Databases by Subject 

Click on the subject below to see the databases
 

General
Animals
Art
Automobiles
Biography
Books & Literature
Business
Children/Students
Current Events

Law
Magazines & Journals
Music
Newspapers
Nursing
Obituaries
Science
Students (K-College)
Travel/Maps

        Click on the database name and you will be prompted to
         enter your library barcode number.  This is the 14-digit
         number on the back of your library card that begins with 2930.

Databases that are available only in the library are noted as such.  Some databases have a red link for home access, and Historical Newspapers uses a username and a password, both of which are listed with the database.

Databases with this logo are presented free to our library from the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative.  Click the logo for more information about the Initiative. 

Databases with this logo are presented free to our library from the State Library of New Jersey.  Click the logo for more information about the State Library.

General

JerseyClicks
Jersey Clicks is New Jersey's statewide portal that features federated searching of the statewide full-text databases offered by the New Jersey State Library, the New Jersey Network, and funds from the Library Services and Technology Act.
 

Reference USA
A directory of over 12,000,000 businesses in the US that can be sorted by geography, size, type of business, and other criteria. Also includes residential listings.

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EbscoHost (EBSCOhost)
Select EBSCOhost Web for a menu of databases, which includes MasterFILE Premier, offering full-text articles from over 1,800 magazines and journals covering nearly all subjects.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (Thomson Gale)
A collection of key reference books on a variety of topics (biography, history, literature) for student and general research.  Our subscription consists of over 375 reference books which are searchable and contain full text articles.  Simply click the above link to see what's available. We are currently subscribed to the Academic Trial Edition. 

Infotrac General Reference Center (Thomson Gale)
Infotrac provides access to articles and abstracts from hundreds of magazines, newspapers, and reference books, with an emphasis on current events, popular culture, sports, and entertainment.

Directory of Open Access Journals
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages.

The Internet Public Library
The Internet Public Library  features a searchable, subject-categorized directory of authoritative websites; links to online texts, newspapers, etc.

Librarians' Internet Index
Searchable and annotated subject directory of Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries.

MAS Ultra: Magazine Articles Summaries (EBSCOhost)
This database provides more than 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags.

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost)
Full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full text information, covering virtually every subject area of general interest. Also includes nearly 500 full-text reference books; 84,011 biographies; 83,472 primary source documents; and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps, and flags.

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Animals

EBSCO Animals (EBSCOhost)
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. 

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Art

Artcyclopedia
A comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources.

Artstor (The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation)
ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

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Automobiles

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Biography & Genealogy

Ancestry Library  (ProQuest)
Genealogical and historical information from census, military, church, vital, court, land, and probate records; also passenger lists and more.   In-library use only.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Thomson Gale)
Index tool for learning where to look for biographical material on people from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of endeavor.

Biography Collection Complete (EBSCOhost) 
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. This database features more than 177,000 full-text biographies from many different sources.

Biography Resource Center/Lives and Perspectives Collection (Thomson Gale)
Biography Resource Center is a comprehensive database of biographical information on over 340,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than 440,000 biographies from over 1,000 volumes of more than 135 respected Gale sources, with full-text articles from more than 325 magazines and newspapers including American History, The Christian Century, Saturday Night, U.S. News & World Report, The New York Times, and USA Today. This powerful combination gives the researcher instant access to the wealth of biographical data compiled by Gale over more than 50 years, as well as more than 27,000 images, in-depth coverage of key events, and up-to-date reporting that can be found in magazines and newspapers.  The Lives & Perspectives Collection. includes nearly 160,000 concise and in-depth biographies drawn from reference sources such as American Men & Women of Science as well as nearly 40 subject encyclopedias published under the highly respected Macmillan, Scribner and Gale imprints, including the Dartmouth Award-winning Encyclopaedia Judaica, Governments of the World, Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, and many others. The full-length biographies in this collection offer unique biographical viewpoints and provide definitive scholarly records of the lives of some of the most notable and influential figures in history, world culture, science, religion, health, government, and more.

Family Search
FamilySearch.org is a non-profit service sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We believe that every person is important and that families are meant to be both sacred and eternal. We encourage all people to find their ancestors and preserve their family histories. To help in this great pursuit, the Church has been actively gathering and preserving genealogical records worldwide for over 100 years.

Heritage Quest (ProQuest)
Database for researching family histories.
Click here for home access using your library barcode number.

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Books & Literature

Bartelby.com
The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge

Books and Authors (Thomson Gale)
Looking for a good book, but not sure where to start? WHO WHAT WHERE WHEN lets you browse by Character, Subject, Location and Time Period, and get a visual representation of your matching books.  Explore the latest genre fiction, essential non-fiction and the authors behind the titles. Browse these and other works, using tools that make finding them and remembering them easy. 

Contemporary Authors (Thomson Gale)
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on all of the more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors whose entries appear in Contemporary Authors. Updated monthly, Contemporary Authors allows users to search for an author by name, title of work, nationality, date and place of birth and death, subject/genre, personal and career information, awards and honors, and more.

Literary Reference Center Direct (EBSCOhost)
Literary Reference Center is a highly graphical interface intended for public, academic and high school libraries. The primary goal of LRC is to assist high school and undergraduate English and Humanities students with homework and research assignments of a literary nature.

Literary Reference Center (part of EBSCOhost) (EBSCOhost)
Literary Reference Center is 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. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works and is an essential resource for public, academic and high school libraries.

Literature Resource Center (Thomson Gale)
Looking for information about a novelist, poet, or other writer?  This database provides single search access to literary biographies and critical analyses of over 120,000 authors.

Novelist Plus (EBSCOhost)
An electronic readers' advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles.

Tumblebooks E-Books for Kids
TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of TumbleBooks – animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by adding animation, sound, music and narration to existing picture books in order to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you.
The TumbleBookLibrary provides enrichment to students who are reading independently with a variety of high interest material. It also provides support to students who require skill building with a variety of exercises that can be matched with other areas of the curriculum. In general, TumbleBooks are a great addition to a reading program that can be worked on independently by each student or by the whole class. It has been exceptionally well received by ESL and Special Education teachers.

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Business/Finance

Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage  (Standard and Poor's)  
A comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering on-line access to Standard & Poor’s independent research, data and commentary on stocks, bonds, funds, and industries.
To access from home, the login is case sensitive with no spaces:
             NorthBrunswick
The password is your library card number with no spaces:
             starting with 29302...

A.M. Best Company
Access for insurance company research, including presentation repoirts, BestAlert Service and Best's Review.

Business Source Elite (EBSCOhost) 
Full text of over 1,000 business publications, plus detailed company information from Datamonitor.

Corporate ResourceNet (EBSCOhost)
Corporate ResourceNet is designed to meet the diverse information needs of today’s companies. This database contains full text articles from nearly 1,200 quality magazines and journals.

Legal Forms (Thomson Gale)
Provides a wide selection of printable legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord, tenant, and many others.

MorningStar Mutual Funds Online (Morningstar)
Provides fast and easy access to Morningstar Mutual Funds in a PDF format. Download the latest issue under Most Recent Issue, select an entire group of funds to review under Download Reports by Category, or find a specific fund under Search.
To access, click the above link and then login with this email and password:
Email address is: morningstar@northbrunswicklibrary.org
Password is: library

New Jersey Association of County Tax Boards
Tax, assessment, and home sale prices for most New Jersey counties.  

Reference USA
A directory of over 12,000,000 businesses in the US that can be sorted by geography, size, type of business, and other criteria. Also includes residential listings.

Regional Business News (EBSCOhost) 
Provides comprehensive full text coverage for 75 regional business publications from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Scitopia.org
The federated vertical search portal Scitopia.org was created through the imagination and collaboration of 15 leading science and technology societies.  Searching for a better way to help researchers quickly get to the quality content they need, these society publishers developed a gateway to the research most cited in scholarly work and patents. Scitopia.org searches the entire electronic libraries of the leading voices in major science and technology disciplines and provides relevant results, without the noise of other Internet search engines. More than three million documents, including peer-reviewed journal content and technical conference papers, spanning 150 years of science and technology can be searched through the site.

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Current events

American FactFinder (US Census Bureau)
Your source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data.

Points of View Reference Center (EBSCOhost)
Points of View Reference Center is an interface intended for public, academic, and high school libraries. Points of View is designed to assist researchers 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.

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Education & Careers

Learning Express (LearningExpressLibrary.com)
Interactive online learning tool featuring tutorial courses, and many practice tests such as SAT, AP, GRE, TOEFL and Civil Service, plus downloadable prep e-books. Designed to help students and adult learners, this resource provides immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.
LEARNING EXPRESS LIBRARY has added a NEW Job & Career Help Center to the database. Complete with twelve interactive components, these three new course series take the patron through every step of the career process—from figuring out what career to pursue, to mastering the hiring process, to success on the job. The courses include:
BUSINESS WRITING SKILLS SUCCESS COURSES
JOB SEARCH AND SUCCESS SKILLS COURSES
RESUME AND INTERVIEWING SKILLS COURSES

ERIC (EBSCOhost)
ERIC, the Educational 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 provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCOhost) Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, indexes more than 600 periodicals, 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 (EBSCOhost)
Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. This is the most comprehensive and most valuable collection of full text education journals in the world. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 700 journals. Examples of titles offered in Professional Development Collection include: Booklist, Curriculum Administrator, Education, Education Digest, Educational Leadership, High School Journal, Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Research, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Phi Delta Kappan, Reading Teacher, School Library Journal, and many others. The majority of full text titles included in the database are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in the Professional Development Collection dates as far back as 1965.

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Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia Britannica (Encyclopedia Britannica Online)
Includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year.
For login from home with your library card, click this link. 

Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia (EbscoHost)
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

World Book Online (World Book Online)
Comprehensive access to encyclopedia articles, web links, periodical articles, videos, maps, and more.
 

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en Español 

Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos (World Book Online)
La Enciclopedia estudiantil hallazgos en línea es una enciclopedia de conocimientos generales. Contiene información sobre gente, lugares, objetos, acontecimientos e ideas.

Informé (Thomson Gale)
Informe (revistas en Español) es una coleccíon de artículos y reportajes de períodicos y revistas, excerptos de libros, y algunos mapas. La base de datos contiene más de 75,000 citaciones de aproximadamente 65 fuentes y está actualizada diariamente.

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Health and Medicine/Nursing

History

History Reference Center (EBSCOhost)
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. 

The New Jersey Digital Highway
The New Jersey Digital Highway is your "one stop shop" for New Jersey history and culture, from the collections of NJ libraries, museums, archives and historical societies.

Today in History
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

Images

EbscoHost (EBSCOhost)
Users may set limits to search images only within this multidiscipline database.

New York Times Historical (1851-2003) (ProQuest)
Access articles and images from the New York Times.
Click here for home access using your library barcode number.           

World Book Online Reference Center (World Book Online)
Comprehensive access to encyclopedia articles, web links, periodical articles, videos, maps, images and more.

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Jobs & Careers

	Click here to access from within the library To access from home click here. Password is the first 5 digits of your library card

There's a reason that Fortune called Vault "The best place on the Web to prepare for a job search." Job seekers - from students to experienced professionals - have discovered that Vault is the most comprehensive resource for career management and job search information, including insider intelligence on salaries, hiring practices and company cultures.

• Employer profiles and rankings, which combine the inside perspective of anonymous employee reviews with expert context from Vault's editors.
• Industry blogs and news stories that help professionals stay on top of the trends and issues affecting their careers.
• Message boards, where users freely discuss issues, ask questions and get advice.
• Vault's job board, which matches employers and recruiters with top talent (that's you). To provide the most and best information relevant to your interests, our job postings are fully integrated with the career and company information throughout Vault's site.
• Education information, which includes profiles on colleges, law schools and M.B.A. programs. Students and alumni also provide reviews of university life, academics and career prospects at schools across the nation and abroad.

Glassdoor.com
Glasdoor.com gives you an inside look at company reviews, interview questions, & salary information for thousands of companies.

Indeed.com
Indeed is a search engine for jobs - with a radically different approach to job search. In one simple search, Indeed gives job seekers free access to millions of employment opportunities from thousands of websites. Indeed.com includes all the job listings from major job boards, newspapers, associations and company career pages - and we continue to add new sites every day. Click the logo to access

Career Library (EBSCOHost)
Career Library offers a comprehensive information resource for career and college research. Users can explore interests and aptitude to match their interests to occupations and education prospects. Career Library also provides resources to practice tests and skills, build resumes and plan for technical, military or professional jobs.
For use at home Click on JerseyClicks and enter your library card number.

Learning Express (LearningExpressLibrary.com)
Interactive online learning tool featuring tutorial courses, and many practice tests such as SAT, AP, GRE, TOEFL and Civil Service, plus downloadable prep e-books. Designed to help students and adult learners, this resource provides immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.
LEARNING EXPRESS LIBRARY has added a NEW Job & Career Help Center to the database. Complete with twelve interactive components, these three new course series take the patron through every step of the career process—from figuring out what career to pursue, to mastering the hiring process, to success on the job. The courses include:
BUSINESS WRITING SKILLS SUCCESS COURSES
JOB SEARCH AND SUCCESS SKILLS COURSES
RESUME AND INTERVIEWING SKILLS COURSES

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Langauges

Mango Languages
Mango is an online language-learning system that teaches actual conversation skills for
12 different languages. It's so easy to use, you'll see incredible results after just one lesson! Mango uses real-life situations and actual conversations to more effectively teach a new language. By listening to and repeating after material designed from native conversations, you'll not only learn the individual words and phrases, you'll know how they're used in practical situations and conversations. You'll learn more than grammar, vocabulary and conjugation, you'll learn how to communicate.

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Law

Legal Forms (Thomson Gale)
Provides a wide selection of printable legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord, tenant, and many others. Also included are a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen's language.

Westlaw Online (Westlaw.com)
NJ, US & state statutes, NJ Administrative Code, NJ & US court decisions, the complete "New Jersey Practice" series, legal forms, and law review articles.
ACCESS TO WESTLAW IS ONLY AVAILABLE IN THE LIBRARY. 
Click on the Westlaw Internet Explorer Icon on the desktop for password-free access.

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Magazines and Journals

America's News Magazines (NewsBank)
access to back issues of these magazines
Baby Talk,  Business 2.0, Entertainment Weekly, Essence, Family Life, Foreign Affairs, Fortune, Fortune International, FSB: Fortune Small Business, In Style, Life, Money, Newsweek, ON Magazine, Parenting, People, Popular Science, Real Simple, Slate, Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated For Kids, Sports Illustrated Women, Stateline.org, Teen People, Time, Time For Kids, Time International, U.S. News & World Report. 

Consumer Reports (EBSCOhost)
Type your search term in the top window, and "Consumer Reports" in the Publication Field in the bottom half of the page.

MasterFile Premiere (EBSCOhost)
MasterFILE Premier offers full-text articles from over 1,800 magazines and journals covering nearly all subjects.

Infotrac General Reference Center (Thomson Gale)
Infotrac provides access to articles and abstracts from hundreds of magazines, newspapers, and reference books, with an emphasis on current events, popular culture, sports, and entertainment.

JerseyClicks
Access to 15 databases that may be searched simultaneously or users can create a "Custom" search.

MAS Ultra: Magazine Articles Summaries (EBSCOhost)
This database provides more than 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags.

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Music

Art Song Central (Free Resource for Sheet Music)
Art Song Central is principally an archive and directory of free, printable sheet music for singers and voice teachers. An emphasis is placed on standard classical and traditional repertoire.

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Newspapers

America's Newspapers (NewsBank)
The electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers--all in one easy-to-search database. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded.

Historical Newspapers - New York Times (1851-2001) (ProQuest)
Easy-to-use, intuitive interface for accessing complete coverage of The New York Times from 1851-2001. 
Username: 18-73371  Password: bigchalk

The McClatchy-Tribune Collection (EBSCOhost)
The McClatchy-Tribune Collection includes a 90-day archive of approximately 290 newspapers from the McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. This database is updated daily.

Infotrac Custom Newspapers (includes current New York Times) (Thomson Gale)
Search for full-text articles from:
Bergen Record: January 1996 to present
Newark Star-Ledger: January 1996 to present
New York Times: 2001 to present  

New York Times Historical (1851-2003) (ProQuest)
Access articles from the New York Times from 1851 to 2003.
Click here for home access using your library barcode number.

Newspaper Source (EBSCOhost)
Newspaper Source provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 260 regional (U.S.) newspapers. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. 

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Obituaries

America's Obituaries & Death Notices (NewsBank)
When NewsBank opens, at the top of the Page you will find American's Obituaries & Death Notices. The largest and most comprehensive collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices. Extensive editorial review of all newspaper sections ensures thorough selection of obituaries for easy access. An easy-to-use interface allows searching by name, date range, or text such as institutional name, social affiliation(s), geographic location(s), philanthropic activities, etc.

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Science

Scitopia.org
The federated vertical search portal scitopia.org was created through the imagination and collaboration of 15 leading science and technology societies.  Searching for a better way to help researchers quickly get to the quality content they need, these society publishers developed a gateway to the research most cited in scholarly work and patents. Scitopia.org searches the entire electronic libraries of the leading voices in major science and technology disciplines and provides relevant results, without the noise of other Internet search engines. More than three million documents, including peer-reviewed journal content and technical conference papers, spanning 150 years of science and technology can be searched through the site.

Science Reference Center (EBSCOhost)
Science Reference Center is 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. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife. 

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Students

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Students, K-3

Tumblebooks E-Books for Kids
TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of TumbleBooks – animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by adding animation, sound, music and narration to existing picture books in order to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you.
The TumbleBookLibrary provides enrichment to students who are reading independently with a variety of high interest material. It also provides support to students who require skill building with a variety of exercises that can be matched with other areas of the curriculum. In general, TumbleBooks are a great addition to a reading program that can be worked on independently by each student or by the whole class. It has been exceptionally well received by ESL and Special Education teachers.

 

Kids Search (EBSCOhost)
General reference database for those in grades K-8.

Novelist Plus K-8 (EBSCOhost)
Novelist Plus K-8 allows you to discover the fiction titles that are popular with young readers as well as titles to use in your classroom. The NoveList Learning Center provides a complete introduction to the product and shows you how to use NoveList to meet the reading needs of your students. You can access the Learning Center by clicking on its link in the left hand column of your screen.

PrimarySearch (EBSCOhost)
Primary Search,designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children’s rooms, contains full text for nearly 70 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines. Examples of publications covered in Primary Search include: Appleseeds, Boys’ Life, Cobblestone, Cricket, Highlights for Children, Hopscotch, Jack & Jill, Ladybug, Ranger Rick, Science World, Spider, SuperScience, Time for Kids, Turtle, and many more. This database also provides the American Heritage Children’s Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text backfiles go as far back as 1990, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as 1985.

Searchasaurus (EBSCOhost)
Specialized search interface for elementary and middle school students featuring fun dinosaur graphics.
 

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Students, Grades 3 -6

Kids Search (EBSCOhost)
General reference database for those in grades K-8.

Novelist Plus K-8 (EBSCOhost)
Novelist Plus K-8 allows you to discover the fiction titles that are popular with young readers as well as titles to use in your classroom. The NoveList Learning Center provides a complete introduction to the product and shows you how to use NoveList to meet the reading needs of your students. You can access the Learning Center by clicking on its link in the left hand column of your screen.

PrimarySearch (EBSCOhost)
Primary Search,designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children’s rooms, contains full text for nearly 70 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines. Examples of publications covered in Primary Search include: Appleseeds, Boys’ Life, Cobblestone, Cricket, Highlights for Children, Hopscotch, Jack & Jill, Ladybug, Ranger Rick, Science World, Spider, SuperScience, Time for Kids, Turtle, and many more. This database also provides the American Heritage Children’s Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. Many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text backfiles go as far back as 1990, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as 1985.

Searchasaurus (EBSCOhost)
Specialized search interface for elementary and middle school students featuring fun dinosaur graphics.

Student Research Center (EBSCOhost) 
General reference database for those in grades 6-12.
 

Tumblebooks E-Books for Kids
TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of TumbleBooks – animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by adding animation, sound, music and narration to existing picture books in order to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you.
The TumbleBookLibrary provides enrichment to students who are reading independently with a variety of high interest material. It also provides support to students who require skill building with a variety of exercises that can be matched with other areas of the curriculum. In general, TumbleBooks are a great addition to a reading program that can be worked on independently by each student or by the whole class. It has been exceptionally well received by ESL and Special Education teachers.

 

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Students, Middle School

Kids Search (EBSCOhost)
General reference database for those in grades K-8.

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost)
Full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full text information, covering virtually every subject area of general interest. Also includes nearly 500 full-text reference books; 84,011 biographies; 83,472 primary source documents; and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps, and flags.

MiddleSearch Plus  (EBSCOhost)
Middle Search Pluscontains full text for 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Additionally, Middle Search Plus contains primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History, reference books including the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia and American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition from Houghton Mifflin, the Encyclopedia of Animals, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags.

Novelist Plus K-8: (EBSCOhost)
NoveList Plus K-8 allows you to discover the fiction titles that are popular with young readers as well as titles to use in your classroom. The NoveList Learning Center provides a complete introduction to the product and shows you how to use NoveList to meet the reading needs of your students. You can access the Learning Center by clicking on its link in the left hand column of your screen.

Student Research Center (EBSCOhost)
General reference database for those in grades 6-12.

TOPICsearch (EBSCOhost)
Current events database covering social, political, and economic issues; scientific discoveries; and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms.


 

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Students, High School

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost)
Full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full text information, covering virtually every subject area of general interest. Also includes nearly 500 full-text reference books; 84,011 biographies; 83,472 primary source documents; and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps, and flags.

MAS Ultra - Magazine Article Summaries School Edition (EBSCOhost)
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags.

Shmoop
Become a better lover (of literature and history).  See many sides to the argument.  Find your writing groove. Understand how lit and history are relevant today.  We want to show your brain a good time.  Our mission: To make learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age. The language is totally student-friendly. Content is provided in a way that will engage high school and college students. Display options include: thumbnail lists, coverflow, and surprise me. Search options include a tag cloud. The site can be added to the Firefox toolbar and shared on Facebook.

Student Research Center (EBSCOhost) 
General reference database for those in grades 6-12.

TOPICsearch (EBSCOhost)
Current events database covering social, political, and economic issues; scientific discoveries; and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms.

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Academic Search Premiere (EBSCOhost)
Academic Search Premier is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost. This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles.

Digital Commons Institutional Repositories
Institutional Repositories (IRs) bring together all of an institution's research under one umbrella, with an aim to preserve and provide access to that research. IRs are an excellent vehicle for working papers or published articles and conference papers. Presentations, senior theses, and other works not published elsewhere can also be published in the IR.

Shmoop
Become a better lover (of literature and history).  See many sides to the argument.  Find your writing groove. Understand how lit and history are relevant today.  We want to show your brain a good time.  Our mission: To make learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age. The language is totally student-friendly. Content is provided in a way that will engage high school and college students. Display options include: thumbnail lists, coverflow, and surprise me. Search options include a tag cloud. The site can be added to the Firefox toolbar and shared on Facebook.

Student Research Center (EBSCOhost)
General reference database for those in grades 6-12.

 

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AtoZ Maps Online
AtoZ Maps Online is an excellent resource for Maps: Political, Physical, Biblical, Earthquakes and much much more.

Global Road Warrior
Global Road Warrior is a fantastic resource for learning about other countries. From historical information to tarvelling planning. It's all there.

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