Automotive Repair | Biography | Business | Genealogy | Geography | Health | History | Language | Literature | Newspapers & Magazines
 Online Tests & Tutorials | Science | Social Issues/Government

Automotive Repair

Automotive Repair Reference Center     From Home    From the Library
Auto Repair Reference Center contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1945.

Biography

Biography Collection Complete        From Home    From the Library (Ebsco)
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.

Biography Resource Center with Who's Who (To access this database from home you must have a valid Morristown and Morris Township Library Card.)
Biography Resource Center's database is made up of nearly 200,000 narrative biographies and over 100,000 thumbnail biographies on personalities from Aristotle to J.Lo. It also provides links to magazine articles and web sites about the person. The complete Who's Who series and Contemporary Authors are also included in this easy to use and comprehensive product.

Business

Business Source Elite        From Home      From the Library (Ebsco)
1,100 business publications, including full text for nearly 500 peer-reviewed business publications covering business, finance, banking, accounting, and more. Access from EbscoHost Magazines and Newspapers.

Corfacts Online Trial      From Home      From the Library
The library has a temporary trial of this business database that provides immediate access to up-to-date information on over 51,000 New Jersey companies
in services and manufacturing. Retail businesses are not included unless they provide a service like catering. Completely customizable selection criteria.
Cost-effective options for reaching your target audience by phone, fax, mail, and email.
If you would like to comment on how you like the database please email us at mmtref@hotmail.com.

Mergent Online (Company Data)  (To access this database from home you must have a valid Morristown and Morris Township Library Card.)
 From Home     From the Library  
A fully searchable database of 15,000 U.S. public companies (active and inactive) listed on the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ exchanges. Also available are FactSheets, which provide presentation-quality, one-page summary equity reports. Equity Research Reports offer buy, hold and sell recommendations for the company and peers.

Morningstar.com
Morningstar's data reports cover more than 20,000 stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs.

Reference USA      From Home     From the Library
This database is part of a group of databases paid for by the State Library of NJ. To access Reference USA from home you must enter your library card number to get to the search screen. On the page with the search screen you will find Reference USA listed under the Business category.
Profile data on 11 million domestic companies. Listings are searchable and sortable by business name, location, yellow page heading, SIC code and size of operation. Information is culled from current telephone books. From a remote location printing and downloading will be limited to 25 records.

Genealogy

America's GenealogyBank     From Home        From the Library
(To access this database from home you must have a valid Morristown and Morris Township Library Card.)
Quickly find your ancestors in over four centuries of rare documents and records. Search thousands of historical newspapers, books, pamphlets and genealogies plus, the complete American State Papers, U.S. Serial Set, Social Security Death Index and
more than 23 million obituaries.

America's Obituaries and Death Notices     From Home      From the Library
(To access this database from home you must have a valid Morristown and Morris Township Library Card.)
The largest and most comprehensive collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices. Choose a state to see a complete listing of each newspaper available in that state.

HeritageQuest
This database is part of a group of databases paid for by the State Library of NJ. To access HeritageQuest from home you must enter your library card number to get to the search screen. On the page with the search screen you will find HeritageQuest listed under the Genealogy category.
Search census records, books and more.

Geography

World Geography  (To access this database from home you must have a valid Morristown and Morris Township Library Card.)
Comprehensive content on more than 200 countries.

Health

Health Source Plus        From Home      From the Library (Ebsco)
Full text articles from both consumer and academic medical journals as well as patient oriented drug information. Topics include medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, sports medicine and general health.

Health Reference Center
Health information from Facts on File.

Gale Medical Reference Books (To access this database from home you must have a valid Morristown and Morris Township Library Card.)
A searchable collection of nine medical reference books in eBook format.

Salem Medical Guide     From Home     From the Library
(To access this database from home you must have a valid Morristown and Morris Township Library Card.)
Full text of 2007 edition of Magill's Medical Guide.

History

Daily Life
Offers an overview of daily life around the world from ancient times to modern times. Topics include political, religious, economic, recreational, intellectual and domestic issues.

History Database Center
Searches 6 history databases including: American History, World History, American Woman's History, African American History & Culture, American Indian History & Culture, and Ancient History & Culture.

History Reference Center        From Home     From the Library (Ebsco)
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.

Oxford African American Studies Center
(To access this database from home you must have a valid Morristown and Morris Township Library Card.)
The most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.

Language

Rosetta Stone (To access this database you must have a valid Morristown and Morris Township Library Card.)
Rosetta Stone will soon stop selling their product to libraries. As a result of this our library's subscription will end on October 31, 2008.
Members of The Morristown and Morris Township Library can now access Rosetta Stone, a language learning program that offers instruction in 5 different languages. The program requires you to register with a valid Morristown and Morris Township library card. To use the program you must have a headset with a microphone.

Literature

Contemporary Authors
Biographical information on more than 90,000 authors in the US and around the world.
To search Contemporary Authors only, users must click Clear Checkmarks, scroll down and put a check in Contemporary Authors. Searches work best
if Author/Creator field is selected from the Search drop-down list.

Literary Reference Center     From Home      From the Library (Ebsco)
Provides in depth information on thousands of authors and their work from major respected reference works, books,
literary journals and more.

Literary Reference Online (Facts on File)
Basic information about authors, works of literature and literary characters.

LitFinder (To access this database from home you must have a valid Morristown and Morris Township Library Card.)
Full text access to poems, essays, speeches, stories and plays.

Novelist Plus         From Home      From the Library
NoveList Plus is an upgrade to NoveList. It includes all of the great content in NoveList – PLUS over 50,000 nonfiction titles and added-value information
such as read-alikes, book discussion guides, feature articles and more.

Short Story Index      From Home     From the Library
Indexes short stories published in more than 4,200 collections and anthologies, plus stories that appear in periodicals.
Full text is available for many stories as well.

Newspapers & Magazines

Custom Regional Newspapers
Full text for the following newspapers: The Bergen Record, Newark Star Ledger, New York Times, Times of London and many more national and international newspapers.

Ebsco        From Home      From the Library
Ebsco provides access to a variety of databases that index newspaper and magazine articles on topics from health, education, and business to general reference.

Informe
Revistas en Espanol. IAC's database offers indexing, abstracts and selected full-text for 60 popular Spanish-language magazines. Coverage dates vary, most magazines are indexed beginning 1996 or 1997. Informe is updated monthly.

ProQuest        
From Home (Morristown & Morris Township Library Cardholders Only) Other Morris County patrons and Bernards Township patrons should click here and choose their library from the list provided in the middle of the page.    
From the Library
ProQuest provides access to a variety of databases that index magazine articles on topics from health, education, and business to general reference. It also provides indexing and full text from 9 national newspapers including The New York Times, USA Today, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.

Online Tests and Tutorials

LearningExpressLibrary
LearningExpressLibrary provides interactive online practice tests and tutorial courses in math and English designed to help students and adult learners succeed on academic or licensing tests. This program will require you to create an account. Morristown and
Morris Township Library cardholders should create an account with their library card number and will then be able
to use the program at home or in the library. All others may use the program in the library only with any account name.

Science

Science Online
Science information from Facts on File.

Science Reference Center     From Home    From the Library (Ebsco)
Science Reference Center is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content.

Science Resource Center (To access this database from home you must have a valid Morristown and Morris Township Library Card.)
In depth science related research covering physical science, life science, earth and space science, science and technology, and scientist and inventor biographies.

Social Issues/Government

CQ Researcher (To access this database from home you must have a valid Morristown and Morris Township Library Card.)  
From Home    From the Library
A weekly publication covering the most current and controversial issues of the day. This database
is excellent for student papers.

Facts On File        From Home      From the Library
This is really a group of nine different databases including:
Curriculum Resource Center
Curriculum Resource Center: Junior Edition
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Forms on File
Health Reference Center
History Database Center
Literary Reference Online
Science Online
World Atlas

Try Jersey Clicks and search multiple databases. It also offers access to chat reference services.

Jersey Clicks Funded by the New Jersey State Library,
Library Services & Technology ACT (LSTA)
and Regional Library Cooperatives

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