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ARTICLES

Academic Search Complete
LSC-CyFair Users | HCPL Users
(EBSCO) Full text of articles from 6500+ journals, magazines and newspapers, plus image collections.
Humanities Full Text
LSC-CyFair Users | HCPL Users
(EBSCO/H.W. Wilson) Full-text articles from over 330 journals encompassing all fields of humanities and periodicals dating to 1910.
JSTOR
LSC-CyFair Users
(Mellon Foundation) Includes full-text back issues of selected peer-reviewed journals in such areas as history, statistics, sociology, literature, and economics.
Project MUSE
LSC-CyFair Users
(Johns Hopkins University Press) Full-text articles from "over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals."

REFERENCE & EBOOKS

Credo Reference
LSC-CyFair Users | HCPL Users
(Credo) Includes materials from over 650 full-text reference books on a variety of topics in higher education, including art, business, history, languages, literature, science, criminal justice, and political science.
Ebook Central
LSC-CyFair Users | HCPL Users
(ProQuest) Over 100,000 ebook titles covering a full range of academic topics. General reference works are also included. Read on your mobile device using Adobe Digital Editions.
EBSCO eBook Collection
LSC-CyFair Users | HCPL Users
(EBSCO) Search complete electronic books. Set up a free account to download to your device. Visit EBSCO's instructions on how to read on a mobile device using Adobe Digital Editions.
EBSCOhost Image Collection
LSC-CyFair Users
(EBSCO) The Image Collection database consists of more than 1 million total images in these categories, broken down as follows: Photographs; Images from Canadian Press, Getty Images, and UPI; Maps from Antenna Audio; and Photographs from public domain sources.The images consist of a wide array of photos and maps, with an emphasis on world news and events. Other areas of coverage include contemporary and historical photos of people, places, and the natural kingdom.
Oxford Art Online (includes Grove Art)
LSC-CyFair Users
(Oxford University Press) Full-text art reference (including Grove Art) covering all the visual arts from prehistory to the present with links to 5,000 images the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Art Images for College Teaching (AICT), and the Artists Rights Society and text from Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

PLAYS

Play Index
LSC-CyFair Users
(EBSCO/H.W. Wilson) Thousands of plays and over 600 monologues written or translated since antiquity and published from 1949 to present.

VIDEOS

Academic Video Online: Premium
LSC-CyFair Users
(Alexander Street Press) Full-length videos on various topics, documentaries, instructional materials and limited historical news reports.
Films on Demand
LSC-CyFair Users
(Films Media Group) High-quality, educational streaming video from companies such as Films for the Humanities, BBC, and PBS.
Kanopy
LSC-CyFair Users | HCPL Users
(Kanopy) Classic cinema, independent films, and top documentaries in streaming video. Includes Media Education Foundation Collection.

WEBSITES

Digital Public Library of America - free web
(DPLA) Over 44 million images, texts, videos, and sound file—s from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the country.
Performing Arts Encyclopedia - free web
(Library of Congress) A guide to the performing arts collections (both print and digital) and exhibitions at the Library of Congress. Includes digitized items from the collections and topical compositions such as Civil War Sheet Music and American Choral music.

WEBSITES - ART

Google Arts & Culture - free web
(Google) A collaborative project of Google and 151 acclaimed art partners from across 40 countries to include over 30,000 works of art from sculpture to architecture and drawings, all in one page.

Virtual Reality App:
Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History - free web
(The Metropolitan Museum of Art) Searchable chronological, geographical, and thematic world history of art from the museum's vast collection.

WEBSITES - MUSIC

Aria Database - free web
The Aria Database provides basic information and translations on operas and operatic arias. Sound samples are provided of arias and basic information on available scores and full audio files for purchase.
Art Song Central - free web
An index of Leider and Art Songs, searchable by title, composer, time period.
Freegal Music - free web
(Freegal® Music) Offers access to about 15 million songs, including Sony Music’s catalog of legendary artists, and over 40,000 music videos. Unlimited streaming and three downloads per week.
RISM International Inventory of Musical Sources - free web
(Répertoire International des Sources Musicales) The International Inventory of Musical Sources (RISM) aims to comprehensively document the world’s musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory and libretti stored in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections. The online-catalogue offered here contains around 700,000 references almost exclusively to music manuscripts.

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BIOGRAPHY

Biography: Gale in Context
LSC-CyFair & HCPL Users
(Gale) Includes over 350,000 international personalities from past and present.
Literary Reference Center
LSC-CyFair & HCPL Users
(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.
Literature Resource Center
LSC-CyFair Users
(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
LSC-CyFair Users
(Oxford University Press) Comprises the full text of Grove Art, The Dictionary of Art and The Oxford Companion to Western Art.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
LSC-CyFair Users
(ProQuest) Over 30 million digital pages of seventeen American newspapers dating back to the 18th century.

GENEOLOGY

Ancestry Library Edition - On-Campus, HCPL Workstation Access Only
LSC-CyFair & HCPL Users
Genealogy data including census and immigration records, directories, biographies, newspapers, and periodicals.
Heritage Quest
LSC-CyFair Users | H CPL Users
(ProQuest/UMI) Help Genealogical research materials including census records, military records, and family and local histories beginning with the 13 original colonies.

REFERENCE & EBOOKS

Credo Reference
LSC-CyFair Users | HCPL Users
(Credo) Includes materials from over 650 full-text reference books on a variety of topics in higher education, including art, business, history, languages, literature, science, criminal justice, and political science.
Ebook Central
LSC-CyFair Users | HCPL Users
(ProQuest) Over 100,000 ebook titles covering a full range of academic topics. General reference works are also included. Read on your mobile device using Adobe Digital Editions.
EBSCO eBook Collection
LSC-CyFair Users | HCPL Users
(EBSCO) Search complete electronic books. Set up a free account to download to your device. Visit EBSCO's instructions on how to read on a mobile device using Adobe Digital Editions.
Texas Digital Sanborn Maps
LSC-CyFair Users | HCPL Users
(Sanborn Maps) Historic property and land-use maps for Texas towns and cities from the late 1800's to mid-1950's.
Texas Reference Center
LSC-CyFair Users | HCPL Users
(EBSCO) Over 80 full-text journals & books on Texas history, culture, and life, biographies of important Texans, and more.

WEBSITES

Digital Public Library of America - free web
(DPLA) Over 44 million images, texts, videos, and sound file—s from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the country.
Elephind - free web
(Veridian/DL Consulting) Digitized historical newspaper archives from around the world.
Family Search - free web
Freedom on the Move - free web
(Cornell University) A growing database that sources and digitizes fugitive slave ads from North America, which collectively, provide detailed information about the experiences of the enslaved people.
Handbook of Texas - free web
Harris County Archives - free web
Harris County Public Library Digital Archive - free web
Texas Almanac - free web
United States Census Bureau - free web
(U.S. Census Bureau) Here you'll find a variety of data gathered by the United States Census Bureau on the population of the United States.

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eHCPL
LSC-CyFair and HCPL Users
Download and/or view digital materials (such as books, audio, music, magazines, and video).

EBOOKS – FICTION/NONFICTION / LEISURE

Biblioteca TumbleBooks
LSC-CyFair and HCPL Users
Libros electrónicos para niños.
OverDrive via HCPL
LSC-CyFair & HCPL Users
Download eBooks, Audiobooks, digital magazines, and stream video.
Tumblebooks
LSC-CyFair & HCPL Users
Electronic books for children in English, Spanish & French

EBOOKS – NONFICTION / ACADEMIC

Ebook Central
LSC-CyFair Users | HCPL Users
(ProQuest) Over 100,000 ebook titles covering a full range of academic topics. General reference works are also included. Read on your mobile device using Adobe Digital Editions.
EBSCO eBook Collection
LSC-CyFair Users | HCPL Users
(EBSCO) Search complete electronic books. Set up a free account to download to your device. Visit EBSCO's instructions on how to read on a mobile device using Adobe Digital Editions.
O’Reilly for Public Libraries (formerly Safari Tech Books)
LSC-CyFair & HCPL Users
(ProQuest) Here you'll find technology eBooks, interactive learning courses and more ranging from basic computer use to more advanced topics for programmers, coders and other IT professionals.

EBOOKS – REFERENCE

Credo Reference
LSC-CyFair Users | HCPL Users
(Credo) Includes materials from over 650 full-text reference books on a variety of topics in higher education, including art, business, history, languages, literature, science, criminal justice, and political science.

MAGAZINES

Flipster via HCPL
LSC-CyFair & HCPL Users
(EBSCO) Over 100 popular magazines, including back issues, available online. TIP: When logging in on the Flipster app choose "Harris Co Public Library" rather than your local branch to make sure your library card number is recognized.
OverDrive via HCPL
LSC-CyFair & HCPL Users
Download eBooks, Audiobooks, digital magazines, and stream video.

READERS ADVISORY

Book Review Digest Plus
LSC-CyFair Users | HCPL Users
(EBSCO) Full-text reviews in journals and magazines from 1983 to the present.
Novelist K-8 Plus
LSC-CyFair & HCPL Users
Here you'll find reading suggestions for both fiction and nonfiction for readers in grades K-12.
Novelist Plus
LSC-CyFair & HCPL Users
Here you'll find reading suggestions for both fiction and nonfiction for readers of all ages.
Read the Books
LSC-CyFair & HCPL Users
Here you'll find access to area school reading lists and specialized searches of kids' books in the HCPL catalog.
Talking Book Program - free web
"TBP (Talking Book Program) 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."(About TBP)
TeachingBooks
LSC-CyFair & HCPL Users
Here you'll find resources to support the reading experience of books read by students in K-12.

INTERLIBRARY LOAN

WorldCat - free web
Here you'll find reading suggestions for both fiction and nonfiction for readers in grades K-12.

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