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Databases

Visitors to the library have access to a wide variety of electronic databases; however, remote access to subscription databases is restricted to State Library authorized users: state employees and, unless otherwise noted, Thomas Edison staff and students. Authorized users needing a State Library access card, should complete the appropriate online registration form.

All users are expected to respect the intellectual property rights of licensed material. Failure to do so will result in loss of access.

You can browse through our databases below, or use the following menus to narrow your search:

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Provides access to a wide-range of U.S. corporate and municipal bond data such as: issue details, offering documents, ratings, coupon information, covenants, redemptions and historical pricing.

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In addition to providing information on breaking business developments, EventsData delivers on-going updated information on stock-splits, mergers, tender offers, partial/full calls, name changes, etc. and gives users the ability to research Corporate Actions, Dividends, Fixed Income, Municipal Called Bonds and Unit Investment Trust data from a historical perspective.

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Features a deep collection of worldwide business information including D&B/Hoover’s 85 million+ private company database. It offers access to private and public U.S. and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, company and executive contact information, and the ability to access industry profiles via First Research.

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A suite of resources for in-depth business and financial research on U.S. and international companies; also includes the D&B Private Company database, annual reports, executive biographies and industry reports.

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Provides access to digitized Moody’s and Mergent Corporate Manuals, ranging back to the early 1900s, which provide corporate history, business descriptions and in-depth financial statements. The Corporate Manual collection is searchable by company name, year or manual type.  Please note: the most recent corporate information is available on Mergent Online.

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A Government Printing Office federated search engine, MetaLib searches multiple U.S. Federal government databases, retrieving reports, articles and citations.  Selected resources are available in full text.

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Provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Includes thousands of biographies, historical essays, primary source documents and a School Image Collection of photos, maps and flags.
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Morningstar provides information on over 20,000 stock and mutual funds and includes industry and ETF information. Screener and portfolio tools, Morningstar ratings and independent reports are also included.  View Morningstar Tutorials or the User's Guide for an introduction to the database.

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Contains summaries of over 195,000 criminal justice reports, books, articles and unpublished research.

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NTIS serves as the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today, providing timely access to approximately 3 million publications covering over 350 subject areas

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Search NTP test results, status and reports.
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A public access portal for free online access to the New Jersey Administrative Code.

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Provides access to the status and business address(es) of a registered business entity. Searchable by business name, principal name (officer/director, manager, etc.), registered agent or entity ID. Browsing is free, status reports incur a charge.
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Lists all charities currently registered in New Jersey.
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The Office of Administrative Law and LexisNexis have established a public access portal for free online access to the New Jersey Register.

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The New Jersey State Archives provides access to thirteen databases containing over one million entries (indexing names and other information) in nearly 500,000 documents and photographs in the State Archives' collections.  Includes index entries for many marriage records, death records and military records.

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Databases produced by state agencies, covering a wide range of topics.

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The most current official text of the permanent and general statutes of New Jersey.

State employees only

The New York Times (1851-2009) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Coverage: Sept. 18, 1851-Dec. 31, 2009.

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Full text coverage from 1980 on. Included as part of the ABI/INFORM Complete database.
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Complete full text content for over 1040 U.S. newspapers. Covers local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded. Includes 10 New Jersey daily newspapers:

  • Burlington County Times 12/11/2002+
  • Gloucester County Times 12/22/2004+
  • Jersey Journal 1/16/1999+
  • News of Cumberland County, The 7/31/2004+
  • Press of Atlantic City, The 1988+
  • Record, The 1985+
  • Star-Ledger, The 5/10/1989+
  • Times, The (Trenton) 3/16/1993+
  • Today’s Sunbeam 12/19/2004+
  • Trentonian, The 4/5/2000+

and assorted weeklies from around the state. Also includes:

  • New York Post, 11/21/99+
  • The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1981+
  • The Philadelphia Daily News, 1978+
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Includes more than 700 full text newspapers, with comprehensive full text for major newspapers such as New York Times (January 1985 to present), Christian Science Monitor, Irish Times (Ireland), San Francisco Chronicle, The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), The Times (UK), Toronto Star, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times (DC), and others. It also features more than 757,000 television and radio news transcripts, including: ABC News (American Broadcasting Company), ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), CBS News, CNBC, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, MSNBC, National Public Radio, PBS, and more.

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The NLM Gateway focuses on two databases: Meeting Abstracts and Health Services Research Projects in Progress (HSRProj). The Meeting Abstracts database contains selected abstracts from meetings and conferences in the subject areas of AIDS, Health Services Research, and Space Life Sciences. The last update to the Meeting Abstracts Database is anticipated to be the addition of the 2010 18th International AIDS Conference. After this addition, the Meeting Abstracts database will still be accessible, but no new data will be loaded. HSRProj contains descriptions of research funded by federal and private grants and contracts for use by policy makers, managers, clinicians and other decision makers. It provides access to information about health services research in progress before results are available in a published form.
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NoveList K-8 covers fiction and nonfiction titles that are popular with young readers as well as classroom teachers.

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A readers advisory guide which helps readers find new fiction and nonfiction to read. It also includes recommended reading lists and book discussion guides.