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Multiple sources of biographical information, including full-text articles from hundreds of Periodicals, biographical dictionaries, books and internet sites. Searches my by based on personal facts, such as birth and death dates, nationality, ethnicity, occupation, gender or a combination of criteria. Photos of many of the subjects are available.

Search for books by the author's name, as well as by the book's subject and title. Complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,00 authors from the United States and around the world.

CORFACTS ON-LINE:

New Jersey Business Directory specialists bring you unlimited exporting of pre-formatted mailing labels and company profiles. Search by city, county, zipcode, employee size, revenue, SIC code or BJBC codes. Great for job hunters and business networking.

DAILY LIFE AMERICA:

A Virtual library of thousands of diverse sources spotlighting the day-to-day life of average Americans past and present. Includes food, fashion, holidays, religion, music women's history, Native American cultures and much, much more.

DAILY LIFE THROUGHOUT HISTORY PREMIUM:

Find the extraordinary and ordinary throughout history. See history up close with more than 1,200 color and black-and-white images; understand historical context with chronologies and timelines; link to museums, galleries, and primary source repositories via hundres of vetted weblinks.

A top notch, one-stop database which covers over 4,600 journals and newspapers with expansive search capabilities. Full text for 1/3 of citations. Web-based interface, updated daily. Courtesy of the New Jersey State Library. Includes such specialty resources as:

• EBSCO Animals—for in-depth information on nature and habitats of familiar animals
• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
• Business Source Elite—providing full text of nearly 1,020 business related journals
• Middle Search Plus for middle and jr. high school students
• Primary Search— for elementary school research
  

Conduct research over the Internet, using a deep database of reliable sources including magazines, books, newspapers, pictures, maps and TV & radio Transcripts. 100% Full text. Updated daily via satellite.

HEALTH AND WELLNESS RESOURCE CENTER:

Use this database to find articles in magazines, journals and newspapers, on medical conditions, fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, public health, occupational Safety and Health, prescription drugs and other health-related subjects. Database also includes a medical dictionary, health news, a health organization directory, and links to diet, cancer and health assessment sites, as well as government databases.

A rich and practical resource for everything from maps, to science reports, to employment forms and landmark court decisions. Databases include:

• Curriculum Resource Center
• Science On-Line
• Science Experiments On-line
• American Women’s History
• American Historical Images
• Landmark Documents
• African American History and Culture
• American Indian History and Culture
• World Atlas
• Career Guidance
• Government on File
• Forms on File
  

References to over 63,000 Spanish-language magazine articles are contained in this Many of the articles are available in full text. Contents are searchable by subjects, People, products, locations and organizations. Courtesy of the New Jersey State Library.

A unique library of test preparation materials and interactive practice exams, based on official tests. User gets immediate scoring and complete answer explanations with individual analysis of scoring.

A consolidated literature website that will help fiction readers locate the next great read or identify a long lost favorite. Poetry lovers will find the text of favorite poems, whether written in antiquity or the present. Work of the world's great essayists appears here, as well, culled from anthologies, and the most recent periodicals. Author profiles and pictures are also available, as are links to author-related sites.

A complete literature reference database, including information on more than 115,000 literary figures throughout history—from classical and medieval writers to the latest bestselling author. The site includes biographies, critical analyses and bibliographies. There is even information about contemporary author appearances in the area. Links to more than 250 prominent literary journals.

Database provides full-text coverage of the US newspaper of record from 1999 through the current issue. Offers superb coverage of national and international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions, and presidential press conference transcripts. This is the COMPLETE NYTimes ONLINE, since its first issue in September of 1851!

Info Trac has created a FULL TEXT newspaper index tailored especially for New Jersey researchers. Updated daily, the database includes over 320,000 articles from over 100 newspapers published around the world, including The New York Times (365 days rolling); The Bergen Record (January 1996 to present); the Newark Star Ledger (February 2001 to present); The Los Angeles Times (January 96 to present); The Daily Times of London (January 1997 to present); Investor's Business Daily, Christian Science Monitor, Korea Times and many others. Courtesy of the New Jersey State Library.

This reader’s advisory database will help fiction readers find the next great read. Or Identify a long lost favorite. It is web-based and offers links to various author related sites. Courtesy of the New Jersey State Library.

PRICE IT! ANTIQUES AND COLLECTABLES:

An electronic database antique/collectibles pricing tool. Data from a variety of sources, including online auctions (eBay), online antique dealters (GoAntiques and TIAS) and land- based auction houses. The database currently has over 23 million prices realized for art, antiques and collectibles in more than 100 categories and over 10 million images.

Eleven, comprehensive, easy to use databases with tools for investment research on stocks, bonds, corporations, dividend records, earnings, industry surveys, mutual fund reports security dealers of North America and much, much more. From the premier provider of independent financial information. The user id for Plainsboro Library remote users is plainsdk and the password is the first 5 digits of your Plainsboro library card barcode, followed by ppl (no spaces, lower case). For example: 12345ppl.

TEST PREP E-BOOKS:

Save yourself time and money. Use these e-books to cram for your next big exam.