Library Databases

Provides access to millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources, including Nature, The Economist, and The New York Times, in PDF and HTML full-text formats. In addition, users have access to thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN and videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.

Available content engages students with extensive subject coverage of Arts and Humanities, Business and Economics, General and Consumer Interests, Law, Science & Technology, and Social Sciences.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

A reader’s advisory database that makes finding a great read much less challenging. With fun ways to browse, an intuitive design, read-alikes, reviews, award winners and themed book lists and more, this resource answers the age-old question, “What do I read next?”

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Unique source for international business intelligence offering the most comprehensive and convenient way to find case studies, in-depth statistical data coupled with deep research, and the ability to compare global economies, countries and industries.

Service Provider: Gale

Covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including finance, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting, and taxes. Containing hundreds of sample business plans created by real-life entrepreneurs, award-winning eBooks, as well as content from over 300 business journals and magazines.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Online collection of premier reference eBooks for multidisciplinary research.

Titles that are part of the ASU library’s collection display on the home page, categorized by broad subject area.

To view an alphabetical list of all titles in the library’s collection, users can click the ‘Title List’ link found below the product banner.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

One-stop source for news, magazine, and periodical articles across a wide range of general interest topics and academic disciplines. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, General OneFile serves a wide audience of readers.

This resource includes reference, newspaper, and audio content that complements its robust collection of magazines and journals.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Offers access to thousands of full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and more.

This comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices, and more.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Built on a foundation of more than 650,000 biographical entries covering international figures from all time periods and areas of study, this resource provides coverage of the most searched and studied people, including over 4,500 portal pages on contemporary and historical figures.

It merges authoritative reference content with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Offers interdisciplinary content that reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Learners can access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals like The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, Smithsonian, as well as hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections that include archival film clips, broadcast videos, BBC News, New York Times videos, and NPR.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Focuses on the physical and social aspects of environmental issues. Topic, organization, state and province portals form research centers around issues covering earth systems, global change, land and water use, populations, legislation, and more. Portal overviews provide essential information, supplemented by academic journals, news, case studies, conferences, statistics, and rich multimedia.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, relevant sources for analysis of these issues. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal.

Service Provider: Gale

With over 20,000 pro/con viewpoints, approximately 19,000 reference articles, interactive maps, infographics, and more covering today’s hottest social issues, this resource helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more, empowering learners to develop information literacy and critical thinking skills.

This cross-curricular research database supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

An engaging resource providing contextual information on hundreds of science topics. It merges Gale’s authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

This contextual, media-rich collection empowers learners to develop information literacy and critical thinking skills. Topics range from the arrival of Vikings in North America all to the way to the first stirrings of the American Revolution and on through the Civil Rights movement, 9/11, and the War on Terror.

Content includes reference works, millions of news and periodical articles, and more than 5,000 rare and vital primary source documents that range from slave journals to presidential papers. U.S. History In Context is cross-searchable with World History In Context.

Service Provider: Gale

This resource chronicles the events, people, and topics central to the story of humankind via primary sources, biographies and reference overviews, videos, articles from premium publications, and more, tracing global history from ancient societies to modern conflicts.

Service Provider: Gale

Virtual lab that gives students in middle and high school grades the power to see beyond static text and embrace learning outside of the classroom. Students can entertain their curiosity and inspire grade improvement through an experience that allows zooming in, rotating, or pulling models apart to explore and experiment with complex scientific topics.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

A comprehensive resource of legal documents, continuously updated to reflect the latest state laws. Features include personalized forms, comprehensive descriptions of each form and its use, legal questions and answers from attorneys, state-specific legal information, a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen’s language.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Search this digital master index to find coverage of authors and works in products published by Gale.

Service Provider: Gale

Brings together Gale’s premier literary databases in a new digital environment. Research authors, their works, and literary movements and access full-text literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, and reviews. Use this platform to cross-search the following Gale literary databases: Literature Criticism, Literature Resource Center, LitFinder, and Something About the Author.

Service Provider: Gale

Covers authors and their works across regions, eras, and genres. Includes biographical and critical overviews, and many interviews of authors.

Contains the full text of volumes in Children’s Literature Review, Classical & Medieval Literature Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Literature Criticism 1400-1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Shakespeare Criticism, Shakespearean Literature Criticism, and Something About the Author.

Service Provider: Gale

Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 150,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

Gain instant access to

• more than 160,000 complete entries from two award-winning series – Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography –for in-depth biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information on authors’ lives and works
• more than 80,000 selected full-text critical essays and reviews from proprietary Gale titles including Contemporary Literary Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Children’s Literature Review;
• more than 1,100,000 full-text articles, critical essays and reviews from more than 475 scholarly journals and literary magazines.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Includes more than 5.6 million book reviews covering numerous disciplines such as literature, history, education, psychology, and more.

Provides access to reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media representing a wide range of popular, academic and professional interests.

Service Provider: Gale

Access literary works and authors throughout history, including full-text poems, plays, short stories, speeches, and more.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Provides students, teachers, and other researchers access to more than 2,000 original, comprehensive, scholar-signed essays on the lives and works of more than 1,400 important authors from around the world and from all time periods. Each entry averages 15-20 pages in length and includes a concise essay and biographical information that places the author’s work in personal and historical context.

Articles are written by noted literary scholars. In addition to the original collection — American Writers, British Writers, European Writers, and World and Genre Writers — users have access to additional series, including African American Writers, African Writers, Ancient Writers, European Writers, Latin American Writers, Latino and Latina Writers, Mystery and Suspense Writers, Poets, Science Fiction Writers, Supernatural Fiction Writers, World Poets, Writers for Children, Writers for Young Adults.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Provides comprehensive online access to all volumes ever printed in Something About the Author, the main series, and Something About the Author: Autobiography Series. Multiple search and browse options are combined with an easy format that matches the look and feel of the print originals.

More than 20,000 entries provide rich biographical and bibliographic detail about authors and illustrators of books for children and teens; also includes autobiographical essays. It covers both well-known writers and artists and less prominent individuals whose works are just being recognized.

Individual entries typically cover personal life, career, writings, adaptations, and additional sources. Autobiographical essays discuss the author’s career, interests and motivation, among other topics.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Provides access to literary critical interpretations and discussions. It offers in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers of the world, including close analysis of key works. It provides insightful and original commentary on the history and influence of literary movements.

This resource combines entries from the digitized versions of U.S. Authors Series - Classic, World Authors Series - Classic, English Authors Series - Classic, The Masterworks Series, Short Fiction Series, as well as new and revised essays from U.S. Authors, World Authors and British Authors Updated Editions.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

This collection provides access to more than 600 journal titles, including over 30 Delmar titles, covering agriculture and its related fields.

Researchers can access current and authoritative periodical content that spans the industry - from practical aspects of farming to cutting-edge scientific research in horticulture.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Provides full-text coverage of all business disciplines, including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. Users can gain insight into and understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through nearly 4,000 leading business and trade publications updated daily. Complementing these titles is a selection of international, U.S., and regional news publications.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Provides access to more than 400 academic journals and magazines focusing on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects covered include advertising and public relations, linguistics, literature and writing, and more.

Service Provider: Gale

Provides access to leading business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries. Includes computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications, and the application of technology.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Offers comprehensive coverage of issues that influence women’s lives across the globe. The database provides access to current full text and pertinent backfile content covering topics including civil rights, health, education, professional development, and entrepreneurship.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Provides access to more than 250 academic journals and magazines in the fields of criminal justice, law, and legal studies.

Whether you’re studying law enforcement or terrorism, training for paralegal service, preparing for a career in homeland security, delving into forensic science, investigating crime scenes, developing policy, going to court, or writing sociological reports, start your research process here.

Service Provider: Gale

Provides access to more than five million articles from more than 250 major cooking and nutrition magazines, as well as book reference content from Delmar such as About Wine, Introduction to Catering, Advanced Bread and Pastry, and Eat Fit Be Fit.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community. This collection includes more than 2.7 million articles from 150 journals, updated daily.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Provides access to academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics and related fields.  Emphasis is on titles indexed in the American Economic Association’s EconLit bibliographic index.

This resource includes more than 1,800 titles, useful for starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, constructing economic models, investing for the future, researching rates, and more.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

This collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports provides full text access for titles indexed in the ERIC database and covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty—such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. It also provides insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Analyze business insights, tips, strategies, and success stories. Updated daily.

Provides insights, tips, strategies, and success stories. Users find more than 500 subject-appropriate, active, full-text periodicals, including: Beverage Industry, Black Enterprise, Economist, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, HR Magazine, Real Estate Weekly, Restaurant Business, Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, and more.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

This digital resource offers diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policymakers, and corporate interests on environmental issues and concerns with more than 5.4 million articles from more than 300 journals and book reference content from Delmar, including Soil, Science, and Management; Introduction to Agronomy; Food, Crops, & Environment; Fundamental Soil Science; and more.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that support research in the fields of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. More than 250 publications included in the Wilson Art Index and RILM bibliography are available full text.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Provides access to academic journals and magazines focused on the practical aspects and the scientific theory of horticulture studies. The database offers biotechnologists, farmers, hobbyists, and landscape architects alike access to important content relevant to their pursuits.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Provides balanced coverage of this significant aspect of culture and society. The database offers access to scholarly journals and magazines covering gender studies, family and marital issues, and other related topics.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Integrates millions of articles from a wide range of full-text nursing and allied health journals, magazines, newsletters and select consumer health information sources with full-text reference works and hundreds of health-related multimedia demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Search more than 4.5 million articles from more than 200 home improvement-focused titles, covering topics including architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and others.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and trade publications that cover topics including the cultural and economic aspects of travel and tourism. The database offers current and relevant content providing well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism industries.

The curious traveler will also find a wealth of information, from contents on state parks and information on planning a vacation to full-text travel guides from Fodor’s.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Access articles covering all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology, including usability, cataloging, circulation, business information, and more. Updated daily.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Provides full-text access to Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines. The database offers a wide range of content both from and about Latin America.

Proporciona acceso a periódicos y revistas especializadas de lengua española y portuguesa. La base de datos ofrece una amplia gama de contenidos sobre América Latina.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Discover information about physical and intellectual asset protection, from individuals to multinational corporations. Connect to hundreds of thousands of updated articles from leading journals, including Business Insurance, Claims, Employee Benefit News, National Underwriter Life & Health, Pensions & Investments, Risk Management, and more.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Search authoritative periodical content covering topics such as 21st-century skills, organizational dynamics and leadership, adult learning and continuing education, and more. Updated daily.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Provides indexing for more than 1,200 major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty publications, Bar Association journals, and international legal journals, and access to more than 200 titles in full text.

The database offers coverage of federal and state cases, laws and regulations, legal practice and taxation, as well as British Commonwealth, European Union, and international law.

This resource is endorsed by the American Association of Law Libraries, and its contents are selected, reviewed, and enhanced by the AALL special advisory committee.

Service Provider: Gale

Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. Updated daily, this database offers content in key subject areas such as governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, the structure of the armed forces, and more.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Access more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading international newspapers. Search articles instantly by title, headline, date, or other fields. Additionally, this database includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Updated daily, this resource provides access to authoritative content including full-text titles cited in CINAHL supporting specialized care, treatment, and patient management.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Provides access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine. The database offers a wide spectrum of information, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research, and more.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. The database offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Access the most searched magazines across Gale OneFile focusing on current events, sports, science, and health issues. The database includes many titles recommended by Bowker’s Magazines for Libraries.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Provides access to authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology - abnormal, biological, cognitive, comparative, developmental, personality, quantitative, social and all areas of applied psychology.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Features a selection of more than 200 magazines and academic journals–everything from Anglican Journal to Zygon - covering religion and the related areas of philosophy and anthropology. Researchers can use this database not only to study theological approaches to social issues, but also to learn about the impact that religion has had on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Remain current with the latest scientific developments in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology, and hundreds of other areas. More than 350 full-text, non-embargoed journals are covered. Key subjects include the biological sciences, computing, engineering, and technology.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Search balanced coverage of events in U.S. history. For novice historians and academic researchers. Updated daily.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Provides access to hundreds of current and applicable periodicals, from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals that aid users in researching a vocation, finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career.

Service Provider: Gale

Access the more than 1.7 million articles in this database and gain valuable insight into conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale. This definitive collection for analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science is comprised of more than 200 subject-appropriate, full-text periodicals that are updated daily.

Service Provider: Gale

The database offers balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field.

Service Provider: Gale

Also known as Nat Geo Kids, this collection includes the complete run of the magazine from the first issue in 2009 to the present, as well as age-appropriate books, videos, images, and colorful photos.

High-quality informational texts, fun features, and weird and wacky facts are available for primary, upper elementary, and middle school English Language Arts, social studies, and science classrooms.

Engage young students and broaden their horizons with reputable, authoritative, age-appropriate digital content that brings them the world in a way they’ve never seen before.  Explore amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

This multidisciplinary resource includes a comprehensive range of content for Latin America and the Caribbean, providing research across the humanities both for current issues and events in the region as well as for historical perspective back to the colonial period.

Curated by an advisory board of experts in Latin American studies, this resource provides access to reference, periodicals, multimedia, reports, studies, journals, newspapers, and statistical data for users with interests in regional studies, history, political science, anthropology, sociology, economics, and international relations.

An archive of digitized primary documents focus on the history of Latin America and the Caribbean back to the early 1800s through the contemporary period, sourced from collections in the U.S. and abroad.

Service Provider: Gale

GAO’s reports and testimonies give Congress, federal agencies, and the public timely, fact-based, non-partisan information that can improve government operations and save taxpayers billions of dollars.

Service Provider: U.S. Government Accountability Office

This web site provides the tools, resources and community that empower users to uncover and share their unique family stories.

Service Provider: Ancestry.com

Established by the American Geosciences Institute, this database provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. It contains over 4.2 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. In addition, GSW provides access to GeoRef in Process, a database of bibliographic records that are currently being edited and reviewed for inclusion in GeoRef.

The GeoRef database covers the geology of North America from 1666 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. The database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey.  Masters’ theses and doctoral dissertations from U.S. and Canadian universities are also covered.

Service Provider: GeoScienceWorld

Collaborative and comprehensive internet resource for research and communications in the earth sciences. Provides global researchers a single point of access to 46 full-text scholarly journals plus specialized searching capabilities and links to millions of relevant resources hosted elsewhere on the web.

Service Provider: GeoScienceWorld

Covers over 175 countries and addresses 22 categories of interest to travelers, including business culture, communications, demographics, money and banking, points of interest, security, society and culture, tips for businesswomen, transportation, and travel essentials. It also includes country maps and images.

Service Provider: World Trade Press

Vast collection of books scanned by Google and made available to view online.

Not all available titles can be fully previewed online. To find those that are, after performing a search and retrieving a list of results, locate and click on “Any view” in the upper bar. From the drop-down list select “Full view” to see only the books that can be read online from the very beginning to the very end.

Service Provider: Google

Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, dissertations, book citations, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from a variety of content providers. Sources of material include academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and open access publishers. Some content is available in full text.

Accessing Angelo State University Library subscription content via Google Scholar:

1. Click on Google Scholar > Settings
2. From this page, click on “Library links”
3. Type Angelo State in the ‘Library links’ box
4. Check all boxes beginning with “Angelo State University…”
5. Click the Save button

Service Provider: Google

Provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government, including official versions of bills, laws, and regulations, directories of Congressional members and Federal Government officials, The Plum Book (a listing of policy and supporting positions in the Federal Government). and the official Federal Register publication.

Service Provider: U.S. Government Publishing Office

Contains bibliographic citations for all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.).

Service Provider: FirstSearch (OCLC)

Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects.

Multidisciplinary by nature, this database draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. It provides indexing and abstracts for more than 538,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 5,800 records.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

Focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues.

Topic, organization, and country portals form research centers around issues covering energy systems, health care, agriculture, climate change, population, and economic development.

Portals include authoritative analysis, academic journals, news, case studies, legislation, conference proceedings, primary source documents, statistics, and rich multimedia.

Service Provider: Gale

Largest historical dictionary of English slang, complete with advanced search tools enabling search by definition and history, and an expanded bibliography of slang sources from the early modern period to the present day.

Service Provider: Jonathon Green and Abecedary Ltd.

Authoritative resource for music research with over 52,000 articles written by nearly 9,000 scholars charting the diverse history, theory and cultures of music around the globe. 

It draws from the full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition.  It also includes new and updated articles and bibliographies exclusively available online.

Grove Music Online includes access to The Oxford Companion to Music and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd edition, which supplement this resource’s more in-depth coverage with content geared toward undergraduates and general users.

Service Provider: Oxford University Press

This collection brings together more than 500 titles dealing with this difficult and important topic. Included are periodicals, key compiled federal legislative histories, relevant congressional hearings, Congressional Research Service Reports, Supreme Court briefs, and more. An extensive bibliography, and a balanced selection of external resources to further research this subject are also provided. Research the National Firearms Act, the Miller and Heller decisions, and other key aspects of this subject.

Service Provider: HeinOnline