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LSC Update

LSC will re-open access to buildings Monday, Aug. 31. Student Services are currently available online. Visit LoneStar.edu/Fall2020 for more information about fall classes.

Research Databases: Biography & Genealogy

Off-campus access: the system will prompt you to enter your 14-digit library barcode number located on the back of your college ID/library card. No college ID or library card? Request a college ID or library card barcode number.

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  • Credo Reference
    (Credo) Includes materials from over 650 reference books on a variety of topics in higher education, including art, business, history, languages, literature, science, criminal justice, and political science.
  • Gale in Context: Biography
    (Gale) Discover the world's most influential people by searching narrative biographies, news, magazine, and multimedia content.
  • Gale Literature Resource Center
    (Gale) Full-text journal articles, critical essays, work overviews & summaries, and author biographies from authoritative sources. Note: Use the Person Search and filter results to Biographies.
  • Oxford Art Online 
    (Oxford University Press) includes Grove Art  Full text art reference covering all the visual from prehistory to the 1990's with image links.
  • Oxford Music Online (LSC-Tomball & LSC University Park)
    (Oxford University Press) Online music reference source includes articles from the Oxford Companion to Music, Grove dictionaries of American music, jazz , opera, and musical instruments, and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music.
  • ProQuest Historical Newspapers 
    (ProQuest) Over 30 million digital pages of seventeen American newspapers dating back to the 18th century.
  • Texas Reference Center
    (EBSCO) Help
    Over 80 full-text journals & books on Texas history, culture, and life, biographies of important Texans, and more.

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