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Academic Search Complete (Login required - click here)
This scholarly collection offers full-text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, geography, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, and many other fields.
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Access World News (Login required - click here)
Explore and stay informed on local, national and international topics, people and events, jobs and careers, political and social issues and more. Features a wide variety of credible, vetted news sources from around the world to around the corner. Also available remotely 24/7 on any device.
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Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database (Login required - click here)
The Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database includes the renowned Aerospace Database and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.
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Agricola (Login required - click here)
This database contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library and more than 4.8 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, book chapters, monographs, theses, technical reports related to agriculture, and more. AGRICOLA encompasses all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines.
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Agricultural & Environmental Science Database (Login required - click here)
This database includes the renowned AGRICOLA, TOXLINE, ESPM, and Environmental Impact Statements databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.
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Alt Health Watch (Login required - click here)
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.
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America's News Magazines (Login required - click here)
Access full text articles from popular U.S. news magazines. Includes text only--no photos, charts or ads.
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Ancestry.com (Login required - click here)
Ancestry Library Edition is a comprehensive online source of information for genealogical research, with billions of names in more than 7,000 databases. Ancestry Library Edition includes records from the United States Census; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists and more spanning from the 1500s to the 2000s.
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Bibliography of Native North Americans (Login required - click here)
A bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. The database is an essential research tool for anthropologists, educators, historians, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, legal and medical researchers, linguists, theologians, ethnobotanists, and policy makers.
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Biography in Context (Login required - click here)
Biography In Context offers authoritative reference content covering Biography, Global Issues, Literature, Opposing Viewpoints, Science, Student Resources, U.S. History, and World History, integrating acclaimed content with media-rich, curriculum-aligned materials that span core subjects and 21st-century themes.
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Biological Science Database
This database includes the renowned Biological Sciences, MEDLINE, and TOXLINE databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.
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Black Life In America (Login required - click here)
The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media.
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Book Review Digest Plus (H.W. Wilson) (Login required - click here)
Book Review Digest 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.
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Business Abstracts with Full Text (H.W. Wilson) (Login required - click here)
Offers full-text articles from hundreds of key publications, and provides access to product evaluations, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, statistical rankings and more.
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Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Reference Center (Login required - click here)
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Reference Center offers cover-to-cover indexing for journals, monographs, magazines and trade publications, all with a strong focus on BC/DR and closely aligned issues. It features hundreds of thousands of additional BC/DR-focused articles, benchmarks and best practices selected from hundreds of leading trade and industry publications.
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Business Searching Interface (Login required - click here)
Search the world’s definitive scholarly full-text business database. With premium full-text content and peer-reviewed business journals, this database is the essential tool for business students. It covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance and more.
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Business Source Complete (Login required - click here)
Full-text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, finance and economics. Access financial data, books, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses, faculty seminars (videos), and more.
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Chilton Library (Login required - click here)
When it comes to auto repair, do-it-yourselfers and students in the automotive trades have trusted Chilton manuals for years. Now these exceptional resources are available to your library's patrons in a comprehensive, simple-to-use database offered only by Gale. This 24-hour on-call "mechanic" provides quick online access to repair, maintenance and service information on the most popular cars, trucks, vans and SUVs on the road today. Ford, Chrysler, GM, Honda, Toyota and numerous other makes are well-represented.
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ComicsPlus
Thousands of digital comic books are available with a click of your mouse or a tap of your finger with Comics Plus: Library Edition. All you need is your library card and a web browser to get started. You can even download the Comics Plus: Library Edition app for iPhone and iPad to take your borrowed comics on the go.
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Computer Source (Login required - click here)
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.
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Consumer Health Complete (Login required - click here)
Consumer Health Complete supports the information needs of patients and fosters an overall understanding of health-related topics. This resource provides content covering all key areas of health and wellness, from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary and holistic medicine.
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Current Dallas Metro News (Login required - click here)
Access local news from area newspapers from the past 2 days.
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Dallas Morning News plus Dallas Metro Collection (Login required - click here)
Access newspapers and magazines from Dallas and surrounding metropolitan areas. Current and archived material is available.
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Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
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EBSCOhost Ebooks (Login required - click here)
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.
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Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database (Login required - click here)
The Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database includes the renowned Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts, Oceanic Abstracts, and more. It provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.
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Educational Administration Abstracts (Login required - click here)
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.
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ERIC (Login required - click here)
The Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources.
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Essay and General Literature Index (H.W. Wilson) (Login required - click here)
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.
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Explora for Elementary / Primary Search (Login required - click here)
Explora for Elementary provides a safe, trustworthy environment for students to look up articles and facts for research papers, class projects or homework. A far better alternative to websites and search engines, Explora provides students with easy-to-use features and age-appropriate content from the world’s leading magazines and reference books.
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Explora for High School (Login required - click here)
Created for high school students, Explora for High School provides a better alternative to websites and search engines for students to look up articles and facts for research papers or homework. With Explora, discover reliable information on thousands of topics covering a wide range of subjects including art and music, literature, language arts, geography, history, science, and more.
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Explora for Public Libraries (Login required - click here)
Explora Public Libraries provides easy-to-use features and reliable content from the world’s leading magazines and reference books, grouped into easy-to-browse categories organized by popular topics.
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Family Studies Abstracts (Login required - click here)
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.
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Freegal Music
Download MP3 songs that are yours to keep! Current limits are set at five downloads per week. Your counter will set back to zero each week, Monday morning; then you can download five more tunes during the new week. In addition to the MP3 downloads, you can also stream music for 5 hours per day (mobile app available).
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Fuente Academica Premier (SP) (Login required - click here)
A collection of scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. It is an indispensable tool of exceptional scope designed to make academic research readily accessible in PDF format.
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Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia (Login required - click here)
Provides students with easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for elementary and middle school students.
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Gale Literature Databases (Login required - click here)
Includes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism - Select, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography
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GreenFILE (Login required - click here)
GreenFILE is a bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns, focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond.
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Handbook of Texas
A multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture with over 23,000 articles.
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Health Reference Center Academic (Login required - click here)
This database was created specifically for students, knowledgeable consumer health researchers and health care professionals. Health Reference Center Academic integrates tens of millions of articles from a wide range of full-text nursing and allied health journals, magazines, newsletters and select consumer health information sources with full-text reference works and thousands of health-related multimedia assets.
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Health Source: Consumer Edition (Login required - click here)
This resource provides access to nearly 80 full-text, consumer health magazines, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Harvard Health Letter, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, and many others. Also includes Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish).
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic (Login required - click here)
This resource provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Includes full text from Creative Nursing, Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, and many more.
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Heritage Hub (Login required - click here)
Explore your family history with the premier collection of U.S. obituaries and death notices for in-depth genealogical research from 1704 – today. HeritageHub helps you easily identify relatives, uncover new information and potentially unknown family members. Includes deep coverage from all 50 states, hard-to-find content from the mid 1900’s, and original obituary images.
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HeritageQuest (Login required - click here)
HeritageQuest Online is a comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources. Contains U.S. census records, an index to Revolutionary War records, books, and articles from genealogical and historical magazines.
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Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center (Login required - click here)
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.
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Home Improvement Reference Center (Login required - click here)
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.
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Hoopla Movies, Television, Music and Audiobooks
Hoopla is a digital streaming service for library users to access eBooks, eAudiobooks, music, movies, and TV shows using portable devices like smartphones and tablets. Enjoy thousands of titles – from Hollywood studios, record companies and publishers – available to borrow 24/7.
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Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson) (Login required - click here)
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) (Login required - click here)
A leading database in the areas of information science. Subject coverage includes classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry, scholarly communication, electronic publishing, and more.
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Job & Career Accelerator (Login required - click here)
Job & Career Accelerator™—the first fully integrated online career and job search platform—is designed to guide any job seeker through the most effective career selection and job search possible. From creating powerful 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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Kanopy
Kanopy is a video streaming service that provides instant access to thousands of critically acclaimed movies, documentaries and kids favorites. To get started, select “Add Library Card” and enter your library card and pin number. After you create an account, you will be ready to start streaming. Please note this is available to Farmers Branch residents only.
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Learning Express Test Preparation (Please register using your library card number) (Login required - click here)
Emphasizing 21st Century skills, career-based knowledge and ongoing professional improvement is critical to succeeding in the workplace and in life. Learning Express Library’s unique, interactive learning platform provides patrons with the most comprehensive selection of career-oriented resources available to help with job preparation, career advancement, career changes, and re-entry into the workforce.
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Legal Collection (Login required - click here)
Containing full text for more than 300 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals, this database is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world. Full text contained in this database includes: American Journal of Criminal Law, California Law Review and many more.
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Legal Forms (Login required - click here)
Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen's language.
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Legal Information Reference Center (Login required - click here)
Offers everyday users the necessary tools and detailed how-to instructions covering a wide-range of legal issues. A majority of the full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation’s oldest and most respected provider of legal information. With the Legal Forms by U.S. State feature, users can search state-specific legal forms by top subject areas including adoption, bankruptcy, name changes, and more.
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (Login required - click here)
Created by librarians for librarians, this database provides cover-to-cover indexing, abstracting and full-text for key library and information science periodicals.
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Literary Reference Center (Login required - click here)
This rich full-text database provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It gives students, professors and researchers a foundation of literary reference works to meet their research needs.
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Literary Sources (Login required - click here)
Literature Resource Center along with Twayne’s Authors Online and Scribner Writers Series have been integrated into Artemis Literary Sources, enabling researchers, faculty and students to search across the largest corpus of literary criticism, original works, biographies, reviews, work overviews and so much more in order to discover and analyze content in entirely new ways.
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Mango Languages (Login required - click here)
Learn a new language at your computer or through the app with Mango Languages. With over 70 languages to choose from, Mango rapidly builds language proficiency and cultural understanding around real-world communication skills that you'll actually need.
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MAS Complete (Login required - click here)
Designed specifically for high school libraries, MAS Complete is a full-text database providing hundreds of popular high school magazines and reference books. Periodicals cover a wide range of subject areas that are of interest to high-school students including art, history, sports, music, film, travel, science, the Internet, fashion, religion, nature, hobbies, current events, fiction and much more.
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MasterFILE Complete (Login required - click here)
MasterFILE Complete offers the largest collection of popular full-text magazines, reference books and other highly-regarded sources from the world's leading publishers. It provides full text periodicals covering an extensive range of subject areas including business, health, education, fitness, sports and leisure, personal finance, general science, multicultural issues, DIY and fashion.
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Materials Science & Engineering Database (Login required - click here)
The Materials Science & Engineering Database includes the renowned METADEX, Copper and Polymer Library databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings and government publications.
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MedicLatina (SP) (Login required - click here)
A unique collection of medical research and investigatory journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. This Spanish language database contains the complete table of contents and PDF full text for 130 peer-reviewed medical journals in native Spanish.
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MEDline with MESH (Login required - click here)
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
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Middle Search Plus (Login required - click here)
Contains full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. Middle Search Plus also contains primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History, reference books including the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia; American Heritage® Dictionary, 4th Edition from Houghton Mifflin; Encyclopedia of Animals™; and thousands of relevant photos, maps and flags.
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Military and Government Collection (Login required - click here)
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.
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Military Database (Login required - click here)
The Military Database covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more.
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Natural and Alternative Treatments (Login required - click here)
A complementary and alternative medicine database designed specifically for the consumer health researcher. The database contains evidence-based articles covering medical conditions, alternative therapies, herbs and supplements, homeopathy, and more.
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Natural Science Collection (Login required - click here)
The Natural Science Collection includes the Agri & Env, Bio Science, and Earth, Atmospheric & Aqua Databases 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.
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New York Times Remote Access (Login required - click here)
Access New York Times articles offsite from 1851 to today through the Farmers Branch Library. Click "Redeem" on the following page to obtain access for a 24 hour period. You will be required to create an account or login to an existing account on NYTimes.com. Note: if you are accessing from inside (using our WiFi or public computers) all you need to do is sign in to NYTimes.com. No redeem code is required when accessing inside the library.
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Newspaper Source (Login required - click here)
Newspaper Source Plus provides a full-text digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers, including the Dallas Morning News, newswires and news magazines. In addition
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NoveList (Login required - click here)
Looking for book recommendations? Discover what to read next, with NoveList.
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Opposing Viewpoints in Context (Login required - click here)
Opposing Viewpoints In Context is the premier online resource covering today's hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. This cross-curricular research database supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions.
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OverDrive
Download audiobooks and ebooks anytime, anywhere. Use your Library Card number to check out best-selling novels, well-known classics, self-improvement guides and more.
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Play Index (H.W. Wilson) (Login required - click here)
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.
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The Portal to Texas History
Access rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas.
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Prenda
A self-guided online software program that teaches you how to code through hundreds of hours of coding tutorials and dozens of real-world projects. Learn how to build websites, video games, apps, and animations while increasing your understanding of programming languages such as HTML, Javascript, and Scratch. Tutorials also assist in developing a better understanding of coding devices such as Makey Makey and Ozobot.
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Primary Search (Login required - click here)
Primary Search contains full text for more than 80 elementary school magazines. Additionally, Primary Search includes the Encyclopedia of Animals™, and features Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, providing students with easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids. The database also provides the American Heritage® Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and thousands of relevant photos, maps, and flags.
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Professional Development Collection (Login required - click here)
Provides a highly specialized collection of information 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. Professional Development Collection includes full text for nearly 520 high quality education journals and more than 200 educational reports.
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Proquest (Login required - click here)
Multi-disciplinary database providing abstract & indexing with select full text for many core scholarly journals as well as popular press periodicals.
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ProQuest Ebook Central (Login required - click here)
Access ebooks over various subjects, including business and economics, education, technology, the humanities, life and physical sciences, law and politics, medicine, social and behavioral sciences, language and literature, and career guidance.
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Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection (Login required - click here)
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 (Login required - click here)
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.
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Reference Solutions (Login required - click here)
Formerly known as ReferenceUSA, Reference Solutions provides users with the same level of relevant, comprehensive, and up-to-date business and consumer data. The resource is ideal for small business owners, marketing professionals, researchers, job seekers, and students seeking public information. Patrons can search the U.S. Businesses, U.S. Standard White Pages, U.S. Jobs and Internships, U.S. Healthcare, and U.S. New Movers/Homeowners databases.
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Referencia Latina (SP) (Login required - click here)
This full-text Spanish-language database covers a broad array of subjects inside and outside academia. It offers content from a variety of sources, including reference books, general interest magazines and health reports.
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Regional Business News (Login required - click here)
Regional Business News provides full text for more than 80 regional US and Canadian business publications (including titles from Crain Communications).
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Religion & Philosophy (Login required - click here)
Religion & Philosophy Collection™ is a comprehensive database covering topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. With nearly 300 full-text journals, the Religion & Philosophy Collection™ is an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies.
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Salud en Espanol (CHC Spanish Version) (Login required - click here)
Salud en Español provides comprehensive evidence-based reports and fact sheets in Spanish on all aspects of consumer health and wellness. Topic specific reports covering all aspects of health offer valuable overviews on diseases, conditions, procedures and various treatments.
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Science in Context (Login required - click here)
Science in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. The solution merges Gale's authoritative and continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
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SciTech Premium Collection (Login required - click here)
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.
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The Serials Directory (Login required - click here)
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.
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Short Story Index (H.W. Wilson) (Login required - click here)
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.
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Small Business Reference Center (Login required - click here)
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, a business and much more.
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Small Engine Repair Reference Center (Login required - click here)
Provides repair guides for small engines and routine maintenance (tune-ups, brake service, etc.) as well as extensive repairs (engine and transmission disassembly). This database also allows users to search by product type, brand, model/engine type, specific area of model/engine type, and model numbers.
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Sustainability Reference Center (Login required - click here)
Designed for sustainability experts and information professionals, this collection offers unmatched coverage of content relevant to many integral areas of sustainability initiative management, including full text for industry-leading journals, magazines, books, trade publications and other valuable resources.
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TeachingBooks.net (Login required - click here)
TeachingBooks.net is an easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. It 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.
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Teacher Reference Center (Login required - click here)
Teacher Reference Center (TRC) provides indexing and abstracts for more than 200 peer-reviewed journals.
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Technology Collection (Login required - click here)
The Technology Collection includes the Advanced Technology & Aerospace and Materials Science & Engineering Databases.
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Texas Digital Sanborn Maps (Login required - click here)
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. Combined with other sources such as city directories, photographs, small-scale maps, census records, genealogies, and statistical data, Sanborn maps provide an unparalleled picture of life in American towns and cities.
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Texas Reference Center (Login required - click here)
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. Examples of titles offered include: Best in Texas, Texas Business Review, Texas Education Review, Texas Journal of Women & the Law, Texas Monthly, and many more.
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TOPICsearch (Login required - click here)
This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics, including controversial opinions and viewpoints. TOPICsearch™ contains full text for over 60,000 articles from 399 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
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Tumble Book Library
TumbleBooks is an online collection of animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book which you can read or have read to you.
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Twentieth Century American Poetry
A comprehensive collection of copyrighted 20th Century American poetry, this database includes the works of most major twentieth-century American poets. Among the poets included are: Michael Anania, Robert Bly, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Levine, Josephine Miles, Theodore Roethke, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sylvia Plath, Carl Sandburg, Karl Shapiro, Sara Teasdale, James Wright, and many more.
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Twentieth Century English Poetry Collections
Twentieth-Century English Poetry contains the poetry of over 280 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, A.E. Housman, John Betjeman, Fleur Adcock, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah, Isaac Rosenberg, D.H. Lawrence, Carol Ann Duffy and many others.
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Value Line (Login required - click here)
Value Line puts you in the driver’s seat with accurate and insightful investment research on companies, industries, markets and economies. From the latest data, sophisticated tools and proven ranks to expert analysis and guidance, Value Line gives you the power to evaluate investments with confidence.
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Vocational & Career Collection (Login required - click here)
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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Wall Street Journal (In Library Use)
Access The Wall Street Journal from anywhere through the Farmers Branch Library using our wifi or public computers.
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Wall Street Journal (Remote Access) (Login required - click here)
Access to the Wall Street Journal for a 72 hour period. You will be required to create an account or login to an existing account on WSJ.
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WorldCat (the OCLC online union catalog)
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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