Databases

LearningExpress Library is an easy-to-use e-learning platform featuring online tutorials, practice tests, and e-books to help you achieve your educational and professional goals. In addition to helping you improve your skills in reading, writing, math, and basic science, LearningExpress Library offers tools and resources to help you search for jobs, build workplace skills, and prepare for career certification exams. You'll also find college and grad school admissions test prep, GED^® test prep, and much more.

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File your legal paperwork online using this free tool.

Select from legal forms using this free forms library from the Fort Bend County County Clerk's Office, including Birth & Death, Marriage, DBA, Brands, Official Public Records and Civil, Juvenile, Misdemeanor and Probate Court.

Select from legal forms using this free forms library from the Fort Bend County District Clerk's Office, including Counsel in Death Penalty Cases, Civil/Family, Subpeona, Administrative Services Requests, and Board of District Judges Approved Forms regarding Bail, Minor Funds and Sealed Records.

This resource lists free and reduced-cost legal services. These include: legal resources related to civil matters that are available statewide, legal resources related to civil matters by county, legal and other resources relating to criminal matters, lawyer referral services (which may be full fee or reduced fee), and an introduction to pro se (or self-help) resources.

Previously available in print, this directory is now freely available online, and is published by the Legal Access Division of the State Bar of Texas.

This database has an extensive collection of free forms available to library patrons. Thousands of legal forms are already available, and more are being added daily. Official, state-specific, Federal, business, personal, real estate, and general forms covering hundreds of legal subjects and issues are included.
Warning: Public users should consult an attorney in your state for serious legal matters. This resource is not a replacement for the advice of an attorney. Library staff cannot give legal advice or recommend specific forms.

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A simple-to-use, powerful resource for online legal research. Visit the library for access to State and Federal case law, statutes, codes, regulations, forms, and secondary material.

Access Lexis Advance collections digitally on any device using your permanent Fort Bend County Libraries card or an eCard. From within the library, link from eBooks to cases or statutes on Lexis Advance. Annotate and highlight within your eBook.

Borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines to read on your phone or tablet using the Libby by OverDrive app. You can even send and read your borrowed ebooks to your Kindle ereader (U.S. only)! It’s free and easy for new users to get started, and it's a streamlined experience for current OverDrive app users.

The Libby by OverDrive app is now available from the Amazon Appstore and can be downloaded to Amazon Fire Tablets.

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These six databases provide biographical information on sports champions, Greek and Roman mythological figures, men and women who shaped the world, important people and events in American history, and biographies of people around the world. All six databases can be searched at the same time. 

500 articles on Greek and Roman mythological figures with over 300 illustrations.

Gale™ takes literature, history and culture to the next level with the largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available: Literature Criticism Online. Includes centuries of analysis - the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals - delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. click here to retrieve title list

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In addition to critical analysis, primary sources, and detailed work overviews, this database brings together in-depth biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information. There are more than 165,000 complete entries from popular literature series, including two award-winning series, Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors and Gale Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography.

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LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 130,000 full-text poems and 650,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.

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Links to the official websites of cities in the Fort Bend County area.

Our library provides free access to MasterFILE Complete, a research database from EBSCO that contains hundreds of reference e-books as well as complete articles for thousands of reputable magazines and journals, including Consumer Reports, Better Homes & Gardens, People, TIME, Sports Illustrated and U.S. News & World Report. You’ll find reliable information on a variety of topics to help you with research for school, your job, or when you simply want to learn something new.

To search Consumer Reports content, please click here and type your search terms ("Electric Vehicles," for example) in the second field to see articles. You can click on "Access Options" under the articles that interest you, and select "PDF" to view the article in its original format, or "Online full text" to view the text of the article.

You can also easily search MasterFILE Complete by logging into our library’s Explora research experience. Click the "View Resource" button to get started.

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The National Library of Medicine's site for consumer-health information. Find information on common diseases and conditions, dictionaries, and directories for finding health-care professionals.

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

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