Magazine, Newspapers

Database links on this page are for use only inside the Main library and  the Preakness branch.

Several quality online information databases are available to users through the EBSCOhost service. These include: MasterFILE Premier,  Using this database, you can search for full-text information in over 1800 periodicals covering a wide variety of subjects.

Literary Reference Center - is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day.

Middle Search Plus - Search for information in over 100 magazines for a middle and jr. high school audience.

Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia - Search by subject or keyword in a database of over 25,000 entries.

EBSCO Animals - Full-text, abstract, and indexing information relating to familiar animals.

Primary Search - Search over 70 magazines designed for a children's and elementary school audience.

MAS Online- Full-text coverage of over 500 current events, popular, and general interest periodicals.

After entering the EBSCOhost service, select the individual database that you would like to search  or accept the default database setting for MasterFILE Premier.

New Jersey Residents can now access a new statewide portal that features searching of the suite of statewide full-text databases. The 15 databases cover subjects such as health, history, business, education, science, current events, literature and popular fiction. The suite also inlcudes Informe, a Spanish language full-text database.

Using the Quick Search offers keyword searching across all 15 databases. When searching from outside a New Jersey library, and after a search is entered, the user will be asked to enter his or her library card number before results will be seen. If the search is done within a library building, no library card will be required.
 

InfoTrac Select Full Text Online Newspaper Access

The New Jersey State Library, through the InfoTrac online database service, has made online access available to New Jersey newspapers, the New York Times full text from January 1, 2000 to present, plus many more national and international newspapers. By utilitzing this link, Wayne Public Library users can begin their search.