AtoZdatabases
"The Premier Job Search, Reference, and Mailing List Database. The database includes 2.3 million job listings, 30 million business profiles, 1.1 million healthcare professionals, and much more. Ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, finding friends and relatives, and much more!"
Access: Any PPLC Library card
Business Insights: Essentials
Detailed company and industry news and information. Locate company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and relevant magazine articles.
Please use your library card number as the password when asked.
Access: Any Florida Library card
Gale Business: DemographicsNow
Create population and income maps, demographic reports, sales lead lists, market information, and access census data using Demographics Now.
Please use your library card number as the password when asked.
Access: Any Florida Library card
Gale Business: Entrepreneurship
Search Gale Business: Entrepreneurship to learn how to plan, fund, start or manage your small business. Resources include; sample business plans, how to guides, articles, and websites.
Please use your library card number as the password when asked.
Access: Any Florida Library card
Peterson's Career Prep
Gale Presents: Peterson’s Career Prep accommodates job seekers at all levels, whether they are entering the workforce for the first time or searching for new opportunities. Career assessments prompt personalized career recommendations and guidance on programs, knowledge, skills, and ability. Search for open jobs opportunities and create visually interesting resumes, cover letters, and websites that can be externally shared with prospective employers, using pre-built templates.
Access: Any Florida Library card
Gale OneFile: Vocations and Careers
Gale OneFile: Vocations and Careers aids users in researching a vocation, finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career. Vocations and Careers offers hundreds of current and applicable periodicals ranging from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.
Access: Any Florida Library card
Gale OneFile: Culinary Arts
The Culinary Arts Collection includes 150 of the major cooking and nutrition magazines from 1980 to present. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.
Please use your library card number as the password when asked.
Access: Any Florida Library card
Freegal Music
Explore over 11 million songs, including Sony Music’s catalog of legendary artists, with Freegal Music. Music from more than 30,000 labels and 80 countries available for you to download and stream for FREE! Patrons may download five (5) songs per week.
Access: Clearwater Library card only
Hoopla
Hoopla digital provides online and mobile access to thousands of movies, TV shows, music, audiobooks, eBooks and comic books. With hoopla digital, patrons can borrow, instantly stream, and download free content with a valid library card.
Patrons may check out 10 items per month from Hoopla. Visit the Help tab for more detailed information.
Access: Clearwater Library card only
Kanopy
Kanopy is an on-demand, film-streaming service. Clearwater library card holders can create a free account via the library's website to start streaming up to 10 films a month instantly. Films can be streamed from any computer, television, mobile device, or platform by downloading the kanopy app for iOS, Android, AppleTV, Chromecast, or Roku.
Kanopy users get 30 tickets per month to stream various films. Visit the Help tab for more detailed information.
Access: Clearwater Library card only
Libby (formerly OverDrive)
With Libby, you can checkout EPUB, PDF, and Kindle eBooks and eComicbooks, digital audiobooks, magazines, and streaming videos.
Patrons may check out 10 items per month from Libby and place up to seven requests per month. Visit the Help tab for more detailed information.
Access: Any PPLC Library card
AtoZdatabases
AtoZdatabases es la premier de búsqueda de trabajo, de referencia y la lista de correo de base de datos que incluye 30 millones de negocios y ejecutivos perfiles y 220 millones de habitantes. Ideal para las oportunidades de ventas, listas de correo, estudios de mercado, oportunidades de empleo, búsqueda de amigos y parientes, y mucho mas!
Acceso: Any PPLC Library card
El Nuevo Herald
Noticias de Miami y el sur de Florida. Lea las últimas noticias de Miami Beach, Condado de Miami-Dade, Estados Unidos, Cuba y América Latina.
Gale OneFile: Informe Académico
Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
Utilice el número de su tarjeta de biblioteca como contraseña cuando se le pregunte.
Acceso: Any Florida Library card
ProCitizen
Preparación para obtener la ciudadanía estadounidense.
Acceso: Any PPLC Library card
FactCheck.org
A project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, FactCheck.org is a "nonpartisan, nonprofit 'consumer advocate' for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics."
PolitiFact
"A [Pulitzer-Prize winning] fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others who speak up in American politics." The site is best known for its "Truth-O-Meter," which rates statements on a scale of True, Mostly True, Half True, Mostly False, False, or the lowest rating: "Pants on Fire."
Snopes
An independent fact-checking organization that researches the origin of rumors, urban legends, and memes. The site is best known for debunking false claims, and also contains a Fake News Archive and a Field Guide to Fake News Sites and Hoax Purveyors.
Value Line
Investment research for 6,000 stocks, 18,000 mutual funds, and 200,000 options and other securities. Value Line is best known for their Investment Survey, one of the most widely read investment services in the world.
Access: Clearwater Library card only
America’s News
Explore and stay informed on local and national topics, people, and events in areas such as business, health, education, jobs and careers, political and social issues and more. Features a wide variety of credible, vetted news sources spanning the U.S., including the Tampa Bay Times, USA Today, the Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, the Bradenton Herald, and many others. Also available remotely 24/7 on any device.
Access: Clearwater Library card only
Ancestry: Library Edition
Ancestry is an invaluable resource for genealogists and family researchers looking for census records, immigration information, passenger lists, birth, marriage, death and military records. Also includes charts and tools, plus much more.
Access: Any PPLC Library card; Inside Library only
The Black Cemetery Network
The Black Cemetery Network (BCN) is a platform for highlighting activities to identify, interpret, preserve, and record African American burial grounds and their histories. These sites have been abandoned, neglected, erased, and continually underrecognized throughout the U.S. Our network provides a space for honoring sacred spaces and sharing stories and resources to raise awareness about the marginalization of black cemeteries as a national concern.
Our network links people and projects from across the country to protect, preserve, and promote black cemetery stories.
ProQuest Black Freedom Struggle in the United States
A database focused on Black Freedom, featuring select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. Intended to support a wide range of students as well independent researchers and anyone interested in learning more about the foundation of ongoing racial injustice in the U.S. – and the fights against it.
By centering on the experiences and perspectives of African Americans, this collection aims to imbue the study of Black history with a deeper understanding of the humanity of people who have pursued the quest for freedom, and the significance of movements like Black Lives Matter.
Access: Any Florida Library card
Clearwater Sun Newspaper Collection
The Clearwater Sun newspaper was published from May 1, 1914 to July 27, 1989. Issues are available on microfilm from 1925-1989 at the Clearwater Main Library and online at pinellasmemory.org.
Cataloging and processing digital copies from the microfilm is an ongoing staff- and volunteer-driven project. Please contact the library to request research assistance.
Florida Newspaper Database
Search for full text articles from over 50 state and local newspapers, including Florida Trend, Miami Herald, Orlando Sentinel, Tampa Bay Business Journal, and the St. Petersburg/Tampa Bay Times. Available dates vary by publication.
Please use your library card number as the password when asked.
Access: Any Florida Library card
Fold3
Fold3 provides convenient access to military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served. Over 537 million original documents with millions added every month. The internet's best Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWII and Vietnam War collections.
Access: Any PPLC Library card
ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers
Historical Black Newspapers provide cultural perspective and insight to the events that shaped the United States. Covering everything from major events to everyday life, these titles are invaluable research tools for studying American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and art.
Access: Clearwater Library card only
ProQuest Historical Florida Newspapers
Historical Florida Newspapers empower researchers to digitally travel back through centuries to become eyewitnesses to local and regional history. From leading issues and events, like the U.S. Civil War, immigration, industrial developments, and race relations; to international, local and regional politics, the U.S. State Collections reveal state and local news coverage valued by researchers. Each title includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page images in easily downloadable PDF format.
Access: Clearwater Library card only
Internet Archive: Clearwater Library Collections
Explore Clearwater and Pinellas County history on Internet Archive. Highlights include the Aqua Clara Yearbook from Clearwater High School and Clearwater City Directories.
Library of Congress Newspaper Navigator
Search 1.56 million historic newspaper photos. Newspaper Navigator is a project of the Innovator in Residence Program at the Library of Congress. The goals of Newspaper Navigator are 1) to extract visual content from 16+ million pages of digitized historic American newspapers in Chronicling America and 2) re-imagine how members of the American public can search the visual content using machine-learning techniques. All Newspaper Navigator photos are in the public domain.
Pinellas County Public Records Database
Contains adult criminal records, civil claims records, marriage license records, mortgage foreclosures, parking tickets, probate records, real estate tax records, traffic citations, and other county records.
Pinellas Memory
Explore Pinellas County history in our collaborative archive, which includes local newspapers, historical photographs, and other significant documents.
Safety Harbor Herald Newspaper Collection
This collection, maintained by the Safety Harbor Library, contains digitized, searchable issues of the Safety Harbor Herald ranging from 1919 through 1989.
St. Petersburg/Tampa Bay Times Archive, 1901-recent
Search through more than 100 years of St. Petersburg Times/Tampa Bay Times newspapers. Full-text searching for all available issues. You can download PDF versions of issues for later research.
Access: Clearwater Library card only
Gale Health and Wellness
Access full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and much more. This comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices for researchers of all levels.
Please use your library card number as the password when asked.
Access: Any Florida Library card
MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus is an online health information resource for patients and their families and friends. It is a service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
America’s News
Explore and stay informed on local and national topics, people, and events in areas such as business, health, education, jobs and careers, political and social issues and more. Features a wide variety of credible, vetted news sources spanning the U.S., including the Tampa Bay Times, USA Today, the Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, the Bradenton Herald, and many others. Also available remotely 24/7 on any device.
Access: Clearwater Library card only
ProQuest Black Freedom Struggle in the United States
A database focused on Black Freedom, featuring select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. Intended to support a wide range of students as well independent researchers and anyone interested in learning more about the foundation of ongoing racial injustice in the U.S. – and the fights against it.
By centering on the experiences and perspectives of African Americans, this collection aims to imbue the study of Black history with a deeper understanding of the humanity of people who have pursued the quest for freedom, and the significance of movements like Black Lives Matter.
Access: Any Florida Library card
Florida Driving Test Practice
Prepare to get behind the wheel in the Sunshine State with these Florida DMV practice tests, perfect if you’re preparing for the permit test, driver’s license test, or senior citizens’ refresher test. The written part of those tests at all Florida DMV locations is the same.
Access: Any Florida Library card
Gale OneFile: High School Edition
Gale OneFile: High School Edition provides access to age-appropriate, authoritative digital content for middle- and high-school students to use for classroom assignments. Learners can research magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference books covering a range of subjects—from science, history, and literature to political science, sports, and environmental studies.
Please use your library card number as the password when asked.
Access: Any Florida Library card
Gale in Context: Middle School
Gale In Context: Middle School provides engaging reference, periodical, and multimedia content supporting national and state curriculum standards for grades 6 to 12 in language arts, social studies, and science. Find authoritative content and a user-focused tool set needed to support middle school assignments and coursework.
Please use your library card number as the password when asked.
Access: Any Florida Library card
ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers
Historical Black Newspapers provide cultural perspective and insight to the events that shaped the United States. Covering everything from major events to everyday life, these titles are invaluable research tools for studying American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and art.
Access: Clearwater Library card only
ProQuest Historical Florida Newspapers
Historical Florida Newspapers empower researchers to digitally travel back through centuries to become eyewitnesses to local and regional history. From leading issues and events, like the U.S. Civil War, immigration, industrial developments, and race relations; to international, local and regional politics, the U.S. State Collections reveal state and local news coverage valued by researchers. Each title includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page images in easily downloadable PDF format.
Access: Clearwater Library card only
ProCitizen
Designed for people who want to become naturalized citizens, ProCitizen helps you prepare for the Civics, Reading, and Writing portions of the U.S. citizenship test.
Access: Any PPLC Library card
Pronunciator
Pronunciator is an online language-learning system. Learn more than 80 languages, such as Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian, Russian, and more.
Access: Any PPLC Library card
Universal Class
Access more than 600 courses in 35 subject areas, many of which offer Continuing Education Units (CEUs) accredited by International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). Patrons have unlimited access and can complete courses at their own pace, anytime on any device. Real human instructors grade assignments and provide feedback to build deeper understanding and mastery of subject matter.
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Pronunciator
Pronunciator is an online language-learning system. Learn more than 80 languages, such as Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian, Russian, and more.
Access: Any PPLC Library card
America’s News
Explore and stay informed on local and national topics, people, and events in areas such as business, health, education, jobs and careers, political and social issues and more. Features a wide variety of credible, vetted news sources spanning the U.S., including the Tampa Bay Times, USA Today, the Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, the Bradenton Herald, and many others. Also available remotely 24/7 on any device.
Access: Clearwater Library card only
Clearwater Sun Newspaper Collection
The Clearwater Sun newspaper was published from May 1, 1914 to July 27, 1989. Issues are available on microfilm from 1925-1989 at the Clearwater Main Library and online at pinellasmemory.org.
Cataloging and processing digital copies from the microfilm is an ongoing staff- and volunteer-driven project. Please contact the library to request research assistance.
Florida Newspaper Database
Search for full-text articles from over 50 state and local newspapers, including Florida Trend, Miami Herald, Orlando Sentinel, Tampa Bay Business Journal, and the St. Petersburg/Tampa Bay Times. Available dates vary by publication.
Please use your library card number as the password when asked.
Access: Any Florida Library card
ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers
Historical Black Newspapers provide cultural perspective and insight to the events that shaped the United States. Covering everything from major events to everyday life, these titles are invaluable research tools for studying American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and art.
Access: Clearwater Library card only
ProQuest Historical Florida Newspapers
Historical Florida Newspapers empower researchers to digitally travel back through centuries to become eyewitnesses to local and regional history. From leading issues and events, like the U.S. Civil War, immigration, industrial developments, and race relations; to international, local and regional politics, the U.S. State Collections reveal state and local news coverage valued by researchers. Each title includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page images in easily downloadable PDF format.
Access: Clearwater Library card only
Library of Congress Newspaper Navigator
Search 1.56 million historic newspaper photos. Newspaper Navigator is a project of the Innovator in Residence Program at the Library of Congress. The goals of Newspaper Navigator are 1) to extract visual content from 16+ million pages of digitized historic American newspapers in Chronicling America and 2) re-imagine how members of the American public can search the visual content using machine-learning techniques. All Newspaper Navigator photos are in the public domain.
The New York Times 
Enjoy complimentary access to The New York Times online. Simply click below to create your account, and you can start using nytimes.com immediately. Your access will be available for the next 24 hours. After 24 hours, come back, click the link again, and log in as an existing user with the same username and password you originally created. We recommend you bookmark this page.
Access: Clearwater Library card only
Safety Harbor Herald Collection
This collection, maintained by the Safety Harbor Library, contains digitized, searchable issues of the Safety Harbor Herald ranging from 1919 through 1989.
St. Petersburg/Tampa Bay Times Archive, 1901-recent
Search through more than 100 years of St. Petersburg Times/Tampa Bay Times newspapers. Full-text searching for all available issues. You can download PDF versions of issues for later research.
Access: Clearwater Library card only
Tampa Bay Times Collection
Search through current and past Tampa Bay Times articles, blogs, and web exclusives. Coverage for the print edition runs from 1987-present and includes both full-text search and images for the current year's issues. Web content is covered from 2002-present and blogs are covered from 2005-present. Content can be downloaded for later reading.
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The Wall Street Journal
Access The Wall Street Journal from anywhere! Simply click below to create your account, and you can start using wsj.com immediately. Your access will be available for the next three (3) days. After three (3) days, come back, click the link again, and log in as an existing user with the same username and password you originally created. We recommend you bookmark this page.
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The Washington Post
Access the Washington Post on the go! Just click below to create your account, and you can start using washingtonpost.com immediately. Your access will be available for the next seven (7) days. After seven (7) days, come back, click the link again, and log in as an existing user with the same username and password you originally created. We recommend you bookmark this page.
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Beanstack
Beanstack is a web-based reading challenge software. You can track your reading minutes, write book reviews, and participate in fun activities to earn digital badges and prizes.
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Hoopla
Hoopla digital provides online and mobile access to thousands of movies, TV shows, music, audiobooks, eBooks and comic books. With hoopla digital, patrons can borrow, instantly stream, and download free content with a valid library card.
Patrons may check out 10 items per month from Hoopla. Visit the Help tab for more detailed information.
Access: Clearwater Library card only
Libby
With Libby, you can checkout EPUB, PDF, and Kindle eBooks and eComicbooks, digital audiobooks, magazines, and streaming videos.
Patrons may check out 10 items per month from Libby and place up to seven requests per month. Visit the Help tab for more detailed information.
Access: Any PPLC Library card
LitFinder
LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more. Please use your library card number as the password when asked.
Access: Any Florida Library card
Twayne's Author Series
The acclaimed Twayne's Author Series of literary criticism offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres. This online series features the content of more than 600 books that comprise three print series, United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors, each of which were carefully coordinated with input from librarians and educators to include authors universally studied in high schools and colleges.
Please use your library card number as the password when asked.
Access: Any Florida Library card
Gale Academic OneFile
Find peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources. Coverage includes physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, as well as full-text coverage of the NY Times (1995-present).
Please use your library card number as the password when asked.
Access: Any Florida Library card
ProQuest Black Freedom Struggle in the United States
A database focused on Black Freedom, featuring select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. Intended to support a wide range of students as well independent researchers and anyone interested in learning more about the foundation of ongoing racial injustice in the U.S. – and the fights against it.
By centering on the experiences and perspectives of African Americans, this collection aims to imbue the study of Black history with a deeper understanding of the humanity of people who have pursued the quest for freedom, and the significance of movements like Black Lives Matter.
Access: Any Florida Library card
Florida Electronic Library
Use this site to search across all the databases, magazines, newspapers, and reference books free to anyone within the state of Florida thanks to the State Library. Use Power Search to make advanced searching easier; click One Search to choose specific databases to search.
Access: Any Florida Library card
Gale General OneFile
Read news articles, general interest, business, and technology magazines, peer-reviewed academic journals, business magazines, and specialty titles in law, health care and computers. You can search through over 8,000 full-text resources.
Please use your library card number as the password when asked.
Access: Any Florida Library card
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Please use your library card number as the password when asked.
Access: Any Florida Library card
ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers
Historical Black Newspapers provide cultural perspective and insight to the events that shaped the United States. Covering everything from major events to everyday life, these titles are invaluable research tools for studying American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and art.
Access: Clearwater Library card only
ProQuest Historical Florida Newspapers
Historical Florida Newspapers empower researchers to digitally travel back through centuries to become eyewitnesses to local and regional history. From leading issues and events, like the U.S. Civil War, immigration, industrial developments, and race relations; to international, local and regional politics, the U.S. State Collections reveal state and local news coverage valued by researchers. Each title includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page images in easily downloadable PDF format.
Access: Clearwater Library card only
ProQuest Black Freedom Struggle in the United States
A database focused on Black Freedom, featuring select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. Intended to support a wide range of students as well independent researchers and anyone interested in learning more about the foundation of ongoing racial injustice in the U.S. – and the fights against it.
By centering on the experiences and perspectives of African Americans, this collection aims to imbue the study of Black history with a deeper understanding of the humanity of people who have pursued the quest for freedom, and the significance of movements like Black Lives Matter.
Access: Any Florida Library card
Driving Tests
Free online test prep for the Florida driving test. No library card number or personal information required. This site will also help drivers wishing to brush up on Florida traffic law or interested in getting a motorcycle license.
Access: Any Florida Library card
Gale OneFile: High School Edition
Gale OneFile: High School Edition provides access to age-appropriate, authoritative digital content for middle- and high school students to use for classroom assignments. Learners can research magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference books covering a range of subjects—from science, history, and literature to political science, sports, and environmental studies.
Please use your library card number as the password when asked.
Access: Any Florida Library card
Gale in Context: Middle School
Gale In Context: Middle School provides engaging reference, periodical, and multimedia content supporting national and state curriculum standards for grades 6 to 12 in language arts, social studies, and science. Find authoritative content and a user-focused tool set needed to support middle school assignments and coursework.
Please use your library card number as the password when asked.
Access: Any Florida Library card
ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers
Historical Black Newspapers provide cultural perspective and insight to the events that shaped the United States. Covering everything from major events to everyday life, these titles are invaluable research tools for studying American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and art.
Access: Clearwater Library card only
ProQuest Historical Florida Newspapers
Historical Florida Newspapers empower researchers to digitally travel back through centuries to become eyewitnesses to local and regional history. From leading issues and events, like the U.S. Civil War, immigration, industrial developments, and race relations; to international, local and regional politics, the U.S. State Collections reveal state and local news coverage valued by researchers. Each title includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page images in easily downloadable PDF format.
Access: Clearwater Library card only
Pronunciator
Pronunciator is an online language-learning system. Learn more than 80 languages, such as Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian, Russian, and more.
Access: Any PPLC Library card