Resources Beginning with "P"
PAIS![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Chronicling global public policy and social issues, the Public Affairs Information Service provides access to over 3,600 periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, Internet resources, and other publications from 120 countries.
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PAIS Archive![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Retrospective database chronicling global public policy and social issues from the early twentieth century through the mid-1970s.
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PAN Pesticides Database Contains current toxicity and regulatory information for pesticides.
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PANGAEA The Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data is a public digital library for science containing georeferenced data with special emphasis on environmental, marine and geological basic research.
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Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800 The database contains 55,000 documents covering the Early Republic, from the handling of Indian affairs, pensions and procurement to the nature of the first American citizens’ relationship with their new Federal government.
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PapersFirst![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Worldwide coverage of published congresses, symposiums, conferences, expositions, workshops and meetings received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.
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Parliamentary Information Management Service PIMS provides an index to the proceedings and publications of both Houses of Parliament in the UK and includes the full text of Early Day Motions since May 1997.
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PARLIT A database of bibliographic references on the role, structure and working methods of national parliaments, and on electoral systems, constitutional law, history and political science.
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Pathway Interaction Database A database of pathway interactions, assembled by The Center for Bioinformatics of the National Cancer Institute ( NCICB ) from publicly available sources of information.
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patientINFORM Provides patients and their caregivers access to some of the most up-to-date, reliable and important research available about the diagnosis and treatment of specific diseases.
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Performing Arts Encyclopedia A centralized guide to the Library of Congress holdings in music, motion picture, broadcasting, recorded sound, manuscript, rare book and other nonbook collections.
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Performing Arts in America, 1875-1923 A searchable database of 16,000 objects representing archival materials from one of the strongest periods in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts collections.
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Periodicals Index Online![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) PIO (formerly Periodicals Contents Index ) indexes millions of articles published in 4,698 periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences, some as far back as 1770.
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PERSEE Database of French journals in the social sciences and humanities. Journals include Annales, Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes, L'Homme, Revue française de science politique.
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Perseus Interactive Sources and Studies on Ancient Greece A multimedia interactive database designed to facilitate the study of archaic and classical Greece and to expand the ways in which ancient Greek literature, history, art, and archaeology can be examined.
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PERSI Index![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Periodicals Source Index (PERSI) is a comprehensive subject index covering more than 6,500 genealogy and local history periodicals written in English and French (Canada) since 1800.
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PerX : Engineering Repository Cross Search Subject-based cross-repository search tool for resource discovery in engineering.
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PGM Database Contains a collection of published data defining the physical, mechanical and chemical data for the platinum group metals (platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, osmium and ruthenium) and their alloys.
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PharmGKB PharmGKB database is designed to aid researchers in understanding how genetic variation among individuals contributes to differences in reactions to drugs.
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Philippine Bibliography Compiled by the Asian Division of the Library of Congress, this classified bibliography consists of approximately 5000 entries for monographic works about the Philippines in all languages held by the Library.
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Philosopher's Index![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Philosophers Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields.
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PhilSci Archive A searchable electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science.
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Photography Dictionary Contains a combination of many different photography dictionaries, glossaries, and other photography related information.
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Physical Review Archive PROLA Indexes all American Physical Society (APS) journal material published from 1893 to present.
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Picsearch Picsearch is a search engine for pictures and images.
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Picture Collection Online PCO is a searchable collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923.
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Picturing America![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Provides high-quality reproductions and images of notable American art. An initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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PILOTS Database![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) PILOTS bibliographic database provides citations to literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations.
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PLANTS database The PLANTS Database maintained by the USDA provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the United States and its territories.
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Play Index![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Play Index covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama.
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PLEIADI Project A portal for Italian scholarly e-literature in open archives. The PLEIADI Project is an acronym for "Portale per la Letteratura scientifica Elettronica Italiana su Archivi aperti e Depositi Istituzionali".
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Plunkett Research Online![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Provides industry sector analysis and research, as well as information on industry trends, industry statistics, top companies in the industry, export companies, market research, and trade and export associations.
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PNAS Online Search tables of contents, abstracts, and the full-text across hundreds of medical and scientific journals.
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Podscope Allow you to search podcasts and other types of multimedia for spoken words within any audio or video file.
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Poem Finder![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Use to locate close to one million poems, more than 100,000 in full-text.
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Poesie francaise Database of French poetry from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century.
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PolarInfo Database Contains references to northern and Native subjects covering health, education, law, business, political science, geology, cold regions engineering, vegetation, and wildlife.
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PolicyArchive Policy Archive contains more than 10,000 policy documents from about 220 think tanks and research groups.
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PolicyFile![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Covers all aspects of public policy research and analysis produced from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations, and publishers.
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PolicyMap PolicyMap is a geographic information system which allows users to create custom maps, tables, and charts on topics such as demographics, real estate, crime, money & invoce, jobs, education, energy, and public investments.
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Political Database of the Americas Provides documentary and statistical political information on Latin America, including constitutions, electoral laws, legislative and executive branch information and election data.
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Political Risk Service (select LOGIN to search)![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Data, analysis and risk ratings of the global business landscape. Indicates, through risk ratings, the placement of countries from least risky (A+) to most risky (D-) for financial transfer, direct investment, and export markets.
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Polling the Nations![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Compilation of the full-text of the questions and responses from over 12,000 national, state, and local surveys conducted by 700 polling organizations in the United State and more than 70 other countries.
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POPLINE Bibliographic database on population, family planning, and related health issues.
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Population Database The United Nations Population Division database allows one to calculate and display past (back to 1950) and future (up to 2050) population statistics for all major regions of the world, the entire planet, and many specific countries.
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Population Index An annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics.
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Population Reference Bureau DataFinder Contains data on 95 demographic variables for more than 220 countries, 28 world regions and sub-regions, the world as a whole, the United States as a whole, and the US states.
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Posner Memorial Collection in Electronic Format Search or browse a collection of full text books containing landmark titles in the history of western science, decorative arts and literature.
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PrimateLit Database Provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities.
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Princeton Dante Project A full text selection of Dante's works in Italian and English, along with multimedia resources, biographies and lectures.
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Principal Metals Glossary A glossary of over 1000 metallurgical terms.
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Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1834 Fully searchable texts detailing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
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ProceedingsFirst![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Worldwide coverage of congresses, symposiums, conferences, expositions, workshops and meetings received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.
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Producer Price Index PPI is a family of indexes from the Department of Labor that measures the average change over time in the selling prices received by domestic producers of goods and services.
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Project Euclid Project Euclid contains abstracts and selected full text to journals in theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics, logic, physics and communications theory. Search by authors, titles, subjects or keywords. List of journal titles.
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Project MUSE![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Full text of over 220 scholarly journals published by university presses in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, mathematics, political science, gender studies, and others.
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Pronouncing Dictionary of Music and Musicians Provides some help in the form of pronunciations by a phonetic system devised by the staff of WOI Radio at Iowa State University.
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ProQuest Asian Business
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ProQuest Databases![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) A multidisciplinary resource including ProQuest Research Library with citations and abstracts for over 2,500 journals, magazines, and newspapers, many dating back to 1986 or earlier and covering all subject areas.
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Offers full-text and full-image articles from the Atlanta Constitution, Boston Globe, Chicago Defender, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Amsterdam News, New York Times, Pittsburgh Courier, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, dating back to their first issue (this search also includes the American Periodical Series).
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ProQuest Medical Library![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Offers coverage of all the major healthcare specialties, including nursing, pediatrics, neurology, pharmacology, cardiology, physical therapy, and others. Combines MEDLINE indexing with full images for more than 200 key medical titles. Updated daily.
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Protein Data Bank PDB is a searchable repository for the processing and distribution of 3-D biological macromolecular structure data.
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PsycFirst![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Covers international material selected from periodicals in Psychology and related fields written in over 25 languages.
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PsycInfo![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Contains almost 2 million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology.
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PubChem Chemical Structure Database PubChem contains the chemical structures of small organic molecules and information on their biological activities.
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Public Documents Masterfile![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Public Documents Masterfile is a comprehensive index of federal, state, local, and some international public documents, spanning over 200 years of publication.
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Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States Contains the compilations of Presidential messages, papers, writings, addresses, and remarks of a public nature beginning in 1992 with the George HW Bush Admiminstration.
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Publishers Directory![ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY](images/lock.gif) Listed organizations include major US and Canadian publishing companies, small presses, associations, museums and societies, university presses, religious institutions, corporations that produce important publications related to their products or area of specialization, government agencies, and database publishers.
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PubMed Central National Library of Medicine's digital archive of life sciences journal literature.
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