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®

Full-text alternative health research database focused on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers the latest information about the evolving practice of holistic medicine and therapies.

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®

The American Psychological Association’s resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. It is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Contains nearly 4 million citations and summaries, with coverage dating back to the 17^th and 18^th centuries, and extensive coverage from the 1800s to the present.

Included is information on the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage includes international material selected from around 2,500 periodicals in dozens of languages.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

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)

Full text access to more than 190 high quality, subscribed and open-access titles focused in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Most journals included are published by small societies or non-commercial publishers.

User Guides and Video Tutorials

Service Provider: BioOne

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.

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

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

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

An engaging resource providing contextual information on hundreds of science topics. It merges Gale’s authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Virtual lab that gives students in middle and high school grades the power to see beyond static text and embrace learning outside of the classroom. Students can entertain their curiosity and inspire grade improvement through an experience that allows zooming in, rotating, or pulling models apart to explore and experiment with complex scientific topics.

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

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

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 resource provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Fit Pregnancy, Harvard Health Letter, Men’s Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others. It also includes searchable full text for more than 1,000 health-related pamphlets and more than 130 health reference books.

Additionally, this database contains more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names; and Merriam-Webster’s Medical Desk Dictionary.

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

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®

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

Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full text for 130 peer-reviewed medical journals in native Spanish.

A wide range of topics are covered including neuroscience, cardiology, nephrology, biomedicine, clinical research, pediatrics, human reproduction, clinical pathology, cancer research, and hematology.

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

Contains detailed information on almost 200 different conditions and the conventional and natural treatments used to treat them, over 300 herbs and supplements, plus drug-herb and drug-supplement interactions for more than 90 drug categories.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

Provides access to NPG publications and online databases and services, including news and comments from Nature, NatureJobs plus access to Nature Education’s Scitable.com.

Service Provider: Nature Publishing Group

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

Primary search tool for Department of Energy science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the organizational hub for information about the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information.

Research results include journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; patents; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia.

This site also provides information about the Office of Scientific and Technical Information and its other search tools, services, and operations.

Service Provider: Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy

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

Publishes research reports (describing the results of original research of exceptional importance), commentaries (which call attention to papers of particular note and are written at the invitation of the Editorial Board), perspectives (presenting a viewpoint on an important area of research and are written at the invitation of the Editorial Board), and colloquium papers (reports of scientific colloquia held under Academy auspices) on a broad array of scientific topics.

Service Provider: National Academy Of Sciences

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®

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

Service Provider: SAGE Publications

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

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

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

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

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

Service Provider: ProQuest

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

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

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

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

Service Provider: Statista Inc.

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

Resource Training Guide from ProQuest

Service Provider: ProQuest

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®

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

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)