Online Databases

Select a database from one or more of the categories below. When prompted, input your 14-digit public library patron barcode (on your library card) and begin searching.

Genealogy Resources

Heritage Quest – Use the Salem Public Library Card at home for online access to census data, family records, local histories, tax lists, city directories, land and probate records, birth, marriage, and death records.

Test Preparation

Learning Express Library – The Salem Public Library Card provides online access at home to over 300 online practice exams and quizzes for standardized test preparation (SAT, GED, U.S. Citizenship, TOEFL, and more). In addition, several basic skills products, both online and in print, are available with Spanish translation.

General Research (full-text magazine and journal articles)

• bigchalk 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 (available to card-holders of NOBLE member libraries) Databases include:
  • 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
  • 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:
  • Biography Resource Center (with Marquis Who's Who)
  • Contempory Literary Criticism Select
  • Expanded Academic Plus
  • General BusinessFile ASAP
  • Business and Company ASAP
  • General Reference Center Gold
  • Health Reference Center Academic
  • Infotrac Junior (Standard and Graphical)
  • Kids InfoBits
  • Professional Collection
  • Infotrac Student

Newspapers

• bigchalk eLibrary Easy to use! eLibrary is a full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps.
• NewsBank, Inc. Instant full-text access to individual newspaper titles - Boston Globe (1980-current), Boston Herald (1997-current), Worcester Telegram & Gazette (1989-current), and Springfield Union-News (1988-current).

Business Research

• 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

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

Youth Oriented Study

• bigchalk 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. 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..

Reader's Advisory

• Novelist is a database that allows readers to use a favorite author or title as a template to locate other authors and titles of interest. In addition, three powerful search techniques allow readers to look for books by entering descriptive terms that appear in subject headings and reviews. Besides locating books to read, users can learn more about books and authors through Author Read-alikes, Feature Articles, Book Discussion Guides, and BookTalks.

eBooks

• netLibrary^TM eBook collection Now you can view electronic books on popular topics such as travel, computers, consumer health and business on the web.

Recursos en Español

• ¡Informe!(Revistas en Español)^TM - Gale Group, Inc. 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.

Other Research Databases

• OCLC® WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog) Offers more than 46 million bibliographic records and holdings information vital for collection development, cataloging, authority control, and retrospective conversion services.
• Massachusetts Special Collections Directory