Databases
| Homework Zone Encyclopedias, Biographies, Magazines and more |
Education Professionals and Teachers |
| Academic Resources | Business Resources |
| Health Information | General Reference |
| Spanish Magazines | Newspapers |
| Genealogy and Local History |
Book Recommendations and Searching |
| Virtual Reference Ask a question when the library is closed |
eBooks Books online |
Homework Zone
These useful resources are for everyone but are particularly helpful for students, parents, and teachers (K-12) researching homework assignments, projects and preparing for exams.
Homework Hero
The Saugus Public Library has partnered with the Waybright School to provide Teachers & Students with homework assignment pages.
Encyclopedias
- Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia For student and adult users. The Encyclopedia covers a variety of topics. The database contains full text articles,images and brief biographies.This database is updated annually.
- Grolier Online Passport - Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia: 36,000 entries intended for students in middle school and up and as a quick reference look-up tool for library users 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. Database funded by NMRLS
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Gale Virtual Reference Library -- Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Databases funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners
School Reference Resources
- Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, the most popular search method is moving from a broad subject to a narrower topic using the subject-based topic tree. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
- Primary Search provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
Databases funded through NOBLE - InfoTrac Junior Edition - 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.
- Middle Search Plus - Middle Search Plus provides full text for nearly 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags.
Databases funded through NOBLE - InfoTrac Student Edition - This periodical database is designed for high-school students 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.
- Biography Resource Center + Marquis Who's Who® - Integrates Gale biographies with full-text magazine articles, images, and website links. Search for current or historic people by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, or by keyword and full text. The optional Marquis Who's Who® module provides quick reference information on over 1 million additional people whose entries have appeared in more than 20 Marquis sources published from 1985 to the present.
- EBSCO Animals - Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
Databases funded through NOBLE
Education Professionals and Teachers
- Professional Development Collection - Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.
Databases funded through NOBLE - ERIC - ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
Databases funded through NOBLE
Academic Resources
- Academic Search Elite offers full text for more than 2,000 serials, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study. More than 100 journals have PDF images back to 1985.
Databases funded through NOBLE. - 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.
- 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.
Business Resources
- Business Source Premier is the industry's most used business research database, providing full text for more than 8,800 serials, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.
Databases funded through NOBLE - Regional Business News - This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Databases funded through NOBLE - 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.
Health Information
- MEDLINE -- Authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
Databases funded through NOBLE - Health Source - Consumer Edition -- This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals.
Databases funded through NOBLE - Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition -- This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.
Databases funded through NOBLE - Health Reference Center Academic -- Multi-source database provides 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. All in a single, easy-to-use database.
General Reference
- MasterFILE Premier -- Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags.
Databases funded through NOBLE - InfoTrac OneFile -- A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles. Updated daily.
- General Reference Center Gold -- 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.
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Big Chalk eLibrary - eLibrary is a full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps.
Database funded by NMRLS - ¡Informe! (Revistas en Español) - Articles and images of the most popular Hispanic magazines, and pamphlets on a variety of topics, such as health care. Database funded by NMRLS
- America's GenealogyBank - NewsBank provides Web-based access to millions of fully searchable U.S. genealogy records, including obituaries, family histories, genealogies, birth and marriage announcements, government documents and other sources published in the 1600s to the present day.
- HeritageQuest - Research your ancestry through America's largest commercial genealogy archive. Beginners and experts benefit with the best family history and genealogy data and resources available.
- Ancestry.com is the largest family history site online with over 4 billion names in worldwide historical records, family tree services and genealogy learning materials. It is only available for use in the library.
- Pictures of Early Saugus - the Library's digital imaging project in partnership with the Northeast Massachusetts Library System made possible by an LSTA grant through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
- Proquest: Massachusetts Newsstand -- Fulltext from the Boston Globe back to 1980, the Boston Herald back to 1991, and several other Massachusetts newspapers including the Berkshire Eagle, BusinessWest, North Adams Transcript, Quincy Patriot Ledger, Plymouth County Business Review, Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise, Lowell Sun, Worcetser Telegram & Gazette, Haverhill Gazette and New Bedford Standard Times
Database funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners - Newspaper Source -- Selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
- The Saugus Public Library has subscribed to the E-Edition of the Daily Item of Lynn. In addition to the newspaper and the Item-Live, patrons will now be able to read, page by page, the current and previous Items online. The Item joins the E-edition of the Boston Globe. To logon to this PDF version of the Item, click on the following link http://itemlive.com/edition/edition and enter "sauguslib" as the username and password.
- Boston Globe Electronic Image Edition -- The digital version of the Boston Globe is now available online through Newsbank to Saugus Public Library cardholders. The Electronic Image Edition is an exact digital replica of the printed version (It is ALL the content of the publication). Readers will see ALL photos, charts, graphs, ads, classifieds, stock quotes, puzzles, cartoons, box scores, and weather which are not currently available in the text version.
- NoveList - Readers' Advisory database. Find other books by your favorite author or by subject
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OCLC Worldcat - OCLC WorldCat offers more than 46 million bibliographic records in over 400 languages
Database funded by NMRLS - Answers...To Go! - Is the Library closed? Check out Answers... To Go! Your @ Home Library, operated by NMRLS, the North Massachusetts Regional Library System. Answers...To Go! is designed to supplement local library services.
Spanish Magazines and Pamphlets
Genealogy and Local History
Newspapers Online
Book Recommendations and Searching
Virtual Reference - Ask for information when the Saugus Library is closed.
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