Morris County Library > Reference > Databases
We have over 60 databases, most available for public use. (A few are restricted to staff searching.) Reference librarians can help you determine the best ones for your project. A dozen databases can be used from your home or office. Log in with your library card number. (Need a card?) Articles not found in databases or our 800 magazines are available through inter-library loan. See also databases available in other Morris libraries. All state residents with a library card can use JerseyClicks. BIOGRAPHY
American National Biography (searchable from home)
Database contains full-text biographies of thousands of prominent Americans from colonial times to present day. People may be searched by name or sorted by specific criteria (profession, birthplace, date). References for additional study are provided.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index (searchable from home)
BGMI is a
comprehensive index to current and retrospective biographical dictionaries, periodicals
(Biography Index) and who's who type books. Name searches will result in a bibliography of references about
the designated person. Birth and death years are sometimes supplied to distinguish between people with similar names.
Full-text biographies are not available from the database.
Biography Collection Complete (searchable from home)
Ebsco's database offers 177,000+ full-text bilgraphies in the fields of history, science, the arts, business, government, entertainment, etc.
Contemporary Authors (searchable from home)
Gale's database provides biographical and bibliogrpahical information on more that 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
Facts.com (searchable from home)
Profiles 150 contemporary newsmakers,
with direct links to original articles for additional information. Excellent choice for students researching Madeline
Albright, Yitzak Rabin & other prominent world decision makers.
Marquis Who's Who
This reference
database contains biographical data on 700,000+ individuals listed in the complete series of Who's Who directories dating
back to 1988. Entries are searchable by name or keyword. Data can be crossed and manipulated to identify people by
specific criteria, such as authors born in New Jersey.
Ipage (staff search only) OCLC (staff search only) Library of Congress Catalog Business Source (searchable from home)
Corporate ResourceNet (searchable from home) CorpTech (searchable from home) D & B First Research New! D & B Million Dollar database FII Online Mergent News Reports Morningstar
Reference USA (searchable from home) Regional Business News (searchable from home) Standard & Poor's Net Advantage Standard & Poor's Outlook Standard Rate & Data Service Valueline On the Internet you can also try these sites for company contacts and data. About U.S. Patents & Trademarks
CAREER EXPLORATION
CHILDREN'S REFERENCE World Book Encyclopedia, 1999 edition.
ERIC
Civil War on CD-ROM
Confederate Military History
HeritageQuest/ProQuest (searchable from home via JerseyClicks.org) Index to Griffith's Valuation of Ireland
JewishData Military Records: Revolutionary War Muster Rolls Military Records: War of 1812 Muster Rolls Overseas Interments, from Military Records of World War II & Korean Conflict Passenger and Immigration List Index, 1500s-1900s Pension Index 1883 PERSI
Biomedical Reference Collection:Expanded (seachable from home)
Health Source Plus (seachable from home) Healthcare: Physicians & Dentists (searchable from home) Medline/PubMed Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database (staff search only)
Facts on File (searchable from home
History Reference Center (searchable from home
New York Times Historic WestLaw Contemporary Authors (searchable from home Gale Literary Index
Literary Reference Center/EBSCO(searchable from home)
Literary Reference Online/Facts on File(searchable from home)
LitFINDER (searchable from home
MLA International Bibliography NoveList (searchable from home)
Play Index (staff search only)
Short Story Index (staff search only)
LEXIS-NEXIS reQUESTer (staff search only) MasterFILE Premier (searchable from home)
PA Research II Periodicals (searchable from home)
Readers' Guide Retrospective (staff search only)
Facts on File
Street Atlas USA (staff search only)
Jazz Discography
RockBase Plus (staff search only) Jersey Journal
Express-Times
Hunderdon County Democrat
NJN Publishing
New York Times Historic
Newspaper Source (searchable from home)
ProQuest Newspapers (searchable from home)
Star Ledger Index (Newark, NJ)(searchable from home)
Trenton Times (Trenton, NJ)
Need information printed in regional or local newspapers? The Internet Public Library provides links to over 1,500 newspapers published worldwide. Many of these papers offer (limited) online archives.
Tax Board records/County of Morris Fact on File (searchable from home) Facts.com
Oxford English Dictionary (staff search only) Ulrich's Plus
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO) (searchable from home)
Today's Science (part of Facts.com)
BOOKS
Books in Print+
Identify books by author, title, subject, and series; compile custom lists by format (book, audiocasette, videocassette) and audience (children, young adult, adult, college). Includes full-text reviews and first chapters for selected items. Bowker.
Ingram Book Group’s database enables us to identify books in print.
Reference librarians use this database to identify which libraries own specific magazines, journals, books and reports.
Identify books by title, author, subject, keyword, edition, publication year, and language.
BUSINESS & INVESTMENTS
Use EBSCO's business products to track company news, industry trends, economic forecasts,
regulatory developments and hot new management techniques. Indexing for 1,400 journals dates back to 1984; selected full-text articles begin 1990.
Full-text articles from nearly 1,2000 business magazines and journals.
95,000+ high tech companies are profiled in this database. Listings are sortable by company industry, size and lcoaiton. Access via Reference USA
Industry profiles, news & company metrics
16 million+ current U.S, company profiles. Database is searchable/sortable by industry, size and location.
Database tracks obsolete securities (due to mergers, acquisitions, dissolutions) from 1968-present. For complete coverage as for the Directory of Obsolete Securities, R332.67 Dir (book!).
Updating financial information found in Mergent Reports. Current edition only, updated semi-weekly.
Mutual fund profiles and analyst "top" picks.
U.S. & Canadian company contacts and profiles. Listings are searchable and sortable by business name, location, yellow page heading, SIC code and size of operation. Create custom lists by specific criteria. Indcludes residential listings.
Ebsco's database provides comprehensive full-text coverage for regional business publications including 75 business journals.
Stock reports, news headlines, industry outlooks and investment analyst recommendations for 6,400 publicly held companies. Companies may be sorted by selected earnings data. Also profiles 750 mutual funds and 450 closed-end investment funds.
Investment newsletter provides market observations, star lists, strategist's commentary, analyst's choices and recommended portfolios.
Online source provides the latest advertising rates for newspapers, consumer magazines, trade journals, out of home and direct marketing. NOTE: we do not have SRDS for television and radio.
Online edition of this popular stock investment tool. Current edition only. Companies may be accessed by name or industry, not sortable by investment criteria.
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center/Facts on File (searchable from home)
Industry overviews, career descriptions, employability skills and basic job search methods. Excellent resource for students.
EBSCO's Searchasaurus databases are ALL searchable from home. Databases include:
This online Encyclopedia of Animals offers information on a variety of topics relating to animals. Includes pictures.
Basic reference encyclopedia.
EBSCO's MSP database contains information most requested by middle school students working on class assignments. It contains indexing for 180 magazines (1984+) and selected full-text articles from 80 magazines (1990+).
Searchable by topic (maps, flags, people) or keyword (pizza).
EBSCO's PS magazine database is designed especially for elementary school students. The database contains indexing and abstracts from 120 magazines (1984+) and selected full text from 50 magazines (1990+).
EDUCATION
Curriculum Resources/Facts on File(searchable from home)
For middle school, high school, and junior college teachers/students seeking material to supplement their coursework in core subject areas--including U.S. and world history, science, and geogrpahy. This electronic library of curriculum-related handouts provdies access to a broad selection of visual content, including maps, historial images and timelines.
ERIC combines two popular education indices: Resources in Education (RIE) and the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE).This database provides citations and summaries from 750 professional journals, research reports, teaching guides, conference proceedings and state education documents. ERIC is accessible on the Internet. Coverage begins 1966.
ENVIRONMENT
GreenFILE/EBSCO (searchable from home)
Environmental database offers access to 200+ journals (scholarly and general interest), government documents and reports concerning
all aspects of global concern. Excellent for school reports. Selected full-text.
GENEALOGY
AncestryPlus
U.S. Federal Census images 1790-1930 (including 1890 substitute), state and local census data and full-text court,
land, probate, military and immigration records, directories, periodicals, birth, marriage and death records, Social
Security Death Index. Comparable databasess for UK and Ireland (i.e. Census, vital records, court and land records),
also a selection of international databases. Biographical sources and genealogical finding aids are also part of this
database.
Full-text access to official U.S. Army records (not personnel), Fox's Regimental Losses and Dyer's Compendium. Documents can be searched by personal name, regiment, battle or location.
Collection of primary source documents of Confederate military history and biography.
Genealogist's tool provides quick access to Census records, books, PERSI, Revolutionary War records, etc.
An index to the only detailed guide to where people lived in Ireland, in the middle of the Nineteenth Century, and what property they owned or leased. The Valuation itself gives important social and economic information about these individuals [1848-1864].
Genealogy database includes photographs of headstones from selected US cemeteries.
Searchable by name, company and rank.
Searchable by name, company & rank.
Searchable by name, death date, induction place, rank & U.S. Awards. Reports location of monument, notes medals awarded.
An index of individuals named in published Passenger and Immigration lists, currently about 4,200,000, a fraction of the 35,000,000 people who have come to the U.S. Searchable by name and keyword. Data for each individual includes age, year & place of arrival, naturalization/immigration record and source of record.
Finding tool for the 277,702 people listed on the U.S. Pensioners on the Federal Roll. Complete pension records can be ordered from the National Archives.
The largest and most widely used index of articles from genealogy and local history periodical articles in the world. Contains 1.5 million records from 5,500 different periodicals with holdings locations.
HEALTH
Alt-HealthWatch
Alt-HealthWatch, published by SoftLine Information, Inc., provides information of interest to both professionals and consumers across the full spectrum of alternative health issues, treatments and therapies. This full-text database accesses information from periodicals, academic & professional journals, research reports and a variety of consumer health publications. Coverage begins 1978; updated quarterly.
Designed for medical pratitioners, this database provides 200+ full-text journals.
Ebsco's HSP is now split into two databases: Consumer edition (160 journals/17 full-text publications--good way to learn about new treatments and procedures, many items are written in *plain language* or report clinical studies that are referenced on the news) and Nursing/Academic edition (500+ full-text and indexed articles--includes extensive bibliographies and additional resources for further study.) Coverage begins January 1988.
Reference USA's database lists heath care professionals by specialty and location. Profiles include brief biographical data (Medical School, year graduated), hospital affiliation, and number of patients.
The National Library of Medicine's database contains citations to articles, reports and conference proceedings. Medline is available free on the Internet.
Information on 1000+ natural medicines. Reports include alternative names, scientific names, safety, effectiveness, mechanism of action and active ingredients, adverse reactions,
interactions, durng influences on nutrient levels and depletion, dosage and administration, references and brand names.
HISTORY--see also: BIOGRAPHY
CountryWatch
This database offers political histories reaching back to the beginnings of the nation's history.
History Database Center has special sections on ancient, American, world, African American, Native American and women's history (biographies, maps, timelines, articles). Science Online section also contains biographical and historical information.
Reference books, historical documents, biographies, photos, maps & videos.
Full-text images of the newspaper from 1851-2001, including advertisements and classifieds. Advanced search features permit limiting by date (or range of years). Excellent primary source material.
LAW & GOVERNMENT
CountryWatch (searchable from home)
In-depth country profiles, current statistics, maps, key links and the latest news. Database can be used to create custom data tables for global comparisons.
Legal database contains full-text federal and all 50 state court cases, statutes and regulations. Searchable by citation, parties, keyword, etc. Searches may be limited by state/court or run through the entire database. KeyCite feature finds related cases. Includes online access to New Jersey Practice and New Jersey Forms: Business and Legal.
LITERATURE
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry (staff search only)
Columbia University Press' World of Poetry database provides anthology citations for 145,000 poems written by 20,000+ poets and the complete text of 11,000 public domain poems. The database is searchable by author, title, first line, subject and keyword.
Gale's database provides biographical and bibliographical information on more that 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
Use this tool to loate authors and titles contained in Gale Group literary criticism sets (Contemporary Literary Criticism, Something About the Author, etc.)
Comprehensive database provides a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to today. Excellent for literary criticism, author biogrpahies, and scholarly analysis. All materials are full-text, including infomation
from over 1,000 books, major literary encyclpedias and literary journals. Includes MagillOnLiterature information.
This database guides readers through a writer's life and major compositions, linking author biographies to critical essays on major works and descriptions of more than 35,000 key characters.
Roth Publishing's LitFinder database contains citations and information on thousands of poems, short stories, and essays. Searchable by author, translator, title, and genre. Selected full-text items are available.
The Modern Language Association's International Bibliography indexes over 3,000 worldwide journals, books, dissertations and conference proceedings in the fields of literature, language and linguistics. MLA is a good source for locating scholarly literary criticism by author, title or genre.
Citations only. Coverage: 1963-1997.
The reader's advisory database identifies fiction books by subject. Contains information on 90,000+ fiction titles from children's books to the classics. Also provides book reviews 1,200 theme-oriented booklists, 150 award lists and 1,000 fiction related web sites.
Contains references to plays published in collections from 1949-present. Plays range from antiquity to present.
Indexing for short stories in collections/magazines 1915-present. Selected full-text stories 1994-present. H.W. Wilson.
MAGAZINES & JOURNALS
reQUESTer provides access to information printed in thousands of news sources all over the world, including wire services, newspapers, magazines, trade journals and television transcripts. Information is updated daily and available in full-text format. Coverage dates vary according to source.
Ebsco's magazine database provides indexing for 2000+ journals convering a wide range of general, consumer, academic and technical subjects. Articles from many of these journals are available full-text directly from the computer. Information is searchable by keyword and may be limited to specific magazine titles or only full-text items. Coverage begins 1975.
ProQuests's Research II magazine database indexes 1,000 popular publications. Articles are searchable by keyword and may be limited to specific magazines. Abstracts and selected full-text articles provided. Coverage begins 1971, varies by publication.
Indexing for hundreds of popular magazines 1890-1982. No full-text.
MAPS
CountryWatch
Physical and political maps for 192 countries, world time zone map, global cultural maps (education, population, religion, life expectancy), economic data sectors (crops, energy, forestry), macroeconomics (GDP, money & inflation), environmental (Greenhouse gasses) and Country Risk.
World Atlas provides more than 1,200 clear, reproducible, full-color maps and over 270 flags.
DeLorme's map making database is an excellent tool for creating detailed maps of specific areas. Maps can be drawn by telephone area code, zip code, town or neighborhood. Zoom features enables one to adjust the level of map detail, including identifying selected businesses (restaurants, etc.) in a neighborhood. Copyright 2005.
MUSIC
International Index to Music Periodicals
Database provides indexing and abstracts for 430+ international music periodicals, plus full text for 110 journals. Both
scholarly and popular periodicals are covered. Excellent source for music educators, performers, students and general public.
Coverage varies with publication. Most full-text are from 1995-present.
Tom Lord's database includes over 31,000 band leaders, over 160,000 recording sessions, over 900,000 musician entries and over 900,000 tune entries. Version 6.0.
Cravenplan's database contains informaiton about 155,000 albums and 183 singles released by 44,000 artists on 11,000 different record labels. Data is searchable by artist, album, track, country of origin, instrument, record company and year of release.
NEWSPAPERS
Custom Newspapers (searchable from home)
100+ full-text newspapers U.S. and International, including: New York Times (January 2001-present), [Newark] Star Ledger (1996-present), [Bergen] Record (January 1996-present). Database courtesy of the New Jersey State Library.
Articles are searchable by keyword. Full text (excluding pictures) is available. Coverage begins January 1997; updated daily.
Accessible from Star-Ledger database. July 1998--present.
Accessible from Star-Ledger database. April 1991--present.
Accessible from Star-Ledger database. June 2005--present. Includes: The Chronicle (Somerville), Somerset Reporter, Cranford Chronicle, Independent Press (New Providence), Suburban News (Clark), Westfield Record-Press, Warren Reporter (Hackettstown).
Full-text images of the newspaper from 1851-2001, including advertisements and classifieds. Advanced search features permit limiting by date, section and thesaurus term. Current articles are searchable from home [Custom Newspapers and Proquest databases]. Index 1851-present is searchable free, online.
EBSCO's newspaper database provides indexing and selected full-text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newpspaers, 200 regional (U.S.) papers, television and radio news transcripts.
National Newspapers provides full-text articles from 9 major U.S. newspapers: The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlanta Constitution/Atlanta Journal and USA Today. Full-text time coverage for papers varies.
Articles are searchable by keyword. Full-text (excluding pictures) is available. Coverage begins May 10, 1989; updated daily. The searchable from home version begins 2/01.
Articles are searchable by keyword. Full text (excluding pictures) is available. Coverage begins 1993; updated daily. Indexing for the Trenton Times is available from the Star?Ledger's page.
REAL ESTATE
Official property records from our County's Tax Assessor's Office. Data includes owner's names, sale amount, and property description. Current information only. Accessible via the Internet here.
REFERENCE
CountryWatch(searchable from home)
In-depth country profiles, current statistics, maps, key links and the latest news. Database can be used to create custom data tables for global comparisons.
This megadatabase is an excellent resource for grades 4-12 in biography, science, geography, literature, careers, and history. Curriculum Resource Center includes key historic maps, charts and primary documents. Includes maps and images.
Excellent source for students and teachers seeking information on contemporary political, social and economic issues. Information is arranged for easy access: start with the general subject index, key events, issues & people. Specific news stories and people may also be located by keyword search. All information is offered in full-text format. Issues and Controversies section provides opposing viewpoint information for debates. Historic coverage begins 1940, full-text articles begin 1980, updated quarterly.
The OED is considered one of the most authoritative reference sources for the
definition and history of the words in the English language. This database can be used to locate word and phrase origins, verify spellings and even furnish original patent numbers for selected inventions. Copyright 1995.
Bowker's Ulrich's serials directory is useful for identifying 230,000 worldwide journals devoted to specific topics, industry directories and conference proceedings. Content descriptions include publisher contacts, frequency, circulation, price and indexing. Titles can be browsed or searched by keyword.
containing books cataloged from 1898 to present.
Professional journals for the library profession; 600 periodicals, 1960s--present.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Science Online/Facts on File(searchable from home)
Excellent resource for students looking for biographies, essays, definitions, diagrams (need the muscle system of a cat?), science experiments and timelines.
News and articles regarding current topics in science. Sample subjects: arctic warming, tsunamis, endangered species, space exploration. Database is designed for middle and high school students.
SPANISH LANGUAGE
Informe (searchable from home)
Revistas en Español. 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.
