A-Z Databases

20th Century American and 20th Century British Poetry: Select 20th Century American or 20th Century British from the collections menu; includes 50,000 poems from 300 American poets, and 600 volumes of poetry from 283 British poets.
ABI/Inform Global includes Hoover's Online: Business Information. Full image (PDF) files for more than 2,000 journals; ascii full-text for an additional 100 journals; and indexing for nearly 3,000 titles. Hoover's provides in-depth industry analysis & information on 40,000 public and non-public companies as well as 225,000 key executives.
Academic OneFile: a comprehensive database of more than 8,000 journals covering everything from STM to the humanities. Replaces and expands Expanded Academic.
ACS Web Editions: American Chemical Society Full-Text Web Editions alternate access.
AgeLine Database: Social gerontology and aging-related research, policy and practice
AGRICOLA: FirstSearch; Agriculture
American Film Scripts Online: Alexander Street; The full images of 265 scripts written by 334 authors; examples of authors are: Joan Didion, Ruth Gordon, D.W. Griffith, and John Huston
Early Encounters in America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment: Alexander Street; The full images of 83,000 pages, authored by 1,076 writers; North America includes a limited number of works from Canada and Mexico
Latin American Women Writers: Alexander Street; The full images of 100,000 pages, authored from 1700-present. Authors from the 19th century include: Clorinda Matto de Turner (Peru), Juana M. Gorriti (Argentina), Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda (Cuba), Delmira Agustini (Argentina), and Julia Lopes Almeida (Brazil), among others. A number of important figures from the early 20th century are also targeted for inclusion, such as Alfonsina Storni (Argentina), Juana de Ibarbourou (Uruguay), Gabriela Mistral (Chile), and Clarice Lispector (Brazil).
Alexander Street: North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories: Alexander Street; The full images of 37,500 pages, authored by 342 writers; North America includes Canada and covers the period from 1800 to 1950
Alexander Street: In the First Person: An Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives: An index to all Alexander Street collections. Note: UTPB does not subscribe to all Alexander Street databases.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950: Alexander Street; The full images of more than 150,000 pages of diaries and letters written by 1,325 North American women
Alternative Press Index: FirstSearch; Indexes more than 300 journals (indexed nowhere else) covering cultural, economic, political and social change; backfile indexing begins in 1969
American Periodical Series, 1740-1900: In order to access this database from the main ProQuest page you must select Interdisciplinary APS Online from the databases collection drop down menu. Alternatively, you may click here for direct access. The database provides access to more than 1,100 journal titles (more than 7 million pages) published from 1740-1900.
Applied Science & Technology: FirstSearch; Subject oriented periodical index; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page. Subjects in ASTA: Applied chemistry, computer technology, data processing, energy-related disciplines, engineering, mathematics, physics. Indexes more than 700 journals, for a total of 1.5 million articles indexed.
ArticleFirst: FirstSearch; Indexes 16,000+ titles--general, popular and trade magazines along with academic journals
Art Abstracts: FirstSearch; Subject oriented periodical index; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page
Arts & Humanities Search: FirstSearch; ISI Citation Index; indexes more than 1,000 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals; includes indexing for selected articles from social science and science journals; coverage 1980 to the present; number of articles sited 2.9 million; updated weekly.
BioDigest: FirstSearch; Non-technical digests in biology, ecology, etc.
Biography Index: FirstSearch; Subject oriented periodical index; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page
Biological & Agricultural Index: FirstSearch; Academic subject oriented periodical index; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page. Updated weekly, indexes 366 journal titles, providing details of more than 1.2 million journal citations.
Book Review Digest: FirstSearch; Reviews of fiction & non-fiction books since 1988; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page
Books In Print: FirstSearch; Bibliographic information on books currently in print
Britannica Online: The Encyclopedia Britannica Online online; this standard reference work is updated monthly; each main entry includes the appropriate bibliographic citation for citing the article; also includes access to The Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, and the Enciclopedia Universal en Espaol
Business & Industry: FirstSearch;Business and industry facts, events, key figures; limited FT
Business & Management Practices: FirstSearch ; Practical aspects of business management; some FT available; updated weekly. Indexes more than 1,500 sources including trade magazines, newsletters and the general business press as well as international business dailies.
Business Dateline: FirstSearch; Citations on regional business articles
CLCD: Children's Literature Comprehensive Database: Children's Literature reviewers read and critically review more than 3,000 books annually. Go here for more information about the service.
Chicano Database: FirstSearch;from UC-Berkeley a database focused on Mexican-American, Chicano and the broader Latino experience; indexes more than 2,000 journals; subjects strengths include art, bilingual education, history, labor, language, literature, mental health and politics.
CLASE and Periodica: FirstSearch; CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and the humanities; Periodica covers journals specializing in science and technology. Together these indexes offer access to more than 400,000 citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.
Criminal Justice Periodicals Index: To restrict searches to CJPI click on the Collections button on the initial search screen. Of the 115 titles indexed 68 are available as full-image titles; a further 14 titles indexed in CJPI are available full-text in the FirstSearch database Index of Legal Periodicals
Disclosure Corporate Snapshots: FirstSearch; Financial reports on publicly owned companies
Dissertation Abstracts: FirstSearch; Dissertation Abstracts Online, 1863-present
Full-text of abstracts is available for materials entered after July 1980. Abstracts submitted prior to July 1980 are available only in the printed editions.
Early English Books Online: EEBO: The full images of 125,000 early English books from 1475 to 1700 [Malory to Locke]
EbscoHost > Academic Search Complete: EbscoHost: Academic Search Complete is an aggregated / general database with many scholarly journals. It is best to restrict your search by selecting: "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals."
EbscoHost > Business Source Complete: EbscoHost: Business Source Complete contains full-text academic journals as well as trade (i.e. non-academic) journals relating to business, economics, trade, and so on.
EbscoHost Databases: Other Database Titles of Interest: Bibliography of Native North Americans
Economia y Negocios
Fuente Academica
Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Religion and Philosophy Collection
Science and Technology Collection
For additional database selections select the Choose Database tab at the top of any EbscoHost search screen; this will take you to a list of all Ebsco-based TexShare databases.
EbscoHost > Texas Reference Center: Texas Reference Center is primarily the online version of The Handbook of Texas.
EconLIT: FirstSearch; Index of economic literature
Education Abstracts: FirstSearch; Academic subject oriented periodical index; overlap with ERIC less than 50%; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online: 150,000 books published between 1701 and 1800; 33 million pages of full-text searchable material
eLibrary: [K-12] Curriculum: This product is tied to national K-12 curriculum support material and educational standards; to restrict standards to the state of Texas use the drop-down menu on the main page.
ERIC: The original ERIC ceased production in July 2004; the full backfile 1966-2004 is available at this link. The new ERIC is narrower and updated less frequently, but is also available at this link.
Essay & General Literature Index: FirstSearch;This is a unique index that provides indexing for articles and essays published in books. This index focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film. The online index covers 1985 to the present, while the library owns the paper indexes back to 1933.
GaleNet-all available databases: Includes such databases as Business Resource Center, Health Reference Center Academic, InfoTrac Custom Newspapers, the Gale Virtual Reference Library and the Texas Almanac.
Gale's Literature Reference Center with Twayne's Authors and Scribner Writers: full biographies as well as significant critical studies of major US, British and many international authors of belles lettres and literature.
Gale Literary Databases: includes access to Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticsm and Dictionary of Literary Biography
Gale Virtual Reference Library: More than 300 full-text reference titles including such things as The Gale Encyclopedia of Science, 4th ed, 2008, Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West, Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education, Business Plans Handbook, vol 14, 2008, The Brill Dictionary of Religion, 21st Century Psychology: A Reference Handbook, 2008, Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media, 2007.
General Science Abstracts: FirstSearch; Academic subject oriented periodical index; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page
GEOBASE: FirstSearch; indexes world-wide literature on geography, geology and ecology
The Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online, 1453-1945: An international digital library that spans four centuries and documents the lives and experiences of women in public and private arenas. Contains more than 2,000,000 page images in 15 languages. The collection is made up of 265 periodical titles and 4,471 book and pamphlet titles.
GPO Monthly Catalog: FirstSearch; Index of U.S. government publications 1976 to the present
HarpWeek, 1857-1912: HarpWeek is the full-text and full-image reproductions of Harpers Weekly. There is a searchable database which offers several different ways to access the material. The database introduction and help pages are excellent. The vendor also provides Finding Aids for some of the most common areas of interest--e.g. Geography, Literary Genre, Occupation or Role in Society and so on.
Historical Newspapers: London Times Indexes: Palmer's Index to the [London] Times, 1790-1905
The Official Index to the [London] Times, 1906-1980
Palmer's Full Text Online, 1800-1870
Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2003): In order to access this database you must select Databases selection just under the Basic search button at the top of the default/ start-up page; scroll to the bottom of the resulting page to Historical Databases. Note: In ProQuest historical databases cannot be searched in combination with non-historical databases.
Humanities Abstracts: FirstSearch; Academic subject oriented periodical index; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page.
Humanities E-Book Collection aka History E-Book Collection: This began life as the History E-Book Project, but in the summer of 2007 the ACLS American Council of Learned Societies recognized that the project had in fact expanded beyond the confines of history. The name was changed and the holdings were expanded to more than 1,500 titles in history, art, literature, and other humanities areas.
Index to Legal Periodicals: FirstSearch; Subject oriented periodical index; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page.
JSTOR: Includes Arts & Sciences Collections I-V; Biological Sciences Collection; Business Collection; Health & General Sciences Collection
Archives & provides full-image for more than 900 scholarly journals from their beginnings to the most recent 1 to 7 years (varies with vendor contracts). For example, JSTOR contains the full-text of all numbers of American Journal of Psychology from volume 1, 1887-2003.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe: Emphasizes business and law oriented information.
Library Literature: Academic subject oriented periodical index; 100 library and education journals available in full-image; Wilson provides a very helpful InfoCenter which includes such topics as "How to Cite Electronic Articles", "How to Print, Email and Save/Persistent, and so on.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts: LISTA a free resource for anyone interested in libraries and information management, indexes 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings back to the mid-1960's.
LION: Literature Online: A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama, and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key secondary sources
Maps 101: Maps 101 is an online collection of over 4,000 maps. A large selection of these maps have been optimized for classroom teaching at all levels.
MathSciNet: MathSciNet is a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature of the past 65 years.
MEDLINE: FirstSearch; Indexes medical and nursing journals 1965-present; indexed journals are often at the professional medical level. This database should not be confused with the one below.
MedlinePLUS: Health Information: MedlinePlus is a specialized subset of MEDLINE, which focuses on consumer health information. This database provides consumer health information about drugs and supplements, a medical encyclopedia, a dictionary, and other information culled from US government publications.
Mergent Online: This database is the electronic equivalent of Moody's full-text company data
MLA: FirstSearch; Indexes literature, languages, linguistics, folklore; 1926 to the present.
National Center for Justice Reference Services: Cooperative effort of US Department of Justice, state and other agencies and organizations
National Security Archive: comprehensive collection of significant primary documents central to US foreign and military policy since 1945. Nearly 40,000 of the most important, declassified documents - totaling more than 250,000 pages - are included in the database.
Nature, Nature Archives Online: Nature Archives coverage is 1987-1996, Nature is 1996 forward; full-text and full-image (PDF) files available; PDF files usually print better, but full-text files handle some types of graphics better.
Nature GeoScience: Includes full-text and full-image (PDF) files available; PDF files usually print better, but full-text files handle some types of graphics better.
Nature Methods: subtitled Techniques for Life Scientists and Chemists
New England Journal of Medicine Online: Complete content; a mix of text+graphics and full-image files.
Newspaper Abstracts: FirstSearch; Indexes more than 60 national newspapers for example, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The San Francisco Chronicle; 1989-present
Newspapers: InfoTrac Custom Newspapers: Indexing and full-text for more than 100 newspapers; including cover to cover full text for the Austin American-Statesman, Dallas Morning-News, Houston Chronicle, and The New York Times [365-day rolling coverage for NYT].
Open Access Electronic Journals
There are three primary lists or directories that link to many academic (but some non-academic) free electronic journals.: Directory of Open Access Journals; e-journals.org; HighWire Press
Oxford English Dictionary [OED] Online: Complete text of the most current edition of the Oxford English Dictionary [OED] i.e. the Second Edition, 1989 with all supplements and for the online version, monthly updates of new words
PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service: In July of 2005 OCLC sold this database to Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, the number of titles indexed has been reduced from more than 2,000 to just over 1,000.
PAO Full-Text Collection: PAO: Periodical Archives Online [formerly PCI] covers 37 key subject areas in the humanities and social sciences; it contains the contents of 400 journal runs, providing access to over 8 million article pages. It has digitized important scholarly titles but also includes journals of historical interest that began publication in the 19th century, for example, Edinburgh Review, which was first published in 1802.
Project MUSE: This database contains the complete texts with all graphics, footnotes, and references of all JHUP journals. Beginning in 2001 additional titles from more than 100 prestigious scholarly and university presses have been added for a total of more than 370 high quality academic journals. The project focuses on humanities & social science titles, but also publishes journals dealing with the history of science.
Proquest Research Library: General periodical index; contains citations and full-image materials for both academic [e.g. Ecology] and popular [e.g. Earthwatch] titles. Indexes more than 2000 titles. More than 900 journals in this edition of the database are full image (PDF) files which provide true full-text information (graphics, tables, and so on).
PsycARTICLES: FirstSearch; an online database containing more than 42,500 searchable full-text articles from 49 peer reviewed journals published by the APA and allied organizations from 1988 to the present. Be aware that PsycArticles does not replace the indexing provided through PsycINFO_1887; this index provides indexing to all major psychological journals back to 1887.
PsycINFO_1887: FirstSearch; Comprehensive professional psychology index; abstracts of psychology literature since 1887
Reader's Guide to Periodicals: FirstSearch; Indexes broad range of popular magazines; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page
ScienceDirect: Full-text of 600+ science journals; also includes more than 100 social science journals.
Serials Solutions: Electronic Journal Listings for UTPB: This service lists and provides direct links (on-campus only) to more than 88% of all electronic journal titles (more than 34,000) available through the databases on this page.
Social Science Abstracts: FirstSearch; Academic subject oriented periodical index; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page.
SocINDEX with Full Text: Sociology, Social Work and Criminology are the focus of this database. Covered in less depth and limited to journals with a social policy focus are titles in Political Science, Public Administration, Geography, and Economics. 816 journals identified and selected by the American Sociological Association are indexed cover-to-cover, another 630 journals are "priority" indexed. More than 500 of these journals are available in full text through this database. In addition, access is provided to nearly 7,000 full-text conference papers and more than 720 books.
SportDiscus with Full Text: The SPORTDiscus covers both serial and monographic literature in the following areas of sport: recreation, exercise physiology, sports medicine, coaching, physical fitness, the psychology, history and sociology of sport. 70% of the database consists of periodical articles.
TESO: Teatro Espanol del Siglo Oro: TESO is a full-text database which contains the most important dramatic works of sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain. It contains more than 800 plays by 16 dramatists.
Texas Almanac: 2006-2007 editions
Wiley InterScience: Full-image of more than 300 journals, citations, indexing and tables of contents for more than 100 additional titles. Confusingly, Wiley purchased and brought online Blackwell serials titles under the InterScience interface in July of 2008. This added tables of contents for an additional 1200 titles, HOWEVER UTPB has no access to the full-text of these titles and these is no way to discern which titles were originally published by Wiley and thus accessible to our users and those which were published by Blackwell and are NOT accessible to our users.
Wilson Art Image Gallery: Images to be used strictly for educational purposes; may not be reproduced or repackaged.
Wilson Business Abstracts: FirstSearch; Subject oriented periodical index; indexes both trade and academic; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page.
WilsonSelect Plus: FirstSearch; Combines indexing and full-text coverage for both popular magazine titles and academic journals; FT available for 2300+ titles; citations to more than 1 million articles.
WorldCat: FirstSearch; More than 199 million catalog records for books and other materials worldwide
Worldscope Global: FirstSearch; Financial reports on companies worldwide; some FT available

Alexander Street Press Full-image Collections