The Camden County Library System has subscribed to a number of databases.  Some are available from home, while others must be used in the library buildings.

Databases available from home

The following resources are available only inside the library.   The branches at which the resources are available are indicated after each description. 

Magazine/Newspaper Articles

EbscoHost  All branches
Provides full text for over 1,900 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more.

NewsBank Voorhees
Full text coverage of Philadelphia Inquirer 1981-Present, Philadelphia Daily News 1978-Present and 24 other papers.

InfoTrac Custom Newspapers  All branches
As of 2/11/2002, the following newspapers are provided: Bergen Record (Jan/96 to present), The Newark Star-Ledger (Feb/01 to present), and The New York Times (365 day rolling file).

Facts on File   All branches
Includes reference databases on science, history, curriculum resources, multicultural, geography, health, and career guidance.

Reader's Guide Retrospective  All branches
Provides searchable access to citations from 375 leading US magazines, covering the years between 1890 and 1982. Searches over 3,000,000 articles.

MAS Online  All branches
Provides full text for nearly 180 general interest and current events magazines.

Newspaper Source  All branches
Contains full text for regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns as well as other sources. This database also contains indexing and abstracts for national newspapers.

Courier Post Online   All branches
Online version of Courier Post's top stories, with links to last seven days. Also has link to searchable classifieds.

CQ Researcher  Voorhees
Articles on current controversial topics and congressional / legislative news.

Informe!:  All branches
Spanish language full text magazine articles. TRY ALSO Ebscohost: Espanol

CamdenBase  All branches
The CAMDEN Database contains selected citations of journal, book and newspaper articles about the city of Camden, New Jersey. The documents cover economic, political, and social events in the city from 1945 to the present. This website provides bibliographic access to the database of over 4000 articles. You can search by keyword or browse the holdings by specific themes.

Topic Search  Voorhees
Articles from over 1,100 magazines, 150 newspapers, 400 pamphlets, 1,500 popular biographies, 800 book reviews & 15,000 public opinion polls.

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Automobiles

Auto Repair Reference Center All Branches
Diagnostic and repair information for foreign and domestic cars.  Provides access to manufacturers' automotive repair manuals from 1982 to the present. 


Business Information

Business and Company Resource Center  Voorhees
Offers dynamic, accurate, and up-to-date topical business information and company and industry intelligence on thousands of global companies.

Value Line  Voorhees
The Value Line Research Center includes on-line access to leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks.

ReferenceUSA 
Directory information on more than 11 million U.S. companies. Search by name, location and/or industry. Details include # of employees, sales, credit rating, contact person and yellow page/sic category.

EDGAR - Securities and Exchange Commission Report Look-up All branches
Find annual reports and other documentation that companies must file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. From 1993 to the present.

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Government and Legal Information

New Jersey State Legislature  All branches
Links include: full text of NJ Statutes, full text of Bills from 1996-Present, Constitution, Chapter Laws, Legislative Calendar and directories.

Thomas: Federal Law On The Web  All branches
Text of bills from 1989-present and bill summaries from 1973-present; public laws from 1973-present; The Congressional Record from 1989-present; and Committee information, listings of floor activities for the coming week, and historical U.S. documents.

Federal Business Opportunities  All branches
Replaces the print Commerce Business Daily. The single point of universal electronic public access on the Internet to government- wide Federal procurement opportunities that exceed $25,000.

Federal Register 1995 - Present  All branches
The Federal Register is the official daily publication for Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive Orders and other Presidential Documents.

Lawyer Locator (Martindale Hubbell)  All branches
Locate a lawyer with an office in a particular location, specializing in an area of law, or speaking a particular language. Can also search by lawyer name. See also: West Legal Directory.

Westlaw Voorhees
Provides access to West's collection of statutes, case law materials, public records, and other legal resources, along with current news articles and business information.

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Employment Information

Civil Service: NJ Dept. of Personnel  All branches
Includes Civil Service job vacancy announcements for State, County and Municipal jobs.

USA Jobs  All branches
The U.S. Government's official site for jobs and employment information provided by the United States Office of Personnel Management.

WorkForce New Jersey: Job Seeker Services  All branches
Conduct a search for possible job openings. Also allows job seeker to create and submit a resume to America's Job Bank. See WorkForce NJ Homepage for general job and career information.

Occupational Outlook Handbook  All branches
Online version of the OOH. Gives job information including, Nature of the Work, Working Conditions, Employment Training, Other Qualifications, and Advancement, Job Outlook, Earnings and Related Occupations.

America's Career InfoNet  All branches
Provides a general outlook of the U.S. job market, wages and trends, occupation-search, state profile search, and a career resource library.

Courier Post Classifieds Online  All branches
Search the full text of the Courier Post Classifieds.

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Genealogy

Ancestry Library Edition All branches
Provides access to more than 1.2 billion names and over 3,000 databases, primary source documents and images, plus a variety of genealogical research features. Includes Gale's Passenger & Immigration Lists Index and digital images of census records from 1790 to 1930.

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Education

Eric Database (no full-text articles)  All branches
More than 950,000 abstracts on education research. Full text copies of ERIC documents are available in the ERIC microfiche collection, held by the (EIRC) in Sewell, NJ. A selection of full-text ERIC documents can also be searched and retrieved at: http://ericae.net/ftlib.htm.

Professional Development Collection (for Educators) Voorhees
Provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full text journals, designed for professional educators.

Praxis Series: Tests at a Glance (TAAG) Voorhees
Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers® documents

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Health and Medical

EbscoHost   All branches
Contains 4 health-related databases: Health Source Plus: Provides full text for nearly 270 health periodicals, over 1,000 health pamphlets, and 23 health reference books Clinical Reference Systems: Provides over 7,000 reports, in every-day language, describing symptoms, treatments, risks and after-effects of a vast array of medical topics and conditions USP DI Volume II, Advice for the Patient: Provides patient-oriented drug information in lay language.

Alt-Health Watch  All branches
Full text database focused on the complementary and alternative approaches to health. In-depth coverage of Alternative Medicine.

HealthyNJ  All branches
HealthyNJ is a product of the University Libraries at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Developed by librarians to meet the healthcare information needs of consumers, particularly the citizens of New Jersey, policy makers, and health care professionals.

AMA's Doctor Finder  All branches
Provides basic professional information on virtually every licensed physician in the United States and its possessions.

Health Care Payers Coalition of New Jersey  All branches
Non-profit alliance of over 40 self-insured business, labor and trade association benefit plans, created to ensure that quality, accountability and cost containment are closely linked in the delivery of health care services in New Jersey.

Medline  All branches
Index covering articles in medicine, nursing, dentistry, and veterinary medicine. General health information is available at the MedlinePlus site.

American Hospital Directory  All branches
Search for hospitals by name and/or geographic location. In addition to address and phone number, basic hospital statistics (services, available beds, financials) are also available.

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Psychology

psycARTICLES  All branches
Contains more than 25,000 full-text articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. Coverage includes general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.

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Literary Criticism / Authors / Books

EbscoHost - MagillOnLiterature  All branches
MagillOnLiterature is the definitive online source for editorially reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature

Discovering Authors  All branches
Offers critical interpretations and biographical information on major authors. (Results can be e-mailed)

Lit Finder -- includes Story Finder and Essay Finder  All branches
Story Finder provides thousands of full-text short stories plus explanations, biographies, pictures and more. The database will be updated constantly with classic and contemporary stories.

Essay Finder is a database of thousands of full text essays. The essays focus on the humanities and social sciences, and include biographies, pictures and literary criticism. Subjects include literature, history, economics, sociology, art and architecture, philosophy, psychology, science and drama.

Novelist Plus All branches
NoveList is an electronic readers’ advisory resource which assists fiction and nonfiction readers in finding new authors and titles. NoveList contains materials for all ages including picture books, children’s “chapter” books, young adult titles and books for adult readers. The product’s database provides enhanced subject access to over 90,000 fiction titles. Users can also browse over 1,200 theme-oriented booklists, 150 award-lists and 1,000 fiction related web-sites. The current version of the database contains over 14,000 full-text Booklist reviews.

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 Poetry

Poems - from Lit Finder
More than 100,000 full text poems and more than 800,000 poem citations and excerpts.  Poem Finder is international in scope, and covers poetry from antiquity to the present.   

Telephone/Address Directories

ReferenceUSA All branches
Directory information on over 12,000,00 Households.

AT&T's AnyWho Directory All branches
White and yellow pages listings and reverse lookups.

AT&T's Toll-Free Directory All branches
Search by company name for toll-free #'s. White and yellow page listings also available

Vital Records  All branches
Where to write to obtain vital records (birth, marriage, divorce records). Also gives phone numbers for verifying current fee schedules.

American Hospital Directory  All branches
Search for hospitals by name and/or geographic location. In addition to address and phone number, basic hospital statistics (services, available beds, financials) are also available.

Area Code Listing, by Number  All branches
A simple quick listing of area codes, listed numerically, and the city and state that they correpspond to. Also has a link to areas codes arranged by state.

Infospace  All branches
Yellow pages, white pages, classifieds.

Switchboard.com  All branches
White pages, yellow pages, city directories, maps and directions.

Superpages  All branches
Search for U.S. Businesses

Reverse Phone Directory  All branches
If you have the phone number, you can look up the name and address.

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Biographical Information

Wilson Web Biography   All branches
Wilson Biographies contains the full text of the articles from more than 100 volumes of biographical reference books published by H. W. Wilson

Gale's Biography Index  All branches
Identifies sources that provide biographical information. After conducting search, you must then check our catalog for availability of specific sources.

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Consumer Information

NADA Price Guides All branches
Find values for autos, 1946-2001, as well as boats, RV, cycles, snowmobiles.

Automobile Prices (Kelley Blue Book) All branches
Find values for new and used cars, trucks and motorcycles. Values are adjusted for for regional factors, mileage and extras. A simple, easy to use site.

Automobile Prices and Reviews (Edmunds)  All branches
Edmunds offers excellent ratings and reviews dating back to 1988.

Consumer Information Center  All branches
Full text versions of hundreds of the best federal consumer publications available. Categories include, cars, children, employment, nutrition, health, housing, money, small business and travel.

Consumer.Gov All branches
A "one-stop" link to a broad range of federal information resources available online. Each category has subcategories to direct you to areas within individual federal web sites containing related information.

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Colleges / Schools Information

New Jersey School Report Cards All branches
This is is the fifth annual school report card containing an array of information for each school including test scores including the SAT for college-bound students, student demographics, attendance, student/faculty/administrator ratio and class size. The data also include details on district finances, teaching staff education and the post-graduation plans of students. Most items report data for five years.

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Other Library's Holdings

JerseyCat All branches
Library holdings of public, college, school and special libraries from all over New Jersey. Once you identify an item, an interlibrary loan request may be placed from JerseyCat, or you can ask for assistance with placing an interlibrary loan request at the Reference Desk. When you use the user name "guest" you do not need a password.

Rutgers University Libraries (IRIS) All branches
IRIS is the online public access catalog for all of the Rutgers University Libraries. It contains a record of items held on by the Rutgers University Libraries including items held on reserve for specific courses and circulation records for all borrowers. Items acquired by the libraries since 1972 are listed here.

Cherry Hill Public Library All branches
The catalog of the Cherry Hill Public Library.

Free Library of Philadephia All branches
The catalog of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Also allows searching of their magazine holdings.

Newark Public Library All branches
The catalog of the Newark Public library. Use the MultiMAC. Booklist for foreign language materials

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