Electronic Resources
Browse more electronic resources curated for our members
Audio/Visual
| Naxos Music Library | |
| A comprehensive collection of classical music that can be streamed. NOTE: you will need to obtain a password from Reference or by visiting this page. |
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| OneClickdigital | |
| Download unabridged audiobooks from a selection of 2,500 adult and young adult titles. Compatible with most media players. See general instructions. New users, click to create an account. |
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| TumbleBooks | |
| Collection of animated, talking picture books,including story books, chapter books, new books, non-fiction and language learning, also puzzles and games. | |
Serials
| Art Full Text | |
| Full-text articles from hundreds of journals in the arts, from 1997-present. Abstracts also available from 1994; titles and authors can also be searched from 1984. The wide variety of subjects includes architecture, art education, craft, painting, and film. | |
| Boston Globe (current) | |
| Access to the Boston Globe from 1980-present, provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC). | |
| Historical Boston Globe | |
| Coverage from 1872 to 1981. | |
| Historical New York Times |
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| Coverage from 1851 to 2008. | |
| JSTOR | |
| Full-text scholarly articles in the humanities and other disciplines. | |
| LexisNexis | |
| Access over 9,500 news, business, and legal sources -- legal sources are available at the library only. | |
| Library Literature and Information Full Text | |
| Full-text articles from more than 300 journals in the library sciences, from 1994-present. Abstracts also available from 1984. | |
| Project Muse | |
| Provides full-text access to current content from nearly 500 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. | |
Boston Athenæum
| Boston African Americans, 1820-1863 | |
| The Boston Athenæum has assembled a list of names, addresses and occupations for approximately 5800 African-Americans who lived in Boston during the period from 1820 to 1863, the time at which the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. | |
| Boston Athenæum Digital Collections | |
| The online collections of the Boston Athenæum consist of digital surrogates of rare books, archival documents, photographs, maps, and works of art on paper. | |
| Boston Athenæum Theater Collection | |
| A guide to the theater programs and playbill collection at the Boston Athenæum. More than 90% of the material represented in the database consists of playbills or portions of playbills from about 45 Boston theaters. The bulk of the playbill collection dates from circa 1860 to 1900. | |
Dictionaries
| OED Online | |
| Definitions, etymologies, etc. | |
| Dictionary of Old English | |
| Currently A-G are online. | |
Specialized
| Civil War Online | |
| Contains diaries, letters, memoirs, and images indexed and searchable. | |
| Current Biography Illustrated | |
| Biographies from the periodical Current Biography. Includes more than 15,000 biographies, 9,400 obituaries and 19,500 images. | |
| Early English Books | |
| Contains page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, British North America, as well as other English works printed from 1473-1700. | |
| Encyclopædia Britannica | |
| Explore the updated online encyclopedia from Encyclopædia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and web sites. Provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC). | |
| FirstSearch | |
| A catalog of resources of most libraries in the English-speaking world. | |
| Gale Reference Resources | |
| Enjoy access to a wide range of subjects, including current events, books and authors, biography, horticulture, history, sciences, business and careers, K-12 resources, and reference encyclopedias. Provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC). | |
| Oxford Art Online | |
| A collection of scholarly art encyclopedias and dictionaries from Oxford. Includes 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts, and more than 6,000 images from Grove Art Online, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. | |
| Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | |
| Biographies of “the people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond.” | |
| Short Story Index | |
| Locate more than 96,000 stories published since 1984. Search by genre and find the parent book. | |
Boston Athenæum Related
| Alexander Parris Digital Project | |
| Architectural and mechanical drawings, specifications, correspondence, and accounts, from 1803 to 1851. Collections from: the State Library, Boston Athenæum, Boston Public Library, Boston National Historical Park, Charlestown Navy Yard, Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Historical Society, and Historic New England. | |
| Boston African Americana Collection | |
| Visual and textual materials held by the Boston Athenæum, the Bostonian Society, Historic New England, and the Massachusetts Historical Society. Spanning the years 1770 to 1950 with the bulk being 1865. | |
| Sheet Music Images | |
| 19th century pictorial sheet music was published with an illustrated title page or cover. These compelling illustrations were designed to catch the attention of the purchaser and are desirable items in their own right. | |
