Find Maps
Use these databases to find maps. A BSU login in required. Please ask a reference librarian if you need assistance. Call (508) 531-1394 or e-mail refdept@bridgew.edu
- Digital Sanborn Maps for Massachusetts [Proquest] This link opens in a new windowDigital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 for Massachusetts. These historical fire insurance maps provide detailed property and land-use records for Massachusetts towns and cities.
- A to Z Maps Online This link opens in a new windowThe world's largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. New maps are added to the collection every month.
- Sanborn Maps from the Library of CongressLimited color maps available from many states.
Online Resources
- Urban InstituteFrom the Urban Institute
- Lincoln Institute of Land Policy"A leading resource for key issues concerning the use, regulation, and taxation of land. Providing high-quality education and research, the Institute strives to improve public dialogue and decisions about land policy."
- City MayorsIssues facing urban centers from all over the world
- Urban Land MagazineUrban Land Institute
- Urban ObservatoryExplore digital maps of international cities.
- Humans and NatureBlogs, essays and videos that explore our relationship to nature.
- National Building MuseumInformation for planning for disasters
Films on Demand - Streaming Video
E-books
Find Journal Articles
Use these databases to find journal articles. A reference librarian can help you if you need assistance. Call (508) 531-1394 or e-mail refdept@bridgew.edu
- Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowThe premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles for academic libraries from the world's leading journals, this comprehensive resource covers the physical and social sciences, medicine, engineering, the arts, technology, literature, and many other subjects. With millions of articles in both PDF and HTML full-text format and simultaneous, unlimited usage, researchers are able to find accurate, timely information quickly. Gale's InterLink technology intelligently connects contextually-relevant results from your library's eBook collection on GVRL within articles in a user's search results. The Topic Finder tool adds power and depth to searches, allowing students to mine their search results and develop their research focus in ways never before available.
- Environmental Studies and Policy This link opens in a new windowMore than 5.4 million articles from more than 300 journals and book reference content on topics related to environmental concerns.
- Academic Search Complete [EBSCO] This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary full-text database with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Indexes and abstracts more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
- GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 850,000 records and open access full-text for nearly 13,000 records. Subjects include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling.
- ScienceDirect College Edition This link opens in a new windowProvides access to thousands of journals relating to research and advances in science happening around the globe. Maxwell Library has access to the following collection: Health & Life Sciences Journals.
- HeinOnline Academic This link opens in a new windowHeinOnline is the world's largest fully searchable, image-based government document and legal research database. It contains comprehensive coverage from inception of U.S. statutory materials, U.S. Congressional Documents and more than 2,600 scholarly journals. HeinOnline provides topic specific databases including all of the world's constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, Criminal Justice, Religion and the Law, and Women and the Law among others. Full text of state and federal case law powered by Fastcase is included.
Find Newspaper Articles
Use these databases to search for news. A BSU login is required.
- Nexis Uni (formerly: LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new windowNexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
- Regional Business News This link opens in a new window
Full text for more than 100 regional U.S. and Canadian business publications, including coverage back to 1990. Key resources include newspapers, radio and television news transcripts, trade publications, magazines, and newswires.
- Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
Full text for more than 60 national and international newspapers and more than 300 regional U.S. newspapers. Complete television and radio news transcripts from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR and more.
- News & Newspapers This link opens in a new windowFull text articles from New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Providence Journal - Bulletin, and Massachusetts Newsstand with 12 Massachusetts newspapers including The Boston Globe and The Boston Herald.
How do I find an article if I have a citation?
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowA freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
You can enter the title of a journal article into the Google Scholar search engine to get a direct link to the article (if available through Maxwell Library)