Healey Library
While
you're at the library,
use workstations for access to rich, academic resources that help meet
all your research needs. Check out one of our wireless networked laptops;
find a quiet place to study; or consult with a librarian regarding research
strategies and resources.
With today's technology providing opportunities for the library to provide off-site access to its scholarly materials, you can now conduct research from home or from work, or anytime you connect to the Web.
Here's a taste of what UMass Boston's Healey Library has to offer:
Ask
24/7: According to the New York Times, one-third of American adults
now use instant messaging. Recognizing this, the library now features
ASK 24/7,
a 24 hours a day, 7 days a week service from the Boston Library Consortium
that offers academic research assistance, in real time, on the Internet,
from live library staff. UMass Boston reference librarians contribute
to the 24/7 coverage. You are just an Instant Message away from help.
- CQ Weekly/ CQ Researcher: The Congressional Quarterly (CQ) news team covers virtually every act of Congress, delivering nonpartisan news and analysis unavailable anywhere else. CQ Weekly is fully archived to 1983 on the Web. It provides in-depth reports on issues looming on the congressional horizon, plus a complete wrap up the previous week's news. A companion source, the award-winning CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. The CQ Researcher's hallmark is scrupulous objectivity and balance.
- E-RES: The library's electronic reserve system currently offers material for over 280 active courses, and our faculty placed 3,212 documents into the system. This software offers a complete Web?based platform that lets faculty and students enter and access information anytime, anywhere.
- LexisNexis Academic: Lexis stands for legal information and Nexis for news publications. This service is up-dated daily, so today's papers are usually available today. This service also includes full text of magazines, television and radio transcripts, roll-call votes in Congress, full text of legal cases and MUCH more. LEXIS-NEXIS is one of the most comprehensive and powerful full-text information services in the world.
- Mergent--FISonline: Not long ago shelves upon shelf of library reference areas were filled with the colorful Moody's Manuals of company financial information. Today, through FISonline, this information is delivered via the web, and contains standardized data files of 10,000 public companies. Company Fact Sheets provide presentation-quality reports on the companies.
- Oxford Reference Online: Winner of Internet Magazine "Site of the Year" Award: "An authoritative, efficient, one-stop shop for quick facts, definitions, and dates, [which] satisfies the great expectations raised by Oxford's reputation in reference publishing... While it is true that these separate facts and definitions can be found by scouring the Web, no reference site, free or fee based, draws them together so well." Choice
- PsychArticles: PsycARTICLES offers searchable full text articles on current issues in psychology. The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. Student and faculty reviews of this database have been favorable.