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

Full text of every article ever published by the Association for Computing Machinery, and bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing.

Service Provider: Association for Computing Machinery

This database covers environmental science topics from disciplines such as atmospheric science, biology, biotechnology, ecology, engineering, and microbiology. It also covers agricultural research including agricultural economics, animal and veterinary sciences, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, food and human nutrition, forestry, and plant sciences.

It includes the AGRICOLA, TOXLINE, ESPM (Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management) and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.

Service Provider: ProQuest

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)

Most extensive resource for civil engineering research and application-oriented content. Topics covered include Coastal & Ocean Engineering, Construction, Environmental, Geo-technical, Energy, Computing in Civil Engineering, Materials, Management, Transportation, and Water Resources.

Service Provider: American Society of Civil Engineers

This collection provides in-depth coverage of emerging break-through technologies and practices presented at key conference around the world of technologies across all disciplines of civil engineering.

Service Provider: American Society of Civil Engineers

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Vast collection of industry-leading standards and technical engineering information, including the ASTM journals and symposia papers (also known as Standard Technical Publications). Offers full text access to American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM) standards, technical papers, and books. Search by keyword or standard number.

Service Provider: American Society for Testing Materials

Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. The ADS maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 10.1 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and arXiv e-prints.

Full-text articles and abstracts of papers available from the ADS databases are copyrighted by the respective publishers and are subject to all applicable copyright protection under the laws of the United States and other countries.

Service Provider: Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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.

Abstracting and indexing database containing over 20 million citation records from thousands of scientific journals and conference proceedings published in 77 countries across 190 engineering disciplines.

It supports in-depth search and discovery of both engineering-specific and engineering-related content primarily in the physical sciences, while also addressing increasing interdisciplinarity in engineering (including the computer sciences), and physical science domains overall

Content is indexed and made discoverable through the assignment of controlled vocabulary specialized for engineering/physical science domains, using the Ei Thesaurus and thesaurus search.

Service Provider: Elsevier

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

Search tool for finding DOE-funded, publicly available, scientific data submitted by data centers, repositories, and other organizations funded by the Department of Energy. This resource includes data projects, data collections, and individual dataset records.

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

The Department of Energy Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science (DOE PAGES) is a discovery tool that makes peer-reviewed scholarly scientific publications resulting from DOE research funding publicly accessible to read, download, and analyze- after an administrative interval of 12 months.

Over 65,000 publicly available full-text journal articles and accepted manuscripts are currently accessible in DOE PAGES and will continue to grow by about 20,000-30,000 publicly-accessible articles and manuscripts a year.

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

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

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

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

Focuses on the physical and social aspects of environmental issues. Topic, organization, state and province portals form research centers around issues covering earth systems, global change, land and water use, populations, legislation, and more. Portal overviews provide essential information, supplemented by academic journals, news, case studies, conferences, statistics, and rich multimedia.

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

Provides access to leading business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries. Includes computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications, and the application of technology.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

This digital resource offers diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policymakers, and corporate interests on environmental issues and concerns with more than 5.4 million articles from more than 300 journals and book reference content from Delmar, including Soil, Science, and Management; Introduction to Agronomy; Food, Crops, & Environment; Fundamental Soil Science; and more.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Access the most searched magazines across Gale OneFile focusing on current events, sports, science, and health issues. The database includes many titles recommended by Bowker’s Magazines for Libraries.

Service Provider: Gale Cengage

Remain current with the latest scientific developments in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology, and hundreds of other areas. More than 350 full-text, non-embargoed journals are covered. Key subjects include the biological sciences, computing, engineering, and technology.

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

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)

Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects.

Multidisciplinary by nature, this database draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. It provides indexing and abstracts for more than 538,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 5,800 records.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost

Focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues.

Topic, organization, and country portals form research centers around issues covering energy systems, health care, agriculture, climate change, population, and economic development.

Portals include authoritative analysis, academic journals, news, case studies, legislation, conference proceedings, primary source documents, statistics, and rich multimedia.

Service Provider: Gale

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

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

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

Service Provider: Readex (NewsBank)

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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

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

Electronic publication of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

Streaming videos of award-winning fluid mechanic visualizations by G. M. Homsy et al. With dozens of interactive demonstrations and animations, 20 virtual labs and simulations, and more than 800 videos, this resource helps students understand the mathematics behind fluid flows through experimental and computational demonstrations across 8 key modules from Dynamics to Turbulence.

Service Provider: Cambridge University Press

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

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

Free, public map-based toolset that allows users to search for cross-sections, charts, tables, figures, and data from GeoScienceWorld publications.

Service Provider: GeoScienceWorld

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)

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)

The world’s largest collection of freely accessible chemical information. Search chemicals by name, molecular formula, structure, and other identifiers. Find chemical and physical properties, biological activities, safety and toxicity information, patents, literature citations and more.

PubChem mostly contains small molecules, but also larger molecules such as nucleotides, carbohydrates, lipids, peptides, and chemically-modified macromolecules. It collects information on chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, patents, health, safety, toxicity data, and many others.

Service Provider: National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine

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

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

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

Designed for sustainability experts and information professionals, this collection offers coverage of content relevant to many integral areas of sustainability initiative management, including full text for more than 500 industry-leading journals, magazines, books, trade publications and other valuable resources. In addition, it includes expert analyses, benchmarks and best practices in sustainability initiative management selected from worldwide sources.

Topics covered include: corporate social responsibility, environmental stewardship, federal, state and local regulations, “green” issues and initiatives, ISO 14000, LEED, recycling, renewable energy, resource conservation, social entrepreneurship, sustainable business practices, waste reduction.

Supporting executive decision-making and planning, this database helps users form a deeper understanding of the pillars of sustainability. It offers quick access to critical information including complete full text with images, tables, charts and other graphical content from many key titles.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

Texas-specific product comprised of periodicals, reference books, reports, and other content relevant to the state. It contains more than 75 full text periodicals, 150 full text reference books, several Texas newspapers, and much more covering history, ethnic and cultural diversity, gender studies, literature, public health, home and gardening, sports, and leisure.

Service Provider: EBSCOhost®

Integrated database that combines the records from the Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to more than 1.3 million records of transportation research worldwide.

Service Provider: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine

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)