Databases: By Resource Type
EBSCO Discovery Service
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) provides a fast, streamlined search through a single search box, pulling together intuitive features and functionality, high-end indexing, and instant access to critical full text helping users find and access the highest-quality content for the best-possible research experience.
EBSCO Discovery Service How-To Documents and Tutorials
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) - Information Sheet
https://connect.ebsco.com/s/article/EBSCO-Discovery-Service-EDS-Information-Sheet?language=en_US
Basic Searching on EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS)
https://connect.ebsco.com/s/article/Basic-Searching-on-EBSCO-Discovery-Service-EDS?language=en_US
EBSCO Discovery Service - Quick Start Guide
https://connect.ebsco.com/s/article/EBSCO-Discovery-Service-Quick-Start-Guide?language=en_US
Using the Dashboard in the New EBSCO Interfaces
https://connect.ebsco.com/s/article/Using-the-Dashboard?language=en_US#dash2
VIDEO TUTORIALS
EBSCO Discovery Service Overview – Tutorial
This tutorial demonstrates the features of the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) interface, including how to search for information of interest to you.
Introduction to the New EBSCO Discovery Service - Tutorial
EBSCO Discovery Service - Improving Your Search Results – Tutorial
This tutorial demonstrates how you can improve your EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) search results using limiters, expanders, and facets found on the result list screen.
EBSCO Discovery Service Research Starters – Tutorial
This tutorial demonstrates the Research Starters feature on the EBSCO Discovery Service interface.
Finding Reliable Library Resources with EBSCO Discovery Service
Publication Finder - Overview Tutorial
This tutorial demonstrates how to use Publication Finder available within the Full Text Finder and EBSCO Discovery Service interfaces.
The Concept Map – Tutorial
This tutorial demonstrates the features of Concept Map. The Concept Map gives researchers a visual way to interact with their searches while also exploring additional related topics..
EBSCO Discovery Service Takeaway Guide
EBSCO Full Text Finder - Use To Find Certain Publications in Databases
EBSCO's Publication Finder - Use To Find Specific Publications in the Databases
Use this search box to locate journals & magazines in the databases
Quick Links to Databases
Quick Links to Databases
- Bloomsbury - Drama Online - Core Collection, National Theatre Collection 2
- Sage Publishing Online
When performing a search in this database, please click on Browse in the "Search and Browse Journals by Discipline" box. On the next page, click on "SAGE Journals Available to Me".
- Salem Press eBooks
The Salem Press eBook collection provides access to multiple eBook titles covering Literature, Health, Science, History, and Careers. The full text of all titles can be searched, browsed, printed, and downloaded.
- Statistical Insight (ProQuest)
Citation Tool
NoodleTools - Subscription Citation Tool. To use this tool, register for a free account.
eBook Collections
eBook Collection - from EBSCO.
eBook Academic Collection - from EBSCO.
- This growing subscription package contains a large selection of multidisciplinary e-books representing a broad range of academic subjects. The breadth of information available through this package ensures that students and scholars will have access to information relevant to their research needs.
- Offering more than 180,000 e-books, this collection includes titles from leading university presses such as Oxford University Press, MIT Press, State University of New York Press, Cambridge University Press, University of California Press, McGill-Queen's University Press, Harvard University Press and many others. Additional academic publishers include Elsevier, Ashgate Publishing, Taylor & Francis, Sage Publications and John Wiley & Sons.
eBook Community College Collection - from EBSCO. Focused on the academic and trade information needs of community colleges, this multidisciplinary collection contains nearly 60,000 e-books, including thousands of workforce development titles from notable publishers including, Packt Publishing, Emereo and Charles C Thomas Publishers. The collection covers key subject areas including humanities, social sciences, business, science, technology and literary criticism.
Literary Reference eBook Collection (EBSCO)
MAS Reference eBook Collection (EBSCO)
MasterFILE Reference eBook Collection (EBSCO)
Middle Search Reference eBook Collection (EBSCO)
Primary Search Reference eBook Collection (EBSCO)
Science Reference eBook Collection (EBSCO)
Overdrive - eBook and eAudiobook database - provides online access to downloadable eBooks, electronic magazines, and eAudiobooks. Provided by NOBLE, our Library consortium. You can download the Libby app for your device here, to read on the go: https://meet.libbyapp.com/
Salem Press eBooks - The Salem Press eBook collection provides access to multiple eBook titles covering Literature, Health, Science, History, and Careers. The full text of all titles can be searched, browsed, printed, and downloaded.
Encyclopedias & Reference
Brittanica Library: Reference Center
Credo Reference - A collection of encyclopedias and reference sources. Also includes Mind Map, Credo's brainstorming tool. From Infobase.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia - This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. From EBSCO.
Image Collections
Art & Architecture Complete - Includes an image collection of over 63,000 images provided by Picture Desk and others. From EBSCO.
Associated Press Images Collection - from EBSCO. Photographs from the Associated Press.
eLibrary - to search for images, perform an Advanced search on Images only. From ProQuest.
Local Resources
Boston Globe - Full text access to articles from 1980 on.
Gale LegalForms - Massachusetts - Offers a wide selection of Massachusetts-specific, customizable legal forms.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Boston Globe - Full-text access to The Boston Globe covering 1872 to 1985. From ProQuest.
Newspaper Source - from EBSCO. This database provides cover-to-cover full text for hundreds of national (U.S.), international and regional newspapers. In addition, it offers television and radio news transcripts from major networks.
Online Journals
Advances in Neonatal Care - provided by Ovid.
Advances in Nursing Science - provided by Ovid.
American Journal of Nursing - provided by Ovid.
Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning - provided by Taylor & Francis.
Community & Junior College Libraries - provided by Taylor & Francis.
Community College Journal of Research and Practice - provided by Taylor & Francis
Community College Review - provided by Sage.
CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing -.provided by Ovid.
Daedalus (Full text coverage from Winter 2004 to Fall 2006) - provided by MIT Press.
Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing - provided by Ovid.
Exchange - The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine. Online serial from EBSCO and accessible via EBSCO's Flipser platform.
TDR/The Drama Review (Full text coverage from Spring 1998 to Summer 2003; Summer 2004 to Spring 2007) - provided by MIT Press.
Harvard Educational Review - provided by Harvard Education Publishing Group.
Health Care Management Review - provided by Ovid.
Home Healthcare Now - provided by Ovid.
International Journal of Early Years Education - provided by Taylor and Francis.
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing - provided by Ovid.
Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography - provided by Sage.
Journal of Early Child Research - provided by Sage.
Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing - provided by Ovid.
Journal of Infusion Nursing - provided by Ovid.
Journal of Nursing Administration - provided by Ovid.
Journal of Nursing Care Quality - provided by Ovid.
Journal of Transcultural Nursing - provided by Sage.
Journal of Web Librarianship - provided by Taylor & Francis.
Literacy Research and Instruction (Full text content available starting with issue 2 from 2009 to issue 4 from 2011) - provided by Taylor & Francis.
Literary Imagination - provided by Oxford University Press.
MCN, American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing - provided by Ovid.
New Directions for Community Colleges - Online journal. From Wiley.
New England Quarterly (Full text coverage available from March 2007 to December 2016) - provided by MIT Press.
Nurse Educator - provided by Ovid.
Nursing - provided by Ovid.
Nursing Critical Care - provided by Ovid.
Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! - provided by Ovid.
Nursing Management - provided by Ovid.
Nursing Research - provided by Ovid. Issues available: July 1, 2015 to January 1, 2021 (Volume 64, Issue 4 through Volume 70, Issue 1).
Orthopaedic Nursing - provided by Ovid.
Physics Teacher - provided by AIP (American Institute of Physics) Publishing.
Professional Case Management - provided by Ovid.
Review of English Studies - provided by Oxford University Press.
Science Online - provided by AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science).
Teaching English in the Two Year College - provided by the National Council of Teachers of English.
Wiley Online Library - access to over 1,500 online journals, including Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine and TESOL Journal - for a list of journals, click here: WileyJournalsList.
Video Collections
Docuseek Global Environmental Justice Documentaries
Films on Demand Archival Films & Newsreels Collection
JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) - JoVE is the leading producer and publisher of video resources for science education and research. With thousands of videos published across several disciplines in science, medicine, and engineering, the JoVE library provides clear, detailed illustrations of a vast range of scientific techniques and concepts.
JoVE Journal Description - JoVE Journal is the world’s first peer-reviewed scientific video journal. Scientific research is published in video form alongside text protocols, bringing to life the intricate details of experimental methods.
JoVE Journal: Biochemistry
JoVE Journal: Biology
JoVE Journal: Chemistry
JoVE Journal: Developmental Biology
JoVE Journal: Environment
JoVE Journal: Genetics
JoVE Journal: Neuroscience
JoVE Science Education - A video library dedicated to teaching the practice and theory of scientific experiments through engaging and easy-to-understand visual demonstrations.
JoVE Science Education: Advanced Biology - Video protocols and concepts of advanced experiments in biology.
JoVE Science Education: Basic Biology - Video protocols and concepts of basic experiments in biology.
JoVE Science Education: Chemistry - Video protocols and concepts of basic experiments in chemistry.
JoVE Science Education: Clinical Skills - Video protocols and concepts of skills performed in the clinical setting.
JoVE Science Education: Environmental Sciences - Video protocols and concepts of basic experiments in the environmental sciences
Other JoVE Collections
Encyclopedia of Experiments: Biology - Online video encyclopedias of advanced research experiments for scientists using the model organisms Drosophila melanogaster, Caenorhabditis elegans, and Danio rerio.
JoVE Core: Biology - JoVE Core: Biology brings biology to life through over 300 concise and easy-to-understand animated video lessons that explain key concepts in biology, plus more than 150 scientist-in-action videos that show actual research experiments conducted in today’s laboratories
JoVE Core: Molecular Biology - JoVE Core: Molecular Biology showcases the molecular processes of the cell through clear and concise animated video lessons. Additionally, in scientist-in-action videos, these concepts' application is demonstrated through actual experiments in modern laboratories
JoVE Lab Manual: Biology - Comprehensive, curriculum-focused videos for both instructors and students in introductory biology lab courses
Kanopy - Fiction and non-fiction streaming movies database.
- To request specific films from Kanopy for viewing and use, please complete the survey located in the following location: Kanopy Online Request Form
60 Minutes: 1997-2004 - For the first time ever, nearly two decades of television’s most preeminent program are available online in one expansive streaming video resource. The 60 MINUTES: 1997–2014 collection from Alexander Street grants unprecedented access to the CBS News archives from this period, including many episodes not widely seen since their original broadcast. From ProQuest and Alexander Street.
Videatives - Database of short videos geared toward Early Childhood Education.
Swank Digital Campus - Swank Digital Campus provides a customizable academic streaming library of over 25,000 feature films, documentaries and foreign films from the largest movie studios, including Walt Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, NBCUniversal, Columbia Pictures, Lions Gate, MGM, Miramax and many more.