Databases & Newspapers

     

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Featured Database

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Business & Investing

Business Source Elite Provides full text for journals covering business, management, economics and finance.

Business Source Premier The industry's most popular business research database includes the full text for many journals.

Corfacts New Jersey business to business directory. To access the Corfacts database, you must enter the User ID (obpl) and the Password (obpl123) in the subscriber login area.

Reference USA Detailed listing of businesses with the ability to search by company name, type of business, geography, etc.

Regional Business News Provides full text for regional business publications.

History

American History Online Spans more than 500 years of history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience.

 

American Women's History Online The American Women's History Database is an authoritative reference database containing biographies, historical and topical subject entries, primary sources, maps and charts, images and videos, and general and subject-specific timelines encompassing more than 500 years of American women's history.



African-American History Online In-depth information on the people, events, and topics important to the study of African-American history.

 

American Indian History Online Offers thorough access to more than 15,000 years of Native American culture, history, and heritage.

 

Biography Collection Complete Features full-text biographies from many different sources.

 

Gale Encyclopedia of World History: Governments
Provides a broad overview of national governments throughout history, explaining their structures and histories, key players and events, and how governments effect, and are affected by, social change.

 

 

Great Depression & New Deal Library
Covers the failure of the U.S. economy and its gradual recovery, with special attention to the New Deal, as well as the global situation, including the rise of Hitler. The Almanac covers the era in 16 subject chapters. Biographies profiles 29 major figures of the period. Primary Sources features annotated excerpts from speeches, newspaper and magazine articles, literature, and other documents from the period. For middle school and general audiences.



History Reference Center Full text reference books, articles, historical documents, biographies, historical photos and maps.

 

Industrial Revolution
Covers the ideas and social turmoil that marked this transition as well as the machines, manufacturing processes and energy sources that spurred it on.

 


Modern World History Online Covers the people, places, and events in the broad expanse of history—from mid-15th century to the present.

 

Sixties in America Comprehensive coverage of the impact of the 1960's on the United States and Canada.

 

UXL Encyclopedia of World Mythology
Entry topics include gods and goddesses; heroes and other key characters; motifs and global themes; major myths; and national or cultural mythologies. Coverage spans a diversity of cultures, including standard Greek/Roman entries as well as Native North and South American traditions, Norse mythology, Asian Pacific mythology, Judeo-Christian tradition, and Islamic and Hindu mythologies.

 

Reference

Curriculum Resource Center Provides a library of printable teacher-handout material for the middle school, high school, and junior college curriculum.

 

Curriculum Resource Center Junior Edition Provides a library of printable teacher-handout material and other content geared for elementary-level students.


ERIC (Education Resource Information Center Contains records and links to full-text education documents.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia Provides encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.


Global Road Warrior
Global Road Warrior is an international resource for social, cultural, travel, and business information. The database covers 175 countries and territories and includes information on demographics, economy, holidays, currencies, visas, climate, passports, immunization, entry and departure, emergencies, internal travel information, country and regional maps, airports, international dialing guides, and more.


Legal Reference CenterLegal Information Reference Center Legal Information Reference Center includes more than 320 full-text publications plus thousands of legal forms with more content being added on a regular basis. The database includes coverage of legal issues such as: business law, personal finance and estate planning, family law, property & real estate and rights & disputes. 
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LISTA Provides coverage on subjects related to the field of information science.

MasterFILE Premier Includes full text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an image collection.

MAS Ultra-Teens Contains full text for popular high school magazines.

Points of View Reference Center Designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue.

Professional Development Collection Education Provides a highly specialized collection of high quality education journals, including peer-reviewed titles.

Student Research Center

 

World Geography and Culture OnlineWorld Geography and Culture Online covers all aspects of a country-from its geography and physical features to its government, people, and society-providing both facts at a glance and in-depth coverage through country entries, maps, flags, images, statistics, news articles, a gazetteer, and more.

 

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Health & Wellness

Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery and Medical Tests
Provides coverage of numerous surgical procedures, medical tests and related topics, such as anesthetics, common lab test and procedures, medications and postoperative care. Entries for medical test and surgical include definition; purpose; demographic information; diagnosis/preparation; aftercare; risks; morbidity and mortality rates; alternatives; and more.

Health Source: Consumer Edition Provides access to full text, consumer health magazines.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition Provides scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Covers generic drug patient education sheets with brand names.

Health & Wellness Resource Center Articles from general interest publications, health and medical journals and pamphlets.

 

Health Reference Center Provides clear and comprehensive information on conditions and diseases, health and wellness, mental health, and the human body.


Magill's Medical Guide Covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders.

 



Salud en Español
Health Information in Spanish.

Language Learning

Mango Languages is an online language-learning system teaching actual conversation skills for a wide variety of languages.

 

For instructions using Mango, click here.

 

Literature &Poetry

Bloom's Literary Reference Online Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.


Literary Reference Center Contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works.

Literature Resource Center Literary criticism, author biographies, reviews and more.

NextReads E-mail newsletter subscription service that provides reading suggestions for all ages in interest categories.

Online Book Clubs Monday through Friday, you will receive in your email a five-minute selection from a chapter of a book. By the end of the week, you’ll have read 2-3 chapters.

Novelist Plus Comprehensive book recommendations for fiction and non-fiction.

Novelist K-8 Plus Comprehensive book recommendations for younger readers.

Magazines & Newspapers & Journals

Academic Search Premier Multi-disciplinary database provides full text for journals, including full text for peer-reviewed titles.

¡Informe! Hispanic Magazines Indexing, images and full text of popular Hispanic magazines.

MasterFILE Premier Full text for general reference publications, covering virtually every subject area of general interest.

Middle Search Plus Full text for popular, middle school magazines, reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and images.

Newspaper Source Plus More than 700 full-text newspapers including the New York Times. In addition, the database features more than 677,000 television and radio news transcripts.

Primary Search Elementary Full text for popular magazines for elementary school research.

TOPIC Search Full text and abstract articles on social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries, and other popular topics.

Science & Technology

Forensic Science  A comprehensive reference source on the theory, techniques, and applications of the various forensic sciences.

GreenFile Research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond.

Science Reference Center Full text for science encyclopedias, reference books and periodicals.

 

 

Science Online Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments.

 

UXL Encyclopedia of Biomes
Offers detailed comparative essays on major biomes and their component ecosystems. Includes entries on land biomes and water biomes and covers climate, elevation, soil, water bodies, vegetation, animal life, food web, plant and animal adaptations, endangered species, human effects on the biome and the effects of the environment on humans' culture and economy.



Jobs and Careers

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center Provides detailed profiles of jobs and industries, invaluable advice on career skills, resource entries, and much more!

 

Job and Career Accelerator
Create resumes and cover letters, learn interviewing techniques, and prepare for related exams. Access millions of job listings.

 

Old Bridge Public Library Career Center The Old Bridge Public Library Career Center is designed to help individuals find employment, or explore new career opportunities.

Spanish

¡Informe! Hispanic Magazines Indexing, images and full text of popular Hispanic magazines.

Salud en Español Consumer Health Complete - Spanish Version.

 

 

Revised:08/27/12