Library Databases

Provides indexing and abstracts for 280 periodicals. In addition, 96% of journals indexed in the database are peer-reviewed.

Topics include: Assessment, Best Practices, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, School Administration, Science & Mathematics, and Teacher Education.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

An easy-to-use online resource that provides multimedia content to complement children’s and young adult books. Resources include audio book readings, book discussion guides, lesson plans, and more, for over 40,000 children’s and young adult books in English and Spanish.

Service Provider: TeachingBooks

The Texas Administrative Code (TAC) is a compilation of all state agency rules in Texas. There are 16 titles in the TAC. Each title represents a subject category and related agencies are assigned to the appropriate title.

Service Provider: Texas Secretary of State

Provides digital access to large-scale maps of 426 cities in 213 counties in Texas. The map scale is 1:600 or 50 feet to 1 inch. Overall, the maps were prepared from 1877 to 1951. Some larger cities have updated maps as recent as 1970.

Created originally for the fire insurance industry for risk assessment purposes, Sanborn maps contain detailed information on such building features as size, shape, construction type (and sometimes date), use, and street address. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers.

Service Provider: ProQuest

Texas-specific product comprised of periodicals, reference books, reports, and other content relevant to the state. It contains more than 75 full text periodicals, 150 full text reference books, several Texas newspapers, and much more covering history, ethnic and cultural diversity, gender studies, literature, public health, home and gardening, sports, and leisure.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

This weekly publication serves as the journal of state agency rule-making for Texas. Information published includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor’s appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rule-making actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.

Through a partnership with the Office of the Texas State Secretary, the University of North Texas Libraries provide free online access to all issues of the Texas Register from Volume 1, No. 1 (January 6, 1976). to the present.

Service Provider: Texas State Secretary / University of North Texas Libraries

Provides unique insights into the political, economic, cultural, and social life of Texas as well as the southwest U.S. from the late 19th through the 20th century.

Founded in 1871, the newspaper started out as the Democratic Statesman. Its political origins were based on the state’s Democratic Party. By 1873 the paper began daily morning publication, and in 1914 the Democratic Statesman took over the Austin Tribune. The newly consolidated paper began to publish each afternoon as the Austin Statesman and Tribune. And, in November 1973, the Austin American and the Austin Statesman were combined and became the Austin American Statesman.

Service Provider: ProQuest

With the exception of publishing one religious article each day at the request of its pioneering founder, Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, this source provides secular, balanced coverage of international news and events, as a public service. For more than 100 years, its staff writers and correspondents around the world have reported on wars, scientific discoveries, human rights abuses, political campaigns, the arts, the environment, and people trying to make a positive difference.

This service includes cover-to-cover reproductions of every page of every issue - of this source from the first issue published in 1908 to 2008. Full-text searching and browsing capabilities are available. Users may choose to display and download in PDF format either the full image of any page or just the individual article they need.

Service Provider: ProQuest

Witness the arrival of immigrants to America’s shores and follow the establishment of neighborhoods and businesses. Experience the rise and fall of financial markets, mark the introduction of the mass-produced automobile, television, space travel, and medical innovations.

Gain insight into the causes and effects of the Civil War in the 1800s, the “war to end all wars” in the 1900s, and the war on terrorism in the 21st century.

This digital archive offers full page and article images with searchable full text from the first issue published in 1851 to 2018. Fully integrated into this electronic database is The New York Times Index (1851-1993).  The Index retains the vocabulary and flavor of the time each article was indexed, enables researchers to narrow a topic based on search results using subject terms, and enhances research capabilities by providing five additional new search categories.

Service Provider: ProQuest

This database provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information, as well as current pricing structures for popular serials.

Contains nearly 250,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers; data from more than 108,000 publishers worldwide, including email and Internet addresses; and Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classifications for every entry. Can be searched by title, publication type (scholarly, popular, etc.), descriptive listing (i.e., keyword), and by where each title is indexed or abstracted, among other fields.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

The full-page images of this digitized newspaper provide genealogists, researchers and scholars with cover-to-cover access to recent newspaper content. Users can browse or search the full text at the page level, and cross-search with other licensed ProQuest digital newspaper titles. Coverage: 2008 - present (3-month embargo).

Service Provider: ProQuest

First published in 1889 by Dow Jones & Company as a markets-focused newspaper for the country’s then-fewer than 200,000 shareholders, its coverage expanded to include all aspects of global business, economics, consumer affairs, and trends and issues.

The digital version of this newspaper provides access to more than 100 years of reporting, analysis, editorials, and controversial opinions. With this resource, users can study the development of industries and companies across decades, monitor the implementation and effects of fiscal policies on the global economy, study opposing viewpoints at critical times in the world’s history, and more.

Service Provider: ProQuest

Known for its comprehensive political reporting, first-rate photo essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writing, and unmatched investigative reporting, the Post was the first newspaper in Washington to publish seven days a week.

Early contributors included Joseph Pulitzer and a relatively unknown, un-bylined Theodore Roosevelt, who contributed stories about the West. Beginning in the 1940s, the newspaper featured editorial cartoonist Herbert L. Block (“Herblock”), who used his drawings to express indignation with political leaders and to “raise hell.” He coined the term “McCarthyism” in the 1950s and was unrelenting in his graphic characterization of Richard Nixon.

This newspaper is perhaps most famous for a series of stories that began with a break-in at the Watergate office complex in 1972. When it was all over, reporters Woodward and Bernstein were household names, and President Nixon had resigned in disgrace.

Service Provider: ProQuest

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An industrial search engine that provides industrial buyers one source for finding the exact product, service, or supplier they need, as well as direct access to the detailed information they need to make a purchasing or specifying decision, including line-item product details, CAD drawings, and more.

With Thomasnet.com, users can:

• Access information from over 500,000 suppliers
• Filter searches by location, company type, diversity status, certifications, & more
• Compare and shortlist suppliers
• Send RFIs to multiple suppliers with one click

Service Provider: Thomson Publishing Co.

Current events database that allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms, including controversial opinions and viewpoints.

This database contains full text for over 150,691 articles from 475 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

Integrated database that combines the records from the Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to more than 1.3 million records of transportation research worldwide.

Service Provider: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine

This unparalleled collection includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song.

Service Provider: ProQuest

A collection of more than 600 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Thom Gunn, Fleur Adcock, Paul Muldoon, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy, and incorporating the poets in The Faber Poetry Library.

Service Provider: ProQuest