Current, online version of the definitive dictionary of the English language. Traces the evolution of a word over time.

A collection of reference works including poetry and quotation indexes, full-text for the Bible and Shakespeare, dictionaries and encyclopedias.

A collection of electronic reference books in the Sciences, Social Sciences, History, Religion, Business, Multicultural Studies and Arts.

Searchable access to over 200 Oxford University Press reference sources.

"Data.gov starts an exciting new chapter in its evolution to make government data more accessible and usable than ever before."

Data sets in social sciences. (You must create a MyData account to download data.)

A comprehensive collection of statistics related to social, political and economic conditions in the United States. Published annually by the government since 1878; as of 2013 published by Proquest. Updated monthly.

Online version of Encyclopedia Britannica, with links to recommended web sites.

(Provided through NJ State Library; also available through jerseyclicks.org)
Useful for EXAMPLES of persuasive/point of view essays.
Full-text series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 200 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument).

One of the best sources for finding and verifying famous quotations. Scroll down to the Search within work box to search quotations.

ArtStor is now incorprated into JSTOR. For more information about the change please see https://www.jstor.org/artstor/. ARTstor is a digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. The collections comprise contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists’ estates.