MVLC Member Databases
Merrimac Library is part of the Merrimack Valley Library Consortium (MVLC) and as a MVLC member library card holder, you may access high-quality local, state, and regionally funded databases of full-text periodicals, health and business resources, biographical and literary databases from home.
Select a database below. When prompted, input your 14-digit MVLC member library patron bar code and begin searching! This will initiate a 2-hour cookie session. After this time period, you will be required to enter your bar code again.
If you do not have a MVLC member library card, please contact your library. View the list of MVLC member libraries.
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General Research
Full-text magazine and journal articles.
- bigchalk eLibrary
- Easy to use! eLibrary is a full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps.
- EBSCOHost
- Includes MasterFILE Select, Primary Search (including EBSCO Animals and Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia), and Novelist
- InfoTrac® Web (Main Menu) - Gale Group, Inc.
- Provides access to popular magazines, scholarly journals, encyclopedias, newspapers, newswire services, business directories, investment reports, health pamphlets, prescription drug information, and literature reviews. Databases include:
- Biography Resource Center (with Marquis Who's Who)
- Contempory Literary Criticism Select
- Expanded Academic Plus
- General BusinessFile ASAP
- Business and Company ASAP
- General Reference Center Gold
- Health Reference Center Academic
- Infotrac Junior (Standard and Graphical)
- Infotrac Kids (Standard and Graphical)
- Professional Collection
- Infotrac Student
Newspapers
- bigchalk eLibrary
- Easy to use! eLibrary is a full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps.
- NewsBank, Inc.
- Instant full-text access to individual newspaper titles - Boston Globe (1980-current), Boston Herald (1997-current), Worcester Telegram & Gazette (1989-current), and Springfield Union-News (1988-current).
Business Research
- General BusinessFile ASAP - Gale Group, Inc.
- Use this database to research all business and management topics. Includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies as well as investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries.
- Business and Company ASAP - Gale Group, Inc.
- Same content as General BusinessFile ASAP without investment analysts' reports. May be easier for high school, smaller public, and community college clientele to use.
Encyclopedias
- Grolier Online
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia and New Book of Knowledge.
Youth Oriented Study
- bigchalk eLibrary
- Easy to use! eLibrary is a full-text database of consumer-oriented magazines, books, newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps.
- Grolier Online
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia and New Book of Knowledge.
- Infotrac Junior (Standard and Graphical) - Gale Group, Inc.
- Designed for junior high and middle school students. Includes mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books covering current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
- Infotrac Kids (Standard and Graphhical) - Gale Group, Inc.
- Designed for K-6 students, includes 75 full-text magazines and reference books to introduce children to the research process.
eBooks
- netLibrary™ eBook collection
- Now you can view electronic books on popular topics such as travel, computers, consumer health and business on the web.
Recursos en Español
- ¡Informe! (Revistas en Español)รด - Gale Group, Inc.
- The first reference database to provide indexing, full text, and images of the most popular Hispanic magazines. It also includes full text pamphlets on a variety of topics, such as health care.
Other Research Databases
- OCLC® WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog)
- Offers more than 46 million bibliographic records and holdings information vital for collection development, cataloging, authority control, and retrospective conversion services.
- Massachusetts Special Collections Directory
- The Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections Directory profiles collections in more than 650 Massachusetts libraries, archives, historical societies and town clerk's offices.
This service is provided to the residents of northeast Massachusetts by the Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System through state funding administered by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners