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Database Name | Database Description |
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Academic Search Complete | This first stop for college students across many disciplines includes scholarly journal articles on a wide array of topics. |
African American Heritage | Essential records for African Americans, including census, marriage and cohabitation, military draft and service, registers of slaves and free(d) people of color, the Freedman's Bank, and more. |
Alt Health Watch | Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. |
Ancestry (In Library Only) | Learn about your family history through historical records, family trees, and DNA testing with AncestryDNA®. |
Baytown Oral Histories on the Portal to Texas History | Oral histories from Lee College including the Baytown World War II Collection, the Baytown Veteran’s Oral History Collection, and the Oral Histories of the Citizens of Baytown. |
The Baytown Sun Full Text Articles | Full-text from articles in the Baytown Sun from 2001 through the present. |
Full-text scans of The Baytown Sun, Tri-Cities Sun, and Daily Sun on the Portal to Texas History. | |
Book Review Digest Plus | Brings together book reviews on subjects such as art, biography, business, education, general interest, history, and more with coverage back to 1983. |
Business Abstracts with Full Text | Abstracts and full-text articles from hundreds of key publications as well as access to product evaluations, interviews, and statistical rankings. |
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Reference Center | Covers all aspects of business continuity and disaster recovery including risk evaluation, emergency preparedness and communications. |
Business Source Complete | Includes articles from journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, and economics. |
Business Insights: Global | Detailed company and industry profiles including reports, histories and essays from Gale's business collection, plus case studies, journals, and business news for research coverage of global economies. |
Chilton Library | Includes repair procedures and diagrams for cars and trucks. |
Computer Source | Provides users with the latest information and current trends in high technology, including artificial intelligence, information systems, and much more. |
Consumer Health Complete | Provides articles on a wide variety of health and wellness topics. |
ERIC Education Resources Information Center | Offers full-text educational literature and resources, featuring journals in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. |
Explora for Elementary School | First stop for elementary school students just beginning to do research |
Explora for High School | First stop for high school students, this database delivers results including articles, essays, primary source documents and videos. |
Explora for Public Libraries | Delivers results ranging from articles, essays, and more selected for general public appeal. Easy-to-browse categories are organized by topic. |
Fold3 Library Edition | Access military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served. |
Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia | Contains easy-to-read entries written specifically for elementary and middle school students. |
Gale Academic OneFile | Articles from thousands of titles to support academic research. Designed for college students. |
Gale Books and Authors | Starting point for book suggestions. Includes hundreds of awards lists and thousands of book summaries. |
Gale Business: Entrepreneurship | Information and advice for entrepreneurs on how to start, fund and manage a business. |
Gale General OneFile | Browse by topic or search for full-text articles from over 8,000 titles. Designed for general public. |
Gale Health and Wellness | Information on 360 health-related topics, from diseases and treatments to community health. |
Gale in Context: Biography | Biographical information on over 5,000 people ranging from singers and world leaders through scientists and writers. |
Gale in Context: College | Designed with college students in mind. Browse or search over 1,000 topics ranging from history and sports through geography and world cultures. |
Gale in Context: Elementary | Designed for elementary students. Easy topic search for beginning research. |
Gale in Context: Environmental Studies | Browse over 400 issues about the environment, from systems and energy to states. |
Gale in Context: High School | Designed for high school students. Articles on over 1,000 topics. |
Gale in Context: Middle School | Designed for middle school students. Articles on over 600 topics. |
Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints | Covers social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana with informed, differing views to help learners develop critical-thinking skills. |
Gale in Context: Science | Information on over 600 science topics. Designed for students. |
Gale Interactive: Science | Uses interactive 3D models to deliver a virtual laboratory simulation experience for students in middle and high school. |
Gale Literature Resource Center | Literary criticism, author biographies, and more. |
Gale Literature: LitFinder | Access literary works and authors throughout history, including more than 130,000 full-text poems and 650,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. |
Gale Literature: Scribner Writer Series | Literary criticism, mostly for American and British authors. |
Gale Literature: Twayne's Author Series | Literary criticism from 860 books. |
Gale OneFile: Agriculture | Full-text from over 650 sources about agriculture. |
Gale OneFile: Business | Articles from over 2,000 magazines and journals relating to business. |
Gale OneFile: Communications and Mass Media | Articles from over 500 full-text sources about communications. |
Gale OneFile: Computer Science | Articles from over 900 full-text sources on computer science. |
Gale OneFile: Contemporary Women's Issues | Articles from over 2,000 full-text sources about contemporary women's issues. |
Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice | Articles from over 350 full-text sources on criminal justice. |
Gale OneFile: Culinary Arts | Articles from over 300 full-text sources on cooking and culinary arts. |
Gale OneFile: Diversity Studies | Articles from nearly 300 full-text sources about diversity. |
Gale OneFile: Economics and Theory | Full-text from over 1,100 sources about economics. |
Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete | Over 800 full-text titles to support education professionals. |
Gale OneFile: Entrepreneurship | Information and advice for entrepreneurs on how to start, fund and manage a business. |
Gale OneFile: Environmental Studies and Policy | Articles from nearly 450 full-text sources about environment and policy. |
Gale OneFile: Fine Arts | Full-text articles from over 400 titles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. |
Gale OneFile: Gardening and Horticulture | Full-text articles on the practical and scientific aspects of horticulture studies. |
Gale OneFile: Gender Studies | Full-text scholarly journals and magazines covering gender studies, family and marital issues, and more. |
Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine | Full-text resource on a wide range of topics designed for students and health care professionals. |
Gale OneFile: High School Edition | Designed middle- and high-school students, providing access to age-appropriate, authoritative digital content for classroom assignments. |
Gale OneFile: Home Improvement | Search home improvement topics like architectural techniques, tool and material selection and more. |
Gale OneFile: Hospitality and Tourism | Includes coverage of the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism industries. |
Gale OneFile: Information Science | Contains articles covering all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology. |
Gale OneFile: Insurance and Liability | Information about physical and intellectual asset protection, from individuals to multinational corporations. |
Gale OneFile: Leadership and Management | Full-text articles covering topics like organizational dynamics, adult learning, and more. |
Gale OneFile: Military and Intelligence | Articles from journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of past and present military affairs. |
Gale OneFile: News | Access major U.S. and international newspapers online to search articles instantly. |
Gale OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health | Research full-text titles to support specialized care, treatment, and patient management. |
Gale OneFile: Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine | Articles from journals and magazines covering physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine. |
Gale OneFile: Pop Culture Studies | Articles from scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. |
Gale OneFile: Popular Magazines | Access the most searched magazines across Gale OneFile focusing on current events, sports, science, and health issues. |
Gale OneFile: Psychology | Authoritative full-text periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology. |
Gale OneFile: Religion and Philosphy | Research the impact of religion on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language. |
Gale OneFile: Science | Access information on the latest developments across a range of scientific disciplines. |
Gale OneFile: U.S. History | Search balanced coverage of events in U.S. history. Best for novice historians and academic researchers. |
Gale OneFile: Vocations and Careers | Research a vocation, find an appropriate institution of learning, and get assistance on job searches and maintaining a career. |
Gale OneFile: War and Terrorism | Gain valuable insight into conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale. |
Gale OneFile: World History | Access balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field. |
Gale Power Search | Advanced one-step search across almost all Gale databases. |
Gale Presents: Miss Humblebee's Academy | Online kindergarten-readiness solution for children ages three to six. |
Gale Presents: Udemy | Over 14,000 courses for ages 13+. Topics include business, tech, personal development and much more. |
GCF LearnFree.org | Free online tutorials to learn computers, math, work skills and more. |
Health Source Consumer Edition | Provides 80 full-text, consumer health magazines, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, and many others. |
Health Source Nursing & Academic Edition | Provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time frames. |
HeritageQuest | American genealogical sources including primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids - including the U.S. Federal Censuses. |
Historical Newspapers - Austin American-Statesman | Full-text articles from The Austin American-Statesman from 1871-1980. |
Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center | Offers "how-to" instructions for virtually every hobby enthusiast with full text for more than 1,500 leading hobby books and craft magazines. |
Home Improvement Reference Center | Provides user-friendly “how-to” information covering a range of home improvement and repair projects. Includes text and videos. |
Houston Chronicle Newspaper | Full-text from articles in the Houston Chronicle from 1985 through the present. |
Houston Metropolitan News | Information on community and state issues, business, cultural events, government, politics and more from over 70 Houston area news sources. |
Humanities Full Text | Includes feature articles, interviews, obituaries and original works of fiction, drama and poetry in all fields of the humanities. |
Job & Career Accelerator 5.0 | Helps job seekers face the task of searching for a new job or advancing a career. |
Learning Express | Test preparation and skill-building around K-12, GED, graduate school, and careers. |
Legal Collection | Contains full-text for more than 300 scholarly law journals. Look here for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world. |
Gale Legal Forms | Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) do-it-yourself legal forms across the most popular legal areas. |
Legal Information Reference Center | Offers everyday users necessary tools and detailed how-to instructions. Full-text legal reference books from Nolo. |
Literary Reference Center | Provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. |
MAS Ultra School Edition | For high school libraries, contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. |
MasterFILE Complete | For public libraries, contains full text from nearly 1,700 general magazines on a wide range of subjects. |
Medline U.S. National Library of Medicine | Provides authoritative information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and more. |
Middle Search Plus | For junior high students, this database contains full-text magazine articles, biographies, primary sources, and historical essays. |
Military & Government Collection | Offers current news and journal articles pertaining to all branches of the military and government. |
National Geographic Kids | Explore adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space. Best for children aged 6–14. |
Natural & Alternative Treatments | Updated weekly, these articles are based on double-blind, placebo-controlled studies and other forms of meaningful scientific evidence. |
Newspaper Source | Provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, as well as full-text television & radio news transcripts. |
Primary Search | For elementary school students, this database has articles from popular children’s magazines, easy-to-read encyclopedia articles and lots of pictures. |
Professional Development Collection | Provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, professional librarians and education researcher |
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection | Scholarly journal articles dealing with psychology and related behavioral sciences. |
Regional Business News | Provides ultimate coverage for full-text business publications, on a regional level, for the United States and Canada. |
Religion & Philosophy Collection | Covers topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, and philosophy of all types. |
Science & Technology Collection | Contains more than 820 leading full- text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community. |
Science in Context | Includes contextual information on hundreds of today’s most significant science topics contained in full-text magazines and more. |
SciTech Collection | Covers key STEM areas and carefully curated STEM related ebooks. |
Small Business Reference Center | Contains more than 450 full-text reference books and 400 full-text periodicals that provide “how-to” instructions to address small business topics. |
Small Engine Repair Reference Center | Provides repair guides for small engines and routine maintenance as well as extensive repairs. |
Sustainability Reference Center | This collection offers full-text coverage of content relevant to many integral areas of sustainability initiative management. |
TeachingBooks.net | Content to complement children’s and teen books. Content in English and Spanish. If you receive an error message, select "Continue to this website." |
Sanborn Maps 1867-1970 | Delivers detailed property and land-use records that depict the grid of everyday life in more than 12,000 U.S. towns and cities from 1867 to 1970. |
Texas Drivers License Exam | Can’t wait to get your Texas driver’s license? Start here to practice for testing in cars, motorcycles, and the CDL. |
Texas Historical Newspapers | Explore America’s past via Texas newspapers, with coverage dating back into the early 1800s! Access provided by Friends of the Library. |
Texas Reference Center | For school and public libraries, contains 30 full text periodicals, 100 full text reference books, several Texas newspapers, and more. |
TOPIC Search | Allows students to explore current events including social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics. |
20th Century American Poetry | Includes the full-text of American Poetry from the 20th Century. |
20th Century English Poetry | Includes the full-text of British Poetry from the 20th Century. |
Vocational & Career Collection | Provides full-text coverage for more than 340 trade and industry related periodicals across a wide variety of fields. |
Abstracts and Indexes
Database Name | Database Description |
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AGRICOLA | Contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Library. This database contains more than 4.8 million citations. |
Baytown Sun Index Only | Indexes articles of local history significance as well as obituaries from 1932 through 2017. |
Bibliography of Native North Americans | Covers citations for all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. Coverage ranges from the sixteenth century to the present. |
Educational Administration Abstracts | Includes bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration. |
Essay & General Literature Index | Cites records in collections of essays and works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada dating back to 1985 for humanities and social sciences. |
Family Studies Abstracts | Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to family studies. |
Humble Bee & Baytown Briefs | Baytown Briefs includes local news about Humble Oil, Exxon USA and ExxonMobil. Humble Bee highlights employees of Humble Oil. The library has miscellaneous issues from 1921 to 1997. |
Library, Information Science & Technology | Abstracts covering the field of information. |
Play Index | Provides references to over 31,000 classic and historical plays dating from 1949. |
Race Relations Abstracts | Focuses on bibliographic records relating specifically to the relationship between races. |
Serials Directory | Provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials. |
Short Story Index | Contains information on short stories by author or genre, and provides detailed indexing for short stories from more than 4,200 collections and anthologies. |
Databases in Spanish
Database Name | Database Description |
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E-Libro Premium ebrary | Scholarly ebooks and articles in Spanish, 95% from Latin America and Spain. |
Fuente Academica Premier | Comprises scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. All major subject areas are covered. |
Gale OneFile: Informe Académico | Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines from and about Latin America. |
GCF Aprende Libre | Cursos gratis en linea sobre tecnología, ingles,matemáticas, y vida diaria. |
MedicLatina | Includes medical research and investigatory journals in Spanish from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. |
Referencia Latina | Articles in Spanish from a variety of sources, including reference books, general interest magazines and health reports. |
Salud in Espanol | Provides comprehensive evidence-based reports and fact sheets in Spanish on all aspects of consumer health and wellness. |