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Price It! Antiques & Collectibles: Price data for antiques, art, and collectibles from a variety of sources, including online auctions (eBay), online antique dealers
(GoAntiques & TIAS) and land-based auction houses.
Chilton Library: Authoritative automotive service and repair information on thousands of year, make and model combinations. Covers the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models.
Legal Forms: A wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms, including real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord-tenant and many others, plus a comprehensive attorney directory and a dictionary of legal terms.
Infotrac Newspapers Database: New Jersey newspapers, New York Times (full-text from January 1, 2000 to the present), plus many more national and international newspapers. Provided by the New Jersey State Library.
Informé: Journal articles in Spanish.
¡Informe! (Revistas en Español)
Testing & Education Reference Center: Taking a college entrance or licensing exam? Looking for a college or graduate school? Need help finding scholarships? Use this database to search thousands of college and graduate school entries, identify scholarships, take practice tests, and use test prep eBooks.
Opposing Viewpoints: Examines both sides of a variety of controversial topics. Also offers core reference content on social issues. From Greenhaven Press.
Kids InfoBits: For students in grades K-5. Full-text, age appropriate, curriculum-related information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports & more.
Ancestry Library Edition: A new genealogy research tool that provides library patrons instant access to a wide range of resources for genealogical and historical research, including records from the U.S. Census; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories; petitions for naturalization; passenger lists and more! ANCESTRY LIBRARY EDITION IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE FROM THE LIBRARY'S COMPUTERS.
HeritageQuest Online has been discontinued.
New York Times: Full text of The New York Times (1980 - current), plus The New York Times historical database (1851-2003), with searchable full text, and full page & article images back to the first issue. Also includes The New York Times Magazine and Book Review (1997-current).
Access Science: Searchable collection of all articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, and the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, and more.
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Salem History: Searchable database that includes the complete content of printed reference sets from Salem Press, covering American History, Western Civilization / European History, Women's History, and World History.
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NoveList Plus and
NoveList K-8 Plus: Online readers' advisory tool that helps you find new books based on books you've read or topics in which you are interested. Part of EBSCOHost.
Facts on File Reference Databases: Login to Facts on File
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EBSCOHost Web: Full-text magazine & newspaper articles, in English, Spanish, German, & French, plus business, health, current events, and academic databases, homework resources for elementary and middle school research, and more. Many of the EBSCOHost databases are updated daily. You can logon to the main EBSCOHost Web page for access to all the databases, or logon to any of the individual databases listed below:
MasterFILE Premier - Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications dating as far back as 1975. Also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, full text from over 80,000 biographies, more than 100,000 full text primary source documents, and an Image Collection of more than 400,000 photos, maps and flags. Updated daily.
Newspaper Source - Selected full text for 35 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, plus selective full text for 375 regional (U.S.) newspapers. Full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.
NoveList Plus and
NoveList K-8 Plus: Online readers' advisory tool that helps you find new books based on books you've read or topics in which you are interested.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia - Over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Primary Search (Elementary School) - Full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research.
Kids Search - An easy-to-use tool for searching EBSCO's databases for magazines, newspapers, books & encyclopedias, animal info, biographies, radio & TV news transcripts, country & state reports, primary source documents, photos, and videos. You can search by keyword or browse by topic. Includes an online dictionary and encyclopedia for kids, plus resources for teachers. Designed for kids in grades K-8, but some material is not suitable for younger students.
Middle Search Plus (Middle & Jr. High School) - Full text for 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research, plus biographies, primary source documents, and an Image Collection of photos, maps and flags.
Student Research Center - Research tools for students in grades 6 through 12 help you easily obtain the information you need from the EBSCO databases. You can search by type of content (e.g., magazines, newspapers, books & encyclopedias, biographies, radio & TV news transcripts, country & state reports, primary source documents, photos, maps & flags, film & video) or topic heading, use an online dictionary and encyclopedia, and even limit your search by reading level.
MAS Ultra (High School) - Full text for nearly 500 popular high school magazines, plus full text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an Image Collection of photos, maps and flags.
Academic Search Premier (College) - This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Biography Collection - 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. This database features more than 177,000 full-text biographies from many different sources.
History Reference Center - Full text from more than 2,400 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for 135 leading history periodicals, more than 61,100 historical documents, 57,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 110,200 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
Literary Reference Center - Information on the most studied authors and their works from antiquity to the present day. Full-text from from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources.
Points of View Reference Center - The Points of View Reference Center is designed to help in understanding the full scope of controversial subjects. High school and undergraduate students can use Points of View as a guide to debate, developing arguments, writing position papers, and for development of critical thinking skills. Each Points of View Essay includes a series of questions and additional material to generate further thought. Also included are thousands of supporting articles from the world's top political and societal publications.
TOPICsearch - Full text current events offering articles from diverse sources on social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms.
Business Source Elite - Full text for nearly over 1000 business publications, including full text for nearly 500 peer-reviewed business publications dating back to 1985. Updated daily.
Business Searching Interface - Includes browsing for Company Profiles, Industry Profiles, Country Reports, and Market Research Reports, as well as the Business Source Premier database: Full text for more than 2,300 journals, including more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998. Updated daily.
Regional Business News - Full text coverage for regional business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Updated daily.
ERIC (The Educational Resource Information Center) - This professional resource for educators contains more than 1 million records and links to more than 300,000 full-text documents from ERIC.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) - Indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
Professional Development Collection - Designed for professional educators, this database provides full text for nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.
Health Source (Consumer Edition) - Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines, with information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
Health Source (Nursing/Academic Edition) - Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
Salud en Español - Salud en Español provee reportes completos basados en evidencias y fichas de datos relacionados a todos los aspectos de la salud y el bienestar. Reportes específicos por tema que cubren todos los aspectos de la salud, dan información general importante en relación a enfermedades, afecciones y procedimientos de diversos tratamientos.
GreenFILE - A collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
Science Reference Center - Easy access to a multitude of science-oriented content, including full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Covers biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.
