| Database | Description | Vendor |
|---|---|---|
| AgeLine Database | Social gerontology and aging-related research, policy and practice | AARP |
| 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 |
| BioDigest | FirstSearch; Non-technical digests in biology, ecology, etc. | OCLC /Plexus |
| 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 |
| 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 > 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 |
| 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 Virtual Reference Library | More than 300 full-text reference titles including such things as The Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West; The Encyclopedia of Bilingual Educaiton; 21st Century Psychology: A Reference Handbook; and The Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media. | Gale Cengage |
| GPO Monthly Catalog | FirstSearch; Index of U.S. government publications 1976 to the present | OCLC / GPO |
| 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 |
| Index to Legal Periodicals | FirstSearch; Subject oriented periodical index; nearly 500,000 records since 1981; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page. | OCLC / Wilson |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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