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Academic Search
Complete |
Full text Articles from journals, magazines, newspapers; many scholarly journals. (EBSCO)top of page |
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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. |
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Alt Health Watch |
Complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.(EBSCO) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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BooksinPrint |
Book and publisher information and book reviews. (Bowker)top of page |
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BIP with easy-to-use Patron-Focused features. |
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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) |
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Business Source Premier |
Business, company directory; many scholarly journals. (EBSCO)top of page |
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Computer
Source |
Provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology.(EBSCO) |
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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) |
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Contemporary Authors |
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. (GALE) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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Ebsco
bases de datos ESPANOL |
EBSCO DATABASES SPANISH INTERFACE |
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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). |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Funk
& Wagnall's New Encyclopedia |
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.(EBSCO) |
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Gale
Literary Databases |
Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literature Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography: Search all three at once. |
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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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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Health
Reference Center Academic* |
Fitness, medicine, nutrition, diseases, nursing, public health, occupational health & safety. (GaleGroup)top of page |
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Health Source: Consumer Edition |
Provides full text for over 280 health periodicals, nearly 1,200 health pamphlets, and 20 health reference books.(EBSCO) |
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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) |
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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) |
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InfoTracNewspapers |
InfoTrac: Full text access from 1996- to major newspapers (GALEGROUPtop of page |
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Information Science & Technology Abstracts |
Provides worldwide library science and information science records from more than 450 publications dating back to 1966.(EBSCO) |
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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) |
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Issues &
Controversies |
Source of up-to-date, in-depth, and objective information on the most prominent and hotly-debated issues of the day(FOF) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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«Poems «Essays «Speeches
«Stories «Plays |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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MEDLINE7/1/05-6/30/06 |
Medical research; National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database (NOT FULL TEXT). ( EBSCO) top of page |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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 |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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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. |
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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 |
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Regional Business News7/1/05-6/30/06 |
Daily international newswires and regional business publications. (EBSCO)top of page (Formerly Business Wire News)(EBSCO) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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SERIALS SOLUTIONS |
Search by Journal Title for Journals indexed across databases. |
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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 |
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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. |
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Texas Digital Sanborn Maps |
Digital access to large-scale historical maps of Texas towns and cities.(PROQUEST) |
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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) |
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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 |
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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) |
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TOPICsearch |
Current events database that allows the user to explore social, political, and economic issues and other popular topics discussed in classrooms.(EBSCO) |
| TUMBLEBOOKS LIBRARY | ONLINE BOOKS FOR KIDS: |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |
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Vocational & Career Collection
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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) |
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World
Almanac: |
Complete, cumulative full text of The World Almanac® and Book of Facts editions since 1999, with frequent updating.(FOF) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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WorldCAT |
Books and other materials in libraries worldwide (No Full TEXT)(FIRSTSEARCH)top of page |
TEXSHARE is a program of the
Texas State Library and Archives Commission in partnership with academic
and public libraries in Texas. These databases are available for use by
more than 500 libraries and their patrons in Texas. Databases purchased by
the Texas State Library are indicated with this logo: