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Access over 1000 journals on a host of subject matters and 75,000 videos from the Associated Press going back over 90 years.
Find information on topics of current interest including business, education, the environment, history, homeschooling, science & technology. Features Newsweek, Popular Science, Field & Stream, Mother Earth News, Science Illustrated, Smithsonian & more for homework help & research assignments.
Search current and archived coverage of issues, events, people, government, sports, and more with the largest collection of full-text U.S. newspapers. Includes staff-written articles, obituaries, editorials, announcements, real estate, and other sections.
On-demand, anytime, anywhere eLearning. View how easy, intuitive, and engaging Brainfuse HelpNow eLearning is for all ages and levels.
Ideal if you are seeking information on a specific company. Industry profiles contain a full description of products and/or services; and financial information on public companies.
In the market for a laptop? A new car? A dishwasher? You name it. Consumer Reports has it covered. Consult this database for the results of scientific tests and ratings of thousands of products every year. More than 100 experts evaluate appliances, cars, products for infants and children, electronics, foods, health-related items, and recreation and home improvement products. This database will enable you to make the best purchasing decision possible!
Search for books by the author’s name, as well as by the book’s subject and title. Complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 authors from the United States and around the world.
Reference Solutions is a powerful online reference and research tool providing library cardholders instant, real-time access to accurate, in-depth information on U.S. businesses (59 million) and U.S. residents (310 million).
Reference Solutions makes it faster and easier to find new business opportunities, research executives and companies, find news articles, conduct job searches, research papers, locate addresses and phone numbers, conduct market research, and much more.
Free practice tests based on the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission’s materials. Includes practice tests and driver manuals for car, motorcycle and CDL licenses.
eBooks (mostly nonfiction)
Tens of thousands of e-books for adults and young adults from industry-leading publishers, all with a user-friendly search experience and simple download process. Just enter your library card number as your Patron ID. Then enter a book title in the search bar.
A top-notch, one-stop database that covers over 4,600 journals and newspapers with expansive search capabilities. Full text for 1/3 of citations. Web-based interface, updated daily. Courtesy of the New Jersey State Library.
eBooks, eAudiobooks and Digital Magazines
For more information, check out Libby by Overdrive. If you are a Plainsboro Library cardholder, select “STELLA” as your public library in the registration. STELLA is the name of our library consortium.
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, 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.
Ebscohost Explora for kids provides a safe and trustworthy environment for students to look up articles and facts for research papers, class projects, or homework with easy-to-browse categories by popular topic overviews with content from the world’s leading magazines and reference books.
Find and Compare Cars from 1984 to the Present. The Find-a-Car feature provides up-to-date fuel economy information, as well as environmental and safety data, for many model years. Information is updated weekly with new vehicles and fuel cost estimates.
Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
For students and adults alike, the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas.
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition is a trusted full-text database covering nursing and allied health topics, including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and more.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
This rich collection of consumer health information provides access to full-text consumer health magazines and reference books. It also includes searchable full text for current health pamphlets.
Heritage Quest is a genealogical database with access to government records, census data and auxiliary resources to help find information regarding your family history.
JerseyClicks is New Jersey’s statewide portal for searching the statewide full-text databases offered by the New Jersey State Library, the New Jersey Library Network, and funds from the Library Services and Technology Act.
Kanopy is a video-streaming platform dedicated to thoughtful and thought-provoking films. Kanopy delivers a diverse collection of 30,000+ of the world’s best films and television shows, including award-winning documentaries, rare and hard-to-find titles, film festival favorites, indie, and classic films, and world cinema with collections from BBC, PBS, The Criterion Collection, Kino Lorber, Music Box Films, Samuel Goldwyn, Lionsgate, The Orchard, The Great Courses, and thousands of independent filmmakers. Checkout up to 8 items a month and stream them on your computer, TV, tablet or mobile device.
Kanopy Kids, included in the Kanopy streaming service, is a curated collection of thoughtful films, TV series and educational videos for children ages preschool and up. Kanopy Kids includes read-along storybooks, storytime classics, educational videos from around the world and some favorite children’s TV programming such as PBS Kids, BBC Muzzy, Highlights for Children, Sesame Street, Arthur, Dinosaur Train and many more. Kanopy Kids provides unlimited plays without using your Kanopy monthly film credits.
Legal Information Reference Center
Full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books, Legal Information Reference Center contains hundreds of full-text publications and thousands of legal forms, with more content being added on a regular basis.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
LISTA indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Choose from thousands of online courses to learn in-demand skills from real-world industry experts.
A comprehensive literary reference database, providing a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else.
Lumos Learning provides skill building and practice tests for New Jersey Student Learning Assessments (NJSLA). Lumos Learning helps students in grades 3 through 8 by reinforcing their classroom learning to prepare for the English Language Arts (ELA) and Math assessments.
A compendium of medical information in treatment, psychology, diseases, procedures, specialties, as well as urgent health concerns and healthcare issues, and so much more.
MasterFILE Elite provides full text for magazines and publications covering many general interest topics including business, health, education, general science and multicultural issues. It also includes an image collection of more than 2 million photos, maps and flags.
MedlinePlus is an online information service produced by the United States National Library of Medicine. The service provides curated consumer health information in English and Spanish. The site brings together information from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other U.S. government agencies, and health-related organizations.
Middle Search Plus contains full text for more than 150 popular, middle school magazines. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 200 magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies, historical essays and student pamphlets.
Military & Government Collection
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.
Newspaper Source Plus provides a full-text digital collection of the world’s major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires and news magazines. In addition, it offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.
As a Plainsboro Library patron, you have complimentary access to everything The New York Times has to offer, including News, Games, Cooking, Wirecutter and The Athletic!
Onsite at the library: Visit nytimes.com using any device. Ensure you are using the Plainsboro Library’s WiFi connection. Go to the upper right-hand corner of the screen. Click on “Log in” to create a free account or log-in to your existing account. You now have full access to all journalism on nytimes.com (or the NYT app!) while at the library.
From home: Visit plainsborolibrary.org/nytimes and follow instructions on the webpage to get unrestricted access to New York Times from home.
Whether you’re looking for the latest best-selling author, science-fiction, spy story, mystery, fantasy, graphic novel, or a classic like Mark Twain, this kid-friendly database has all the information you need. Includes author bios, information on award-winning fiction, recommendations, reviews. Information for teachers too.
This reader’s advisory database will help fiction readers find the next great read, or identify a long-lost favorite. It is web-based and offers links to various author-related sites. Courtesy of the New Jersey State Library.
Ebsco Open Dissertations (previously “American Doctoral Dissertations”), is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. Created with the generous support of the H.W. Wilson Foundation and the Congregational Library & Archives in Boston, it incorporates EBSCO’s previously released American Doctoral Dissertations, and features additional dissertation metadata contributed by select colleges and universities from around the world. Providing researchers with citations to graduate research across a span of time, from the early 20th century to the present, this database will continue to grow through regular updates and new partnerships with graduate degree-granting institutions.
Peterson’s Test and Career Prep
Prepare for standardized tests with eBooks, online courses, and full-length practice tests for GED, SAT, ACT, AP, PSAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, TOEFL, U.S. citizenship, and more in Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep. Research undergraduate and graduate programs, finding tuition assistance, and exploring and preparing for careers whether you’re entering the workforce for the first time or searching for new opportunities. A variety of interactive methods prompt personalized career recommendations and insight on programs, knowledge, skills, and ability. Search for jobs and create visually interesting résumés, cover letters, and websites that can be externally shared with prospective employers, using prebuilt templates.
Points-of-View Reference Center
Perfect for researching a school report or preparing a debate presentation. Whatever your subject — pacifism, abortion, political action, organic food, drilling for Arctic oil, flu vaccine, or anything else — you can always find arguments pro and con here, as well as a guide to critical analysis.
Thousands of domestic and international newspapers and magazines, including but not limited to South China Morning Post, Harper’s Bazaar, The Economist, New York Times, and more, in one app. Also has the functionality to translate English media to foreign languages and vice versa. At the library, connect your device to library wifi and launch the PressReader app or visit pressreader.com. At home, select “Sign In” on the PressReader App or pressreader.com, select “Library or Group,” and search for “Plainsboro” and sign in using your library card. Download the mobile app here.
Primary Search – Elementary Age Magazines
Primary Search, designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children’s rooms, contains full text for more than 60 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles)
Find jobs by job skills, location, and industry, find business opportunities, locate companies nationwide, research business executives, view historical market trends, track down addresses and phone numbers, discover news articles for research.
Referencia Latina, a comprehensive Spanish-language database, offers content from a variety of sources including 49,000 encyclopedia entries.
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Small Business Reference Center
This database offers a wide variety of information on small business and entrepreneurial subject areas, common business types, a help and advice section, and provides information on how to create business plans that lead to successful funding.
Find full-text articles on local news, issues, events, people, and much more from current and archived issues of Newark Star-Ledger. Updated daily, it includes obituaries, editorials, announcements, and other sections.
Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for hundreds of periodicals. In addition, 96% of journals indexed in TRC are peer-reviewed.
Topics include: Assessment, Best Practices, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, School Administration, Science & Mathematics, and Teacher Education.
Search more than 25 years of Trenton history with The Times Collection, which includes coverage from 1993 through today. Explore current and archived issues of The Times with full-color newspaper pages and individual articles, as well as content only published online.
The Trentonian – 04/05/2000 to present
Find full-text articles on local news, issues, events, people, and much more from current and archived issues of The Trentonian. Updated daily, it includes obituaries, editorials, announcements, and other sections.
Find full-text articles on local news, issues, events, people, and much more from current and archived issues of Trenton Times. Updated daily, it includes obituaries, editorials, announcements, and other sections.
Universal Class offers courses in Exercise and Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Arts and Music, Home and Garden Care, Cooking, Computers and Technology, Health and Medicine, Homeschooling, Job Assistance, Law and Legal, Parenting and Family, Pet and Animal Care…plus hundreds more. View tutorial at: https://youtu.be/StJhC0BgfF8
Value Line gives you access to stocks (1,800 large and 1,700 small & mid-cap company reports), mutual funds, options, and convertibles. There is also access to the investment research platform–one of the most highly-regarded independent research resources, and the following supplemental products – Value Line Fund Advisor Plus, The Value Line Special Situations Service, The Value Line Options Survey, and The Value Line Convertibles Survey.