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Search several subject databases at the same time. Find books, journal and magazine articles, DVD's and more. (You get to pick and choose which databases to search, or just search them all.)
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20th Century 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 Search Complete (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,990 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,030 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,990 journals and a total of more than 10,400 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 journals.
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Agricola (Login Required - click here to access your account)
This database contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage for AGRICOLA dates back to 1970 and includes more than 4.1 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.
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Alt Health Watch (Login Required - click here to access your account)
This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. This database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and full text going back as far as 1990
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Bibliography of Native North Americans (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 122,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present.
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BookFlix (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Scholastic BookFlix is a new online literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks from Weston Woods with related nonfiction eBooks from Scholastic to build a love of reading and learning. The engaging way to link fact and fiction, BookFlix reinforces early reading skills and introduces children to a world of knowledge and exploration.
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Business Source Complete (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Business Source Complete is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals.
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Community Information Database
The Community Information Database contains contact information and a brief description for 5,000+ local Dallas Area nonprofits, hobby groups, government agencies, neighborhood associations.
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Computer Source (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.
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Consumer Health Complete (Login Required - click here to access your account)
This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc. Includes both mainstream and wholistic approaches.
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Contemporary Authors (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
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Contemporary Criticism (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Includes more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study. Search by author name, title of work, nationality, subject/genre, ethnicity, critic name, and more.
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Dallas Morning News Archive (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Dallas Morning News Archive with full text coverage from 1885 through 1977, and August 1984 to the present, is available through Newsbank.
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DASH - Dallas After School Homework Help (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Connects you with free, one-to-one live tutor for kindergarten through adult education in the subjects of English, Math, Science and Social Studies. Adults can also access assistance in resume writing, GED tutoring and assistance with the U.S. Citizenship exam. DASH is available every day from 2pm–12am. (Los instructores hablan español.)
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Dictionary of Literary Biography (Login Required - click here to access your account)
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
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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elibrary (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Includes more than 2,000 full-text and multimedia sources carefully selected to meet the needs of students in middle and high school. An extensive, browsable "topic tree" provides quick access to information organized by subject. There is also a search engine.
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EbscoHost (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Includes MasterFILE Premier, indexing 2,700 general reference, business, health, social science, education, science, humanities and news and current events titles (coverage from 1/84). 1,800 titles have searchable full text (coverage from 1/90). Also includes Clinical Reference Systems, Health Source Plus, (full text for 255 health periodicals) and USP DI Volume II, Advice for the Patient, etc.
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EBSCO Animals (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
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Ebsco Career Library (Login Required - click here to access your account)
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Economia y Negocios (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Economía y Negocios is the result of a collaborative effort between EBSCO Publishing and ESAN (Escuela de Administración de Negocios para Graduados). More than 74,000 records, dating back to the early 1980s, provide coverage for over 300 Spanish and Portuguese-language periodicals published in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, the United States and elsewhere.
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Enhanced Business Search Interface (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Using this tool, you can search by keyword, company, industry, publication, author or subject. You may also choose to browse company profiles, country reports, industry profiles or market research reports.
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ERIC (Login Required - click here to access your account)
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 1,243,000 records and links to more than 224,000 full-text documents from ERIC.
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Fuente Academica (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Fuente Académica provides full text (including PDF) for a rapidly growing collection of scholarly Spanish language journals. This multi-disciplinary database offers full text content to many academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology
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Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia (Login Required - click here to access your account)
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
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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 Wellness Resource Center (Login Required - click here to access your account)
For consumers and health care professionals, provides a rich collection of books, journals, magazines, pamphlets, and streaming videos. This product offers additional information on alternative topics such as, herbal remedies, yoga, homeopathy, midwifery, chiropractic and more. Contains 1,107 indexed periodicals of which 877 are full-text.
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Health Reference Center Academic (Login Required - click here to access your account)
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Health Source: Consumer Edition (Login Required - click here to access your account)
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic (Login Required - click here to access your account)
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
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HeritageQuest (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Combines digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records (1790 - 1930) with the digitized version of the UMI® Genealogy & Local History collection and other valuable content. Of interest to genealogical and historical researchers, with coverage dating back to the late 1700s. Offers more than 20,000 book titles, including nearly 8,000 family histories and over 12,000 local histories. Additionally, there are more than 250 primary-source documents such as tax lists, city directories, probate records, and more.
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Information Science & Technology Abstracts (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Information Science & Technology Abstracts is a leading database in the areas of information science. ISTA indexes journal articles from more than 450 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings and patents, with ongoing comprehensive coverage of the most important periodicals in this field. Coverage dates back to the mid 1960s.
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InfoTrac Custom Newspapers (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Includes Custom Newspapers (Austin American Statesman 1/96-, Christian Science Monitor 1/96-, Dallas Morning News 1/96-, Fort Worth Star Telegram 5/99-, Houston Chronicle 1/96-, Knight Ridder 1/96-4/99, L.A. Times 1/96-, N.Y. Times rolling 90 day file, Washington Post 1/96-) and Health Reference Center-Academic, 1996- (articles on Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health & Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc.)
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Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts (formerly Microcomputer Abstracts) provides abstracts and indexing for literature related to personal computing products and developments in business, the Internet, the home, and all other applied areas. Over 400 of the most important trade publications, mainstream computer magazines, and professional journals are covered, including those that focus on specific topics such as Macintosh and Windows platforms, programming, web development and more.
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Kids Search Interface (Login Required - click here to access your account)
A search interface with a child-friendly, graphically-rich design that automatically searches across all applicable EBSCO databases simultaneously.
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Legal Collection (Login Required - click here to access your account)
This database contains full text for more than 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.
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Literature Resource Center with Twayne's and Scribner (Login Required - click here to access your account)
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Marcive (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Use MarciveWeb DOCS to locate US government documents from 1976 to the present. Government documents provide a rich source of information on a wide range of topics.
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Marquis Who's Who
This resource is available at the library only.
1.3 million biographies of notable men and women in all fields of endeavor from around the world.
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MasterFILE Premier (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, full text from 86,017 biographies, 105,786 full text primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 341,655 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
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MAS Ultra: School Edition (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 341,655 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.
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MedicLatina (Login Required - click here to access your account)
MedicLatina is a unique collection of medical research and investigatory journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. This Spanish language database contains full text for nearly 120 peer-reviewed medical journals in native Spanish.
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Medline (Login Required - click here to access your account)
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
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Middle Search Plus (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 341,655 photos, maps and flags.
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Military & Government Collection (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.
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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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Natural & Alternative Treatments (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Contains more than 700 evidence-based articles covering medical conditions, alternative therapies, herbs and supplements, functional foods, drug interactions, and homeopathy. The articles contained in the database are based on double-blind, placebo-controlled studies and other forms of meaningful scientific evidence. Information provided in this database should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
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Netlibrary (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Provides access to more than 27,000 electronic books, viewable using the free Adobe Reader.
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NewsBank Online Service (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Dallas Morning News 1984-current: Complete full-text content of local and regional news. Paid advertisements are excluded.
Dallas Morning News Archive (1885-1977): a unique full-image digital collection documenting major events in Texas, nationally and internationally as reported in the newspaper.
National newspaper package (530 newspapers including New York Times): New York Times archives date back to 2000. Other major newspapers also have archives, ranging from 1 to 10+ years.
Texas newspapers: It is similar to the National newspaper package except it covers all Texas major newspapers. Also includes archives, ranging from 1 year to 5 years.
America's Obituaries and Death Notices: an unique resource providing easy access to obituaries and death notices across the U.S., assisting patrons seeking information on family history, creating genealogy charts.
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Newspaper Source (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 35 national & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 375 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.
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OCLC Worldcat (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Includes records of items in almost any format from thousands of libraries around the world. It is a large database containing millions of records, which exist in approximately 400 languages. The search pages are user friendly as they will keep track of previous searches, allow the user to email records, and link the user to libraries in their area.
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Primary Search (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
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Professional Development Collection (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.
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ProQuest Learning: Literature (Login Required - click here to access your account)
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Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 600 journals.
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ReferenceUSA (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Business Module: Over 14 million businesses. Data includes: Company Name, Address , Phone Number, Fax Number, Estimated Sales Volume, Number of Employees, Type of Business (SIC Code or Yellow Page Heading), Key Contact Names, Titles and Gender, Credit Rating Code, Company Financials, Stock Information, Public Filings, and News Headlines/Articles from over 900 different sources.
Residential Module: 120 million consumer households. Data includes: Name, Address, City, State, ZIP Code, Phone Number, Age, Median Income, Median Home Value
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Regional Business News (Login Required - click here to access your account)
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
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Religion & Philosophy (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Religion & Philosophy Collection provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers nearly 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies.
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Salud en Espanol (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Esta base de datos constituye la más amplia colección de información sobre salud de los consumidores que hay en el mundo, y proporciona información sobre numerosos temas de la salud, incluidas las ciencias médicas, estudios de la nutrición y los alimentos, cuidado de los niños, medicina deportiva y salud general. En Health Source: Consumer Edition podrá consultar el texto completo de casi 150 revistas especializadas. Esta base de datos se actualiza a diario.
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Science & Technology Collection (Login Required - click here to access your account)
The Science & Technology Collection contains over 820 leading full text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community. Topics include aeronautics, astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, and materials science. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,740 publications.
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Searchasaurus (Login Required - click here to access your account)
For Elementary or Middle Schools students. The interface is animated and features erupting volcanoes and a dinosaur guide.
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Serials Directory (Login Required - click here to access your account)
The Serials Directory provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials. This invaluable resource is made available via EBSCOhost®. It contains nearly 212,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers; data from nearly 108,235 publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet addresses; and Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classifications for every entry.Classifications for every entry.
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Standard & Poor's (Login Required - click here to access your account)
is a comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering on-line access to popular Standard & Poor's research products such as Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Corporation Records, The Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, The Outlook, Mutual Fund Reports among others.
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Student Research Center Interface (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Designed for High School students, lets you choose from Magazines, Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video. Search by keyword or by topic. Results can be sorted by source type---magazines, reference books, photos, etc.
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Texas Digital Sanborn Maps (Login Required - click here to access your account)
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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TDNet Journal Locator
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Texas Reference Center (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Texas Reference Center includes more than 80 full text journals and books about Texas history, ethnic & cultural diversity, gender studies, literature, public health, business as well as home & garden and sports & leisure. The database contains biographies as well as newspapers containing Texas and national news coverage.
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TOPICsearch (Login Required - click here to access your account)
TOPICsearch contains full text for over 105,000 articles from 1,622 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
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Vocational & Career Collection (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Vocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals.
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World Book Online (Login Required - click here to access your account)
All articles from the 22-volume print set of the World Book Encyclopedia, plus 3,200 more; 15,000 Web links; links to over 30,000 articles in 107 periodicals; over 8,500 pictures and maps; more than 800 videos, animations, and sounds; 129 3-D bubble views; and more.
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WorldCat (Login Required - click here to access your account)
Includes records of items in almost any format from thousands of libraries around the world. It is a large database containing millions of records, which exist in approximately 400 languages. The search pages are user friendly as they will keep track of previous searches, allow the user to email records, and link the user to libraries in their area.
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World History Collection (Login Required - click here to access your account)
World History Collection offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. World History Collection contains cover-to-cover full text for 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964.
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