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To access a database remotely, click on the title. You will be prompted to enter your valid library card number. Many of the databases are provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.
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  • 20th Century American Poetry (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    A database collection that includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets
    Full Text
  • 20th Century English Poetry (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    A database collection of 598 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day
    Full Text
  • AGRICOLA (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Includes records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library with coverage back to 1970
    Citations/Abstracts Only
  • 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
    Full Text
  • All EBSCO Databases (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Complete list of all licensed EBSCO e-resources.
  • Alt Health Watch (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Database focuses on perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness
    Full Text
  • American West (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Sourced from the Everett D. Graff Collection at the Newberry Library (Chicago), The American West allows browsers to explore tales of frontier life, Pioneers, Wild West shows, the Gold Rush, vigilantes and outlaws.
  • Ancestry Library Edition (in-library use only):
    One of the largest collections of family history data online. Ancestry Library Edition is the Ancestry.com database with an interface from ProQuest.
    Directory, Full Text
  • Bibliography of Native North Americans (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life with over 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, etc. Dates of covergae is form the sixteenth century to the present.
    Citations/Abstracts Only
  • Book Review Digest Plus (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Brings together book reviews on subjects such as art, biography, business, education, general interest, history, humanities, literature, music and more with coverage back to 1983.
  • BookFlix:
    Online storybooks from Scholastic and Weston Woods.
    Full Text
  • Business Abstracts with Full Text (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Offers full-text articles from hundreds of key publications, and provides access to product evaluations, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, statistical rankings and more
    Full Text
  • Business Source Complete (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    World's largest resource of full text business publications; includes all discplines of business such as marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, banking, finance, etc. Selected coverage as far back as 1886.
    Citations/Abstracts Only, Full Text
  • ChiltonLibrary:
    Provides photographs, diagnostics designed by instructors, step-by-step repair procedures, Original Equipment Manufacturer maintenance schedules, wiring diagrams, recalls and Technical Service Bulletins for automobiles and light trucks in one web site.
    Full Text
  • Computer Source: Consumer Edition (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology.
    Full Text
  • Contemporary Authors (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors
    Full Text
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Collects more than 35,000 critical essays on contemporary authors, with biographical, critical, principal works, and further study information
    Full Text
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary figures from all eras and genres
    Full Text
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
    Full Text
  • EBSCO Kids Search:
    EBSCO resources selected specifically for primary and middle school students.
    Full Text, Images
  • EBSCO Student Research Center:
    EBSCO resources selected especially for youth in grades 6-12.
    Full Text, Images
  • 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
    Full Text, Images
  • ERIC (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Provides access to education literature and resources; includes full text of 2,200+ digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals
    Citations/Abstracts Only, Full Text
  • Economia y Negocios (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    An indispensable tool for research in business and economics, coverage dates back to the 1980's for over 200 Spanish and Portuguese-language periodicals.
    Citations/Abstracts Only
  • 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.
    Full Text
  • Fuente Academica (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Includes PDF full text for 260 scholarly publications covering areas of academic study. Content is provided in Spanish from respected publishers worldwide.
    Full Text
  • Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database also has various images and offers brief biographies.
    Full Text
  • Handbook of Texas (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture.
  • Health Reference Center Academic (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    A multi-source database for health and wellness research.
    Full Text
  • Health Source: Consumer Edition (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    This resource provides access to over 300 full text consumer health periodicals and more than 1000 health-related pamphlets, and over 100 health reference books.
    Full Text
  • Health Source: Nursing/Academic (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    This resource provides access to 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on medical disciplines; also includes the Clinical Pharmacology database, providing access to info about prescription drugs and over-the-counter products.
    Full Text
  • HeritageQuest - formerly Genealogy and Local History (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    HeritageQuest Online provides U. S. Federal census records and a collection of research materials for tracing family lineages
    Full Text
  • Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Full text for more than 1,500 leading hobby books and craft magazines that cover Arts & Crafts, Collecting, Home & Garden, Indoor Recreation, Kids' Crafts, Model Building, Needlecrafts & Textiles, and more.
  • Home Improvement Reference Center  (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Provides users with user-friendly “how-to” information covering a range of home improvement and repair projects and features full-text content from leading magazines, images not found anywhere else online, and videos of popular home repair projects
  • Humanities Full Text (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Includes feature articles, interviews, obituaries and original works of fiction, drama and poetry in all fields of the humanities from art, classical studies, and film to journalism and more.
    Full Text
  • Information Science & Technology Abstracts (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    A database for the areas of information science, indexing includes journal articles from more than 450 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings, with ongoing comprehensive coverage. Enhanced to include cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for 80 core information science and technology titles. Coverage dates as far back as the mid 1960's.
    Citations/Abstracts Only
  • Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Provides abstracts and indexing for literature related to personal computing products and developments in business, the Internet, the home, and all other applied areas. This resource contains content coverage that extends back to the 1980s.
    Citations/Abstracts Only
  • Job & Career Accelerator (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    From creating powerful resumes and finding job and internship opportunities to assessing career alternatives and mastering interviewing skills, job seekers will have everything they need in one easy-to-use web application. With Job & Career Accelerator™, job seekers get all the tools to effectively manage and track their job search progress
  • 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.
    Full Text, Images
  • 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.
    Full Text
  • LegalForms (Texas):
    Gale LegalForms includes forms specific to the state of Texas
    Full Text
  • Library of Texas:
    Search for information from multiple library catalogs and information databases.
    Directory, Full Text
  • 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
    Full Text
  • Literary Reference Center (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Provides information on thousands of authors and their works through an expansive collection of author biographies, plot summaries, poems, short stories, author interviews and more.
    Full Text
  • Literature Resource Center with Scribner and Twayne's (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Provides literature criticism, detailed biographies and bibliographies, social and historical context, and facilitates the study of literary movements, genres, and themes; over 1,000,000 full text articles,poems, short stories and plays, film, book and theatre reviews,and links to NPR broadcasts.
    Full Text
  • 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.
    Full Text
  • MEDLINE (with MeSH) (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Web database to search for articles in medical journals, via PubMed or Internet Grateful Med
    Citations/Abstracts Only
  • Mango Languages:
    Online language learning courses for Spanish, French, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Russian and more. Also learn English with ESL classes for Brazilian Portuguese, Polish and Spanish.
    Full Text
  • MasterFILE Premier (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Provides full text for nearly 1,860 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more
    Full Text
  • MedicLatina (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals in native Spanish.
    Full Text
  • 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.
    Full Text
  • Military & Government Collection (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Designed to bring current news to all branches of the military, this database contains searchable full text for nearly 240 periodicals including Army Times, Navy Times, Naval Institute Proceedings and Joint Forces Quarterly, abstracts and indexing for over 430 periodicals, and over 240 pamphlets .
    Full Text
  • Morningstar Investment Research Center:
    Research investment information for funds, stocks, industry returns, and more
    Full Text
  • Natural & Alternative Treatments (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    An alternative medicine database designed specifically for the consumer-health researcher. This database provides current, up-to-date information that will satisfy an ever-growing demand for accurate, unbiased information on natural health.
    Full Text
  • 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.
    Full Text
  • NoveList Plus:
    Online guide to help identify fiction books by title, author, plot description.
    Citations/Abstracts Only
  • OverDrive (Digital Media Catalog):
    Download audiobooks, e-books, and videos
    Full Text
  • Play Index (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Covers over 31,000 classic and historical plays dating from 1949, including one-act plays, pageants, plays in verse, radio and television plays, classic drama and monologues from famous playwrights.
  • 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.
    Full Text
  • Professional Development Collection (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Includes full text for nearly 550 high quality education journals including: Booklist, Education, Education Digest, Education Week, etc.
    Full Text
  • Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Indexing for over 575 full text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed journals. The database covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, etc. Indexing and abstracts are provided as well as full text; full text information in this database dates as far back as 1965.
    Full Text
  • Regional Business News (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Updated daily, Regional Business News provides comprehensive full-text for 35 international newswires and 49 regional business publications
    Full Text
  • 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.
    Full Text
  • Salud en Espanol (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Provides comprehensive evidence-based reports and fact sheets in Spanish on all aspects of consumer health and wellness. Topic specific reports covering all aspects of health offer valuable overviews on diseases, conditions, procedures and various treatments.
    Full Text
  • Science & Technology Collection (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Indexes over 800 leading full text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community. Topics include aeronautics, astrophysics, biology, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, marine sciences and more.
    Full Text
  • Scribner Writers (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Access to 1,600 original and detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world. Each entry averages 15-20 pages in length and includes a concise essay, hyperlinks for cross-referencing, a citation and biographical information that places the author's work in personal and historical context
    Directory, Full Text
  • Serials Directory (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Provides access to up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information and current pricing structures for popular serials. Includes 212,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers; data from nearly 108,235 publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet addresses
    Directory
  • Short Story Index (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Contains information on short stories by author or genre, and provides detailed indexing for more than 117,000 stories from more than 4,200 collections and anthologies.
  • Small Business Reference Center (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Small Business Reference Center provides a number of periodical articles, reference books, and 'how to' videos on relevant topics from starting a company, operations management and sales to growing or rescuing a business.
  • Small Engine Repair Reference Center (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Provides repair guides for small engines and routine maintenance (tune-ups, brake service, etc.) as well as extensive repairs (engine and transmission disassembly) and also allows users to search by product type, brand, model/engine type, specific area of model/engine type, and model numbers.
  • 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.
    Full Text
  • 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
    Images
  • 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.
    Full Text
  • TrueFlix:
    Online science and social studies books for grades 3-5.
    Full Text
  • Twayne's Author Series (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Features the content of nearly 600 books that comprise three print series --United States Authors, English Authors and World Authors -- each of which were carefully coordinated with input from librarians and educators to include authors universally studied in high schools and colleges.
    Directory, Full Text
  • Value Line Investment Survey:
    Value Line Investment Survey is a weekly independent investment information service. (When you access Value Line you may receive a security warning message discouraging you from continuing. We have contacted Value Line and verified that it should be safe to proceed to the Value Line database website. Remote access and in library access provides the same content.)
    Full Text
  • Vocational & Career Collection (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Indexes a wide variety of vocational and technical research resources; includes full text coverage for over 350 trade and industry-related periodicals including American Machinist, Modern Machine Shop, Pediatric Nursing, Wireless Week, Drug Store News, Video Business, etc.
    Full Text
  • 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.
    Full Text
  • 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.
    Full Text
  • WorldCat (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.):
    Catalog of library materials owned by libraries around the world.
    Citations/Abstracts Only

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