Digital Resources
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Overdrive eBooks & Audiobooks
Download audio, eBooks, comics & graphic novels to computers, tablets and other mobile devices.
Flipster (EBSCO)
Enjoy digital magazines from your computer, tablet or smartphone. Download the Flipster app and browse and checkout magazines all from within the app.
Hoopla (Midwest Tape)
With hoopla digital, patrons can borrow, instantly stream and download free movies, TV shows, music, audiobooks, ebooks, and comics with a valid library card.
Lynda.com (LinkedIn)
Learn business, technology, and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals using these free video courses on the latest software, taught by industry experts. Both in-library and remote users must enter their library card number and PIN to access Lynda.com
Universal Class (RBdigital)
With your PLYMC Library Card, you have access to FREE instructor-led online courses on many subjects, from academic skills to hobbies to general interest, with continuing education credits certified by the IACET.
Tales of the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys
Listen to recordings of the broadcasts created by the Industrial Information Institute and originally aired over the radio in the 1950s!
BookFlix (Scholastic)
For students in grades PreK–3, it pairs classic storybooks with related nonfiction titles to reinforce early reading skills and develop essential real world knowledge using animation, audio, and interactive games.
Digital Video Collection (INFOhio)
Streaming educational videos supporting all curriculum areas and Ohio’s Learning Standards. Segmented and downloadable, most include teacher guides. Can be shown in classrooms or at home
EBSCO eBook Collection (EBSCO)
More than 3,000 Open Access or public domain eBooks. Sources include Project Gutenberg, Generic NL Freebook Publisher, and Air University Press.
EBSCO Open Dissertations (EBSCO)
This resource now includes the content from American Doctoral Dissertations. It is a free database with records for more than 1.2 million electronic theses and dissertations from around the world.
AudioBookCloud – Access from Home March-August 2020
Listen online to audio books in many different categories: fiction, non-fiction, classics and Spanish language. There are 1,000 books in the collection. These books are always available, never on hold, and no need to download. During the Coronavirus crisis, the vendor is allowing statewide home access now through August 2020.
RomanceBookCloud – Access from Home March-August 2020
Unlimited access to an online, curated collection of over 1800 romance ebooks of all genres available 24/7. These books are always available, never on hold, and no need to download. During the Coronavirus crisis, the vendor is allowing statewide home access now through August 2020.
TeenBookCloud – Access from Home March-August 2020
Ebooks & read-along chapter books, graphic novels, educational videos, & audio books with unlimited access from any device for grades 6-12. During the Coronavirus crisis, the vendor is allowing statewide home access now through August 2020.
TumbleBook Library – Access from Home March-August 2020
TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of animated, talking picture books, games, puzzles and much, much more to hold the interest of younger readers. During the Coronavirus crisis, the vendor is allowing statewide home access now through August 2020.
TumbleMath – Access from Home March-August 2020
For grades K-6, subjects include counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication, word problems, geometry, fractions, place value, measurement, probability, division, graphing, finance, and time and temperature. During the Coronavirus crisis, the vendor is allowing statewide home access now through August 2020.
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American Memory (website)
Primary source materials for U.S. history and culture from the Library of Congress.
DPLA – Digital Public Library of America (website)
The DPLA offers a single point of access to millions of items–photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more–from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States.
Google Books (website)
A service from Google which provides access to full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database
HathiTrust (website)
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Internet Archive (website)
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
Library of Congress Digital Collections (website)
Digitized materials from the Library of Congress such as: books, drawings, film, manuscripts, newspapers, photographs, maps, and much more.
Ohio Memory (website)
This online scrapbook brings together primary source materials, such as letters and diaries, from more than 330 archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums around the state.