Library Databases

Comprehensive scholarly, multidisciplinary database, featuring more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. This database also offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.

Information coverage spans a broad range of important areas of academic study such as anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women’s studies, zoology, and many other fields.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

Delivers more than 68,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.

It includes a variety of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, demonstrations, and raw footage.

Users can find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material.

Service Provider: Alexander Street Press / ProQuest

AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics collects, indexes, and electronically distributes full text copies of scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food supply, natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, agricultural trade, and economic development.

The majority of items in AgEcon Search are working papers, conference papers, and journal articles, although other types of works, such as books chapters and government documents are included.

AgEcon Search is co-sponsored by the Department of Applied Economics and the University Libraries at University of Minnesota and the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

Service Provider: University of Minnesota

Index of articles from the contents pages of over 16,000 journals.

Each record describes one article, news story, letter, or other item from a journal. For most items, a list of libraries that have the journal title is provided.

Subjects covered include business, science, humanities, social science, medicine, technology, and popular culture.

Service Provider: FirstSearch (OCLC)

Comprehensive and easy-to-use investment research web site providing access to professional-level research tools such as interactive charts, quotes, industry analysis and intraday stock screeners, as well as market news and commentary.

Service Provider: MarketWatch, Inc.

Fully searchable and browsable collection of authoritative references including over 100,000 EB base articles and historical Britannica Year in Review supplemental articles, definitions from Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary and Thesaurus, plus an expansive collection of multimedia including images, videos, audio, interactives, and infographics. journal and periodical content provided by EBSCO, hand-picked Web’s Best Sites links, and primary sources & e-books from multiple sources including the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School.

Service Provider: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Offers full text access to more than 240 journals, monographs, magazines and trade publications, all with a strong focus on BC/DR and closely aligned issues. It features hundreds of thousands of additional BC/DR-focused articles, benchmarks and best practices selected from hundreds of leading trade and industry publications. 

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

This product helps researchers when making decisions about where to publish by providing the publishing information of hundreds of academic journals.

Journalytics: provides complete contact and publication information, multiple quality metrics, submission experience data, and peer review indicators for over 11,000 periodicals across 18 academic disciplines. It includes contextual metrics such as the Cabell’s Classification Index©, the Difficulty of Acceptance©, and the Institutional Publishing Activity©, powerful tools designed to help researchers search, filter and compare journals when making decisions about publication and to assist administrators in evaluating publication records. 

Predatory Reports is a searchable database of academic journals flagged as deceptive and predatory when analyzed against a list of 60 behavioral indicators. Detailed reports provide ways to identify the journal and enumerate the specific predatory behaviors that the evaluation revealed.

Service Provider: Cabell’s International

Covering more than 100,000 articles from the core literature of the field, this database contains abstracts of articles and books, bibliographic records, and other sources of relevance to researchers, scholars, and students interested in fields related to human communication studies (mass communication, human interaction, rhetoric, health communication, communication and new media, journalism, communication history, etc.).

Service Provider: Communication Institute for Online Scholarship

Incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study.

Offers full text and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for journals covering communication, mass media, linguistics, discourse, rhetoric, sociolinguistics, communication theory, language, logic, organizational communication and other closely related fields of study.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

Provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers access to the full text of more than 300 publications, covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

Provides in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the economy. Reports are published online 44 times a year.

Each single-themed report is researched, footnoted and professionally fact checked. The consistent, reader-friendly organization provides researchers with an introductory overview, which poses and addresses relevant questions; a background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; a pro/con debate by representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.

Service Provider: CQ Press / SAGE

Online collection of top quality reference books from major publishers. Features authoritative titles across a wide range of subjects, including art, history, technology, careers, psychology, business, and health. Includes 3.5 million entries from notable encyclopedias, guides, and handbooks, as well as more than 2,000 instructional videos and 600,000+ contextual visual aids, images, maps, and photographs.

Service Provider: Credo

Features high-resolution, digital facsimiles of daily issues of The Dallas Morning News from 1885 through 1985. Search options include the ability to limit to articles, matrimony notices, birth notices, and obituaries. Classified and display advertising, photos and graphics are also included. Major news topics and events are highlighted.

Service Provider: Readex / NewsBank

Community-driven discovery service providing access to 37,052 academic, peer-reviewed, open access books from 607 publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.

Service Provider: OAPEN Foundation

Provides access to over 16,500 quality controlled open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities from 126 different countries in 80 languages.

Service Provider: TexShare

Institutional repository service hosted by the Texas Digital Library.  It contains records of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) submitted by participating member institutions.  Full-text available where authors have granted permission to publish online.

Service Provider: Texas Digital Library

Comprehensive collection of bibliographic citations for multidisciplinary dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day.

This resource is the official dissertations repository for the Library of Congress and the publishing partner of the National Library of Canada.

Service Provider: ProQuest

Online repository of open access graduate works. Allows to locate relevant dissertations and theses quickly and easily, and view the complete text in PDF format free of charge.

Service Provider: ProQuest

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

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

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

Web-based digital video delivery service that allows users to view streaming videos from Films Media Group anytime, anywhere, 24/7. Choose from thousands of high-quality educational titles in dozens of subject areas. Special features allow the ability to organize and bookmark clips, create and share playlists, personalize folders.

Service Provider: Infobase

Started in 2004 as a data preservation and accessibility project of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the ‘Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research’ (FRASER) safeguards and provides easy access to the nation’s economic history - particularly the history of the Federal Reserve System - through digitization and preservation of documents and data related to the U.S. financial system.

Documents digitized include:

• Publications of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
• Publications of District Federal Reserve Banks
• Statements and speeches of Federal policymakers
• Archival materials of Federal policymakers
• Government data publications
• Statistical releases
• Congressional hearings
• Reports by various organizations

Service Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Collection of scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. All major subject areas are covered with particular emphasis on agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion and sociology.

This database is updated on a weekly basis and currently offers the full text for more than 650 publications and 30 academic books from 18 countries.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

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

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

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

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 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 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

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

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

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 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 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 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

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

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)

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

Single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries, chronicling the daily life, cultural heritage and world views of Hispanic communities in the U.S.

Reflecting a long tradition of Spanish-language press in the western hemisphere, these newspapers have played a vital role in the lives of immigrants, exiles and native Hispanic peoples alike. Often illustrated with photographic documentation, they reveal the rich history of a people who have long resided in and contributed to the American public sphere.

For more than two centuries, they have united Spanish speakers and preserved their cultural heritage through news, editorials and literature as well as by providing leadership, solidifying communities and spearheading social movements. They have covered every major theme in American history and culture and reported on events in Spanish-speaking countries not always available in traditional U.S. newspapers.

Service Provider: Readex (NewsBank)

Free direct access to the International Monetary Fund’s 20,000+ publications (periodicals, books, working papers and studies), and statistical datasets.

Find information and perspective on macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction, and so much more.

Service Provider: International Monetary Fund

This database indexes journal articles from more than 450 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings and patents, with ongoing comprehensive coverage of the most important periodicals in the field of library science. Coverage dates back to the mid 1960s.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

First time access to borrow and/or read eBooks requires the creation of a free personal account.

Non-profit digital library providing free access to collections of native digital and digitized materials, including millions of books. Today this archive contains:

• 735 billion web pages,
• 41 million books and texts,
• 14.7 million audio recordings (including 240,000 live concerts),
• 8.4 million videos (including 2.4 million Television News programs),
• 4.4 million images,
• 890,000 software programs.

Books published prior to 1927 are available to read online for free, and hundreds of thousands of modern books can be borrowed at 1-hour intervals, pending availability. More information is available on the Internet Archive’s “Books to Borrow” web page.

One of the Internet Archive’s missions is to serve people who have difficulty interacting with physical books, so most of our digitized books are available to people with print disabilities (access information is available on the Internet Archive’s “Books for People with Disabilities” web page).

Service Provider: Internet Archive

First time access to borrow and read eBooks from this collection requires the creation of a free personal account.

Books in this collection may be borrowed by logged in patrons. You may read the books online in your browser or, in some cases, download them into Adobe Digital Editions, a free piece of software used for managing loans.

Please note that works in this collection are protected by copyright law (Title 17 U.S. Code). Copying, redistribution or sale, whether or not for profit, by the borrower is not permitted unless authorized by the rights holder or by law.

Service Provider: Internet Archive

Online source of information on more than 800 of the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture. Updated weekly, with links to a 12-year back-file, this database offers in-depth articles made to inspire thought-provoking debates.

Service Provider: Facts on File (Infobase)

Searchable online collection of non-current issues (‘backfile’) of selected core scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals in a broad range of disciplines.

The time lag between the most current issues of a journal title and the content available in JSTOR is called “moving wall.” It varies from publisher to publisher. The majority of journals in JSTOR have moving walls of between 3 and 5 years, but publishers may elect walls anywhere from zero to 10 years.

Subjects covered include:

• Area Studies (African, Asian, Latin American, Middle East, and Slavic Studies)
• Arts (architecture & architectural history, art & art history, music, performing arts)
• Business and Economics (business, development studies, economics, finance, management & organizational behavior, marketing & advertising)
• History
• Humanities (classical studies, feminist & women’s studies, film studies, folklore, language & literature, philosophy, religion)
• Law
• Medicine and Allied Health (health policy, health sciences, public health, social work)
• Science and Mathematics (aquatic sciences, biological sciences, botany & plant sciences, ecology, geology, mathematics, statistics, zoology)
• Social Sciences (archaeology, education, psychology, public policy & administration, sociology)

Service Provider: JSTOR

First-time use requires the creation of a personal account using your “@angelo.edu” email address. Personal accounts created for LearningExpress Library Plus™ will work for Job & Career Accelerator™ as well.

Organized into targeted learning centers, this e-resource supports those looking to improve core academic skills, pass the GED^®, prepare for college, join the military, obtain occupational certification, find a job, change careers, become a U.S. citizen and much more.

Targeted Learning Centers:

• College Admissions Test Preparation: Prepare for important college admissions and placement tests (ACT®, SAT®, AP®, TOEFL® and more).
• School Center: Academic skills-improvement for 4th-grade skills-level through high school (reading, writing, math, science).
• College Center Plus: Academic skills-improvement for undergraduate students and Graduate School Admissions exams (DAT®, GRE®, GMAT®, LSAT®, MAT® and MCAT®).
• Adult Core Skills: Adult learning (reading, writing, math) with U.S. citizenship test prep.
• High School Equivalency Center: High school equivalency (GED®, HiSET® and TASC™) test prep.
• Recursos Para Hispanohablantes: Spanish-language content academic skills improvement as well as GED® and U.S. citizenship test prep.
• Career Center Plus: Occupational certification exam prep for careers in nursing and allied health, military, law enforcement, education and the trades.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

Collection of respected, scholarly peer-reviewed publications including law journals, documents, and case studies, offering full text for more than 300 of the world’s best law journals. This database is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.

Information coverage centers on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment and much more.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

Open Access research database for library and information science studies.  Indexes more than 610 core journals, more than 120 selective and priority journals; plus books, research reports, and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage dates back to 1960.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

Covering virtually every general interest subject area, including business, health, education, fitness, sports and leisure, personal finance, general science, multicultural issues, DIY and fashion, this database provides full text access to more than 2,300 full-text magazines and journals, 870 full-text reference books, and 73,000 primary source documents. it also includes an extensive collection of over 1.6 million photos, maps and flags, and more than 70,000 videos from the Associated Press (AP).

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

Provides access to 3+ million (over 800,000 full-text) authenticated U.S. government-sponsored technical reports collected and archived by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). This collection contains both historical and current reports on a wide variety of subjects including: Agriculture, Atmospheric Sciences, Business & Economics, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Health Care, Mathematical Sciences, Medicine & Biology, Military Sciences, Natural Resources, Physics, and more.

Service Provider: U.S. Department of Commerce

Application created for the general public to provide broad access to the O*NET database of occupational information. The O*NET database includes information on skills, abilities, knowledges, work activities, and interests associated with occupations. This information can be used to facilitate career exploration, vocational counseling, and a variety of human resources functions, such as developing job orders and position descriptions and aligning training with current workplace needs. Information is available for over 900 occupations. Each occupational title and code is based on the 2010 version of the Standard Occupational Classification system.

O*NET OnLine offers a variety of search options and occupational data, while My Next Move is a streamlined application for students and job seekers. Both applications were developed for the U.S. Department of Labor by the National Center for O*NET Development.

Service Provider: U.S. Department of Labor / Employment and Training Administration

Contains millions of records representing open access digital resources [scanned books, journal articles, newspapers and manuscripts, digital text, audio files (.wav, mp3), video files (mp4, QuickTime), photographic images (.jpg, .tif, .gif), data sets (downloadable statistical information) and theses and research papers] covering a variety of disciplines.

These records have been harvested from archival collections built by more than 2,000 contributors worldwide. Records contain a digital object link allowing users access to the object in a single click.

Service Provider: OCLC

Use this search portal to locate quality online publications, reports, and books from a number of open access collections, including those listed below.

• BioMed Cent
• arXiv
• DataCite
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• HathiTrust
• Project Gutenberg
• Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)
• Institutional Repositories at Harvard, Iowa State, University of California system, and many others.

Service Provider: Texas A&M University Libraries

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)

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)

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

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

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

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®

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®

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

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

Free account required to access web site content.

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®

Also known as “Background Notes, these publications include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty.

Service Provider: Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State

This series of close to 700 titles offers concise, intelligent and serious introductions to a huge range of subjects, from Public Health to Buddhist Ethics, Soft Matter to Classics, and Art History to Globalization, written by experts in the field who combine facts, analysis, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make challenging topics highly readable.

Service Provider: Oxford University Press

The collection provides full text coverage for nearly 340 trade and industry related periodicals, and indexing and abstracts for over 600 journals. Full text information dates as far back as 1985.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

Provides college and university students with an easy-to-use online full text collection of law-related resources, including cases from the courts of all 50 states and federal courts, statutes from all 50 states and federal statutes published in the United States Code Annotated, American Jurisprudence 2d legal encyclopedia, federal regulations, law reviews and legal periodicals, forms, trial documents and transcripts.

Service Provider: Thomson Reuter

Provides full text access to journals, reference works, and books published by Wiley in the field of business, chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental science, education, engineering, law, life sciences, mathematics and statistics, medicine and healthcare, physics and astronomy, polymers and materials science, psychology, and social sciences.

Service Provider: Wiley

Bibliographic database of all materials cataloged by OCLC member libraries including: books, manuscripts, websites and internet resources, maps, computer programs, musical scores, films and slides, newspapers, journals and magazines, sound recordings, articles, chapters, papers, and videotapes.

Service Provider: FirstSearch (OCLC)