| General Reference | Top |
| Access PA POWER Library | Remote Access | |
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The POWER Library provides access to thousands of full text periodical articles, newspapers, a major encyclopedia, plus photographs, pictures, charts, maps, and reference materials for people of all ages. | ||
| OmniFile Mega | Remote Access | |
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Multi-disciplinary full-text database covering Art, Education,
Social Sciences, 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. | ||
| OmniFile Select | Remote Access | |
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100% full-text multi-disciplinary database covering Art, Education,
Social Sciences, the Humanities, Business, Science, Current Events and more. | ||
| MasterFILE Premier | Mobile Access  |
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| Contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. | ||
| SIRS Discoverer | Remote Access | |
| Provides carefully selected full text articles and images from over 1600 domestic and international newspapers, magazines, and government documents. | ||
| Art &Antiques | Top |
| Other Resources |
| Kovels | ||
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Kovels is an established print publisher of information about antiques. This website surveys antiques and collectibles and includes recent
values for items. An online newsletter and other resources are available. A free registration process is required to obtain item prices.
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| Auto Information | Top |
| Auto Repair Reference Center | Remote Access | |
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Detailed and diagrammed automotive repair and maintenance information covering most major manufacturers. | ||
| Other Resources |
| Kelly Blue Book | ||
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Kelley Blue Book, the country’s largest vehicle valuation company, has made the term “blue book value” synonymous with a vehicle’s market vehicle value. Their website contains new and used vehicle pricing and information. Mobile homes, RVs, motorcycles, snowmobiles, and personal watercrafts are also included. | ||
| Biography & Genealogy | Top |
| Ancestry Library | In Library Use Only | |
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A comprehensive source of information for conducting genealogical and local history research. | ||
| Biography in Context | Remote Access | |
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Comprehensive database of biographical information. Includes full text biographical articles from many popular magazines. | ||
| Contemporary Authors | ||
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This resource is no longer available but its content can be found within the Literature Resource Center. |
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| Literature Resource Center | Remote Access | |
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Author information, literary criticism and plot summaries for authors from every age and literary discipline. | ||
| Other Resources |
| Cyndi’s List | ||
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A genealogy website that indexes thousands of Internet resources. Categories such as official records, research and reference tools, ethnic groups, religions and more are organized for ease in searching.
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| FamilySearch | ||
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints provides genealogy information free of charge. A research guidance service on the site is an interactive wizard that offers detailed help. Research guides are also available to read, and in many cases, to download.
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| Books & Reading | Top |
| Access Pennsylvania Database | Remote Access | |
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Shared catalog for materials owned by most PA libraries.
| EBSCO eBooks | Remote Access |
| Electronic books, previously netLibrary. Ebsco eBooks Help and Tutorials. |
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Shared catalog for materials owned by most PA libraries.
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| NoveList | Remote Access | |
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Fiction database that helps you find books by subject, read reviews & annotations, get discussion guides and much, much more.
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| NoveList K-8 | Remote Access | |
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Information 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 database. A good resource to expand student reading interest by introducting new authors or additional books in a subject area.
| OverDrive Digital Media | Remote Access |
| Access thousands of dowloadable eBooks, audiobooks, and
video. Titles can be transferred and accessed on most ereaders, tablets, and smart phones. See Compatible Devices
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| TumbleBook Library | Remote Access | |
| The TumbleBookLibrary is a collection of animated, talking picture books. TumbleBooks are created by adding animation, sound, music and narration to existing picture books in order to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you. | ||
| Other Resources |
| Amazon | ||
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Online marketplace which offers books, movies, music, house wares, clothing and more. User reviews of items are often listed.
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| Library of Congress | ||
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The Library of Congress website is a vast resource for information of all kinds and provides access to the online catalog of the Library of Congress. | ||
| Business & Finance | Top |
| ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry | Remote Access | |
Study and compare different trades and industries. | ||
| Business & Company Resource Center | Remote Access | |
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Company profiles, industry descriptions, association information, investment reports, full-text articles and citations. | ||
| Morningstar Investment Research Center | Remote Access | |
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Contains mutual fund and stock ratings and reports, including detailed analyst reports, from Morningstar Inc. | ||
| Other Resources |
| Yahoo Finance | ||
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Covers all finance topics, from investing to insurance, from news to company profiles. Information found here can be customized into charts and reports, and can be incorporated into web pages.
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| Consumer Resources | Top |
| Other Resources |
| Better Business Bureau | ||
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Contains information about businesses and charitable organizations throughout the country to help consumers make informed decisions. | ||
| Kelly Blue Book | ||
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Kelley Blue Book, the country’s largest vehicle valuation company, has made the term “blue book value” synonymous with a vehicle’s market vehicle value. Their website contains new and used vehicle pricing and information. Mobile homes, RVs, motorcycles, snowmobiles, and personal watercrafts are also included. | ||
| ConsumerSearch | ||
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The writers for this website review print and online reviews of products and services using a set of objective, published ratings criteria. It is also a search engine for consumer product reviews.
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| Current Topics & Controversies | Top |
| Opposing Viewpoints in Context | Remote Access | |
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Full text of books that cover both sides of social issues.
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| Dictionaries & Encyclopedias | Top |
| Other Resources |
| Wikipedia | ||
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An online encyclopedia which is a wiki whose contributors are users from all over the world who write and edit the content. | ||
| Education | Top |
| LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts) | Mobile Access |
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Includes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. | ||
| Teacher Reference Center | Mobile Access |
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| Provides abstract information from over 260 of the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals. | ||
| Other Resources |
| Peterson's | ||
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This website from a leading print publisher of education information contains school information from kindergarten through graduate programs. Also included are career information, resume help, and strategies for planning for and financing an education. | ||
| Government & Law | Top |
| Other Resources |
| Allegheny County Offical Website | ||
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Links to services and information for county residents. Property assessments, recreation information, links to county services and agencies, forms, court records and more. | ||
| Allegheny County Bar Association | ||
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Serves Allegheny County residents through legal information, lawyer referrals, and a listing of services offered free to the public by the Bar Association. | ||
| U.S. Census Bureau | ||
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Complete census information for the U.S. Special census products can be purchased, but much of the information from the website can be downloaded at no charge. | ||
| Firstgov | ||
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The official portal of the U.S. federal government. First.gov puts users in touch with elected officials and government agencies. | ||
| IRS | ||
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Federal tax information and planning help for individuals, business, tax professionals, charitable and non-profit organizations and government entities. | ||
| State of Pennsylvania Official Website | ||
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Pennsylvania residents will find services such as driver’s licensing and vehicle registration, state tax forms and instructions, tourism information and links to state agencies and officials. | ||
| Health | Top |
| Consumer Health Complete | Remote Access | |
| Provides content covering all areas of health and wellness. | ||
| Influenza Evidence-based Information | Remote Access | |
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Designed to inform patients and their families and provide information to clinicians to help them with H1N1 diagnosis and H1N1 treatment by making up-to-date diagnosis and treatment
information available.
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| Other Resources |
| MedlinePlus | ||
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The National Institutes of Health maintains MedlinePlus for those interested in reliable information on prescription and over-the-counter drugs. Many other health-related resources are also listed. | ||
| Healthfinder.gov | ||
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A U.S. government site with links to health and medical news, databases, journals and other information from government, non-profit and academic sources. | ||
| Images | Top |
| AP Images | Remote Access | |
| 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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| AP Multimedia Archive | Remote Access | |
| Current and historic photos and graphics from the Associated Press.
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| Job & Career | Top |
| Career Library | Remote Access | |
| A comprehensive information resource for career and college research. | ||
| Kids' Resources | Top |
| AP Multimedia Archive | Remote Access | |
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Current and historic photos and graphics from the Associated Press. | ||
| NoveList K-8 | Remote Access | |
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Information 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 database. A good resource to expand student reading interest by introducting new authors or additional books in a subject area.
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| SIRS Discoverer | Remote Access | |
| Provides carefully selected full text articles and images from over 1600 domestic and international newspapers, magazines, and government documents. | ||
| TumbleBook Library | Remote Access | |
| The TumbleBookLibrary is a collection of animated, talking picture books. TumbleBooks are created by adding animation, sound, music and narration to existing picture books in order to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you. | ||
| Other Resources |
| Funology | ||
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A site for kids’ activities, experiments, games, magic tricks, jokes and more. For ages 9 and up. | ||
| Language Learning | Top |
| Mango Languages | Remote Access | |
| An online language-learning system teaching actual conversation skills for a wide variety of languages.
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| Library Catalogs | Top |
| Access Pennsylvania Database | ||
| Shared catalog for materials owned by most PA libraries.
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| Library of Congress | ||
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The Library of Congress website is a vast resource for information of all kinds and provides access to the online catalog of the Library of Congress. | ||
| The Catalog | ||
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This is a Website that patrons can search through all Allegheny County public Libraries' collections.
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| Literature | Top |
| Biography in Context | Remote Access | |
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Comprehensive database of biographical information. Includes full text biographical articles from many popular magazines. | ||
| Contemporary Authors | ||
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This resource is no longer available but its content can be found within the Literature Resource Center. | ||
| Literature Resource Center | Remote Access | |
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Author information, literary criticism and plot summaries for authors from every age and literary discipline. | ||
| NoveList | Remote Access | |
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Fiction database that helps you find books by subject, read reviews & annotations, get discussion guides and much, much more.
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| NoveList K-8 | Remote Access | |
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Information 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 database. A good resource to expand student reading interest by introducting new authors or additional books in a subject area.
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| Magazines | Top |
| GreenFILE | Mobile Access |
Remote Access |
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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 energe, recycling and more. | ||
| OmniFile Mega | Remote Access | |
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Multi-disciplinary full-text database covering Art, Education,
Social Sciences, 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. | ||
| OmniFile Select | Remote Access | |
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100% full-text multi-disciplinary database covering Art, Education,
Social Sciences, the Humanities, Business, Science, Current Events and more. | ||
| MasterFILE Premier | Mobile Access |
Remote Access |
| Contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. | ||
| Readers' Guide Select | Remote Access | |
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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. | ||
| Other Resources |
| National Geographic | ||
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Information about animals, world adventures, the environment, the sciences, space, and more. Also content and sections for kids and teens. From publishers of National Geographic magazine.
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| Music & Film | Top |
| Other Resources |
| Internet Movie Database | ||
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A comprehensive, fact-filled site about movies and television shows.
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| Amazon | ||
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Online marketplace which offers books, movies, music, house wares, clothing and more. User reviews of items are often listed. | ||
| Newspapers | Top |
| InfoTrac Newsstand | Remote Access | |
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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. | ||
| Other Resources |
| Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Post-Gazette: Google News Archive | |
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Local news, weather, sports, book reviews, obituaries and more.
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| Pittsburgh Press: Google News Archive | ||
| Daily newspaper from 1884-1992. | ||
| Science & Technology | Top |
| Science Full Text Select | Remote Access | |
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100% full text database covering the sciences. Includes the full text from 360 journals from Wilson’s Applied Science, Biological & Agricultural, and General Science databases, as well as science related articles from other Wilson databases. | ||
| Science in Context | Remote Access | |
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Magazine & journal articles, reference books, websites and more on science topics from biology to polymorphism. | ||
| Other Resources |
| National Geographic | ||
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Information about animals, world adventures, the environment, the sciences, space, and more. Also content and sections for kids and teens. From publishers of National Geographic magazine.
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| How Stuff Works | ||
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Easy to read explanations of how things work. The site lets you upload photos and videos to help supplement the written content. | ||
| Social Studies & History | Top |
| US History in Context | Remote Access | |
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One-stop source for U.S. including primary documents, full-text articles, images, maps and more. | ||
| World History in Context | Remote Access | |
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One-stop source for world history, including primary documents, full-text articles, images, maps and more. | ||
| Opposing Viewpoints in Context | Remote Access | |
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Full text of books that cover both sides of social issues. | ||
| SIRS Discoverer | Remote Access | |
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Provides carefully selected full text articles and images from over 1600 domestic and international newspapers, magazines, and government documents. | ||
| Other Resources |
| CIA World Factbook | ||
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Published by the Central Intelligence Agency of the U.S., the website contains statistics for countries around the world. There are images of flags and reference maps in a variety of formats.
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| National Geographic | ||
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Information about animals, world adventures, the environment, the sciences, space, and more. Also content and sections for kids and teens. From publishers of National Geographic magazine.
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