Databases Overview
The library offers a variety of resources to help you find the information you need. Many of our online databases are available from home. You can browse our databases either by subject or alphabetically.
For questions and other information about library policies please contact a reference librarian
Databases by Name
Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier contains indexing for 8,025 publications, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. Provided by the New Jersey State Library
America the Beautiful
America the Beautiful provides demographic, statistical, and cultural information on all 50 states.
Ancestry Online
Genealogical resources on census data, family records, and local histories. Available only in the library.
Career Transitions
Career Transitions provides materials to help individuals find the career they are looking for. It includes resume building tips, cover letters tips, interviews tips and simulations, as well as a location based job search.
Congressional Quarterly Researcher
Weekly reports on health issues, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.
Contemporary Authors
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
Corfacts
New Jersey Business to Business Directory Includes information on over 64,000 New Jersey businesses. Can be used to create mailing labels and contact lists.
Country Watch
Full-text database provides economic, demographical, cultural, and environmental information on countries.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Full-text articles and information on a variety of topics.
ERIC
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.
Franklin Township Newspaper Archive
Searchable, full-text local newspapers including the Record (1948-1958), Franklin News (1954-1958), and The Franklin New-Record (1958-1978). An additional searchable database of newspapers that includes issues of The Franklin Focus is available while visiting the library.
Gale Directory Library
Online access to the Gale Encyclopedia of Associations and the Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A full-text searchable database of e-books from a variety of different subjects. An online reference library.
GreenFILE
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Scholarly full-text journals covering nursing and other allied health professions.
Heritage Quest Online
Resources for census data, family records, and local histories.
Infobase Publishing
Full-text versions of books published by Facts on File.
Job and Career Accelerator
Create resumes and cover letters, learn interviewing techniques, and prepare for related exams. Access millions of job listings.
Kids Search
Designed for students in grades K through 8. Kids Search provides elementary school students with an easy-to-use, graphically-appealing interface they can use to search their EBSCO databases.
Learning Express Library 2.0 (Old)
This site will go offline on June 30, 2014. If you wish to continue with Learning Express please make an account with the link below. The Learning Express Library 2.0 website can be accessed until June 30, 2014. New users should start with the Learning Express Library 3.0 website below.
Learning Express Library 3.0 (New)
Starting June 30, 2014 Learning Express 2.0 users must create a new account in order to continue using Learning Express.Learning Express provides free online practice tests and test preparation for Franklin Township Library users. To use this service you must register online for a password using your library card number. When Learning Express asks you for a User Name please enter your 14-digit library card number as your User Name.
Legal Information Resource Center
Providing exclusive online full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books, Legal Information Reference Center contains hundreds of full-text publications and thousands of legal forms, with more content being added on a regular basis.
Library Information Science and Technology Abstracts
LISTA indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Literary Reference Center
Contains information on authors and their works. Materials include biographical information, a list of the authors and critical works on the author and his/her writings.
Mango Languages Online
Online language learning site includes: Spanish, French, Italian, Russian and others. Also includes a limited selection of ESL programs including English for Spanish speakers and English for Polish speakers.
Marshall Cavendish Online
A digital collection of reference works featuring remote access and the same high-quality, well-illustrated, authoritative, accurate, and in-depth content Marshall Cavendish is known for. Features information on the sciences, history, and the humanities.
Masterfile Elite
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. Provided by the New Jersey State Library
Morningstar Investment Research Center
Comprehensive information on stocks, mutual funds, and industries.
Newspaper Source Plus
Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 700 full-text newspapers, and provides more than 31 million full-text articles. In addition, the database includes nearly 700,000 television and radio transcripts
NovelList
Novelist is an ideal way to discover new authors or find an author whose style matches your own personal taste. Special search features give the reader the ability to find a book by describing the plot, locating a series name, or reviewing suggested reading lists. Lists of titles are grouped by content and age group in order to find the best fit for your reading preference and level.
NovelList K-8
Like Novelist but directed towards readers from Kindergarten through the 8th grade.
Oxford African American Studies
Over 7,500 articles, including primary source documents, images, maps, charts and tables, and more.
Points of View
Points of View Reference Center contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including more than 1,300 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books. Each of the main essays includes links to related full-text articles hand-picked by the editor.
PriceIt
Search this database of over 23 million auction records for descriptions and pricing for antiques and collectibles.
Proquest Historical New York Times
Full-text of the New York Times from 1851 through present day with a 4 year delay.
PubMed
Provided by the National Library of Medicine the PubMed database allows for the searching of citations from thousands of medical journals. Full-text articles not available. To inquire about obtaining a specific article speak to a Reference Librarian.
ReferenceUSA
Information about business, healthcare providers, and people. ReferenceUSA is funded by the NJ State Library and the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative
Refrencia Latina
Referencia Latina, a comprehensive Spanish-language database, offers content from a variety of sources including 49,000 encyclopedia entries.
Regional Business News
Full text for nearly 100 regional U.S. and Canadian business publications.
Salem Press
Full-text searchable versions of reference texts on history, science, literature, and medicine.
Searchasaurus
Searchasaurus, a kid friendly database, provides fun and educational information on a variety of content including animals, health, history, sports, and science. Additional features include links to pictures, and an innovative visual search platform that groups results together using both colors and shapes.
Small Business Reference Center
This database offers a wide variety of information on small business and entrepreneurial subject areas, common business types, a help and advice section, and provides information on how to create business plans that lead to successful funding.
Student Research Center
Information and resources directed for students in Middle or High School.
Teacher Reference Center
Provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
Databases by Subject
Infobase Publishing
Full-text versions of books published by Facts on File.
Marshall Cavendish Online
A digital collection of reference works featuring remote access and the same high-quality, well-illustrated, authoritative, accurate, and in-depth content Marshall Cavendish is known for. Features information on the sciences, history, and the humanities.
Oxford African American Studies
Over 7,500 articles, including primary source documents, images, maps, charts and tables, and more.
Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier contains indexing for 8,025 publications, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. Provided by the New Jersey State Library
Contemporary Authors
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A full-text searchable database of e-books from a variety of different subjects. An online reference library.
Literary Reference Center
Contains information on authors and their works. Materials include biographical information, a list of the authors and critical works on the author and his/her writings.
Masterfile Elite
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. Provided by the New Jersey State Library
NovelList
Novelist is an ideal way to discover new authors or find an author whose style matches your own personal taste. Special search features give the reader the ability to find a book by describing the plot, locating a series name, or reviewing suggested reading lists. Lists of titles are grouped by content and age group in order to find the best fit for your reading preference and level.
NovelList K-8
Like Novelist but directed towards readers from Kindergarten through the 8th grade.
Salem Press
Full-text searchable versions of reference texts on history, science, literature, and medicine.
Corfacts
New Jersey Business to Business Directory Includes information on over 64,000 New Jersey businesses. Can be used to create mailing labels and contact lists.
Morningstar Investment Research Center
Comprehensive information on stocks, mutual funds, and industries.
ReferenceUSA
Information about business, healthcare providers, and people. ReferenceUSA is funded by the NJ State Library and the New Jersey Knowledge Initiative
Regional Business News
Full text for nearly 100 regional U.S. and Canadian business publications.
Small Business Reference Center
This database offers a wide variety of information on small business and entrepreneurial subject areas, common business types, a help and advice section, and provides information on how to create business plans that lead to successful funding.
Value Line
Investment and market research. Username: franklintown Password: ftpl
Career Transitions
Career Transitions provides materials to help individuals find the career they are looking for. It includes resume building tips, cover letters tips, interviews tips and simulations, as well as a location based job search.
ERIC
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.
Job and Career Accelerator
Create resumes and cover letters, learn interviewing techniques, and prepare for related exams. Access millions of job listings.
Learning Express Library 2.0 (Old)
This site will go offline on June 30, 2014. If you wish to continue with Learning Express please make an account with the link below. The Learning Express Library 2.0 website can be accessed until June 30, 2014. New users should start with the Learning Express Library 3.0 website below.
Learning Express Library 3.0 (New)
Starting June 30, 2014 Learning Express 2.0 users must create a new account in order to continue using Learning Express.Learning Express provides free online practice tests and test preparation for Franklin Township Library users. To use this service you must register online for a password using your library card number. When Learning Express asks you for a User Name please enter your 14-digit library card number as your User Name.
Mango Languages Online
Online language learning site includes: Spanish, French, Italian, Russian and others. Also includes a limited selection of ESL programs including English for Spanish speakers and English for Polish speakers.
Teacher Reference Center
Provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
Ancestry Online
Genealogical resources on census data, family records, and local histories. Available only in the library.
Heritage Quest Online
Resources for census data, family records, and local histories.
Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier contains indexing for 8,025 publications, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. Provided by the New Jersey State Library
America the Beautiful
America the Beautiful provides demographic, statistical, and cultural information on all 50 states.
Congressional Quarterly Researcher
Weekly reports on health issues, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.
Country Watch
Full-text database provides economic, demographical, cultural, and environmental information on countries.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Full-text articles and information on a variety of topics.
Gale Directory Library
Online access to the Gale Encyclopedia of Associations and the Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A full-text searchable database of e-books from a variety of different subjects. An online reference library.
Infobase Publishing
Full-text versions of books published by Facts on File.
Kids Search
Designed for students in grades K through 8. Kids Search provides elementary school students with an easy-to-use, graphically-appealing interface they can use to search their EBSCO databases.
Library Information Science and Technology Abstracts
LISTA indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Marshall Cavendish Online
A digital collection of reference works featuring remote access and the same high-quality, well-illustrated, authoritative, accurate, and in-depth content Marshall Cavendish is known for. Features information on the sciences, history, and the humanities.
Masterfile Elite
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. Provided by the New Jersey State Library
Points of View
Points of View Reference Center contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including more than 1,300 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books. Each of the main essays includes links to related full-text articles hand-picked by the editor.
PriceIt
Search this database of over 23 million auction records for descriptions and pricing for antiques and collectibles.
Refrencia Latina
Referencia Latina, a comprehensive Spanish-language database, offers content from a variety of sources including 49,000 encyclopedia entries.
Searchasaurus
Searchasaurus, a kid friendly database, provides fun and educational information on a variety of content including animals, health, history, sports, and science. Additional features include links to pictures, and an innovative visual search platform that groups results together using both colors and shapes.
Student Research Center
Information and resources directed for students in Middle or High School.
Congressional Quarterly Researcher
Weekly reports on health issues, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Scholarly full-text journals covering nursing and other allied health professions.
PubMed
Provided by the National Library of Medicine the PubMed database allows for the searching of citations from thousands of medical journals. Full-text articles not available. To inquire about obtaining a specific article speak to a Reference Librarian.
Salem Press
Full-text searchable versions of reference texts on history, science, literature, and medicine.
America the Beautiful
America the Beautiful provides demographic, statistical, and cultural information on all 50 states.
Contemporary Authors
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
Infobase Publishing
Full-text versions of books published by Facts on File.
Marshall Cavendish Online
A digital collection of reference works featuring remote access and the same high-quality, well-illustrated, authoritative, accurate, and in-depth content Marshall Cavendish is known for. Features information on the sciences, history, and the humanities.
Oxford African American Studies
Over 7,500 articles, including primary source documents, images, maps, charts and tables, and more.
Proquest Historical New York Times
Full-text of the New York Times from 1851 through present day with a 4 year delay.
Salem Press
Full-text searchable versions of reference texts on history, science, literature, and medicine.
America the Beautiful
America the Beautiful provides demographic, statistical, and cultural information on all 50 states.
Country Watch
Full-text database provides economic, demographical, cultural, and environmental information on countries.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A full-text searchable database of e-books from a variety of different subjects. An online reference library.
Marshall Cavendish Online
A digital collection of reference works featuring remote access and the same high-quality, well-illustrated, authoritative, accurate, and in-depth content Marshall Cavendish is known for. Features information on the sciences, history, and the humanities.
Oxford African American Studies
Over 7,500 articles, including primary source documents, images, maps, charts and tables, and more.
Legal Information Resource Center
Providing exclusive online full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books, Legal Information Reference Center contains hundreds of full-text publications and thousands of legal forms, with more content being added on a regular basis.
Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier contains indexing for 8,025 publications, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. Provided by the New Jersey State Library
Masterfile Elite
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. Provided by the New Jersey State Library
Franklin Township Newspaper Archive
Searchable, full-text local newspapers including the Record (1948-1958), Franklin News (1954-1958), and The Franklin New-Record (1958-1978). An additional searchable database of newspapers that includes issues of The Franklin Focus is available while visiting the library.
Newspaper Source Plus
Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 700 full-text newspapers, and provides more than 31 million full-text articles. In addition, the database includes nearly 700,000 television and radio transcripts
Proquest Historical New York Times
Full-text of the New York Times from 1851 through present day with a 4 year delay.
Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier contains indexing for 8,025 publications, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. Provided by the New Jersey State Library
Congressional Quarterly Researcher
Weekly reports on health issues, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.
GreenFILE
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects.
Library Information Science and Technology Abstracts
LISTA indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Marshall Cavendish Online
A digital collection of reference works featuring remote access and the same high-quality, well-illustrated, authoritative, accurate, and in-depth content Marshall Cavendish is known for. Features information on the sciences, history, and the humanities.
Masterfile Elite
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. Provided by the New Jersey State Library
PubMed
Provided by the National Library of Medicine the PubMed database allows for the searching of citations from thousands of medical journals. Full-text articles not available. To inquire about obtaining a specific article speak to a Reference Librarian.
Salem Press
Full-text searchable versions of reference texts on history, science, literature, and medicine.
Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier contains indexing for 8,025 publications, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. Provided by the New Jersey State Library
Library Information Science and Technology Abstracts
LISTA indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Masterfile Elite
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. Provided by the New Jersey State Library
Refrencia Latina
Referencia Latina, a comprehensive Spanish-language database, offers content from a variety of sources including 49,000 encyclopedia entries.