Mercer County
Library System
Databases Available from Home or Office
Information on EBSCOhost Mobile and EBSCOhost iPhone App
EBSCO A-to-Z is a list of the magazines available to the Mercer County Library System. While some titles are available in our Branches as paper copies, the majority are provided through electronic access. Please call or see the reference staff at any branch for assistance with this list or any of our electronic resources.
Alphabetical List of All Databases Available From Home
Biography
Biography Collection Complete
Offers a comprehensive collection of full-text biographies supporting history, science, the arts, music, literature, multicultural studies, gender studies, business, government & politics, sports, entertainment and many other areas.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Regarded as one of the most scholarly of English language encyclopedias, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is a general knowledge English-language encyclopedia. It is written and continuously updated by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,400 contributors.
Gale Virtual
Reference Library
Comprised of:
Biography
Contemporary Black Biography
Contemporary Musicians
Newsmakers 2010 Cumulation, 2010
Business
Business Plans Handbook
Education
College Bluebook, 2011 & 2012
Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans: A Guide to Education-Related Financial
Aid Programs for Students and Professionals, 2011 & 2012 eds.
Environment
American Museum of Natural History Birds of North America: Eastern region, 2011
General Reference
Digital Photography Essentials, 2011
Essential World Atlas, 2011
Literature
Novels for Students
Poetry for Students
Short Stories for Students
Drama for Students
Multicultural Studies
Contemporary Black Biography
Travel
Alaska, 2010
Boston, 2011
California, 2010
Chicago, 2010
Florida, 2010
Business
Business Source Elite
Business Source Elite provides full-text coverage of scholarly business, management and economics journals. It includes publications covering topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales, etc. Business Source Elite offers full text for nearly 1,000 business publications and contains expanded PDF backfiles for more than 150 titles (back to 1985 or the first issue published for that journal). More than 10,100 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included.
Corfacts
New Jersey’s Premier Online Business to Business Directory.
OneSource
OneSource delivers business information and sales intelligence on millions of companies and executives
worldwide - delivering targeted sales leads, actionable company reports, and company research.
(Via
JerseyClicks.)
ReferenceUSA
Provides detailed, current directory information on more than 12 million U.S.
Businesses, 102 million U.S. residents, 683,000 U.S. healthcare providers, 1
million Canadian businesses and 11 million Canadian residents.
Regional Business News
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business
publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business
journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within
the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Small
Business Resource Center
This database offers users complete small business management resources via a
combination of unparalleled periodicals and reference content. From conducting
industry research to financial planning, to marketing a product and franchising
a business, the Small Business Resource Center provides users with all the
information they need to succeed.
Careers
Career Transitions
Complete, self-paced application that walks job-seekers through the entire job-seeking process from assessing strengths and interests, to exploring new opportunities, to ultimately improving the chances of landing a job.
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
The critically acclaimed Ferguson's Career Guidance Center features exclusive,
wide-ranging content that is accessible and intuitively organized. Known for its
unprecedented depth of coverage and variety of user-friendly content formats,
this comprehensive career research database is broken down into three main
sections: Job and Industry Profiles, Job-Hunting and Workplace Skills, and
Career and Industry Resources. The material is drawn from a range of
authoritative sources and is extensively indexed.
Infobase Learning Available Titles
Interdisciplinary, interactive databases on a wide range of subjects, such as
Science, History, Geography, Curriculum Resources, Health Reference
Center, and Ferguson's Career Guidance Center.
Job and Career Accelerator
Get detailed information on occupations that suit your interests. Access current
job listings from over 5 million job postings, which are collected from all
major job boards. Create professional resumes and cover letters, master
interviewing and networking techniques, and more. Job & Career Accelerator is
your guide to getting hired!
LearningExpressLibrary.com
Provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and
tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners
succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass.
Directories
Gale Directory
Library
Includes:
American Wholesalers and Distributors Directory
Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations;
Business Rankings Annual.
Education
Academic Search Premier
Scholarly Journals, many full-text.
ERIC
The Education Resource Information Center provides access to educational
literature and resources. This database provides access to information from
journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in
Education Index.
Mango
Languages
Mango is a fun, easy to use online language-learning system that teaches actual
conversation skills for 6 different languages including English as a second
language for Spanish speakers. It's so easy to use, you'll see incredible
results after just one
lesson!
Professional Development Collection
This is the most comprehensive and most valuable collection of full-text education journals in the world.
Professional Development Collection™ includes full text for more than 500 high-quality education journals including:
Booklist,
Education, Education Digest, Education Week, Educational Leadership, High School Journal, Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Research,
Phi Delta Kappan, Reading Teacher, School Library Journal, and many others. This database also contains nearly 230 educational reports.
Encyclopedias
Encyclopaedia
Britannica
Regarded as one of the most scholarly of English language encyclopedias, the
Encyclopaedia Britannica is a general knowledge English-language encyclopedia.
It is written and continuously updated by about 100 full-time editors and more
than 4,400 contributors.
Gale Virtual
Reference Library
Comprised of:
Biography
Contemporary Black Biography
Contemporary Musicians
Newsmakers 2010 Cumulation, 2010
Business
Business Plans Handbook
Education
College Bluebook, 2011 & 2012
Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans: A Guide to Education-Related Financial
Aid Programs for Students and Professionals, 2011 & 2012 eds.
Environment
American Museum of Natural History Birds of North America: Eastern region, 2011
General Reference
Digital Photography Essentials, 2011
Essential World Atlas, 2011
Literature
Novels for Students
Poetry for Students
Short Stories for Students
Drama for Students
Multicultural Studies
Contemporary Black Biography
Travel
Alaska, 2010
Boston, 2011
California, 2010
Chicago, 2010
Florida, 2010
Health and Medicine
Health Reference Center
Includes more than 585 educational videos on a wide range of health topics, more than 1,100 searchable and browsable color illustrations, and a “Health in the
News” section with regularly updated health news articles.
Health Source - Consumer Edition
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals, including more than 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
Infobase Learning Available Titles
Interdisciplinary, interactive databases on a wide range of subjects, such as
Science, History, Geography, Curriculum Resources, Health Reference
Center, and Ferguson's Career Guidance Center.
Salem Health
Comprised of: Magill's Medical Guide; Genetics and Inherited Conditions;
Infectious Diseases & Conditions
To access this database from home:
Click on the second tab for Remote Access Login
Enter the password: mercercols (the password is not case sensitive)
Salud en Espanol (CHC Spanish Version)
Salud en Español provides comprehensive evidence-based reports and fact sheets in Spanish on all aspects of consumer health and wellness.
Topic specific reports covering all aspects of health offer valuable overviews on diseases, conditions, procedures and various treatments.
History
American History Online
A comprehensive database covering the most important individuals, events, and
topics in US history. The thousands of entries include biographies, maps,
timelines, primary source documents, and images. Extensive overview essays
provide detail on each time period.
African-American History Online
Exploring more than 500 years of the African-American
experience, African-American History Online offers many exciting features,
including more than 85 historical videos that bring history to life. The
extensively hyperlinked entries in this comprehensive database include subject
entries, primary sources, images and videos, general and topic-specific
timelines, biographies, maps and charts, and more. Users can search for entries
by keyword or phrase or browse by topic and by time period—from eight historical
periods relevant specifically to African-American history. In addition,
biographies can be browsed by occupation and primary sources by type.
American Indian History Online
American Indian History Online offers fast access to more than 15,000 years of culture and history through event and topic entries, biographies,
images and videos, maps and charts, legends, primary sources, and timeline entries. The "Tribes and Culture Areas" section is easy to browse
with a helpful tabbed list of tribes, representing more than 600 Native American groups, and a browse-by-culture-area feature. This award-winning
database allows for an interactive, multifaceted look at the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
American Women's History Online
American Women's History Online 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.
More than 60 historical videos cover such topics as working women, women in politics, and changing women's fashions. Users can search for entries by
keyword or phrase, or they can browse by topic and by time period—from nine historical periods relevant specifically to women's history.
Ancient
& Medieval History Online
Ancient and Medieval History Online provides thorough coverage of nine civilizations—ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Greece, ancient
Rome, ancient and medieval Africa, medieval Europe, the Americas, ancient and medieval Asia, and Islamic Empire. Covering prehistory through the
1500s, this authoritative online database features a user-friendly interface. Users can research each civilization in depth or use the browse
feature to conduct comparative studies of events and developments across civilizations.
Encyclopaedia
Britannica
Regarded as one of the most scholarly of English language encyclopedias, the
Encyclopaedia Britannica is a general knowledge English-language encyclopedia.
It is written and continuously updated by about 100 full-time editors and more
than 4,400 contributors.
Greenwood Daily Life
What did people eat, wear, use? What did they hope, invent, sing? We spend most of our lives preoccupied with mundane but essential things.
Our activities rarely rise to the level of greatness, and that was true in the past as well. If we are to understand history, we must look
at people's everyday lives. Greenwood Daily Life Online brings history up close by providing award-winning content in an authoritative and
accessible database.
History Reference Center
Offers full text from more than 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias and
non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 120 history
periodicals, more than 59,600 historical documents, 49,600 biographies of
historical figures, more than 110,200 historical photos and maps, and more than
80 hours of historical video.
Infobase Learning Available Titles
Interdisciplinary, interactive databases on a wide range of subjects, such as
Science, History, Geography, Curriculum Resources, Health Reference
Center, and Ferguson's Career Guidance Center.
Modern World History Online
Modern World History Online covers the full scope of world history from the mid-15th century to the present. Thousands of fully hyperlinked
subject entries, biographies, images and videos, maps and charts, primary sources, and timeline entries combine to provide a detailed and
comparative view of the people, places, events, and ideas that have defined modern world history. Unique Topic Centers pull forward
interesting entries handpicked by our editors to help users find a starting point for their research. Users can search content by keyword
or phrase or browse by topic, region, or era, corresponding to the National Standards for World History depending on their needs.
Salem History
Comprised of: Milestone Documents in American History; Milestone Documents of
American Leaders; The Seventies in America; The Eighties in America; The
Nineties in America; Great Lives from History: The Renaissance & Early Modern
Era; The 17th Century; The 18th Century; Notorious Lives; Inventors and
Inventions; Great Events from History: The Renaissance & Early Modern Era; The
17th Century; The 18th Century; Encyclopedia of American Immigration.
To access this database from home:
Click on the second tab for Remote Access Login
Enter the password: mercercols (the password is not case sensitive)
Home Improvement
Home Improvement Reference Center
Home Improvement Reference Center is a resource that provides detailed, user-friendly “how-to” information about home
improvements and repairs. HIRC includes magazine articles and reference content as well as videos and images designed to help
homeowners tackle home repairs safely. The database provides the latest step-by-step information along with background information
and basic tips on topics including electrical, plumbing, woodworking, outdoor projects, maintenance and decorating.
(Via
JerseyClicks.)
Languages
Mango
Languages
Mango is a fun, easy to use online language-learning system that teaches
actual conversation skills for 6 different languages including English as a
second language for Spanish speakers. It's so easy to use, you'll see
incredible results after
just one lesson!
Legal
Legal Information Reference Center
Legal Information Reference Center contains hundreds of full-text publications and thousands of legal forms. This database offers the everyday user the necessary tools and detailed "how-to" instructions to independently address a wide-range of legal issues.
(Via
JerseyClicks.)
Literature & Reading
Bloom's Literary Reference Online
Bloom's Literary Reference Online features content from Facts On File's extensive print literature collection, hundreds of
Harold Bloom's essays examining the lives and works of great writers throughout history and the world, and thousands of
critical articles published by noted scholars under the Bloom's Literary Criticism imprint. This accessible database also
contains an archive of more than 46,000 characters; extensive entries on literary topics, themes, movements, genres, and
authors; almost 200 video segments; and more. Handy browse and search features include in-text links, record links, and
numerous options for further research. Entries can be browsed by time period within American, British, and world literature;
by author type; by literary genre; by nationality; by an A-to-Z list; and by subject for images and videos. Author biographies
link to a list of major works, and works are linked to a list of principal characters.
Contemporary
Authors
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on
more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. Database provided by the New
Jersey State Library.
Gale Directory
Library
Includes:
American Wholesalers and Distributors Directory
Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations;
Business Rankings Annual.
Gale Literature Reference Library
Comprised of:
Novels for Students
Poetry for Students
Short Stories for Students
Drama for Students
Gale Virtual
Reference Library
Comprised of:
Biography
Contemporary Black Biography
Contemporary Musicians
Newsmakers 2010 Cumulation, 2010
Business
Business Plans Handbook
Education
College Bluebook, 2011 & 2012
Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans: A Guide to Education-Related Financial
Aid Programs for Students and Professionals, 2011 & 2012 eds.
Environment
American Museum of Natural History Birds of North America: Eastern region, 2011
General Reference
Digital Photography Essentials, 2011
Essential World Atlas, 2011
Literature
Novels for Students
Poetry for Students
Short Stories for Students
Drama for Students
Multicultural Studies
Contemporary Black Biography
Travel
Alaska, 2010
Boston, 2011
California, 2010
Chicago, 2010
Florida, 2010
eLibraryNJ
A downloadable digital media collection provided by libraries in central New
Jersey (formerly ListenNJ).
Literary Reference Center
A comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad
spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a
completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books
and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of
literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else.
Literature Resource Center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of
authors from every age and literary discipline. It covers more than 120,000
novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.
NextReads
Receive electronic newsletters notifying you of when library materials, in a range of categories including the latest book and
movie releases, are available for requests.
NoveList Plus
Fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews and
annotations for about 125,000 titles.
...or let us do the work for you! Sign up for NextReads and receive electronic newsletters notifying you of when library materials, in a range of categories including the latest book and movie releases, are available for requests.
Novelist K-8 Plus
Fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews and
annotations.
Salem Literature
Comprised of:
Critical Insights: James Baldwin
Critical Insights: Toni Morrison
Critical Insights: John
Steinbeck
Critical Insights: Tennessee
Williams
Masterplots
To access this database from home: Click on the second tab for
Remote Access Login Enter the password: mercercols (the password is
not case sensitive)
Magazines & Journals
Academic Search Premier
Scholarly Journals, many full-text.
EBSCOhost
Locate magazine articles on a wide range of topics including general
reference, business, financial and health related magazines.
ERIC
Educational Resource Information Center. Provides access to education
literature and resources.
MasterFILE Premier
Provides full text for magazines, reference books, and primary source documents.
Also provides an Image Collection containing photos,
maps & flags.
Newspapers
EBSCOhost
Locate magazine articles on a wide range of topics including general reference,
business, financial and health related magazines.
Newspaper Source Plus
Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 700 full-text newspapers, and provides more than 31 million full-text articles. In addition, the database
includes nearly 700,000 television and radio transcripts.
Science
Encyclopaedia
Britannica
Regarded as one of the most scholarly of English language encyclopedias, the
Encyclopaedia Britannica is a general knowledge English-language
encyclopedia. It is written and continuously updated by about 100 full-time
editors and more than 4,400 contributors.
GreenFILE
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment.
Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental
effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects.
(Via
JerseyClicks.)
Infobase Learning Available Titles
Interdisciplinary, interactive databases on a wide range of subjects, such as
Science, History, Geography, Curriculum Resources, Health Reference
Center, and Ferguson's Career Guidance Center.
Salem Science
Comprised of:
Earth Science: Earth Materials and Resources
Earth Science: Earth’s Weather, Water, and Atmosphere
Encyclopedia of Energy
Encyclopedia of Global Warming
To access this database from home: Click on the second tab for
Remote Access Login Enter the password: mercercols (the password is
not case sensitive)
Science
Online
Offers a comprehensive, curriculum-oriented overview of a broad range of scientific disciplines in a variety of
useful formats. The accessible content is organized by subject area and type of resource, as well as by national and state science education
standards. Users can follow an extensive network of hyperlinks and suggested searches to related topics. Tabbed search results and Boolean search
capabilities help users easily find their desired results. High-quality print, email, reduce-and-enlarge-text, and save-to-folder capabilities,
plus a help page, are also available.
Science Reference Center
A comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude
of full text science-oriented content. This database contains full text for
nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc.
Student Research
Academic Search Premier
Scholarly Journals, many full-text.
Curriculum Resource Center
Curriculum Resource Center gives teachers fast access to thousands of easily
reproduced handouts to supplement text and lesson plans used in middle
school, high school, and junior college classrooms. This expansive
collection of maps, full-color diagrams, images, experiments, timelines, and
other visual educational resources is conveniently arranged. Each handout
can be saved, emailed, printed, or distributed for educational purposes.
“How to Cite” guidance includes examples of full citations in MLA, 7th
Edition; Chicago Manual of Style; and APA styles.
Encyclopaedia
Britannica
Regarded as one of the most scholarly of English language encyclopedias, the
Encyclopaedia Britannica is a general knowledge English-language
encyclopedia. It is written and continuously updated by about 100 full-time
editors and more than 4,400 contributors.
Facts
on File Issues & Controversies
In-depth investigations of today's top issues.
Gale
Directory Library
Includes:
American Wholesalers and Distributors Directory
Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations
Business Rankings Annual.
Gale Literature Reference Library
Comprised of:
Novels for Students
Poetry for Students
Short Stories for Students
Drama for Students
Gale Virtual
Reference Library
Comprised of:
Biography
Contemporary Black Biography
Contemporary Musicians
Newsmakers 2010 Cumulation, 2010
Business
Business Plans Handbook
Education
College Bluebook, 2011 & 2012
Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans: A Guide to Education-Related Financial
Aid Programs for Students and Professionals, 2011 & 2012 eds.
Environment
American Museum of Natural History Birds of North America: Eastern region, 2011
General Reference
Digital Photography Essentials, 2011
Essential World Atlas, 2011
Literature
Novels for Students
Poetry for Students
Short Stories for Students
Drama for Students
Multicultural Studies
Contemporary Black Biography
Travel
Alaska, 2010
Boston, 2011
California, 2010
Chicago, 2010
Florida, 2010
Infobase Learning Available Titles
Interdisciplinary, interactive databases on a wide range of subjects, such as
Science, History, Geography, Curriculum Resources, Health Reference
Center, and Ferguson's Career Guidance Center.
Lumos Learning NJ ASK Test Preparation
Developed by expert teachers who know the New Jersey standardized tests and
student needs. It includes hundreds of practice questions, full-length
practice tests that are similar to the actual test, and expert advice for
the NJ ASK. In addition to helping with the standardized test preparation,
Lumos Learning Online Study Program helps reinforce classroom learning
experience for children in grades 3-8.
Middle Search Plus
Popular middle school database
Novelist K-8 Plus
Fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews and
annotations.
Points of View
A full text database designed to provide students and schools with a series
of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue.
Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study and are
accompanied by thousands of supporting articles.
Primary Search
Popular elementary school database.
Searchasaurus
Two popular elementary and middle school databases (Primary Search and
Middle Search Plus) can be accessed via Searchasaurus. It is an animated
interface with a dinosaur theme that encourages students to enhance and
develop basic search methodologies. (Click on Searchasaurus.)
TOPICsearch
This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics
discussed in today's classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints. TOPICsearch™ contains full text for over 140,000 articles from nearly 260 diverse sources including international newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled
collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
World
Almanac® for Kids Online
The World Almanac® for Kids Online expands on the contents of The World Almanac® for Kids print edition, along with other
award-winning reference books from World Almanac®, Chelsea House, and Facts On File. A natural complement to the curriculum,
the online site provides resources for homework, reports, and projects. Kids can explore grade-appropriate topics in a fun
format while developing online research skills with a trusted source
World Geography and Culture Online
World Geography and Culture Online enhances the study of countries, places, peoples, and geography concepts and skills. This comprehensive
reference site makes it easy to study all aspects of a country, with facts at a glance and in-depth coverage through country entries, maps,
flags, images, statistics, news articles, a gazetteer, and more. In addition, comprehensive entries about the U.S. states are also available.
Ideal for history and geography classrooms and projects as well as for general country and U.S. state research, this online resource features
an easy-to-navigate interface, search and browse tools, and tabbed search results.
Test Practice
LearningExpressLibrary.com
Provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests
and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult
learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass.
Lumos Learning NJ ASK Test Preparation
Developed by expert teachers who know the New Jersey standardized tests and
student needs. It includes hundreds of practice questions, full-length
practice tests that are similar to the actual test, and expert advice for
the NJ ASK. In addition to helping with the standardized test preparation,
Lumos Learning Online Study Program helps reinforce classroom learning
experience for children in grades 3-8.
Travel
Gale
Travel eBooks
Find travel books from the Rough Guide Series and the DK Eyewitness Travel Series to help you plan your vacations.
Alphabetical Listing of Databases
Academic Search Premier
Scholarly Journals, many full-text.
African-American History Online
Exploring more than 500 years of the African-American
experience, African-American History Online offers many exciting features,
including more than 85 historical videos that bring history to life. The
extensively hyperlinked entries in this comprehensive database include
subject entries, primary sources, images and videos, general and
topic-specific timelines, biographies, maps and charts, and more. Users can
search for entries by keyword or phrase or browse by topic and by time
period—from eight historical periods relevant specifically to
African-American history. In addition, biographies can be browsed by
occupation and primary sources by type.
American History Online
A comprehensive database covering the most important individuals, events,
and topics in US history. The thousands of entries include biographies,
maps, timelines, primary source documents, and images. Extensive overview
essays provide detail on each time period.
American Indian History Online
American Indian History Online offers fast access to more than 15,000 years of culture and history through event and topic entries, biographies,
images and videos, maps and charts, legends, primary sources, and timeline entries. The "Tribes and Culture Areas" section is easy to browse
with a helpful tabbed list of tribes, representing more than 600 Native American groups, and a browse-by-culture-area feature. This award-winning
database allows for an interactive, multifaceted look at the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
American Women's History Online
American Women's History Online 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.
More than 60 historical videos cover such topics as working women, women in politics, and changing women's fashions. Users can search for entries by
keyword or phrase, or they can browse by topic and by time period—from nine historical periods relevant specifically to women's history.
Ancient
& Medieval History Online
Ancient and Medieval History Online provides thorough coverage of nine civilizations—ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Greece, ancient
Rome, ancient and medieval Africa, medieval Europe, the Americas, ancient and medieval Asia, and Islamic Empire. Covering prehistory through the
1500s, this authoritative online database features a user-friendly interface. Users can research each civilization in depth or use the browse
feature to conduct comparative studies of events and developments across civilizations.
Biography Collection Complete
Offers a comprehensive collection of full-text biographies supporting
history, science, the arts, music, literature, multicultural studies, gender
studies, business, government & politics, sports, entertainment and many
other areas.
Bloom's Literary Reference Online
Bloom's Literary Reference Online features content from Facts On File's extensive print literature collection, hundreds of
Harold Bloom's essays examining the lives and works of great writers throughout history and the world, and thousands of
critical articles published by noted scholars under the Bloom's Literary Criticism imprint. This accessible database also
contains an archive of more than 46,000 characters; extensive entries on literary topics, themes, movements, genres, and
authors; almost 200 video segments; and more. Handy browse and search features include in-text links, record links, and
numerous options for further research. Entries can be browsed by time period within American, British, and world literature;
by author type; by literary genre; by nationality; by an A-to-Z list; and by subject for images and videos. Author biographies
link to a list of major works, and works are linked to a list of principal characters.
Business Source Elite
Business Source Elite provides full-text coverage of scholarly business,
management and economics journals. It includes publications covering topics
such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing,
sales, etc. Business Source Elite offers full text for nearly 1,000 business
publications and contains expanded PDF backfiles for more than 150 titles
(back to 1985 or the first issue published for that journal). More than
10,100 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included.
Career
Transitions
Complete, self-paced application that walks job-seekers through the entire
job-seeking process from assessing strengths and interests, to exploring new
opportunities, to ultimately improving the chances of landing a job.
Contemporary
Authors
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and
references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. Database
provided by the New Jersey State Library.
Corfacts
New Jersey’s Premier Online Business to Business Directory.
Curriculum Resource Center
Curriculum Resource Center gives teachers fast access to thousands of easily
reproduced handouts to supplement text and lesson plans used in middle
school, high school, and junior college classrooms. This expansive
collection of maps, full-color diagrams, images, experiments, timelines, and
other visual educational resources is conveniently arranged. Each handout
can be saved, emailed, printed, or distributed for educational purposes.
“How to Cite” guidance includes examples of full citations in MLA, 7th
Edition; Chicago Manual of Style; and APA styles.
EBSCOhost
Locate magazine articles on a wide range of topics including general
reference, business, financial and health related magazines.
ERIC
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to
education literature and resources. The database provides access to
information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in
Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC contains more than 1.4
million records and links to more than 337,000 full-text documents from ERIC
back to 1966.
Encyclopaedia
Britannica
Regarded as one of the most scholarly of English language encyclopedias, the
Encyclopaedia Britannica is a general knowledge English-language
encyclopedia. It is written and continuously updated by about 100 full-time
editors and more than 4,400 contributors.
Facts
on File Issues & Controversies
In-depth investigations of today's top issues
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
The critically acclaimed Ferguson's Career Guidance Center features
exclusive, wide-ranging content that is accessible and intuitively
organized. Known for its unprecedented depth of coverage and variety of
user-friendly content formats, this comprehensive career research database
is broken down into three main sections: Job and Industry Profiles,
Job-Hunting and Workplace Skills, and Career and Industry Resources. The
material is drawn from a range of authoritative sources and is extensively
indexed.
Gale
Directory Library
Includes:
American Wholesalers and Distributors Directory
Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations
Business Rankings Annual.
Gale Literature Reference Library
Comprised of:
Novels for Students
Poetry for Students
Short Stories for Students
Drama for Students
Gale
Travel eBooks
Find travel books from the Rough Guide Series and the DK Eyewitness Travel Series to help you plan your vacations.
Gale Virtual
Reference Library
Comprised of:
Biography
Contemporary Black Biography
Contemporary Musicians
Newsmakers 2010 Cumulation, 2010
Business
Business Plans Handbook
Education
College Bluebook, 2011 & 2012
Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans: A Guide to Education-Related Financial
Aid Programs for Students and Professionals, 2011 & 2012 eds.
Environment
American Museum of Natural History Birds of North America: Eastern region, 2011
General Reference
Digital Photography Essentials, 2011
Essential World Atlas, 2011
Literature
Novels for Students
Poetry for Students
Short Stories for Students
Drama for Students
Multicultural Studies
Contemporary Black Biography
Travel
Alaska, 2010
Boston, 2011
California, 2010
Chicago, 2010
Florida, 2010
GreenFILE
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment.
Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental
effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects.
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JerseyClicks.)
Greenwood Daily Life
What did people eat, wear, use? What did they hope, invent, sing? We spend most of our lives preoccupied with mundane but essential things.
Our activities rarely rise to the level of greatness, and that was true in the past as well. If we are to understand history, we must look
at people's everyday lives. Greenwood Daily Life Online brings history up close by providing award-winning content in an authoritative and
accessible database.
Health Reference Center
Includes more than 585 educational videos on a wide range of health topics, more than 1,100 searchable and browsable color illustrations, and a “Health in the
News” section with regularly updated health news articles.
Health Source - Consumer Edition
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals, including more than 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
History Reference Center
Offers full text from more than 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias and
non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 120 history
periodicals, more than 59,600 historical documents, 49,600 biographies of
historical figures, more than 110,200 historical photos and maps, and more
than 80 hours of historical video.
Home Improvement Reference Center
Home Improvement Reference Center is a resource that provides detailed, user-friendly “how-to” information about home
improvements and repairs. HIRC includes magazine articles and reference content as well as videos and images designed to help
homeowners tackle home repairs safely. The database provides the latest step-by-step information along with background information
and basic tips on topics including electrical, plumbing, woodworking, outdoor projects, maintenance and decorating.
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JerseyClicks.)
Infobase Learning Available Titles
Interdisciplinary, interactive databases on a wide range of subjects, such as
Science, History, Geography, Curriculum Resources, Health Reference
Center, and Ferguson's Career Guidance Center.
Job and
Career Accelerator
Get detailed information on occupations that suit your interests. Access
current job listings from over 5 million job postings, which are collected
from all major job boards. Create professional resumes and cover letters,
master interviewing and networking techniques, and more. Job & Career
Accelerator is your guide to getting hired!
LearningExpressLibrary.com
Provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests
and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult
learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass.
Legal Information Reference Center
Legal Information Reference Center contains hundreds of full-text publications and thousands of legal forms. This database offers the everyday user the necessary tools and detailed "how-to" instructions to independently address a wide-range of legal issues.
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JerseyClicks.)
Literary Reference Center
A comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a
broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day.
LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over
1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference
works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available
anywhere else.
Literature Resource Center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of
authors from every age and literary discipline. It covers more than 120,000
novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.
Lumos Learning NJ ASK Test Preparation
Developed by expert teachers who know the New Jersey standardized tests and
student needs. It includes hundreds of practice questions, full-length
practice tests that are similar to the actual test, and expert advice for
the NJ ASK. In addition to helping with the standardized test preparation,
Lumos Learning Online Study Program helps reinforce classroom learning
experience for children in grades 3-8.
Mango
Languages
Mango is a fun, easy to use online language-learning system that teaches
actual conversation skills for 6 different languages including English as a
second language for Spanish speakers. It's so easy to use, you'll see
incredible results after
just one lesson!
MasterFILE Premier
Provides full text for magazines, reference books, and primary source documents. Also provides an Image Collection containing photos, maps & flags.
Middle Search Plus
Popular middle school database.
Modern World History Online
Modern World History Online covers the full scope of world history from the mid-15th century to the present. Thousands of fully hyperlinked
subject entries, biographies, images and videos, maps and charts, primary sources, and timeline entries combine to provide a detailed and
comparative view of the people, places, events, and ideas that have defined modern world history. Unique Topic Centers pull forward
interesting entries handpicked by our editors to help users find a starting point for their research. Users can search content by keyword
or phrase or browse by topic, region, or era, corresponding to the National Standards for World History depending on their needs.
Newspaper Source Plus
Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 700 full-text newspapers, and provides more than 31 million full-text articles. In addition, the database
includes nearly 700,000 television and radio transcripts.
NextReads
receive electronic newsletters notifying you of when library materials, in a range of categories including the latest book and movie releases, are available for requests.
NoveList Plus
Fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews and
annotations for about 125,000 titles.
...or let us do the work for you! Sign up for NextReads and receive electronic newsletters notifying you of when library materials, in a range of categories including the latest book and movie releases, are available for requests.
Novelist K-8 Plus
Fiction database that provides subject heading access,
reviews and annotations.
OneSource
OneSource delivers business information and sales intelligence on millions of companies and executives
worldwide - delivering targeted sales leads, actionable company reports, and company research.
(Via
JerseyClicks.)
Points of View
A full text database designed to provide students and
schools with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of
a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought
and study and are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles.
Primary Search
Popular elementary school database.
Professional Development Collection
This is the most comprehensive and most valuable collection of full-text education journals in the world.
Professional Development Collection™ includes full text for more than 500 high-quality education journals including:
Booklist,
Education, Education Digest, Education Week, Educational Leadership, High School Journal, Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Research,
Phi Delta Kappan, Reading Teacher, School Library Journal, and many others. This database also contains nearly 230 educational reports.
ReferenceUSA
Provides detailed, current directory information on more than 12 million
U.S. Businesses, 102 million U.S. residents, 683,000 U.S. healthcare
providers, 1 million Canadian businesses and 11 million Canadian residents.
Regional Business News
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional
business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75
business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural
areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Salem Health
Comprised of: Magill's Medical Guide; Genetics and Inherited Conditions;
Infectious Diseases & Conditions
To access this database from home: Click on the second tab for
Remote Access Login Enter the password: mercercols (the password is
not case sensitive)
Salem History
Comprised of: Milestone Documents in American History; Milestone Documents
of American Leaders; The Seventies in America; The Eighties in America; The
Nineties in America; Great Lives from History: The Renaissance & Early
Modern Era; The 17th Century; The 18th Century; Notorious Lives; Inventors
and Inventions; Great Events from History: The Renaissance & Early Modern
Era; The 17th Century; The 18th Century; Encyclopedia of American
Immigration.
To access this database from home: Click on the second tab for
Remote Access Login Enter the password: mercercols (the password is
not case sensitive)
Salem Literature
Comprised of:
Critical Insights: James Baldwin
Critical Insights: Toni Morrison
Critical Insights: John
Steinbeck
Critical Insights: Tennessee
Williams
Masterplots
To access this database from home: Click on the second tab for
Remote Access Login Enter the password: mercercols (the password is
not case sensitive)
Salem Science
Comprised of:
Earth Science: Earth Materials and Resources
Earth Science: Earth’s Weather, Water, and Atmosphere
Encyclopedia of Energy
Encyclopedia of Global Warming
To access this database from home: Click on the second tab for
Remote Access Login Enter the password: mercercols (the password is
not case sensitive)
Salud en Espanol (CHC Spanish Version)
Salud en Español provides comprehensive evidence-based reports and fact sheets in Spanish on all aspects of consumer health and wellness.
Topic specific reports covering all aspects of health offer valuable overviews on diseases, conditions, procedures and various treatments.
Science Online
Offers a comprehensive, curriculum-oriented overview of a broad range of scientific disciplines in a variety of
useful formats. The accessible content is organized by subject area and type of resource, as well as by national and state science education
standards. Users can follow an extensive network of hyperlinks and suggested searches to related topics. Tabbed search results and Boolean search
capabilities help users easily find their desired results. High-quality print, email, reduce-and-enlarge-text, and save-to-folder capabilities,
plus a help page, are also available.
Science Reference Center
A comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude
of full text science-oriented content. This database contains full text for
nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc.
Searchasaurus
Two popular elementary and middle school databases (Primary Search and
Middle Search Plus) can be accessed via Searchasaurus. It is an animated
interface with a dinosaur theme that encourages students to enhance and
develop basic search methodologies. (Click on Searchasaurus.)
Small
Business Resource Center
This database offers users complete small business management resources via a
combination of unparalleled periodicals and reference content. From conducting
industry research to financial planning, to marketing a product and franchising
a business, the Small Business Resource Center provides users with all the
information they need to succeed.
TOPICsearch
his current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints. TOPICsearch™ contains full text for over 140,000 articles from nearly 260 diverse sources including international newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
World
Almanac® for Kids Online
The World Almanac® for Kids Online expands on the contents of The World Almanac® for Kids print edition, along with other
award-winning reference books from World Almanac®, Chelsea House, and Facts On File. A natural complement to the curriculum,
the online site provides resources for homework, reports, and projects. Kids can explore grade-appropriate topics in a fun
format while developing online research skills with a trusted source
World
Geography and Culture Online
World Geography and Culture Online enhances the study of countries, places, peoples, and geography concepts and skills. This comprehensive
reference site makes it easy to study all aspects of a country, with facts at a glance and in-depth coverage through country entries, maps,
flags, images, statistics, news articles, a gazetteer, and more. In addition, comprehensive entries about the U.S. states are also available.
Ideal for history and geography classrooms and projects as well as for general country and U.S. state research, this online resource features
an easy-to-navigate interface, search and browse tools, and tabbed search results.