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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: 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!

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.

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.

Name of Database: CINAHL

Name of Service: EBSCO

Web Address: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=c8h

Description: CINAHL, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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/ce

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.

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.

 

Name of Database: Handbook of Texas

Name of Service: Texas State Historical Association

Web Address: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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: Info Trac Custom 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.

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: 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://www.libraryresearch.com

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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!

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.

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."

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Name of Database: Twentieth Century American Poetry

Name of Service: Proquest

Web Address: http://collections.chadwyck.com/

Description: This unparalleled collection includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song.

Name of Database: Twentieth Century English Poetry

Name of Service: Proquest

Web Address: http://collections.chadwyck.com/

Description: A collection of 598 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Thom Gunn, Fleur Adcock, Paul Muldoon, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy, and incorporating the poets in The Faber Poetry Library.

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.

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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