Multidisciplinary Databases
DATABASES
- Academic Search Complete (Texshare)
Offers information in nearly every area of academic study including computer sciences,
engineering, physics, chemistry, language, linguistics, arts & literature, medical
sciences, ethnic studies, and more.
- ArticleFirst
Provides article citations from business, science, humanities, social science, medicine,
technology and popular culture journals.
- Biography Index Retrospective: 1946-1983
Covers notable individuals from antiquity through 1983, including writers, artists,
statesmen, politicians, religious leaders, scientists, educators, military leaders,
teachers, actors, business people, and more.
- Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1905-1982
Provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and
non-fiction from key English-language popular magazines, newspapers, and academic
journals from 1905-1982, with links to available full-text books on HathiTrust.
- Clase and Periódica (ClasePeriodica)
Indexes articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, reports and more from Latin American
and Caribbean journals. CLASE covers the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA
covers science and technology.
- CollegeSource Online
Provides college and university catalogs in cover-to-cover, original page format
for both U.S. and non-U.S. schools. This resource can be accessed concurrently by only three users at a time.
- CQ Researcher & Archive
Covers health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education,
the environment, technology, and the economy. Includes overview, tables & maps; opposing
positions, bibliographies and more.
- Credo Reference
Collection includes full text of general reference dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias,
quotation books and atlases, as well as subject-specific titles. Features images,
sound files, animations, and videos.
- Directory of Open Access Journals
Categorized, searchable links to free, full text, quality-controlled scientific and
scholarly journals.
- Encyclopedia Britannica
Contains articles, biographies, images and maps, as well as animations, videos, audio
files and selected Web links.
- Fuente Academica (Texshare)
Unique collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American and
Spanish publishers.
- Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia (Texshare)
Basic reference resource that covers a variety of subject areas.
- Handbook of Texas Online
Multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture.
- Internet Archive
Offers access to historical collections of texts that exist in digital format, as
well as some audio, moving images, and software.
- Legal Collection (Texshare)
Source for information on current issues, studies and trends of the legal world.
Covers criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, ethics,
the environment, and more.
- Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
See Nexis Uni
- MasterFILE Premier (Texshare)
Designed specifically for public libraries. Contains periodicals covering general
reference, business, health, education, science and more. Includes reference books,
primary source documents, images, maps & more.
- Nexis Uni (formerly Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe)
Provides news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications. Sources include
U.S. and international newspapers, federal and state case law, codes, company information,
and more.
- Oxford English Dictionary Online
Twenty-volume OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, with etymological
analysis, listings of variant spellings, and pronunciation.
- PapersFirst
Index of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Covers every published congress,
symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library
Document Supply Centre.
- PapersInvited
Multidisciplinary alerting service that provides publishing opportunities via conference
proceedings and special issues of journals.
- Pivot (formerly COS Scholar Universe and COS Funding Opportunities)
Provides information on global and local research, funding and collaboration opportunities
for faculty, staff researchers, and graduate students.
- ProceedingsFirst
Index of worldwide conference proceedings. Covers every published congress, symposium,
conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document
Supply Centre.
- Readers Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982
Online version of Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature provides indexing of wide
range of popular magazines and journals from 1890-1982.
- Sage Research Methods
Research methods tool for users in the social sciences, health sciences, and other
disciplines. Contains content from books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks and
more.
- Serials Directory (Texshare)
Provides access to up-to-date bibliographic information, pricing, e-mail and Internet
addresses for popular serials. Contains U.S. and international titles.
- TOPICsearch (Texshare)
Provides resources to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries
and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms.
- Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Source of information on scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed
titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more from around the world.