Research Tools

• The Library's prefered tool is ZoteroBib.
• For additional citation help, we recommend The Purdue Online Writing Lab. 

Funding for the digitization came from a grant opportunity secured by the Holmes Public Library through an LSTA Grant administered by the Boston Public Library and shared on the Digital Commonwealth.

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BBC News: The BBC is the world’s leading public service broadcaster. We’re impartial and independent, and every day we create distinctive, world-class programs and content which inform, educate and entertain millions of people in the UK and around the world.

Boston Globe: The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872. The newspaper has won a total of 26 Pulitzer Prizes as of 2016, and had a total paid circulation of about 136,000 in the year ending in August 2016.

Boston Herald: The Boston Herald is an American daily newspaper whose primary market is Boston, Massachusetts and its surrounding area. It was founded in 1846 and is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the United States.

Brockton Enterprise: The Enterprise is an afternoon daily newspaper published in Brockton, Massachusetts. It is considered a newspaper of record for Brockton and nearby towns in northern Bristol and Plymouth counties, and southern Norfolk County.

CNN: CNN is an American news-based pay television channel owned by CNN Worldwide, a unit of the WarnerMedia News & Sports division of AT&T's WarnerMedia. CNN was founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner as a 24-hour cable news channel.

JSTOR Daily: Where news meets its scholarly match: JSTOR Daily offers analysis of news, tapping into scholarship on JSTOR, a digital library of academic journals.

NPR: National Public Radio is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit media organization based in Washington, D.C. NPR differs from other non-profit membership media organizations, such as AP, in that it was established by an act of Congress and most of its member stations are owned by government entities.

New York Times: The New York Times is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership. Nicknamed The Gray Lady, the Times has long been regarded within the industry as a national "newspaper of record."

Patriot Ledger: The Patriot Ledger is a daily morning newspaper printed in Quincy, Massachusetts, that serves the South Shore. It publishes Monday through Saturday.

Plympton Halifax Kingston Express: The Plympton-Halifax-Kingston Express is an independent, community based weekly newspaper covering the towns of Plympton and Halifax, Massachusetts. The paper is published every Friday.

Wall Street Journal: The Wall Street Journal is an American business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The Journal, along with its Asian editions, is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp

USA Today: USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily middle-market newspaper that is the flagship publication of its owner, Gannett. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15, 1982, it operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters in McLean, Virginia.