Overview of Power Library Databases

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.

Brodart Automation - DartClix
Collection of over 18,000 professionally selected and cataloged, high-quality websites designed to enhance curriculum support in schools and patron research in public and academic libraries. The DartClix records containing multiple fields are loaded into the Access PA Database where they may be searched, and then link users to the websites.

Commonwealth Libraries - 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.

EBSCO Publishing - Book Collection: Nonfiction
A research database containing full text and abstracts for 1000 popular nonfiction books. Full text articles on literature, social studies, history and science are available and career, health, sports, adventure and technology information is also included.

EBSCO Publishing - EBSCO Animals
Find in-depth information including the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Indexes, abstracts and full text formats are available. This database is designed for children’s interest in the world of animals.

EBSCO Publishing - EBSCOhost
Click on this link to access all the EBSCO host databases.

EBSCO Publishing - ERIC
The Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC) provides full text of 2,200 digests in addition to citations and abstracts from over 980 education or education-related journals.

EBSCO Publishing - Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia
Over 25,000 encyclopedia entries are provided.

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

EBSCO Publishing - Health Source Plus: Consumer Edition
Search for information on medicine, food and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Over 200 general health publications and more than 190 journals can be searched, including Consumer Reports on Health and Men’s Health.

EBSCO Publishing - Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Full text articles from nearly 600 medical journals are provided. Abstracts and indexing is available from nearly 850 medical journals.

EBSCO Publishing - LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts)
A world-class bibliographic database that provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.

EBSCO Publishing - MAS Ultra - School Edition
The MAS Ultra - School Edition database, designed specifically for high school libraries, provides full text from more than 550 popular general interest and current events publications covering general reference, health, science, and other areas, with information dating as far back as 1975 for key magazines. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 650 titles.

EBSCO Publishing - MasterFILE Premier
Covering virtually every general interest subject area, this database provides full text information dating as far back as 1975. Reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and a collection of photos, maps and flags are included.

EBSCO Publishing - Middle Search Plus
Suggested for middle and junior high research, full text information is available from more than 150 magazines – some from as far back as 1990. All articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexile.)

EBSCO Publishing - Newspaper Source
Selected full text articles are available from over 180 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources. Indexing and abstracts are available for national newspapers.

EBSCO Publishing - Primary Search
Suggested for elementary school research, full text information is available from more than 60 magazines – some from as far back as 1990. All articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexile.)

EBSCO Publishing - Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, 550 full text journals are included in the collection.

EBSCO Publishing - Regional Business News
Provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States .

EBSCO Publishing - Salud en Español (CHC in Spanish)
Salud en Español es una interfaz hecha para el consumidor común de información sobre la salud. Salud en Español provee acceso conveniente a información médica y a información sobre la salud que es fácil de entender. Los consumidores pueden buscar y navegar por enciclopedias médicas, libros de consulta populares, y artículos de revistas.