Welcome to the South Hills Virtual Library!

Local Regional Public Libraries

• Access Pennsylvania - Find books, movies, and more in over 800 PA libraries
• Altoona Area Public Library
• American Philatelic Research Library (Stamps.org) - Located in Bellefonte
• Centre County Library - Branches in Aaronsburg, Bellefonte, Centre Hall, and Philipsburg
• Mifflin County Library - Located in Lewistown
• Schlow Centre Region Library - Located in State College

Public e-Libraries

• Bartleby.com
• Google Books Search
• National Academies Press Home Page
• Open Books Project
• UPenn Online Books Page
• University of Virginia VIRGO
• Virtual Learning Resources Center

Penn State Libraries

• Pennsylvania State University Libraries

How To Use Google Books

• Full View - Allows you to view any full page from the book. Available only if the publisher or author has asked to make the book fully viewable, or if the book is in the Public Domain (out of copyright). PDF versions of Public Domain works can be downloaded, saved, and/or printed.
• Limited Preview - Displays a limited number of pages from a copyrighted book as a preview if the publisher or author has given Google permission.
• Snippet View - Displays basic information about a copyrighted book plus a few sentences (a snippet) to display your search term in context.
• No Preview Available - Displays only basic information about a copyrighted book.
• The Advanced Search allows you to limit searches to Full View only.

Book Websites

• BetterWorldBooks - Economically priced new and used books shipped free
• The Free Library by Farlex - Books and articles
• Internet Archive - Download millions of free books, texts, moving images, and audio files
• Just Free Books - Find public domain, open books, fee audio books, and ad-supported books
• ManyBooks.net - Over 50,000 books to download for free
• Planet eBook - Classic literature for download as free eBooks
• Project Gutenberg - Access to over 75,000 free books you can download
• U.S. Government Printing Office - Online access to government information submitted by Congress and Federal agencies
• WorldCat - Find items in libraries nearby (not a full text resource)

Digitized Collections

• Library of Congress Digital Collections - Access to print, pictorial, and audio-visual collections
• OAIster - Digital resources from over 1,000 libraries and institutions
• Smithsonian Institution Libraries - Digital Collections
• World Digital Library - Makes primary materials from countries and cultures around the world available on the internet, free of charge and in multilingual format

News

• Associated Press - The essential global news network
• Reuters - Headline news plus more
• Today's Front Pages

General

• Bureau of Transportation Statistics (Research and Innovative Technology Administration)
• Consumer Reports - Product ratings and articles
• Directory of Open Access Journals - Scientific and scholarly journals
• Google Scholar - Scholarly literature
• Pennsylvania State Data Center - Demographic and economic data
• Pew Internet & American Life Project - Research reports on the use of technology and the Internet
• U.S. Census Bureau - Population and household economic topics
• U.S. Department of Agriculture

Technology

• First Monday - Articles about the Internet and global information infrastructure
• Internet.com
• Wired - Computer and technology news in business, medicine, culture

Business

• Advertising Age - News about advertising and marketing
• Bloomberg - Business and finance
• Business Week - Business, finance, technology, marketing
• CNN Money
• Creative Magazine
• Forbes - Business, finance, leadership, markets
• FORTUNE Magazine Archive: 1930-2000
• Hoovers - Information on more than 12 million companies
• Mediaweek - TV ratings, news on television industry
• Securities and Exchange Commission - Information on publicly traded companies
• The Wall Street Journal
• U.S. Census Bureau - Economic census
• Yahoo! Finance

Health

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Healthfinder.gov - U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services
• HighWire - Stanford University articles on science
• Medline Plus - U.S. National Library of Medicine & National Institutes of Health (NIH) consumer health information
• Merck Manual - Information on specific diagnoses
• PubMed Central - NIH archive of literature