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Search for articles in newspapers, news magazines, and historical Texas newspapers.

Historical records, photos, stories, and more, for your genealogy research. 

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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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.

Get the detailed information you need to tackle vehicle maintenance and repairs.

Sign In to use authoritative ebooks in Spanish provided by e-Libro Premium Library.

EBSCO eBooks are online versions of print books.

Find your family. Discover yourself.
Bring to life your family’s history by exploring the lives of those that came before you.

Fold3® provides convenient access to military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served.

Quickly access articles from a database of scholarly journals and other trusted periodicals. Best for academic research.

Answer the age-old question, 'What do I read next?' Search and match reading interests to books, authors, genres, or topics.

Learn how to start, finance, or manage your small business. Includes sample business plans, how to guides, articles, and more.

Research global companies and industries with in-depth analysis through current news, statistical data, and comprehensive reports.

From student favorites like Gale In Context suite to our flagship InfoTrac databases, we offer dozens of powerful research platforms to put vetted sources right at your users fingertips.

Explore this database of encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform. For multidisciplinary research.

Access general interest magazines and key serials in a single resource. Best for general research.

Search a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to alternative medical practices.

Discover the world's most influential people by searching narrative biographies, news, magazine, and multimedia content.

An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a wide array of subjects.

Introduce elementary students to database searching with resources featuring age-appropriate, curriculum-related content.

Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.

Explore thousands of topics across subjects including literature, science, history, and social issues using different sources.

Explore the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, history, literature, and more.

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.

Science In Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of todays most significant science topics.

Manipulate 3D interactive models to visualize and understand concepts in biology, chemistry, earth, and space science.

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.

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.

Find up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers from all eras.

Access literary works and authors throughout history, including full-text poems, plays, short stories, speeches, and more.

Browse original scholarly essays on authors from around the world. Places authors and their works in personal and historical context.

Find in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers. Includes influences of literary movements.

Access current and authoritative periodical content covering agriculture and its related fields.

Understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through leading business and trade publications. Updated daily.

Search millions of articles covering all aspects of communications, including advertising, public relations, and more.

Access leading business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries.

Find timely and historically relevant content on issues that influence women’s lives across the globe.

Comprehensive periodical content for researchers studying law, law enforcement, forensic science, terrorism, and more.

Find a variety of information from major cooking and nutrition magazines as well as key reference titles.

Access a range of periodical content to explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community.

Discover content useful for starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, and more.

Gain insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy. Best for educators, administrators, and education students.

Analyze business insights, tips, strategies, and success stories. Updated daily. Best for business schools and entrepreneurs.

Investigate environmental issues with diverse perspectives from the scientific community, policymakers, and corporate interests.

Search millions of articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Diverse resource for serious fine arts students.

Find millions of articles on the practical and scientific aspects of horticulture studies. For all horticultural enthusiasts.

Discover balanced coverage of topics related to gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.

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.

Search magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference on a range of topics. Best for middle- and high-school students.

Search home improvement topics such as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and more.

Discover well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism industries.

Access articles covering all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology. Updated daily.

Search across full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines from and about Latin America.

Discover information about physical and intellectual asset protection, from individuals to multinational corporations.

Search authoritative periodical content covering topics like organizational dynamics, adult learning, and more. Updated daily.

Search scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of past and present military affairs. Updated daily.

Access major U.S. and international newspapers online to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, or other fields.

Research full-text titles cited in CINAHL and other resources to support specialized care, treatment, and patient management.

Access academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine.

Access scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture.

Access the most searched magazines across Gale OneFile focusing on current events, sports, science, and health issues.

Find authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology.

Research the impact of religion on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language. Updated daily.

Access information on the latest developments across a range of scientific disciplines. Updated daily.

Search balanced coverage of events in U.S. history. Best for novice historians and academic researchers. Updated daily.

Research a vocation, find an appropriate institution of learning, and get assistance on job searches and maintaining a career.

Gain valuable insight into conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale.

Access balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field.

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.

Udemy offers nearly 20,000 top-rated online video courses in areas of business, tech, and personal development across 75+ different categories.

Explore amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space. Best for children aged 6–14.

Browse this cross-searchable platform for research insight from journalism's most trusted name in exploration and discovery.

Texas history, geography, and culture gathered by the Texas State Historical Association.

Discover your family history today.

Job listings, resume and cover letter help, assessments, and organizational tools to help find the right career. 

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.

Everything you need to reach your target scores on these important exams.

Achieve your personal education and career goals.

Make your work goals a reality—start a new career or advance in your current field.

Prepare for important exams like the ACT®, SAT®, AP® Tests, and more.

Achieve your undergrad goals and prepare for future success.

Tools for navigating campus, your courses, and life.

Video courses to learn popular software and computer basics.

Guided support and preparation to help you earn a high school equivalency credential.

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 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. 

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.

Discover an interactive learning program for children ages three to six. Aligned with preschool and elementary standards.

Analyze stocks, mutual funds, indexes, sectors, or your portfolio. Tutorials available for those new to Morningstar and investing.
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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).

Download digital audiobooks. Available to Frisco residents.

Download eBooks. Available to Frisco residents.

Access digital magazines for free on your computer or mobile device. Available to Frisco residents.

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.

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).

Search essential historical records for African Americans, including Federal Census, Marriage and Cohabitation Records, Military Draft and Service Records, Registers of Slaves and Free(d) Persons of Color, Freedman's Bank, and more. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Browse thousands of resources to enhance the reading experience for many children's and young adult books.

660,000 maps chart the growth and development of over 12,000 American towns and cities.

TexShare collection of over 60 databases for research, genealogy, history, science, technology, business, health, medicine, and literature.
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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.

A digital library of animated talking picture books.

Comprehensive collection of math picture books.

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.

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.

Access current and cumulative U.S. export and import data.
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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.