Name
of Database: Academic Search Complete
(formerly Academic Search Premier)
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=a9h 
Description: The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary
database, Academic Search Complete provides full text for nearly
5,400 scholarly publications, including full text for more than
4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every
area of academic study and offers information dating as far
back as 1865. This database is updated on a daily basis via
EBSCOhost.
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Name of Database:
AGRICOLA
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=agr
Description: This database 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
4.1 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal
articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual
materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.
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Name of Database:
Alternative Health Watch
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=awh
Description: This alternative health database provides full
text for 180 publications in the collection, including full
text for many peer-reviewed journals. Alt HealthWatch provides
in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas
covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back
to 1990.
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Name of Database: American History in Video
Name of Service: Alexander Street Press
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=awh
Description: American History in Video provides a large and rich collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.
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Name of Database:
Bibliography of Native North Americans
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=fph
Description: Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA)
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. BNNA contains more
than 110,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles,
and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates
of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century
to the present.
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Name
of Database: BioMed Central
Name of Service: BioMed Central
Web Address: http://www.biomedcentral.com
Description: COMING SOON!
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Name
of Database: Books in Print
Name of Service: R.R. Bowker
Web Address: http://www.patronbooksinprint.com
Description: A professional bibliographic database with over
5 million in-print, out-of-print, forthcoming, audio book and
video titles. Also, find complete publisher information including
contacts with addresses.
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Name of Database:
Business Source Complete
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=bth
Description: This is the world's definitive scholarly business
database, providing the ultimate collection of bibliographic
and full text content. Business Source Complete contains far
more active, peer-reviewed, business related journals than any
other database currently available. As part of the comprehensive
coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for
the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886
are included. In addition to the searchable cited references
provided for more than 1,200 journals.
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Name
of Database: Careers Internet
Name of Service: Institute for Career Research
Web Address: http://www.careers-internet.org/members/second.htm
Description: Careers Internet offers complete online versions
of over 250 career reports, plus real time general personality
tests to help students get started in the right direction, bulletin
boards where students receive answers to questions from industry
professionals, on-line videos offered for select careers, and
up to the minute career news.
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Name of Database: Chadwyck-Healey Literature Collections
Name of Service: Proquest
Web Address: http://collections.chadwyck.com
Description: Chadwyck-Healey Literature Collections Information Centre
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Name
of Database: CINAHL Plus
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=c8h
Description: CINAHL Plus, is the authoritative resource for nursing
and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers.
This database provides indexing and abstracts for over 1,700
current nursing and allied health journals and publications
dating back to 1982, totaling over 920,000 records.
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Name
of Database: Classical Music Library
Name of Service: Alexander Street Press
Web Address: http://blinn.classical.com/
Description: Classical Music Library is the world's first classical
music listening service for libraries. With a growing list of
23,000+ classical music tracks, the Classical Music Library
will instantly supplement your CD collection. CML has created
a clean, powerful, and user-friendly interface that enables
users to organize, create, save and share their own selections
of music. Listening and searching is supplemented by extensive
reference materials and backed by a powerful suite of specially
designed tools.
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Name of Database: Computer
Source
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=cph
Description: Computer Source provides researchers with the
latest information and current trends in high technology. This
database offers full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing
and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.
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Name of Database: Consumer
Health Complete
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=cmh
Description: (CHC) 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.
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Name
of Database: Contemporary Authors
Name of Service: Gale
Web Address: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/txshracd2489?db=GLD-1
Description: Provides full text bibliographical information
on approximately 112,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights,
nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Current writers,
as well as the most studied literary figures of the early 20th
century, and authors from around the world are featured in this
resource.
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Name
of Database: Contemporary Literary Criticism
- Select
Name of Service: Gale
Web Address: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/txshracd2489?db=GLD-2
Description: Provides access to full text critical essays from
the Contemporary Literary Criticism series beginning with volume
95, as well as the 260 most studied authors. The author selection
criteria provides researchers with a range of novelists, poets,
short story writers - from established authors to emerging new
talent.
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Name
of Database: CREDO Reference
Name of Service: CREDO
Web Address: http://www.credoreference.com/advanced.do
Description: Credo Reference offers more than 485 highly-regarded titles from over 70 publishers, Credo covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference. The Credo Reference platform allows seamless searching of other resources including the library catalog, periodical resources (Academic Search Complete, Project Muse), specialized databases and more.
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Name
of Database: Dictionary of Literary Biography
Name of Service: Gale
Web Address: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/txshracd2489?db=GLD-3
Description: The DLB provides over 12,500 full text biographical
and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential
literary figures from all eras and genres. This is the online
equivalent of the 322 volume print set of the Dictionary
of Literary Biography.
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Name
of Database: Directory of Open Access
Journals
Name of Service: Lund University Libraries
Web Address: http://www.doaj.org/
Description: This service covers free, full text, quality controlled
scientific and scholarly journals. There are now 3000 journals
in the directory. Currently 973 journals are searchable at article
level. As of August 2005, 164,583 articles were included in
the DOAJ service.
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Name of Database: Economia
y Negocios
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=agh
Description: Economía y Negocios is the result of a
collaborative effort between EBSCO Publishing and ESAN (Escuela
de Administración de Negocios para Graduados). This continuously
updated bibliographic database is an indispensable tool for
research conducted in the areas of business and economics.
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Name
of Database: Electronic Journals Service
(EJS)
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=eoah
Description: This database provides online access to the Blinn
Library's magazine and journal subscriptions when available.
The database is searchable by subject or journal title and provides
usernames and passwords to gain access to the article content.
The content includes over 400 periodicals titles in the Health
Sciences, Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences.
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Name of Database: eLibrary
- Curriculum Edition
Name of Service: Proquest
Web Address: http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/elibweb/curriculum/do/search?clear=no&edition=&secondaryNav=advance
Description: Designed specifically for K-12 schools and libraries.
Students find the answers they need from more than 2,000 full-text
magazines, newspapers, reference books, and transcripts-plus
thousands of pictures, maps, educator-approved websites from
Homework Central®, plus audio/video content.
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Name of Database: Encyclopedia
of Animals (EBSCO Animals)
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=ani
Description: This extensive database provides students with
thousands of easy-to-read entries about mammals, birds, reptiles,
amphibians, fish, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. Each entry
begins with a simple category breakdown of the animal including
Kingdom, Class, Order, Genus & Species, and Geographical
Locale as well as a detailed description. Many entries include
colorful images.
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Name
of Database: ERIC
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=eric
Description: The Education Resources Information Center (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.
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Name of Database: Fuente
Academica
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=zbh
Description: is a unique collection of scholarly academic journals
from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. This database
provides full text coverage (including PDF) for more than 330
scholarly Spanish language journals. Content is provided in
Spanish from respected publishers worldwide.
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Name of Database: Funk
& Wagnall's New Encyclopedia
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=funk
Description: This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic
entries covering a variety of subject areas.
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Name
of Database: Gale Virtual Reference Library
Name of Service: Gale
Web Address: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/txshracd2489?db=GVRL
Description: The Blinn College Library's subscription to the
Gale Virtual Reference Library provides
access to the full text of the following reference materials:
- Dictionary of American History, 3rd Edition, 10
volumes, 2003.
- Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd Edition, 5 volumes,
2004.
- Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, 2nd Edition,
4 volumes, 2002.
- Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd Edition, 8 volumes,
2003.
- Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2006.
- Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd Edition, 15 volumes,
2005.
- Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition, 5 volumes,
2001.
- Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, 2nd
Edition, 6 volumes, 2000.
- Environmental Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition, 2 volumes,
2003.
- Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology, 2nd Edition, 2001.
- Gale Encyclopedia of Science
- International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences,
2nd Edition, 9 volumes, 2008.
- Macmillan Encyclopedia of Energy, 3 volumes, 2001.
- Reference Guide to World Literature, 3rd Edition,
2 volumes, 2003.
- U*X*L Encyclopedia of Weather and Natural DIsasters,
5 volumes, 2008.
- West's Encyclopedia of American Law, 2nd Edition,
13 volumes, 2005.
- World of Forensic Science, 2 volumes, 2005.
- World of Sports Science, 2 volumes, 2007.
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Name
of Database: Handbook of Texas
Name of Service: Texas State Historical Association
Web Address: http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/search.html
Description: The New Handbook of Texas is a multidisciplinary
encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture. It comprises
more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical
themes, institutions, and a host of other topic categories.
The scope is broad and inclusive, designed to provide readers
with concise, authoritative, and accessible articles that provide
factual, nonpartisan accounts on virtually every aspect of Texas
history and culture
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Name
of Database: Health and Wellness Resource
Center
Name of Service: Gale
Web Address: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/txshracd2489?db=HWRC
Description: This database indexes more than 900 health and
medical journals and hundreds of pamphlets (of which more than
75% are full text), as well as health related articles from
2,200 general interest publications and many reliable health
websites. Also includes the text of the following Gale reference
titles: The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, The Gale Encyclopedia
of Childhood & Adolescence, The Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer,
The Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, The Gale Encyclopedia
of Alternative Medicine and Body by Design.
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Name
of Database: Health Reference Center
Academic
Name of Service: Gale
Web Address: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/txshracd2489?db=HRCA
Description: Provides an integrated collection of general interest
health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals,
reference books and pamphlets.
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Name of Database: Health
Source - Consumer Edition
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=hxh
Description: This database is the richest collection of consumer
health information available to libraries worldwide, providing
information on many health topics including the medical sciences,
food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and
general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable
full text for nearly 80 journals and 130 health reference books.
This database is updated on a daily basis.
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Name of Database: Health
Source - Nursing / Academic Edition
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=hch
Description: This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full
text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source:
Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing
for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily
basis.
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Name
of Database: HeritageQuest Online
Name of Service: Proquest
Web Address: http://www.heritagequestonline.com
Description: A comprehensive treasury of family lineage and
local histories, including materials for tracing family lineages
and American culture, beginning with the 13 original colonies.
One can trace their family tree, research folklore topics, and
trace the history of their hometown.
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Name
of Database: History Resource Center:
U.S.
Name of Service: Gale
Web Address: http://find.galegroup.com/menu/start?prod=HistRC&userGroupName=txshracd2489
Description: History Resource Center: U.S. provides integrated
access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles
from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal
covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history
from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes
citations from over 180 additional history journals from the
Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation
Index, as well as the entire "American Journey Online"
series.
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Name
of Database: History Resource Center:
World
Name of Service: Gale
Web Address: http://find.galegroup.com/menu/start?prod=History&userGroupName=txshracd2489
Description: History Resource Center: World is a comprehensive
collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from
leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources,
and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic
and chronlogic research materials for the study of world history.
From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to
the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over
1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than
110 journals
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Name
of Database: History Study Center
Name of Service: Proquest
Web Address: http://www.historystudycenter.com
Description: History Study Center includes over 20,000 articles
from reference sources, including encyclopedias and atlases,
as well as cover to cover full-text from 60 journals. Also included
are 3,000 captioned historical photos and hundreds of historical
video clips. Finally, links to thousands of reliable websites
are included.
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Name
of Database: Index to Texas Magazines
and Documents
Name of Service: University of Houston - Victoria Library
Web Address: http://vcuhvlibrary.uhv.edu/Txindex/home.htm
Description: Librarians on the Victoria College/University
of Houston-Victoria Library staff began the Index in 1986 to
answer questions from students, the business community, and
the general public about topics specific to Texas. Emphasis
is on business, education, history, and government, with magazines
of general interest also included. Over the years, magazines
and documents have been added or removed from indexing as publication
patterns changed.
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Name of Database: Information
Science & Technology Abstracts
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=izh
Description: Information Science & Technology Abstracts
is a leading database in the areas of information science. 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. Coverage dates back to the mid 1960s.
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Name
of Database: InfoTrac Newspapers
Name of Service: Gale
Web Address: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/txshracd2489?db=SP00
Description: Search many newspapers in the United States and
the rest of the World for full-text articles. Cover-to-cover
full text coverage includes the New York Times from 1995, Austin-American
Statesman form 1996, the Houston Chronicle from 1996, the Dallas
Morning News from 2000, the San Antonio Express-News from 2000,
the Chicago Tribune from 2000, the Times of London from 1985,
the Bryan/College Station Eagle from 2006, and many more.
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Name of Database: Internet
& Personal Computing Abstracts
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=iqh
Description: provides abstracts and indexing for literature
related to personal computing products and developments in business,
the Internet, the home, and all other applied areas. Over 400
of the most important trade publications, mainstream computer
magazines, and professional journals are covered, including
those that focus on specific topics such as Macintosh and Windows
platforms, programming, web development and more.
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Name of Database: JAMA
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://bart.blinn.edu:2048/login?url=http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?JournalID=104177
Description: JAMA, which began publication in 1883, is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal.
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Name of Database: Legal
Collection
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=lgh
Description: This database contains full text for nearly 250
of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. The Legal
Collection is an authoritative source for information on current
issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.
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Name of Database: Library,
Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/search?vid=3&hid=107&sid=e4986736-c0e4-4cab-96f5-443079bc3694%40sessionmgr114
Description: LISTA was formerly Information Science & Technology
Abstracts (ISTA). EBSCO Publishing continues ISTA's renowned
coverage of information science and significantly increases
the coverage of library science. 149 ISTA titles are upgraded
to Core coverage, and 121 new periodicals are included. Subject
coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging,
bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management,
search engines, printed and electronic information sources,
the information industry, scholarly communication, and electronic
publishing. LISTA indexes journal articles from more than 600
publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings.
With coverage extending back to 1966, it is the oldest continuously
produced database covering the field of information science.
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Name
of Database: Literature Resource Center
Name of Service: Gale
Web Address: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/txshracd2489?db=LitRC
Description: This all-inclusive database contains information
on both classical and contemporary authors and their works.
Obtain biographies of authors, bibliographies of all they have
written, critical essays and contextual information. Search
by the author’s name, the title of the work, or even by
the title of the periodical or journal that is part of the database.
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Name of Database: MAS
Ultra: School Edition
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=ulh
Description: Designed specifically for high school libraries,
this database provides full text for nearly 500 popular general
interest and current events publications with information dating
as far back as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra – School
Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, more
than 350 full text reference books, 84,011 biographies, 83,472
primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999
photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
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Name
of Database: MasterFILE Premier
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=f5h
Description: Designed specifically for public libraries, this
multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,730
general reference publications with full text information dating
as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of
general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes more than
350 full text reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,132 primary
source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos,
maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
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Name of Database: MedicLatina
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=lth
Description: is a Spanish language collection of medical research
and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American
medical publishers. This unique database provides access to
full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals.
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Name
of Database: MEDLINE
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=cmedm
Description: MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information
on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health
care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by
the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search
abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. This
database is current through 5/24/04.
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Name
of Database: MedlinePlus
Name of Service: National Library of Medicine
Web Address: http://www.medlineplus.gov/
Description: MedlinePlus contains pages of carefully selected
links to Web resources with authoritative health information,
including dictionaries, directories, organizations, news sources
and 650 health topics. It also contains links to pre-formulated
searches of the MEDLINE/PubMed database, allowing you to find
references to latest health professional articles on your topic.
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Name
of Database: Middle Search Plus
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=mih
Description: Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps and flags.
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Name
of Database: Military and Government
Collection
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=mth
Description: Designed to offer current news pertaining to all
branches of the military and government, this database offers
a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and
other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites.
The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover
full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing
and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.
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Name
of Database: MLA Bibliography
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=mzh
Description: MLA International is a bibliography of journal
articles, books, and dissertations. It is published by the Modern
Language Association. It is a research tool for literature that
contains over 1.8 million records. The file contains indexing
back to 1926. Over 4,400 journals, including e-journals, are
regularly reviewed for articles.
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Name of Database: Natural
& Alternative Treatments
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=wfh
Description: The database contains almost two hundred articles
on medical conditions, presenting in an evidence-based manner
the alternative medicine therapies proposed for use in their
treatment. It also contains detailed, evidence-based information
on herbs and supplements, functional foods, and other alternative
therapies such as acupuncture and homeopathy. The evidence-based
content has been developed and reviewed by a team of physicians
and pharmacologists with the goal of providing consumers with
reliable information.
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Name
of Database: netLibrary
Name of Service: OCLC
Web Address: http://www.netlibrary.com/library_home_page.asp
Description: Nearly 28,000 online electronic books available
through the netLibrary web site, as well as the Blinn
College Library Catalog.
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Name of Database: Newspaper
Source
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=nfh
Description: provides selected full text for nearly 30 national
(U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains
full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected
full text for more than 260 regional (U.S.) newspapers. This
database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
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database information from EBSCO
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Name
of Database: Nursing Resource Center
Name of Service: Gale
Web Address: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/txshracd2489?db=NRC
Description: Nursing Resource Center is a premier destination
for nursing students at community colleges across the United
States. Relevant journal results from top publications in the
field and animated depictions of the human anatomy complements
the core reference texts from Gale. The Nursing Resource Center
provides authoritative information written in accessible language
for students completing research papers and class assignments
as they learn how to care for and treat patients.
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Name
of Database: Occupational Outlook Handbook
Name of Service: U.S. Department of Labor
Web Address: http://www.bls.gov/oco/
Description: The Occupational Outlook Handbook is
a nationally recognized source of career information, designed
to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions
about their future work lives. The Handbook is revised
every two years.
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Name
of Database: Opposing Viewpoints Resource
Center
Name of Service: Gale
Web Address: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/txshracd2489?db=OVRC
Description: Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
is the premier full-text resource covering today’s hottest
social issues, from Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell
Research to Gun Control. More than 400 titles from Greenhaven
Press series including Opposing Viewpoints, At Issue, Contemporary
Issues Companion, and Current Controversies, Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center brings together all the
information that’s needed to fully understand an issue:
9100 pro and con viewpoint articles, 140 full-text magazines,
academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents,
government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including
images and podcasts, links to hand-selected web sites, and more!
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Name of Database: Oxford English Dictionary
(OED)
Name of Service: Oxford University Press
Web Address: http://dictionary.oed.com/entrance.dtl
Description: The Oxford English Dictionary
is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language
over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the
meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words,
both present and past.
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Name
of Database: Oxford Music Online
Name of Service: Oxford University Press
Web Address: http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/
Description: Oxford Music Online is the digital
version of the The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
which is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians.
It is one of the largest single reference works on Western music.
Also included is the The New Grove Dictionary of Opera
(1992), The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd Edition
(2001), The Oxford Companion to Music and The Oxford
Dictionary of Music. Including 50,000 signed articles and
28,000 biographies contributed by over 6,000 scholars from around
the world, Oxford Music Online is the unsurpassed
authority on all aspects of music.
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Name of Database: Primary Search
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=prh
Description: Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
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Name of Database: Professional
Development Collection
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=tfh
Description: Designed for professional educators, this database
provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high
quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed
titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational
reports.Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive
collection of full text education journals in the world.
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Name
of Database: Project Muse
Name of Service: Johns Hopkins University Press
Web Address: http://muse.jhu.edu/search/search.cgi?searchtype=advanced
Description: Offers full text articles from over 250 scholarly
journals covering the fields of literature & criticism,
history, visual & performing arts, cultural studies, education,
political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
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Name
of Database: ProQuest Learning: Literature
Name of Service: Proquest
Web Address: http://literature.proquestlearning.com
Description: "ProQuest Learning: Literature provides more
than 180,000 full-text works of poetry, prose, and drama from
around the world. This unique resource also offers secondary
sources such as author biographies and multimedia, as well as
literary criticism, essays, reviews, and interviews drawn from
100+ full-text literary magazines and journals."
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Name of Database: Psychology
& Behavioral Sciences Collection
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=pbh
Description: This database provides nearly 575 full text publications,
including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology &
Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional
and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology,
mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental
methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database
is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
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Name
of Database: Regional Business News
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=bwh
Description: This database provides comprehensive full text
coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business
News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers
and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the
United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
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Name of Database: Religion
& Philosophy Collection
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=rlh
Description: This database provides extensive coverage of such
topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies,
religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy
of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
Religion & Philosophy Collection offers more than 300 full
text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles,
making it an essential tool for researchers and students of
theology and philosophical studies. This database is updated
daily via EBSCOhost.
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Name of Database: Salud
en Espanol
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=chc-spa
Description: This database is comprised of the spanish-language
content from the database Consumer Health Complete.
The description for Consumer Health Complete is as
follows:
"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."
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Name of Database: Science
& Technology Collection
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=syh
Description: The Science & Technology Collection contains
over 800 leading full text journals covering relevant aspects
of the scientific and technical community. Topics include aeronautics,
astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation,
physics, archaeology, and materials science. In addition to
the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for
more than 1,700 publications.
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Name of Database: Scribner's
Writers Series
Name of Service: Gale
Web Address: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/txshracd2489?db=Scribner
Description: Gain access to 1,600 original and detailed bio-critical
essays on the lives and works of important authors from around
the world. Many authors in the Scribner Writers Series are seen
from multiple perspectives through two, three or sometimes four
essays. Students can go directly to an entry on a specific author,
combine search criteria for a much more complex search, or explore
thematic and chronological topics to make connections among
writers.
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Name of Database: Serials
Directory
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=ser
Description: provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate
bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures
for popular serials. This database contains nearly 212,000 U.S.
and international titles, including newspapers, historical data
for an additional 20,000 titles and data from nearly 108,235
publishers worldwide.
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Name
of Database: SIRS Government Reporter
Name of Service: Proquest
Web Address: http://sks.sirs.com
Description: Provides full text current and historical government
documents, including landmark and recent U.S. Supreme Court
Decisions, information about federal departments and agencies,
and facts about U.S. congressional members and Supreme Court
Justices.
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Name
of Database: SIRS Researcher
Name of Service: Proquest
Web Address: http://sks.sirs.com
Description: Perfect for school and public library researchers,
SIRS is a general database containing thousands of full-text
articles exploring social, scientific, historic, economic, political,
and global issues. Articles are carefully selected from domestic
and international newspapers, magazines, journals, and government
publications. Brief summaries accompany all articles added to
the database since 1994. Images are available for some articles.
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Name
of Database: Spanish Interface
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=ehostes
Description: The standard EBSCO search interface in Spanish
language format.
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Name
of Database: STAT!Ref
Name of Service: Teton Data Systems
Web Address: http://online.statref.com/default.asp?grpalias=NLAL2
Description: STAT!Ref provides access to the full text of nearly
40 titles in the areas of medicine and health. Also included
is full text coverage of Stedman's Medical Dictionary.
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Name
of Database: TDNet Journal Locator
Name of Service: Teldan Information Systems
Web Address: http://www.texshare.edu/programs/academicdb/tdnet.html
Description: Through its licenses with 10 different database
providers, TexShare offers users access to abstracts and full-text
articles from approximately 17,000 professional, scientific,
academic, and medical journals.
But because each of the database providers has its own proprietary
search engine, sometimes finding a *specific* journal title
or topic can be difficult.
TDNet solves the problem by providing a searchable list of
ALL the journal titles available to TexShare users from all
of the different database providers. This list includes the
available holdings and an indication if full-text is available.
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Name
of Database: Teacher Reference Center
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://www.TeacherReference.com
Description: Teacher Reference Center provides indexing to
over 260 publications in the area of education, covering the
following areas: Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical
Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language
Arts, Literacy Standards, and Science & Mathematics.
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Name
of Database: Texas Digital Sanborn Maps
Name of Service: Proquest
Web Address: http://sanborn.umi.com/
Description: These digitized maps provide detailed property
and land-use records that depicts the architecture of more than
12,000 U.S. towns and cities throughout the past one hundred
years. The maps enable researchers to trace the architectural
history of individual buildings or entire communities.
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Name of Database: Texas
Reference Center
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=tih
Description: 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. The database
contains biographies portraying famous historical and contemporary
Texans such as George Herbert Walker Bush, Lady Bird Johnson,
Dan Moody, Susanna Dickinson and Sam Houston. Also available
in the Texas Reference Center is the Spanish-language newspaper
El Sol de Texas with Texas and national news coverage. This
EBSCOhost database is updated weekly.
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Name of Database: TOPICsearch
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=tth
Description: This current events database allows researchers
to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific
discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s
classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 102,800
articles from more than 2,500 diverse sources, including more
than 1,550 full text periodicals.
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Name of Database: Twayne's
Authors Series
Name of Service: Gale
Web Address: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/txshracd2489?db=Twayne
Description: The Twayne's Authors Series of literary criticism
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. This online series features the content
of nearly 600 books that comprise three print series --United
States Authors, English Authors and World Authors.
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Name of Database: Vocational
& Career Collection
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=voh
Description: Vocational & Career Collection is designed
for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools,
community colleges, trade institutions and the general public.
This collection provides full text coverage for more than 350
trade and industry-related periodicals.
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Name
of Database: World Cat
Name of Service: OCLC
Web Address: http://firstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=WorldCat;done=referer;FSIP
Description: The world's most comprehensive online catalog,
with more than 53 million bibliographic records representing
over 400 languages on materials ranging from stone tables to
electronic books. WorldCat is now easier to search than ever.
Recent enhancements include the ability to search by Library
of Congress or Dewey Decimal Classification numbers, and to
limit searches by material types, audiences and material formats.
WorldCat includes information from 2100 BC to the present with
thousands of records containing evaluative content such as tables
of contents, cover art, book summaries and notes about the authors.
It uses the Library of Congress Subject Headings as its thesaurus.
Users can also directly browse issues of periodicals in the
ArticleFirst database from bibliographic records for these titles
in WorldCat. WorldCat adds value to other databases in FirstSearch
by linking citations to holdings that help users find these
materials in their own libraries and to the Interlibrary Loan
service. Most databases in FirstSearch are enriched with holdings
from WorldCat.
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Name of Database: World
History Collection
Name of Service: EBSCO
Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=wdh
Description: offers a global look at history with content from
Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle
East. World History Collection contains cover-to-cover full
text for nearly 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals.
Full text dates as far back as 1964.
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