African American Heritage
Provides African American family history research, including the 1860 U.S. Federal Census.

 American Decades
Designed for junior and high school students and teachers needing a single, consistent reference for American social history.

 American Decades: 2000-2009
Designed for junior and high school students and teachers needing a single, consistent reference for American social history.

 Ancestry Library Edition – Library Use Only
Instant access to one of the largest collections of genealogical databases online.

 Austin American Statesman
Search more than 30 years of Texas history with the Austin American-Statesman Collection. Coverage from 1989 through today with full-color newspaper pages and individual articles, and content only published online.

Austin American Statesman: Historical Newspapers
Search more than 100 years of Texas history with the Austin American-Statesman Collection. Coverage from 1871 through 1980. Articles display in PDF format.

 Barron’s Online
Library use only — get password at reference desk.

Provides a wealth of information about companies, stocks, bonds, and markets.

Brainfuse–HelpNow
Live tutors are available every day from 2 PM – 11 PM.

Brainfuse HelpNow provides online tutoring for students in grades K-12 and adult learners. Students communicate with live tutors using an interactive whiteboard to chat, write, draw, copy/paste text or images and graph homework problems. All live sessions are saved and can be replayed as well as shared with friends and teachers by email. Registration is not required to get live tutoring help, but it is recommended so that students can track their progress. Registration is required for certain modules like The Writing Lab and the SkillSurfer.

Available on Android and Apple devices. Use your Brainfuse login to sign into the app.

To create a Brainfuse account:

1. Open Brainfuse–HelpNow in a browser.
2. Click “Login”.
3. Click “Sign up”.
4. Create a user name and password.

 Brainfuse–JobNow
Job coaches are available every day from 2 PM – 11 PM.

Brainfuse JobNow provides live job coaching, resume assistance, interview prep, and career resources for job seekers.

Available on Android and Apple devices. Use your Brainfuse login to sign into the app.

To create a Brainfuse account:

1. Open Brainfuse–JobNow in a browser.
2. Click “Login”.
3. Click “Sign up”.
4. Create a user name and password.

Chilton Library
Offers auto repair manuals, technical service bulletins, wiring diagrams, and step-by-step instructions for repairing foreign and domestic cars. Use the ASE test prep quizzes for the most popular certification exams.

Consumer Reports Online

Library use only – get password at the reference desk.

Core Collections – Children
Core Collections are reliable guides to help with collection development and maintenance, general reference, and readers’ advisory needs. These guides assist librarians in building and maintaining well-rounded collections of the most highly recommended reference, non-fiction, and fiction books.

Core Collections – Nonfiction
Core Collections are reliable guides to help with collection development and maintenance, general reference, and readers’ advisory needs. These guides assist librarians in building and maintaining well-rounded collections of the most highly recommended reference, non-fiction, and fiction books.

eBook Central – Proquest
This eBook collection contains over 110,000 electronic books.

eBooks – EBSCO
Thousands of eBooks are available for browsing, searching, and virtual check-out.

Flipster
Flipster allows unlimited, simultaneous use of popular digital magazines. Log into Flipster with your library card
number and pin. Then, read the content anywhere using the Flipster app or a web browser.

Available for Apple, Kindle, and Android.

Fold3
In partnership with the National Archives, Fold3 contains many historic documents for genealogists, history buffs, researchers, and military historians.

Freegal
Freegal Music is a free music service from your library. All you need is your library card number and PIN. Freegal Music offers access to over 16 million songs, including Sony Music’s catalog of legendary artists. In total the collection is comprised of music from over 40,000+ labels with music that originates in over 100 countries. Stream your music or download up to 5 songs each week – yours to keep for your personal use.

Need help? Check out Freegal’s FAQs.

Gale – all Gale databases
All databases from the vendor Gale that are available to RRPL patrons.

Gale Academic OneFile
Gale Academic OneFile, provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.

Gale Books & Authors
A reader’s advisory database that makes finding a great read much less challenging. With fun ways to browse, an intuitive design, read-alikes, reviews, award winners and themed book lists, and more this resource answers the age-old question, “What do I read next?”

Gale Business – Demographics Now | Video Tutorials |
Provides demographic data, market research and directory information on 17 million businesses and 147 million residents.

Gale Business: Entrepreneurship
A comprehensive database that covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more.

Gale Business: Insights Global
Provides an extensive collection of business intelligence, combining Gale reference content with respected business sources and full-text periodicals to help researchers understand today’s global business environment. Users can access more than 430,000 detailed company profiles with company financial data, in-depth country overviews, and comprehensive industry profiles.

Gale Business – Plan Builder
A step-by-step online planning tool for starting, managing and optimizing a business or nonprofit.

Gale eBooks
A collection of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources fully searchable across titles.

Gale eBooks – Business
A collection of business encyclopedias and specialized reference sources fully searchable across titles.

Gale eBooks – Health
A collection of health encyclopedias and specialized reference sources fully searchable across titles.

Gale General OneFile
Gale General OneFile serves a wide audience of readers allowing researchers to find reference, newspaper, magazines, journals and audio content.

Gale Health and Wellness
Access to full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and much more. Perfect for researchers at all levels, this comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices.

Gale In Context: Biography
Covers international figures from all time periods and areas of study.

Gale In Context: College
Offers interdisciplinary content that reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals.

Gale In Context: Elementary
Access hundreds of thousands of topic overviews, primary sources, biographies, and critical essays on core subjects. Periodical coverage includes full-text newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from reputable sources like The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, and Smithsonian.

Gale In Context: High School
Access hundreds of thousands of topic overviews, primary sources, biographies, and critical essays on core subjects. Periodical coverage includes full-text newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from reputable sources.

Gale In Context: Middle School
Over 300 topic pages provide content that is written explicitly for middle school students on a variety of topics, including government, U.S. and world history, geography, literature, science, and social issues.

Gale in Context: Opposing Points of View
Opposing Viewpoints In Context covers today’s hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana and is a rich resource for debaters and includes pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, interactive maps, infographics, and more.

Gale in Context: Science
The wealth of content in Gale In Context: Science spans the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, earth and environmental science, health and medicine, and math and technology. Go beyond research projects and choose from over 350 experiments in 200 entries to assign during everyday instruction, enabling hands-on learning anywhere students have online access. Access more than 330 interactive simulations to supplement classroom labs and engage students, allowing them to run a simulation, change the variables, and run it again to compare results—all in an online environment. Understand and explore varied concepts, like homeostasis, circuits, radioactive decay, chemical equations, force, energy, and more.

Gale Legal Forms
Thousands of legal forms available with more forms being added daily. Official, State Specific, Federal, Business, Personal, Real Estate, and General forms covering hundreds of legal subjects and issues.

Gale Literature: LitFinder
Provides access to a wealth of literary works and secondary-source materials covering world literature and authors throughout history. Including more than 132,000 full-text poems and 670,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays.

Gale Literature Resource Center
Find up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers from all eras.

Gale Literature: Scribner Writer’s Series
Contains essays on writers and literary works.

Gale Literature: Twayne’s Authors Series
Find in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers. Includes influences of literary movements.

Gale Presents: Udemy
Learn and improve skills across business, tech, design, and more. Includes 10,000+ on-demand video courses in multiple languages.

Handbook of Texas
Multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture. It comprises more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions, and a host of other topic categories.

Health Reference Center – Academic
Provides general interest and fitness magazines, medical, and professional periodicals, and reference books.

HeritageQuest Online
Access more than 7.5 million pages of genealogical resources including the complete U.S. Federal Census from 1790-1940, the Periodical Source Index (PERSI), the Revolutionary War Pension Applications and Bounty Land Warrant Applications, and the Freedman’s Bank Records.

Historic Map Works Library Edition
Historic Map Works is one of the most extensive digital map collections available, with millions of high-resolution, full color historic maps.

 hoopla
Borrow and enjoy audiobooks, eBooks, comics, movies, TV, magazines, or music everywhere you have a screen-your computer, your phone, your car, even your TV.