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(EBSCO) Articles from journals, magazines, newspapers on a variety of topics.
(ProQuest) - NOTE: Lone Star College System users only off campus
Articles from journals, magazines, national newspapers and National Public Radio (NPR) selected programs.
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Titles with 
below = Lone Star College System college access off campus with valid library card number
Titles marked as "free web" = access without a library card
All other titles = off campus by HCPL & Lone Star College System library card holders
(EBSCO) Locate specific journals, magazines, and newspapers available online in Lone Star College System databases.
(EBSCO) Articles from journals, magazines, newspapers on a variety of topics.
(NewspaperARCHIVE.com) "View, save and print full-page newspaper pages dating from 1759 to 1977" from over 2400 newspaper titles.
NOTE: in library use only
(EBSCO) Agriculture literature index - no full text.
(ALLDATA LLC) Automotive diagnostic and repair information.
NOTE: in library use only
(EBSCO) Includes full-text articles in 180 journals, magazines, and other publications on complementary and alternative medicine.
(Ancestry.com and ProQuest) Genealogy data including census and immigration records, directories, biographies, newspapers and periodicals.
NOTE: in library use only
(ARTstor Inc.) Contains over 300,000 artistic images in architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, and decorative arts with more to be added. Images are from libraries, museums, photographic archives, publishers, slide libraries, and individual scholars.
(EBSCO) Covers “native North American culture, history, and life with 80,000 listings for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada” from the 16th century to the present.
(H.W. Wilson) Over 45,000 biographies for people present and past.
(H.W. Wilson) Includes detailed profiles of current and past personalities and "links to 380,000+ related full-text articles plus more than 36,000 images."
includes 75,000+ Articles from Encyclopaedia Britannica and over 23,000 biographies plus a dictionary, thesaurus, atlas, and other research tools
(Thomson Gale) Company profiles, industry rankings, current investment ratings, financial ratios.
(EBSCO) Provides "journal and magazine full-text articles, financial data, case studies, industry reports, market research reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more."
(General Services Administration) Comprehensive listing of assistance programs administered by 57 Federal Agencies.
(CHE) Published Monday-Friday online, this title features the latest news related to colleges and universities, employment listings, and searchable archives to September 1989.
See also:
Community College News Section
(EBSCO) Lists 1,700+ current nursing and allied health journals and other publications from 1982 to the present, plus health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters.
See also:
CINAHL Tutorial from the University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries
(EBSCO) Includes full text for over 200 titles in journalism, media studies, language, and broadcasting.
(EBSCO) Features full text for nearly 300 publications, some as far back as 1985, covering topics such as computer science, programming, and software.
(EBSCO) Includes "176 health reference books and encyclopedias" in full text and almost 4000 complete "evidence-based, health reports (in English and Spanish)."
(Thomson Gale) Short biographies of current authors.
(Thomson Gale) Literary criticism from scholarly journals and essays.
(CountryWatch, Inc.) International political, economic, and business information.
(CQ Press) Analysis of current and controversial issues of the day.
(Congressional Quarterly Inc.) Includes news, bill updates, debates, and votes relating to the U.S. Congress from October 1983 - present.
(Simon Fraser University Library) Search for journal & magazine titles found in database collections.
(Thomson Gale) In-depth literary biographies of current and past authors.
(EBSCO) Features entries for "mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals that include Kingdom, Class, Order, Genus & Species, as well as a detailed description."
(EBSCO) Academic Search Premier and additional databases can be selected and searched simultaneously.
(EBSCO) Spanish language gateway to all EBSCO databases.
(EBSCO) Features a collection of 235,000+ photos, maps, and flags that are included with Academic Search Premier, MAS Ultra, MasterFILE Premier, and other EBSCO databases.
(EBSCO) - atención: resultados en español y inglés
Con ese recurso, se puede sacar informacion financiera sobre rendimientos accionarios, regimenes cambiarios, politica fiscal, gasto publico y privado, dinamica industrial por todos los paises latinoamericanos.
(ProQuest) Features "2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and broadcast news transcripts plus numerous maps, pictures, educator-approved websites, and audio/video files."
(U.S. Department of Education) Summaries and/or full-text of education-related reports.
(EBSCO) Full text of more than 2,200 digests along selected articles and abstracts from 1,000+ education-related journals.
(Facts On File News Services) Includes news briefs from 1940-present, Issues & Controversies, Reuters News, Today's Science, World Almanac.
(National Archives and Records Administration) Official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents - 1994 to present.
(LookSmart/Thomson Gale) Includes "over 5.5 million articles from more than 900 magazines and journals, dating from 1998 through the present."
(EBSCO) Hay en ese recurso electronico varios articulos sobre las tradiciones regionales, las tendencias politicas y sociales de diferentes comunidades latinas, analisis cualitativo y cuantitativo del conocimiento, claves del negocio y del liderazgo, discursos filosoficos y reflexiones.
(EBSCO) Features 25,000 articles with selected images about various subject areas.
(Thomson Gale) Includes full-text, searchable reference sets in such areas as literature, business, education, game programming, and social sciences.
(Google.com) Search/view news articles from the last 30 days from 4500 plus news sources.
(EBSCO) Includes articles and reports (some full text) "on the relationship between human beings and the environment."
(Texas State Historical Association) Encyclopedia entries on Texas history, culture, and geography.
(Digital Library Reserve, Inc.) Download digital materials (including books and music) with free software to listen at home, at work, or when you travel. To begin using these titles, view the
Help-Quick Start Guide.
(Serials Solutions, Inc.) Find magazine, newspaper, and journal titles available in HCPL databases by title or subject.
(Thomson Gale) Health publications, health and medical journals.
(Thomson Gale) Fitness, medicine, nutrition, diseases, nursing, psychiatry/psychology, occupational health & safety.
(EBSCO) Includes full-text consumer health periodicals, pamphlets, and reference books.
(EBSCO) Provides almost 550 scholarly full-text nursing and allied health journals, some back to 1975.
(ProQuest) Family lineage, genealogies, third-party histories and local histories beginning with the 13 original colonies.
(Stanford University) Includes the largest archive of free full-text science journals with one million plus free full-text articles.
NOTE: If you see a price to view full text, ask a librarian to request that the article be sent free from another library via interlibrary loan.
(ProQuest) Covers the years of 1851-2003 of the newspaper with full-text and full-image articles.
(MarketWatch, Inc./Dow Jones & Company) Allows users to input a company's stock symbol and find high/low/closing stock prices for currently-traded companies from 1970 to the present.
(EBSCO) Features "over 1500 complete books; 100 full-text journals and magazines; 58,000 documents; 43,000 biographies; more than 12,000 photos and maps; and more than 80 hours of video."
(ProQuest) Books, scholarly journals, maps, photos, and other materials on world and U.S. History.
(ProQuest) Local, state, and international news coverage from 1985 - present.
(EBSCO) “Indexes journal articles on online information retrieval, classification, cataloging, and information management from more than 450 publications with coverage going back to the mid-1960s.”
(Thomson Gale) Includes 140 cover-to-cover newspapers from around the world plus an additional 300 sources of selected news, 1996 - present.
(EBSCO) Abstracts (summaries) and indexing of 400+ trade publications on personal computing products (including Macintosh and Windows) from 1980s to the present.
(Facts on File News Services) Controversial topics studied in-depth, pro & con.
(Mellon Foundation) Includes full-text back issues of selected journals in such areas as history, statistics, sociology, literature, and economics.
(EBSCO) Provides the ability to simultaneously search Middle Search Plus, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, EBSCO Animals, Newspaper Source, Primary Search, and TOPICsearch "with a child-friendly, graphically-rich design" suitable for elementary and middle school students.
(LearningExpress) Test preparation using practice tests based on official exams.
(EBSCO) Provides full text for almost 250 law journals including information in such areas as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, and ethics, with backfiles of selected titles from 1965 to the present.
(EBSCO) "Indexes 600+ periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings on classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more" from the mid-1960s to the present.
(Texas State Library & Archives Commission) Simultaneously search though multiple Texas library catalogs for books, periodicals, newspapers, CDs, and other items.
(Maps.com) Includes a reference atlas, thematic maps, geography games, quizzes and news articles.
NOTE: Limited to Lone Star College–CyFair-Barker Cypress & Fairbanks students & personnel-on & off campus.
(EBSCO) Geared for high school students, this database includes “full text for more than 700 magazines, 84,074 biographies, and 86,135 primary source documents, plus pamphlets, reference books, and images such as photos, maps and flags. Full text backfiles extend to 1975.”
(EBSCO) Periodical and newspaper articles, Magill's Book Reviews, Essential Documents in American History, Dun & Bradstreet info. Full-text Consumer Reports and Business Week.
(EBSCO) En esa database se encuentra informacion soble la salud publica, enfermedades comunes, fisiopatologia, adelantos medicales recientes y eventos cientificos.
(EBSCO) Medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and other article listings and summaries, created by the National Library of Medicine.
(U.S. National Institutes of Health) Health information on diseases and conditions.
(U.S. National Institutes of Health) Información de salud para Usted.
(EBSCO) Full text for “nearly 140 middle school magazines plus biographies, historical essays and student pamphlets. Find primary source documents, books, photos, maps, and flags.”
(EBSCO) Full-text news for all military branches including almost 300 periodicals and 245 pamphlets.
(Thomson Gale) Literary research index of journal articles, books and essays within books.
(Morningstar, Inc.) Mutual funds investment information.
NOTE: 5 simultaneous user limit
(Naxos Digital Services Ltd.) Classical, jazz, world/folk, new age, and Chinese music recordings in 75,000+ tracks plus related text information about the musical works.
NOTE: requires Windows Media Player version 9 or later - limit of 25 simultaneous users for this resource
(OCLC) Complete electronic books. Create your own user ID and password on campus.
(EBSCO) Includes complete articles from over 200 regional, national, international newspapers plus television & radio news transcripts.
(EBSCO) Electronic readers advisory service for fiction literature, find by author, genre, or even tell the computer a novel you liked and it can recommend similar books.
(Bureau of Labor Statistics) Careers, educational requirements, salary, job outlook, and associations for further research.
(Thomson Gale)
An electronic version of the books which take a topic and look at both sides of an issue plus links to full-text articles in magazines and newspapers.
See also:
Opposing Viewpoints from HCPL
(Oxford University Press) Full-text art reference (including Grove Art) covering all the visual arts from prehistory to the present with links to 5,000 images the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Art Images for College Teaching (AICT), and the Artists Rights Society and text from
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics,
The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
(U.S. Patent & Trademark Office) United States patents, trademarks, abstracts, full-text and images available.
(EBSCO) “Full text for nearly 70 popular, elementary school magazines plus a dictionary, photos, maps, and flags. Full text backfiles extend to 1989.”
(EBSCO) Designed for educators and librarians, this database includes 548 full-text education journals and over 200 educational reports.
(Johns Hopkins University Press) Full-text articles from "over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals."
(ProQuest) Articles from journals, magazines, national newspapers including the
Houston Chronicle and National Public Radio (NPR) selected programs.
(ProQuest) "Features author biographies, contemporary criticism, reviews, and multimedia resources and 100+ searchable full-text literary journals and magazines."
(ProQuest) Search national newspapers: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, and the Houston Chronicle.
(EBSCO) Features "575 full text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed journals" back to 1965, covering psychology and related topics.
(Public Library of Science) Launched in 2003, PLoS features "peer-reviewed, open access scientific and medical journals that include original research as well as timely feature articles (NOTE: search all PLoS journals by selecting "all publications" in the "select journals" box on the search screen)."
(National Library of Medicine) Medical research; National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database - no full text.
(U.S. National Institutes of Health) Provides full-text access to life sciences journal articles. NOTE: Most of the PubMed Central (PMC) articles are in PubMed, but PubMed features many listings of journal articles not in PMC.
(ReadtheBooks.com) Using state-of-the-art 3D animation and the latest streaming video technology, this site connects kids with books.
Reference USA (NOTE: This link will refer you to the HCPL page where you will see the Reference USA link and select it.) (InfoUSA) Search over 12 million U.S. businesses; 102 million U.S. residents; and 683,000 U.S. health care providers by various criteria.
(EBSCO) Daily international newswires and regional business publications.
(EBSCO) Includes over 300 full-text journals on such topics as world religions, biblical studies, and many aspects of philosophy.
(Safari) Safari is the premier electronic reference library for computer users, programmers, and IT professionals.
NOTE: 5 simultaneous user limit
(United Way & St. Luke's Episcopal Health Charities) A repository of health and social service programs in a 13-county area around Houston. Also includes statistics on populations, births, and deaths.
(EBSCO) Includes 800 full text journals in subjects such as biology, chemistry, computer technology, geology, and physics.
(Facts On File) Includes "biographies of key scientists, essays on current issues in science, experiments, diagrams, and chronology entries."
(EBSCO) provides "nearly 212,000 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."
(Teton Data Systems)
An electronic medical library that enables users to cross-search more than 35 medical resources.
(EBSCO) Middle and high school student search page that finds and displays results from magazines, newspapers, biographies, country reports, plus film & video available in several databases (e.g., MAS Ultra - School Edition, Newspaper Source, Middle Search Plus, Vocational and Career Collection, and TOPICsearch).
(EBSCO) Features listings and summaries (abstracts) for 280+ popular education trade journals with full-text links to articles available in Academic Search Premier.
(Texas State Library & Archives Commission) Find what journals the library has access to through TexShare.
(ProQuest) Maps of property and land-use records for Texas towns and cities for past 100 years.
(EBSCO) Features Texas-related full-text articles, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps, and flags with backfiles dating from 1975.
(State of Texas) Texas laws.
(Thomas Publishing Company) Includes Thomas Register® and Thomas Regional® and is a comprehensive online resource for finding companies and products manufactured in North America. Free registration is required to view company records.
(Thomson Gale) View, add to, and print Texas legal forms in such areas as wills, leases, and divorces.
(Thomson) "Patient information about care, medications, and health, in English or Spanish."
(Thomson) "Clinical databases, including unbiased, referenced information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine."
(Facts on File News Services) Covers health, the environment, technology, life science, physical science, earth and space science in the news.
(EBSCO) Provides popular topics' information including controversial opinions and viewpoints in "139,800 full-text articles from 4,800 sources including international and regional newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, and government information."
(TumbleBooks Inc.) Interactive children's books using Flash animation.
(ProQuest) Full-text of some "50,000 American poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets and 598 volumes of English poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day."
(U.S. House of Representatives) United States Laws.
(Value Line) Investment advice on stocks.
NOTE: in library use only
(Thinkmap, Inc.) Features 145,000+ English words with pronunciations and 115,000 meanings with a graphic map of relationships between words.
(EBSCO) Full-text of almost 350 trade and industry magazines in selected career fields with some titles going back to 1985.
(ProQuest) Business news and investment data, 1984-present.
(Thomson West) News, business, and legal research materials.
NOTE: Click the GO button at the bottom right corner of the first screen to search the database.
(Facts On File News Services) Features "cumulative full text of
The World Almanac® and Book of Facts editions since 1999."
(Facts On File News Services) "Complete full text of 22,000+ articles in Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia plus monthly updates with regular additions of new articles and revision and replacement of existing articles."
(The World & I) Search and view the full-text of
The World & I issues from 1986 to the present and special information collections that include topics such as current issues, arts, science, and culture.
(The World & I) Provides full-text articles from
The World & I from 1986 to the present on topics such as current issues, arts, science, and culture "plus monthly updates and special features for K-12 schools, including weekly ESL and Spanish pages and the weekly Headlines in Review."
World Book Online (NOTE: This link refers you to the HCPL page where you will see the World Book link and select it.) (World Book, Inc.) Searchable full-text encyclopedia entries enhanced with audio and video.
(OCLC) Books and other materials in libraries worldwide - no full text.
(EBSCO) Provides full text for 140+ titles in such areas as economics, government, history, politics, including many peer-reviewed journals with selected backfiles from 1964 to the present.
(Commodity Systems, Inc. (CSI)/Hemscott Americas) Enter a company stock symbol in the "Get Quotes" search box. Then click the "Historical Prices" link in the left margin. Select a date range (back to the late 1970's) and specify daily, weekly, monthly or dividend information. View the resulting table and/or download it to a spreadsheet.
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