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E-Resources for Research

POWER Kids	Data Axle Reference Solutions	Career Transitions

POWER Kids is a collection of e-resources for young children on subjects that include animals, art, biography, history, science, and so much more.	(Formerly known as Reference USA.) Information on U.S. historical businesses, new movers home owners, healthcare, jobs/internships, and consumers/lifestyles.	Find help to create resumes, on writing cover letters and applying for positions.

Gale Courses	Health & Wellness Resource Center	Ebook Collection

Over 375 instructor-led interactive courses on many topics from Accounting and Finance to Writing and Publishing.	Accurate and authoritative information on a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to alternative and complementary medical practices.	eBooks in a wide range of subject areas and topics in fiction and nonfiction for adults, young adults and children.

eBooks for Reference	Science Reference Center	MyHeritage

Access a collection of more than 50 reference e-books covering a variety of subjects from Arts to Technology. Collaborative tools to enable users to share, save, and download content—including highlights and notes.	Topics covered include biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.	Internationally diverse genealogy database. It includes billions of historical documents from over 48 countries, millions of historical photos, public records, indexes and additional resources.

Tutor.com	Power Search	LegalForms Library

Get online help on over 40 subjects including Math, Science, Social Studies, English, AP ® Support, Foreign Languages, Business. GED, U.S. Citizenship, Test Prep, Study & Career Resources.	Search many of the Gale e-resources available in POWER Library in one place! Find articles and information from Academic OneFile, General OneFile, InfoTrac Newsstand.	Access legal online documents you can customize. No special skill or extensive knowledge of the law is required.

NoveList Plus	Morningstar	POWER Library

Recommended reading lists. Find fiction and nonfiction books by genre, mood, age group, read-alike and listen-alike titles and featured award winners.	From a respected and reliable source. Investment information and analysis for all levels of fund and stock investors on companies, markets, ETFs and portfolio of planning tools.	Thousands of full text periodical articles, newspapers, a major encyclopedia, plus photographs, pictures, charts, maps, reference materials for adults and young people.

Homeschool Resources

Please click the links to the library’s databases in Tutor.com, Power Kids, Power Teens and Science Reference Center for free online e-resources for students in grades K-12 and for college test preparation. Duolingo and Khan Academy are not library databases, but are reliable and trusted websites for language learning and online education for kids in grades K-12.

If you have questions, please contact the Children’s Librarian, Rita Smith, by phone at 717-533-6555 ext. 3707 or by e-mail at ritahuntsmith@derrytownship.org

Find e-resources (aka databases) for older students and adults at Power Library E-Resources.

Tutor.com		Power Kids

Get online help on over 40 subjects including Math, Science, Social Studies, English, AP ® Support, Foreign Languages, SAT & ACT Test Prep. Connect with a live tutor daily from 2-9 pm.		Information on literature and a variety of topics such as animals, nature, science, history and including safety online.
Power Teens		Science Reference Center

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, and Chat with a Librarian.		Designed to meet every student researcher's needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, encyclopedias, reference books and a vast collection of images.
Doulingo		Khan Academy

Select a language to learn. French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Turkish and more. Go at your own pace; from beginner level to more advanced.		For students in grades K-12. Math by grade, Science & Engineering, Arts & Humanities, Computing, Economics & Finance, test prep & college admissions.