Library Databases

Provides online, and many times full-text, access to more than 560 peer-reviewed journals published by SAGE Publications and participating societies on a variety of disciplines including Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.

Service Provider: SAGE Publications

Provee reportes completos basados en evidencias y fichas de datos relacionados a todos los aspectos de la salud y el bienestar. Reportes específicos por tema que cubren todos los aspectos de la salud, dan información general importante en relación a enfermedades, afecciones y procedimientos de diversos tratamientos.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

Contains more than 830 leading full text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,740 publications. Topics covered include aeronautics, astrophysics, biology, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, marine sciences and materials science.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

Gateway to U.S. government science information. The portal offers free access to research and development (R&D) results and scientific and technical information from scientific organizations across 13 federal agencies. Over 2,200 scientific websites, 60 scientific databases, and 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information in many formats, including full-text documents, citations, scientific data supporting federally funded research, and multimedia can be searched with just one query.

Science.gov is governed by the interagency Science.gov Alliance. Participating agencies are:

• Department of Agriculture
• Forest Service
• Department of Commerce
• Defense Technical Information Center
• Department of Energy
• National Library of Medicine
• Department of Homeland Security
• Department of Transportation
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Government Publishing Office
• NASA
• National Science Foundation

Service Provider: Sicence.gov Alliance

Leading scientific database containing journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11,000 books. Some of the articles can be accessed in full text. Most of the resources included focus on the Sciences; the database is also rich in resources from the Health Sciences, Social Sciences and the Humanities.

Service Provider: Elsevier

First-time access to the database requires authorized ASU users to register a personal account

• If registering from off-campus, you will need to enter your ASU username and password prior to accessing the registration form
• Use your ‘@angelo.edu’ email address to set up your SciFinderⁿ account
• Look for an email from CAS/SciFinderⁿ with login instructions (if you don’t see a confirmation email in your “In” box, check your spam folder)

This resource features the CAS Content collection, the largest human-curated collection of scientific reference literature, chemical substance data, synthetic reaction date, and up-to-date supplier catalog listings for commercially available chemicals.

It also includes relevance-ranked results, step-by-step procedures and protocols, citation mapping, biosequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, patent landscape mapping, touch-screen enabled structure drawing and much more—all accessible in a simple, easy-to-use interface.

Service Provider: American Chemical Society

Provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.

For those researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorial-controlled A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline.

Service Provider: ProQuest

This product’s aim is to index all the important collections and anthologies of short stories that are published each year. All literary genres are covered. Approximately 200+ monographs are captured per year, with approximately 3,000-4,000 analytics (chapters/stories).

Searchable by author, title, subject, keyword, date, literary technique and source, or by any combination of terms—making it easy to find only the relevant search results needed. Subject access—including theme, locale, narrative technique or device—helps narrow searching even further.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost® / H. W. Wilson

This collection brings together a multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. It includes:

• every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery
• every federal statute dealing with slavery
• all reported state and federal cases on slavery
• every English-language legal commentary on slavery published before 1920, including many essays and articles in obscure, hard-to-find journals in the United States and elsewhere
• more than a thousand pamphlets and books on slavery from the 19th century
• word searchable access to all Congressional debates from the Continental Congress to 1880
• many modern histories of slavery
• all modern law review articles on the subject of slavery

Service Provider: HeinOnline

Offers a wide variety of state-specific information on small business and entrepreneurial subject areas, common business types, a help and advice section, and provides information on how to create business plans that lead to successful funding.

Contains a collection of resources supported with demographic data and other local information. Completing the database are business videos that provide critical information for business owners including interviews, ‘lessons learned’ features, lectures and ‘how to’ videos to help foster success in all aspects of managing a business.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

This database contains the full set of small engine repair manuals from Clymer. These manuals contain thousands of accurate and concise step-by-step maintenance and repair instructions for hundreds of small engine machines and their supporting components. Routine maintenance, such as tune-ups and brake service, as well as more extensive repairs involving engine transmission disassembly are covered.

Engine types include: motorcycles, ATVs, personal water crafts, snowmobiles, lawn mowers, tractors, snow blowers, generators, and more. Detailed and user-friendly content is provided in high-quality PDF files. Many documents contain photos and detailed illustrations to visually support step-by-step procedures.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), this comprehensive collection offers extensive coverage of more than 850 social work and human services journals dating back to 1965. This database provides indexing and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

Multimedia resource that combines video - compelling documentaries and client demonstrations - with relevant text content to illustrate the complex and challenging realities social work students will face as practitioners.

The 100 hours of video and 50,000 pages of text in this collection are structured around twelve of the most important topics in the social work curriculum, most of which are applicable worldwide:

• Children and Families
• Diversity
• School Social Work
• Older Adults
• Substance Abuse
• Criminal Justice
• Mental Health
• Health Care
• Poverty
• Crisis and Trauma
• Social Welfare
• History of Social Work

Service Provider: Alexander Street (ProQuest)

Covers a wide array of topics such as adolescent health, aging, end-of-life care, clinical social work, and diversity.

This database is written by a respected editorial faculty that creates content using a strict evidence-based editorial policy focused on systematic identification, evaluation, and consolidation of the most current clinical research.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

Offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include abortion, criminology and criminal justice, demography, ethnic and racial studies, gender studies, marriage and family, political sociology, religion, rural and urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse and other addictions, violence and many others.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

Premier source of literature for sports and sports medicine studies, providing full-text content from many respected journals, and extensive coverage in the areas of fitness, health and sport studies.

Content Includes: more than 660 full-text journals, full-text coverage dating back to 1930, abstracts for nearly 970 journals, more than 3,800 detailed records for sports-related videos, more than 146,000 articles with searchable cited references.

Subjects Include:

• Clinical specialties such as orthopedics
• Coaching and education
• Consumer health
• Exercise science and fitness
• Health education
• Kinesiology
• Nutrition
• Occupational health and safety
• Physical education
• Physical therapy
• Sports sciences

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

Part of the TDS Health platform that enables users to intuitively cross-search full-text, evidence-based and authoritative resources.

Other products available via this platform include BoardVitals, EBMcalc, ICD Conversion Tool, Drug Interactions from The Medical Letter, and Drug Shortages.

A customizable “Profile” account allows users to save titles and searches, create annotations, preferences, and customize the homepage.

Service Provider: Teton Data Systems

Provides access to quantitative facts by market sector, encompassing agriculture, finance, and politics, to name a few. Statista is a statistics portal that integrates thousands of diverse topics of data and facts from a wide range of sources onto a single platform. Sources of information include market research, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases.

Service Provider: Statista Inc.

1400+ individually indexed tables (with attached spreadsheets), both searchable and browsable, providing a comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.

Resource Training Guide from ProQuest

Service Provider: ProQuest

Designed for sustainability experts and information professionals, this collection offers coverage of content relevant to many integral areas of sustainability initiative management, including full text for more than 500 industry-leading journals, magazines, books, trade publications and other valuable resources. In addition, it includes expert analyses, benchmarks and best practices in sustainability initiative management selected from worldwide sources.

Topics covered include: corporate social responsibility, environmental stewardship, federal, state and local regulations, “green” issues and initiatives, ISO 14000, LEED, recycling, renewable energy, resource conservation, social entrepreneurship, sustainable business practices, waste reduction.

Supporting executive decision-making and planning, this database helps users form a deeper understanding of the pillars of sustainability. It offers quick access to critical information including complete full text with images, tables, charts and other graphical content from many key titles.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®