| Database | Description | Vendor |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| BioDigest | FirstSearch; Non-technical digests in biology, ecology, etc. | OCLC /Plexus |
| 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 |
| Books In Print | FirstSearch; Bibliographic information on nearly 8 million books currently in print; updated weekly | OCLC / Wilson |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| EbscoHost > Science & Technology Collection | This is a subset of Academic Search Premier with about 800 full-text titles, many of them popular science or K-12 level materials. For best results, restrict searches to "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" and "Full-Text". | EbscoHost |
| GaleNet-all available databases | Includes such databases as Academic OneFile, Health Reference Center Academic, and Health and Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health Module. | 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; Chemistry: Foundations and Applications 4 volumes; The Concise Encyclopedia of Statistics, 2008; Springer Handbook of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 2nd edition, 2008; and the The Encyclopedia of Database Technologies and Applications | 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 |
| GPO Monthly Catalog | FirstSearch; Index of U.S. government publications 1976 to the present | OCLC / GPO |
| IEEExplore | Selected journals, conference proceedings and standards | IEEE |
| IOP: Institute of Physics | Access provided through UT system; UTPB has access to the Standard Service only. This means twenty-eight of the thirty-eight journals published by IOP are available full-text, and that no deep backfiles are available. | IOP |
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 Botany from volume 1, 1914-2003 [i.e. moving wall 5 years], and The American Mathematical Monthly, from volume 1, 1894-2005 [moving wall 3 years]. |
JSTOR.org |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| ScienceDirect | Full-text of 600+ science journals; also includes more than 100 social science journals. | Elsevier |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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: 15 July 2009 | Page Created: 10 January 2000 |