General
Credo Reference
A database that features online content from a hundred reference books in a broad range of subjects. The topic page resulting from your subject search presents and organizes relevant results from these 500+ resources as well as relevant results from other library resources including books, ebooks, ejournals, databases and more..
Funds provided by the Waltham Public Library Home access for Waltham residents, only.
Academic One File
Academic OneFile provides access to full-text articles from peer-reviewed English language journals from around the globe. Academic OneFile covers the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and countless other subjects. Users can search both full text articles and abstracts. Click here for a list of available journal titles.
Funds provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Educator's Reference Complete
A collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports (most full-text) focusing on all levels of education, educational administration and policy.
Funds provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Electronic Journal Finder
Electronic Journal Finder is a one-stop database that provides access to full-text articles from the databases that are funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the Minuteman Library Network.
Funds provided by the Minuteman Library Network.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Expanded Academic ASAP provides resources for almost all academic disciplines. It includes indexing of over 4,170 scholarly and general interest periodicals and full text articles from over 2,480 of the academic titles. Click here for a list of included periodicals.
Funds provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
The Gale Virtual Reference Library provides access to encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources on the following topics: arts, biography, business, environment, history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, world, science, and social science.
Funds provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
General Reference Center
General Reference Center indexes newspapers, reference books, and periodicals, and grants access to many full-text articles. This database covers current events, popular culture, business, industry, arts, sciences, sports, hobbies, and more. Click here for a list of journal titles that can be accessed through General Reference Center.
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Global Issues in Context
Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.
Funds provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Boston Globe and New York Times -- Historic Edition
Search through copies of The New York Times from the 1850's through 2008 and copies of The Boston Globe from the 1870's through 1979. Read about the Boston Molasses Flood after it happened. Read a New York perspective about the 2004 ALCS. You can even search paid death notices from those eras.
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Infotrac One File
InfoTrac OneFile is a 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. InfoTrac OneFile provides access to millions of full-text articles.
Funds provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Pop Culture Universe
Pop Culture Universe is an authoritative, yet irresistible, digital library of information on American and world popular culture, past and present-in a package as dynamic as the topic it covers. Built on hundreds of award-winning titles for all levels of researchers, PCU provides a safe haven for investigating topics that appeal to students-without the bias, advertising, suggestive content, or questionable authorship of commercial or fan sites.
Funds provided by the Waltham Public Library Home access for Waltham residents, only.
Power Search
Power Search allows users to search multiple databases at the same time. The databases included are most of the titles paid for with funds provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Funds provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Student Resources in Context
Student Resources In Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a broad range of topics, people, places, and events. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience combined with new features such as "Search Assist" and quick fact boxes.
Funds provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Biography in Context
Biography in Context contains biographical articles from select periodicals and reference sources published by Gale. For a list of sources used by this database, click here.
Funds provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
First Search/World Cat
In Library Use Only
This is an online catalog that searches library catalogs all across the country and, in some cases, the world. We can generally request most items found on this catalog. There is a free version of this database that can be accessed anywhere but contains less information.
Funds provided by the Metrowest Massachusetts Regional Library System.
Forms Links from the Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries
This site, provided by the Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries, provides legal forms for a variety of matters. There are also links to other sites that contain forms.
Business
Business and Company Resource Center
Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.
Funds provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
General Business File
General Business File is a research tool for those who are looking to analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. This database includes a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings.
Funds provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Forms Links from the Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries
This site, provided by the Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries, provides legal forms for a variety of matters. There are also links to other sites that contain forms.
Morningstar Investment Research Center
"Comprehensive and up-to-date financial information on stocks, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds. Use the "Help & Education" tab to access the User's Guide and investor education resources."
Funds provided by the Waltham Public Library Home access for Waltham residents, only.
RDS Business Suite
Finding the relevant business answers has never been easier. Business Reference Suite, an exciting Web-based subscription service gives you balanced and highly focused full-text coverage of company and industry news, management practices, and market research information. RDS Business Suite features more than 1,400 leading worldwide business sources, plus tens of thousands of tables with strategic data. Suite coverage is over 60% full text, and over 45% international.
Funds provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Reference USA
Reference USA provides access to detailed information on more than 14 million U.S. businesses. Users can search by ticker symbol, company size, and even number of computers.
Funds provided by the Waltham Public Library Home access for Waltham residents, only.
Credo Reference
A database that features online content from a hundred reference books in a broad range of subjects. The topic page resulting from your subject search presents and organizes relevant results from these 500+ resources as well as relevant results from other library resources including books, ebooks, ejournals, databases and more..
Funds provided by the Waltham Public Library Home access for Waltham residents, only.
Careers/Jobs
Job & Career Accelerator
Job & Career Accelerator combines everything you need for a successful job search into one easy-to-use online application. With this innovative job-hunting system, you can: explore detailed information on over 1,000 different occupations, match your interests and skills with the career that's best for you, search local and national job postings, create professional resumes and cover letters, practice and master interviewing skills, get invaluable tips and advice every step of the way—from your initial search to accepting an offer, and conveniently organize and track your job-search progress all in one place.
Funds provided by the Waltham Public Library Home access for Waltham residents, only.
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center from Facts on File
Fully searchable and extensively hyperlinked, Ferguson's Career Guidance Center contains in-depth job descriptions complete with job-specific resource listings, detailed industry descriptions, career resources, career preparation information and web resources. The database also includes a searchable archive of articles from Career Opportunities News, a newsletter covering the most recent trends and news in the job market. Users can access information through searches by industry skill, job level, education, or salary range as well as by popular government indexes such as the Dictionary of Occupational Titles.
Funds provided by the Waltham Public Library. Home access for Waltham residents, only.
Learning Express Library
Practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, and information for learners from elementary through college prep, job searching and beyond. Recursos para hispanohablantes. The MCAS and MTEL are not currently featured on this database. You must create an account in order to effectively use this database. If you are a Waltham resident with a library card, you can create an account from home using your library card number as your username. If you are in the library, you can create an account on any desktop computer in the library, using a username of your choosing.
Funds provided by the Waltham Public Library Home access for Waltham residents, only.
General Business File
General Business File is a research tool for those who are looking to analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. This database includes a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings.
Funds provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Reference USA
Reference USA provides access to detailed information on more than 14 million U.S. businesses. Users can search by ticker symbol, company size, and even number of computers.
Funds provided by the Waltham Public Library Home access for Waltham residents, only.
Children/Young Adults (Teens)
Infotrac Junior Edition
Infotrac Junior Edition is designed for junior high and middle school students. It provides access to a variety of magazines, newspapers and reference books, and covers current events, the arts, sciences, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. This database grants access to many full-text articles and to the Merriam Webster Dictionary.
Funds provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Infotrac Student Edition
InfoTrac Student Edition is designed for high school students. It provides access to magazines, newspapers and reference books, and covers current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. This database grants access to many full-text articles.
Funds provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Kids Info Bits
Kids InfoBits targets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate and visual graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine and reference content. The pictures allow for easy browsing and there is keyword searching for older kids.
Funds provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Something about the Author
An easy-to-use resource, Something about the Author provides illustrated biographical profiles of several children's authors and artists. This critically acclaimed series covers more than 12,000 individuals, ranging from established award winners to authors and illustrators who are just beginning their careers. Entries typically cover: personal life, career, writings, works in progress, adaptations, additional sources.
Funds provided by the Waltham Public Library Home access for Waltham residents, only.
Student Resources in Context
Student Resources In Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a broad range of topics, people, places, and events. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience combined with new features such as "Search Assist" and quick fact boxes.
Funds provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Credo Reference
A database that features online content from a hundred reference books in a broad range of subjects. The topic page resulting from your subject search presents and organizes relevant results from these 500+ resources as well as relevant results from other library resources including books, ebooks, ejournals, databases and more..
Funds provided by the Waltham Public Library Home access for Waltham residents, only.
