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Database Name | Database Description |
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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. |
CREDO Common Core Collection | General reference resource for researchers at any level. Addresses over 100 topics and includes articles from over 1,100 titles as well as thousands of short reference videos and high-resolution art images. |
Explora Elementary School Edition | 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. |
Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia | Contains easy-to-read entries written specifically for elementary and middle school students |
Houston Chronicle | Full-text from articles in the Houston Chronicle from 1985 through the present. |
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, this contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. |
Middle Search Plus | For junior high students, this database contains full-text magazine articles, biographies, primary sources, and historical essays. |
Houston Metropolitan News | Find information on community and state issues, business, cultural events, government, politics and more from over 70 Houston area news sources including newspapers, blogs and web-only content. |
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. |
Opposing Viewpoints in Context | Covers today’s hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. Supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Includes a category for the National Debate Topic. |
Primary Search | For elementary school students, this database has articles from popular children’s magazines, easy-to-read encyclopedia articles and lots of pictures. |
SciTech Collection | Covers key STEM areas and carefully curated STEM related ebooks. |
Science in Context | Includes contextual information on hundreds of today’s most significant science topics contained in full-text magazines and more. |
TeachingBooks.net | Provides multimedia content to complement children’s and young adult books in an easy-to-use online resource. Content in English and Spanish. If you receive an error message, select "Continue to this website." |
TOPIC Search | Allows students to explore current events including social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in classrooms. |
20th Century American Poetry & 20th Century English Poetry | Includes the full-text of American & British Poetry from the 20th Century. |