Encyclopedias and related materials for students of all levels. Users can also take advantage of Learning Materials, a collection of educational exercises, activities, and study guides.

Includes – Facts on File World Digest: archival record of domestic and international news since November 1940; Issues & Controversies:  more than 800 hot topics in politics, government, business, education, and popular culture updated weekly; and Today’s Science: updated weekly to explain important developments in biology, chemistry, the environment, space, physics, and technology.

Discovering Collection

Contains an in-depth selection of reference, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips for literature, history, biographies, science, and social studies.

Student Research Center

EBSCO’s Student Research Center 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.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

ebook collection: a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

One-stop source for information on today’s hottest social issues, featuring viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites.

Points of View

Points of View is designed to assist student researchers in understanding the full scope of controversial subjects. Use Points of View as a guide to debate, developing arguments, writing position papers, and for development of critical thinking skills. Each Points of View Essay includes a series of questions and additional material to generate further thought. Also included are thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications.

EBSCOhost

A database of journals, magazines, and newspapers with both full text and article summaries in all subjects.

The electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers–all in one easy-to-search database. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded.

Custom Newspapers

This newspaper collection is provided by the New Jersey State Library and includes: New Jersey newspapers, the New York Times (full-text from January 1, 2000 to the present), plus many more national and international newspapers.

The first online public library: search reference materials, periodicals, exhibits, online texts, etc. The Internet Public Library serves the public by finding, evaluating, selecting, organizing, describing, and creating high quality information resources, and by connecting members of the public to high quality information resources through the IPL question answering service.

Inter-Library Loan

Our students may search for library books in libraries throughout the state of New Jersey and have the books delivered directly to the school for free.

Don’t search… Find.  Connect online with a real librarian – one-to-one in real-time – for homework help with any topic or information need. Available 24/7!

Gloucester County Library

Search the Gloucester County Library collection online.  Need a library card?  Apply for one online!

NJ Next Stop…Your Career

Tells you what job skills and information you will need to be in demand in New Jersey, and most of the skill and job information applies to occupations wherever they are located.

Occupational Outlook Handbook

Career information on hundreds of jobs including the training and education needed, earnings, expected job prospects, what workers do on the job, and working conditions. Usage hint: scroll down to “Ways to use the Occupational Outlook Handbook site: #3.”                       

Careeronestop

CareerOneStop is the suite of web-based products funded and developed by the U.S. Department of Labor, offering unique solutions for the increasing demands of today’s labor market to meet the specialized needs of jobseekers, employers, and the workforce and education communities.

Literature Resources from Gale

Research authors and their works, literary movements and genres. Search across several major Literature databases to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews.

Scribner Writers Series

15-20 page signed essays on more than 2,000 authors and literary genres.

Literature Resource Center

Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

Literature Criticism Online

Centuries of critical analysis – the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals – delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals.

LitFinder for Schools

Covering world literature and authors throughout history, contains literary works, including over 150,000 full-text poems, short stories, speeches, and dramatic works. Also includes biographies, work summaries, author images and a full glossary of literary terms.

EBSCO’s Literary Reference Center

The primary goal of LRC is to assist high school and undergraduate English and Humanities students with homework and research assignments of a literary nature.

NoveList and

A comprehensive readers’ advisory solution for fiction lovers.  With its intuitive interface and extensive feature content, NoveList will help you to answer the question of what to read next.

The official website of Academy of American Poets, Poets.org offers hundreds of essays and interviews, audio clips, as well as biographies of more than 500 poets and over 2000 poems.

A good site for locating criticism of modern American poetry and poets.

Novelinks includes online as well as printed references to biographical, historical and critical insights on authors and their works.

Healthy New Jersey

Information for healthy living in New Jersey from UMDNJ.

A comprehensive database allowing teens (and those who care about teens) to research health-related issues important to their well-being. It’s both a research/report tool and a self-help resource.

ABC-CLIO History Databases

Social studies databases covering American government , American history , issues , United States at war , United States geography , world geography , world history: ancient , and world history: modern .

The Business Searching Interface (BSI) provides an easy way to both browse and search for country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research, and then use the results as limiters in a keyword search, if desired.

American Memory is a multimedia web site of digitized historical documents, photographs, sound recordings, moving pictures, books, pamphlets, maps, and other resources from the Library of Congress’s vast holdings.

Annals of American History illuminate U.S. history from 1493 to modern times in over 2,000 primary documents—the original words of history-makers.

US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Many resources for students striving to learn the history of the Holocaust and reflect upon the moral and ethical questions raised by that history.

Science Reference Center

This comprehensive science database ranges from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases for public, academic, medical, corporate and school libraries.

Today’s Science: updated weekly to explain important developments in biology, chemistry, the environment, space, physics, and technology.

Features current weather conditions and forecasts for over 77,000 locations worldwide, along with local and regional radars.

The award-winning source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works.