School Tools
High School
Gale Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile provides postsecondary students with peer-reviewed, full-text articles from journals in the areas of the physical and social sciences, technology, medicine, engineering, the arts, technology, literature, and more.
AP Newsroom
AP Newsroom is AP Images with a new, mobile-friendly delivery platform that allows users to easily search, preview and download the latest Associated Press content. The content, produced by the AP’s network of award-winning journalists and curated by its editors, includes top news stories, photos, audio clips and print graphics.
Gale Books & Authors
Powered by Gale's popular What Do I Read Next? series, Books & Authors connects readers from every level of reading proficiency to fiction and non-fiction books that match their interests.
Contemporary Authors
Offers searchable access to current biographical and bibliographical data on more than 120,000 modern authors.
Driving Tests
Driving-Tests.org is a free resource that provides driver educational resources through the use of practice exams. Practice exams are included for those seeking a license for driving a car, motorcycle, or commercial driving.
Gale Enviromental Studies
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES focuses on the study of sustainability and the environment. It provides news, background information, video, commentaries, primary source documents and statistics in relevant topic areas such as energy systems, healthcare, food, climate change, population, economic development, etc.
Gale Informe Académico
Informe Académico proporciona acceso a periódicos y revistas especializadas de lengua española y portuguesa. La base de datos ofrece una amplia gama de contenidos sobre América Latina.
Informe Académico supports Spanish-speaking researchers with a wide range of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America. Use the Topic Finder—a visual search tool—to discover new facets of a topic, or use the Readspeaker text-to-speech tool that allows text to be read aloud.
Gale In Context: High School
This e-resource provides secondary school students with access to age-appropriate content from magazines, journals, newspapers, reference books, and multi-media resources that cover a wide range of subjects.
Gale LitFinder
International in scope, LitFinder covers all time periods, and contains literature content. It also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary.
Newsbank/The Patriot News
Newsbank provides full-text access to the Harrisburg Patriot-News from 8/1/1986-present. The database provides basic and advanced searching and can be limited by date.
Newspapers.com Pennsylvania edition
Provides full runs and portions of runs of many current and older/historic Pennsylvania newspapers, some from as far back as the 1700s up to the 2000s. Enjoy viewing a newspaper as it originally looked, since each page is fully scanned.
Newspapers.com Pennsylvania edition
NoveList Plus
Find your next great read! Search by authors and titles you like, track series, read reviews and more.
Book information and recommendations
POWER Teens
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.
Salem Online
Searchable online database of reference titles developed by Salem Press. Online full text content includes Salem's subjects: health, history, literature and science fields. Includes indexes, illustrations, maps, recommended websites and primary documents.
Science Reference Center
Comprehensive research database that provides full-text science-oriented content, including hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals and other sources. Designed to meet every student’s science research needs, with articles correlated to state and national curriculum standards.
Go to Science Reference Center
Mango Languages
Learn a new language with this interactive database that provides step by step lesson plans for over 70 different languages. This database also features English lessons for over 20 native tongues. A text translator is provided. First time users must create a profile in order to access the resource.