Online Research Resources
The Library’s subscription databases of encyclopedias, hundreds of thousands of periodical articles, reference facts and statistics have been acquired for their relevance to the information and research needs of the cadets and the curricular needs of the faculty. They are accessible from the internet with the school’s username and password, which can be provided to you by the library faculty.
Congressional Quarterly Researcher
- Major social, government issues and time-critical topics
Credo Reference
Facts on File
Grolier Online
- Encyclopedia Americana
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
- Lands and Peoples
- New Book of Popular Science
InfoTrac/Gale Group also accessible from POWER Library
- U.S. History Resource Center
- Contemporary Authors
- Scribner Writers Series
JSTOR
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
- Academic journals and articles
- Scribner Writers Series
POWER Library
A service of Pennsylvania's public libraries, school libraries and the State Library, POWER library allows you to access thousands of full- text periodical articles, newspapers, a major encyclopedia, plus photographs, pictures, charts, maps, reference materials for young people and more. The following resources are available from the POWER Library site:
- Access PA - Database of more than 5 million items in over 3,000 Pennsylvania libraries
- AccuNet/Associated Press Multimedia Archive
- EBSCOHost - Hundreds of thousands of full-text journal articles
- EBSCOHost Searchasaurus
- Grove Dictionaries of Art, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Life Sciences, and Music
- NoveList - Readers' guide to literature and authors
- Poem Finder
- SIRS - Magazine articles, almanacs, world/country facts for middle school students
Proquest Database
Turnitin
VFMA&C's Library
Search the The May H. Baker Memorial Library Catalog.
Other Libraries
The Delaware County Library System provides access to a wide range of online resources. Because VFMA&C is located in Delaware County, students and faculty have access to library services here. A library card application can be obtained from the Baker Librarians.