The Jennings Library collections include our print books as well as a vast array of digital collections. These are organized in databases and are accessible from a few different pathways.
Library databases have a variety of advanced search functions that you might want to use. One function is Boolean operators, which include using the words AND and OR in structured ways to tell the database exactly what you're looking for.
This multidisciplinary online reference library provides access to a selection of 601 reference books and 3,412,690 entries. This is good place to start exploring a topic for many introductory and intermediate classes.
Collection of reference databases containing biographies, events & topics, overview essays, primary sources and more. The content covers American, Modern World, and Ancient and Medieval History.
A full-text database designed to provide students with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study, and are accompanied by supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications.
Direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest, categorized into 21 market sectors.
Full text of over 1300 newspapers, news websites and blogs from leading publishers throughout the world. The database includes the backfile for most newspapers, providing access to articles, columns, editorials, obituaries and features published in each paper.
This is a selection of databases that have often supported EN 111 topics. For almost any topic, you can start exploring scholarly articles in Academic Search Premier, which contains scholarly journals from many areas of study.
A scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 4,770 full-text journals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. This multi-disciplinary database offers an enormous collection of the most valuable full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. This database is an excellent source of peer-reviewed, full-text for STEM research, as well as for the Social Sciences and Humanities.
This collection offers the multiformat content needed for studying and researching education, covering educational leadership, educational technology, pedagogy, education policy, special education, and many other areas. Millions of full-text items including scholarly journals, videos, dissertations, reference work, grey literature, popular news sources, and more are supplemented by topic pages that pull together resources on education theories and theorists, policies, research concepts, and featured topics (e.g. assistive technology, digital literacies, game-based learning, learning analytics, etc.). This collection includes ERIC, and its indexing uses the ERIC thesaurus.
More than 1.4 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials; most journals are peer-reviewed but not all are full-text. In addition to the journal literature, ERIC indexes education-related materials from a variety of sources, including scholarly organizations, professional associations, research centers, policy organizations, university presses, the U.S. Department of Education and other federal agencies, and state and local agencies. Funded by the New Jersey State Library.
Scholarly, government and general-interest publications covering all aspects of human impact to the environment, including global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records. Funded by the New Jersey State Library.
JSTOR Sustainability is a collection of academic and policy research on environmental stresses and their impact on society. There also topic pages, which explain more than 1,500 key terms related to sustainability, as well as theme-based searching.
Topic overviews, journal articles, news, pro/con viewpoint essays, primary documents and links to websites for a variety of social issues. All articles are full-text.
Discover extensive, foundational full-text scholarly content from journals, as well as magazines, news sources, trade publications and more. Users can access content from Springer, Cambridge University Press, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and more. This dynamic, multidisciplinary resource delivers coverage aligned to discipline-specific curriculum and is enhanced with video, ebooks, abstracts & indexes, and primary sources.
More than 153,000 full-text articles from 80 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. Coverage spans 1894 to the present and nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1. All journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO.