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

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

Collection of open access eBooks focusing on the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. 

All Bloomsbury open access books can be downloaded free of charge from Bloomsbury Collections by anyone with an internet connection. You can download a PDF of the whole book, as well as individual chapter PDFs, and you may share these PDFs with others.

Service Provider: Bloomsbury

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.

CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIÓDICA covers journals specializing in science and technology.

Offers access to more than 400,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. Contain information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.

Service Provider: OCLC

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

Service Provider: Communication Institute for Online Scholarship

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

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

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

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

Produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, this database cites records contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada.

Areas covered include the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, art history, drama, and film.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

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

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

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

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

Provides access to millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources, including Nature, The Economist, and The New York Times, in PDF and HTML full-text formats. In addition, users have access to thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN and videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.

Available content engages students with extensive subject coverage of Arts and Humanities, Business and Economics, General and Consumer Interests, Law, Science & Technology, and Social Sciences.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Online collection of premier reference eBooks for multidisciplinary research.

Titles that are part of the ASU library’s collection display on the home page, categorized by broad subject area.

To view an alphabetical list of all titles in the library’s collection, users can click the ‘Title List’ link found below the product banner.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Offers interdisciplinary content that reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Learners can access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals like The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, Smithsonian, as well as hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections that include archival film clips, broadcast videos, BBC News, New York Times videos, and NPR.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Covers authors and their works across regions, eras, and genres. Includes biographical and critical overviews, and many interviews of authors.

Contains the full text of volumes in Children’s Literature Review, Classical & Medieval Literature Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Literature Criticism 1400-1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Shakespeare Criticism, Shakespearean Literature Criticism, and Something About the Author.

Service Provider: Gale

Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 150,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

Gain instant access to

• more than 160,000 complete entries from two award-winning series – Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography –for in-depth biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information on authors’ lives and works
• more than 80,000 selected full-text critical essays and reviews from proprietary Gale titles including Contemporary Literary Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Children’s Literature Review;
• more than 1,100,000 full-text articles, critical essays and reviews from more than 475 scholarly journals and literary magazines.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Access literary works and authors throughout history, including full-text poems, plays, short stories, speeches, and more.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Offers comprehensive coverage of issues that influence women’s lives across the globe. The database provides access to current full text and pertinent backfile content covering topics including civil rights, health, education, professional development, and entrepreneurship.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. The database offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.

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

Features a selection of more than 200 magazines and academic journals–everything from Anglican Journal to Zygon - covering religion and the related areas of philosophy and anthropology. Researchers can use this database not only to study theological approaches to social issues, but also to learn about the impact that religion has had on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

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

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)

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

Trusted resource for assisting educators and singers with language understanding and pronunciation. The goal of IPA Source is to promote comprehension and accurate pronunciation of foreign language texts in order for the singer to imbue each syllable with the appropriate emotional content.

This database contains over 15,000 professionally translated and transcribed titles including texts of arias, art song and liturgical texts in French, Italian, German, Spanish, English and Latin. Representing works from 927 composers and 1,141 poets, subscribers can easily find the repertoire they need.

Service Provider: IPA Source

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

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

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)

This database indexes over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present, and published in English or translated into English from 1949 to the present, including mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama.

Search for plays by title; author; subject (sisters, culture conflict, marriage); style (symbolism, experimental theater); genre (comedy, melodrama, musical); cast type.

The database provides the full publication details needed to locate the play in its published manifestations. For plays published separately, the publisher, date, pagination, ISBN, and LC number are given. Plays in collections link to full bibliographic information.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost® / H. W. Wilson

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

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

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

“Woven” by Alan Liu, Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, VoS is one of the earliest humanities research portals. It began in 1994 as a 70+ Web-page directory of humanities research resources organized by field, historical period, author, etc. It was reimplemented in 2001 as a database-to-Web system allowing for dynamic views of the data and user contributions.

Its mission has been to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media.

VoS emphasizes both primary and secondary (or theoretical) resources, and defines its audience as people who have something to learn from a higher-education, professional approach to the humanities.

Service Provider: University of California Santa Barbara

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)