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Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) Help: Multi-disciplinary database; full text of articles from over 5,300 journals, magazines and newspapers, plus image collections.
Agricola (EBSCO) Help: Citations for articles, reports and more from the USDA National Agricultural Library from 1970 to present. No full text.
Alt HealthWatch (EBSCO) Help: Full text for 180 publications, including many peer-reviewed journals, in the areas of complementary and alternative medicine.
ARTstor (ARTstor) Help: Digital library of artworks, including approximately 500,000 images covering art, architecture, archeology, and design.
Bibliography of Native North Americans (EBSCO) Help: Citations on a wide range of topics related to native populations in the US and Canada. Not full text.
Biography Reference Bank (Wilson) Help: Over 140,000 biographical profiles of people present and past, many with photographs, articles and more.
Business and Company Resource Center (Gale) Help: Company profiles & history, industry rankings, investment reports & ratings, financial ratios from many sources.
Business Source Complete (EBSCO) Help: Business Searching Interface. New interface offers direct access to company, industry, market research reports, new search options.
Business Source Complete (EBSCO) Help: EBSCOhost Interface. Full-text articles from journals in all areas of business, economic reports, company profiles, business books.
Choice Reviews Online (EBSCO) Help: Premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education.
Chronicle of Higher Education Online (Chronicle): Leading source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCO) Help: Major full-text database in Nursing and Allied Health, with over 560 journals, and more than 600,000 articles dating back to 1937.
Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO) Help: Over 160 journals in the communications disciplines in full-text, plus over 350 indexed/abstracted.
Computer Source (EBSCO) Help: Full text for nearly 300 publications on computer science, programming, AI, information systems, robotics, and software.
Consumer Health Complete (EBSCO) Help: Full text for thousands of reports and periodicals and 176 health reference books, all designed for patients' information needs.
ConsumerLab (North Harris only): Comprehensive information on nutritional products/supplements; independent product evaluations, and a drug-interaction database.
Contemporary Authors (Gale) Help: Biographies of over 100,000 novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists, and other writers of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (Gale) Help: Collection of critical essays on contemporary literature.
CountryWatch: Provides news, geographical, political, and cultural information on each of the 192 countries of the world.
CQ Researcher (CQ Press): Full-text, balanced, comprehensive journalistic reports and analysis of current and controversial issues of the day.
CQ Weekly (CQ Press): Reports of the U.S. Congress including bill statuses, amendments, committee activities, hearings, and investigations.

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Dictionary of Literary Biography (Gale) Help: Biographies of authors with bibliographies of their works.
EBSCO Animals (EBSCO) Help: In-depth information on the nature and habitat of a wide variety of animals, from EBSCO's Encyclopedia of Animals. (Pre-college)
EBSCOhost Databases (EBSCO) Help: All EBSCO databases -- Academic Search Premier and additional databases.
Economía & Negocios (EBSCO) Help: Spanish language business & economics database, with coverage dates back to the early 1980s. (No full text)
eLibrary Curriculum Edition (ProQuest) Help: Over 2,000 full-text periodicals, books, and transcripts for general studies, plus thousands of pictures, maps, and audio/video clips.
ERIC (EBSCO) Help: Over 2,200 educational digests, plus citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
Facts.com Reference Suite (Facts On File News Service): World News Digest 1940-2004, Issues & Controversies, Today's Science, World Almanac & Encyclopedia
Fuente Académica (EBSCO) Help: Full text coverage (including PDF) for nearly 200 scholarly academic journals in the Spanish language.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO) Help: General encyclopedia with over 25,000 entries covering a variety of subject areas. (Pre-college)
Gale Literary Databases (Gale): Search "Contemporary Authors," "Contemporary Literary Criticism Select," and "Dictionary of Literary Biography" together.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (Gale): Dozens of complete reference books on arts, business, education, history, law, literature, sciences, technology and more.
Gallup Brain (Gallup Organization) (Kingwood only): Search 60 years of public opinion, view the latest polls, and create your own customized trend analysis.
GreenFILE (EBSCO) Help: A unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment is offered. Nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles.
Grove Art Online (Oxford University Press): Full text art reference covering all the visual arts from prehistory to the 1990's with image links.
Health & Wellness Resource Center (Gale) Help: Full text articles on health from varied sources, including journals, magazines, pamphlets, reference books, and reviewed websites
Health Reference Center Academic (Gale) Help: Full-text from a variety of medical, nursing and allied health sources: journals, reference books, pamphlets.
Health Source: Consumer Edition (EBSCO) Help: Full text consumer health information from 150 sources on medical sciences, nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO) Help: Full text from some 550 scholarly medical journals, plus citations and abstracts from 850 others.
HeritageQuest Online (ProQuest/UMI) Help: Genealogical research materials including census records, military records, and family and local histories.
Historical New York Times (ProQuest) Help and FAQ: Full page images from the New York Times from 1857 to present. Includes advertisements and pictures.
History Reference Center (EBSCO) Help: Tens of thousands of historical documents, biographies, photographs and maps, as well as history periodicals and reference books.
History Study Center (ProQuest) Help: Online History Collection- British, American and World History.
Houston Chronicle (ProQuest) Help: Houston Chronicle newspaper from 1985 to present.

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Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO) Help: Index of journal articles, books, research reports, conference proceedings and patents in the information sciences. (No full text)
Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts (EBSCO) Help: Index of over 400 trade publications, computing magazines and professional journals. (No full text)
InfoTrac Newspapers (Gale) Help: Full text of over 100 newspapers from North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Issues & Controversies (Facts On File News Service): Full-text articles from different points of view on important issues in today's news, plus statistics, images, and more.
JSTOR (JSTOR): Complete historical full text of all issues of journals in a wide range of humanities and social science fields.
Kids' Search (EBSCO) Help: Materials and interface designed for students in grades K-8 and their teachers. (Pre-college)
LearningExpress Library (LearningExpress) (CyFair and Tomball only - card number is "Student ID"): Test preparation using practice tests based on official exams. Provides instant feedback on answers to questions.
Legal Collection (EBSCO) Help: Includes full text for nearly 250 scholarly law journals.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (a gift to the library community from EBSCO) Help: Index of over 600 journals plus books, research reports, and proceedings in librarianship and the information sciences. (No full text)
Literature Resource Center (Gale) Help: Full-text journal articles, critical essays, work overviews & summaries, and author biographies from authoritative sources.
Los Angeles Times (ProQuest) Help: Los Angeles Times newspaper from 1985 to present.
MAS Ultra - Student Edition (EBSCO) Help: Full-text articles from magazines & newspapers, pamphlets, reference books, biographies, and images. (Pre-college)
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO) Help: Full-text articles from magazines & newspapers, reference & travel books, biographies, pamphlets, book reviews, and images.
MedicLatina (EBSCO) Help: Spanish-language medical research and investigative journals, including full-text of nearly 100 peer-reviewed publications.
MEDLINE with MeSH (EBSCO) Help: Medical research; National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database with Medical Subject Headings. No full text.
Middle Search Plus (EBSCO) Help: For middle through high-school research: full-text from nearly 140 magazines, biographies, primary sources, images. (Pre-college)
Military & Government Collection (EBSCO) Help: Full-text journal articles and reports on military and political topics, plus reference books and pamphlets.
MLA International Bibliography (Gale) Help: Literary research index of journal articles, books and essays within books. No full text.
Morningstar Mutual Funds Online (Morningstar, Inc.) Help (HCPL/CyFair and HCPL/Tomball only - Note: 5 simultaneous user limit): Mutual funds investment information; information on stocks, mutual funds and ETFs. A searchable database.

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Natural & Alternative Treatments (EBSCO) Help: Over 200 articles on medical conditions, presenting evidence-based information on alternative therapies proposed for their treatment.
Naxos Music Library (Naxos): Thousands of audio tracks from different styles and eras for online listening, plus historical background information.
netLibrary (netLibrary, Inc.): Enter here to create an account you can use to access Lone Star College's collection of over 33,000 netLibrary e-books.
Newspaper Source (EBSCO) Help: Selected full-text from 30 US national and international newspapers and 200 regional papers, plus TV & radio news transcripts.
NOAH: Network of Animal Health (AVMA) (Tomball only -- see librarian for login): Reference resources and discussion forms for veterinary medicine. Login/password required -- not full text.
NoveList (EBSCO) (CyFair and Tomball only): Find fiction by author, genre, or even search for books that are similar to a particular novel you have liked.
OmniFile Mega (H. W. Wilson) (Montgomery only): General, multidisciplinary full-text database.
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale) Help: Full text on current social issues from sources including books, statistical reports, and news publications.
OTSearch (AOTA) (Kingwood and Tomball only): Indexes and abstracts of resources in the field of occupational therapy. Citations and abstracts only -- not full text.
Primary Search (EBSCO) Help: For elementary school research: full-text from nearly 70 popular magazines, pamphlets, children's dictionary, images. (Pre-college)
Professional Development Collection (EBSCO) Help: For professional educators: nearly 550 full-text education journals, including 350 peer-reviewed titles, plus over 200 reports.
Project MUSE (Johns Hopkins University Press): Full text of 285 journals in literature, history, international/cultural studies and other humanities and social science fields.
ProQuest Databases (ProQuest) Help: Articles from journals, magazines, national newspapers; many scholarly journals. This link searches all ProQuest databases.
ProQuest Learning: Literature (ProQuest) Help: Full-text references for literature study, including biographies, reference books, journal articles, images, video and sound
ProQuest Newspapers (ProQuest) Help: Full text of Christian Science Monitor, Houston Chronicle, NY Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post.
ProQuest Research Library (ProQuest) Help: Articles from journals, magazines, national newspapers; many scholarly journals.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO) Help: Nearly 575 full-text publications, including some 550 peer-reviewed journals, in psychiatry, psychology, and related fields.
ReferenceUSA (InfoUSA) (North Harris and HCPL/CyFair only): Directory of US & Canadian businesses, healthcare providers, and residents, compiled from multiple sources.
Regional Business News (EBSCO) Help: Full text from business newspapers and newswires throughout the United States.
Religion & Philosophy Collection (EBSCO) Help: Over 300 full-text journals, including over 250 peer-reviewed titles, on theology, religious history, epistemology, and philosophy.

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Safari Tech Books Online (ProQuest): Safari is the premier electronic reference library for programmers and IT professionals. There is a limit of two simultaneous users for this resource.
Salud en Español (EBSCO) Help: Información sobre salud escrito para el público en general - artículos de revistas y otras fuentes. (In Spanish).
Science & Technology Collection (EBSCO) Help: Over 800 full-text journals; topics include aeronautics, astrophysics, chemistry, computing, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology.
Searchasaurus (EBSCO) Help: Materials and interface designed for elementary students and their teachers. (Pre-college)
The Serials Directory (EBSCO) Help: Bibliographic & pricing information for over 212,000 popular US and international newspapers, magazines, and journals. (No full text)
Stat!Ref (Teton Data Systems) Help Email Assistance: Full-text electronic medical library; over 30 titles including CPT, DSM-IV-TR, ICD-9-CM and USP reference books..
Student Research Center (EBSCO) Help: Materials and interface designed for students in grades 6-12 and their teachers. (Pre-college)
Teacher Reference Center (EBSCO) Help: Coverage on key education topics such as assessment, continuing education, current pedagogical research, curriculum development, instructional media, language arts, literacy standards, science/mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers.
Texas Digital Sanborn Maps 1867-1970 (ProQuest/UMI) Help: Maps of property and land-use records for Texas towns and cities for over 100 years.
Texas Reference Center (EBSCO) Help: Over 80 full-text journals & books on Texas history, culture, and life, biographies of important Texans, and more.
Thomson Gale Databases (Gale): All Thomson Gale databases.
Thomson Micromedex CareNotes (Thomson Micromedex) Help: Complete, easy-to-understand information for patients about all aspects of their care, medications, and health, in English or Spanish.
Thomson Micromedex Healthcare Resources (Thomson Micromedex) Help: Access to the Micromedex Healthcare Series (reference databases) as well as the CareNotes system (consumer health information).
Thomson Micromedex Healthcare Series (Thomson Micromedex) Help: A wide range of clinical databases, including information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine.
Today's Science (Facts On File News Service): Full-text articles on the latest scientific discoveries and the fundamental concepts that underlie them; biographies, images, more.
TOPICsearch (EBSCO) Help: Current events database: over 100,000 articles from diverse sources & points of view, on important social/political/economic issues.
Twentieth Century American Poetry (Proquest/Chadwyck) Help: Over 50,000 complete poems by over 300 different American poets since 1900.
Twentieth Century English Poetry (Proquest/Chadwyck) Help: Tens of thousands of complete poems by over 280 different English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and Commonwealth poets since 1900.
Visual Thesaurus (Thinkmap, Inc) Help: Interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates visual "word maps" that blossom with meanings and branch to related words.
Vocational & Career Collection (EBSCO) Help: Full text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals.
Westlaw Campus Research (Thomson West) Help: Legal research, business information and news sources.
World Almanac (Facts On File News Service): Full-text of World Almanac & Book of Facts since 1999, with ongoing updates, features such as "This Day in History"
World Almanac Encyclopedia (Facts On File News Service): Full-text of more than 22,000 articles from Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, with monthly updates and special reports.
The World & I Journal (The World & I): Full-text analysis of world politics, history, and culture; symposia, book reviews, and special collections.
The World & I School (The World & I): Analysis of world politics, history, and culture with special focus on curriculum areas: social studies, language arts, science, more.
World Book Online Reference Center (World Book) (CyFair and Tomball only): Searchable full text encyclopedia entries enhanced with audio and video.
World History Collection (EBSCO) Help: Full text from nearly 150 periodicals, including many peer-reviewed sources, with a global focus on history.
World News Digest (Facts On File News Service): Full-text of Facts On File World News Digest, combined with live newsfeed from Reuters, maps, photographs, and special reports.
WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch) Help: Searchable catalog of books and other materials in over 45,000 libraries worldwide. No full text.

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