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Business Resources

ReferenceUSA -- Now paid for by MAIN.
Includes United States and Canadian businesses, US and Canadian phone listings; and Healthcare listings (physicians and dentists).
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You can quickly develop a focused group of companies by combining several criteria in one search. A summary list with key company information can be printed out. Individual company links display organization profiles. Click here for troubleshooting tips for RefUSA.

Directory Library (Gale)-- Authoritative directories on associations, publishers and media, and business information. Detailed reference works that once were accesible only in the Library, now available online from the Library or remotely 24/7 through the Library's website.

Titles included are:

• Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U.S. 45th ed., 2008
• Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media. 142nd ed. 2007
• Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources (coming soon)

Accessible using library card number.

**Your library card must be from the Bernards Township Library to access this database with this link.

DemographicsNow (Gale)-- A wealth of consumer and business information in a variety of simple, ready-to-use demographic reports. Can be customized by geography to choose the area that best suits your need. Summary, comparison, or ranking reports.

A helpful source of information for prospective and current entrepreneurs, students in business programs, and anyone who needs to identify cultural patterns or sociological trends. Users of DemographicsNow have access to information on Population, Income, Housing, Race, Age, Education, Businesses, Retail Sales, Consumer Expenditures and much more.

Bernards Township Library cardholders may contact a reference librarian to get the Username and Password for remote access to DemographicsNow. Call 908-204-3031 ext. 4.

**Your library card must be from the Bernards Township Library to access this database with this link.

Business & Company Resource Center -- Company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals available with library card number.

**Your library card must be from the Bernards Township Library to access this database with this link.

Small Business Resource Center -- Comprehensive database covering all areaas of starting and operating a business including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, taxes, and more.
Includes a variety of periodical and reference content supporting industry research, financial planning, and business plans. Suitable for current and future entrepreneurs as well as business students.

**Your library card must be from the Bernards Township Library to access this database with this link.

Other Newspaper content through EBSCOhost: Search Regional Business News, for full text coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States (updated daily) or Newspaper Source Selected text for 25 National (US) and international newspapers. This database also contains full-text television and radio news transcripts, and selected full-text for more than 200 regional (US) newspapers (updated daily). Accessible using library card number.

**Your library card must be from the Bernards Township Library to access these databases with these links.

State of New Jersey -- Taking Care of Business -- Brings together business information from the Department of Commerce, the Economic Development Authority and other relevant state agencies. Features business resources and online tools including:

• Starting & Operating a Business
• Expanding a Business
• Moving to New Jersey
• Small Businesses
• Minority & Women Owned Businesses
• Licensing & Permitting & Government Contracts

Magazines & Newspapers

Several databases offering abstracting and/or full-text of thousands of periodicals and journals and many newspapers. Articles can be viewed, printed, and/or emailed from the databases.

EbscoHost Periodical Database -- Full text for nearly 5,000 magazine and journal titles (current and back issues)covering virtually every subject, including business, science and health. Special database collections for children and students. Includes favorites like Consumer Reports and Harvard Business Review, as well as regional and international newspapers and in-depth records for selected businesses.

ProQuest Periodical Database-- Over 25,000 magazines and newspapers (most in full text, others with citations and abstracts) covering business, education, literature, political science, pychology, and much more. Current and backfile editions with many titles back to 1970s and some even earlier.
Newspapers include the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today.

Custom/Regional Newspapers which includes The Newark Star Ledger (January 2001 to current), The New York Times (365 day rolling file), Los Angeles Times(January 1996 to current), Times London(January 1997 to current),and Bergen Record (January 1996 to current).

America's Newspapers -- Complete electronic editions of more than 1,000 full-text newspapers nationwide – comprehensive news coverage at local, state, regional and national levels. Updated daily. Search or browse a single newspaper, a select group of titles or the entire collection from the intuitive map-based interface or powerful, user-friendly search screens. Print, save or email without any per-article fee.

**Your library card must be from the Bernards Township Library to access this database with this link.

America's News Magazines -- Easy-to-search database provides full-text articles from 26 familiar magazines with coverage and analysis of current events in a range of categories including: news, business, entertainment, lifestyle, science and technology, and sports. Paid advertisements are excluded.

**Your library card must be from the Bernards Township Library to access this database with this link.

The New York Times - Electronic Image Edition -- An exact digital reproduction of The New York Times printed edition, with keyword searching and ability to browse the full publication. All pages, including advertising, photos and graphics are included. Available sections are:

• The New York Times – Metropolitan daily
• The New York Times – advance Sunday
• The New York Times Magazine

Searchable, Browsable, Back Issues since 10/05/2006. The New York Times Book Review is also available but only in text, no image edition.

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EN ESPANOL -- INFORME! -- Revistas en Espanol. Periodicals in Spanish from Infotrac.

Genealogy

HeritageQuest Online A unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Beginning or professional genealogists can use this powerful online library, with indexes and original page images for all documents. Includes complete U.S. Federal Census, 1790-1930; Proquest's Genealogy and Local History Collection of 25,000+ fully-searchable family and local history books; and P.E.R.S.I. a comprehensive subject index covering more than 6,500 genealogy and local history periodicals written in English and French (Canada) since 1800.

**Your library card must be from the Bernards Township Library to access this database with this link.

ProQuest Obituaries More than 10 million obituaries and death notices in full-image format from uninterrupted historical archives of top national newspapers, with content dating back to 1849. Information from across the U.S. – East Coast, Mid-West, South, and the West Coast. Titles from which these records are drawn include:
        • The New York Times (from 1851)         • Washington Post (from 1877)
        • Los Angeles Times (from 1881)         • Atlanta Constitution (from 1868- 1929)
        • Chicago Tribune (from 1849)         • Chicago Defender (from 1909 -1975)
        • Boston Globe (from 1872 - 1923)

**Your library card must be from the Bernards Township Library to access this database with this link.

America's Genealogy Bank -- Over four centuries of rare American documents and records. Search thousands of historical newspapers, books, pamphlets and genealogies. Plus, the complete American State Papers, U.S. Serial Set, Social Security Death Index and more than 22 million obituaries. New content added monthly.

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America's Obituaries and Death Notices -- Newspaper obituaries and death notices from over 700 newspapers around the United States, coverage mostly in 1990’s and early 21st century to present. Each obituary or death notice is indexed by the name of the deceased person, to make searching easier and more precise. In addition, the text of each obituary or death notice is keyword searchable, making it possible to use place of residence, occupation, names of family members, or other personal information to identify appropriate records.

**Your library card must be from the Bernards Township Library to access this database with this link.

General Databases - Literature, Science, History and more

Automobile Repair Reference Center

• Questions on how to repair a car?
• Need to know the maintenance schedule on a specific make/model?
• Important Recalls and Service Bulletins?

This resource covers all automobile make and models from 1945 to the present. With an easy-to-use interface, it places repair guides, and other important information at your fingertips.

Features more than 100,000 factory drawings and step-by-step photographs; 60,000 technical service bulletins and recalls issued by the original equipment vehicle manufacturer; wiring diagrams for easy viewing and printing; specifications and maintenance schedules; and more. Updated continually with new repair procedures and as Technical Service Bulletins are issued.

**Your library card must be from the Bernards Township Library to access this database with this link.

Book Review Digest Plus and Retrospective -- Descriptive summaries of books and full text reviews, review excerpts, book summaries and bibliographic data drawn from thousands of periodicals. Indexes fiction, non-fiction, books for children, and reference works in the humanities, social sciences and general sciences. Book Review Digest Plus covers 1983 to the present. Updated daily. Book Review Digest Retrospective covers 1905 - 1982.

**Your library card must be from the Bernards Township Library to access this database with this link.

Contemporary Authors -- Now available through JerseyClicks. An award winning reference resource that provides biographic details on approximately 112,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Current writers, as well as the most studied literary figures of the early 20th century, and authors from around the world are featured.

The Facts On File On-Line Database includes
  → Curriculum Resource Center
  → Science On-Line
  → Science Experiments On-Line
  → American Womens History
  → American Historical Images
  → Landmark Documents
  → African American History & Culture
  → World Atlas
  → Career Guidance
  → Government On File
  → Forms On File

Gale Virtual Reference Library -- Online access 24/7 to encyclopedias, almanacs and specialized reference sources in eBook format for multidisciplinary research. Just use your library card barcode number to login; you don't have to be in the Library to use these. View and search a single title or search by topic, name, etc. across the whole collection. Includes the ability to print and email articles.
Titles available, all published in late 2004 or 2005, are:

• Arts and Humanities Through the Eras
• Encyclopedia of American Industry 4th ed.
• College Blue Book, 32nd ed.
• Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans, 21st ed.
• Americans at War: Society, Culture and the Homefront
• Dictionary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
• Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
• Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, 2nd ed.
• Weather Almanac
• New Dictionary of the History of Ideas.

**Your library card must be from the Bernards Township Library to access this database with this link.

The Literary Reference Center (from EBSCO) -- a comprehensive database that provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. LRC combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. LRC includes:

• plot summaries, synopses and work overviews
• articles of literary criticism
• full text of literary journals
• author biographies
• book reviews
• author interviews
• and images of key literary figures

LRC also includes full text of selected classic and contemporary poems and short stories. As reference material, LRC includes full text of a number of literary encyclopedia and guides.

Novelist- A reader's advisory resource for FICTION. Find plot summaries, background on authors, series titles, and match to similar books. Lists of recommended mysteries, horror, romance, adventure, and more.

Who's Who on the Web Up to date biographies of millions of leaders and achievers from around the world and from every significant field of endeavor. Includes all biographies that appear in 23 Marquis print titles since 1985. Includes Who's Who in American Art and Who's Who in American History. Simple targeted searching by name or up to 15 criteria or search by Keyword. Please log out when you are finished using Who's Who on the Web by using the blue Log Off link at the top right hand side of the page.

**Your library card must be from the Bernards Township Library to access this database with this link.

The WebFeet A subject guide to the Internet designed for schools and libraries and their students and patrons. Composed of thousands of descriptions of Web sites that have been selected by a team of librarians, educators, subject-area specialists, and editors for their quality, credibility and usefulness. Borrower ID: MAIN for access.

The WorldBook Online Contains every article from the 22-volume print encyclopedia, plus thousands more. With state of the art multimedia, editor-reviewed websites, and a basic Spanish-language encyclopedia.

**Your library card must be from the Bernards Township Library to access this database with this link.

For a complete listing of reference sources, including online sources, available at the Bernards Township Library visit the Reference Department.