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Academic Search Complete has citations and full text articles from peer-reviewed journals in social sciences, humanities, music, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, etc.

Access: The Supplementary Index to Periodicals is part of the John Gordon Burke Publisher, Inc. Research Center. It covers local, regional, and national magazines (typically not scholarly journals) that are not indexed in the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. Use utpa for the User Name and DQPTIHU for the Password.

ACLS Humanities E-Book (formerly History E-Book) from ACLS provides electronic books in history "that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, are frequently cited in the literature, and are currently not widely available."

ACM: Association for Computing Machinery includes magazines and journal articles, conference proceedings, etc. Only the journal articles are available in full text; click on Digital Library to search for them.

ACP Medicine "bring[s] to its subscribers the assurance of authoritative, evidence-based recommendations presented in readily accessible formats, with the ultimate goal of strengthening medical decision-making for the practicing physician."

Adherents.com "is a growing collection of over 41,000 adherent statistics and religious geography citations -- references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc."

AGRICOLA (from EBSCO) "contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage for AGRICOLA dates back to 1970 and includes more than 2.5 million citations."

AGRICOLA is the National Agricultural Library's online catalog and "encompasses all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences."

Alcohol Studies Database "contains over 80,000 citations for journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and audio-visual materials."

Alternative Health Watch "provides full text for 180 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals...[with] in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990."

allmusic lets you search by genre, country, instrument, mood, theme, and more.

Alternative Press Index provides citations to hundreds of periodicals presenting alternative views on political, social, economic, and cultural issues.

America: History and Life "is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present."

American Chemical Society provides full image articles from dozens of chemistry journals. Click on search the journals to search for articles.

American FactFinder has information from the United States 2000 census.

American Film Scripts Online contains hundreds of scripts by hundreds of writers "together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. When complete, the collection will include more than 1,000 scripts and over 100,000 scenes of life as portrayed in the movies."

American Memory from the Library of Congress "provides free and open access ... to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience."

American Occupational Therapy Association has bibliographic information on occupational therapy and related disciplines. Click on OT Search to start your search.

American Periodicals Series Online "contains digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741, when Andrew Bradford's American Magazine and Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine were launched, and 1900" as well as materials from the Twentieth Century. This link takes you to Criminal Justice Periodicals Index, from which you click on APSOnline.

Annual Reviews has citations and abstracts for biomedical, physical, and social sciences.

Anthropological Index to Current Periodicals in The Anthropology Library at the British Museum (incorporating the former Royal Anthropological Institute library)

AnthroSource provides abstracts to over thirty publications of the American Anthropological Association, and complete articles to members of the AAA.

Applied Science and Technology Full Text provides citations, abstracts, and some full text/full image from over 500 engineering, technology, and applied science publications.

National Archeological Database Reports module, "is an expanded bibliographic inventory of ... reports on archeological investigation and planning, mostly of limited circulation."

Art Full Text provides citations and abstracts on the arts, architecture, design, cinema, etc., from magazines published around the world. It also includes full text/full image articles.

arXiv.org archives preprints in physics, computer science, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, and quantitative biology.

Astrophysics Data System from NASA includes abstracts (and some full text) on astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, physics and geophysics, and Los Alamos preprints.

Bibliography of Native North Americans "is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy... Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present."

Biography and Genealogy Master Index "indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world....[to] enable you to quickly determine which publication to consult for biographical information."

Biography.com from A&E

Biological Abstracts covers international journals in the life sciences from 1980 to the present.

BioMed Central "is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to... biomedical research" it publishes online.

Books in print.com provides title, author, ISBN number and publisher information for millions of books.

Business Full Text provides citations and abstracts to hundreds of business periodicals. It also includes full text/full image articles.

Business and Company Resource Center "displays company profiles, including parent/sibling relationships, industry rankings, products and brands, current investment ratings, and financial ratios and much more" for over 300,000 companies.

Business Knowledge Research from The Conference Board has full-text research reports on the latest issues in business management and US and global economics.

Business Source Complete "is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the ultimate collection of bibliographic and full text content...[with] indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886 ...[and] searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals," plus company profiles from Datamonitor.

Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities provides contact information, publication guidelines, and other information to help professors and students get their manuscripts published. Click on Members to use Cabell's.

CCH Tax Service Click on Enter to begin searching tax cases, Treasury regulations, and more.

CHARTing Health Information for Texas provides "a comprehensive collection of links to publicly available, geographically discrete health data for the state of Texas." Its web links include causes of death, maternal and child health, economic, social, and other demographic factors, and much more.

ChemFinder.Com includes chemical structures, physical properties, hyperlinks to more information, and links toother databases.

ChemWeb.Com "the largest online chemical community in the world ... combines a huge range of information for those in research chemistry, the chemicals industries and related disciplines."

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) "is an acquisition, research, and reference service that offers more than 1,200,000 MARC records and more than 300,000 reviews of children's books--all full text searchable from 33 review sources."

CIA World Factbook is updated regularly throughout the year.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text indexes over 3000 nursing, allied health, and related journals, including full text for over 330 journals, as far back as 1937.

CIS Congressional Universe has comprehensive information about members of Congress, legislation, laws, bills, and Congressional testimony, public policy issues, the U.S. Code, CFR, and Congressional Record, etc.

CiteSeer is a "scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science."

Classical Music Library "the world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries ... ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera" and includes over 50,000 recordings from over 1800 composers by thousands of ensembles and artists.

Cochrane Collaboration includes abstracts of articles on evidence-based medicine.

The Cochrane Library " is a unique source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care...The Cochrane Library is designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care."

College Catalogs Online provides college catalogs to over 15,000 colleges in the United States and abroad. This resource is available only from Library computers.

Collins English Dictionary includes multilingual translation dictionaries for to Spanish, French, Italian, and German

ComAbstracts (from CIOS) contains "article abstracts, books, bibliographic records, and other sources of relevance to researchers, scholars, and students interested in fields related to human communication studies."

ComDisDome (Communication Sciences and Disorders Dome) indexes and abstracts journal articles, books, dissertations, grants, and other web sites dealing with speech-language pathology and audiology.

Commerce Business Daily (CBDNet) "is the Government's official FREE electronic version of the Commerce Business Daily (CBD)."

Communication and Mass Media Complete, a merger of Mass Media Articles Index and CommSearch, "provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media."

Computer Source provides the "latest information on trends in high technology ...with abstracts and indexing for over 150 titles."

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

ConsumerSearch "is a Web-based publishing company that helps consumers find answers about what products are top-rated or best bets in their class."

CQ Researcher "offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy."

Criminal Justice Abstracts "provides comprehensive coverage of the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, extensive coverage of books, and unparalleled access to reports from government and nongovernmental agencies."

Criminal Justice Periodicals Index provides citations/abstracts from around 200 journals, with full text/full image articles from more than one fourth of them.

Current Research @ provides complete theses and dissertations (from Dissertations Abstracts) written by UTPA students since 1996.

Dissertations and Theses (Dissertation Abstracts) "is the single, authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses... from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities." Make sure only ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - A&I is checked off to search just Digital Dissertations.

Digital National Security Archive has "the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to US foreign and military policy since 1945."

DISCovering Science provides comprehensive coverage to a number of scientific disciplines, but not at an advanced level.

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) "covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals."

Early Encounters in North America contains "over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters."

Early English Books Online includes full image works from 15th, 16th, and 17th century English literature. It includes lesser known works, as well as the classics, along with "prayer books, pamphlets, and proclamations; almanacs, calendars, and many other primary sources."

EBSCOhost provides access to dozens of databases, in many different disciplines, and at different academic levels.

EBSCO en Espanol provides directions to many different databases in Spanish.

EBSCOhost Text Only offers the same great EBSCO databases, but without images, JavaScript, frames, or cookies.

Econlit "the American Economic Association's electronic database, is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature." It contains over 700,000 records, with some links to full text.

Economia y Negocios "is the result of a collaborative effort between EBSCO Publishing and ESAN (Escuela de Administraci󮠤e Negocios para Graduados). This continuously updated bibliographic database is an indispensable tool for research conducted in the areas of business and economics."

Education Full Text indexes and abstracts periodicals and books dealing with all aspects of education. It also includes full text/full image articles.

The Educator's Reference Desk provides "access [to] AskERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses."

EEVL Xtra cross-searches 20 databases, including content from over 50 publishers, to find articles, books, technical reports and data, eprints, the latest research, industry news, job announcements and quality websites, etc, in engineering, mathematics and computing. It includes some full text articles.

Ei Engineering Village includes Compendex Web and a variety of other engineering sources/information.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online has "the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century [including] full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages." Some of the subjects covered are history, science, philosophy, literature, the arts, and law.

eLibrary includes foreign language press, radio and tv transcripts, images and videos, full text articles, and more.

eMedicine "is the largest and most current clinical knowledge base available to physicians and health professionals."

Emerald provides full text articles from hundreds of journals in the fields of criminal justice, economics, education, engineering, healthcare, librarianship, management, marketing, and more.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online, the world's most comprehensive reference product, includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year.

Encyclopedia of Animals, for our future students, "provides students with thousands of easy-to-read entries about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals."

Encyclopedia of Music in Canada "aims to describe Canada's musical heritage and culture in all its breadth and depth: the past and present manifestations of popular, folk, religious, concert, and other forms of music, as well as the educational, critical, administrative, and commercial aspects of music in Canada."

Energy Citations Database "contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)."

English Spanish Dictionary (WordReference.com) from Harper Collins also has a Diccionario Ingles Espanol.

ERIC (from EBSCO) "contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals."

ERIC (from CSA) "contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals."

ERIC "sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world's premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. "

Essay and General Literature Index "is a bibliographic database that cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada." The index "focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film."

Financial Times allows you to "search and read over 8.5 million articles from 3,000 periodicals worldwide, most of them for free."

Fuente Academica "is a unique collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers...[which] offers full text content to many academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology."

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

Gale databases have information on literature, biography, science, and Texas.

Gale Virtual Reference Library includes subject encyclopedias and other reference books on the arts, business, education, biological and physical sciences, history and other social sciences, medicine, and other subjects.

The Gerritsen Collection: Women's Online History, 1543--1945, is "the greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world, with materials spanning four centuries and fifteen languages...[with] two million page images exactly as they appeared in the original printed works."

GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides the official, published version of important information produced by all branches and agencies the Federal Government.

GreenFile: This new database covers alternative fuel sources, energy conservation, global warming, natural resources, pollution, recycling, and beyond. Anyone with an interest in environmental issues and who needs resource material regarding these subjects will find this database to be an invaluable tool.

Grove Music Online "comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ... The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ... and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz ... Grove Music Online continues to grow with both newly commissioned material and more articles from other Grove dictionaries."

The Handbook of Texas "is a multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association and the General Libraries at UT Austin."

HAPI Hispanic American Periodical Index (HAPI) "is your source for over 265,000 journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States."

HarpWeek "consists of the pages of Harper's Weekly, scanned as images", from 1857 to 1893, with searchable full text to 1912.

HCI Bibliography "provides a bibliographic database [of over 20,000 records] on Human-Computer Interaction."

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) "provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/manuals ... vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science."

Health and Wellness Resource Center searches "2,200 general interest health publications, over 400 health and medical journals," and several other health reference sources.

Infotrac Health Reference Center-Academic has a wide range of articles on health and medicine, many of which are full-text.

Health Source - Consumer Edition provides "information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health;... features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals,...[and] is updated on a daily basis.

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

HeritageQuest Online, which "provides libraries a unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture," includes complete U.S. federal Census, 1790--1930, obituaries, Freedman's Savings & Trust Company bank records, records on veterans of the American Revolution, and more.

HighWire Press "is one of the two largest archives of free full-text science on Earth ... assisting in the online publication of ...[hundreds of thousands of] free full-text articles."

Historical Abstracts is a "complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life)."

Humanities Full Text cites articles from scholarly journals and specialized magazines in the humanities, including archaeology, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, social criticism, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology. It also includes full text/full image articles.

Humanities International Index "provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals . . . [including] a multitude of international journals, [plus] books and reference works. . . as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations."

Hoover's Online is a free subset of Hoover's business information.

ICPSR (the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) "established in 1962, is an integral part of the infrastructure of social science research. [It] maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction...ICPSR does not provide publications, reports, or ready-made statistics,... [but instead supplies] the numeric raw data used to create publications, reports, and figures."

IEEE/IEE Electronic Library Online has nearly a third of the world's current literature in electrical engineering, electronics, and computer science, including full text database of journals, conference proceedings and standards in the field.

IIMP, the International Index to Music Periodicals, "covers nearly all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes."

In the First Person "lets users perform in-depth field and keyword searches across all letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials that are freely available on the Web and Alexander Street databases." If full text is not available, information about the archive where documents are stored is provided.

INFOMINE "is a virtual library of Internet resources... [which] contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information."

Information Science & Technology Abstracts (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."

IngentaConnect has millions of citations and abstracts from more than 28,000 journals.

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...[from] over 400 of the most important trade publications, mainstream computer magazines, and professional journals."

International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center (ISCTRC) provides a comprehensive Open Source Intelligence Resource, consisting of hundreds of full text journals and periodicals, hundreds of thousands of selected articles, news feeds, reports, summaries, books, blogs, FAQs, and proprietary Background Information Summaries that pertain to terrorism and security.

IOP, the Institute of Physics, offers full text physics magazines, full image articles from dozens of journals, and other physics information.

iSafetyNet.US, the "Health and Human Services Web Navigator...provides customized...cybrarian services for individuals and organizations."

Journal Citation Reports (JCR): Science Edition is the leading authority for evaluating the impact of cited references in science and indexes over 5900 international science journals.

Journal Citation Reports (JCR): Social Sciences Edition is the leading authority for evaluating the impact of cited journals in social sciences and indexes over 1700 social science journals.

Journals@Ovid provides citations, abstracts, and references to articles from nursing and other medical journals, and some full text.

JSTOR is a full image database of back issues of scholarly journals in African American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, botany, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics.

Latin American Women Writers brings together "the most important writers from 19 countries, as well as the works of the principal feminists, in one single collection [including] ... literary works, memoirs, feminist essays, and other materials" from the colonial period to the present."

LearningExpressLibrary "provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass." Use it to prepare for a GED or EMT exam, the GREs, MCATs, ACTs, or just about any other test. First time users must create their own Username and Password.

Legal Collection "contains full text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals."

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe has "full text company news & financial information...full text federal, state & international legal materials...full text & abstracted medical & health information...general reference sources" and national and international news.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts "is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science, [and covers such fields as] librarianship, 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 "indexes articles and book reviews of key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere...Books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed." It also includes full text/full image articles.

The Library of Congress includes documents and recordings from American history and culture, including digitized collections from around the world, legislative and other governmental information, and much more.

Library of Texas searches catalogs of dozens of public and academic libraries, and dozens of commercial databases, all at the same time.

Literary databases (Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography) have " in-depth information on the lives and writings of nearly 100,000 authors along with critical reaction to their works."

Literature Resource Center is an "all-inclusive [Gale/InfoTrac] database [that] contains information on both classical and contemporary authors and their works."

Marcive Web DOCS provides a list of documents published by the United States government. After you conduct your search, click on the link to the item you want to get more information and the call number. Then click on the Holdings button to find out which libraries, including UTPA, own that item.

MasterFILE Premier "offers information on a broad variety of subjects, including ... searchable full text for over 1,820 journals ... searchable full text for nearly 5,000 Magill's Book Reviews ... over 1.7 million company records from Dun & Bradstreet, and much more."

MAS Ultra: School Edition "covers general reference, business, consumer health, general health, general science and multi-cultural titles," and includes over 700 full text or full image periodicals, plus reference books, primary source documents, and much more.

MathSciNet "is the searchable Web database providing access to ... Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications, ... produced by the American Mathematical Society." The latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader (4.x) should be used for this product.

MedicLatina "is a Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers...[which] provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals."

Medieval Feminist Index "covers over 350 international journals as well as book reviews and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages."

MEDLINE (EBSCO) indexes more than 4,000 medical journals, published in the United States and dozens of foreign countries, covering a wide variety of biomedical and related fields.

MEDLINEPlus Informaci󮠤e Salud de la Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina.

Mental Measurements Yearbook "contains fulltext information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks." A second browser window will open automatically, where you will have to check Mental Measurements Yearbook and then click on Open Selected Databases. [Uses Pop-Up Windows]

MergentOnline (formerly FISOnline) has business and financial information from Mergent, Inc. (formerly Moody's.) (Mergent currently does not work with older Netscape browsers or with Apple/MacIntosh computers.)

metacritic.com "compiles reviews from respected critics and publications for film, video/dvd, music and games", with links to the reviews.

Micromedex has clinical information about drugs, diseases, acute care, toxicology, and more; CareNotes has complete, easy-to-understand information to give to patients about their conditions, in both English and Spanish. Ask at the Reference Desk for the Username and Password.

Middle Search Plus "provides full text for nearly 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research" plus biographies, primary source documents, and an Image Collection of photos, maps and flags.

Military and Government Collection provides full text from almost 400 military and general interest publications ... to bring current news to all branches of the military. This database also offers indexing and abstracts for over 500 magazines.

MLA Bibliography " indexes critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics and folklore.

MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,000 journals.

MTS Lab Training Library provides samples and interactive training for biology and medical labs, electrical/engineering safety training, and more.

NAESP gives access to several newsletters via UTPA Library's membership in the National Association of Elementary School Principals. These include Leadership Compass, Research Roundup, Middle Matters, and Student and Community News Today. Use 000021288 for the ID# and edinburg for the City.

NASW Clinical Register "provides a listing of clinical social workers who have met national standards for education and experience."

National Archeological Database Reports module "is an expanded bibliographic inventory of over 350,000 reports on archeological investigation and planning, mostly of limited circulation."

National Cancer Institute, from the National Cancer Institute (National Institutes of Health) provides information on types of cancer, clinical trials, treatment and prevention, and more, from peer-reviewed publications, NCI publications, and other web sites.

National Center for Education Statistics lets you search for schools and school districts, and provides a myriad of statistics.

National Council for Science and the Environment includes online books, Congressional reports, papers, articles, etc., many of which are full text, from the National Library for the Environment.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) "contains summaries of more than 180,000 criminal justice publications." Some of these documents are in our 3rd floor microfiche collection under the call number HV 7231 .N4. Use the NCJ number to locate the exact microfiche.

The National Security Archive "collects and publishes declassified [U.S. government] documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act."

Natural & Alternative Treatments has "articles on medical conditions, presenting in an evidence-based manner the alternative medicine therapies proposed for use in their treatment...[including information] on herbs and supplements, functional foods, and other alternative therapies such as acupuncture and homeopathy."

Nature Archives provides complete articles from Nature for the years 1950--1996.

Nature Biotechnology Archives has has complete articles for the period March 1983--April 1998.

Nature Chemical Biology "is a monthly [full text] multidisciplinary journal providing an international forum for the timely publication of significant new research at the interface between chemistry and biology."

Nature Genetics Archives includes includes complete coverage for the period April 1992--April 1998.

Nature Materials "is a monthly multi-disciplinary [full text] journal aimed at bringing together cutting-edge research across the entire spectrum of materials science, blending physics, chemistry, biology and engineering into an innovative product."

Nature Medicine Archives has complete coverage for the period January 1995--April 1998.

Nature Physics "publishes [full text] papers of the highest quality and significance in all areas of physics, pure and applied ...[including] core physics disciplines, but...also ...a broad range of topics whose central theme falls within the bounds of physics."

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology Archives includes complete articles for the period January 1994--April 1998.

netLibrary includes reference material, as well as classics. Only one user can look at a specific book at a time. Patrons need to set up an account to "check out" books.

Newspaper Source includes "provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers...[plus] full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.

Infotrac Newspapers includes articles from The Austin American-Statesman, The Houston Chronicle, the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the London Times, and other papers.

Historical New York Times has PDF images of NYT articles back to 1851 and up to a few years ago. Make sure only ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times is checked off before you begin your search.

New York Times Movie Reviews has all their movie reviews since 1983, and selected reviews back to the 1920s. It's free, but you must register.

NIST Chemistry WebBook from the National Institute of Standards and Technology

NLM Gateway "allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)," including MEDLINE and other medical databases

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories, "composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, ... provides a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines."

North American Women's Letters and Diaries "is the largest collection of women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, [it] brings the personal experiences of some 1,325 women to researchers, students, and general readers" via 150,000 pages of letters and diaries.

NSDL (National Science Digital Library) "is the Nation's FREE online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics."

NurseSearch searches the American Nurses Association's NursingWorld web site.

Occupational Outlook Handbook has employment information from the United States Department of Labor.

OmniFile Full Text includes complete content from most of our other WilsonWeb databases, plus full text biological, agricultural, and legal articles.

O*NET provides information on a variety of occupations.

Palmer's Full Text Online indexes The Times of London for 1790--1905, with full text images of The Times for 1800--1870.

Past Masters is a searchable full-text Philosophy database.

Periodicals Archive Online contains full page images to millions of articles, from hundreds of journals, in 37 subject areas within the humanities and social sciences, with deep chronological coverage going back over 200 years.

PDQ (Physician Data Query), from the National Cancer Institute, "contains peer-reviewed summaries on cancer treatment, screening, prevention, genetics, and supportive care."

Philosopher's Index "is a bibliographic database with ... abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy ... and includes journal articles, [over 550 journals from more than 40 countries ... updated quarterly] books, book chapters such as contributions to an anthology, and book reviews."

Political Database of the Americas "contains hard copy information on the institutional, constitutional and political structures of the region."

POPLINE "is the world's largest bibliographic database on population, family planning, and related health issues."

Population Index "covers all fields of interest to demographers. Contains selective indexing with abstracts from journals, books, working papers, doctoral dissertations and other sources."

Praeger Security International Online (PSIO) "offers varied international perspectives and reflections from psychologists, diplomats, first responders, economists, journalists, civil servants, warfighters, legal experts, and more" on global security issues. Includes all books released under the Praeger Security International imprint, as well as weekly commentaries, regional analysis, primary documents, and a terrorism chronology."

PrePRINT Network "is a searchable gateway to preprint servers that deal with scientific and technical disciplines of concern to DOE. Such disciplines include the great bulk of physics, materials, and chemistry, as well as portions of biology, environmental sciences and nuclear medicine."

Primary Search "provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research...as far back as 1990."

Professional Development Collection "includes full text from 440 journals (150 with images), and abstract and index coverage for 530 professional development titles."

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection includes 350 peer reviewed journals, many PDF images and over 450 full text articles.

PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Human��icas) "is a comprehensive reference resource providing full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin."

PsycINFO "contains more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology {and psychological aspects of other disciplines]. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 35 languages."

PubMed "a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources."

Readers' Guide Full Text, covering all topics, contains abstracts of the most popular general-interest periodicals from the United States and Canada. It also includes full text/full image articles.

Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for 35 international newswires and over 50 regional business publications, plus citations and abstracts for additional publications.

Religion and Philosophy Collection contains "over 250 full text articles covering subjects such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy."

General Science Full Text provides citations and abstracts to British and American science magazines and journals. It also includes full text/full image articles.

Science & Technology Collection "contains over 800 leading full text journals" plus indexing and abstracts for hundreds more, "covering...aeronautics, astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, and materials science."

Science of Synthesis Houben-Weyl Methods of Molecular Transformations "is designed to be the first point of reference before embarking on further searches, providing a route through the mass information available in primary literature." You must allow pop-up windows to open to use Science of Synthesis.

Science Direct provides full image articles from more than 1000 agriculture, arts and humanities, astronomy, biology, business, chemistry, clinical medicine, computer science, earth and planetary sciences, economics, engineering, energy and technology, environmental science, life sciences, materials science, mathematics, physics, and social and behavioral sciences journals. Click on either the Publications button or the Search button to begin your search.

SciFinder Scholar SciFinder Scholar^TM 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, material science, agricultural science, and more!

In order to use this Database, a client software installation is required on your machine. For further information please contact the UTPA Help Desk x2020 for more details on how to install the software on your campus desktop.

Scribner Writers Series provides "access to 1,600 original and detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world."

Serials Directory "provides...bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials...[including] U.S. and international titles...[plus] historical data...and data from...publishers worldwide."

Social Sciences Full Text covers "a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals." It also includes full text/full image articles.

Social Work Abstracts "contains more than 35,000 records ... from social work and other related journals." A second browser window will open automatically, where you will have to check Social Work Abstracts and then click on Open Selected Databases.[Uses Pop-Up Windows]

SocINDEX with Full Text has millions of citations and articles, from thousands of journals (some going back to 1895), plus conference papers, books, and other items.

SpringerLINK provides abstracts, full text, and full image articles from journals published by Springer. The articles/journals are in the fields of computer science, economics, engineering, law, medicine, mathematics, and life and physical sciences. Click on search to begin your search for articles.

STAT-USA/Internet Databases includes the National Trade Data Bank, which provides full text information on international commerce and foreign trade. This product is available only from computers in the Library.

Statistical Universe has information from the Statistical Abstract of the United States, ASI (American Statistics Index), and other U.S. statistical information.

Student Research Center, for our future students, has full text articles from newspapers, magazines, and reference books, radio and television transcripts, and much more.

SUMSearch searches "Internet sites that contain medical evidence written by qualified professionals."

Teacher Reference Center (TRC) -- This new education database provides key education topics such as assessment, continuing education, current pedagogical research, curriculum development, instructional media, language arts, literary standards, science and mathematics, and more for K-12 education students, teachers, and librarians. It includes an index of over 260 titles from the most popular education trade journals, periodicals, and books.

Television News Archive "collection at Vanderbilt University is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news."

Texas Cancer Data Center "can be used by Texans to find resources related to different phases of cancer care - prevention, screening and early detection, diagnosis and treatment, continuing care - and to answer questions they may have about cancer."

Texas Digital Library Theses and Dissertations "will serve as a repository for research output including electronic theses and dissertations, faculty datasets, departmental databases, digital archives, course management and learning materials, digital media, and special collections" from The University of Texas, Texas A&M University, The University of Houston, and Texas Tech University.

Texas Digital 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."

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...[plus] the Spanish-language newspaper El Sol de Texas with Texas and national news coverage."

THOMAS, from the Library of Congress, makes "federal legislative information [plus Congressional activities, treaties, presidential nominations, and much more] freely available to the public."

TOPICsearch is a current events database which "allows researchers to explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms."

TOXNET is "a cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas."

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

Twentieth Century English and American Poetry includes over 50,000 poems, from 1,000s of volumes, from over 300 American poets and over 280 English poets.

United States Patent and Trademark Office is searchable for patents and trademarks, etc.

Vocational and Career Collection "provides full text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals."

Web of Knowledge contains three citation databases - Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index, which include citations and some links to full text articles from 1975 to the present. We ask all participants to use the LOG OUT button at the end of each search session when they are finished, so that others may use Web of Science.

Who's Who combines information from dozens of the famous Who's Who sources going back to 1985. No more than three people may use this at one time, so please log off when you're finished using Who's Who.

Wiley InterScience provides full image access to over 400 journals from the Wiley publishers. Disciplines include business, education, law, and psychology, in addition to a variety of sciences and engineering. Click on Journal Search to look for articles.

WorldCat has over 96,000,000 records of materials cataloged by OCLC member libraries, including citations to books, journal articles, internet sites, etc.

World Data Analyst from Encyclopaedia Britannica offers statistical portraits of the countries of the world and tools for making comparative charts and tables.

World History Collection offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East...[with] cover-to-cover full text for nearly 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals."

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