Houston Public Library Research

* These resources require a Houston Public Library Power Card for access from your home or office.

• Academic Search Complete (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Full-text articles in all subject areas from all types of magazines and newspapers including scholarly publications. *

• Academic360.com: Jobs in Higher Education

  Guide for the academic job hunter.

• Accelerated Reader Bookfinder

  Locate books appropriate to a student's reading level.  Check with your student's teacher or school for specific details and approved AR lists.

• Access NewspaperARCHIVE (In library use only)

  The largest historic newspaper source online containing tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700s.

• Articles by Magazine Title

  Listing of all magazines and journals available in print or in full-text online in the Houston Public Library collection.

• Dragonsource

  Chinese language periodical database.*

• Fuente Academica (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Provides the full-text of Spanish language scholarly journals.*

  Ofrece artículos academicos completos.

• Gale Power Cross Search

  Searches all the databases supplied to the library by Gale. Search for any term or phrase and find articles from thousands of magazines, journals, newspapers and books along with videos, images and podcast content.

• General OneFile

  Provides access to periodical and news information on a diverse set of topics.*

   

• JSTOR

  Scholarly journal archive covering information in the arts, science, business, history, education and much more.*

• Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts

  Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

• Making of America

  Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

• MasterFILE Premier (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Articles covering all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more.*

• Primary Search (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Articles from children's magazines and pamphlets; designed for the elementary school student.*

• Reader's Guide Retrospective

  Index of the most popular general-interest periodicals published between 1890 through 1982. NOTE:  This database is now being provided by EBSCO and has a new interface.*

• Serials Directory (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials.*

• Student Research Center (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  A search interface designed specifically for secondary school students that searches across all EBSCO databases owned by HPL.*

• TOPICsearch (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in todays classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints.*

• Ulrich's Periodicals Directory

  Detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world.*