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Content: Academic journals and magazines, along with curated web sources, to enhance your research as you get started.
Content: Academic journals and magazines across a range of subjects.
Content: Industry related materials, covering farming- both small and large scale- horticulture, and animal care.
Content: summaries of short stories, novels, poems and plays, along with scholarly criticism regarding theme, setting, symbolism, and more.
Content: Focuses on industry specific coverage, like culinary arts, graphic design, law enforcement, fire science, and the hospitality sector.
Content: Highlights major data points of individuals, as well as news items, interviews, and cultural impact over time.
Content: Boston's premier regional newspaper for local, national and international news, opinion pieces, Spotlight reporting' coverage begins in 1980.
If you live or work in Massachusetts, you can access BPL online resources, like Hoopla, regional newspapers, and more.
Content: Scholarly research and company data covering leadership, human resources, office culture, business plans, and economic cycles.
Content: News, reports, and professional development opportunities around all higher education trends.
Useful Feature: Sign up for the newsletter to get what you need delivered to your inbox.
Content: health science coverage in all areas of research and industry. Evidence - Based Care sheets for clinical settings at the top of the search screen
Content: 100 journals covering marketing, business management, advertising, and emerging trends.
Content: Focuses on government and policy reports that solidify the topics in a cultural context.
Content: Experts create accessible overviews of every person, issue, and topic imaginable with a wiki interface that makes it easy to get a broad perspective on your topic.
Content: Focused on the information needed for daily experiences in the justice professions.
Content: Industry news for chefs, restaurant owners, and managers, with the ability to narrow down to recipes or restaurant reviews.
Content: Search all Massasoit databases at once. “Research Starters” are the first result in most searches and help orient you toward your topic.
Content: Contains factual information written at a level for elementary students to understand.
Content: A Spanish-language encyclopedia and dictionary for high school and up.
Content: Combines the Encyclopedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary for both children and young adults.
Content: Focuses on the study of sustainability and the environment. Topics include ecosystems, global warming, food safety, and introductions to environmental disasters.
Content: Magazines and academic journals covering news and policy changes across the globe.
Content: Educational videos, including documentaries and feature films.
Useful Feature: The ability to share a short segment from a video.
Content: Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that support research in areas including drama, music, art history, and film-making. Use the “document type” filter on the right to find theater reviews.
Content: Reference materials give you an overview of a variety of topics. Sign in to create a bookshelf of items to come back to.
Content: Scholarly journals and magazines covering gender studies, and family and marital issues.
Content: News and periodical articles on a wide range of general interest topics.
Content: International viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Preselected pages on trending topics guide you to the most recent information.
Content: A wide range of academic literature, drawing from journal publishers, university repositories, and other scholarly websites. Use the “cited” and “cited by” buttons below the results to view related scholarly literature on a topic.
Content: Provides access to medical and professional periodicals, health and fitness magazines, and reference books and pamphlets.
Content: A consumer health resource providing information on a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information alternative and complementary medical practices..
Content: eBooks, media, and cases on essential topics for the clinical environment.
Content: Information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
Content: Legal journals, government documents, foreign and international law materials, legal classics, and world trials.
Content: Scholarly journals, magazines, and trade publications that cover topics including the cultural and economic aspects of travel and tourism.
Content: eBooks covering literature, health, medicine, and history, including Bloom's literary criticism. Use the drop-down menu to filter eBooks by subject.
Content: 600 library and information science periodicals and related research sources for library and information science studies.
Content: Full-text database covering all genres and time periods. It includes synopses, critical essays, book reviews, literary journals and author biographies, plus the full-text of classic novels, short stories and poems. Just search by title.
Content: Critical overviews of literature from all cultures and time periods. Includes these popular "for students" resources:
Useful Feature: Each literary work has a summary page to orient you to further themes to explore.
Content: Articles and case studies from all allied health fields, including medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
Content: Popular and scholarly content pertaining to all branches of the military and government.
Content: Forty years of The New York Times archive (starting in 1985). Use the Advanced Search for a specific date or date range of articles.
Content: Search major U.S. regional, national and international newspapers. Use the Publication Search to find a specific news outlet.
Content: Full text for hundreds of national (U.S.), international and regional newspapers, as well as television and radio news transcripts from major networks. Click on “Publications” at the top of the page to find a specific news outlet.
Content: Information on social issues with pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, news and overviews. Topic Pages put different types of information on one page and sorts it by resource types. They also include a helpful overview of the issue.
This resource is not accessible using your Massasoit library card. Use your public library card to access this collection of audio and eBooks that you can listen to or read on your computer or mobile device. Includes Kindle, ePub and PDF. Find your public library
Download the Libby app to access the Overdrive collection on your mobile device.
Content: AJN The American Journal of Nursing, Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, Home Healthcare Now, Nursing Made Incredibly Easy eBooks, and Nursing.
Content: Learn about careers, receive personalized recommendations, search for jobs and schools, and explore scholarship opportunities. Create an account to custom build your resume.
Content: Career exam test prep for
Useful Feature: Create an account to keep track of your progress.
Content: Information on popular culture for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.
Contains practice tests and self-directed tutorials. Study for occupational licensing exams, build foundational skills for college success, improve core English, math, science, and basic computer skills. Create an account to save your progress.
Content: Popular elementary school magazines, easy-to-read encyclopedic entries, and images. Download individual pages for use in the classroom.
Content: All fields of psychology - abnormal, biological, cognitive, comparative, developmental, personality, quantitative, social, and applied.
Content: PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE and life science journals. Use the "Find Full Text @ Massasoit" button in your search results in order links to full text. 1947-. Updated daily.
Content: Collection of 80 nursing, medicine, and consumer health eBooks. Search by drug name or medical condition, in addition to browsing by title.
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Content: Hundreds of full text journals covering topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, and philosophy.
Content: Searchable database of electronic reference books in literature, history, science, health, and careers. Click the link to jump to a specific series.
Content: Covers astronomy, biology, chemistry, environmental sciences, health & medicine, math, and physics.
Visual online learning tool for biology, chemistry, earth science, and human anatomy. Digital content is selected from authoritative resources and paired with interactive 3D models to deliver a virtual laboratory simulation experience.
Content: Applied and general science articles covering materials science, aerospace engineering, computers, physics, telecommunications, transportation, and military.
Content: Full text coverage of social sciences including addiction studies, family studies, gender studies, psychology, social work, and urban studies.
Content: Provides digital access to course-assigned feature films and documentaries. This service includes 25 pre-selected films, with the ability for faculty to choose 25 more during the academic year.
Content: Indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines.
Content: Choose from over 100 languages, including American Sign Language, and English for non-English speakers. Set up an account in order to track progress.
Content: Contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events, and topics in U.S. History.
Content: Research a vocation, find an appropriate institution of learning, and get assistance on job searches, and maintaining a career.
National daily newspaper with an emphasis on business and financial news. (1997-present)
Students, staff and faculty may register for full access to the WSJ.com site and the WSJ app.
Content: Information on hundreds of the most significant people, events, and eras in World History.
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Contains practice tests and self-directed tutorials. Study for occupational licensing exams, build foundational skills for college success, improve core English, math, science, and basic computer skills. Create an account to save your progress.
National daily newspaper with an emphasis on business and financial news. (1997-present)
Students, staff and faculty may register for full access to the WSJ.com site and the WSJ app.
Massasoit faculty, students, and staff now have digital access to breaking news, curated newsletters, podcasts and videos, career insights and more from anywhere on desktop, tablet, mobile and the WSJ app.
Go to:https://library.massasoit.edu/db/wsjdj
WSJ Context is a new tool for instructors to easily create and share reading lists with their students.
The Assessment Tool lets you test your students’ comprehension and awareness of current events through online quizzes on WSJ articles.
The Weekly Review offers relevant articles, along with thought-provoking questions and classroom applications.
Critical Thinking Resources integrate WSJ articles into your classes and energize discussions with tangible examples of course concepts your students can apply in the real world.
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