Databases

Use our subscription databases to find citations and full text articles. To get started, just click on the database that you would like to search. If you're outside the library, you may need to enter your library card number and PIN in order to access the database.

• Digital Media
• Digital Learning
• Free Library Catalog

Awarded “Best Library Digital Resources” by Philadelphia Magazine

• Books & Authors

  Books & Authors answers the question: What Do I Read Next? Explore authors, genres, books, and topics to discover books that match your interests. Search over 240,000 fiction and non-fiction librarian-recommended titles.

  Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.

  • Biography and Autobiography
  • Body, Mind and Spirit
  • Business and Economics
  • Fiction
  • Literature
  • Science
  • Summer Reading
  • Adults
  • Teens
  • Children
  • New Americans
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Romance
  • Seniors

• Business Insights Essentials

  Find full-text articles and statistical data about companies and industries for business owners, marketing professionals, and investors. Analyze and compare financial and statistical data with interactive charting tools. 8,900+ full-text journals.

  Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.

  • Business and Economics
  • Newspapers, Magazines, & Journals
  • Personal Finance & Investing
  • General Research
  • Business and Entrepreneurs
  • Adults
  • Teens
  • Entrepreneurs

• GREENR - Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources

  GREENR is an interdisciplinary resource for environment and sustainability studies and provides news, video, primary source documents, and statistics on energy systems, healthcare, food, climate change, population, economic development, and more.

  Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.

  • Business and Economics
  • Environment and Nature
  • Homework Help & Study Aids
  • Newspapers, Magazines, & Journals
  • General Research
  • Science
  • Adults
  • Teens
  • Animals and Nature

• NewsBank Hot Topics

  Trending news and topics for your next assignment! Covers current events, business & economics, civics, government, & politics, social issues, science, technology & health, sports, arts & literature, and people in the news. *Chrome browser not supported.

  Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.

  • Art
  • Business and Economics
  • Health and Fitness
  • Homework Help & Study Aids
  • Literature
  • Newspapers, Magazines, & Journals
  • Politics
  • General Research
  • Sports & Recreation
  • Technology
  • Adults
  • Teens

• Philadelphia Business Journal Online

  Find the latest breaking local business news, updated throughout the day, this week's top stories from the Philadelphia Business Journal, and other popular features from the print edition such as the the Book of Lists.

  Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.

  • Business and Economics
  • Nonprofit
  • Job Seekers
  • Newspapers, Magazines, & Journals
  • Business and Entrepreneurs
  • Adults
  • Job Seekers
  • Entrepreneurs

• SimplyAnalytics

  A mapping and data visualization application that makes it easy to create interactive maps and reports using powerful demographic, business, and marketing data.
  Use the following video to learn more about this resource

  Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.

  • Business and Economics
  • Nonprofit
  • Business and Entrepreneurs
  • Adults
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Maps

• Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture, and Law

  This HeinOnline collection brings together essential legal materials on slavery in the U.S. and the English-speaking world. It includes nearly 2,000 titles with every statute and case on slavery, and hundreds of historic texts and modern histories.

  Available To: All Free Library locations.

  • African American
  • Business and Economics
  • Government Information
  • Law
  • Adults
  • Teens
  • History

denotes POWER Library resource

This project is made possible in part by Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services and through Library Access Funds administered by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, Department of Education, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, Governor.