Online Research


Library Catalog (infoPATH) use to find books and audiovisual resources
Reference Universe use to search HCCC print reference sources
Electronic Databases use to find articles
Electronic Reference Books use to browse or search ebooks online
Internet Resources use to browse a list of recommended websites by subject
Search Engines and Directories use to search the Web
Ask a Librarian sponsored by QandANJ


Electronic Databases by subject (or by 
title with descriptions)

 

All Subjects 

Arts and Humanities 

Biographies 

Business and Companies 

Careers 

Controversial Issues 

Countries and Cultures 

Culinary Arts 

Education 

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries 

ESL and Language 

Geography 

History 

Legal Issues 

Literature and Book Reviews 

Mathematics 

Medicine and Health 

News 

Psychology 

Science and Technology 

Social Issues and Sociology 

Style Sheet (MLA and APA) 

 


All Subjects

EBSCO Databases -
  Academic Search Premier
                                  MasterFILE Premier 
                                  Middle Search Plus 
                                  Topic Search 
JerseyClicks  


Arts and Humanities

ARTstor
Gale Virtual Reference Library 
MasterFILE Premier 
Middle Search Plus 
Oxford Digital Reference Shelf
SIRS Renaissance

Biographies

Biography Collection
Biography Reference Bank 
MasterFILE Premier 
Middle Search Plus 

Business and Companies

ABI Inform - Business
Banking Information Source
Business Source Elite
Business Source Premier
Gale Virtual Reference Library 
Hoover's Company Records
LexisNexis Academic
ReferenceUSA 
Regional Business News 
Westlaw Campus Research

Careers

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center

Controversial Issues

Academic Search Premier
CQ Researcher Online additional login= hudsoncc / pathside
Gale Opposing Viewpoints 
MasterFILE Premier 
Middle Search Plus 
Opposing Viewpoints in Context 
Points of View
TOPICsearch 

Countries and Cultures

ABC-CLIO eBook Collection
African American Studies Center
CountryWatch
CultureGrams Online
Daily Life through History
Ethnic NewsWatch
Gale Virtual Reference Library 
History Database Search
History Reference Center
Latino American Experience
Oxford Digital Reference Shelf
Sirs Renaissance
World Folklore and Folklife
World Geography and Culture

Culinary Arts 

Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink
Gale Virtual Reference Library 
New York Times
Westlaw Campus Research

Education

Chronicle of Higher Education

Curriculum Resource Center
Curriculum Resource Center: Junior Edition
ERIC
Gale Virtual Reference Library 
Journal of Special Education
Professional Development Center

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

Enciclopedia Estudiantil Halazgos Verizon Literacy
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Funk and Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Quotations
Oxford Digital Reference Shelf
Referencia Latina
World Book Verizon Literacy
World Book Dictionary Verizon Literacy
World Book Visual Dictionary Verizon Literacy

ESL and Language

International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
Kids Search - Elementary and Middle School 
MAS Ultra - School Edition 
Middle Search 
Primary Search 
Searchasaurus - Elementary School 
Student Research Center: Middle and High School
World Book Discovery Verizon Literacy
World Book Kids Verizon Literacy
World Book Student Verizon Literacy

Geography


CountryWatch
Encyclopedia Britannica Atlas
World Book Atlas
World Geography and Culture

History

ABC-CLIO Databases
African American Studies Center
CQ Historic Documents additional login= hudsoncc / pathside
Gale Virtual Reference Library
History Database Search
History Reference Center
Oxford Digital Reference Shelf
Salem History

Legal Issues 

Gale Virtual Reference Library 
LexisNexis Academic
Westlaw Campus Research

Literature and Book Reviews

Bloom's Literary Reference
Gale Literary Databases
Gale Literature Resource Center
Global Books in Print
LISTA
Literary Reference Center 
NoveList
NoveList K-8
Oxford Digital Reference Shelf
SIRS Renaissance

Mathematics

Academic Search Premier
Science Direct
Science Online
Scientific American Archive

Medicine and Health


Biomedical Reference Collection
CINAHL with Full Text
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Health Reference Center
Health Source - Consumer Edition
Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition 
Medline 
Salem Health
Salud en Espanol
Science Direct
Science Online
Scientific American Archive

News


Custom Newspapers
Ethnic Newswatch
¡Informe!
LexisNexis Academic
New Jersey News Sources
Newspaper Source Plus
New York Times
USA Today
Wall St. Journal
Westlaw Campus Research

Psychology 

Academic Search Premier
Gale Virtual Reference Library
MasterFILE Premier
Medline  
Middle Search Plus 
PsycARTICLES
Science Direct

Science and Technology

Gale Virtual Reference Library
GreenFILE
Salem Science - Forensics
Science Direct
Science Online
Science Reference Center
Scientific American Archive 
Scitable (Genetics)

Social Issues and Sociology

ABC-CLIO Databases
Academic Search Premier
African American Studies Center
CQ Press in Context
CQ Researcher Online  additional login= hudsoncc / pathside
Gale Opposing Viewpoints  
Gale Virtual Reference Center
GreenFILE
MasterFILE Premier 
Middle Search Plus
Opposing Viewpoints in Context 
Oxford Digital Reference Shelf
Points of View

Style Sheet (MLA and APA)

NoodleTools 

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Electronic Databases by title

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ABC-CLIO eBook Collection
This collection provides the ability to search across the entire database of history and social studies resources as well as within individual reference books. 

ABC-CLIO Databases
These resources allows searching in the ABC-CLIO eBook Collection, Daily Life Through History, and The Latino American Experience from the American Mosaic collection.

ABI Inform - Business
A full-text database of periodicals covering business and economic topics such as management, advertising, marketing, economics, and human resources. This title also includes Banking Information Services, Hoover's Company Records, Ethnic NewsWatch, and the Wall Street Journal.

Academic Search Premier  (Jersey Clicks)
This multi-disciplinary database provides full-text from 4,500 journals, with 3,700 peer-reviewed titles, going back to 1975. 

African American Studies Center
The Oxford African American Studies Center provides users with scholarly articles, which focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.

ARTstor
This database documents traditions in the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, design, and film with high resolution images.

Banking Information Source
Search here in banking industry publications for information about the financial services industry, banking, and industry trends. 

Biography Collection  (Jersey Clicks)
This collection provides more than 177,000 full-text biographies of people in the arts and sciences.

Biography Reference Bank  
This database provides detailed biographical information on famous people, past and present.

Biomedical Reference Collection
The resource covers clinical medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and pre-clinical sciences. It provides full-text for Medline citations.

Bloom's Literary Reference
Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential events in world literature.

Business Source Elite (Jersey Clicks)
This database provides full-text for nearly 1,100 business publications dating back to 1985, including 500 peer-reviewed resources.

Business Source Premier (Jersey Clicks)
This database provides full-text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. 

CINAHL with Full Text 
This resource provides full-text for more than 600 nursing and allied health journals, dating back to 1981.

CountryWatch
Provides socio-demographic, cultural, historical, political, environmental, and corporate information on 191 countries of the world, plus news, maps, and statistics.

CQ Historic Documents  additional login may be needed= hudsoncc / pathside
A collection of primary sources covering the most significant events of the years since 1972.  

CQ Press in Context
A nonpartisan resource for information on events and issues in the current world of government and politics.

CQ Researcher Online  additional login may be needed= hudsoncc / pathside
This database provides essays and documents concerning American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs.

CultureGrams Online
The CultureGrams series is a widely used cultural reference in the education, government, and non-profit arenas.

Curriculum Resource Center
Find printable instructional material for the middle school, high school, and junior college curriculum here.

Curriculum Resource Center: Junior Edition
Find printable instructional material and other content geared for elementary-level students here.

Custom Newspapers (Jersey Clicks)
InfoTrac Custom Newspapers features 33.5 million full-text articles in 150 newspapers from around the world.

Daily Life through History
This database depicts how people around the world lived and live their daily lives, and how their cultures shape ours.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online 
Use this resource to search or browse for information in encyclopedias, magazines, videos, and Web sites. This is also where the Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Quotations can be found.

ERIC (Jersey Clicks)
This database provides abstracts and full-text articles from education-related journals.

Ethnic Newswatch 
Over 200+ ethnic, minority, and native newspapers and magazines are available here, including African Times, Caribbean Today, El Diario, and The Filipino Express. The database can be searched in Spanish and English.

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center 
Ferguson's offers career guidance through comprehensive job and industry profiles, and career forecasting.

Funk and Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia 
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Gale Literary Databases 
Find critical and biographical information about authors as well as historical and social contexts for literary works. The database includes full-text from Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary Criticism.

Gale Literature Resource Center
This database provides biographies and critical analyses of novelists, poets, essayists, and journalists from every era and literary discipline.

Gale Opposing Viewpoints 
Find data, background information, and opinions on social issues. Resources include statistics, government data, legislation, political positions, public policies, links to web sites, as well as pro and con arguments.

Gale Virtual Reference Library 
This is a collection of electronic reference books for multidisciplinary research. It includes West's Encyclopedia of American Law, the Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior, the Encyclopedia of Religion, the Encyclopedia of Bioethics, the Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology, and more.

Global Books in Print 
Information on published books and audiovisual materials in the United States is available here.

GreenFILE (Jersey Clicks)
GreenFILE covers aspects of human impact to the environment such as global warming, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

Health Reference Center 
This database provides information on conditions and diseases, health and wellness, mental health, and the human body.

Health Source - Consumer Edition (Jersey Clicks)
This resource provides access to full text, consumer health magazines on health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.

Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition (Jersey Clicks)
This database provides scholarly full text journals focusing on medical disciplines, including the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide.

History Database Search
This combines the Facts on File history databases of African-American, American Indian, American Women's, Ancient and Medieval, and Modern World Histories.

History Reference Center (Jersey Clicks)
More than 120 history periodicals, 59,600 historical documents, 49,600 biographies of historical figures, 110,200 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.

Hoover's Company Records 
Includes profiles for thousands of private and public U.S. corporations.

¡Informe! (Jersey Clicks)
¡Informe! is for Spanish-speakers providing indexing, images and full text of popular Hispanic magazines.

JerseyClicks (Jersey Clicks)
New Jersey's statewide portal features searching of full-text databases offered by the New Jersey State Library, the New Jersey Network, and funds from the Library Services and Technology Act.

Kids Search - Elementary and Middle School (Jersey Clicks)
These results can be easily sorted by source type - magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.

Latino American Experience
This full-text database explored the history and culture of U.S. Latinos.

LexisNexis Academic 
Full-text access to hundreds of newspapers, including The New York Times, is available here, as well as legal, reference, and business news.

LISTA (Jersey Clicks)
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts is a bibliographic database providing coverage on librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management.

Literary Reference Center (Jersey Clicks)
Information from over 1,000 books and monographs, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else.

MAS Ultra - School Edition (Jersey Clicks)
This database contains full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines.  

MasterFILE Premier (Jersey Clicks)
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating back to 1975.

Medline
Information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine.

Middle Search Plus (Jersey Clicks)
Full text is available for biographies and historical essays as well as an Image Collection of 285,912 photos, maps and flags. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).

New Jersey News Sources 
The New Jersey News group contains news sources originating from the state of New Jersey including The Star-Ledger, Jersey Journal, The Record, The Herald News, McClatchy-Tribune Business News, New Jersey Lawyer, and The Associated Press State & Local Wire, and M. Lee Smith Publishers & Printers LLC.

New York Times 
Find news, multimedia, reviews, and opinions on subjects such as politics, business, sports, movies, travel, books, jobs, education, real estate, cars, and more.

Newspaper Source Plus 
Includes more than 700 full-text newspapers, providing nearly 31 million full-text articles and more than 677,000 television and radio news transcripts.

NoodleTools
Provides web-based bibliographic software to aid the creation of MLA and APA bibliographic styles.

NoveList (Jersey Clicks)
A fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and more for over 135,000 fiction titles.

NoveList K-8 (Jersey Clicks)
NoveList K-8 is your solution for integrating fiction across the curriculum. NoveList K-8 will be the resource you and your young readers turn to when looking for the next book to read.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context 
Media-rich content delivery of additional Opposing Viewpoints Resources with interactive maps, ReadSpeaker text-to-speech technology, language translations and more.

Oxford Digital Reference Shelf
A collection of electronic reference books, which covers a broad range of subjects including language, literature, history, social sciences, and the arts.

Points of View (Jersey Clicks)
This database presents essays and articles on controversial subjects.

Primary Search (Jersey Clicks)
Primary Search provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. Articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).

Professional Development Center (Jersey Clicks)
Provides a comprehensive collection of full-text educational journals and reports.

PsycARTICLES 
PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology and mental health.

Reference Universe
Unlike the library catalog, which only provides data about reference works, Reference Universe shows you the indexed topics covered within each resource. 

ReferenceUSA (Jersey Clicks)
A nonpartisan resource for information on events and issues in the current world of government and politics.The ReferenceUSA database contains information on more than 14 million U.S. businesses, 210 million U.S. residents, 855,000 U.S. health care providers, 1.5 million Canadian businesses, and 12 million Canadian households.

Referencia Latina 
Referencia Latina, a Spanish-language database, offers content from sources such as encyclopedia entries; images; health reports; a Spanish-English dictionary, reference books, and general interest magazines.

Regional Business News (Jersey Clicks)
This database is updated daily and provides business news for the United States' metropolitan and rural areas.

Salem Health 
The Magill Medical Guide covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format.

Salem History 
This database holds information about people, books, films, television series, musical groups, and other topics representative of the 1950's, 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's in American society.

Salem Science - Forensics
This reference set covers a range of the forensic sciences, including Forensic accounting, anthropology, archaeology, psychology, and toxicology.

Salud en Espanol (Jersey Clicks)
Salud en Español provee reportes basados en evidencias y fichas de datos relacionados a todos los aspectos de la salud y el bienestar. Reportes específicos por tema que cubren todos los aspectos de la salud, dan información general importante en relación a enfermedades, afecciones y procedimientos de diversos tratamientos.

Science Direct: College Edition 
Science Direct gives access to full-text articles from more than 1,700 scientific, technical, and medical journals.

Science Online
Presents scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments.

Science Reference Center (Jersey Clicks)
Topics covered include biology, chemistry, earth and space science, environmental science, health and medicine, physics, scientists, technology, and wildlife.

Scientific American Archive
Access to the entire editorial content of Scientific American, Scientific American Mind, and all special issues from January 1993 to the present.

Scitable (Nature Education)
Scitable contains articles in the field of genetics, which are peer-reviewed by the editorial staff of Nature Publishing Group as well as a special editorial board consisting of current college and university faculty.

Searchasaurus - Elementary School (Jersey Clicks)
The resources provides an encyclopedia, picture search, and visual dictionary for beginning learners.

SIRS Renaissance
Dynamic information on architecture and design, culture, literature, multimedia, music, performing arts, philosophy and religion, and visual arts.

Student Research Center: Middle and High School (Jersey Clicks)
This resource provides information through magazines, newspapers, biographies, news transcripts, primary sources, and country and state profiles.

Topic Search (Jersey Clicks)
This current events database explores social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics.

Wall St. Journal  
The eastern edition of The Wall St. Journal, with full-text from 1984 to the present.

Westlaw Campus Research
Provides access to a comprehensive collection of news and business information and law-related resources.

World Book Verizon Literacy
This site also holds the resources World Book Kids, World Book Online Reference Center, World Book Discover, World Book Visual Dictionary, and Eciclopedia Estudiantil Halazgos.

World Folklore and Folklife
This database explores everyday lives of people around the world, their holidays, festivals, languages, fairy tales, proverbs, foods, and folk remedies.

World Geography and Culture
Combines detailed, printable, full-color maps of countries, provinces, and states with up-to-date statistical and local information.

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