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    PapersFirst

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    Provides access to individual papers presented at conferences worldwide. A major research aid covering every congress, symposium, exposition, workshop, and meeting added to The British Library Document Supply Center’s (BLDSC) vast proceedings collection since October 1993.

    Service Provider: FirstSearch (OCLC)

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    Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA)

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    Online archive for Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, and Physical Review A–E. It contains all APS journal articles published from 1893–2012. Each January, another year is added to the archive.

    Service Provider: American Physical Society

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    PILOTS

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    Bibliographic database covering the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress. Produced by the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, it is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage.

    Service Provider: ProQuest

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    Play Index

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    This database indexes over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present, and published in English or translated into English from 1949 to the present, including mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama.

    Search for plays by title; author; subject (sisters, culture conflict, marriage); style (symbolism, experimental theater); genre (comedy, melodrama, musical); cast type.

    The database provides the full publication details needed to locate the play in its published manifestations. For plays published separately, the publisher, date, pagination, ISBN, and LC number are given. Plays in collections link to full bibliographic information.

    Service Provider: EBSCOhost® / H. W. Wilson

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    PressReader

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    Access an endless stream of top news stories to read, discuss, and share. Get full issues of thousands of top newspapers and magazines just as they appear in print.

    Set-up instructions for accessing PressReader via ASU Wi-Fi

    1. Connect your smartphone or tablet to authenticated Wi-Fi
    2. Download PressReader from app store or go to www.pressreader.com
    3. Launch PressReader, choose your title and enjoy reading.

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    Primary Search

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    Designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children’s rooms, this database contains full text for more than 70 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines. Full text backfiles go as far back as 1990, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as 1985.

    Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

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    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

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    Publishes research reports (describing the results of original research of exceptional importance), commentaries (which call attention to papers of particular note and are written at the invitation of the Editorial Board), perspectives (presenting a viewpoint on an important area of research and are written at the invitation of the Editorial Board), and colloquium papers (reports of scientific colloquia held under Academy auspices) on a broad array of scientific topics.

    Service Provider: National Academy Of Sciences

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    ProceedingsFirst

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    Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre. Each record contains a list of the papers presented at the referenced conference.

    Service Provider: FirstSearch (OCLC)

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    ProCitizen

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    ATTENTION: First time access requires the creation of a personal account using your @angelo.edu email address. If you already have a Pronunciator account, you can use the same login credentials to access ProCitizen.

    Online course to prepare New Americans for the civics, reading, and writing parts of the USCIS Naturalization Test. Includes 100 instructional videos in English.

    Service Provider: Pronunciator LLC

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    ProCitizen - interfaz española

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    ATTENTION: First time access requires creation of a personal account using your “@angelo.edu” email address. If you already have a Pronunciator account, you can use the same login credentials to access ProCitizen.

    Online course to prepare New Americans for the civics, reading, and writing parts of the USCIS Naturalization Test. Includes 100 instructional videos in Spanish.

    Service Provider: Pronunciator LLC

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    Professional Development Collection

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    Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. It also contains more than 200 educational reports. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 700 journals. Full text information dates as far back as 1965.

    Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

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    Project Gutenburg

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    First and largest single collection of free electronic books out of copyright in the United States, Project Gutenberg offers access to over 60,000 free eBooks to read online or download to your PC, Kindle, Android, iOS or other portable device. Choose between ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats.

    Service Provider: Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation

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    Project MUSE

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    A trusted source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world’s leading university presses and scholarly societies, with over 230 publishers currently participating. This database provides access to digital humanities and social science content from 200 university presses and scholarly societies around the world.

    Service Provider: Johns Hopkins University

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    Project MUSE Open Access

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    Search this interface to find open access (OA) books, journals, and digital humanities works from several distinguished university presses, scholarly societies, and independent not-for-profit academic publishers freely available to libraries and users around the world via Project MUSE.

    Service Provider: Johns Hopkins University

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    ProQuest Ebook Central - See “Ebook Central”

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    Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection

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    Provides access to more than 560 full-text journals covering topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods, child & adolescent psychology and various areas of counseling.

    Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

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    PubChem

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    The world’s largest collection of freely accessible chemical information. Search chemicals by name, molecular formula, structure, and other identifiers. Find chemical and physical properties, biological activities, safety and toxicity information, patents, literature citations and more.

    PubChem mostly contains small molecules, but also larger molecules such as nucleotides, carbohydrates, lipids, peptides, and chemically-modified macromolecules. It collects information on chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, patents, health, safety, toxicity data, and many others.

    Service Provider: National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine

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    PubMed Central®

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    Comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. The database does not include full-text journal articles; however, links to the full text are often present when available from other sources, such as the publisher’s website or PubMed Central (PMC).

    Service Provider: National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine