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	Westborough Public Library
55 West Main Street, Westborough, MA 01581 508-366-3050; Children's Room: 508-366-3053

ELECTRONIC DATABASES:
InfoTrac African American History Online American History Online American Women's History Online Ancestry Library Edition Grolier Encyclopedias Grove Art Heritage Quest Online	Issues and Controversies Massachusetts Newspapers New England Historic Genealogical Society NoveList and Literary Reference Center Online/Digital Books, Audiobooks, Videos ReferenceUSA Science Online

INFOTRAC:
Use InfoTrac to find magazine and journal articles and reference information in the following databases:

Contemporary Literary Criticism - Authors' biographical information and critical essays about their writings
General Reference Center Gold - General interest articles from magazines, newspapers (1980 forward)
Health Reference Center Academic - Articles on fitness, health, diseases (beginning 1980)
Expanded Academic ASAP - Scholarly journals/newspapers (1980 forward)
General BusinessFile ASAP - "Company performance and activity, industry events and trends," management, etc. (1980 forward)
Biography Resource Center - Biographies and links to biographical information on over 185,000 people
InfoTrac Kids - Magazines, reference books and newspaper articles for students in grades K-6
InfoTrac Junior Edition - For middle school students
InfoTrac Student Edition - For high school students
Educators Reference Complete - Covers all aspects of teaching from pre-school to college
Kids InfoBits - Reference information for students in kindergarten through grade 5
Gale Virtual Reference Library - Encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

In-library connection to Infotrac

Log in to InfoTrac from home

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY ONLINE
Includes historical events, biographies, primary sources, timelines.
Connect to African-American History Online (In-library and remote access)

AMERICAN HISTORY ONLINE
Includes historical events, biographies, primary sources, timelines.
Connect to American History Online (In-library and remote access)

AMERICAN WOMEN'S HISTORY ONLINE
Includes historical events, biographies, primary sources, timelines.
Connect to American History Online (In-library and remote access)

ANCESTRY LIBRARY EDITION
"Search for records about your ancestors."
Connect to Ancestry from the Library (Available on Library computers only)

GROLIER ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Use Grolier's Encyclopedia Americana, the Multimedia Encyclopedia, or Grolier Online Kids.
In-library connection
From home

GROVE ART
Information about artists and history of the visual arts. This database provides web access to The Dictionary of Art and The Oxford Companion to Western Art
In-Library Connection
From home

HERITAGE QUEST ONLINE
"Digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records..." and more.
In-Library Connection
From home

ISSUES AND CONTROVERSIES
Search for current information on the most prominent issues of the day, and read objective analysis and explanations of opposing viewpoints
In-library connection
From Home

MASSACHUSETTS NEWSPAPERS (by ProQuest):
Full-text articles from The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, The Worcester Telegram and Gazette, and several other local Massachusetts newspapers
In-library connection
Log in from home: Scroll down to select newspapers. (Library Card required for remote log-in)

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NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY (NEHGS):
Aid to researchers tracking their heritage. Online catalog, educational programming, and databases. (Available only on Library computers)
Connect at the Library

NOVELIST and LITERARY REFERENCE CENTER (EBSCO databases):
Novelist is a readers' advisory service for fiction readers. It assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles; provides summaries and reviews.
Literary Reference Center provides author information, reviews, and literary criticism.
In-library connection
From home.

ONLINE/DIGITAL BOOKS (eBOOKS), AUDIOBOOKS, VIDEORECORDINGS:
- C/W MARS eBooks:
  Downloadable books, Audiobooks, Videorecordings Log on at home with your library card.
REFERENCE USA:
"Source of information on businesses and people for researchers, students, and job seekers." business owners, entrepreneurs
Connect to ReferenceUSA (In-library and remote access)

SCIENCE ONLINE:
This database includes information on the environment, health and medicine, math, physics, chemistry, technology, and science biographies.
Connect to Science Online (In-library and remote access)

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Last revised: April 22, 2008
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