Online Databases

(These databases are available through funding from MBLC, CMRLS, C/WMARS, and Hudson Public Library)

New Databases

Mango is an online language-learning system that can help you learn languages like Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian and Russian and ESL.

P4A Antiques Reference

The p4A Antiques Reference database includes hundreds of thousands of individual records, updated daily, with pictures for every item and explanatory reference notes.

Databases (Inside the Library)

Ancestry Library Edition
Auto Repair Reference Center
Facts on File News Service: Issues & Controversies
Facts on File: Science Online
Grolier Encyclopedia Americana
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
Grove Art Online
HeritageQuest                                                                                                                                                                               Home Improvement Reference Center
InfoTrac Databases                                                                                                                                                      Literary Reference Center
NewEnglandAncestors
NewsBank
NetLibrary
NoveList                                                                                                                                                                                                   Small Engine Repair Reference Center

Databases (Outside of the Library)

Digital Audio Books and eBooks

Funded by your library's membership in C/W MARS. Patrons from member libraries can browse and search hundreds of great titles and download them to computers, transfer them to portable devices, or burn them onto CDs for reading and listening anywhere, anytime.

Do It Yourself:

Auto Repair Reference Center, Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center, Small Engine Repair Reference Center

Auto Repair Reference Center

Repair Procedures, Wiring Diagrams, Labor Prices

Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center

Subject areas include arts & crafts;collecting;games & electronics; model building; home & leisure; needlework; outdoors&nayure; and scrapbooking & papercraft. The databas also features extensive information on over 140 topics. Includes a customizable interface for each user.

Small Engine Repair Reference Center

ATVs, commercial mowers farm tractors, generators, motorcycles, boats, outdoor power equipment, personal watercraft/jetski, snowblowers, snowmobiles, tillers, and other small engines. 25 years of engine models, assistance in tune-ups and brake service.

Facts On File News Service:

Issues & Controversies
Issues and Controversies @ FACTS.com 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@ FACTS.com 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 @ FACTS.com database, The World Almanac Reference Database @FACTS.com and Today's Science @FACTS.com.

Facts on File:

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.

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.

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.

Science Online

Facts on File's Science is a curriculum-oriented database that provides biographies, definitions, science experiments, essays, and more than 3000 diagrams.

Gale Group Databases- InfoTrac

Academic OneFile
Academic Onefile contains 8,000 academic journals, mainly in full-text, available in HTML and PDF formats. It also contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full-text New York Times content to 1995.

General Reference Center Gold
A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources in one easy-to-use interface. Use General Reference Center Gold to find articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals, many with full-text and images. Find the latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.

Virtual Reference Library
Includes a select group of reference titles in a variety of subjects covering art, science, multicultural studies, business, literature and history.

Expanded Academic
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images!

General Business File
Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.

Health Reference Center
Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.

Biography
This database combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center 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, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search. With the Complete Marquis Who's Who(R), find quick reference information on an additional 900,000 people.

Student Edition
Formerly SuperTOM, this 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.

Junior Edition - K12
Formerly SuperTOM Junior, this periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

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 policy.

Contemporary Literary Criticism
Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.

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.

Grolier Encyclopedias

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.

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.

Grove Art

Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire test of The Dictionary of Art and The Oxford Companion to Western Art.

HeritageQuest

Census Information from 1790 - 1930, PERSI, and books (Enter your library card number under "Barcode")

Mango Languages

Mango is an online language-learning system that can help you learn languages like Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian and Russian and ESL.

Massachusetts Newsstand

News coverage from The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Worcester T & G and other papers.

NewsBank (Boston Metro)

Full-text news coverage from The Hudson Sun, The MetroWest Daily News, and many more regional newspapers available. Special reports are now available and updated daily, offering a way to quickly find the latest information on important topics as well as domestic and international service programs.

North American History (Ebsco database)

History-It's Happening! is a free resource designed for Middle and High School students, to accompany the study of North American History and support your library's celebration of important calendar events, such as Women's History Month, Black History Month, and President's Day.