Research Resources

This resource provides full-text scholarly content for major college courses. Designed specifically for academic institutions, this database provides full-text and peer-reviewed journals essential for undergraduate and graduate studies. 

 The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles and other academic works from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. 

 DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides free access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. 

 JSTOR's partnerships with libraries and publishers help them make a growing range of content discoverable and freely accessible worldwide. 

 The Library of Congress's alphabetic list of over 800 free licensed databases and recommended free resources. All different topics, genres, and identities. 

SAGE offers Engineering, Medicine, Sciences, and Social Sciences journals online. Their Open Access collection has over 200 journals that can be read for free.

 PBS39 and PBS have curated FREE, curriculum-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more. 

 BookFlix is an online literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks with related nonfiction eBooks to build a love of reading and learning. 

 POWER Teens provides online resources including full-text research e-resources, collections of photographs and documents, the statewide catalog of materials held in libraries throughout Pennsylvania.

 Power Kids is Pennsylvania's kid-friendly electronic library.  Find kid-centered e-resources, Chat with a librarian, find books, movies, PA Photos and Documents and more.  

 TrueFLIX is a multimedia literacy-based read aloud experience for young children: Interactive games, author biographies, video adaptations, Spanish translated pairs, read alouds, digital nonfiction flipbooks, editorially selected, science and social studies! 

This innovative full-text newspaper resource allows users to access major U.S. and international newspapers online to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section, or other fields. 

 NewsBank consolidates current and archived information from thousands of newspaper titles, as well as newswires, web editions, blogs, videos, broadcast transcripts, business journals, periodicals, government documents and other publications. 

 The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with digital newspapers from 1600-present among its resources. The Library is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office. 

 Resumes made easy! Complete your resume in minutes and tailor it to showcase your strengths. Choose from over 20,000 statements. 

  PA Job Resources ​is a collection of online job search tools specific to Pennsylvania. Databases in this collection include PA Career Link, Resume Guide, and PA Workforce Statistics among others. 

 PA CareerLink® is part of the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry’s initiative to transform the landscape of how job-seekers find family sustaining jobs and how employers find the skilled candidates that they need.