Research & Homework

You may need to enter your library card number in order to access some of these databases.

Ask RI

AskRI is the online portal for all services of the Statewide Reference Resource Center.
You may need to sign in with you library card number to access the following databases:

This database contains the most comprehensive collection of automobile repair information in the market, including more than 35,000 vehicles from 1945 to today and most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles.

Literary Reference Center

Comprehensive, full-text database provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time frames. Specifically designed for public libraries, secondary schools, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research.

Novelist

A complete readers' resource with information on over 250,000 fiction and readable nonfiction titles. Use the popular "Author Read-alikes" tool to find books you might enjoy reading, view lists of award-winning titles, check out the Book Club Discussion Guides, and more.

Points of View

A full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of current issues. It provides more than 280 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide.

EBSCO HOST Databases

Rhode Island Libraries and AskRI provide a variety of databases from EBSCO Publishing. You can search them all or find one that suits your needs. Resources are available for adults and children. You may need to enter your library card number to access these free databases.

THESE LINKS ALL TAKE YOU TO ASKRI.ORG. There, you have to click on the EBSCO LINK (see the image above) to find all these databases. Need help? Ask a librarian: nsmreference@gmail.com or 401.767.2780.

EBSCOhost Research Databases

ERIC Eric, the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Academic Search Elite
Academic institutions worldwide depend on this database as their core resource of scholarly information. Academic Search Elite contains full text for more than 2,100 journals, Nearly 150 journals have PDF images dating back to 1985.
History Reference Center
History Reference Center offers full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 78,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
Middle Search Plus
Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and a School Image Collection of photos, maps and flags
Teacher Reference Center
Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
TOPICsearch
TOPICsearch contains full text for over 150,961 articles from 475 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
Primary Search
Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
MasterFILE Premier
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
MEDLINE
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
GreenFILE
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
Biography Collection Complete
Biography Collection Complete offers a comprehensive collection of full-text biographies supporting history, science, the arts, music, literature, multicultural studies, gender studies, business, government & politics, sports, entertainment and many other areas. This database features more than 177,000 full-text biographies from many different sources.

Heritage Quest

Genealogy Tool. Combines digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records with full-text genealogy and local history collections. Hint: In the partially indexed 1930 Census, choose Browse to view records by state, county and location.

Learning Express

Practice tests and tutorials for SAT, ACT, GED, US Citizenship, job skills and more. cBooks for study and practice may be downloaded for free. Provided by Askri.org . Your library card barcode is needed to login.

Mango Languages

Mango is an online language-learning system that can help you learn languages such as Spanish, French, Japanese, German, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Greek, Italian and more. There is even instruction in learning English as a second language! Provided by Askri.org .

World Book Web

The World Book web site offers an encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, homework help, study aids, and curriculum guides.

Searchasaurus

Dinosaur themed interface for beginning searchers, up to the 5th grade. Contains full text for more than 70 popular elementary school magazines and provides students with encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids. Includes the American Heritage, Children’s Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin and an extensive image collection.