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 aw well as mp3 downloads of useful holiday phrases.
• BBC World Service
  Offers news and audio in several 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.*

• 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.*

• LiveMocha

  Learn a language and make friends in the process.

• Mango Languages

  Mango immerses you in real, everyday conversations in Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian and Spanish or learn ESL for Brazilian Portuguese, Polish and Spanish.*

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

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

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

  Consumer Health Complete database of health information in Spanish.*