Electronic Resources By Name
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Academic OneFile (Gale/Infotrac)
Scholarly database containing journals, podcasts, and transcripts
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
Scholarly database containing peer-reviewed journals
African American Music Reference
Essays and images covering blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression
American Factfinder
Search for population, housing, economic, and geographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau
Analytical Abstracts (RSC)
Current awareness and information retrieval service for analytical chemists, covering 1980 to present
Audiobooks on EBSCOhost (formerly NetLibrary)
Downloadable religious and general interest audiobooks available to Gordon College users on or off campus, and by guests when in the library.
Audiobooks & eBooks from OverDrive
Downloadable audiobooks and ebooks including fiction and nonfiction for adults, teens and children
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Biography in Context (Gale/Infotrac)
Biographies, related articles from periodicals, as well as images
BioOne
Search and browse bioscience research journals published by small societies and other not-for-profit organizations. BioOne is an initiative to provide access to journals focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
Boston Globe (ProQuest)
1980–present
Britannica Online
All the content from the print Encyclopaedia Britannica plus additional articles, videos, and multimedia clips. Britannica Online also contains primary source documents, World Data Analyst (statistics on the countries of the world), World Atlas, The Web's Best (a collection of websites), and full text journal and magazine articles.
Business & Company Resource Center (Gale/Infotrac)
Business, company and industry information. Use this resource to find company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, periodical articles, and more.
Business Source Premier (EBSCO)
Scholarly business journals and publications covering marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics. Business Source Premier also includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
Traditional Interface–EBSCOhost's regular search features
Enhanced Business Searching Interface–search features are tailored to help business and economics students with research assignments.
C–D
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
Search for government publications covering all subject areas including agriculture, business, economics, history, and social service. Many document records link to the online version.
Catalysts & Catalysed Reactions (RSC)
Graphical abstracts of new developments in chemical catalysis, covering 2001 to present
Chemical Hazards in Industry (RSC)
Information on safety and health hazards surrounding chemicals encountered in chemical and related industires, covering 1981 to present
ChemSpider (RSC)
Find over 25 million chemical structures and their associated information
Choice Reviews
Reviews of current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education
Choral Public Domain Library
Find and download free scores, texts, translations, and information about composers. This site specializes in choral music.
Chronicle of Higher Education
News and information for college and university faculty and administrators
Classical Music Library
Streaming classical music
Classical Music Reference Library
Authoritative reference titles covering Western classical music: Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music
Classical Scores Library
Classical music scores and manuscripts online
Contemporary Literary Criticism (Gale/Infotrac)
Critical essays on contemporary authors
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eBooks on EBSCOhost (formerly NetLibrary)
Choose from over 4,000 online books, including 1,100 Christian titles and many general interest books. The eBooks are available to read online or download by Gordon College users on or off campus, and by guests when in the library.
ebrary E-books
Choose from over 50,000 online books in all academic subject areas. The ebrary collection is available to Gordon College users on or off campus, and to guests when in the library.
EBSCO - All databases
Access all EBSCO databases from one web page. EBSCO provides articles from thousands of different magazines and academic journals.
EBSCO MOBILE
Access all EBSCO databases from your mobile device
Educator's Reference Complete (Gale/Infotrac)
Periodicals for teachers and school administrators
ERIC (EBSCO)
Articles, research reports, and digests from education-related journals and the U.S. Department of Education.
European Views of the
Guide to printed records about the
Expanded Academic (Gale/Infotrac)
Scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers
F–G
FDsys
Browse or search major U.S. publications from Congress, the President, and the Courts. FDsys includes The Congressional Record, The Budget of the United States Government, Code of Federal Regulation, GAO Reports, United States Statutes at Large, and more.
Free Computer Books
Free online computer, programming, mathematics, engineering, and technical books
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO)
Gale/Infotrac - All databases
Access all Gale/Infotrac databases from one web page. Gale/Infotrac provides articles from thousands of different magazines and academic journals, as well as reference works.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (Gale/Infotrac)
Encyclopedias and specialized reference sources
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
Essays, images, and audio covering music research of all the world's peoples
General Business File ASAP (Gale/Infotrac)
Broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings
General OneFile (Gale/Infotrac)
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics
General Reference Center Gold (Gale/Infotrac)
General interest newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications
Global Issues In Context (Gale/Infotrac)
Current, international news and viewpoints on global issues and current events. Use this resource for background and analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, science-related, and cultural issues.
Google Books
Google Books helps you search within and discover books. Google is working with several major libraries to scan their collections into Google Books. When you find a book that's still under copyright, you'll see only a small portion of the book. If a book is out of copyright or the publisher has given Google permission, you'll be able to see the entire text and may download a PDF copy. In advanced book search, you can limit your search to titles in which you can view the entire text.
GreenFILE (EBSCO)
Scholarly, government and general-interest content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments
Guide to Social Science and Religion
Index to periodicals covering religion and social science
H–K
Authoritative medical information from reference titles, journals, pamphlets, and videos.
Health Reference Center Academic (Gale/Infotrac)
Nursing and allied health journals, plus personal health information sources
Health Source – Consumer Edition (EBSCO)
Consumer health articles and information
Health Source: Nursing/Academic (EBSCO)
Scholarly journals in many medical disciplines; includes medical dictionary
IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library
Free public domain sheet music library
Informe (Gale/Infotrac)
Spanish language magazines
International Children's Digital Library (ICDL)
Free digital library of children's books from around the world in 54 languages
Internet Archive: Text
A collection of open access texts including scanned books from libraries, children's literature, and projects such as The Million Book Project and Project Gutenberg. The Internet Archive was founded to build an Internet library offering permanent access to many historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in their collections.
Jenks Book Review Index
Search for book reviews across EBSCO databases
Junior Edition–K12 (Gale/Infotrac)
For students in middle school–magazines, newspapers and reference books
Kids InfoBits (Gale/Infotrac)
For beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5
Kids Search (EBSCO)
Encyclopedia, dictionary and magazines and for middle school research. Find Curriculum Standards under Teacher Resources button.
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Laboratory Hazards Bulletin (RSC)
Comprehensive coverage of hazards encountered by laboratory workers. Includes waste management, occupational monitoring and legislation
LexisNexis Academic
News, business, legal, and reference information
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO)
Librarianship, classification, cataloging, online information retrieval, information management
Literary Reference Center (EBSCO)
Information about authors and their works from antiquity to the present day. Sources include books, journals, literary encyclopedias, and other reference works.
Traditional Interface–EBSCOhost's regular search features
Enhanced Literary Searching Interface–highly graphical interface intended to help English and humanities students with research assignments of a literary nature
Literature Network
Searchable online literature, including over 1900 full books and over 3000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors. The quotations database contains over 8500 quotes.
Literature Resource Center (Gale/Infotrac)
Author biographies and information on their works, critical essays and reviews
Literature Resources from Gale (Gale/Infotrac)
Research authors and their works, literary movements and genres. Search across LitFinder and Literature Resource Center to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical
information and overviews.
LitFinder (Gale/Infotrac)
Find full text essays, poems, short stories, speeches, and plays, as well as biographies and critical analysis. LitFinder covers ancient to contemporary eras.
ManyBooks.net
More than 25,900 ebooks are available free from this site. For each title you select, you can choose from more than 20 different download formats. There are book reviews written by users, recommendations, a new titles list, and the most popular ebooks of the year.
Massachusetts History Online (Gale/Infotrac)
Articles on Massachusetts people, places and historical events
Massachusetts Newsstand (ProQuest)
Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Berkshire Eagle, BusinessWest (Chicopee), North Adams Transcript, Patriot Ledger (Quincy), Plymouth County Business Review, Sentinel & Enterprise (Fitchburg), The Sun (Lowell), Telegram & Gazette (Worcester), Gazette (Haverhill), Standard Times (New Bedford)
Masterfile Premier (EBSCO)
General reference publications, biographies, primary source documents, and an image collection
MathSciNet
Bibliographic data and reviews of mathematical literature
Medline (EBSCO)
Authoritative health and medical information
MetaLib
Retrieve U.S. government funded reports, articles, and citations by simultaneously searching across multiple databases (including reference databases, digital repositories or subject-based Web gateways). This tool is a service of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP).
Methods in Organic Synthesis (RSC)
Current developments in organic synthesis, providing reaction schemes and covering new reactions and new methods
Middle Search Plus (EBSCO)
Magazines for middle and junior high school research
MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
Bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations produced by the Modern Language Association
Music Online
Cross search African American Music Reference, Classical Music Library, Classical Music Reference Library, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online, and Classical Scores Library.
Natural Product Updates (RSC)
Graphical abstracts of new developments in natural product chemistry
NBER Working Papers
Research papers on Economics and Finance from the National Bureau of Economic Research, the nation's leading nonprofit economic research organization.
NetLibrary E-books and E-audiobooks (see eBooks on EBSCOhost and Audiobooks on EBSCOhost.
New York Times
Authoritative coverage of national and international news and commentary.
Academic OneFile: 1985–current articles in full text (no images)
LEXIS-NEXIS: 1980–current articles in full text (no images)
NYT Archive: 1851–1922 articles are free
NYTimes.com: Most of the daily contents of The Times, along with news updates every 10 minutes
Newspaper Source (EBSCO)
Selected coverage for national (US), international, and regional (US) newspapers, also television & radio news transcripts
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Ohio State University Press Open Access Initiative
Certain books published by the Press are freely available online.
OAIster
Over 23 million digital resources from 1,100 open-archive collections worldwide. OIAster contains books, journal articles, newspapers, manuscripts, audio, video, images, data sets (downloadable statistical information), theses and research papers.
Online Books Page
Over 35,000 free online books and journals. The page is created by a librarian at the University of Pennsylvania and contains publications that are significant and stable. You can search the list by title or author.
Opposing Viewpoints In Context (Gale/Infotrac)
Information and opinions on current social issues, including articles, topic overviews, journal and news articles, primary source documents, statistics, multimedia, and vetted websites.
Oxford English Dictionary
A guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of words, both present and past
Oxford Reference Online
Find facts, figures, definitions, quotations, translations, and illustrations from over 175 Oxford reference titles.
Please log out when you are finished searching. Our subscription allows one user at a time.
OxResearch
Short analytical articles covering world and regional economic and political developments of major significance
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Philosopher's Index (EBSCO)
An index to scholarly research in philosophy, published in journals and books. The Philosopher's Index contains research published since 1940 including nearly 570 journals.
Primary Search (EBSCO)
Popular magazines for elementary school research
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg started in 1971 and it is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books. The project continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies. You can download over 30,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPhone, Kindle, Sony Reader or other portable device. Their focus is on books previously published on paper and digitized with the help of thousands of volunteers.
Professional Development Collection (EBSCO)
Education journals
Project Muse Basic College Collection
A searchable collection of 122 high quality scholarly journals covering the humanities, arts, and social sciences. You can also search Project Muse journals through EBSCO Academic Search Premier.
PsycARTICLES (EBSCO)
Psychology journals
PsycINFO (EBSCO)
Index for psychology journals, books, etc.
PubMed Central
Digital archive of journals in the life sciences
R–Z
RDS Business Suite
A collection of three 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.
ReadPrint
Free online books library – essays, fiction, non-fiction, plays, poetry, short stories
Regional Business News (EBSCO)
Business journals, newspapers and newswires from metropolitan and rural areas within the United States
Religious and Theological Abstracts
Indexes religion and theology journals
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Online scholarly journals, databases and magazines covering chemistry. Please note the library does not have a subscription to the ebooks on the RSC search page. Choose the "Journal Articles" tab to search the RSC journals. Choose "More" from the top RSC menu to find the magazines Chemistry World and Education in Chemistry, as well as RSC databases and ChemSpider.
Sage Journals Online
A searchable collection of scholarly online journals published by Sage, covering humanities, natural science, education, fine arts, music, and social science
Science In Context (Gale/Infotrac)
Science reference articles, along with magazine and academic journal articles, news articles, experiments, multimedia, and links to vetted websites.
SciFinder Web Version
Discovery tool for chemical literature, patents, and substances
Access is restricted to Gordon College faculty and students.
A one time registration is required for new users. To register, contact the library at library
gordon.edu.
Please log out when you are finished searching, so your seat will be freed up for another user.
Searchasaurus (EBSCO)
Encyclopedia, dictionary and magazines for elementary school research. Find Curriculum Standards under Teacher Resources button.
Student Edition (Gale/Infotrac)
For high-school students with access to a variety of magazines, newspapers and reference books
Student Resources In Context (Gale/Infotrac)
Reference material, periodical and newspaper articles, and primary sources covering all core secondary school curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more.
Theological Journal Library
Online journals on CD. Available on library reference computers only. Go to the computer desktop and open the Library Resources folder. Please see the reference librarian for help.
Thomas
Find federal legislative information such as bills and resolutions, activity in Congress, committee information, and more.
U.S. History in Context (Gale/Infotrac)
Authoritative information on people, events, and topics in U.S. History from reference books, journals, news articles, and primary source documents. You will also find images, multimedia, and links to vetted websites
USA.gov
Find official information and services from the U.S. Government for citizens, businesses and nonprofits, government employees, and visitors to the U.S.
USA Trade Online
Import and export statistics from the Census Bureau’s Foreign Trade Division. Available in the library reference room. Please see the reference librarian for access.
World Bank Open Data
Find data about development in countries around the globe, including World Development Indicators, Global Development Finance, African Development Indicators, and Global Economic Monitor.
World History In Context (Gale/Infotrac)
Reliable information on people, events, and topics in World History from reference books, journals, news articles, and primary source documents. You will also find images, multimedia, and links to vetted websites.
WorldCat (FirstSearch)
A worldwide catalog of library materials–If WorldCat FirstSearch is busy, try WorldCat Beta (less sophisticated search options)
MORE ELECTRONIC RESOURCES FROM BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
BPL Electronic Resources
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