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Access PA Power Library
Delivered by the Commonwealth Libraries for local Public and School Libraries.
These include: ACCESS PA, AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive, Bigchalk, EBSCO
Host, Gale Group (Contemporary Authors and Scribner Writers Series), Grove's
Dictionaries, Poem Finder, Searchasaurus, and SIRS Discoverer.
Carnegie Library of
Pittsburgh - News, Weather & Sports
Local and national newspapers and magazines offered free on the web.
EBSCO Host
Databases/Access PA Power Library
Full-text magazine indexes, newspaper indexes, and encyclopedias covering a wide
range of subjects.
NoveList
An electronic advisory service that helps fiction readers find new authors and
titles, based on what authors and books they have liked.
SIRS Discoverer/Access PA
Power Library
An informative database of full-text articles that children of all ages can use
to do research, read stories, learn about important people, places and events,
and find fun projects to do. Articles fall under one or more of 15 categories:
animals, arts, countries, cultures, drugs and alcohol, environment, health &
human body, history & government, just for fun, notable people, personal
growth, science, social issues, sports, and technology. It also includes a
dictionary, a world almanac, and an encyclopedia.
Biography
Resource Center
The Biography Resource Center is a comprehensive database of biographical
information on more than 185,000 people from throughout history, around the
world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It contains approximately
250,000 biographies from respected Gale Group sources. The database also
includes full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals. Search for people based
on one or more personal facts such as birth and death years and places,
nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a
highly-targeted custom search path.
Literature
Resource Center
Designed to meet the research needs of undergraduate and high school students,
the Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies
and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.
Combining Gale's most used< literary databases in a single
Internet-searchable service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than
90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth
coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors. Search by Author Name, Title,
Genre, Literary Movement or Literary Themes, or combine criteria to create a
highly-targeted custom search path.
Access Pennsylvania
On-Line Catalog
A state resource-sharing project, this database contains the holdings of 2,500
school, public, special and academic libraries in Pennsylvania and contains over
35 million holdings and over 5.6 million unique records. 97% of Pennsylvania's
school districts participate.
booksinprint.com
Our subscription now includes over 600,000 full-text reviews from many
professional resources. Plus, there's a notation if a title has been reviewed in
key publications such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and 8 others.
netLibrary
Note: Before you use this site you must "create an
account" on netlibrary.com from a computer in an eiNetwork library (or any
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh). Afterwards you may access netLibrary from home,
using that account and password, to read selected books online or you may
download an entire book to your computer to read offline. With an account you
will be able to access and read 3,823 public books and the Carnegie Library of
Pittsburgh's e-book collection.
NoveList
An electronic advisory service that helps fiction readers find new authors and
titles, based on what authors and books they have liked.
Business and
Company Resource Center - Gale Group
1980 - current month. Business & Company Resource Center brings together in
a single database company profiles, company brand information, rankings,
investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals. Search
this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.
Business Source Elite -
EBSCOhost
Provides full text for over 770 journals covering business, management,
economics, finance, banking, accounting.
PROMT -
Predicast's Overview of Markets and Technology - Gale Group
Provides comprehensive, reliable, and global coverage of companies, products,
and technologies. PROMT is an ideal database for conducting first-stop and
retrospective searches that answer fundamental and complex business questions.
Use this database to research companies, the products and technologies they
produce, and the markets in which they compete. Includes summaries and full text
from nearly 1,000 business and trade journals, industry newsletters, newspapers,
market research studies, news releases, and investment and brokerage firm
reports.
Regional Business News -
EBSCOhost
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business
publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business
journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within
the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Contemporary Authors -
Gale Group
Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical
information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
Literature
Resource Center (LRC) - Gale Group
Designed to meet the research needs of undergraduate and high school students,
the Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies
and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.
Facts.com
FACTS.com delivers the full text of 52 years of the print edition of Facts On
File World News Digest, from January 1950 through the end of the most recent
weekly issue, along with overview materials, primary source documents,
photographs, maps, biographies, and country profiles, and newswire updates from
Reuters. In addition you can use selected content from six other core reference
databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people.
Facts.com - Issues and
Controversies on File
Issues and Controversies on File is a dependable online source of up-to-date,
in-depth and objective information on the most prominent and hotly debated
issues of the day. Chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars,
bibliographies and contact information augment the balanced, accurate coverage
of current and historical events.
Grove Dictionary of Art
Online - POWER Library
Comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts from
prehistory to the present day.
Grove Dictionary of Music
and Musicians - POWER Library
Known as "the unchallenged authority on all aspects of music, renowned for
its coverage, authority and accuracy," the online version of this source
now includes all the great search features the Internet offers including keyword
searching, graphics, and cross-references.
SIRS Discoverer
An informative database of full-text articles that children of all ages can use
to do research, read stories, learn about important people, places and events,
and find fun projects to do. Articles fall under one or more of 15 categories:
animals, arts, countries, cultures, drugs and alcohol, environment, health &
human body, history & government, just for fun, notable people, personal
growth, science, social issues, sports, and technology. It also includes a
dictionary, a world almanac, and an encyclopedia.
ERIC - EBSCOhost
Provides citation and abstract information from over 750 educational journals
and related documents from the Educational Resource Information Center and
educational symposium report literature dating back to 1967.
Expanded
Academic ASAP - Gale Group
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this
database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly
journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images.
EBSCO Animals
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals from
the Encyclopedia of Animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and
full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
Funk & Wagnalls New
World Encyclopedia - EBSCOhost
Provides 25,000 informative articles on a broad range of topics.
Alt-Health
Watch - EBSCOhost
This database focuses on the many perspectives of complimentary, holistic and
integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries an
immediate resource of full text articles from more than 170 international
peer-reviewed and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings,
association & consumer newsletters (most from 1990 to the present), plus
hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book
excerpts.
Clinical Pharmacology -
EBSCOhost
Clinical Pharmacology provides access up-to-date, concise and
clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs,
hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and
new and investigational drugs.
Health Source: Consumer
Edition - EBSCOhost
With Health Source - Consumer Edition you can search for information on many
health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition,
childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source - Consumer Edition
features searchable full text for over 190 journals including Consumer Reports
on Health and Men's Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for over 205
general health, nutrition and professional health care publications.
Health Source:
Nursing/Academic Edition - EBSCOhost
This database provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many
medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features
abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a
daily basis.
Find census, birth, marriage, death records and much more.
Facts.com
FACTS.com delivers the full text of 52 years of the print edition of Facts On
File World News Digest, from January 1950 through the end of the most recent
weekly issue, along with overview materials, primary source documents,
photographs, maps, biographies, and country profiles, and newswire updates from
Reuters. In addition you can use selected content from six other core reference
databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people.
Facts.com - Issues and
Controversies on File
Issues and Controversies on File is a dependable online source of up-to-date,
in-depth and objective information on the most prominent and hotly debated
issues of the day. Chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars,
bibliographies and contact information augment the balanced, accurate coverage
of current and historical events.
Access PA POWER Library
Databases provided by the State of Pennsylvania for the residents. These
include: ACCESS PA, AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive, Bigchalk, EBSCO Host, Gale
Group (Contemporary Authors and Scribner Writers Series), Grove's
Dictionaries, Poem Finder, Searchasaurus, and SIRS Discoverer.
Carnegie Library of
Pittsburgh - News, Weather & Sports
Local and national newspapers and magazines offered free on the web.
EBSCO Host
Full text magazine indexes, newspaper indexes, and an encyclopedia, including
these databases:
MasterFile Premier, Health Source: Nursing/Academic and Consumer
Editions, Middle Search Plus, EBSCO Animals, Business Source Elite, Primary
Search, Newspaper Source, ERIC, MAS Online Plus, Funk and Wagnalls New World
Encyclopedia, Alt-Health Watch, Novelist, Searchasaurus, Professional
Development Collection, Regional Business News, Clinical Pharmacology
Gale Group
Databases include: Ancestry Plus, Biography Resource Center, Business
and Company Resource Center, Expanded Academic ASAP, Health and Wellness
Resource Center, Literature Resource Center, and Predicast's Overview of Markets
and Technology (PROMT)
Access Pennsylvania
On-Line Catalog
A state resource-sharing project, this database contains the holdings of 2,500
school, public, special and academic libraries in Pennsylvania and contains over
35 million holdings and over 5.6 million unique records. 97% of Pennsylvania's
school districts participate.
AccuNet/AP Photo Archives
An on-line database containing almost a half-million of Associated Press's
current and historical images for the last 150 years. It is accessible via the
Internet and made available in this format to schools K-12, colleges and
universities and public libraries nationwide by AccuWeather, Inc.
Bigchalk - POWER Library
Designed specifically for younger researchers with tailored content to more than
60 cover-to-cover magazine and newspaper titles - as well as TV and radio
transcripts, books and reference collections, photographs and images, and maps.
100% full text, updated daily.
EBSCO Animals - EBSCO
Host
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The
database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the
nature and habitat of familiar animals.
Funk & Wagnalls New
World Encyclopedia - EBSCOhost
Provides 25,000 informative articles on a broad range of topics.
Middle Search Plus -
EBSCOhost
Provides abstracts and indexing for over 170 magazines, and searchable full text
for over 52 of the most frequently used magazines in middle school libraries,
including 115 pamphlets. Also offers Essential Documents of American History.
Primary Search -
EBSCOhost
Provides the full text of over 40 magazines for young readers and abstracts and
indexing for over 120 magazines. Primary Search is updated monthly and also
includes Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, the World Almanac for Kids
and the World Almanac of the USA.
Searchasaurus - PA POWER
Library
Availability: as an option in the Access PA Power Library, Searchasaurus offers
a graphical interface for kids to EBSCO's Encyclopedia of Animals, General
Encyclopedia, Middle Search Plus and Primary Search. There is also a tutorial.
From EBSCOHOST.
SIRS Discoverer - PA
POWER Library
An informative database of full-text articles that children can use to do
research, read stories, learn about important people, places and events, and
find fun projects to do. Articles fall under one or more of 15 categories:
animals, arts, countries, cultures, drugs and alcohol, environment, health &
human body, history & government, just for fun, notable people, personal
growth, science, social issues, sports, and technology. It also includes a
dictionary, a world almanac, and an encyclopedia.
Contemporary Authors -
Gale Group
Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical
information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
Literature
Resource Center (LRC) - Gale Group
Designed to meet the research needs of undergraduate and high school students,
the Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies
and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.
Poem Finder - POWER
Library
Complete coverage of world poetry from antiquity to the present. Includes over
70,000 full text poems and over 750,000 poem citations and excerpts.
NoveList
An electronic advisory service that helps fiction readers find new authors and
titles, based on what authors and books they have liked.
Scribner Writers Series -
Gale Group
Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600
authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series.
EBSCO Host
Full text magazine indexes, newspaper indexes, and an encyclopedia, including
these databases:
MasterFile Premier, Health Source: Nursing/Academic and Consumer
Editions, Middle Search Plus, EBSCO Animals, Business Source Elite, Primary
Search, Newspaper Source, ERIC, MAS Online Plus, Funk and Wagnalls New World
Encyclopedia, Alt-Health Watch, Novelist, Searchasaurus, Professional
Development Collection, Regional Business News, Clinical Pharmacology
ERIC - EBSCOhost
Provides citation and abstract information from over 750 educational journals
and related documents from the Educational Resource Information Center and
educational symposium report literature dating back to 1967.
Expanded
Academic ASAP - Gale Group
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this
database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly
journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images.
SIRS Discoverer - PA
POWER Library
An informative database of full-text articles that children can use to do
research, read stories, learn about important people, places and events, and
find fun projects to do. Articles fall under one or more of 15 categories:
animals, arts, countries, cultures, drugs and alcohol, environment, health &
human body, history & government, just for fun, notable people, personal
growth, science, social issues, sports, and technology. It also includes a
dictionary, a world almanac, and an encyclopedia.
Grove Dictionary of Art
Online - POWER Library
Comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts from
prehistory to the present day.
Grove Dictionary of Music
and Musicians - POWER Library
Known as "the unchallenged authority on all aspects of music, renowned for
its coverage, authority and accuracy," the online version of this source
now includes all the great search features the Internet offers including keyword
searching, graphics, and cross-references.
Carnegie Library of
Pittsburgh - News, Weather & Sports
Local and national newspapers and magazines offered free on the web.
Newspaper Source -
EBSCOhost
Provides abstracts of articles published in 4 national newspapers: New York
Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor and USA Today plus
selected full text from over 114 other newspapers.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Newsbank
Perform searches on past issues of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (from 1990 to the
present). Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including
community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities,
local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid
advertisements are excluded.
AP Photo Archives
An on-line database containing almost a half-million of Associated Press's
current and historical images for the last 150 years. It is accessible via the
Internet and made available in this format to schools K-12, colleges and
universities and public libraries nationwide by AccuWeather, Inc.
Poem Finder
- POWER Library
Complete coverage of world poetry from antiquity to the present. Includes over
70,000 full text poems and over 750,000 poem citations and excerpts.
Literature
Resource Center (LRC) - Gale Group
Designed to meet the research needs of undergraduate and high school students,
the Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies
and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.
EBSCO Animals- EBSCO Host
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals from
the Encyclopedia of Animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and
full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
Encyclopedia of Astronomy
and Astrophysics - POWER Library
Presenting a wealth of scholarship, research, discovery, and theory, the
Encyclopedia offers 2,750 original articles commissioned from over 800 experts
in the fields of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Encyclopedia of Life
Sciences - POWER Library
The largest single reference source ever published in the life sciences, ELS
will contain more than 3,000 original articles written by 5,000 of the worlds
leading scientists.
PROMT -
Predicast's Overview of Markets and Technology - Gale Group
Provides comprehensive, reliable, and global coverage of companies, products,
and technologies. PROMT is an ideal database for conducting first-stop and
retrospective searches that answer fundamental and complex business questions.
Use this database to research companies, the products and technologies they
produce, and the markets in which they compete. Includes summaries and full text
from nearly 1,000 business and trade journals, industry newsletters, newspapers,
market research studies, news releases, and investment and brokerage firm
reports.
Scientific American
Archive - POWER Library
Web access to the complete text and graphics of every issue of Scientific
American from 1993 to the present.
Testing and Education Reference Center
Search for colleges, distance (online) learning opportunities, programs for international students, and nursing schools. Search thousands of graduate, law, M.B.A., nursing, and distance learning (online) opportunities. Search vocational schools, career colleges, information technology programs, executive education programs, and private secondary schools.Prepare for the GED; civil service and military entrance exams; licensing tests for law enforcement, real estate, the postal service, and many other fields; plus college and graduate school admissions exams.