The branch has a bank of computers that are available solely for research purposes. These computers are located on the second floor to the left of the Reference Desk.  Here are some of the databases available on the reference computers.

Magazine/Newspaper Articles

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

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

SIRS Researcher
A general reference database with thousands of full text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political and global issues.

InfoTrac Custom Newspapers
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
Includes reference databases on science, history, curriculum resources, multicultural, geography, health, and career guidance.

Reader's Guide Retrospective
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
Provides full text for nearly 180 general interest and current events magazines.

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

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

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

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

psycARTICLES
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.


Business Information

Value Line
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.

Economic Data for Southern New Jersey
Includes statistics on local population, housing, property taxes, income, employment, SAT scores, and crime.

InfoUSA
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.

Hoover's Company Profiles
Hoover's has profiles and capsules, including financials, on over 13,500 public and private companies worldwide.

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

Government and Legal Information

New Jersey State Legislature
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
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
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
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)
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.


Employment Information

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

USA Jobs
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
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
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.

COIN Career Community
College and Career guidance program with four major content centers: the Exploration Center, the Planning Center, the Resource Center, and the Activity Center. Each center serves a unique purpose that provides content to assist students in the pursuit of their educational and career goals.

America's Career InfoNet
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
Search the full text of the Courier Post Classifieds.

Genealogy

Ancestry Plus
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.


Education

Eric Database (no full-text articles)
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)
Provides a highly specialized collection of over 500 full text journals, designed for professional educators.

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


Health and Medical

EbscoHost
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
Full text database focused on the complementary and alternative approaches to health. In-depth coverage of Alternative Medicine.

HealthyNJ
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
Provides basic professional information on virtually every licensed physician in the United States and its possessions.

Health Care Payers Coalition of New Jersey
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.

psycARTICLES
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.

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

American Hospital Directory
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.


Psychology

psycARTICLES
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.

Literary Criticism / Authors / Books

Books in Print
Has over 3.5 million title records; 165,000 records on publishers, distributors, wholesalers and book agents; information on award winners, bestsellers and more. Includes over 500,000 full-text reviews.

Contemporary Authors
Biographical information on 112,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters.

EbscoHost - MagillOnLiterature
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 Collection
Offers critical interpretations and biographical information on major authors. (Results can be e-mailed)

Lit Finder -- includes Story Finder and Essay Finder
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
NoveList is an electronic readers’ advisory resource which assists fiction 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.

What Do I Read Next
One-stop source for expert recommendations on classic, mainstream or genre fiction and nonfiction titles covering a wide range of subjects for all age levels. Search by title, author, subject, full text, time period, geographic location, character and reading level to discover your next reading adventure. Includes author biographies.

Quotations / Poetry

Poemfinder
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.

Grangers World of Poetry
Includes: 13,000 poems in full text, 7,500 excerpts, hundreds of commentaries on poems, a glossary, and hundreds of biographies of leading poets . NOTE: If prompted: USERNAME = CAMDEN PASSWORD = COUNTY

Gale's Quotations
Contains over 117,000 quotations from the beginning of time to today's newsmakers. Includes quotes from speeches, poems, books, letters, and plays.

Telephone/Address Directories

InfoUSA
Directory information on over 12,000,00 Households.

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

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

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

American Hospital Directory
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
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
Yellow pages, white pages, classifieds.

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

Superpages
Search for U.S. Businesses

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

Biographical Information

Wilson Web Biography
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
Identifies sources that provide biographical information. After conducting search, you must then check our catalog for availability of specific sources.

Consumer Information

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

Automobile Prices (Kelley Blue Book)
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)
Edmunds offers excellent ratings and reviews dating back to 1988.

Consumer Information Center
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
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.


Colleges / Schools Information

COIN Career Community
College and Career guidance program with four major content centers: the Exploration Center, the Planning Center, the Resource Center, and the Activity Center. Each center serves a unique purpose that provides content to assist students in the pursuit of their educational and career goals.

New Jersey School Report Cards
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.

New Jersey School Report Cards
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.

Other Library's Holdings

JerseyCat
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)
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
The catalog of the Cherry Hill Public Library.

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

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