| 20th Century American Poetry (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Includes two, distinct collections of British and American poetry. The American poetry database includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets. The British collection includes more than 600 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day.
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| 20th Century English Poetry (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Includes two, distinct collections of British and American poetry. The American poetry database includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets. The British collection includes more than 600 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day.
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| Academic OneFile (Gale) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Quickly access articles from a database of scholarly journals and other trusted periodicals. Best for academic research.
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| Access World News Research Collection (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Explore and stay informed on local, national and international topics, people and events in areas such as business, health, education, jobs and careers, political and social issues and more. Features a wide variety of credible, vetted news sources from around the world to around the corner. Also available remotely 24/7 on any device.
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| Adult Learning Center (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Pass the GED, prepare for the U.S. Citizenship Test, get Microsoft Office Help or live tutoring in many other subjects. The Adult Learning Center can help you be a lifelong learner.
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| Agriculture (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Access current and authoritative periodical content covering agriculture and its related fields.
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| American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB)
The AAPB is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and Boston public media producer GBH to preserve and make accessible significant public radio and television programs before they deteriorate and provide a central web portal for access to the unique programming that public stations have aired over the past 70+ years. The AAPB collection includes more than 122,000 items dating back to the late 1940s and is growing.
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| American Ancestors
This resource is available at the library only.
Resources of the New England Historic Genealogical Society
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| Ancestry Library - In library access only
Remote Access to Ancestry Library Edition during COVID will end December 31, 2021.
Access only available in the library.
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| Biography (Gale In Context) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Discover the world's most influential people by searching narrative biographies, news, magazine, and multimedia content.
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| Black Life in America (Login Required - click here to access your account)
The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to today. From the early days of slavery to modern times, people of African descent have had a profound impact on American history. This primary source collection offers an expansive window into centuries of African American history, culture and daily life—as well as the ways the dominant culture has portrayed and perceived people of African descent.
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| Book Connections (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Resources about children's and young adult booKs from TeachingBooks, including exclusive Meet-the-Author movies and recordings, book trailers, and Reader's Advisory to help you choose the right booK.
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| Brainfuse Homework Help Now (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Services includes live homework help in all major subjects, including world languages. A writing lab provides help within 24 hours of submitting your work online and a test center for the SAT, ACT, GED and more. Live tutoring is from 2 p.m. to 12 a.m. Spanish language assistance is available during the same hours.
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| Books and Authors (Gale) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Answer the age-old question, 'What do I read next?' Search and match reading interests to books, authors, genres, or topics.
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| Business (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through leading business and trade publications. Updated daily.
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| Business: Entrepreneurship (Gale) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Learn how to start, finance, or manage your small business. Includes sample business plans, how to guides, articles, and more.
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| Business Insights: Global (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Compare global economies, countries, and industries with in-depth analysis on over 400,000 companies.
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| Chilton Library (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Chilton Library, trusted by automotive enthusiasts and professionals for more than 100 years, has the maintenance, repair, and technical service bulletins needed for most years, makes, and models.
This continually updated resource provides:
Step-by-step service and repair procedures, Wiring diagrams, Maintenance and specification tables, Troubleshooting guides and diagnostic trouble codes, Photos, illustrations, diagrams and multimedia
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| College (Gale In Context) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a wide array of subjects.
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| Communications and Mass Media (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Search millions of articles covering all aspects of communications, including advertising, public relations, and more.
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| Computer Science (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Access leading business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries.
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| Contemporary Women's Issues (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Find timely and historically relevant content on issues that influence women's lives across the globe.
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| Criminal Justice (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Comprehensive periodical content for researchers studying law, law enforcement, forensic science, terrorism, and more.
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| Culinary Arts (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Find a variety of information from major cooking and nutrition magazines as well as key reference titles.
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| Dallas Morning News Archive (Login Required - click here to access your account)
This database provides full text of the Dallas Morning News from 1885 through 2016. Search options include the ability to limit to articles, matrimony notices, birth notices, and obituaries. Classified and display advertising, photos and graphics are also included. Major news topics and events are highlighted.
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| Directory of Open Access Journals
Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in all subjects. There are now 3769 journals in the directory. Some 1,321 journals are searchable at article level.
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| Diversity Studies (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Access a range of periodical content to explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community.
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| Driver Education Program
This Driver Education program contains the following state-specific information:
- 11 car practice tests
- 9 motorcycle practice tests
- 10 CDL (Commercial Driver’s License) practice tests
- 3 online driver’s manuals (car, motorcycle, CDL)
Note on accessibility: The new 'Read Aloud' toolbar (found in the footer of every page) includes tools that will allow users to hear selections read aloud, make them into MP3s, translate pages into o
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| EBSCOhost (all EBSCO) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Select one EBSCO database to search or search several at once.
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| Economics and Theory (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Discover content useful for starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, and more.
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| Educator's Reference Complete (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Gain insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy. Best for educators, administrators, and education students.
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| Elementary (Gale In Context) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Introduce elementary students to database searching with resources featuring age-appropriate, curriculum-related content.
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| Entrepreneurship (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Analyze business insights, tips, strategies, and success stories. Updated daily. Best for business schools and entrepreneurs.
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| Environmental Studies (Gale In Context) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.
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| Environmental Studies and Policy (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Investigate environmental issues with diverse perspectives from the scientific community, policymakers, and corporate interests.
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| Fine Arts (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Search millions of articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Diverse resource for serious fine arts students.
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| Flipster (Temporarily Unavailable) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Flipster®, the next-gen digital newsstand, offers content across all of your favorite devices. With access to the top magazines combined with an easy to use interface, Flipster offers users a unique reading experience that can be enjoyed anytime, anywhere.
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| Fold3 (ProQuest) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Fold3 provides convenient access to military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served.
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| Fort Worth Star Telegram with Historical Archive (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Includes Fort Worth Morning Register 1897 - 1902 and Fort Worth Star Telegram 1902 - Current
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| Foundation Directory
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The Foundation Directory Online Professional Edition provides access to an unprecedented wealth of timely, comprehensive information on grantmakers and their grants. Included is a database of the entire universe of over 96,000 foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking public charities in the U.S.; a database of over 3,500 sponsoring companies, offering a quick pathway to corporate fund
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| Foundation Grants to Individuals
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Focuses on foundations that provide financial support for individual grantseekers. Describes giving for a variety of purposes, including scholarships, student loans, fellowships, program development, internships, professorships, arts and cultural projects, research, awards/grants by nomination only and general welfare. It is intended to be both a grantseeker's guide and a reference tool for those in
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| Gale Databases (Login Required - click here to access your account)
From student favorites like Gale In Context suite to our flagship InfoTrac databases, we offer dozens of powerful research platforms to put vetted sources right at your users fingertips.
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| Gale General OneFile (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Access general interest magazines and key serials in a single resource. Best for general research.
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| U.S. History (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Search balanced coverage of events in U.S. history. Best for novice historians and academic researchers. Updated daily.
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| Gale Power Search (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Gale PowerSearch is a search platform unlike any other, providing libraries with a sophisticated yet simple solution for managing a wealth of periodical, reference, multimedia and primary source information.
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| Gardening and Horticulture (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Find millions of articles on the practical and scientific aspects of horticulture studies. For all horticultural enthusiasts.
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| Gender Studies (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Discover balanced coverage of topics related to gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.
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| Handbook of Texas
An encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture comprising more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions. Provide concise, authoritative, and accessible articles that provide factual, nonpartisan accounts on virtually every aspect of Texas history and culture.
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| Health and Medicine (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Created specifically for students, knowledgeable consumer health researchers, and health care professionals, Health Reference Center Academic is the perfect resource for up-to-date information on the complete range of health care topics.
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| Health and Wellness (Gale) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Search a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to alternative medical practices.
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| HeritageHub (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Explore your family history with the premier collection of U.S. obituaries and death notices for in-depth genealogical research from 1704 – today. HeritageHub helps you easily identify relatives, uncover new information and potentially unknown family members. Includes deep coverage from all 50 states, hard-to-find content from the mid 1900’s, and original obituary images. Access is available 24/7.
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| HeritageQuest (Login Required - click here to access your account)
HeritageQuest® Online combines digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records with the digitized version of the popular ProQuest Genealogy & Local History collection and other valuable content. Powered by Ancestry® with more than 4.4 billion records and coverage dating back to the 1700s.
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| High School (Gale In Context) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Explore thousands of topics across subjects including literature, science, history, and social issues using different sources.
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| High School Edition (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Search magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference on a range of topics. Best for middle- and high-school students.
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| Hispanic Life in America (Login Required - click here to access your account)
The experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media. From the earliest days of the colonial era through modern times, people of Spanishspeaking heritage have shaped the geography, arts, culture, and civil discourse of the United States in immeasurable ways. This primary source collection offers an expansive window into centuries of Hispanic American history, culture, and daily life – as well as the ways the dominant culture has portrayed and perceived people of Hispanic descent.
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| HistoryGeo (Login Required - click here to access your account)
HistoryGeo.com is a family history software service for linking old maps and land records to your genealogy research. Until recently, we were probably best known for providing online versions of the Family Maps and Texas Land Survey Maps book series, but that perception has changed since the release of our revolutionary First Landowners Project.
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| HistoryMakers (Login Required - click here to access your account)
HistoryMakers is a unique and growing, video oral history resource available to DPL customers. Currently, over 10,000 hours of primary source video content are accessible on The HistoryMakers Digital Archive, with more content being added each week.
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| Home Improvement (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Search home improvement topics such as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and more.
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| Hospitality and Tourism (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Discover well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism industries.
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| Information Science (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Access articles covering all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology. Updated daily.
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| Informe Academico (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Busque en periódicos y revistas académicas de texto completo en español y portugués de y sobre América Latina.
Search across full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines from and about Latin America.
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| Insurance and Liability (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Discover information about physical and intellectual asset protection, from individuals to multinational corporations.
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| Job Now (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Help to write the resume, ace the interview, plus LIVE interview and resume coaching.
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| JSTOR
JSTOR is a digital library for scholars, researchers, and students.
JSTOR Open is free to anyone.
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| Leadership and Management (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Search authoritative periodical content covering topics like organizational dynamics, adult learning, and more. Updated daily.
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| LearningExpress Library 3.0 (Login Required - click here to access your account)
•Access over 800 online practice tests and interactive skill-building tutorials to help launch or advance their careers.
•Prepare for professional certification, licensing, and aptitude tests in civil service, law enforcement, firefighting, EMS, military, real estate, and healthcare, among others.
•Prepare for college and graduate school admissions tests including the SAT, ACT, GMAT, GRE, LSAT, and MCAT.
•Successfully prepare for the GED exa
Register for an account using your Dallas Public Library card
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| Legal Forms (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Texas Legal Forms Library. Thousands of legal forms available with more forms being added daily. Official, State Specific, Federal, Business, Personal, Real Estate and General forms covering hundreds of legal subjects and issues.
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| Library of Texas
Search catalogs from libraries all across Texas. Searches will scan the catalog holdings of numerous libraries in Texas all at once, and will include print materials, electronically archived documents, and commercially available databases.
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| Life Magazine Archive, 1936-2000 (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Life Magazine Archive presents an extensive collection of the famed photojournalism magazine, spanning its very first issue in November 1936 through December 2000 in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format.
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| LinkedIn Learning (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Lynda.com is an online learning site that hosts a constantly growing library of over 3,000 courses that include over 130,000 videos. Courses cover a variety of topics (including business, design, web development and multimedia skills) and software (Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite and open source applications) that can help you pursue personal and professional goals. These courses are delivered by expert instructors and feature searchable
For mobile app users: Library ID - dallaslibrary
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| Literature: LitFinder (Gale) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Access literary works and authors throughout history, including full-text poems, plays, short stories, speeches, and more.
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| Literature Resource Center (Gale) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Find up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers from all eras.
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| Literature: Scribner Writer Series (Gale) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Browse original scholarly essays on authors from around the world. Places authors and their works in personal and historical context.
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| Literature: Twayne's Author Series (Gale) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Find in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers. Includes influences of literary movements.
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| Middle School (Gale In Context) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Explore the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, history, literature, and more.
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| Military and Intelligence (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Search scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of past and present military affairs. Updated daily.
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| Miss Humblebee's Academy (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Gale Presents: Miss Humblebee’s Academy is an award-winning online resource that gives kids ages 3–6 access to hundreds of guided lessons using videos, music, eBooks, hands-on activities, and more. It includes off-line lessons too. View weekly progress and performance reports to track improvement toward kindergarten readiness. It’s serious learning fun!
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| Morningstar (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Morningstar provides access to information about stocks and educate individuals interested in investment and evaluating their stock portfolio.
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| National Geographic Kids (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Explore amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space. Best for children aged 6-14.
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| National Geographic Magazine Archive. 1888-2020 (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Explore over a century of iconic images and photography and fascinating narratives that capture the wonder of our planet and beyond.
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| News (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Access major U.S. and international newspapers online to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, or other fields.
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| Newsbank (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Quickly find your ancestors in over 300 years of historical newspapers, books, pamphlets and government reports. Search over 1,000 newspapers; the American State Papers; US Congressional Serial Set and more. Find obituaries, birth & marriage notices; pension records etc. Read every article on every page of the newspaper.
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| Newspaper Archive (Login Required - click here to access your account)
NewspaperARCHIVE.com, the largest historical newspaper database online, contains tens of millions of newspaper pages from 1607 to present. Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date, making it easy for you to quickly explore historical content.
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| Newsweek Magazine Archive, 1933-2012 (Login Required - click here to access your account)
The Newsweek Archive offers digital access the full run of the US edition of Newsweek, from its launch in 1933 to 2012 (when the print edition originally ceased).* With an international circulation that peaked at more than 3 million, it has been one of the largest and most influential weekly consumer magazines.
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| Novelist K-8 (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Novelist K-8 is a fiction database especially designed with children in grades K-8 in mind
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| Novelist Plus (Login Required - click here to access your account)
NoveList provides reviews, recommended reads and book discussion guides for fiction and nonfiction titles.
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| Nursing and Allied Health (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Research full-text titles cited in CINAHL and other resources to support specialized care, treatment, and patient management.
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| Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints is the premier online resource covering today's hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. This cross-curricular research database supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions.
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| OverDrive
Downloadable ebooks, audiobooks and graphic novels.
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| Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Access academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine.
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| Pop Culture Studies (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Access scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture.
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| Popular Magazines (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Access the most searched magazines across Gale OneFile focusing on current events, sports, science, and health issues.
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| PressReader (Temporarily Unavailable) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
With Library PressReader users gain access to publications from around the world on the day they are published. PressReader.com is the most convenient and complete way to read all your favorite newspapers and magazines on one site.
The new Library PressReader site provides readers with a traditional 2-page newspaper view, table of contents, article jumps (linking article sectio
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| ProQuest African American Heritage (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Search essential historical records for African Americans, including Federal Census, Marriage and Cohabitation Records, Military Draft and Service Records, Registers of Slaves and Free(d) Persons of Color, Freedman's Bank, and more.
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| ProQuest Digitized Newspapers: The New York Times Recent (Login Required - click here to access your account)
This resource is available at the library only. The full-page images of this digitized newspaper provide genealogists, researchers and scholars with cover-to-cover access to recent newspaper content. Every page is full-text searchable. Coverage: 2008 - recent (3-month embargo).
This resource is available at the library only.
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| ProQuest Digitized Newspapers: The Wall Street Journal Recent
This resource is available at the library only. The full-page images of this digitized newspaper provide genealogists, researchers and scholars with cover-to-cover access to recent newspaper content. Every page is full-text searchable. Coverage: 2008 - recent (3-month embargo).
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| ProQuest Ebook Central - eLibro and SciTech collections (Login Required - click here to access your account)
ebrary provides a growing selection of over 30,000 (mostly non-fiction) e-book titles from trusted publishers with tools that make research easy and reliable. Topics include: Sciences, Spanish-Language E-books.
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| ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Austin American Statesman (Login Required - click here to access your account)
This archive includes back issues of the Austin American Statesman from 1971-1980. It provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
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| ProQuest Historical Newspapers: El Paso Times and El Paso Herald Post (Login Required - click here to access your account)
El Paso Times, 1881–2009 (plus annual updates) and El Paso Herald Post, 1896–1996
Also includes subscription content from 2010-present
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| Psychology (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Find authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology.
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| Reference Solutions (formerly ReferenceUSA) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
A national residential and business directory, perfect for finding new customers or researching an industry. The business listings are comprised of over 65 million US business records, 297 million US Historical business records and 4 million New Business records (a total of over 356 million US business records).
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| Religion and Philosophy (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Research the impact of religion on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language. Updated daily.
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| School Center (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Skill-building resources for elementary, middle and high school classroom and homework success.
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| Science (Gale In Context) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Gale in Context: Science is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. The solution merges Gale's authoritative and continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
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| Science (Gale Interactive) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Manipulate 3D interactive models to visualize and understand concepts in biology, chemistry, earth, and space science.
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| Science (Gale OneFile) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Access information on the latest developments across a range of scientific disciplines. Updated daily.
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| SciTech Premium Collection (Login Required - click here to access your account)
The SciTech Premium Collection includes the Natural Science Collection and the Technology Collection and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
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| TeachingBooks.net (Login Required - click here to access your account)
TeachingBooks.net is an easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. Our online database is developed and maintained to include thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities.
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| Texas Digital Sanborn Maps
A collection of digitized maps that provides detailed property and land-use records of more than 12,000 U.S. towns and cities throughout the past 100 years. Enhance your knowledge of this valuable historical resource.
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| TexShare (This portal is only available in the library) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
To access TexShare databases outside of the library, see the "TexShare Databases" category listed above.
Brought to you in cooperation with the Texas State Library, this vast resource includes more than 60 collections.
To access TexShare databases outside of the library, see the "TexShare Databases" category listed above.
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| Time Magazine Archive, 1923-2000 (Login Required - click here to access your account)
The Time Magazine Archive presents an extensive collection of the prominent weekly news magazine dating back to its first issue in March 1923 through December 2000, presented in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format.
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| Udemy (Gale) (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Learn and improve skills across business, tech, design, and more. Includes 10,000+ on-demand video courses in multiple languages.
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| Value Line (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Spanning thousands of U.S. companies, mutual funds, and other securities, industries, indexes, and economic variables, Value Line data includes everything from full balance sheet data and income statement data to capital and equity structure.
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| WorldCat
WorldCat.org is a resource for locating unique, trustworthy materials that you often can’t find anywhere except in a library. By connecting thousands of libraries’ collections in one place, WorldCat.org makes it easy for you to browse the world’s libraries from one search box.
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