Houston Public Library Research

* These resources require a Houston Public Library Power Card for access from your home or office.

• BBC Languages

  Offers brief introductory courses and learning tips in several languages as well as mp3 downloads of useful holiday phrases.

• BBC World Service

  Offers news and audio in multiple languages.

• CLASE/PERIODICA

  Indexes documents published in Latin American and Caribbean journals with CLASE specializing in the social sciences and humanities, and PERIODICA, science and technology. Documents indexed are in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.*

• Dragonsource

  Chinese language periodical database.*

• Economia y Negocios (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Spanish language citations on business and economics.*

• Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol

  Explore la Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol, una fuente de conocimiento autorizado y confiable con miles de artfculos en un amplio rango de temas.*

• Fuente Academica (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Provides the full-text of Spanish language scholarly journals.*

  Ofrece artículos academicos completos.

• GobiernoUSA.gov

  El portal oficial en espanol del Gobierno de los EE. UU.

• LiveMocha

  Learn a language and make friends in the process.

• Mango Languages

  Mango immerses you in real, everyday conversations in mulitple languages, including Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Arabic or learn ESL for Spanish, Vietnamese, Arabic and more.*

• MedicLatina (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Full-text Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals.*

• MEDLINEplus: Informacion de salud

  MEDLINEplus es el portal de Internet de la Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina de informacion de salud para el publico.  Information is also available in multiple other languages.

• Press Display

  Digital images of over 200 papers from 55 countries around the world. The latest 45 days are available.*

• Salud en Espanol (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.)

  Consumer Health Complete database of health information in Spanish.*

• Social Security Online

  Information in English and Spanish on benefits and regulations.

• WordReference

  Online French, Spanish, German, and Italian Dictionary.

• YourDictionary.com

  Find a bilingual, multilingual or specialized dictionary from a list of over 600 dictionaries.

For more information, search in the databases listed under Magazines, Scholarly Journals and Publications.