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Ancestry.com Websites

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

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Brainfuse Websites Library Card Required.

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.
A valid library card is required.

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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.

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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 Books and Authors

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

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Gale Business: Insights

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

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Gale Databases

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.

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Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints 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.

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Gale Legal Forms 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.

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Gale Literature 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.

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Gale OneFile: Business

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

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Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine 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.

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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.

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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 Library Card Required.

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. 

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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.


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.

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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.
Use card # 26101 as login.

This database supports only a limited number of concurrent users. Please log off by clicking End Session to allow others to access the database.

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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.

To activate your subscription, you’ll need to log in or register first.

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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).


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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.

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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).

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ProQuest African American Heritage

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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.




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.

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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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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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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.

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Washington Post, The

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:

  1. Click this offsite access link, opens a new window specific to Frisco Library. 
  2. Register or login by entering your email and create a password when prompted. 
  3. 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. 

 


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