Online Databases

Beebe Library has many specialized online resources you can access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week if you have access to the Internet at your home, school, or office. Funded through your local library, the NOBLE network, and the state’s regional library system, you can access all of these useful research tools that are only available to library card holders. Click on the links below, and when asked, input your Wakefield library card number. If you are using one of the library’s computers, you will not need a card number.

NEW! – Fix Your Car!!

EBSCO’s Auto Repair Reference Center contains information on more than 33,800 domestic and imported vehicles from 1945 to the present, with nearly 800,000 drawings and step-by-step photographs, 83,200 technical service bulletins & recalls, over 99,800 enhanced wiring diagrams for easy viewing and printing, specifications & maintenance schedules, a labor time guide & estimator, and a complete guide to vehicle ownership & maintenance. Please note that due to licensing restrictions this service is only available for Wakefield residents.

NEW! – Learn a Language!

The library is pleased to offer BYKI (Before You Know It), an online program for learning over 70 foreign languages as well as English as a Second Language. BYKI includes interactive exercises to build listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills. You can use BYKI from within the library or from home. For Wakefield residents, use this link to create a BYKI user account, or to log in to an existing account: BYKI Login for Wakefield residents If you are not a Wakefield resident, please contact the Reference Desk to have us set up an account for you, and then login using this link: BYKI Login for Non-residents of Wakefield.

General Research

Provides access to the full text of articles from popular magazines, scholarly journals, encyclopedias, newspapers, newswire services, business directories, investment reports, health pamphlets, prescription drug information, and literature reviews.

EBSCOHost Research Databases — Includes MasterFILE Premier, Middle Search Plus, Newspaper Source, Business Source Premier, Regional Business News, ERIC, Professional Development Collection, MEDLINE, Health Source – Consumer Edition and Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Gale InfoTrac — Databases include: Academic OneFile, Biography Resource Center, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Educator’s Reference Complete, Expanded Academic ASAP, General BusinessFile ASAP, General Reference Center Gold, Health Reference Center Academic, Info Trac K-12 Junior Edition, Info Trac K-12 Student Edition, Info Trac OneFile, Kids InfoBits, Massachusetts History Online, Gale Virtual Reference Library
eLibrary — Consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps.
Biography Resource Center — Includes biographies from reference books, full-text magazine articles, images, and website links. Search for current or historic people by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, or by keyword and full text.

Newspapers

Proquest: Massachusetts Newsstand — Fulltext from the Boston Globe back to 1980, the Boston Herald back to 1991, and several other Massachusetts newspapers including the Berkshire Eagle, BusinessWest, North Adams Transcript, Quincy Patriot Ledger, Plymouth County Business Review, Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise, Lowell Sun, Worcetser Telegram & Gazette, Haverhill Gazette and New Bedford Standard Times
Boston Globe — Search the Boston Globe by itself, with full text coverage back to 1980.
Boston Herald — Search the Boston Herald by itself, with full text coverage back to 1991.
New York Times — Search the full text of the New York Times back to 1995 from Gale InfoTrac
Newspaper Source — Newspaper Source provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 260 regional (U.S.) newspapers.

Encyclopedias

Grolier Online — The full text of the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, aimed at middle and high school students, and the New Book of Knowledge, suitable for elementary level students.

Health and Medicine

Health Source: Consumer Edition — Provides information aimed at the layperson on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition — Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text medical journals focusing on many health and nursing disciplines.
Health Reference Center Academic — Provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources found in InfoTrac’s Health Reference Center.
MEDLINE — Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

Business Research

Business Source Premier — Business Source Premier is a comprehensive business periodical database that includes scholarly journals and business periodicals covering such topics as management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and more.
Regional Business News — Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
General BusinessFile ASAP — Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.

Books and Reading

NoveList — Can help you find your next book to read. This database of over 143,000 fiction titles for readers of all ages lets you use your favorite authors or titles to link to other books you might enjoy. Please note that due to licensing restrictions this service is only available for Wakefield residents.
Contemporary Literary Criticism — An extensive collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study.

For Education Professionals

Professional Development Collection — Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. It also contains more than 200 educational reports.
ERIC — ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
Educator’s Reference Complete — A selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Included content focuses on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education..

For Younger Users

Kids Search — Kids Search makes it easy for students in grades K – 5 to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type – -magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.
eLibrary — Full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps.
Grolier Online — Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia and New Book of Knowledge.
Infotrac Junior — Designed for junior high and middle school students. Includes mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books covering current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Kids InfoBits — 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.

Foreign Languages

The library is pleased to offer BYKI (Before You Know It), an online program for learning over 70 foreign languages as well as English as a Second Language. BYKI includes interactive exercises to build listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills. You can use BYKE from within the library or from home. For Wakefield residents, use this link to create a BYKI user account, or to log in to an existing account:
BYKI Login for Wakefield residents If you are not a Wakefield resident, please contact the Reference Desk to have us set up an account for you, and then login using this link: BYKI Login for Non-residents of Wakefield.

Other Research Databases

OCLC® WorldCat — Offers more than 46 million bibliographic records and holdings information for libraries around the world
Massachusetts Special Collections Directory — The Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections Directory is a guide and locator of collections residing in Massachusetts libraries, archives, historical societies and town clerk’s offices.
Ancestry.com — Provides a wide range of different types of historical records: census and voter lists; birth, marriage, and death records; passenger and immigration lists; military records; probate records; and even a large collection of online genealogy reference books. There are also downloadable forms for family trees, ancestry charts, and keeping track of your research and correspondence. Please note that due to licensing restrictions, Ancestry.com is only available from computers in the library building. You cannot access it from home, like our other online resources.

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