A-Z List of Chicopee CLIC Databases
Academic OneFile, 1980-current
Contains: A collection of over 8000 full-text academic journals. Includes extensive coverage of the physical sciences,technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.
African-American History Online
Content: Provides expansive and in-depth information on the people, events, and topics important to the study of African-American history.
American History Online
Content: Covers 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
Content: Covers the important people, events, legislation, and issues relevant to the study of women's history in the United States.
Biography Resource Center/Marquis Who's Who
Contains: Integrates biographies with full text articles, images and website links. People search can be by name, occupation, nationality, birth/death dates, places or gender or by keyword and full text. Marquis' Who's Who is also listed.
Business Index ASAP
Content: Perform in-depth research on management issues, economic indicators and business theories and practices, as well as on the activities of companies and industries worldwide. Instant access to academic and business journals with full text and images.
Consumer Health Complete
Content:A comprehensive collection of high quality consumer health encyclopedias and reference books. Provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine.
Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select
Contains: An extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary writers. Each entry contain a biographical essay that discusses the author's life, works, and critical importance.
CQ Researcher Archive (Congressional Quarterly)
Contains: Provides in-depth coverage on critical issues and current events. Offers research on a wide range of controversial subjects including social, economic, political, healthand environmental topics.
Educator's Reference Complete, 1980-current
Contains: Full-text academic journals and reports for teachers and school administrators focusing on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online: Public Library Edition
Contains: The complete Encyclopedia Britannica with the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Look at timelines, watch videos, and look at a World Atlas. Full text of the encyclopedia you have looked at in print plus primary source materials.
Expanded Academic ASAP, 1980-current
Contains: Provides full-text information on Astronomy, Religion, Law, History, Psychology, Humanities, Current Events, Sociology, Communications and the General Sciences.
Facts For Learning Gr. 2-5
Content:Provides students with an introduction to the world of research. Teaches students how to ask questions, use core references, choose research topics, and search and read charts and graphs.
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Content: Access to comprehensive, up-to-date profiles of more than 2000 of today's most popular jobs in more than 90 industries.
General Business File ASAP, 1980-current
Content:Contains company directory listings, articles on company performance and activity, as well as industry events and trends. Includes access to investment reports, trade publications, newspapers and journals.
General OneFile
Contains: 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 science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.
General Reference Center Gold, 1980-current
Contains: General interest database that combines a variety of source materials including magazines, trade publications, newspapers and reference books. It contains articles on current events, business and industry trends, sports, popular culture and more.
Global Road Warrior
Contains: Comprehensive information on every country in the world. Get maps, airport information, view pictures of their currency, and learn about their culture all in one location. Anything about World travel can be viewed here.
Health Reference Center Academic, 1980-current
Content:Provides access to health information for professionals and the consumer through medical and nursing journals, medical pamphlets, and medical reference books.
HeritageQuest
Content: A database to search for ancestors and relatives. Includes searches of census information, local history, selected Revolutionary War records and Freedman's Bank (1865-1874) which was founded to serve African Americans.
History Reference Center
Content: A comprehensive full text history reference database that covers both U.S. and world history and contains biographies of historical figures, history periodicals and historical documents, photos and maps.
Issues & Controversies
Contains: Analyzes hundreds of controversial topics and provides more than 650 in-depth articles on current issues in the news in a language and format for students. Features include weekly updates, new articles added biweekly, "Issues: Pro and Con" lists that highlight important debate topics, "By Numbers"statistical overviews of key issues, research topics, "What Happened That Day" and other features.
Junior Edition - K-12
Contains: Provides access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Kids InfoBits
Content: Targets the research needs of students in Kindergarten thru Grade 5. Featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface with full-text curriculum related topics.
Learn-a-Test
Content: Practice tests for GED, Elementary School Skills Improvement, College Entrance Exams, Civil Service, Military and 19 additional subject areas.
Access: Barcodes starting with either D270; username is your library card number plus 4 additional number and password is your choice. Barcodes starting with 28138; username is your library card number and password is your choice.
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts
Contains: Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, and online information retrieval.
Literary Reference Center
Contains: A comprehensive database that provides users with information on thousands of authors and their works.
Mango Language Learning
Contains: Learn one or all of the twelve languages available. Sign in with your library card and make an online account to track your progresss.
Massachusetts History Online
Content: A collection of full-text articles from 50 magazines and local newspapers for coverage of Massachusetts people, places and historical events.
Massachusetts Newsstand
Contains: Full-text coverage to 12 Massachusetts Newspapers
The New York Times (1985-present)
Contains: Complete full text content of the New York Times cover to cover, including obits.
Novelist/Novelist K-8
Contains: Novelist is a readers' advisory service that contains 135,000 fiction titles for all ages, including picture books, young adult titles, and books for adult readers. In addition to finding books to read, users can use features such as Author Read-alikes and Book Discussion Guides.
Opposing Viewpoints Research Center
Contains: A full-text database that provides different perspectives on current social issues such as health care reform, genetic engineering, media violence, and prejudice.
Optimal Resume
Content:A web-based resume builder program to help you build, store, and save resumes and coverletters as well as prep for interviews.
Oxford Art Online
Content: Provides access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art and The Oxford Companion of Western Art in a fully-indexed, updated, and searchable format. Includes over 40,000 links to art images in galleries and museums around the world.
The Republican, Springfield MA (1988-present)
Contains:Complete full text content of local and regional news, community events, schools, politics, cultural activities and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded. Use your library card number to log in.
Science Online
Contains: A comprehensive science database that includes categories such as biographies, essays, definitions, diagrams, experiments, timelines and science standards. Login with your C/W Mars library card.
Science Reference Center
Contains: A comprehensive research database that provides access to full-text science oriented content from leading science encyclopedias, reference books, and periodicals.
Student Edition (Grades 8-12)
Contains: Containing over 1100 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database provides access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, podcasts, and reference books for information on currentevents, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Today's Science
Contains: Includes background information, useful Internet resources and search terms, suggestions for further reading and articles linked to detailed news coverage. Written for students in middle school through college.
Virtual Reference Library
Contains: A database of full-text encyclopedias and specialized reference sources on a variety of subjects.
