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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)."
History E-Book Project 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."
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."
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