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Online Resources
The FREE premium subscription online resources found on Pennsylvania's POWER Library and our own premium resources gives you immediate and unlimited access to thousands of magazines, books, car repair manuals, health information, full text articles, newspapers, a major encyclopedia, photographs, charts, maps, a book advisory service, pictures, reference materials for young people, online courses and test practice and much more.Please see below for complete descriptions. An entire library at your fingertips. Click on any resources below.
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What is available?
Access PennsylvaniaCatalog holdings of almost 3,000 Pennsylvania school, public, academic and special libraries are included in this online resource. Search by author, title, subject or keyword to locate over 44 million items.
AP Images
More than one million current and historical photographs, news stories, audio files and graphics illustrating news stories can be searched by date, place and subject. More than 800 photographs are added daily.
Ask Here PA
Is available to help you get answers to your questions, any time and anywhere you have Internet access. Unlike other "expert" sites on the Web, there is no charge to use the service. They do what libraries have always done best -- quickly getting you the accurate, unbiased information you need. Online chat with Librarians 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Get an answer fast to your question.
Find auto repair and service information for most car models starting in 1954. Factory drawings and step-by-step photographs. Technical service bulletins and recall information. Wiring diagrams for easy viewing printing. Specifications, maintenance schedules and "Care & Repair Tips" with a complete troubleshooting section. Estimate repair costs before visiting the mechanic. Learn more about how your car works, visit the Auto IQ section for videos and animated demonstrations.
Biography Reference Bank
Links to biographical articles on over 470,000 individuals. Full text articles, abstracts and photographs are available from periodicals, feature articles, interviews, essays, performance reviews, speeches and obituaries.
Book Collection: Nonfiction
Contains full text and abstracts for 1,000 popular nonfiction books. Full text articles on literature, social studies, history and science are available and career, health, sports, adventure and technology information is also included.
Business Source Premier
Contains over 3,600 full text business journals, magazines, books and newspapers. It also has SWOT Analysis, white papers on business issues, and helps users research items such as economic or country analyses, investigate market trends or potential, and find current competitive information or landscape analysis information.
Consumer Health Complete
Looking for reliable health information? Need information, but have little time to search for it? Consumer Health Complete is the most comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content available today. It provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. You Can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles.
Contemporary Authors
A guide to current writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures and television. Biographies of these authors are included.
EBSCO Animals
Find in-depth information including the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Indexes, abstracts and full text formats are available. This online resource is designed for children’s interest in the world of animals.
EBSCOhost Español
A Spanish version of the EBSCOhost online resources. Artículos de Revistas y Publicaciones Periódicas)-Busque en las bases de datos EBSCOhost Español información extraída de periódicos, revistas de interés general y publicaciones periódicas; así como información más específica sobre salud y negocios. Este recurso también ofrece bases de datos orientadas a apoyar la tarea escolar de la enseñanza primaria y secundaria. En EBSCOhost Español, sólo la interfaz está disponible en español; los artículos se publican en inglés. Sin embargo, todos los artículos de texto completo pueden traducirse al español. EBSCOhost Español incluye la traducción de las descripciones de las bases de datos y de las pantallas de búsqueda; así como la ayuda en pantalla en español.
ERIC
The Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC) provides full text of 2,200 digests in addition to citations and abstracts from over 980 education or education-related journals.
Facts For Learning
The Elementary School Module teaches younger students how to ask questions, use core reference resources, understand indexes, choose research topics, search online, and read charts and graphs. The Middle School Module provides content written for students in grades 5-8 and is designed for students able to use a more sophisticated format.
Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia
For students and adults alike, the Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia online resource indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The online resource contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This encyclopedia is updated annually. You can find this also in Searchasaurus in a more user friendly format.
Grove Art Online
Provides access to the complete text of the 34-volume Dictionary of Art. Newly- commissioned articles and links to images from galleries and museums from around the world are included.
Grove Music Online
Provides access to the complete text of the 29-volume New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and the New Grove Dictionaries of Opera and Jazz. Links are available to musical sites on the Internet; some examples use Sibelius (music notation software.)
Health Source Plus: Consumer
Search for information on medicine, food and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Over 200 general health publications and more than 190 journals can be searched, including Consumer Reports on Health and Men’s Health.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic
Full text articles from nearly 600 medical journals are provided. Abstracts and indexing is available from nearly 850 medical journals.
Heritage Quest Online
Find your ancestors, trace their paths across America, and learn what life was like in the areas where they settled. Provides over 25,000 full-text cover to cover family and local history books, U.S. Federal Census 1790-1930, PERSI, a subject index to over 6,500 genealogy and local history periodicals, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files and U.S. Serials Set.
. . is the world's most comprehensive full text history reference online resource designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. The online resource features cover-to-cover full text for more than 750 historical encyclopedias and other non-fiction books, including award winning titles from many top publishers. The online resource contains 58,000 historical documents; 43,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 12,000 historical photos and maps; and 87 hours of historical film and video.
Kids Search (for grades K-5)
Easy to use all-in-one search tool to find magazines & newspapers articles, dictionary & encyclopedia entries, and images on a wide variety of topics.
Learning Express
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Learning Express is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of
practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help students and adult learners—succeed on
the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer
explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. If you need help in school then this is
perfect for you. Grades K through adult.
Bibliographic online resource that provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, online information retrieval, information management and more. LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced online resource covering the field of information science.
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Search for full text poems, citations and excerpts using Poem Finder. Poet biographies, a Kids’ Korner, and the Year’s Best Poetry are included. Story Finder provides thousands of full text short stories with explanations, biographies, and more. Use Essay Finder to locate full text essays and discursive writing based on books published in the 20th century. The essays focus on humanities and social sciences and include biographies and literary criticisms.
MAS Ultra - School Edition -
General interest and current events magazines are indexed and abstracted. Full text articles are available for nearly 300 publications and 400 pamphlets. Some full text reference books are also available.
MasterFILE Premier
Covering virtually every general interest subject area, this online resource provides full text information dating as far back as 1975. Reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and a collection of photos, maps and flags are included.
Middle Search Plus
Suggested for middle and junior high research, full text information is available from more than 150 magazines – some from as far back as 1990. All articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexile.)
netLibrary
Over 10,000 Electronic books (eBooks) are available through this link. netLibrary eBooks are full text searchable and available for use on personal computers in online formats.
Newspaper Source
Selected full text articles are available from over 180 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers newspaper columns and other sources. Indexing and abstracts are available for national newspapers.
Next Reads
Get great book suggestions by e-mail! Select as many newsletters to subscribe to as you would like. To see a sample of each newsletter, click on the name of the newsletter. Each book title links directly to the Access Pennsylvania online resource where you can find libraries that own the book. Finding the book that interests you couldn't be easier. When you sign up for a newsletter you will receive a confirmation e-mail and then you will receive your selected newsletters.
NoveList
Includes fiction authors, titles and themes. Provides suggestions of books that are similar to those of a particular author or a certain title. Expand your reading horizons with Novelist. Librarians can use this online resource as a readers’ advisory service to assist patrons who enjoy fiction. Teachers can use this resource for enhancement of curriculum.
NoveList K-8Information about more than 38,000 fiction titles of interest to students in grades K-8. Full text reviews from professional journals and book talks for selected titles are available in this online resource. A good resource to expand student reading interest by introducing new authors or additional books in a subject area.
Oxford Reference Online
Provides information on many subjects including general reference, language and quotations, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, business and professions. Bilingual dictionaries provided in English/French, English/German, English/Spanish, and English/Italian.
Primary Search
Suggested for elementary school research, full text information is available from more than 60 magazines – some from as far back as 1990. All articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexile.)
Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional teachers, home school parents, and others interesting in education. Find 550 full text journals are included in the collection.
Regional Business News
Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Salud en Español
(Consumer Health Complete in Spanish), Salud en Español provee reportes completos basados en evidencias y fichas de datos relacionados a todos los aspectos de la salud y el bienestar. Reportes específicos por tema que cubren todos los aspectos de la salud, dan información general importante en relación a enfermedades, afecciones y procedimientos de diversos tratamientos.
Searchasaurus
Suggested for children, this resource includes an encyclopedia, an encyclopedia of animals, magazine searches for primary and middle school grade levels, a dictionary, photos, maps and flags. A good homework resource.
SIRS Discoverer
Includes full text articles and images from over 1,600 domestic and international newspapers, magazines and government documents. Articles are assigned a reading level – Easy, Moderate or Challenging- based on age-appropriate, educational content, interest and reading level. This online resource is an excellent student resource.
Student Research Center (for grades 6-12)
Easy to use all-in-one search tool to find magazines & newspapers articles, dictionary & encyclopedia entries, and images on a wide variety of topics.
Teacher Reference Center
Contains over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals and books. This online resource provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics and more.