Resources for Students are provided for your research needs by the Middletown Board of Education or by funds provided jointly by the New Jersey Regional Cooperatives and the State Library..

Subscription Databases for H.S North Only

• Maps101 provides thousands of maps of various kinds.

Web-Based Subscription Programs 09-10 for All Students – H.S. North & H.S. South

• ABC-CLIO
  -- Issues - Offers authoritative historical context, expert perspective & selected primary and secondary sources on the most important issues of the day.
  -- United States at War - Explores 14 major conflicts involving the U.S. throughout its History.
• Britannica - Complete Encyclopedia on line, Internet guide to best web sites, and World Data Analyst (offers statistical portraits of the countries of the world).
• EBSCO Programs:
  • EBSCOhost Web - Searchable full text of multiple databases (e.g. Academic Search, Health Source, ERIC, Business Source, History, Science, Biography, Library Abstracts, Professional Development, Green File), including over 170 professional and scholarly journals.
  • Literary Reference Center - The primary goal of LRC is to assist students with homework and research assignments of a literary nature.
    
  • NoveList - Comprehensive readers’ advisory solution for fiction lovers.  NoveList will help you to answer the question of what to read next.
    
  • Points of View - A full text database designed to assist researchers in understanding the full scope of controversial subjects.
    
  • Student Research Center - Makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results.  Results can be easily sorted by source type -- magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.   Includes Teacher Resources.
• Facts on File Programs:
  • Bloom's Literary Reference – Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.
  • Curriculum Resource Center - Provides a library of printable teacher-handout material for the middle school, high school, and junior college curriculum.
    
  • Ferguson's Career Guidance Center - Features detailed profiles of more than 3,300 jobs and 94 industries, invaluable advice on career skills, more than 48,000 resource entries, and much more!
    
  • Health Reference Center - Clear and comprehensive information on conditions and diseases, health and wellness, mental health, and the human body.
    
  • History Online - Six cross-searchable databases:
    • American History
    • American Women History
    • African-American History
    • American Indian History
    • Modern World History
    • Ancient and Medieval History
  • Science Online - Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments.
  • World Atlas - Combines detailed, printable, full-color maps of countries, provinces, and states with up-to-date statistical and local information.
• Gale (INFOTRAC) Programs:
  • Discovering Collection - This is a comprehensive database in the areas of Literature, Biography, Science and Social Studies.
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library - E BOOKS: eBooks for H.S. North Only · eBooks for H.S. South Only - This extensive collection of E-books, digitized from the print versions, contains over 350,000 documents. Includes publications from wide-ranging disciplines: Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science and Social Science.
  • Global Issues in Context - Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Includes unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source, statistical information, and extensive multimedia.
    
  • History Resource Center: World - Draws on themes & trends from World History. Full-text articles from academic journals, maps & images and primary source documents.
    
  • Informe Features resources for Spanish-speaking users, with full-text of popular Hispanic magazines, as well as terms & thesaurus.
  • Infotrac Elite 500 - This periodical database offers more than 6 million full-text articles from newspapers, periodicals, popular magazines and reference titles that are updated daily.
  • Infotrac NJ Custom and NJ Elite Newspapers – Features custom collections of more than 150 newspapers from around the world.
  • Literature Resource Center - Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, critical analyses of authors, novelists, poets, essayists, and journalists by name, title, literary movement or literary theme. Includes recommended web sites.
  • LITFINDER - Contains information about authors, poems, poem explanations, subjects, essays and glossary.
  • Opposing Viewpoints - Access viewpoint articles, topics, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, & full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
  • Science Resource Center - Thousands of science topics, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations. Illustrations.
• NoodleBib - Simplifies the process of creating and editing MLA and APA source lists.
• Oxford Music and Oxford Art Online - Comprehensive music and art research databases.
• Proquest Programs:
  • eLibrary Curriculum Edition - Content specifically for K-12 schools, including more than 2,000 full-text and media sources.
  • History Study Center - Historical reference from ancient to modern times.
  • Proquest Learning Literature - Full-text literary resources, including criticism.
  • Proquest Historical Newspapers - Cover to cover, full-page images from 1851 to 2001:
    • Historical Newspapers (Graphical): New York Times 1851-2004
    • Historical Newspapers (Traditional): 1851-2005 (New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor)
  • CultureGrams - Daily life and culture for over 200 countries, the U.S. and Canada.
• WilsonWeb (Biographies Plus Illustrated) - contains more than 111,000 biographies and obituaries, and more than 32,000 photographs of the subjects.
  
• World Book provides online access to all features of this encyclopedia.