Access On-line Databases From Your Home Computer The Massachusetts Library Organizations listed below have made it possible for you to access the following information databases from home . With an Acton Library Card - http://www.mmrls.org/homeaccess.html.   Enter your public library card number (no spaces), select a database and search for your topic. With a Boxborough Library Card – http://www.cwmars.org .  Click on Reference Databases. Select “from home” and enter in your library card number.  ( **  = junior high curriculum rich information) The links below require no password if you are accessing information from a school computer. *************************************************************************************************************** Databases provided by Metrowest ·       World Book Online ** (contains all articles from the print edition plus links to thousands of editor-approved Web sites) ·       World Book Research Libraries ·       Spanish Student Discovery Encyclopedia ·        Newsbank - Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Worcester Telegram and Gazette ** (Complete full-text content of local, national and international developments.) ·       New York Times Historical Newspaper (Public Libraries) Databases provided by the six Regional Library Systems and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners ·       Contemporary Literary Criticism ·       General Reference Center Gold (A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources from current events to sports and hobbies in one easy-to-use interface.) ·       Expanded Academic ASAP ·       Health Reference Center Academic (Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, and Drug abuse) ·       General Business File ASAP ·       Business and Company Profiles ·       Biography Resource Center ** (Biographies covering literary figures, science, Multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, current events and the arts.) ·       Kids InfoBits ( short articles for an overview of a topic) ·       InfoTrac Junior Edition K12 ** (Mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for junior high schools students covering current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more) ·       InfoTrac Student Edition K12 **  (Full-text magazine articles for 9-12) ·       Professional Collection E Books provided by Boston Public Library as part of their Statewide Reference and Referral Center Service funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners ·       netLibrary - read electronic books online from cover-to-cover, including tables and illustrations. netLibrary® includes approximately 7,000 books       (3,500 under copyright) and the remainder under public domain on popular topics from A to Z including business, computers, consumer health and travel. Databases provided by Minuteman ·       College Source ·       Novelist  - NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 125,000 fiction titles.   It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We’re Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. ·       LitFinder ** (A searchable database of  poetry, stories, essays, plays and speeches ·       New York Times 2000-Current (searchable in Newsbank) Compiled by Mrs. Egnatz, R. J. Grey Library  9/6/2006