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Library users may access the following databases from computer workstations
located at the Horsham Township Library.

Many of these same databases can be accessed "remotely," that is, from a computer at your home, school or office. When using remote access, you will be asked to type in your library card's 14-digit barcode number to validate you as a user covered by the terms of the applicable subscription contract. To connect to the database, click on its icon.

Database access provided by the Horsham Township Library.
Morningstar
Morningstar
trial thru June 30, 2010
Morningstar Investment Research Center: this is a short-term trial subscription. The library is evaluating this product for possible purchase. To log in, type Username: horsham and Password: library. Please give us your feedback by talking with reference librarian Barbara Svoboda or emailing Barb at BSvoboda@MCLINC.ORG
BookFlix
BookFlix
BookFlix: Streaming videos and book-related learning games for young children from Scholastic.
EbscoHost
EbscoHost
EbscoHost: a suite of periodical index databases that contain citations and full-text articles in magazines, newspapers and documents of interest to students of all ages, business people, teachers, and general readers.
Link to ReferenceUSA
Learning Express
The Learning Express library is an interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or occupational licensing tests they must pass. Check out the useful resume writing and job search resources here, too!
Link to NewsBank index to Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia
Inquirer Index
NewsBank Index to the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1981 to the present.
World Book Online
World Book Online
World Book Online contains every article from the print encyclopedia plus thousands more. It includes state-of-the-art multimedia, maps, editor-reviewed Web sites, special reports, and audio-video clips.
Database access from the
Pennsylvania Online World of Electronic Resources - P.O.W.E.R. Library.
Link to PA Online World of Electronic Resources
P.O.W.E.R. Library
A selection of database subscriptions underwritten by a statewide master contract negotiated by the State Library of Pennsylvania. The databases include:
  • AccessPA catalog of books and materials in libraries throughout Pennsylvania
  • H.W. Wilson Readers' Guide Select
  • H.W. Wilson - OmniFile Mega and OmniFile Select full-text multi-disciplinary database covering Art, Education, Social Science, Humanities, Business, Science, and Current Events.
  • H.W. Wilson - Science Full Text Select - full-text database covering 360 science journals indexed by H.W. Wilson Applied Science, Biological & Agricultural, and General Science databases.
  • Auto Repair Reference Center - Ebsco Publishing
  • Associated Press photo and image archives
  • ProQuest - ABI/INFORM
  • Gale - InfoTrac Newsstand full-text newspaper resource (1,000+ major US & international papers)
  • NoveList and NoveList K-8 reader's guides to fiction - Ebsco Publishing
  • Contemporary Authors on-line index to writers - Thompson/Gale
  • H.W. Wilson Biography Reference Bank
  • SIRS Discoverer - ProQuest
  • NetLibrary electronic book library - OCLC
  • Ebsco Publishing - GreenFILE environmental database
Database access underwritten by a portion of the County Coordination Aid appropriation to the Montgomery County- Norristown Public Library by the Pennsylvania Legislature.
Link to ReferenceUSA
ReferenceUSA
The ReferenceUSA database contains, in module format, detailed information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses; 102 million U.S. residents; 1 million Canadian businesses; and 11 million Canadian residents. Remote access is available from home, school or office. To log-in remotely, please have your library card number handy. You will need to enter your 14-digit number to log-in.
Link to Tumblebooks
Tumblebooks
Tumblebooks is a collection of animated, talking picture books for young children. You will need the Flash plug-in from Macromedia to hear the animation. To download the free Flash plug-in go to Macromedia.
Willow Grove Naval Air Station Administrative Record.
Willow Grove
Naval Air Station
Administrative Record
The Willow Grove Naval Air Station has provided copies of the documents that comprise its Administrative Record. These documents pertain to assessments of enviromnental hazards on the base, plans for remediation, and actions taken to clean up pollution.

Handy Internet-based Reference Resources
Dictionaries Dictionary.Com
OneLook Reverse Dictionary
Thesaurus.Com
yourDictionary.Com: 2500 dictionaries and grammars in over 300 languages
Word Spy: recently coined words and phrases
UrbanDictionary.Com: contemporary slang
RhymeZone: rhyming dictionary
Phrases & Quotations The Phrase Finder
QuoteWorld.org
AskOxford.Com: Quotations & English grammar & usage
Quotations Home Page
Acronym Server: acronyms & abbreviations
WWW.ELyrics4U.Com: song lyrics
Almanacs Information Please
WWW.Refdesk.Com: facts and current events
Time, Measure & Financial Calculators The Official U.S. Time
Measure Converter: measurement conversion tables
Online Conversion.Com: various conversion calculators
Mortgage Calculator Tools: mortgage and retirement savings account calculators
Periodic Table of the Elements: an interactive Periodic Table with information about each chemical element
Places Atlapedia Online: color physical & political maps, facts & statistics on countries of the world.
CIA World Factbook
Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer: 4,000,000 world place names
Columbia Gazetteer of North America: 50,000 N. American place names
Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature: extraterrestrial bodies
U.S. Gazetteer: with links to US Census data
Public Domain Resources In The First Person: a free index to letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and auto biographies accessible via the Internet. Database maintained by Alexander Street Press.
World Digital Library: primary source documents from world cultures with explanations by scholars in Arabic, Chinese, English, Frendh, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian. A project of UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

 
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