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POWER Library

One click opens the Pennsylvania Online World of Electronic Resources. Select from a variety of valuable databases for information about authors, automobile repair, biographies, business information, children’s and homework resources, health & science, literature, photographs, and access to newspapers and magazines. Join book clubs and get recommendations for what to read next!

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ProQuest

Provides access to national and regional newspapers including: New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era, Central Penn Business Journal, Patriot-News, Morning Call, York Daily Record, York Dispatch. Most are updated daily and contain full-text articles from 1986 to the present. Access to business information from the ABI Inform Trade & Industry Database is accessible here.

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Access Pennsylvania

Catalog holdings of almost 3,000 Pennsylvania school, public, academic and special libraries are included in this database. Search by author, title, subject or keyword to locate over 50 million items.

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AP Images

More than 500,000 current and historical photographs and graphics can be searched by date, place and subject. More than 800 photographs are added to the archive daily.

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Auto Repair Reference Center

Supplied by Point 5 Technologies with complete automotive repair information supplied by Nichols Publishing, publisher of Chilton information. Most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles are listed. Repair information is available for most manufacturers as far back as 1945.

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Contemporary Authors

A guide to current writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures and television. Biographies of these authors are included.

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GreenFILE

Offers information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

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InfoTrac Newstand

This full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section or other fields, eliminating random searching through newspaper archives. InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to more than 1,000 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world.

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Learning Express

Leading source for test preparation materials and interactive practice exams from K-12, to college level and professional occupations. Proceed at your own pace and receive instant scoring upon completion of the exam. Practice taking GED’s, SAT’s, GRE’s, Civil Service, EMS, Firefighter, Law Enforcement, Nursing, Real Estate, U.S. Citizenship exams, and more.

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Net Library

EBooks and EAudiobooks (with login and password) and are available through this link.

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LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts)

A world-class bibliographic database that provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, 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 database covering the field of information science.

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Reader´s Guide Select

100% full-text database containing indexing, abstracting, and full text of 200 of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada. Among the topics covered are current events, hobbies, politics, business, sports, recreation, news, cooking, popular music, entertainment, transportation, travel and more.

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Science Full Text Select

100% full-text database covering the sciences. Science Full Text includes all the full text content from Wilson’s acclaimed Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, and General Science Full Text databases, plus additional related full text science titles indexed by other Wilson databases including Readers’ Guide Full Text and Wilson OmniFile Full Text. It covers some 320 journals with full text articles, indexing and abstracts.

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OmniFile Mega

Multi-disciplinary full-text database covering Art, Education, Social Science, the Humanities, Business, Science, Current Events, and more. Contains Indexing and Abstracting of 4000 journals, with Full Text from more than 2500 journals. Includes Full Text from 1995 forward, and Indexing from 1982 forward.

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OmniFile Select

100% full-text multi-disciplinary database includes full text with every entry from more than 1,600 publications covering Art, Education, Social Science, the Humanities, Business, Science, Current Events, and more.

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This page was last modified on March 18 2011