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Agriculture – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
Access current and authoritative periodical content covering agriculture and its related fields.
America’s Newspapers Newspapers
Search for articles in newspapers, news magazines, and historical Texas newspapers.
Ancestry.com Websites
Historical records, photos, stories, and more, for your genealogy research.
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Biography – Gale In Context Articles & Journals
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Books and Authors – Gale
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Brainfuse Websites
An online tutoring service for students in grades K-12 as well as college, featuring one-on-one tutoring and self-paced study tools. Available in English and Spanish, live one-on-one tutoring with qualified tutors is available daily 10am to 9pm. Other study tools are available 24/7.
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Business – Gale OneFile
Understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through leading business and trade publications. Updated daily.
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Career Online High School
Career Online High School (COHS) is an online high school diploma and career certification program funded by Frisco Public Library. Residents of Frisco who have completed eighth grade and are 21 years old or older are eligible to apply.
Chilton Library Articles & Journals
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College – Gale In Context Articles & Journals
An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a wide array of subjects.
Communications and Mass Media – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
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Computer Science – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
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Contemporary Women’s Issues – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
Find timely and historically relevant content on issues that influence women’s lives across the globe.
Criminal Justice – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
Comprehensive periodical content for researchers studying law, law enforcement, forensic science, terrorism, and more.
Culinary Arts – Gale OneFile
Find a variety of information from major cooking and nutrition magazines as well as key reference titles.
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Diversity Studies – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
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EBSCO eBook Collection eBooks
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Economics and Theory – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
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Educator’s Reference Complete – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
Gain insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy. Best for educators, administrators, and education students.
Elementary – Gale In Context Articles & Journals
Introduce elementary students to database searching with resources featuring age-appropriate, curriculum-related content.
Entrepreneurship – Gale Business
Learn how to start, finance, or manage your small business. Includes sample business plans, how to guides, articles, and more.
Entrepreneurship – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
Analyze business insights, tips, strategies, and success stories. Updated daily. Best for business schools and entrepreneurs.
Environmental Studies – Gale In Context Articles & Journals
Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.
Environmental Studies and Policy – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
Investigate environmental issues with diverse perspectives from the scientific community, policymakers, and corporate interests.
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Family Search Websites
Find your family. Discover yourself.
Bring to life your family’s history by exploring the lives of those that came before you.
Fine Arts – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
Search millions of articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Diverse resource for serious fine arts students.
Fold3 Library Edition
Fold3® provides convenient access to military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served.
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Gale Databases
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Gale General OneFile Articles & Journals
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Gale Interactive Science Articles & Journals
Manipulate 3D interactive models to visualize and understand concepts in biology, chemistry, earth, and space science.
Gale Online Courses Courses
Learn something new with 360+ instructor-led online classes. Gale Courses supports libraries as educational institutions and gives community members easy access to lifelong learning opportunities including professional development, technology, and personal enrichment courses.
Gardening and Horticulture – Gale OneFile
Find millions of articles on the practical and scientific aspects of horticulture studies. For all horticultural enthusiasts.
Gender Studies – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
Discover balanced coverage of topics related to gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.
General Reference Collection – Gale eBooks
Explore this database of encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform. For multidisciplinary research.
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Handbook of Texas Articles & Journals
Texas history, geography, and culture gathered by the Texas State Historical Association.
Health and Medicine – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
Provides access to medical and professional periodicals, health and fitness magazines, and reference books and pamphlets. The database is designed for both nursing and allied health students as well as consumer health researchers. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.
Health and Wellness – Gale Articles & Journals
Search a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to alternative medical practices.
HeritageQuest
Discover your family history today.
High School – Gale In Context Articles & Journals
Explore thousands of topics across subjects including literature, science, history, and social issues using different sources.
High School Edition – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
Search magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference on a range of topics. Best for middle- and high-school students.
Home Improvement – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
Search home improvement topics such as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and more.
Hospitality and Tourism – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
Discover well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism industries.
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Information Science – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
Access articles covering all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology. Updated daily.
Informe Académico – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
Search across full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines from and about Latin America.
Insights – Gale Business
Research global companies and industries with in-depth analysis through current news, statistical data, and comprehensive reports.
Insurance and Liability – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
Discover information about physical and intellectual asset protection, from individuals to multinational corporations.
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Jobs and Career Accelerator (Learning Express) Websites
Job listings, resume and cover letter help, assessments, and organizational tools to help find the right career.
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Leadership and Management – Gale OneFile
Search authoritative periodical content covering topics like organizational dynamics, adult learning, and more. Updated daily.
Learning Express Library Courses Websites
A collection of interactive tutorials, practice tests, articles, flash cards and e-books patrons can use to improve academic skills in reading, writing, math and science as well as prepare for high-stakes exams.
Learning Express: ACT® and SAT® Test Preparation Center
Everything you need to reach your target scores on these important exams.
Learning Express: Adult Core Skills Center
Achieve your personal education and career goals.
Learning Express: Career Center Plus
Make your work goals a reality—start a new career or advance in your current field.
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Prepare for important exams like the ACT®, SAT®, AP® Tests, and more.
Learning Express: College Center Plus
Achieve your undergrad goals and prepare for future success.
Learning Express: College Success Skills Center
Tools for navigating campus, your courses, and life.
Learning Express: Computer Skills Center
Video courses to learn popular software and computer basics.
Learning Express: High School Equivalency Center
Guided support and preparation to help you earn a high school equivalency credential.
Legal Forms – Gale Websites
This online resource brings together thousands of authentic, national and state-specific legal forms for everything from wills, bankruptcy, and divorce to forms relevant to small business owners.
Life Magazine Archive, 1936-2000
A comprehensive cover-to-cover collection of Life Magazine issues, spanning its very first issue in November 1936 through December 2000, including images from the famed photojournalism magazine.
LinkedIn Learning Courses Websites
LinkedIn Learning is a leading online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology, and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. Login to the desktop or web-based version before logging into the app. On the app version, use 'friscolibrary' as the Library ID.
Literature – Gale Articles & Journals
Gale Literary Sources integrates full-text literary content with metadata and subject indexing and provides workflow tools to analyze information. You can research authors and their works, literary movements and genres. Search across your library's Literature databases to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews.
Literature Resource Center – Gale
Find up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers from all eras.
LitFinder – Gale Articles & Journals
Access literary works and authors throughout history, including full-text poems, plays, short stories, speeches, and more.
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Mango Courses Websites
Mango is a language learning system that teaches conversation skills, vocabulary, grammar, and culture. The app is available for free for Apple or Android devices.
Middle School – Gale In Context Articles & Journals
Explore the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, history, literature, and more.
Military and Intelligence – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
Search scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of past and present military affairs. Updated daily.
Military Database Articles & Journals
The Military Database covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more.
Miss Humblebee’s Academy
Discover an interactive learning program for children ages three to six. Aligned with preschool and elementary standards.
Morningstar Websites
Analyze stocks, mutual funds, indexes, sectors, or your portfolio. Tutorials available for those new to Morningstar and investing.
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National Geographic Kids – Gale Presents Articles & Journals
Explore amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space. Best for children aged 6–14.
National Geographic Magazine Archive – Gale Presents
Digital magazine archive featuring issues from October 1888 to December 2020.
National Geographic Virtual Library – Gale Presents
Browse this cross-searchable platform for research insight from journalism's most trusted name in exploration and discovery.
New York Times Newspapers
Enjoy unlimited articles on NYTimes.com and in the NYTimes app. Access anything from 1851 to the present day in The New York Times Archives. Access exclusive features and newsletters, along with previews of new media releases.
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News – Gale OneFile Newspapers
Access major U.S. and international newspapers online to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, or other fields.
Newspapers.com (Texas Edition)
Newspapers.com Texas Edition is an online archive providing access to historical Texas newspapers, offering a valuable resource for research, genealogy, and local history.
Newsweek Magazine Archive, 1933-2012
An archive of Newsweek magazine, one of the premier US weeklies of the 20th -21st centuries, from its launch in 1933 to 2012 (when the print edition originally stopped).
Nursing & Allied Health – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
Research full-text titles cited in CINAHL and other resources to support specialized care, treatment, and patient management.
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Opposing Viewpoints – Gale in Context Articles & Journals
OVIC is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of todays hottest social issues. Topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, and audio files.
OverDrive Digital Audiobooks
Download digital audiobooks. Available to Frisco residents.
OverDrive eBooks eBooks
Download eBooks. Available to Frisco residents.
OverDrive Magazines Magazines
Access digital magazines for free on your computer or mobile device. Available to Frisco residents.
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Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
Access academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine.
Pop Culture Studies – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
Access scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture.
Popular Magazines – Gale OneFile Magazines
Access the most searched magazines across Gale OneFile focusing on current events, sports, science, and health issues.
Portal to Texas History, The Articles & Journals
The Portal is a gateway to Texas history materials for educators, lifelong learners, and researchers. It includes collections from museums, archives, historical societies, libraries, and private collectors throughout the state of Texas. It is maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Projects Unit.
ProQuest Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database
Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection offers full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. It also includes specialized, editorially-curated A&I resources as well as the renowned AGRICOLA and TOXLINE databases and content previously available in ESPM (Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management) and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS).
ProQuest Biological Science Database
This database includes the renowned Biological Sciences, MEDLINE, and TOXLINE databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. The database includes specialized, editorially-curated A&I resources providing access to the extensive variety of biology’s cutting edge research, with applications to medicine, technology and the environment.
ProQuest Databases
The ProQuest platform makes hundreds of full text and A&I (Abstracts & Indexes) collections available to researchers around the world. The ProQuest platform hosts multidisciplinary content containing scholarly journals, books, video & audio, dissertations & theses, newspapers and more.
ProQuest Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database
The Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database includes the renowned Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA), Oceanic Abstracts, and Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA). It provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. The database includes specialized, editorially-curated A&I resources studying the critical issues affecting Earth’s air, land, and water environments.
ProQuest GeoRef Articles & Journals
The GeoRef database, established by the American Geosciences Institute (AGI) in 1966, provides access to the most comprehensive geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef contains millions of references to geoscience maps, serial, and non-serial literature. The database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey.
ProQuest Materials Science & Engineering Database
The Materials Science & Engineering Database includes the renowned METADEX, Copper and Polymer Library databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings and government publications. For those researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorially-curated A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline.
ProQuest Military Database
The Military Database covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more. An important benefit of the Military Database is its content diversity. Included are scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
ProQuest SciTech Premium Collection Articles & Journals
The SciTech Premium Collection includes the Natural Science Collection and the Technology Collection and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
Psychology – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
Find authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology.
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Recursos Para Hispanohablantes Articles & Journals
A center for native Spanish speakers to learn basic academic skills including how to prepare for the GED en Espanol, Herramientas de aprendizaje, carrera y ciudadan en espanol.
Reference Solutions Websites
Access more than 36 million U.S. businesses and 260 million U.S. residents for your business or consumer research. Search by location, SIC code, business size, and more.
Religion and Philosophy – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
Research the impact of religion on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language. Updated daily.
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Science – Gale in Context Articles & Journals
Science In Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of todays most significant science topics.
Science – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
Access information on the latest developments across a range of scientific disciplines. Updated daily.
Scribner Writer Series – Gale Literature Articles & Journals
Browse original scholarly essays on authors from around the world. Places authors and their works in personal and historical context.
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TeachingBooks.net Websites
Browse thousands of resources to enhance the reading experience for many children's and young adult books.
Texas Digital Sanborn Maps Articles & Journals
660,000 maps chart the growth and development of over 12,000 American towns and cities.
TexShare Databases Websites
TexShare collection of over 60 databases for research, genealogy, history, science, technology, business, health, medicine, and literature.
Call 972-292-5669 for login.
Time Magazine Archive, 1923-2000
An extensive collection of the prominent weekly news magazine dating back to its first issue in March 1923 through December 2000, presented in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format.
TumbleBook Library eBooks
A digital library of animated talking picture books.
TumbleMath Websites
Comprehensive collection of math picture books.
Twayne’s Author Series – Gale Literature Articles & Journals
Find in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers. Includes influences of literary movements.
Twentieth-Century American Poetry Articles & Journals
This unparalleled collection includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song.
Twentieth-Century English Poetry Articles & Journals
A collection of more than 600 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Thom Gunn, Fleur Adcock, Paul Muldoon, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy, and incorporating the poets in The Faber Poetry Library.
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U.S. History – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
Search balanced coverage of events in U.S. history. Best for novice historians and academic researchers. Updated daily.
Udemy – Gale Presents
Udemy offers nearly 20,000 top-rated online video courses in areas of business, tech, and personal development across 75+ different categories.
USA Trade Online Websites
Access current and cumulative U.S. export and import data.
Access by signing up at USA Trade for an individual account.
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Vocations and Careers – Gale OneFile
Research a vocation, find an appropriate institution of learning, and get assistance on job searches and maintaining a career.
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Wall Street Journal Newspapers
Get the latest coverage of business, politics, entertainment, sports and more with complimentary access to The Wall Street Journal’s online news source on your laptop, tablet or smartphone.
Follow these steps to access the Wall Street Journal from outside the Library:
1. If you don't have a wsj.com account, you will need to create one on your initial visit.
2. Simply click here, opens a new window to create your account, and you can start using wsj.com, opens a new window immediately.
3. Your access will be available for the next 3 days.
4. After 3 days, simply come back and click the above link again and login as an existing user with the same username and password you originally created.
War and Terrorism – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
Gain valuable insight into conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale.
Washington Post, The Newspapers
Stay updated with breaking news, live coverage, investigations, analysis, video, photos and opinions from The Washington Post.
Follow these steps to access The Post from outside the Library:
- Click this offsite access link, opens a new window specific to Frisco Library.
- Register or login by entering your email and create a password when prompted.
- Your unrestricted access is available for 7 days. On the eighth day, use the offsite link above to login and start a new 7-day access period.
World History – Gale OneFile Articles & Journals
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