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ONLINE DATABASES

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Ancestry Library

Provided through the generosity of the Union County Freeholders.

Approximately 4,000 databases including US Federal Census Images and Indexes from 1790 to 1930

ProQuest Historical Newspapers (NYT)

Provided through the generosity of the Union County Freeholders.

The entire run of the New York Times from 1851 through 2003 with full text/images

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ReferenceUSA Business, Residential, Health Databases, and Corp Tech

Information on 12 million businesses. Also information on residential and health. Corp Tech covers 95,000 technology businesses.

 

 

For more information on the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative which provides funding for many of these databases, click on  the NJKI website at http://www.njki.org 

EBSCOhost (magazine articles and more)

 

all EBSCO resources

Full text for more than 1800 periodicals including general reference, business and health. Also includes Funk and Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia. 

EBSCO Eldercare

 

This resource provides a reliable source of eldercare-related information.  Contains proprietary, comprehensive reports on over 90,000 eldercare facilities and services throughout the US, including ratings and rankings.
 

Standard and Poors NetAdvantage

S&P's NetAdvantage offers on-line access to popular research products such as Stock Reports, Corporation Records, Directors and Executives, The Outlook and Mutual Fund Reports among others along with the ability to do searching and screening.

Informé (magazine articles in Spanish)

Purchased for you by the New Jersey Library Network.

Revistas en Espanol (magazines in Spanish) is a full text Spanish language database provided courtesy of the New Jersey State Library. Cuenta con 135,122 articulas.  

Custom Newspapers

Purchased for you by the New Jersey Library Network.

Access to full text newspaper articles (including the New York Times, The Star-Ledger and Bergen Record) provided by the New Jersey State Library.

National Newspapers

Indexing and abstracting for 9 major US papers including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post dating back to the ‘80s

HeritageQuest Online

 

Provided through the generosity of the Union County Freeholders.

Includes all images and indexing from the 1790 through 1930 US Federal Censuses, with more than 20k book titles and nearly 8k family histories.

Facts on File

Offers students and researchers a wide range of interactive databases covering subjects such as history, science, careers, literature and geography. Printable teacher handouts and reproducible personal and business forms are also available.

World Book Online

Full text access to encyclopedia articles as well as related articles from major newspapers and magazines, includes graphics and multimedia, photos, maps and animations, tables and links to external websites.
 

Jersey Clicks

 

Purchased for you by the New Jersey Library Network.

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 licensed databases purchased for you by the New Jersey Library Network.

NoveList

Assists fiction readers of all ages in finding new authors, titles and plots plus characters and themes in over 100,000 fiction books.   

Contemporary Authors

 

Complete biographical information, references and a large selection of critical essays on more than 120,000 U.S. and International authors. 

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select

 

An extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.


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This page was updated on Wednesday, August 15, 2007