Online Resources

Encyclopedias

• ARTstor*
• Encyclopedia Brittanica Online*
  • Off-Campus Access* (password-protected)
• Gale Virtual Reference Collection*
• Grolier Online*
  • Off-Campus Access ( password protected)

Periodicals and Newspapers

• JSTOR*
  • Off-Campus Registration
• Infotrac
• LexisNexis* (Off-campus access is password-protected)
• The Atlantic (Off-campus access is password-protected)
• BBC News
• Boston Globe
• Boston Herald
• CNN Interactive
• The Nation (Off-campus access is password-protected)
• New York Times (current issue only, see Minuteman Library Network Databases for historical)
• http://www.sciencemag.org
• Scientific American (CA has Archive access to 1910-present)

Other Electronic Database Resources

• Minuteman Library Network Databases (Minuteman Library card number required)
• Boston Public Library Electronic Resources (Boston Public Library card number required)

Dictionaries and Thesauri

• Oxford English Dictionary* (Off-campus access is password-protected)
• Merriam Webster Online: The Language Center
• American Heritage Dictionary (through Bartleby.com)
• Roget’s Thesaurus (search form at Bartleby.com)
• Phrase Finder: Meanings and Origins of over 2,000 English Sayings, Phrases and Idioms
• Translating Dictionary

Almanacs

• Information Please
• The Old Farmer’s Almanac

Other Useful Sites

• Librarians’ Index to the Internet
• Internet Public Library
• CIA World Factbook
• The Internet Movie Database
• Virtual Library Museums Pages
  

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