Research / Encyclopedias

Britannica LibraryEncyclopedia Britannica Library Suite

Explore the fact-checked online encyclopedia with hundreds of thousands of objective articles, biographies and images.

Gale Databases

Explore Gale's Offerings · Databases. Support your researchers with up-to-date, full-text magazines, newspapers, journals, periodicals, videos, and podcasts. View and search all the Gale research databases available through the Reuben Hoar Library.  There are databases in all fields and subject interests for students, consumers, business researchers and the general public.

Google ScholarGoogle Scholar

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.

Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education CenterNorman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center

The Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library, created in 2004, is a nonprofit organization established as a public-private partnership between the Library and philanthropist Norman Leventhal.

Scholastic GoScholastic Go!

Providing credible, accurate, reliable content on almost every core-curricula subject, Scholastic GO!® offers endless resources for research in a multitude of media. Explore nonfiction texts, world newspapers, videos and more with this easy-to-navigate digital resource designed to strengthen content knowledge, vocabulary, and core proficiency skills. (Grades 2 and up)