Alphabetical List of Databases and Web Sites
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APA, MLA, Turabian, and Chicago Citation Styles 
Citation guidelines for research papers.
Biography Resource Center 
This database combines biographies from several authoritative reference sources as well as full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School Research Guide
Guide for starting a research paper. Includes the "big six" steps to research.
Chilton Automotive Repair Manuals
This is the online version of Chilton Manuals and includes repair instructions, tune-up specifications, wiring diagrams and more. This replaces our online Mitchell's Manuals.
Use Literature Notes to get information about the life and background of an author in addition to book summaries and character descriptions.
Get information about a country's government, economy, trade, environment, population, current events, geography, and business.
Learn about daily life throughout history and across many world cultures. Organized by time period, region and topic, Daily Life Online combines information from numerous reference works, monographs, and primary documents and is a great resource for students from middle school all the way through college.
EBSCO
Search for magazines, journal and newspaper articles, many with with full-text. Learn how to use this database more effectively by signing up for the library's free EBSCO computer class.
History from the Ancient World to present.
Answer your questions about news, events, issues, statistics, and people of the last 60+ years. A great place to for finding out what happened on a specific date in the past (such as your birthday!).
Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia (Ebsco)
Use this encyclopediato find out about any person, place or event you want to learn more about.
Health Source Consumer Edition (Ebsco)
This database has information on health topics like medicine, nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health.
Unlock the mystery about how things work. Find explanations for things related to science, home, health, money, travel, and people.
Take SAT prep classes or take SAT, ACT, AP practice tests. Get your score right away with explanations to the correct answers. You can also find practice exercises to improve your reading, writing, spelling, and math skills.
Library
of Congress: American Memory
"American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience."
Get free homework help via the Internet by using our Live Homework Help tutoring service. Live Homework Help connects students to expert tutors in math, science, social studies, and English. Spanish-speaking tutors are available in math and science.
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Spanish-speaking tutors: Sunday-Thursday 4-10 p.m.
Use this database for your English homework and projects. It has information about authors' lives and about the books they've written. This is the place to search for literary criticism.
Use this database to find articles going back as far as 1975, as well as pamphlets, reference books, biographies, and primary source documents.They also have photos, maps, and flags.
Search over 650 health topics from the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
Newsbank (available in library only, see below for remote access)
Full text articles from over 600 U.S. local, regional, national and international newspapers, newswires, and business journals, some from 1970-present. Includes full coverage of the Nashua Telegraph from 1998 to the present and the Union Leader from 1989 to the present. Due to contractual limitations, not all newspapers are accessible from home (see below).
Newsbank - remote access
Full text articles from over 400 U.S. local, regional, national and international newspapers, newswires, and business journals, some from 1970-present. Includes full coverage of the Nashua Telegraph from 1998 to the present and the Union Leader from 1989 to the present. Due to contractual limitations, many newspapers, such as the Concord Monitor, are only accessible from within the library (see above).
Newspaper Archive
Access.NewspaperArchive.com is a gateway to searching and reading historical newspapers online. Containing tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages dating as far back as the 1700s, the archive is an excellent source of primary source documents. Use the archive to view, save and print full-page newspapers from around the world.
In Newspaper Source you'll find newspaper articles as well as television and radio news transcripts.
If you're looking for a suggestion of a good book to read, use Novelist. This database is all about fiction. You can look up authors, books, plots, and book series.
This is the place to go for information about controversial issues, like the death penalty or cloning or gambling. It has articles, essays, statistics, and primary sources.
Find biographical information about Shakespeare and his works as well as background and historical information about the Globe Theatre and Elizabethan London.
Student Research Center (Ebsco)
This database is designed especially for middle and high school students. It has articles, pamphlets, reference books, biographies, and primary source documents.
Find information about a current events topic, and it can also give you ideas if you're having trouble picking a current events topic to research.
US
Supreme Court Decisions Issued Between 1937-1975 (full text)
Search for US Supreme Court Decisions by case name or keyword.
Find articles, pictures, video, audio, an atlas, a dictionary, and current events. It also has information to help you with research.