Piscataway Public Library Online Resources

Biography Collection Complete -- 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. This database features more than 177,000 full-text biographies from many different sources.

In library use only  Corfacts Online -- Reach more than 59,000 New Jersey Businesses, Top Officers, Plant Managers, HR Contacts, Buyers, Create Mailing Lists, Prospect Lists, Update Your Contact Database and Reach New Jersey's Business Elite. In library use only

EBSCO Animals -- Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.

EBSCO History Reference Center -- The database includes more than 300 reference books and encyclopedias; 58,000 historical documents; 43,000 biographies; and more than 100,000 images and historical maps.

EBSCOhost -- A powerful online reference system offering full texts of thousands of magazine articles and popular databases from leading information providers ranging from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases for public, academic, medical, corporate and school libraries.

Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia -- This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Health Source -- Consumer Edition This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.

Informe -- Database of Spanish language magazine articles. Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otros. Cubre necesidades de información para todas las disciplinas académicas. Desde economía, ciencia y tecnología, psicología, educación, hasta arqueología, historia, literatura y más. Contiene revistas académicas de toda Iberoamérica.

Kids Search Ebsco Kids Search is designed especially for youth in grades K-5. Kids Search 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.

Literary Reference Center Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a comprehensive 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. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works and is an essential resource for public, academic and high school libraries.

The New York Times - Current and Historical: Full text newspaper articles from The New York Times from issues spanning 1980 - present.  The complete text of recent articles is provided in the ASCII format. The New York Times Book Review and Sunday Magazine are provided in PDF format.

The New York Times Extra Edition Historical Newspapers: An historical database of the The New York Times offering images of actual pages of the newspaper from issues as far back as 1851 and a digital selection of pages of  U.S. and international newspapers from three centuries(1764-2007). Offers access to front pages, articles, editorials, photos, advertisements, wedding and engagement announcements, cartoons, birth and death announcements, reviews, and more

Novelist, K-8 NoveList K-8 allows you to discover the fiction titles that are popular with young readers. The NoveList Learning Center provides a complete introduction and shows you how to use NoveList to meet the reading needs of children. NoveList K-8 contains materials for all K-8 grade levels and includes picture books, children's "chapter" books and young adult titles.

Primary Search Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.

Pub Med Central -- PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

Regional Business News -- 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.

Science Reference Center -- Science Reference Center is 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. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.