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Enter your Massachusetts library card number for out-of-school access to the following books, newspapers and magazine articles.

Archives USA directory of 5,400 manuscript repositories, indexes to over 109,000 special collections. ArchivesUSA® is a current directory of 5,581 repositories and 160,792 collections of primary source material across the United States. Using ArchivesUSA®, researchers are able to read descriptions of a repository's holdings to determine whether a collection contains material useful to their work as well as find the information they need to contact the repository directly.

Digital Collection from MBLC, a small but growing collection of pamphlets, maps and photographs related to a particular local area. "The documentary heritage of Massachusetts is essentially intact from its founding, and much rich information and documentation exists. Throughout the Commonwealth, repositories house irreplaceable collections of books and private and public documents that serve as a rich resource for researchers involved in local, state, regional, national, and international studies. Library staffs in public and academic libraries and in other repositories have long collected materials that document their immediate and adjoining locales as well as focusing on specific collecting areas. Although much of this material is monographs and pamphlets, a significant portion is manuscript material (personal and organizational papers), photographs, posters, ticket stubs, broadsides, etc. Many of these collections (are) physically sound and have been organized with a finding aid but need greater accessibility for patron use." The collection includes the Boston Athenaeum's African Americana Project and the Boston Public Library's Sports Temples of Boston.

Ebsco Literary Reference Center "The Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a highly graphical interface intended for public, academic and high school libraries. The primary goal of LRC is to assist high school and undergraduate English and Humanities students with homework and research assignments of a literary nature." One of their sections is Citation Help which covers the styles of the Modern Language Association (MLA), the Chicago Manual of Style and the American Psychological Association (APA).

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Electric Library search by source type: Newspapers (e.g. NY Times & WSJ all articles since 1984), Magazines, Books, Maps, Pictures, Audio/Video and TV & Radio Transcripts (most news shows from ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, NPR, etc.). Especially good for pictures. It also has all the state and national curriculum standards You can also search by grade reading level.

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Infotrac: list of all collections from Thompson Gale is a collection of databases that cover a wide variety of sources. Click the link above for a list of all the databases available or click the individual links below to search a more limited selection. The first entry, Virtual Reference Library (under History), contains the ever-popular Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages.

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For Magazines, Electric Library Magazines has 1500 diverse magazines available and Newsbank Magazines has current and back issues of 27 popular magazines including Time, Newsweek, SI, & Forbes.

Massachusetts Special Collections an index to 650 repositories throughout the state. Includes the Boston Public Library and Harvard University. Books, private and public documents, town records, genealogical information.

Net Library thousands of electronic books from the Boston Public Library and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. With over 3,000 titles ranging from Huckleberry Finn to self-help books and the Complete Idiot's Guide series you should be able to find something to read.

Newsbank complete full text content of the Cape Cod Times.

Newsbank Magazines Recent and past articles from 27 of America's top magazines. Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Life, Sports Illustrated, Popular Science, Essence, Money, Entertainment Weekly, People, Teen People, US News & World Report, Parenting and more. Most are 2000 to present but Time, Newsweek, Fortune and Money go back to the early 1990s. Also includes a link to Massachusetts State Educational Standards. The Electric Library has even more (1500) magazines

Online Massachusetts Library Catalogs 60 libraries and counting including the state colleges.

Proquest Access to Massachusetts newspapers ( Not all papers, it doesn't include the MV Times or Vineyard Gazette ) (ELibrary has the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal)

The Berkshire Eagle; Pittsfield, Mass.     Full Text: 2005 - current
Boston Globe; Boston, Mass.     Full Text: 1987 - current
Boston Globe (pre-1997 Fulltext); Boston, Mass.     Full Text: 1980 - 1996
Boston Herald; Boston, Mass.     Full Text: 1991 - current
BusinessWest; Chicopee     Full Text: 1992 - current
Gazette; Haverhill, Mass.     Full Text: 1992 - 1997, some exceptions
Massachusetts Newsstand
New England Business; Dublin    
North Adams Transcript; North Adams, Mass.     Full Text: 2005 - current
The Patriot Ledger; Quincy, Mass.     Full Text: 1991 - current
Plymouth County Business Review; Pembroke     Full Text: 1991 - current
The Providence Journal; Providence, R.I.     Full Text: 1983 - current
The Providence Sunday Journal; Providence, R.I.     Full Text: 1998 - 1999
Sentinel & Enterprise; Fitchburg, Mass.     Full Text: 2005 - current
Standard Times; New Bedford, Mass.     Full Text: 1992 - 1997
The Sun; Lowell, Mass.     Full Text: 2004 - current
Telegram & Gazette; Worcester, Mass.     Full Text: 1989 - current

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