| Database | Description | Vendor |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Academic OneFile | a comprehensive database indexing more than 8,000 journals covering everything from STM to the humanities. Remember to restrict searches to scholarly or peer-reviewed journals. | Gale Cengage |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Eighteenth Century Collections Online | 150,000 books published between 1701 and 1800; 33 million pages of full-text searchable material | Gale Cengage |
| 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 |
| 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 American History Through Literature, 1820-1870 and American History Through Literature 1870-1920. Other titles include The Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education, The Dictionary of American History (10 volumes), The Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English; The Dictionary of Literary Symbols; Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature (4 volumes), and Feminism in Literature (5 volumes). | Gale Cengage |
| 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. |
ProQuest / Chadwyck-Healey |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| MLA | FirstSearch; Indexes literature, languages, linguistics, folklore;
1926 to the present; more than 2 million citations. |
OCLC / MLA |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Wilson Art Image Gallery | Images to be used strictly for educational purposes; may not be reproduced or repackaged. |
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 |
| Page Updated: 14 August 2009 | Page Created: 10 January 2000 |