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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.
BookFlix
BookFlix
BookFlix: Streaming videos and book-related learning games for young children from Scholastic.
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
  • EbscoHost indexes of journals and magazines
  • Associated Press photo and image archives
  • "NoveList" reader's guide to fiction
  • Searchasaurus homework resource for children
  • Facts For Learning student resource
  • Contemporary Authors on-line index to writers
  • Grove Art Online - an online art encyclopedia
  • Grove Music Online - an online music encyclopedia
  • HW Wilson Biography Bank
  • Oxford Reference Online
  • SIRS Discoverer
  • Roth Publishing LitFinder - index to poetry
  • NetLibrary electronic book library
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 NewsBank index to Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia
Inquirer Index
NewsBank Index to the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1981 to the present.
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; 683,000 U.S. health care providers; 1 million Canadian businesses; and 11 million Canadian residents. Due to cuts made in state funding affecting library "County Coordination Aid," these databases can be searched only from a computer inside the Horsham Township Library. Remote access from home, school or office is no longer available.
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 licensing tests they must pass.
Link to Heritage Quest
Heritage Quest
Heritage Quest is a genealogy website from ProQuest that enables users to search US Census records, the PERSI index of genealogy and local history articles, Revolutionary War era pension and bounty-land warrant application files, and records from the Freedman's Bank spanning the years 1865-1874.
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.

 
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