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General Topics & Current Events

Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile is a good 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, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive.
Academic Search Complete Database funded by TexShare
The world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
ArchiveGrid
ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world.
Article First
Describes one article, news story, letter, or other item from a journal in each record and includes items listed on the table of contents pages of journals.
A to Z Maps Online
The world's largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps.
Biography Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson)
Biography Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson) is the ultimate single biographical resource for library patrons of all ages and interests.
Book Review Digest Plus (H.W. Wilson)
Cites and excerpts reviews of current English-language fiction and nonfiction books for adults and children.
Clase and Periodica (use Spanish and/or Portuguese to search) Database funded by TexShare
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.
Consumer Health Complete Database funded by TexShare
Designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics, Consumer Health Complete™ (CHC) is the single most comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. Information provided in this database should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
Credo Reference
Offering more than 485 highly-regarded titles from over 70 publishers, Credo covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Database funded by TexShare
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) provides indexing, abstracting, and free full text access for over 1900 selected international scholarly journals in many subject areas.
Dissertations & Theses @ Sul Ross State University
Records for over 225 Sul Ross thesis going back to 1985. Over 100 have full text available to download.
EBSCO eBooks Database funded by TexShare
Representing a broad spectrum of subject categories, EBSCO eBooks (formerly netLibrary) has an extensive collection of titles.
Economia y Negocios Database funded by TexShare
Coverage for over 200 Spanish and Portuguese-language periodicals published in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, the United States, and elsewhere.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year
Encyclopedia of Associations
A comprehensive list of national organizations described briefly, with names, addresses, and telephone numbers.
Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science
The Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science is the first-ever single-source reference work to inclusively cover classic and modern studies in plant biology in conjunction with research, applications, and innovations in crop science.
Essay and General Literature (H.W. Wilson) Index
Access to nearly 65,000 essays contained in some 5,300 anthologies and collections. Coverage spans the entire range of the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, art history, drama, and film.
Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia Database funded by TexShare
Indexes over 25,000 records that cover an array of topics.
Global Road Warrior
Practical and comprehensive reference tool specifically designed for those engaged in international trade and business travel.
GPO Monthly Catalog Database funded by TexShare
Index to U.S. government publications, congressional committee reports, hearings, and debates.
Health Reference Center Academic Database funded by TexShare
Integrated collection of general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books and pamphlets.
Health Source: Consumer Edition Database funded by TexShare
Rich collection of consumer health information that provides access to more than 130 full text consumer health magazines.
HeritageQuest Database funded by TexShare
HeritageQuest Online provides research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Aimed at both beginning and professional genealogists, the database contains original page images for all documents.
HighWire Press
Large repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1173 journals and 4,828,177 full text articles from over 140 scholarly publishers.
Index to Texas Magazines and Documents
Specific to Texas, this database emphasizes business, education, history, and government.
Ingenta Connect
Commercial business database that offers services for journals in a variety of subject areas.
LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis' web-based research services provides comprehensive access to government, news, business and legal information.
Making of America
Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
MAS Ultra: School Edition Database funded by TexShare
This comprehensive database, designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for more than 700 popular high school magazines.
MasterFILE Premier Database funded by TexShare
Gain access to information on a broad range of topics including general interest, business, health and multi-cultural with MasterFILE Premier.
Military and Government Collection Database funded by TexShare
Full text to almost 300 military related periodicals and general interest magazines and indexing/abstracting for 400 publications.
Natural & Alternative Treatments Database funded by TexShare
A complementary and alternative medicine database designed specifically for the consumer-health researcher. Information provided in this database should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
New York Times 1980-
Comprehensive digital coverage back to 1980 is available for this internationally renowned U.S. newspaper.
New York Times index for 1851-1995
This indexing of the largest U.S. newspaper by keyword, author of article, and headline keyword covers September 1851 to December 1995.
Newspaper Source Database funded by TexShare
Newspaper Source™ provides cover-to-cover full text for 20 national (U.S.) & international newspapers and selected full text for more than 230 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
Newsstand Database funded by TexShare
Newsstand is an innovative full-text newspaper resource that allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section or other fields. Newsstand also provides access to more than 1,000 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world.
OAIster
OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources currently providing access to 20,279,707 records from 1092 contributors.
Readers' Guide Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson)
Access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from thousands of sources.
Papers First Database funded by TexShare
An OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.
PQDT Open
PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.
Proceedings First Database funded by TexShare
An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings.
PubMed Central
PubMed Central is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
Readers' Guide Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson)
Indexes and abstracts articles in popular magazines.
Readers' Guide Retrospective (H.W. Wilson)
Indexes and abstracts articles in popular magazines from 1663-1982.
Sage Journals Online
The SAGE Full-Text Collections are award-winning, discipline-specific research databases of the most popular peer-reviewed journals in Communication Studies, Criminology, Education, Health Sciences, Management & Organization Studies, Materials Science, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Urban Studies & Planning published by SAGE Publications and participating societies.
Sanborn Maps (Texas) Database funded by TexShare
Sul Ross, through TexShare, offers access to only the Texas maps of the Digital Sanborn maps collection. Sanborn maps are valuable historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods.
Serials Directory Database funded by TexShare
This database provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials.
Texas Reference Center Database funded by TexShare
Texas Reference Center is a Texas specific product comprised of periodicals, reference books, reports, and other content relevant to the state.
TOPICsearch Database funded by TexShare
This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms.
Vocational & Career Collection Database funded by TexShare
Vocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and public libraries and provides full text coverage for nearly 350 trade and industry related periodicals.
Wall Street Journal
Comprehensive coverage back to 1984 is available from the world's leading financial newspaper.
World Almanac Database funded by TexShare
Fundamental reference source for students, library patrons, library reference staff, and scholars alike that includes biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, statistics.
World History Collection Database funded by TexShare
World History Collection™ offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East.
WorldCat Database funded by TexShare
OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide.
WorldCat Dissertations Database funded by TexShare
This database provides fast and convenient access to the dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries.
WorldeBookLibrary: Academic Research Database of Portable Ebooks
Over 2 million fully downloadable ebooks. Most are in the public domain in the U.S. (i.e. published before 1923), but more recent material, especially government docs and Creative Commons licensed material is included. Sample collections include:

Agricultural & Natural Resource Sciences

Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile is a good 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, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive.
Academic Search Complete Database funded by TexShare
The world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
AGRICOLA Database funded by TexShare
AGRICultural OnLine Access is an online a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library (NAL). Coverage for AGRICOLA dates back to 1979 and includes more than 2.5 million citations.
Article First
Describes one article, news story, letter, or other item from a journal in each record and includes items listed on the table of contents pages of journals.
Bioline International
A not-for-profit electronic publishing service committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries With peer-reviewed journals from Brazil, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe with more to come.
Biological and Agricultural Index Plus (H.W. Wilson)
Indexes leading publications in agriculture, biology, forestry, and ecology.
BioOne
Internet-based collection of 80 electronic journals in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.
Credo Reference
Offering more than 485 highly-regarded titles from over 70 publishers, Credo covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Database funded by TexShare
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) provides indexing, abstracting, and free full text access for over 1900 selected international scholarly journals in many subject areas.
EBSCO eBooks Database funded by TexShare
Representing a broad spectrum of subject categories, EBSCO eBooks (formerly netLibrary) has an extensive collection of titles.
Environment Complete
More than 1,957,000 records from more than 1,700 domestic and international environmental titles going back to the 1940s, as well as more than 120 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 680 journals, including many of the most used journals in the discipline.
General Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Coverage of popular science magazines as well as professional journals.
GreenFILE
Research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond.
Grzimek's Animal Life
This dynamic, interactive resource provides unequaled coverage on more than 4,000 species, and includes more than 11,000 images, videos, illustrations, and maps.
HighWire Press
Large repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1173 journals and 4,828,177 full text articles from over 140 scholarly publishers.
Ingenta Connect
Commercial business database that offers services for journals in a variety of subject areas.
J-Stage (Japan Science & Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic) Freely Available Titles - English
J-Stage is an open-source database created to dissiminate Japan's science and technology research at an international level.
MEDLINE with MeSH Database funded by TexShare
Research authoritative medical information from such fields as medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more with MEDLINE®.
OAIster
OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources currently providing access to 20,279,707 records from 1092 contributors.
Readers' Guide Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson)
Access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from thousands of sources.
Sage Journals Online
The SAGE Full-Text Collections are award-winning, discipline-specific research databases of the most popular peer-reviewed journals in Communication Studies, Criminology, Education, Health Sciences, Management & Organization Studies, Materials Science, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Urban Studies & Planning published by SAGE Publications and participating societies.
SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library
Especially conceived to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countries, particularly Latin America and the Caribbean countries, it provides an efficient way to assure universal visibility and accessibility to their scientific literature, contributing to overcome the phenomena known as 'lost science'. Many articles are in Spanish or Portuguese, but there are also many in English.
Science & Technology Collection Database funded by TexShare
Science & Technology Collection contains over 800 leading full text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community.
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is a Web database for scientific research that contains the abstracts to articles in more than 1,100 Elsevier Science journals and over 1 million articles in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.
Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide
Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide is the world’s largest index to literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
WorldCat Database funded by TexShare
OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide.

Arts & Sciences: Fine Arts, Communication, Languages, & Literature

Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile is a good 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, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive.
Academic Search Complete Database funded by TexShare
The world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
ArchiveGrid
ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world.
Archive of African Journals
To expand free, online access to journals published in Africa, the African e-Journals Project has digitized full text of articles of eleven social science and humanities journals and made them available through this open access project.
Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications—now with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. In addition to articles, Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson) indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
Article First
Describes one article, news story, letter, or other item from a journal in each record and includes items listed on the table of contents pages of journals.
CAMIO
CAMIO is OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online and is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
Communication & Mass Media Complete provides quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.
Credo Reference
Offering more than 485 highly-regarded titles from over 70 publishers, Credo covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Database funded by TexShare
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) provides indexing, abstracting, and free full text access for over 1900 selected international scholarly journals in many subject areas.
Directory of Periodicals from Modern Language Association (MLA)
The MLA Directory of Periodicals contains all information available on the journals and series on the bibliography's Master List of Periodicals.
EBSCO eBooks Database funded by TexShare
Representing a broad spectrum of subject categories, EBSCO eBooks (formerly netLibrary) has an extensive collection of titles.
Fuente Academica Database funded by TexShare
Fuente Academica™ provides PDF full text for 260 scholarly publications covering areas of academic study in Spanish from respected publishers worldwide.
Grove Music Online
The leading online resource for music research, Grove Music Online offers the full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition (2002), as well as numerous subsequent updates and emendations. Subscriptions to Grove Music Online also include access to The Oxford Companion to Music (2002) and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd edition (revised 2006)
HighWire Press
Large repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1173 journals and 4,828,177 full text articles from over 140 scholarly publishers.
Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Provides references to articles covering diverse subject areas of the humanities.
Ingenta Connect
Commercial business database that offers services for journals in a variety of subject areas.
Literature Criticism Online
Literature Criticism Online provides students and researchers with a single place to research and access a vast collection of literary criticism that represents a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras, and genres. The following titles are included in LCO:
  • Children's Literature Review (CLR)
  • Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (CMLC)
  • Drama Criticism (DC)
  • Literature Criticism 1400-1800 (LC)
  • Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism (NCLC)
  • Poetry Criticism (PC)
  • Shakespearean Criticism (SC)
  • Short Story Criticism (SSC)
  • Twentieth Century Literature Criticism (TCLC)
Literature Resource Center Database funded by TexShare
Literature Resource Center is your most current, comprehensive, and reliable online resource for research on literary topics, authors, and their works. Its coverage includes all genres and disciplines, all time periods, and all regions of the world and includes the following titles:
Making of America
Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
MLA International Bibliography
Dating back to 1926, the electronic version of MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations in the areas of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included.
OAIster
OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources currently providing access to 20,279,707 records from 1092 contributors.
Sage Journals Online
The SAGE Full-Text Collections are award-winning, discipline-specific research databases of the most popular peer-reviewed journals in Communication Studies, Criminology, Education, Health Sciences, Management & Organization Studies, Materials Science, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Urban Studies & Planning published by SAGE Publications and participating societies.
Readers' Guide Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson)
Access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from thousands of sources.
Something About the Author
Something About the Author Online examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators for children and young adults and is the preeminent source on authors and literature for young people.
Twentieth Century American Poetry Database funded by TexShare
Twentieth Century American Poetry is a collection of poetry written by the country's most important and influential poets of the 20th century.
Twentieth Century English Poetry Database funded by TexShare
Twentieth-Century English Poetry contains the poetry of over 285 English poets from 1900 to the present day.
WorldCat Database funded by TexShare
OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide.
WorldeBookLibrary: Academic Research Database of Portable Ebooks
Over 2 million fully downloadable ebooks. Most are in the public domain in the U.S. (i.e. published before 1923), but more recent material, especially government docs and Creative Commons licensed material is included. Sample collections include:
  • Children's Literature Collection(1,058 Books)
  • Fine Arts Collection (74,640 Books)
  • Literature (156,077 Books)
  • Poetry Collection (1,271 Books with over 8,000 English poems from the last 500 years)

    • Arts & Sciences: Behavioral & Social Sciences

    Academic OneFile
    Academic OneFile is a good 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, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive.
    Academic Search Complete Database funded by TexShare
    The world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
    ArchiveGrid
    ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world.
    Archive of African Journals
    To expand free, online access to journals published in Africa, the African e-Journals Project has digitized full text of articles of eleven social science and humanities journals and made them available through this open access project.
    Article First
    Describes one article, news story, letter, or other item from a journal in each record and includes items listed on the table of contents pages of journals.
    A to Z Maps Online
    The world's largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps.
    Bibliography of Native North Americans Database funded by TexShare
    Bibliography of Native North Americans™ (BNNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life and covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy.
    Credo Reference
    Offering more than 485 highly-regarded titles from over 70 publishers, Credo covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference.
    Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Database funded by TexShare
    The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) provides indexing, abstracting, and free full text access for over 1900 selected international scholarly journals in many subject areas.
    EBSCO eBooks Database funded by TexShare
    Representing a broad spectrum of subject categories, EBSCO eBooks (formerly netLibrary) has an extensive collection of titles.
    ERIC
    ERIC is the world's largest source of education information, with more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice.
    HeritageQuest Database funded by TexShare
    HeritageQuest Online provides research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Aimed at both beginning and professional genealogists, the database contains original page images for all documents.
    HighWire Press
    Large repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1173 journals and 4,828,177 full text articles from over 140 scholarly publishers.
    Ingenta Connect
    Commercial business database that offers services for journals in a variety of subject areas.
    LexisNexis Academic
    LexisNexis' web-based research services provides comprehensive access to government, news, business and legal information.
    Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts Database funded by TexShare
    This database covers librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry, scholarly communication, and electronic publishing.
    Library Literature and Information Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
    Index to articles and books on libraries, librarianship, and information science.
    Making of America
    Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
    OAIster
    OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources currently providing access to 20,279,707 records from 1092 contributors.
    Readers' Guide Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson)
    Access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from thousands of sources.
    Political Science Complete
    Providing indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,100 titles — as well as full text for over 480 journals — Political Science Complete offers users a worldwide focus, reflecting the globalization of contemporary political discourse.
    Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
    Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection™ is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.
    PsycINFO 1887
    PsycINFO (coverage from 1840 - Present) contains over two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, all in the field of psychology, dating as far back as 1840.
    Religion & Philosophy Collection Database funded by TexShare
    The Religion & Philosophy Collection is a comprehensive database covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
    Sage Journals Online
    The SAGE Full-Text Collections are award-winning, discipline-specific research databases of the most popular peer-reviewed journals in Communication Studies, Criminology, Education, Health Sciences, Management & Organization Studies, Materials Science, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Urban Studies & Planning published by SAGE Publications and participating societies.
    Social Sciences Full Text
    Covers the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.
    WorldCat Database funded by TexShare
    OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide.
    WorldeBookLibrary: Academic Research Database of Portable Ebooks
    Over 2 million fully downloadable ebooks. Most are in the public domain in the U.S. (i.e. published before 1923), but more recent material, especially government docs and Creative Commons licensed material is included. Sample collections include:
  • Psychology Collection (13,120 Books)
  • Sociology Collection (167,747 Books)
    • World History Collection Database funded by TexShare
    World History Collection™ offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East.

    Arts & Sciences: Biology, Computer Science & Mathematics, and Earth & Physical Sciences

    Academic OneFile
    Academic OneFile is a good 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, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive.
    Academic Search Complete Database funded by TexShare
    The world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
    AccessScience
    Collection of searchable science reference materials online with access to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, research updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, and more.
    AGRICOLA Database funded by TexShare
    AGRICultural OnLine Access is an online a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library (NAL). Coverage for AGRICOLA dates back to 1979 and includes more than 2.5 million citations.
    Alt Health Watch Database funded by TexShare
    This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness and provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. Information provided in this database should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
    Applied Science and Technology Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
    Provides information on management, careers and employment, and financial trends in the scientific and technological fields.
    Article First
    Describes one article, news story, letter, or other item from a journal in each record and includes items listed on the table of contents pages of journals.
    Bioline International
    A not-for-profit electronic publishing service committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries With peer-reviewed journals from Brazil, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe with more to come.
    Biological and Agricultural Index Plus (H.W. Wilson)
    Indexes leading publications in agriculture, biology, forestry, and ecology.
    BioOne
    Internet-based collection of 80 electronic journals in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.
    Computer Source Database funded by TexShare
    This database contains nearly 300 full text journals and magazines covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software.
    Credo Reference
    Offering more than 485 highly-regarded titles from over 70 publishers, Credo covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference.
    Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Database funded by TexShare
    The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) provides indexing, abstracting, and free full text access for over 1900 selected international scholarly journals in many subject areas.
    EBSCO eBooks Database funded by TexShare
    Representing a broad spectrum of subject categories, EBSCO eBooks (formerly netLibrary) has an extensive collection of titles.
    Endocrinology
    Electronic access to one of the most authoritative biomedical research journals in the world.
    Environment Complete
    More than 1,957,000 records from more than 1,700 domestic and international environmental titles going back to the 1940s, as well as more than 120 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 680 journals, including many of the most used journals in the discipline.
    General Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
    Coverage of popular science magazines as well as professional journals.
    GeoRef with GeoScienceWorld Articles
    Comprehensive geoscience database containing over 2.2 million bibliographic records covering subjects such as mineralogy and crystallography, general mineralogy, mineralogy of silicates, and mineralogy of non-silicates.
    GreenFILE
    Research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond.
    Grzimek's Animal Life
    This dynamic, interactive resource provides unequaled coverage on more than 4,000 species, and includes more than 11,000 images, videos, illustrations, and maps.
    HighWire Press
    Large repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1173 journals and 4,828,177 full text articles from over 140 scholarly publishers.
    Information Science & Technology Abstracts Database funded by TexShare
    One of the leading database in the areas of information science.
    Ingenta Connect
    Commercial business database that offers services for journals in a variety of subject areas.
    Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts Database funded by TexShare
    Abstracts and indexing for literature related to personal computing products and developments in business, the Internet, the home, and all other applied areas.
    Internet Scientific Publications
    Internet Scientific Publications bills itself as "One of the World's Largest Medical Online Publishers." This open access databases includes 81 titles as of August 2008.
    J-Stage (Japan Science & Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic) Freely Available Titles - English
    J-Stage is an open-source database created to dissiminate Japan's science and technology research at an international level.
    OAIster
    OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources currently providing access to 20,279,707 records from 1092 contributors.
    Readers' Guide Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson)
    Access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from thousands of sources.
    Sage Journals Online
    The SAGE Full-Text Collections are award-winning, discipline-specific research databases of the most popular peer-reviewed journals in Communication Studies, Criminology, Education, Health Sciences, Management & Organization Studies, Materials Science, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Urban Studies & Planning published by SAGE Publications and participating societies.
    Sanborn Maps (Texas) Database funded by TexShare
    Sul Ross, through TexShare, offers access to only the Texas maps of the Digital Sanborn maps collection. Sanborn maps are valuable historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods.
    Science & Technology Collection Database funded by TexShare
    Science & Technology Collection contains over 800 leading full text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community.
    ScienceDirect
    ScienceDirect is a Web database for scientific research that contains the abstracts to articles in more than 1,100 Elsevier Science journals and over 1 million articles in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.
    SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library
    Especially conceived to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countries, particularly Latin America and the Caribbean countries, it provides an efficient way to assure universal visibility and accessibility to their scientific literature, contributing to overcome the phenomena known as 'lost science'. Many articles are in Spanish or Portuguese, but there are also many in English.
    Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide
    Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide is the world’s largest index to literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
    WorldCat Database funded by TexShare
    OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide.
    WorldeBookLibrary: Academic Research Database of Portable Ebooks
    Over 2 million fully downloadable ebooks. Most are in the public domain in the U.S. (i.e. published before 1923), but more recent material, especially government docs and Creative Commons licensed material is included. Sample collections include:
  • Astronomy Collection (8,822 Books)
  • Biology Collection (30,423 Books)
  • Chemistry Collection (34,463 Books)
  • Math Collection (19,968 Books)
  • Political Science Collection (278,763 Books)
  • Psychology Collection (13,120 Books)

    • Professional Studies: Business Administration, Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement, Education, Physical Education, Industrial Technology, and Vocational Nursing

    Academic OneFile
    Academic OneFile is a good 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, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive.
    Academic Search Complete Database funded by TexShare
    The world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
    Alt Health Watch Database funded by TexShare
    This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness and provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine. Information provided in this database should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
    Article First
    Describes one article, news story, letter, or other item from a journal in each record and includes items listed on the table of contents pages of journals.
    Bioline International
    A not-for-profit electronic publishing service committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries With peer-reviewed journals from Brazil, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe with more to come.
    Business Abstracts with Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
    Fast, convenient access to a multitude of outstanding sources—from The New York Times Business Section and The Wall Street Journal to magazines and scholarly journals.
    Business Source Complete Database funded by TexShare
    The world's definitive scholarly business database, Business Source Complete provides the ultimate collection of active, peer-reviewed, business-related journals.
    Consumer Health Complete Database funded by TexShare
    Designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics, Consumer Health Complete™ (CHC) is the single most comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. Information provided in this database should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
    Credo Reference
    Offering more than 485 highly-regarded titles from over 70 publishers, Credo covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference.
    Criminal Justice Abstracts
    Criminal Justice Abstracts contains hundreds of in-depth abstracts of current books, book chapters, journal articles, government reports, and dissertations published worldwide.
    Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Database funded by TexShare
    The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) provides indexing, abstracting, and free full text access for over 1900 selected international scholarly journals in many subject areas.
    EBSCO eBooks Database funded by TexShare
    Representing a broad spectrum of subject categories, EBSCO eBooks (formerly netLibrary) has an extensive collection of titles.
    Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
    Comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Full text of articles, with indexing cover to cover, from hundreds of journals, make this a one-stop source for research. Coverage includes about 79 journals (37 with full text) not covered by ERIC’s CIJE.
    Emerald Management e-Journals 120
    Electronic journals from the world’s leading publisher of business and management research journals.
    Encyclopedia of Associations
    A comprehensive list of national organizations described briefly, with names, addresses, and telephone numbers.
    ERIC
    ERIC is the world's largest source of education information, with more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice.
    Global Road Warrior
    Practical and comprehensive reference tool specifically designed for those engaged in international trade and business travel.
    Health Reference Center Academic Database funded by TexShare
    Integrated collection of general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books and pamphlets.
    Health Source: Consumer Edition Database funded by TexShare
    Rich collection of consumer health information that provides access to more than 130 full text consumer health magazines.
    Health Source Nursing: Academic Edition Database funded by TexShare
    This resource provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
    HighWire Press
    Large repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1173 journals and 4,828,177 full text articles from over 140 scholarly publishers.
    Ingenta Connect
    Commercial business database that offers services for journals in a variety of subject areas.
    Internet Scientific Publications
    Internet Scientific Publications bills itself as "One of the World's Largest Medical Online Publishers." This open access databases includes 81 titles as of August 2008.
    Legal Collection Database funded by TexShare
    Containing full text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected scholarly law journals, this database is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world..
    Legal Collection Database funded by TexShare
    Containing full text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected scholarly law journals, this database is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.
    LexisNexis Academic
    LexisNexis' web-based research services provides comprehensive access to government, news, business and legal information.
    Making of America
    Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
    MAS Ultra: School Edition Database funded by TexShare
    This comprehensive database, designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for more than 700 popular high school magazines.
    MedicLatina
    Unique collection of medical research and investigatory journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers in Spanish.
    MEDLINE with MeSH Database funded by TexShare
    Research authoritative medical information from such fields as medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more with MEDLINE®.
    Mental Measurements Handbook and Tests in Print
    Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook™ (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language.
    Middle Search Plus Database funded by TexShare
    Middle Search Plus contains full text for nearly 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies, historical essays and student pamphlets.
    Natural & Alternative Treatments Database funded by TexShare
    A complementary and alternative medicine database designed specifically for the consumer-health researcher. Information provided in this database should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
    OAIster
    OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources currently providing access to 20,279,707 records from 1092 contributors.
    Readers' Guide Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson)
    Access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from thousands of sources.
    Physical Education Index
    These abstracts feature a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology. Health education and physical therapy are also covered.
    Primary Search Database funded by TexShare
    Designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children's rooms, contains full text for nearly 70 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines. Full text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets.
    Professional Educational Development Collection Database funded by TexShare
    Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals and includes more than 350 peer-reviewed titles.
    PubMed Central
    PubMed Central is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
    Regional Business News Database funded by TexShare
    Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications.
    Sage Journals Online
    The SAGE Full-Text Collections are award-winning, discipline-specific research databases of the most popular peer-reviewed journals in Communication Studies, Criminology, Education, Health Sciences, Management & Organization Studies, Materials Science, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Urban Studies & Planning published by SAGE Publications and participating societies.
    Salud en Español Database funded by TexShare
    Salud en Español 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.
    Teacher Reference Center
    This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.
    Wall Street Journal
    Comprehensive coverage back to 1984 is available from the world's leading financial newspaper.
    WorldCat Database funded by TexShare
    OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide.
    WorldeBookLibrary: Academic Research Database of Portable Ebooks
    Over 2 million fully downloadable ebooks. Most are in the public domain in the U.S. (i.e. published before 1923), but more recent material, especially government docs and Creative Commons licensed material is included. Sample collections include:
  • Economy Collection (110,381 Books)
  • Education Collection (3,311 Books)
  • Management Collection (53,845 Books)