Using databases can help you find accurate, trustworthy information more quickly and easily than searching with a tool like Google.
Databases house articles, images, and videos that come from trusted, verified sources like encyclopedias, books, magazines, and newspapers. They are a good way to find quick answers to basic questions and are the best way to get started on a bigger research project. All of our databases include options for audio support (text to speech), translation, and multiple reading levels.
Not sure what a database is? Watch this video!
Not sure what issue to pursue for a research project? Use this database to browse "Social Issues" to find a passion and to spark your curiosity! This is also a great place to build your foundational knowledge about a topic and to find articles that will help you to continue growing and expanding that knowledge!
If you have a Minuteman Library Card, you can also use the Robbins Library Databases!
Below are the resources available to Ottoson students from the Massachusetts Library System and Arlington Public Schools.
Search the full text of The New York Times (starting in 1985). Updated daily.