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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.
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Automotive
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ALLDATA
Online
Online resource of diagnostic and repair
information for foreign and domestic cars. |
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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
Gale
Virtual Reference Library
Comprised of:
Biography
o Contemporary Black Biography , Vol. 84, 2011
o Newsmakers 2010 Cumulation , 2010
Literature
o Novels for Students , Vol. 35, 2011
o Poetry for Students , Vol. 36, 2011
Multicultural Studies
o Contemporary Black Biography , Vol. 84, 2011 |
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Business
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Business Source Elite
 Corfacts
New Jersey’s Premier Online Business to Business
Directory.
Corporate ResourceNet
Personal
& Business Forms
ReferenceUSA
Regional Business News
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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.
Facts
on File
Interdisciplinary, interactive
databases on a wide range of subjects, such as
Science,
History, Geography,
Curriculum
Resources, Forms, Health Reference Center, and Ferguson's Career Guidance
Center.
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. |
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Education
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Academic Search Premier
Scholarly Journals, many full-text.
ERIC
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
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Encyclopedias
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
Gale
Virtual Reference Library
Comprised of:
Biography
o Contemporary Black Biography , Vol. 84, 2011
o Newsmakers 2010 Cumulation , 2010
Literature
o Novels for Students , Vol. 35, 2011
o Poetry for Students , Vol. 36, 2011
Multicultural Studies
o Contemporary Black Biography , Vol. 84, 2011
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Genealogy
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AncestryLibrary
An online genealogical research
database.
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Health and Medicine
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Biomedical Reference Collection -
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Health Source - Consumer Edition
Facts
on File
Interdisciplinary, interactive
databases on a wide range of subjects, such as
Science,
History, Geography,
Curriculum
Resources, Forms, Health Reference Center, and Ferguson's Career Guidance
Center.
Health
Reference Center
JAMA
The Journal of the American Medical
Association.
Nursing and Allied Health Collection
Salem Health
Comprised of: Magill's Medical Guide; Genetics and Inherited
Conditions
Salud en Espanol (CHC Spanish Version) |
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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
Facts
on File
Interdisciplinary, interactive
databases on a wide range of subjects, such as
Science,
History, Geography,
Curriculum
Resources, Forms, Health Reference Center, and Ferguson's Career Guidance
Center.
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.
Modern
World History Online
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 |
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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!
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Legal
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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).
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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
Virtual Reference Library
Comprised of:
Biography
o Contemporary Black Biography , Vol. 84, 2011
o Newsmakers 2010 Cumulation , 2010
Literature
o Novels for Students , Vol. 35, 2011
o Poetry for Students , Vol. 36, 2011
Multicultural Studies
o Contemporary Black Biography , Vol. 84, 2011
eLibraryNJ
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
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
Fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews and
annotations.
Salem Literature
Comprised of: Critical Insights: Toni Morrison; Critical Insights:
Tennessee Williams; Critical Insights: James Baldwin; Critical
Insights: John Steinbeck; Masterplots
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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
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Newspapers
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Top
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
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Science
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Top
Facts
on File
Interdisciplinary, interactive
databases on a wide range of subjects, such as
Science,
History, Geography,
Curriculum
Resources, Forms, Health Reference Center, and Ferguson's Career Guidance
Center.
Salem Science
Comprised of: Encyclopedia of Global Warming
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. |
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Student Research (See
Also: History; Magazines & Journals; and Science)
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Top
Academic Search Premier
Scholarly Journals, many full-text.
Curriculum Resource Center
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Facts
on File
Interdisciplinary, interactive
databases on a wide range of subjects, such as
Science,
History, Geography,
Curriculum
Resources, Forms, Health Reference Center, and Ferguson's Career Guidance
Center.
Facts on File Issues & Controversies
In-depth investigations of today's top issues.
Gale
Virtual Reference Library
Comprised of:
Biography
o Contemporary Black Biography , Vol. 84, 2011
o Newsmakers 2010 Cumulation , 2010
Literature
o Novels for Students , Vol. 35, 2011
o Poetry for Students , Vol. 36, 2011
Multicultural Studies
o Contemporary Black Biography , Vol. 84, 2011
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
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
World Almanac® for Kids Online
World
Atlas |
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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. |
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Alphabetical Listing of Databases
Back to
Top
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.
Biomedical Reference Collection -
Bloom's
Literary Reference Online
Business Source Elite -
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.
Corporate ResourceNet
Curriculum Resource Center
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.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Facts
on File
Interdisciplinary, interactive
databases on a wide range of subjects, such as
Science,
History, Geography,
Curriculum
Resources, Forms, Health Reference Center, and Ferguson's Career Guidance
Center.
Facts on File Issues & Controversies
In-depth investigations of today's top issues.
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Gale
Virtual Reference Library
Comprised of:
Biography
o Contemporary Black Biography , Vol. 84, 2011
o Newsmakers 2010 Cumulation , 2010
Literature
o Novels for Students , Vol. 35, 2011
o Poetry for Students , Vol. 36, 2011
Multicultural Studies
o Contemporary Black Biography , Vol. 84, 2011
Greenwood
Daily Life
Health
Reference Center
Health Source - Consumer Edition
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
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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.
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.
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).
eLibraryNJ
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
Newspaper Source
NextReads
NoveList
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
Fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews and
annotations.
Nursing and Allied Health Collection
Personal
& Business Forms
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
ReferenceUSA -
Regional Business News
Salem Health
Comprised of: Magill's Medical Guide; Genetics and Inherited
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: Toni Morrison; Critical Insights:
Tennessee Williams; Critical Insights: James Baldwin; Critical
Insights: John Steinbeck; Masterplots
Salem Science
Comprised of: Encyclopedia of Global Warming
Salud en Espanol (CHC Spanish Version)
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.)
Student
Research Center
Provides students with easy, yet
powerful access to high-quality secondary school databases.
TOPICsearch
World Almanac® for Kids Online
World
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