Online Databases

A valid Richardson Public Library card is required to access these databases from outside the library. 

GENERAL INFORMATION 

• Academic Search Complete
  Provides full-text for more than 9,500 scholarly publications.
• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
  Over 25,000 encyclopedia entries covering a variety of subject areas
• General Reference Center Gold
  A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications.  Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.
• General OneFile
  A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.  Millions of full-text articles, many with images.  Updated daily.
• InfoTrac Newspapers
  Growing collection of over 400 newspapers from the U.S. and around the world, including several Texas newspapers.  Dates of coverage vary with start dates beginning January of 1996, and a 365 day rolling file for the New York Times.
• MasterFILE Premier
  A multidisciplinary database designed for public libraries that provides full-text for nearly 2,000 general reference publications.
• Military & Government Collection
  Provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.  Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government.
• netLibrary
  Access to 28,000 e-book and digital audiobook titles, including the latest information technology titles, reference essentials, business and economics resources, best-selling fiction, and more.  To access netLibrary, users will need to create a free account from a library computer.  Once an account has been set up, netLibrary can be accessed from home, school, or office.
• netLibrary Downloadable Audio Books 
• NewsBank NewsFile & Dallas Morning News
  Index to and full-text articles of the Dallas Morning News and selected articles from other newspapers.
• Newspaper Source
  Selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers.  The database also contains full-text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full-text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.  This database is updated daily.
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
  Nearly 575 full-text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles.  Covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.  Nearly every full-text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO.  This database is updated daily.
• Religion and Philosophy Collection
  This database provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.  Offers more than 300 full-text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies.  This database is updated daily.

BOOKS AND LITERATURE 

• 20th Century Poetry Collections 
• Contemporary Authors
  Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on all of the more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors whose entries appear in Contemporary Authors and Contemporary Authors New Revision Series.  Search for an author by name, title of work, nationality, date and place of birth and death, subject/genre, personal and career information, awards and honors, and more.  Updated monthly,
• Contemporary Literary Criticism - Select
  A collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors.  Each CLC-Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study.  Search by author name, title of work, nationality, subject/genre, ethnicity, critic name, and more.  Updated monthly.
• Dictionary of Literary Biography
  Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
• Literature Resource Center
  Designed to meet the research needs of undergraduate and high school students.  Covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, and other writers.
• netLibrary
  Access to 28,000 e-book and digital audiobook titles, including the latest information technology titles, reference essentials, business and economics resources, best-selling fiction, and more.  To access netLibrary, users will need to create a free account from a library computer.  Once an account has been set up, netLibrary can be accessed from home, school, or office.
• Scribner Writers Series
  15-20 page, signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from the Scribner print series. 
• Twayne Authors Series
  Comprises 600 full-text titles from the Twayne Literary Masters series, 200 each from Twayne World, U.S. and English authors.
• WorldCat (Access inside the Library) 
• WorldCat (Access outside the Library)

BUSINESS 

• Academic Search Complete
  Provides full-text for more than 9,500 scholarly publications.
• Business Source Complete
  A scholarly business database, providing a collection of bibliographic and full-text content.  Contains far more active, peer-reviewed, business related journals than any other database currently available.  As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886 are included in addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals.
• Dallas Morning News & NewsBank NewsFile
  Index to and full-text articles of the Dallas Morning News and selected articles from other newspapers.
• General Business File ASAP
  Analyzes company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics.  Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full-text images available.
• InfoTrac Newspapers
  Growing collection of over 400 newspapers from the U.S. and around the world, including several Texas newspapers.  Dates of coverage vary with start dates beginning January of 1996, and a 365 day rolling file for the New York Times.
• ReferenceUSA
  Profiles of more than 13 million U.S. businesses and 120 million U.S. residents.  The database is useful for compiling mailing lists and offers the capability to limit searches by zip code, city, state, sales, number of employees, and other options.
• Regional Business News
  This database provides comprehensive full-text coverage for regional business publications.  Incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural area within the United States.  This database is updated daily.

GENEALOGY AND HISTORY 

• Ancestry Library Edition (Available in Library only)
  Coverage of the United States and the United Kingdom, including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada and other areas.
• 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 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada.  Data of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present.
• Handbook of Texas
  A multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association.
• Heritage Quest
  Collection of genealogical information covering America since the late 1700s.  Collections include census images from 1790 to 1930; 25,000 family and local history books; Revolutionary War records; Freedman's Bank Records; and the Periodical Source Index (PERSI) covering over 6,500 genealogical periodicals since 1800.
• Texas Digital Sanborn Maps
  Large-scale historical maps of selected towns and cities.  Sanborn maps are valuable historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods.  This includes information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors.  The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers.
• Texas Reference Center
   Includes more than 80 full-text journals and books about Texas history, ethnic & cultural diversity, gender studies, literature, public health, business as well as home & garden and sports & leisure.  This database contains biographies as well as newspapers containing Texas and national news coverage.
• World History Collection
  A global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East.  This database contains cover-to-cover full-text for nearly 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals.  Full-text dates as far back as 1964.

HEALTH AND MEDICINE 

• Alt HealthWatch
  Alternative health database provides full-text for 180 publications in the collection, including full-text for many peer-reviewed journals.  Provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.
• Health Reference Center Academic
  Multi-source database provides access to the full-text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in InfoTrac's Health Reference Center.
• Health Source - Consumer Edition
  Consumer health information providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences, and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.  Features searchable full-text for nearly 150 journals. This database is updated daily.
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
  This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.  Also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.  This database is updated daily.
• 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 with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

HOMEWORK AND EDUCATION 

• ERIC
  The Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digest along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
• Kids Search
  Resources selected specifically for primary and middle school students.  Search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results.  Results can be easily sorted by source type --magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.
• MAS Ultra--School Edition
  Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full-text for more than 700 popular, high school magazines.  Also provides more than 500 full-text pamphlets, more than 350 full-text reference books, 85,000 biographies, 100,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,000 photos, maps, and flags.  This database is updated daily.
• Middle Search Plus
  Full-text for 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research.  All full-text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full-text information dates as far back as 1990.  Also contains 85,000 biographies, 100,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,000 photos, maps, and flags.
• Primary Search
  Full-text for nearly 70 popular magazines for elementary school research.  All full-text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full-text information dates as far back as 1990.  This database is updated daily.
• Professional Development Collection
  Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles.  This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.  The most comprehensive collection of full-text education journals in the world. 
• Searchasaurus
  A full-text database for elementary school research and reading.
• Testing and Education Reference Center 
  Current information on colleges and universities, available scholarships and financial aid; eBooks on test preparation; preparatory online entrance tests and study aids.
• TOPICsearch
  This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms.  Contains full-text for over 139,800 articles from more than 4,800 diverse sources.
• Vocational and Career Collection
  Designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public.  This collection provides full-text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals. 

LAW 

• Legal Collection
  This database contains full text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals.  The Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.
• Gale LegalForms
  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.
• Powerspeak LanguagesPowerspeak Languages includes a combination of scored online activities, exercises, lessons and games. There are five language courses -- Spanish, French, German, Mandarin Chinese and English for Spanish speakers.

LIBRARIAN'S REFERENCE SHELF 

• Serials Directory 
  Provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials.  It contains over 212,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers; data from over 108,000 publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet addresses.
• TDNet Journal Locator (Access inside the Library)
• WorldCat (Access inside the Library) 
• WorldCat (Access outside the Library)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 

• Agricola
  This database contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library.  Coverage dates back to 1970 and includes more than 2.5 million citations.  The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.
• Computer Source
  Information and current trends in high technology.  This database offers full-text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.
• Ebsco Encyclopedia of Animals
  In-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals.
• GreenFILE
  Information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment.  Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
• Information Science and Technology Abstracts
  A leading database in the areas of information science.  It indexes journal articles from more than 450 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings and patents, with ongoing comprehensive coverage of the most important periodicals in this field.  Coverage dates back to the mid 1960s.
• Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts
  Provides abstracts and indexing for literature related to personal computing products and developments in business, the Internet, the home, and all other applied areas.  Over 400 of the most important trade publications, mainstream computer magazines, and professional journals are covered, including those that focus on specific topics such as Macintosh and Windows platforms, programming, web development and more.
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
  Nearly 575 full-text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles.  Covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.  Nearly every full-text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO.  This database is updated daily.
• Science and Technology Collection
  Contains over 800 leading full-text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community.  Topics include aeronautics, astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, and materials for science.  In addition to the full-text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,700 publications.

EN ESPANOL 

• Consumer Health Complete
  El recurso solo más complete para contenido de salud orientado por consumidor.  Esta base de datos de texto lleno cubre temas como envejecido, cáncer, diabetes, medicinas y alcohol. buena forma fisica, y nutrición.
• Fuente Academica
  Esta base de datos multidisciplinaria ofrece contendio completo en negocios y economia, ciencias médicas, ciencias politicas, leyes, ciencias de computación, ciencias de información y bibliotecas, literatura, lingűística, historia, filosofía y teologia.
• MedicLatina
  Esta exclusiva base de datos proporciona acceso al texto completo de casi 100 revistas especializadas en medicina y arbitradas.
• Economia y Negocios
  Esta base de datos en español, que está especializada en economia y negocios, engloba más de 60,000 registros bibliográficos.  Incluye más de 200 publicaciones periódicas de España y Latinoamérca.
• Salud Espanol
  Provee reportes completos basados en evidencias y fichas de datos relacionados a todos los aspectos de la salud y el bienestar.  

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