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

Access literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present, with full-text coverage for nearly 290 journals and more than 80 books, and selective indexing for journals dating back nearly 60 years.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

Definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It contains 200,000 full-text articles from more than 100 journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

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.

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 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

The Defense Technical Information Center serves the DoD community as the largest central resource for DoD and government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today.

All areas of defense research are covered, including biological and medical science, environmental pollution and control, and behavioral and social science. The collection also contains Department of Defense (DoD) directives and instructions, budget information, conference and symposia proceedings, patents and patent applications, and other topics of interest to the defense community.

Only publicly available materials are accessible from this web site.

Service Provider: U.S. Department of Defense

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

Bibliography of materials, selected and annotated by scholars, published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary and multilingual Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities.

Service Provider: Library of Congress

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)

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

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

Delivers unique coverage of the development of Southern California and the American West. Follow reporter Charles Lummis as he walks from Cincinnati to Los Angeles, recording his travels and providing a unique glimpse into Native American life. Read the Annual Trade Number Edition (published 1886-1962), which promoted Southern California to prospective immigrants from the East and Midwest. Review the “Noticias en Español” news summary column (published 1922-1933), which served the Times’ Spanish-speaking audience.

This digital archive offers searchable (by keywords, author’s names, articles, dates, etc.) full text, and is browsable by full page or issue. Includes photos, graphics and advertisements from the first issue published in 1881 to 1997.

Service Provider: ProQuest

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

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

Part of the Open Society Foundations, the Justice Initiative was established in 2003 to provide expert legal support for Open Society’s broader mission and values through strategic human rights litigation and other legal work.

This database provides full text access to the Open Society Justice Initiative’s body of work, which includes reports, handbooks, briefing papers, legal and policy submissions, and fact sheets exploring and advocating on issues of human rights and justice.

Service Provider: HeinOnline

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)

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

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 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®

This database provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. It offers more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

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

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

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

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

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

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®

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)