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Electronic Resources

The Media Center has links to multiple databases with accurate and current information on your research topics.
Please click on any of the links below to access them. For login IDs and passwords, please visit the Media Center.

REFERENCE DATABASES
Facts On File	Use the East Brunswick Public Library site for the link to the FOF site for multimedia databases: History, Geography, Science, Health, Literature, Careers, Printable Handouts for Teachers, and Reproducible Forms
GaleNet	Reference databases: Discovering Collection - History, Literature, Biographies, Science, Social Studies; Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - social issues; Contemporary Authors - biographies; Virtual Reference Library - electronic reference sets.
ABC-CLIO	History Reference databases: American Government, American History, United States at War

REFERENCE SERVICES
East Brunswick Public Library Databases	Here you will find links to the different EBPL databases including: The New York Times, CQ Electronic Library (including CQ Researcher), Facts.com (including Issues and Controversies, Today's Science, World Almanac, World Almanac Encyclopedia, and World News Digest), Gale Literature Resource Center, Novelist, World Book Encyclopedia, and many others. **IMPORTANT: You need your EBPL Library Card Number to access these databases**
NJ Statewide Reference Center	A virtual reference desk that can answer many of your questions.
NJ State Library "Ask a Librarian"	Electronic reference services provided by the NJ State Library.
QandAnj	Connect online with a librarian for help with any topic or information need.

MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS
EBSCO	Interface options for searching: EBSCOhost; Student Research Center

SPECIALIZED COLLECTIONS
Country Watch	Current news and information on each of the 192 recognized countries of the world.

IMAGE COLLECTIONS
UnitedStreaming	Educational videos aligned to K-12 curriculum standards.

SPECIALIZED LIBRARY SEARCH ENGINE
JerseyClicks	New Jersey State Library interface. All listed databases can be searched individually or simultaneously.

Topic Links

The Great Gatsby	Short Story Literary Criticism	Read Short Stories on the Web	To Kill a Mockingbird
Elements	Anne Frank	Shakespeare/Elizabethan Links	Mark Twain/Tom Sawyer Culture
Food Careers	Textile/Fashion	Dining Through the Decades	Food Biography
Civil War Poster Project

THE GREAT GATSBY LINKS
Celebrating Fitzgerald's 100th Birthday	Includes a look at how Fitzgerald has been portrayed over the years, essays and articles about him and his works, a biographical timeline, facts about his life, and famous Fitzgerald quotes. Also includes additional web resources to further explore the author's life and works.
Homework Online's Fitzgerald Site	This website explains and poses questions about the author, the characters, the book's themes, and its symbolism, and it includes a reader's forum where people can converse about the book and ask questions.

SHORT STORY LITERARY CRITICISM
American Authors on the Web	Contains links to information on many different American Authors organized by the years that they lived.
Gale's Literary Index	Helps to locate which Gale editions contain information about different authors and their many works.
The Internet Public Library	A comprehensive collection of Links, E-texts, and other research aids.
Literary Resources on the Net	A collection of links to criticism during different time periods and the authors from those periods.

READ SHORT STORIES ON THE WEB
American Literary Classics	A large collection of literary classics that you can read online.
Bibliomania	Read and/or research literature on the web.
Short Stories East of the Web	Read short stories on the web.
The Sugar Quill	Harry Potter fan fiction.

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD LITERARY PROJECT
1930's Setting for To Kill a Mockingbird	A pathfinder to help guide you to a better understanding of the setting in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Background and Links	A great place to find out more about the Background and other aspects of the book.
Chronology of the Civil Rights Movement	Major events that happened during the Civil Rights Movement
The Trial of the Scottsboro Boys	Great information about the Scottsboro Trials.

ELEMENTS RESEARCH PROJECT
Web Elements	An interactive periodic table that gives information on each element on it.
Chemicool Periodic Table	Another interactive periodic table that gives more in depth information on each element.

ANNE FRANK
Anne Frank Guide	A website with many links that talk about Anne Frank, her family, and her life.

SHAKESPEARE/ELIZABETHAN LINKS
Shakespeare/Elizabethan Links	A word file with many links about the Shakespeare/Elizabethan Project

MARK TWAIN/TOM SAWYER CULTURE
Kingswood College Library 19th Century Culture Page 19th Century American Culture	Culture Pages
19th Century Fashion Pictures Fashion Change from the 1850s - 1910s Fashion Past and Present Clothing of the 1830s	Fashion
City Data.com Hannibal Missouri Homepage	Everything You Wanted to Know about Hannibal

FOOD CAREERS
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center	Provides profiles of more than 2,050 of today's most popular jobs in more than 94 industries. (Part of Facts on File - Scroll down until you get to Ferguson's Career Center)
Occupational Outlook Handbook	Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH), 2006-07 Edition
Career Information	Exploring Career Information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Career Planning	About.com Career Planning
Cooking Schools.com	Cooking School Program Directory and Careers
FoodService.com	A directory of Food Service Jobs and Careers
FoodIndustryJobs.com	A list of many jobs in the food industry

TEXTILE FASHION EVALUATION PROJECT
Textile Industry	A link to many of the textiles that you are looking for, including cotton, linen, wool, and silk, along with many inventors of textile and leaders in fashion.
Inventors and Innovations	This is a website that details many different inventors through the Smithsonian Institution.

DINING THROUGH THE DECADES PROJECT
Food Timeline: Popular American Foods by Decade	A great website that covers all kinds of interesting facts about 1920s, including Menus, speakeasies, popular foods, recipes, and fads of the time
Gatsby-style Speakeasy Information Site	Explores many aspects of a Gatsby-style Speakeasy
PBS Site All About Jazz 1920s Jazz Culture More 1920s Jazz Culture	1920s Jazz History Sites: All of these sites give the history of Jazz in the 1920s and discuss the culture and customs of the times.
History of the printed tablecloth	A history of the tablecloth through the years.
Egg Creams Ice Box Cake Orange Recipes Some 1920s Recipes	Various Recipe Sites
1920s American Christmas Fashion Era.com Historic American Christmas Dinner Menus (Scroll Down until you reach the 1920s)	1920s Christmas Dinner Sites

FOOD BIOGRAPHY
Food Biography	A word document with many links to help with the food biographies

CIVIL WAR POSTER PROJECT
PBS History Channel The American Civil War: Dakota University American Civil War Collections at the Electronic Text Center The American Civil War Home Page The Civil War at a Glance American Memory Timeline: Civil War to Reconstruction The American Civil War Homepage - University of TX The History Place: The U.S. Civil War 1861 - 1865	General Civil War Sites
Civil War Battles by State/Campaign Civil War Battles	Civil War Battle Sites
Black Bostonians and the Civil War: The 54th Regiment AA World. Reference Room. Articles. 54th Massachusetts Regiment. PBS	54th Regiment Sites
The Emancipation Proclamation The Lincoln Papers: The Emancipation Proclamation	Emancipation Proclamation Sites
Biography of Ulysses S. Grant Grant and Lee Lee Surrenders Birthplace of Robert E. Lee The Robert E. Lee Papers General William Tecumseh Sherman PBS: The West: William Tecumseh Sherman	Generals Sites
Clara Barton	Clara Barton & the Red Cross

Primary Sources

EBPL Primary Sources List	A list, by topic, of all of the History-related Primary Sources in the East Brunswick Public Library.
American Memory Collections	Provides all kinds of primary documents ranging from newspaper articles, to pictures, maps and other great sources.
American and British History Resources on the Internet	Rutgers has this great database of resources on the Internet to help with American and British History.
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School	Contains documents in law, history, and diplomacy.
Historical Documents of the Internet	A reference database that contains many different U.S. historical documents.
Historical Text Archive	The HTA publishes high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects.
Suffragist Oral History	Primary sources from the Suffragists.
A Chronology of US History Documents	U.S. History documents provided by the University of Oklahoma College of Law.
World War I Document Archive	An archive of conventions, treaties, official papers, diaries, memorials, personal reminiscences and more.

Other Links

How to Evaluate an Internet Source	A great site to help you decide whether an Internet source is valid or not.
United States Department of Justice	This is the main site of the Department of Justice.
United States Department of Education	The homepage of the U.S. Department of Education;
Noodle Tools	A great guide to choosing the best source for your information needs.