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Using Reference Databases at Home - How-to 

EBSCO A-to-Z is a list of the magazines available to the Mercer County Library System. While some titles are available in our branches as paper copies, the majority are provided through electronic access. Please call or see the reference staff at any branch for assistance with this list or any of our electronic resources.

Biography

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Biography Collection Complete
Offers a comprehensive collection of full-text biographies supporting history, science, the arts, music, literature, multicultural studies, gender studies, business, government & politics, sports, entertainment and many other areas.

Business

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Business Source Elite

Corporate ResourceNet

Personal & Business Forms

ReferenceUSA

Regional Business News

Careers

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Facts on File
Interdisciplinary, interactive databases on a wide range of  subjects, such as Science, History, Geography, Curriculum Resources, Forms, Health Reference Center, and Ferguson's Career Guidance Center.

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center

LearningExpressLibrary.com
Provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass.

Education

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Academic Search Premier

ERIC

Professional Development Collection

Genealogy

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HeritageQuest
Genealogical Research.

Health and Medicine

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Biomedical Reference Collection

Facts on File
Interdisciplinary, interactive databases on a wide range of  subjects, such as Science, History, Geography, Curriculum Resources, Forms, Health Reference Center, and Ferguson's Career Guidance Center.

Health Reference Center

Health Source - Consumer Edition

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

Nursing and Allied Health Collection

Salud en Espanol (CHC Spanish Version)

History

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American History Online

African-American History Online

American Indian History Online

American Women's History Online

Ancient & Medieval History Online

Facts on File
Interdisciplinary, interactive databases on a wide range of  subjects, such as Science, History, Geography, Curriculum Resources, Forms, Health Reference Center, and Ferguson's Career Guidance Center.

Greenwood Daily Life

History Reference Center
Offers full text from more than 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 120 history periodicals, more than 59,600 historical documents, 49,600 biographies of historical figures, more than 110,200 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.

Modern World History Online

Literature & Reading

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Bloom's Literary Reference Online

Contemporary Authors
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. Database provided by the New Jersey State Library.

Literary Reference Center
A comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else.

Literature Resource Center 
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. It covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.

LitFinder
Full text of thousands of poems, short stories, essays, plays and speeches. 

 NoveList
Fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews and annotations for about 125,000 titles.

..or let us do the work for you! Sign up for NextReads and receive electronic newsletters notifying you of when library materials, in a range of categories including the latest book and movie releases, are available for requests.

Magazines & Journals

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Academic Search Premier

EBSCOHost
Locate magazine articles on a wide range of topics including general reference, business, financial and health related magazines.

ERIC
Educational Resource Information Center. Provides access to education literature and resources.

MasterFILE Premier

Newspapers

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EBSCOHost
Locate magazine articles on a wide range of topics including general reference, business, financial and health related magazines.

Infotrac

McClatchy-Tribune Collection

Newspaper Source

Science

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Facts on File
Interdisciplinary, interactive databases on a wide range of  subjects, such as Science, History, Geography, Curriculum Resources, Forms, Health Reference Center, and Ferguson's Career Guidance Center

Science Online

Science Online

Science Reference Center
A comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc.

Student Research (See Also: History; Magazines & Journals; and Science)

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Academic Search Premier

Curriculum Resource Center

Curriculum Resource Center: Junior Edition

Facts on File
Interdisciplinary, interactive databases on a wide range of  subjects, such as Science, History, Geography, Curriculum Resources, Forms, Health Reference Center, and Ferguson's Career Guidance Center.

Middle Search Plus
Popular middle school database

Novelist K-8
Fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews and annotations.

Points of View
A full text database designed to provide students and schools with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study and are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles.

Primary Search
Popular elementary school database.

Searchasaurus
Two popular elementary and middle school databases (Primary Search and Middle Search Plus) can be accessed via Searchasaurus. It is an animated interface with a dinosaur theme that encourages students to enhance and develop basic search methodologies. (Click on Searchasaurus.)

TOPICsearch

World Atlas

Alphabetical Listing of Databases

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Academic Search Premier

American History Online

African-American History Online

American Indian History Online

American Women's History Online

Ancient & Medieval History Online

Biography Collection Complete
Offers a comprehensive collection of full-text biographies supporting history, science, the arts, music, literature, multicultural studies, gender studies, business, government & politics, sports, entertainment and many other areas.

Biomedical Reference Collection

Bloom's Literary Reference Online

Business Source Elite

Contemporary Authors
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. Database provided by the New Jersey State Library.

Corporate ResourceNet

Curriculum Resource Center

Curriculum Resource Center: Junior Edition

EBSCOHost
Locate magazine articles on a wide range of topics including general reference, business, financial and health related magazines.

ERIC
Educational Resource Information Center. Provides access to education literature and resources.

Facts on File
Interdisciplinary, interactive databases on a wide range of  subjects, such as Science, History, Geography, Curriculum Resources, Forms, Health Reference Center, and Ferguson's Career Guidance Center.

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center

Greenwood Daily Life

Health Reference Center

Health Source - Consumer Edition

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

HeritageQuest
Genealogical Research.

History Reference Center
Offers full text from more than 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 120 history periodicals, more than 59,600 historical documents, 49,600 biographies of historical figures, more than 110,200 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.

Infotrac

LearningExpressLibrary.com
Provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass.

Literary Reference Center
A comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else.

Literature Resource Center 
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. It covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.

LitFinder
Full text of thousands of poems, short stories, essays, plays and speeches.

McClatchy-Tribune Collection

MasterFILE Premier

Middle Search Plus
Popular middle school database.

Modern World History Online

Newspaper Source

NoveList
Fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews and annotations for about 125,000 titles.

..or let us do the work for you! Sign up for NextReads and receive electronic newsletters notifying you of when library materials, in a range of categories including the latest book and movie releases, are available for requests.

Novelist K-8
Fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews and annotations.

Nursing and Allied Health Collection

Personal & Business Forms

Points of View
A full text database designed to provide students and schools with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study and are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles.

Primary Search
Popular elementary school database.

ReferenceUSA

Regional Business News

Salud en Espanol (CHC Spanish Version)

Science Online

Science Online

Science Reference Center
A comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc.

Searchasaurus
Two popular elementary and middle school databases (Primary Search and Middle Search Plus) can be accessed via Searchasaurus. It is an animated interface with a dinosaur theme that encourages students to enhance and develop basic search methodologies. (Click on Searchasaurus.)

TOPICsearch

World Atlas

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