Databases Available Within the Library System

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

Automotive

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ALLDATA Online
Online resource of diagnostic and repair information for foreign and domestic cars.

Biography

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American National Biography
Portraits of more than 17,400 men and women from all eras and walks of life whose lives have shaped the nation.

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

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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

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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
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

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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

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Academic Search Premier
Scholarly Journals, many full-text.

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.

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

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
Professional Development Collection includes full text for more than 520 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

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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

Genealogy

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AncestryLibrary
An online genealogical research database.

Health and Medicine

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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.

JAMA
The Journal of the American Medical Association.

Nursing and Allied Health Collection
Provides full-text access to nearly 100 journals covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines. It can be searched independently, but also allows users from subscribing institutions to conveniently link to full text from citations within CINAHL. When these citations are viewed via EBSCOhost, there is the ability to link to full text for articles contained within the Nursing & Allied Health Collection. Most of the journals covered are available in cover-to-cover PDF.

Salem Health
Comprised of: Magill's Medical Guide; Genetics and Inherited Conditions; Infectious Diseases & Conditions

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

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African-American History Online

American History Online

American Indian History Online

American Women's History Online

Ancient & Medieval History Online

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

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

Home Improvement

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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

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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

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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.)

Lexis-Nexis
A premier database for legal information, full-text articles, radio and television transcripts, and company information. SEARCHES ARE STAFF-ASSISTED ONLY. PLEASE CONTACT THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN. Please make an appointment for lengthy research (989-6922).

 

Literature & Reading

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Bloom's Literary Reference Online

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 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
Download eBooks and audiobooks.

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

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

Magazines & Journals

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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.

Informe
Provides Spanish-language access to magazine articles, reports, book excerpts, and some maps. It contains over 75,000 articles and is updated daily. You need a library card # to enter. If you don't have one, see a Reference Librarian.

Lexis-Nexis
A premier database for legal information, full-text articles, radio and television transcripts, and company information. SEARCHES ARE STAFF-ASSISTED ONLY. PLEASE CONTACT THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN. Please make an appointment for lengthy research (989-6922).

MasterFILE Premier

Newspapers

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EBSCOhost
Locate magazine articles on a wide range of topics including general reference, business, financial and health related magazines.

Lexis-Nexis
A premier database for legal information, full-text articles, radio and television transcripts, and company information. SEARCHES ARE STAFF-ASSISTED ONLY. PLEASE CONTACT THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN. Please make an appointment for lengthy research (989-6922).

Newspaper Source

Science

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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

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

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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 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.

Kids Search

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.)

Student Research Center
Provides students with easy, yet powerful access to high-quality secondary school databases.

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

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

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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

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Gale Travel eBooks

Alphabetical Listing of Databases

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Academic Search Premier
Scholarly Journals, many full-text.

African-American History Online

ALLDATA Online
Online resource of diagnostic and repair information for foreign and domestic cars.

American History Online

American Indian History Online

American National Biography
Portraits of more than 17,400 men and women from all eras and walks of life whose lives have shaped the nation.

American Women's History Online

AncestryLibrary
An online genealogical research database.

Ancient & Medieval History Online

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

Business Source Elite

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

EBSCOhost
Locate magazine articles on a wide range of topics including general reference, business, financial and health related magazines.

eLibraryNJ
Download eBooks and audiobooks.

ERIC
Educational Resource Information Center. Provides access to education literature and resources.

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
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 Literature Reference Library
Comprised of:
Novels for Students
Poetry for Students
Short Stories for Students
Drama for Students

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 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. (Via JerseyClicks.)

Greenwood Daily Life

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

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. (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.

Informe
Provides Spanish-language access to magazine articles, reports, book excerpts, and some maps. It contains over 75,000 articles and is updated daily. You need a library card # to enter. If you don't have one, see a Reference Librarian.

JAMA
The Journal of the American Medical Association.

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!

Kids Search

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. (Via JerseyClicks.)

Lexis-Nexis
A premier database for legal information, full-text articles, radio and television transcripts, and company information. SEARCHES ARE STAFF-ASSISTED ONLY. PLEASE CONTACT THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN. Please make an appointment for lengthy research (989-6922).

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

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

NextReads

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.

Nursing and Allied Health Collection

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
Professional Development Collection includes full text for more than 520 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

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.

Salem Literature
Comprised of:
Critical Insights: James Baldwin
Critical Insights: Toni Morrison
Critical Insights: John Steinbeck
Critical Insights: Tennessee Williams
Masterplots

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

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

Student Research Center
Provides students with easy, yet powerful access to high-quality secondary school databases.

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

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.

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