Databases and Links
With your membership at the Brownwood Public Library, you have access to dozens of databases. Whether you are researching for school, studying for a test, improving your computer skills, compiling your family tree, need craft ideas, home improvement help, engine repair guidance or more, check out the vast array of databases available to you. Some databases are only available in certain library branches; some databases can be accessed from home with a log-in. Ask at the library how to log in from home. TexShare databases are identified with the TexShare symbol.
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Small Engine Repair Reference Center
Provides repair guides for small engines and routine maintenance (tune-ups, brake service, etc.) as well as extensive repairs (engine and transmission disassembly) and also allows users to search by product type, brand, model/engine type, specific area of model/engine type, and model numbers. Includes information for all manner of small engines, including ATVs, generators, boat motors, motorcycles, lawnmowers, snowmobiles, tractors, outdoor power equipment like chainsaws and leaf blowers and more. |
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Kelley Blue Book
Find pricing and reviews for new and used cars. |
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NADA Guides
Pricing information for new and used cars, classic cars, motorcycles, boats, RVs and manufactured homes. (NADA guides are also available at the library.) |
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Driving Tests
Online preparation for the Texas learner's permit test. |
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Big Country Overdrive
eBooks, audiobooks and magazines available to checkout from Brownwood Library's digital site. Use your computer, Kindle, iPad, Nook or other device to read and listen. Bring your device to the library if you need help. |
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Ebsco eBook Collection (formerly NetLibrary)
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. Besides popular fiction and non-fiction, includes many excellent, in-depth non-fiction books that may work well for college papers and studying. Creating a free My Ebscohost account is required before you can access these eBooks offline. |
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ebrary
Online digital library of full texts of over 50,000 scholarly e-books. Combines books from over 435 academic, trade, and professional publishers. It also includes sheet music and government documents. Especially helpful for research, academic work and those seeking non-fiction information, though there is some fiction. A large collection in both English and Spanish. |
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TeachingBooks.net
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. Watch a short video on how to use this great resource for teachers, parents and students. |
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Book Review Digest Plus
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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Play Index
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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Short Story Index
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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Artemis Literary Sources
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. This cutting-edge platform features the tools that students, faculty, and researchers require |
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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 and spans the entire range of the humanities and social sciences. |
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Literary Reference Center
Provides information on thousands of authors and their works through an expansive collection of author biographies, plot summaries, poems, short stories, author interviews and more. |
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20th Century 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 and Carol Ann Duffy and many others from the lists of Carcanet, Enitharmon, Anvil Press, Bloodaxe Books and other poetry publishers. It also incorporates works by poets such as Sylvia Plath, T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Louis MacNeice and Siegfried Sassoon from The Faber Poetry Library. |
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Texas State Law Library eBook Collection
Many excellent legal books available through Overdrive with a library card from the Texas State Law Library. A library card can be applied for by any Texas resident. |
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Reference USA
Contains directory information for millions of new, current and historical U.S. businesses and U.S. residents and it contains a listing of U.S. jobs and internships. Directory information on businesses includes the name of a business, its address, telephone number, headquarters, ticker symbol, credit rating, number of employees, estimated sales volume, and more. Business owners can use ReferenceUSA to conduct market research and create maps and charts of similar businesses in the area. View a guided tour of this database. |
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Business Abstracts with Full Text
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 Source Complete
In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,300 journals, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the 40,000 most-cited authors in the database. Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Complete is the overwhelmingly superior database for full-text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full-text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, 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. Title List |
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Regional Business News
Searchable full-text business publications, provides full text for more than 80 regional US and Canadian business publications. Includes publications such as Fort Worth Business Press, New York Times, PR Newswire, Washington Post, Washington Times and Journal Record (Oklahoma City). Title List |
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Small Business Reference Center
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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Thomas Net
Comprehensive online resource for finding companies and products manufactured in North America. Free registration is required to view company records. |
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Money Smart
Financial training for adults, from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Made up of 10 modules that each take 20-30 minutes to complete |
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Kelley Blue Book
Find pricing and reviews for new and used cars. |
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NADA Guides
Pricing and information on new cars, used cars, classic cars, motorcycles, boats, RVs and manufactured homes. (NADA guides are also available at the library.) |
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GreatSchools
Information on school performance, listings of 200,000 public and private schools serving students from preschool through high school and more than 800,000 parent ratings and reviews. |
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Library of Congress
Digitized versions of collection materials available online since 1994, concentrating on its most rare collections and those unavailable elsewhere. |
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Digital Public Library of America
Brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. |
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Prelinger Archive
Rick Prelinger and The Internet Archive offer public domain films from Prelinger Archives to all for free downloading and reuse. |
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SMU Digital Collections
Includes collections from Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, which provides online digital resources related to theology and religious studies. Highlights include images of rare books, Bibles, manuscript codices and fragments, and Wesleyana. Central University Libraries Digital Collection comprises of collections from five libraries: DeGolyer Library ( DeGolyer Special Collections), Fondren Library Center, Hamon Arts Library (visit Hamon Arts Library Special Collections), SMU-in-Plano, SMU-in-Taos (Fort Burgwin) |
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Talking Book Program
TBP provides free library services for Texans with blindness or visual, physical, or reading disabilities. Registered TBP users may borrow books and magazines in digital audio, Braille, and large print. |
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National Library Service for the blind and physically handicapped
Large collection of audiobooks and books and magazines in Braille, as well as special equipment, available to borrow for free to those who qualify. |
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Disability.gov
Search for topics like disability benefits, housing, and assistive technology. |
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Disability in Action
Located in Abilene, provides information on any disability-related topic, referrals to appropriate agencies and programs, assistance in applying for services and independent living skills training. |
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2-1-1 Texas
Can help you find local services like food, housing, health care, senior services, child care and legal aid. For free, confidential, multilingual service 24/7 call 2-1-1. |
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Fuente Academica Premier
Acceso a casi 200 revistas académicas de escolar de publicadores latinoamericanos e españoles con artículos en texto completo. A collection of scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. All major subject areas are covered with particular emphasis on agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion and sociology. Continuously expanding archives include Boletín del CEMLA (1955 - present) and the complete backfile of Darwiniana, published since 1922. Lista de títulos/Title List |
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LearningExpress Recursos en español
Pruebas de la práctica, ejercicios, cursos de desarrollo de habilidades y de información para el GED, preparación para la universidad, la búsqueda de empleo, la ciudadanía y más. Base de datos Learning Express 3.0 en Español ofrece tutoriales en gramática inglesa, matemáticas basica e exámenes para practicár. |
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Medic Latina
Acceso a casi 100 revistas sobre investigación médica de publicadores latinoamericanos en texto completo. A unique collection of medical research and investigatory journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. Contains the complete table of contents and PDF full text for 130 peer-reviewed medical journals in native Spanish. A wide range of topics are covered including neuroscience, cardiology, nephrology, biomedicine, clinical research, pediatrics, human reproduction, clinical pathology, cancer research, and hematology. Lista de títulos/Title List |
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Salud en español
Salud en Español provee reportes completos basados en evidencias y fichas de datos relacionados a todos los aspectos de la salud y el bienestar incluyendo iformacion en relacion a enfermedades yprocedimientos de tratamientos. 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. The content found in this database includes a diverse collection of health related themes: first aid, infant/ child care and illnesses, alternative medicine, aging and wellness. Lista de títulos/Title List |
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Pronunciator
The straight-forward approach teaches practical language skills across every functional area: Listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, and culture. Courses for 80 languages are available, with up to 22 months of guided instruction per language. Pronunciator also provides citizenship preparation courses in English and Spanish; a 6-week immersion course for front-line healthcare providers; 250+ live, half-hour classes per week led by native speakers; quizzes, flashcards, phrasebooks, and pronunciations guides; streaming feature films with subtitles plus integrated drills and quizzes; streaming major label music with lyrics to facilitate learning; and the ability to design customized online language courses for students. All of these features are available in natively programmed apps for iPads, iPhones/iPod touch, Android tables, Android phones, and Kindle fire. |
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ebrary
Online digital library of full texts of over 50,000 scholarly e-books. Combines books from over 435 academic, trade, and professional publishers. It also includes sheet music and government documents. Especially helpful for research, academic work and those seeking non-fiction information, though there is some fiction. A large collection in both English and Spanish. |
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Procitizen
ProCitizen is an online course to prepare New Americans for the civics, reading, and writing parts of the USCIS Naturalization Test. Includes 100 instructional videos in both English and Spanish. |
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Basic ESL Online English Learning
Improves ’s listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through a simple to follow, and proven curriculum. Students learn English quickly and effectively on relevant topics including: family, home, school and many other topics. In each lesson students learn key vocabulary and how to use that vocabulary in conversation. |
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MedlinePlus en Español
Temas de salud e información sobre medicamentos. Acceso a enciclopedia médica ilustrada, programas interactivos para el paciente y las más recientes noticias acerca de la salud. |
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GCF Aprende Libre
Tutorials on computer, Internet and email basics, social media, google docs, and word processing. |
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Vegetable Variety Selector
Varieties recommended by Texas A & M for Brown County. Search for other Texas counties as well. |
Some databases are available only at the Genealogy Library, a branch library of the Brownwood Public Library, including extended genealogy research and newspapers. Be sure to visit the genealogy library at 213 S Broadway St. It is open Tuesday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. It is heavily supported by the Pecan Valley Genealogical Society, a great group of folks who can answer many of your genealogy questions. Visit the Newspapers page for help in locating specific issues of historical papers and documents.
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Pecan Valley Genealogy Society
The mission of PVGS shall be for genealogical, literary and educational purposes, to promote and stimulate interest in history through family research; to cooperate with patriotic and heritage societies in the field of family research; to conduct educational programs and to disseminate information to the members and to the public pointing up the importance of history, tradition, family knowledge and pride. To assist financially in the establishment of a genealogical collection and/or knowledge, said collection to be comprised of local, regional, and national genealogical data; to stress research in, gather and preserve genealogical data and vital public records of Brown County and the surrounding areas. |
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Texas Sanborn Maps
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. The maps provide a wealth of information, such as building outline, size and shape, windows and doors, street and sidewalk widths, boundaries, and property numbers. Plans often include details on construction materials and building use, and depict pipelines, railroads, wells, water mains, dumps, and other features likely to affect the property's vulnerability to earthquake, fire, and flood. 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. Includes maps of Brownwood from 1885, 1888, 1893, 1898, 1904, 1909, 1915, 1923, 1930 and 1930-1960. |
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Heritage Quest
HeritageQuest Online is a comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids. It delivers an essential collection of genealogical and historical sources—with coverage dating back to the 1700s—that can help people find their ancestors and discover a place’s past. The collection consists of six core data sets: U.S. Federal Censuses, Genealogy and local history books, Periodical Source Index (PERSI), Revolutionary War Records, Freedman’s Bank Records, The LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set |
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Brown County Appraisal District
Within this site you will find general information about the District and the ad valorem property tax system in Texas, as well as information regarding specific properties within the district. Public records of property taxes and ownership are maintained online. BCAD is responsible for the fair market appraisal of properties within Brown County. |
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Soldiers and Sailors Database
National Parks Database site, great for history and genealogy. |
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Geni
One option for creating your family tree online. Aimed to create a family tree of the world. While family profiles are private, Geni’s mission is to create a shared family tree of common ancestors. By combining research into a single tree that users work on together, users can focus on verifying information and on new avenues of research, rather than spending time duplicating research that others have already done. A basic membership is free. GeniPro can be accessed for free from either the main library or genealogical library. |
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Portal to Texas History
Digital scans of collections held in other Texas libraries, museums, archives and historical societies. Has newspaper databases, city directories and photograph database that are valuable to genealogy. Also has digitized Howard Payne yearbooks and newspapers. |
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TTU Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
Includes many excellent Texas history resources, including maps, photographs and issues of the Brownwood Banner-Bulletin, Cross Plains Review, Santa Anna News, Rising Star Record, Callahan County Star and more. |
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Family Search
A nonprofit family history organization, provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, dedicated to connecting families across generations. The free access site is maintained by a dedicated team of employees and volunteers who work tirelessly to preserve and share the largest collection of genealogical and historical records in the world. Strives to create and link the best and most valuable research resources to help people discover who they are by exploring from where they came. |
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Find a Grave
Dedicating to finding, recording and presenting final disposition information from around the world as a virtual cemetery experience. Find a Grave memorials may contain rich content including pictures, biographies and more specific information. Members can leave remembrances via 'virtual flowers' on the memorials they visit, completing the virtual cemetery experience. |
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Confederate Pensions
This interactive search form provides access to an index of names, counties of residence, and pension numbers of some 54,634 approved, rejected, and home pensions issued by the Texas government between 1899 and 1975. Pension files known to be missing are also included and are clearly identifiable by the word Missing which appears next to the application number. Please read the Introduction for information about the Confederate Pension Application documents and how to use the search tool. |
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Cornell Civil War Databases
Contains the formal reports, both Union and Confederate, of the first seizures of United States property in the Southern States, and of all military operations in the field, with the correspondence, orders, and returns relating specially thereto, and, as proposed is to be accompanied by an Atlas. In this series the reports will be arranged according to the campaigns and several theaters of operations (in the chronological order of the events), and the Union reports of any event will, as a rule, be immediately followed by the Confederate accounts. The correspondence, etc., not embraced in the "reports" proper will follow (first Union and next Confederate) in chronological order. |
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Chronicling America
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Many early Texas newspapers are available from 1836 forward. |
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The USGen Web Project
Maintained by a group of volunteers working together to provide free genealogy websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States. Non-commercial and fully committed to free genealogy access for everyone. Organization is by county and state, and this website provides you with links to all the state genealogy websites which, in turn, provide gateways to the counties. The USGenWeb Project also sponsors important Special Projects at the national level and this website provides an entry point to all of those pages, as well. |
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Legal Information Reference Center
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 for consumers and small businesses. 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. Coverage List |
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Gale Legal Forms
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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Texas State Law Library
A phenomenal resource for legal questions and research. Check out the FAQs for answers to commonly asked legal questions (How old does a child have to be to be left alone? Is it illegal to pick bluebonnets?) Check out the Commonly Requested Legal Forms, which is a great way to ensure you are getting the most up-to-date form, instead of whatever was found on the Internet. Research Guides by Topic provides links forms, recommended books, articles on many important legal topics. Finally, you can get ebooks from Overdrive with a library card from the Law Library. Any Texas resident can apply for a library card. For further help, you can contact the law librarians by phone or email. They can help you with research, but cannot give legal advice. Finally, visit the Where to Go for Help page for tips for further research, legal clinics, legal hotlines, how to fine a lawyer, etc. |
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Legal Collection
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. Offers information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment and much more. Title List |
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TexasLawHelp
Resource for free and low-cost civil legal assistance for those who cannot afford legal help |
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Military and Government Collection
Offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, witha thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of these sites. Provides full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals. The database also offers indexing and abstracts for more than 400 journals. Publications covered in this database include Air Force Comptroller, Defence Studies, JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces, and many more. Title List |
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MedlinePlus
Health, wellness and disease information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its partners. MedlinePlus en Español |
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Alternative Health Watch
Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Offers full-text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. Title List |
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Health Reference Center Academic
Created specifically for students, knowledgeable consumer health researchers and health care professionals, 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, all available 24/7 through an intuitive, state-of-the-art platform with daily content updates. |
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Health Source: Consumer Edition
Provides access to nearly 80 full-text, consumer health magazines, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Harvard Health Letter, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others. Also included in this database is searchable full text for current, health-related pamphlets and nearly 130 health reference books. Additionally, contains more than 9,900 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names; and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary. This full-text database covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, women's health, etc. Title List |
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, including 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, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Community Health Nursing, Journal of Nursing Management, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Forum, Nursing Inquiry, and many more. In addition, this database includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names. Title List |
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Medline
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, HISTLINE, SPACELINE, PREMEDLINE, AIDSLINE, BIOETHICSLINE, and HealthSTAR. Title List |
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National Library of Medicine
A vast array of health information from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Includes MedlinePlus, PubMed, ClinicalTrials, GenBank, Toxnet, Genetic Home Reference and more. |
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Natural and Alternative Treatments
Designed specifically for the consumer health researcher. Updated weekly, this database provides current information that will satisfy an ever-growing demand for accurate, unbiased information on natural health. The database contains more than 700 evidence-based articles covering medical conditions, alternative therapies, herbs and supplements, functional foods, drug interactions, and homeopathy. The articles contained in the database are based on double-blind, placebo-controlled studies and other forms of meaningful scientific evidence. At present, more than 12,000 such studies are cited in the material, and new studies are added regularly. Title list |
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Psychology & Behavioral Science Collection
Covers topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. Can be searched independently, but also allows users from subscribing institutions to conveniently link to full text from citations within PsycINFO®. These citations, when viewed via EBSCOhost, have the ability to link to articles from 400 full-text journals contained within Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection. Title List |
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Texas Reference Center
A Texas specific product designed specifically for school and public libraries. 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 Agriculture & Natural Resources, Texas Journal of Women & the Law, Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights, Texas Law Review, Texas Magazine, Texas Monthly, Texas Public Health Association Journal, Texas Review, Touchstone (Texas State Historical Association), Texas Gardener and many more. |
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Texas Sanborn Maps
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. The maps provide a wealth of information, such as building outline, size and shape, windows and doors, street and sidewalk widths, boundaries, and property numbers. Plans often include details on construction materials and building use, and depict pipelines, railroads, wells, water mains, dumps, and other features likely to affect the property's vulnerability to earthquake, fire, and flood. 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. Includes maps of Brownwood from 1885, 1888, 1893, 1898, 1904, 1909, 1915, 1923, 1930 and 1930-1960. |
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American Indian Histories and Cultures
A unique resource that makes available, for the first time, many rare and significant documents from the Edward E. Ayer Collection at the Newberry Library, Chicago; one of the strongest archival collections on American Indian history in the world. Spanning four hundred years, document types include manuscripts, artworks, speeches and petitions, diaries, correspondence, linguistic and ethnographic studies, photographs, maps, photographs, rare printed books and American Indian newspapers. Full color. Searchable. Multiple added features. |
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Bibliography of Native North Americans
A bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 137,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present. 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. Title List |
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The American West
Sourced from the Everett D. Graff Collection at the Newberry Library, Chicago, ‘The American West’ allows browsers to explore tales of frontier life, Pioneers, Wild West shows, the Gold Rush, vigilantes and outlaws. Document types include: manuscripts, trade cards, wanted posters, photographs, claim certificates, news sheets, rare printed works, brand books, broadsides, correspondence, diaries, directories, journals, pamphlets, periodicals, and artworks. Full color. Searchable. Multiple added features. |
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Portal to Texas History
Digital scans of collections held in other Texas libraries, museums, archives and historical societies |
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Library of Congress Country Studies
Online access to country profiles, maps and suggested related books and photos. |
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Texas Almanac
Online version of book which includes Texas history, culture, politics, and more; The included Texas Towns database has information on current, and past, Texas towns |
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Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
Maps from the University of Texas at Austin Library. Includes historical, topographic and Sanborn insurance maps for Texas |
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European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750
Contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples. |
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Hobbies and 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 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
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. Includes such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more. |
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Small Engine Repair Reference Center
Provides repair guides for small engines and routine maintenance (tune-ups, brake service, etc.) as well as extensive repairs (engine and transmission disassembly) and also allows users to search by product type, brand, model/engine type, specific area of model/engine type, and model numbers. Detailed, user-friendly repair guides for all manner of small engines, including ATVs, generators, boat motors, motorcycles, lawnmowers, snowmobiles, tractors, outdoor power equipment like chainsaws and leaf blowers and more. |
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TeachingBooks.net
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. Watch a short video on how to use this great resource for teachers, parents and students. |
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Explora Complete
Explora is EBSCO’s new user-friendly design that simplifies the search process and creates a friendly user experience for students and public library patrons while also offering teachers and librarians the tools they need to help navigate the content available in the EBSCO databases. Explora for Public Libraries includes ERIC, American Heritage Children's Dictionary, Middle Search Plus, Primary Search, MasterFILE Premier, Health Source-Consumer Edition, Military and Government Collection, MAS Ultra-School Edition, Business Source Complete, Literary Reference Center, GreenFILE, Academic Search Complete, Topic Overviews 6-12 and the statewide EBSCO and Project Gutenberg e-book collections. |
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Explora K - 5
Explora is EBSCO’s new user-friendly design that simplifies the search process and creates a friendly user experience for students and public library patrons while also offering teachers and librarians the tools they need to help navigate the content available in the EBSCO databases. Explora for primary schools includes Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia, the American Heritage Children’s Dictionary, Primary Search and Topic Overviews K-5. |
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Explora Middle School
Explora is EBSCO’s new user-friendly design that simplifies the search process and creates a friendly user experience for students and public library patrons while also offering teachers and librarians the tools they need to help navigate the content available in the EBSCO databases. Explora for Middle School includes Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia, Middle Search Plus, Health Source-Consumer Edition, Military and Government Collection, MAS Ultra-School Edition, Literary Reference Center, GreenFILE, Topic Overviews 6-12, and the statewide EBSCO and Project Gutenberg e-book collections. |
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Funk and Wagnall's New Encyclopedia
Over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. Provides students with easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for elementary and middle school students. |
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MAS Ultra: School Edition
Recommended for high school students. This comprehensive database contains full text for nearly 500 popular high school magazines including America's Civil War, American Heritage, American History, Archaeology, Astronomy, Bioscience, Careers & Colleges, Civil War Times, Congressional Digest, Discover, History Today, Nation, National Review, New Republic, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, Smithsonian, World War II, etc. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for 85,670 biographies and over 107,000 primary source documents. Also contains more than 360 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book and World Almanac & Book of Facts); an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs; and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines. Title List |
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Primary Search
Recommended for elementary school students. Contains full text for more than 80 popular, elementary school magazines. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). 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. Title List |
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TOPICSearch
This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints. Contains full text for over 60,000 articles from 399 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information. Title List |
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Middle Search Plus
Recommended for middle and junior high school students. Contains full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Additionally, Middle Search Plus 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. Title List |
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Teacher Reference Center
Provides indexing and abstracts for nearly 300 peer-reviewed journals. Topics covered include Best Practices, Curriculum Development, Literacy Standards, Pedagogical Research, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Science & Mathematics, School Administration, and more. |
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American Doctoral Dissertations, 1933-1955
Provides electronic access to the only comprehensive record of dissertations accepted by American universities during that time period, the print index Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities. Containing twenty-two years of dissertation research and amounting to over 93,000 citations. |
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Learning Express Library
Features nearly 1,000 online tutorials, practice tests, and eBooks to help Brownwood library patrons of all ages. It offers job search and workplace skills improvement, skill building in reading, writing, math, and basic science, career certification and licensure exam prep, college and grad school entrance test prep, GED® test prep, and more.
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Job and Career Accelerator
An all-in-one resource to guide you through the entire job search process and provide personalized, step-by-step assistance. Includes resume & cover letter help, career exploration and practice interviews. Login using your existing Learning Express account or create a new account. |
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GCF LearnFree
Tutorials on computer, Internet and email basics, social media, google docs, and word processing. For Spanish site go to www.gcfaprendelibre.org |
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Career Search - Glassdoor
Glassdoor helps users with easy-to-find job searching, company research, salary data and interview prep assistance. Offers an inside look at thousands of companies' salary information, reviews, and interview questions |
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CareerOneStop
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, provides employment information, career management and tools to help job seekers, students, businesses and career professionals. |
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Pronunciator
The straight-forward approach teaches practical language skills across every functional area: Listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, and culture. Courses for 80 languages are available, with up to 22 months of guided instruction per language. Pronunciator also provides citizenship preparation courses in English and Spanish; a 6-week immersion course for front-line healthcare providers; 250+ live, half-hour classes per week led by native speakers; quizzes, flashcards, phrasebooks, and pronunciations guides; streaming feature films with subtitles plus integrated drills and quizzes; streaming major label music with lyrics to facilitate learning; and the ability to design customized online language courses for students. All of these features are available in natively programmed apps for iPads, iPhones/iPod touch, Android tables, Android phones, and Kindle fire. |
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Basic ESL Online English Learning
Improves ’s listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through a simple to follow, and proven curriculum. Students learn English quickly and effectively on relevant topics including: family, home, school and many other topics. In each lesson students learn key vocabulary and how to use that vocabulary in conversation. |
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Code Red
Fill in your information below to be notified in case of an emergency situation that requires immediate action (such as a boil-water notice, missing child or evacuation notices). Available for both the City of Brownwood and Brown County. Examples of times when the CodeRED system could be utilized: Bomb threat; Chemical spill or Gas leak; Drinking water contamination; Evacuation notice & route; Fires or Floods; Hostage situation; Missing person; Utility outage |
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Newspaper Source
Provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc. The database also contains selective full text for more than 370 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full-text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc. Title List |
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Academic Search Complete
This scholarly collection offers unmatched full-text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including, but not limited to: animal science, anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology and many other fields. Title List |
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Humanities Full Text
Abstracts and full text from over 400 periodicals covering archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore , performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature and more. 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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Master File Premier
Contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. This database also contains full text more than 500 reference books, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags. Offers PDF files (as far back as 1975) for key publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Judaism, Library Journal, National Review, Saturday Evening Post, etc. Title List |
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Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts
Covers all aspects related to librarianship. It indexes periodicals, books, research reports and proceedings as far back as the mid-1960s. |
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Professional Development Collection
Provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers. Offers information on everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice. Professional Development Collection includes full text for Chronicle of Higher Education, Educational Leadership, Journal of Education, Journal of Higher Education, Theory Into Practice, and nearly 520 high quality education journals. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Title List |
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ERIC
The Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC contains more than 1,300,000 records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents from ERIC back to 1966. Title List |
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State of Texas Criminal Records
Provides access to criminal history records and the state public sex offender registry |
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State of Texas Public Record Services
A central access point for accessing public records in Texas including driving records, vital records (birth/death/marriage/divorce), and county records |
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Learning Express Library Computer Skills Center
In today’s global economy emphasizing 21st Century skills, career-based knowledge and ongoing professional improvement is critical to succeeding in the workplace and in life. LearningExpress Library’s unique, interactive online learning platform provides patrons with the most comprehensive selection of career-oriented and academic resources available to help with job preparation, career advancement, career changes, and re-entry into the workforce. |
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Science in Context
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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Computer Source: Consumer Edition
Contains nearly 300 full-text journals and magazines covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software. Provides a balance of full-text technical journals and full-text consumer computer titles. |
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Agricola
Contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Contains more than 4.8 million citations, comprised of journal articles, book chapters, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture. Encompasses all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, agricultural engineering and technology and earth and environmental sciences. Title List |
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Patent and Trademark Office Database
United States patents, trademarks, abstracts, full-text and images available |
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Science and Technology Collection
Contains more than 820 leading full-text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,750 journals. Topics include aeronautics, astrophysics, biology, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, marine sciences and materials science. This collection contains many scholarly journals including Advances in Physics, American Scientist, Archaeoastronomy, Astronomy & Geophysics, Civil Engineering, Engineering Management Journal, Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Journal of Architectural Engineering, Journal of Applied Microbiology, Journal of Mathematical Logic, Journal of Theoretical & Computational Chemistry, Molecular Physics, Plant Biotechnology Journal, Quarterly Review of Biology, Space Communications, Spatial Vision, and many more. Title List |
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GreenFILE
This comprehensive resource draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more. |
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GCF LearnFree
Tutorials on computer, Internet and email basics, social media, google docs, and word processing. For Spanish site go to www.gcfaprendelibre.org |
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Religion and Philosophy Collection
A comprehensive database covering topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. With nearly 300 full-text journals and unparalleled coverage of the subject areas listed above, this is an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies. Title List |
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Learning Express Library
In today’s global economy emphasizing 21st Century skills, career-based knowledge and ongoing professional improvement is critical to succeeding in the workplace and in life. LearningExpress Library’s unique, interactive online learning platform provides patrons with the most comprehensive selection of career-oriented and academic resources available to help with job preparation, career advancement, career changes, and re-entry into the workforce. Practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, and information for GED, college prep, job searching, citizenship and more. |
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ProCitizen
ProCitizen is an online course to prepare New Americans for the civics, reading, and writing parts of the USCIS Naturalization Test. Includes 100 instructional videos in both English and Spanish. |
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GCF LearnFree
Tutorials on computer, Internet and email basics, social media, google docs, and word processing. For Spanish site go to www.gcfaprendelibre.org |
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Driving-Tests.org
Online preparation for the Texas learner's permit test. |
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