Digital Resources 2026
Academic
Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
American Doctoral Dissertations (1933-1955)
American Doctoral Dissertations is now part of EBSCO Open Dissertations, a free electronic theses and dissertations database searchable at www.opendissertations.com.
Military & Government Collection
Offering current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, Military & Government Collection offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and related content.
Explora Educators Edition
This collection for educators provides access to lesson plans, student tools, curriculum standards, full-text articles from high-quality educational journals, and more.
Books/Book Reviews
NoveList
A reader's advisory fiction database providing booklists, award lists, and over 14,000 reviews, all to aid reader in discovering new authors and titles. For all ages.
NoveList K-8
NoveList K-8 is your solution for integrating fiction across the curriculum. With a fun and intuitive interface, and extensive proprietary content, NoveList K-8 will be the resource you and your young readers turn to when looking for the next book to read.
Business
Business Source Elite
Business Source Elite provides full-text coverage of scholarly business, management and economics journals. This rich collection also includes publications covering topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales, etc.
Morningstar Investment Research Center
Offers real-time access to comprehensive data and independent analysis on thousands of investments, spanning mutual funds, stocks, exchange-traded funds, and closed-end funds. Investment Research Center serves all levels of investors with a range of dynamic tools and thoughtful perspectives to help them make more informed investment decisions.
Reference Solutions (formerly Reference USA)
Provides detailed, current directory information on more than 12 million U.S. Businesses, 102 million U.S. residents, 683,000 U.S. healthcare providers, 1 million Canadian businesses and 11 million Canadian residents.
Regional Business News
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Small Business Reference Center
Small Business Reference Center offers a wide variety of information on small business and entrepreneurial subject areas, common business types, a help and advice section, and provides information on how to create business plans that lead to successful funding. Includes a user-friendly interface, hundreds of full-text periodicals, reference books & business videos, state-specific resources, and more.
Career and Job Development
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center - part of Facts on File Database
Provides detailed profiles of more than 3,300 jobs and 94 industries, invaluable advice on job-hunting and workplace skills, and career and industry resources.
Gale Presents: Peterson's Test and Career Prep
Peterson’s Test and Career Prep helps students and adults be better prepared down the road for both college and their career. Discover comprehensive test prep and career solutions from Peterson’s, a world-leading educational provider.
Current Events
Points of View Reference Center
Points of View Reference Center is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 200 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument).
Driver's Education Resources
- DMV practice test for first-time driver's license applicants
- Driver's education program that covers all mandatory traffic laws
- Examen de Manejo de New Jersey DMV
- Curso de Licencia de Conducir para Pasar el Examen de Manejo de New Jersey
Education & Testing
Curriculum Resource Center
Provides a library of printable teacher-handout material for the middle school, high school, and junior college curriculum.
ERIC
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.
Teacher Reference Center
Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
Environment
Green File
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
Genealogy
Heritage Quest
Heritage Quest is a genealogical database with access to government records, census data and auxiliary resources to help find information regarding your family history.
General
Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Explora Public Libraries
This resource is designed for teens and adults. It offers an extensive collection of full-text articles from leading magazines and reference books.
MasterFILE Elite
MasterFILE Elite, designed specifically for public libraries, provides full text for more than 1,950 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multicultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,600 titles.
Health and Wellness
Health Source: Academic/Nursing Edition
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.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
This rich collection of consumer health information provides access to full-text consumer health magazines and reference books. It also includes searchable full text for current health pamphlets.
Health Reference Center
Provides clear and comprehensive information on conditions and diseases, health and wellness, mental health, and the human body.
Homework
Explora Primary Schools
This resource includes the full text of popular elementary school magazines, children's encyclopedia entries, and more. All complete articles are assigned reading-level indicators (Lexiles). In addition to articles, this resource also includes more than a million images, including photos, maps, and flags.
Explora Secondary Schools
This search tool is designed for students in grades 6-12. It offers magazines, newspapers, biographies, country reports, and more.
Middle Search Plus
Middle Search Plus contains full text for more than 150 popular, middle school magazines. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 200 magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies, historical essays and student pamphlets.
Primary Search
This resource includes the full text of popular elementary school magazines, children's dictionary entries, and more. The reading level of all included full-text articles is indicated.
History
African-American History Online
Provides expansive and in-depth information on the people, events, and topics important to the study of African-American history.
American Indian History Online
Offers thorough access to more than 15,000 years of Native American culture, history, and heritage.
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.
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.
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.
European Views of the Americas (1493-1750)
This index provides a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It includes a wide range of topics, from the British/French/Dutch in America to natural disasters, religious orders, slavery and more.
Salem History
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.
Modern World History Online
Covers the people, places, and events in the broad expanse of history from mid-15th century to the present.
Law
Legal Information Reference Center
Intended for the everyday user, this database addresses a wide-range of legal issues. It contains hundreds of full text publications and thousands of legal forms. The full text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation’s oldest and most respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses. Users can search over 12,800 state-specific legal forms by subject areas including adoption, bankruptcy, divorce, name changes, wills and more.
Library Science
LISTA: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
LISTA indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Literature
Bloom's Literature
Literary Reference Center is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.
Literary Reference Center
This comprehensive database includes the full text of over a million plot summaries, synopses, work overviews, literary criticism articles and essays, author biographies, literary journals, book reviews, poems, short stories, author interviews, classic texts, and more.
NoveList
A reader’s advisory resource for fiction. Besides locating books to read, users can learn more about books and authors through Author Read-alikes, Feature Articles, Book Discussion Guides, and BookTalks.
Newspapers and Magazines
Consumer Reports
Consumer information and rating information.
Newspaper Source Plus
Newspaper Source Plus provides a full-text digital collection of the world’s major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires and news magazines. In addition, it offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources
Science
Science Online
Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments.
World Culture and Geography
World Almanac for Kids
World Almanac for Kids, an imprint of Infobase, is one of America's leading publishers of print and online reference materials for the school and library market. Our publishing program covers five reading levels: elementary (grades K-5), middle school (grades 6-8), high school (grades 9-12), college/academic, and general adult.
World Geography and Culture Online
A global approach to facilitate the study of countries, places, peoples, and geography concepts and skills.
World Languages
Duolingo
Duolingo is the world's most popular way to learn a language. It's 100% free, fun, and science-based. Practice online on duolingo.com or on the apps.
Rosetta Stone
Improve your English or learn another language with Rosetta Stone Library Solution. This is an effective, easy-to-use program that allows you to learn a new language on your own time. Please note: the program is designed to automatically direct you to the mobile app when a user logs in on a mobile web browser. So once you download the app, you should be automatically directed to the app and logged in.
Referencia Latina
Referencia Latina, a comprehensive Spanish-language database, offers content from a variety of sources including 49,000 encyclopedia entries.
USA Learns
A free site for Adults to learn English and improve basic reading, writing, speaking and life skills.