What are the TexShare Electronic Databases?
The TexShare Databases are electronic resources that are authoritative, ad free, and appropriate for children. They are available 24 hours a day from the homes or offices of Texans that are registered in participating Texas libraries. These databases expand the reference collection of participating libraries, and its “shelves” are stocked with encyclopedias, reference books, literature, medical information, journals that cover business, science and technical topics, and even current newspapers and magazines. “Free” search engines provide an index of free information, but authentic, verifiable, scholarly information is not usually available for free. The Library of Texas (formerly Resource Discovery Service during the project phase) makes it more convenient and easier to search these databases than using a separtate native interface for each individual database. A list of TexShare member libraries is available. The last column on the list indicates whether the library is a participant o
