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Library Subscribed Databases

Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier contains indexing for 8,025 publications, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles.

Acceda Noticias
Web-based access to the complete electronic editions of more than 20 Spanish-language newspapers published in major U.S. cities from Florida to California. It also includes tens of thousands of current and archived full-text articles from other news sources and complete electronic newspaper editions across Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Columbia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Spain.

America's News
With unmatched U.S. news content from local, regional, and national sources, this resource is the largest of its kind. Its diverse source types include printed and online newspapers, blogs, journals, newswires, broadcast transcripts and videos. Paid ads are excluded. Includes Philadelphia Inquirer, Atlantic City Press, and Star Ledger.

American Doctoral Dissertations 1933-1955
Contains twenty-two years of dissertation research accepted by American Universities between 1933-1955. It amounts to over 93,000 citations and full page images of the original print index may be searched by author, title, subject and university.

Ancestry.com Library Edition (In-library use only)
Discover your ancestors with the world's largest family history website. Search charts, photographs, birth and death records and more. View Tutorial

Atlantic County Library System Census Microfilm
NOTE: Census reels available for in-library use only at our Mays Landing Reference Center.

Atlantic County Library System Digitized Collection
Over 5,000 newspapers covering Atlantic County happenings, dating from 1860-1923.  Inside pages usually covered national news as well.

Bilblioteca Tumblebook
Spanish language TumbleBooks Collection.

Biography Collection Complete
Users can locate biographies of interest by keyword searching, browsing key categories, including occupation, nationality, publication, and more than 30 genre categories, including actors, artists, authors, current world leaders, explorers, religious leaders and more.

Biography Reference Center
This database offers a comprehensive collection of more then 436,000 full-text biographies, as well as thousands of unique narrative biographies. Users can browse key categories, including occupation, nationality, and over 30 genre categories, including actors, artists, athletes, authors, world leaders, explorers and scientists.

Black Freedom Struggle
Approximately 1,600 primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. Access provided by ProQuest Technology Company.

Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier provides indexing, abstracts and full text journals back to 1965 as well as comprehensive coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, accounting, banking, finance, etc.

Complementary & Alternative Medicine
Complementary & Alternative Medicine provides information on all aspects of alternative health and medicine such as herbs, alternative therapies, homeopathic remedies, as well as biographies of some of the major figures in this branch of medicine. Use this online portal to search our whole collection of Salem Press titles.

Computer and Internet Basics Center
The fastest and easiest way to learn how to use a computer is with video tutorials. Now you can learn computer basics quickly and become comfortable with everything your computer has to offer.

Contemporary Authors
Updated monthly, Contemporary Authors allows users to search for complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 authors by name, title of work, nationality, date and place of birth and death, subject/genre, personal and career information, awards and honors, and more.

Countries, People & Cultures
Provides insight into the social, cultural, economic, historical, and religious practices and beliefs of Central & South America, Central, South & Southeast Asia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East & North Africa, Eastern & Southern Africa, Western & Central Africa, North America & The Caribbean and East Asia & The Pacific. Use this online portal to search our whole collection of Salem Press titles.

EBSCOhost
EBSCOhost allows a user to search and access full-text reference articles, online journals and thousands of e-books for work, school or personal research.

EBSCOhost (Mobile)
This mobile friendly version of EBSCOhost allows a user to search and access full-text reference articles, online journals and thousands of e-books for work, school or personal research.

Encyclopedia of American Immigration
Encyclopedia of American Immigration provides an overview on the people, places, events, organizations, and legal cases that have shaped the history of immigration in the United States over the past several hundred years. Use this online portal to search our whole collection of Salem Press titles.

Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues, Revised Edition
Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues, Revised Edition examines the major figures, events, issues, and legislation that have influenced the awareness of our environment, pollution, climate change, alternative energies, and endangered species. Use this online portal to search our whole collection of Salem Press titles.

Encyclopedia of World Biography
Covering nearly 7000 notable figures from many cultures and time periods , the alphabetically arranged entries contain brief summary paragraphs, longer essays about the subjects' lives and work, short lists for further reading, and portraits.

ERIC: Educational Resource Information Center
ERIC 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.

European Views of the Americas 1493-1750
This archive is a comprehensive guide and authoritative bibliography to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. Content and subjects include: European exploration, portrays of Native American peoples, the British, Dutch and French in America, the slave trade, pirates, religion and commerce.

Freegal Music
Freegal is a downloadable music and video service, free to our patrons, based on catalogs from over 28,000 labels that originate in over 80 countries plus the complete Sony digital music collection. View Tutorial

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for researching topics like science, medicine, social studies and biographies of famous figures. Search eight complete reference books/sets at once. View Tutorial

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