Databases and Other Online Resources

Scholarly Resource Providing Full-Text, Academic Journals Covering the Major Areas of Academic Research This resource was designed for the premier researcher, rich with the most valuable, comprehensive multidisciplinary content available. As a leading scholarly database, it provides access to acclaimed full-text journals, magazines, and other valuable resources.

Links to Freedmen's bureaus, emigrants to Liberia, state archives, slave entries in wills, etc. Links to articles, many specialized postings.

A site devoted to African American genealogy, to researching African Ancestry in the Americas in particular and to genealogical research and resources in general.

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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.

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

More than 1500 searchable databases. Guides to searching genealogical records. Message board for queries.

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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.

Still a popular search engine

Links with cemetery pages, other  organizations with cemetery interests and preservation groups. Book reviews. Frequently asked questions page.

Pdf from the New Jesey Department of Banking and Insurance

One of the most comprehensive lemon law sites on the Internet. Links to state lemon laws, the Uniform Commercial Code and Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act are on this site.

Independent, objective financial information. Manage your credit, watch market rates, check your financial institution, calculate your loan payments, do on-line banking and "Master The Basics" a collection of in-depth how-to information on financial issues.

Contains consumer and business information on scam alerts, accuracy in advertising, charity monitoring and marketplace complaints and inquiries. Includes a directory of BBB offices in the U.S. and Canada.

Investment charting and research site

A commercial site featuring ratings of online stores based on direct customer feedback. Lets consumers comparison shop for price and quality.

[Library Access]
Bloom's Literature 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.

Dedicated to assisting people with their British family history research.

Company Profiles; Country Reports; Industry Profiles; Market Research Reports

A popular business research database, featuring the full text for more than 2,200 journals. Full text is provided back to 1965, and searchable cited references back to 1998.

Learn how to buy a car and avoid scams, extended warranty scams, tips, buying a warranty direct, a guide to discount car buying, car secrets, car buying books and magazines and a free spreadsheet download area.

Users can search for jobs by location and occupation and can register with a virtual placement agency; also has a link for employers to post jobs.

A career resource center which partners with other sites for job information. Testing and advice are also offered.

Directory of over 6,000 links to jobs, career services and related topics.

An "educational project of The Battery Conservancy. This free site offers access to an extraordinary database of information on 11 million immigrants from 1820 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened."

Home page of the Central Jersey Genealogical Club. Includes meeting schedules, links to genealogy pages/information, and the ability to post a “local inquiry” (Central Jersey Genealogical Club does not conduct research).

Excellent site for tracking down long lost friends that you went to school with or relatives who may have registered with the site. Free registration required to use this service.

The widely-acclaimed Complete Directory for People with Disabilities is an invaluable resource for all those committed to empowering individuals with disabilities. All those with a disability, from vision problems to physical disabilities to asthma, will find ways in this Directory to succeed at work, in school, and in their community.

Contains publications grouped by topics. Choose any of the topics listed to narrow your search for a specific publication.

Site has links to 1200 consumer resources.

Rates and analyzes products including electronics, sports & leisure. office, house & home, kitchen, health, automotive, and lawn & garden.

This site is becoming the top destination on the Net for savings both on-line and off-line. Includes retailers, restaurant chains, travel providers and online merchants. Serving currently 2.5 million shoppers.

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.

New Jersey genealogy sites on the Internet by category.

Learn how to exercise your rights under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act — and how to recognize debt-related scams and frauds.

This resource brings together both venture capital and private equity organizations into one comprehensive guide. This new edition has been extensively updated, offering valuable, current, and detailed information to individuals, entrepreneurs, and businesses worldwide.

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

Check out new and used car and truck prices, review, road tests, safety information and consumer advice.

A downloadable digital media collection provided by libraries in central New Jersey (formerly ListenNJ).

This is a version of the Britannica specifically geared toward the needs of Young Adults.

This resource covers the role and influence of African American cultural leaders, from all walks of life, from the 18th century to the present.

Rates and analyzes products including electronics, sports & leisure, office, house & home, kitchen, health, automotive, and lawn & garden.

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.

This site has employment links to jobs overseas for many countries; also contains housing and education opportunities.

An "information solutions" company. Whether that’s through pre-screen for credit offers, sophisticated fraud prevention systems, database development and  analysis, specialized lists, or customized mailings, it's here to provide decision support to you at every step of the way.

Links to over 70,000 websites organized by categories. Message boards for queries.

"Fast-teks offers a full range of IT solutions to meet your entire business and personal needs."

Provided by the Federation of Genealogical Societies. Fee charged for membership. Information on over 500 genealogical societies, conferences, etc.

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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.

This is a downloadable music service featuring 8 million songs in a wide variety of genres, ranging from classical to today’s hot hits

Details about your rights under the FCRA (Fair Credit Reporting Act) and the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions (FACT) Act, which established the free annual credit report program.

Comprised of:
Novels for Students
Poetry for Students
Short Stories for Students
Drama for Students

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.

"Are you fed up with the hassle of disassembling your PC and hauling it to a repair shop every time it needs service-only to wait a week or more to get it back? Our trusted technicians will come directly to your home to solve your computer troubles right on-the-spot. Simply call us to select an appointment time to fit your schedule. We offer same-day and after-hours service."

Are you looking for a speaker? Planning your next conference, all-day seminar, or yearly lecture schedule? The Speakers Guild Directory was created for you.

Links to vital records, cemeteries, obituaries and more.

An online bulletin board where you can post questions or messages about your family and read replies from others interested in the name.

A free inside look at jobs and companies. Find jobs and see company salaries, reviews, and interviews – all posted anonymously by employees.

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.)

[To connect from home: Click on PUBLIC LIBRARY barcode login link.] 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.

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.

This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide.

Download audiovisual material including music, comic books, and video productions.

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.

"Irish Roots provides guidelines for finding your Irish Ancestry and information on the origins of Irish Surnames."

Links that concentrate on patterns and customs of Jewish heritage - including discussion groups, research links, organizations, etc.

JRD Tech provides New Jersey with Computer Repair NJ, Onsite Computer Repair NJ (In-home), laptop repair nj, and malware / virus removal. We service all computer / laptop makes and models including all Apple Mac, iMac, Macbook. Microsoft Windows (95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7) and OSX.

New and used car, truck and motorcycle prices. Search for financing and insurance. Do a "Clean Title History" check.

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.

Provides indexing and abstracting for key library and information science journals, books, research reports and more.

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.

PARCC Test Rehearsal and Practice Resources: Innovative Supplemental Programs to Increase Student Achievement

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

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 speakers of Spanish and for speakers of Mandarin Chinese. It's so easy to use, you'll see incredible results after just one lesson!

Provides full text for magazines, reference books, and primary source documents. Also provides an Image Collection containing photos, maps & flags.

You have the option to complete a general or personalized plan search. A personalized search may provide you with more accurate cost estimates and coverage information.

Courtesy of GasBuddy.com

Offers workforce readiness services and career resources that are accessible to all jobseekers, students and employers.

Popular middle school database

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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

Genealogists and family history buffs can find many sources of useful information by visiting Mercer County or via the Internet.

A unique feature of this site is the ability to calculate cost of living and salary ratios for U.S. cities. Includes data on local school districts for those moving to a given area.

National Consumer Protection Week (NCPW) is a coordinated campaign that encourages consumers nationwide to take full advantage of their consumer rights and make better-informed decisions in the marketplace. NCPW takes place each year during the first or second week of March.

Site map provides quick access to specific areas. Online catalog for NGS Library. Book and CD-ROM reviews. Listing of other genealogical home pages.

Search for jobs by industry, view the employer directory and sign up for email for potential matches with employers.

Informational pdf from the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance.

Links to Cemetery sites on that are listed on the Internet. Browse by county.

Lists general and specific information regarding New Jersey Supreme, County and Superior Courts. Judiciary and law related jobs are listed by county.

Health care related jobs with New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services are listed here.

NJGenWeb Project page, organized by county. Links to New Jersey genealogical resources - genealogical and historical societies, New Jersey newspapers on the Web. Lists of addresses for professional genealogists and LDS Family History Centers in New Jersey.

“Free New Jersey Genealogy Data and Links.”

"The State Archives is New Jersey's official research center for public records of enduring historical value. Considering that many vital records, land documents, probate records and military service papers were filed centrally by the Colony and State of New Jersey, the State Archives is a treasure trove for genealogists and historians. The State Archives is also the official repository for microfilm of county clerks’ and surrogates’ records produced by the LDS Church and of film of local newspapers produced by the New Jersey Newspaper Project. Current holdings amount to over 37,000 cubic feet of paper records and over 32,000 reels of microfilm. Our records date from the founding of New Jersey as a British colony in 1664 up to the present."

The Office of Vital Statistics and Registry registers vital events and maintains the following vital records:

• Birth, marriage and death records back to 1901
• Domestic partnership records back to 2004
• Civil union records back to 2007
• Adoptions – foreign and domestic
• Certificate of Birth Resulting in Stillbirth data back to 1969

Part of the teacher recruitment initiative, this site lists teaching positions by region, county, zip, or school district and by job type

NoveList is the premiere database of reading recommendations, available through libraries around the world. It is a comprehensive source of information about books that includes expert recommendations, reviews, articles, lists and more.

NoveList K-8 Plus is a database about books specifically for younger readers. It helps kids find books that are just right for their reading level and interests. Parents, teachers, and librarians can also find tools to teach with books and engage young readers. Includes nonfiction works.

The Occupational Outlook Handbook online from the U.S. Department of Labor.  This source provides alphabetical listings of job descriptions and forecasts their growth potential.

The federal government’s website to help you be safe, secure and responsible online.

This database offers a sweeping overview of the shifting tensions and public opinions fueled by Americans’ expectations of privacy vs. their collective desire for national security. 

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.

Political Corruption in America discusses the infamous people throughout history who have been accused of and implicated in crooked behavior.

Popular elementary school database. 

A complete guide to local community groups, organizations, foundations, and charities plus timely information about advocacy issues, workshops, and other items of interest in the non-profit sector. Sports for causes, family resources and support groups, athletic and business oriented clubs, drug and alcohol support groups, and groups offering help to the disabled, senior citizens, teens, and animals are all listed.

Pronunciator is the world's largest language-learning service. It has 75 languages, and 50 languages in which to learn them — for a total of 3,750 possible course combinations. [iT] offer[s] a way to learn a new language for over 95% of the world's population. Pronunciator [offers] the full range of language skills -- reading, writing, listening, and speaking -- in a structured, building-block approach. Within each language, Pronunciator offers up to 10,000 phrases; 354 hours of audio lessons; 8 types of interactive drills; and 6 types of scored quizzes.

Consumer advocacy group founded by Ralph Nader that reports on topics such as auto safety and health care.

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. (Get the ReferenceUSA app for iPad.)

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.

Learn how you can use the resources at the National Archives to explore your family's ancestry.

Rosetta Stone Inc. is dedicated to changing people's lives through the power of language and literacy education. The company's innovative, personalized language and reading programs drive positive learning outcomes in thousands of schools, businesses, government organizations and for millions of individual learners around the world.

This part of a larger website helps to compare salaries of similar job titles located in the same region.

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;
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)

Interface including all of the Salem Literature, History, Science and Health databases that MCL offers.

Covers notable theories, people, social issues, life stages, the physiology and anatomy of the nervous system, and various mental illnesses or 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)

Site includes links to digital collections, exhibitions, history and "Selected Internet sources of information on Africa and the African Diaspora."

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.

"The Death Master File (DMF) ... currently contains over 89 million records and is updated weekly. The file is created from internal SSA records of deceased persons possessing social security numbers and whose deaths were reported to the SSA."

Describes three New Jersey programs: Individual Health Coverage Program (IHC), Small Employer Health Benefits Program (SEH), and NJ Protect (for uninsured New Jerseyans with pre-existing medical conditions).

A research database for teachers, Teacher Reference Center (TRC) provides indexing and abstracts for more than 200 peer-reviewed journals.

Collecting information from government surveys, social worker histories, economic data, family diaries, letters, newspapers, and magazine features, This is Who We Were: In The 1990s assembles a remarkable personal and realistic look into America’s past.

For information about your credit report, including how the information on the report is gathered to form the report.

Contains immigration forms, statistics, studies and reports.

Home page for USGenWeb Project. State pages. State Archive pages. Links to transcribed census materials. Cemetery transcriptions and volunteer look-ups for cemeteries.

Get in touch with nonprofits that need you.

People Search. Find Contact Information on yourself or anyone else.

Working Americans 1880-2017 Volume VIII: Immigrants, Second Edition illustrates what life was like for families leaving their homeland and creating a new life in the United States.

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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