Academic Search
Complete |
Full text Articles from journals,
magazines, newspapers; many scholarly journals. (EBSCO)top of
page |
Agricola |
From the U.S. Department of Agriculture's
National Agricultural Library. Coverage from1970. Citations & full
text articles related to agriculture. (EBSCO) |
AllData*
Only available for users
who are physically inside a library building |
AllData is a
comprehensive resource for automotive diagnostic and repair
information. Use SEARCH feature to locate information quickly;
Access Technical Service Bulletins; Print wiring diagrams on 8 1/2"
x 11" paper. |
Alt Health Watch |
Complementary, holistic and
integrated approaches to health care and wellness.(EBSCO) |
Ancestry.Com
Only
available for users who are physically inside a library
building |
Genealogy research
tool with more than 1.5 billion names in over 4,000 databases.
Includes records from the United States Census; military records;
court, land and probate records; vital and church records;
directories; passenger lists, newspapers, downloadable images,
forms, charts, & family group sheets.(Proquest) |
Bibliography
of Native North Americans |
Bibliographic database
covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and
life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including
archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and
literacy.(EBSCO) |
Biography
Resource Center* |
The Biography Resource Center combines
over 300,000 FULL TEXT BIOGRAPHIES on
more than 220,000 people. If you need a biography LOOK HERE FIRST!
(GaleGroup)top of
page |
BooksinPrint |
Book and publisher information and
book reviews. (Bowker)top of
page |
Patron
Books in Print |
BIP with easy-to-use Patron-Focused
features. |
Business
Source Complete |
Full text information
in virtually every area of business including accounting & tax,
banking, finance & insurance, construction, computer science,
economics, from international top ranking journals including, Harvard
Business Review, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity , Academy of
Management Review, Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, Journal
of Marketing Management etc. (EBSCO) |
Business Source Premier |
Business, company directory; many
scholarly journals. (EBSCO)top of
page |
Computer
Source |
Provides researchers with the latest
information and current trends in high technology.(EBSCO) |
Consumer
Health Complete |
Comprehensive resource for
consumer-oriented health content. Designed to support patients'
information needs and foster an overall understanding of
health-related topics, covering all areas of health and wellness from
mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary,
holistic and integrated medicine. Full text .(EBSCO) |
Contemporary Authors |
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical
information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and
international authors. (GALE) |
Contemporary Literary
Criticism |
Extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary
authors.Each entry contains a biographical/critical
introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further
study. (GALE) |
Countries and Their Cultures: |
Focuses on cultures and countries around
the world; descriptive summaries of the country in question,
including demographic, historical, cultural, economic, religious,
and political information.(GALE) |
CQ
Researcher |
Original, comprehensive reporting and
analysis on current issues in the news; in-depth, non-biased
coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on
topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment,
technology and the U.S. economy.top of
page |
Dictionary of American
History |
Revised 1940 source, 800 new entries
covering recent events and topics not covered previously. This
authoritative work serves students, scholars, and general readers
interested in a wide range of topics in American history, from the
well studied and familiar to the obscure.(GALE) |
Dictionary
of Literary Biography
Only for users who are physically inside a library
building. Remote users must access through "GALE LITERARY DATABASES"
link. |
10,000 biographical and
critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential
literary figures from all eras and genres. |
E-library Curriculum |
For Students: full-text magazines,
newspapers, reference books, and transcripts, thousands of pictures,
maps, weblinks, and audio/video files. Each database can be searched
together or individually:
•original full-text works, author biographies, contemporary criticism,
and more.
•thousands of primary and secondary sources covering ancient to modern
U.S. and world history.
Natural language or Boolean search. |
Ebsco
Research Databases |
Includes Academic Search Premier =
Full text Articles from journals, magazines, newspapers; many
scholarly journals, Business Source Premier, MasterFILE Premier - full
text multidisciplinary database, MEDLINE with MESH, Military &
Government Collection, Regional Business News.(EBSCO).top of
page |
Ebsco
bases de datos ESPANOL |
EBSCO DATABASES SPANISH INTERFACE |
Economia y Negocios |
Bibliographic database for research
conducted in the areas of business and economics. Search keywords in
SPANISH and English.Coverage from 1980s(EBSCO). |
Encyclopedia
of Animals |
Provides in-depth information on a
variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of
indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and
habitat of familiar animals.(EBSCO) |
Encyclopedia of
Religion |
Emphasizing religion's role within everyday life and as a
unique experience from culture to culture.(GALE) |
ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center
Institute of
Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education -
available for free on the Internet at
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ |
World’s premier database of journal
and non-journal education literature. The ERIC online system
provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching
the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations
going back to 1966. More than 107,000 full-text non-journal
documents (issued 1993-2004)(EBSCO)top of
page |
Facts
on File |
Includes the following full-text
databases: World News Digest (1980 to present);World News Digest (1940
to 1979);World News Special Features;;Reuters® News (last two
weeks);Issues & Controversies; Today's Science; World Almanac;
Reference Database; World Almanac Encyclopedia.(FOF) |
Fiction
Connection |
Readers Advisory database: Directs
readers to books they will enjoy by having patrons type in a title
of a book they already love, or by selecting a topic, genre,
setting, character, location, or timeframe.(BOWKER_BIP) |
Fuente Academica |
Es una colección en texto completo de más
de 150 publicaciones de revistas académicas de América Latina, Sur
América y editoriales de habla hispana.(EBSCO) |
Funk
& Wagnall's New Encyclopedia |
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic
entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.(EBSCO) |
Gale
Literary Databases |
Contemporary Authors, Contemporary
Literature Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography: Search all
three at once. |
Gale Virtual Reference
Library |
Countries and Their Cultures , 4v, 2001
Dictionary of American History , 3rd Ed., 10v, 2003
Encyclopedia of Religion , 2nd Ed., 15v, 2005 Grzimek's
Student Animal Life Resource , 21v, 2005 Science and Its Times:
Understanding the Social Significance of Scientific Discovery , 8v,
2001 |
Grzimek's Student Animal Life
Resource: |
Comprehensive coverage of the animal kingdom, grouped by
major classifications: sponges; corals; jellyfishes; segmented
worms; crustaceans and mollusks; insects; fishes; amphibians;
reptiles birds; mammals. Photos and illustrations,
pronunciations and definitions for scientific terms and names.
Species List by Biome and Species List by Geographic
Range.(GALE) |
Health
& Wellness Resource Center*7/1/05-6/30/06 |
Health web sources,
general interest health publications, health and medical journals.
(GaleGroup) top of
page |
Health
Reference Center Academic* |
Fitness, medicine, nutrition,
diseases, nursing, public health, occupational health & safety.
(GaleGroup)top of
page |
Health Source: Consumer Edition |
Provides full text for over 280 health
periodicals, nearly 1,200 health pamphlets, and 20 health reference
books.(EBSCO) |
Health
Source: Nursing/Academic |
Provides nearly 480 scholarly full text
journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are
abstracts and indexing for over 510 journals. Because this is a new
database, full-text is often limited to very recent issues.(EBSCO) |
HeritageQuest
Online |
HeritageQuest Online is an augmented
iteration of the original Genealogy & Local History Online
database. It’s an ever-growing treasury of new content. -U.S.
federal census images for 1790, 1810, 1840, and 1870 —Fully
browseable by state, county, locality—Fully searchable (except 1840,
where indexing by name is forthcoming) -Some 18,000 family and local
histories (from the full collection of 25,000 in the Genealogy &
Local History collection in microform). All remaining census images
through 1930 will be added in the coming
months.(Proquest) |
InfoTracNewspapers |
InfoTrac: Full
text access from 1996- to major newspapers (GALEGROUPtop of
page |
Information Science & Technology Abstracts |
Provides worldwide library science and
information science records from more than 450 publications dating
back to 1966.(EBSCO) |
Internet
& Personal Computing Abstracts |
Indexes over 100 publications on the
latest personal computing products and developments in business,
industry, education, libraries, and the home. Coverage includes
mass-market computer publications, as well as those focusing on
specific topics such as hardware platforms, operating systems, online
systems, the Internet, management, networking, and electronic
publishing. Coverage 1980 to present.(EBSCO) |
Issues &
Controversies |
Source
of up-to-date, in-depth, and objective information on the most
prominent and hotly-debated issues of the day(FOF) |
Kids Search Interface |
Search engine with a child-friendly, graphically-rich design. Makes it
easier for students to look for their subjects of interest by
automatically searching across all applicable databases
simultaneously. (EBSCO) |
|
Learn-A-Test: GED,TASP,ASVAB,REAL ESTATE, FIREFIGHTER,
many more...* |
Practice the GED,
TASP and many other tests online.ACT, SAT, TASP, Basic
Skills, Civil Service, Cosmetology, EMS ,EMT, Firefighter ,GED,
GMAT, GRE, Law Enforcement, Military ASVAB Preparation, Postal
Services Real Estate, Teaching, US Citizenship (LearningExpress)top of
page |
Legal Collection |
Containing full text for more than 260 of
the world’s most respected, scholarly law journals, is an
authoritative source for information on current issues, studies,
thoughts and trends of the legal world.(EBSCO) |
LEGAL
FORMS |
Thousands of legal forms: Official, State Specific, Federal,
Business, Personal, Real Estate and General forms covering hundreds
of legal subjects and issues(Thomson-Gale) |
 |
The Library of Texas
at LibraryofTexas.org is a new service offered by the Texas State
Library and Archives Commission that allows users to easily discover
and retrieve desired information from multiple library catalogs,
databases, and other knowledge collections. Texans no longer need to
use a separate interface for each individual library or database. At
present, the Library of Texas searches through the catalogs of 63
public libraries, 26 academic libraries, and 40 TexShare commercial
databases. |
LISTA:
Full access to resources available only for users who are physically
inside a library building. |
Indexes more than
600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject
coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging,
bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management
and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the
mid-1960s(EBSCO).top of
page |
Literature Resource Center |
Biographies, bibliographies and
critical analysis of literature and authors. Includes
Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary
of Literary Biography, Literature Resource Center, Scribner Writers
Series, Twayne's Authors Series. (GaleGroup) top of
page |
Litfinder:
|
«Poems «Essays «Speeches
«Stories «Plays The
Ultimate Literature Reference on the Web - includes:* 85,000 full-text
poems * 800,000 poem
citations and excerpts
* Year's Best Poetry
(New Poems) * Kids'
Korner *
Explanations, biographies and pictures * Story Finder
provides thousands of full-text short
stories
plus
explanations, biographies magazines and newspapers on many
topics. Over 1,000 complete plays *Character lists *Subject
Access (Pre-college) (EBSCO) top of
page |
MasterFILE Premier7/1/05-6/30/06 |
Periodical and newspaper articles, Magill's Book Reviews, Essential Documents in
American History, Dun & Bradstreet info. (EBSCO) top of
page |
Masterfile
k-8 search interface |
Collection of magazines especially
selected for children from the MasterFILE Premier datatase. It
provides full-text articles from popular publications covering general
reference, health, science, and other areas. This database also
includes charts, tables, and graphs and an image collection of photos,
maps, and flags. (EBSCO) |
MAS Ultra: School Edition |
Full text popular general interest and
current events publications covering general reference, health,
science, and other areas. Every full text articles is assigned a
reading level indicator. (EBSCO) |
MedicLatina |
Medic Latina is a
Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative
journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This
unique database provides access to full text for nearly 125
periodicals, including over 50 peer-reviewed medical journals. (EBSCO) |
MEDLINE7/1/05-6/30/06 |
Medical research; National Library of
Medicine's MEDLINE database (NOT FULL TEXT). ( EBSCO) top of
page |
Middle
Search Plus |
Full-text articles
from over 150 popular magazines. Also includes access to biographies,
historical essays, and an image collection of photographs, maps, and
flags for middle school and junior high school students.” This is a
valuable source for finding information for school papers and
projects. This database is helpful for you to not only find a variety
of information, but also quality information very quickly.(EBSCO) |
Military & Government
Collection7/1/05-6/30/06 |
Designed to offer
current news pertaining to all branches of the military and
government, this database offers a thorough collection of
periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the
increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government
Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 400 journals
and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500
titles.(EBSCO) |
National
Newspaper Abstracts |
Abstracts and
indexing for New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal,
included with a subscription to Research Library or Discovery. |
Natural & Alternative Treatments |
Current
information on natural health. Articles on medical conditions,
presenting in an evidence-based manner alternative medicine therapies.
Detailed information on herbs and supplements, functional foods,
therapies, acupuncture and homeopathy, drug/herb/supplement
interactions. Articles are entirely based on double-blind,
placebo-controlled studies and other forms of meaningful scientific
evidence. Content has been developed and reviewed by a team of
physicians and pharmacologists with the goal of providing consumers
with reliable information. (EBSCO) |
NetLibrary7/1/05-6/30/06 |
netLibrary:
Comprehensive collection of electronic books (eBooks) to access a
wide range of research, reference, and reading materials online. top of
page |
Newspaper Source |
Provides selected full
text for 23 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including
USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The
Times (London), The Toronto Star, etc. The database also contains
selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers,
including The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free
Press, The Miami Herald, The New York Daily News, The San Jose Mercury
News, etc. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts
are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc. (EBSCO) |
Overdrive
Digital Media Downloads |
Download best selling eAudio Books,
eBooks, Music, and Videos 24/7 to your PC at home, in the office or
from anywhere in the world. Now your library never closes!
While you may browse the collection and checkout titles, you will not
be able to download digital media to a library computer.
eAudio Books, eBooks, Music, and Videos are NOT compatible with iPods
or MACs.
|
Primary
Search |
Designed specifically
for elementary school libraries and public library children's rooms,
contains full text for more than 60 popular, elementary school
magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level
indicator (Lexiles). In addition to the full text, this database
offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines. Full text is
also available for over 100 student pamphlets. (EBSCO) |
Professional Development Collection |
Provides a highly specialized collection
of electronic information especially for professional educators,
professional librarians and education researchers. This collection
offers information on everything from children’s health and
development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice. The
Professional Development Collection includes abstract and index
coverage for over 585 well-known professional development titles, and
searchable full text for 504 journals covering the most current topics
in the field of education. (EBSCO) |
Proquest
research library |
Business, political science,
literature and psychology; one-stop access to a wide range of popular
academic subjects. More than 3,700 titles—over 2,500 in full text—from
1972 forward. Diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade
publications, magazines, and newspapers. (ProQuest)
top of
page |
Psychology
& Behavioral Sciences Collection |
Comprehensive database covering
information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral
characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes,
anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. Psychology &
Behavioral Sciences Collection can be searched independently, but also
allows users to conveniently link to full text from citations within
PsycINFO®. These citations, when viewed via EBSCOhost, have the
ability to link to articles from more than 500 full text journals. (EBSCO) |
ReferenceUSA (formerly American
Business Disk) |
Updated monthly,
ReferenceUSA contains basic directory information for more than 12
million U.S. businesses; 683,000 U.S. health care providers; 1
million Canadian businesses. Information includes :name of business,
address, telephone number, headquarters, branch and subsidiaries
identification, SIC/NAISC codes, yellow pages headings, ticker
symbol, credit rating, number of employees, and estimated sales
volume. The database also includes information for some federal,
state, and municipal offices. Searchable by company name, services
and products, geographic location, company size, and SIC
codes. |
Ready Reference Shelf |
INCLUDES: Directories in
Print; Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers;
Encyclopedia of American Religions ;Encyclopedia of Associations:
National, International, Regional; Encyclopedia of Governmental
Advisory Organizations; Gale Directory of Databases; Gale Directory of
Publications and Broadcast Media ;Newsletters in Print Publishers
Directory Research Centers Directory; International Research Centers
Directory ;Government Research Centers Directory |
Regional Business News7/1/05-6/30/06 |
Daily international newswires and
regional business publications. (EBSCO)top of
page (Formerly
Business Wire News)(EBSCO) |
Religion
& Philosophy |
This database provides extensive coverage
of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical
studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy,
philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of
philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers more than 300 full
text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it
an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and
philosophical studies.(EBSCO) |
Safari Tech Books Online -you will need your library bar
code number to logon to this site. |
Safari Tech Books Online is a
fully-searchable e-reference library that houses a vast collection of
technical books from industry-leading publishers. |
Science and its TImes |
The histories of science, technology, and
mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in
this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories,
discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews,
bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to
offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science
on the course of human history and how science affects everyday
life. (GALE) |
Science Online |
Easy-to-use reference source of the
sciences. 3,000+ printable science diagrams, many in full color.
High-quality, clear presentation. Conveys the visual nature of science
in a clear and easy-to-comprehend manner. |
Science
& Technology Collection |
Over 800 leading full text journals covering
relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community. Topics
include aeronautics, astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology,
geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, and materials science. In
addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts
for more than 1,700 publications.(EBSCO) |
Scribner Writer's Series |
Includes 15-20 page signed essays on more
than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from the acclaimed
Scribner print series.(Gale) |
SEARCHASARUS |
Provides combined access to Primary Search®
and the Middle Search Plus® databases for elementary and middle school
students, which, in turn, have about 250 mostly high-quality journals
(80% of them in full-text HTML and/or PDF format), transcripts of
presidential and other high-level press conferences, congressional
testimonies and a dozen excellent reference books. (EBSCO) |
Serials
Directory |
Access to the most up-to-date and
accurate bibliographic information and current pricing structures for
popular serials. This database contains over 182,000 U.S. and
international titles, including newspapers.(EBSCO) |
SERIALS SOLUTIONS |
Search by Journal Title for Journals
indexed across databases. |
Student Research Center
Interface |
Provides secondary school students
with an easy-to-use, graphically appealing interface they can use to
search Ebsco databases individually or in combination: Middle Search
Plus, MAS Ultra School Edition, Columbia Encyclopedia, Health Sources
-- Consumer Edition, and American Heritage Dictionary of the English
Language.
top of
page |
TD NET
Full access only
available for users who are physically inside a library
building. |
Search or Browse
Journal Titles that are indexed in the Texshare
Databases. |
Texas Digital Sanborn Maps |
Digital access to
large-scale historical maps of Texas towns and
cities.(PROQUEST) |
Texas
Reference Center |
Full text journals and books
about Texas history, biography, ethnic & cultural diversity, gender
studies, literature, public health, business as well as home & garden
and sports & leisure. Available in the Texas Reference Center is the
Spanish-language newspaper El Sol de Texas with Texas and national
news coverage.(EBSCO) |
Texas State Library
Full access only
available for users who are physically inside a library
building. |
Links to Texshare Databases, some Full
Text. top of
page |
Today's Science: |
Designed for students: latest scientific discoveries
and the fundamental concepts that underlie them. Drawing on major
scientific journals, magazines, and newspapers in the United States
and abroad; Covers health, the environment, technology, life
science, physical science, earth and space science, and science and
society.(FOF) |
TOPICsearch |
Current events database that allows the
user to explore social, political, and economic issues and other
popular topics discussed in classrooms.(EBSCO) |
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TUMBLEBOOKS LIBRARY |
ONLINE BOOKS FOR KIDS: |
TumbleBook Library |
Online picture books, puzzles,
games and quizes for children in English, Spanish, French and Chinese. |
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Twayne
Authors Series |
Commprises 600 full-text titles from the
Twayne Literary Masters series, 200 each from Twayne World, US, and
English Authors.(Gale) |
Twentieth Century American
Poetry* |
Includes 52,000 poems
drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich,
Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise
Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and
Cathy Song. (Chadwyck-HealeyProquest) |
Twentieth Century English
Poetry* |
A collection of 598
volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day,
including W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Graves, A. E.
Housman, John Betjeman, Fleur Adcock, Tony Harrison, Benjamin
Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy, and incorporating the poets in The
Faber Poetry Library.(Chadwyck-HealeyProquest)top of
page |
Value Line*
Only available for users
who are physically inside a library building |
The Value Line
Investment Survey is a comprehensive source of information and
advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the
stock market, and the economy. Organized in three parts:
Ratings & Reports; Summary & Index; Selection &
Opinion. Includes an on-line tutorial of how to use the Value Line
Investment Survey to manage your stock portfolio, as well as other
useful instruction on investing. |
Vocational & Career Collection
|
For career seekers in
vocational and technical school libraries, public libraries and high
schools. Latest industry-specific information. Fields covered include
advertising, nursing, hotel management, restaurants and many others.
Information include sindustry data, and articles on interviewing,
resumes, compensation and other pertinent subjects. Full text coverage
for nearly 340 trade and industry related periodicals including
Advertising Age, Pediatric Nursing, Hotel and Hotel Management and
Restaurant Business, Drug Store News, Video Business and American
Machinist, etc.(EBSCO) |
World
Almanac: |
Complete, cumulative full text of The World Almanac® and Book
of Facts editions since 1999, with frequent
updating.(FOF) |
World
Almanac Encyclopedia: |
Complete full text of the more than
22,000 articles in Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia; monthly
updates; illustrations; a collection of special seports on important
topics that reveal the full story behind the news, with several new
ones added every month.(FOF) |
World History Collection |
Global look at history with content from
Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East.
Full text for more than 140 titles, including many peer-reviewed
journals. Wide range of historical topics: anthropology, art, culture,
economics, government, heritage, military, politics, regional issues,
more. Indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the
collection. Examples of titles offered include: American Historical
Review, American Heritage, American Art, American Scholar, Canadian
Historical Review, Civil War History, European Review of History,
Foreign Affairs, German History, Historian, History & Theory, History
Today, Journal of American History, Journal of Military History,
Journal of Modern History, Journal of Pacific History, Political
Science Quarterly, Wilson Quarterly, etc. (EBSCO) |
World
News Digest: |
News as reported in the major newspapers and news magazines
of the U.S., Canada, Britain, Australia, and elsewhere. Updated
weekly. Sources: 100 major newspapers, news magazines, other
periodicals, and government and online sources
.(FOF) |
WorldCAT |
Books and other
materials in libraries worldwide (No Full TEXT)(FIRSTSEARCH)top of
page |