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Please stop by the Library office or email Ms. Johnson at jjohnson@bdhs.org for the passwords for home access.
EBSCO provides the highest quality full text periodicals, full text biographies, primary source documents, essays, encyclopedias, almanacs, reference books, pamphlets, newspapers, transcripts, photos, and maps. All full text articles are rated in accordance with Lexiles (reading level indicators).
The databases listed below may be searched individually or collectively by clicking on the EBSCOhost link. There are detailed descriptions of each database in EBSCOhost.
- Academic Search Complete
- Agricola
- Alt HealthWatch
- Biography Collection Complete
- Book Collection: Nonfiction
- Business Source Complete
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text
- Communication & Mass Media Complete
- Computer Source
- Computers & Applied Sciences Complete
- EBSCO Animals
- Economia y Negocios
- Education Research Complete
- ERIC
- Fuente Academica
- Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
- Health Source - Consumer Edition
- Health Source - Nursing/Academic Edition
- History Reference Center
- Information Science & Technology Abstracts
- International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text
- Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts
- Legal Collection
- Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text
- Literary Reference Center
- MAS Ultra - School Edition
- MasterFILE Premier
- MedicLatina
- MEDLINE
- Middle Search Plus
- Military & Government Collection
- Newspaper Source
- Professional Development Collection
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
- Regional Business News
- Science & Technology Collection
- Science Reference Center
- SocINDEX with Full Text
- SPORTDiscus with Full Text
- Texas Reference Center
- The Serials Directory
- TOPICsearch
- World History Collection
OR the following databases may all be searched simultaneously by clicking on the Student Research Center link:
- Biography Collection Complete
- Book Collection: Nonfiction
- Columbia Encyclopedia
- Health Source - Consumer Edition
- History Reference Center
- MAS Ultra - School Edition
- Middle Search Plus
- Newspaper Source
- Science Reference Center
- Texas Reference Center
- TOPICsearch
Tutorial for EBSCO’s Student Research Center
NewsBank (1986-Current) includes news articles covering social, economic, environmental, government, sports, the arts, people, health and science issues and events from U.S. and international newspapers, wire services, broadcasts, and magazines. Includes access to: Dallas Morning News Historical Archive, Archive of Texas History, Texas Historical Newspapers.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online offers three complete online encyclopedias with related Internet links and a multimedia collection. This resource includes access to an online dictionary, atlas, bibliographies, annotated timeline, Spotlight features, Learning Materials, and much more. New this year is the Britannica Spanish Edition.
Current Issues: Reference Shelf Plus includes articles from key publications on social, scientific, health, political, and global issues, brought together to make a well-rounded overview of current issues.



