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.
Biography Collection Complete
A comprehensive collection of full-text biographies supporting history, science, the arts, music, literature, multicultural studies, gender studies, business, government & politics, sports, entertainment and many other areas.
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 LegalForms
Gale LegalForms provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen's language
Gale Nursing Resource Center
Designed for nursing students, the Nursing Resource Center brings together in an easy-to-use interface disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts. The information is written in accessible language for students completing class assignments and preparing for clinicals as they learn how to care for and treat patients. Search results are returned in tabs that correspond to steps in the nursing process.
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.
Heritage Quest Online
Resources for census data, family records, and local histories.
Infobase Publishing
Full-text versions of books published by Facts on File.
Informe
Revistas en Español (Magazines and Journals in Spanish)
Informe Academio
Esta colección multidisciplinaria provee material iberoamericano confiable de carácter académico, científico y de interés general. Abarca temas tan variados como política, historia, economía, humanidades, ciencias de la salud, filosofía, literatura, ciencia, tecnología y más. INFORME incluye publicaciones de 14 países así como los periódicos más importantes de la región. This collection provides multidisciplinary Latin American scientific, academic, and general interest materials. It covers topics as varied as politics, history, economics, humanities, health sciences, philosophy, literature, science, technology and more. INFORME includes publications from 14 countries as well as their most important regional newspapers.
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)
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)
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.
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.
Nursing and Allied Health Collection
All aspects of the Nursing profession -- from direct patient care to health care administration -- are covered in this collection. Including nearly 400 titles, this collection's current and authoritative content will be of use to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.
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 Health
A full-text searchable version of Magill's Medical Guide. To access click on 'Remote Access' and enter ftpl as the Password.
Salem History
Contains electronic versions of print books by Salem Press including the Milestone Documents series, The Decades series, and Great Lives from History. To access click on 'Remote Access' and enter ftpl as the password.
Salud en Espanol
Salud en Español provides comprehensive evidence-based reports and fact sheets in Spanish on all aspects of consumer health and wellness. Topic specific reports covering all aspects of health offer valuable overviews on diseases, conditions, procedures and various treatments.
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 Resource Center
Search this database to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites
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
Biography Collection Complete
A comprehensive collection of full-text biographies supporting history, science, the arts, music, literature, multicultural studies, gender studies, business, government & politics, sports, entertainment and many other areas.
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 Health
A full-text searchable version of Magill's Medical Guide. To access click on 'Remote Access' and enter ftpl as the Password.
Salem History
Contains electronic versions of print books by Salem Press including the Milestone Documents series, The Decades series, and Great Lives from History. To access click on 'Remote Access' and enter ftpl as the password.
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 Resource Center
Search this database to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites
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)
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)
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.
Informe
Revistas en Español (Magazines and Journals in Spanish)
Informe Academio
Esta colección multidisciplinaria provee material iberoamericano confiable de carácter académico, científico y de interés general. Abarca temas tan variados como política, historia, economía, humanidades, ciencias de la salud, filosofía, literatura, ciencia, tecnología y más. INFORME incluye publicaciones de 14 países así como los periódicos más importantes de la región. This collection provides multidisciplinary Latin American scientific, academic, and general interest materials. It covers topics as varied as politics, history, economics, humanities, health sciences, philosophy, literature, science, technology and more. INFORME includes publications from 14 countries as well as their most important regional newspapers.
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.
Gale Nursing Resource Center
Designed for nursing students, the Nursing Resource Center brings together in an easy-to-use interface disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams to complement the core encyclopedia texts. The information is written in accessible language for students completing class assignments and preparing for clinicals as they learn how to care for and treat patients. Search results are returned in tabs that correspond to steps in the nursing process.
Nursing and Allied Health Collection
All aspects of the Nursing profession -- from direct patient care to health care administration -- are covered in this collection. Including nearly 400 titles, this collection's current and authoritative content will be of use to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.
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 Health
A full-text searchable version of Magill's Medical Guide. To access click on 'Remote Access' and enter ftpl as the Password.
Salud en Espanol
Salud en Español provides comprehensive evidence-based reports and fact sheets in Spanish on all aspects of consumer health and wellness. Topic specific reports covering all aspects of health offer valuable overviews on diseases, conditions, procedures and various treatments.
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 History
Contains electronic versions of print books by Salem Press including the Milestone Documents series, The Decades series, and Great Lives from History. To access click on 'Remote Access' and enter ftpl as the password.
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.
Gale LegalForms
Gale LegalForms provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen's language
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.
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
Informe
Revistas en Español (Magazines and Journals in Spanish)
Informe Academio
Esta colección multidisciplinaria provee material iberoamericano confiable de carácter académico, científico y de interés general. Abarca temas tan variados como política, historia, economía, humanidades, ciencias de la salud, filosofía, literatura, ciencia, tecnología y más. INFORME incluye publicaciones de 14 países así como los periódicos más importantes de la región. This collection provides multidisciplinary Latin American scientific, academic, and general interest materials. It covers topics as varied as politics, history, economics, humanities, health sciences, philosophy, literature, science, technology and more. INFORME includes publications from 14 countries as well as their most important regional newspapers.
Refrencia Latina
Referencia Latina, a comprehensive Spanish-language database, offers content from a variety of sources including 49,000 encyclopedia entries.
Salud en Espanol
Salud en Español provides comprehensive evidence-based reports and fact sheets in Spanish on all aspects of consumer health and wellness. Topic specific reports covering all aspects of health offer valuable overviews on diseases, conditions, procedures and various treatments.