Research

Access, search, and print articles from the Barrington Times Digital Archive from 1958-83. Digitization services by Advantage Archives. Made possible by a Libraries of RI grant offered by OLIS as funded via IMLS under the Grants to States Program by LSTA. The library has bound volumes and archival boxes of the paper from 1984-current.

Rhode Island’s Online Reference Center provided by Providence Public Library with the support of OLIS (Office of Library and Information Services).  Students, jobseekers, librarians and educators, and the curious can all reach the information they need. Includes Homework help, World Book Encyclopedia, Mango Languages, and much more. Free for Rhode Island residents.

DIY auto repair from EBSCO. Repair and maintenance information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles. New repair procedures, TSBs, and updates are added on a regular basis. All content has been created by ASE certified technicians.

Easily accessible and understandable health and medical information for the everyday consumer. Search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles.

A single search box for direct access to full-text content available through AskRI databases.

An online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

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

The place to start for quality health information in both English and Spanish. The site offers hundreds of health topics, drug information, interactive health check tools, surgery videos, and much more. 

Scholarly resource provides indexing and abstracts for more than 8,300 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. PDF back files to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals.

Offers access to education literature and resources. Database contains more than 1,243,000 records and links to more than 224,000 full-text documents.