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Mango
NEW AND FREE WITH YOUR SAWYER FREE LIBRARY CARD!
Mango is an online language learning system that teaches real conversation skills for practical communication through repetition of conversation and phrases spoken by native speakers. Mango is web-based and remotely accessible. Languages include Spanish, French, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, English for Spanish speakers, and more. |
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NEW! FACTS ON FILE Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center brings you job and industry profiles, job-hunting and workplace skills, career and industry resources, and college planning and financial aid tips. |
NEW! GALE Business and Company Resource Center
Business and Company Resource Center brings together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. The database provides detailed company news and information. |
NEW! GALE Business Reference Suite
Find answers for your business with this web-based subscription service with full-text coverage of company and industry news, management practices, and market research information. |
EBSCO Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. |
GALE General BusinesFile ASAP
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. |
GALE General Reference Center Gold
A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more. |
Hoover's Company Records
Featuring profiles of more than 40,000 companies, 600 industries, and 225,000 key executives, Hoover's Company Records provides easy access to the most thorough and up-to-date business information available. |
GALE RDS Business Suite
The RDS Business Suite is a collection of three highly complementary business information databases - Business & Industry, Business & Management Practices, and TableBase. The RDS Business Suite search interface is useful when searching for broad profiling information about companies or industries. |
EBSCO Regional Business News
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. |
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World Book Encyclopedia Trial
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Password: marigold
This online database is based on the World Book encyclopedia and is a gateway to dictionaries, atlases, encyclopedias, images, maps, videos, timelines, current news, links to external articles, and more. |
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Ancestry Library Edition
Ancestry Library Edition makes family research easy for beginners while still providing in-depth tools for even the most advanced genealogists. The collection has approximately 4,000 databases with more information added daily. Access is available only at SFL with your library card. |
NEW!HeritageQuest
HeritageQuest Online is an essential collection of unique material for both genealogical and historical researchers, with coverage dating back to the late 1700s. Researchers can use HeritageQuest Online to find their ancestors, trace their paths across America, and learn what life was like in the areas where they settled.
It offers more than 20,000 book titles, including nearly 8,000 family histories and over 12,000 local histories. Additionally, there are more than 250 primary-source documents such as tax lists, city directories, probate records, and more. |
GALE Massachusetts History Online
Use this collection for full-text articles from 50 magazines and local newspapers for coverage of Massachusetts people, places and historical events. |
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NEW! EBSCO Auto Repair Reference Center
Auto Repair Reference Center contains repair and maintenance information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles. New repair procedures, TSBs and updates are added on a regular basis. |
NEW! GALE Global Issues in Context
Global Issue in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics and current events. |
EBSCO MasterFILE Premier
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,730 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an image collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. |
NEW! GALE Opposing Views in Context
This database features continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary sources, documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience. |
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NEW! EBSCO GreenFILE
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. |
NEW! GALE Health and Wellness Resource Center
Health/medical Journals, reference volumes, health videos, pamphlets and medical reference articles are provided in this comprehensive resource center. |
GALE Health Reference Center Academic
HMulti-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in InfoTrac's award-winning Health Reference Center. All in a single, easy-to-use database, the material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only. |
EBSCO Health Source - Consumer Edition
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features more than 130 full text, consumer health magazines. |
EBSCO Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. |
EBSCO Medline
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. |
NEW! GALE Science in Context
Information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics can be found in this authoritative database, with its full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, images, videos, audio files, experiments and links to vetted websites. |
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Mango
Mango is an online language learning system that teaches real conversation skills for practical communication through repetition of conversation and phrases spoken by native speakers. Mango is web-based and remotely accessible. Languages include Spanish, French, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, English for Spanish speakers, and more. |
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GALE New York Times
Full-text of The New York Times from 1985- as a standalone file (also included in Academic OneFile). |
EBSCO Newspaper Source
Cover-to-cover full text articles for 28 national (U.S.) & international newspapers; selected full text for more than 260 regional (U.S.) newspapers; and 20,000+ full text television and radio news transcripts. |
GALE Newsbank
With unmatched U.S. news content from local, regional, and national sources, this resource is the largest of its kind. Its diverse source types include printed and online newspapers, blogs, journals, newswires, broadcast transcripts and videos. |
GALE Proquest Massachusetts Newsstand
Full-text coverage of 12 Massachusetts newspapers. |
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NEW! eSequels
A reader's guide to novels in series, eSequels helps you find the newest title by your favorite author or spot a title or series that you may have missed, and lists novels in the correct reading sequence.
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NEW! GALE Books & Authors
Combining over 140,000 titles 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award-winner and librarian's favorite lists, this readers' advisory database helps bring readers and literature together. |
EBSCO Novelist
A readers' advisory database, Novelist provides reviews, Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, Annotated Book Lists and much more for over 135,000 fiction and non-fiction titles. |
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GALE Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile provides 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. Updated daily. |
EBSCO Academic Search Elite
This resource offers full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. A multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Elite covers virtually every area of academic study. More than 100 journals have PDF images back to 1985. The database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost. |
GALE Biography in Context
Gale Biography in Context merges Gale's authoritative reference content with periodicals and multimedia and organizes it in a user-friendly portal. Search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text. |
GALE Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select is an extensive collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study. Updated monthly,Contemporary Literary Criticism Select allows users to search by author name, title of work, nationality, subject/genre, ethnicity, critic name, and more. |
NEW! EBSCO European Views of the Americas
The database covers the history of European exploration from 1493 - 1750 as well as portrayals of native American peoples. |
GALE Expanded Academic ASAP
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! |
GALE General OneFile
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 science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily. |
GALE InfoTrac Student Edition
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. |
NEW! GALE Literature Resources
Research authors and their works, literary movements and genres. Major literature databases are provded with full texts of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographial information and overviews. |
GALE Literature Resource Center
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than130,000 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. |
NEW! GALE LitFinder
LitFinder provides full-text literary works, including poems, short stories, novels, essays, plays and speeches. Biographies are also included in this database, which covers world literature and authors throughout history. |
NEW! GALE Student Resources in Context
Student Resources in Context provides contextual information on a broad range of topics, people, places and events, combining authoritative reference content with full-text periodicals, academic journals, primary source materials, media files and linked websites. |
NEW! GALE U.S. History in Context
U.S. History in Context delivers comprehensive, contextual, media-rich search results from an extensive colection of historical information, including Primary Source Microfilm's digital archives, Macmillan Reference USA, Charles Scribner's Sons, and full-text periodicals and academic journals. |
GALE Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook
collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office). |
OCLC WorldCat
WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. Search many libraries at once for an item and then locate it in a library nearby. Find research articles and digital items (like audiobooks) that can be directly viewed or downloaded. Build a bibliography and more. |
NEW! GALE World History in Context
World History in Context moves chronologically over 5,000 years from antiquity to the present and geographically around the globe. |
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NEW! WORLD TRADE PRESS atoztheusa.com
A to Z the USA offers in-depth e-content in 156 data categories with 50+ maps for each state. It has thousands of U.S. state reports and articles ready to download, royalty-free image collections of flags, vintage postcards, panoramic photos, license plates, and much more. Map collections include thousands of modern and antique maps, and dozens of other categories feature data on geography, government, history, society and culture. Includes U.S. presidents, historical timelines, recipes, with all information updated regularly. |
GALE InfoTrac Junior Edition
Now with over 330 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, 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. |
GALE Kids infoBits
Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. This
database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and other appropriate topics.. |
EBSCO Middle Search Plus
Middle Search Plus provides full text for 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. |
EBSCO Primary Search
Primary Search provides full text for nearly 70 popular magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. |
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NEW! ASKART
AskArt is a database of over 200,000 artists. Available inhouse with your Sawyer Free Library Card, AskArt provides extensive biographical information about American artists as well as book and periodical references, along with International artists' auction records and images. Over 6,000 museums and dealers are also referenced. |
EBSCO ERIC
The Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals. |
EBSCO Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
LISTA indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. |
EBSCO Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world. |
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