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Academic Search Complete: EBSCO 
The largest of our databases, Academic Search Complete provides full text for a growing collection of more than 5,300 magazines and journals. Entire articles are available from more than 4,000 peer-reviewed English-language journals, as well as publications in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, and German. Contains 800 journals found exclusively in this database.
Agricola 
Agicola contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage for AGRICOLA dates back to 1970 and includes more than 2.5 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.
Alt Health Watch 
Alt Health Watch provides full text for 180 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.
Associates Programs Source 
This database contains full-text journals that are relevant to the research needs of associate degree programs at two-year colleges. This includes a wide range of topics such as alcohol & drug abuse counseling, computer & data processing, graphic arts, health information technology, law enforcement & criminal justice, and paralegal studies.
Auto Repair Reference Center 
Auto Repair Reference Center contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1945.
Bibliography of Native North Americans 
Bibliography of Native North Americans is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present.
Business and Company Resource Center
Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.
Business Source Complete
Business Source Complete offers indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,200 journals.
Chicano Database
Contains bibliographic information for over 2,470 journals covering the Mexican-American, Chicano and broader Latino experience. This includes the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database, which contains psychological, sociological and educational literature. This database does not contain the full text for articles, but provides the necessary information for articles to be requested through
Interlibrary Loan.
CINAHL
The CINAHL® database is a multidisciplinary database covering the nursing, allied health, biomedicine, and consumer health literature from 1982 to present. The database indexes citations, abstracts, and some full-text of journal articles, theses, dissertations, and monographs.
Clinical Pharmacology
This database contains quick and trustworthy drug information. You can find indications & dosage administration, contraindications, pregnancy and breast-feeding recommendations, interactions, adverse reactions, monitoring parameters, patient education, product formats and identification, and products comparisons.
Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select,
Dictionary of Literary Biography
Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (CLC Select) and Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB) contain in-depth information on the lives and writings of nearly 100,000 authors along with critical reaction to their works. This series includes integrated indexes to both the DLB and CLC print series.
Computer Source
Computer Source offers full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications with the latest information and current trends in high technology.
Consumer Health Complete
Consumer Health Complete provides access to easily understandable health and medical information. You can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles.
Directory of Open Access Journals
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals and aims to cover all subjects and languages.
Economia y Negocios
Economia y Negocios is produced in Peru by ESAN (Escuela de Administración de Negocios para Graduados), the oldest graduate school of business in the Spanish-speaking world. This Spanish language database, which focuses on business and economics, consists of more than 60,000 bibliographic records. Coverage dates back to the early 1980s and includes over 200 periodicals published in Latin America and Spain.
Educator's Reference Desk
From the Information Institute of Syracuse, the Educator's Reference Desk brings 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
Emerald
Emerald contains academic and professional journal literature in business and management disciplines, including strategy, change management, and international marketing.
Encyclopedia of Animals
Encyclopedia of Animals consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
ERIC - Education Resources Information Center
ERIC is a national education database sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI). Contains over 700,000 citations covering research documents, journal articles, technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular materials in the field of education. In addition to ERIC subject descriptors and extensive abstracts, citations include detailed source, geographic, institutional, and availability information.
Facts on File
This resource contains World News Digest, Issues & Controversies, Today's Science, World Almanac, and World Almanac Encyclopedia. Facts On File World News Digest is a permanent record of the essential facts of the news as reported in the major newspapers and news magazines of the U.S., Canada, Britain, Australia, and elsewhere in the world. Issues & Controversies is a reference database that combines authoritative factual analysis, covering clear explanations of opposing points of view. Today's Science bridges the gap between textbooks and what's happening in science today presenting the latest scientific discoveries and the fundamental concepts that underlie them.
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is this FREE web site.
Fuente Academica
Fuente Academica provides full-text coverage (including PDF) for nearly 200 scholarly Spanish language journals. Content is provided in Spanish from respected publishers worldwide.
Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia
Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Gateway to Educational Materials
The Gateway to Educational Materials is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.
GreenFILE
Focusing on environmental topics such as global warming, recycling, alternative fuel sources, and environmental health, this collection describes nearly 300,000 sources with 5,000 in full text.
Handbook of Texas
The Handbook of Texas Online is a multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association and the General Libraries at UT Austin.
Health and Wellness Resource Center
This resource provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference resources such as Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence, and PDR Family Guide to Health and Nutrition. Key health web sites are also listed here, as well as 2, 200 general interest health publications, and over 400 health and medical journals. Reliable information can be found by searching under latest news, subject, or key words.
Health Reference Center Academic
Health Reference Center-Academic contains articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health & Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc.
Health Source Consumer Edition
Health Source: Consumer Edition provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals.
Health Source Nursing/Academic
Health Source: Nursing/Academic provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.
HeritageQuest
This unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture includes over 25,000 family and local history books and the complete U.S. Federal Census, 1790-1930.
Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
HAPI contains over 250,000 citations for articles related to Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. There are also 60,000 links to full-text articles in social sciences and humanities journals.
InfoTrac Newspapers
InfoTrac is a growing 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 January of 1996, and a 365 day rolling file for the New York Times.
Information Science & Technology Abstracts
The Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA) database is a free resource to anyone interested in libraries and information management. It provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Delivered via the EBSCOhost platform, ISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings, with coverage dating back to the mid-1960s.
Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts
Internet & 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. Over 400 of the most important trade publications, mainstream computer magazines, and professional journals are covered.
JSTOR
The JSTOR archive holds the complete back runs of core scholarly journals starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1800s. Recent articles are not available, but this is the foremost online source of archival journal articles.
Kids Search
Kids Search, designed especially for youth in grades K-8, makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type - -magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.
Legal Collection
Legal Collection contains full text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected scholarly law journals.
LexisNexis Academic
One of the largest and most popular databases in higher education, LexisNexis Academic provides comprehensive access to full-text government, news, business, and legal publications.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
This database covers subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. LISTA indexes nearly 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.
Literary Reference Center
Literary Reference Center contains full-text articles on thousands of authors and their works. Includes author biographies, plot summaries, literary criticisms, classic texts, book reviews, and several encyclopedias of literature.
Literature Criticism Online
This database contains two award-winning series that evaluate, analyze, and interpret literary works. The Contemporary Literary Criticism includes authors who are currently living and those who died after 1960. The Children’s Literature Review provides reviews, criticism, and commentary on over 600 writers and illustrators for children and young adults.
Literature Resource Center
This all-inclusive database contains information on both classical and contemporary authors and their works. Obtain biographies of authors, bibliographies of all they have written, critical essays and contextual information. Search by the author's name, the title of the work, or even by the title of the periodical or journal that is part of the database.
MAS Ultra: School Edition
Designed specifically for high school libraries, MAS Ultra: School Edition provides full text for more than 700 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating as far back as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, more than 350 full text reference books, 84,011 biographies, 83,472 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps and flags.
MasterFILE Premier
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for 2,005 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes more than 320 full text reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,135 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
MedicLatina
MedicLatina is a Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers which provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals.
MEDLINE
MEDLINE offers users access to information from all journals indexed in the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE file. Gain access to information from such fields as medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and preclinical sciences. Included are abstracts and indexing for over 3,800 current biomedical journals published in the U.S. and in 70 foreign countries, citations found in Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index and the Index to Dental Literature, additional table of contents information for 2,400 titles, provided by the British Document Supply Centre.
MEDLINEplus
A source of up-to-date, quality health care information from the world’s largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. MEDLINEplus is for anyone with a medical question. Both health professionals and consumers can depend on it for accurate, current, medical information. This service provides access to extensive information about specific diseases and conditions and also has links to consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health, dictionaries, lists of hospitals and physicians, health information in Spanish and other languages, and clinical trials. There is no advertising on this site, nor does MEDLINEplus endorse any company or product.
Middle Search Plus
Middle Search Plus contains the full text of nearly 140 popular magazines for middle and junior high school research. All full-text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexile), and full-text sources date back as far as 1990. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,011 biographies, 83,472 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps and flags.
Military & Government Collection
The Military and Government connection contains cover-to-cover full text of nearly 300 journals and other periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.
MLA Directory of Periodicals
This directory provides detailed information on over 7,100 journals includes editorial contact information as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
MLA International Bibliography
Produced by the Modern Language Association, this bibliography of articles, books and dissertations dates back to the 1920s and has more than 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers, with links to full text.
Natural & Alternative Treatments
Natural & Alternative Treatments contains detailed information on more than 180 different conditions and the conventional and natural treatments used to treat them, over 200 herbs and supplements, plus drug-herb and drug-supplement interactions for more than 75 drug categories.
NetLibrary E-books
Search tens of thousands of books on-line and read them on your computer. Create a free account for access from anywhere, and a Favorites list for quick links to books you want to use again and again.
Newspaper Source
Newspaper Source provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
NLM Gateway
The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE.
OCLC WorldCat
OCLC FirstSearch is the world's largest database of bibliographic information, culled from the shared records of libraries from all over the world. Over 57 million records, in over 400 languages, that contain holdings information, and other information vital to collection development, cataloging, authority control, and retrospective conversion services.
Points of View
Points of View contains information on a variety of controversial topics. This includes an overview, point, counterpoint, and guide to critical analysis for each topic, as well as many additional full-text documents.
Primary Search
Primary Search provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, Professional Development Collection 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.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles, covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO.
PubMed
A service of the National Library of Medicine, PubMed provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
RCLweb: Resources for College Libraries
The online edition of the new Resources for College Libraries features 65,000 titles in 58 curriculum-specific subjects. Titles have been selected for your academic library by more than 300 subject specialists and bibliographers.
Regional Business News
Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Religion & Philosophy
This database provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles.
Science & Technology Collection
Science & Technology Collection contains over 800 leading full text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community. Topics include aeronautics, astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, and materials science. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,700 publications.
Searchasaurus
Searchasaurus, designed specifically for the young researcher, contains full text for more than 60 popular, elementary school magazines.
Serials Directory
Serials Directory provides up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials.
Student Research Center
Student Research Center, designed especially for secondary school students, makes it easy to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type—magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.
Teacher Reference Center
This database indexes more than 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books. This free database covers 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 Reference Center
Texas Reference Center includes more than 80 full text journals and books about Texas history, ethnic & cultural diversity, gender studies, literature, public health, business as well as home & garden and sports & leisure.
Texas Digital Sanborn Maps
These digitized maps provide detailed property and land-use records that depicts the architecture of Texas towns and cities throughout the past one hundred years. The maps enable researchers to trace the architectural history of individual buildings or entire communities.
TOPICsearch
TOPICsearch allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 102,800 articles from more than 2,500 diverse sources, including more than 1,550 full text periodicals.
Vocational & Career Collection
Vocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals.
World History Collection
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.
