Online Databases

• Academic Search Complete (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program):
  Provides full text for scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies
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• EBSCO Kids Search:
  EBSCO resources selected specifically for primary and middle school students.
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• EBSCO Student Research Center:
  EBSCO resources selected especially for youth in grades 6-12.
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• EBSCOhost Ebook Collection (formerly NetLibrary Ebooks) provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.:
  Read or check out e-books, available through EBSCOhost's electronic book collection
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• Facts on File Science Online:
  Database contains extensive information on a broad range of scientific disciplines. Includes in-depth essays in environmental science, weather and climate, new biology, the history of science, biographies of key scientists, diagrams, mathematics, human anatomy, and science experiments and activities.
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• Learning Express (formerly known as LearnATest.com):
  Test preparation materials and interactive practice exams in the areas of academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams.
  All users, including home access users, must choose either the New User or Returning User button. If you need assistance, please contact a reference librarian.
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• Legal Collection (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program):
  Includes full text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals; an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.
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• LegalForms (Texas):
  Gale LegalForms includes forms specific to the state of Texas
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• Library of Texas:
  Search for information from multiple library catalogs and information databases.
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• Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts:
  Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage extends back as far as the mid-1960s
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• MAS Ultra: School Edition (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program):
  Designed for high school libraries, the database contains full text for more than 700 popular, high school magazines and over 84,000 biographies and primary source documents. Includes more than 350 reference books (including the CIA World Fact Book, World Almanac and Our States reference book series.
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• Middle Search Plus (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program):
  Contains full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines, includes an assigned reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies, historical essays and student pamphlets.
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• Newspaper Source (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program):
  Provides cover-to-cover full text for 20 national (U.S.) & international newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc. Selected full text over 230 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, and more.
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• OneClickDigital e-audiobooks:
  Download audiobooks from Recorded Books, Inc. NOTE: you will need to create an account with OneClickDigital once you are taken to their site.
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• OverDrive (Digital Media Catalog):
  Download audiobooks, e-books, and videos.
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• Port Arthur News (digital archives):
  Digital archives of The Port Arthur News up through 1977
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• Primary Search (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program):
  For elementary school libraries and public library children's rooms, contains full text for 70 popular, elementary school magazines. Full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Also offers indexing and abstracts for 100 magazines and an image Collection of 188,300+ photos, maps and flags.
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• Religion & Philosophy (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program):
  Database covers topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
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• TOPICsearch (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program):
  A current events database indexing social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints. Includes full text for over 100,000 articles from 2,500 diverse sources, including international and regional newspapers.
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• Texas Digital Sanborn Maps (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program):
  Sanborn maps are large scale plans of a city or town drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch. They were created to assist fire insurance companies as they assessed the risk associated with insuring a particular property. The maps list street block and building numbers including numbers in use at the time the map was made and previous numbers.
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• Texas Reference Center (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program):
  Includes more than 80 full text journals and books about Texas history, ethnic & cultural diversity, literature, public health, business as well as home & garden and sports & leisure; also contains biographies of famous historical and contemporary Texans. Includes the Spanish-language newspaper El Sol de Texas with Texas and national news coverage. The database is updated weekly.
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• World Book Online Reference Center:
  Includes access to an encyclopedia, atlas, dictionary, and a section called Explore Texas; also includes an option to switch to a Spanish interface.
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• World History Collection (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program):
  Index provides a 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 dating as far back as 1964. Sources cover a wide range of historical topics including anthropology, art, culture, economics, government, heritage, military, politics, and more.
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