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Academic Search Premier contains indexing for 8,025 publications, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles.
*Access available on library premises only!
Answers await everyone—whether professional or hobbyist, expert or novice, genealogist or historian—inside the more than 7,000 available databases. Here, you can unlock the story of you with sources like censuses, vital records, immigration records, family histories, military records, court and legal documents, directories, photos, maps, and more.
Popular and recently added collections include:
U.S. collections deliver hundreds of millions of names from sources such as federal and U.S. censuses; birth, death, and marriage records including the Social Security Death Index; and U.S. border crossing and trans-ocean ship records.
Canadian collections provide nearly 60 million records from the Census of Canada, and key vital records, such as the Drouin Collection (1621-1967), which includes nearly 30 million baptism, marriage, and burial records from Quebec.
U.K. collections offer censuses for England, Wales, Isle of Man, Channel Islands, and Scotland, with nearly 200 million records: Births and Baptisms (1834-1906), Marriage Licenses (1521-1869), Deaths and Burials (1834-1934), and Poor Law Records (1840-1938) in London, and more.
Other international collections continue to grow with more than 46 million records from German censuses, vital records, emigration indexes, ship lists, phone directories, and more; Chinese surnames in the large and growing Jiapu Collection of Chinese lineage books; Jewish family history records from Eastern Europe and Russia; and more.
Military collections deliver over 150 million records containing information often not found elsewhere and includes records from the colonial to the Vietnam era.
Multimedia collections deliver millions of files ranging from family and gravestone photos to postcards and newsreels.
Get free online homework help from one-on-one tutors, daily from 2pm–11pm. Help is available for early elementary through high school grades, in core subject areas. Video content and other resources are also available 24 hours a day.
Get live, virtual expert help with these subject areas:
More Resources available 24/7
Live, daily job assistance from 2pm-11pm, including up-to-date nation-wide and local job search engines, professional resume critique and proven interview techniques. Experience personalized career center seamlessly integrated with advanced virtual technology to help job seekers of diverse backgrounds and needs.
VetNow supports our community’s veterans and their families with navigating the VA bureaucracy, providing academic tutoring, and employment transition assistance. Live assistance is available daily from 2pm-11pm.
This business database provides full text for over 1,000 business publications. The rich collection of titles in Business Source Elite provides information dating back to 1985. More than 10,100 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
Consumer Reports is an independent, nonprofit member organization that works side by side with consumers for truth, transparency, and fairness in the marketplace. In addition to their rigorous research, investigative journalism, and consumer advocacy, they work with other organizations, including media, consumer groups, research and testing consortiums, and philanthropic partners to inform purchase decisions, improve the products and services that businesses deliver, and drive regulatory and fair competitive practices.
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a national information system supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Library of Education, and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. It provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
GrantStation gives grantseekers the ability to find new grant opportunities via databases, build a strong grants strategy with planning tools, and write powerful proposals with step-by-step tutorials. This database gives businesses the resources to win their share of the grant funding available to them.
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects.
The Image Collection database consists of more than 1 million total images in these categories, broken down as follows:
The images consist of a wide array of photos and maps, with an emphasis on world news and events. Other areas of coverage include contemporary and historical photos of people, places, and the natural kingdom.
Create resumes and cover letters, learn interviewing techniques, and prepare for related exams. Access millions of job listings.
Providing exclusive online full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books, Legal Information Reference Center contains more than 225 full-text publications and thousands of legal forms, with more content being added on a regular basis. A majority of 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.
LISTA indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
LinkedIn Learning is a premier continuing education resource respected by employers worldwide. There are over 14,000 courses in subjects ranging from Adobe Photoshop to UX Design. Brush up or dive deep into Microsoft Excel, AutoCAD, InDesign, and more. Learn Ruby on Rails, C++, WordPress, and even how to build apps for Android and iOS. It’s not just technical skills either! There are courses on public speaking, time management, managing people, leadership, online marketing, leadership.
LinkedIn Learning's library is extensive and can help you improve your resume dramatically (there are resume courses too!). Whether you want to plug a hole in your resume or switch careers altogether, LinkedIn Learning will help you get there. Even better, when you finish a course you can export a certificate of completion directly to your LinkedIn profile!
LinkedIn Learning is accessible from any web browser, anywhere, anytime.
Literary Reference Center is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.
Start the conversation in your choice of over 70 world languages and dialects through courses crafted using conversational methodology, delivered through native speaker dialogue, and created with each individual learner in mind. Mango is a language learning application centered around you. Challenge yourself to learn a new language, or learn the basics for your next travel adventure.
Note: To create an account, you need to follow the link above on either your computer or mobile device. Once the account is created, you can sign on from any device
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,050 general reference publications with coverage dating as far back as 1984. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Elite also includes 52 full text reference books and an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps and flags.
Middle Search Plus contains full text for more than 150 popular, middle school magazines. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 200 magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies, historical essays and student pamphlets.
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.
NoveList is a comprehensive readers’ advisory solution for fiction lovers. With an intuitive interface and extensive proprietary content, NoveList answers the question: What should I read next?
NoveList K-8 is your solution for integrating fiction across the curriculum. With a fun and intuitive interface, and extensive proprietary content, NoveList K-8 will be the resource you and your young readers turn to when looking for the next book to read.
Search thousands of college and graduate schools, identify scholarships, take practice tests, create resumes, and explore careers.
Points of View Reference Center is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 200 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument).
Primary Search, designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children’s rooms, contains full text for more than 60 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles)
Provides detailed, current directory information on more than 12 million U.S. Businesses, 102 million U.S. residents, 683,000 U.S. healthcare providers, 1 million Canadian businesses and 11 million Canadian residents.
This link takes you to the NJ State Library JerseyClicks database page. Scroll to the bottom for Reference Solutions.
Referencia Latina, a comprehensive Spanish-language database, offers content from a variety of sources including 49,000 encyclopedia entries.
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
The Small Business Reference Center is a comprehensive resource for small business owners and those interested in starting a business, offering full-text periodicals and reports, sample business plans, U.S. tax forms, videos and reference books. It supports small business owners in all relevant areas from planning, financing and managing a business to exit strategies. Users also have the ability to search within specific ‘Business Topics’ and ‘Business Types’ relevant to their needs.
Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for hundreds of periodicals. In addition, 96% of journals indexed in TRC are peer-reviewed.
Topics include: Assessment, Best Practices, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, School Administration, Science & Mathematics, and Teacher Education.
Immerse yourself in a world of captivating Spanish-language TV shows and movies with The Shelf, an exclusive resource brought to you by Roxbury Library. Accessible 24/7 from any device through the browser or the app, this platform is tailored for all Roxbury Library Card holders. Discover curated movies, premium series, engaging performing arts, and delightful children's content—all at your fingertips.
This collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books), Tumble Puzzles, and Tumble Games may be viewed online. TumbleBooks collection includes fiction, non-fiction and foreign language titles, Read-Alongs (chapter books with sentence highlighting and narration but no animation), eBooks and audiobooks.
Access the latest business news, financial insights, and global updates with Wall Street Journal Online. Library card is required to sign in. Wall Street Journal provides account access in 3 day intervals. After 3 days, please follow the link again and log in with your existing account.
Live, daily job assistance from 2pm-11pm, including up-to-date nation-wide and local job search engines, professional resume critique and proven interview techniques. Experience personalized career center seamlessly integrated with advanced virtual technology to help job seekers of diverse backgrounds and needs.
VetNow supports our community’s veterans and their families with navigating the VA bureaucracy, providing academic tutoring, and employment transition assistance. Live assistance is available daily from 2pm-11pm.
This business database provides full text for over 1,000 business publications. The rich collection of titles in Business Source Elite provides information dating back to 1985. More than 10,100 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
GrantStation gives grantseekers the ability to find new grant opportunities via databases, build a strong grants strategy with planning tools, and write powerful proposals with step-by-step tutorials. This database gives businesses the resources to win their share of the grant funding available to them.
Provides detailed, current directory information on more than 12 million U.S. Businesses, 102 million U.S. residents, 683,000 U.S. healthcare providers, 1 million Canadian businesses and 11 million Canadian residents.
This link takes you to the NJ State Library JerseyClicks database page. Scroll to the bottom for Reference Solutions.
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
The Small Business Reference Center is a comprehensive resource for small business owners and those interested in starting a business, offering full-text periodicals and reports, sample business plans, U.S. tax forms, videos and reference books. It supports small business owners in all relevant areas from planning, financing and managing a business to exit strategies. Users also have the ability to search within specific ‘Business Topics’ and ‘Business Types’ relevant to their needs.
Live, daily job assistance from 2pm-11pm, including up-to-date nation-wide and local job search engines, professional resume critique and proven interview techniques. Experience personalized career center seamlessly integrated with advanced virtual technology to help job seekers of diverse backgrounds and needs.
VetNow supports our community’s veterans and their families with navigating the VA bureaucracy, providing academic tutoring, and employment transition assistance. Live assistance is available daily from 2pm-11pm.
Create resumes and cover letters, learn interviewing techniques, and prepare for related exams. Access millions of job listings.
LinkedIn Learning is a premier continuing education resource respected by employers worldwide. There are over 14,000 courses in subjects ranging from Adobe Photoshop to UX Design. Brush up or dive deep into Microsoft Excel, AutoCAD, InDesign, and more. Learn Ruby on Rails, C++, WordPress, and even how to build apps for Android and iOS. It’s not just technical skills either! There are courses on public speaking, time management, managing people, leadership, online marketing, leadership.
LinkedIn Learning's library is extensive and can help you improve your resume dramatically (there are resume courses too!). Whether you want to plug a hole in your resume or switch careers altogether, LinkedIn Learning will help you get there. Even better, when you finish a course you can export a certificate of completion directly to your LinkedIn profile!
LinkedIn Learning is accessible from any web browser, anywhere, anytime.
Search thousands of college and graduate schools, identify scholarships, take practice tests, create resumes, and explore careers.
Points of View Reference Center is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 200 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument).
Get free online homework help from one-on-one tutors, daily from 2pm–11pm. Help is available for early elementary through high school grades, in core subject areas. Video content and other resources are also available 24 hours a day.
Get live, virtual expert help with these subject areas:
More Resources available 24/7
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a national information system supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Library of Education, and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. It provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
Start the conversation in your choice of over 70 world languages and dialects through courses crafted using conversational methodology, delivered through native speaker dialogue, and created with each individual learner in mind. Mango is a language learning application centered around you. Challenge yourself to learn a new language, or learn the basics for your next travel adventure.
Note: To create an account, you need to follow the link above on either your computer or mobile device. Once the account is created, you can sign on from any device
Search thousands of college and graduate schools, identify scholarships, take practice tests, create resumes, and explore careers.
Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for hundreds of periodicals. In addition, 96% of journals indexed in TRC are peer-reviewed.
Topics include: Assessment, Best Practices, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, School Administration, Science & Mathematics, and Teacher Education.
Start the conversation in your choice of over 70 world languages and dialects through courses crafted using conversational methodology, delivered through native speaker dialogue, and created with each individual learner in mind. Mango is a language learning application centered around you. Challenge yourself to learn a new language, or learn the basics for your next travel adventure.
Note: To create an account, you need to follow the link above on either your computer or mobile device. Once the account is created, you can sign on from any device
Referencia Latina, a comprehensive Spanish-language database, offers content from a variety of sources including 49,000 encyclopedia entries.
Immerse yourself in a world of captivating Spanish-language TV shows and movies with The Shelf, an exclusive resource brought to you by Roxbury Library. Accessible 24/7 from any device through the browser or the app, this platform is tailored for all Roxbury Library Card holders. Discover curated movies, premium series, engaging performing arts, and delightful children's content—all at your fingertips.
Immerse yourself in a world of captivating Spanish-language TV shows and movies with The Shelf, an exclusive resource brought to you by Roxbury Library. Accessible 24/7 from any device through the browser or the app, this platform is tailored for all Roxbury Library Card holders. Discover curated movies, premium series, engaging performing arts, and delightful children's content—all at your fingertips.
*Access available on library premises only!
Answers await everyone—whether professional or hobbyist, expert or novice, genealogist or historian—inside the more than 7,000 available databases. Here, you can unlock the story of you with sources like censuses, vital records, immigration records, family histories, military records, court and legal documents, directories, photos, maps, and more.
Popular and recently added collections include:
U.S. collections deliver hundreds of millions of names from sources such as federal and U.S. censuses; birth, death, and marriage records including the Social Security Death Index; and U.S. border crossing and trans-ocean ship records.
Canadian collections provide nearly 60 million records from the Census of Canada, and key vital records, such as the Drouin Collection (1621-1967), which includes nearly 30 million baptism, marriage, and burial records from Quebec.
U.K. collections offer censuses for England, Wales, Isle of Man, Channel Islands, and Scotland, with nearly 200 million records: Births and Baptisms (1834-1906), Marriage Licenses (1521-1869), Deaths and Burials (1834-1934), and Poor Law Records (1840-1938) in London, and more.
Other international collections continue to grow with more than 46 million records from German censuses, vital records, emigration indexes, ship lists, phone directories, and more; Chinese surnames in the large and growing Jiapu Collection of Chinese lineage books; Jewish family history records from Eastern Europe and Russia; and more.
Military collections deliver over 150 million records containing information often not found elsewhere and includes records from the colonial to the Vietnam era.
Multimedia collections deliver millions of files ranging from family and gravestone photos to postcards and newsreels.
Academic Search Premier contains indexing for 8,025 publications, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles.
Consumer Reports is an independent, nonprofit member organization that works side by side with consumers for truth, transparency, and fairness in the marketplace. In addition to their rigorous research, investigative journalism, and consumer advocacy, they work with other organizations, including media, consumer groups, research and testing consortiums, and philanthropic partners to inform purchase decisions, improve the products and services that businesses deliver, and drive regulatory and fair competitive practices.
The Image Collection database consists of more than 1 million total images in these categories, broken down as follows:
The images consist of a wide array of photos and maps, with an emphasis on world news and events. Other areas of coverage include contemporary and historical photos of people, places, and the natural kingdom.
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,050 general reference publications with coverage dating as far back as 1984. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Elite also includes 52 full text reference books and an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps and flags.
Middle Search Plus contains full text for more than 150 popular, middle school magazines. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 200 magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies, historical essays and student pamphlets.
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.
Primary Search, designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children’s rooms, contains full text for more than 60 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles)
Providing exclusive online full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books, Legal Information Reference Center contains more than 225 full-text publications and thousands of legal forms, with more content being added on a regular basis. A majority of 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.
LISTA indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Literary Reference Center is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.
NoveList is a comprehensive readers’ advisory solution for fiction lovers. With an intuitive interface and extensive proprietary content, NoveList answers the question: What should I read next?
NoveList K-8 is your solution for integrating fiction across the curriculum. With a fun and intuitive interface, and extensive proprietary content, NoveList K-8 will be the resource you and your young readers turn to when looking for the next book to read.
This collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books), Tumble Puzzles, and Tumble Games may be viewed online. TumbleBooks collection includes fiction, non-fiction and foreign language titles, Read-Alongs (chapter books with sentence highlighting and narration but no animation), eBooks and audiobooks.
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects.
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The Roxbury Township Public Library is a municipal library serving the communities of Succasunna, Ledgewood, Landing, Berkshire Valley, Port Morris, and Kenvil. Residents of the township are eligible to a free library card which enables access to 2.8 million items across the Morris Library Alliance including digital books, museum passes and more.
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