Online Resources
Electronic Resources from Home
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In-House Library Access
The following online resources can be accessed only in the Jersey City Public Library buildings.
These services were partially funded by the New Jersey Regional Library Cooperatives, a state tax funded service of the New Jersey Library Network.
Career Transitions
A comprehensive career resource that allows you to search for and track jobs, create targeted resumes and cover letters, and practice and master interview techniques. Explore and identify career paths according to your interests, experience and what’s in demand. Find schools and education/training programs. Career Transitions is your one-stop-shop for finding a new job/career or for finding expert tips on how to set yourself apart in an increasingly competitive job market.
EBSCOhost
EBSCOhost offers access to the full text over 1,800 magazines and newspapers with MasterFILE Premier, Business Source, and Health Source Plus. A variety of other tools for research are also available.
Gale Contemporary Authors
Contemporary Authors provides information on the lives and works of approximately 100,000 current writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama. Information on notable international authors and selected early 20th century authors is also included.
Get Help
New Jersey Librarians helps residents through tough economic times. Get the tools needed for work, finances, housing, health, parental guidance and senior services.
HealthyNJ
HealthyNJ is a product of the University Libraries at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. The Consumer Health Information Task Force, comprised of librarians from each of the four UMDNJ Campus Libraries, developed the content of the Web Site to meet the health care information needs of consumers, particularly the citizens of New Jersey.
Informe
Informe is the Spanish language equivalent of Infotrac, a powerful and user-friendly database containing citations, abstracts and full-text from almost 500,000 journal and newspaper articles.
JerseyClicks
JerseyClicks offers keyword and custom searching of 15 databases through a federated search. This means that you don't have to search each database individually, you can search 15 of them simultaneously! These high quality databases cover subjects such as health, history, business, education, science, current events, literature and popular fictions. The suite also includes Informe, a Spanish language full text database.
Khan Academy
With a library of over 2,600 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 306 practice exercises, they're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.
Infotrac
Infotrac Newspapers has full text articles from The New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Washington Post, and The Record (Bergen Record).
Medline
MedlinePlus is a goldmine of good health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine. Health professionals and consumers alike can depend on it for information that is authoritative and up to date. MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 700 diseases and conditions.
MITOpenCourseWare
Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. No registration required.
Morningstar Investment Research Center
Morningstar Investment Research Center – database for researching nearly 9,500 stocks, 24,000 mutual funds and more than 800 exchange traded funds (ETFs). Patrons can review Morningstar fund ratings and stewardship grades, utilize stock and fund screeners and print full page PDF reports. Morningstar also provides financial education for the beginner through expert investor through its Investing Classroom.
NJ DataBank
NJ DATA Bank - NJ DataBank presents data in 20 key policy areas at the state, county and municipal level. Policy areas include: business, civic engagement and energy, culture, diversity, economic conditions, education, elections, environment, food and agriculture, global connections, government, health, housing, justice, labor, population, public safety, technology, transportation and urban issues.
NewsBank
Easily search a collection of over 22 million recent records from hundreds of U.S. newspapers, including Star Ledger, Jersey Journal, and Trenton Times. Updated daily, it incorporates over 75 million records from the Social Security Death Index (1937-present), organized by state. This is a limited time promotion from Newsbank so please get started on that family tree!!
Novelist
NoveList is an electronic database of over 92,000 titles that helps fiction readers discover new books and writers. Users of all ages can enter a favorite author or title in order to locate other authors or titles of similar interests. In addition, users can browse over 1,200 theme-oriented book lists, 160 award lists and 1,000 fiction-related websites.
PubMed
PubMed Central is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Access to the full text of articles in PMC is free, except where a journal requires a subscription for access to recent articles.
Searchasaurus
Searchasaurus is full of magazine/newspaper articles; photos and maps; TV, radio and government transcripts; encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, almanac and more.
Small Business Resource Center
Providing access to important small business management resources, Small Business Resource Center offers a combination of unparalleled periodicals and reference content, including Business Plans Handbook, a collection of real-life business plans for all types of businesses. Small Business Resource Center provides the prospective and current entrepreneurial community with a resource that enhances business longevity.
Stanford Engineering Everywhere
SEE programming includes one of Stanford’s most popular sequences: the three-course Introduction to Computer Science taken by the majority of Stanford’s undergraduates and seven more advanced courses in artificial intelligence and electrical engineering.
