Databases

Discover news and historical articles from America's News and newspapers from around the world. Resources include the Houston Chronicle and collected Special Reports on current events.

Available in-library only.   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 Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date, making it easy for you to quickly explore historical content.  NewspaperARCHIVE.com is adding newspaper pages faster than you can search them - with one newspaper page added every second - that's over 80,000 images a day, or about 2.5 million pages per month!

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NoveList Plus is a comprehensive readers' search tool for fiction and nonfiction. Find read-alikes by author or series, or even search by appeal terms or reading level. With handy links to the library catalog, NoveList Plus answers the question: What should I read next?

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Research full-text titles cited in CINAHL and other resources to support specialized care, treatment, and patient management.

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Viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles for information on social issues and current events.

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Enjoy eBooks and eAudiobooks in your browser or in OverDrive's easy-to-use "Libby" mobile app.

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PrepSTEP® is packed with online test preparation, tutorials, e-books, and articles to help university students achieve academic success and readiness for the workplace. It has skill building in English, math and science, college success skills tutorials, popular computer-software tutorials, and much more.

PrepSTEP® is packed with online tutorials, test practice, e-books, articles and flashcards to help students achieve academic success, prepare for college, and build workplace readiness. It has skill building in English, math and science, test prep for college admissions exams, career exploration, workplace skill building, basic computer skills tutorials and much more.

With Pressbooks, create professional-quality eBook and print-ready book files with no design or tech experience necessary and at no cost to you as an author.  Once created, Pressbooks files are ready to distribute commercially or share to the Indie Author Project.

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Find authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology.

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Herramientas de aprendizaje, carrera y ciudadanía en español. Este centro ofrece a los adultos que están muy ocupados los recursos para mejorar sus habilidades básicas, ganar sus credenciales de GED^® o ser ciudadano estadounidense.

Research the impact of religion on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language. Updated daily.

A collection of mostly full-text eBook versions of popular Salem Press print books in the fields of Literature, History, Science, and Health.

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Research science topics with Science in Context, where you will find thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures, illustrations and the latest scientific developments covered in articles from more than 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify content directly correlated to state and national standards.

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Manipulate 3D interactive models to visualize and understand concepts in biology, chemistry, earth, and space science.

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Access information on the latest developments across a range of scientific disciplines. Updated daily.

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. For those researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorial-controlled A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline.

Browse original scholarly essays on authors from around the world. Places authors and their works in personal and historical context.

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