Database Descriptions

American History Online

• 500 year coverage
• Military, Social, Cultural
• highlights important people and events

African-American History Online

• In-depth information on people events, and topics.

American Indian History

• 15,000 years of Native American Culture
• History and Heritage

Ancient Medieval History

• Pre-modern world
• Emphasis on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece Rome. Africa
• Europe, The Americas, Asia

Biography Collection Complete

• Full-text biographies
• People in history, science, arts, music, and other disciplines

BGMI Biography Genealogy Master Index

• Index to print source biographical material
• All time periods
• Does not contain biographies.

Biography Resource Center

• Biographies of subjects from varying nations and eras
• Full-Text periodicals
• Portraits, News Briefs

Business Source Elite

• Full-text coverage
• Business periodicals and trade publications
• Regional Business news
• Title from Crains Communications

CountryWatch

• Political, economic, and business information, daily news
• Map Gallery

Curriculum Resource Center

• Printable hand-out material
• Middle School, High School, and Junior College

Curriculum Resource Center: Junior Edition

• Printable hand-out material
• Content for elementary-level students

Custom Newspapers

• Full-Text Articles
• Star Ledger, Bergen Record, New York Times
• Times of London, Los Angeles Times
• Access supported by the New Jersey State Library.

Eric (Education Resource Information Center)

• Educational literature and resources
• Records and Full-text documents

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center

• Profiles on jobs in various industries
• Advice on career skills
• Resource Entries

Health Reference Center

• Information on health conditions and diseases
• Wellness, Mental Health, and anatomy
• Information on medical tests.

Health Source Consumer Edition

• Searchable Full-Text
• Consumer health magazines, pamphlets, reference books
• Clinical reference system reports

Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts

• Librarianship, classification, cataloging
• Periodical, books, research reports, proceedings
• Coverage dating back to 1960's.

Literary Reference Center

• Full-Text plot summaries
• Literary Criticism, Reviews, Author Biographies, Classic Text
• Literary Journals (Full Text)

MAS Ultra

• Full-text articles
• Magazines for high school students
• Reading Level Indicator
• Biographies and primary source documents.

Middle Search Plus

• Full-text
• Popular middle school magazines
• Biographies and historical essays
• Primary source documents
• Image Collection

Modern World History Online

• Middle 15th Century to present
• People, places, events

Newspaper Source

• Full-text
• Washington Post, Washington Times, Times London
• Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and others
• Regional Newspapers

NoveList K-8

• Reader's advisory for young readers
• Full-text reviews
• Search by author, title, series, theme or topic.

Personal & Business Forms

• Printable Forms
• Personal, Business, Government

Points of View

• Full-text database
• Essays on current issues
• Backgrounds, counterpoints, and descriptions.
• Media transcripts, primary source documents, Reference Books

Primary Search

• Full-text with reading level indicator
• Elementary School Magazines
• Easy-to-read encyclopedic entries.
• Photos, Maps, Flags

Professional Development Collection

• Full-text
• Education Journals
• Educational Reports

ReferenceUSA

• Information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses;
• 102 million U.S. residents; 683,000 U.S. health care providers;
• 1 million Canadian businesses; and 11 million Canadian residents.
• Statewide access is made possible by the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative.

Access Instructions for ReferenceUSA :  To access ReferenceUSA, select Custom Search,
(remote users then login using library card barcode), scroll down to the Business databases,
then click on the Internet link (globe) icon next to ReferenceUSA.]

Salud En Espanol

• Consumer Health and Wellness information
• Disease, conditions, procedures and treatments

Science Online

• Broad-Range of scientific disciplines
• Essays, diagrams, biographies, experiments

Science Reference Center

• Full-text
• Encyclopedias, Reference Books, periodical, and other sources
• Coverage of most scientific disciplines
• Article correlate to state and national curriculum standards

Topic Source

• Current Events Database
• Social, political, scientific issues
• Full-text records
• Diverse sources.

World Atlas

• Printable maps of countries, provinces and states
• Up-to-data statistical and local information