiry.

InfoTrac Powerpacks
Custom collections built around specific subjects or topics. You can view all of the available Powerpack descriptions or the direct access URLs by clicking the appropriate link.

InfoTrac Student Edition
Designed for secondary school students, InfoTrac® Student Edition is the quick and easy way to do classroom assignments and get answers to general reference questions.

Kid's InfoBits
Kids InfoBits includes curriculum support references from Blackbirch Press, nearly 100 full-text age appropriate magazines and 2 newswires. Kids InfoBits is jam-packed with eye popping graphs, charts, maps and more than 2,500 searchable images.

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OCLC FirstSearch Basic Package ( Library Staff Use Only)

If you have registered a static IP with the regional office, go to http://firstsearch.oclc.org/fsip

If you have dynamic IP addresses, go to http://firstsearch.oclc.org

You will need to enter your authorization id ("autho") and password to access the search interface. Contact the Region if you need your autho and password. These can also be used to facilitate a search from home, or to access your library's administrative module:

To log in to your Administrative Module for statistics and other account information, go to:http://firstsearch.oclc.org/admin

How our subscription works: There are 5 simultaneous user licenses for the Region. For our subscription databases included in the package, you will be able to make as many searches and retrieve as many citations or articles as you wish.

Subscription Databases
WorldCat
OCLC ArticleFirst
OCLC Electronic Collections Online (citations only)
OCLC Netfirst
OCLC Union Lists of Periodicals, PapersFirst
ProceedingsFirst
ERIC
GPO
MEDLINE
World Almanac

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Gale Resources via the Boston Regional Library System

For individual links to each database for your library homepage, visit the Gale website dedicated to BRLS resources at http://access.gale.com/brls.

General Business File ASAP

Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.

General Reference Center Gold 1980 -

A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.

Junior Edition 2006 -

Now with over 330 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school 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.

Student Resource Center - Gold

Student Resource Center - Gold offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Gold provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts. Premier reference content includes the American Journey Series, American Decades, Career Information Center and the SRC Health Module. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals, an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards, and popular topic picklists.

Student Resource Center - Junior

Student Resource Center - Junior offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Junior provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 340 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals, an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards, and popular topic picklists. For Middle Schools only.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.

Literature Resources from Gale

Research authors and their works, literary movements and genres. Search across several major Literature databases to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews.

Global Issues in Context

Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.

Biography Resource Center

This database integrates award-winning biographies from respected Gale sources with related full-text articles from hundreds of magazines and newspapers, as well as tens of thousands of images and links to vetted websites. Search for people---both current and historic from all eras and fields of endeavor---based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as keyword and full text. Or, combine search criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.

Business Index ASAP 1980 -

Perform in-depth research on management issues, economic indicators and business theories and practices, as well as on the activities of companies and industries worldwide. Instant access to academic and business journals with full text and images.

Contemporary Literary Criticism - Select

Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select is an extensive collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study. Updated monthly, Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select allows users to search by author name, title of work, nationality, subject/genre, ethnicity, critic name, and more.

Junior Edition - K12

Biography Resource Center: African Americans

Biography Resource Center: African Americans offers narrative and thumbnail biographies about notable African Americans from the respected Gale sources available in the Biography Resource Center. Enhancing the reference content are full-text periodical articles, websites, and recent update news briefs. Search on name, personal facts such as birth/death dates and place, occupation, and gender, or combine criteria to create a targeted custom search.

Business and Company Resource Center

Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.

Books & Authors

Books & Authors offers new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics. Combining over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner and librarian's favorites lists, Books & Authors helps bring readers and literature together. Through the use of expertly written and arranged content and a dynamic, cutting edge user interface, Books & Authors makes exploration of genre fiction and essential non-fiction fun! By leveraging our entire award-winning What Do I Read Next? collection, patrons and students alike can be sure that their next big read comes with a BIG recommendation.

Health and Wellness Resource Center 1980 -

Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, numerous reference volumes, over 700 health videos from partner Healthology, Inc., hundreds of pamphlets and health-related articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.

History Resource Center: World

History Resource Center: World is a comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronlogic research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals.

LitFinder

Covering world literature and authors throughout history, LitFinder contains a wealth of literary works including over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. For students or patrons seeking a deeper view into literature, LitFinder also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more! From Shakespeare's sonnets to poems by Donald Hall or short stories from Edgar Allan Poe to works by Annie Proulx, LitFinder has you covered.

Literature Resource Center - LRC

Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.

Science Resource Center

Researching science topics has never been easier -- with Science Resource Center, thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations are just a few clicks away and the latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify content directly correlated to state and national standards.

History Resource Center: US

History Resource Center: U.S. provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes citations from over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index, as well as the entire "American Journey Online" series.

Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography 1926 -

The MLA International Bibliography indexes books, articles and dissertations published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics, providing coverage from 1926 to the present. It includes the MLA Thesaurus and the MLA Directory of Periodicals, which lists detailed information on over 5,500 journals, including over 4,400 indexed in the Bibliography

Proquest's Massachusetts Newsstand (In Library and Remote use)

Berkshire Eagle (2005-current)
Boston Globe (1980-current)
Boston Herald (7/26/1991-current)
Chicopee Business West (1992-current)
Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise (2005-current)
Haverhill Gazette (12/31/92 - 8/9/97)
Lowell Sun (2004-current)
New Bedford Standard Times (1/4/92 - 8/19/97)
North Adams Transcript (2005-current)
Plymouth County Business Review (1991-current)
Quincy Patriot Ledger (1991-current)
Springfield Republican (1988-current)
Worcester Telegram & Gazette (1989-current)

If your institution's external IP addresses are on file with the region, then this link should allow you direct access to the databases.
http://proquest.umi.com/login

To create a link to the Massachusetts Newsstand, or to use links for individual newspapers, you will need to create in-library links, which can be found on the MBLC website: http://mblc.state.ma.us/grants/licenses/proquest.php

To access usage statistics for your library, go to http://infoweb.newsbank.com/stats

This database provides full-text coverage of all 12 newspapers listed above. Remote access is available and this subscription is offered without reservation to all member libraries.

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An online publication of the Boston Regional Library System (BRLS).
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Last Updated: 8/1/2006

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