Manderino Library: A to Z List of Library Resources: P

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Pennsylvania News
Search Pennsylvania publications and news about Pennsylvania from other sources. (Westlaw)
Pennsylvania Regulations (Code)
Search the Pennsylvania Code. (Westlaw)
Pennsylvania Statutes & Court Rules
Search Pennsylvania statutes (Purdon's), constitution, and court rules. (Westlaw)
Pennsylvania Superior Court Cases
Search Pennsylvania Superior Court Cases since 1895. (Westlaw)
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Cases
Search Pennsylvania Supreme Court decisions since 1754. (Westlaw)
Philadelphia Inquirer Archive (1860-2010)
Search or browse the complete full text of the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1860-2010, including The Philadelphia Inquirer Public Ledger, as it was known from 1934-1969. This archive includes full-page images of the paper, including stories, advertisements, and classifieds. (ProQuest)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (1990-present)
Access Pittsburgh Post-Gazette articles in Westlaw from 1990 to the present. Note: Images are NOT included. For material dated 2008 and earlier, the ProQuest Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Archive (1786-2008) provides full back issues with facsimile page images.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Archive (1786-2008)
Search or browse the complete full text of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from 1786-2008, including its many alternate titles throughout its history. This ProQuest archive includes full-page images of the paper, including stories, advertisements, and classifieds. If you need access to more recent articles (1990 to the present, but without images), use the Westlaw version: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (1990-present).
Political Science Complete
Covers comparative politics, humanitarian issues, international relations, law and legislation, non-governmental organizations and political theory. (EBSCO)

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Primary Search
Designed for elementary school libraries, this database covers popular, elementary school publications. Every full-text article is assigned a Lexile reading level indicator. Unlike Explora: Elementary (see above), this interface uses the standard EBSCO academic interface. (EBSCO)
Proquest eBook Central
Access over 170,000 e-books on a range of subjects.
PsycARTICLES
Contains the full-text of 100 journals, including all of the APA publications. NOTE: You will find more results by searching PsycINFO. Everything in PsycARTICLES is included in the more extensive PsycINFO database. (EBSCO)

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Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
This "collection" is subset of full-text resources from other EBSCO databases on psychological and behavioral sciences topics. (EBSCO)
PsycINFO
The premier research tool for psychology, behavioral, and social science disciplines. Provides access to journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, and technical reports. (EBSCO)

Covers more than 2,500 journals (99% are peer-reviewed). Provides extensive coverage since the 1800s, with some coverage back into the 17th and 18th centuries. For advanced searching, you can use the Classification Categories and Codes as a search limiter to narrow your results. More info from EBSCO.

Pennsylvania Library Systems

The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) includes the following 14 state-owned universities. Links connect to their libraries:

The Keystone Library Network includes the PASSHE universities, plus the following schools. Links connect to their libraries:

Free Web Resources

Pennsylvania Department of Education
Information about all levels of education in the state of Pennsylvania, teacher certification, school districts, etc.
Pennsylvania Department of Health
The official source for health information within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry
Information and statistics about labor & industry in the state of Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Department of Revenue
Find information about PA taxes, including Personal Income Tax Forms.
Pennsylvania General Assembly
Legislative information, including the PA Senate, House, Session Info, Legislation, and Statutes.

Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (PASDA)
This portal provides free public access to geospatial data and information by, for, and about the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Note: Many of the data files on this site are very large! You should determine the file size before attempting to download, since it may take a very long time.
Pennsylvania State Data Center
Pennsylvania's official source of population and economic statistics.

Pennsylvania Local Government Services
The Governor's Center for Local Government Services provides information on all matters affecting local government operations throughout Pennsylvania.

Periodic Table
A one-stop site for data on every element! Start with the periodic table of elements and explore data, values, etc. for each element. Includes direct links to Wikipedia articles on each element.

See also: WebElements: Periodic Table of the Elements
Pew Research Center
A respected nonpartisan "fact tank" that conducts public opinion polling, demographic analysis, and social science research in 8 categories (click "more..." to see a list).

Pew Research Center covers these 8 categories:
• US Politics & Policy
• Journalism & Media
• Social & Demographic Trends
• Religion & Public Life
• Internet & Technology
• Science & Society
• Hispanic Trends
• Global Attitudes & Trends

Plagiarism Tutorial
A tutorial that includes exercises and quizzes to assess your knowledge of plagiarism. From the University of Southern Mississippi.

PolicyMap
PolicyMap is an online data and mapping resource covering demographics, housing, crime, health, jobs and more. This link provides access to the FREE version, which allows you to view maps one data layer at a time.

POWER Library
Provides a unified catalog to the content in all types of libraries within Pennsylvania: academic, school, public, special, etc. If you have a public library card, you can access a limited number of electronic databases.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg provides access to tens of thousands of free electronic books. Due to copyright restrictions, many of these are older, "classic" texts.

PubMed
PubMed is a free resource for researching biomedical and life sciences literature. It does not include full-text journal articles itself. However, links to the full text are often present when it is available from other sources. It includes the citations from the MEDLINE database, full-text from PubMed Central, and citations for books. Cal U patrons: using the Library's version of MEDLINE Complete will provide you with much more full-text.

Use the NLM Catalog: Journals in the NCBI Databases when you need to identify journal abbreviations in PubMed.