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Business

Business Source Complete
Need business journals? You found them. This is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the ultimate collection of bibliographic and full-text content. It contains the most peer-reviewed, business-related journals available. In addition to searchable, cited references for more than 1,200 journals, it includes indexing and abstracts for the most important journals all the way back to 1886. Yes, we said eighteen-eighty-six.

InfoTrac Custom Newspapers
Cover-to-cover full-text of the Austin-American Statesman, Dallas Morning News, El Paso Times, Houston Chronicle, Washington Post and The Financial Times from 1996, The Times (London) from 1997, and The New York Times from 2000.

Regional Business News
Here you will find comprehensive full-text coverage for regional business publications. This database incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Economia y Negocios
The result of a collaborative effort between EBSCO Publishing and ESAN (Escuela de Administración de Negocios para Graduados), this continuously updated bibliographic database is an indispensable tool for business and economics research.

Standard & Poors NetAdvantage [North On-Campus only]
Standard & Poor’s NetAdvantage is a comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering on-line access to Standard & Poor’s independent research, data and commentary on stocks, bonds, funds, and industries.

TOPICsearch
This current-events database allows you to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. It contains the full text for over 102,800 articles from more than 2,500 diverse sources.

Computer, Science & Technology

Agricola
Containing bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library, AGRICOLA provides access to more than 4.9 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, book chapters, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture. AGRICOLA encompasses all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal & veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture & fisheries, farming & farming systems, agricultural economics, extension & education, food & human nutrition, agricultural engineering & technology, and earth & environmental sciences.

Computer Source
Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.

Environment Complete
You will find deep coverage in agriculture, ecology, energy, renewable sources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution, waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. This database contains more than 1.6 million records from more than 1,600 domestic and international titles going back to the 1950s as well as more than 100 monographs.

GreenFILE
GreenFILE 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.

Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA)
Information Science & Technology Abstracts is a leading database in the areas of information science. ISTA indexes journal articles from more than 450 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings and patents, with ongoing comprehensive coverage of the most important periodicals in this field. Coverage dates back to the mid 1960s.

Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts
This is a collection of abstracts and indexing for literature about personal computing, the Internet, programming, platforms, and much more. Coverage from more than 400 of the most important trade publications, mainstream computer magazines, and professional journals is available. This database does include some full text availability.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. This database does provide some full text coverage.

Science & Technology Collection
Here you will discover the full text of more than 800 leading science and technology journals. Explore topics like aeronautics, astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, and materials science. In addition to full text, it offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,700 publications.

Education and Career

Associates Program Source Plus
A comprehensive article and book database for student research. This database covers a wide range of subjects from automotive technology and culinary arts to paralegal and technical writing. This resource also contains more than 1200 unique full text resources not found in other databases.

ERIC
This is a bibliography of educational materials available since 1966. More that 2,200 digests are included, as well as citations and abstracts from nearly 1,000 education-related journals.

Job & Career Accelerator
JCA is the first fully integrated online career and job search platform. It is designed to guide any job seeker through the most effective career selection and job search possible. From creating powerful resumes to assessing career alternatives, job seekers have everything they need in one easy-to-use application. Note: You will need to complete New User Registration on the JCA site. This will allow you to take advantage of all the resources including creating a resume and applying for jobs.

LearningExpress Library
LearningExpress Library is a unique, interactive online learning platform that provides patrons with the most comprehensive selection of career-oriented and academic resources available to help with job preparation, career advancement, career changes, and re-entry into the workforce. Access more than 800 online practice tests, including GED, SAT, ACT, GMAT, GRE, LSAT, and MCAT.

Professional Development Collection
This is the most comprehensive collection of full-text education journals in the world. Designed for professional educators, it contains nearly 550 high-quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. It also offers more than 200 educational reports.

Teacher Reference Center
TRC provides indexing and abstracts for 280 periodicals. In addition, 96% of journals indexed in TRC are peer-reviewed. Topics include: Assessment, Best Practices, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, School Administration, Science & Mathematics, and Teacher Education. Some Full Text access is available.

Testing and Education Resource Center
Here is where you will find information on private high schools, undergraduate and graduate programs and executive education programs. You can search by location, major, tuition, sports, and more. It also features interactive online practice tests so you can prep for entrance exams, certification tests and the like.

Vocational & Career Collection
Designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public, this collection provides full-text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals.

General Research

Academic Search Complete
More than 8,000 publications are indexed here, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. PDF back files to 1975 or further are available for well over 100 journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Full-text coverage includes biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, and much more.

Associates Program Source Plus
Is a comprehensive article and book database for student research. This database covers a wide range of subjects from automotive technology and culinary arts to paralegal and technical writing. This resource also contains more than 1200 unique full text resources not found in other databases.

Biography & Genealogy Master Index
No one who ever lived on this planet will elude your research if you access this index. You will discover biographical information on people from all eras, latitudes and fields of study.

eBook Collection
This is a rich resource for all kinds of e-content, including MP3 audiobooks, e-books, and more. There’s even a special medical e-book collection containing more than 500 titles.

Electric Library
This database contains full-text articles from popular magazines, newspapers and reference books. You will also find maps, television transcripts and photograph collections.

Fuente Academica
This is a unique collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. This database provides full-text coverage (including PDFs) of nearly 200 scholarly Spanish language journals.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
With 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a universe of subjects, this database is nice addition to your research arsenal.

Humanities Full Text
The Arts are on full display here. This database is teeming with abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities – plus numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Find countless feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, poetry, book reviews, ballet reviews, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs, and more.

Issues and Controversies
This collection of essays reviews all sides of today’s most topical and controversial issues. Each essay includes a bibliography and links to related magazine, journal and newspaper articles, as well as hyperlinks to biographies, news updates and relevant websites.

JSTOR
This resource provides access to full-text articles covering a wide array of topics including literature, history, economics and the arts.

Legal Collection
Here you will find full text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected scholarly law journals. This is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts, and trends of the legal world.

MAS Ultra
This source contains full text for more than 500 popular magazines. It also has more than 85,000 biographies and over 100,000 primary source documents. MAS Ultra – School Edition also contains more than 360 reference books including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book and World Almanac & Book of Facts, plus an image collection of more than 440,000 photos, maps, flags, and color PDFs.

MasterFILE Premier
Designed specifically for public libraries, this full-text database covers a broad variety of subjects from more than 2,000 periodicals, 320 reference books, 84,000 biographies, 86,000 primary source documents, and 107,000 images. Just about everything’s covered here – business, health, education, science, and much more.

Newspaper Source
Here you’ll find full text for about 30 national and international newspapers. Updated daily via EBSCOhost, this database also contains full-text television and radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional newspapers.

Opposing Viewpoints
Here is an online library of current event topics, the facts as well as the arguments. Unique features help you to explore each topic's many facets.

Oxford Language Dictionaries
Instant access to Oxford’s top-of-the-range, unabridged bilingual dictionaries in French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian and Chinese. Includes sound clips for pronunciation help.

Serials Directory
Here you can peruse nearly 184,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers, historical data for an additional 20,000 titles and data from nearly 83,500 publishers worldwide.

Student Research Center
This resource provides information on a wide variety of research topics including current issues. Transcripts from radio and TV programs, videos, and other multimedia resources are also included.

TDNet Journal Locator
Take advantage of this searchable list of all the journal titles available to TexShare users from all of the different database providers.

Texas Reference Center
With the full text of more than 80 journals and books, you can immerse yourself in the history, literature, business, sports, and cultural diversity of the Lone Star State. The database also contains biographies of famous historical and contemporary Texans. It even offers the Spanish-language newspaper El Sol de Texas.

Texas Digital Sanborn Maps
This site provides digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of over 12,000 American towns and cities. Founded in 1867 by D. A. Sanborn, the Sanborn Map Company was the primary American publisher of fire insurance maps for nearly 100 years.

**VAST: Academic Video Online: Free Trial**
VAST: Academic Video Online is a unique online collection of videos covering a range of topics including history, science, psychology, theatre and music. Trial expires June 5, 2013. Let your librarian know what you think of this database!

WorldCat
The world's most comprehensive bibliography, WorldCat boasts more than 58 million records representing over 400 languages and reaching back as far as 1,000 BC. It is updated daily and is now easier to search than ever.

Health Science

Academic Search Complete
This full-text database of peer-reviewed academic journals covers nearly all areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, arts, and literature. Content from these databases is also available: Computer Source, Health Source, Professional Development Collection, Psychology and Behavioral Science, Religion and Philosophy and the Sociology Collection.

Alt Health Watch
This database provides full text for 180 alternative health publications. You’ll discover in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas in complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.

**CINAHL Complete: Free Trial**
This is the most extensive version of CINAHL to date. It includes 1300 more journals than CINAHL Plus, with full text coverage going back to 1937. Let your San Jac librarian know what you think! Trial Expires June 19, 2013

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Indexing for more than 3,000 nursing and health-related journals dating back to 1937 are here for you. There’s also searchable cited references for more than 1,100 journals and full text for hundreds more. You’ll find legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments, clinical trials, and more.

Consumer Health Complete (CHC)
This database helps medical patients gain a better understanding of the issues that affect them. It’s a powerful full-text research tool covering a wide range of topics including cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition, aging, children's health, and much more.

Health Source – Consumer Edition
This is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide. It covers medical sciences, food sciences, nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health. It also has full text for nearly 150 journals and is updated daily.

Health Source – Nursing / Academic Edition
Here you’ll find abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 scholarly journals and full text of nearly 550 of them. Updated daily, this database focuses on a wide range of medical disciplines.

Health Reference: Academic
Discover a full-text collection of general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional journals, reference books, and pamphlets.

MedicLatina
This is a Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals from renowned Latin American medical publishers. You’ll have access to the full text of nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals.

MEDLINE with MeSH
Gain access to all indexing of the National Library of Medicine, Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index, and The Index to Dental Literature. You’ll see table-of-contents information for 2,400 journals and a medical subject headings index.

MedlinePlus Health Information
This resource compiles authoritative information from the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, and other government agencies and health-related organizations. You’ll also find extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials and the latest health news.

Natural & Alternative Treatments
This is a database of nearly 200 articles on medical conditions and the alternative medicine therapies proposed for treatment. It also contains detailed, evidence-based information on herbs and supplements, functional foods, and other alternative therapies such as acupuncture and homeopathy.

**Nursing Education in Video: Free Trial**
Nursing Education in Video is a unique online collection of videos created specifically for the education and training of nurses, nursing assistants, and other healthcare workers. All of the videos in the collection have been created with the guidance of the Medcom-Trainex advisory board, and are regularly reviewed for accuracy, currency, and compliance with US Federal regulations from agencies such as OSHA and CMS. Trial Expires June 5, 2013. Let your librarian know what you think of this database!

History

Bibliography of Native North Americans
Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Biographical information on people from all time periods, geographical locations and fields of study.

Fuente Academica
Provides PDF full text for 260 scholarly publications covering areas of academic study. Content is provided in Spanish from respected publishers worldwide, including Revista de Arquitectura, Estudios Sobre Educacion, Revista de Estudios Hispanicos, Comunicacion y Sociedad, Revista de Ciencia Politica, Revista Historia.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Handbook of Texas
Online Full-text encyclopedia of Texas history, geography and culture.

Heritage Quest Provides a unique and continuously expanding collection of research materials to help patrons trace their family lineage and American culture. Heritage Quest Online provides many of most-requested resources for genealogists and local historians.

History Reference Center
The database features full text for more than 1,500 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers, full text for more than 100 leading history periodicals and 58,000 historical documents; 43,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 12,000 historical photos and maps; and more than 80 hours of historical videos.

Humanities FullText
Provides full text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. The database indexes, abstracts and delivers the full text of feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs, and more.

Index To Texas Magazines and Documents
Emphasis is on business, education, history, and government, with magazines of general interest also included.

JSTOR
This resource provides access to full-text articles covering a wide array of topics including literature, history, economics and the arts.

MAS Ultra
This comprehensive database contains full text for more than 500 popular magazines including America's Civil War, American Heritage, American History, Archaeology, Astronomy, Bioscience, Careers & Colleges, Civil War Times, Congressional Digest, Discover, Economist, History Today, Nation, National Review, New Republic, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, Smithsonian, World War II, etc. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for 85,670 biographies and 105,786 primary source documents. MAS Ultra -- School Edition also contains more than 360 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book and World Almanac & Book of Facts), an image Collection of over 440,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text back files (back to 1975) for key magazines.

MasterFILE Premier
Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFILE(tm) Premier contains full text for 2,005 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. This database also contains full text for more than 320 reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,135 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps & flags. MasterFILE Premier now offers PDF back files (as far back as 1975) for key publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Judaism, Library Journal, National Review, Saturday Evening Post, etc.

Texas Reference Center
Texas Reference Center includes more than 80 full text journals and books about Texas history, ethnic & cultural diversity, gender studies, literature, public health, business as well as home & garden and sports & leisure. The database contains biographies portraying famous historical and contemporary Texans such as George Herbert Walker Bush, Lady Bird Johnson, Dan Moody, Susanna Dickinson and Sam Houston. Also available in the Texas Reference Center is the Spanish-language newspaper El Sol de Texas with Texas and national news coverage. This EBSCOhost database is updated weekly.

World History Collection
This Collection offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. World History Collection contains cover-to-cover full text for nearly 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964.

Literature and the Fine Arts

Contemporary Authors
Need background information on the writers your reading? It is most likely here. This database offers up-to-date biographical and bibliographical information on more than 125,000 authors.

Contemporary Literary Criticism
If you are seeking other opinions on the literature you are studying, look here. This collection offers full-text critical essays on more than 800 contemporary authors and their works. Biographical information and principal works are included as well.

Dictionary of Literary Biography
Catalogued here are 12,000 biographical and full-text critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary figures from all eras and genres.

JSTOR
This resource provides access to full-text articles covering a wide array of topics including literature, history, economics and the arts.

Literary Reference Center (Ebsco)
This full-text database combines information from major respected reference works, books, and literary journals. It also includes the Bloom Series – more than 500 books from Chelsea House Publishers, edited by Harold Bloom.

Literature Resource Center
Here you will find an enormous collection of biographies, bibliographies and critical essays on both classical and contemporary authors and their works.

MLA International Bibliography
An index for literary criticism, in both journal and book form. Full text content for many articles is available. Please see a librarian if you are having trouble accessing resources listed in this index.

Music: IPA Source
The web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.

Scribner Writers
Access to over 1,800 original and detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world.

Twayne’s Author Series
This collection of literary criticism offers you an in-depth introduction to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and the development of literary genres.

20th Century Poetry Collections
Here you can study the finest poetry of the 20th century. Some 285 of the most widely studied poets of the British Isles and beyond are here. The collection also includes 20th Century American Poetry, with 52,000 poems by more than 300 poets.

Newspapers

Electric Library
This database contains full-text articles from popular magazines, newspapers and reference books. You’ll also find maps, television transcripts and photograph collections.

InfoTrac Custom Newspapers
Enjoy cover-to-cover text since 1996 from the Austin-American Statesman, Dallas Morning News, El Paso Times, Houston Chronicle, Washington Post, and The Financial Times. You’ll also find The Times (London) from 1997, and The New York Times from 2000.

Newspaper Source
Here you will find full text for about 30 national and international newspapers. Updated daily via EBSCOhost, this database also contains full-text television and radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional newspapers.

Regional Business News
Here you will find comprehensive full-text coverage for regional business publications. It incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers, and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

Social Science

Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA)
What would you like to know about native North American culture, history, and life? This resource covers everything from archaeology and multicultural relations, to gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. You’ll find more than 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, as well as U.S. and Canadian government documents from the sixteenth century on.

Biography & Genealogy Master Index
No one who ever lived on this planet will elude your research if you access this index. You’ll discover biographical information on people from all eras, latitudes and fields of study.

Handbook of Texas Online
Whether you’re a native Texan, or a guest who just wants to learn more about the Lone Star State, you’ll appreciate this full-text encyclopedia of Texas history, geography and culture.

Heritage Quest
Interested in tracing your family lineage? Here is your resource. This unique and continuously expanding collection provides many of the most sought-after resources for genealogists and local historians.

History Reference Center
This database features the full text of more than 1,500 reference and other non-fiction books from leading history publishers. It also has the full text for more than 100 leading history periodicals and some 58,000 historical documents. There are 43,000 biographies here, more than 12,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical videos.

Index to Texas Magazines and Documents
This resource places an emphasis on business, education, history, and government issues in Texas. You’ll also find a wealth of general interest magazines.

JSTOR
This resource provides access to full-text articles covering a wide array of topics including literature, history, economics and the arts.

Legal Collection
Here you’ll find full text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected scholarly law journals. This is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts, and trends of the legal world.

Psychology and Behavior Sciences Collection
Updated daily, this database provides nearly 575 full-text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed titles. Topics include emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full-text title is indexed.

Religion and Philosophy Collection
If you’re a theology or philosophy student, you’ve just made a miraculous discovery. You can delve into extensive coverage of world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, and a wide range of philosophies. You’ll find more than 300 full-text journals, including 250 peer-reviewed titles, all updated daily.

Texas Digital Sanborn Maps
Get digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of some 12,000 American towns and cities. Founded in 1867, the Sanborn Map Company was the primary American publisher of fire insurance maps for nearly 100 years.

World History Collection
Here you can take a global look at history from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe, and the Middle East. You’ll discover cover-to-cover full text for nearly 150 titles dating back to 1964, including many peer-reviewed journals.

Alphabetical List of Databases

To access these databases simply click on your choice below. If you are off-campus you will need to enter your name and Student ID (G########) to access the database. If you have technical difficulties or questions please call 281-476-1850 or email Remote UserSupport.

Academic Search Complete
Contains indexing for 8,025 publications, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier contains full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc.

Alt HealthWatch
This alternative health database provides full text for 180 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Biographical information on people from all time periods, geographical locations and fields of study.

Business Source Complete
This is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the ultimate collection of bibliographic and full text content. Business Source Complete contains far more active, peer-reviewed, business related journals than any other database currently available. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text
This database provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. CINAHL Plus with Full Text also contains searchable cited references for more than 1,160 journals and provides full text for hundreds of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF back files to 1937 are also included.

Consumer Health Complete
Consumer Health Complete is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc.

Contemporary Authors
Presents complete and up-to-date biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 125,000 U.S. and international authors.

Contemporary Literary Criticism
Offers full text critical essays on over 800 contemporary authors and their works, with biographical, critical, principal works, and further study information.

Dictionary of Literary Biography
Provides over 12,000 biographical and full-text critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary figures from all eras and genres.

eBook Collection
This is a rich resource for all kinds of e-content, including MP3 audiobooks, e-books, and more. There is even a special medical e-book collection containing more than 500 titles.

Economia y Negocios This continuously updated bibliographic database is an indispensable tool for research conducted in the areas of business and economics. Search functionality is enhanced through the incorporation of author keywords supplied in Spanish and English. More than 60,000 records, dating back to the early 1980s, provide coverage for over 200 Spanish and Portuguese-language periodicals published in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, the United States and elsewhere. Active titles include Revista de la CEPAL, Revista de Administraçao, Estudios Empresariales, and Agroeconómico.

Electric Library
This database contains full-text articles from popular magazines, newspapers and reference books. You’ll also find maps, television transcripts and photograph collections.

Environment Complete
This database offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains more than 1,670,000 records from more than 1,600 domestic and international titles going back to the 1950s (including 1,075 active core titles) as well as more than 100 monographs. The database also contains full text for nearly 600 journals.

ERIC
Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Handbook of Texas
Online Full-text encyclopedia of Texas history, geography and culture.

Health Source - Consumer Edition
This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Health Reference - Academic
A full-text collection of general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional journals, reference books and pamphlets.

Index To Texas Magazines and Documents
Emphasis is on business, education, history, and government, with magazines of general interest also included.

Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts
Provides abstracts and indexing for literature related to personal computing products and developments in business, the Internet, the home, and all other applied areas. Over 400 of the most important trade publications, mainstream computer magazines, and professional journals are covered, including those that focus on specific topics such as Macintosh and Windows platforms, programming, web development and more. This database does include some full text availability.

Issues and Controversies
Essays that are written to give a review of all sides of a topical issue or controversy in today{u2019}s news. Each essay includes a bibliography and links to related magazine, journal and newspaper articles, as well as hyperlinks to biographies, news updates and relevant websites. Covers more than 600 {u201C}Hot Topics.{u201D}

JSTOR
This resource provides access to full-text articles covering a wide array of topics including literature, history, economics and the arts.

Legal Collection
This database contains full text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. The Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.

Literary Reference Center (Ebsco)
This is a full text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals. Also includes the Bloom Series of over 500 books from Chelsea House Publishers edited by Harold Bloom.

Literature Resource Center
Providing immediate access to the most comprehensive and current online database on authors and their works, LRC includes biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale's most-used literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 121,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers such as philosophers, filmmakers, and anthropologists. This resource includes Contemporary Literary Criticism, Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, the Twayne Authors Series and the Scribners Writers Series.

MedicLatina
A 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 nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals.

MEDLINE with MESH
Access to all indexing of the National Library of Medicine, Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index and The Index to Dental Literature. Provides table of contents information for 2,400 journals and a medical subject headings index.

MedlinePlus Health Information
MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials and latest health news.

Military and Government Collection
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of these sites. The Military & Government Collection provides full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles. Publications covered in this database include Air Force Comptroller, Army Reserve Magazine, Defence Studies, Global Security Review, JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, National Review, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces, and many more. Additionally, many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.

Music: IPA Source
The web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.

Natural & Alternative Treatments
The database contains almost two hundred articles on medical conditions, presenting in an evidence-based manner the alternative medicine therapies proposed for use in their treatment. It also contains detailed, evidence-based information on herbs and supplements, functional foods, and other alternative therapies such as acupuncture and homeopathy. The evidence-based content has been developed and reviewed by a team of physicians and pharmacologists with the goal of providing consumers with reliable information.

Newspaper Source
Provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

Opposing Viewpoints
An online library of current event topics: the facts as well as the arguments of each topic's proponents and detractors. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center's unique features include Viewpoint articles {u2014} frameworks that allow students to explore each topic's many facets {u2014} and exclusive electronic access to Thomson Gale's Information Plus series featuring statistics and government data placed in context.

Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

Regional Business News
This database is a supplemental database for customers of Business Source Premier. With daily updates, Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). Regional Business News has full text for more than 50 sources.

Religion and Philosophy Collection
This database provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

Science & Technology Collection
The Science & Technology Collection contains over 800 leading full text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community. Topics include aeronautics, astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, and materials science. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,700 publications.

Scribner Writers
Access to over 1,800 original and detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world.

Serials Directory
Provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials. This database contains nearly 184,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers, historical data for an additional 20,000 titles and data from nearly 83,500 publishers worldwide.

TDNet Journal Locator
Provides a searchable list of all the journal titles available to TexShare users from all of the different database providers. This list includes the available holdings and an indication if full-text is available.

Testing and Education Reference Center
This detailed database includes information on private high schools, undergraduate and graduate programs and executive education programs, searchable by location, major, tuition, sports and more. Also features interactive online practice tests for preparatory examinations including entrance exams and certification and licensing tests.

TOPICsearch
This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today{u2019}s classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 102,800 articles from more than 2,500 diverse sources, including more than 1,550 full text periodicals.

Twayne's Author Series
The Twayne's Authors Series of literary criticism offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres.

20th Century Poetry Collections Twentieth-Century English Poetry offers online access to the poetry of some of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. It incorporates the works of 285 of the most widely studied poets of the British Isles and beyond, including over forty distinguished authors from The Faber Poetry Library. Twentieth-Century American Poetry - This unparalleled collection includes 52,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets.

Vocational and Career Collection
Vocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals.

WorldCat (OCLC Union catalog)
The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 58 million bibliographic records representing over 400 languages and all types of materials ranging from stone tablets to electronic books. WorldCat is updated daily and is now easier to search than ever. Recent enhancements include the ability to search by Library of Congress or Dewey Decimal Classification numbers, and to limit searches by material types, audiences and material formats. WorldCat includes information from before 1,000 BC to the present with thousands of records containing evaluative content such as tables of contents, cover art, book summaries and notes about the authors. It uses the Library of Congress Subject Headings as its thesaurus.

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