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Database Name | Database Description |
|---|---|
| Academic Search Complete | This first stop for college students across many disciplines includes scholarly journal articles on a wide array of topics. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| CREDO Common Core Collection | Features over 100 topics including articles from over 1,100 titles as well as thousands of short reference videos and high-resolution art images. |
| 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. |
| Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia | Contains easy-to-read entries written specifically for elementary and middle school students. |
| GCF LearnFree.org | Free online tutorials to learn computers, math, work skills and more. |
| OneFile Health & Medicine | Provides 60 full-text journals in medicine, nursing, allied and consumer health |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Opposing Viewpoints in Context | Covers social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana with informed, differing views to help learners develop critical-thinking skills. |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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. |