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Reference Databases
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Encyclopedias and related materials for
students of all levels. Users can also take advantage of Learning
Materials, a collection of educational exercises, activities, and study
guides.
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Includes
Facts on File World Digest: archival record of domestic and
international news since November 1940; Issues
& Controversies:
more than 800 hot topics in politics, government, business, education, and
popular culture updated weekly; and Today's
Science: updated weekly to
explain important developments in biology, chemistry, the environment,
space, physics, and technology.
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 Discovering Collection
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Contains an in-depth selection of reference, primary sources, creative
works, and multimedia, including hours of video and
audio clips for literature, history, biographies, science, and
social studies.
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 Student
Research Center
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EBSCO's
Student Research Center makes it easy for students to search by
keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results.
Results can be easily sorted by source type-magazines, reference books,
photos, flags, etc.
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 Opposing Viewpoints in Context
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One-stop source for
information on today's hottest social issues, featuring
viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal,
and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and
podcasts, and links to Websites.
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 Points of View
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Points
of View is designed to assist student researchers in
understanding the full scope of controversial subjects. Use Points of
View as a guide to debate, developing arguments, writing position
papers, and for development of critical thinking skills. Each Points of
View Essay includes a series of questions and additional material to
generate further thought. Also included are thousands of supporting
articles from the world's top political and societal publications.
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 SIRS Issues Researcher
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Full-text articles exploring the leading issues most studied and debated by students:
social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and
global issues.
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E-Book:
A general purpose
resource for all ages.
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Images and Video
Subscriptions
Students: see the librarian or your teacher for the username and password.
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Photographs, audio, graphics
and text spanning over 160 years of history.
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 (formerly United Streaming Video)
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Online digital video-on-demand.
Students: see the librarian or your teacher for the username and
password.
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Streaming video
subscription service for high schools, featuring unlimited access to more
than 5,000 educational programs that can be viewed
in class, at the library, or from home.
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Subscription
Periodicals Databases
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 EBSCOhost
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A database of journals, magazines, and newspapers
with both full text and article summaries in all subjects.
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 Custom Newspapers
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This newspaper collection is
provided by the New Jersey State Library and includes: New Jersey
newspapers, the New York Times (full-text from January 1, 2000 to the
present), plus many more national and international newspapers.
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Online
Reference and Research Resources
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The first online public library: search reference
materials, periodicals, exhibits, online texts, etc. The Internet Public Library serves
the public by finding, evaluating, selecting, organizing, describing, and
creating high quality information resources, and by connecting members of
the public to high quality information resources through the IPL question
answering service.
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 Inter-Library Loan
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Our students may search for library books in libraries
throughout the state of New Jersey and have the books delivered directly to the
school for free.
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Gloucester County Library
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Search the Gloucester County Library collection
online. Need a library card? Apply for one online!
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eBooks
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Online editions of
nonfiction titles in History, Science, Health, Religion, Character
Education, Biographies, and Politics.
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 Gale Virtual Reference Library
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ebook collection: a database of encyclopedias and specialized
reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
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Career
Online Resources
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NJ
Next Stop @ Your Career
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Tells you what job skills
and information you will need to be in demand in New Jersey, and
most of the skill and job information applies to occupations wherever they
are located.
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Occupational
Outlook Handbook
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Career information on hundreds of jobs including
the training and education needed, earnings, expected job prospects, what
workers do on the job, and working conditions. Usage hint:
scroll down to "Ways to use
the Occupational Outlook Handbook site: #3."
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 Careeronestop
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CareerOneStop is the suite of web-based products funded and
developed by the U.S. Department of Labor, offering unique solutions for
the increasing demands of today's labor market to meet the specialized
needs of jobseekers, employers, and the workforce and education
communities.
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English
Databases
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SIRS
Renaissance
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Full-text articles from over 700 domestic and international
publications on current perspectives on the Arts & Humanities: Architecture
& Design, Culture, Literature, Multimedia, Music, Performing Arts,
Philosophy & Religion and Visual Arts.
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 Literature Resource Center
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Full-text
journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information,
and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time
periods and from around the world.
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 Literature Criticism Online
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Centuries of critical
analysis on poetry - the scholarly and
popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and
periodicals - delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches
the exact look and feel of the print originals.
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 EBSCO's
Literary Reference Center
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The primary goal of LRC
is to assist high school and undergraduate English and Humanities students
with homework and research assignments of a literary nature.
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E-Book:
500 articles on Greek and Roman mythological
figures with over 300 illustrations.
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English Online Resources
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The official website of
Academy of American
Poets, Poets.org offers hundreds of essays and interviews, audio
clips, as well as biographies of more than 500 poets and over 2000 poems.
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A good site for locating criticism of modern American
poetry and poets.
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Health
Online Resources
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A
comprehensive database subscription
allowing teens (and those who care about teens) to research health-related
issues important to their well-being. It's both a
research/report tool and a self-help resource.
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HealthyNew Jersey
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Information for healthy living in New Jersey from UMDNJ.
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Phys. Ed. E-book
Resource
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Lincoln Library of Sports Champions
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E-Book:
700 inspiring
stories with 1,500 illustrations of athletes from all sports.
Hard copies
of texts on library's shelves: Ref 796 Lin!
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History
Databases
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 ABC-CLIO History Databases
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Social studies databases covering American
government
, American history
, issues
, United States at war
, United States geography
, world geography
, world history: ancient
, and world history: modern
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The Business Searching
Interface (BSI) provides an easy way to both browse and search
for country
economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research,
and then use the results as limiters in a keyword search, if desired.<
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E-Book:
101 men and women who
shaped our world. Over 1,000 illustrations.
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E-Book:
Over 6,000 illustrated
articles of people, places, and events in American History.
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E-Book:
10,000 biographies of
famous people from around the world. Over 2,000 illustrations.
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 Great Lives from History 
Great Events from
History
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E-Books:
Salem
History is an online database that includes the complete content of printed
reference sets that we have in our library!
Great
Lives from History: 20th Century -
The definitive, worldwide biographical resource
Great Events from History: 20th Century - The complete resource for
worldwide events from 1971-2000
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History Online Resources
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American Memory
is a multimedia web site of digitized historical documents, photographs, sound recordings, moving
pictures, books, pamphlets, maps, and other resources from the Library of
Congress's vast holdings.
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US
Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Many resources for
students striving to learn the history of the Holocaust and reflect upon the moral and ethical questions raised by
that history.
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Science
Databases
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 Science Reference Center
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This
comprehensive science
database ranges from general reference collections to specially
designed, subject-specific databases for public, academic, medical, corporate
and school libraries.
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Facts on File's Today's Science
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Today's Science:
updated weekly to explain important developments in biology, chemistry, the
environment, space, physics, and technology.
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 SIRS eLibrary Science
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Full text documents from more than 400 science magazines and scholarly journals; 1000's
of editor-selected science websites; over 100 science reference books; 1000's
of science photos; 100's of hours of multimedia clips; &1000's of
transcripts from popular science TV/radio news shows.
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 Facts On File Online
eLearning Modules
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Each
science eLearning Module is divided
into Learning Units, displayed in chapters, with embedded videos, images,
sidebars, in-text links, and dynamic citations.
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Science and
Foods Online Resources
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Online
resources for International Cuisine
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Features current weather
conditions and forecasts for over 77,000 locations worldwide, along with local
and regional radars.
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The award-winning source of credible, unbiased, and
easy-to-understand explanations of how the
world actually works.
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World Languages
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 ¡Informe!
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This full-text electronic reference tool provides
indexing, images and full text of popular Hispanic
magazines -- not just translations -- and a thesaurus and interface for Spanish-speaking users. ¡Informe! thinks through
queries in Spanish. Students of Spanish,
can also easily access ¡Informe!'s resources through their bilingual approach.
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