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Arts & Culture
Archives of American Art (Smithsonian)
The Archives of American Art is the world’s preeminent and most widely used research center dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to primary sources that document the history of the visual arts in America.
Gale OneFile: Fine Arts
Search millions of articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Diverse resource for serious fine arts students.
Gale OneFile: Hospitality and Tourism
Discover well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism industries.
Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
National Portrait Gallery
Make thousands of new acquaintances! Featuring scientists, statesmen, and film stars, glimpsed through rare nineteenth-century daguerreotypes or year-old digital video, the National Portrait Gallery collections bring you face to face with America.
Play Index
Covers over 31,000 classic and historical plays dating from 1949, including one-act plays, pageants, plays in verse, radio and television plays, classic drama and monologues from famous playwrights.
Smithsonian Open Access
Search across 2.8 million images from the Smithsonian's vast holdings—among them the National Air and Space Museum, the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, and the National Zoo. Images are in the public domain as Creative Common Zero, meaning they can be used without permission from Smithsonian.
Automotive
Chilton Library
Search the most authoritative automotive repair information available to car owners.
Books & Authors
African Storybook
African Storybook provides open access to picture storybooks in the languages of Africa. For children's literacy, enjoyment, and imagination!
BookPage
Discover your next great read! BookPage is a monthly book review published for avid readers like you, highlighting new books across all genres.
See something in BookPage you think the library should have? Fill out our Suggest and Item form and let us know!
Book Review Digest Plus
Unlike reviews on book-sale sites and the open Internet, many of the reviews are serious, academic works. This invaluable resource for literary and biographical research is essential for readers’ advisory and collection development.
English Poetry Second Edition
English Poetry, Second Edition contains over 183,000 poems, essentially comprising the complete canon of English poetry of the British Isles and the British Empire from the 8th century to the early 20th. Drawn from nearly 4,900 printed sources, more than 2,700 poets are represented.
Essay & General Literature Index
Cites records in collections of essays and works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada dating back to 1985 and spans the entire range of the humanities and social sciences.
Gale Book and Authors
Answer the age-old question, 'What do I read next?' Search and match reading interests to books, authors, genres, or topics.
Gale Literature
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.
Gale Literature: LitFinder
Access literary works and authors throughout history, including full-text poems, plays, short stories, speeches, and more.
Gale Literature: Scribner Writer Series
Browse original scholarly essays on authors from around the world. Places authors and their works in personal and historical context.
Gale Literature: Twayne's Author Series
Find in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers. Includes influences of literary movements.
Gale Literature and Resource Center
Find up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers from all eras.
Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
Literary Reference Center
This comprehensive, full-text database provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes—to give students, professors, and researchers a foundation of literary reference works to meet their research needs.
Open Library
Open Library has millions of records for books that are not yet available in digital form; it also has nearly three million books that are available in digital form.
Project Gutenberg
Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.
Short Story Index
This database is an essential resource for readers seeking short stories by author or genre, or for those researching a body of work of a literary figure.
TeachingBooks.net
Resource that can be used by teachers, students, librarians and families to explore children's books and young adult literature and their authors.
Teen Book Finder (YALSA)
This database provides access to all of the Young Adult Library Services Association's annual selected book and media lists, awards, and honorees. These resources are developed by library staff and educators to support the collection development and readers' advisory work of library staff.
These books and media have been selected for teens from 12 to 18 years of age, and span a broad range of reading and maturity levels. We encourage adults to take an active role in helping individual teens choose those books that are the best fit for them and their families.
Twentieth-Century American Poetry
A comprehensive collection of copyrighted, American, twentieth-century poetry, this database covers more than 316 of the most important and studied poets and includes over 52,000 works.
Worldcat
The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 86 million bibliographic records and nearly 1.2 billion holdings representing the collections of more than 10,000 libraries, over 400 languages, and all types of materials ranging from stone tablets to electronic books. WorldCat is updated daily and is now easier to search than ever.
Business & Finance
Business Abstracts with Full-Text
Offering a multitude of business magazines and scholarly journals, this comprehensive database is an ideal resource for those looking to conduct research or find information in any area of business.
Business Source Complete
Full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.
Gale Business: Entrepreneurship
Learn how to start, finance, or manage your small business. Includes sample business plans, how to guides, articles, and more.
Gale Business: Insights
Research global companies and industries with in-depth analysis through current news, statistical data, and comprehensive reports.
Gale OneFile: Business
Understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through leading business and trade publications. Updated daily.
Gale OneFile: Communications and Mass Media
Search millions of articles covering all aspects of communications, including advertising, public relations, and more.
Gale OneFile: Economics and Theory
Discover content useful for starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, and more.
Gale OneFile: Entrepreneurship
Analyze business insights, tips, strategies, and success stories. Updated daily. Best for business schools and entrepreneurs.
Regional Business News
This robust resource provides ultimate coverage for full-text business publications, on a regional level, for the United States and Canadian provinces.
Small Business Reference Center
Provides detailed "how-to" instructions to address small business topics, such as buying and selling a business, managing employees, writing a business plans, understanding legal information, a business and much more.
Value Line
The uncontested authority in reliable, unbiased information, Value Line puts you in the driver’s seat with accurate and insightful investment research on companies, industries, markets and economies. From the latest data, sophisticated tools and proven ranks to expert analysis and guidance, Value Line gives you the power to evaluate investments with confidence. Make smarter, more profitable decisions with Value Line.
Computers & Technology
Computer and Internet Basics (LearningExpress)
The fastest and easiest way to learn how to use a computer is with video tutorials. Now you can learn computer basics quickly and become comfortable with everything your computer has to offer.
Computer Skills Center (LearningExpress)
Video courses are the fastest and easiest way to learn how to use a computer. Use the materials in this center to learn the basics of a computer, from searching the Internet to using popular programs for word processing, creating spreadsheets and databases, implementing design, and more.
Computer Source
Contains nearly 300 full-text journals and magazines covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software. Computer Source provides a balance of full-text technical journals and full-text consumer computer titles.
Gale OneFile: Computer Science
Access leading business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries.
Gale OneFile: Information Science
Access articles covering all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology. Updated daily.
Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
Northstar Digital Literacy
Northstar Digital Literacy tests your computer skills. You can build skills in key areas, and demonstrate your knowledge by earning certificates and badges. Prepare for your future now!
For information about proctored tests or creating a Northstar account linked to Arlington Public Library, please contact us by calling (817) 459-6912 or using our online contact form.
Countries & States
Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
Complete datasets of maps and text detailing every change in the size, shape, location, name, organization, and attachment of each U.S. county and state from the creation of the first county in 1634 through 2010.
Country Fact Sheets
This is an updating collection of essential information on the countries of the world: their history, economies, geography, population, government, religions, relations with the U.S., human rights reports, travel and passport information, and more.
Data USA
A project of the MIT Media Lab, Data USA allows you to explore, map, and download data about U.S. cities, states, economy, demographics, and more.
Gale OneFile: War and Terrorism
Gain valuable insight into conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale.
Portal to Texas History
The Portal to Texas History is a gateway to rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas. Created and maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries, the Portal leverages the power of hundreds of content partners across the state to provide a vibrant, growing collection of resources.
World Factbook (CIA)
The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.
Gale eBooks
Explore this database of encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform. For multidisciplinary research.
Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction
This work-in-progress is a comprehensive quotation-based dictionary of the language of science fiction.
Your Dictionary
YourDictionary’s mission is to provide you with word meanings that are easy to digest and written in clear, simple language. A dictionary is meant to be a tool to help you better understand a word you may not have come across before, and that’s exactly what YourDictionary has been built to be.
eBooks & eAudiobooks
African Storybook
African Storybook provides open access to picture storybooks in the languages of Africa. For children's literacy, enjoyment, and imagination!
BookPage
Discover your next great read! BookPage is a monthly book review published for avid readers like you, highlighting new books across all genres.
See something in BookPage you think the library should have? Fill out our Suggest and Item form and let us know!
Ebook Central
A searchable collection of more than 30,000 eBooks (5,000+ in Spanish) from trusted publishers. Ideal for school, research projects, & everyday information needs.
EBooks on EBSCOhost
More than 27,000 eBooks are available for browsing, searching, and virtual check-out. TexShare's eBook collection includes titles from the world's leading business, technology, trade, reference, academic, and scholarly publishers. Search by title, author, keyword, publisher, publication date, or ISBN number.
Read eBooks offline using the Bluefire Reader.
Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
Kids eReading Room
Just as the children’s section of the physical branch is creatively sectioned off, we created a user-friendly section of our OverDrive-powered website for kids.
OverDrive
OverDrive offers eBooks and audiobooks to enjoy on your computer, smart phone or eReader.
Update March 2021: All RBdigital eAudio and eMagazine content has migrated from the RBdigital platform to OverDrive!
Standard Ebooks
Standard Ebooks is a volunteer driven, not-for-profit project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, and free.
How to transfer Standard Ebooks titles to your favorite ereader.
Education Resources for Teachers, Parents, and Students
Educational Administration Abstracts
This research database includes bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
The Education Resource Information Center (ERIC) provides access to educational literature and resources. This database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. This resource contains more than a million records and links to hundreds of thousands of full-text documents from ERIC back to 1966.
Gale In Context: Elementary
Introduce elementary students to database searching with resources featuring age-appropriate, curriculum-related content.
Gale In Context: High School
Explore thousands of topics across subjects including literature, science, history, and social issues using different sources.
Gale In Context: Middle School
Explore the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, history, literature, and more.
Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete
Gain insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy. Best for educators, administrators, and education students.
Gale OneFile: High School Edition
Search magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference on a range of topics. Best for middle- and high-school students.
Miss Humblebee's Academy
Discover an interactive learning program for children ages three to six. Aligned with preschool and elementary standards.
National Geographic Kids
Explore amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space. Best for children aged 6 - 14.
Private School Review
Learn about private schools, find schools, get admission tips and financial aid help.
Professional Development Collection
The most beneficial and most significant collection of full-text education journals in the world.
Teacher Reference Center Index
Teacher Reference Center indexes abstracts, citations and full-text articles from 280 periodicals.
Tuition Funding Sources
TFS offers students the largest scholarship database in the world with over $41 Billion in scholarship awards along with a career personality test and detailed college and career information.
Entertainment
hoopla
Hoopla digital is a streaming platform that allows patrons to instantly access videos, audiobooks, and music for free with their Library card. Content can be streamed or downloaded from a computer browser or from the hoopla digital app, available for iOS and Android.
Genealogy & Local History
Ancestry Library Edition (IN-LIBRARY ONLY)
Ancestry Library Edition, powered by Ancestry.com, delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more covering the United States and all regions world-wide. No Password or PIN needed as this database is contractually restricted to use only in the Library.
Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
Complete datasets of maps and text detailing every change in the size, shape, location, name, organization, and attachment of each U.S. county and state from the creation of the first county in 1634 through 2010.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Search and view a large selection of digitized American historical newspaper titles from 1777-1963, or locate microfilmed copies of newspapers using the comprehensive "U.S. Newspapers Directory, 1690-the present."
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
Contains information about servicemen who served in the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War. Also includes regimental histories and ongoing updated lists of prisoner-of-war records and cemetery records.
Heritage Hub
Discover the premier collection of U.S. obituaries and death notices for genealogical research, 1704 - today
HeritageQuest
HeritageQuest Online is a comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids. It delivers an essential collection of genealogical and historical sources—with coverage dating back to the 1700s—that can help people find their ancestors and discover a place's past.
Newspaper Navigator
Newspaper Navigator lets you search and explore 16+ million pages of historic American newspapers digitized by the Library of Congress.
You can search by keyword, or click the "Train My AI Navigators" link a the top of the page to let the system find images for you based on your preferences!
Portal to Texas History
The Portal to Texas History is a gateway to rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas. Created and maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries, the Portal leverages the power of hundreds of content partners across the state to provide a vibrant, growing collection of resources.
Slave Voyages (Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American Slave Trade)
The SlaveVoyages website is a collaborative digital initiative that compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the largest slave trades in history. Search these records to learn about the broad origins and forced relocations of more than 12 million African people who were sent across the Atlantic in slave ships, and hundreds of thousands more who were trafficked within the Americas. Explore where they were taken, the numerous rebellions that occurred, the horrific loss of life during the voyages, the identities and nationalities of the perpetrators, and much more.
Government & Politics
Brainfuse VetNow
VetNow is a service for veterans of the United States Armed Forces who are transitioning into civilian life. Navigate the VA and benefits, transition to civilian employment, and brush up on academic skills!
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP)
The CGP is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive information for historical and current publications as well as direct links to the full document, when available. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general keywords, or click on "Advanced Search" for more options.
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
Contains information about servicemen who served in the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War. Also includes regimental histories and ongoing updated lists of prisoner-of-war records and cemetery records.
Congress.gov
Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information. The site provides access to accurate, timely, and complete legislative information for Members of Congress, legislative agencies, and the public.
(Formerly called THOMAS Legislative Information.)
Congressional Directory
The Congressional Directory is the official directory of the U.S. Congress, prepared by the Joint Committee on Printing (JCP). It presents:
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Short biographies of each member of the Senate and House, listed by state or district.
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Committee memberships, terms of service, administrative assistants and/or secretaries, and room and telephone numbers for Members of Congress.
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Lists officials of the courts, military establishments, and other Federal departments and agencies, including D.C. government officials, governors of states and territories, foreign diplomats, and members of the press, radio, and television galleries.
Data USA
A project of the MIT Media Lab, Data USA allows you to explore, map, and download data about U.S. cities, states, economy, demographics, and more.
Gale OneFile: News
Access major U.S. and international newspapers online to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, or other fields.
govinfo
This resource provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government. govinfo is a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO), which is a Federal agency in the legislative branch.
Military & Government Collection
Designed to offer current news through a collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs for all branches of the military and government.
Health & Wellness
AHFS Consumer Medication Information
AHFS Consumer Medication Information is a trusted source and recognized standard for patient drug information.
Alt HealthWatch
Alt HealthWatch focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
AMA Doctor Finder
This online physician Locator helps you find a perfect match for your medical needs DoctorFinder provides you with basic professional information on virtually every licensed physician in the United States. This includes more than 814,000 doctors.
Gale Health and Wellness
Search a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to alternative medical practices.
Gale OneFile: Culinary Arts
Find a variety of information from major cooking and nutrition magazines as well as key reference titles.
Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine
Find up-to-date information on a range of health care topics. Best for students, researchers, and health care professionals.
Gale OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health
Research full-text titles cited in CINAHL and other resources to support specialized care, treatment, and patient management.
Gale OneFile: Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine
Access academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
The richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, topics include medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
This resource provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. In addition, this database includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.
MedicLatina
Access top-tier peer-reviewed Spanish and Latin American medical journals.
MedicLatina es una colección incomparable en investigación médica.
Medline Plus
MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, it brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand. MedlinePlus offers reliable, up-to-date health information, anytime, anywhere, for free. You can use MedlinePlus to learn about the latest treatments, look up information on a drug or supplement, find out the meanings of words, or view medical videos or illustrations. You can also get links to the latest medical research on your topic or find out about clinical trials on a disease or condition.
MEDline with MESH
Search the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences from over 4,600 current biomedical journals.
Natural & Alternative Treatments
This comprehensive, natural medicine database is designed specifically for the consumer-health researcher and clinician.
ONEFILE: Health and Medicine
Created specifically for students, knowledgeable consumer health researchers and health care professionals, GALE ONEFILE: Health and Medicine integrates millions of articles from a wide range of full-text nursing and allied health journals, magazines, newsletters and select consumer health information sources with full-text reference works and hundreds of health-related multimedia.
Open Access Pub
Open Access Pub initiated with an aim of promoting the progress and upholding the cause of Science and Technology using the concept of Open Access with the best system ever available along with retaining its "Quality"-the main element.
Pub Med
More than 19 million citations for biomedical articles from MEDLINE and life science journals.
Salud en Español
Providing its own easy-to-use interface in Spanish, Salud en Español makes it easy for the researcher to quickly navigate through the database to find evidence-based information.
Salud en Español provee reportes completos basados en evidencias y fichas de datos relacionados a todos los aspectos de la salud y el bienestar.
History & Biography
Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
Complete datasets of maps and text detailing every change in the size, shape, location, name, organization, and attachment of each U.S. county and state from the creation of the first county in 1634 through 2010.
Bibliography of Native North Americans
Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) contains more than 141,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present. The database is an essential research tool for anthropologists, educators, historians, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, legal and medical researchers, linguists, theologians, ethnobotanists and policy makers.
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States
Visitors will find historical newspaper articles, pamphlets, diaries, correspondence and more from specific time periods in U.S. history marked by the opposition African Americans have faced on the road to freedom.
The content is curated around six time periods: Resistance to Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860), The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877), Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932), The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945), The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975), The Contemporary Era (1976-2000).
This resource supports a wide range of students, from middle and high school to college, as well as independent researchers.
Gale In Context: Biography
Discover the world's most influential people by searching narrative biographies, news, magazine, and multimedia content.
Gale OneFile: Contemporary Women's Issues
Find timely and historically relevant content on issues that influence women' s lives across the globe.
Gale OneFile: U.S. History
Search balanced coverage of events in U.S. history. Best for novice historians and academic researchers. Updated daily.
Gale OneFile: World History
Access balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field.
Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
A rich collection of primary source material relating to U.S. history and culture, compiled by the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program.
Slave Voyages (Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American Slave Trade)
The SlaveVoyages website is a collaborative digital initiative that compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the largest slave trades in history. Search these records to learn about the broad origins and forced relocations of more than 12 million African people who were sent across the Atlantic in slave ships, and hundreds of thousands more who were trafficked within the Americas. Explore where they were taken, the numerous rebellions that occurred, the horrific loss of life during the voyages, the identities and nationalities of the perpetrators, and much more.
Hobbies & Collecting
Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center
Comprehensive full-text content for many of the most popular hobbies, crafts and recreation activities.
Home & Garden
Gale OneFile: Gardening and Horticulture
Find millions of articles on the practical and scientific aspects of horticulture studies. For all horticultural enthusiasts.
Gale OneFile: Home Improvement
Search home improvement topics such as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and more.
Home Improvement Reference Center
Through a collection of comprehensive full-text content, this database provides users with detailed, user-friendly “how-to” information covering all manner of home improvement/repair projects.
Jobs & Careers
Brainfuse JobNow
Free online career assistance for all stages of job hunting, including resume templates, live interview coaching, and more!
Brainfuse VetNow
VetNow is a service for veterans of the United States Armed Forces who are transitioning into civilian life. Navigate the VA and benefits, transition to civilian employment, and brush up on academic skills!
Career Center Plus (LearningExpress)
Prepare for a career exam, explore occupations, and improve your workplace skills here.
Gale OneFile: Leadership and Management
Search authoritative periodical content covering topics like organizational dynamics, adult learning, and more. Updated daily.
Gale Presents: Udemy
Learn and improve skills across business, tech, design, and more. Includes 10,000+ on-demand video courses in multiple languages.
Job & Career Accelerator (LearningExpress)
Job & Career Accelerator is your personal job search management center.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Presented by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, search hundreds of different jobs, average salaries, and required training.
Vocational and Career Collection
Designed to meet a wide variety of vocational and technical research needs, this collection provides full-text coverage for trade and industry-related periodicals including Modern Machine Shop, Pediatric Nursing, Wireless Week, Drug Store News, Reeves Journal, Restaurant Business, Advertising Age and many more.
Kids & Teens
ABCmouse (In Library Use Only)
ABCmouse.com helps kids learn to read through phonics, and teaches lessons in math, social studies, art, music, and much more. Over 5,000 learning activities (fun games, puzzles, art, etc.) for kids ages 2-7+.
African Storybook
African Storybook provides open access to picture storybooks in the languages of Africa. For children's literacy, enjoyment, and imagination!
Brainfuse HelpNow
HelpNow is a service offering live tutoring for students in grades K-12. It also has resources for college students. All students can access the service at any Arlington Public Library location or at home with an Arlington Library Card. Arlington ISD students can access the service from home with an Arlington student ID.
Kids eReading Room
Just as the children’s section of the physical branch is creatively sectioned off, we created a user-friendly section of our OverDrive-powered website for kids.
School Center (LearningExpress)
The resources here can help students prepare for important tests, get extra help with assignments, and boost their skills in important subjects.
Teen Book Finder (YALSA)
This database provides access to all of the Young Adult Library Services Association's annual selected book and media lists, awards, and honorees. These resources are developed by library staff and educators to support the collection development and readers' advisory work of library staff.
These books and media have been selected for teens from 12 to 18 years of age, and span a broad range of reading and maturity levels. We encourage adults to take an active role in helping individual teens choose those books that are the best fit for them and their families.
Language Learning
Transparent Language Online
The most comprehensive, effective, and engaging way to learn over 120 languages, including ESL.
Law
Gale LegalForms
Access a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms and resources across the most popular legal areas.
Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice
Comprehensive periodical content for researchers studying law, law enforcement, forensic science, terrorism, and more.
Gale OneFile: Insurance and Liability
Discover information about physical and intellectual asset protection, from individuals to multinational corporations.
Legal Collection
Containing full text for hundreds of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals, Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.
Legal Forms
Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen's language.
Legal Information Resource Center
Legal Information Reference Center offers everyday users the necessary tools and detailed how-to instructions covering a wide-range of legal issues. A majority of the full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation’s oldest and most respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses. With the Legal Forms by U.S. State feature, users can search state-specific legal forms by top subject areas including adoption, bankruptcy, name changes and more.
Magazines, Newspapers & Journals
Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete offers an enormous collection of the most valuable full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. In addition, this database is the leading source of peer-reviewed, full-text for STM research, as well as for the Social Sciences and Humanities. This scholarly collection offers unmatched coverage of information spanning a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more.
African Journals Online (AJOL)
Collection of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals in a range of academic disciplines. AJOL is a not-for-profit organization based in South Africa. Free registration is required for access to full text.
BookPage
Discover your next great read! BookPage is a monthly book review published for avid readers like you, highlighting new books across all genres.
See something in BookPage you think the library should have? Fill out our Suggest and Item form and let us know!
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Search and view a large selection of digitized American historical newspaper titles from 1777-1963, or locate microfilmed copies of newspapers using the comprehensive "U.S. Newspapers Directory, 1690-the present."
Explora
With Explora, you will discover reliable information on thousands of topics covering a wide range of subjects including art & music, literature, language arts, geography, history, social studies, world cultures & languages, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, health, and sports.
Fort Worth-Star Telegram (1990 - current)
Search local and state full-text articles on topics such as business, health, education, government, history, politics and more from (12/1/90-Current). Also includes Current Events and Special Reports for homework help. From Newsbank.
Fuente Académica Premier
Fuente Académica Premier provee a los investigadores una colección de revistas académicas de América Latina, Portugal y España, diseñadas para que la investigación académica esté fácilmente disponible en formato PDF. Fuente Académica Premier ofrece el texto completo de casi 1000 revistas y 111 libros académicos de más de 20 países.
Fuente Académica Premier provides researchers with a collection of scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain, designed to make academic research readily available in PDF format. Fuente Académica Premier offers full text for nearly 1,000 journals and 111 academic books from more than 20 countries.
Gale General OneFile
Access general interest magazines and key serials in a single resource. Best for general research.
Gale OneFile: Popular Magazines
Access the most searched magazines across Gale OneFile focusing on current events, sports, science, and health issues.
Heritage Hub
Discover the premier collection of U.S. obituaries and death notices for genealogical research, 1704 - today
MedicLatina
Access top-tier peer-reviewed Spanish and Latin American medical journals.
MedicLatina es una colección incomparable en investigación médica.
Middle Search Plus
This database contains full text for a variety of popular middle school magazines.
Newsbank
Access to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram newspaper (1990 - current issue), The Atlantic, The Smithsonian, and many more!
Newspaper Navigator
Newspaper Navigator lets you search and explore 16+ million pages of historic American newspapers digitized by the Library of Congress.
You can search by keyword, or click the "Train My AI Navigators" link a the top of the page to let the system find images for you based on your preferences!
TOPIC Search
Explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics.
Online Learning
ABCmouse (In Library Use Only)
ABCmouse.com helps kids learn to read through phonics, and teaches lessons in math, social studies, art, music, and much more. Over 5,000 learning activities (fun games, puzzles, art, etc.) for kids ages 2-7+.
Adult Learning Center (LearningExpress)
Offers busy adults the resources to improve their basic skills in reading, writing, and math, prepare for the GED test, or become a U.S. citizen.
Brainfuse HelpNow
HelpNow is a service offering live tutoring for students in grades K-12. It also has resources for college students. All students can access the service at any Arlington Public Library location or at home with an Arlington Library Card. Arlington ISD students can access the service from home with an Arlington student ID.
Brainfuse VetNow
VetNow is a service for veterans of the United States Armed Forces who are transitioning into civilian life. Navigate the VA and benefits, transition to civilian employment, and brush up on academic skills!
College Center Plus (LearningExpress)
If you need to strengthen your fundamental academic skills for your courses, prepare for an important placement test, or ensure a top score on a graduate school entrance exam, the resources here can help you reach your goal.
College Success Skills (LearningExpress)
Build skills for success—in college and beyond with organizational strategies, classroom success skills, research skills, and getting academic support.
High School Equivalency Center (LearningExpress)
Earning a high school equivalency credential can open the door to better income, a more fulfilling job, and a college education. If you are preparing for the GED® test, HiSET® or TASC™ exams, our practice tests, interactive tutorials, and eBooks will help you reach your goal.
LearningExpress Library
LearningExpress Library features nearly 1,000 online tutorials, practice tests, and eBooks to help patrons of all ages. It offers job search and workplace skills improvement, skill building in reading, writing, math, and basic science, career certification and licensure exam prep, college and grad school entrance test prep, GED® test prep, and more. Makes it easier for adults and students to locate the resources they need when they need it. You can search and access tutorials before signing into and downloading content to their secure personalized portfolios, “My Center.” Learning Express also has dozens of eBooks available read online.
Northstar Digital Literacy
Northstar Digital Literacy tests your computer skills. You can build skills in key areas, and demonstrate your knowledge by earning certificates and badges. Prepare for your future now!
For information about proctored tests or creating a Northstar account linked to Arlington Public Library, please contact us by calling (817) 459-6912 or using our online contact form.
Recursos para Hispanohablantes (LearningExpress)
Este centro ofrece a los adultos que están muy ocupados los recursos para mejorar sus habilidades básicas, ganar sus credenciales de GED® o ser ciudadano estadounidense.
This center offers adults writing, grammar, reading, math instruction, as well as help to become a U.S. citizen.
School Center (LearningExpress)
The resources here can help students prepare for important tests, get extra help with assignments, and boost their skills in important subjects.
Tuition Funding Sources
TFS offers students the largest scholarship database in the world with over $41 Billion in scholarship awards along with a career personality test and detailed college and career information.
Recursos en Español
Fuente Académica Premier
Fuente Académica Premier provee a los investigadores una colección de revistas académicas de América Latina, Portugal y España, diseñadas para que la investigación académica esté fácilmente disponible en formato PDF. Fuente Académica Premier ofrece el texto completo de casi 1000 revistas y 111 libros académicos de más de 20 países.
Fuente Académica Premier provides researchers with a collection of scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain, designed to make academic research readily available in PDF format. Fuente Académica Premier offers full text for nearly 1,000 journals and 111 academic books from more than 20 countries.
Informe Academico
Search across full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines from and about Latin America.
Kids eReading Room
Just as the children’s section of the physical branch is creatively sectioned off, we created a user-friendly section of our OverDrive-powered website for kids.
MedicLatina
Access top-tier peer-reviewed Spanish and Latin American medical journals.
MedicLatina es una colección incomparable en investigación médica.
Recursos para Hispanohablantes (LearningExpress)
Este centro ofrece a los adultos que están muy ocupados los recursos para mejorar sus habilidades básicas, ganar sus credenciales de GED® o ser ciudadano estadounidense.
This center offers adults writing, grammar, reading, math instruction, as well as help to become a U.S. citizen.
Salud en Español
Providing its own easy-to-use interface in Spanish, Salud en Español makes it easy for the researcher to quickly navigate through the database to find evidence-based information.
Salud en Español provee reportes completos basados en evidencias y fichas de datos relacionados a todos los aspectos de la salud y el bienestar.
Reference & Research
African Journals Online (AJOL)
Collection of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals in a range of academic disciplines. AJOL is a not-for-profit organization based in South Africa. Free registration is required for access to full text.
Credo Reference
Doing research? Start here!
Credo Reference offers over 3,000,000 reference entries from all the major academic subject areas serving as a great starting point for your research! Images, audio files, videos, and full text articles on any topic you can think of, all wtih full citations.
Data USA
A project of the MIT Media Lab, Data USA allows you to explore, map, and download data about U.S. cities, states, economy, demographics, and more.
Fuente Académica Premier
Fuente Académica Premier provee a los investigadores una colección de revistas académicas de América Latina, Portugal y España, diseñadas para que la investigación académica esté fácilmente disponible en formato PDF. Fuente Académica Premier ofrece el texto completo de casi 1000 revistas y 111 libros académicos de más de 20 países.
Fuente Académica Premier provides researchers with a collection of scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain, designed to make academic research readily available in PDF format. Fuente Académica Premier offers full text for nearly 1,000 journals and 111 academic books from more than 20 countries.
Gale Academic OneFile
Quickly access articles from a database of scholarly journals and other trusted periodicals. Best for academic research.
Gale In Context: College
An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a wide array of subjects.
Gale OneFile: Military and Intelligence
Search scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of past and present military affairs. Updated daily.
Gale Power Search
Gale PowerSearch is a search platform unlike any other, providing libraries with a sophisticated yet simple solution for managing a wealth of periodical, reference, multimedia and primary source information.
Internet Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
Smithsonian Open Access
Search across 2.8 million images from the Smithsonian's vast holdings—among them the National Air and Space Museum, the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, and the National Zoo. Images are in the public domain as Creative Common Zero, meaning they can be used without permission from Smithsonian.
Religion & Philosophy
Gale OneFile: Religion and Philosophy
Research the impact of religion on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language. Updated daily.
Religion and Philosophy Collection
This resource is an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy organizes scholars from around the world in philosophy and related disciplines to create and maintain an up-to-date reference work.
Science
Agricola
Containing bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library, this resource provides access to millions of agricultural citations.
American Physical Society Journals
The American Physical Society (APS) is a nonprofit academic organization working to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics through its outstanding research journals, scientific meetings, and education, outreach, advocacy, and international activities.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Provides indexing, abstracting, and free full text access for selected international scholarly journals in many subject areas, including agriculture and food science, biology, chemistry, health science, languages and literature, mathematics, physics, engineering, the arts, business, environmental science, history, law, political science, philosophy, religion, and social science.
Gale In Context: Environmental Studies
Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.
Gale In Context: Science
Understand context for hundreds of science topics through overviews, journals, news, interactive experiments, and more.
Gale Interactive: Science
Manipulate 3D interactive models to visualize and understand concepts in biology, chemistry, earth, and space science.
Gale OneFile: Agriculture
Access current and authoritative periodical content covering agriculture and its related fields.
Gale OneFile: Environmental Studies and Policy
Investigate environmental issues with diverse perspectives from the scientific community, policymakers, and corporate interests.
Gale OneFile: Psychology
Find authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology.
Gale OneFile: Science
Access information on the latest developments across a range of scientific disciplines. Updated daily.
GreenFILE
Covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. This comprehensive resource draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.
Open Access Pub
Open Access Pub initiated with an aim of promoting the progress and upholding the cause of Science and Technology using the concept of Open Access with the best system ever available along with retaining its "Quality"-the main element.
Science & Technology Collection
Aeronautics, astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, and materials science.
Science.gov
Science.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results.
Science in Context
Science In Context draws people into the subject matter, showing how scientific disciplines relate to real-world issues, from weather patterns to obesity.
SciTech Collection Premium
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.
Texas
Handbook of Texas Online
The Handbook of Texas Online is a project of the Texas State Historical Association. The online Handbook offers a full-text searchable version of the complete text of the six-volume print edition, all corrections incorporated in the second printing, and approximately 400 articles not included in the print edition due to space limitations.
Texas Reference Center
Texas history, ethnic & cultural diversity, gender studies, literature, public health, business as well as home & garden and sports & leisure.
Social Sciences
Family Studies Abstracts
This database includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Find overviews, news, and opinions on hundreds of today's important social issues.
Gale OneFile: Diversity Studies
Access a range of periodical content to explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community.
Gale OneFile: Gender Studies
Discover balanced coverage of topics related to gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.
Gale OneFile: Pop Culture Studies
Access scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture.
Humanities Full-Text
This database provides full text, abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as specialized magazines. Content includes feature articles, interviews, obituaries and original works of fiction, drama, poetry and much more. Humanities Full Text encompasses all fields of the humanities, covering topics including art, classical studies, dance, film, journalism, philosophy, religion and much, much more.
Information Science & Technology
This database has been enhanced to include cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for 80 core information science and technology titles. With coverage dating as far back as the mid 1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science. ISTA indexes journal articles from more than 450 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings, with ongoing comprehensive coverage of the most important periodicals in this field.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
This comprehensive resource provides extensive full-text coverage for a broad range of topics in the fields of psychology and behavioral sciences.
Race Relations Abstracts
This resource provides a sole focus on content relating specifically to the relationship between races.