eResources

Discover full-text scholarly content for major college courses. Designed specifically for academic institutions, Academic Search Main Edition provides full-text and peer-reviewed journals from nearly 1,900 full-text journals and nearly 1,300 full-text peer-reviewed journals.

This genealogy database provides access to U.S. and some European census data, ship's logs and passenger indexes, vital records and social security death index records, WWI draft registration cards, maps, genealogy reference books, and more. Provided by Montgomery County.

Book SnapShots helps you find books and authors by topics and genres.  The newest SnapShots highlight our current display of Sea Creatures, Sea Stories (Virtual Book display.) Explore the library's SnapShots to find read-a-likes and Reading Olympics, too.

Booklist Online is a 100-year-old journal, published by the American Library Association.  Booklist Online is a subscription database created from the journal. The subscription database contains archived reviews and features that are dynamically linked.  The database contains over 120,000 reviews and thousands of features dating back to 1992.

Catalog holdings of almost 3,000 Pennsylvania school, public, academic and special libraries are included in this database. Search by author, title, subject or keyword to locate over 50 million items.

Chat with a Librarian is Pennsylvania’s statewide live chat reference service and is free to all residents of Pennsylvania 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. 

Contemporary Authors includes biographies for current writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures and television. Provided by POWER Library.

Find ratings of local service companies, including auto repair shops, plumbers, veterinarians, banks, doctors, dentists, carpet cleaners, etc. You can read the current issues and find guides to health plans, hospitals and top doctors (rated both by other doctors and by patients). 

Access over 1,100 academic journals and ERIC database reports in the field of education. Key subject areas include administration, bilingual education, child development and psychology, funding, health education, technology, and testing. 

Explore encyclopedias and specialized reference sources on a variety of topics from history, government, environment, math, and more! 

Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources (GREENR) offers researchers an interdisciplinary resource for environment and sustainability studies.

What’s all the hoopla? hoopla digital is a new digital media service offered to Abington Township Libraries card holders.  Enjoy access to nearly half a million titles, from six different formats, instantly – no waiting!  Internet access is required to establish an account and search for a title.

Browse and read full-text newspapers from more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, plus leading titles from around the world, or search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section, or other fields. InfoTrac Newsstand also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts, and transcripts.

Looking for independent, international, classic, or documentary films, check out Kanopy!  

Get out your Abington Township library card and sign up for Kanopy, our newest on-demand video streaming service.  Create an account with your email address and a password. 

Whatever your goal, LearningExpress Library's resources will help you succeed. Each of our Learning Centers offers the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, eBooks, and information you need to achieve the results you want—at school, at work, or in life. Looking to land a job? You'll find an entire Learning Center dedicated to helping you get the one that's right for you.

NewsBank offers access to twenty-eight magazines, including The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs and Philadelphia Magazine.  The magazines are available in text-only format.

Medical information at your fingertips! Access both the Consumer Version and the Professional Version of the Merck Manuals here.  The Consumer Version offers information on medical topics, symptoms, drugs, procedures, news and more, written in everyday language and the Professional Version offers this information written for the health care professional.

NoveList provides access to full text reviews, annotations, publication information, subject headings and more for more than 120,000 works of fiction. In addition, this database can recommend similar titles and authors, provide guides for book discussions and more. This database can search for titles by author, title, series or even by plot descriptions.

Explore thousands of digitized documents and photographs from unique collections in libraries across Pennsylvania. You’ll be amazed by what you find

Philadelphia Inquirer 1981-current. Full text articles, photos and obituaries.

Get Ready for the New School Year with POWER Kids!

Check out the POWER Library webpage dedicated to serving kids.  Kid-centered eResources, Chat with a Librarian, books, movies and PA Photos and Documents are now presented in a single, kid-friendly interface.  

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.

Look for the new app to use RBdigital.  It will bring together audiobooks and eBooks in one app.  Note: Your username and password will remain the same.

Welcome to RBdigital, the new e-audiobook service from Abington Township Public Libraries.

Discover reliable and trusted information on a variety of topics to support middle school student research for government, U.S and world history, geography, literature, sciences, and social issues.

Perform research from hundreds of full text science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other reliable sources. View more than 280,000 high-quality science images from sources such as UPI, Getty, NASA, National Geographic and the Nature Picture Library. 

Your child can watch and listen to a large collection of animated, online story books. There is also a large collection of audio books, including ones in French and Spanish. TumbleBooks also has book related puzzles & games.