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Bibliography

Noodlebib

NoodleTools

MLA, APA, & Chicago/Turabian bibliography composer with fully-integrated note-taking.

   
Films
 

Curriculum Video On Demand

 

Reference

-------Encyclopedias


Encyclopedia Britannica Online

Begin your research in an encyclopedia. Access Elementary, MS, & HS versions of this source for basic information, keywords & links to websites & periodicals, images, & video.

Grolier Online

Access Grolier Multimedia, Encyclopedia Americana, New Book of Knowledge, Lands & Peoples, & Amazing Animals.

 
-------Dictionary & Thesaurus

Oxford English Dictionary

Provides meaning, history, & pronunciation of 500,000+ words, both present & past, & traces their usage through quotations.


Visual Thesaurus

An interactive dictionary & thesaurus.

 
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Facts on File

Ferguson Career Guidance Center

Profiles 3,300+ jobs & 94 industries & provides advice on career skills, more than 55,000 resource entries, & more.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

E-Book Database of 450+ encyclopedias & specialized reference sources; books once accessible only in the library, now accessible online 24/7.

Combines detailed, printable, full-color maps of countries, provinces, & states with current statistical & local information.

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TopicSearch

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60,000+ articles from 399 sources including newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, & government information.

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Provided by NJ State Library & SJRLC.

177,000+ full-text biographies

 

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Provided by NJ State Library & SJRLC.

 

Periodicals

Ebscohost

Gateway to Ebsco Animals, Newspaper Source, MasterFILE Premier, ERIC, TOPICsearch, McClatchy-Tribune Collection, & more. Search multiple Ebsco databases at one time.

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Provided by NJ State Library & SJRLC

InfoTrac Custom Newspapers

Newspaper collection selected by NJ State Library includes NJ papers, & other national & regional papers. Date Range: 1980-2009.

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Provided by NJ State Library & SJRLC.

Kids Search

 

Kids Search

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Designed especially for grades K-8, searches Middle and Lower School periodicals, Newspaper Source, History & Science Reference Centers & Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia.

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Provided by NJ State Library & SJRLC.

Student Research

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Visual search of MS & US periodicals, Newspaper Source,TOPICsearch, Health Source, Biography Collection, Science Ref Center, History Ref Center. Limit hits by source type.

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Provided by NJ State Library & SJRLC.

Middle Search Plus

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Full text of 140 middle school magazines, thousands of biographies, historical essays, primary sources, & 453,000 photos, maps, flags.

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Provided by NJ State Library & SJRLC.

Sirs Discoverer

Full-text articles & images from 1,900+ domestic & international newspapers, magazines, & government documents, plus 9,000+ weblinks.

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Provided by NJ State Library & SJRLC.

Proquest Platinum

Provides indexing & access to 2,000+ journals & magazines including the current New York Times, & targeted newspaper coverage.

Historical Newspapers

Picture the past through more than 150 years of The New York Times—from the advertisements & cartoons to the opinions & news published since 1851.

Peer Review Journals

Academic Search Premier

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Database of 4,650+ journals, including 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. Provides backfiles to 1975 or more for 100+ journals, & searchable cited references for 1,000+ titles.

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Provided by NJ State Library & SJRLC.

JStor

Archives of over 1000+ academic journals across all disciplines, as well as monographs & other materials; All are full-text searchable & interlinked by citations & references.

Proquest Platinum

Provides indexing & access to 2,000+ journals & magazines including the current New York Times, plus targeted newspaper coverage.


Business Source Premier

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Full text of 2,700+ magazines & journals, 1400+ country economic reports, 20150 company profiles, 5200 industry reports.. Some backfiles to 1965.

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Provided by NJ State Library & SJRLC.

   

Art & Literature

AP images

AP Images

A part of Associated Press, provides access to over 6 million entertainment, sports, news, editorial, photographs, videos, graphics, & interactives.

 

artstor

ArtStor

"... a digital library of more than one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, & social sciences..."

World of Poetry

Contains 250,000 poems in full text & 450,000 citations, in the English, Spanish, French, German, etc., as well as poems in the ancient languages: Anglo-Saxon, Provencal & Latin.

Literary Reference Center

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Information from 1,000+ books, major literary encyclopedias & reference works, journals, & unique sources not available elsewhere.

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LitFinder

Over 150,000 poems, short stories, speeches, & dramatic works, biographies, work summaries, author images & a full glossary of literary terms.

Novelist K-8 Plus

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Have you read a good book? Want to find another one like it? Suggestions for books, reviews, booklists, & more for LS & MS students.

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Provided by NJ State Library & SJRLC

 

Novelist Plus

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Find a new book to read! Contains 150,000+ fiction titles, 50,000+ nonfiction titles, & 4000+ articles, book lists, discussion guides, & more.

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Provided by NJ State Library & SJRLC

Grove Art

Oxford Art Online

Contains more than 45,000 articles (more than 21,000 biographies) & 500,000 bibliographical citations contributed by 6,700 scholars from 120 countries.

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Grove Music

Oxford Music Online

Includes more than 50,000 articles & 28,000 biographies by over 6,000 scholars from around the world; It is the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of music

Tumblebook

TumbleBook Library

An online collection of animated, talking picture books, created by adding animation, sound, music & narration to existing picture books.


 

 

Gale Virtual Reference Library

E-Book Database of 450+ encyclopedias & specialized reference sources for multi-disciplinary research;books once accessible only in the library, now accessible online 24/7.

Health and Science

Facts on File

Science Online

Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, & experiments.

GreenFile

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Covers all aspects of human impact to the environment. Includes government, scholarly, & general-interest titles on "green" topics.

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Provided by NJ State Library & SJRLC.

Science Reference Center

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A comprehensive research database of full text science content; includes nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc.

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Provided by NJ State Library & SJRLC.

Amazing Animals of the World

A database from Grolier Online containing reference & media materials on 1200 animals.

Grzimek's Animal Life

Articles describe animals found world-wide, detailing their life cycles, predators, food systems, overall ecology & more.

 

Facts on File

Health Reference Center

Provides information on conditions & diseases, health & wellness, mental health, & the human body.

Health Databases

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Two databases provide access to 80 health magazines, 550 scholarly journals & the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, covering generic & brand name drug patient education sheets.

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Provided by NJ State Library & SJRLC.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

E-Book Database of 450+ encyclopedias & specialized reference sources for multi-disciplinary research;books once accessible only in the library, now accessible online 24/7.

Social Studies

Facts on File

African-American History

Provides information on the people, events, & topics important to the study of African-American history.


Facts on File

American History

Spans more than 500 years of history, highlighting the important people & events of the American experience.

Facts on File

American Indian History

Offers thorough access to more than 15,000 years of Native American culture, history, & heritage.


Facts on File

American Women's History

Covers the important people, events, legislation, & issues relevant to the study of women's history in the United States.

Explores the pre-modern world with in-depth focus on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas, & Asia.

Annals of American History

A chronicle of American thought & action. Contains speeches, writings, memoirs, poems, & interviews.

AP images

AP Images

A part of Associated Press, provides access to over 6 million entertainment, sports, news, editorial, photographs, videos, graphics, & interactives.

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Awesome Stories

A collection of primary-source information thataids in locating original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, etc.

CIAO

CIAO

Theory & research in international affairs; includes working papers, occasional papers, series from NGOs, foundations, proceedings, books, journals & policy briefs.

Country Reports.org

Cultural, historical, and statistical country information.

CultureGrams

Focuses on the culture of countries worldwide including history, customs, lifestye, etc. videos, photos, & recipes.

Daily Life

Daily Life Online

Full text access to everyday life of ordinary people in different cultures throughout history, including images, maps, recipes, clothing, songs and more.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

E-Book database of 450+ encyclopedias & specialized reference works;books once accessible only in the library, now accessible online 24/7.

History Resource Center: World

Full-text periodicals, reference works and primary source documents covering world history topics from pre-antiquity to the present.

Lands and Peoples

Encyclopedia of countries, cultures, & current events for middle & upper school students.

Facts on File

Modern World History

Covers people, places, & events from the mid-15th century to the present

Opposing Viewpoints

Information on today's social issues: full-text magazine, journal, & newspaper articles, primary sources, statistics, podcasts, & links to Websites.

Points of View

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Presents multiple sides of a current issues.

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Combines detailed, printable, full-color maps of countries, provinces, & states with current statistical & local information.


 

World Languages

Country Reports.org

Cultural, historical, and statistical country information. Available in French and Spanish.

Informe!

A colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias. (Collection of Hispanic magazines with full text.)

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Provided by NJ State Library & SJRLC


Ebscohost Espanol

Includes content from the Ebscohost family of databases in Spanish.

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Provided by NJ State Library & SJRLC

Ebscohost Francais

Includes content from the Ebscohost family of databases in French.

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Provided by NJ State Library & SJRLC.

 

Tumblebook

Tumblebook Library

Online collection of animated, talking picture books, including books in Spanish & French.

Visual Thesaurus

Interactive dictionary & thesaurus that includes languages other than English.

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