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Whittemore Library provides access to numerous online databases for all its students and faculty. Off-campus access requires that you login before being able to search the databases. Once you login, you will be able to access all the online databases without having to enter a library barcode number or a username/password. There are a few exceptions and those will be clearly noted.

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Articles on business and management from US and International sources. Some full-text is available with articles dating from 1971 to the present.

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 1985. Updated daily.

Provides full text for over 4,700 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, and education.

AccessScience Online is fully searchable content from McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition. The new generation of AccessScience gathers and synthesizes vast amounts of information, and organizes it to give you fast, easy and accurate access to authoritative articles in all major areas of science and technology.

A vast collection of citations and full text from the Association for Computing Machinery journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings.

Materials relating to all aspects of agriculture, forestry, and animal science.

A bibliographic database containing abstracts of articles from over 1,700 journal titles that pertain to United States and Canadian history and culture from prehistoric times to the present.

Developed by the American Anthropological Association, this includes a complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003.

Select the link to access instructions on how to access the pdf of APA's Style Guide to Electronic References.

Leading publications in the world of the arts.

Art and Architecture Complete is a comprehensive bibliographic database that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 630 academic journals, magazines and trade publications with full text for over 240 periodicals and 140 books, as well as selective coverage for over 50 publications. The database has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes art scholars, artists, designers, students, and general viewers.

Index of articles from the contents pages of journals.

Directory of award-winning children's and young adult books. Search for authors or illustrators, for book titles or award type, by grade level or age level. Produced by the Children's Book Council. (1920s - present)

Online content of the print version of the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion.

This database combines award-winning biographies from the Gale Group series and also includes 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. Includes complete information from the Contemporary Authors index.

Over 100 full-text journals covering such disciplines as clinical medicine, nursing, dentistry, and veterinary medicine.

The Birds of North America (BNA) is a comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North American birds.

Books & Authors offers new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics. Combining over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner and librarian's favorites lists, Books & Authors helps bring readers and literature together. Through the use of expertly written and arranged content and a dynamic, cutting edge user interface, Books & Authors makes exploration of genre fiction and essential non-fiction fun!

Comprehensive digital coverage back to 1987.

The award-winning Britannica Online® delivers fast and easy access to high-quality, comprehensive information. The rich combination of the insightful Encyclopædia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools provides the variety of reliable sources that students need to consult when conducting thorough research-all from one database.

Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.

Business & Industry is a broad-based business information database that focuses on facts, figures, events and market information about companies, industries, products and markets. It covers all industries and is international in scope. B&I draws content from over 1,800 trade and industry publications, regional, national and international newspapers, business dailies and newsletters.

Business & Management Practices content focuses on practical approaches to management processes and methods. It provides real-world know-how about business planning, decision making, how businesses adopt and implement new technologies and techniques, and plan for change or expansion. BaMP focuses on real-life applications, case studies, and explicit "how-to" guidelines. BaMP offers highly-focused coverage from more than 300 current professional and trade journals containing information relevant to the fields of management, planning, production, finance, marketing, information technology and human resources; as well as an additional 1,000+ more general business journals and newspapers.

Provides full text for nearly 8,350 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.

The CMOS online is a searchable resource based on the Chicago Manual of Style 15th edition for citing sources and writing styles. It also contains tools, i.e, sample forms, letters and style sheets.

An acquisition, research, and reference service that offers more than 1,000,000 MARC records and more than 240,000 reviews of children's books--all full text searchable from 35 review sources.

This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

Provides full-text indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937.

Access to up-to-date, concise and relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, herbal and nutritional supplements, as well as over-the-counter, new and investigational drugs.

CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline.

An extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works, and sources for further study.

Offers comprehensive reporting and analysis and in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.

A database that features online content from a hundred reference books in a broad range of subjects.

The Digital Media Catalog (OverDrive) provides popular audiobooks and eBooks for users to download.

There is also a collection of Public Domain eBooks that includes many popular classics.

The directory covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. The aim is to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 3694 journals in the directory. Currently 1267 journals are searchable at article level.

Many different subject databases are listed including PsycINFO, Medline, MLA, CINAHL, and Academic Search Premier.

Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database.

Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.

Provides citation and abstract information from over 1,000 educational journals and related documents from the Educational Resource Information Center and educational symposium report literature dating back to 1967.

Access a wide variety of sources from every academic concentration. Use this database to research topics in Astronomy, Religion, Law, History, Psychology, Humanities, Current Events, Sociology, Communications and the General Sciences.

The Foundation Directory Online is web-based grantseeking database, developed by the Foundation Center. It offers the most comprehensive, in-depth information available on U.S. grantmakers and their grants, drawn from reliable sources, including IRS 990s, grantmaker web sites and annual reports, plus data provided directly by grantmakers.

This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

A mix of more than 20 full-text reference books covering the arts, biography, business, the environment, history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, geography, and science. See a list of GVRL titles.

Perform in-depth research on company performance and activity, industry events and trends, as well as the latest in management, economics and politics.

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. Updated daily. Coverage goes back to 1980 with over 9,200 titles (5,156 full-text).

A general interest database for searching magazines, reference books, and newspapers for information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc.

Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.

Search for scholarly journal articles within this search engine. Go to "Scholar Preferences" and enter Framingham State University as your prefered library in the "library links" section. You will see a result for Framingham State University. Select "Find it @Framingham State". Once you do this, you will be able to search and find full-text articles from our library.

The environmental resources provides indexing to 600 titles and contains 295,000 records from popular, trade and scholarly publications, witha a broad subject scope of law, science, economics, public policy, industry and science.

The Handbook of Research on ePortfolios is the single source for comprehensive coverage of the major themes of ePortfolios.To access your E-Access holdings, select "IGI E-Access Reference Subscriptions" from the left column. Once you have selected the "log-in" icon, read through the "Terms and Conditions of Use" page and choose the "I Agree" icon. This action will take you to the Electronic Resources entry page which lists the Information Science Reference and Medical Information Science Reference titles. The publication(s) to which your institution has activated electronic access will be highlighted on this page.

Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, numerous reference volumes, over 700 health videos from partner Healthology, Inc., hundreds of pamphlets and health-related articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.

Find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health, Alcohol and Drug Abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc.

Provides full text for nearly 300 health periodicals, over 1,000 health pamphlets, and 23 health reference books.

Provides indexing for more than 550 scholarly full text journals from many medical disciplines, as well as over 850 general medical journals.

Historical Abstracts is an exceptional resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more - essential for libraries supporting upper-division and graduate research. This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. History and social science researchers have used Historical Abstracts to discover significant and groundbreaking work for more than 50 years.

The Historical New York Times provides the full image of articles published in the New York Times from its first issue in 1851 (to three years prior to the current year). It is searchable by keyword, subject, author, and article title. It includes illustrations and advertisements. The title changed from the New York Daily Times to the New York Times in 1857.

Provides a variety of different subject databases providing access to scholarly journals, popular magazines, and newspapers. Databases include the Expanded Academic ASAP.

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.

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.

Over 250 full text e-journals on environmental science, agriculture and planning policy hosted on the Informa World platform.

ITER Gateway is a research and support web site for scholars studying the Renaissance and Reformation time periods.

Search back issues of core journals (117 titles) in the humanities, social sciences and sciences.

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.

A searchable database of curricula that brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in Pre-K-12 and Adult Basic Education.

Provides full text access to news, business and legal information

The database is a web-based research solutions tool that provides fast and easy access to more than 750 million data points on 650 subjects from licensed and public domain datasets. The average time series of the datasets is 34 years.

Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works.

Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.

Covering world literature and authors throughout history, LitFinder contains a wealth of literary works including over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. For students or patrons seeking a deeper view into literature, LitFinder also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more! From Shakespeare's sonnets to poems by Donald Hall or short stories from Edgar Allan Poe to works by Annie Proulx, LitFinder has you covered.

Mango Languages is an online language-learning system teaching actual conversation skills for a wide variety of languages.

Use this collection for full-text articles from 50 magazines and local newspapers for coverage of Massachusetts people, places and historical events.

Includes:
Cape Cod Times
Springfield Republican

Provides full text for 2,000 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more. Some titles indexed back to 1975.

A comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature since 1940, providing Web access to the bibliographic data and reviews of mathematical research literature contained in the Mathematical Reviews Database. Partial full-text.

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine,nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, HISTLINE, SPACELINE, PREMEDLINE, AIDSLINE, BIOETHICSLINE, and HealthSTAR.

Contains company data for U.S. and international companies as well as annual reports. Search by company name, ticker symbol, or country.

Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals and academic journals.

Offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, 4,400 of which are currently indexed in the MLA Bibliography. Gives editorial contact information as well as submission guidelines.

Online version of the MLA Bibliography. Contains citations from over 4,400 journals and book series. Search 1963 to the present.

This database includes the New York Times from January 1, 1985 to the present, including the New York Times Magazine and the New York Times Book Review.

Provides selected full text articles from 30 U.S. and international newspapers. Also includes full text television and radio news transcripts as well as selected full text for more than 200 regional U.S. newspapers.

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.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the new solution features continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

See Digital Media Catalog (above)

26 nursing titles ranging from 1996 to the present.

The OED is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources.

Gale PowerSearch is a platform unlike any other, providing libraries with a sophisticated, yet simple, solution for managing a wealth of periodical, reference and primary source information. Moreover, PowerSearch provides your patrons with access to all the Gale content in your library's collection through one, single search query.

Gale PowerSearch helps users select the databases most appropriate to include in a cross-search by providing an alphabetical listing along with a description of each one. Users search with the method that's easiest for them - by entering keywords, using pre-defined subject terms or constructing complex search queries using Boolean logic. Below the search term field, users will find a list of Gale databases so they can simply select as many databases as they want to include in their search. The database from which each document is found appears as part of the search results.

Provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 full text journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles, designed for professional educators.

Full text access to over 180 high quality journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences from 60 scholarly publishers.

Provides full text access to several Massachusetts newspapers dating back to the 1980's, including The Boston Globe.

Includes:
Boston Globe (1980-Current)
Berkshire Eagle (2005-Current)
BusinessWest (Chicopee) (1992-Current)
North Adams Transcript (2005-Current)
Plymouth County Business Review (1991-Current)
Sentinel & Enterprise (Fitchburg) (2005-Current)
The Sun (Lowell) (2004-Current)
Telegram & Gazette (Worcester) (1989-Current)
Gazette (Haverhill (12/31/92 - 8/9/97)
Standard Times (New Bedford (1/4/92 - 8/19/97

PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals - 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present.

Contains American Psychological Association Reviews of current books and films. Also contains a ten-year searchable backfile.

Includes coverage of over 575 full text journals, as well as more than 550 peer-reviewed titles.

Search over 9,900 sources (including more than 2,000 periodicals) to locate information on psychology and related fields from 1840 to the present.

PubMed, available via the NCBI Entrez retrieval system, was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Entrez is the text-based search and retrieval system used at NCBI for services including PubMed, Nucleotide and Protein Sequences, Protein Structures, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, OMIM, and many others. PubMed provides access to citations from biomedical literature.

Finding the relevant business answers has never been easier. Business Reference Suite, an exciting Web-based subscription service gives you balanced and highly focused full-text coverage of company and industry news, management practices, and market research information. RDS Business Suite features more than 1,400 leading worldwide business sources, plus tens of thousands of tables with strategic data. Suite coverage is over 60% full text, and over 45% international.

Provides comprehensive full-text coverage for regional business publications. Incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all major metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Updated on a daily basis.

This database provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.

Science Direct offers more than a quarter of the world's scientific, medical and technical information online. Science Direct has over 950 scholarly, scientific journals available.

Science in Context provides topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations, as well as articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics, and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify content directly correlated to state and national standards.

Scirus is a comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Scirus searches over 450 million science-specific Web pages. You can limit your search to journal articles. Go to "Search Preferences" and select Framingham State University in the drop down menu in the "library partner links" section. Once you do this, you will be able to search and find full-text articles from our library.

For a brief, animated introduction to the scientific search engine, go here.

Comprehensive and high-quality sociology research database. Contains full text for 242 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895.

Student Resources In Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a broad range of topics, people, places, and events. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience combined with new features such as "Search Assist" and quick fact boxes.

This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.

TeachingBooks.net provides original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators and a wealth of multimedia resources on K-12 books that generate enthusiasm for books and reading.

U.S. History in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory is a bibliographic database providing detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world.

WilsonWeb database covers full text periodical research for ethnic studies, women's studies, history, and library and information science in addition to Humanities, Education, Business and Sciences and more. Here is the mobile edition.

World History in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in World History. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

Catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide. Includes millions of bibliographic records with records representing 400 languages.