We were pleased to offer our community so many new Electronic Resources/Databases this year!

Here are all of the new resources introduced since January 1, 2023:

Films to Stream:

• Kanopy → Over 4,000 movies for adults and kids with no monthly viewing limits
• Access Video on Demand: Master Collection → Over 44,000 documentaries (from BBC and PBS) and how-to-videos
• Access Video on Demand: Just for Kids → Over 12,000 videos, games, songs, and interactives 
• World Cinema → 1,000+ classic and contemporary films from the U.S. and around the world

Comics:

• Comics Plus: Children → Digital comics, graphic novels, and manga for kids
• Comics Plus: Teens → Digital comics, graphic novels, and manga for teens
• Comics Plus: All Access → Thousands of digital comics, graphic novels, and manga for all ages

Newspapers:

• PressReader including the Economist Magazine → 6,300 full-issue newspapers from around the world
• Newspaper Archive → U.S. and international newspaper articles from 1607–present

Kids:

• World Book Online → Online version of World Book Encyclopedia from kindergarten–high school students
• Britannica School Edition → Pre-K to grade 5: encyclopedia, atlases, videos, and magazine articles (POWER Library)
• Cricket Media Collection → E-books for pre-K to grade 8 from Cricket Media (POWER Library)
• ProQuest SIRS Discoverer → History, health, language arts, math, science, social studies, and technology for middle school students (POWER Library)

Genealogy:

• Ancestry Library Edition → World’s largest collection of genealogical records to search your family tree at any of our libraries
• MyHeritage Library Edition → Remote access genealogy resources from around the world (POWER Library)

Health:

• Gale Health and Wellness → Authoritative, up-to-date information on health topics (formerly a POWER Library resource)

Research:

• Academic OneFile → Access to 17,000+ scholarly journals with formatted citations (formerly a POWER Library resource)
• General OneFile → Articles from 13,000+ leading magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals (formerly a POWER Library resource)
• LitFinder → Covers world literature and authors throughout history (formerly a POWER Library resource)

Language Learning:

• Transparent Language Online → Learn 120+ languages, including American Sign Language and endangered North American and world languages (POWER Library)

POWER Library resources can be reached on our databases page under POWER Library.

Access all the databases with a Free Library of Philadelphia library card and PIN! Apply for a library card today!