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A complete list of all of the library databases is available. The following databases will be useful for research on local history:

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Designed for academic institutions, this database is a leading resource for scholarly research. It supports high-level research in the key areas of academic study by providing journals, periodicals, reports, books and more. Subjects include: Animal science, anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, engineering, ethnic and multicultural studies, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion and philosophy, science and technology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology and more.

Digital Commonwealth
This site provides access to photographs, manuscripts, books, audio recordings, and other materials of historical interest that have been digitized and made available by members of Digital Commonwealth, a statewide consortium of libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies from across Massachusetts.

Boston Globe
Full text of the Boston Globe newspaper offers authoritative coverage of local, national and international news (1980-)
HeritageQuest Online (Proquest)
This database searches within over 4.4 billion historical and genealogical records from the 1700s to present day. It is best used to understand ancestry and a location's history. For more information please see the ProQuest help guide.
Military & Government Collection (EBSCO)
Military & Government Collection is a database of full-text journals and periodicals pertaining to all branches of the military and government. It is designed to offer current news to military members, analysts, policy makers, students and researchers. A strong source for military news and research, this database includes cover-to-cover full text, indexing and abstracts for hundreds of journals and periodicals. Many full-text titles are available in searchable PDF or scanned-in-color.
Salem History Series
Provides access to the Salem Decades, Great Events from history and Innovator series.
U.S. History (Gale in Context)
Gale U.S. History in Context includes Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

These are internet-based scholarly resources that are outside of MCC's database lists and do not require our login.

Boston Public Library eCard
Massachusetts residents can get a free ecard which will allow you access to a wide range of databases (https://www.bpl.org/resource/#azindex) beyond what you have access to through MCC.
Directory of Open Source Journals
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. DOAJ is independent.
Google Scholar
Search for articles.
History Hub (National Archives & Records Administration)
https://historyhub.history.gov/docs/DOC-1262 Register for a free account
Internet Archive Scholar
This fulltext search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth century journals though the latest Open Access conference proceedings and pre-prints crawled from the World Wide Web.
JournalTOCs
JournalTOCs is the largest, free collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs): 34,826 journals including 16,887 selected Open Access journals and 12,149 Hybrid journals, from 3767 publishers.
JURN
Search millions of free academic articles, chapters and theses.
MIT Press Open
Open access journals and books from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press.
Open Library of Humanities

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Isabella Stewart Gardner collected and carefully displayed a collection comprised of more than 7500 paintings, sculptures, furniture, textiles, silver, ceramics, 1500 rare books, and 7000 archival objects-from ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy, Asia, the Islamic world and 19th-century France and America.
Massachusetts Art Museums
Massachusetts Historical Society
Massachusetts Historic Houses and Homes
Massachusetts Local Historical Societies
National Park Service--List of Massachusetts Sites
New England Historical Society
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