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Business

This business database provides full text for over 1,000 business publications. The rich collection of titles in Business Source Elite provides information dating back to 1985. More than 10,100 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

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Corfacts is New Jersey’s premier business to business information site. Corfacts includes NJ Directory of Human Resources Executives, the NJ Directory of Small Businesses, and the NJ Business-to-Business Directory.

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Reference Solutions (formerly ReferenceUSA) is a powerful database for finding information on doctors, businesses, and residences.  The business section is a particularly useful way to find out about a business’ ownership, sales volume, and number of employees. 
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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.

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This database provides information on thousands of equities from the Value Line newsletter.

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The Wall Street Journal covers international and national news, with a focus on business and business personalities. Our access comes directly from Dow Jones and Company and presents the Wall Street Journal in its regular online format.

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Careers

NJ career assistance offers extensive New Jersey information on over 550 occupations and 194 NJ occupational licenses, registrations and certifications.

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College

HelpNow offers live tutoring on every subject, editing assistance, and other learning duels to help children master topics and excel in school.

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Encyclopedias

Provides an exhaustive overview of Jewish cultural and religious life from the Second Temple period until the present. The Second Edition of this classic tome is invaluable for scholars, students, and general readers alike.

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Offered by EBSCO, this encyclopedia provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries on a tremendous variety of subject areas.

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The premier dictionary and source of etymologies in the English language.

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The articles and their illustrations are derived from the content of seven Scholastic encyclopedia databases: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples, Amazing Animals of the World, and The New Book of Popular Science.

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Espanol

Referencia Latina, a comprehensive Spanish-language database, offers content from a variety of sources including 49,000 encyclopedia entries.

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Genealogy

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(Sponsored by the Genealogical Society of the West Fields.) HeritageQuest Online is an essential collection of unique material for both genealogical hobbyists and professionals, with coverage dating back to the late 1700s.

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General

Academic Search Premier is one of the best databases for high school and college research papers. This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, of which more than 3,700 are peer-reviewed. PDF backfiles to 1975 or farther are available for well over one hundred journals.

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Doctoral disserations from hundreds of institutions.

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Consolidation of over twenty databases from EBSCO.

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The articles and their illustrations are derived from the content of seven Scholastic encyclopedia databases: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples, Amazing Animals of the World, and The New Book of Popular Science.

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JerseyClicks searches the full text of thousands of magazines, newspapers, reference books and biographies as well as indexed images including photographs, maps and flags – all from authorative databases so you know the information provided is as accurate. Use Jersey Clicks to access Reference USA, one of our most useful business databases.

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This site from EBSCO is intended for people who have to research a contentious issue. If you are going to be writing a persuasive speech or participating in a debate this database would be an excellent resource for you.

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Geography

This fun resource offers videos, games, science projects, homework help, and of course maps!

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The Facts on File World Geography and Culture allows one to access a wealth of geographic information, from statistical tables of comparative information, to maps, to articles. Topics are American and international.

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The articles and their illustrations are derived from the content of seven Scholastic encyclopedia databases: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples, Amazing Animals of the World, and The New Book of Popular Science.

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History

Facts on File’s African-American History Online is a comprehensive database on African-American history from the slave trade to the Civil Rights movement to the present day. Thousands of extensively hyperlinked and informative entries include topical entries, biographies, primary source documents, images, timelines, and maps and charts.

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Facts on File’s American Indian History Online is an authoritative database that provides in-depth coverage of more than 5,000 years of culture, legends, and leaders. Hundreds of Indians groups are covered in hyperlinked entries, including topical entries, primary sources, biographies, maps, images, and timelines. The content is searchable by tribe and culture area.

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Facts on File’s American Women’s History Online offers thousands of extensively hyperlinked entries—biographies, topical entries, maps, timelines, tables and charts, primary sources, and images—that are essential to understanding the experiences of women throughout U.S. history. **

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Facts on File’s American History Online is a comprehensive reference of the most important individuals, events, and topics in U.S. history. The thousands of entries—topical entries, biographies, maps, timeline entries, primary source documents, and images—are hyperlinked and allow users a path to related entries. Extensive overview essays provide detail on each time period.

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Facts on File’s Ancient and Medieval History Online focuses on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Asia, Ancient and Medieval History Online gives a balanced, global view of the world in ancient and medieval times. Thousands of entries on events, people, and primary source documents are hyperlinked and allow users a comprehensive and comparative view of the pre-modern world.

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This bibliographic database is a valuable index for libraries, scholars and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. This authoritative bibliography is well-known and respected by scholars worldwide. The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750

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This database is based on Salem History’s “Great Lives from History.” Use it to find information on inventors and their inventions.

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Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.

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Facts on File’s Modern World History Online covers the important people and events of world history from the age of exploration in the mid-15th century today. Topical entries, biographies, maps, primary source documents, and timeline entries provide a detailed and comparative view of the people, places, and events that have defined world history.

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Languages

Mango Languages

Mango Languages is a language learning resource that gives you the help and encouragement you need to brush up or master over fifty languages and dialects. Lessons include visual, textual, and audio components to give you a well-rounded pathway to fluency.

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Law and Government

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Literature

Bloom’s Literary Reference, from Facts on File, offers articles on authors and books from antiquity to the present.

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Gale Literature Criticism Online is an extensive collection of critical essays on literature.

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EBSCO eBooks contains full-text eBooks, electronic journals, a variety of online reference databases, and eAudiobooks and Recorded Books. Note: Please click the link to “eBook Collection” at the bottom of the page.

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EBSCO’s LRC is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to today. LRC combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else.

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NoveList is an on-line readers’ advisory tool that helps you find new books based on books you have already read or topics that interest you.

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The Online Book Club consists of a number of book clubs each dedicated to a specific genre: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Business, Romance, Teen, and Audio. If you sign up for one or more of the book clubs every day you will receive a few pages of a book. During a week you can read 2-3 chapters and decide if you want to check the book out of the library. Every Monday the OBC starts a new book.

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Local History Archive

The Westfield History Archive consists of full-text, easily searchable versions of the Westfield Leader, the Union County Standard, the Westfield Record Press, the Weather Vane, Westfield High School’s school yearbook, and oral history projects.

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Magazines

This database offers access to nearly 30 diverse American magazines.

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Consumer Reports is America’s leading magazine of reviews of consumer products. This search tool will bring you to the EBSCO database MasterFile Premier, but is programmed to only search Consumer Reports magazine.

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Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975.

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Music and Art

Creative Bug has more than 1,000 award-winning art & craft video classes taught by recognized design experts and artists.

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See a demo of Hoopla.

Hoopla gives you access to thousands of pieces of music for you to enjoy!

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Newspapers

Newspaper Source provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.

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The New York Times Current offers articles from the New York Times from 1879 to the present.

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New Jersey’s leading newspaper.

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Current

The Wall Street Journal covers international and national news, with a focus on business and business personalities. Our access comes directly from Dow Jones and Company and presents the Wall Street Journal in its regular online format.

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Archive

The Wall Street Journal covers international and national news, with a focus on business and business personalities. Our access to the WSJ comes from ProQuest. You may search the NYTimes and WSJ simultaneously. 1984 to the present.

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This resource from Scholastic Go! offers access to hundreds of American and international newspapers.

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Science

GreenFILE is a database of books, journals, essays, and magazines covering consumer health, ecology, general science, and nature.

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Research topics in biology, chemistry, computer science, earth science, environmental science, forensic science, math, physics, astronomy, and weather and climate. There are diagrams, experiments, biographies, timelines, videos, animations and news articles.

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Self-Paced Learning

The Computer Skills Center, brought to you by the NJ State Library, can teach you anything from the basics of setting up your computer and setting up email, to tools for graphic design and business applications.

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DigitalLearn is a resource that has the tools to help people tackle technology at their own pace and gain the confidence they need to succeed. This resource is for someone who is new to computers, or just a little unsure and uncomfortable.

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Choose from thousands of online courses to learn in-demand skills from real-world industry experts. Linked In Learning’s classes include technology, business skills, and more.

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Search thousands of college and graduate schools, identify scholarships, take practice tests, create resumes, and explore careers.

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Teaching

This Facts on File database claims to be the premier source for lesson plans and printable handouts on the web.

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This Facts on File database has lesson plans and activities for elementary students.

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Eric, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.

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This interface is designed specifically for teachers. It includes lesson plans, alignment with content standards, resources for students, and information about edge of educational thought.

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Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for hundreds of periodicals. In addition, 96% of journals indexed in TRC are peer-reviewed.


Topics include: Assessment, Best Practices, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, School Administration, Science & Mathematics, and Teacher Education.

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Young Student

Brainfuse: HelpNow offers live tutoring on every subject, editing assistance, and other learning duels to help children master topics and excel in school.

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This interface is designed specifically for elementary school students according to their needs and search abilities. This interface is graphically rich and provides access to age-appropriate materials. Now includes topic overviews that provide students with a starting point for research and 60,000 top videos from the Associated Press.

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Primary Search, designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children’s rooms, contains full text for more than 60 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles)

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This provides free New Jersey MVC practice tests for aspiring drivers.

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Created especially for children and the adults who work with them, NoveList K-8 Plus is an online database of reading recommendations which encourages reader success.

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The articles and their illustrations are derived from the content of seven Scholastic encyclopedia databases: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples, Amazing Animals of the World, and The New Book of Popular Science.

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This fun resource offers videos, games, science projects, homework help, and of course maps!

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