Databases & Online Resources

OSL Databases for ALL OSL Library Patrons

There are many online databases and resources available through Rhode Island's Ocean State Libraries consortium. The database links listed in the righthand column of this page are available to all OSL patrons, both from the library and from your home computers.

Please use your OSL library card number (no spaces or dashes) to log in when prompted.

Attention Verizon FIOS users: Internet access for Verizon FIOS is presently routed through New York. When FIOS customers try to access geographically authenticated databases (Homework Help, World Book), they show up as being in New York and are denied access. FIOS users need to enter a library bar code to access geographically authenticated databases. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Databases for JMS Library Patrons ONLY

The database links listed below are available ONLY to Jesse Smith Library patrons, that is, patrons with library cards issued by Jesse Smith Library. If your library card number begins with the prefix "26000" you are a JMS Library patron.

JMS Library Patrons may access the databases both from within the library and from their home computers by entering their 14-digit JMS OSL library card number ("26000...." no spaces or dashes) when prompted.

If you are not a JMS Library patron and would like to access these restricted databases, please come into the library and ask for assistance at our Reference Desk.

JMS Patron Databases:

EBSCO Magazine Search

EBSCO Research Databases for JMS Library patrons include:

• EBSCOhost Web
• Academic Search Premier
• Alt-Health Watch
• Auto Repair Reference Center
• Biography Collection Complete
• Business Source Premier
• Career Library
• Consumer Health Complete
• Health Source: consumer Edition
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
• Literary Reference Center
• Master FILE Premier
• Newspaper source
• Novelist Plus
• Points of View Reference Center
• Primary Search
• Regional Business News
• Salud in Espanol

EBSCO Magazine Search is available from both LIBRARY and HOME.

Use your 14-digit JMS OSL library card number ("26000...." no spaces or dashes) to log in.

Global Road Warrior

Global Road Warrior, your ultimate guide to the world. Available only to JMS patrons. When accessing from your home computer, you must use your 14-digit JMS OSL library card number ("26000...." no spaces or dashes) to log in.

Learn-A-Test

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Learn-A-Test Online is now available to all OSL Library Patrons through AskRI.org. LearningExpress Library provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic and licensing tests. Features real test-taking experience, instant scoring, personalized analysis, and individualized recommendations. Please register using your 14-digit OSL library card number AS YOUR USERNAME. (Username = library card barcode, no spaces or dashes; choose your own Password.)

Marshall Cavendish

Marshall Cavendish Animal & Plant Anatomy

This extensively illustrated resource is the first of its kind developed specifically for student researchers. It presents the anatomy and physiology of a comprehensive range of life-forms.

When you log in from your home computer
User = jmslibrary
Password = McDc42Day.

Salem Press Guides

Salem History

The Salem History online database includes the complete contents of three of their printed reference sets, including Milestone Documents, a primary source series, The Decades, Salem's critically acclaimed American history series, and Great Lives from History, the definitive, worldwide biographical resource.

Databases available to ALL OSL Patrons:

Digital Media from OSL

The Overdrive Digital Media Download Site is now available to all Ocean State Library (OSL) cardholders.

Using your OSL library card and your personal computer (or compatible device), you can browse, check out, and download eBooks, audio books, music and video from E-Zone to enjoy at home, at work, or when you travel. Check it out!

Tutor.com's Career Resource Center provides one-on-one online assistance for job-seekers. You can get help with résumé and test preparation, including GED and Citizenship tests. Check it out today!

Search AskRI.org

Search RI's Online Statewide Reference Resource AskRI.org:

Please note: FIOS & Out of State Users must use library card authentication to access these databases.

AskRI.org resources are available to all RI citizens and DO NOT require an OSL Library Card.

From AskRI.org you can access the Statewide Reference Resource Center @ Providence Public Library.

Online Resources at AskRI.org include:

• Homework Help RI
• Worldbook Web
• Heritage Quest
• EBSCO
• Career Center
• Mango Languages
• Learning Express
• Reference USA

Please note: FIOS & Out of State Users must use library card authentication to access these databases.

Connect to:

• World Book Kids
• World Book Advanced
• World Book Discover
• World Book Student
• Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos

at World Book Universal.

FIOS & Out of State Users:

Access World Book with library card (for Verizon FIOS customers and out-of-state Rhode Islanders)