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Resources
The Upper Merion Township Library online searchable resources provide
access to thousands of articles and images from journals, newspapers,
and online resources. You will need your library card to access the information
from home.
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OmniFile Select
Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Select
Edition is a multidisciplinary, 100% full-text database providing
full text articles, with their accompanying indexing and abstracts,
from the following Wilson periodical databases: Art
Full Text
Applied Science & Technology Full Text
Biological & Agricultural Index
Education Full Text
General Science Full Text
Humanities Full Text
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books
Library Literature & Information Science Full Text
Readers' Guide Full Text
Social Sciences Full Text
Wilson Business Full Text
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Grove Art Online
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Auto Repair Reference Center
- Supplied by Point 5 Technologies with complete automotive repair
information supplied by Nichols Publishing, publisher of hiltonŠ information.
Most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles are listed.
Repair information is available for most manufacturers as far back
as 1954.
Notice! This state-funded POWER Library resource
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AP Multimedia Archive
Current and historical photographs and graphics
can be searched by date, place and subject. Updated daily. Also includes
news audio files.
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resource ends Dec. 31, 2010..
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Biography Reference Bank
Links to biographical articles on over 470,000 individuals. Full text
articles, abstracts and photographs are available from periodicals,
interviews, essays, performance reviews, speeches and obituaries.
Notice! This state-funded POWER Library resource ends Dec. 31, 2010.
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Contemporary Authors
Includes biographies for current writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry,
journalism, drama, motion pictures and television.
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Biography Reference Bank
Contains author biographies. Links to biographical articles on over
470,000 individuals. Full text articles, abstracts and photographs
are available from periodicals, interviews, essays, performance reviews,
speeches and obituaries.
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ends Dec. 31, 2010.
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Contemporary Authors
(Thomson Gale) is a guide to current writers of fiction, nonfiction,
poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures and television. Biographies
of these authors are included.
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netLibrary eBooks
are full text searchable and available for use on personal computers
in online formats.
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NoveList Information
for book lovers on over 250,000 fiction and readable nonfiction titles,
plus lists of award-winning books, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks,
Recommended Reads and more. NoveList Plus is a complete readers' resource.
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ends Dec. 31, 2010..
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NoveList K-8 -
Designed especially for elementary and middle school students, NoveList
K-8 Plus is an online database of fiction and nonfiction titles chosen
specifically to support the school curriculum as well as the pleasure
reading needs of students. It's great for parents, teachers and kids.
Notice! This state-funded POWER Library resource
ends Dec. 31, 2010.
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Access PA 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.
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OverDrive
Downloadable AudioBooks Browse the searchable
database of audiobooks, checkout, download and listen on your computer
or on a portable device. Selections available with both Windows and
Mac compatibility.
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Book Index with Reviews
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Litfinder
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ABI/INFORM
Trade and Industry
Contains more than 700 trade publications covering
every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation,
construction, and health. |
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InfoTrac Newsstand
Search a collection of more than 1,000 newspapers, translate articles
into 11 different languages, create email alerts, and customize your
search options and results format.
Provided by POWER Library, produced by Gale.
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Omnifile Select
Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Select Edition is a multidisciplinary,
100% full-text database providing full text articles, with their accompanying
indexing and abstracts, from the following Wilson periodical databases:
Wilson Business Full Text
Art Full Text
Applied Science & Technology Full Text
Biological & Agricultural Index
Education Full Text
General Science Full Text
Humanities Full Text
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books
Library Literature & Information Science Full Text
Readers' Guide Full Text
Social Sciences Full Text
Provided by POWER Library, produced by H.W. Wilson Company.
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ReferenceUSA Provides
data for business and consumer research. Includes Yellow Page and
Business White Page Telephone directories; annual reports, 10-ks and
other SEC information; Continuing Medical Education (CME) directories;
federal, state, provincial and municipal government data; chambers
of commerce information; leading business magazines, trade publications,
newsletters, major newspapers, industry and specialty directories;
and USPS® information, including both U.S. and Canadian National
Change of Address updates.
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Business Searching Interface
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Business Source Premier
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Regional Business News
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Business Newsbank
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AP Multimedia Archive
H has pictures, graphics and audio for homework or reports. Current
and historical photographs and graphics can be searched by date, place
and subject. Updated daily. Also includes news audio files.
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Readers' Guide Select
Get help finding articles from magazines for homework and reports.
Notice! This state-funded POWER Library resource
ends Dec. 31, 2010.
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NoveList K-8
Learn more about fiction books
and authors. Identify book you might enjoy based on authors and
themes, titles, BookTalks, Recommended Reads book lists and more.
Book jacket images, annotations and first chapter excerpts, as well
as tools like Lexile scores and popularity ratings, help you to
quickly find that just-right book.
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resource ends Dec. 31, 2010.
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SIRS Discoverer
Get articles and images from U.S. and international newspapers, magazines
and government documents. |
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EBSCO Animals
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Facts for Learning
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Kids Search (K-5)
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Searchasaurus
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Middle Search Plus
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Primary Search
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LISTA
(Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts) has information
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
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ERIC
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Professional Development Collection
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E-Books & Audiobooks
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netLibrary eBooks
Approximately 14,000 electronic books in all subject areas from careers
to classics to Cliffs notes. Full text and searchable.
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OverDrive
Downloadable AudioBooks Browse the searchable
database of audiobooks, checkout, download and listen on your computer
or on a portable device. Selections available with both Windows and
Mac compatibility .
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Book Source: Nonfiction
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Mango Languages is an online learning
tool that teaches conversation skills for 12 different languages.
Learn at your own pace fron any internet connected computer. Languages
include Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, French, German,
Italian, Greek, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, and English for speakers
of Spanish, Polish, and Brazilian Portuguese. Provided
by Upper Merion Twp. Library.
Upper Merion Library card required. |
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Ancestry.com
(in-library use only)
This genealogy database provides access to U.S. and United Kingdom
census data, ship's logs and passenger indexes, vital records and
social security death index records, WWI draft registration cards,
maps, genealogy reference books, and more.
Currently, this online resource is not affected by the state budget
cuts.
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HeritageQuest Online
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OmniFile Mega
Multi-disciplinary database providing indexing, abstracts, and full-text
from Wilson's 6 databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full
Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences
Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Full-text articles from
5 more atabases are also included when available: Applied Science
& Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural
Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature
& Information Science Full Text.
Provided by POWER Library, produced by H.W. Wilson Company.
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OmniFile Select
Multi-disciplinary, 100% full-text article database with indexing
and abstracts, from the following Wilson periodical databases:
Art Full Text,
Applied Science & Technology Full Text
Biological & Agricultural Index
Education Full Text
General Science Full Text
Humanities Full Text
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books
Library Literature & Info. Science Full Text
Readers' Guide Full Text
Social Sciences Full Text
Wilson Business Full Text.
Provided by POWER Library, produced by H.W. Wilson Company.
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SIRS Discoverer
includes articles and images from over 1,600 domestic and international
newspapers, magazines and government documents. Articles are assigned
a reading level -Easy, Moderate or Challenging- based on age-appropriateness,
educational content, interest and reading level. This database is
an excellent student resource.
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EBSCOhost
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EBSCOhost Espaņol
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Facts for Learning
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New World Encyclopedia
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History Reference Center
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LearningExpressLibrary
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Oxford Reference Online
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Student Research Center
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Consumer Health Complete
Provides access to easily understandable health and medical information
for the everyday consumer of health care information . Consumers can
search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference
books, and magazine articles. Provided by POWER Library, produced
by EBSCO.
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GreenFile
Information about human impact on the environment.
Topics covered include climate change, green building, pollution,
sustainable agriculture, renewable energy and recycling.
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H1N1 Flu Information
Continuously updated, evidence-based
clinical information from DynaMed and Nursing Reference Center, EBSCO's
clinical and nursing point-of-care databases, along with patient education
information in 17 languages from Patient Education Reference Center.
Provided free by EBSCO Publishing. You do not need a library card
to access H1N1 flu information.
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Science Full Text Select
A database providing a broad range of important science literature
from Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Biological &
Agricultural Index Full Text, General Science Full Text databases
plus additional coverage from other Wilson full text databases.
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Clinical Pharmacology
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EBSCO Animals
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Facts for Learning
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Health Source Plus:
Consumer Edition
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Salud en Espaņol
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Today's Science Facts On File
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AP Multimedia Archive
Has pictures, graphics and audio for homework or reports. Current
and historical photographs and graphics searchable by date, place
and subject. Also includes news audio files.
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NoveList K-8 -
Designed especially for elementary and middle school students, NoveList
K-8 Plus is an online database of fiction and nonfiction titles chosen
specifically to support the school curriculum as well as the pleasure
reading needs of students. It's great for parents, teachers and kids.
Notice! This state-funded POWER Library resource
ends Dec. 31, 2010.
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Readers' Guide Select
Get help finding articles from magazines for homework and reports.
Notice! This state-funded POWER Library resource
ends Dec. 31, 2010.
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SIRS Discoverer
Get articles and images from U.S. and international newspapers, magazines
and government documents.
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AP Multimedia Archive
has pictures, graphics and audio for homework or reports. Includes
over 500,000 current and historical photographs and graphics searchable
by date, place and subject.
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OmniFile Mega
Provides electronic access to full text articles, page images, article
abstracts, and citations from thousands of periodicals and journals
in all core undergraduate subjects. This database includes all of
the full text covered by eleven Wilson databases
Provided by POWER Library, produced by H.W. Wilson Company.
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OmniFile Select
Database of full text articles, with their accompanying indexing
and abstracts covering a wide range of subjects including art, science,
education, humanities, literature, social science, business,
and more.
Provided by POWER Library, produced by H.W. Wilson Company.
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Readers' Guide Select
Get help finding articles from magazines for homework and reports.
Some of the subjects covered include: Antiques, Arts,
Business, Computers, Crafts, Dance, Drama, Education, Entertainment,
Fashion, Fiction, Film & Television, Food, Recipes & Cooking,
Gardening, Health & Medicine, History, Home Improvement, Literature,
News & Current Events, Photography, Popular & Classical Music,
Politics, Popular Culture, Religion, Science, Sports & Fitness,
Transportation and Travel.
Notice! This state-funded POWER Library resource
ends Dec. 31, 2010.
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Science Full Text Select
A database providing a broad range of important science literature
from Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Biological &
Agricultural Index Full Text, General Science Full Text databases
plus additional coverage from other Wilson full text databases.
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Legal Forms
(Thomson Gale) contains over 1000 standard legal forms specific to
Pennsylvania in Microsoft Word and PDF formats. Most forms can be
completed online before being printed. Contains summaries on the uses
of most forms, as well as a glossary of legal terms and concepts written
specifically for the layperson.
Provided by Upper Merion Twp. Library.
Upper Merion Library card required.
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InfoTrac
Newsstand
Search a collection of more than 1,000 newspapers, translate articles
into 11 different languages, create email alerts, and customize your
search options and results format.
Provided by POWER Library, produced by Gale.
Notice! This state-funded POWER Library
resource ends Dec. 31, 2010. |
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Readers' Guide Select
Searchable full-text articles plus abstracting and indexing for a
broad selection of the most-wanted popular press and peer reviewed
periodicals. Some of the subjects covered include: Antiques, Arts,
Business, Computers, Crafts, Dance, Drama, Education, Entertainment,
Fashion, Fiction, Film & Television, Food, Recipes & Cooking,
Gardening, Health & Medicine, History, Home Improvement, Literature,
News & Current Events, Photography, Popular & Classical Music,
Politics, Popular Culture, Religion, Science, Sports & Fitness,
Transportation and Travel.
Notice! This state-funded POWER Library
resource ends Dec. 31, 2010.
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SIRS Discoverer
includes articles and images from over 1,600 domestic and international
newspapers, magazines and government documents. Articles are assigned
a reading level -Easy, Moderate or Challenging- based on age-appropriateness,
educational content, interest and reading level. This database is
an excellent student resource.
Notice! This state-funded POWER Library
resource ends Dec. 31, 2010.
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EBSCOhost
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MasterFile Premier
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MAS Ultra - School Edition
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Kids Search (K-5)
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Searchasaurus
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Business Newsbank |
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InfoTrac
Newsstand
Search a collection of more than 1,000 newspapers, translate articles
into 11 different languages, create email alerts, and customize
your search options and results format.
Provided by POWER Library, produced by Gale.
Includes Philadelphia Inquirer
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EBSCOhost MasterFile
Newspaper Source
Philadelphia Inquirer
* See InfoTrac
Newsstand for Inquirer articles. |
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GreenFile
Information about human impact on the environment.
Topics covered include climate change, green building, pollution,
sustainable agriculture, renewable energy and recycling.
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Science Full Text Select
A database providing a broad range of important science literature
from Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Biological &
Agricultural Index Full Text, General Science Full Text databases
plus additional coverage from other Wilson full text databases.
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