Search for an article, eBook, streaming video or music from a relevant database on this list.
If you are off campus, you must use your Ocean Connect user name and password in order to access the databases.
See databases listed alphabetically.
| Name | Description |
| Alexander Street Press – Theater Collection | Streaming videos with a focus on plays |
| Art Full Text | Art Full Text is a comprehensive resource covering fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as photography, folk art, film, architecture and much more.* |
| Fine Arts & Music Collection | Wilson Art Index and RILM are among the resources in this collection. |
| Oxford Music Online | Oxford Music Online offers users the ability to access and cross-search multiple music reference resources in one location.With over 60,000 articles, images, and musical examples from Grove Music Online as its cornerstone, Oxford Music Online also contains The Oxford Companion to Music, which offers more than 8,000 articles; and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, which supplements Grove’s articles with content geared toward undergraduates and general users.* ** |
| Name | Description |
| Business Collection | Coverage includes accounting, marketing and management, plus business theory and practice. |
| Business, Economics, and Theory Collection | More than 150 academic journals and magazines support econ studies. |
| Business Insights | Case studies, articles and robust data sets coupled with references and analytic tools. |
| Business Source Premier | This business database provides full text for over 1,000 business publications. The rich collection of titles in Business Source Premier provides information dating back to 1985. More than 10,100 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included.* |
| Gale Onefile: Entrepreneurship | Full-text insights, tips and strategies for students and entrepreneurs. |
| Reference Solutions by Data Axel (formerly ReferenceUSA) | Detailed information on more than 14 million U.S. businesses, including company size, corporate structure, and financial information. |
| Regional Business News | Full text access to regional business publications from all metropolitan and rural areas within the U.S. |
| Name | Description |
| Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center | Vocational guidance and information on careers.. |
| Hospitality, Tourism, and Leisure Collection | Current content allows for focused study of the leisure industry. |
| Peterson’s Test and Career Prep | Contains access to career information and test prep for common tests like the TEAS and NCLEX. Students need to create an individual account in order to track their progress. |
| Vocations and Career Collections | Nearly 400 titles include general career guides and industry journals |
| Name | Description |
| Communications and Mass Media | Current, accurate information covers advertising, literature, linguistics and more. |
| Communications and Mass Media Complete | Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study.* |
| Name | Description |
| CQ Researcher | Offers comprehensive analyses of contemporary issues. The database contains up-to-date information on controversial topics, pro and con arguments, chronology, and annotated bibliographies.* |
| Global Issues in Context | Offers analysis of global issues and provides access to global news sources and some primary documents. Emphasizes global perspectives of international and current events. |
| Opposing Viewpoints | Offers comprehensive analyses of contemporary issues through viewpoint essays, topic overviews, statistics, and articles.* |
| Points of View | Full text database containing a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. |
| SIRS Researcher | Information on social issues, health, science, and business |
| Name | Description |
| EBSCO eBooks | The Ebsco EBook collection offers access to hundreds of digital ebooks, covering a wide variety of subject areas |
| EBSCO eBooks – Academic Collection | A collection of 126,000 eBooks including titles from leading university presses such as Oxford University Press, MIT Press, Harvard University Press and many others. |
| EBSCO eBooks – Community College Collection | This multidisciplinary collection contains more than 48,800 titles from subject areas such as the Humanities, Social Sciences, Business, Science & Technology, and Literary Criticism. |
| Overdrive/Libby | Browse the library’s collection of ebooks and audio books. Use your Ocean Connect username and password as your library card. |
| Salem Press eBooks | This collection includes books on literature, history, and health. Use “oceancounty” as the password to access this content. |
| Springer eBooks | Online access to Springer’s eBook content, including thousands of handbooks, textbooks, reference works, book series, proceedings and monographs. Be sure to uncheck the box that says “Include Preview-Only content” |
| Name | Description |
| Chronicle of Higher Education | A weekly newspaper focusing on higher education: news from campuses, the latest developments in scholarly research and information technology, reports on government actions that affect colleges and more. |
| Curriculum Resource Center | Provides a library of printable teacher-handout material for the middle, high school, and junior college curriculum. |
| Educators Reference Complete | Journal and references cover child development, best practices and more. |
| ERIC | The Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC) provides full text access to education-related journals, government publications, and educational resources.* |
| Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory, and Practice | The Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice provides the educational community, federal and state governmental officials, and the general public a medium to exhibit and explore the complex issue of student retention and attrition. The Journal features articles pertaining to current and new theoretical constructs and current research on student retention and attrition in higher education. |
| Middle Search Plus | Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays, primary source documents, and a School Image Collection of photos, maps and flags. |
| NoveList | A Readers’ Advisory database with reading recommendations for all ages. This database also provides thematic book lists and discussion guides. |
| NoveList K-8 | A Readers’ Advisory database with reading recommendations for children and teens. This database also provides book talks, and curricular connection articles. |
| Primary Search | “Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.” |
| World Alamanac for Kids | Presents resources for homework, reports, and projects in a fun format while encouraging online research skills from a trusted source. |
| Name | Description |
| A to Z Maps – Off-Campus A to Z Maps – On-Campus | Online access to a large collection of maps including political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. |
| Biography in Context | References and multimedia deliver history-spanning coverage of notables. |
| Chilton Library | Authoritative automotive repair covers the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years. |
| Encyclopedia Britannica | Online reference source, including timelines, world data, quotations, and atlases. Includes links to outside journals, newspapers, and websites. |
| Oxford English Dictionary | Provides access to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of more than 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world. |
| Oxford Reference Collection | Online access to the world’s most trusted reference collection, including dictionaries in English and other languages, encyclopedias, quotations, and subject guides. |
| World Alamanac for Kids | Presents resources for homework, reports, and projects in a fun format while encouraging online research skills from a trusted source. |
| Name | Description |
| Academic Onefile | The premier source for peer-reviewed articles covering all academic disciplines. |
| Academic Search Premier | Provides full text access to a very broad range of topics: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.** |
| Films on Demand – Master Academic Collection | Contains streaming video. |
| FMG Archival Films & Newsreels Collection | Contains streaming video. |
| Gale Databases | A list of all the database provided by Gale. |
| General Onefile | Millions of articles cover a full range of academic and general-interest topics |
| MasterFILE Elite | This multidisciplinary database 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 592,000 photos, maps & flags. |
| Oxford Journals | The home of peer-reviewed journals published by Oxford University Press and learned societies from around the world |
| Power Search | Search a variety of Gale Databases. |
| Name | Description |
| CINAHL & CINAHL with Full Text | The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) is the authoritative source for nursing and allied health professionals and students, offering access to nearly 2,800 journals.* |
| Health Reference Center | Find reliable information on fitness, pregnancy, nutrition and much more. |
| Health and Medicine | Find reliable information on fitness, pregnancy, nutrition and much more. |
| Health & Wellness | Alternative-focused newspapers, directories, videos and references. |
| Journals@Ovid | Provides e-access to the following journals: American Journal of Nursing, Holistic Nursing Practice, Home Healthcare Nurse, Professional Case Management, Nursing, Nurse Educator, and Nursing Management (LWW). Full-text availability varies by journal. |
| MEDLINE | Full text access to authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine. |
| Nursing & Allied Health | Current content helps nursing professionals as well as students. |
| Nursing Videos (Alexander Street Press) | Provides access to over 400 Nursing/Allied Health related videos. |
| Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine | Relevant, authoritative content covers treatment, research and more. |
| Name | Description |
| African American History | Features thousands of cross-referenced entries, covering the entire spectrum of African-American history over the past 500 years. |
| American History | Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history to cover the American experience. |
| American Indian History | Offers fast access to more than 600 Native American groups and over 15,000 years of American Indian culture and history. |
| American Women’s History | Covers the important people, events, legislation, and issues relevant to the study of women’s history in the United States. |
| Ancient and Medieval History | Focuses on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Islamic Empire from prehistory through the 1500s |
| Facts on File | Search for historical facts in a wide range of subject areas: American History, Women’s History, African-American History, Ancient and Medieval History, and more. |
| History Reference Source | History Reference Source is the world’s most comprehensive full text history reference database designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. The database features full text for more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers. |
| JSTOR | JSTOR provides access to more than 10 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. |
| Modern World History | Covers the people, places, and events in the broad expanse of history—from the mid-15th century to the present. |
| Religion and Philosophy | Insightful content covers every category of religion and philosophy. |
| U.S. History | Robust coverage for both novice historians and advanced researchers. |
| U.S. History in Context | Contextual content on significant people, events and topics in US History. |
| World Geography and Culture Online | World Geography and Culture is the definitive resource for the study of countries, cultures, and geography concepts and skills. Every country of the world is profiled in depth, covering all aspects of its geography, history, society, and culture. At-a-glance information, maps and flags, videos, images, gazetteer entries, biographies of famous people, a timeline, and current news supplement each country profile. Comprehensive entries about the U.S. states are also available. |
| World History | Well-rounded coverage of current thinking and scholarly work. |
| World History in Context | Contextual content on significant people, events and topics in World History. |
| Name | Description |
| Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text | “Contains more than 200,000 records selected from the most important sources within the discipline. Subject areas covered include: criminology; criminal justice; criminal law and procedure; corrections and prisons; police and policing; criminal investigation; forensic sciences and investigation; history of crime; substance abuse and addiction; probation and parole.” |
| Criminal Justice | “Access to 150 journals gives users insight into criminal justice topics.” |
| Hein Online | HeinOnline is a premier online database containing more than 150 million pages and 160,000 titles of legal history and government documents in a fully searchable, image-based format. |
| Homeland Security Digital Library | This database offers information on virtually every dimension of security & counter-terrorism and is designed to inform the analysis process, as well as enhance the general understanding of Offers thousands of reports, hearings, analyses, maps, and other media covering a variety of subjects related to Homeland Security – from terrorism to climate change. NOTE: Restricted Database – ONLY available on OCC Library computers. This database is provided by the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) and is not available for off-campus access. |
| Legal Information Source | Legal Information Source contains hundreds of full-text publications and thousands of legal forms. The full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation’s oldest and most-respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses. |
| LegalTrac | Covers U.S. cases, laws, regulations and legal practice, plus international law. |
| Military & Intelligence | Journal content covers the past and current state of military affairs. |
| War and Terrorism | Periodicals for analysts, risk management professionals and students. |
| Westlaw | Online legal research database provides access to statutes, cases, public records, law review articles, and secondary sources such as New Jersey Practice Series. |
| Name | Description |
| Bloom’s Literature | Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature. |
| Contemporary Authors | Provides biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. |
| Gale Literature | Combining Gale literary sources, Artemis lets you search primary sources, critical articles, literary and cultural analysis, and biographies. |
| Literature Criticism Online | Provides electronic access to Gale’s critical anthologies, including: Children’s Literature; Contemporary Literature; Drama; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Poetry; Short Story; Twentieth-Century Literature |
| Literary Reference Source | A full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, and hundreds of literary journals. |
| Literature Resource Center | Full text access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and playwrights.* |
| MLA International Bibliography with Full Text | A bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations in the areas of literature collected by the Modern Language Association. Now with Full-Text Content |
| Name | Description |
| Asbury Park Press | Access to the Asbury Park Press from 1999 to the present. |
| Chronicle of Higher Education | A weekly newspaper focusing on higher education: news from campuses, the latest developments in scholarly research and information technology, reports on government actions that affect colleges and more. |
| Flipster | An easy-to-use digital magazine newsstand. |
| News: Gale Onefile | Search full-text articles by headline, date, newspaper section and more. |
| New York Times Registration | Use this link to register for access to the New York Times Academic product. |
| New York Times | Offers full text and full-page image access to the New York Times from 1980 through to the present. |
| New York Times InEducation | Click “register” to register for your free account. |
| U.S. Major Dailies | Provides access to The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times (Late Edition, East Coast), New York Times Book Review, New York Times Magazine, Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition, Online), The Washington Post, and WSJ : the Magazine from the Wall Street Journal. |
| US Northeast Newsstream | Provides access to the Asbury Park Press, Courier – News, Courier Post, Daily Journal, Daily Record, Home News Tribune, and the Ocean County Observer, plus newspapers from Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. |
| U.S. Newsstream | Provides access to a variety of news sources from across the country. |
| Name | Description |
| APA Psycharticles | Full text access to scholarly and scientific psychology articles, many from the American Psychological Association.* |
| Psychology Collection | Find 24/7 access to 200 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals. |
| Name | Description |
| Agriculture | Nearly 200 titles provide broad coverage of agriculture and related fields. |
| Computer Science – Gale Onefile | News and reviews on electronics, engineering, communications and more. |
| Engineering Source | Covers topics in Engineering. |
| Environmental Studies and Policy | Find robust coverage of environmental policies and perspectives. |
| Environmental Studies in Context | Multimedia coverage of environmental issues, including health care and climate change. |
| GreenFILE | GreenFILE offers scholarly, government and general-interest titles covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Topics include 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. |
| ScienceDirect | ScienceDirect is a comprehensive, full text database providing coverage of core, scholarly journals and books from a wide variety of subject disciplines, including the biological, physical, and engineering/computer sciences, as well as social and behavioral sciences, such as psychology, education, and business. NOTE: Full text is only available for journals from 1995 to the present |
| Science in Context | Timely reference content joins science-based articles, news, experiments and more. |
| Science Online | Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive essays, videos, diagrams, definitions, biographies, and experiments. |
| Name | Description |
| Alexander Street Press – Theatre Collection | Streaming video with a focus on theater and plays |
| Alexander Street Press – Nursing Videos | Streaming video with a focus on Nursing. |
| Academic Video Online | Streaming video on a variety of topics. |
| Films on Demand – Master Academic Collection | Streaming video on a variety of topics. |
| Films on Demand – Nursing Video Collection | Streaming video on a variety of topics.. |
| FMG Archival Films & Newsreels Collection | Streaming video on a variety of topics. |
| Kanopy | Streaming video on a variety of topics. |
* Database funded through VALE New Jersey
