Databases for Online Research
To access a database just click on its name and it will open in a new window. A short description of each database aggregator is provided below, but be sure to review each individual aggregator for a full listing of all its databases.
Biographies Reference Bank - Contains short biographies, the primary focus is on 20th Century biography.
Biomedical Reference Collection - Subject areas covered in this database include clinical medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary, and health care. Over 900 journals are included in the collection.
Columbia American History - Contains articles, eSeminars, and primary sources on American history.
Corfacts Online (New Jersey Business-to-Business Directory) - Search a database of over 56,000 New Jersey business profiles. View, print, or export data as mailing labels.
Country Watch - Provides economic, political, social, investment, and environmental data for over 190 countries.
EBSCO - Use for education, general research, and psychology. Major databases include Academic Search Premier, ERIC, PsycINFO, and PsycArticles.
EBSCO A-Z - Access to the full text of individual periodical titles can be found at this site.
Encyclopedia of Life Science - The encyclopedia contains 4,000 peer reviewed articles covering all areas of life science.
Gale Virtual Reference Library - Online access to: Contemporary Fashion; Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion; and Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages.
Gender Watch - Focus is on human rights and women's issues.
Grove Art - The database is directed to the student who requires basic art research. The contents include the "Dictionary of Art" and the "Oxford Companion to Western Art", along with an image collection.
INFOVETS - The INFOVETS database provides access to an online Equine Veterinary Manual. When you log on select "Online Manual" (call the library for ID and Password).
Jersey Clicks - Jersey Clicks is the portal to the databases provided by the state of New Jersey. The databases cover all topics but with a special emphasis on education databases. You must use your library card to access this material when you are off campus.
Lexis-Nexis - Lexis-Nexis focuses on News and Legal resources. The scope is international and it is completely full text.
Listen NJ NW - This project provides with downloadable audio books. The book are downloaded to you computers. Many of the books may be burned to CD or downloaded to MP3 Players. You will need a library card to use this service.
Literature Resource Center - Use for literary critical analysis, biographies, bibliographies and literary historical timelines.
Nature Databases - Health, drugs, science, biology, chemistry, physics, earth sciences and more.
Net Library - Collection of full text online books.
New Jersey Knowledge Initiative (NJKI) (VALE) - Databases include MEDLINE as well as 51 other medical journals, such as Stroke, Retina, Pyschosomatic Medicine, Pediatric Research, Journal of Hypertension, Clinical Journal of Pain and many more.
Nursing and Allied Health Collection - Contains the full text of over 400 nursing journals. The journals content include nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health diciplines.
Oxford English Dictionary - A guide for the pronunciation, history and meaning of words.
Project Muse - The database offers full text resources in arts, humanities and social sciences. The database is entirely made up of materials from scholarly publishers such as the Johns Hopkins University Press.
ProQuest - Good for business, economics, finance, humanities, social science, science and general research. Major databases include Historical New York Times, Wall Street Journal, ABI/INFORM, and Hoover's Company Records.
Reference USA - Contains business, residential, and health care databases.
Regional Business News - Contains the full text of fifty regional business publications, including Crains.
Social Work Abstracts - Created by the National Associaton of Social Workers, this database contains citations to 45,000 records. (The database does not cotain full text)
Vale - Good for business, criminal justice, news and law. Major databases include ABI/INFORM, Lexis Nexis, MLA Bibliography, Criminal Justice Periodical Index and GenderWatch.
Wiley InterScience - Wiley is the publisher of high end science journals. We have access to a number of these journals through the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative.
X Refer - A general reference database which is encyclopedic in character.
Other Databases - The above list of databases are our proprietary databases. There are numerous free databases primarily provided by the government. Follow the next page contains links to the free databases.
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