Articles & Databases (A to Z)

Academic OneFile

Contains 8,000 academic journals, the majority in full-text. Also contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full-text New York Times content from 1985.

Resource made possible by MBLC and MLS with funding from Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Agricultural Collection

Articles on farming, horticulture, and agriculture-related fields from nearly 200 authoritative journal titles.

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Ancestry Library

IN LIBRARY USE ONLY

Thousands of family history databases, including vital records, census records, ship passenger lists, military records and lots more!

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AtoZDatabases

Search Jobs, businesses or mailing lists. 2.3 million job listings, 30 million business profiles, 1.1 million healthcare professionals. Ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, finding friends and relatives, and much more.

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AutoMate

Service and repair information for thousands of domestic and imported vehicles. All content comes from the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) and includes step-by-step repair information, diagrams, maintenance schedules, parts and labor estimates, service bulletins and recalls.

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Biography In Context

Gale In Context: Biography offers authoritative reference content alongside magazine and journal articles, primary sources, videos, audio podcasts, and images. Covering a vast array of people from historically significant figures to present-day newsmakers, it’s continuously updated to ensure researchers have access to the very latest information.

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Britannica Escolar

Enciclopedia K-8 para hablantes nativos y estudiantes que aprenden español / K-8 encyclopedia for native speakers and students learning Spanish

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Britannica Fundamentals

Innovative early learning resource for students in grade levels kindergarten through second grade. Previously Britannica Learning Zone.

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Britannica Library

Contains the Encyclopædia Britannica, Compton's by Britannica, Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia, and Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, each covering the research needs of a different age group. Also contains magazine articles, a homework help section, a world atlas, Merriam-Webster dictionaries and thesauri, a Spanish-English dictionary, and video and audio content.

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Britannica School Edition

For Elementary, Middle and High School levels, this reference and learning suite also offers high-quality online learning materials that have been developed by teachers and curriculum experts.

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Business Collection

This collection contains articles on accounting, marketing and management, and related fields.

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Communications and Mass Media Collection

This collection provides information from more than 100 journals focused on the communications field. Key subjects covered include: marketing, advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and more.

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Consumer Reports Online

ConsumerReports.org provides ratings and reviews, recommendations and buying advice. Each product includes an overview and a ratings report card, as well as tester reviews & recommendations.

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Criminal Justice Collection

The Criminal Justice Collection database focuses on all aspects of the criminal justice field. Publications include: American Criminal Law Review; Corrections Today; Criminal Justice; Criminal Justice Ethics; Forensic Examiner; Psychology Today; and more.

Resource made possible by MBLC and MLS with funding from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services

Culinary Arts Collection

The Culinary Arts Collection includes 150 of the major cooking and nutrition magazines from 1980 to present. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.

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Daily Life in Civil War America

The United States Civil War touched the lives of every American North and South at that time. This informative book makes extensive use of journals, newspapers, and diaries to bring together the experience of the soldier, civilian, and slave in one volume.

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Daily Life in Colonial Latin America

This book offers an examination of everyday life in the Iberian colonies of Central and South America--the indigenous peoples, their Spanish and Portuguese colonizers, and the Africans brought over as slaves.

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Daily Life in Elizabethan England

This book offers an experiential perspective on the lives of Elizabethans, how they worked, ate, and played, with hands on examples that include authentic music, recipes, and games of the period.

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Daily Life of the Ancient Egyptians

Through reconstructions based on the hieroglyphic inscriptions, paintings from tombs, and scenes from temple walls, readers can explore social and material existence in one of the world's oldest civilizations.

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Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks

Ancient Greece comes alive in this exploration of the daily lives of ordinary people-men and women, children and the elderly, slaves and foreigners, rich and poor.

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Daily Life of the Ancient Romans

Discover the ins and outs of daily life in Ancient Rome through the eyes of the Romans themselves.

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Digital Collection (from Overdrive)

The Digital Collection is always open! Borrow popular ebooks, audiobooks, magazines and streaming video from Minuteman's shared collection. Read or listen on a mobile device with the Libby App from OverDrive.

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Diversity Studies Collection

A must-have for social science, history and liberal arts coursework, this collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community. This set includes 150 journals.

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Economics and Theory Collection

This collection provides academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics. Perfect for business classes, users will find more than 150 full-text journals to support their research.

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Entrepreneurship Collection

Gale OneFile: Entrepreneurship is updated daily and provides insights, tips, strategies, and success stories. Users find more than 500 subject-appropriate, active, full-text periodicals, including: Beverage Industry, Black Enterprise, Economist, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, HR Magazine, Real Estate Weekly, Restaurant Business, Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, and more.

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Environmental Studies and Policy Collection

This collection provides multiple viewpoints of the field of environmental issues and policy including perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.

Resource made possible by MBLC and MLS with funding from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services

Excel High School

Excel Adult High School is an accredited high school that offers a fully online high school diploma program, available through your public local library. This program offers free enrollment to a limited number of qualified adult students.

Fine Arts and Music Collection

With more than 100 full-text magazines and journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection provide resources to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.

Resource made possible by MBLC and MLS with funding from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services

Gale eBooks

With eBooks on GVRL, you can turn research into results. Optimized for search and discovery, the GVRL platform enables you to search through a wealth of nonfiction eBooks on business, travel, history, medicine and more- within a single search. Once you’ve pinpointed the exact content you want, download content to Drive and Docs with G Suite for Education integration.

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Gale Literature

An integrated research experience, Gale Literature brings together Gale's premier literary databases (Gale eBooks, Gale Literature Criticism, and Gale Literature Resource Center) in a new digital environment that allows researchers, faculty and students to search across these resources to discover and analyze content in entirely new ways.

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Gale Literature Criticism

Gale Literature Criticism offers in-depth analysis of authors, works, and literary movements from around the world. Dive into perspectives on both modern and historical texts across genres and generations.

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Gale Literature Resource Center

When it comes to literature topics and literary research, finding the most diverse, evidence-based perspectives on any given author is important. Gale Literature Resource Center provides exactly that. In addition to critical analysis, primary sources, and detailed work overviews, this database brings together in-depth biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information. There are more than 165,000 complete entries from popular literature series, including two award-winning series, Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors and Gale Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography.

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Gale Powersearch

Search all Gale resources at once with PowerSearch. Search all the journals, magazines, primary sources, and reference resources provided Gale, or select which databases to search.

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Gale Powersearch: Publications

Search all Gale resources at once with PowerSearch. Search all the journals, magazines, primary sources, and reference resources provided Gale, or select which databases to search.

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Gardening, Landscape, and Horticulture Collection

A collection of reference sources and journals focused on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture, this collection provides information for gardening enthusiasts and professionals alike.

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Gender Studies Collection

This collection of journals aims to provide balanced coverage of this significant aspect of our culture, covering such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and many more.

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Global Issues In Context

Designed to support global awareness, Gale In Context: Global Issues ties together a wealth of authoritative content that empowers researchers to critically analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world. Integrating news, global viewpoints, reference, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more in a single search, Gale In Context: Global Issues brings essential, balanced information to researchers across many academic disciplines, as well as newsworthy topics.

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Health and Medicine Collection

Articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health & Safety, Alcohol and Drug Abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, and more. Material is intended for informational purposes only.

Resource made possible by MBLC and MLS with funding from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services

High School Edition

Find information on high school research topics plus pop culture, sports, and more the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Resource made possible by MBLC and MLS with funding from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services

Home Improvement Collection

Coverage includes such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more.

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hoopla

Borrow digital video, music and audiobooks. Access thousands of titles and watch on your smartphone, tablet or computer. There’s no waiting to borrow and automatic return eliminates all late fees. Create an account with your library card number.

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Hospitality and Leisure Collection

Provides coverage of the hospitality and tourism field, including cultural aspects of travel, leisure activities, economic aspects of tourism, and more.

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Information Science and Library Issues Collection

Information professionals and other knowledge workers will find information in their areas of expertise, including such topics as information infrastructure, data processing techniques, metadata architectures, and more.

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Insurance and Liability Collection

This collection, comprised of nearly 40 insurance-related journals, takes a broad view of this multimillion dollar industry, covering such topics as labor relations, mortgage banking, legal issues, and more.

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Kanopy

An on-demand streaming video service that offers thousands of award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases across diverse subjects and disciplines. Kanopy provides access to films and documentaries from a variety of independent filmmakers and distributors, including the BBC, PBS and the Criterion Collection.

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Leadership and Management Collection

Provides access to authoritative periodical content covering topics such as 21st-century skills, organizational dynamics and leadership, adult learning and continuing education, and more. Updated daily, this library resource is useful for researchers or any professional interested in career development.

Resource made possible by MBLC and MLS with funding from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services

Mango Languages

Mango is designed to equip you with conversational abilities from the very start. Mango immerses you in real, everyday conversations in a wide variety of foreign languages. It also features ESL instruction in English, tailored for speakers of more than a dozen languages.

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Military and Intelligence Database Collection

Find articles on governmental policies, socioeconomics effects of war, and more. Includes The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia and The World Almanac and Book of Facts.

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Morningstar Investment Research Center

Comprehensive and up-to-date financial information on stocks, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds. Use the "Help & Education" tab to access the User's Guide and investor education resources.

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The New York Times Article Archive

This database includes full-text of the New York Times from January 1, 1985 to the present.

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NYTimes.com

New York Times for In-Library Use // New York Times for Home Access

Enjoy free access to NYTimes.com. For both in-library and home access, create an account and log in using that account. Coverage includes 1981 to Current, plus historic coverage 1851-1922. Home Access includes NY Times App and 5 Premium Archive (1923-1980) articles per day. For more information see Minuteman's NY Times FAQ

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News

InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to more than 1,100 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.

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NoveList

Not sure what to read next? Find read-a-likes, recommendations, and more, all curated by librarians and publishing insiders. (Log in with your Minuteman library card.)

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Novels for Students

Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the work's cultural and historical significance.

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Newspapers Northeast

Largest online newspaper archive used for genealogy and family history, historical research, crime investigations, journalism, and entertainment. Search for obituaries, marriage announcements, birth announcements, social pages, national and local news articles, sports, advertisements, entertainment, fashion and lifestyle pages, comics, and more.

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Nursing and Allied Health Collection

This collection's current and authoritative content will be of use to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.

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Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Covers timely issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. This cross-curricular resource supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions.

Resource made possible by MBLC and MLS with funding from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services

O'Reilly Books

O’Reilly for Public Libraries offers unlimited access to 50K+ titles (including O’Reilly books in early release), 30K+ hours of video, case studies from top companies, learning paths, expert playlists, and more—with nearly 1,000 topics to explore in technology and business. With a range of content formats tailored to all levels you can learn in the way that works best for you.

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PebbleGo

Access hundreds of animal articles, educational games, and learning activities from school or from home with easy to-use searching tools. Introduces early learners to database and research concepts.

Resource made possible by MBLC and MLS with funding from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services

Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection

This collection covers the fields of physical therapy and sports medicine, providing researchers with access to topics discussed in the field, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research theses, and many more.

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Poetry for Students

Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.

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Pop Culture Collection

This collection provides useful information for any researcher in a social science, history, art or liberal arts course. This collection is made up of 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.

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Popular Magazines

Popular Magazines includes 1000 of the most searched magazines across our InfoTrac product line. All the titles were selected based on the actual publication searches performed by library patrons.

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Psychology Collection

Find articles on personality, the human mind, memory, and more. Access hundreds of subject-appropriate full-text periodicals - many cited in the PsycINFO index.

Resource made possible by MBLC and MLS with funding from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services

Religion and Philosophy Collection

Research religions and philosophies of the world and how they impact our daily lives. This collection includes journals relating to spirituality and ideas.

Resource made possible by MBLC and MLS with funding from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services

Science Collection

Gale OneFile: Science is a comprehensive database that provides access to a wide range of scientific information, including scholarly journals and magazines, covering diverse fields such as biology, computing, engineering, and technology. It offers access to the latest scientific developments and is updated daily.

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Small Engine Repair Reference Center

Provides users with detailed, yet user-friendly repair guides for all manner of small engines.

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Social Law Library

Social Law’s collection includes over 500,000 volumes of primary and secondary resources, case law, administrative decisions, court rules, legal journals, records and briefs, and more. The Library’s focus is on collecting primary and secondary resources for practicing attorneys in Massachusetts. We also collect resources for all of the fifty United States, Asia, Canada and Europe.

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U.S. History

Gale One File: US History provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. Updated daily, this library resource offers balanced coverage of events in U.S. history and scholarly work established in the field.

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U.S. History: In Context

Gale In Context: U.S. History provides a complete overview of our nation’s past that covers the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and people. Comprehensive, contextual, media-rich information is provided on topics ranging from the arrival of Vikings in North America, to the stirrings of the revolution, through to the Civil Rights movement, 9/11, and the War on Terror. An always-intuitive experience supports the development of critical thinking and information literacy skills.

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Vocations and Careers Collection

Offering content from nearly 400 journals, this collection provides content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.

Resource made possible by MBLC and MLS with funding from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services

War and Terrorism Collection

A collection for students of history, social science and current events. Gain valuable insight the causes, impacts and perceptions of war and terrorism on a global scale.

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World History Collection

Gale OneFile: World History provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work established in the field.

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World History: In Context

Gale In Context: World History reaches back to the beginning of recorded history through today’s top headlines. Comprehensive, contextual, media-rich information is provided on topics ranging from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Holocaust to modern Human Rights Movements.

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World Terrorism

The definitive reference resource on world terrorism from Ancient Greece to the post–9/11 world. Articles provide essential background on the types and definitions of terrorism; movements and incidents across the globe; methods and aims of modern terrorist groups; approaches to counterterrorism; and the effects of September 11 on U.S. and international affairs.

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