Visitors to Horn Library are permitted use of several of our library resources. Visitors may purchase a library card to check out books for a 4-week period. Database access is limited to use within the library.
Residents of contiguous towns (Dover, Natick, Newton, and Weston): $25 per year.
College students with current academic identification: One-day free pass
Contract Restrictions:
The library's contracts with database vendors do not include continued off-campus access for visitors and some restrict on-campus access to currently enrolled Babson students, faculty and staff. Restricted sources are generally indicated as "On or off campus: Enter your Babson username and password."
For more in-depth assistance, consult with independent information brokers or visit your local public library. Lists of information brokers are available through your local yellow pages and on the internet through the Association of Independent Information Professionals.
Your local public library may provide access to electronic resources within their library and from home or office. Check out your library's web site or speak with one of their reference librarians.
Massachusetts residents: Massachusetts residents can obtain remote access to InfoTrac Web and other databases through their local public libraries by going to the Massachusetts Library Information Network and entering the barcode on their public library card.
New York residents: Within the New York City area, the Science, Industry and Business Library of the New York Public Library offers databases, both at NYPL locations and from home with a valid NYPL library card. This includes the EBSCOhost database called Business Source Premier, which is an excellent source for business articles from trade publications as well as academic business journals. For more analytical databases, such as Bloomberg, you will need to visit the library. For a complete list, see their web site.
Other States: Each state has its own information policy and infrastructure, and offers its own mix of databases and access. For example:
In Northern Virginia’s Fairfax County library system, local residents with a library card have access not only to InfoTrac’s Business and Company Resource Center and EBSCOhost’s Business Source Elite, but also to ProQuest, which includes the Wall Street Journal.
California has its own offerings, including the extensive network available through the statewide educational system.
Florida libraries, such as the public libraries in Dade County, prefer that you contact them directly, to find out what is available off-site.
Come into the Horn Library to use these unrestricted databases on workstations #9-26. You'll need to get a username/password from Information Desk 1 to log on to the computer and print.
* Sources available off campus to visitors **Off campus access for Massachusetts residents only via the Massachusetts Library Information Network (MLIN) ***To use networked CD-ROM services, such as Galante's, use library workstations #9-26.
