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Research Databases: Encyclopedias & Reference

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Most Useful:
  • Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO) Features 25,000 articles with selected images about various subject areas.
  • World Book Online (LSC-CyFair, LSC-Tomball, & HCPL)
    (NOTE: This link refers you to the HCPL page where you will see the World Book link and select it.)
    (World Book, Inc.) Searchable full-text encyclopedia entries enhanced with audio and video.

Also Try:

  • Chilton Online Auto Repair Manuals (LSC-CyFair, LSC-Tomball, & HCPL)
    (Cengage/Chilton) Includes "photographs, diagnostics designed by instructors, step-by-step repair procedures, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) maintenance schedules, wiring diagrams, recalls and Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs) for automobiles and light trucks."
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library (LSCS Libraries)
    (Thomson Gale) Includes full-text, searchable reference sets in such areas as literature, business, education, game programming, and social sciences.
  • Historical Stock Quotes-Big Charts - free web
    (MarketWatch, Inc./Dow Jones & Company) Allows users to input a company's stock symbol and find high/low/closing stock prices for currently-traded companies from 1970 to the present.
  • ReferenceUSA (LSC-CyFair, LSC-Tomball, & HCPL)
    (NOTE: This link will refer you to the HCPL page where you will see the ReferenceUSA link and select it.)
    ReferenceUSA (LSC-North Harris)
    (InfoUSA) Search over 12 million U.S. businesses; 102 million U.S. residents; and 683,000 U.S. health care providers by various criteria.
  • Routledge Encyclopedia Of Philosophy (LSC-CyFair)
    (Routledge) This title covers philosophical thought from antiquity to the present, including entries on individuals and theories.
  • The Serials Directory
    (EBSCO) provides "nearly 212,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers; data from nearly 108,235 publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet addresses; and Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classifications for every entry."
  • Yahoo! Finance-Historical Stock Prices - free web
    (Commodity Systems, Inc. (CSI)/Hemscott Americas) Enter a company stock symbol in the "Get Quotes" search box. Then click the "Historical Prices" link in the left margin. Select a date range (back to the late 1970's) and specify daily, weekly, monthly or dividend information. View the resulting table and/or download it to a spreadsheet.
TexShare DatabasesTexShare databases are funded in part by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
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