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Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries published by the Association of College and Research Libraries, annually selects a number of academically oriented web sites as particularly valuable for academic research. Across the web site this symbol  indicates a CHOICE Outstanding Web Site. This symbol [blue star]  indicates a CHOICE Highly Recommended Web Site |
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| 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. | Chadwyck-Healey / ProQuest |
| 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. | ProQuest |
| Academic OneFile | a comprehensive general database indexing more than 8,000 academic journals covering everything from STM to the humanities. Replaces and expands Expanded Academic | Gale Cengage |
| ACS Web Editions | American Chemical Society Full-Text Web Editions alternate access. | ACS |
| AgeLine Database | Social gerontology and aging-related research, policy and practice | AARP |
| AGRICOLA | FirstSearch; Agriculture, forestry and animal science 1970-present | OCLC / USDA |
| Alternative Press Index and Archive | FirstSearch; Indexes more than 300 journals (indexed nowhere else) covering cultural, economic, political and social change; backfile indexing begins in 1969 |
OCLC / AltPress |
| American Film Scripts Online | The full images of 265 scripts written by 334 authors; examples of authors are: Joan Didion, Ruth Gordon, D.W. Griffith, and John Huston |
Alexander Street |
| American Periodical Series, 1740-1900 | In order to access this database you must select Databases selected just under the Basic search tab 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. The database provides access to more than 1,100 journal titles (more than 7 million pages) published from 1740-1900. |
ProQuest Historical |
| 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. | OCLC / Wilson |
| ArticleFirst | FirstSearch; Indexes 16,000+ titles--general, popular and trade magazines along with academic journals; 23 million citations since 1990 | OCLC |
| Art Abstracts | FirstSearch; Subject oriented periodical index; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page | OCLC / Wilson |
| 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 3 million; updated weekly | OCLC / ISI |
| BioDigest | FirstSearch; Non-technical digests in biology, ecology, etc. | OCLC /Plexus |
| Biography Index | FirstSearch; Indexes nearly 500,000 biographies published in journals or books since 1983; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page | OCLC / Wilson |
| Biological & Agricultural Index | FirstSearch; Biology, ecology, agriculture and forestry; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page. Updated weekly, indexes 366 journal titles, providing details of more than 1.3 million journal citations. | OCLC / Wilson |
| Book Review Digest | FirstSearch; Reviews of nearly 900,000 fiction & non-fiction books since 1988; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page | OCLC / Wilson |
| Books In Print | FirstSearch; Bibliographic information on nearly 8 million books currently in print; updated weekly | OCLC / Wilson |
| Britannica Online
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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 Espanol | Britannica |
| Business & Industry | FirstSearch;Business and industry facts, events, key figures; limited FT, 3.7 million records | OCLC / Gale Cengage |
| 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. | OCLC / Gale Cengage |
| Business Dateline | FirstSearch; Citations on regional business articles; 1.85 million records since 1985. | OCLC / ProQuest |
| 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. | CLCD |
| 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. | OCLC / UC-Berkeley |
| 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 450,000 citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. | OCLC |
| 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 | ProQuest |
| CWI: Contemporary Women's Issues | FirstSearch; emphasizes human rights and health issues; some full-text access to cited materials; 95,000 records since 1992. | OCLC / Gale Cengage |
| Disclosure Corporate Snapshots | FirstSearch; Financial reports on publicly owned companies | OCLC / Thomson Financial |
| 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. 2.2 million records |
OCLC / ProQuest |
| e-books : netLibrary |
The single most important access point to full-image traditional book titles supporting academic research. Provides access to the full-text of more than 40,000 current imprint titles--books published since 1990. Approximately 50% of the titles are social sciences (including education and business); about 30% of titles are related to the humanities. Browsing does not have a time limit; checkouts are for two hours, and require that a free account be established. All netLibrary titles are indexed in FirstSearch. Publishers do put printing and viewing restrictions on some titles if you are viewing in browsing only. You must "check-out" such titles to receive better access to the e-book. |
OCLC / netLibrary |
| Early Encounters in America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment | The full images of 83,000 pages, authored by 1,076 writers; North America includes a limited number of works from Canada and Mexico | Alexander Street |
| Early English Books Online: EEBO |
The full images of 125,000 early English books from 1475 to 1700 [Malory to Locke] | Gale Cengage |
| EbscoHost > Academic Search Complete | EbscoHost: Academic Search Complete is an aggregated / general database with indexing for more than 5,000 journals. It is best to restrict your search by selecting "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals." | EbscoHost |
| 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. This database also provides specific targeted subsets of information as indicated. | EbscoHost | |
EbscoHost Databases: Other Database Titles of InterestFor 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 | |
| EbscoHost > Texas Reference Center | Texas Reference Center is primarily the online version of The Handbook of Texas | EbscoHost |
| EconLIT | FirstSearch; Index of economic literature 1969-present; nearly 1 million records | OCLC / American Economic Assn. |
| Education Abstracts | FirstSearch; Academic subject oriented periodical index; overlap with ERIC less than 50%; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page | OCLC / Wilson |
| Eighteenth Century Collections Online | 150,000 books published between 1701 and 1800; 33 million pages of full-text searchable material | Gale Cengage |
| 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. | ProQuest |
| ERIC | The original ERIC ceased production in July 2004; the full backfile 1966-2004 of nearly 1 million citations is available at this link. The new ERIC is narrower and updated less frequently, but is also available at this link. | OCLC / ERIC |
| 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. | OCLC / Wilson |
| 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 Cengage |
| 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 Cengage |
| Gale Literary Databases | includes access to Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism and Dictionary of Literary Biography | Gale Cengage |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library | More than 300 full-text reference titles including such things as The Gale Encyclopedia of Science, 4th edition, 2008; Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West; Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education; Business Plans Handbook, volume 14, 2008; The Brill Dictionary of Religion; 21st Century Psychology: A Reference Handbook, 2008; Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media, 2007. | Gale Cengage |
| General Science Abstracts | FirstSearch; Academic subject oriented periodical index ranging from astronomy to zoology; more than 1 million records; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page | OCLC / Wilson |
| GEOBASE | FirstSearch; indexes world-wide literature on geography, geology and ecology | OCLC / Elsevier |
| The Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online, 1453-1945
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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. | ProQuest / Chadwyck-Healey |
| GPO Monthly Catalog | FirstSearch; Index of U.S. government publications 1976 to the present | OCLC / GPO |
| 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 | Harper's / |
| 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 |
Chadwyck-Healey |
| Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2005) | In order to access this database you must
select Databases selected just under the Basic search tab 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. |
ProQuest Historical |
| Humanities Abstracts | FirstSearch; Academic subject oriented periodical index ranging from archaeology to linguistics and languages to music, folklore and history; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page. | OCLC / Wilson |
| 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. |
ACLS |
| IEEExplore | Selected journals, conference proceedings and standards | IEEE |
| Index to Legal Periodicals | FirstSearch; Subject oriented periodical index; nearly 500,000 records since 1981; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page. | OCLC / Wilson |
| 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. | Alexander Street |
| JSTOR |
Includes Arts & Sciences Collections I-VI; 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, 1887-2005 [i.e. moving wall 3 years]. |
JSTOR.org |
| Latin American Women Writers | 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 |
| Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe | Emphasizes business and law oriented information | LexisNexis |
| Library Literature | Academic subject oriented periodical index; 100 library, information science, 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. | OCLC / Wilson |
| 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. | EbscoHost |
| 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 grades 3-12 plus general college level. | Maps 101 |
| MathSciNet | MathSciNet is a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature of the past 65 years. | AMS |
| MEDLINE | FirstSearch; Indexes medical and nursing journals 1965-present; more than 17 million records; indexed journals are often at the professional medical level. This database should not be confused with the one below. | OCLC / NLM |
| MedlinePLUS: Health Information
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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 | NIH |
| Mergent Online | This database is the electronic equivalent of Moody's full-text company data; includes US company data for more than 10,000 public companies and their SEC filings; access to these companies annual reports, along with selected access to international company data and annual reports. | Mergent |
| MLA | FirstSearch; Indexes literature, languages, linguistics, folklore;
1926 to the present; more than 2 million citations. |
OCLC / MLA |
| National Center for Justice Reference Services | Cooperative effort of US Department of Justice, state and other agencies and organizations |
NCJRS.org |
| 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. | Chadwyck-Healey / ProQuest |
| 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. | NPG |
| 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. | NPG |
| Nature Methods | subtitled Techniques for Life Scientists and Chemists | NPG |
| New England Journal of Medicine Online | Complete content; a mix of text+graphics and full-image files | NEJMO |
| 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; nearly 9 million records. | OCLC / ProQuest |
| 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] | Gale Cengage |
| North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories | 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 |
| North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950 |
The full images of more than 150,000 pages of diaries and letters written by 1,325 North American women | Alexander Street |
| OAIster: Union catalog of Digital Resources | Indexes nearly 19 million records available in the following digital formats--audio, dataset, image, text, video. On the whole this is NOT direct access to the work itself, but the correct information to find the material. Originally funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the University of Michigan Libraries; now wholly supported by OCLC. | OCLC |
Open Access Electronic JournalsThere are three primary lists or directories that link to many academic (but some non-academic) free electronic journals. |
Open Access | |
| Oxford English Dictionary [OED] Online
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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 | Oxford Reference |
| Oxford Language Dictionaries |
French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, and Chinese; a cite link provides the correct MLA and Chicago / Turabian citation styles. | Oxford Reference |
| Oxford Premium Reference Online
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single-user license; more than 400 full-image reference titles; at least basic coverage available for most academic disciplines | Oxford Reference |
| 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. | Chadwyck-Healey |
| PapersFirst | Provides indexing for every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre. Over 6.5 million records; updated twice monthly. | OCLC |
| 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. | Johns Hopkins UP / Project Muse |
| 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 4000 titles; more than 2000 journals are full image files; slight but perceptible emphasis on social sciences including economics, business and education. | ProQuest |
| 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, which provides indexing to all major psychological journals back to 1806. | OCLC / APA |
| PsycINFO | FirstSearch; Comprehensive professional psychology index; abstracts of psychology literature since 1806; more than 2.2 million records; updated weekly. | OCLC / APA |
| Reader's Guide to Periodicals | FirstSearch; Indexes broad range of popular magazines; 1.7 million records; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page | OCLC / Wilson |
| ScienceDirect | Full-text of 600+ science journals; also includes more than 100 social science journals. | Elsevier |
| Serials Directory | A listing of more than 200,000 serial publications titles--primarily journals and magazines--with keyword searching available. Made available without cost by Ebsco. | EbscoHost |
| Serials Solutions: Electronic Journal Listings for UTPB | This service lists and provides direct links (on-campus only) to more than 90% of all electronic journal titles (more than 40,000) available through the databases on the "Research Databases Page" (the page you are currently viewing). | Serials Solutions |
| Social Science Abstracts | FirstSearch; Academic subject oriented periodical index; nearly 1 million records; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page. | OCLC / Wilson |
| 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. |
EbscoHost |
| 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. | EbscoHost /SportDiscus |
| Texas Almanac | 2006 and 2007 editions | Gale Cengage |
| 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. | Wiley InterScience |
| Wilson Art Image Gallery | Images to be used strictly for educational purposes; may not be reproduced or
repackaged. |
Wilson |
| Wilson Business Abstracts | FirstSearch; Subject oriented periodical index; indexes more than 1.9 million records in both trade and academic periodicals; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page |
OCLC / Wilson |
| 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 1.5 million articles. | OCLC / Wilson |
| WorldCat | FirstSearch; More than 179 million catalog records for books and other materials owned by libraries and museums worldwide | OCLC |
| Worldscope Global | FirstSearch; Financial reports on companies worldwide; some FT available | OCLC / Thomson Reuters |
| Page Updated: 6 July 2009 | Page Created: 1 October 2001 | |