Nashua Public Library Databases (Alphabetical List)
Academic Search Premier 
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, of which more than 3,700 are peer-reviewed. PDF backfiles to 1975 or earlier are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
America's Obituaries and Death Notices
A large and comprehensive collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices from around the United States. Each obituary or death notice is indexed by the name of the deceased person, to make searching easier and more precise. In addition, the text of each obituary or death notice is searchable, making it easy to find just what you're looking for using a place of residence, occupation, names of family members, or other personal information. Some notices go back to the early 1990s, most go back only 3 to 4 years.
Ancestry Library Edition (available in library only)
Search genealogical and historical documents including Census, Social Security, immigration, and other records. Also contains message boards, free newspapers and research assistance. Learn how to use this database more effectively by signing up for the library's free Genealogy computer class.
Biography Resource Center
This database combines biographies from several authoritative reference sources as well as full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.
Business
Source Premier
Indexing (1984-present) and full text (1990-present) for journals covering
business, management, economics, and more.
Byki Online Library Edition
Byki Online Library Edition is a language learning system that uses flashcards to teach you foreign language words or phrases. It's personalized to allow you to track your progress and refresh your memory about items you may have forgotten.
Chilton Automotive Repair Manuals
This is the online version of Chilton Manuals and includes repair instructions, tune-up specifications, wiring diagrams and more.
Consumer Health Complete
A comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. Provides
content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine
to complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine. Covers such topics as
aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics,
men's and women's health, and children's health. You can browse such books
as The AMA Complete Medical Encyclopedia, The
Mayo Clinic Family Health Book and others.
Consumer Health Complete in Spanish (Salud en Espanol)
Salud en Español provee reportes completos basados en evidencias y
fichas de datos relacionados a todos los aspectos de la salud y el bienestar.
Reportes específicos por tema que cubren todos los aspectos de la
salud, dan información general importante en relación a enfermedades,
afecciones y procedimientos de diversos tratamientos.
CountryWatch
A current and comprehensive source of socio-demographic, cultural, historical,
economic, political, environmental and corporate information, along with
news, analysis, maps, data and statistics on all of the 192 countries
of the world.
Daily
Life Through History 
Learn about daily life throughout history and
across many world cultures. Organized by time period, region and topic,
Daily Life Online combines information from numerous reference works,
monographs, and primary documents and is a great resource for students
from middle school all the way through college.
EBSCO
Search for magazines, journal and newspaper articles, many with with full-text.
Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC)
Contains more than 1,282,000 records and links to more than 314,000 full-text
documents from ERIC.
FACTS.com
FACTS.com brings together complete content from the Facts On File World News Digest since 1940 and selected content from six other core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 60+ years. A great database for finding out what happened on a specific date in the past (such as your birthday!).
Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
GreenFILE
Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human
impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government
and general-interest titles includes content on global warming,
green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy,
recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts
for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text
for more than 4,700 records.
Health
Source Consumer Edition
A rich collection of consumer health information
about many topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and
nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source:
Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health
magazines.
HeritageQuest Online
Genealogy resource with census data, family records, local histories, and article index. Learn how to use this database more effectively by signing up the library's free Genealogy computer class.
KidsSearch
A
fun way for elementary school students to find information from encyclopedias,
magazine articles, and reference books.
LearningExpressLibrary
Test preparation materials and interactive practice exams based on official tests. Subjects include GED, GMAT, SAT, ESL, Praxis, Real Estate, and more. Individual users create their own username and password, providing practice tests, immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals, as well as books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s
Literature Resource Center
A comprehensive online literary site, Literature Resource Center addresses all
facets of literary study in one highly searchable interface. Its extensive
reference material includes: biographical, bibliographical, critical, and
contextual information on authors and their works.
Live
Homework Help
Get free homework help via the Internet by using our Live Homework Help tutoring service. Tutors are available in math, science, social studies, and English. For adults, tutors are also available for resume help, GED prep, citizenship, preparing to go back to school, and proofreading. Spanish-speaking tutors are available in math, science, and social studies. The SkillsCenter Resource Library offers worksheets, tutorials, study guides, and standardized-test preparation. For all ages.
Hours: Sunday-Friday 4-11 p.m., Saturday 2-9 p.m.
Spanish-speaking tutors: Sunday-Thursday 4-10 p.m.
The SkillsCenter Resource Library is available 24/7.
Marcive (available in library only)
Current catalog of US Government documents. Search or browse by title, keyword, SU Doc# or item.
MAS Ultra - High School Edition
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full
text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines. This database also
provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, 105,783
primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 400,972 photos, maps
and flags, color PDFs and expanded full text back files (back to 1975) for
key magazines.
Masterfile
Premier
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database
provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications and magazines
with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every
subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500
full text reference books, full text from 86,017 biographies, 105,786 full
text primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 400,972 photos, maps
and flags. This database is updated daily.
Middle
Search Plus
Provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines.
All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading
level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands
of biographies and historical essays. This database also contains
84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image
Collection of 400,972 photos, maps and flags.
Morningstar® Mutual Funds Online™ (available in library only; ask Reference staff for password assistance)
Ratings and analysis of mutual funds. Provides fast and easy access to Morningstar Mutual Funds in a PDF format.
Newsbank
- access from outside of library
Full text articles from nearly 2000 U.S. local, regional, national
and international newspapers, newswires, video feeds, and business
journals, some from 1970-present. Includes full coverage (except
advertising) of the Nashua Telegraph from 1998 to the present, the
Union Leader from 1989 to the present, the Boston Globe from 1980
to the present and the Concord Monitor from 10/2002 to the present.
Due to copyright limitations, newspapers published by Knight-Ridder,
Inc. are only accessible within the library.
Newsbank
- access from within the library
Full text articles from over 2000 U.S. local, regional, national
and international newspapers, newswires, video feeds and business
journals, some from 1970-present. Includes full coverage (except
advertising) of the Nashua Telegraph from 1998 to the present, the
Union Leader from 1989 to the present, the Boston Globe from 1980
to the present and the Concord Monitor from 10/2002 to the present.
Newspaper Archive (available in library only)
Access.NewspaperArchive.com is a gateway to searching and reading historical newspapers online. Containing tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages dating as far back as the 1700s, the archive is an excellent source of primary source documents. Use the archive to view, save and print full-page newspapers from around the world.
Newspaper
Source
Provides cover-to-cover full text for 35 national & international newspapers.
The database also contains selective full text for 375 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.
Novelist
A wonderful reader's advisory service, Novelist provides a list of fiction titles in which readers can find read-alikes, authors, titles, and booklists. If you enjoy a particular author, what other authors might you like? A great resource for book discussion groups, as well. For younger readers, try Novelist K-8.
Novelist K-8
A collection of fiction titles in which readers can find read-alikes, authors, titles, and booklists geared to younger readers.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Full text articles and statistics from respected reference publishers like Gale and MacMillan, as well from nearly 50 major newspapers and magazines. This database gives researchers current information on the topics of today, presented in a very well organized and easy to use interface.
Primary
Search
Provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary
school research. All full text articles included in the database are
assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information
dates as far back as 1990.
Professional
Development Collection for Educators
This database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520
high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed
titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.
Reference
USA
Directory of U.S. business information (including
contact names and estimated sales), residential telephone numbers and
addresses, and U.S and Canadian high-tech companies (CorpTech). Allows
custom searching to create lists of businesses by type of product,
location, and more.
Regional
Business News
This database 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. It is updated daily.
Searchasaurus
A fun way for young elementary school students to find information from encyclopedias,
magazine articles, and reference books.
S&P's Outlook Online (available in library only; ask Reference staff for password assistance)
Standard & Poor's research service for individual investors, features exclusive investment strategies, penetrating market insights, S&P's highly-regarded stock and fund research and tools, and comprehensive investment education.
Student
Research Center (EBSCO)
Resources selected with the needs of students in mind. Uses an intuitive interface that allows students to easily identify the types of resources provided (secondary, primary, newspaper, etc.).
TOPICsearch
Contains full text for over 60,000 articles from 399 diverse sources including
international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled collection of
periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets,
and government information.
World Book Online
A searchable online version of the World Book Encyclopedia, including articles, pictures, video, audio, an atlas, a dictionary, and daily and monthly special features. Also includes parent, teacher, and student resources, and articles focusing on headline news.
WorldCat
OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide. Most are not held by Nashua Public Library, but many can be obtained through Inter-library loan.
