Welcome
This guide is intended to help you do research for English class. Please contact a Reference librarian at (508) 531-1394 or refdept@bridgew.edu if you need further assistance.
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Maxwell Library uses the Library of Congress Classification System. To locate your book in the General Collection look at the first letter of the call number. If it begins with the letter A-L, it will be on the second floor. If it starts with the letters M-Z, it will be on the third floor. Reference Books and periodicals are located on the first floor and may not be checked out.
Online Databases
These databases require a BSU login.
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Academic OneFileFull-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Content also includes ebooks, images, and videos. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
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Academic Search PremierFull text for more than 8,500 journals, including full text for more than 4,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
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Vocations and Careers CollectionProvides access to journals and magazines that aid users in researching a vocation, finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career.Includes hundreds of current periodicals, from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.
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Health Reference Center AcademicCreated specifically for students, knowledgeable consumer health researchers, and health care professionals. Includes more than 2,500 embargo-free, full-text periodicals, reference books, pamphlets, and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries.
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Hospitality, Tourism, and LeisureMore than 1,600 scholarly journals, magazines, and trade publications that cover topics including the cultural and economic aspects of travel and tourism.
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Business Source PremierFull text for nearly 1,200 journals and magazines, including nearly 700 peer-reviewed journals, covering a variety of business disciplines.
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ERIC (via EBSCO)Abstracts to journal articles as well as "grey literature" (pamphlets, conference proceedings, privately published papers) in the field of education. Via E*Subscribe, the full text of selected ERIC documents may be retrieved.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full TextMore than 320 full-text magazines and journals, 540,000 records, and coverage of more than 600 journals from around the world. Subjects include criminology, criminal justice, corrections and prisons, criminal investigations, forensic sciences and investigation, substance abuse and addiction, and probation and parole.
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Nexis Uni (formerly: LexisNexis Academic)* Nexis Uni will replace LexisNexis Academic on January 1, 2019.*
Nexis 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. -
News & NewspapersSearchable full text for The Boston Globe 1980-present, New York Daily Times 1851-1857, New York Times 1857-present, and Wall Street Journal 1984-present.
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