Library Databases

Features high-resolution, digital facsimiles of daily issues of The Dallas Morning News from 1885 through 1985. Search options include the ability to limit to articles, matrimony notices, birth notices, and obituaries. Classified and display advertising, photos and graphics are also included. Major news topics and events are highlighted.

Service Provider: Readex / NewsBank

Leading source of quality data about the nation’s people and economy.

Basic data seekers can use the single search bar on the home page to search on a geography such as a state, county, or place, and see an overview of that area in a geographic profile with visualizations and infographics.

Advanced data users, can select multiple topics and a variety of geographies through the filters found in the Advanced Search option. From here, data users can create maps based on these results or download these tables to dig deeper.

Experienced data users can access tables by table name or search specific terms or phrases. They can also download individual tables or multiple data tables across several years at the same time.

Service Provider: U.S. Census Bureau

The home of the U.S. Government’s open data. Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.

Service Provider: U.S. General Services Administration

Provides links to more than 165,000 full-text digital texts from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. More than 140,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available to read online for free.

Service Provider: Digital Book Index

This resource consists of expertly curated, and meticulously indexed, declassified government documents covering U.S. policy toward critical world events – including their military, intelligence, diplomatic and human rights dimensions – from 1945 to the present. Each collection is assembled by foreign policy experts and features chronologies, glossaries, bibliographies, and scholarly overviews to the defining international issues of our time.

Service Provider: ProQuest

Community-driven discovery service providing access to 37,052 academic, peer-reviewed, open access books from 607 publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.

Service Provider: OAPEN Foundation

Provides access to over 16,500 quality controlled open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities from 126 different countries in 80 languages.

Service Provider: TexShare

Institutional repository service hosted by the Texas Digital Library.  It contains records of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) submitted by participating member institutions.  Full-text available where authors have granted permission to publish online.

Service Provider: Texas Digital Library

Comprehensive collection of bibliographic citations for multidisciplinary dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day.

This resource is the official dissertations repository for the Library of Congress and the publishing partner of the National Library of Canada.

Service Provider: ProQuest

Online repository of open access graduate works. Allows to locate relevant dissertations and theses quickly and easily, and view the complete text in PDF format free of charge.

Service Provider: ProQuest

Search tool for finding DOE-funded, publicly available, scientific data submitted by data centers, repositories, and other organizations funded by the Department of Energy. This resource includes data projects, data collections, and individual dataset records.

Service Provider: Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy

The Department of Energy Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science (DOE PAGES) is a discovery tool that makes peer-reviewed scholarly scientific publications resulting from DOE research funding publicly accessible to read, download, and analyze- after an administrative interval of 12 months.

Over 65,000 publicly available full-text journal articles and accepted manuscripts are currently accessible in DOE PAGES and will continue to grow by about 20,000-30,000 publicly-accessible articles and manuscripts a year.

Service Provider: Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy

Video collections of National Theatre Live broadcasts of performances and other recordings from the NT Archive. The collection includes comedies, 20th century classic and modern plays, Shakespeare plays, literary adaptations, and Greek dramas.

Service Provider: Bloomsbury

The Defense Technical Information Center serves the DoD community as the largest central resource for DoD and government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today.

All areas of defense research are covered, including biological and medical science, environmental pollution and control, and behavioral and social science. The collection also contains Department of Defense (DoD) directives and instructions, budget information, conference and symposia proceedings, patents and patent applications, and other topics of interest to the defense community.

Only publicly available materials are accessible from this web site.

Service Provider: U.S. Department of Defense