Online Resources A - Z
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Unless otherwise noted all resources can be accessed from home with a Princeton Public Library card.
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Academic Search Premier (EBSCO): Abstracts and full text articles from thousands of academic and peer-reviewed publications.
African-American History Online: Provides expansive and in-depth information on the people, events, and topics important to the study of African-American history. (In Library Use Only)
Alexander Street Press: With over 17,000 tracks, you can create personal playlists and stream music from your computer. Search audio, video, scores, and full-text references.
Alt HealthWatch™(EBSCO): Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness, offering full-text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports.
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 Indian History Online: Offers thorough access to more than 15,000 years of Native American people, culture, history, and heritage.
American Song (Alexander Street Press): Includes music that relates to almost every walk of American life, every ethnic group, and every time period. Now includes the African American Song database, with recordings by the top fifty names in the history of black American music (streamed audio).
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.
Ancestry Library: Genealogical and historical information from census, military, church, vital, court, land and probate records, passenger lists and more. (In Library Use Only)
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.
Axis360: Read full-color, full-layout eBooks for computers, laptops, eBook readers, tablets, and smartphones. Our collection includes fiction and non-fiction for adults, children, and teens. Please note: to get started, you will need to download the free Blio eReading app (www.blio.com) and create an account. Check out a maximum of 5 books at a time for up to 14 days. No overdue fees; books are automatically returned to the library at the end of the lending period. You will need a valid Princeton Public Library card to check out books. View our Axis360 downloading guide.
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Biography Collection Complete (EBSCO): A comprehensive collection of more than 177,000 full text biographies supporting history, science, the arts, music, literature, multicultural studies, gender studies, business, government and politics, sports, entertainment and many other areas.
Biography in Context: A database of biographical information on over one million people from all over the world, both historical and current, featuring print, video, audio, and podcasts.
Bloom's Literary Reference Online: Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.
Brainfuse: LIVE one-on-one academic coaching, practice test center, and online resources to help you achieve your learning and career goals. Includes resources for GED, US citizenship test prep, resume writing, help with Microsoft Office, Excel, Powerpoint, and more.
Business Source Premier (EBSCO): Provides full text for more than 2,300 business-related journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles, and is updated daily.
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Career Transitions (Gale): Search jobs, internships, and more in this one-stop career resource center. Get tips on writing a resume, cover letter; and explore different careers.
Children's Database (EBSCO): General database for elementary students with a general encyclopedia, an animal encyclopedia, a dictionary, Primary and Middle School Search, and lots of pictures.
Classical Music Library (Alexander Street Press): Music ranges from Medieval to contemporary, from choral works to symphonies, operas and the avant-garde (streamed audio).
Contemporary World Music (Alexander Street Press): Takes listeners around the globe to experience the vibrancy, history, customs, politics, personalities, struggles, and joys of diverse peoples cultures (streamed audio).
Curriculum Resource Center: Provides a library of printable teacher-handout material for the middle school, high school, and junior college curriculum.
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EBSCO eBooks (EBSCO): Try out our starter collection of reference and textbooks. EBSCO eBooks offers the ability to read on the screen and search within the eBook's text. The collection is primarily non-fiction eBooks on topics including Arts and Architecture, Business and Economics, Computer Science, Engineering and Technology, Health and Medicine, History, Law, Literature and Criticism, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Self-help and Family, Study Aids and Language Learning.
eLibraryNJ: Is a cooperative project where participating New Jersey Libraries offer library card holders downloadable audiobooks. We offer over 4100 of the most popular fiction and nonfiction titles from over 30 publishers ready to download to your PC or portable music player, or burn to CD.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online: (For access from home, click here.) The entire encyclopedia plus a dictionary, thesaurus, atlas, timelines, video clips and rated and reviewed subject related web sites. For access from the library, click on the home icon or the database title.
ERIC (EBSCO): The acronym for the Educational Resource Information Center which provides access to education literature and resources.
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Factiva: Full text articles from over 14,000 worldwide newspapers, magazines, trade journals, newswires, and broadcast transcripts, plus extensive company information. (In Library Use Only)
Facts on File: Reference database in science, history, literature, geography, health and career guidance, plus a curriculum resource center for grades K-5 and 6-12. Also includes a database of personal and business forms.
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center: Provides detailed profiles of more than 3,300 jobs and 94 industries, invaluable advice on career skills, more than 48,000 resource entries, and much more.
Films On Demand: A web-based digital video delivery service that allows you to view streaming videos from Films Media Group anytime, anywhere, 24/7. Choose from more than 6,500 educational titles in many subject areas relating to the humanities and social sciences. These videos can be viewed in the library, a classroom or at home. Funding made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Financial Ratings Series: Weiss and The Street Ratings: A single source for financial strength ratings and financial planning tools covering Insurance, Banks, Credit Unions, Mutual Funds and Stocks.
Freegal: Download free music select from thousands of songs from the Sony Music catalog. Nothing to download, compatible with PCs, Macs, MP3 and iPod. Search the collection by artist, title or genre.
Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO)
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Gale Legal Forms: State Specific Legal Forms U.S. Legal Forms is the original and premiere site for legal forms on the Internet. featuring over 36,000 legal documents and forms, including wills, name change, real estate and more.
GreenFILE: Provides information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment in a collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles. Some titles are full text, the rest are abstracts only.
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Health Reference Center: Provides clear and comprehensive information on conditions and diseases, health and wellness, mental health, and the human body.
Health Source - Consumer Edition (EBSCO): Provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines plus full text of many full text health publications and reports.
Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO): Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
HeritageQuest (for access inside the library, click here): A comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids, with coverage dating back to the 1700s.
History Reference Center (EBSCO): Provides full text from more than 2,400 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 130 leading history periodicals, more than 61,100 historical documents, 66,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 110,200 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
Home Improvement Reference Center (EBSCO): Contains magazine articles, reference content, step-by-step instructions, videos, and images designed to help homeowners tackle home improvements and repairs safely. Topics including electrical, plumbing, woodworking, outdoor projects, maintenance, and decorating.
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Informe: Full text articles from many Spanish language newspapers and periodicals.
Issues and Controversies (Facts on File): A database providing in-depth investigations of today's top issues. Updated weekly, more than 800 hot-topics in business, politics, education, and pop culture are covered.
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Jazz (Alexander Street Press): The largest and most comprehensive collection of jazz available online — with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres (streamed audio).
Job and Career Accelerator: Create resumes and cover letters; learn interviewing techniques, and prepare for related exams; access millions of job listings.
JSTOR: Full text coverage of core scholarly journals in various subjects, many from the first issue up to 3 to 5 years ago. (In Library Use Only)
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Learning Express Searchable eBooks: Provides full-text career guides, study aids, and test preparation books, spanning subjects from real estate and civil service exams to reading and writing skills to a selection of books in Spanish for GED and citizenship. *Note: Your username is your library card number. This is the same username/password for Job and Career Accelerator.
Legal Information Reference Center (EBSCO): 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–searchable by top subject areas including Adoption, Bankruptcy, Name Changes and more.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO): An index to more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings on librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
Literary Index: An index only to the major literature series published by Gale - Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literature Criticism, etc.
Literary Reference Center (EBSCO): Full text from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources. Includes all MagillOnLiterature Plus content.
Literature Resource Center: Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.
Local Newspaper Index: The "Princeton Packet" and "Town Topics." Articles of general interest to the Princeton Community are indexed from 1983 to and including 2006, with obituaries indexed back to 1975. In addition, obituaries from the "Princeton Packet" are indexed from 1892 to 1950. A searchable digital version of the Town Topics from 1947 to 1956 is also available. The digitizing is an ongoing project and more will become available.
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Mango Language: An online language learning system that teaches real conversation skills for practical communication. Through fun and engaging interactive lessons, Mango makes learning a new language fast, easy and incredibly effective. The system is completely web-based and remotely accessible so that you can learn anywhere you have an internet connection. As you listen to and repeat after native speakers, you'll learn more than just words and phrases. Languages include Spanish, French, Mandarin, Greek, Japanese, English as a Second Language, to name a few. On the go? Set up a free account through our Mango database, download the free Mango Mobile Library Edition app, and start learning!
MAS Ultra - School Edition (EBSCO): Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular high school magazines, more than 350 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags.
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO): A multidisciplinary database that provides full text for nearly 2,000 general magazines and journals, plus full text reference books, biographies, primary source material and images.
Middle Search (EBSCO): Full text of popular magazines and reference books with middle school reading levels.
Muzzy Language Learning: MUZZY is an award winning BBC Online Language Program for children from beginners to early intermediate language learners. Learn to speak Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Chinese Mandarin, Portuguese and English. Surrounding learners with visual, aural and contextual language, MUZZY employs a natural immersion approach, modeled on the way we all learn our first language.
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New York Times Archive (1851-2008): Full-text, including advertising, charts and photos, of the entire paper from 1851 (the beginning of the publication) through 2008. (In Library Use Only)
Newspaper Source (EBSCO): Selected full text for about 30 national and international newspapers including Washington Post, Boston Globe and New York Daily News, plus radio and TV news transcripts.
News for You Online: A news source designed for people who are learning to read, write, or speak English, seven new stories are posted weekly for 48 weeks a year. These engaging articles, based on world and national news events, are written at reading levels 3-6 and ESL levels high-beginning and low-intermediate. All users must enter the following password in order to access the news articles: 916A58 .
NoveList Plus (EBSCO): A reader's advisory database that provides subject heading access, reviews and annotations for about 150,000 fiction titles and 50,000 nonfiction titles; and over 4000 custom created articles and lists, including readalikes and book discussion questions.
NoveList K-8 Plus (EBSCO): Provides subject heading access, reviews and annotations for fiction titles that are popular with young readers as well as titles that are appropriate for classroom use.
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OneClickDigital: The OneClickDigital Children & Young Adult audiobook subscription consists of approximately 1,000 titles for beginning readers, children and young adults. All titles in the collection are multiple-use, which means an unlimited number of listeners may download a title at any one time. Included in the collection are best-selling authors such as Avi, Jeff Kinney, Meg Cabot, Walter Dean Myers, and many more. Also included are 200 classic titles like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Anna Karenina, Peter Pan and Smart Pass Classics and Smart Pass Shakespeare. Enjoy these collections on your computer (PC or Mac) or on selected portable devices (including MP3, iPod) and also download directly to your iPhone, iPad, Blackberry (Android coming later in 2012). Please note: to use OneClickDigital audiobooks, you will need to download OneClickDigital Media Manager. Check out a maximum of 3 books at time for up to 7 days. No overdue fees; books are automatically returned to the library at the end of lending period. You will need a valid Princeton Public Library card to check out books. View our OneClickDigital downloading guide.
OneSource: Provides key national and international public and private company, executive and industry intelligence including full text analyst reports. If logging in from home, click on OneSource from the Reference USA home page.
Oxford English Dictionary: The OED is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words - past and present - from across the English-speaking world.
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Points of View (EBSCO): A database designed to assist students and researchers in understanding the full scope of controversial subjects. It includes essays, questions, and thousands of supporting articles.
Primary Search (EBSCO): Full text of about 70 popular elementary school magazines.
Princeton Public Library Electronic Periodical Holdings
Princeton Public Library Print Periodical Holdings
Professional Development Collection (EBSCO): Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of 520 high-quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles and more than 200 educational reports.
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Reference USA: Directory information on millions of U.S. and Canadian businesses and residences. Search for businesses by category, size and geographic location. Search residences by name, location and phone number.
Regional Business News (EBSCO): Full text articles from 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the U.S.
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Science Online: Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments.
Science Reference Center (EBSCO): Full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth and space science, environmental science, health and medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science and society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.
Small Business Resource Center: Learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how-to guides, articles, and websites.
Smithsonian Global Sound (Alexander Street Press): American Folk Music covers icons such as Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and hundreds of others (streamed audio).
Student Research Center(EBSCO)
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Today's Science (Facts on File): Science news written especially for students that links what is learned in the classroom with today's real world science discoveries.
TOPICsearch (EBSCO): A current events database which explores social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics.
Town Topics Archive: The digital version of the first 10-years of the Town Topics, 1947 - 1956. Now you can see the content just as it appeared in the newspaper and learn more about what life was like in Princeton during the 1940's and 50's.
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U.S. Consumer/Lifestyles: Use this database of over 203 million U.S. consumers to conduct market research. (Please note this is available within the list of resources within Reference USA.)
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World Atlas: Combines detailed, printable, full-color maps of countries, provinces, and states with up-to-date statistical and local information.
World Book Online Reference Center: Online encyclopedia of articles, selected web links, animations, and interactive maps, plus Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos - an intermediate Spanish language encyclopedia.
World News Digest (Facts on File)
This archival record of domestic and international news is updated weekly and covers all major political, social, and economic events since November 1940.
World Almanac for Kids Online
Provides resources for homework, reports, and projects in a fun format while encouraging online research skills. Contains biographical, career, history, science, and readers' advisory resources.
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Zinio
Enjoy full-color, page-for-page digital copies of over 70 magazine titles, including popular selections such as "Bloomberg Businessweek," "Car & Driver," "Consumer Reports," "Dwell," "The Economist," "Elle," "ESPN Magazine," "Esquire," "Forbes," "Food Network Magazine," "Marie Claire," "Martha Stewart Living," "Men's Health," "Newsweek," "Oprah," "Parenting," "Popular Photography," "Runner's World," and "Shape." Available for the Mac, PC, Apple & Android mobile devices, and Kindle Fire. View our Zinio downloading guide.
