Online & Digital Resources
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Registered borrowers of the Grafton Public Library may use any of many online databases provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, C/W MARS, and the Massachusetts Library System.
You should have direct access except where noted; just click the database name.
If you are outside the library you should have direct access except where noted; just click the database name. Please use the "log in outside the library" link where one is provided, or follow the instructions. If you are asked for a login or password, please enter your library barcode number.
You should have direct access except where noted; just click the database name.
If you are outside the library you should have direct access except where noted; just click the database name. Please use the "log in outside the library" link where one is provided, or follow the instructions. If you are asked for a login or password, please enter your library barcode number.
Ages listed are only guidelines. It is possible for several resources to fall into more than one category.
Adult
Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection
Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection Farmers, landscape architects, and biotechnologists alike will have their information appetites sated with this collection of nearly 50 journals focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture. A fertile and growing collection, this collection includes content relating to both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies. spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience.
Educator's Reference Complete
Educator's Reference Complete is 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. Majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database. The database is updated daily and provides 24-hour access from school or home.
Adults
C/W MARS Digital Catalog
C/W MARS Digital Catalog is a growing collection of digital audio books, eBooks, and videos that await your enjoyment. Patrons from member libraries can browse and search hundreds of great titles and download them to computers, transfer them to portable devices, or burn them onto CDs for reading and listening anywhere, anytime.
library card needed only to check out items
Digital Treasures
Digital Treasures allows you to browse or search for digital images from Massachusetts history.
no library card required
Reference USA
Reference USA is a powerful resource that lets you search yellow and white page information for businesses and people. For businesses, search by name, phone number, location, SIC code, and more. Get contact information, maps, URLs, and financial information. For people, search by name, phone number, or address.
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Books and Authors
Books and Authors helps you find that next favorite read. Search by title or author, or browse characters, settings, time periods, and more.
Business Insights: Essentials
Business Insights: Essentials has articles on companies and industries. Search by name or SIC/NAICS code and get overviews, histories, news, investing information, and more.
Culinary Arts Collection
Culinary Arts Collection includes 150 of the major cooking and nutrition magazines. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information. covers the important people, events, legislation, and issues relevant to the study of women's history in the United States.
Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile contains 8,000 academic journals, mainly in full-text, available in HTML and PDF formats. It also contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full-text New York Times content to 1995.
Boston Globe
Boston Globe contains full text articles of staff-written features, special interest stories, editorials, daily columns, letters to the editor, and sports reports.
General Business File ASAP
General Business File ASAP helps you analyze company performance and activity, follow industry events and trends, access articles explaining 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.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Expanded Academic ASAP Plus lets users access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers from arts and the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library contains encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.
Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online is an online resource exploring the history of visual arts from 10,000 BCE to the new millennium. The database includes scholarly articles, artist biographies, and an index of thousands of art images.
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Massachusetts History Online
Massachusetts History Online contains full-text articles gathered from almost 50 sources that directly relate to Massachusetts history.
New York Times
New York Times contains full text articles of The New York Times, starting in 1985.
NoveList
NoveList is your guide to fiction reading for all ages. Search for reading ideas by your favorite author, title, series, or keyword. The NoveList database includes over 135,000 fiction titles, book reviews, author read-alike information, book discussion guides for your book club, hundreds of fiction award lists, and bibliographies for adults and children.
All Ages
Mango Languages
Mango is an online language-learning system that can help you learn languages like Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian and more.
Kids
Lands and Peoples
Lands and Peoples has maps, charts, facts and figures, flags, and much more about countries around the world and the people who live there.
America the Beautiful
America the Beautiful has maps, facts and figures, and history for all fifty states and the US territories. You can also find information on Native Americans, presidents, cities, and more.
World Book Online
World Book Online offers articles on all kinds of topics as well as research help, science project ideas, biographies, current events, and interactive maps. World Book Online is for kids, the Info Finder is for older students, and the Reference Center is for teens.
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Kids InfoBits
Kids InfoBits covers 75 full-text curriculum-related magazines and 7 reference books, targeting the research needs of K-5 students. It features a developmentally appropriate and visual graphic interface and a subject-based topic tree search.
Encyclopedia Americana
Encyclopedia Americana is similar to the print version with thousands of articles, but online you can also access videos, maps, images, and much more.
Teen
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.
Teen Health and Wellness
This database has more than 650 articles available in 50 languages, and engaging student-created content and videos.
Teens
Global Issues in Context
Global Issues in Context keeps you up to date on issues facing the world. Topics include environmental crises, health issues, weather disasters, and scientific advances.
History in Context, US
History in Context, US covers all aspects of American history. Access nearly 1 million reference and news articles, plus maps, essays, and images. Primary documents are also available. Can be searched along with History in Context, World for a broader, global viewpoint.
History in Context, World
History in Context, World covers all aspects of world history. Access thousands of reference and news articles, plus maps, essays, and images. Primary documents are also available.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Opposing Viewpoints has thousands of essays plus millions of news and magazine articles on topics facing the world today. Get both sides of an issue in order to more fully understand each point of view. Charts, images, and court cases are also included.
Science in Context
Science in Context has thousands of articles plus topic overviews, images, and experiment ideas. Biology, chemistry, physics, earth science, and math as well as other subjects are included.
Literature Resource Center
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 The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available. is a comprehensive resource for research on literary topics, authors, and their works. Its coverage includes all genres and disciplines, all time periods, and all regions of the world. From criticism and book reviews to author biographies, it's all here.
Science Online
Science Online provides diagrams, experiments, essays, definitions and biographies arranged by topic and contains hyperlinks that create paths through the content. Science Online is organized by the National Science Education Standards for grades 6-12.
Junior Edition
Junior Edition contains mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for junior high and middle school students covering current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Student Edition
Student Edition provides access to information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, and sports in a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for high school students.
Health and Wellness Resource Center
Health and Wellness Recource Center helps you find books and articles on all kinds of topics including fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, alcohol and drug abuse, prescription drugs, and more.
General OneFile
General OneFile is your 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. Millions of full-text articles. Updated daily.
General Reference Center Gold
General Reference Center Gold helps you find articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals. It contains the latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, and hobbies.
Biography in Context
Biography in Context lets you find quick reference information on 400,000 people plus full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals.