Databases by Subject:
Not a complete list of Friendswood Public Library databases.
This index is designed to provide convenient access to a number of quality
databases by subject.
Automotive
Biography
Books & Reading
Thousands of online books available to read on your computer screen.
Provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information.
Business
Careers
Vocational and Career Collection
Encyclopedias & Reference
Funk & Wagnall’s New Encyclopedia
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized
reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Español
Spanish language database focusing on business and economics. Contains more than
60,000 bibliographic records.
A unique collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American
and Spanish publishers.
A Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals
published by renowned Latin American medical publishers.
Contains Regional Business News, Medline, MasterFile Premier, and Military
& Government Collection databases.
Genealogy
Research materials to trace family lineage.
Health & Medicine
This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and
integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
Ebsco Health Source Academic Edition
Search scholarly full text medical journals.
Ebsco Health Source Consumer Edition
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to
libraries worldwide.
Gale Health and Wellness Resource Center
A one-stop resource to answer your health questions.
Health Reference Center Academic
multi-source database that provides access to the full text of nursing and allied
health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources.
MEDLINE® provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing,
dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and
much more.
History
Bibliography of Native North Americans
A bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture,
history, and life.
History Study Center is a collection of primary and secondary sources on global
history from ancient times to the present day.
World History Collection™ offers a global look at history with content from
Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. World
History Collection contains cover-to-cover full text for 150 titles, including many
peer-reviewed journals.
Facts On File World News Digest is a permanent record of the essential
facts of the news as reported in the major newspapers and news
magazines of the
world.
Homework
Full text database of peer-reviewed academic journals, offering critical information
from many sources found in no other database. Covers nearly all areas of study.
Explore
newspapers, magazines, and journals, plus multi-media & radio/television
transcripts.
This comprehensive database, designed specifically for high school students,
contains full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines.
Middle Search® Plus contains full text for more than 140 popular, middle school
magazines.
Primary Search®, designed specifically for elementary school libraries, contains
full text for nearly 70 popular, elementary school magazines.
This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political &
economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in
today's classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints.
Languages
This premier online software program is a
unique way to learn a foreign language.
Mango offers courses in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, French,
German, Italian,
Greek, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, and
English. Mango is used
world-wide by travelers,
heritage learners, students, language enthusiasts, corporations, and schools.
Law & Government
Containing full text for more than 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly
law journals, this database is an authoritative source for information on current
issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.
Military & Government Collection
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and
government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic
journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of these sites.
Literature & Literary Criticism
Contemporary Authors presents complete and up-to-date biographical and
bibliographical information and references on more than
125,000
international authors.
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Contemporary Literary Criticism offers full text critical essays on over 800
contemporary authors and their works, with biographical, critical, principal
works, and further study information.
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Dictionary of Literary Biography provides over 12,000 biographical and full-text
critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary figures from
all eras and genres.
The most comprehensive and current online database on authors and their works,
the
bibliographies, and work overviews covering authors from every genre, time
period and discipline.
Magazines & Journals
Full text database of peer-reviewed academic journals, offering critical information
from many sources found in no other database. Covers nearly all areas of study.
Delivers one of the largest general reference collections of periodical and digital
media content designed specifically for libraries of all kinds.
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides
full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far
back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also
contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and 164,424 primary source documents, as well
as an Image Collection of over 453,000 photos, maps & flags.
Newspapers
InfoTrac
Newspapers provides access to more than 1,000 major U.S.
regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from
around the world.
Newspaper Source provides
cover-to-cover full text for 185 national (
The database also contains selective full text for 392 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television
& radio news transcripts are also provided.
Science
& Technology
This database contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural
Library. Coverage for AGRICOLA dates back to 1970 and includes more than 4.6 million citations. The citations
are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports
related to agriculture.
Contains nearly 300 full text journals and magazines covering topics such as computer science, programming,
artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software.
Science and Technology Collection
The Science & Technology Collection™ contains over 800 leading full text journals covering relevant aspects
of the scientific and technical community. Topics include aeronautics, astrophysics, biology, chemistry, computer
technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, marine sciences and materials science.
Science online offers a comprehensive, authoritative overview of the sciences. Diagrams, experiments,
essays, definitions, and biographies are arranged by topic and contain thousands of hyperlinks that create
thematic paths through the content. Science online includes more than 600 science experiments covering
key principles in science, indexed by grade range and subject category.
Texas
Explore Texas with articles on people, places, and events.
Search Ebsco resources for Texas-related information.