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Many of these databases are made available through the Texshare program, administered by the Texas State Library and Archives.

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Academic Search Complete             This scholarly collection offers unmatched full-text coverage of information in many areas of academic study.
AGRICOLA             Contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. AGRICOLA encompasses all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines.
AHFS Consumer Medical Information           A trusted source and recognized standard for patient drug information, available in both English and Spanish. AHFS includes more than a thousand drug information monographs for consumers. This content is updated monthly.
Alt HealthWatch             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.
American Indian Histories and Culture A unique resource that makes available many rare and significant documents from the Edward E Ayer Collection at the Newberry Library, Chicago; one of the strongest archival collections on American Indian History in the world.
The American West    Sourced from the Everett D. Graff Collection at the Newberry Library, Chicago, ‘The American West’ allows browsers to explore tales of frontier life, Pioneers, Wild West shows, the Gold Rush, vigilantes and outlaws.
America's News    Find information on national issues and events, business, education, political issues and more including newspapers, videos and web-only content featuring the Deer Park Broadcaster, Houston Chronicle, USA Today and more. Mobile friendly searching from your phone!
Ancestry Library Edition Provides access to a number of genealogical and historical resources, including images of the decennial U.S census from 1790-1930. *This database is available in the library only.

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Bibliography of Native North Americans           Covers 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.
Biography in Context           Search for biographies, full text articles, and images for current and historic people from all eras and fields of endeavor.
Book Review Digest Plus           Brings together book reviews on subjects such as art, biography, business, education, general interest, history, humanities, literature, music and more with coverage back to 1983. (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TexShare program.)
Business Abstracts with Full-Text           Offers full-text articles from hundreds of key publications, and provides access to product evaluations, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, statistical rankings and more.
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Reference Center          Offers full-text database designed to support continuity experts and information professionals.
Business Source Complete           Business Source Complete is the overwhelmingly superior database for full-text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.

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Career Cruising           Career Cruising is a web-based career guidance system that is designed to help students choose a career with information on job searching, scholarships, and financial aid. *To use this database from home, you must first create an account at the library.
Chilton Automotive Repair           ChiltonLibrary.com has thousands of year, make and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models.
Computer Source           Contains nearly 300 full-text journals and magazines covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software. Computer Source™ provides a balance of full-text technical journals and full-text consumer computer titles.
Consumer Health Complete           Supports the information needs of patients and fosters an overall understanding of health-related topics.

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Deer Park Broadcaster from NewsBank           Search full text electronic edition of the Deer Park Broadcaster from 10/18/2007-current.
Directory of Open Access Journals           Provides indexing, abstracting, and free full text access for selected international scholarly journals in many subject areas.

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eBook Central           English and Spanish language eBooks on nonfiction topics.  To use this resource remotely, you must set up an account while in the library.
eBooks on EBSCO           More than 27,000 eBooks are available for browsing, searching, and virtual check-out. TexShare's eBook collection includes titles from the world's leading business, technology, trade, reference, academic, and scholarly publishers. Search by title, author, keyword, publisher, publication date, or ISBN number.
Educational Administration Abstracts           This research database includes bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
Enhanced Business Search           Search for business journals, company profiles, and market research.
ERIC (Education Resource Information Center)           Provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
Essay & General Literature Index           Cites records in collections of essays and works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada dating back to 1985 and spans the entire range of the humanities and social sciences
Explora - Primary Schools           Explora is a dedicated search interface that delivers relevant results including articles, essays, and primary source documents to help patrons feel successful in their research. It includes easy-to-browse categories organized by popular topic; 60,000 top videos from the Associated Press, the world’s leading news agency; colorful, mobile-friendly design with feature areas that provide context to students; and text-to-speech for HTML articles to assist struggling readers or those learning English. Designed for students in grades K-5.
Explora - Public Libraries           Explora is a dedicated search interface that delivers relevant results including articles, essays, and primary source documents to help patrons feel successful in their research. It includes easy-to-browse categories organized by popular topic; 60,000 top videos from the Associated Press, the world’s leading news agency; colorful, mobile-friendly design with feature areas that provide context to students; and text-to-speech for HTML articles to assist struggling readers or those learning English.
Explora - Secondary Schools           Explora is a dedicated search interface that delivers relevant results including articles, essays, and primary source documents to help patrons feel successful in their research. It includes easy-to-browse categories organized by popular topic; 60,000 top videos from the Associated Press, the world’s leading news agency; colorful, mobile-friendly design with feature areas that provide context to students; and text-to-speech for HTML articles to assist struggling readers or those learning English. Designed for students in grades 6-12.

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Family Studies Abstracts           This database includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
Fuente Academica           Acceso a casi 200 revistas académicas de escolar de publicadores latinoamericanos e españoles. Contiene artículos en texto completo.
Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia           This is part of the Primary Search and Middle Search Plus databases. It provides students with easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for elementary and middle school students.

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Gale Courses           Gale Courses offers hundreds of courses focused on professional development, technology skills, and personal enrichment. Six-week long courses are taught entirely online by instructors, and new sessions begin every month.
Gale Legal Forms           Gives a wide selection of legal forms, including real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others.
Gale Literary Sources           Includes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and Dictionary of Literary Biography. Presents complete and up-to-date biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 130,000 U.S. and international authors. Provides over 12,000 biographical and full-text critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential figures from all ears and genres. Offers full text critical essays on over 800 contemporary authors and their works, with biographical, critical, principle works, and further information for study.
Gale Virtual Reference Library           Contains a number of electronic books on various subjects, including business, history, literature, religion, science, and others.
Glassdoor           Search through more than 15 millions jobs from over 300,000 companies. With employee reviews, salary information, interview information, and more, you can get to know a company before you even apply!
GreenFILE Index           This comprehensive resource draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more.

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Handbook of Texas           The Handbook of Texas is a multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture. It comprises more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions, and a host of other topic categories.
Health Reference Center Academic           More than 2,000 full-text sources and 5 million articles including peer-reviewed nursing and allied health journals. International news coverage from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, NewsRx and Ascribe. Also includes hundreds of videos from OR-Live demonstrating medical procedures.
Health Source - Consumer Edition           This resource provides access to nearly 80 full-text, consumer health magazines and searchable full text for current, health-related pamphlets and nearly 130 health reference books.
Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition           Provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals on many medical disciplines. Also includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
HeritageQuest Online           A comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids. It delivers a collection of genealogical and historical sources that can help people find their ancestors and discover a place’s past.
Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center           Offers "how-to" instructions for virtually every hobby enthusiast with full text for more than 1,500 leading hobby books and craft magazines that cover Arts & Crafts, Collecting, Home & Garden, Indoor Recreation, Kids' Crafts, Model Building, Needlecrafts & Textiles, and more.
Home Improvement Reference Center           Provides users with user-friendly “how-to” information covering a range of home improvement and repair projects and features full-text content from leading magazines, images not found anywhere else online, and videos of popular home repair projects.
Humanities Full-Text           Includes feature articles, interviews, obituaries and original works of fiction, drama and poetry in all fields of the humanities from art, classical studies, and film to journalism and more.

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Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA)           A leading database in the areas of information science. With coverage dating as far back as the mid 1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.
Issues & Controversies           Explores hundreds of hot topics in politics, government, business, society, education, and popular culture.

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Job & Career Accelerator           From creating resumes and finding job and internship opportunities to assessing career alternatives and mastering interviewing skills, job seekers will have everything they need in one easy-to-use web application.

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LearningExpress Library           Contains practice tests and test preparation materials for a variety of standardized tests, including SAT, GED, real estate, ASVAB, civil service exams, and other skills improvement resources.
Legal Collection           Offers information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment and much more.
Legal Information Reference Center          Providing online full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books, Legal Information Reference Center™ contains more than 310 full-text publications and thousands of legal forms. Many of the full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation's oldest and most-respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)           Indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Literary Reference Center           Provides information on thousands of authors and their works through an expansive collection of author biographies, plot summaries, poems, short stories, author interviews and more.
Literature Resource Center           Provides literature criticism, detailed biographies and bibliographies, social and historical context, and facilitates the study of literary movements, genres, and themes.

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MAS Complete           This comprehensive database, designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines including America's Civil War, American Heritage, American History, Archaeology, Astronomy, Careers & Colleges, Civil War Times, Discover, History Today, Nation, etc.
MasterFile Complete            Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFILE™ Premier contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals. This database also contains full text more than 500 reference books, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags.
MedicLatina           Acceso a casi 100 revistas sobre investigación médica de publicadores latinoamericanos. Artículos son en texto completo.
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.
Middle Search Plus           Contains full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays.
Military & Government Collection           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 these sites. Military & Government Collection™ provides full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals. The database also offers indexing and abstracts for more than 400 journals.

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Natural & Alternative Treatments           A complementary and alternative medicine database designed specifically for the consumer health researcher. Updated weekly, this database provides current information that will satisfy an ever-growing demand for accurate, unbiased information on natural health.
Newspaper Source Plus           Provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. In addition, full-text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc.
NoveList Plus           An electronic readers' advisory resource that helps fiction readers of all ages find new authors and titles. NoveList allows readers to use a favorite author or title as a template to locate other authors and titles of interest. Descriptions, reviews, and series information are often also available through this resource.

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Opposing Viewpoints           The premiere online resource for social issues.  Includes pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, infographics, interactive maps, and more.
OverDrive - Houston Area Digital Media Catalog           Download free eBooks and audio books using OverDrive. **Sign in to view extra titles we’ve purchased for you.

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Play Index           Covers over 31,000 classic and historical plays dating from 1949, including one-act plays, pageants, plays in verse, radio and television plays, classic drama and monologues from famous playwrights.
Primary Search           Designed specifically for elementary school libraries, contains full text for more than 80 popular, elementary school magazines. Includes the Encyclopedia of Animals™, American Heritage® Children's Dictionary, and thousands of relevant photos, maps, and flags.
Professional Development Collection (Education)           Provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers. This collection offers information on everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection           A comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.

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Race Relations Abstracts           This resource provides a sole focus on content relating specifically to the relationship between races. It is a rich source of bibliographic records covering fundamental areas relevant to race relations. Specific areas covered include ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline, as listed.
RBdigital           RBdigital Magazines (Zinio) for Libraries, the world's largest newsstand, offers full color, interactive digital magazines for your enjoyment. Browse from your library's collection of popular titles with no holds, no checkout periods, and no limit to the number of magazines you can download.
Referencia Latina           This full-text Spanish-language database covers a broad array of subjects inside and outside academia.
Regional Business News           Provides full text for more than 80 regional US and Canadian business publications (including titles from Crain Communications).
Religion and Philosophy Collection           A comprehensive database covering topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
Rosetta Stone Library Solution           Rosetta Stone offers libraries and their users the proven immersion method that more than 20,000 schools and 9,000 businesses have trusted for over the last 20+ years. The award-winning interactive approach has been used by millions of learners around the world and now is accessible in the library- or anywhere, anytime.

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Salem Health           Provides access to various volumes from the following reference sets: Cancer, Genetics & Inherited Conditions, and Psychology & Mental Health. Users can search for specific topics or browse through a list of topics. *If you are outside the library, a password is required to use this database. Please call 281-478-7208 during library hours for information.
Salem History             Provides access to various volumes from the following reference sets: the Decades series, Encyclopedia of American Immigration, Great Athletes, Great Lives from History, and Milestone Documents. Users can search for specific topics or browse through a list of topics. *If you are outside the library, a password is required to use this database. Please call 281-478-7208 during library hours for information.
Salem Literature             Provides access to a collection of literary criticism books, including titles from the Critical Insights series of authors and their works. Users can search for specific authors and works, or browse through a list of topics. *If you are outside the library, a password is required to use this database. Please call 281-478-7208 during library hours for information.
Salem Science             Provides access to three science resources: Environment Issues, Encyclopedia of Global Resources, and The Solar System. All resources include authoritative coverage and essays that address a broad range of topics. Users can search for specific topics or browse through a list of topics. *If you are outside the library, a password is required to use this database. Please call 281-478-7208 during library hours for information.
Salud en Español           Salud en Español provee reportes completos basados en evidencias y fichas de datos relacionados a todos los aspectos de la salud y el bienestar.
Science and Technology Collection           Contains more than 820 leading full- text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,750 journals.
Science in Context           Provides contextual information on hundreds of current and significant scientific topic; includes videos, audio, experiments, and projects in addition to articles from newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals.
Science Online            Provides informative science essays, diagrams, illustrations, images, biographies, experiments, activities, and definitions.
SciTech Collection Premium           The SciTech Premium Collection is a full-text database supported by a specialized A&I file. It covers comprehensive scholarly output and is managed by an expert editorial team overseeing content selection and indexing supported by a controlled vocabulary.
Scribner Writers Online             Features nearly 2,200 biographical and critical essays on over 1,400 important writers from around the world, often from multiple viewpoints to provide differing perspectives. Fifteen topic overviews from Mystery and Suspense Writers complement this rich biographical and critical coverage. Content is cross-searchable with Literature Resource Center and available in eBook format in the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Serials Directory             This database provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials. It contains nearly 250,000 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.
Short Story Criticism Online             An electronic version of Short Story Criticism -- This resource gives critical views on the most widely studied writers of short fiction, including overviews of the critical response of their work.
Short Story Index             Contains information on short stories by author or genre, and provides detailed indexing for more than 117,000 stories from more than 4,200 collections and anthologies.
Small Business Reference Center             Contains more than 450 full-text reference books and nearly 400 full-text periodicals that provide detailed “how-to” instructions to address small business topics, such as buying and selling a business, managing employees, writing a business plans, understanding legal information, and much more.
Small Engine Repair Reference Center             Provides repair guides for small engines and routine maintenance and also allows users to search by product type, brand, model/engine type, specific area of model/engine type, and model numbers.
Sustainability Reference Center             Designed for sustainability experts and information professionals, this collection offers unmatched full-text coverage of content relevant to many integral areas of sustainability initiative management.

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Teacher Reference Center             Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
TeachingBooks           An easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. This resource includes 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.   *If you are outside the library, have your library card number  and password ready to enter. Then under E-Source Targets, select TeachingBooks.
Texas Digital Sanborn Maps           Delivers detailed property and land-use records that depict the grid of everyday life in more than 12,000 U.S. towns and cities across a century of change. (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TexShare program.)*If you are outside the library, a user name and password are required to use this database. Please call 281-478-7208 during library hours for information.
Texas Reference Center             The database is comprised of periodicals, reference books, reports, and other content relevant to the state. Texas Reference Center contains 30 full text periodicals, 100 full text reference books, several Texas newspapers, and much more.
TOPICsearch             This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints. TOPICsearch™ contains full text for over 60,000 articles from 399 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
TumbleBooks             Online picture books, puzzles, games, and quizzes for children!
Twayne's Authors Online             Literary critical interpretation of approximately 600 authors, along with the content of 600 books taken from the series United State Authors, World Authors and English Authors. Content is cross-searchable with Literature Resource Center and available in eBook format in the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Twentieth Century Poetry Collections           An essential collection of poetry that provides readers an unparalleled survey of the movements, schools and distinctive voices of modern and contemporary poetry.  *If you are outside the library, have your library card number  and password ready to enter. Then under E-Source Targets, select Twentieth Century Poetry Collection.

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Vocational & Career Collection             Provides full-text coverage for more than 340 trade and industry related periodicals including American Machinist, Modern Machine Shop, Pediatric Nursing, Wireless Week, Drug Store News, Reeves Journal, Hotel & Motel Management, Restaurant Business, Advertising Age, and many more.

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WorldCat           The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 86 million bibliographic records and nearly 1.2 billion holdings representing the collections of more than 10,000 libraries, over 400 languages, and all types of materials ranging from stone tablets to electronic books.

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