Library

St. Mary's High School Library
Librarian: Pat Lee 
                     plee@smhlynn.org

As a student at St. Mary's High School, you may access high-quality local, state, and regionally funded databases of full-text periodicals, health and business resources, biographical and literary databases from in your school or from home!

Note: Home access is possible by inputting your 14-digit public library patron barcode, without spaces, when prompted.

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General Research (full-text magazine and journal articles)   

• eLibrary [In the Library | From Home]
  A full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps.

• InfoTrac® Web [In the Library | From Home]
  (Thomson Gale) Provides access to popular magazines, scholarly journals, encyclopedias, newspapers, newswire services, business directories, investment reports, health pamphlets, prescription drug information, and literature reviews. Databases include:
• Infotrac OneFile
• Biography Resource Center (with Marquis Who's Who)
• Contempory Literary Criticism Select
• Expanded Academic Plus
• General BusinessFile ASAP
• Business and Company ASAP
• General Reference Center Gold
• Health Reference Center Academic
• Infotrac Junior (Standard and Graphical)
• Kids InfoBits (Standard and Graphical)
• Professional Collection
• Infotrac Student

 Newspapers   

• eLibrary [In the Library | From Home]
  A full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps.
• NewsBank, Inc. [In the Library | From Home]
  Full-text access to:
• Boston Globe (1980-current)
• Boston Herald (1997-current)
• The (Springfield, MA) Republican (1988-Current)
• Worcester Telegram & Gazette (1989-current)

 Business Research   

• General BusinessFile ASAP [In the Library | From Home]
  (Thomson Gale) Full-text business and management topics. Includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies as well as investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries.
• Business and Company ASAP [In the Library | From Home]
  (Thomson Gale) Full-text business and management articles.

 Encyclopedias   

• Grolier Online [In the Library | From Home]
  America the Beautiful (funded by MVLC), Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and New Book of Knowledge.

 Youth Oriented Study   

• eLibrary [In the Library | From Home]
  A full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps.
• Grolier Online [In the Library | From Home]
  America the Beautiful (funded by MVLC), Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and New Book of Knowledge.
• Infotrac Junior (Standard and Graphical) [In the Library | From Home]
  (Thomson Gale) Designed for students in junior high and middle school with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books.
• Kids InfoBits [In the Library | From Home]
  (Thomson Gale) Covering 75 full-text curriculum-related magazines and 7 reference books, InfoBits targets the research needs of K- 5 students.

 eBooks    

• NetLibraryTM eBook collection [In the Library | From Home]
  Electronic books on popular topics such as travel, computers, consumer health, and business.

 Recursos en Español    

• ¡Informe! (Revistas en Español)™ [In the Library | From Home]
  (Thomson Gale) The first reference database to provide indexing, full text, and images of the most popular Hispanic magazines.

 Other Research Databases    

• OCLC® WorldCat [In the Library | From Home]
  (the OCLC Online Union Catalog) Offers more than 46 million bibliographic records--representing 400 languages--and holdings information vital for collection development, cataloging, authority control, and retrospective conversion services.
• Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections Directory
  A guide and locator of collections residing in Massachusetts libraries, archives, historical societies and town clerk's offices.

 eBooks    [Back to Top]

• NetLibraryTM eBook collection: Now you can view electronic books on popular topics such as travel, computers, consumer health and business on the web.

 Recursos en Español    [Back to Top]

• ¡Informe! (Revistas en Español)™ - Gale Group, Inc.: The first reference database to provide indexing, full text, and images of the most popular Hispanic magazines. It also includes full text pamphlets on a variety of topics, such as health care.

 Other Research Databases    [Back to Top]

• OCLC® WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog): Offers more than 46 million bibliographic records and holdings information vital for collection development, cataloging, authority control, and retrospective conversion services.

OCLC has introduced WorldCat.org, a user-friendly interface that searches the WorldCat holdings. It allows library users to enter a zip code and search for the closest library that has the titles they are seeking. Holding organizations (libraries or networks) must have a subscription to FirstSearch in order for their records to display. Holdings from both MVLC and NOBLE display in WorldCat.org.

• Massachusetts Special Collections Directory