general & multidisciplinary databases

help with database access

not sure where to start? we recommend:

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) Help: Multi-disciplinary database; full text of articles from over 5,300 journals, magazines and newspapers, plus image collections.
ProQuest Databases Help: Articles from journals, magazines, national newspapers; many scholarly journals. This link searches all ProQuest databases.

complete list of general & multidisciplinary databases:

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) Help: Multi-disciplinary database; full text of articles from over 5,300 journals, magazines and newspapers, plus image collections.
CountryWatch: Provides news, geographical, political, and cultural information on each of the 192 countries of the world.
EBSCOhost Databases (EBSCO) Help: All EBSCO databases -- Academic Search Premier and additional databases.
eLibrary Curriculum Edition (ProQuest) Help: Over 2,000 full-text periodicals, books, and transcripts for general studies, plus thousands of pictures, maps, and audio/video clips.
Facts.com Reference Suite (Facts On File News Service): World News Digest 1940-2004, Issues & Controversies, Today's Science, World Almanac & Encyclopedia
Fuente Académica (EBSCO) Help: Full text coverage (including PDF) for nearly 200 scholarly academic journals in the Spanish language.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO) Help: General encyclopedia with over 25,000 entries covering a variety of subject areas. (Pre-college)
Gale Virtual Reference Library (Gale): Dozens of complete reference books on arts, business, education, history, law, literature, sciences, technology and more.
LearningExpress Library (LearningExpress) (HCPL/CyFair only - use card number as "Student ID"): Test preparation using practice tests based on official exams. Provides instant feedback on answers to questions.
MAS Ultra - Student Edition (EBSCO) Help: Full-text articles from magazines & newspapers, pamphlets, reference books, biographies, and images. (Pre-college)
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO) Help: Full-text articles from magazines & journals, and other sources including including pamphlets, books, biographies, reports, etc.
Military & Government Collection (EBSCO) Help: Full-text journal articles and magazines on military and political topics, plus books, reports, government documents, etc.
netLibrary (netLibrary, Inc.): Enter here to create an account you can use to access Lone Star College's collection of over 33,000 netLibrary e-books.
OmniFile Mega (H. W. Wilson) (Montgomery only): General, multidisciplinary full-text database.
ProQuest Databases Help: Articles from journals, magazines, national newspapers; many scholarly journals. This link searches all ProQuest databases.
ProQuest Research Library (ProQuest) Help: Articles from journals, magazines, national newspapers; many scholarly journals.
ReferenceUSA (InfoUSA) (North Harris and HCPL/CyFair only): Directory of US & Canadian businesses, healthcare providers, and residents, compiled from multiple sources.
Texas Reference Center (EBSCO) Help: Over 80 full-text journals & books on Texas history, culture, and life, biographies of important Texans, and more.
Thomson Gale Databases (Gale): All Thomson Gale databases.
Visual Thesaurus (Thinkmap, Inc) Help: Interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates visual "word maps" that blossom with meanings and branch to related words.
Vocational & Career Collection (EBSCO) Help: Full text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals.
Westlaw Campus Research (Thomson West) Help: Legal research, business information and news sources.
World Almanac (Facts On File News Service): Full-text of World Almanac & Book of Facts since 1999, with ongoing updates, features such as "This Day in History"
World Almanac Encyclopedia (Facts On File News Service): Full-text of more than 22,000 articles from Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, with monthly updates and special reports.
World Book Online Reference Center (World Book) (CyFair and Tomball only): Searchable full text encyclopedia entries enhanced with audio and video.
WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch) Help: Searchable catalog of books and other materials in over 45,000 libraries worldwide. No full text.

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