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Arts & Entertainment

Access PA Power Library  - (Instructions for Home Access)
Delivered by the Commonwealth Libraries for local Public and School Libraries. These include: ACCESS PA, AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive, EBSCO Host, eLibrary Elementary, 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  - (Instructions for Home Access)
Full-text magazine indexes, newspaper indexes, and encyclopedias covering a wide range of subjects.

NoveList (Select EBSCOhost, then Novelist)  - (Instructions for Home Access)
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  - (Instructions for Home Access)
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

Biography Resource Center - Gale Group
Biography Resource Center includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.

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.

Books

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.

Books In Print
This subscription has been canceled. Please use Book Index with Reviews or BookSource: Nonfiction .

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

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 Premier - 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.

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.

Current Events

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.

Dictionaries

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.

Education

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.

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Testing & Education Reference Center - Gale Group
Taking a college entrance or licensing exam? Looking for a college or graduate school? Need help finding scholarships? Use this database to search thousands of college and graduate school entries. Identify scholarships that meet their financial needs. Take on-line practice tests and use test prep eBooks to obtain your education goals.

Encyclopedias

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.

Health & Medicine

Alt-Health Watch - EBSCOhost
This subscription has been canceled. These alternative health resources can be found in Health Source: Consumer Edition.

Clinical Pharmacology - EBSCOhost
CRS offers thousands of essays covering eight major health related subjects, including adult health, behavioral health, cardiology, drug and medication information, pediatric health, senior health, and women's health and sports medicine.

Health Source Plus - EBSCOhost
Provides full text for over 240 health periodicals, over 1,000 health pamphlets, and 18 health reference books.

History & Social Sciences

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.

Job & Career

Access PA POWER Library
Databases provided by the State of Pennsylvania for the residents. These include: ACCESS PA, AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive, EBSCO Host, eLibrary Elementary, 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 Sources Plus, Middle Search Plus, EBSCO Animals, Business Source Elite, Primary Search, Newspaper Source, ERIC, MAS FullText Ultra, Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Alt-Health Watch

Testing & Education Reference Center - Gale Group
Taking a college entrance or licensing exam? Looking for a college or graduate school? Need help finding scholarships? Use this database to search thousands of college and graduate school entries. Identify scholarships that meet their financial needs. Take on-line practice tests and use test prep eBooks to obtain your education goals.

Kids

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.

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 Deluxe
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.

Literature

Biography Resource Center - Gale Group
Biography Resource Center includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.

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 (Select EBSCOhost, then Novelist)
An electronic advisory service that helps fiction readers find new authors and titles, based on what authors and books they have liked.

Music & Art

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.

Newspapers

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.

Photo Archives

AP Photo Archive
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.

Science & Technology

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.

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.

The eiNetwork is a collaboration of the Allegheny County Library Association and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.