Online Resources
As a Newburyport Public Library and 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, as well as general research resources are available online in the library or from home. Note: Home access to online resources is possible by inputting your 14-digit public library barcode number. Databases funded by the Newburyport Public Library are available for at home use by Newburyport Public Library cardholders only.
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
- MVLC
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium website provides access to the online library catalog, MVLC member library websites, and other MVLC member library services.
Digital Audio Book and eBook Downloads from MVLC!
- Overdrive
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium offers free digital audio books and eBooks for your enjoyment. Listen to audio books via your PC, iPod, MP3 player, or other portable devise. Many titles can be burned to CD. Free downloadable eBooks are also available and are compatible with your Kindle, Nook, and most other eReaders. More Overdrive titles are available through the Boston Public Library to any Massachusetts resident with a BPL eCard.
Music Downloads from Freegal!
- Freegal Music Service
Browse through over 500,000 songs in the Freegal music catalog and download them for free to your computer and your mobile devices. Database funded by the Newburyport Public Library
Language Learning from Mango Languages!
- Mango Languages
It’s fast, it’s fun, it’s Mango, an online language learning system that teaches conversation skills in 48 different languages, including English as a Second Language (ESL). Database funded by the Newburyport Public Library
Newburyport Resources
- Newburyport Daily News and the Current from NewsBank including America's Newspapers
Search Newburyport Daily News from July 2008 - present and the Current from June 2006 - present, or browse numerous national newspapers.
Database funded by the Newburyport Public Library - City of Newburyport Online Documents
This online searchable database of public Newburyport documents includes agendas and minutes of City committees, committee reports, and City forms and applications.
Genealogy
- HeritageQuest Online [In the Library | From Home]
Genealogy information, including: US Federal Census, Family Histories, and Revolutionary War Records.
Database funded by the Newburyport Public Library - Ancestry: Library Edition Online [In the Library ONLY]
Genealogy information including: US and UK Census Data, Vital Records, Military Records, Immigration Records.
Database funded by the Newburyport Public Library - American Ancestors [In the Library ONLY]
Genealogy information, including Massachusetts Vital Records.
Database funded by the Newburyport Public Library - Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections Directory
guide and locator of collections residing in Massachusetts libraries, archives, historical societies and town clerk's offices.
Database funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners
General and Education Resources
- Testing & Education Reference Center
Testing & Education Reference Center provides interactive practice exams and test preparation resources, college search tools, as well as educational and career-building skills. Tests include the SAT and ACT, Civic Exams, ASVAB and more!
Database funded by the Newburyport Public Library - EBSCOHost [In the Library | From Home]
Database funded by the Merrimack Valley Library Consortium and the Newburyport Public Library
Looking for literary criticism, book suggestions or help with a school project? This is the place to start. Various databases include: -
- Novelist & Novelist Plus
- Consumer Health Complete
- Literary Reference Center
- Points of View
- EbscoHost Web
- History Reference Center
- Science Reference Center
- GreenFILE
- Primary & Middle Search Plus
- and more
- InfoTrac® PowerSearch
PowerSearch makes it possible to find subjects from A-Z in one or many of the Thomson Gale's periodical databases in a single search. Some of the most popular databases are listed below.
Database funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the Newburyport Public Library -
- Academic OneFile
- Biography Resource Center
- Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
- Educator's Reference Complete
- Expanded Academic ASAP
- Gardening, Landscape & Horticulture Collection
- Gender Studies Collection
- General BusinessFile ASAP
- General Reference Center Gold
- General Science Collection
- Health Reference Center Academic
- InfoTrac Junior Student Edition
- InfoTrac High School Student Edition
- Info Trac OneFile
- Kids InfoBits
- Massachusetts History Online
- New York Times
- U.S. History Collection
- Virtual Reference Library
- World History Collection
- OCLC® WorldCat [In the Library | From Home]
(the OCLC Online Union Catalog) Offers more than 46 million bibliographic records--representing 400 languages--and holdings information vital for collection development, cataloging, authority control, and retrospective conversion services.
Database funded by MLS – the Massachusetts Library System
Newspapers
- America's Newspapers from NewsBank
Select from hundreds of national newspapers including the Boston Globe, the New York Times, the Washington Post, or select from 35 Massachusetts newspapers including the Newburyport Daily News, the Current, the Eagle Tribune, the Salem News, and the Gloucester Daily Times. Popular magazines are also available.
Database funded by the Newburyport Public Library - Massachusetts Newsstand (from Proquest)
- Read sixteen Massachusetts newspapers including:
Business and Legal Resources
- Reference USA
Access business information for US and Canada Businesses, Corp-Tech companies, Healthcare information as well as US and Canada Residential listings.
funded by the Newburyport Public Library - Legal Forms [Click here!]
This online resource delivers everything legal forms ranging from landlord-tenant to name change to wills and everything in between. Browse by topic or search for a specific form.
Database funded by the Newburyport Public Library - General BusinessFile ASAP
(Thomson Gale) Full-text business and management topics. Includes directory listings for over 150,000 companies as well as investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries.
Database funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners
Youth Oriented Study
- InfoTrac High School Student Edition
- Infotrac Junior (Standard and Graphical)
(Thomson Gale) Designed for students in junior high and middle school with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books.
Database funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners - Kids InfoBits
(Thomson Gale) Covering 75 full-text curriculum-related magazines and 7 reference books, InfoBits targets the research needs of K- 5 students. Database funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners - Small Business Collection
- InfoTrac Vocation & Careers Collection
Recursos en Español
- ¡Informe!
(Revistas en Español)™
(Thomson Gale) The first reference database to provide indexing, full text, and images of the most popular Hispanic magazines.
Database funded by MLS – the Massachusetts Library System - Mango Languages
It’s fast, it’s fun, it’s Mango, an online language learning system that teaches conversation skills in 48 different languages, including English as a Second Language (ESL). Database funded by the Newburyport Public Library
