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

A trusted source and recognized standard for patient drug information, published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

Key Features of AHFS

• Drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers
• Available in a Spanish version translated by experienced human health and medical translators
• Updated monthly
• Conforms to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Keystone Guidelines for the provision of “useful” prescription medicine information to consumers and the FDA’s Guidance for Useful Written Consumer Medication Information
• Includes “How To” monographs for administering different types of medications such as eye drops and inhalers
• Identifies medications that have the potential for adverse events when used by elderly patients as recommended by a panel of nationally recognized experts (Beers Criteria). These criteria identify medications that should generally be avoided or that should be used with caution in older adults (65 years of age or older)

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

This digital record of American history and creativity provides free and open access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.

Current Collections:

• African American Odyssey
• The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
• American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women’s History and Culture in the United States
• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
• The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
• The Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress
• Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, 1862-1912
• Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
• Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division’s First 100 Years

Service Provider: U.S. Library of Congress

Archives selected scholarly, cultural, and administrative output from the University, and is the home for ASU theses and research projects. We invite faculty, students, and staff to use this service for their articles, datasets, presentations, department newsletters and magazines, multimedia scholarship, and more. Contact the digital repository librarian for more information

Service Provider: Texas Digital Library

Provides full-text access to 68,000 chapters from over 4,600 scholarly and professional books, including APA-published titles, such as the entire APA Handbooks in Psychology series and the APA-Oxford University Press co-published Encyclopedia of Psychology, as well as exclusive access to out-of-print classic and historical works. Coverage: 1806 - current; updated regularly.

Covers the full spectrum of behavioral and social sciences, including:

• Behavior Disorders
• Cognitive Processes
• Developmental Psychology
• Educational Psychology
• Experimental and Comparative Psychology
• History and Systems
• Industrial and Organizational Psychology
• Mental Health Treatment and Prevention
• Neuroscience
• Personality Psychology
• Philosophy
• Psychotherapy and Counseling
• Religion
• Social Processes and Social Issues

Service Provider: ProQuest

A comprehensive public searchable database of reference, verse, and classic literature. The site is divided into four sections: Reference, Verse, Fiction, and Nonfiction.

Service Provider: Bartleby.com Inc.

Indexes and provides access to some 1,300,000 book review excerpts and over 100,000 full text book reviews from over 8,000 periodicals in the humanities, sciences, social sciences and library review media.

Every book appears with all of its reviews together. A single book can have as little as one review citation and as much as a descriptive summary and many reviews with excerpts and full text, depending upon the coverage the book received in the reviewing literature.

Coverage dates back to 1983. Titles reviewed include fiction and non-fiction, children’s books as well as books for adults and young adults.

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

Combines everything you need for a successful job search into one easy-to-use online application. With this innovative job-hunting system, you can:

• Explore detailed information on over 1,000 different occupations
• Match your interests and skills with the career that’s best for you
• Search over five million up-to-the-minute local and national job postings
• Create professional resumes and cover letters
• Practice and master interviewing skills
• Get invaluable tips and advice every step of the way—from your initial search to accepting an offer. Conveniently organize and track your job-search progress all in one place

It also includes workplace soft skills tutorials for Attitude and Teamwork, Email Etiquette, Workplace Etiquette, Time Management, and Verbal Communication at Work

Because this resource provides highly personalized content, all first-time users are required to create a personal account. Personal accounts created for Job & Career Center Plus™ will work for all LearningExpress Library Plus™ Centers as well.

Service Provider: LearningExpress / EBSCOhost

First-time access requires the creation of a personal account from a computer connected to the campus network.

In-depth source of reviews of academic databases, websites, and tools for librarians, students, and faculty. This continuously updated, interactive service provides comprehensive, comparative, and authoritative information on a wide range of digital resources.

Service Provider: American Library Association and The Charleston Company

Continually updated, this database provides access to repair, maintenance and service information on the most popular cars, trucks, vans and SUVs on the road today, as well as many new vehicles. This resource includes exclusive photographs, diagnostics designed by instructors, step-by-step repair procedures, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) maintenance schedules, wiring diagrams, recalls and Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs) for automobiles and light trucks.

Service Provider: Gale

This resource provides access to valuable tools that help college students:

• Build foundational skills for college success
• Improve core English, math and science skills
• Conquer developmental coursework
• Score higher on college placement tests
• Acquire basic computer skills
• Build workplace skills and explore careers
• Prepare for occupational licensing exams
• Succeed in college and beyond!

Because this resource provides highly-personalized content, all first-time users are required to create a personal account. Personal accounts created for College Center Plus™ will work for all other LearningExpress Library Plus™ Centers as well.

Service Provider: LearningExpress / EBSCOhost

Comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content, including full text from many health reference books and encyclopedias and thousands of health reports as well as physician-generated videos and hundreds of medical images and diagrams.

Provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine.

This full-text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs and alcohol, fitness, nutrition and dietetics, children’s health, men and women’s health, and more.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

Leading source of quality data about the nation’s people and economy.

Basic data seekers can use the single search bar on the home page to search on a geography such as a state, county, or place, and see an overview of that area in a geographic profile with visualizations and infographics.

Advanced data users, can select multiple topics and a variety of geographies through the filters found in the Advanced Search option. From here, data users can create maps based on these results or download these tables to dig deeper.

Experienced data users can access tables by table name or search specific terms or phrases. They can also download individual tables or multiple data tables across several years at the same time.

Service Provider: U.S. Census Bureau

The home of the U.S. Government’s open data. Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.

Service Provider: U.S. General Services Administration

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

Multicultural biographical source that covers notable individuals from every part of the world and from all time periods who have made significant contributions to human culture.

Service Provider: Gale

Designed specifically for elementary school students, this resource supports both student research and classroom instruction with the following features:

• Simple search that quickly delivers relevant results
• Easy-to-browse categories organized by popular topic
• Topic overviews that provide students with a starting point for research
• Colorful, mobile-friendly design with feature areas that provide context to students
• Reading level indicators (Lexile® Measures) to simplify discovery of grade-appropriate content
• Text-to-speech for HTML articles to assist struggling readers or those learning English
• Curriculum Standards Module to help educators correlate EBSCO content quickly and easily to Common Core, state- or province-specific curriculum standards

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

Designed specifically for high school students. Students can browse topics of interest or search for a topic of their choice. Search results can be limited to source type (e.g., magazines, news, biographies, etc.) or by Lexile range.

Explora offers users the following benefits:

• Simple search that quickly delivers relevant results
• Easy-to-browse categories organized by popular topic
• Topic overviews that provide students with a starting point for research
• Colorful, mobile-friendly design with feature areas that provide context to students
• Reading level indicators (Lexile® Measures) to simplify discovery of grade-appropriate content
• Text-to-speech for HTML articles to assist struggling readers or those learning English
• Curriculum Standards Module to help educators correlate EBSCO content quickly and easily to Common Core, state- or province-specific curriculum standards

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

This database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. For students and adults alike, it is updated annually.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

A reader’s advisory database that makes finding a great read much less challenging. With fun ways to browse, an intuitive design, read-alikes, reviews, award winners and themed book lists and more, this resource answers the age-old question, “What do I read next?”

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

One-stop source for news, magazine, and periodical articles across a wide range of general interest topics and academic disciplines. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, General OneFile serves a wide audience of readers.

This resource includes reference, newspaper, and audio content that complements its robust collection of magazines and journals.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Offers access to thousands of full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and more.

This comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices, and more.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Built on a foundation of more than 650,000 biographical entries covering international figures from all time periods and areas of study, this resource provides coverage of the most searched and studied people, including over 4,500 portal pages on contemporary and historical figures.

It merges authoritative reference content with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

With over 20,000 pro/con viewpoints, approximately 19,000 reference articles, interactive maps, infographics, and more covering today’s hottest social issues, this resource helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more, empowering learners to develop information literacy and critical thinking skills.

This cross-curricular research database supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

A comprehensive resource of legal documents, continuously updated to reflect the latest state laws. Features include personalized forms, comprehensive descriptions of each form and its use, legal questions and answers from attorneys, state-specific legal information, a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen’s language.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Includes more than 5.6 million book reviews covering numerous disciplines such as literature, history, education, psychology, and more.

Provides access to reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media representing a wide range of popular, academic and professional interests.

Service Provider: Gale

Provides access to more than five million articles from more than 250 major cooking and nutrition magazines, as well as book reference content from Delmar such as About Wine, Introduction to Catering, Advanced Bread and Pastry, and Eat Fit Be Fit.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Provides access to academic journals and magazines focused on the practical aspects and the scientific theory of horticulture studies. The database offers biotechnologists, farmers, hobbyists, and landscape architects alike access to important content relevant to their pursuits.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Search more than 4.5 million articles from more than 200 home improvement-focused titles, covering topics including architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and others.

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

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

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

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

Largest historical dictionary of English slang, complete with advanced search tools enabling search by definition and history, and an expanded bibliography of slang sources from the early modern period to the present day.

Service Provider: Jonathon Green and Abecedary Ltd.

Free digital state encyclopedia developed by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) for students, teachers, scholars, and the general public. The Handbook consists of overview, general, and biographical entries focused on the entire history of Texas from the indigenous Native Americans and the Prehistoric Era to the state’s diverse population and the Modern Age. These entries emphasize the role Texans played in state, national, and world history.

Service Provider: Texas State Historical Association

Offers “how-to” instructions for virtually every hobby enthusiast with full text for more than 1,500 leading hobby books and craft magazines that cover Arts & Crafts, Collecting, Home & Garden, Indoor Recreation, Kids’ Crafts, Model Building, Needlecrafts & Textiles, and more.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

Provides users with user-friendly “how-to” information covering a range of home improvement and repair projects and features full-text content from leading magazines, images not found anywhere else online, and videos of popular home repair projects.

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

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

Provides an easy-to-use search tool with everything patrons and students need to find, apply for, and get hired into ideal positions. It delivers award-winning information on careers, skills and interest assessments to match individuals with ideal career paths.

This innovative job-hunting platform has everything job seekers need to create professional and competitive resumes and cover letters, search for jobs that fit their needs, give professional interviews and more.

Service Provider: LearningExpress (EBSCOhost)

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®

Offers everyday users the necessary tools and detailed how-to instructions covering a wide-range of legal issues. A majority of the full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation’s oldest and most respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses.
With the Legal Forms by U.S. State feature, users can search state-specific legal forms by top subject areas including adoption, bankruptcy, name changes and more. Includes 530 Texas specific forms and 60 forms with Spanish content.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

Formerly known as American Memory, this web site is a digital record of American history and creativity providing free and open access to historical materials such as manuscripts, prints, photographs, posters, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, books, pamphlets, and sheet music.

Comprising more than 9 million items that document U.S. history and culture, the site is organized into more than 100 thematic collections based on their original format, their subject matter, or who first created, assembled, or donated them to the Library. Collections may be browsed individually, searched individually (including full-text searching for many written items), or across multiple collections.

Service Provider: U.S. Library of Congress

A statistical website that aims to facilitate the comparison of publicly available data on all countries of the world. A wide range of demographic indicators is covered, including literacy rates, taxation levels, and murders per capita. These are also available in pie charts, scatterplots, and correlation graphs.

Data is gathered from sources in the public domain, including national censuses, the United Nations Development Programme, the UNESCO Institute of Statistics, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the World Trade Organization, World Bank Development Indicators, the World Resources Institute, the World Health Organization, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (UNCTAD) reports, and the Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook.

Service Provider: Rapid Intelligence

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

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

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

Service Provider: Pronunciator LLC

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

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

Service Provider: Pronunciator LLC

This full-text Spanish-language database covers a broad array of subjects inside and outside academia. It offers content from a variety of sources, including 150 multidisciplinary reference books, 50 general interest magazines, 2,500 health reports, and over 1 million images with captions in Spanish.

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®

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

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®

Source of detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals (also called serials) of all types: academic and scholarly journals, e-journals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more.

Ulrich’s records provide data points such as ISSN, publisher, language, subject, abstracting & indexing coverage, full-text database coverage, tables of contents, and reviews written by librarians.

Service Provider: Ex Libris (a ProQuest Company)

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 information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

This resource provides national-level information on countries, territories, and dependencies, but not subnational administrative units within a country. Also included are entries on parts of the world whose status has not yet been resolved (e.g., West Bank, Spratly Islands). Specific regions within a country or areas in dispute among countries are not covered.

Service Provider: U.S. Central Intelligence Agency

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)