GENERAL REFERENCE

• Acronym Finder
• Britannica.com (Encyclopedia Britannica online. Also provides best Web sites and other features.)
• Canadian Encyclopedia Online
• Encyclopedia.com (Over 100 online encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauri with facts, definitions, biographies, synonyms, pronunciation keys, word origins, and abbreviations.)
• Encyclopedia of British History
• Encyclopedia of Business and Economic History
• Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
• Gethuman Database (Tips on how to bypass the automated phone systems to talk to a human)
• Global Resources at NJCU Library (Books purchased under the World Languages and Cultures in Urban Education UISFL Title VI Grants.)
• Information Please (Their different almanacs, including sports, entertainment along with Columbia Encyclopedia, and an Atlas)
• ipl2 (Merged from the Internet Public Library and the Librarians' Internet Index, the site is hosted by Drexel University, and maintained by a consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science.)
• Merriam - Webster Online (Webster Dictionary and Webster Thesaurus)
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
• Refdesk.com (My Virtual Reference Desk)
• US Depository Ready Reference Collection (Columbia University Libraries' subject guide to web versions of many US Government Publications, mostly statistical in nature.)
• World Factbook (CIA publications)

BIOGRAPHY

• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present
• Biographical Memoirs (Published by National Academy of Sciences)
• Biographical Sources in Sciences (Plethora of free online biographical sources. Library of Congress)
• Biography.com (Sponsored by the Biography program that airs on A&E.)
• Black Americans in Congress
• Dictionary of Australian Biography
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography
• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
• The Galileo Project (Collection of 631 detailed biographies on members of the scientific community during the 16th and 17th centuries)
• Profiles in Science (by National Library of Medicine)

BOOKS

• Baen Free Library
• Book Wire (Extensive online directory of the publishing industry)
• Digital Book Index : an union catalog of electronic books, texts & documents
• FreeComputerBooks.com (A huge collection of free online computer, mathematics, engineering, and technical books, lecture notes and tutorials)
• Free Online Biomedical Texts
• The Getty Conservation Institute Publications
• Google Scholar
• Gutenburg-e (historical monographs published by Columbia University Press in collaboration with the American Historical Association)
• HathiTrust Digital Library
• Internet Archive: Text Archive (tens of thousands of downloadable books available from a variety of sources)
• Internet Classics Archive (English Language Versions of Ancient Greek and Latin Authors)
• LIBRO: The Library of Iberian Resources Online
• National Academies Press (Publisher for the National Academies, over 1800 books in various subjects available free online)
• On-Line Books Page ( Over 800,000 free books on the web. Hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.)
• Oak Knoll Books & Oak Knoll Press
• Project Gutenberg (Free downloadable texts from hundreds of authors from ancient times to early 20th century.)
• The Ohio State University Press Open Access Initiative
• RAND Corporation (Hundreds of monographs on diverse topics)
• UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 (Formerly eScholarship Editions)
• The Universal Digital Library (Million Book Collection - full text books in a variety of languages)
• University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions
• Wright American Fiction (Online texts of 3000 volumes.)

CAREER INFORMATION

• Occupational Outlook Handbook
• Career Outlook

COUNTRIES AND CULTURES

• Countries and Their Cultures
• Country Reports (offers cultural, historical, statistical, country information)

FINANCIAL AID

• FAFSA (Free online application for federal student aid)
• Federal School Code Search
• FinAid (An extensive and user-friendly site)

IMMIGRATION

• American Family Immigration Center (Information on 22 million immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island between 1898 and 1924)

LIBRARIES

• ipl2 (Merged from the Internet Public Library and the Librarians' Internet Index, the site is hosted by Drexel University, and maintained by a consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science.)
• Jersey City Free Public Library
• The Library Index (Find a local library in U.S.)
• LibraryLinkNJ (The New Jersey Library Cooperative)
• The Library of Congress
• New Jersey State Library
• The New York Public Library
• The Newark Public Library
• Rutgers University Libraries

MAPS

• David Rumsey Map collection (Cartography of the Americas from the 18th and 19th centuries, and also maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania)
• Historical Maps of New Jersey (Rutgers University)
• Historical Maps of the U.S. (UT Library)
• Map Collections (Library of Congress)
• Online Map Collection (UT Library)

MOVIES TELEVISION AND THEATER

• BFI (British Film Institute) Interviews
• Encyclopedia of Television
• IBDB (Internet Broadway Database: Provides updated Broadway theatre information and records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre)
• IMDB (Internet Movie Database. A comprehensive site listing over 150,000 movies, complete film credits, and, for current films, movie reviews.)
• PBS Online (Provides additional information on specials/ programs list extensive and excellent electronic resources)
• September 11 Television Archive

NEWSPAPERS

• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress, it allows to search and read newspaper from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present)
• The New York Times (Current issue of NY Times plus over 50,000 book reviews)
• Philly.com (Philadelphia Inquirer online. Coverage of South Jersey as well as New Jersey Statistics)
• USA TODAY (Current issue plus ability to freely search paper's archives dating back to 1987)

PERIODICALS

• Directory of Open Access Journals (Access to free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals)
• Find Article.com (Free full text articles from dozens of popular and scholarly journals)
• Government Periodicals (University of Louisville Libraries' site)
• Google Scholar
• Highwire Press (Directory to sites containing hundreds of thousands of full text articles in the life sciences from scholarly, prestigious journals)
• New Jersey Union List of Serials
• Ingenta (Keyword searching of over 17,000 English language periodicals in a wide variety of disciplines)
• PubMedCentral (Over a million of free biomedical articles)

SPORTS

• Baseball Almanac (Comprehensive site with info back to 1876)
• ESPN (Sports from ESPN)
• Internet Hockey Database
• MLB.com (Major League Baseball)
• NBA.com (Basketball)
• NCAA (NCAA Online collegiate athletics)
• Negro Baseball Leagues
• NFL.com (Football)
• NHL.com (Hockey)
• USA Swimming
• USA Wrestling
• WNBA.com (Women's basketball)
• World Soccer Net

STATISTICS

• United States Census Bureau
• County and City Data Book: 2007 (Statistical Abstract of the United States)
• Demographic Yearbook (Published by the UN Statistics Division, it provides statistics on population size and composition, births, deaths, marriage and divorce as well as a wide range of additional topics including economic activity, educational attainment, household characteristics, housing, ethnicity and language, among others.)
• Eurostat Yearbook (A great deal of statistical information of the European Union)
• FedStats (Over 70 federal sites that produce statistics can be accessed here)
• Guide to House and Senate Members
• Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970
• OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Factbook: Economic, environmental and social statistics
• Population and Vital Statistic Report (UN report regarding population in countries throughout the world)
• State and Metropolitan Area Databook 2006 (US Census Bureau)
• Statistical Abstracts online from 1878
• Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific, 2007 edition (Published by the UN, it offers a good reference to the development of the Asian and Pacific region over the past 15 years)
• Statistical Yearbook for Latin American and the Caribbean
• United Nations Statistics
• U.S. Census Bureau
• WHO World Health Statistics
• Yearbook of Immigration Statistics (published by U.S. Department of Homeland Security)

WEB SEARCH ENGINES

• Ask
• Duck Duck Go
• Excite
• Google
• Google Scholar (Google Scholar searches peer-reviewed papers, dissertations, citations, abstracts and reports from a variety of scholarly sources provided by academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and open access publishers. Searching Google Scholar from Guarini Library homepage, full text resources that are available from NJCU Library-subscribed databases or electronic journals will be automatically accessible. Gothic ID needed for off-campus access to Library-subscribed full text resources.
• Lycos
• Metacrawler - Search the Search Engines
• WebCrawler
• Yahoo!

SEARCH ENGINE AND WEB SITE REVIEWS

• Search Engine Watch

 

Last updated: 11/3/2023