By Subject

Books/Book Reviews

eLibraryNJ
Participating libraries offer library card holders downloadable audio books.

Literary Reference Source (EBSCO) 
Literary Reference Source is a rich full-text literary database covering all genres and time periods. It includes thousands of synopses, critical essays, book reviews, literary journals and author biographies, plus full-text classic novels, short stories and poems.

Business

Business Source Elite
This business database provides full text for nearly 1,100 business publications, including full text for nearly 500 peer-reviewed business publications. 

Corfacts Online
Corfacts Online is New Jersey’s premiere online business to business directory. This database allows users to research businesses within New Jersey by county, address, company name, keywords, etc. Additional information such as company ownership, number of employees, annual revenue and more is accessible through Corfacts Online.

Legal Information Source (EBSCO)
Legal Information Source is a database designed to assist the public in understanding the complex world of law and legal matters of all kinds. It includes exclusive full text for many top consumer legal reference books, as well as thousands of legal forms.

NJ Book of Lists
NJ Book of Lists is a business database that contains information on various companies sorted by categories such as architects, photography, payroll etc. Each category provides helpful information such as the company’s address, phone number, current owner and more!

ReferenceUSA
The No. 1 source of information on businesses and people for researchers, students and job seekers.

Regional Business News (EBSCO)
Regional Business News provides full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. Users can search newspapers, magazines and other resources from trusted news sources.

Small Business Source (EBSCO)
This database offers users complete small business management resources via a combination of unparalleled periodicals and reference content. From conducting industry research to financial planning, to marketing a product and franchising a business, the Small Business Reference Center provides users with all the information they need to succeed.

ValueLine
The Value Line Investment Survey is a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks in 98 industries, the stock market, and the economy.

Career

Ferguson’s Career Guide Center
This database is now broken down into three main sections: Industries and Careers, Industries and Careers, and Launch Your Career for ease and speed of use.

LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com)
Free online classes such as Photoshop, business, music, IT, photography and many more! Library card required to access. 

Peterson’s Test and Career Prep
Peterson’s Test and Career Prep contain practice tests for high school, college, grad school and English as a Second Language. Also contains college research and skills assistance, career advice, U.S. citizenship assistance and much more.

Foreign Language Materials

Pronunciator
Pronunciator is an online language-learning system that can help you learn languages like Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian, Russian and more.

Referencia Latina (EBSCO)
Referencia Latina is a full-text Spanish-language database covering a broad array of subjects inside and outside academia. It offers content from a variety of sources, including reference books, general interest magazines and health reports.

Genealogy

Ancestry Library Edition (Accessible in Library Only)
This is a genealogy research tool that gives researchers a wide range of unique resources for genealogical and historical research. It includes US, UK, and Ireland census collections, Birth, Marriage, & Death Records, Immigration Collection, Military Records, and Biography and History Collection.

Family Search (Accessible in Library Only)
FamilySearch is the largest genealogy organization in the world. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services each year to learn more about their family history. Only available in the library.

HeritageQuest
HeritageQuest Online is a comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, convenient research guides, interactive census maps, and more. … City Directories with over 1.5 million records from various US city and county directories during 1821-1989.

Independent
Local newspaper 1972-2000.

New York Times
New York Times direct access. Get the full version of the paper and personalize what you see to get the latest news. Please register or the site will block you after 6 articles.

Red Bank Register
Local newspaper 1878-1991. If you need help with your local history research, contact our Reference Librarian staff at 732-671-3700 ext. 320.

Health

Affordable Care Act Information from NJ State Library
NJ State Library provides key facts, enrollment dates and other helpful resources about the Affordable Care Act

Health Reference Center
Facts On File’s Health Reference Center is a comprehensive encyclopedic database containing thousands of hyperlinked entries organized into four major categories: conditions and diseases, health and wellness, mental health, and body systems.It provides clear information on the causes, cures, key research, medical terms, symptoms, treatments and trends, and organizations in each field of study.

Health Source: Consumer Edition  (EBSCO)
This full-text database covers a wide variety of subjects, including information on specific diseases as well as overall health topics. It also includes searchable full text for current health pamphlets.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO)
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition is a trusted full-text database covering nursing and allied health topics, including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and more.

History

African American History Online (Facts on File)
African American History Online explores more than 500 years of the African-American experience–containing biographies, historical and topical subject entries, primary source documents, maps and charts, an image gallery, and general and subject-specific timelines that cover more than 500 years of American women’s history.

American History Online (Facts on File)
Spanning more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history of the United States. Content Features: biographies, events and topics, primary sources, timelines, image gallery, maps, charts and more.

American Indian History Online (Facts on File)
Facts On File’s American Indian History Online database offers fast access to more than 15,000 years of culture and history through event and topic entries, biographies, images, maps and charts, legends, primary sources, and timeline entries.

American Women’s History Online (Facts on File)
American Women’s History Online is an authoritative reference database containing biographies, historical and topical subject entries, primary source documents, maps and charts, an image gallery, and general and subject-specific timelines that cover more than 500 years of American women’s history.

Ancient & Medieval History Online (Facts on File)
Ancient and Medieval History Online provides thorough coverage of eight civilizations—ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient and medieval Africa, medieval Europe, the Americas, and ancient and medieval Asia.

History (Salem Press)
History from the fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties in America. Included are Great Events from History:The Ancient World, the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

Military & Government Collection (EBSCO)
Military & Government Collection is a database of full-text journals and periodicals pertaining to all branches of the military and government. It is designed to offer current news to military members, analysts, policy makers, students and researchers.

Modern World History Online
Modern World History Online covers the full scope of world history from the mid-15th century to the present. This comprehensive online resource contains thousands of fully hyperlinked subject entries, biographies, images, maps and charts, primary source documents, and timeline entries.

Homework Help/Research

ABCmouse Early Learning Academy
The multi-award-winning ABCmouse Early Learning Academy offers the most comprehensive online curriculum available for children ages 2–8, with more than 10,000 learning activities in Reading and Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Art and Music.

Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,650 journals, including full text for more than 3,900 peer-reviewed titles.

Curriculum Resource Center
Curriculum Resource Center gives teachers fast access to printable teacher-handout material for the middle, high school, and junior college curriculum.

EBSCOHost Explora
Provides full text for 1,830 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more.

ERIC
The Education Resource Information Center contains more than 1,282,000 records and links to more than 314,000 full-text documents from ERIC.

Explora Primary Schools (EBSCO)
A research database that is geared towards students and educators to complete their homework and research projects. It contains high quality articles, topic overviews and more that makes it fun and easy for young students to explore new ideas.

Explora Educator’s Edition (EBSCO)
Provides full text for 1,830 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more. Explora offers a more modern and efficient search experience across all devices; powerful filters for narrowing search results; and integrations with Google Classroom, Clever Single Sign On, and learning management systems such as Schoology and Canvas.

Facts on File
A general index to educational databases in the areas of Curriculum Resources, Science, History, Multiculturalism, Geography, Career Guidance and Forms.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

Image Collection (EBSCO)
The images within this database consist of a wide array of photos and maps, with an emphasis on world news and events. Other areas of coverage include contemporary and historical photos of people, places, and the natural kingdom.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO)
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) is a free research database for library and information science studies. LISTA provides indexing and abstracting for hundreds of key journals, books and research reports.

MasterFILE Elite (EBSCO)
MasterFILE Elite provides full-text magazines and reference books covering many subject areas including business, health, education, general science and multicultural issues. It also includes an extensive image collection.

Middle Search Plus
Full text of popular magazines and reference books with middle school reading levels.

Points of View Reference Center (EBSCO)
Explore topic on many current issues, including abortion, foreign policy, global issues, religion, race, etc.

Primary Search
Provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research.

Teacher Reference Center (EBSCO)
Teacher Reference Center (TRC) provides indexing and abstracts for more than 230 peer-reviewed journals.

Literature

Bloom’s Literature
This literature database has been thoroughly revised and expanded to include the writings of renowned literary critic Harold Bloom.

Literary Reference Source (EBSCO)
Literary Reference Source is a rich full-text literary database covering all genres and time periods. It includes thousands of synopses, critical essays, book reviews, literary journals and author biographies, plus full-text classic novels, short stories and poems.

Maps & Geography

World Geography & Culture Online (Facts on File)
World Atlas combines an extensive collection of more than 1,500 clear, printable, full-color original maps with a wealth of current statistical information in one interactive resource.

Newspapers

Asbury Park Press
Full-text database of the Asbury Park Press Newspaper (Jan. 1999-). This newspaper is available through US Northeast Newsstream. US Northeast Newsstream covers news sources from Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Click on “Publications” to see a full list of papers offered, or to find the APP.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

Independent
Local newspaper 1972-2000.

New York Times
New York Times direct access. Get the full version of the paper and personalize what you see to get the latest news. Please register or the site will block you after 6 articles.

New Jersey Digital Newspaper Project 
The New Jersey Public Library created an index of all known digitized newspapers published in New Jersey.

Newspaper Source Plus (Ebsco)
Newspaper Source Plus provides a full-text digital collection of the world’s major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers and newswires and offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.

Newswires (EBSCO)
The Associated Press Newswire (formerly AP NewsMonitor collection) is a full-text database that contains harvested news from the Associated Press.

Red Bank Register
Local newspaper 1878-1991. If you need help with your local history research, contact our Reference Librarian staff at 732-671-3700 ext. 320.

Small Town Papers
Choose from over 250 small town newspapers you can read free every week. Browse and search scanned newspaper archive from 1865 up to the current edition.

Periodicals & Magazines

Consumer Reports (EBSCO)
Access consumer reports ratings and reviews on various products and services such as automobiles, air fryers, vacuums and many more.

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EBSCOhost

Provides full text for 1,830 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more.

LIFE Magazine Photo Archive
LIFE.com represents the most amazing collection of professional photography. Over 10 million photos from the legendary archives of LIFE magazine.

Science

APS Journals Homepage 
The American Physical Society (APS) is a non-profit organization that has made available “research journals, scientific meetings, and education, outreach, advocacy, and international activities” about physics.

Cornell Unversity’s Library’s ArXiv.org
“Open access to 1,402,089 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science, and Economics.”

Directory of Open Access Journals 
“DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. DOAJ is independent. All funding is via donations, 50% of which comes from sponsors and 50% from members and publisher members. All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed in DOAJ. All data is freely available.”

GreenFILE (EBSCO)
Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment.

The Public Library of Science (PLOS)
The Public Library of Science (PLOS) is a non-profit organizations that has free journals and articles in the fields of science and medicine.

ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is an open-source website that has free journals with various topics including medicine, healthcare, biochemical research that are available to anyone to share and view.

Science Online (Facts on File)
Science Online offers a comprehensive, curriculum-oriented overview of a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive essays, diagrams, illustrations, images, biographies, experiments, activities, and definitions.

Tests
Driving-Tests.org
Provides several state-specific automobile, motorcycle, and CDL (Commercial Driver’s License) practice tests. Also includes two online driver’s manuals (car and motorcycle), and an FAQ section with detailed answers to 100+ MVC-related questions.

Peterson’s Test and Career Prep
Peterson’s Test and Career Prep contain practice tests for high school, college, grad school and English as a Second Language. Also contains college research and skills assistance, career advice, U.S. citizenship assistance and much more.

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