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Federated Search
There are so many sources of information sometimes it can
be helpful to search more than one at a time. We have two options for doing
so; each allows you to specify which subjects or databases to include in your
search.
Jerseyclicks
covers all of the online resources provided by the New Jersey State Library.
If used outside the library it will prompt you to enter the barcode number of
your library card.
Research Pro is a multiple search tool which searches up to 30 of
the online resources available to Somerset County Library cardholders,
including the library catalog. To use Research Pro you must enter your library
card and PIN (usually the last four numbers of your home phone.)
For assistance using online resources or the library
catalog please contact a librarian.
Problems/Questions
The Auto Repair Reference Center is a full text
database containing information on Repair procedures, service bulletins,
service recalls, wiring diagrams, labor and quick tips for automobiles
produced between 1954-2001. Not all types of automobiles are represented in
the database and not all information is available for those automobiles that
are represented in the database.
Click
here for a brief tutorial to learn how to use this database.
- Biography Collection Complete
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.
The Biography Resource Center is a comprehensive database containing biographical information for more than 185,000 people throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
- Bloom's Literary Reference Online
Examines great writers, important
works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world
literature.
Click
here for a brief tutorial to learn how to use this database.
Contemporary Authors Online offers students and patrons continuous access
to current biographical and bibliographical data on more than 120,000 modern
authors. Look for recent information on J.K. Rowling, Isaac Asimov, Isabel
Allende, Joyce Carol Oates, Michael Crichton, Derek Walcott, Dave Barry,
Toni Morrison, Neil Simon, and many others.
- Literature Criticism Online
Three sets of literary criticism are now available
online:
Contemporary Literature Criticism – reviews the works
of authors now living or who have died after 1959.
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism – covers
authors who died between 1900 and 1959.
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism –includes
authors who died between 1800 and 1899.
This collection includes a great deal of full-text
literary criticism, scanned from the pages of these multi-volume sets.
Search by author or title or browse topics. For authors not in this
collection, try
Literature Resources from Gale or other databases.
A master index to the major print literature products published by the Gale Group.
- Literature Resources from Gale
A complete literature reference collection designed for both the
student and sophisticated casual user. Includes information from
Literature Resource Center and LitFinder.
- Literary Reference Center
Literary Reference Center (LRC)
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.
Click here for a
brief tutorial to learn how to use this database.
NoveList Plus is a Reader's Advisory database that provides subject
heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 240,000
fiction titles along with 60,000 narrative non-fiction titles (like
biographies & histories) as well as children's and young adult books in
all subject areas. It also includes other content of interest to readers
and teachers, such as Author Read-alikes, Book Discussion Guides,
BookTalks, Curricular Connections, Grab & Go Lists, and Feature Articles.
Locate books to read and learn more about books and authors here.
NoveList
K-8 Plus is a comprehensive reading
resource for fiction and
nonfiction. With its fun and intuitive interface, and extensive feature
content, NoveList K-8 Plus
will help you integrate reading across the curriculum and support your young
readers.
This business database provides full text for
nearly 1,100 business publications, including full text for nearly 500
peer-reviewed business publications. The rich collection of titles in
Business Source Elite provides information dating back to 1985. This
database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost
Business Source Premier is the
industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for
more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100
peer-reviewed titles. Business Source Premier is superior to the
competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including
marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This
database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
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COIN Career Library
COIN Career Library offers a suite of career tools including
assessment, information on colleges and careers, a resume builder, test
preparation and more. Ebsco is providing free access to this resource to
public libraries for all of 2009.
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Curriculum Resource Center
Provides a library of
printable teacher-handout material for the middle school, high school, and
junior college curriculum.
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center
contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional
information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and
education-related journals.
FactsforLearning brings together content from books, magazines,
activity kits, and other online resources. It is designed to help
students in grades 2-5 find
information to help them in classes and to learn online reference
skills. It also includes an
atlas, a dictionary, lots of other reference books and special fun
features.
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Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Provides detailed profiles of
more than 3,300 jobs and 94 industries, invaluable advice on career
skills, more than 48,000 resource entries, and much more!
Click here for a brief tutorial to learn how to use this database.
LearningExpress Library provides a completely interactive
online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course
series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners
succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass.
(You must register first as a "New User" using your library
card # as your username and make your own password. See a reference
librarian for help.)
Provides clear
and comprehensive information on conditions and diseases, health and
wellness, mental health, and the human body.
This database is the richest collection of consumer
health information available to libraries worldwide, providing
information on many health topics including the medical sciences,
food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general
health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable
full text for nearly 300 journals.
This database provides more than 550 scholarly full
text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health
Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and
indexing for nearly 850 journals.
The entire text of Magill's Medical Guide is now available
online from Salem Health. This is an authoritative reference
source that helps bridge the gap between medical encyclopedias for
professionals and popular self-help guides. It is an up-to-date
and easy-to-use compendium of medical information suitable for
student research as well as use by general readers, including
patients and caregivers.
The Guide 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.
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American History Online
Spans more than
500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history,
highlighting the important people and events of the American
experience.
Click here for a brief tutorial to learn how to use this database.
- American Women's History Online
Covers the important people,
events, legislation, and issues relevant to the study of women's
history in the United States.
- African-American History Online
Provides expansive and
in-depth information on the people, events, and topics important
to the study of African-American history.
Click here for a brief tutorial to learn how to use this database.
- American Indian History Online
Offers thorough access to
more than 15,000 years of Native American culture, history, and
heritage.
Click here for a brief tutorial to learn how to use this database.
- Ancient and Medieval History Online
Explores the pre-modern
world with in-depth focus on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome,
Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
History Reference Center
offers full text from more than 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias
and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 120
history periodicals, more than 59,600 historical documents, 49,600
biographies of historical figures, more than 110,200 historical
photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
- Modern World History Online
Covers the people, places,
and events in the broad expanse of history—from mid-15th century
to the present.
Salem Press provides online
versions of its print sources. Books available here cover the
recent decades of American History, from the 1950's to the
1990's. Also included are Great Events from History, covering
the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
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.
Academic Search Premier is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
EBSCOhost offers databases of general interest, academic and business magazine titles, health reference information, and much more. Many articles are available in full text.
(List
of magazines and journal available full text from EBSCOhost)
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General Reference Center Gold (Infotrac)
Designed
specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database
provides full text for more than 1,730 general reference publications
with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering
virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier
also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies,
100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186
photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via 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. This database is updated
daily via EBSCOhost.
Middle Search
Plus provides full text for 140 popular magazines for middle and jr.
high school research. All full text articles included in the database
are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text
information dates as far back as 1990. Middle Search Plus also
contains 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an
Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags. This database is
updated daily on EBSCOhost.
Online information service provides access to thousands of current periodicals and newspapers, many updated daily and containing full-text articles from 1986.
(full text title list of periodicals available in this database)
Primary Search provides
full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All
full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level
indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This
database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
The Gale
Student Resource Center is a broad database offering resources in
literature, cultures, science, history, and geography. Articles
included in the database are from reference works, primary sources,
and periodicals.
This newspaper collection is provided by the New
Jersey State Library and includes the New York Times
(full-text from January 1, 1985 to the present),
Record (Bergen County, NJ), Record (Hackensack, NJ), and many more national and international
newspapers.
The following Electronic Editions of some popular Newspapers
are available to you by clicking the links below. These look just like
the real newspaper, but are available to you right on your computer.
You can get today's paper right now. An electronic image edition is an exact
digital reproduction of the printed edition, with keyword searching and the
ability to browse the full publication. All pages, including advertising,
photos and graphics are included.
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National Newspapers Expanded
Includes current full-text articles from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Some newspapers are available as far back as 1980.
NewsBank now provides access to the Star
Ledger, Jersey Journal and a collection of smaller New
Jersey newspapers, as well as America’s Obituaries and Death
Notices.
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Somerset County News & Information Center
Somerset County News & Information Center is a
collection of local and national news, a national collection of
obituaries, and a Job Information Center with local job listings and
job search information.
The most
comprehensive, authoritative database for quality reviews of print and
electronic reference works.
Featuring more than 17,000 reviews of reference works, ARBAonline lets you
identify and assess reference publications with confidence and ease, and
enables you to keep your library collection up-to-date, maintain quality
standards, and ensure depth of coverage.
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CountryWatch
CountryWatch provides country specific geopolitical
intelligence on every country of the world, including demographic, historical,
political, economic, business and environmental background, and contemporary
issues facing each country.
Each issue of this weekly
publication from Congressional Quarterly covers an important
topic in the news. The single-themed, 12,000-word reports are
researched and written by a seasoned journalist. The
consistent, reader-friendly organization provides researchers
with an introductory overview; background and chronology on
the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and
maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing
positions; and bibliographies of key sources.
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Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic
entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Provides
access to Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media and Encyclopedia
of Associations - National Organizations of the U.S.
Gale Powersearch gives you all the tools you need to
search across multiple Gale collections of periodical and reference
content, while efficiently managing your results. With the
cross-search feature of Thomson Gale PowerSearch, you can search
one, several, or even all available databases simultaneously.
The Gale Virtual Reference Library contains online access to
encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other specialized reference sources published
by Gale. A full list of titles in this collection can be by clicking the link
below.
Kids
Search provides elementary school students with an easy-to-use,
graphically-appealing interface for searching EBSCO databases.
Results can be easily sorted by source type - -magazines,
reference books, photos, flags, etc.
- Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Library, Information Science &
Technology Abstract (LISTA) 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.
- Mango Languages
Mango is the place to go to learn foreign languages at your own pace and
in a fun and engaging way. Available languages include French, Spanish,
Brazilian Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Russian, Mandarin Chinese,
Japanese, Arabic, Farsi, Pashto, Urdu, Turkish, Hebrew, Korean, Vietnamese,
Thai, Tagalog, Hindi, Irishas. Also many ESL courses are including
ESL French, ESL Italian, ESL German, ESL Russian, ESL Mandarin Chinese, ESL
Cantonese Chinese, ESL Japanese, ESL Greek, ESL Arabic, ESL Korean and ESL
Vietnamese.
- Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional
educators, this database 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. Professional Development Collection is
the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals
in the world.
Points of View Reference Center is an exciting,
powerful new database designed for the researcher who is faced
with the challenge of evaluating the issues of yesterday, today,
and tomorrow. In a single, easily searched interface,
Points of View provides a balanced series of articles
representing multiple viewpoints, to help readers understand the
full scope of a wide range of controversial subjects.
Searchasaurus is an exciting and easy way for kids to
experience online
searching. It is an animated interface with a dinosaur theme
that encourages students to
enhance and develop basic search methodologies.
Includes more than 50 full text student reference books
including Funk & Wagnalls New
Encyclopedia and American Heritage® Children’s Dictionary, Full
text for over 100 student
pamphlets, Encyclopedia of Animal, Image Collection: 107,135
photos, maps and flags, The
American Heritage, Children’s Dictionary by the Editors of the
American Heritage Dictionaries
Through the Student Research Center, users can easily
pre-determine which content sources (e.g., Magazines,
Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video) will be
included with their search. They can also search their databases
by topic heading, make use of an online dictionary and
encyclopedia, explore the top searches of the day, and even
limit their search according to appropriate Lexile reading
levels.
