Below is a list of databases and internet resources selected by our reference librarians. Unless indicated as "In library only," these resources are available from any internet connection. Some databases will require you to enter your Minuteman Library card number for access outside the library.
Click Here for Troubleshooting Tips for Databases only available to Newton residents.
*Indicates a database was purchased by the Newton Free Library. All remaining databases were purchased by either the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, Metrowest Regional Library System, Boston Public Library, or the Minuteman Library Network. |
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| 100 Things to Do with Google Maps Mashups |
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These Google Maps mashups visually demonstrate things like finding wi-fi hotspots, a public toilet, world hostels, webcams, etc., and tracking packages or US or Canadian flights in real time.
Free website.
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| 1916 Rising: Personalities & Perspectives |
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An online exhibition from the National Library of Ireland, drawing upon the Library’s rich holdings of books, newspapers, photographs, drawings, proclamations and manuscript material.
Free website.
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| 411.com |
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Search white or yellow pages for the U.S. and Canada. Search by phone number or address, and look up zip codes or area codes.
Free website.
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| AARP |
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Information and issues for people 50 and older, plus AARP the Magazine.
Free website.
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Links to online newspapers and other news media (broadcast stations, magazines, internet sources, and press agencies), with both foreign language and English sources.
Free website.
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Academic Onefile contains 8,000 academic journals, the majority in full-text, available in HTML and PDF formats. In addition it contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full-text New York Times content from 1995.
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| Acronym Finder |
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Find out what any acronym, abbreviation, or initialism stands for, in this dictionary of more than 530,000 human-edited entries. Also includes U.S. and Canadian postal codes.
Free website.
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This music collection contains jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and other genres.
Create and save playlists using the registration feature.
Listen to music in the library with headphones or at home on a pc or MAC using Windows Media Player.
Home access for this database is available only to Newton residents with a Newton library card number beginning 21323.
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| AltaVista Translation |
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AltaVista Translation (which they call "Babel Fish") enables you to translate short passages of text or entire Web sites among 19 pairs of languages (for example, English to Spanish, or French to German). Just type the text you wish to translate into the translation box (up to 150 words), or enter the address for the web page you wish to translate.
AltaVista translates individual Web pages up to 5K. When you click a link in a translated page, the linked page is also automatically translated.
As an automatic translator, AltaVista works best when the text you wish to translate uses proper grammar. Slang, misspelled words, poorly placed punctuation and complex or lengthy sentences can all cause a page to be translated incorrectly. Expect AltaVista to allow you to grasp the general intent of the original, not to produce a polished translation.
Free website.
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| America's Obituaries & Death Notices (from NewsBank)* Home Access | In Library Access |
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An extensive online collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices. An easy-to-use interface allows searching by name, date range, or text such as
institutional name, social affiliation(s), geographic location(s), philanthropic
activities, etc.
Home access for this database is available only to Newton residents with a Newton library card number beginning 21323.
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| American Bar Association, Public Resources |
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Legal information for the public on various topics, including domestic violence, estate planning, family law, and immigration. Also includes a guide to finding legal help, online "Fact Books," and information about the American judicial system.
Free website.
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| American Camp Association |
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Search for an ACA-accredited camp by name, location, age range, or activity, or search for camp jobs.
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| American Life Histories |
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These life histories were compiled and transcribed by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940. The Library of Congress collection includes 2,900 documents representing the work of over 300 writers from 24 states.
Free website.
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| American Slave Narratives |
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A sampling of interviews with former slaves, conducted by writers and journalists as part of the Works Progress Administration, with links to related sites.
Free website.
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American Song is a history database containing 50,000 tracks, including songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more.
Home access for this database is available only to Newton residents with a Newton library card number beginning 21323.
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| Ancestry Library Edition* (In Library Only) |
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Who are your ancestors? With access to more than three billion names, you might discover long-lost ancestors. This database includes U.S. Federal Census Records from 1790 through 1930, the Immigration Collection of New York, San Francisco Passenger Lists, New York Petitions for Naturalization and much more. Included are Massachusetts City Directories and City Directories for many other locations.
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| Art Resource |
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A digital library containing over 100,000 fine art images of works of painting, sculpture, architecture and the minor arts from many of the world’s major museums, monuments, and commercial archives. Search by keyword, artist, or location.
Free website.
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| Ask the Experts at Scientific American |
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Ask a science question, browse past questions going back to 2004, or search by category.
Free website.
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With access to reports, working paper series, and journals from top Asia-Pacific institutions and world research institutions, Asia-Studies covers business, economics, government, politics, and social sciences. The humanities section includes Asian languages, arts, culture, history and religion.
The 53 countries covered by the database include all of Asia from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Central Asian republics on east through India, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
Home access for this database is available only to Newton residents with a Newton library card number beginning 21323.
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| Associated Grant Makers of Massachusetts |
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Associated Grant Makers is a regional association (Mass. and New Hampshire) supporting the practice and expansion of effective philanthropic giving. Their library, the Resource Center for Philanthropy, is located in downtown Boston, and is open to the public. Information includes resources for grant seekers as well as grant makers.
Free website.
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| Avalon Project at Yale Law School - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy |
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Primary source material in the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. Search by collection, time period, or keyword.
Free website.
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| Bapst Art Library Resources |
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From Boston College, links for finding images and multimedia on the Web, including photographs, religious imagery, and costume sites.
Free website.
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| Bartleby.com |
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Search classic poetry, fiction and non-fiction, quotations, and many reference works.
Free website.
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| Bartlett's Quotations |
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The tenth edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, published in 1919, contains over 11,000 searchable quotations.
Free website.
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Coverage from 2005 to the present.
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| Better Business Bureau |
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Research information on over 2.5 million organizations, file a complaint, or find a local Better Business Bureau. Also includes news and other consumer information.
Free website.
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| Bibliographies from the Newton Free Library |
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Bibliographies prepared by Reference staff, on a wide variety of nonfiction and fiction subjects. Most lists include links to internet resources as well as books.
Free website.
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| BigCharts |
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Stock quotes and historical stock quotes, interactive charts, industry analysis, and market news and commentary.
Free website.
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| Biography Resource Center Home Access | In Library Access |
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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. Also included in this resource is the the Complete Marquis Who's Who. This massive database contains more than 990,000 thumbnail biographies from 20 respected Marquis sources. Also includes Contemporary Authors.
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This site provides information about college-preparatory and junior boarding schools, including all-girls, all-boys, military, arts, and Christian schools, and schools with ESL programs. It provides "alumni reviews, detailed school profiles, and interactive tools to help families research college-preparatory boarding schools" (such as a side-by-side school comparison option). Also includes tips for applying to boarding schools. Founded by two boarding school alumni. Free website.
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Looking for a book for your book club to read next or a book to bring on vacation or the hottest new business title or award winners for young adults and children? Try BookLetters. BookLetters is a reader’s advisory service providing opportunities for Newton patrons to sign-up to receive free email-newsletters with comments and reading recommendations in varied fields of interest. The service also includes Newton Free Library news and activities including author talks, bestseller and award lists, book discussion guides, author directories and other helpful information.
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| BookLetters Movie Database* |
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Descriptions and video clips for hundreds of movies, with links to the library catalog for checking availability. Includes classics released on DVD as well as new movies.
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| Books Featured in the Media |
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Go to Amazon.com Bestseller lists and find Top 100 Bestsellers, Hardcover Fiction, Hardcover Nonfiction, Paperback Fiction, Paperback Nonfiction, Audiobooks, Large Print Books as well as the New York Times bestseller lists like Hardcover Fiction and Hardcover Nonfiction.
Free website.
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| Books For You |
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If you're interested in recommendations for books to read, check out our "Books for You" service. Fill out our online questionnaire and we will respond with suggestions. To view the "Books for You" database of recommended titles, click here.
Free website.
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In this online version of the Boston Business Journal, you will find the latest breaking business news, updated throughout the day; some of this week's top stories from the Boston Business Journal, and other popular features from the print edition. You can also sign up to receive email products including daily business news updates, latest news of 46 industries from around the nation, and the latest networking and marketing alerts. The site provides access to 41 other local business newspapers owned by American City Business Journals. The Web archives include all material posted on the Web site since it was started in June 1996.
Free website.
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| Boston Foundation |
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Information for grant seekers and donors, as well as publications and reports.
Free website.
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The primary newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts is a major provider of news and information to the New England region. This database provides the full text of articles published in the Globe since 1980 that were written by staff journalists, including news reports, feature stories, columns, and editorials.
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Coverage from 1991 to the present, with complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.
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| Boston Streets |
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Boston city directories (starting in 1845), historic photographs, and overview maps and atlases of Boston ranging from 1844 to 1950.
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| Business Plans and Profiles Index |
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Sample business plans, indexed by type of business.
Free website.
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The business journal of western Massachusetts, published bi-weekly. Coverage from 1992.
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| Car Talk |
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Car information and humor from NPR's Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers.
Free website.
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| CDNow |
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CDNow offers approximately 500,000 CDs, cassettes, vinyl albums, music videos, laserdiscs, DVDs, movies, T-shirts, MiniDiscs and other music-related items -- about ten times the size of the typical megastore. CDNow is building a better music store through customized shopping, RealAudio, Windows Media, and MPEG sound clips, secure credit card transactions, world-class customer service, a vast library of reviews and features from top music writers, and exclusive editorial content from music authorities such as MTV/VH1 and CMJ New Music Monthly.
Free website.
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| Census Atlas of the United States |
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From the U.S. Census Bureau, data from 1790 through 2000, presented in more than 700 full-color maps. It highlights demographic, social, and economic conditions and changes for both people and housing in the United States and Puerto Rico.
Free website.
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Information, publications, and data and statistics on a wide variety of health and safety topics.
Free website.
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Information on the Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, HIPAA, and other health-related programs, including eligibility, forms, drug plan information, and related resources.
Free website.
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| Charities and Non-Profits Search |
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This is the online version of IRS Publication 78, Cumulative List of Organizations described in Section 170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. It provides a list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible charitable contributions, searchable by name, city, or state.
Free website.
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| Charity Navigator |
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Ratings and information about charities, as well as articles, donation tips and top-10 and bottom-10 lists which rank efficient and inefficient organizations in a number of categories.
Free website.
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| Charles River Public Internet Center |
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A non-profit center in Waltham offering public-access computers, tutoring, and computer courses.
Free website.
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| Chinese American Forum |
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Current and back issues of Chinese American Forum, a cultural and educational magazine.
Free website.
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| Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers |
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Search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. From the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Free website.
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| CinemaSpot |
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CinemaSpot is the film information portal of the Web. CinemaSpot is a free information resource center that simplifies the search for top movie-related resources on the Web. Featured sites are hand-selected by our editorial team and organized into intuitive categories that make it easy to find reviews, showtimes, video release dates, award-winners, trivia, history, quotes, celebrity gossip, industry resources and more.
Free website.
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| Citing Sources |
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How to assemble a list of works cited in a paper, including books, articles, primary sources, and online materials, using examples of several different citation formats. From Duke University Libraries.
Free website.
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This resource offers music from dozens of classical music labels and focuses on great artists and distinguished performances. It contains chamber music, instrumental, orchestral, opera, vocal and more.
Create and save playlists using the registration feature.
Listen to music in the library with headphones or at home on a pc or MAC using Windows Media Player.
Home access for this database is available only to Newton residents with a Newton library card number beginning 21323.
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A service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, ClinicalTrials.gov provides regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details.
Free website.
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| College Board |
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The College Board site takes you through practicing for, scheduling, and taking the SAT I and II, PSAT/NMSQT, CLEP, and AP tests. You will also find information on planning for college including college search tools, application and essay advice, and financial aid resources.
Free website.
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| Comm-PASS Procurement Access and Solicitation System |
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Comm-PASS promotes fair and open competition for state contracts by providing a single point of contact for procurement in Massachusetts. Buyers can post opportunities and vendors can search contracts for free.
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Information on the Massachusetts Commonwealth Care Health Insurance Program (Commonwealth Care), which connects eligible Massachusetts residents with approved health plans and helps them pay for them.
Free website.
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Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs is a public education project of Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports. The website provides consumers and their doctors with information to help guide prescription drug choices–-based on effectiveness, a drug's track record, safety and price.
Free website.
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| Consumer Reports Health* (In Library Only) To log in, please speak to a Reference Librarian for assistance. |
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Straightforward ratings for thousands of medical treatments, drugs, and natural medicines.
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Consumer Reports Online is published by Consumers Union, an independent, nonprofit testing and information organization. Since 1936, CU's mission has been to test products, inform the public and protect consumers. We are a comprehensive source for unbiased advice about products and services, personal finance, health and nutrition, and other consumer concerns. Our income is derived solely from the sale of Consumer Reports (in print and online) and other services, and from nonrestrictive, noncommercial contributions, grants, and fees.
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ConsumerLab.com provides comprehensive information about vitamin, herbal and other supplements, and nutritional products. The site includes ConsumerLab.com's independent product evaluations, lists of quality-approved brands, product recalls, and safety warnings. A science-based encyclopedia of natural products is also provided, including a drug-interaction database. ConsumerLab.com is not affiliated with manufacturers of health and nutrition products, and test samples used in product reviews are purchased independently.
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Consumers' Checkbook is an independent, nonprofit consumer organization founded in 1974 with the help of funding from the U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs. They do not accept support from businesses, and their publications and website carry no advertising.
Both the website and the print version of Boston Consumers' Checkbook (available in the Periodicals area) evaluate the quality and prices of local service firms and stores, such as auto repair shops, plumbers, dentists, veterinarians, banks, insurance companies, and many more. Checkbook's special health guides provide you with critical ratings and reports on doctors, hospitals, and health plans. The site also provides various kinds of help to consumers who want to buy or lease a new car.
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| Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select Home Access | In Library Access |
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Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select (CLC-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.
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| CoolStuffBeingMade.com |
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From the National Association of Manufacturers, Cool Stuff Being Made has over 60 videos of the manufacturing process, with a new video added each week.
Free website.
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| Country Studies |
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This website contains the on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army. Because the original intent of the Series' sponsor was to focus primarily on lesser known areas of the world or regions in which U.S. forces might be deployed, the series is not all-inclusive. At present, 101 countries and regions are covered.
The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world and examines the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.
Free website.
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| Critical Compendium |
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Links to book reviews in newspapers, journals, magazines and other online publications; plus links to literary podcasts, book review sections and literary blogs around the world.
Free website.
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| Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet |
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What is Cyndi's List? A categorized & cross-referenced index to genealogical resources on the Internet. A list of links that point you to genealogical research sites online. A free jumping-off point for you to use in your online research. A "card catalog" to the genealogical collection in the immense library that is the Internet. Your genealogical research portal onto the Internet.
Free website.
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| Demographics Now* Home Access | In Library Access |
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Create maps and reports to analyze the demographic and market potential of any geographic area in the U.S.
Home access for this database is available only to Newton residents with a Newton library card number beginning 21323.
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| Digital Libraries |
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Subject specific digital libraries in a wide variety of areas, including online publications, exhibits, documents, and journals.
Free website.
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| Digital Roman Forum |
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Maps and panoramic and detailed views of a digital model of the Roman Forum as it appeared in late antiquity. Also includes modern views of the sites, documentation for the archaeological evidence (such as texts from Ovid and Plutarch), and information about the individual features. From the Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles.
Free website.
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| Digitized Primary American History Sources |
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From the University of Northern Iowa, links to general and topical sources; Presidential papers; collections of photographs, illustrations, and cartoons; and sources on U.S. wars.
Free website.
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| DIRLINE - Directory of Health Organizations |
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DIRLINE is the National Library of Medicine's online database containing location and descriptive information about a wide variety of information resources including organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned with health and biomedicine. These resources include federal, state, and local government agencies; information and referral centers; professional societies; self-help groups and voluntary associations; academic and research institutions and their programs; information systems and research facilities. Topics include HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, most diseases and conditions including genetic and other rare diseases, health services research and technology assessment.
Free website.
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| Directory of Executive Recruiters* (In Library Only) To log in, please speak to a Reference Librarian for assistance. |
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This online edition allows you to search executive recruiting firms by name, location, recruiter specialty, industry, or job function.
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| Discovering What's Next |
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Located on the third floor of the Newton Free Library, Discovering What’s Next™ connects people 50 plus with resources that can help them successfully navigate their transition to and journey through their next life stage.
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| EarthTrends |
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EarthTrends is a comprehensive online database, maintained by the World Resources Institute, that focuses on the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world. Included for each of ten research topics (Coastal and Marine Ecosystems; Population, Health and Human Well-Being, etc.) are searchable databases, maps, country profiles, feature articles and data tables. News and monthly updates are highlighted.
Free website.
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| Easy School Search |
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A freely browsable database of over 130,000 US public and private elementary and secondary schools with grades kindergarten through twelve.
The data provided includes characteristics such as school size, school level, geographic region, community type, program emphasis, and, where available, other data such as religious orientation and association membership.
Free website.
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| Easy2DIY.com: Home Improvement and Home Repair Help |
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Home improvement and home repair tutorials, tips, advice, projects and products. Browse by project category, project location, or task.
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Downloadable audiobooks including many fiction genres, business and personal success, and the Pimsleur language program.
Home access for this database is available only to Newton residents with a Newton library card number beginning 21323.
Register for eAudiobooks first (click on "Register here first" above). Once you have registered, click directly on "Home Access Only" above.
Download the title to your pc using Windows Media Player. Then listen on your pc or transfer to an MP3 player. eAudiobooks cannot be played on a Mac or transferred to an iPod.
For more information, click here.
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| EDGAR (SEC Filings and Forms) |
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EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Anyone can access and download this information for free. Here you'll find links to a complete list of filings available through EDGAR and instructions for searching the EDGAR database.
Free website.
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| Edmunds |
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Car reviews, tips and advice, and information and pricing for new and used cars.
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| Education Resources Institute - Educational Opportunities of Greater Boston |
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Educational Opportunities of Greater Boston is an online database of adult education programs where you can find courses offered by 2- and 4-year colleges and universities throughout Massachusetts.
Free website.
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| Educator's Reference Complete Home Access | In Library Access |
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A collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports (most full-text) focusing on all levels of education, educational administration and policy.
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| Educator's Reference Desk |
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Through The Educator's Reference Desk you can access AskERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses. While the U.S. Department of Education discontinued the AskERIC service in December 2003, The Educator's Reference Desk provides a search interface to the ERIC Database, providing access to over one million bibliographic records on educational research, theory, and practice.
Free website.
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Search the Encyclopaedia Britannica Online alphabetically or by subject. Also included are Year In Review articles since 1993, historical timeline searches, a dictionary and thesaurus, a world atlas, links to journal and magazine articles, and video clips.
Home access for this database is available only to Newton residents with a Newton library card number beginning 21323.
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| Encyclopaedia Judaica* (included in Gale Virtual Reference Library) Home Access | In Library Access |
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Updated edition of this work on Judaism features more than 21,000 entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists.
Home access for this database is available only to Newton residents with a Newton library card number beginning 21323.
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| Entrepreneur.com |
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From Entrepreneur Magazine, resources for starting and growing a business.
Free website.
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| Eurodocs: Western European Primary Historical Documents |
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Selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations of Western European historical documents. The order of documents is chronological wherever possible.
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| Everyday Mysteries |
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Fun science facts from the Library of Congress.
Free website.
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From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers - with full text and images!
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| FactCheck.org |
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This nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate" for voters monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases.
Free website.
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| FAFSA on the Web |
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FAFSA on the Web provides full information on the federal student aid process, including program information, eligibility, and online FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) forms.
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| Familydoctor.org |
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Health information for the whole family, from the American Academy of Family Physicians.
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News and consumer information on products regulated by the FDA, including food, drugs, medical devices, cosmetics, and animal feed and drugs.
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From the Family Caregiver Alliance, a nonprofit organization addressing the needs of families and friends providing long-term care at home.. The website also includes caregiving information and advice, fact sheets and publications, discussion groups, and public policy and research information related to caregiving.
Free website.
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| Federal Forms Catalog for Citizens |
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Search for Federal agency forms by name, form number, or agency. Contains over 4200 business and citizen forms.
Free website.
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| Federal Law |
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This collection of U.S. Federal legal materials is maintained by the Legal Information Institute (LII) of Cornell University Law School. It combines documents held on the LII's own servers (the U.S. Code, Supreme Court decisions, searchable index of U.S. Court of Appeals decisions, and the Code of Federal Regulations) with material available from other Internet-accessible sites. With few exceptions collections of judicial opinions accessible through these pages cover only the most recent years.
Free website.
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| FinAid!: The SmartStudent Guide to Financial Aid |
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Search for scholarships, loans, and other types of financial aid. Includes a variety of financial aid calculators and information on saving for college.
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| FindLaw |
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Federal Forms: Forms for appellate, district & bankruptcy. State Forms: State courts, state-by-state; advice about local rules & currency; other form resources.
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| FirstGov for Consumers: Health |
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FirstGov for Consumers: Health is a one-stop link to federal information resources available online on all aspects of health. "In the Spotlight" section highlights recent health news.
Free website.
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| FirstSearch (In Library Only) |
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FirstSearch is an online reference system that will help you access a wide range of resources to meet your information needs, including: Electronic and traditional materials in library collections around the world; well-known reference databases; full-text and full-image documents from familiar databases, magazines, and electronic journals; and Web resources.
Your access to these resources is now through a new and enhanced version of FirstSearch that provides access to over 6 million full-text articles from over 7,500 full-text journals and more than 80 databases. This new version of the service fully integrates access to over 2,700 full-image electronic journals in the FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online database.
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| Five Weeks to a Social Library |
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Some of the library world's pioneers in "Library 2.0" offer understandable explanations of blogs, RSS, social bookmarking, wikis, and other tools, and offer assignments to give you hands-on experience.
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| FoodSafety.gov |
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A gateway to government food safety information, with news & safety alerts, consumer advice, information for kids & teens, and other features.
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| Foreign Information by Country |
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A large collection of links for country information, including profiles by governments and international organizations, articles and databases, diplomatic relations, health, and peacekeeping and military information. From the Libraries of the Universtity of Colorado at Boulder.
Free website.
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| Foreign Language Lesson Podcast Collection |
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A collection of links for foreign language lesson podcasts.
Free website.
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| Foundation Grants to Individuals Online* (In Library Only) To log in, please speak to a Reference Librarian for assistance. |
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Find sources for scholarships, grants, awards, and other financial support by searching this database of over 6200 foundations and public charities providing financial support for individual grantseekers. Updated quarterly.
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| Frontline: Can You Afford to Retire? |
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Watch the one-hour PBS show online. The site also includes retirement information, interviews with retirement experts, retirement stories, and news and other links.
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| FunWorks |
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Designed by kids, FunWorks is a career exploration site for students in grades 6-9., particularly in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Free website.
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| Gale Virtual Reference Library Home Access | In Library Access |
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The Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of
encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for
multidisciplinary research. Sources may be searched individually or together.
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| Gate2Home Virtual Keyboard |
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A multilingual keyboard emulator, Gate2Home gives users instant access to the keyboards of sixty-five languages. Languages including all major East and South Asian languages, as well as Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Roman, and Cyrillic key sets with various diacritics.
Free website.
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Coverage from 12/31/92 - 8/9/97.
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| General BusinessFile ASAP Home Access | In Library Access |
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Use this database to research all business and management topics. Includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies as well as investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries. Choose "Advanced search" to search investment reports, containing Reuter’s Investment Profile, providing historical stock price trends, company profile, key ratios and statistics, analyst recommendations, and more.
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| General Education Online |
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General Education Online is a free and open resource database of links to higher education facilities worldwide for researchers, students and others, providing links to the schools' websites. International Language Schools and International Flight Schools are also listed.
Free website.
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| General OneFile Home Access | In Library Access |
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General OneFile is a one-stop source for news and periodical articles, including most of the content across all Thomson/Gale databases. OneFile contains over 5,000 full-text periodical titles, and more than 9,200 titles in all, on a wide range of topics.
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| General Reference Center Gold Home Access | In Library Access |
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Use this general interest database to search magazines, reference books, and newspapers for information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc.
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| gethuman 500 database |
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How can you reach human customer service? This database lists phone numbers and codes to press for hundreds of companies. The gethuman project is a consumer movement to improve the quality of phone support in the US, and this free website is run by volunteers.
Free website.
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| Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
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The modules on major topics in American history cover more than twenty topics and include documents, films, historic images, a historical overview, and other learning tools.
Free website.
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| Give.org |
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The website for the Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance, Give. org provides reports on national charities, tips on giving, and other information for donors.
Free website.
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| Google News Archive Search |
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Search news archives for events, people, or ideas. Searches can be restricted by date, source, language, or to free content only. Articles are ranked by historical interest, or users can get a historical overview of the results by browsing an automatically created timeline.
Free website.
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| GovBenefits.gov |
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GovBenefits.gov, the official government benefits website, consolidates information about hundreds of government benefit and assistance programs, including Federal and State programs. It is a free, confidential tool that helps you find government benefits you (or someone you know) may be eligible to receive, along with information about how you can apply. New programs are regularly added to the site.
Free website.
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| GovTrack |
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An independent website tracking the status of federal legislation and related activities of the U.S. House and Senate.
Free website.
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| Great Buildings Collection |
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This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds.
Free website.
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| Green Buildings |
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From the Environmental Protection Agency's New England office, information and links on reducing the environmental impacts buildings have on their surroundings.
Free website.
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| Grolier Online* (In Library Only) |
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The Grolier sources included in this online collection are: Encyclopedia Americana, the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, The New Book of Popular Science, Lands and Peoples, and America the Beautiful.
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| H & B Recordings Direct |
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H & B Recordings Direct is a searchable online catalog of recordings, with 75,000 detailed listings and thousands of recommendations.
Free website.
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| Harvard University Library Open Collections Program |
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Historical resources from Harvard's library and museum collections, including primary sources, digitized books and pamphlets, photographs, and drawings. Current collections include Women Working, 1800-1930, and Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930.
Free website.
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| Haz-Map: Occupational Exposure to Hazardous Agents |
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Haz-Map is an occupational health database designed for health and safety professionals and for consumers seeking information about the health effects of exposure to chemicals and biologicals at work. It is one of the products and services made available by the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program.
Information from textbooks, journal articles, and electronic databases such as NLM's Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB®) is classified and summarized to create the database. HSDB is part of the TOXNET® (http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov) system of databases related to toxicology and environmental health.
Features include: text search capability, browsing by jobs, diseases, or agents, searching hazardous agents by adverse effects, searching diseases by jobs and findings, and automated searches of TOXNET. Definitions of technical terms are available by selecting hyperlinks to the glossary.
Free website.
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| Health News Review |
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Reviews of news stories that make therapeutic claims about specific health treatments, procedures, investigational drugs or devices, vitamins or nutritional supplements, or diagnostic and screening tests, from the Foundation |
