Online & Digital Resources
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Registered borrowers of the Grafton Public Library may use any of many online databases provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, C/W MARS, and Central Massachusetts Regional Library System.
You should have direct access except where noted; just click the database name.
If you are outside the library you should have direct access except where noted; just click the database name. Please use the "log in outside the library" link where one is provided, or follow the instructions. If you are asked for a login or password, please enter your library barcode number.
You should have direct access except where noted; just click the database name.
If you are outside the library you should have direct access except where noted; just click the database name. Please use the "log in outside the library" link where one is provided, or follow the instructions. If you are asked for a login or password, please enter your library barcode number.
Ages listed are only guidelines. It is possible for several resources to fall into more than one category.
Academic OneFile - Adults
Academic OneFile contains 8,000 academic journals, mainly in full-text, available in HTML and PDF formats. It also contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full-text New York Times content to 1995.
African-American History Online - Adults
African-American History Online provides expansive and in-depth information on the people, events, and topics important to the study of African-American history.
America the Beautiful - Kids
America the Beautiful has maps, facts and figures, and history for all fifty states and the US territories. You can also find information on Native Americans, presidents, cities, and more.
American History Online - Teens
American History Online spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience.
American Women's History Online - Adults
American Women's History Online covers the important people, events, legislation, and issues relevant to the study of women's history in the United States.
Biography Resource Center - Teens
Biography Resource Center lets you find quick reference information on 400,000 people plus full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals.
Boston Globe - Adults
Boston Globe contains full text articles of staff-written features, special interest stories, editorials, daily columns, letters to the editor, and sports reports.
Boston Herald - Adults
Boston Herald contains full text articles of staff-written features, special interest stories, editorials, daily columns, letters to the editor, and sports reports.
C/W MARS Digital Catalog - Adults
C/W MARS Digital Catalog is a growing collection of digital audio books, eBooks, and videos that await your enjoyment. Patrons from member libraries can browse and search hundreds of great titles and download them to computers, transfer them to portable devices, or burn them onto CDs for reading and listening anywhere, anytime.
library card needed only to check out items
Chinese Language Magazines - Qikan.com - Adults
Qikan.com provides access to over 100 full-text popular magazine publications from mainland China. Subjects include the arts, current events, business, health, children's literature and much more. Most titles viewable in both simplified and classical viewing styles. Coverage: 2005-present.
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Contemporary Literary Criticism Select - Adults
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select has biographical and critical introductions about contemporary literary criticism.
Digital Treasures - Adults
no library card required
Educator's Reference Complete - Adults
Educator's Reference Complete is a selection of more than 1000 articles and hundreds of reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education.
Encyclopedia Americana - Kids
Encyclopedia Americana has comprehensive coverage of the arts, society, geography, history, philosophy, religion, sports, science, and technology to assist students with class work, homework, and research projects. Includes maps, flags, tables, and illustrations.
Expanded Academic ASAP - Adults
Expanded Academic ASAP Plus lets users access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers from arts and the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.
Gale Virtual Reference Library - Adults
Gale Virtual Reference Library contains 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.
General Business File ASAP - Adults
General Business File ASAP helps you analyze company performance and activity, follow industry events and trends, access articles explaining 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.
General OneFile - Teens
General OneFile is your 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 sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles. Updated daily.
General Reference Center Gold - Teens
General Reference Center Gold helps you find articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals. It contains the latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, and hobbies.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia - Kids
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia allows you to find concise articles on geography, history, government, language, literature, religion, technology, the arts and sciences—everything that shapes our world. Also has media resources including photographs, videos, and interactive maps.
Health Reference Center Academic - Teens
Health Reference Center Academic helps you find articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, etc.
Issues and Controversies - Teens
Issues and Controversies is a comprehensive, dependable online source of current, in-depth and objective information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day. It combines objective analysis, clear explanations of opposing points of view, and numerous special features, so students, researchers and other users can quickly grasp the essentials of even the most complex topics.
Junior Edition - Teens
Junior Edition contains mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for junior high and middle school students covering current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Kids InfoBits - Kids
Kids InfoBits covers 75 full-text curriculum-related magazines and 7 reference books, targeting the research needs of K-5 students. It features a developmentally appropriate and visual graphic interface and a subject-based topic tree search.
Lands and Peoples - Kids
Lands and Peoples has maps, charts, facts and figures, flags, and much more about countries around the world and the people who live there.
Literary Reference Center - Teens
Literary Reference Center is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. It includes information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, and hundreds of literary journals.
Massachusetts History Online - Adults
Massachusetts History Online contains full-text articles gathered from almost 50 sources that directly relate to Massachusetts history.
Massachusetts Newspapers - Adults
Massachusetts Newspapers includes full text of staff-written features, special interest stories, editorials, daily columns, letters to the editor, and sports reports from around the state. Also search the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, and Worcester Telegram & Gazette individually. (For direct access see them in this list by title.)
netLibrary - Adults
netLibrary is a collection electronic books (eBooks), provided by the Boston Public Library Statewide Reference and Referral Center and funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. Titles incude books on popular topics such as travel, computers, consumer health, and business.
New York Times - Adults
NoveList - Adults
NoveList is your guide to fiction reading for all ages. Search for reading ideas by your favorite author, title, series, or keyword. The NoveList database includes over 135,000 fiction titles, book reviews, author read-alike information, book discussion guides for your book club, hundreds of fiction award lists, and bibliographies for adults and children.
Oxford Art Online - Adults
Oxford Art Online is an online resource exploring the history of visual arts from 10,000 BCE to the new millennium. The database includes scholarly articles, artist biographies, and an index of thousands of art images.
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Reference USA - Adults
Reference USA is a powerful resource that lets you search yellow and white page information for businesses and people. For businesses, search by name, phone number, location, SIC code, and more. Get contact information, maps, URLs, and financial information. For people, search by name, phone number, or address.
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Science Online - Teens
Science Online provides diagrams, experiments, essays, definitions and biographies arranged by topic and contains hyperlinks that create paths through the content. Science Online is organized by the National Science Education Standards for grades 6-12.
Student Edition - Teens
Student Edition provides access to information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, and sports in a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for high school students.
Worcester Telegram & Gazette - Adults
Worcester Telegram & Gazette contains full text articles of staff-written features, special interest stories, editorials, daily columns, letters to the editor, and sports reports.
World Book Online - Kids
World Book Online offers articles on all kinds of topics as well as research help, science project ideas, biographies, current events, and interactive maps. World Book Online is for kids, the Info Finder is for older students, and the Reference Center is for teens.
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