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(More Info)	PAIR: Portal to Asian Internet Resources
PAIR brings together a scholastic, eclectic group of Internet materials in a tightly organized, well-cataloged, and easily accessible format. Covers Asia from Turkey to Japan including links in English and local languages. PAIR includes a wide variety of social science and humanities disciplines. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Reference and Research Guide
This research guide is more of an online encyclopedia, with introductory notes on the major movements in American literature, and extensive bibliographies. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Pan-African Perspective
Resources for topics relating to Pan-Africanism. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Patent Lens (IOI Lens)
Lens provides a patent and scholarly search for nearly all of the patent documents in the world, integrated with scholarly and technical literature along with regulatory and business data. Patent Lens has a better search interface than the United States Patent & Trademark database. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	PE Central
A health and physical education Web site for physical education teachers, parents, and students, with the goal to provide the latest information about developmentally appropriate physical education programs for children and youth. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Accessible from the LIbrary of Congress web site, this encyclopedia, which will be updated regularly, was developed by the Library's Music Division. It serves as a centralized guide to the collections and resources at the Library of Congress that pertain to music, theater, and dance. Read the full annotation

Periodic Table of Elements

(More Info)	Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection - Historical Maps of Europe
From the University of Texas online collection of maps. Most of the maps are in the public domain and can be downloaded. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Perseus Project
The Classics Collection of the (now) broader Perseus Project contains extensive and diverse resources including primary and secondary texts, site plans, digital images, and maps related to the Greek and Roman world. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	PhilPapers: Philosophical Research Online
PhilPapers is a unique scholarly resource which includes: a comprehensive index of the research literature in philosophy, an open access archive of this research, a structured bibliography of the field, and an online community of philosophers. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Photo-eye.com
Photo-eye.com is the international photography guide for photographers. Read the full annotation

Phrase Finder

Physical Education Index (SEE Sports Medicine and Education Index)

Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA)

(More Info)	Physicians' Desk Reference
Annual reference provides Food and Drug Administration approved labeling for drugs as well as prescription information provided by manufacturers for grandfathered drugs and other drugs marketed without FDA approval. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Physics.Org
A major information portal for physics maintained by the Institute of Physics staff. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	PLANTS Database, USDA
"The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories." Read the full annotation

(More Info)	PolicyArchive
PolicyArchive providies a universal, easy-to-use, free, and open digital archive of foundation-funded and other public policy research. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	POTUS: Presidents of the United States
Provides quick summaries of each president's term in office, including short biographies, election results, names and tenure of cabinet officials, and major accomplishments. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Poynter Online - Ethics
Check out the Tip Sheets and Case Studies and a set of guidelines to help make ethical decisions as a journalist. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
A collection of more than 100 years of photographs located in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Read the full annotation

Project Muse

(More Info)	Project Vote Smart
A citizen's organization that provides tools to self-govern effectively. It covers candidates and elected officials in five categories: biographical information, issue positions, voting records, campaign finances, and interest group ratings. Read the full annotation

ProQuest Databases

(More Info)	Psych Web
A collection of resources that includes journals, professional associations and societies, and other on-line resources as well as career planning and graduate school information. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	PTSDpubs (ProQuest)
PTSDpubs (formerly called PILOTS) is produced by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD. This open-access database provides citations and abstracts to the worldwide literature on PTSD and other psychological effects of trauma, with coverage from 1871 to present. Read the full annotation

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PubMed

(More Info)	PubMed Central (PMC)
PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). It contains more than 5 million full-text records, spanning several centuries of biomedical and life science research, from the late 1700s to present. Read the full annotation

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