E-Resources

These free online research resources offer help with school, your job, and your everyday life.

We’ve organized them by subject to allow you to browse at your convenience.

Unless otherwise indicated as “In Library Use Only,” these digital resources are available from any internet connection. You may be required to enter your NOBLE Library card number for access outside of the library. Please let us know if you have any problems.

 

 

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  • Fine Arts

    Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that support research in areas including drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.

  • Biography

    Periodicals and multimedia offer information on the world’s most influential people. Search by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.

  • Business

    Information for business owners.

  • Business Source Premier (Home access requires a library card)

    The industry’s most used business database for full-text business publications.

  • Communications and Mass Media

    Key subjects covered in these academic journals and magazines include advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and more.

  • Economics and Theory

    Provides access to academic journals and magazines which focus on topics in economics and related fields.

  • Home Improvement

    For hobbyists and professionals alike, topics include architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and others.

  • Insurance and Liability

    Academic journals and trade publications cover the insurance industry and topics of interest to both individual property owners and corporations such as labor relations, mortgage banking, legal issues, and more.

  • Leadership and Management

    Provides access to content covering topics such as 21st-century skills, organizational dynamics and leadership, adult learning and continuing education, and more.

  • Transparent Language for Libraries

    Transparent Language Online provides a fun, effective, and engaging experience for online language learners of all levels—and it’s all free and easy to use with a library card.

  • Ancestry Library

    Discover your family history with ancestry.com – available at the Saugus Public Library.

  • FamilySearch

    Discover your family’s story through historical records.​ With FamilySearch’s collection of billions of records, you can piece together your ancestors’ history and bring their stories to life.​

  • HeritageQuest

    Saugus residents can research their ancestry through America’s largest commercial genealogy archive. Beginners and experts benefit with the best family history and genealogy data and resources available.

  • European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 (Home access requires a library card)

    Sources from European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750. 

  • U.S. History

    For those seeking information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History. Includes full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.

  • War and Terrorism

    Provides access to academic journals and magazines of interest to analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science, offering balanced coverage of both historic and contemporary topics in the field.

  • World History

    An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in World History. 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.

  • Britannica Moderna

    Enciclopedia española para estudiantes mayores y educadores. (Spanish encyclopedia for older students and educators).

  • Elementary

    Designed for students in Kindergarten through Grade 5 searching for information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

  • Explora Kids (Home access requires a library card)

    For homework help try explora kids with its easy-to-browse categories organized by popular topic.

  • High School Edition

    Provides high school students with access to magazines, newspapers, books, and other reference content containing information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports, and more.

  • Middle School

    Created specifically for middle-schoolers to help complete assignments in core subjects including literature, science, social studies, and history with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more.

  • Middle Search Plus (Home access requires a library card)

    Designed for middle school libraries, this database contains full text for popular magazines, full-text biographies and historical essays.

  • PebbleGo

    PebbleGo is specifically designed for K-2 students. It’s packed with ready-made activities, and literacy supports for students of all abilities.

  • Primary Search (Home access requires a library card)

    Designed specifically for elementary school libraries, containing full-text for the most popular elementary school magazines.

  • Peterson’s Career Prep

    Career Prep will help you create the perfect resume as well as giving you tips on finding a new career and landing the job.

    Peterson’s requires you to set up a user name and password, which allows you to save your resume and cover letter.

  • Peterson’s Test Prep

    Prep for standardized tests like the SAT and GRE or prepare for your certification, credentialing, or licensing exams in fields such as nursing, law enforcement, public safety, teaching, and more.

    Improve Your Score – there’s a reason why practice makes perfect.

  • Vocations and Careers

    Aids users in researching a vocation, finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career, with general career guides and highly specialized industry journals.

  • Information Science

    Provides access to scholarly journals and trade publications essential for information professionals and other knowledge workers. Coverage of topics includes information infrastructure, metadata architecture, publishing, and more.

  • Boston Globe

    Search the full text of the Boston Globe

  • Boston Herald (Home access requires a library card)

    The Boston Herald (2008 – 2018) is no Longer Available.

     

  • News

    National, regional and international news. Includes The New York Times (1985 – current) and The Boston Globe (2000 – 2007). To restrict your results to articles in the Times or Globe, use the advanced search and type the title of the publication in the keyword field.

  • Newspaper Source (Home access requires a library card)

    An online resource that offers cover-to-cover full text for national, regional and international newspapers, as well as transcripts of television and radio programs.

  • Regional Business News (Home access requires a library card)

    A full-text database covering a full spectrum of regional business news and publications for the United States and Canada.

  • The Daily Item

    Login with username “sau@noblenet.org” and password “SauguspL”.

    To read and search back issues, click on the E-edition, then click on archive on the menu at the top right.

  • The New York Times

    Search the full text of The New York Times (1985 to current). Your search will return only articles from the Times.

  • Religion and Philosophy

    Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines of interest offering balanced content that covers topics across a wide range of philosophies and religions.

  • Agriculture

    Provides access to current and authoritative content that spans the agriculture industry — from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture.

  • Environmental Studies and Policy

    Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and other reference sources covering environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policymakers, and corporate interests.

  • Gardening and Horticulture

    Provides access to academic journals and magazines focused on both the practical aspects and the scientific theory of horticulture studies for biotechnologists, farmers, hobbyists, and landscape architects alike.

  • ProQuest Science

    This database is a definitive resource for students studying both the applied and general sciences. Coverage dates back to 1986.

  • Science

    Merges Gale’s authoritative and continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

  • Science – Interactive

    Science comes to life as you zoom, rotate, and explore interactive 3D models.

  • Culinary Arts

    Provides access to academic journals and magazines on all aspects of cooking and nutrition, including thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.

  • Diversity Studies

    Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community.

  • Gender Studies

    Provides balanced coverage of this significant aspect of culture and society, with access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.

  • Global Issues

    Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Multimedia, including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs, enhance analysis.

  • Hospitality and Tourism

    Offers journals, magazines, and trade publications that provide coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism industries.

  • Military and Intelligence

    Scholarly journals, magazines, and reports cover all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs, including governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, and more.

  • Pop Culture Studies

    Offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.

  • Academic OneFile

    Peer-reviewed, full-text, scholarly content across the academic disciplines with millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML format.

  • Academic OneFile Select

    Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers across disciplines, including the arts and humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.

  • Academic Search Elite (Home access requires a library card)

    Search magazines and scholarly journals for full text and abstracts from every academic discipline.

  • Agriculture

    Provides access to current and authoritative content that spans the agriculture industry — from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture.

  • AHFS Consumer Medication Information (Home access requires a library card)

    A trusted source and recognized standard for patient drug information, available in both English and Spanish.

  • Ancestry Library

    Discover your family history with ancestry.com – available at the Saugus Public Library.

  • Better Homes & Gardens
  • Biography

    Periodicals and multimedia offer information on the world’s most influential people. Search by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.

  • Borrow ebooks and audiobooks with Libby

    It’s so easy! Get the Libby app from the app store on your device or use it in your web browser.

    Here’s a short video on getting started.

  • Boston Globe

    Search the full text of the Boston Globe

  • Boston Herald (Home access requires a library card)

    The Boston Herald (2008 – 2018) is no Longer Available.

     

  • Britannica Moderna

    Enciclopedia española para estudiantes mayores y educadores. (Spanish encyclopedia for older students and educators).

  • Business

    Information for business owners.

  • Business Source Premier (Home access requires a library card)

    The industry’s most used business database for full-text business publications.

  • Communications and Mass Media

    Key subjects covered in these academic journals and magazines include advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and more.

  • Criminal Justice

    Provides access to academic journals and magazines on topics including law, law enforcement, security, and terrorism.

  • Culinary Arts

    Provides access to academic journals and magazines on all aspects of cooking and nutrition, including thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.

  • Diversity Studies

    Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community.

  • eBook Collection (Home access requires a library card)

    Offers a variety of scholarly, full-text ebooks in various formats, including PDF and EPUB.

  • EBSCO Databases (Home access requires a library card)

    Provides the ability to search many of the databases listed here at once.

  • Economics and Theory

    Provides access to academic journals and magazines which focus on topics in economics and related fields.

  • Elementary

    Designed for students in Kindergarten through Grade 5 searching for information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

  • Environmental Studies and Policy

    Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and other reference sources covering environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policymakers, and corporate interests.

  • ERIC, the Education Resources Information Center (Home access requires a library card)

    An authoritative database of indexed and full-text educational literature and resources.

  • European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 (Home access requires a library card)

    Sources from European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750. 

  • Explora (Home access requires a library card)

    Looking for information? Try EXPLORA with its easy-to-browse categories organized by popular topic. Health, biography and current events are just a few of the topics EXPLORA covers. For homework help try EXPLORA Kids.

  • Explora Kids (Home access requires a library card)

    For homework help try explora kids with its easy-to-browse categories organized by popular topic.

  • FamilySearch

    Discover your family’s story through historical records.​ With FamilySearch’s collection of billions of records, you can piece together your ancestors’ history and bring their stories to life.​

  • Fine Arts

    Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that support research in areas including drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.

  • Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (Home access requires a library card)

    Indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics.

  • Gardening and Horticulture

    Provides access to academic journals and magazines focused on both the practical aspects and the scientific theory of horticulture studies for biotechnologists, farmers, hobbyists, and landscape architects alike.

  • Gender Studies

    Provides balanced coverage of this significant aspect of culture and society, with access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.

  • General OneFile

    A one-stop source for news, magazine, and periodical articles across a wide range of general interest topics and academic disciplines with millions of articles available.

  • Global Issues

    Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Multimedia, including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs, enhance analysis.

  • GreenFile – Environmental information resources (Home access requires a library card)
     Discontinued
  • Health and Medicine

    Designed for nursing and allied health students as well as consumer health researchers; provides access to medical and professional periodicals, health and fitness magazines, reference books and pamphlets.  This material is intended for informational purposes only.

  • Health and Wellness

    This comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices.  (includes Spanish-language articles).

  • Health Source – Consumer Edition (Home access requires a library card)

    Covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs and alcohol, aging and more.

  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (Home access requires a library card)

    A full-text database that covers nursing and allied health.

  • HeritageQuest

    Saugus residents can research their ancestry through America’s largest commercial genealogy archive. Beginners and experts benefit with the best family history and genealogy data and resources available.

  • High School Edition

    Provides high school students with access to magazines, newspapers, books, and other reference content containing information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports, and more.

  • Home Improvement

    For hobbyists and professionals alike, topics include architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and others.

  • Hoopla – streaming music, video, ebooks and audiobooks

    Stream or download thousands of movies, TV shows, music, ebooks, audiobooks and comics on your smartphone, tablet or computer. Saugus residents can enjoy ten titles per month.

  • Hospitality and Tourism

    Offers journals, magazines, and trade publications that provide coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism industries.

  • Information Science

    Provides access to scholarly journals and trade publications essential for information professionals and other knowledge workers. Coverage of topics includes information infrastructure, metadata architecture, publishing, and more.

  • Insurance and Liability

    Academic journals and trade publications cover the insurance industry and topics of interest to both individual property owners and corporations such as labor relations, mortgage banking, legal issues, and more.

  • Leadership and Management

    Provides access to content covering topics such as 21st-century skills, organizational dynamics and leadership, adult learning and continuing education, and more.

  • Legal Forms – Massachusetts

    Search for forms by legal category or by type of form.

  • Literature Resource Center

    Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

  • MasterFILE Premier (Home access requires a library card)

    MasterFILE Premier provides full text for over 1,800 general interest, business, consumer health, general science, and multicultural periodicals.

  • MEDLINE (Home access requires a library card)

    Provides full-text for many of the most-used biomedical and health journals indexed in MEDLINE.

  • Middle School

    Created specifically for middle-schoolers to help complete assignments in core subjects including literature, science, social studies, and history with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more.

  • Middle Search Plus (Home access requires a library card)

    Designed for middle school libraries, this database contains full text for popular magazines, full-text biographies and historical essays.

  • Military and Intelligence

    Scholarly journals, magazines, and reports cover all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs, including governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, and more.

  • News

    National, regional and international news. Includes The New York Times (1985 – current) and The Boston Globe (2000 – 2007). To restrict your results to articles in the Times or Globe, use the advanced search and type the title of the publication in the keyword field.

  • Newspaper Source (Home access requires a library card)

    An online resource that offers cover-to-cover full text for national, regional and international newspapers, as well as transcripts of television and radio programs.

  • NoveList K-8 Plus (Home access requires a library card)

    Recommendations and Resources of Fiction and Narrative Nonfiction for Children and Teens

  • NoveList Plus (Home access requires a library card)

    Find a suggestion for your next book or audiobook. Find a new book by a favorite author or discover a new favorite.

  • Nursing and Allied Health

    Provides access to academic journals and other reference content covering all aspects of the nursing profession for professionals already working in the field as well as students.

  • Opposing Viewpoints

    Opposing Viewpoints provides information and opinions from all perspectives on today’s social issues. Here you will find up to date information from all sides on issues facing voters in the upcoming election and beyond.

  • OverDrive – download ebooks and audiobooks

    With your library card, residents of NOBLE communities can download eBooks, audiobooks and videos.

  • PebbleGo

    PebbleGo is specifically designed for K-2 students. It’s packed with ready-made activities, and literacy supports for students of all abilities.

  • Peterson’s Career Prep

    Career Prep will help you create the perfect resume as well as giving you tips on finding a new career and landing the job.

    Peterson’s requires you to set up a user name and password, which allows you to save your resume and cover letter.

  • Peterson’s Test Prep

    Prep for standardized tests like the SAT and GRE or prepare for your certification, credentialing, or licensing exams in fields such as nursing, law enforcement, public safety, teaching, and more.

    Improve Your Score – there’s a reason why practice makes perfect.

  • Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine

    Provides access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields of fitness and sports, offering proven treatment techniques, experimental research, and more.

  • Pop Culture Studies

    Offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.

  • Popular Magazines

    Find popular and less well known magazines from AARP Bulletin to Women’s Health and everything in between.

    For the best search results, use Advanced Search to restrict results to a particular magazine or date.

  • Primary Search (Home access requires a library card)

    Designed specifically for elementary school libraries, containing full-text for the most popular elementary school magazines.

  • Professional Development Collection (Home access requires a library card)

    Full-text content from a wide variety of education journals.

  • ProQuest Science

    This database is a definitive resource for students studying both the applied and general sciences. Coverage dates back to 1986.

  • Psychology

    Provides access to academic journals and magazines that cover the study of emotions, personality, and the human mind for researchers and general users.

  • Regional Business News (Home access requires a library card)

    A full-text database covering a full spectrum of regional business news and publications for the United States and Canada.

  • Religion and Philosophy

    Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines of interest offering balanced content that covers topics across a wide range of philosophies and religions.

  • Science

    Merges Gale’s authoritative and continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

  • Science – Interactive

    Science comes to life as you zoom, rotate, and explore interactive 3D models.

  • Teacher Reference Center (Home access requires a library card)

    Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 200 peer-reviewed journals.

  • The Daily Item

    Login with username “sau@noblenet.org” and password “SauguspL”.

    To read and search back issues, click on the E-edition, then click on archive on the menu at the top right.

  • The New York Times

    Search the full text of The New York Times (1985 to current). Your search will return only articles from the Times.

  • Transparent Language for Libraries

    Transparent Language Online provides a fun, effective, and engaging experience for online language learners of all levels—and it’s all free and easy to use with a library card.

  • U.S. History

    For those seeking information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History. Includes full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.

  • Vocations and Careers

    Aids users in researching a vocation, finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career, with general career guides and highly specialized industry journals.

  • War and Terrorism

    Provides access to academic journals and magazines of interest to analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science, offering balanced coverage of both historic and contemporary topics in the field.

  • World History

    An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in World History. 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.