Student Links

This page has some very useful links to commercial databases and information, that will be helpful to our students.

SIRS
A general reference database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues. If you are using this at home, click here Either way enter IL1454H for the customer number and 61602 for the password.

INFOTRAC
Peoria Public Library card holders may now use INFOTRAC from home. Put in  peor30791 as your password.
Included are:
Business and Company Resource CenterGeneral Reference CenterHealth and Wellness Resource CenterTesting and Education Reference CenterBiography and Genealogy Master IndexGale's Ready Reference Shelf
Use   peor30791   as your password.


OCLC's First Search
The World's Information at Your Fingertips
OCLC's FirstSearch provides a tremendous number of databases to you using one type of searching. A selected subset of these databases are available to you free of charge courtesy of the Office of the Illinois Secretary of State.
To use any of the databases below you must have the Authorization Code 100108167 and Password peoriaps 
http://firstsearch.oclc.org/

The following are the databases you may access:
General Databases
WorldCat - Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. Article1st - Index of articles from nearly 12,500 journals.
Specialized Databases
Clase Periodica - Index of Latin American journals in science and humanities. Ebooks - Catalog of online electronic books available through libraries worldwide. ECO - A collection of scholarly journals. ERIC - Journal articles and reports in education. GPO - U.S. Government publications. MEDLINE - Abstracted articles from medical journals. PapersFirst - An index of papers presented at conferences. Proceedings - An index of conference publications. WilsonSelectPlus Full text articles in science, humanities, education and business WorldAlmanac - The World Almanacs.
 
Illinois Periodicals Online
IPO is a unique, Web-based collection of Illinois publications. The resources provides fast, intuitive access to information from a wide variety of sources. Many of the sources are in full text and full image.  You can access Illinois Issues, Illinois Heritage, Outdoor Illinois and many other publications.
http://www.lib.niu.edu/

Peoria Public Library - Commercial Database Portal
This is a link to all of the Peoria Public Library Commercial Databases.
This is a great resource for research!
http://www.peoriapubliclibrary.org/index.php?section=31

This is the catalog page for the Resource Sharing Alliance all Central Illinois public and academic libraries:
http://rsacat.alsrsa.org/rooms/portal/page/Sirsi_HOME

This is a link to a page with more photos of the library:
http://picasaweb.google.com/librarywms/LibraryScrapbookPhotos

This is a link to the Washington Gifted School web page.
http://washington.psd150.org/schoolsite/default.aspx 


MERGENT ONLINE
 An Internet-based suite of information resources that enables in-depth business and financial research. If you are using Mergent Online in the library click here. If you are accessing from home click here and enter your Peoria Public Library card number

 



 




This site was designed and published by Mrs. Mary C. Yates.