A World of Knowledge at IPL

Automotive and Car Repair

Chilton Library

Quick online access to repair, maintenance and service information on popular vehicles.

Driving-Tests.Org

Free service includes online practice tests and handbooks.

Udemy

Offers courses on Automotive Engineering, Automotive Cyber Security and Automotive 101.

Cooking

Gale OneFile: Culinary Arts

Offers over 5 million articles from more than 250 major cooking and nutrition magazines, such as Bon Appétit, as well as food blogs and books.

Start Cooking

Learn the absolute basics of cooking with short cooking videos and step-by-step photo tutorials.

Crafting + Hobbies

Instructables

Explore, document and share creations.

Knitty

Learn to knit, learn a new knitting technique, find a new free patter and read book reviews.

Knitter's Review

Knitter’s Review is a free weekly online knitting magazine dedicated to yarn, from source to skein.

Gardening

Gale OneFile: Gardening & Horticulture

Serves horticultural enthusiasts of all levels with more than 3.6 million articles.

The National Gardening Association

Information and inspiration on gardening with answers to questions about lawns, landscapes, trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, vegetables, herbs and flowers, organic gardens and more.

Geography

National Geographic Magazine Archive 1888-2020

Search the archive of National Geographic Magazine from the years 1888-2000.

National Geographic Kids

Access to issues of the magazine National Geographic Kids, books published by National Geographic kids, videos, and more!

Health + Medicine

American Medical Association

Find information on current happenings in the medical sphere, as well as identify if a doctor is AMA certified.

CDC Stacks

Digital archive of research literature produced by the Centers for Disease Control.

Health and Medicine

Resources for topics related to health care; health issues; human anatomy; medical conditions, diagnosis, and treatments; medical science and research; nursing and allied health; and wellness.

Nursing & Allied Health

Resources for nursing and allied health research and topic exploration, including nursing articles and allied health articles from nursing periodicals, nursing databases, nursing journals, and eBooks.

Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine

Academic journals and magazines for physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine. Information includes proven treatment techniques, experimental research, and more.

UTSouthwestern Medical Center Library

Search for medical information using local academic medical library centers.

History

Handbook of Texas

Digital encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture.

HathiTrust Digital Library

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and it serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 120 million items. The collections include books, sound recordings, motion pictures, photographs, maps, and manuscripts.

National Museum of American History

The Archives Center holds more than 1,300 collections documenting the history of technology, invention and innovation, business and consumer culture, American music and popular culture as well as many other topics.

Portal to Texas History

The Portal is a gateway to Texas history materials. Discover anything from an ancestor's picture in a college yearbook to a rare historical map.

U.S. History

Access to credible, historical content, including full-text articles covering American history topics from newspapers, articles, and journals.

World History

Access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. Offers balanced coverage of events in world history.

Home Improvement

Gale OneFile: Home Improvement

This database has over 4.5 million articles from more than 200 home improvement‒focused titles, covering topics such as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and others.

Law

Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice

Information from more than 250 journals for those studying law, law enforcement, crime scenes, forensic science, policy, courts, sociological reports and more.

Texas Law Help

Learn about Texas laws, find legal guides and forms, and listings for legal assistance.

Texas State Law Library

Find law libraries, free or low cost legal help and more for the state of Texas.

Nature

National Geographic Magazine Archive 1888-2020

Search the archive of National Geographic Magazine from the years 1888-2000.

National Geographic Kids

Access to issues of the magazine National Geographic Kids, books published by National Geographic kids, videos, and more!

Science

Gale Interactive: Science

Science comes to life as you zoom, rotate, and explore interactive 3D models. View related reference articles and search Gale content to find more information.

Gale in Context: Science

Get overviews on scientific topics and research those topics with journal articles, magazine articles and other news sources.

Gale in Context: Science Gale OneFile: Science

Puts the world's leading journals and reference sources up front, with easy-to-use features and unique search tools enabling discovery.

The Periodic Table of Videos

Short videos about every element on the periodic table, plus other cool experiments and chemistry.

Physics MIT OpenCourseware

Free college physics courses from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

SciTech Premium Collection

Research database for science and technology subjects. Access to scholarly journals, popular science and technology magazines, conference papers, trade journals and more.

Wolfram Mathworld

Comprehensive encyclopedia of mathematics with 13,000 detailed entries.

Technology

Apple Developer

Find tools, documentation, sample code and resources for developing with Apple technologies.

Codecademy

Codecademy provides free interactive tutorials on HTML/CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Python, Ruby, PHP and various APIs.

Eloquent JavaScript

Eloquent JavaScript is a book providing an introduction to the JavaScript programming language and programming in general. The book is available online for free and includes coding sandboxes.

Google Developers

Search for Google products, documentation, samples and more.

LearningExpress Library

More than 700 online practice tests and interactive skill-building tutorials plus 130 e-book titles developed by expert academic and industry professionals.

Mozilla Developer Network

The Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) provides information about Open Web technologies including HTML, CSS, and APIs for both Web sites and HTML5 Apps. It also documents Mozilla products, like Firefox OS.

MSDN- The Microsoft Developer's Network

Find resources for developers, such as tools, code samples and more on the Microsoft Developer Network.

Texas

Handbook of Texas

Digital encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture.

Portal to Texas History

The Portal is a gateway to Texas history materials. Discover anything from an ancestor's picture in a college yearbook to a rare historical map.

State of Texas

Official website of the state of Texas.

Texas Digital Sanborn Maps

Provides detailed property and land-use records of Texas towns and cities from 1867 to 1970, including in-depth information on buildings and properties.

Travel

Gale OneFile: Hospitality & Tourism

The curious traveler will find a wealth of information from content on state parks and information on planning a vacation to full-text travel guides from Fodor's.

Homework Help for Kids

Biography for Beginners

Offers short biographies on many famous and historical figures, searchable by name or category. Entries also offer a photo or illustration of the individual and citation formatting.

Brainfuse

Provides expert online live tutoring help, the ability to collaborate with peers in online study rooms, study guides and a writing lab. 

CoolMath4Kids

Cool math 4 kids is an amusement park of math, games and more!

FactMonster

At Fact Monster’s Reference Desk find an encyclopedia, almanac, dictionary, atlas, timeline and a homework center.

Khan Academy

Learn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history and more. Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

Miss Humblebee's Academy: Presented by Gale

Geared for kids ages three to six, Miss Humblebee's Academy is a fun environment for young children to build knowledge in core subjects like math, science, literacy, art and music.

NASA Kid's Club

Learn about NASA missions and participate in fun games, do hands-on activities, watch videos and read about space and earth science for kids.

Ology! Science

Welcome to OLogy! The science website for kids from the American Museum of Natural History. Covering marine biology, paleontology, zoology, astronomy, biology and more.

Science Buddies

Over 1,200 free science projects for K-12. Browse by subject, grade level or try the Topic Selection Wizard to find an winning science project. Research science projects in 32 different areas of science from astronomy to zoology.

Seterra

Seterra is a free map quiz game that will teach you countries, cities and other geographic locations all over the world.

Toporopa

Play games and learn European geography.

Homework Help for Teens

Brainfuse

Provides expert online live tutoring help, the ability to collaborate with peers in online study rooms, study guides and a writing lab. 

Gale in Context: High School

High school researchers will find journal articles and study aids for any topic they may need.

Gale OneFile: High School Edition

Multi-source database for high-school students with access to a variety of full-text magazines, newspapers, podcasts and reference books for information on topics most important to their curriculum.

Khan Academy

Learn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history and more. Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

Learning Express Library

Access to job and career help, GED or high school equivalency prep, college admissions test prep, basic computer skills training, AWS training, and more. Some services offered in Spanish.

MIT Open Course Ware

A free and open collection of material from thousands of MIT courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum.

Opposing Viewpoints

Provides articles in a side by side "pros and cons" setting on popular topics in science, technology, political science, and more.

Business + Entrepreneurship

Gale: Business Insights Global

Explore the world's companies with SWOT analyses, financial statements, case studies and more.

Gale Business: Entrepreneurship

Search tailored to those interested in researching the aspects of starting their own business.

Gale OneFile: Business

Full text coverage of business disciplines. Learn the activities of companies worldwide. Updated daily.

Gale OneFile: Insurance & Liability

Connects researchers to hundreds of thousands of updated articles from leading journals, including: Business Insurance, Claims, Employee Benefit News, National Underwriter Life & Health, Pensions & Investments, Risk Management, and more.

Gale OneFile: Leadership & Management

Provides access to authoritative periodical content covering topics such as organizational dynamics and leadership, adult learning and continuing education, and more. Updated daily.

Reference Solutions (Data Axle)

Comprehensive business database updated on a regular basis with statistical data and contact information.

Regional Business News

Research peer reviewed articles from books, journals and news sources.

Job Seekers

Gale OneFile: Vocations & Careers

Access to journals and magazines that aid users in researching a career, finding an education path, job searching, and maintaining a career.

JobView Career Finder

Search for current job openings by location, type, or industry. Apply from site, email or print job listings.