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AOTA: American Occupational Therapy Association

OTSearch (AOTA) (Kingwood and Tomball only)

Indexes and abstracts of resources in the field of occupational therapy. Citations and abstracts only -- not full text.

ARTstor

ARTstor (ARTstor) Help

Digital library of artworks, including approximately 500,000 images covering art, architecture, archeology, and design.

 

AVMA: American Veterinary Medical Association

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.

ConsumerLab

ConsumerLab (North Harris only)

Comprehensive information on nutritional products/supplements; independent product evaluations, and a drug-interaction database.

CountryWatch

CountryWatch

Provides news, geographical, political, and cultural information on each of the 192 countries of the world.

CQ Press

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.

EBSCO

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.

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.

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.

Consumer Health Complete (EBSCO) Help

Full text for thousands of reports and periodicals and 176 health reference books, all designed for patients' information needs.

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)

ERIC (EBSCO) Help

Over 2,200 educational digests, plus citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.

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)

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.

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.

History Reference Center (EBSCO) Help

Tens of thousands of historical documents, biographies, photographs and maps, as well as history periodicals and reference books.

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)

Kids' Search (EBSCO) Help

Materials and interface designed for students in grades K-8 and their teachers. (Pre-college)

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)

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.

Natural & Alternative Treatments (EBSCO) Help

Over 200 articles on medical conditions, presenting evidence-based information on alternative therapies proposed for their treatment.

Newspaper Source (EBSCO) Help

Selected full-text from 30 US national and international newspapers and 200 regional papers, plus TV & radio news transcripts.

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.

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.

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO) Help

Nearly 575 full-text publications, including some 550 peer-reviewed journals, in psychiatry, psychology, and related fields.

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.

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)

Salud en Español (EBSCO) Help

Información sobre salud escrito para el público en general - artículos de revistas y otras fuentes. (In Spanish).

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 Reference Center (EBSCO) Help

Over 80 full-text journals & books on Texas history, culture, and life, biographies of important Texans, and more.

TOPICsearch (EBSCO) Help

Current events database: over 100,000 articles from diverse sources & points of view, on important social/political/economic issues.

Vocational & Career Collection (EBSCO) Help

Full text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals.

World History Collection (EBSCO) Help

Full text from nearly 150 periodicals, including many peer-reviewed sources, with a global focus on history.

Facts On File News Service

Facts.com Reference Suite (Facts On File News Service)

World News Digest 1940-2004, Issues & Controversies, Today's Science, World Almanac & Encyclopedia

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..

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.

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.

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.

FirstSearch (OCLC)

WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch) Help

Searchable catalog of books and other materials in over 45,000 libraries worldwide. No full text.

Gale

Business and Company Resource Center (Gale) Help

Company profiles & history, industry rankings, investment reports & ratings, financial ratios from many sources.

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.

Dictionary of Literary Biography (Gale) Help

Biographies of authors with bibliographies of their works.

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.

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.

InfoTrac Newspapers (Gale) Help

Full text of over 100 newspapers from North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Literature Resource Center (Gale) Help

Full-text journal articles, critical essays, work overviews & summaries, and author biographies from authoritative sources.

MLA International Bibliography (Gale) Help

Literary research index of journal articles, books and essays within books. No full text.

Opposing Viewpoints (Gale) Help

Full text on current social issues from sources including books, statistical reports, and news publications.

Thomson Gale Databases (Gale)

All Thomson Gale databases.

Gallup

Gallup Brain (Gallup Organization) (Kingwood only)

Search 60 years of public opinion, view the latest polls, and create your own customized trend analysis.

H. W. Wilson

Biography Reference Bank (Wilson) Help

Over 140,000 biographical profiles of people present and past, many with photographs, articles and more.

OmniFile Mega (H. W. Wilson) (Montgomery only)

General, multidisciplinary full-text database.

InfoUSA

ReferenceUSA (InfoUSA) (North Harris and HCPL/CyFair only)

Directory of US & Canadian businesses, healthcare providers, and residents, compiled from multiple sources.

Johns Hopkins University Press

Project MUSE (Johns Hopkins University Press)

Full text of 285 journals in literature, history, international/cultural studies and other humanities and social science fields.

JSTOR

JSTOR (JSTOR)

Complete historical full text of all issues of journals in a wide range of humanities and social science fields.

LearningExpress

LearningExpress Library (LearningExpress) (HCPL/CyFair only - use card number as "Student ID")

Test preparation using practice tests based on official exams. Provides instant feedback on answers to questions.

Morningstar, Inc.

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.

Naxos

Naxos Music Library (Naxos)

Thousands of audio tracks from different styles and eras for online listening, plus historical background information.

netLibrary

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.

Oxford University Press

Grove Art Online (Oxford University Press)

Full text art reference covering all the visual arts from prehistory to the 1990's with image links.

ProQuest

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.

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 Study Center (ProQuest) Help

Online History Collection- British, American and World History.

Houston Chronicle (ProQuest) Help

Houston Chronicle newspaper from 1985 to present.

Los Angeles Times (ProQuest) Help

Los Angeles Times newspaper from 1985 to present.

ProQuest Databases 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.

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.

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.

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.

Teton Data Systems

Stat!Ref (Teton Data Systems)

Full-text electronic medical library; over 30 titles including CPT, DSM-IV-TR, ICD-9-CM and USP reference books.

Thinkmap, Inc

Visual Thesaurus (Thinkmap, Inc) Help

Interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates visual "word maps" that blossom with meanings and branch to related words.

Thomson Micromedex

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.

Thomson West

Westlaw Campus Research (Thomson West) Help

Legal research, business information and news sources.

The World & I

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

World Book Online Reference Center (World Book) (CyFair and Tomball only)

Searchable full text encyclopedia entries enhanced with audio and video.

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