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    There's something for everyone on Digital Maine Library! From young kids to adults, students to job seekers, hobbyists to professionals, you can find resources to help you explore, learn, advance, and innovate. Delve into Maine's history, or your own genealogy. Find your next great book. Update your resume, and job skills. And so much more.

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    Freedom to Read

    Freedom to Read

    The freedom to read is essential to our democracy. It is continuously under attack. Private groups and public authorities in various parts of the country are working to remove or limit access to reading materials, to censor content in schools, to label "controversial" views, to distribute lists of "objectionable" books or authors, and to purge libraries... Read the full statement.

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    Tons of helpful tools for every subject!

    The Digital Maine Library has resources for teachers and young learners from kindergarten through college, throughout the school year and beyond!.

    Teachers will find the educator tools invaluable, while students will get easy access to factual information from age-specific databases like World Book Student and National Geographic Kids.

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    Welcome to the new Digital Maine Library

    No matter where you are in Maine, you're always at the library!

    You'll find thousands of magazines, newspapers, and references available through this expansive online resource to all Maine citizens! Geolocation makes it faster and easier for you to access the resources you need anywhere within Maine. Our sift and sort feature makes it fast and easy to find the resources that are important to you. We are pleased to announce the inclusion of Niche Academy's full video tutorial library.

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Academic One File (Gale)

Academic One File (Gale)

Extensive peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Covering all academic disciplines, it has millions of articles available in both PDF or HTML format. Video tutorial from Niche Academy.

Agricola

Agricola

(AGRICultural OnLine Access) Offers citations for journal articles with abstracts and bliographic records from content around the world. Access 5,200,000+ records and printed works from as far back as the 15th century.

American FactFinder

American FactFinder

Access to data from several censuses and surveys (population, housing, economic and community) from the United States, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas.

Ancestry Library Edition (ProQuest) - For Use in K-12 Libraries

Ancestry Library Edition (ProQuest) - For Use in K-12 Libraries

The world's most popular consumer online genealogy resource is available to use in Maine K-12 school libraries. This collection holds billions of records in census data, photos, directories, vital records, and more. Video tutorial from Niche Academy.

Ancestry Library Edition (ProQuest) - For Use in Public Libraries

Ancestry Library Edition (ProQuest) - For Use in Public Libraries

The world's most popular consumer online genealogy resource is available to use in Maine public libraries. This collection holds billions of records in census data, photos, directories, vital records, and more. Video tutorial from Niche Academy.

Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ProQuest)

Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ProQuest)

Discover specialized, editorially-curated and relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical for scientists researching the world's living aquatic resources.

Ben's Guide to US Government for Kids

Ben's Guide to US Government for Kids

A resource to help inform students, parents, and educators about the Federal Government through publications and information distributed by the Gov't. Publishing Office (GPO).

Black Freedom Struggle in the United States

Black Freedom Struggle in the United States

Over 2,000 curated primary-source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. Our intention is to support a wide range of students, independent researchers and anyone interested in learning more about the foundation of ongoing racial injustice in the U.S. – and the fights against it.

Books & Authors (Gale)

Books & Authors (Gale)

Have fun when exploring great title recommendations and reading lists for genre fiction and essential non-fiction. Everyone can easily find their next book to read when using the "What Do I Read Next?" feature!

Business Economics and Theory (Gale)

Business Economics and Theory (Gale)

Content is useful for starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, constructing economic models, investing for the future, and researching rates.

ChiltonLibrary (Gale)

ChiltonLibrary (Gale)

Automotive maintenance, repair, and technical service bulletins. Step-by-step service and repair procedures, wiring diagrams, maintenance and specification tables, troubleshooting guides and diagnostic trouble codes, and ASE test prep. Video tutorial from Niche Academy.

Digital Maine Repository

Digital Maine Repository

The DigitalMaine Repository is a partnership of the Maine State Library, Maine State Archives and community institutions around the state. As Maine's service hub for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), the DigitalMaine Repository is working to make digital collections from all Maine cultural institutions freely accessible to the world.

EBSCOhost Ebook Collection

EBSCOhost Ebook Collection

A collection of 7,989 e-books on a wide variety of topics for all ages.

EconLit (ProQuest)

EconLit (ProQuest)

Provides bibliographic coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature. An expanded version of the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) indexes of journals, books and dissertations, EconLit covers both economic theory and application.

Educator's Reference Complete (Gale)

Educator's Reference Complete (Gale)

A selection of more than 450 full-text academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and many premier reference sources. Focus on educational principles, child development and psychology, and best practices in education.

Entrepreneurship (Gale)

Entrepreneurship (Gale)

This database covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, etc.

Environment Complete (EBSCO)

Environment Complete (EBSCO)

Extensive coverage in the areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, and affiliated areas of study. Offering full text and indexing for journals, books and monographs.

ERIC - Education

ERIC - Education

(U.S. Dept. of Ed.) This comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable Internet-based bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information is for educators, researchers, and the general public.

FSTA: Food Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO)

FSTA: Food Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO)

FSTA® is an extensive specialist database in which carefully selected food and health research and information is collated, summarised, and indexed for efficient searching.

Gale Literary Sources

Gale Literary Sources

Gale Literary Sources allows searching across these three Gale's literary databases: Literature Resource Center, Scribner Writer Series and Twayne's Authors Series.

Gale Literature Resource Center

Gale Literature Resource Center

Up-to-date author biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

Gale Power Search

Gale Power Search

Gale PowerSearch contains over 375,000,000 articles found in a collection of authoritative periodicals, scholarly journals, newspapers, and reference content.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) ebooks

Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) ebooks

A selection of the most popular Gale reference e-books. Video tutorial from Niche Academy.

General OneFile (Gale)

General OneFile (Gale)

A one-stop source for news and magazine articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.

GeoRef (ProQuest)

GeoRef (ProQuest)

Access geoscience literature via the comprehensive AGI database. Contains over 3.6 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses.

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Global Newsstream (ProQuest)

Global Newsstream (ProQuest)

Search the most recent global news content in over 2,800 news sources including newspapers, newswires, news journals, transcripts, video, and digital-first content in full-text format. The archives stretch back into the 1980s. Includes the Boston Globe, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and more!

Google Scholar

Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. You can search for articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

Google Translate

Google Translate

Google's free service instantly translates words, phrases, and web pages between English and over 100 other languages.

GreenFILE (EBSCO)

GreenFILE (EBSCO)

A free research database that provides scholarly, government and general-interest sources covering the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and governments and what can be done at each level to minimize negative impacts.

Health and Wellness Resource Center (Gale)

Health and Wellness Resource Center (Gale)

Find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, videos, & reference information on: Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Pregnancy, Prescription Drugs, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, health assessment sites & government databases. Includes 700+ videos from a consumer health video library.

Health Reference Center Academic (Gale)

Health Reference Center Academic (Gale)

Articles on Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc.

Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center (EBSCO)

Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center (EBSCO)

A resource that offers detailed "how-to" instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby enthusiast. Full text from leading hobby and craft magazines. Video tutorial from Niche Academy.

In Context: College

In Context: College

Interdisciplinary content that reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, communication, collaboration, and innovation. Learners can access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals. Empower learning with hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections.

In Context: Elementary (Gale)

In Context: Elementary (Gale)

This educational resource is for Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine, newspaper and reference content.

In Context: Environmental Studies (Gale)

In Context: Environmental Studies (Gale)

This resources focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues. Topic, organization, and country portals form research centers around issues covering energy systems, health care, agriculture, climate change, population, and economic development.

In Context: High School (Gale)

In Context: High School (Gale)

Presented at the High School level. Provides support for papers, projects, and presentations that reinforce development of academic skills like critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity and innovation. Offers a selection of overviews, primary sources, videos and images.

In Context: Middle School (Gale)

In Context: Middle School (Gale)

Created specifically for middle school students, this resource combines reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, and primary sources. It includes more than 1.6 million articles.

In Context: Opposing Viewpoints (Gale)

In Context: Opposing Viewpoints (Gale)

Contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. It features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio and links to vetted websites.

Informe Académico (Gale)

Informe Académico (Gale)

This resource includes a wide range of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America. It provides quality reference material--not simply translations of English-language materials.

Leadership and Management (Gale)

Leadership and Management (Gale)

Periodical content covering topics such as 21st century skills, learning disorders, standardized testing, home schooling and more. Updated daily, this resource is for any professional educator interested in professional development.

LearningExpress Library (EBSCO)

LearningExpress Library (EBSCO)

An eLearning solution that provides support to students and professionals for academic skill-building, standardized test prep, career certification test prep and more.Video tutorial from Niche Academy.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) (EBSCO)

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) (EBSCO)

This free research database provides indexing and abstracting for key library and information science journals, books, research reports and more.

Maine CDC

Maine CDC

Get the latest information about the COVID 19 pandemic in Maine and listen to Maine CDC Briefings.

Maine Memory Network

Maine Memory Network

A project of the Maine Historical Society, provides access to thousands of historical items belonging to over 260 organizations from across Maine.

Maine News (ProQuest)

Maine News (ProQuest)

Search through the Bangor Daily News, Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel, Maine Times, Portland Press Herald and Sun Journal dating back to 1980.

Maine Secretary of State Kids' Page

Maine Secretary of State Kids' Page

Information for K-12 on the State of Maine as well as links to other student programs from the Secretary of State's Office.

MEDLINE Plus

MEDLINE Plus

MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families for reliable, up-to-date health information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand.

Merriam-Webster's 3rd New Int'l. Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's 3rd New Int'l. Dictionary

Online full-text of Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus as well as a wealth of language related information.

MyHeritage (Library Edition) (EBSCO)

MyHeritage (Library Edition) (EBSCO)

MyHeritage Library Edition contains internationally diverse genealogy databases. Access to billions of historical documents, millions of historical photos and resources that span the past five centuries. Remote access from home is allowed and it is and a mobile-friendly.

National Geographic Kids (Gale)

National Geographic Kids (Gale)

National Geographic Kids includes all magazines from 2009 to the present, as well as books, videos, and images. High-quality information for primary, upper elementary, and middle school students. Video Tutorial from Niche Academy.

Nature

Nature

Online version of Nature, a British multidisciplinary scientific journal. A top academic journal that publishes original research across a wide range of scientific fields.

Newsstand (Gale)

Newsstand (Gale)

A full-text newspaper resource searchable by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section, or other fields. Access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.

Niche Academy

Niche Academy

Niche Academy is an award winning online learning platform that includes quick video tutorials for many of the resources you’ll find in the Digital Maine Library.

NoveList K-8 Plus (EBSCO)

NoveList K-8 Plus (EBSCO)

Created especially for children and the adults who work with them. It helps kids find books that are just right for their reading level and interests. Parents, teachers, and librarians can also find tools to teach with books and engage young readers.

NoveList Plus (EBSCO)

NoveList Plus (EBSCO)

A database for reading recommendations to help readers of all ages find information on books. Includes expert recommendations, read-alikes, reviews, articles, lists and more. Also provides audiobook information and recommendations. Video tutorial from Niche Academy.

Oceanic Abstracts (ProQuest)

Oceanic Abstracts (ProQuest)

Technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment that focuses on marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics.

Peterson’s Career Prep (Gale)

Peterson’s Career Prep (Gale)

A resource for job seekers that helps people improve their chances of finding sustainable employment. Provides guidance and activities for job seekers and those investigating new careers.

Popular Magazines (Gale)

Popular Magazines (Gale)

Access to the most searched magazines across the OneFile products. The titles selected are based on actual publication searches performed by library patrons and the database includes many titles recommended by Bowker's "Magazines for Libraries."

PubMed (National Library of Medicine)

PubMed (National Library of Medicine)

Offers over 28 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering.

Scribner Writers Series (Gale)

Scribner Writers Series (Gale)

The Scribner Writers series are e-books that include: American Writers Collection (36 vols); British Writers Collection (26 vols); European Writers Collection (14 vols); World and Genre Writers Collection (25 vols).

Teacher Reference Center (EBSCO)

Teacher Reference Center (EBSCO)

Indexing and abstracts for nearly 300 peer-reviewed journals. Topics include Best Practices, Curriculum Development, Literacy Standards, Pedagogical Research, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Science & Mathematics, School Administration, and more.

Twayne's Author Series (Gale)

Twayne's Author Series (Gale)

A collection of references to literary figures of America, Great Britain and the world. Includes biographical information, major works, and critical responses.

US Newsstream (ProQuest)

US Newsstream (ProQuest)

US Newsstream provides access to the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format.

Value Line Investment Survey for public libraries

Value Line Investment Survey for public libraries

This financial newsletter monitors information important to analysts and investors on hundreds of stocks over dozens of industries, and is an invaluable resource for understanding the fluctuations of the stock market. Video tutorial from Niche Academy.

Value Line Research Center for academic libraries

Value Line Research Center for academic libraries

The Value Line Research Center includes online access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks.

Wall Street Journal (ProQuest)

Wall Street Journal (ProQuest)

A daily business and financial newspaper with high marks for factual reporting. It has a focus upon business and economy but often reports on related topics in politics, arts and world events.

World Book Advanced

World Book Advanced

For advanced secondary and college students, this is a reference tool that includes full encyclopedic and multimedia databases supplemented with online books, primary sources, website links and more. Optimized for tablets.

World Book Discover

World Book Discover

Aimed at learners reading below year level (as well as adult literacy, reluctant readers or ESL), World Book Discover engages with easy-to-understand content, interactive multimedia and text-to-speech. Includes activities aimed at teaching life skills.

World Book Early World of Learning

World Book Early World of Learning

For K-3rd graders, this site offers a children's encyclopedia, and several resources (like animated poems, stories and games) for developing reading skills such as phonics, vocabulary & comprehension.

World Book Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos

World Book Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos

This resource is the Spanish-language version of the World Book Encyclopedia, providing the same quality information to Spanish-speaking learners. Grades 2-6.

World Book Encyclopedia

World Book Encyclopedia

A general A-Z reference resource, World Book Encyclopedia covers thousands of entries in a wide variety of topics, adding in color photos, diagrams, charts, tables and maps.

World Book Kids

World Book Kids

For K-5th graders, this online encyclopedia presents information in a child-friendly manner, including videos, activities, read-aloud and translation features. Lexile reading levels are included.

World Book Student

World Book Student

World Book Student connects students with a variety of multimedia and articles, while providing tools to teachers to support an inquiry-driven or flipped classroom curriculum.

World Book Timelines

World Book Timelines

Students and researchers can browse existing timelines in a variety of subjects or create custom timelines using articles from the World Book encyclopedia to visualize the cause and effect relationship between selected events.

World Fact Book (CIA)

World Fact Book (CIA)

Produced by the CIA, the World Factbook summarizes information about countries and other international entities, such as demographics, geography, communications, government, and economy.

WorldCat.org

WorldCat.org

WorldCat.org compiles and organizes the holdings of thousands of libraries globally, making it the world's largest bibliographic database.

A-Z Index

Just the links… a quick index for those who know where they are going.

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