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ProQuest ABI/Inform Trade & Industry

ABI/INFORM
ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry (ProQuest)
A source for major trade and industry news. It includes in-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, trends, and other topics for more than 1,250 publications, with over 1,140 in full-text. Users can study and compare specific trades and industries, including telecommunications, computing, transportation, construction, petrochemicals, and many others.
Access Pennsylvania Database Access Pennsylvania Database
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.
Associated Press Images Associated Press - 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.
Auto Repair Reference Center

Auto Repair Reference Center (Ebsco Publishing)
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.

Bookflix Bookflix
Bookflix is fun! It's an interactive reading & learning resource for preschoolers, kindergartners, and primary grade children. Watch the Story! Read the Book! Bookflix pairs together classic children's animated video picture storybooks with true fact non-fiction eBooks.

Your child can first watch a story and then read a book by themselves, or have the book read aloud to them. Choose from 9 exciting categories: Fun and Learning; Animals and Nature; Earth and Sky; People and Places; Music and Rhyme; Family and Community; ABCs and 123s; Adventure; Imagination; and Celebrations. Included too are 20 Spanish storybook video and book pairs.

This Project was financed by a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Community and Economic Development.

(Note: Animated storybooks are from Weston Woods, and the ebooks are from Scholastic.)

Business & Company Resource Center

Business & Company Resource Center
Fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles (including financials and investment analyst insights, corporate histories & chronologies), industry overviews, business rankings, and information from business and trade publications. This database, produced by Gale, a leading publisher of business reference books and directories, includes content from many of their titles, such as Market Share Reporter, Business Rankings Annual, International Directory of Company Histories, Brands & Their Companies, Encyclopedia of Associations and more.

Business Plans Handbook Collection

Business Plans Handbook Collection
Search the contents of this multi-volume series to see complete business plans written by actual small business owners from all types of typical businesses. Business plan templates are included.
Consumer Health Complete Consumer Health Complete (Ebsco Publishing)
Provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full-text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc.
Contemporary Authors Contemporary Authors (Gale)
A guide to current writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures and television. Biographies of these authors are included.
First Research First Research
Leading provider of industry intelligence tools that help performance of sales and marketing teams, as well as providing insight to business start-ups and existing businesses looking for current analyses of industry subsectors. Four essential core tools include industry profiles for 600 industry segments, call prep sheets for helping to understand the issues before making sales calls, state and province profiles that give regional insight, and email alerts that deliver at-a-glance insight directly to your inbox on a quarterly basis.
GreenFile GreenFILE (Ebsco Publishing)
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.
HeritageQuest Online HeritageQuest Online
HeritageQuest Online is a digital resource that combines searchable images of U.S. federal genealogical census records with digitized books containing family and local histories from around the country.
Hoover's Online Hoover's Online
Search the database of over 16.5 million companies and 14 million executive biographies in this comprehensive business intelligence tool. Find in-depth profiles of the most important business enterprises in the world. Locate potential customers, analyze your market and competition. An additional feature, “Build A List,” allows you to create lists from a base of over 60,000 companies associated with specific industries, with links to each company. IPO Central contains everything you need to know about initial public offerings, including proposed and pending transactions.
Influenza Evidence-Based Information Influenza Evidence-based Information (Ebsco Publishing)
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. The resources being made available will also provide up-to-date information about the H1N1 vaccine.
InfoTrac Newstand InfoTrac Newsstand (Gale)
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.
LearningExpressLibrary

LearningExpressLibrary
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.

See the LearningLibraryExpress brochure. [.pdf file]

LISTA - Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts) (Ebsco Publishing)
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.
Live Homework Help

Live Homework Help, Live Tutor™ Adult Career Center, College Center Learning Suite

Live Homework Help K-12 Student Center from Tutor.com is designed for students of all ages and levels to get one-to-one tutoring, homework help and 24/7 skills building resources. Students work one-to-one with certified tutors on homework, projects, studying, essay writing and test prep in 20 subjects (Math, Science, English, Social Studies, Proof Point™) via an Online Classroom. Live Tutor™ Adult Career Center has resources geared for adult learners; Resume Help, GED Prep, Citizenship, Back to School, Financial Literacy, and Proof Point ™. College Center offers Math, Science, English, Social Studies, Resume Help, GED Prep, Proof Point™.

Free Live Homework Help, Live Tutor™ Adult Career Center & College Center Help is available Sunday through Saturday, from 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm.

This resource is now available for MAC users and available in Spanish.

PLEASE NOTE: The Learning Suite requires a browser plug-in to be downloaded the first time it is used. On slower dial-up connections, this could take over 30 minutes.

Morningstar Investment Research Center Morningstar Investment Research Center
Takes you through the entire investing process from finding up-to-date information on over 30,000 stocks, mutual funds and exchange traded funds to evaluating them to see how they work together in a portfolio. Powerful screeners help you build a list of stocks and funds based on different criteria. Access Morningstar analyst reports for independent opinions on 1,900 stocks and 2,100 mutual funds. Use a variety of Morningstar’s well-known proprietary tools such as fund and stock star ratings, stock fair value estimates, investing style box.
NetLibrary NetLibrary
Electronic books (eBooks) are available through this link. netLibrary eBooks are full text searchable and available for use on personal computers in online formats.
OmniFile Mega OmniFile Mega (HW Wilson)
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.
OmniFile Select OmniFile Select (HW Wilson)
is 100% full-text multi-disciplinary database and presents full text with every entry from more than 1,600 publications covering Art, Education, Social Science, the Humanities, Business, Science, Current Events, and more.
OneSource

OneSource
International Businesses module on ReferenceUSA includes in-depth information on over 3 million global companies located in the US, United Kingdom, Europe and Asia Pacific. Companies located in Latin America, Middle East and Africa have recently been added.

POWER Library 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!
ProQuest

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.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to possible problems with the AOL and Mozilla Firefox browsers, please use Microsoft Internet Explorer when selecting this resource.

Readers' Guide Select Readers' Guide Select (HW Wilson)
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.
ReferenceUSA Reference USA
Select from a menu of searchable databases in the InfoUSA family of databases: US Businesses, with 14 million company listings; US residential, with 210 million households listed; New Movers, with over 15 million new residential listings; New Businesses, with over 2.6 million new business listings. Create prospective customer or potential competitor lists by SIC or NAICS codes, geographic area, size of company by number of employees or sales, executive title and more. Ability to do radius searching is helpful for sales cold calls. Results are downloadable to Excel for creation of mailing labels and customized letters.
Science Full Text Select Science Full Text Select (HW Wilson)
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.
Simply Map Simply Map
is a product of Geographic Research Inc., is a web-based mapping application that enables non-technical users to create professional quality thematic maps, tables and reports using powerful demographic, business and marketing data.  Detailed custom reports can be generated for any location in the U.S. down to census tracts and block groups.  In addition to the demographic data, information on usage and consumption for thousands of specific consumer products and services, plus over 1 million points of interest data, are available here.
TumbleBooks - e-books for kids

TumbleBooks™ - e-books for e-kids. The TumbleBook Library is a fun and interactive library of animated, talking story books for preschoolers, beginner readers and older independent readers. Read along and listen, or read on your own. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing story books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic (e-book) story book. TumbleBooks will help teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love!

Flash Plug-In required. TumbleBooks is created in Flash animation and require a Flash plug-in to view and hear the animation. Many computers today already are equipped with Flash.

The Lancaster County Community Foundation and Brad Rutter granted funds to support this online resource for the year 2010.

Uniworld Uniworld
This authoritative source of information on American and foreign firms operating internationally covers 190 countries and 500 industries. American and foreign firms with branches, subsidiaries or affiliates that have a substantial interest in the US or in foreign countries are represented here.