With a modern design and intuitive search functions, Gale In Context: Elementary database makes it easy for elementary school children, teachers, and parents to find information related to classroom lessons in articles, magazines, books, periodicals, and reference materials, and plan fun activities to promote learning. Please see Middle School (Gale In Context) for a similar database for middle school students.
Legend
- Requires a Library Card
- In-Library Use Only
- Tutorial Available
Resources
Arts & Music
Freegal Music Downloads
Freegal® Music is a free music service from your library. All you need is your library card number. Freegal offers download or streaming access to more than 9.5 million songs, including Sony Music’s catalog of legendary artists. In total the collection comprises music from over 28,000 labels with music that originates in over 100 countries. There is no software to download, and there are no digital rights management (DRM) restrictions.
Hoopla Digital
You will need your library card to create an account on your first visit, then use that account to log in.
Books, movies, television shows, music albums, comics, and audiobooks, all available to borrow for instant streaming or temporary downloading to smartphones, tablets and computers, via browser, Android or IOS.
Business
Banker & Tradesman
Contact a reference librarian for username and password. Banker & Tradesman features all the real estate, banking and lending, and construction and development information you need as a business professional. The combination of industry news and weekly real estate transaction listings from across Massachusetts creates an invaluable tool that empowers you to make the best possible business decisions.
Consumer Reports Online
As a library user, you have full access to all of the valuable content on ConsumerReports.org through your library membership, including:
1,000+ Ratings, reviews, expert buying advice, product comparisons, consumer user reviews, and product video clips
Proven product reliability data
Complete product specifications
Frequently updated information
And more
Economist, The
Please contact the Library at 978-369-4898 or info@gleasonlibrary.org for login information or to request specific articles.
The Economist online offers authoritative insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science and technology. They publish all articles from The Economist print edition (including those printed only in British copies) and maintain a searchable online archive that dates back June 1997. They also offer a variety of web-only content, including blogs, debates and audio/video programmes.
Morningstar Investment Research Center
Enter your Gleason library card number, with no spaces, to log in. Only one person can use Morningstar at a time; please click on the “End Session” button when you are finished, and if you are unable to log on, please try again later. The trusted source for investment information, data, and analysis of stocks, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds, separate accounts, and variable annuity/life subaccounts. Morningstar tracks, analyzes, and publishes information on nearly 100,000 investment securities.
US Newsstream
US Newsstream enables users to search current and extensive backfiles of U.S. news content and features top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format. Key U.S. titles include:
- The New York Times (backfile from 1980 forward)
- The Wall Street Journal (from 1984 forward)
- Washington Post (from 1987 forward)
- Los Angeles Times (from 1985 forward)
- Chicago Tribune (from 1985 forward)
- The Boston Globe (from 1980 forward)
- Newsday (from 1995 forward)
- The Wall Street Journal Online
- ProPublica
- Huffington Post
- CNN Newswires
- Politico
Value Line Investment Survey
The most widely used independent investment service in the world. The Value Line Investment Survey is a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy.
Wall Street Journal
This link provides 72 hours of access to the full Wall Street Journal Online. Registration with your own email address required. After the 72 hours access expires, click through from the Gleason site again to reactivate for another 72 hours.
The Wall Street Journal was founded in July 1889. Ever since, the Journal has led the way in chronicling the rise of industries in America and around the world. In no other period of human history has the planet witnessed changes so dramatic or swift. The Journal has covered the births and deaths of tens of thousands of companies; the creation of new industries such as autos, aerospace, oil and entertainment; two world wars and numerous other conflicts; profound advances in science and technology; revolutionary social movements; the rise of consumer economies in the U.S. and abroad; and the fitful march of globalization.
Children
Elementary (Gale in Context)
Interactive Science (Gale)
Interactive Science (Gale) provides engaging, interactive models that bring science to life. Helps students better visualize and understand concepts in biology, chemistry, earth and space science. Students and instructors can manipulate and explore 3D models that are paired with reference and periodical content for further understanding.
PebbleGo
PebbleGo is a curricular content hub specifically designed for K-3 students. Contains hundreds of articles, activities, and videos and supports early literacy with read-aloud audio. The current subscription includes the Animals and Biographies modules.
TumbleBooks
eBooks for eKids: The TumbleBookLibrary is a collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books). TumbleBooks are created from existing picture books which we have licensed from children’s book publishers and converted to the TumbleBook format.
Education
Britannica Moderna
Enciclopedia espanola para estudientes mayores – Encyclopedia Britannica in Spanish (Grades 9+)
Elementary (Gale in Context)
With a modern design and intuitive search functions, Gale In Context: Elementary database makes it easy for elementary school children, teachers, and parents to find information related to classroom lessons in articles, magazines, books, periodicals, and reference materials, and plan fun activities to promote learning. Please see Middle School (Gale In Context) for a similar database for middle school students.
Global Issues in Context
Designed to support global awareness, Global Issues in Context ties together a wealth of authoritative content that empowers students to critically analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world.
Interactive Science (Gale)
Interactive Science (Gale) provides engaging, interactive models that bring science to life. Helps students better visualize and understand concepts in biology, chemistry, earth and space science. Students and instructors can manipulate and explore 3D models that are paired with reference and periodical content for further understanding.
Middle School (Gale in Context)
Created specifically for middle-schoolers, Gale In Context: Middle School combines reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and more. The material covers core subjects including literature, science, social studies and history.
PebbleGo
PebbleGo is a curricular content hub specifically designed for K-3 students. Contains hundreds of articles, activities, and videos and supports early literacy with read-aloud audio. The current subscription includes the Animals and Biographies modules.
Peterson’s Test Prep (Gale)
Peterson’s Test Prep includes full-length practice tests for GED, SAT, ACT, AP, PSAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, TOEFL, U.S. citizenship, and more. It offers information on undergraduate and graduate programs and tuition and scholarship assistance, as well as a resume builder and interviewing advice.
Science in Context
Science in Context is an engaging online resource providing contextual information on hundreds of today’s most significant science topics. By integrating authoritative, curriculum-aligned reference content with headlines and videos, Science in Context draws students into the subject matter, showing how scientific disciplines relate to real-world issues, from weather patterns to obesity.
TumbleBooks
eBooks for eKids: The TumbleBookLibrary is a collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books). TumbleBooks are created from existing picture books which we have licensed from children’s book publishers and converted to the TumbleBook format.
U.S. History in Context
U.S. History in Context provides a complete overview of our nation’s past that covers the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and people. Comprehensive, contextual, media-rich information is provided on topics ranging from the arrival of Vikings in North America, to the stirrings of the revolution, through to the Civil Rights movement, 9/11, and the War on Terror. An always-intuitive experience supports the development of critical thinking and information literacy skills.
World History in Context
World History in Context reaches back to the ancient world – and forward to today’s headlines – to deliver a chronicle of the great cultures and societies that have formed the history of the human race. Rare primary sources, reliable reference and multimedia content put this vast topic into context for students.
Entertainment
Kanopy
Stream movies to your PC, Android, or Apple mobile devices.
Overdrive
Digital downloads of e-audiobooks, ebooks, and now magazines, provided by MVLC. Includes a broad and growing selection of fiction and nonfiction for all ages, downloadable to your computer, ereader, and other devices. For IOS and Android devices, you can access Overdrive through the Libby app.
Foreign Language
Genealogy
Ancestry Library Edition
Powered by Ancestry.com, Ancestry Library Edition delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more from countries all over the world. Answers await everyone—whether professional or hobbyist, expert or novice, genealogist or historian—inside the more than 7,000 available databases. Here, you can unlock the story of you with sources like censuses, vital records, immigration records, family histories, military records, court and legal documents, directories, photos, maps, and more.
Ancestry is available for in-library use only. If you are on a Library computer and this link does not work, please ask at the Reference Desk.
HeritageQuest Online
HeritageQuest® Online is a comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, convenient research guides, interactive census maps, and more.
Discover the amazing history of you with HeritageQuest Online. It delivers an essential collection of genealogical and historical sources—with coverage dating back to the 1700s—that can help people find their ancestors and discover a place’s past.
General Research
Boston Globe (Proquest)
Boston Globe, 1980-present. Includes full text of articles (photos not included).
Britannica Moderna
Enciclopedia espanola para estudientes mayores – Encyclopedia Britannica in Spanish (Grades 9+)
Encyclopaedia Britannica
The classic information source, now online and regularly updated with the most current information. Includes the full encyclopedia, student resources, dictionary, video, and more. Provided by the Massachusetts Library System through state funds administered by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Gale PowerSearch
Gale Databases include popular magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers, and multimedia material. Useful for general research and school projects. To search general resources, enter what you’re looking for and click “Search”. Or scroll down and click for specific subjects and resources, such as health, business, literature, and many more. Provided by the Massachusetts Library System through state funds administered by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
New York Times Database
The New York Times, 1985-present. Includes full text of articles (photos not included). Provided by Massachusetts Library System through state funds administered by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. Please ask the librarians regarding access to articles published from 1851 to 1922.
US Newsstream
US Newsstream enables users to search current and extensive backfiles of U.S. news content and features top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format. Key U.S. titles include:
- The New York Times (backfile from 1980 forward)
- The Wall Street Journal (from 1984 forward)
- Washington Post (from 1987 forward)
- Los Angeles Times (from 1985 forward)
- Chicago Tribune (from 1985 forward)
- The Boston Globe (from 1980 forward)
- Newsday (from 1995 forward)
- The Wall Street Journal Online
- ProPublica
- Huffington Post
- CNN Newswires
- Politico
Law
LegalForms (Gale)
Thousands of official, state-specific, federal, business, personal, real estate and general forms covering hundreds of legal subjects and issues.
Social Law Library
Conditions of Use—
Participating libraries must abide by the following conditions:
1) The Library Credential [barcode] for access to the Databases is confidential for library staff use only and shall not be disclosed to patrons. Patrons wishing to access the Databases shall be logged in by a library staff member.
2) Access to the Databases shall be limited to in-library use by staff and patrons and no content shall be used by library staff to fulfill document delivery requests.
3) Patrons desiring additional assistance with their legal issues will be referred to branches of the Trial Court Law Library system and in no event shall they be referred to Social Law.
Literature
Novelist Plus
Need help finding that perfect book? Looking for the next book in a series or for discussion questions for your book group? Using NoveList Plus, you can search among hundreds of thousands of popular fiction and readable nonfiction titles, and also retrieve author read-alikes, book lists, book discussion guides, and more.
TeenBookCloud
TeenBookCloud is a middle grade/high school collection, which is geared towards readers in grades 7-12. This collection includes Graphic Novels, Enhanced Novels, eBooks, classic literature, non-fiction, and audiobooks.
TeenBookCloud’s diverse collection supports what students are learning at school. In addition, they have the freedom of choice, and can select titles on subjects that interest them. There are no check-out times or wait lists. This digital library and its books are always available and streamed right to your computer, tablet, or smartphone.
News
Science
Teens
Freegal Music Downloads
Freegal® Music is a free music service from your library. All you need is your library card number. Freegal offers download or streaming access to more than 9.5 million songs, including Sony Music’s catalog of legendary artists. In total the collection comprises music from over 28,000 labels with music that originates in over 100 countries. There is no software to download, and there are no digital rights management (DRM) restrictions.
Hoopla Digital
You will need your library card to create an account on your first visit, then use that account to log in.
Books, movies, television shows, music albums, comics, and audiobooks, all available to borrow for instant streaming or temporary downloading to smartphones, tablets and computers, via browser, Android or IOS.
Interactive Science (Gale)
Interactive Science (Gale) provides engaging, interactive models that bring science to life. Helps students better visualize and understand concepts in biology, chemistry, earth and space science. Students and instructors can manipulate and explore 3D models that are paired with reference and periodical content for further understanding.
Kanopy
Stream movies to your PC, Android, or Apple mobile devices.
Peterson’s Test Prep (Gale)
Peterson’s Test Prep includes full-length practice tests for GED, SAT, ACT, AP, PSAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, TOEFL, U.S. citizenship, and more. It offers information on undergraduate and graduate programs and tuition and scholarship assistance, as well as a resume builder and interviewing advice.
TeenBookCloud
TeenBookCloud is a middle grade/high school collection, which is geared towards readers in grades 7-12. This collection includes Graphic Novels, Enhanced Novels, eBooks, classic literature, non-fiction, and audiobooks.
TeenBookCloud’s diverse collection supports what students are learning at school. In addition, they have the freedom of choice, and can select titles on subjects that interest them. There are no check-out times or wait lists. This digital library and its books are always available and streamed right to your computer, tablet, or smartphone.
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Ancestry Library Edition
Powered by Ancestry.com, Ancestry Library Edition delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more from countries all over the world. Answers await everyone—whether professional or hobbyist, expert or novice, genealogist or historian—inside the more than 7,000 available databases. Here, you can unlock the story of you with sources like censuses, vital records, immigration records, family histories, military records, court and legal documents, directories, photos, maps, and more.
Ancestry is available for in-library use only. If you are on a Library computer and this link does not work, please ask at the Reference Desk.
-
Banker & Tradesman
Contact a reference librarian for username and password. Banker & Tradesman features all the real estate, banking and lending, and construction and development information you need as a business professional. The combination of industry news and weekly real estate transaction listings from across Massachusetts creates an invaluable tool that empowers you to make the best possible business decisions.
-
Boston Globe (Proquest)
Boston Globe, 1980-present. Includes full text of articles (photos not included).
-
Britannica Moderna
Enciclopedia espanola para estudientes mayores – Encyclopedia Britannica in Spanish (Grades 9+)
-
Consumer Reports Online
As a library user, you have full access to all of the valuable content on ConsumerReports.org through your library membership, including:
1,000+ Ratings, reviews, expert buying advice, product comparisons, consumer user reviews, and product video clips
Proven product reliability data
Complete product specifications
Frequently updated information
And more -
Economist, The
Please contact the Library at 978-369-4898 or info@gleasonlibrary.org for login information or to request specific articles.
The Economist online offers authoritative insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science and technology. They publish all articles from The Economist print edition (including those printed only in British copies) and maintain a searchable online archive that dates back June 1997. They also offer a variety of web-only content, including blogs, debates and audio/video programmes.
-
Elementary (Gale in Context)
With a modern design and intuitive search functions, Gale In Context: Elementary database makes it easy for elementary school children, teachers, and parents to find information related to classroom lessons in articles, magazines, books, periodicals, and reference materials, and plan fun activities to promote learning. Please see Middle School (Gale In Context) for a similar database for middle school students.
-
Encyclopaedia Britannica
The classic information source, now online and regularly updated with the most current information. Includes the full encyclopedia, student resources, dictionary, video, and more. Provided by the Massachusetts Library System through state funds administered by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
-
Freegal Music Downloads
Freegal® Music is a free music service from your library. All you need is your library card number. Freegal offers download or streaming access to more than 9.5 million songs, including Sony Music’s catalog of legendary artists. In total the collection comprises music from over 28,000 labels with music that originates in over 100 countries. There is no software to download, and there are no digital rights management (DRM) restrictions.
-
Gale PowerSearch
Gale Databases include popular magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers, and multimedia material. Useful for general research and school projects. To search general resources, enter what you’re looking for and click “Search”. Or scroll down and click for specific subjects and resources, such as health, business, literature, and many more. Provided by the Massachusetts Library System through state funds administered by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
-
Global Issues in Context
Designed to support global awareness, Global Issues in Context ties together a wealth of authoritative content that empowers students to critically analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world.
-
HeritageQuest Online
HeritageQuest® Online is a comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, convenient research guides, interactive census maps, and more.
Discover the amazing history of you with HeritageQuest Online. It delivers an essential collection of genealogical and historical sources—with coverage dating back to the 1700s—that can help people find their ancestors and discover a place’s past.
-
Hoopla Digital
You will need your library card to create an account on your first visit, then use that account to log in.
Books, movies, television shows, music albums, comics, and audiobooks, all available to borrow for instant streaming or temporary downloading to smartphones, tablets and computers, via browser, Android or IOS.
-
Interactive Science (Gale)
Interactive Science (Gale) provides engaging, interactive models that bring science to life. Helps students better visualize and understand concepts in biology, chemistry, earth and space science. Students and instructors can manipulate and explore 3D models that are paired with reference and periodical content for further understanding.
-
Kanopy
Stream movies to your PC, Android, or Apple mobile devices.
-
LegalForms (Gale)
Thousands of official, state-specific, federal, business, personal, real estate and general forms covering hundreds of legal subjects and issues.
-
Middle School (Gale in Context)
Created specifically for middle-schoolers, Gale In Context: Middle School combines reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and more. The material covers core subjects including literature, science, social studies and history.
-
Morningstar Investment Research Center
Enter your Gleason library card number, with no spaces, to log in. Only one person can use Morningstar at a time; please click on the “End Session” button when you are finished, and if you are unable to log on, please try again later. The trusted source for investment information, data, and analysis of stocks, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds, separate accounts, and variable annuity/life subaccounts. Morningstar tracks, analyzes, and publishes information on nearly 100,000 investment securities.
-
New York Times Database
The New York Times, 1985-present. Includes full text of articles (photos not included). Provided by Massachusetts Library System through state funds administered by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. Please ask the librarians regarding access to articles published from 1851 to 1922.
-
Novelist Plus
Need help finding that perfect book? Looking for the next book in a series or for discussion questions for your book group? Using NoveList Plus, you can search among hundreds of thousands of popular fiction and readable nonfiction titles, and also retrieve author read-alikes, book lists, book discussion guides, and more.
-
Overdrive
Digital downloads of e-audiobooks, ebooks, and now magazines, provided by MVLC. Includes a broad and growing selection of fiction and nonfiction for all ages, downloadable to your computer, ereader, and other devices. For IOS and Android devices, you can access Overdrive through the Libby app.
-
PebbleGo
PebbleGo is a curricular content hub specifically designed for K-3 students. Contains hundreds of articles, activities, and videos and supports early literacy with read-aloud audio. The current subscription includes the Animals and Biographies modules.
-
Peterson’s Test Prep (Gale)
Peterson’s Test Prep includes full-length practice tests for GED, SAT, ACT, AP, PSAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, TOEFL, U.S. citizenship, and more. It offers information on undergraduate and graduate programs and tuition and scholarship assistance, as well as a resume builder and interviewing advice.
-
Science in Context
Science in Context is an engaging online resource providing contextual information on hundreds of today’s most significant science topics. By integrating authoritative, curriculum-aligned reference content with headlines and videos, Science in Context draws students into the subject matter, showing how scientific disciplines relate to real-world issues, from weather patterns to obesity.
-
Social Law Library
Conditions of Use—
Participating libraries must abide by the following conditions:
1) The Library Credential [barcode] for access to the Databases is confidential for library staff use only and shall not be disclosed to patrons. Patrons wishing to access the Databases shall be logged in by a library staff member.
2) Access to the Databases shall be limited to in-library use by staff and patrons and no content shall be used by library staff to fulfill document delivery requests.
3) Patrons desiring additional assistance with their legal issues will be referred to branches of the Trial Court Law Library system and in no event shall they be referred to Social Law.
-
TeenBookCloud
TeenBookCloud is a middle grade/high school collection, which is geared towards readers in grades 7-12. This collection includes Graphic Novels, Enhanced Novels, eBooks, classic literature, non-fiction, and audiobooks.
TeenBookCloud’s diverse collection supports what students are learning at school. In addition, they have the freedom of choice, and can select titles on subjects that interest them. There are no check-out times or wait lists. This digital library and its books are always available and streamed right to your computer, tablet, or smartphone.
-
Transparent Language Online
Transparent Language Online provides an effective and engaging experience for language learners looking to build their vocabulary, practice their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, and maintain what they learn. With courses and supplemental resources in 110+ languages, including English for speakers of over 30 languages, Transparent Language Online can be accessed anytime, anywhere, on almost any device.
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TumbleBooks
eBooks for eKids: The TumbleBookLibrary is a collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books). TumbleBooks are created from existing picture books which we have licensed from children’s book publishers and converted to the TumbleBook format.
-
U.S. History in Context
U.S. History in Context provides a complete overview of our nation’s past that covers the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and people. Comprehensive, contextual, media-rich information is provided on topics ranging from the arrival of Vikings in North America, to the stirrings of the revolution, through to the Civil Rights movement, 9/11, and the War on Terror. An always-intuitive experience supports the development of critical thinking and information literacy skills.
-
US Newsstream
US Newsstream enables users to search current and extensive backfiles of U.S. news content and features top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format. Key U.S. titles include:
- The New York Times (backfile from 1980 forward)
- The Wall Street Journal (from 1984 forward)
- Washington Post (from 1987 forward)
- Los Angeles Times (from 1985 forward)
- Chicago Tribune (from 1985 forward)
- The Boston Globe (from 1980 forward)
- Newsday (from 1995 forward)
- The Wall Street Journal Online
- ProPublica
- Huffington Post
- CNN Newswires
- Politico
-
Value Line Investment Survey
The most widely used independent investment service in the world. The Value Line Investment Survey is a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy.
-
Wall Street Journal
This link provides 72 hours of access to the full Wall Street Journal Online. Registration with your own email address required. After the 72 hours access expires, click through from the Gleason site again to reactivate for another 72 hours.
The Wall Street Journal was founded in July 1889. Ever since, the Journal has led the way in chronicling the rise of industries in America and around the world. In no other period of human history has the planet witnessed changes so dramatic or swift. The Journal has covered the births and deaths of tens of thousands of companies; the creation of new industries such as autos, aerospace, oil and entertainment; two world wars and numerous other conflicts; profound advances in science and technology; revolutionary social movements; the rise of consumer economies in the U.S. and abroad; and the fitful march of globalization.
-
World History in Context
World History in Context reaches back to the ancient world – and forward to today’s headlines – to deliver a chronicle of the great cultures and societies that have formed the history of the human race. Rare primary sources, reliable reference and multimedia content put this vast topic into context for students.
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