Databases A – Z

Electronic Databases — A-Z

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ABI/ INFORM Complete
This database comprises ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. Wall Street Journal and Wall Street Journal Online are included. The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, key business and economics periodicals, and more.

Academic One File
The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world’s leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

Academic Search Complete
Academic multidisciplinary database providing full text for 4,450+ scholarly publications, including full text for 3,500+ peer-reviewed journals.

AccessPharmacy
This database is an online curriculum resource. Users have access to core curriculum topics, organ systems, textbooks, and other pharmacy resources. From the AccessMedicine homepage, select “AccessPharmacy” from the drop down menu.

AccessScience
This database is the online equivalent of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th edition. It provides access to authoritative articles in all major areas of science and technology.

Access UN
The premier index to United Nations documents including Official Records, masthead documents, draft resolutions, meeting records, UN Sales Publications, and the UN Treaty Series citations.Also included is the full-text of several thousand UN documents.

Access World News (NewsBank)
This comprehensive news collection is ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Includes the Houston Chronicle, USA Today and most major metros. Use it to explore a specific event or to compare a wide variety of viewpoints on topics such as politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities and people. Content is easily searched and sorted through an intuitive, map-based interface. To view tutorial, click here: http://vimeopro.com/newsbank/tsu. password is tsu.

Accounting & Tax
This database is a premier accounting research database bringing together highly ranked global and scholarly journals with key resources for locating quick and precise results. It includes top journals, reference reports, proceedings, dissertations, and over 2350 publications with hundreds in full-text.

ACM Digital Library
The most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records in existence today covering the fields of computing and information technology. The full-text database includes the complete collection of ACM’s publications, including journals, conference proceedings, magazines, newsletters, and multimedia titles.

African American Archives
African American Archives provides over one million pages of original historical documents pertaining to the African American experience over several centuries, and is richly-detailed with narratives and quantitative data alike.

African American Biographical Database
Biographical sketches of African American activists, business people, former slaves, performing artists, educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers, religious workers, government workers, athletes, farmers, scientists, factory workers, and more–both the famous and the everyday person. View tutorial

African American Historical Serials Collection
Features 173 periodicals spanning from 1816 through 1922. The periodicals in this collection include newspapers and magazines, in addition to reports and annuals from various African American organizations, including churches and educational and service institutions.

African American Poetry (1750-1900)
The early history of African American poetry, from the first recorded poem by an African American (Lucy Terry Prince’s “Bars Fight,” c. 1746) to the major poets of the nineteenth century, including Paul Laurence Dunbar and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

AGRICOLA
This database contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Library dating back to 1970 and including more than 4.1 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.

Agriculture Collection
A custom collection of nearly 200 titles focused on agriculture and its related fields: from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture.

AHFS Consumer Medication Information
A trusted source for patient drug information. Published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, AHFS includes more than a thousand drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers and has been a Top Ten Award Winner in the Department of Health and Human Services National Consumer Education Materials Contest.

Alt Health Watch
This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full text articles for more than 180 international and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. View tutorial

America: History and Life
Database of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With selective indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present, this database is a bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. Also provides full-text coverage of nearly 200 journals and more than 100 books. View tutorial

American Film Institute Catalog
The AFI Catalog is the most authoritative filmographic database on the web, includes entries on nearly 60,000 American feature-length and 17,000 short films produced from 1893-2011, as well as AFI Awards Outstanding Movies of the Year from 2000 through 2010. Provides detailed information on every feature-length film produced in America or financed by American production companies. Detailed information on cast, crew, plot summaries, subjects, genres and historical notes are included for each film.

American Indian Histories and Cultures
Explore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers right up to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century. Browse through a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, to historic maps and travel journals. Access available on campus computers only.

American Periodical Series
Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children’s and women’s magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.

American West
Offers a mixture of original manuscripts, maps, ephemeral material and rare printed sources relevant to the birth of the American West. Includes the papers of early pioneers, explorers and hunters and items such as the original manuscript journal and papers of James Audubon. Access available on campus computers only.

Annual Reviews.
Since 1932, Annual Reviews has offered comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 46 disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences, including Economics.Annual Reviews is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide the worldwide scientific community with a useful and intelligent synthesis of the primary research literature for a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines. Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in scientific literature as indexed by the Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports® (JCR). Each year, Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to guide researchers to the principal contributions of their field and help them keep up to date in their area of research. The RJT Library currently subscribes to: Biochemistry, Microbiology, Pharmacology and Toxicology, physiology, Plant Biology, Physical Chemistry. There are full text journals that include Statistics and its Application, Linguistics, and Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior.

Applied Science & Technology Index Retrospective (1913-1983)
Applied Science & Technology Index Retrospective provides coverage dating back to 1913 and includes the complete files of Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957). Updated subject headings ensure that a search, using either old or new search terms, will return all of the information on that subject, while original subject headings offer insight into the way the issues of the day were framed.

Artemis Literary Sources  (GALE)
Provides access to all Gale Literary resources in one place, including the Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) , Gale’s Literature Resource Center, and other literature resources. Also includes workflow tools and features that are new to the Gale Literature Collections, including term clusters, term frequency graphs, search assist functionality, mobile compatibility, and interface translation, along with an easier and more dynamic search.

Asian Business & Reference
This database focuses on business and financial news from the eastern hemisphere. It covers Asian business and financial information from key international publications.

Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection
Delivers for the first time online more than three hundred important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company. The plays include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries and are performed by leading actors from around the world.

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Background Notes (Country Fact Sheets)
A collection of works by the United States Department of State providing background information on different countries and US relations with them. These publications include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. Available through the State Department’s website.

Banking Information Source
This database enables you to search essential banking industry publications for information about the financial services industry, banking and industry trends.

Bibliography of Native North Americans
A bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, life and covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 122,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents.

Biography in Context
Biography in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world’s most influential people. It merges Gale’s authoritative reference content with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while also allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

Biological & Agricultural Index Plus
This is a bibliographic database that indexes English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Periodical coverage includes a wide range of scientific journals, from popular to professional, that pertain to biology and agriculture.

Biotechnology Information
Advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information. FREE ACCESS

Black Studies Center
This is a leading tool that supports research, teaching, and learning in Black Studies and other disciplines that benefit from a more detailed coverage of the black experience such as history, literature, political science, sociology, philosophy, and religion. View tutorial View brochure

Black Studies Center Dissertations
Contains a thousand doctoral dissertations and Masters’ theses examining a wide variety of topics and subject areas relating to Black Studies. Included are dissertations written between 1970 and 2004 at over 100 universities and colleges across the United States. These dissertations were selected for their relevance to Black Studies scholars. View tutorial

Black Studies Center History Makers Oral History Videos
Contains videos and full transcripts for interviews with 100 contemporary African Americans.

Black Studies Center Newspapers
The full text backfile of six influential black Newspapers: Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003); Chicago Defender (1910-1975); Daily Defender (1956-1975); Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005); New York Amsterdam News (1922-1994); Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002).

Books In Print
Offers valuable information on more than 7.5 million U.S. book, audio book, and video titles, as well as 12 million international titles, making it the industry’s largest bibliographic database.

Business Economics and Theory
With a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit database, this collection provides academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics. Perfect for business classes, users will find more than 150 full-text journals to support their research.Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

Business Insights: Essentials
Business Insights: Essentials combines all of the content formerly found in Business & Company Resource Center with a new interface designed around the research goals and workflows of your diverse business research community. Easily find information on companies, industries and more in the context of timely news, statistical data, and in-depth reports.

Business Source Complete
Provides full text for 3,650+ scholarly business journals, including full text for 1,000+ peer-reviewed business publications. View tutorial

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Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities
Designed to help researchers and academics match their manuscripts with the scholarly journals which are most likely to publish those manuscripts. The index in each Directory helps you match the characteristics of your manuscript to the topic areas the journal emphasizes and acceptance rate. A vital resource for increasing the publishing effectiveness of professors, graduate students, and researchers.

Chem ID Plus
A free database of 350,000 chemical compounds. Records consist of name, synonyms, CAS number, molecular formula, and direct links to biomedical resources. FREE ACCESS

Child Development & Adolescent Studies
A source for references to the current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21. It includes more than 342,000 records indexing book reviews and abstracts, technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations covering biomedical and social sciences worldwide.

Communication and Mass Media Collection
CMMC incorporates the content of 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, to create a comprehensive research and reference resource for the communication discipline. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (“core”) indexing and abstracts for more than 420 journals, and selected (“priority”) coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 600 titles. Includes full text for 301 journals.

Computer Database
Use this database to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player. View tutorial

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 publication. View tutorial

Contemporary Authors Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on all of the more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors whose entries appear in Contemporary Authors and Contemporary Authors New Revision Series. Updated monthly, Contemporary Authors allows users to search for an author by name, title of work, nationality, date and place of birth and death, subject/genre, personal and career information, awards and honors, and more. View Tutorial

Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select & Dictionary of Literary Biography
Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical information on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. Contemporary Literary Criticism–Select collects more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors, with biographical, critical, principal works, and further study information. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary figures from all eras and genres.

Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select
An extensive collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC-Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study. Updated monthly, Contemporary Literary Criticism–Select allows users to search by author name, title of work, nationality, subject/genre, ethnicity, critic name, and more. View Tutorial

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Criminal Justice Collection
Whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection rises to the challenge. Users will have access to 150 journals. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

Culinary Arts Collection
The Culinary Arts collection includes 150 of the major cooking and nutrition magazines. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

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DailyMed
Provides high quality information about marketed drugs. This information includes FDA labels (package inserts). This website provides health information providers and the public with a standard, comprehensive, up-to-date, look-up and download resource of medication content and labeling as found in medication package inserts. FREE ACCESS

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Demographics Now – Library Edition Up-to-date resources on demographics and extensive market level information. View Tutorial

Dictionary of Literary Biography Provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.

Directory of Open Access Journals This service covers free full text quality control scientific and scholarly journals, all subjects, and languages.

Discovery Texas Library of Texas makes available valuable resources from academic libraries, public libraries, article collections (journals, magazines, etc.) and special groups such as TexShare Card Program participants. Click on the TexShare link at top right of page to access the TexShare databases. View Tutorial

Dissertations and Theses – Multidisciplinary With more than 2.4 million entries, the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) database is the most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the world. UMI offers over 2 million titles for purchase in microfilm or paper formats. More than 930,000 are available in PDF format for immediate free download and an average of 2,000 new PDFs are added to the database each week.

Dissertations for Black Studies
Database contains doctoral dissertations and masters’ theses on a wide variety of topics and subject areas relating to Black Studies. It provides access to the record of scholarship on Black Studies in the United States. View Dissertations by author

Diversity Studies Explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community. Includes more than 2.7 million articles from 150 journals updated daily, including: Contemporary Southeast Asia, Israel Studies, Italian Culture, Western Journal of Black Studies, and Latino Leaders.

Drug Information Portal
This portal gives users a gateway to selected drug information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and other key U.S. Government agencies. FREE ACCESS

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eBook Collection (EBSCO)
Provides access to EBSCOhost eBook Collection of more than 28,000 electronic books covering a wide variety of subject disciplines.

ebrary
A collection of online full text books in all academic subject areas which allow multiple users simultaneous access. Ebrary recommends the independent, highly-rated “Bluefire Reader” app for offline reading of downloaded ebrary ebooks on mobile devices. Bluefire is available for free from the App Store and the Google Play store. Quick Start Guide

EBSCOhost
This menu provides access to a variety of proprietary full text and popular databases covering a variety of subjects. The comprehensive databases range from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases. Tutorials: Basic Search Advanced Search –Guided Style Creating a Journal Alert

Economia y Negocios
Has more than 84,500 records, dating back to the early 1980s; provide coverage for more than 340 Spanish and Portuguese-language periodicals published in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, the United States and elsewhere.

Education Research Complete
The definitive online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,100 journals, as well as full text for more than 1,200 journals, and includes full text for nearly 500 books and monographs.

Educational Administration Abstracts
Includes bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.

Educators Collection
Perfect for educating future teachers and administrators, this set covers the latest technologies, developments, instruction and coaching breakthroughs. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

EJS E-Journals
EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service (EJS) is a gateway to thousands of e-journals containing millions of articles from hundreds of publishers.

EMBASE
Provides access to more than 18 million biomedical and pharmacological records from 1974 to present.

ENCYCLOPEDIAS — Looking for online encyclopedias? Try Literati by Credo Reference.

Entrepreneurship This database delivers a collection of content types such as video clips, start-up plans, templates and forms, journal content, business cases, working papers, conference proceedings, and more. Environmental Health & Toxicology A comprehensive website with access to resources produced by TEHIP and other government agencies and organizations. Toxicology Tutorial-Basic Principles Tutorial -Toxicokinetics  Tutorial-Cellular Toxicology FREE ACCESS

Environmental Studies and Policy A collection of over 800 journals and 6 subject specific Delmar reference titles provide robust coverage of environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

ERIC (EBSCO) The Education Resource Information Center contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966. View Tutorial

ERIC.ed.gov The world’s largest digital library of education literature. ERIC in partnership with ProQuest has added more than 1,700 education related doctoral dissertations to the ERIC Collection.

ERIC Help & Tutorials FREE ACCESS

Essay and General Literature Index (H.W. Wilson) Cites thousands of essays, chapters, and articles contained in many anthologies and collections. Emphasis is placed on the humanities and social sciences with subject coverage ranging from literary works, art history, drama, and film.

Ethnic NewsWatch Ethnic NewsWatch™ (ENW) features newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. With titles dating from 1990, ENW presents an unmatched, comprehensive, full-text collection of more than 2.2 million articles from more than 330 publications offering both national and regional coverage. It includes community publications, as well as top scholarly journals on ethnicities and ethnic studies. This unique resource thoroughly covers these ethnic groups: African American/Caribbean/African, Arab/Middle Eastern, Asian/Pacific Islander, European/Eastern European, Hispanic, Jewish, and Native People.

Ethnic NewsWatch: A History This full-text database provides the historical background to the ethnic, minority, and native press content in Ethnic NewsWatch, with materials dating from 1959–1989. Ethnic NewsWatch: A History™ presents the other sides of the stories on local, national, and international events that changed the course of history across three turbulent decades—the civil rights struggle, Vietnam War protests, dramatic changes in immigration law, trickle down economics, and the status of migrant workers. With more than 300,000 articles, ENW: A History gives undergraduates access to the real story of the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750 This bibliographic database is a valuable index for libraries, scholars and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. Created from “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed in Europe relating to The Americas, 1493-1750” this resource contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.

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FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals / FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus Created by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), this database indexes more than 500,000 articles from 340 of the world’s foremost academic and popular film journals, dating from 1972 onward. The database also incorporates the International Index to TV Periodicals; Treasures from the Film Archives, which identifies silent film holdings in archives around the world, and the International Directory of Film/TV Documentation Collections.

Film Index International Produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute, this first release of Film Index International contains the BFI’s most up to date film and person index, with records from 1900 to the present. Includes searchable plot summaries, full cast and crew lists as well as references to periodical articles on film and filmmakers.

Fine Arts and Music Collection With more than 100 full-text magazines and journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection will provide students with resources to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

First Research First Research from Mergent provides unlimited access to comprehensive profiles on over 900 industry segments. It features in-depth and up-to-date financial and economic information for assessing an industry’s financial strengths, changes and important industry statistics.

Fuente Academica Offers more than 450 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. The database is updated weekly.

Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia Indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas.

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Gale Artemis Literary Sources
Provides access to all Gale Literary resources in one place, including the Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) , Gale’s Literature Resource Center, and other literature resources. Also includes workflow tools and features that are new to the Gale Literature Collections, including term clusters, term frequency graphs, search assist functionality, mobile compatibility, and interface translation, along with an easier and more dynamic search. .

Gale Literary Databases
A cross searchable database of three databases: Contemporary Authors provides biographical and bibliographical information on more than 120,000 national and international authors. Contemporary Literary Criticism–Select has more than 35,000 critical essays on contemporary authors and critical principal works. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides 10,000 biographical and critical essays on their lives, works and careers.

Gale PowerSearch
Gale PowerSearch provides the ability to browse more than 20,000 publications and search across more than 150 million documents. Includes Web 2.0 sharing tools (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) ReadSpeaker technology, on demand translation of documents and inclusion of multimedia (videos, audios, and podcasts) in search results content types.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a collection of specialized electronic reference sources. These eBooks are accessible online from the library or remotely 24/7. The R. J. Terry Library subscribes to titles from the Literature eBook Collection. View Title List View Tutorial

Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection
This collection of nearly 50 journals is focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture. A fertile and growing collection, this collection includes content relating to both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

General BusinessFile ASAP
Analyzes company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.

General Reference Center Gold
General interest database that integrates a variety of sources – newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

Gender Studies Collection
This collection of nearly 40 journals aims to provide balanced coverage of this significant aspect of our culture, covering such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and many more.

General Science Collection
A custom collection of over 200 journals, providing researchers with the information needed to stay current on the latest scientific developments — including such topics as particle physics, advanced mathematics, and nanotechnology. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text.

Google Scholar (scholar.Google.com) is a search tool for locating scholarly information, including journal articles, books and abstracts, by searching universities, publishers, societies and online repositories. It includes articles from a variety of disciplines, but is strongest in the sciences and technical fields. Google Scholar returns citations with links to the full text if it is available from the publisher or source. By setting your preferences in Google Scholar to link to the Robert J. Terry Library, you will be able to link to full text in our databases.

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 global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.

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Handbook of Texas Online
A multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture.

Health Reference Center-Academic
Multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in InfoTrac’s award-winning Health Reference Center. All in a single, easy-to-use database, the material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

Health Sources: 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 provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.

Health Source: Nursing/ Academic
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.

Heritage Quest Online
One of the most valuable resources available today to research ancestry using census data of the U.S. Federal Census Records from1770-1930 for family records and local history. View Tutorial

Highwire Press
Free online full-text articles of peer reviewed journals and scholarly content produced by a Division of the Stanford University Libraries. FREE ACCESS

Historical Chicago Defender
The Chicago Defender (1910-1975) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Historical New York Times
The Historical New York Times (1851-2009) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Historical Washington Post
The Washington Post (1877-1994) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Home Improvement Collection
Even the smallest home improvement project can be daunting: with this collection of nearly 100 home improvement focused titles, hobbyists and professional carpenters alike will immediately put their projects on a more solid foundation. Coverage includes such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

Hoover’s Company Profiles
Business, economics, finance, reference. Find up to date proprietary editorial content covering more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives. Hoover’s widely recognized as a leading provider of corporate data, delivers in depth industry analyses, information on a company’s location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more.

Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure
With current and relevant content from over 500 industry journals, this collection provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism field, while also allowing for focused study of specialized aspects of the industry – including cultural aspects of travel, leisure activities, economic aspects of tourism, and more.

Human Resources Abstracts
Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to human resources, including human resource management, employee assistance, organizational behavior, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 64,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.

Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Features academic journals in the humanities with the full text of articles from over 300 periodicals dating back to 1995, and high-quality indexing for almost 700 journals (470 are peer-reviewed) dating as far back as 1984. The database provides coverage of feature articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, and original works of fiction, drama, poetry and book reviews, as well as reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, radio and television programs, plays, operas, and more.

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Information Science and Library Issues Collection
Comprised of content from nearly 100 leading industry journals, this collection provides current and accurate information for the information professional. Coverage includes such topics as data processing techniques, metadata architectures, and more. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

Information Science & Technology Abstracts
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. You can find full text documents by indicating Linked full-text on the Basic Search Page under the Limit Your Results section or after a search is done by Refine Results on the left and indicating Linked Full Text.

IngentaConnect
IngentaConnect offers one of the most comprehensive collections of academic and professional research articles online – some 4.5 million articles from 13,500 publications. Ingenta connect provides researchers with online access to the full text of electronic articles, through subscriptions to publications.

INSPEC
The INSPEC database contains nearly 12 million bibliographic abstracts and indexing to journal articles, conference proceedings, technical reports and other literature in the fields of science and technology. You can find full text documents by indicating Linked full-text on the Basic Search Page under the Limit Your Results section or after a search is done by Refine Results on the left and indicating Linked Full Text

Insurance Liability Collection
This collection, comprised of nearly 40 journals, takes a broad view of the insurance and liability industry, covering such topics as labor relations, mortgage banking, legal issues, and more. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
This database includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,800 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books are included each year.

International Index to Music Periodicals Full-Text
This database covers the full spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition. There are more than 770,000 records.

International Index to Performing Arts Full Text
This database is a comprehensive database/ guide providing indexing , abstracts, and full text covering a broad spectrum to the journal literature of the performing arts- drama, theater, stagecraft, dance, musical theatre, film, television and more.

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.

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Job & Career Accelerator Innovative job-hunting system, where you can explore detailed information on over 1,000 different occupations, match your interests and skills with the career that’s best for you, search over five million up-to-the-minute local and national job postings, create professional resumes and cover letters, practice and master interviewing skills, get advice and conveniently organize and track your job-search progress.

JSTOR Offers academic journals and other scholarly content, as well as images, letters, oral histories, pamphlets, and other primary sources. TSU can access the following JSTOR collections: Arts & Sciences I Collection, Arts & Sciences II Collection, Business I Collection, Ecology & Botany Collection, and Health & General Sciences Collection. View Tutorial  Collections and journal titles available at TSU.

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Key Business Ratios Key Business Ratios measure the relationship between financial values in a company’s balance sheet and income statement. They offer a way to evaluate the performance and stability of a business when you’re looking to set credit limits and lending terms for new and existing accounts, assess key suppliers, perform competitive analysis, or research the financial standing of a potential business partner or acquisition candidate.

Kids Search Offers K-12 students an easy to use interface with emphasis on searching by topics such as geography, arts and music, health, and sports. View Tutorial

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Learning Express Library Provides comprehensive test preparation, skills improvement resources, and career guidance. Boasts an extensive offering of occupational Prep Tests, including the Electrician’s License test, Law Enforcement exams, ASVAB preparation, Military Flight exams, Real Estate exams, and more. Also includes basic skills improvement exams, SAT, CLEP and THEA tests.

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

LexisNexis-Academic An outstanding service for researching news, business, and legal topics. It contains more than 6,000 sources from all over the world, drawn from print, broadcast, and online media.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts Indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; 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.

Literary Index A master index to every literary series published by Gale. It combines and cross references author names, including pseudonyms and variant names and more than 140,000 sources into one source. It provides easy access to the printed edition of Gale’s literary series. These series contain complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings. Help

Literary Reference Center (EBSCO) Full-text reference books and literary works including titles with a focus on plays, drama, poetry, and African American and Hispanic literature. Some full text literary journals and magazines are also included with a focus on multicultural studies, folklore and Latin American literature. You may browse authors and their works, books are highlighted with critical essays and book reviews, along with author biographies and interviews, classic and contemporary poems and short stories.

Literati by Credo Reference Literati is an online platform that combines reliable, citable reference content from hundreds of reference books, with other library resources. Includes a topical “mind map” feature (formerly known as the “concept map”). Other types of content include images, maps, photos, diagrams, sound clips and more.

Literature Criticism Online Comprised of the ten individual series that represents a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres, this database contains broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals.

Literature Online (ProQuest) A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 328 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

Literature Resource Center – LRC, Scribner Writers Series Online, Twayne’s Authors Online A comprehensive online source for literary criticism and other information about authors, their works, topic and work overviews, primary sources and literary works, and more. All three databases can be searched simultaneously or individually.

Literature Resources (Gale) Research authors and their works, literary movements and genres. Search across several major Literature databases to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews. View tutorial

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MAS Ultra: School Edition Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.

MasterFILE Premier Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. View tutorial

MedicLatina A unique collection of medical research and investigatory journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. This Spanish language database contains full-text for 130 peer-reviewed medical journals.

MEDLINE Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print Provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2700 contemporary testing instruments and all yearbooks from the first edition, 1938, to the present. It contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within areas such as psychology, education, business, and leadership. Tests in Print serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print and provides vital information including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).

Mergent Offer a wealth of detail on items including business description, history, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt and capital stock. Financial statements are presented in “as-reported” form and in native currencies, maintaining the full integrity of this critical information. U.S. Company Data and International Company Data offer seamlessly access to reports on companies based around the world, searching by company name or ticker symbol, or searching across all global boundaries to find companies that match specific financial and/or textual search criteria.

Metalib GPO Searches multiple U.S. federal government databases. It is provided as a service of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications.

MICROMEDEX  This powerful database contains evidence based information on drugs, toxicity, diseases, acute care, and intelligence medicine. Also included are the CareNotes System, Red Book Online, Formulary Advisor, PDR Electronic Library, and NeoFax.

Middle Search Plus Provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and a SchoolImage Collection of photos, maps and flags.

Military and Government Collection Offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government and provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.   View tutorial

Military and Intelligence Database Both the historian and reporter on the frontline will find useful information in this collection, composed of content from over 400 journals, which covers all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. Key subjects covered include: socioeconomic effects of war, governmental policies, the structure of armed forces, and many more.

Million Dollar Directory The Dun & Bradstreet Million Dollar Directory (MDDI) provides a valuable source of information on both privately and public companies and their executives. It combines complete coverage on all businesses in the U. S. and Canada with business profiles on firms in over 200 countries worldwide.

MLA Directory of Periodicals Offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. Detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as, frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.

MLA International Bibliography A detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. The electronic version dates back to 1920 and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. Indexed materials coverage is international and includes 60 titles from JSTOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text.

Morningstar This service profiles performances of stocks and funds, providing key statistics, historical background, and risk analysis. It also includes commentaries on current topics in the industry, performance indexes for all funds being followed, average total returns within the funds/stock categories, and industry news. Tutorial.

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National Newspaper Index Provides quick access to the indexing of America’s top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.

National Security Archive Contains the most comprehensive collection of primary documents available, including some 63,000 important declassified of critical U.S. policy decision and 29 complete specialized collections.

Natural & Alternative Treatments Contains detailed information and almost 200 different conditions and conventional and natural treatments used to treat them, over 300 herbs and supplements, plus drug-herb and drug supplements,interactions for more than 60 drug categories.

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data Facilitates research in criminal justice and criminology, through the preservation, enhancement, and sharing of computerized data resources; through the production of original research based on archived data; and through specialized training workshops in quantitative analysis of crime and justice data. Home to web sites for two separately maintained programs: the Project for Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) and the Terrorism and Preparedness Data Resource Center (TPDRC). FREE ACCESS

Naxos Music Library  Music database containing over 140,000 tracks of music, including the entire Naxos label. Most of the collection is classical, but the database also includes jazz, world, new age, and some pop and rock. Labels included in addition to Naxos are Chandos, Caprice, Wergo, CPO, Hungaraton, and more.

NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts) A federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide. Services and resources are available to anyone interested in crime, victim assistance, and public safety including policymakers, practitioners, researchers, educators, community leaders, and the general public. FREE ACCESS

NeoFax (Included in MICROMEDEX) Helps clinicians prescribe, calculate, formulate, and administer essential drugs and parental nutrition solutions for neonates. By providing complete neonatal drug information covering more than 180 substances, NeoFax helps reduce medication errors and decreases time spent ordering and compounding.

Newspaper Source
Provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 (U.S.) & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.

NewsVault
Delivers the definitive cross-searching experience for exploring your library’s collection of Gale historical newspapers. With the power to search over 10 million digitized facsimile pages, NewsVault provides an unparalleled window to the past.

Nursing and Allied Health Collection
All aspects of the Nursing profession — from direct patient care to health care administration — are covered in this collection. Including nearly 400 titles, this collection’s current and authoritative content will be of use to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.

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OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson)
This database contains a wealth of essential material for learning and detailed research in a single, easily-searched database. With the full text of articles from over 2,500 publications, and indexing and abstracts from nearly 3,600 publications, this database provides invaluable support for research in all core undergraduate subjects and for cross-disciplinary work.

O*NET OnLine 
O*NET OnLine (Occupational Information Network) is a comprehensive database of worker attributes and job characteristics. The O*NET database includes information on skills, abilities, work activities, and interests associated with over 950 occupations. Each occupational title and code is based on the most current version of the Standard Occupational Classification system. FREE ACCESS

Opposing Viewpoints in Context
An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today’s hottest social issues. Database features continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audiofiles and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience. Language options are provided. To access audio files, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player. View Tutorial 

Oxford African American Studies Center
This reference site contains more than 10,000 articles by top scholars in the field. The core content includes the full-text of African American National Biography, Africana, Black Women in America, the Encyclopedia of African American History, as well as the newly added Dictionary of African Biography and the Encyclopedia of African Thought.

Oxford Music Online
Oxford Music Online is the gateway through which users can access an expanding range of Oxford’s premier music resources, including Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music. (Librarian’s note: For contemporary artists, try also the Pop Culture Collection and the International Index to Music Periodicals.) View tutorial Tips for Oxford Music Online Users

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PAIS Archive
Retrospective database chronicling global public policy and social issues from the early twentieth century through the mid 1970 providing selective subject and bibliographical access to periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications and other English-language materials published around the world. PAIS International The PAIS International database from CSA contains citations to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. PAIS International includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world.

Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection
Collection includes over 100 titles covering the fields of physical therapy and sports medicine. Covering a wide spectrum of information, researchers will have access to a diverse, but focused set of topics in the field, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research theses, and many more.

Play Index (H.W. Wilson)
Play Index searches over 30,000 plays written from antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present. An invaluable aid to finding the perfect plays, Play Index covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, 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.

Policy File
Offers access to U.S. foreign and domestic policy papers and gray literature, Policy File is updated weekly with abstracts and links to the latest reports, papers, and documents from think tanks, research institutes and agencies.

Political Science (ProQuest)
Search the full-text of leading political science and international relations journals. This collection provides full-text coverage of many core titles included in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.

Pop Culture Collection
From the Hunger Games to the SXSW Festival, this collection provides sources for those researching popular culture.This collection is made up of more than 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.

Primary Search
Provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.

Professional Development Collection Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 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.

ProQuest Databases These databases provide access to 17 databases on an interface which gives users access to a broad range of authoritative resources, content, and services, including leading journals, periodicals, news content, rare and archival information, dissertations, research reports, eBooks, and multimedia.

PsycARTICLES Access to the full text of more than 80 landmark journals in behavioral science and related fields ranging from education, to nursing, to business, to neuroscience.

PsycCRITIQUES Produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), is a database of full-text book reviews featuring current scholarly and professional books in psychology. It also publishes reviews from a psychological perspective of popular films and trade books, and includes approximately 40,000 reviews dating back to 1956.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection A comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world’s largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals.

Psychology Collection
This collection gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops and diminishes over time. Access to 200 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.

Public Administration Abstracts
Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to public administration, including public administration theory, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 93,600 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.

PUBMED Includes more than 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life sciences journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publishers web sites. View Tutorial FREE ACCESS

PUBMED Central
Is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. FREE ACCESS

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Regional Business News
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. View Tutorial

Religion and Philosophy Collection (GALE)
This custom collection provides coverage of different religions, philosophies and how they impact our daily lives. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

Religion & Philosophy Collection (EBSCO)
Provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, and philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. With more than 300 full text journals, the Religion & Philosophy Collection is an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies.

RIA Checkpoint RIA Checkpoint is the premier web-based Tax and Accounting database. The information you get on Checkpoint, according to Thomson and Reuters, “is the most accurate and authoritative Tax and Accounting information available.” RIA Checkpoint includes accounting standards and regulations from AICPA, FASB, GASB, IASB and the SEC reference library. It also includes tax cases, federal codes, rulings and regulations, IRS publications and other tax documents. All users anywhere on TSU’s campus from any TSU computer have online access to RIA Checkpoint via the TSU web page without registration. To access RIA Checkpoint from a TSU computer, click here: RIA Checkpoint. To access RIA Checkpoint off campus, you must register for an RIA Checkpoint user name and password (registered access is only available to current TSU students; faculty and staff). If you experience any difficulty with your TSU authentication (at this point) please call 713-313-4415 or e-mail [email protected].Register here. To access RIA Checkpoint off campus (if already registered) click here: RIA Checkpoint Login. All other questions regarding RIA Checkpoint call 713-313-4379 or 713–313-7151.

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SAGE Journals Online
Includes the full-text of 81 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 86 years, encompassing over 20,400 articles. It covers such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.

SAGE Knowledge (SAGE eBook collection)
SAGE Knowledge is a social sciences digital library containing more than 2,700 titles. It includes an expansive range of SAGE eBook and eReference content, including scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, professional development titles, and more. The platform allows researchers to cross-search and seamlessly access a wide breadth of SAGE book and reference content from one source.

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

Sanborn Maps – Texas Digital Collection
Contains over 830 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 1,740 publications.

ScienceDirect
Our subscription to ScienceDirect includes access to the full-text to journal titles in the areas of science, psychology, pharmacology, business and medicine. Additionally, abstract and bibliographic information is available for the entire database of 2200 journal titles, eBooks, reference works, handbooks, and book series.

Science Full Text Select
Provides full text for more than 400 journals dating as far back as 1994. Subject coverage includes agriculture & agricultural research, atmospheric science, biochemistry, biology, biotechnology, botany, chemistry, environmental science, geology, marine biology microbiology, physics and much more. Includes all the full-text content from Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, and General Science Full Text, plus science content from other databases.

Science Journals (ProQuest)
This database is for both the applied and general sciences. With coverage dating back to 1986, ProQuest Science Journals features over 1030 titles, with more than 760 available in full text.

SciFinder
SciFinder is a research discovery tool that allows college students and faculty to access a wide diversity of research from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more. Students and faculty must create their own sign using a tsu.edu email account: SciFinder (First Time New User Registration) View Tutorials

Scribner Writers Online
Scribner Writers Online is an eBook format of the Scribner Writers series – including the American Writers Collection, British Writers Collection, European Writers Collection and World and Genre Writers Collection.

Scribner Writers Series
Scribner Writers Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 2,000 authors and literary genres drawn from the acclaimed Scribner print series. Writers A-Z

Searchasaurus
This service will help both children and their parents by enabling them to search thousands of articles, an online general encyclopedia and a ton of information about animals 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 250,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers; data from more than 108,000 publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet addresses; and Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classifications for every entry.

Short Story Index (H.W. Wilson)
Indexes all the important collections and anthologies of short stories that are published each year. All literary genres are covered. Approximately 200+ monographs are captured per year, with approximately 3,000-4,000 analytics (chapters/stories).

Small Business Collection 
The Small Business Collection is perfect for business schools and entrepreneurs, this compilation provides insights, tips, strategies and success stories. Users will find hundreds of full text subject-appropriate periodicals.

Small Business Resources Center
Search this database to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites. View tutorials

Social Work Abstracts
This database offers extensive coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1965. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and provides citations and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems.

Sociology (ProQuest)
Search the full-text of leading sociology journals, including social work. This collection provides full-text coverage of many core titles included in Sociological Abstracts.

Standard & Poor’s Net Advantage
Detailed descriptions of companies, industries, and mutual funds, Company information includes a description of the company, stocks & bond issues, earnings estimates, market ideas, snapshots and insight and investment ideas.

Statistical Abstracts of the United States
The online version of the standard statistical reference source. All of the standard features of the previously issued print edition with the following new features – new tables on such topics as same-sex households, student loan debt, underwater mortgages, and trade with China. The information is updated monthly. 

STAT!Ref
This is a collection of electronic resources for healthcare professionals offering access to full-text drug references, medical dictionaries, textbooks, medical reference sources and other related materials. Tutorial:Quick Start Guide  YouTube Demo Tutorial:MedCalc 3000

Student Research Center Interface
Designed specifically for secondary education students, according to their needs and search abilities and provides students in secondary education with the most appropriate research tools for easily obtaining the information that they seek.

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Teacher Reference Center
Provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

Texas Digital Sanborn Maps
Provides detail property & land-use records of 12,000 plus U.S. towns and cities throughout the past one hundred years. The maps enable researchers to trace the architectural history of individual buildings or entire communities.

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 also contains biographies as well as newspapers containing Texas and national news coverage.

Times Digital Archive
Search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page.

TOPICsearch
Contains full text for over 60,000 articles from 399 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO’s unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.

TOXNET
Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.

TRID – Transport Research International Documentation
The TRID Online database contains over half a million records of published transportation research including technical reports, books, conference proceedings and journal articles. Currently there are almost 24,000 TRIS records with links to electronic copies of the full-text. View Tutorial

Twayne’s Authors Online
Database in eBook format.Content of books that comprise three print series: United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors.

Twayne Authors Series – Twayne World, English, US Authors
Comprises 600 full-text titles from the Twayne Literary Masters series, 200 each from Twayne World, US, and English Authors.Authors A-Z

Twentieth Century American Poetry
Includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song.

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.

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Urban Studies Abstracts
Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 51,600 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.

U. S. History Collection
This collection provides well-rounded coverage of both the current thinking and events in US History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field. This compilation of journals provides robust and balanced coverage of this field, useful both to the novice historian as well as to the advanced academic researcher.

U.S. History in Context
Is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. history. Merges Gale’s authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience. Language options are provided. To access audio files, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.Search tutorial Topic page tutorial

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Vocations and Careers Collection
Finding the right career can be a daunting and high stakes task: finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career are all topics covered by this collection, providing current and applicable content for all vocational milestones. Offering content from nearly 400 journals, this collection provides content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

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

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Wall Street Journal Online
Covers breaking news and current headlines from the United States and around the world.

War and Terrorism Collection
A definitive periodical collection of hand selected titles for analysts, risk management professionals and students of military science, history, and social science.

WorldCat FirstSearch
Is the world’s largest bibliographic database, built and maintained collectively by libraries around the world that participate in the OCLC global cooperative.

World History 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 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964.

World History in Context
Contains contextual information of hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in World History and merges Gale’s authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience. Language options are provided. To access audio files, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player. View tutorial

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (ProQuest)
Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/ policy. Each individual reference may also be linked to an abstract and/or to other papers that cite that reference.

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