Library System of Lancaster County Online Resources

Resources A - to - Z
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 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 - 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 (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.
	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 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 (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 (Gale) A guide to current writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures and television. Biographies of these authors are included.
	eBooks on EBSCOhost Electronic books (eBooks) are available through this link. eBooks are full text searchable and available for use on personal computers in online formats (please note, this resource cannot be downloaded). Search the eBook Collection by keyword, or select the eBooks link in the blue menu bar to access a Browse By Category search page. This resource was formerly known as NetLibrary.
	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 (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 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 Search this database for information on 75 million companies, 80 million people, and hundreds of industries. Create customized lists for customer prospecting and lead generation using the "Build a List" feature. Remote access is not available and there are restrictions on the number of downloads. Please visit the Duke Street Business Center to access this database, or contact Rhonda Kleiman, Economic Development Manager, at 717-207-0500 x1225 for assistance.
	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 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 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) (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 is now Tutor.com - K-12 Student Center, College Center and the SkillsCenter™ Resource Library: 24/7 K-12 Student Center is designed for students of all ages and levels to get one-to-one tutoring and homework help. Students work one-on-one with certified tutors on homework, projects, studying, essay writing and test prep in 20 subjects (Math, Science, English, Social Studies, ProofPoint™ via an Online Classroom. College Center offers Math, Science, English, Social Studies, Resume Help, GED Prep, ProofPoint™. SkillsCenter™ Resource Library: 24/7 offers Homework, Test Prep and Career help. Free K-12 Student Center & College Center Help is available Sunday through Saturday, from 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Available in Spanish too. If you are a member of a U.S. military family you may be eligible to access Tutor.com services 24/7 through our military program. Please go to www.tutor.com/military to see if you are eligible. New Features: Mobile app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Personalized services with optional accounts (select your favorite tutor, replay sessions, more.) Click here for more information.
	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 (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 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 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 Provides access to Lancaster newspapers only: Intelligencer Journal and New Era backfiles, combined Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era, and Sunday News. Business information from the ABI Inform Trade & Industry database is also accessible here. PLEASE NOTE: As of January 1, 2011, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Central Penn Business Journal and other regional newspapers are no longer available here due to funding cuts. To access The New York Times and USA Today, use Infotrac Newsstand on POWER Library. Central Penn Business Journal is available on Nexis (ask your librarian about accessing this). We will be transitioning Proquest’s new platform by February 1, 2011 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 (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.
	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 (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 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.
	SIRS Discoverer is an award-winning database designed with the young researcher in mind. This interactive tool strengthens research, reading, writing and computer skills. Articles and graphics from more than 1,400 U.S. and international magazines, newspapers and U.S. government documents are carefully selected for their educational content, interest and level of readability. Because it includes middle and elementary curriculum topics, Discoverer can be easily integrated into classroom activities.
	Teacher Reference Center (Ebsco Publishing) This index contains over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals and books. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics and more.
	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 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.

Business Resources
	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.
	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 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.
	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.
	Hoover's Online Search this database for information on 75 million companies, 80 million people, and hundreds of industries. Create customized lists for customer prospecting and lead generation using the "Build a List" feature. Remote access is not available and there are restrictions on the number of downloads. Please visit the Duke Street Business Center to access this database, or contact Rhonda Kleiman, Economic Development Manager, at 717-207-0500 x1225 for assistance.
	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 (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 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 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 Provides access to Lancaster newspapers only: Intelligencer Journal and New Era backfiles, combined Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era, and Sunday News. Business information from the ABI Inform Trade & Industry database is also accessible here. PLEASE NOTE: As of January 1, 2011, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Central Penn Business Journal and other regional newspapers are no longer available here due to funding cuts. To access The New York Times and USA Today, use Infotrac Newsstand on POWER Library. Central Penn Business Journal is available on Nexis (ask your librarian about accessing this). We will be transitioning Proquest’s new platform by February 1, 2011 PLEASE NOTE: Due to possible problems with the AOL and Mozilla Firefox browsers, please use Microsoft Internet Explorer when selecting this resource.
	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.
	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.
	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.

Children's and Teen Resources
	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.
	Live Homework Help is now Tutor.com - K-12 Student Center, College Center and the SkillsCenter™ Resource Library: 24/7 K-12 Student Center is designed for students of all ages and levels to get one-to-one tutoring and homework help. Students work one-on-one with certified tutors on homework, projects, studying, essay writing and test prep in 20 subjects (Math, Science, English, Social Studies, ProofPoint™ via an Online Classroom. College Center offers Math, Science, English, Social Studies, Resume Help, GED Prep, ProofPoint™. SkillsCenter™ Resource Library: 24/7 offers Homework, Test Prep and Career help. Free K-12 Student Center & College Center Help is available Sunday through Saturday, from 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Available in Spanish too. If you are a member of a U.S. military family you may be eligible to access Tutor.com services 24/7 through our military program. Please go to www.tutor.com/military to see if you are eligible. New Features: Mobile app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Personalized services with optional accounts (select your favorite tutor, replay sessions, more.) Click here for more information.
	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 (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.
	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!
	SIRS Discoverer is an award-winning database designed with the young researcher in mind. This interactive tool strengthens research, reading, writing and computer skills. Articles and graphics from more than 1,400 U.S. and international magazines, newspapers and U.S. government documents are carefully selected for their educational content, interest and level of readability. Because it includes middle and elementary curriculum topics, Discoverer can be easily integrated into classroom activities.

General Reference
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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 (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.
	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!
	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.
	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.
	SIRS Discoverer is an award-winning database designed with the young researcher in mind. This interactive tool strengthens research, reading, writing and computer skills. Articles and graphics from more than 1,400 U.S. and international magazines, newspapers and U.S. government documents are carefully selected for their educational content, interest and level of readability. Because it includes middle and elementary curriculum topics, Discoverer can be easily integrated into classroom activities.
	Teacher Reference Center (Ebsco Publishing) This index contains over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals and books. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics and more.

Education and Learning
	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]
	Live Homework Help is now Tutor.com - K-12 Student Center, College Center and the SkillsCenter™ Resource Library: 24/7 K-12 Student Center is designed for students of all ages and levels to get one-to-one tutoring and homework help. Students work one-on-one with certified tutors on homework, projects, studying, essay writing and test prep in 20 subjects (Math, Science, English, Social Studies, ProofPoint™ via an Online Classroom. College Center offers Math, Science, English, Social Studies, Resume Help, GED Prep, ProofPoint™. SkillsCenter™ Resource Library: 24/7 offers Homework, Test Prep and Career help. Free K-12 Student Center & College Center Help is available Sunday through Saturday, from 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Available in Spanish too. If you are a member of a U.S. military family you may be eligible to access Tutor.com services 24/7 through our military program. Please go to www.tutor.com/military to see if you are eligible. New Features: Mobile app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Personalized services with optional accounts (select your favorite tutor, replay sessions, more.) Click here for more information.
	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 (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.
	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!
	Teacher Reference Center (Ebsco Publishing) This index contains over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals and books. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics and more.

Newspapers/Magazines/Websites
	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.
	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 (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.
	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 Provides access to Lancaster newspapers only: Intelligencer Journal and New Era backfiles, combined Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era, and Sunday News. Business information from the ABI Inform Trade & Industry database is also accessible here. PLEASE NOTE: As of January 1, 2011, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Central Penn Business Journal and other regional newspapers are no longer available here due to funding cuts. To access The New York Times and USA Today, use Infotrac Newsstand on POWER Library. Central Penn Business Journal is available on Nexis (ask your librarian about accessing this). We will be transitioning Proquest’s new platform by February 1, 2011 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 (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.
	SIRS Discoverer is an award-winning database designed with the young researcher in mind. This interactive tool strengthens research, reading, writing and computer skills. Articles and graphics from more than 1,400 U.S. and international magazines, newspapers and U.S. government documents are carefully selected for their educational content, interest and level of readability. Because it includes middle and elementary curriculum topics, Discoverer can be easily integrated into classroom activities.

Biography
	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.
	Contemporary Authors (Gale) A guide to current writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures and television. Biographies of these authors are included.
	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 (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.
	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!

Find-A-Book
	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.
	eBooks on EBSCOhost Electronic books (eBooks) are available through this link. eBooks are full text searchable and available for use on personal computers in online formats (please note, this resource cannot be downloaded). Search the eBook Collection by keyword, or select the eBooks link in the blue menu bar to access a Browse By Category search page. This resource was formerly known as NetLibrary.
	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 (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.
	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!
	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.

Health and Science
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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 (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.
	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!
	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.

History & Genealogy
	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.
	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 (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.
	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 Provides access to Lancaster newspapers only: Intelligencer Journal and New Era backfiles, combined Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era, and Sunday News. Business information from the ABI Inform Trade & Industry database is also accessible here. PLEASE NOTE: As of January 1, 2011, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Central Penn Business Journal and other regional newspapers are no longer available here due to funding cuts. To access The New York Times and USA Today, use Infotrac Newsstand on POWER Library. Central Penn Business Journal is available on Nexis (ask your librarian about accessing this). We will be transitioning Proquest’s new platform by February 1, 2011 PLEASE NOTE: Due to possible problems with the AOL and Mozilla Firefox browsers, please use Microsoft Internet Explorer when selecting this resource.