Academic Search Complete
This is the new, more comprehensive version of Academic Search Premier
African American Poetry The early history of African American poetry, from the first recorded poem by an African American (Lucy Terry Prince's 'Bars Fight', c.1746) to the major poets of the nineteenth century, including Paul Laurence Dunbar and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
AGRICOLA is produced by the U.S. National Agricultural Library (NAL). It provides citations to journal articles, books, theses, patents, software, audio-visual materials, and technical reports related to agricultural research, the life sciences, and allied disciplines.
Coverage dates back to 1970.
Alt HealthWatch
focuses on alternative, complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. This database provides full text for articles, reports and proceedings, association and consumer newsletters, and hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.
America: History & Life Covers all aspects of United States and Canadian history from prehistoric times to the present. Indexing includes journal articles, book collections, and dissertations, covering publications from 1964 to the present, with retrospective indexing covering some earlier titles.
American Chemical Society Online Journals Browse journals contents and articles of recent ACS publications including Biochemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Macromolecules, Nano Letters, Accounts of Chemical Research, and more.
(EBSCO) ATLA/ATLAS Full Text
Produced by the American Theological Library Association, ATLA is an important indexing source for religious and theological literature. It provides citations to journal articles, essays, and books in many different languages. Most coverage spans from 1949 to the present, while retrospective indexing provides citations of select titles back to their original publication date. In addition to citations, full-text links are provided to thousands of electronic articles and book reviews.
Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA)
Covers all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life, from the 16th century to the present. Citations include books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada.
Bibliography of the History of Art
The Bibliography of the History of Art indexes and abstracts articles, art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and art exhibition and dealer's catalogs. This extensive and comprehensive index covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present. The Bibliography of the History of Art includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie) from 1973 to 1989 and RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) from 1975 to 1989.
(Gale) Biography & Genealogy Master Index
Find citations to biographical material for individuals from all time periods, geographical locations and fields of endeavor. BGMI indexes print sources that include biographical information on multiple persons. It also acts as an index to other indexes.
BioMed Central provides access to peer-reviewed research articles in all areas of biomedical research.
Full text articles from a variety of research journals in biological, ecological and environmental sciences.
Biomedical and life sciences journals, patents, and meetings.
Bishops' Statements From the United States of Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) official Web site.
An Index to book reviews from approximately 600 scholarly and popular English-language jounals with links to more than 630,000 full-text reviews
(EBSCO) Business Source Complete
Provides bibliographic and full text content for scholarly business journals, as well as financial data, reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, author profiles, and SWOT analyses.
(EBSCO) Business Source Complete
Provides bibliographic and full text content for scholarly business journals, as well as financial data, reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, author profiles, and SWOT analyses.
Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities
Provides current information on the addresses, phone, e-mail and websites for a large number of journals, as well as information on publication guidelines and review information for publication opportunities in the fields of business, psychology, and education.
Catechism of the Catholic Church
from the Vatican Web site.
Catholic Periodical and Literature Index (EBSCO)
covers all aspects of the Catholic faith and lifestyle, and includes index citations of articles and reviews published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers. Indexing for CPLI Online corresponds to the print version, The Catholic Periodical and Literature Index, published by the Catholic Library Association and covers content from over 200 periodicals. Coverage in the database dates back to 1981.
Indexes tax regulations and cases, both federal and state. NOTE: You will be asked to register as a new user.
Health and safety information from the U.S. government.
Data on chemical structures and properties from open access databases.
Choice Reviews Online provides reviews of significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education. It is the online version of the print publication.
Christian Latin Texts (in Latin) contains complete works from the beginning of Latin literature through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council. It covers all the works from the classical period, the most important patristic works, and a very extensive corpus of Medieval Latin literature. The complete works of writers such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas Kempis can thus be consulted. The texts have been taken from the Corpus Christianorum series and from many other leading editions.
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) Publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
The NLM style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers
ClasePeriodica (OCLC/FirstSearch)
indexes documents published in Latin American journals, covering the social sciences, humanities, science and technology. ClasePeriodica offers access to thousands of bibliographic citations from documents published in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English. Citations cover articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, and interviews. Note: Doherty Library does not subscribe to ClasePeriodica full-text services.Code of Canon Law
from the Vatican Web site.
Communication and Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)
covers scholarly topics in communication, mass media, and closely-related fields of study. CMMC offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for over 370 journals, and selected coverage of over 230 more and includes full text for more than 240 journals. CMMC features Author Profiles, providing biographical data and bibliographic information, and covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database.
Computer Source(EBSCO)
covers topics in computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software. Full text is often provided.
Consumer Health Complete (EBSCO)
Consumer Health Complete (CHC) provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. You can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles.
Contemporary Authors (Gale) An abridged, online version of the printed reference set found on our Reference shelves. Contemporary Literary Criticism (Gale)
An abridged, online version of the printed references set found on our Reference shelves. Corpus Thomisticum Web site for the works of Thomas Aquinas
CountryWatch
provides up-to-date information on countries, including overviews of politics and demographics, as well as economic information, statistics, maps, trends, and full-text current news wire services relevant to each country. CQ Researcher Online
is the online version of the print publication, offering original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Published in print and online 44 times a year, the single-themed CQ Researcher report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues.
CQ Weekly Online
is the online version of the print publication, providing weekly non-partisan legislative news and analysis. The online version includes access to the full text of all articles published since 1983.
Credo Reference is a full-text online reference service. Credo’s collection is integrated with millions of cross-references and contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy, science to Shakespeare and law to literature. Dictionary of Literary Biography (Gale)
An abridged, online version of the printed reference set found on our Reference shelves.
Directory of Open Access Journals Covers all aspects of Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 3935 journals in the directory. Currently 1408 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 264466 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
(ProQuest)
A service provided to universities that actively publish their graduate student's dissertations and theses with ProQuest's UMI® Dissertation Publishing. Dissertations & Theses @ enables individual universities to access the citations and abstracts of all their student's dissertations and theses published with ProQuest, as well as the full text in PDF format, when available.
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Doctoral dissertations and master's theses are a vital fund of scholarship for any discipline. The massive body of work available through ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) represents the most comprehensive source of academic research in the world.
Documents of Vatican II
from the Vatican Web site.
Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876 offers full text of more than 700 historical American newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia. Focus is largely on the 18th century.
17 volumes of primary material documenting the actions, debates, and thoughts of the First Federal Congress and its members have been collected by the First Federal Congress Project (FFCP) and published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
EBSCO Animals (K-8) is provided as a resource for future teachers. The database is designed for elementary and middle school students.
EBSCO Kids
A search interface with a child-friendly, graphically-rich design that automatically searches across all applicable EBSCO databases simultaneously.
EBSCO Student Research Center
A search interface designed specifically for secondary school students according to their needs and search abilities. Users can easily pre-determine which content sources (e.g., Magazines, Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video) will be included with their search or search databases through topic headings.
Economía y Negocios (EBSCO)
covers over 200 Spanish and Portuguese-language business and economics periodicals published in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, the United States and elsewhere.
ELibrary Curriculum
Delivers general reference collections of periodical and digital media content from more than 2,225 full-text magazines, newspapers, reference books, and transcripts-plus thousands of pictures, maps, weblinks, and audio/video content, as well as two distinct subject-based collections: ProQuest(r) Learning: Literature and History Study Center(tm). Educators can search for resources that correlate to state and national standards. more than 2,225 full-text magazines, newspapers, reference books, and transcripts-plus thousands of pictures, maps, weblinks, and audio/video content.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
is the electronic version of popular encyclopedia set.
Environmental Universe (Lexis-Nexis) provides access to Environment Abstracts covering publications from 1975 to the present (updated monthly), Codes & Regulations covering U.S. public laws enacted from 1988 to the present, and Federal Environmental Law Cases from the U.S. Supreme Court of Appeals, U.S. District Courts, and other courts. ERIC (EBSCO)
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides citations and abstracts to education literature and resources. EBSCO enables full text linking, when full text is available.
Essay & General Literature Index offers precise access to nearly 86,000 essays contained in some 7,000 anthologies and collections.
FirstSearch Databases (OCLC)
Access to all FirstSearch services.
Fuente Academica is a multi-disciplinary database offering full text scholarly journal content from Latin American and Spanish publishers.
Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia (K-12)
is provided as a resource for future teachers.
The database is appropriate for students and adults alike.
GPO Monthly Catalog (OCLC/FirstSearch)
From the U.S. Government Printing Office, the GPO Monthly Catalog covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.). Although the catalog only provides citation information, often URLs are available to provide direct linking to online materials through U.S. Government portals and Web sites.
GreenFILE (EBSCO) GreenFile is a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE will serve as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. GreenFILE’s initial release will include A&I for more than 600 titles, including comprehensive coverage – from to volume 1, issue 1 to present – for Bioscience (back to 1964), Conservation Biology (back to 1987), i>Journal of Ecology (back to 1913) and Journal of Environmental Planning & Management (back to 1948). The total number of records is approximately 295,000, and full text is provided for more than 4,600 records from open access titles.
Health & Wellness Resource Center (Gale)
includes magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on health and wellness issues. Included are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases. The material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.
Health Reference Center Academic (Gale) offers health-related information and includes links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases. The material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.
Health Source: Consumer Edition (EBSCO) includes full-text for many health-related journals and pamphlets and indexing for over 200 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. Also included is the USP Pharmacopoeia DI: Volume II Advice for the Lay Patient and 20 health research books, including books published by the People's Medical Society and Stedman's Medical Dictionary.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO) provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1975.
Information on diseases, drugs, health-related social problems, and wellness issues.
HeritageQuest Online (ProQuest)
Covers genealogical materials such as US Federal Census data and local and family history publications. Census data will eventually encompass all records from 1790-1930. The 25,000 books included are searchable by keyword.
Source for over 275,000 journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. Historical Abstracts
covers all aspects of world history outside North America from 1450 to the present. Indexing includes journal articles, book collections, and dissertations, covering publications from 1955 to the present.
Local business news and information from major metropolitan cities.
Houston Chronicle Online (Newsbank) full-text from 1985 to the present.
Humanities International Complete (EBSCO)
includes all data from Humanities International Index (over 2,000 titles and 2 million records) plus unique full-text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 770 journals.
The collection includes portraits, photographs, caricatures, genre scenes, posters, and graphic art illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine dated from the 15th to 21st century.
Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO)
indexes materials concerning classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry, scholarly communication, and electronic publishing. With coverage extending back to the mid 1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.
Informe: Revista en Español (Gale)
Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
InfoTrac Custom Newspapers (Gale)
offers a collection of over 100 newspapers from the U.S. and around the world, including several Texas newspapers. Dates of coverage vary with start dates beginning as early as January 1996, and a 365 day rolling file for the New York Times.
Contains approximately 32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries and areas and includes all series appearing on the IFS Country Pages; exchange rate series for all Fund member countries, plus Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles; major Fund accounts series; and most other world, area, and country series from the IFS World Tables.
Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts
Provides abstracts and indexing for literature related to personal computing products and developments in business, the Internet, the home, and all other applied areas. This resource contains content coverage that extends back to the 1980s. Over 400 of the most important trade publications, mainstream computer magazines, and professional journals are covered, including those that focus on specific topics such as Macintosh and Windows platforms, programming, web development and more. Special emphasis is also given to hardware and software reviews.
ITER: Middle Ages & Renaissance
Provides citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance. JSTOR: The Journal Storage Archive Contains complete full text of scholarly articles from premier academic journals in several disciplines. Access to JSTOR's journals goes back to the first issue ever published and continues to within a few years of the present. (EBSCO) Centered on the discipline of law and legal topics, Legal Collection is a collection of respected, scholarly peer-reviewed publications including law journals, documents, and case studies. This database is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world. Legal Collection offers full text for nearly 250 of the world's best law journals. This database provides information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment and much more. Full text journals contained in this database include: American Journal of Criminal Law, California Law Review, and many more. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1965.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Contains full-text of world, national, and regional newspapers, wire services, newsletters, magazines, trade journals, broadcast transcripts, SEC documents, legal information, including federal and state case law, and secondary source such as law reviews. Covers news, business, and legal information
Library of Congress Digital Collections - Online access to print, pictorial and audio-visual collections and other digital services
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
Literature Online is a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 243 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.
Literature Resource Center (Gale)
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. The LRC also includes a master index for the Gale series of literature reference books located in hardcopy in the Silent Reading Room.
The Atlas database covers all the works exhibited in the Louvre museum. Userswill find the usual explanatory texts that accompany museum exhibits, compiled under the authority of the museum curators.
New images are currently being added to the database, which is constantly updated.
MAS Ultra: School Edition Is designed specifically for high school libraries. It contains full text for more than 700 popular, high school magazines including America's Civil War, American Heritage, American History, Archaeology, Astronomy, Bioscience, Careers & Colleges, Civil War Times, Congressional Digest, Discover, Economist, History Today, Nation, National Review, New Republic, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, Smithsonian, World War II, etc. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for 84,074 biographies and 86,135 primary source documents. Additionally, MAS Ultra™ (School Edition) contains 518 pamphlets, more than 350 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book and World Almanac & Book of Facts), an Image Collection of 188,323 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines. MAS Ultra (School Edition) also includes the Our States reference book series from Great Neck Publishing, a new collection made up of 54 titles on each of the states, commonwealths and territories in the United States. This comprehensive series has carefully-written, in-depth articles covering each state's history, averaging 10 pages in length, and includes information on the economy, geography, natural resources, wildlife, state flags and landmarks. Biographies on each state's governors, senators and representatives, as well as other leaders such as Rudolph Giuliani, Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, Bill Clinton, and Condoleezza Rice are also included.
MasterFile Premier (EBSCO)
This is an all-purpose database covering a broad range of disciplines. It is especially geared toward K-12 teachers and students.
Medic Latina is a Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals in native Spanish. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. A wide range of topics are covered including neuroscience, cardiology, nephrology, biomedicine, clinical research, pediatrics, human reproduction, clinical pathology, cancer research, and hematology. Publications covered in this database include Revista Medica del IMSS, Revista Mexicana de Patologia Clinica, Boletin Medico del Hospital Infantil de Mexico, Archivos de Neurociencias, Revista Biomedica, Veterinaria Mexico, Salud Publica de Mexico, ACIMED, and more.
Great for primary sources – Contains original medieval history documents compiled for the teaching and study of medieval history. (EBSCO)
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, HISTLINE, SPACELINE, PREMEDLINE, AIDSLINE, BIOETHICSLINE, and HealthSTAR. Examples of publications covered in MEDLINE include: Accident and Emergency Nursing, Addiction, Administration and Policy in Mental Health, Behavior Modification, Behavioral Medicine, Cancer Detection and Prevention, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Maternal and Child Health Journal, etc.
Covering 10,000+ public companies and their SEC filings. Providing current and historical annual reports and EDGAR Search. Up to ten concurrent users are allowed at one time.
Covering 10,000+ public companies and their SEC filings. Providing current and historical annual reports and EDGAR Search. Up to ten concurrent users are allowed at one time.
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Middle Search Plus contains full text for nearly 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies, historical essays and student pamphlets. Additionally, Middle Search Plus contains primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History, reference books including the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia and American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition from Houghton Mifflin, the Encyclopedia of Animals, and an Image Collection of 188,323 photos, maps and flags. Middle Search Plus also includes the Our States reference book series from Great Neck Publishing, a new collection made up of 54 titles on each of the states, commonwealths and territories in the United States. This comprehensive series has carefully-written, in-depth articles covering each state's history, averaging 10 pages in length, and includes information on the economy, geography, natural resources, wildlife, state flags and landmarks. Biographies on each state's governors, senators and representatives, as well as other leaders such as Rudolph Giuliani, Noam Chomsky, Ralph Nader, Bill Clinton, and Condoleezza Rice are also included. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
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Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles. Some publications covered in this database include Air Force Comptroller, Army Reserve Magazine, Defence Studies, Global Security Review, JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, National Review, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces, and many more. Many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.
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MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR's language and literature collection as well as links to full text. This database includes journal abbreviations and acronyms for almost 3,500 titles, with full journal names standardized and ISSNs attached. MLA International Bibliography also contains nearly 11,000 subject names and terms. Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included. In addition to the bibliography, the database includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals; the association's proprietary thesaurus used to assign descriptors to each record in the bibliography; and a proprietary, searchable directory of noted authors' names, with links to brief descriptive notes.
The National Academies Press (NAP) was created by the National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council, all operating under a charter granted by the Congress of the United States.
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The Natural and Alternative Treatments database was originally created in 1997 to satisfy an ever-growing demand for accurate, unbiased information on natural health. Subsequently, the database has been expanded, refined and updated. It currently consists of over 550 articles as follows: 219 on Herbs and Supplements, 185 on Conditions, 100 on Drug Interaction, 29 on Alternative Therapies and 33 on Homeopathy.
From the National Bureau of Economic Research, “a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. The NBER is committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community” (from the NBER Working Papers Web site).
A searchable collection of electronic books in full text including current titles and public domain classics.
This 15 volume, second edition features revised and new articles. Among the 12,000 entries in the encyclopedia are articles on theology, philosophy, history, literary figures, saints, musicians and much more.
New Testament Abstracts Online is a product of a partnership between ATLA and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. The database is an indispensable research and bibliographic aid for scholars, librarians, clergy and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu. The database contains more than 38,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 13,500 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts. Each year an additional 2,100 articles from more than 500 periodicals in numerous languages are selected for inclusion. In addition, approximately 800 current books are also summarized annually. Article coverage in the database dates back to 1985.
Offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproduction providing access to every page from every available issue.
New York Times, 1980-Present
Searchable full-text coverage of the U.S. newspaper of record. Offers superb coverage of national and international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions, and president press conference transcripts. The NYT Book Review and NYT Magazine begin coverage in 1997 - present.
Full-text content of local and regional newspapers: Austin American-Statesman, Forth Worth Star-Telegram, Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News.
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Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 20 national (U.S.) & international newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc. The database also contains selected full text for more than 230 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, Daily News (New York), San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc.
The World's Largest Medical Library
(EBSCO) Old Testament Abstracts is a product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Biblical Association. The database features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Content from over 450 journals is covered. All abstracts are in English, regardless of the language of the original work. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more. Coverage in the database dates back to 1978.
Contains the complete text to the 20 volume Second Edition from 1989, together with the 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 and 1997.
Papal Documents
from the Vatican Web site.
Collection of primary-source full-text databases that comprise of the complete works of individual philosophers
(SilverPlatter)
Indexes books, anthologies and journal articles covering the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language. Coverage from 1940 – present. Updated quarterly. Use Internet Explorer, May not work with Netscape.
Philosophy Online has been jointly developed by the Philosophy Documentation Center and InteLex Corporation as an electronic platform for fulltext and bibliographic resources in philosophy.
Primary Search, designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children's rooms, contains full text for nearly 70 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines. Full text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets. Examples of publications covered in Primary Search include: Appleseeds, Boys' Life, Cobblestone, Cricket, Highlights for Children, Hopscotch, Jack & Jill, Ladybug, Ranger Rick, Science World, Spider, SuperScience, Time for Kids, Turtle, and many more. This database also provides the American Heritage Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection of 188,323 photos, maps and flags. Many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text backfiles go as far back as 1989, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as 1984.
Pro & Con Online is a division of Congressional Digest Corporation. It provides access to the archives of Congressional Digest, Supreme Court Debates, and newest publication International Debates.
Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. This is the most comprehensive and most valuable collection of full text education journals in the world. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 700 journals. Examples of titles offered in Professional Development Collection include: Booklist, Curriculum Administrator, Education, Education Digest, Educational Leadership, High School Journal, Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Research, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Phi Delta Kappan, Reading Teacher, School Library Journal, and many others. The majority of full text titles included in the database are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in the Professional Development Collection dates as far back as 1965
Project Muse
Provides full-text access to recent and current academic journals in the arts and sciences, as well as journals in many interdisciplinary fields of study.
Search full-text periodicals covering the social sciences.
The Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database providing nearly 575 full text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed journals. The database covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection. Examples of publications offered in the Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection include: Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, Clinical Neuropsychologist, European Archives of Psychiatry & Clinical Neuroscience, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, European Journal of Neuroscience, International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, International Journal of Social Psychiatry, International Review of Psychiatry, Journal of Clinical & Experimental Neuropsychology, Journal of Cognitive Neurosciences, Journal of Mental Health, Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience, Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, Psychotherapeut, Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology, and many more. The Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection can be searched independently, but also allows users to conveniently link to full text from citations within PsycINFO. Nearly all full text publications included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO. The majority of full text titles in this database are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1965.
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PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from approximately 2,050 periodicals in more than 25 languages. PsycINFO is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA’s Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms. In addition, PsycARTICLES provides searchable full-text for more than 40,000 articles from 56 journals - 45 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage for PsycArticles spans 1985 to present; coverage for PsycInfo spans 1887 to the present.
Data on properties, structures, and biological activities of small molecules.
Provides free access to MEDLINE, NLM's database of citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences.
RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic software package that allows you to import citations from online article indexes and databases, organize and manage these references within folders, automatically format them within papers and create instant bibliographies in a variety of styles (Chicago, MLA, APA, Turabian, etc.)
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Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Included in this database are Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, Crain's New York Business (and other Crain Communications editions), Des Moines Business Record, Enterprise Salt Lake City, Fort Worth Business Press, Orange County Business Journal, Westchester County Business Journal, etc.
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The Religion & Philosophy Collection is a comprehensive database covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. This database offers more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the database. Examples of titles offered in the Religion & Philosophy Collection include: Archaeology, Biblical Interpretation, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Catholic Historical Review, Christianity Today, Comparative Sociology, Ethics, Greek Orthodox Theological Review, Islamic Law & Society, Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, Philosophical Perspectives, Religion & Theology, and many more. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1975.
Religious and Theological Abstracts
This is the online version of the print index by the same title. RTA provides summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology. It lists a wide variety of periodical literature, including Christian, Jewish, and other World religions. English language abstracts are provided for non-English language materials.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is a comprehensive, ongoing guide to publications on music from all over the world.
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Science & Technology Collection contains over 800 leading full text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community. Topics include aeronautics, astrophysics, biology, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, marine sciences and materials science. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,700 publications. This collection contains many scholarly journals including Advances in Physics, American Scientist, Archaeoastronomy, Astronomy & Geophysics, Civil Engineering, Engineering Management Journal, International Journal of Computational Engineering Science, Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Journal of Architectural Engineering, Journal of Applied Microbiology, Journal of Mathematical Logic, Journal of Theoretical & Computational Chemistry, Molecular Physics, Plant Biotechnology Journal, Quarterly Review of Biology, Space Communications, Spatial Vision, and many more.
SciFinder (CAS) SciFinder provides information for biomedical, chemical, and chemistry-related research. Options include searches by chemical structures, reagents/reactants, and/or functional groups. Users must register with CAS.(Gale) The Scribner Writers Series includes 1,564 essays on authors of all nationalities and time periods. Many authors are seen from multiple perspectives in two, three, or even four essays--a broad biocritical overview as well as specialized treatments. Each essay includes a concise introductory preface and a biography placing the author's work within a personal and historical framework. This is the online version of the Scribner reference sets.
(EBSCO) K-8 database for children & educators. Interface combines several databases including Primary Search, Middle Search Plus, and EBSCO Animals.
Serials Directory (EBSCO)
The Serials Directory provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials. It contains over 184,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers; historical data for an additional 20,000 titles; data from nearly 83,500 publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet addresses; and Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classifications for every entry.
An index of stories published in books, journals, or magazines, plus some full-text stories.
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Provides indexing with many full-text articles and images. Disciplines covered include addiction studies, gerontology, econometrics, international relations, minority studies, urban studies, and more.
Teacher Reference Center Teacher Reference Center provides indexing for over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books. It is now also offered free via the EBSCOhost platform. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.
Texas Digital Sanborn Maps
Contains large-scale plans of Texas cities and towns drawn to scale of 50 feet to the inch. The maps show the outlines of residential, commercial, and industrial structures on each block and can be used to chart the growth and development of cities, as well as to date specific structures. Dates of maps covered: 1867-1970. Texas Reference Center Provides full text for more than 1,700 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,400 titles. This database features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, nearly 500 full text reference books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts; full text from 84,011 biographies, 83,472 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps and flags. Texas Reference Center offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975 for key publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Judaism, Library Journal and National Review.
TopicSearch (EBSCO) This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. Students can use either the dropdown menus for Current Events or Topics to easily locate relevant articles. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 102,800 articles from 2,500 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled periodicals collection, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, government information and EBSCO's Current Issues database. This database provides full text for more than 1,550 publications. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 1,650 journals. Topics covered include: Aging, AIDS, Alcohol, Computers, Crime, Drugs, Education, Energy, Ethics, Family, Health, Human Rights, Multiculturalism, National Debate, People, Religion, Sports, Women, Work, World Affairs, etc. Examples of publications offered in TOPICsearch include: Addiction, Adolescence, Adult Learning, Advertising Age, American Fitness, Billboard, Child Welfare, Christianity Today, Clinical Nursing Research, Criminal Justice Ethics, Daily Variety, Discover, Field & Stream, Financial Management, Foreign Affairs, Fortune, Geriatrics, Health, HR Magazine, InformationWeek, Journal of Family Issues, Women in Business, and many more. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.
Twayne's Authors Series (Gale)
Twayne World, US, and English Authors each contains the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles.
Twentieth-Century American Poetry This collection includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song.
Twentieth-Century English Poetry A collection of more than 600 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Thom Gunn, Fleur Adcock, Paul Muldoon, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy, and incorporating the poets in The Faber Poetry Library.
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) has launched a new internet-based data service for the global user community. It brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point from which users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN System.
The USCCB is an assembly of the Catholic Church hierarchy who work together to unify, coordinate, promote, and carry on Catholic activities in the United States; to organize and conduct religious, charitable, and social welfare work at home and abroad; to aid in education; and to care for immigrants. The bishops themselves constitute the membership of the Conference and are served by a staff of over 350 lay people, priests, deacons, and religious.
Link to the official Vatican Web site
Vocational & Career Collection Provides full text coverage for nearly 350 trade and industry related periodicals including American Machinist, Pediatric Nursing, Wireless Week, Drug Store News, Video Business, Reeves Journal, Hotel and Motel Management, Restaurant Business, Advertising Age, and many more. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for over 600 journals. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985.
Coverage: 1982 – Present Full text of the U.S. financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as other news.
Full text of federal and state cases, statutes and legislative materials, legal encyclopedias, journals, and law reviews. (EBSCO) Women's Studies International
Covers the core disciplines in women's studies and includes relevant scholarship in sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. Coverage spans from 1972 and earlier to the present.
World Almanac (OCLC FirstSearch)
Search all or one of the following: Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac of the U.S.A., The World Almanac of U.S. Politics, The World Almanac for Kids.
WDI Online provides development data from the World Bank for 226 individual countries as well as 15 regional & income groups. The database provides over 590 series including information on: population, income, social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. Coverage spans more than forty years for most data sets (beginning 1960 whenever available).
World History Collection
Offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. World History Collection contains cover-to-cover full text for nearly 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964. These hand-selected information sources cover a wide range of historical topics including anthropology, art, culture, economics, government, heritage, military, politics, regional issues, and more. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection. Examples of titles offered include: American Historical Review, American Heritage, American Art, American Scholar, Canadian Historical Review, Civil War History, European Review of History, Foreign Affairs, German History, Historian, History & Theory, History Today, Journal of American History, Journal of Military History, Journal of Modern History, Journal of Pacific History, Political Science Quarterly, Wilson Quarterly, etc. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Searchable cited references are also included in this database. WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch)
Contains over 74 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages and covering information dating back to the 11th century. WorldCat contains any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries and reflects holdings information from libraries in 45 countries.
