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These resources are available for those in Allegheny County. Use this link to locate the Libraries in other Pennsylvania Counties.

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  • Access PA POWER Library
    Databases provided by the Commonwealth Libraries for residents. These include:
    Access Pennsylvania Database
    AP Multimedia Archive
    Biography Reference Bank - HW Wilson
    Contemporary Authors - Gale Group
    DartClix - Brodart Automation
    Facts For Learning - Facts On File News Services
    Grove Dictionary --
        Art Online
        Music Online
    LitFinder - Roth Publishing
    netLibrary
    Oxford Reference Online
    SIRS Discoverer
    streaMed Patient Education Solution - wired.MD
    EBSCO Publishing --
        EBSCO Animals
        Auto Repair Reference Center
        Book Index with Reviews
        BookSource: Nonfiction
        Business Searching Interface
        Business Source Premier
    EBSCO Publishing --
        Clinical Pharmacology
        EBSCOhost
        EBSCOhost Español
        ERIC
        Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia
        Health Source Plus: Consumer Edition
        Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
        Kids Search (K-5)
        MAS Online Plus
        MasterFILE Premier
        Middle Search Plus
        Newspaper Source
        NoveList
        NoveList K-8
        Primary Search
        Professional Development Collection
        Regional Business News
        Searchasaurus
        Student Resource Center (6-12)

  • Alt-Health Watch - EBSCOhost
    This subscription has been canceled. These alternative health resources can be found in Health Source: Consumer Edition.
  • Ancestry Library - ProQuest
    Search the Databases of Ancestry Library Edition.
  • AP Photo Archives/Access PA POWER Library
    Contains approximately 500,000 Associated Press's current and historical images for the last 150 years.
  • Books In Print
    This subscription has been canceled. Please use Book Index with Reviews or BookSource: Nonfiction .
  • Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - News, Weather & Sports
    Local and national newspapers and magazines free on the web.
  • CollegeSource Online
    View a virtual library representing 26,900 college catalogs in various formats.
  • EBSCO Host/Access PA POWER Library
    Full text magazine indexes, newspaper indexes, and an encyclopedia, including these databases:
    EBSCO Animals
    Auto Repair Reference Center
    Book Index with Reviews
    BookSource: Nonfiction
    Business Searching Interface
    Business Source Premier
    Clinical Pharmacology
    EBSCOhost
    EBSCOhost Español
    ERIC
    Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia
    Health Source Plus: Consumer Edition
    Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
    Kids Search (K-5)
    MAS Online Plus
    MasterFILE Premier
    Middle Search Plus
    Newspaper Source
    NoveList
    NoveList K-8
    Primary Search
    Professional Development Collection
    Regional Business News
    Searchasaurus
    Student Resource Center (6-12)
  • 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.
  • Gale Group
    Combined GaleNet and InfoTrac now include these databases:
    Biography Resource Center
    Business and Company Resource Center
    Expanded Academic ASAP
    Literature Resource Center
    Predicast's Overview of Markets and Technology (PROMT)
    Testing & Education Reference Center
  • Grolier Online
    Information and Articles are provided in reference to the November Presidential Elections.
  • Grove's Dictionaries/Access PA POWER Library
    Comprehensive resources include a 34-Volume Dictionary of Art and a 29-Volume Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
  • Morningstar
    Information about stocks and mutual funds.
  • netLibrary/Access PA POWER Library
    Read selected books online or download an entire book to your computer to read off-line.
  • NoveList/Access PA POWER Library
    NoveList allows readers of all ages to use a favorite author or title to discover new books to read. You can also search NoveList's title database by subject or genre.
  • 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.
  • Poem Finder/Access PA 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.
  • NEW! Reference USA
    Two modules are available: U.S. Business, which lists 12 million U.S. businesses searchable by multiple parameters, and U.S. Residential, which lists 210 million residents.
  • Searchasaurus/Access PA POWER Library
    Available 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.
  • SIRS Discoverer/Access PA POWER Library
    Database of full-text articles that children of all ages can use to do research. It includes a dictionary, a world almanac, and an encyclopedia.
  • Testing & Education Reference Center - Gale
    Test Preparation and Practice Tests. Search for Colleges, Graduate schools, and Career programs.

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