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Educator's Reference Complete
This collection of more than 1,100
periodicals and 200 reports is a great resource for any educator -- from
the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at
the collegiate and graduate level. Content is almost entirely full-text,
with the majority of the titles also covered in the ERIC database. This
database covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college,
and every educational specialty -- such as technology, bilingual
education, health education, and testing. Educator's Reference
Complete also focuses on issues in administration, funding and
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Expanded Academic ASAP
Find information on: Astronomy, Religion, Law, History, Psychology, Humanities, Current Events, Sociology, Communications and the General Sciences. Over 1,500 titles included are peer-reviewed.
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Learning Express (Learn-A-Test)
Learning Express Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help students and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.
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Virtual Reference Library
Includes a select group of
reference titles in a variety of subjects covering art, science,
multicultural studies, business, literature and history:
Beacham's Guide to the Endangered Species of North America
Macmillan - Biology
Blackbirch - Kid's Visual
Reference of the United States
Blackbirch - Kid's Visual Reference of the World
St. James - Contemporary
Fashion
St. James - Contemporary
Novelists
St. James - Contemporary
Poets
St. James - Encyclopedia of
Popular Culture
St. James - Business Leader
Profiles for Students
Gale - Encyclopedia of
Alternative Medicine
Gale - Encyclopedia of Cancer
Gale - Encyclopedia of
Genetic Disorders
Gale - Encyclopedia of
Medicine
Gale - Encyclopedia of
Multicultural America
Gale - World of Earth Science |
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Newspapers |
Massachusetts Newsstand
Massachusetts Newsstand includes:
Berkshire Eagle 2005-current Boston Globe 1980-current Boston Herald 1991-current BusinessWest (Chicopee) 1992-current North Adams Transcript 2005-current Patriot Ledger (Quincy) 1991-current Plymouth County Business Review 1991-current Sentinel & Enterprise (Fitchburg) 2005-current Sun, The (Lowell) 2004-current Telegram & Gazette (Worcester) 1989-current Gazette (Haverhill, Mass.) 12/31/92 - 8/9/97 Standard Times (New Bedford) 1/4/92 - 8/19/97
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Boston Globe (1980 -
current) |
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Boston.com Globe Image e-Edition
Search or browse replicas of the Boston
Globe print editions online, with
full-color layouts of all news articles, graphics, advertisements,
classifieds,
weather reports, box scores, puzzles, cartoons and more. Available as
soon as
print editions. Free access with your Uxbridge Library issued card. Just
enter
your card number when prompted. |
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Boston Herald (1991 - current)
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Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise (2005 - current)
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Worcester Telegram & Gazette (1989 - current)
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Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
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Encyclopedia Americana
A resource for high school, college and beyond. Excellent source for information and maps on a wide variety of topics. Includes magazine articles and links to many websites. This encyclopedia is updated quarterly.
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Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
A resource for middle school and beyond. Excellent source of quick reference information. Incorporates many media formats into the text. Provides resources on getting started on a research topic and many current events links. This encyclopedia is updated monthly.
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Grolier Online Kids
Designed to meet the needs of younger researchers (students in grades three through five). Its focus is to make finding information as easy and intuitive as possible. |
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Grolier Online Passport
Grolier Online provides a central portal to all Grolier products:
- Encylopedia Americana
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
- Five dictionaries, two thesauri, and an interactive atlas
- Media (photos, panoramas, multimedia, etc.)
- News Features: in-depth current events taken from wire services such
as the Associated Press.
- For students: Homework Help, Research Starters, and Science Projects
- For teachers: Lesson plans, projects and activities, discussion
questions, study guides, and more.
Two distinct and unique research environments are available: Grolier
Online Passport for older students and adults, and Grolier Online Kids
for younger students. |
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Britannica Online Public Library Edition contains comprehensive content for all patrons—from elementary students to college students, from business professionals to curious seniors.
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Grove Art Online
Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of
The
Dictionary of Art and The Oxford Companion to Western Art,
including ongoing additions of new and updated articles, over 3,000
thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text of
articles, extensive image links, and sophisticated search and navigation
tools.
Grove Art Online is provided by the Central/Western Massachusetts
Automated Resource Sharing network (C/W MARS). |
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Virtual Reference Library
Includes a select group of
reference titles in a variety of subjects covering art, science,
multicultural studies, business, literature and history:
Beacham's Guide to the Endangered Species of North America
Macmillan - Biology
Blackbirch - Kid's Visual
Reference of the United States
Blackbirch - Kid's Visual Reference of the World
St. James - Contemporary
Fashion
St. James - Contemporary
Novelists
St. James - Contemporary
Poets
St. James - Encyclopedia of
Popular Culture
St. James - Business Leader
Profiles for Students
Gale - Encyclopedia of
Alternative Medicine
Gale - Encyclopedia of Cancer
Gale - Encyclopedia of
Genetic Disorders
Gale - Encyclopedia of
Medicine
Gale - Encyclopedia of
Multicultural America
Gale - World of Earth Science |
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World Book Online
The premier online reference
source-containing every article from the 22-volume print set
plus thousands more. With state-of-the-art multimedia, maps,
editor- reviewed Web sites, and more. To access, log in using
ID: uxbridge and Password: library.
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Health and Science |
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Health Reference Center Academic
Contains articles on health and wellness, family medicine, alternative
medicine, nursing, mental health, senior health and allied health and
health administration. Also contains full text to over 40 nursing and
allied health journals and key reference books, including Mosby's
Dictionary and the PDR Family Guide to Nutrition and Health.
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Science Online
Facts on File's Science Online is a
curriculum-oriented database that provides biographies, definitions,
science experiments, essays, and more than 3000 diagrams.This material
is arranged according to the following scientific disciplines:
Animal Anatomy
Astronomy and Space Technology
Atomic Physics
Biochemistry
Biology
Botany
Chemistry
Computer Science
Earth Science
Environmental Science
General Science
Genetics
Health and Medicine
Human Anatomy and Physiology
Marine Science
Physics
Weather and Climate |
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History and Current Events |
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African-American History Online
African-American History Online is a comprehensive reference database, covering more than 500 years of African-American history—from the slave trade to the Civil Rights movement to the present day. Thousands of extensively hyperlinked and informative entries include topical entries, biographies, primary source documents, images, timelines, and maps and charts.
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American History Online
American History Online is a comprehensive and authoritative reference to the most important individuals, events, and topics in U.S. history. The thousands of entries—topical entries, biographies, maps, timeline entries, primary source documents, and images—are hyperlinked and allow users a path to related entries. Extensive overview essays provide detail on each time period. |
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American Women's History Online
American Women's History Online is an authoritative reference database, extensively hyperlinked, providing thousands of entries—biographies, topical entries, maps, timelines, tables and charts, primary sources, and images—that are essential to understanding the experiences of women throughout U.S. history.
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Issues and Controversies
Issues and Controversies is a comprehensive,
dependable online source of current, in-depth and objective information
on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day. Issues and
Controversies is a reference database that is also a classroom tool and home resource. It combines objective analysis, clear explanations of opposing points of view and numerous special features, so students, researchers
and other users can quickly grasp the essentials of even the most complex topics. Full hyperlinking among all Issues and Controversies articles and links to related content from The Reference Suite @ FACTS.com
including: The World News Digest database, The World Almanac Reference
Database and Today's Science @ FACTS.com. |
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Massachusetts History Online
Combining selections from Gale's vast periodical content, Massachusetts History Online contains full-text articles gathered from almost 50 sources that directly relate to Massachusetts history, both past and present, including people, places, historical events and more. Containing data from a range of publications, Massachusetts History Online provides a targeted resource for information relating to the study of Massachusetts History.
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Literature and Art |
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Biography Resource Center
Access biographical information compiled
from Gale Group titles such as the Almanac of Famous People,
Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of American Biography, Encyclopedia of
World Biography, and Notable 20th Century Scientists along with over 1.3
million thumbnail biographies from the complete Marquis Who's Who and
Debrett's People of Today. |
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Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
Contains critical essays on contemporary authors, now living or who died after December 31, 1959. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works, and sources for further study. |
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Grove Art Online
Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of
The
Dictionary of Art and The Oxford Companion to Western Art,
including ongoing additions of new and updated articles, over 3,000
thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text of
articles, extensive image links, and sophisticated search and navigation
tools.
Grove Art Online is provided by the Central/Western Massachusetts
Automated Resource Sharing network (C/W MARS). |
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NoveList Readers' Advisory
NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction.
NoveList is provided by the Central/Western Massachusetts Automated Resource Sharing network (C/W MARS)
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Business |
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General Business File ASAP
Research business and management topics. Includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies as well as investment analyst reports on major companies and industries.
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Kids and Teens |
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Grolier Online Kids
Designed to meet the needs of younger researchers (students in grades three through five). Its focus is to make finding information as easy and intuitive as possible. |
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Kids InfoBits
Kids InfoBits meets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine, newspaper and reference content for information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more. |
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InfoTrac K-12 Junior Edition
Designed for secondary school students, this edition contains journal and newspaper articles, maps and reference books including Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dayes Information Please Almanacs and "All Our Yesterdays" photo collection of Americana.
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InfoTrac K-12 Student Edition
Designed for secondary school students, this edition contains journal and newspaper articles, maps and reference books including Encyclopedia of American Facts and Dayes Information Please Almanacs and "All Our Yesterdays" photo collection of Americana.
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Library Catalogs |
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Uxbridge Free
Library Catalog |
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Worcester
Public Library Catalog |
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Central MA
Library Catalogs (C/W MARS) |
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Boston
Public Library Catalog |
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Massachusetts Virtual Catalog
The Virtual Catalog searches through many individual Massachusetts library catalogs for a book, CD, audio or video and then informs you who owns it and whether it is on the shelf. The Virtual Catalog project has been underway for five years; about 20 library systems are now connected. The Virtual Catalog will search the following library catalogs:
Bridgewater State College
CLAMS, Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing
C/W MARS, Central/Western Massachusetts Automated Resource
Sharing
Fenway Libraries Online
Minuteman Library Network
MBLN, Metro Boston Library Network (including the Boston Public Library)
MVLC, Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
NOBLE, North of Boston Library Exchange
OCLN, Old Colony Library Network
SAILS Library Network
University of Massachusetts, Boston
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Westfield State College
The Virtual Catalog is funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. |
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Funding for
these online resources is provided by:
Uxbridge Free Public
Library (Globe e-Edition, Encyclopedia Britannica, World Book
Online)
Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners
and the
Massachusetts Regional Library Systems
(Gale databases, ProQuest newspapers)
Central Massachusetts Regional Library System
(Grolier Online, Issues and Controversies)
C/W MARS (NoveList, Grove
Art, Science Online, Overdrive)
Worcester Public Library (Learning Express)
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Support your library by contacting your state representatives
Sen. Richard Moore
Room #111
State House
Boston, MA 02133
617.722.1420
Richard.Moore@state.ma.us
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State House
Boston, MA 02133
617.722.2130
Rep.JenniferCallahan@hou.state.ma.us
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