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This is a brief description of the databases and indexes available through the
The University Center Library.
At this time, due to licensing restrictions, many of these can be accessed
on-campus only.
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| ABI/INFORM (OVID-TexShare) |
Citations and abstracts for articles in over 1000 journals published worldwide and includes the full text over 500 periodicals. Covers business and management topics including company histories, competitive intelligence, and product development. It includes information on companies and products, business strategies and tactics, management tools and trends, and case studies of successes and failures. | Online Help |
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AGRICOLA (National Agriculture Library) |
Indexes over 3.5 million records covering major agricultural subjects from 1970 to the present. It abstracts articles, audiovisual materials, books, book chapters, computer databases and software, maps, manuscripts, serials, and sound recordings. Topics covered include agriculture, animal science, forestry, insects, natural resources, and veterinary medicine. | Online Help |
| Applied Science & Technology Full Text (Wilson OMNIFile) |
Covers 350+ key, international English-language periodicals in the applied sciences & technology. It is a good source of information on management, careers & employment, & financial trends in the scientific & technological fields. It abstracts interviews, meetings, conferences, exhibitions, discussions, corrections, continued articles, new product reviews, new product announcements, technically valuable editorials & letters, tables, charts, diagrams, buyers' guides, directories, & conference proceedings; it also cites book reviews. | Online Help |
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Art Full-Text (Wilson OMNIFile) |
Indexes, abstracts & full-text articles from more than 300 periodicals from around the world. Periodicals include English-language periodicals, yearbooks & museum bulletins. Also indexes reproductions of works of art. Updated monthly. | Online Help |
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AskERIC (Government) |
ERIC (1967 to date) indexes journal articles, technical reports, and other materials in the area of education. | Online Help |
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Associations Unlimited (GaleNet-TexShare) |
"Information for approximately 455,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations. For some 2,600 major U.S. national associations, provides full-text association materials such as brochures, pamphlets, and membership application forms." | Online Help |
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Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated (WilsonWeb) |
"Contain the full text of the articles from various biographical reference books published by H. W. Wilson. Containing the full text of more than 100 print volumes, Wilson Biographies (TM) has more than 46,000 biographies & obituaries. Current Biography (TM) contains more than 23,000 biographies & obituaries from all of volumes of Current Biography Yearbook from 1940 to the present. World Authors contains more than 11,000 biographies covering the most important authors worldwide from 800 B.C. through the present. (All articles from Current Biography & World Authors are also in Wilson Biographies.) The biographies are enhanced with recent citations from H.W. Wilson's Biography Index & with citations & abstracts from H.W. Wilson's Humanities Abstracts & Book Review Digest." | Online Help |
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Biography & Genealogy Master Index (GaleNet-TexShare) |
"Biography and Genealogy Master Index is a comprehensive index to more than 12.7 million biographical sketches in more than 3,400 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world." | Online Help |
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Biography Resource Center w/ Marquis Who's Who (GaleNet-TexShare) |
"A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines approximately 250,000 biographies from respected Gale Group sources with nearly one million biographies from The Complete Marquis Who's Who®. The database also includes full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals." | Online Help |
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Books in Print (OVID-TexShare) |
"Provides complete, publisherverified information on all U.S. books in print. Includes more than 900,000 new or revised records each year and covers scholarly, technical, popular, adult, juvenile, and reprint titles. Also includes complete publisher information." | Online Help |
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Wilson Business Full-Text (Wilson OMNIFile) |
"Indexes & abstracts articles from more than 345 English-language periodicals published in the United States & elsewhere, including the leading business magazines & trade & research journals, plus the full text of over 160 of those periodicals. The abstracts range from 50 to 150 words & describe the content & scope of the source articles. Full text coverage begins in January 1995." Subjects Covered: Accounting, Acquisitions & Mergers, Advertising, Banking, Building & Construction, Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, Communications, Computers, Cosmetics Industry, Economics, Electronics, Entertainment Industry, Finance, Financial Services, Government Regulations, Health Care, High Technology, Hospitality & Tourism, Human Resources, Industrial Relations, Insurance, International Business, Investments, Management, Marketing, Mass Media, Occupational Health & Safety, Oil & Gas, Paper & Pulp Industries, Public Utilities, Publishing, Purchasing, Real Estate, Retail Trade, Small Business, Taxation, Technology, Transportation. | Online Help |
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| CARL UnCover | Indexes nearly 17,000 popular and academic periodicals. | Online Help |
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CINAHL (OVID-TexShare) |
(Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) Provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health disciplines. Includes over 950 journals as well as healthcare books, nursing dissertaions, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, and educational software. | Online Help |
| College Source | The complete catalogs of more than 2900 colleges and universities accredited by the US Department of Education. Customize search results by limiting to state, degrees offered, costs, enrollment, type of institution, and more. Updated three times a year. | Online Help | Contemporary Authors (GaleNet-TexShare) |
A biographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television and other fields. Provides complete biographical and bibliographical references for more than 90,000 authors in the U.S. and around the world. | Online Help |
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Contemporary Literary
Criticism (GaleNet-TexShare) |
"When you simultaneously search Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (CLC Select) and Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB), you'll find in-depth information on the lives and writings of nearly 100,000 authors along with critical reaction to their works. This series includes integrated indexes to both the DLB and CLC print series." | Online Help |
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| Dictionary of Literary Biography (GaleNet-TexShare) |
"Rich, insightful, engaging essays, from 3,000-5,000 words in length, profiling the lives and careers of authors from all eras and genres. Each entry contains a summary of popular and critical response to the author's works; each is written by a recognized scholar on the author covered." Entries provide Personal Data, Principal Works and Sources for Further Study. Quarterly updates are provided. | Online Help |
| DOE Energy Citations Database (Government) |
"The DOE ECD contains current and past bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information, including records from Nuclear Science Abstracts (NSA) and the Energy Science and Technology Database (EDB). The information is provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, its predecessor agencies (the Atomic Energy Commission and the Energy Research & Development Administration), its contractors, other government agencies, professional societies, and through international agreements. The time span of the bibliographic records is from 1948 – present, with continued growth through regular updates. DOE ECD includes bibliographic records of literature in disciplines of interest to DOE such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related disciplines. It includes citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents." | |
| DIScovering Science (GaleNet-TexShare) |
"With more than 13,500 entries, DISCovering® Science offers a broad look at the history, people, inventions, discoveries, theories, life forms and objects that make up the world of science. Researchers will use DISCovering® Science for instant access to 2,500 essays on scientific theories and discoveries; 1,000 periodical article abstracts covering the latest scientific developments; more than 1,000 biographies of important persons who have advanced science; 1,131 glossary terms; 275 frequently asked questions on scientific subjects and their answers; a hyperlinked timeline chronicling the unfolding history of science; multimedia features, including video and audio clips and animation; 2,000 photographs and 475 color and black-and-white line drawings; a 32-page teacher's guide; and much more." | Online Help |
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Education Full Text (Wilson OMNIFile) |
"Education Full Text, produced by The H.W. Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. English-language books relating to education published in 1995 or later are also indexed. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source documents. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996." | Online Help |
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Electric Library (Full-Text) (TexShare) |
"Comprehensive and easy-to-use online reference tool for researchers of all ages. Contains over 5 million full-text documents. Content is updated daily and includes an archive of up to 12 years. Covers six separate media types: newspapers and news wires, periodicals, TV & radio program transcripts, literature and reference book, photos, and maps. Contains content appropriate for K-12, public libraries and colleges. The full-text documents are labeled and can be sorted by reading level." | Online Help |
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Encyclopedia of Life Sciencs (Embryonic) (Grove Reference) |
"This site has been created for scientists, students, librarians and other professionals who wish to search and use ELS material prior to official publication of the full work in 2001. It provides a unique window through which to view and browse our working editorial database. Articles are added to the site on a regular basis." | Online Help |
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Encyclopaedia Britannica - Online |
"The world's best Web sites, plus magazines, books, and the complete Encyclopædia Britannica." Also Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. | Online Help |
| ERIC (OVID-TexShare) | "National education database sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI). Contains over 700,000 citations covering research documents, journal articles, technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular materials in the field of education. In addition to ERIC subject descriptors and extensive abstracts, citations include detailed source, geographic, institutional, and availability information." | Online Help |
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ERIC-Educational Research Databases (Government) |
From this excellent website, located at Kingwood College, you can connect directly to all ERIC online resources. | Online Help |
| Ethnic Newswatch (TexShare) | Information on news, culture and history from 200 publications of the ethnic, minority and native press. Complete articles dating back to 1995 are available with archival material dating back to 1985 [see below]. More than 7,500 new articles are added each month. The database is searchable in both English and Spanish, with titles in both languages. Ethnic NewsWatch provides in-depth coverage of a wide range of current and historical topics easily accessed using free text and fielded searching. | Online Help |
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General Science Full Text (Wilson OMNIFile) |
"General Science Full Text, produced by The H.W. Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain plus the full text of selected periodicals. Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals. General Science Full Text also covers The New York Times Science Section (published weekly on Tuesday). Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in March 1993. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full text coverage begins in January 1995." | Online Help |
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The Grove Dictionary of Art (Grove Reference) |
"The Grove Dictionary of Art contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts – painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography – from prehistory to the present day. Compiled over a period of 15 years, it represents the work of more than 6,800 scholars from around the world, each writing on his or her own specialist field of study." | Online Help |
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| Handbook of Texas | "The Handbook of Texas Online is a multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture. It comprises more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions, and a host of other topic categories. The scope is broad and inclusive, designed to provide readers with concise, authoritative, and accessible articles that provide factual, nonpartisan accounts on virtually every aspect of Texas history and culture." | Online Help |
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Health Reference Center (Infotrac-TexShare) |
"Articles from a variety of health periodicals, plus excerpts from health-related reference books. Material includes a medical dictionary; medical directories and reference books; consumer-oriented and professional health periodicals; and pamphlets issued by leading health organizations. The periodical material is augmented by specially selected health articles from general-interest, business and specialty publications." | Online Help |
| Houston Chronicle | Free access to current headlines, columns and classified. Archived articles available to Chronicle subscribers only. (Must Register for Access to Archives) |
Online Help |
| Humanities Full Text (Wilson OMNIFile) |
"Humanities Full Text, produced by The H.W. Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals, plus the full text of selected periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Full-text coverage begins in January 1995." | Online Help |
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Infotrac Newspapers (GaleNet-TexShare) |
"Article abstracts or references from five major newspapers: The New York Times (late and national editions); The Wall Street Journal (eastern and western editions); The Christian Science Monitor (national edition); The Washington Post (final edition); and The Los Angeles Times (home edition)." | Online Help |
| Internet Grateful Med (Government) |
"Provides an easy way to search the 11 million references and abstracts in the MEDLINE database. Use PubMed's retrieval engine to link to over 700 journals for full text of articles (some publishers may require a subscription) and provide pre-computed sets of relevant MEDLINE articles. Offers NLM's Medical Subject Headings for searching and uses Loansome Doc for document delivery services (there may be local charges)." | Online Help |
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| jake (Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment | A reference source which makes finding, managing, and linking online journals and journal articles easier for students, researchers, and librarians. jake does this by managing online resource metadata with a database union list, title authority control, and linking tools, as well as making it easy to add a local holdings layer. jake is free for anyone to use, modify, copy, or redistribute under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). | Online Help |
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| Literature Resource Center (GaleNet-TexShare) |
"Its resources cover more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with additional in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. New and updated material is added monthly. In addition to biographical, bibliographical and contextual information from the Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography databases, users can access full-text criticism from the Contemporary Literary Criticism Select database, as well as unique information not found in any other source." | Online Help |
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| MEDLINE (Government) |
"Provides an easy way to search the 11 million references and abstracts in the MEDLINE database. Use PubMed's retrieval engine to link to over 700 journals for full text of articles (some publishers may require a subscription) and provide pre-computed sets of relevant MEDLINE articles. Offers NLM's Medical Subject Headings for searching and uses Loansome Doc for document delivery services (there may be local charges)." | Online Help |
| MLA International Bibliography (OVID-TexShare) |
Indexes journal articles, books, dissertations, papers, and conference proceedings in the areas of modern languages, literature, and linguistics. Index Only. | Online Help |
| Morningstar | Provides current information on mutual funds. | Online Help |
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| National Criminal Justice Reference Center (Government) |
"The homepage of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS), an international clearinghouse of criminal justice information sponsored by NIJ and the other agencies of the Office of Justice Programs." | Online Help |
| NICEM (National Information Center for Educational Media) |
"NICEM.com is your gateway to the entire world of educational media, bringing you news, resources and other information specifically related to the use of nonprint media in an educational setting." | Online Help |
| netLibrary (Amigos) |
"netLibrary provides twenty-four-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week access to the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text eBooks from any location in the world. Visitors to our Web site can efficiently search thousands of titles simultaneously, finding multiple references for a subject or topic. Our software allows patrons to conduct full-text searches of every word in every eBook, borrow or check out eBooks online, and download eBooks to their computers." | Online Help |
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| Periodical Abstracts Full-Text (OVID-TexShare) |
General reference resource that contains indexing & abstracting to articles appearing in general & academic periodicals from 1986 to current, includes full-text for over 600 publications from 1994. | Online Help |
| PubList | Directory of magazines and journals currently in print. From Ulrich's. | Online Help |
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| Readers' Guide Full Text (Wilson OMNIFile) |
"Readers' Guide Full Text, produced by The H. W. Wilson Company, is a database containing comprehensive indexing and abstracting of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada, plus the full text of selected periodicals. The abstracts average 125 words in length. Two types of abstracts are included. Informative abstracts convey the content, scope, and complexity of the source article, and are the predominant form used. Indicative abstracts describe the subject of the source article and are reserved for how-to articles, humorous essays, personal accounts, and recipes. Full-text coverage begins in January 1994 for most titles." | Online Help |
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| Social Science Full-Text (Wilson OMNIFile) |
"Social Sciences Full Text, produced by The H. W. Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere plus the full text of selected periodicals. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals. Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in January 1994. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full text coverage begins in January 1995." | Online Help |
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| TexShare | Links to databases in a number of disciplines, including business, health, and education.(Online Help Only Access) Also links to Handbook of Texas, and statewide online library catalogs. | Online Help | Texas
Almanac (GaleNet-TexShare) |
"The Texas Almanac Online is an electronic version of the Texas Almanac 2000 - 2001. This database provides information seekers with valuable information about the history, culture, political climate, and geography of the state of Texas." | Online Help |
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Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated (Wilson OMNIFile) |
Indexes biographies in thousands of English-language periodicals & books, including autobiographies, critical studies, obituaries, & interviews. | Online Help |
| What Do I Read Next? (GaleNet-TexShare) |
This resource contains descriptions of more than 80,000 highly recommended adult, young adult and children's fiction titles from seven genres. It includes search options by title, author, subject, genre, locale and more. | Online Help |
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Wilson OMNIFile Select (Wilson OMNIFile) |
"Full Text Select Edition is a multidisciplinary, 100% full-text database providing full text articles, with their accompanying indexing and abstracts, from the following Wilson periodical databases: Art Full Text, Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature & Information Science Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, Wilson Business Full Text. Coverage begins in 1994." | Online Help |
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