Library Databases

The E-Read Texas collection for academic libraries has over 6,200 e-books covering fiction and popular non-fiction for adults and young adult audiences. A library of Texas-related works published by Texas university presses, such as Texas A&M University Press and the University of Texas Press is also included in the collection. With more than 1,900 titles, this collection focuses on Texas history, geography, nature and many other topics.

Service Provider: Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Full text access to a carefully curated collection of eBooks spanning coverage in all academic subject areas with exceptional strength in computers and IT, engineering, life and physical sciences, and math.

Service Provider: ProQuest

This database has more than 79,000 titles covering all academic subjects, from over 500+ publishers – with 95% of them from Latin America and Spain.

Service Provider: ProQuest

Provides access to over 32,000 full-text scholarly, reference and professional eBooks from leading university, academic and professional publishers. These eBooks are digital versions of print books from a broad range of subject areas and topics.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

Free database with records for more than 1.4 million electronic theses and dissertations from more than 320 universities around the world.

When available, full text access is provided via a link to the Institutional Repository where the thesis or dissertation is housed.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

Access is limited to a maximum of 4 simultaneous users.

Produced by the American Economic Association, this database provides citations and abstracts of articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more.

Uses the Journal of Economic Literature classification system and controlled vocabulary of keywords to index six types of records: journal articles, books, collective volume articles, dissertations, working papers, and full-text book reviews from JEL.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

Provides full text, indexing and abstracts for thousands of education journals, books and education-related conference papers. Coverage spans all levels of education and includes educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing.

Content Includes:

• More than 900 active full-text, non-open access journals
• Indexing and abstracts for more than 3,500 journals
• More than 530 full-text books and monographs
• More than 3,300 full-text education-related conference papers
• Citations for more than 6.8 million articles, including book reviews
• A collection of 475 videos from SimpleK12

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

Includes more than 180,000 bibliographic records covering all areas of educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management and educational research.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

Offers a growing collection of online journals in a variety of subject areas, all with the original contents of articles, including images.

Users can view the bibliographic information for all journals.  Full-text articles are only available from the journals subscribed to by the Angelo State University Library.

Service Provider: OCLC

Provides full-text access to peer-reviewed journals from Emerald Publishing engaged in a broad spectrum of research related to business management, training, leadership, organizational studies, and more.

Service Provider: Emerald Publishing

Multicultural biographical source that covers notable individuals from every part of the world and from all time periods who have made significant contributions to human culture.

Service Provider: Gale

Access limited to a maximum of 5 simultaneous users

Individual registration is required to use this database. From the IHS Login page, click on the “Create a New Account” link. At the email prompt, make sure to type in your ASU email address.  You will be sent a verification code at that email address. Once you’ve successfully created your account, and logged into the database, click on IHS Engineering Workbench to access the content listed below.

Full text access is limited to the following standards:

• ACI 318-19/ACI 318R-19: Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete (ACI 318-19), Commentary (ACI 318R-19), and Errata (2/9/2021)
• ASCE-7-22: Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures
• ASTM E1337: Standard Test Method for Determining Longitudinal Peak Braking Coefficient of Paved Surfaces Using Standard Reference Test Tire
• ISO 1103: Road Vehicles-Coupling Balls for Caravans and Light Trailers - Dimensions (4^th ed.)
• ISO 3853: Road Vehicles-Towing Vehicle Coupling Device to Tow Caravans or Light Trailers - Mechanical Strength Test (2^nd ed.)
• SNZ NZS 4297: Engineering Design of Earth Buildings
• SNZ NZA 4298: Materials and Workmanship for Earth Buildings

Service Provider: IHS Markit

First time users need to create a free account to download free eBooks.

All eBooks on this web site are provided without DRM protection and are available in two download formats: EPUB (for iPads, iPhones, Kobo, Nook, or Android devices), and MOBI (for Kindle or Amazon Fire devices).

Service Provider: epubBooks

The ‘Education Resource Information Center’ (ERIC) provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. The database contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

A guide to published and unpublished sources on education. ERIC includes some full-text documents at no charge.

Main subject areas covered include:

• adult, career, and vocational education
• assessment and evaluation
• disabilities and gifted education
• educational management
• elementary and early childhood education
• higher education
• information and technology
• language and linguistics
• reading and communication
• teachers and teacher education
• urban education

Service Provider: FirstSearch (OCLC)

Produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, this database cites records contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada.

Areas covered include the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, art history, drama, and film.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

Designed specifically for elementary school students, this resource supports both student research and classroom instruction with the following features:

• Simple search that quickly delivers relevant results
• Easy-to-browse categories organized by popular topic
• Topic overviews that provide students with a starting point for research
• Colorful, mobile-friendly design with feature areas that provide context to students
• Reading level indicators (Lexile® Measures) to simplify discovery of grade-appropriate content
• Text-to-speech for HTML articles to assist struggling readers or those learning English
• Curriculum Standards Module to help educators correlate EBSCO content quickly and easily to Common Core, state- or province-specific curriculum standards

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

Designed specifically for high school students. Students can browse topics of interest or search for a topic of their choice. Search results can be limited to source type (e.g., magazines, news, biographies, etc.) or by Lexile range.

Explora offers users the following benefits:

• Simple search that quickly delivers relevant results
• Easy-to-browse categories organized by popular topic
• Topic overviews that provide students with a starting point for research
• Colorful, mobile-friendly design with feature areas that provide context to students
• Reading level indicators (Lexile® Measures) to simplify discovery of grade-appropriate content
• Text-to-speech for HTML articles to assist struggling readers or those learning English
• Curriculum Standards Module to help educators correlate EBSCO content quickly and easily to Common Core, state- or province-specific curriculum standards

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

Developed by international trade experts and economists, Export.gov provides trusted market intelligence, practical advice and business tools to help U.S. companies understand how to export, connect with foreign buyers, and expand operations in new markets.

Service Provider: International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce