Online databases for newspapers, magazines, and much more!
The Sayreville Public Library subscribes to many newspapers and magazines, including the Home News Tribune, the Asbury Park Press, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and more. For a complete list of periodicals available in paper format in the library, click here. The following databases are available from computer stations in the library. For those that allow access from home, you will need your Sayreville library card.
Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier is a popular resource found in many academic settings worldwide, this resource was designed for the premier researcher, rich with the most valuable, comprehensive multidisciplinary content available. As a leading scholarly database, it provides access to acclaimed full-text journals, magazines, and other valuable resources. Academic Search Premier encompasses the expansive academic disciplines now being offered in colleges and universities. This resource provides an elaborate array of titles to cornerstone academia. Users accessing this resource will be provided with comprehensive content right at their fingertips, including PDF backfiles to 1975 or further for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references for more than 1,050 titles.
Auto Repair Source
The Sayreville Public Library now subscribes to a comprehensive online automotive repair database called Auto Repair Source . Auto Repair Source includes the most accurate, authoritative and up-to-date service and repair information for thousands of domestic and imported vehicles. All content comes from the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) and includes step-by-step repair information, diagrams, maintenance schedules, parts and labor estimates, service bulletins and recalls. Access Instructions: Click here. You will be asked to enter your Sayreville Library card number. Start your search by choosing the year of your vehicle.
Business Source Elite
Business Source Elite provides full-text coverage for nearly 1,100 business periodicals, ranging from general magazines to trade publications and top management journals. This resource contains expanded PDF backfiles for more than 150 titles (back to 1985 or the first issue published for that journal). Regional Business News is a supplemental database for customers of Business Source Elite. With daily updates, Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for regional U.S. and Canadian business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). Regional Business News has full text for nearly 100 sources.
Careers In
“Careers In” from Salem Press helps students and job-seekers learn about today’s careers from real professionals. “Careers In” provides a wide range of information on career opportunities to give job-seekers an inside look at career options in a range of in-demand fields, such as healthcare, social media, and protective and mental health services.
Consumer Reports
ConsumerReports.org is one of the most trusted resources for information and advice on consumer products. The award-winning website’s articles, blogs, forums, and videos enable consumers to make better purchasing decisions on all the products they are shopping for from dishwashers to digital cameras to infant car seats, save money on home improvement plans, shore up personal finances, improve their health, and more. The site also features the ability to Shop Online for everything from electronics to appliances, new and used car pricing, and the New Car Selector Tool.
Corfacts from Home
New Jersey’s Premier Business-to-Business Directory for New Jersey company information. Reach more than 56,000 New Jersey businesses top officers, plant managers, HR contacts, and buyers. Create mailing lists and prospect lists, update your contact database, do market research, and more.
Corfacts in Library
New Jersey’s Premier Business-to-Business Directory for New Jersey company information. Reach more than 56,000 New Jersey businesses top officers, plant managers, HR contacts, and buyers. Create mailing lists and prospect lists, update your contact database, do market research, and more.
Digitized SWMHS Yearbooks 1942 – 2016
Thanks to a partnership between the Sayreville Library, the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Committee, and The Friends of the Sayreville Library, digital scans of SWMHS Yearbooks 1942 – 2016.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Database of over 1,400 full-text scholarly & scientific peer-reviewed journals in many disciplines available freely over the Internet. Browse by journal name or subject area -OR- conduct a focused search. Note: while all participating journals are full text, meaning you can access the full contents online, only about 1/4 of the contents are currently searchable on the article-level. To read the rest, you must use the browse feature.
Driving-Tests.org
Our MVC practice tests feature questions just like those on the official written knowledge test or the test administered by the motorcycle training course. We offer practice tests on driving techniques, road signs, laws and regulations, and all commercial endorsements. Current New Jersey handbooks are available in English and Spanish. We even provide a question marathon in which you can test your knowledge to the highest degree and become fully prepared to ace the knowledge test.
EbscoHost
Search EbscoHost for a wide variety of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles, pamphlets, and more on health, business, academic, and recreational topics. This is a great resource for homework, research, and many areas of interest. Use this link to search all of the library’s EbscoHost subscriptions all at once!
ERIC
The Education Resource Information Center also known as the ERIC provides access to educational literature and resources. This database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. This resource contains more than a million records and links to hundreds of thousands of full-text documents from ERIC back to 1966.
Explora Primary
A trusted EBSCO database, but made to help with schoolwork.
Flu.gov
Flu.gov provides comprehensive government-wide information on seasonal, H1N1 (swine), H5N1 (bird) and pandemic influenza for the general public, health and emergency preparedness professionals, policy makers, government and business leaders, school systems, and local communities.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Health Source: Consumer Edition is a collection of consumer health information that provides access to full-text consumer health magazines and reference books. It also includes searchable full text for current health pamphlets.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides over 500 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, including full text from Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Community Health Nursing, Journal of Nursing Management, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Forum, Nursing Inquiry and many more!
Heritage Quest
Heritage Quest is a comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, convenient research guides, interactive census maps, and more. With more than 4.4 billion records, it delivers an essential collection of genealogical and historical sources with coverage dating back to the 1700s that can help people find their ancestors and discover a place’s past.
JerseyClicks
Simultaneously search thousands of full-text magazines, newspapers, encyclopedias, and other reliable information sources. JerseyClicks runs your search through nearly two dozen databases. Searches are customizable. You must have a valid library card to use this service from home.
Learning Express Library
Learning Express Library features nearly 1,000 online tutorials, practice tests,and eBooks to help patrons of all ages. It offers job search and workplace skills improvement, skill building in reading, writing, math, and basic science, career certification and licensure exam prep, college and grad school entrance test prep,GED® test prep, and more.
Legal Information Reference Center
Providing online full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books, Legal Information Reference Center contains more than 220 full-text publications and thousands of legal forms, with more content being added on a regular basis. This database offers the everyday user the necessary tools and detailed “how-to” instructions to independently address a wide-range of legal issues, including: business law, financial planning, family law, property & real estate, rights & disputes, and much more!
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) is a free resource from EBSCO for anyone interested in libraries and information management. This world-class bibliographic database covers librarianship, classification, information management, and more and indexes more than 700 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.
Libs2B
Libs2B allows you to prepare for your next job or strengthen your business today with free webinars.
Literary Reference Center (LRC)
Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a comprehensive database that 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. LRC contains detailed information on the most studied authors and their works and is an essential resource for public, academic and high school libraries.
Mango Language
Mango for libraries offers over 70 world language courses expertly designed to adapt to a diverse range of learning needs, styles, and backgrounds. Gain the confidence needed to communicate in a new language.
MasterFILE Elite
MasterFILE Elite provides full text for magazines and publications covering an extensive list of general interest topics including business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. It contains more than 1,000 full-text periodicals, over 960,000 photos, maps and flags, & more than 50 full-text reference books.
MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus directs you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. MedlinePlus also contains extensive information about drugs and supplements, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive tutorials, the latest health news, and surgery videos.
New Brunswick Daily Times from 1871-1916 and the Daily Home News 1887, 1889, 1903-1908
The New Brunswick Public Library offers the digitized versions of the New Brunswick Daily Times from 1871-1916 and the Daily Home News 1887, 1889, 1903-1908. Funding in part was provided by the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission, Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders, and the New Jersey Historical Commission/Department of State. The project was also made possible with the permission of The Home News Tribune.
Newspaper Source Plus
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.
Niche Academy
Niche Academy offers immediately accessible online training for library users. Guided training is available for Gmail, Google Drive, and more! Patrons can also watch videos on how to best utilize hoopla, Libby, Tumblebooks, and many of the Sayreville Library’s databases.
Northstar
Northstar Digital Literacy tests your computer skills. You can build skills in key areas, and demonstrate your knowledge by earning certificates and badges. Prepare for your future now! Northstar Online Learning (NSOL) can help you learn digital literacy skills online. The public can access the following units for free, right now: Basic Computer Skills – Email – Microsoft Word – Career Search Skills.
NoveList
With NoveList, you can find new fiction to read—match a favorite author or book, or find by describing plot, subject, or genre. Novelist has information on over 250,000 fiction titles included, and also features content including lists of award-winning books, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, Recommended Reads and more. NoveList is a complete readers’ resource.
NoveList K-8
With NoveList K-8, you can find fiction books specifically for younger readers. It helps kids find books that are just right for their reading level and interests. Parents, teachers, and librarians can also find tools to teach with books and engage young readers.
Peterson’s Test and Career Prep
Peterson’s Test and Career Prep helps students and adults be better prepared down the road for both college and their career. Discover comprehensive test prep and career solutions from Peterson’s, a world-leading educational provider.
Points of View Reference Center™
Points of View Reference Center™ is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides more than 270 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. Topics covered include: affirmative action, cloning, DNA profiling, HIV/AIDS status disclosure, immigration, Iraq, Israel & the Palestinians, Katrina and FEMA response, nuclear proliferation, separation of church and state, standardized testing, stem cell research, tax cuts, voting machines, and many more.
Primary Search
Primary Search contains full-text for more than 80 of the most popular elementary school magazines and is designed specifically for elementary school libraries. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), which allows users to read along at their own pace. Also, Primary Search features Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, providing students with easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids. This database provides thousands of relevant photos, maps and flags to aid kids in learning.
Reference Solutions (formerly RefUSA)
Reference Solutions is a subscription database that contains information on more than twelve million U.S. businesses and one million Canadian businesses. Data is compiled from Yellow Page and Business White Page telephone directories; annual reports, 10-Ks and other SEC information; federal, state, provincial, and municipal government data; Chamber of Commerce information; leading business magazines, trade publications, newsletters, major newspapers, industry, and specialty directories; and postal service information. Access to this database is made possible by the New Jersey State Library.
Referencia Latina
Referencia Latina is a comprehensive Spanish-language database offers content from a variety of sources including thousands of encyclopedia entries, an inclusive collection of images, an atlas, health reports, a Spanish-English dictionary and full text for reference books and general interest magazines in a broad array of subject areas.Daily updates ensure availability of the most current articles from a dozen prominent newspapers from 10 Latin American countries such as: El Comercio (Perú), El Mercurio (Chile), El Tiempo,(Colombia), El Universal (México), El País (Uruguay), El Nacional (Venezuela), La Nación (Argentina), & La Nación (Costa Rica). In addition, prominent full-text magazines include Automundo, People en Español,Entrepreneur México, Contenido and Impacto Latin News. Referencia Latina’s intuitive, theme-based Spanish-language interface is designed to make content readily accessible to non-English users with limited online research experience.
Regional Business News
Regional Business News is a robust database that provides ultimate coverage for full-text business publications, on a regional level, for the United States and Canada. Whether searching for information about presidential candidates, franchise restaurants, the retail industry, business planning, or political participation, Regional Business News will cover the story.
Sanborn Map Company
The Sanborn Map Company is the oldest mapping company in the United States. Founded in 1866, the company created detailed building maps of cities and towns all across the country, primarily for use by insurance companies. These maps also have been used extensively by local government agencies for over a century in conducting their daily operations efficiently. Approximately 12,000 American cities and towns are chronicled in the company’s collection of over one million maps. As a result of its history, the name “Sanborn” has become synonymous with this kind of map. Genealogists, local history buffs, city planners, architects, and countless others have been drawn to the quality of detail found in them. These maps have been digitized by Princeton University Library.
Small Business Reference Center™
Small Business Reference Center™ provides up-to-date information on relevant topics, from starting a company, operations management and sales, to growing or rescuing a business. The database contains nearly 400 full-text periodicals and over 450 full-text reference books to independently address a wide range of small business topics, including: buying/selling a business, managing employees, writing a business plan, understanding legal information, marketing a business, and much more!
Teacher Reference Center
Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for 280 peer-reviewed journals. Teacher Reference Center provides many subjects for teachers needs, including: assessment; best practices; continuing education; current pedagogical research; curriculum development; elementary education; higher education; instructional media; language arts; literacy standards; school administration; science & mathematics; & teacher education.
TrueFlix
TrueFlix Beautiful, authentic ebooks are enhanced with a deep and diverse reservoir of related content in a variety of text types and media–including primary sources, fiction, videos, audio clips, images, and related websites. TrueFlix® helps students improve literacy skills, build content-area knowledge, and cultivate the critical skills necessary for academic success and college and career readiness. Please have your library card ready to access the materials.
Universal Class
Universal Class features include: Remote, 24/7 Access via the Internet, Continuing Education Units on Selected Courses, Connect with Other Students, Real Instructors To start using Universal Classy you will be prompted to type in your Sayreville library barcode number TWICE. Once you do this, you will need to create an account with Universal Class. You may choose any login ID and password that you would like. You are then ready to go!
