Databases

Home page for the City of Port Arthur

This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

This Discovery Service searches many of the databases Port Arthur Public Library has access to for any term you enter. The result will list items from our databases, including text, videos, and periodicals. Searches can be refined from the menu to the left, while direct links to some of our other databases can be found to the right.

Full-text ebooks for children from SEBCO. Username: PAPL and Password: read. Next enter your Port Arthur Library card number.

A collection of e-books covering K-12, career, arts, leisure and life skills.

Read or check out e-books, available through EBSCOhost's electronic book collection

Digital images of historic military records. 

Indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database also has various images and offers brief biographies.