BPL Education Resources

The resources below, from Boston Public Library (BPL), are available for you to use both on and off campus. Anyone who lives, works, or is a student in Massachusetts can access these resources.
You must first take a few minutes to sign up for a BPL eCard

Credo Reference
Credo Reference is a giant online reference library that provides access to as many as 359 reference books, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations, as well as a range of subject-specific titles all cross-referenced throughout the collection. Special features include a crossword solver and conversion calculators. 

Curriculum Resource Center: Grades 6-12
Contains hundreds of maps, charts, and images that you can use to supplement lectures and present material in new and creative formats. You will find here a wide array of information - from how to perform a famous scientific experiment to the rules of baseball to how a bill is debated in Congress. Search for entries on a particular topic, or browse this database for new ideas.

Curriculum Resource Center: Junior Edition
An electronic library of curriculum-related handouts for elementary teachers and students seeking material to supplement their lessons. Its expansive collection of visual content-including people and events in history, maps and flags, timelines, science diagrams, science projects, career ideas and other handouts-can be saved in a password-protected folder, emailed, or printed and used for worksheets, overheads, and testing. Web links direct users to some of the web's best educational sites.

Dissertation Abstracts
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Contains more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses published from 1861 to present. More than 600,000 are available in native or image PDF formats for immediate free download, and over 1.8 million titles are available for purchase in microfilm or paper formats.

eLibrary: ProQuest Learning: Literature
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Vast collection of resources for teaching and learning secondary English: biographies, reference books, journal articles, revision guides, images, video clips, sound clips, interactivities and web links. Features KnowledgeNotes and "Poets on Screen."

JSTOR
Full-text access to nearly 600 core scholarly journals covering 44 specialized subject areas. Complete back runs of many titles available.
Coverage: spread out over the last 150 years but no current coverage for last 3-5 years.

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