Databases
Many of the databases are provided by the Texas
State Library's TEXSHARE program. Use
TDNet
to see an A-Z list of all the full text periodical titles that are available
online in the TexShare databases, and also what database the titles are
indexed in. Since users can link directly to the databases from the
list,
use this link when accesing TDNet remotely.
Note:To exit a
database, close the browser window by clicking the X in the top right corner
of the window.
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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
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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
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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
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Citations/Abstracts Only
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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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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
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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.
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Books in Print
Directory of over 5 million books, with availability information included; new easy-to-use format
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Consumer Health Complete (Provided by the Texas State
Library's TEXSHARE program.)
Provides content covering all areas of health and wellness;
designed to support patients' information needs and
understanding of health-related topics
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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
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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
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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
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Directory of Open Access Journals
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled
scientific and scholarly journals.
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EBSCOHost Espaņol (Provided by the Texas State Library's
TEXSHARE program.)
Busque informacion en espaņ:ol de una variedad de temas en una
lista selecta de bases de datos provenientes de EbscoHost.
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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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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
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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Handbook of Texas
Encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture.
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Directory, Full Text
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Health & Wellness Resource Center (Provided by the Texas
State Library's TEXSHARE program.)
Designed for nursing and allied health students, as well as
consumer health researchers,Health & Wellness Resource Center
provides an integrated collection of general interest and
fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals,
reference books and pamphlets.
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Health Reference Center Academic (Provided by the Texas State
Library's TEXSHARE program.)
A multi-source database for health and wellness research.
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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.
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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.
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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
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History Study Center
Offers invaluable historical reference material that covers 14 centuries of history, from ancient to modern, old world to new world.
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InfoTrac Custom Newspapers (Provided by the Texas State
Library's TEXSHARE program)
Growing collection of over 100 newspapers from the U.S. and
around the world, including several Texas newspapers. Dates of
coverage vary with start dates beginning January of 1996, and a
365 day rolling file for the New York Times
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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.
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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.
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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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Directory, Full Text
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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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Literature Resource Center (Provided by the Texas State
Library's TEXSHARE program.)
Index to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of
authors
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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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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
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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
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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.
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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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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 .
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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.
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NetLibrary (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE
program.)
Read or check out e-books, available through netLibrary's
electronic book collection
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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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NoveList Plus
Online guide to help identify fiction books by title, author,
plot description.
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Overdrive
Download audiobooks, e-books, and videos
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Pasadena Citizen
Search the newspaper classifieds online
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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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Professional Devlopment 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.
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Psycholgy & 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.
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Reference USA
Database of over 15 million U.S. and Canadian Business and 210 million U.S. Residents. Find addresses and phone numbers. Locate out-of-town companies. Search for jobs. Conduct market research. |
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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
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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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Salud en Espanol
Consumer-oriented content in all areas of health and wellness - in Spanish.
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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.
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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
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Directory, Full Text
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Searchasaurus
A kid-friendly interface to Ebsco resources for elementary school aged children
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Directory, Full Text
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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
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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 Cancer Information
Texas Cancer Information can connect patients, caregivers, the general public, health care policy planners, physicians and other health professionals with reliable online cancer information. We gather, organize and deliver the latest information to empower Texans with the knowledge needed to reduce the impact of cancer.
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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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TumbleBook Library
TumbleBooks are animated, talking picture books which teach kids
the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are
created by taking existing picture books, adding animation,
sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book
which you can read, or have read to you.
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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.
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Directory, Full Text
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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.
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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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WorldCat (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE
program.)
Catalog of library materials owned by libraries around the
world.
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eLibrary Curriculum ((Provided by the Texas State Library's
TEXSHARE program.)
One of the largest collections of periodical and digital media
content designed specifically for K-12 schools and libraries;
includes more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers,
reference books, and transcripts-plus thousands of pictures, and
maps, plus audio/video content.
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