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All Databases

Many of the databases are provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program. Use TDNet to see an A-Z list of all the full text periodical titles that are available online in the TexShare databases, and also what database the titles are indexed in.  Since users can link directly to the databases from the list, use this link when accesing TDNet remotely.
Note:To exit a database, close the browser window by clicking the X in the top right corner of the window.


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20th Century American Poetry (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
A database collection that includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets
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20th Century English Poetry (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
A database collection of 598 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day
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AtoZdatabases
The premier job search, reference, and mailing list database. The database includes 2.4 million job listings, 30 million business profiles, 1.1 million healthcare professionals, and much more. Ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, finding friends and relatives, and much more!
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AGRICOLA (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Includes records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Library with coverage back to 1970
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Academic Search Complete (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Provides full text for scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies
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Alt Health Watch (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Database focuses on perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness
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Bibliography of Native North Americans (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life with over 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, etc. Dates of covergae is form the sixteenth century to the present.
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Business Source Complete (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
World’s largest resource of full text business publications; includes all discplines of business such as marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, banking, finance, etc. Selected coverage as far back as 1886.
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ChiltonLibrary
Provides photographs, diagnostics designed by instructors, step-by-step repair procedures, Original Equipment Manufacturer maintenance schedules, wiring diagrams, recalls and Technical Service Bulletins for automobiles and light trucks in one web site.
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Computer Source: Consumer Edition (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology.
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Consumer Health Complete (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Provides content covering all areas of health and wellness; designed to support patients’ information needs and understanding of health-related topics
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Contemporary Authors (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors
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Contemporary Literary Criticism (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Collects more than 35,000 critical essays on contemporary authors, with biographical, critical, principal works, and further study information
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Dictionary of Literary Biography (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary figures from all eras and genres
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Directory of Open Access Journals
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
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EBSCO COIN Career Library Database
Start your job search here with the COIN Career Library Database
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EBSCOhost Ebook Collection (formerly NetLibrary Ebooks) provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.
Read or check out e-books, available through EBSCOhost’s electronic book collection
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EBSCOHost Español (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Busque informacion en españ:ol de una variedad de temas en una lista selecta de bases de datos provenientes de EbscoHost.
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EBSCO Kids Search
EBSCO resources selected specifically for primary and middle school students.
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EBSCO Student Research Center
EBSCO resources selected specifically for youth in grades 6-12
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eLibrary Curriculum
One of the largest collections of periodical and digital media content designed specifically for K-12 schools and libraries; includes more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, reference books, and transcripts-plus thousands of pictures, and maps, plus audio/video content.
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ERIC (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Provides access to education literature and resources; includes full text of 2,200+ digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals
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Economia y Negocios (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
An indispensable tool for research in business and economics, coverage dates back to the 1980′s for over 200 Spanish and Portuguese-language periodicals.
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Fuente Academica (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Includes PDF full text for 260 scholarly publications covering areas of academic study. Content is provided in Spanish from respected publishers worldwide.
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Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database also has various images and offers brief biographies.
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Handbook of Texas
Encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture.
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Health Reference Center Academic (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
A multi-source database for health and wellness research.
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Health Source: Consumer Edition (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
This resource provides access to over 300 full text consumer health periodicals and more than 1000 health-related pamphlets, and over 100 health reference books.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
This resource provides access to 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on medical disciplines; also includes the Clinical Pharmacology database, providing access to info about prescription drugs and over-the-counter products.
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HeritageQuest – formerly Genealogy and Local History (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
HeritageQuest Online provides U. S. Federal census records and a collection of research materials for tracing family lineages
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Information Science & Technology Abstracts (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
A database for the areas of information science, indexing includes journal articles from more than 450 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings, with ongoing comprehensive coverage. Enhanced to include cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for 80 core information science and technology titles. Coverage dates as far back as the mid 1960′s.
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Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Provides abstracts and indexing for literature related to personal computing products and developments in business, the Internet, the home, and all other applied areas. This resource contains content coverage that extends back to the 1980s.
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Learning Express (formerly known as LearnATest.com)
Test preparation materials and interactive practice exams in the areas of academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams.
All users, including home access users, must choose either the New User or Returning User button. If you need assistance, please contact a reference librarian.
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Legal Collection (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Includes full text for nearly 250 of the world’s most respected, scholarly law journals; an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.
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Library of Texas
Search for information from multiple library catalogs and information databases.
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage extends back as far as the mid-1960s
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Literature Resource Center (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Index to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors
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MAS Ultra: School Edition (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Designed for high school libraries, the database contains full text for more than 700 popular, high school magazines and over 84,000 biographies and primary source documents. Includes more than 350 reference books (including the CIA World Fact Book, World Almanac and Our States reference book series.
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MEDLINE (with MeSH) (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Web database to search for articles in medical journals, via PubMed or Internet Grateful Med
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MasterFILE Premier (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Provides full text for nearly 1,860 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more
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MedicLatina (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals in native Spanish.
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Middle Search Plus (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Contains full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines, includes an assigned reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies, historical essays and student pamphlets.
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Military & Government Collection (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Designed to bring current news to all branches of the military, this database contains searchable full text for nearly 240 periodicals including Army Times, Navy Times, Naval Institute Proceedings and Joint Forces Quarterly, abstracts and indexing for over 430 periodicals, and over 240 pamphlets .
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Natural & Alternative Treatments (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
An alternative medicine database designed specifically for the consumer-health researcher. This database provides current, up-to-date information that will satisfy an ever-growing demand for accurate, unbiased information on natural health.
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NetLibrary Ebooks (now EBSCOhost Ebook Collection) provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.
Read or check out e-books, available through netLibrary’s electronic book collection
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Newspaper Source (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Provides cover-to-cover full text for 20 national (U.S.) & international newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc. Selected full text over 230 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, and more.
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NoveList Plus
Online guide to help identify fiction books by title, author, plot description.
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OverDrive (Digital Media Catalog)
Download audiobooks, e-books, and videos
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Pasadena Citizen
Search the newspaper classifieds online
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Primary Search (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
For elementary school libraries and public library children’s rooms, contains full text for 70 popular, elementary school magazines. Full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Also offers indexing and abstracts for 100 magazines and an image Collection of 188,300+ photos, maps and flags.
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Professional Devlopment Collection (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Includes full text for nearly 550 high quality education journals including: Booklist, Education, Education Digest, Education Week, etc.
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Psycholgy & Behavioral Sciences Collection (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Indexing for over 575 full text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed journals. The database covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, etc. Indexing and abstracts are provided as well as full text; full text information in this database dates as far back as 1965.
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Regional Business News (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Updated daily, Regional Business News provides comprehensive full-text for 35 international newswires and 49 regional business publications
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Religion & Philosophy (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Database covers topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
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Salud en Espanol
Consumer-oriented content in all areas of health and wellness – in Spanish
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Science & Technology Collection (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Indexes over 800 leading full text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community. Topics include aeronautics, astrophysics, biology, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, marine sciences and more.
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Scribner Writers (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Access to 1,600 original and detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world. Each entry averages 15-20 pages in length and includes a concise essay, hyperlinks for cross-referencing, a citation and biographical information that places the author’s work in personal and historical context
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Searchasaurus
A kid-friendly interface to Ebsco resources for elementary school aged children
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Serials Directory (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Provides access to up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information and current pricing structures for popular serials. Includes 212,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers; data from nearly 108,235 publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet addresses
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TOPICsearch (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
A current events database indexing social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints. Includes full text for over 100,000 articles from 2,500 diverse sources, including international and regional newspapers.
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Texas Cancer Information
Texas Cancer Information can connect patients, caregivers, the general public, health care policy planners, physicians and other health professionals with reliable online cancer information. We gather, organize and deliver the latest information to empower Texans with the knowledge needed to reduce the impact of cancer.
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Texas Digital Sanborn Maps (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Sanborn maps are large scale plans of a city or town drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch. They were created to assist fire insurance companies as they assessed the risk associated with insuring a particular property. The maps list street block and building numbers including numbers in use at the time the map was made and previous numbers
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Texas Reference Center (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Includes more than 80 full text journals and books about Texas history, ethnic & cultural diversity, literature, public health, business as well as home & garden and sports & leisure; also contains biographies of famous historical and contemporary Texans. Includes the Spanish-language newspaper El Sol de Texas with Texas and national news coverage. The database is updated weekly.
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Transparent Language Online
Unlimited access to over 100 online language courses, packed with pronunciation, speech, grammar, writing and vocabulary-building lessons. Learners are able to write or speak the answers, practice pronunciation by slowing down on-screen examples, and converse with native speakers though interactive videos. Delivers all materials online with no additional media, such as CDs, flash drives, or DVDs. Learn on your own time and at your own pace in the library, at home, or on the go with Byki Mobile for iPhone® and Android™.

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Twayne’s Author Series (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Features the content of nearly 600 books that comprise three print series –United States Authors, English Authors and World Authors — each of which were carefully coordinated with input from librarians and educators to include authors universally studied in high schools and colleges.
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Vocational & Career Collection (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Indexes a wide variety of vocational and technical research resources; includes full text coverage for over 350 trade and industry-related periodicals including American Machinist, Modern Machine Shop, Pediatric Nursing, Wireless Week, Drug Store News, Video Business, etc.
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WorldCat (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Catalog of library materials owned by libraries around the world.
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World History Collection (Provided by the Texas State Library’s TEXSHARE program.)
Index provides a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East; full text for more than 140 titles dating as far back as 1964. Sources cover a wide range of historical topics including anthropology, art, culture, economics, government, heritage, military, politics, and more.
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