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Alphabetical List of Periodical Databases

Periodical is a general term which includes journals, magazines, numbered monographic series, annuals, e-serials, e-journals, e-zines, and so on.   Individual databases may be indexes, abstracting or full-text services.

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This is a list of databases or sites that provide access to scholarly publications [thematic documents longer than about 100 pages] purchased or leased by this library. These databases are professionally/commercially produced publications, similar in content to any scholarly print book purchased by the library. For access to a selected list of freely accessible public use e-books Click here.

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Legends & Notes: ft 50% means 50%+ any type of full-image; 49% or less all other formats ft image means 90%+ full-image files; 9% or less all other formats FirstSearchFS in the Other Information column indicates a FirstSearch database.
index or ascii Indicates a resource which has less than 50% full-text (usually ascii) materials and/or is primarily an indexing or abstracting tool; be aware that an abstract is also a citeable source.
For a list of more than 29,000 current electronic journals available from commercial publishers for UTPB students, faculty and staff see: Serials Solutions: Electronic Journal Listings for UTPB.

 
Title Vendor Other Information
ft image  20th Century American
and 20th Century British Poetry
ProQuest / Chadwyck Healey
texshare
Select 20th Century American or 20th Century British from the collections menu; includes 50,000 poems from 300 American poets, and 600 volumes of poetry from 283 British poets.
ft  ABI/Inform Global
also includes access to: ABI Archives, an historical backfile
ft image and Hoover's Online
ProQuest / CSA Business Information. Full image (PDF) files for more than 2,000 journals; ascii full-text for an additional 100 journals; and indexing for nearly 3,000 titles. ABI/Archives content containing backfiles for more than 20 significant business journals was added to ABI/Inform Global (January 2003).
Hoover's provides in-depth industry analysis & information on 40,000 public and non-public companies as well as 225,000 key executives.
ft Academic OneFile Gale a comprehensive database of more than 8,000 journals covering everything from STM to the humanities. Replaces and expands Expanded Academic.
ft image  ACS Web Editions ACS American Chemical Society Full-Text Web Editions alternate access.
index  AgeLine Database  AARP Social gerontology and aging-related research, policy and practice
index  AGRICOLA US Dept of Agriculture FirstSearchFS; Agriculture
index  Alternative Press Index Alternative Press FirstSearchFS; Indexes more than 300 journals (indexed nowhere else) covering cultural, economic, political and social change; backfile indexing begins in 1969
ft image  American Periodical Series, 1740-1900 ProQuest In order to access this database from the main ProQuest page you must select Interdisciplinary APS Online from the databases collection drop down menu. Alternatively, you may click here for direct access.

The database provides access to more than 1,100 journal titles (more than 7 million pages) published from 1740-1900. Titles range from America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal. 89 journals are from the period 1740-1800; 900+ cover the pre-civil war period; 118 publications were active during the Civil War and Reconstruction period (1861-1877). A few titles extend past the 1900 cut-off date: titles like Forum (later Forum and Century) which was published from 1886-1940, and Littell's Living Age (later Living Age) published from 1844-1941.

index   Applied Science & Technology
 ftFT through WilsonSelectPlus
H.W. Wilson FirstSearchFS; Subject oriented periodical index; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page. Subjects in ASTA: Applied chemistry, computer technology, data processing, energy-related disciplines, engineering, mathematics, physics. Indexes more than 700 journals, for a total of 1.5 million articles indexed.
index  ArticleFirst OCLC-FirstSearch FirstSearchFS; Indexes 16,000+ titles--general, popular and trade magazines along with academic journals
index  Art Abstracts
 ftFT through WilsonSelectPlus
H.W. Wilson FirstSearchFS; Subject oriented periodical index; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page
index  Arts & Humanities Search ISI FirstSearchFS; ISI Citation Index; indexes more than 1,000 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals; includes indexing for selected articles from social science and science journals; coverage 1980 to the present; number of articles sited 2.9 million; updated weekly.
index  BasicBIOSIS BIOSIS FirstSearchFS; Subject oriented periodical index which covers most recent 4 update years. Updated monthly, indexes nearly 400 life science journals, providing details of more than 400,000 recent articles in biology.
ft ascii  BioDigest Plexus Publishing FirstSearchFS; Non-technical digests in biology, ecology, etc.
index  Biography Index
 ftFT through WilsonSelectPlus
H.W. Wilson FirstSearchFS; Subject oriented periodical index; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page
index Biological & Agricultural Index
 ftFT through WilsonSelectPlus
H.W. Wilson FirstSearchFS; Academic subject oriented periodical index; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page. Updated weekly, indexes 366 journal titles, providing details of more than 1.2 million journal citations.
index  Book Review Digest
 ftFT through WilsonSelectPlus
H.W. Wilson FirstSearchFS; Reviews of fiction & non-fiction books since 1988; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page
index  Books In Print OCLC/FS FirstSearchFS; Bibliographic information on books currently in print
ascii  Business & Industry RDS Responsive Database Services, Inc. FirstSearchFS;Business and industry facts, events, key figures; limited FT
ascii  Business & Management Practices RDS, Inc. FirstSearchFS ; Practical aspects of business management; some FT available; updated weekly. Indexes more than 1,500 sources including trade magazines, newsletters and the general business press as well as international business dailies.
index or ascii  Business Dateline UMI FirstSearchFS; Citations on regional business articles
index or ascii  Business Organizations Gale Directories FirstSearchFS; Directory of organizations that serve business & industry; more than 40,000 records.
ft  CLCD: Children's Literature Comprehensive Database CLCD Children's Literature reviewers read and critically review more than 3,000 books annually. Go here for more information about the service.
new index  Chicano Database OCLC - RLG FirstSearchFS;from UC-Berkeley a database focused on Mexican-American, Chicano and the broader Latino experience; indexes more than 2,000 journals; subjects strengths include art, bilingual education, history, labor, language, literature, mental health and politics.
ft image  Chronicle of Higher Education Chronicle A password is required for complete full-text access. The password is available at the Reference Desk; requester must have current UTPB ID.
index CLASE and Periodica Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) FirstSearchFS; CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and the humanities; Periodica covers journals specializing in science and technology. Together these indexes offer access to more than 400,000 citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.
ft  Criminal Justice Periodicals Index ProQuest To restrict searches to CJPI click on the Collections button on the initial search screen. Of the 115 titles indexed 68 are available as full-image titles; a further 14 titles indexed in CJPI are available full-text in the FirstSearch database Index of Legal Periodicals
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ft  Disclosure Corporate Snapshots disclosure FirstSearchFS; Financial reports on publicly owned companies;
ft ascii  Dissertation Abstracts UMI FirstSearchFS; Dissertation Abstracts Online, 1863-present
Full-text of abstracts is available for materials entered after July 1980. Abstracts submitted prior to July 1980 are available only in the printed editions.
ft  EbscoHost > Academic Search Complete Ebsco/TexShare texshare EbscoHost: Academic Search Complete is an aggregated / general database with many scholarly journals. It is best to restrict your search by selecting: "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals."
ft ascii  EbscoHost > Business Source Complete Ebsco/TexShare texshare EbscoHost: Business Source Complete contains full-text academic journals as well as trade (i.e. non-academic) journals relating to business, economics, trade, and so on.
index  EbscoHost > Economia y Negocios Ebsco/TexShare texshare This database is produced in Peru by ESAN Escuela de Admnistracion de Negocios para Graduados the oldest graduate school of business in the Spanish speaking world. This Spanish language database consists of more than 60,000 citations to articles, books, chapters in books and so on.
ft  EbscoHost > Fuente Academica Ebsco/TexShare texshare Fuente Academica is a unique collection of scholarly academic journals from Latin American and Spanish publishers. The database provides full text coverage for nearly 200 scholarly Spanish language journals in nearly all academic areas--social science, science, and fine and performing arts.
ft  EbscoHost Databases:
Other Titles of Interest
Ebsco/TexShare texshare Bibliography of Native North Americans
Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Religion and Philosophy Collection
Science and Technology Collection
The Serials Directory
For additional database selections select the Choose Database tab at the top of any EbscoHost search screen; this will take you to a list of all Ebsco-based TexShare databases.
ft  EbscoHost > Texas Reference Center Ebsco/TexShare texshare Texas Reference Center is primarily the online version of The Handbook of Texas.
index  EconLIT American Economic Association FirstSearchFS; Index of economic literature
index  Education Abstracts
 ftFT through WilsonSelectPlus
H.W. Wilson FirstSearchFS; Academic subject oriented periodical index; overlap with ERIC less than 50%; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page. See also Library Literature Full-Text through WilsonWeb ft
ft  eLibrary: [K-12] Curriculum   ProQuest/TexShare   texshare This product is tied to national K-12 curriculum support material and educational standards; to restrict standards to the state of Texas use the drop-down menu on the main page.
index  ERIC
Original Eric ceased production July 2004; the full backfile (1966-July 2004) is available at this link.
The newERIC which is narrower and updated less frequently is also available at this link. See Other Information note for further details.
US Dept of Education FirstSearchFS; Comprehensive indexing for periodical articles, reports, conference proceedings, and specialized publications; ceased original formatting and indexing July 2004. US-Dept of Education resumed updating with a more limited list of periodicals (200 compared to the original 2,000), September 2005; in 2006 added further titles to bring total to just over 400 indexed titles. The current ERIC is much less comprehensive than the original. Alternative current indexes are Education Abstracts and Academic Search Complete and its sub-set the Professional Development Collection; note that PDC indexes numerous European titles.
index  Essay & General Literature Index H.W. Wilson FirstSearchFS;This is a unique index that provides indexing for articles and essays published in books. This index focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, drama, and film. The online index covers 1985 to the present, while the library owns the paper indexes back to 1933.
ft Expanded Academic Index Gale Group/Infotrac  texshare Preferred database is Academic OneFile  the enhanced comprehensive database offered by this vendor; indexes and has all full-text of Expanded Academc, but double the number of indexed and full-text journals.
ft  GaleNet-all available databases  GaleGroup texshare includes such databases as Health & Wellness Resource Center InfoTrac Custom Newspapers, the Gale Virtual Reference Library and the Texas Almanac.
image  Gale Literature Databases  GaleGroup  texshare includes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography
image  Gale's Literature Reference Center with
Twayne's Authors and
Scribner Writers
 
Gale  texshare full biographies as well as significant critical studies of major US, British and many international authors of belles lettres and literature.
index  General Science Abstracts
 ftFT through WilsonSelectPlus
H.W. Wilson FirstSearchFS; Academic subject oriented periodical index; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page
index  GEOBASE Elsevier Science FirstSearchFS; indexes world-wide literature on geography, geology and ecology
ft image  The Gerritsen Collection:
Women's History Online, 1453-1945
Chadwyck Healey An international digital library that spans four centuries and documents the lives and experiences of women in public and private arenas. Contains more than 2,000,000 page images in 15 languages. The collection is made up of 265 periodical titles and 4,471 book and pamphlet titles.
Through this site, you can: (1) Search the bibliographic citations of books and periodicals;   (2) Browse online the digital image of every page;   (3) Download the digital images in PDF format for more extensive viewingand printing
index  GPO Monthly Catalog U.S. Government FirstSearchFS; Index of U.S. government publications 1976 to the present
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image  HarpWeek, 1857-1912 Harpers Weekly HarpWeek is the full-text and full-image reproductions of Harpers Weekly. There is a searchable database which offers several different ways to access the material. The database introduction and help pages are excellent. The vendor also provides Finding Aids for some of the most common areas of interest--e.g. Geography, Literary Genre, Occupation or Role in Society and so on.

The size of Harper's Weekly pages (11" x15.5") does not allow the use of Internet browser printing functions [only the left side of the page will be printed]. Instead either click the "Printable Version" option while browsing, or for other printing and saving options go to the Help pages offered by the vendor.

ft image  Historical Newspapers Online
    Palmer's Index to the [London] Times, 1790-1905
    The Official Index to the [London] Times, 1906-1980
    Palmer's Full Text Online, 1800-1870
    
Chadwyck-Healey / ProQuest Historical Newspapers Online contains the three major historical resources indicated. Available content includes:
Palmer's Index to The Times 1790-1905 and The Official Index to the Times, 1906-1980; as well as Palmer's Full Text Online 1800-1870, which provides access to the full-text of all articles referenced in Palmer's index to The Times.
ft image  Historical Newspapers:
The New York Times (1851-2003)
Proquest In order access this database you must select Databases selection just under the Basic search button at the top of the default/ start-up page; scroll to the bottom of the resulting page to Historical Databases. Note: In ProQuest historical databases cannot be searched in combination with non-historical databases.
index  Humanities Abstracts
 ftFT through WilsonSelectPlus
H.W. Wilson FirstSearchFS; Academic subject oriented periodical index; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page.
index  Index to Legal Periodicals
 ftFT through WilsonSelectPlus
H.W. Wilson FirstSearchFS; Subject oriented periodical index; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page.
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Web Site
ft imageJSTOR Arts & Sciences Collection I - VI
ft imageJSTOR Biological Sciences Collection
ft imageJSTOR Business Collection
ft imageJSTOR Health & General Sciences Collection
JSTOR Archives & provides full-image for more than 900 scholarly journals from their beginnings to the most recent 1 to 7 years (varies with vendor contracts). For example, JSTOR contains the full-text of all numbers of American Journal of Psychology from volume 1, 1887-2003.
ft  Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Lexis-Nexis Emphasizes business and law oriented information.
ascii  Library Literature H.W. Wilson Academic subject oriented periodical index; 100 library and education journals available in full-image; Wilson provides a very helpful InfoCenter which includes such topics as "How to Cite Electronic Articles", "How to Print, Email and Save/Persistent, and so on.
index  Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts Ebsco LISTA a free resource for anyone interested in libraries and information management. Indexes 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings back to the mid-1960's.
index  MathSciNet American Mathematical Society MathSciNet is a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature of the past 63 years.
index  MEDLINE National Library of Medicine FirstSearchFS; Indexes medical and nursing journals 1965-present; indexed journals are often at the professional medical level. This database should not be confused with the one below.
index  MedlinePLUS: Health Information National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health
MedlinePlus is a specialized subset of MEDLINE, which focuses on consumer health information. This database provides consumer health information about drugs and supplements, a medical encyclopedia, a dictionary, and other information culled from US government publications.
index  MLA Modern Language Association FirstSearchFS; Indexes literature, languages, linguistics, folklore; 1926 to the present.
ft  National Center for Justice Reference Services Federal & State Agencies Cooperative effort of US Department of Justice, state and other agencies and organizations
ft image  National Security Archive Proquest/ Chadwyck-Healey comprehensive collection of significant primary documents central to US foreign and military policy since 1945. Nearly 40,000 of the most important, declassified documents - totaling more than 250,000 pages - are included in the database.
ft image  Nature, Nature Archives Online
and Nature Research (aka Monthlies)
Nature Nature Archives coverage is 1987-1996, Nature is 1996 forward; full-text and full-image (PDF) files available; PDF files usually print better, but full-text files handle some types of graphics better.
ft image  Nature Reviews Nature Includes Genetics, Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Cancer, Drug Discovery, Immunology full-text and full-image (PDF) files available; PDF files usually print better, but full-text files handle some types of graphics better.
ft image  New England Journal of Medicine Online Massachusetts Medical Society Complete content; a mix of text+graphics and full-image files.
index  Newspaper Abstracts ProQuest FirstSearchFS; Indexes more than 60 national newspapers for example, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The San Francisco Chronicle; 1989-present
ft  Newspapers: InfoTrac Custom Newspapers Gale/TexShare Indexing and full-text for more than 100 newspapers; including cover to cover full text for the Austin American-Statesman, Dallas Morning-News, Houston Chronicle, and The New York Times [365-day rolling coverage for NYT].
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  Open Access Electronic Journals 
Directory of Open Access Journals
e-journals.org
HighWire Press
Dunagan Library There are three primary lists or directories that link to many academic (but some non-academic) free electronic journals. These are Directory of Open Access Journals, e-journals.org, and HighWire Press. HighWire Press links primarily to science materials.
index PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service Proquest/ CSA In July of 2005 OCLC sold this database to Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, the interface and indexing methods are entirely new; the number of titles indexed has been reduced from more than 2,000 to just over 1,000.
ft image  PAO Full-Text Collection Chadwyck Healey

PAO: Periodical Archives Online [formerly PCI] covers 37 key subject areas in the humanities and social sciences; it contains the contents of 400 journal runs, providing access to over 8 million article pages. It has digitized important scholarly titles but also includes journals of historical interest that began publication in the 19th century, for example, Edinburgh Review, which was first published in 1802.

index  Physical Education Index ProQuest/ CSA The Physical Education Index includes complete backfile indexing to 1970.
ft image  Project MUSE Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP) This database contains the complete texts with all graphics, footnotes, and references of all JHUP journals. Beginning in 2001 additional titles from more than 70 prestigious scholarly and university presses have been added for a total of more than 300 high quality academic journals. The project focuses on humanities & social science titles, but also publishes journals dealing with the history of science.
ft  Proquest Research Library
ProQuest/ CSA General periodical index; contains citations and full-image materials for both academic [e.g. Ecology] and popular [e.g. Earthwatch] titles. Indexes more than 2000 titles. More than 900 journals in this edition of the database are full image (PDF) files which provide true full-text information (graphics, tables, and so on).
ft image  PsycARTICLES APA FirstSearchFS; an online database containing more than 42,500 searchable full-text articles from 49 peer reviewed journals published by the APA and allied organizations from 1988 to the present. Be aware that PsycArticles does not replace the indexing provided through PsycINFO_1887; this index provides indexing to all major psychological journals back to 1887.
index  PsycINFO_1887 APA FirstSearchFS; Comprehensive professional psychology index; abstracts of psychology literature since 1887
index  Reader's Guide to Periodicals
 ftFT through WilsonSelectPlus
H.W. Wilson FirstSearchFS; Indexes broad range of popular magazines; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page
ft image  ScienceDirect Elsevier Full-text of 600+ science journals; also includes more than 100 social science journals.
index or ascii  Serials Solutions: Electronic Journal Listings for UTPB Serials Solutions / Proquest This service lists and provides direct links to more than 85% of all electronic journal titles (more than 20,000) available through the databases on this page and the Academic Books Available Online page.
index  Social Science Abstracts
 ftFT through WilsonSelectPlus
H.W. Wilson FirstSearchFS; Academic subject oriented periodical index; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page.
new ft  SocINDEX with Full Text  Ebscohost Sociology, Social Work and Criminology are the focus of this database. Covered in less depth and limited to journals with a social policy focus are titles in Political Science, Public Administration, Geography, and Economics. 816 journals identified and selected by the American Sociological Association are indexed cover-to-cover, another 630 journals are "priority" indexed. More than 500 of these journals are available in full text through this database. In addition, access is provided to nearly 7,000 full-text conference papers and more than 720 books.
ft  SportDiscus with Full Text EbscoHost/SIRC  texshare The SPORTDiscus covers both serial and monographic literature in the following areas of sport: recreation, exercise physiology, sports medicine, coaching, physical fitness, the psychology, history and sociology of sport. 70% of the database consists of periodical articles.
ft  Texas Almanac   GaleGroup 2006-2007 editions
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ft image  Wiley InterScience Wiley Full-image of more than 300 journals, citations, indexing and tables of contents for more than 100 additional titles.
Wilson Art Image Gallery H. W. Wilson> Images to be used strictly for educational purposes; may not be reproduced or repackaged.
index  Wilson Business Abstracts
 ftFT through WilsonSelectPlus
H.W. Wilson FirstSearchFS; Subject oriented periodical index; indexes both trade and academic; for FT select WilsonSelectPlus on results page.
ft ascii  WilsonSelect Plus H.W. Wilson FirstSearchFS; Combines indexing and full-text coverage for both popular magazine titles and academic journals; FT available for 2300+ titles; citations to more than 1 million articles.
index  WorldCat OCLC FirstSearchFS; More than 62 million catalog records for books and other materials worldwide
index or ascii  Worldscope Global disclosure FirstSearchFS; Financial reports on companies worldwide; some FT available

booksAcademic E-Books
Title Vendor Other Information
Reference Titles or titles which are primarily reference
ft Britannica Online  CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Britannica The Encyclopedia Britannica Online online; this standard reference work is updated monthly; each main entry includes the appropriate bibliographic citation for citing the article; also includes access to The Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, and the Enciclopedia Universal en Espaol
ft GaleNet Gale/TexShare Texas Almanac and Testing & Education Reference Center  focuses on Test Preparation including such areas as the TAKS exams, college credit, graduate entrance, and civil service & licensing tests
ft Gale Virtual Reference Desk Gale More than 300 reference titles from Gale, including such titles as Contemporary Hispanic Biography, the 17-volume, Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, 2nd edition, Business Plans Handbook (11 volumes), Real Life Math, New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, and Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources
ft image Maps 101
Click on "Subscriber Login"; the password will be automatically entered
Maps 101 Maps 101 is an online collection of over 4,000 maps. A large selection of these maps have been optimized for classroom teaching at all levels.
ft image Mergent Online Mergent This database is the electronic equivalent of Moody's full-text company data
ft image Oxford English Dictionary [OED] Online  CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Oxford University Press single-user license; complete text of the most current edition of the Oxford English Dictionary [OED] i.e. the Second Edition, 1989 with all supplements and for the online version, quarterly updates of new words.
ft image Oxford Premium Reference Online  CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Oxford UP single-user license; more than 400 full-image reference titles; at least basic coverage available for most academic disciplines
books
Books, Diaries, Letters, Film Scripts
and so on accessed through UTPB databases (i.e. restricted, commercial)
ft image netLibrary
The single most important access point to full-image traditional book titles supporting academic research.
OCLC/netLibrary/FirstSearch

Provided through the UTSystem Digital Library Initative; provides access to the full-text of more than 40,000 current imprint titles--books, 1990 forward. Approximately 50% of the titles are social sciences (including education and business); about 30% of titles are related to the humanties. Particularly important for humanities researchers netLibrary organizes and gives access to Gutenberg Project texts [historical backfile of classic titles].

Browsing does not have a time limit; checkouts are for two hours, and require that a free account be established. All netLibrary titles are indexed in FirstSearch and accessible through hotlinks in all relevant databases from FirstSearch.

full image Alexander Street: American Film Scripts Online  Alexander Street The full images of 265 scripts written by 334 authors; examples of authors are: Joan Didion, Ruth Gordon, D.W. Griffith, and John Huston
full image Alexander Street: Early Encounters in America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment  Alexander Street The full images of 83,000 pages, authored by 1,076 writers; North America includes a limited number of works from Canada and Mexico
full image Alexander Street: Latin American Women Writers new Alexander Street The full images of 100,000 pages, authored from 1700-present. Authors from the 19th century include: Clorinda Matto de Turner (Peru), Juana M. Gorriti (Argentina), Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda (Cuba), Delmira Agustini (Argentina), and Julia Lopes Almeida (Brazil), among others. A number of important figures from the early 20th century are also targeted for inclusion, such as Alfonsina Storni (Argentina), Juana de Ibarbourou (Uruguay), Gabriela Mistral (Chile), and Clarice Lispector (Brazil).
full image Alexander Street: North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories  Alexander Street The full images of 37,500 pages, authored by 342 writers; North America includes Canada and covers the period from 1800 to 1950.
indexAlexander Street: In the First Person: An Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives Alexander Street An index to all Alexander Street collections. Note: UTPB does not subscribe to all Alexander Street databases.
full image Alexander Street: North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950  CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Alexander Street The full images of more than 150,000 pages of diaries and letters written by 1,325 North American women
full image Early English Books Online: EEBO ProQuest The full images of 125,000 early English books from 1475 to 1700 [Malory to Locke].
full image Eighteenth Century Collections Online Gale Group 150,000 books published between 1701 and 1800; 33 million pages of full-text searchable material
ft image The Gerritsen Collection:
Women's History Online
Chadwyck Healey An international digital library that spans four centuries and documents the lives and experiences of women in public and private arenas; contains more than 2,000,000 page images in 15 languages. The collection is made up of 265 periodical titles and 4,471 book and pamphlet titles.
full image Humanities E-Book Collection
aka History E-Book Collection
ACLS This began life as the History E-Book Project, but in the summer of 2007 the ACLS American Council of Learned Societies recognized that the project had in fact expanded beyond the confines of history. The name was changed and the holdings were expanded to more than 1,500 titles in history, art, literature, and other humanities areas.
full image LION: Literature Online Chadwyck-Healey A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama, and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key secondary sources. FT
ft image National Security Archive Proquest/ Chadwyck-Healey comprehensive collection of significant primary documents central to US foreign and military policy since 1945. Nearly 40,000 of the most important, declassified documents - totaling more than 250,000 pages - are included in the database.
full image TESO: Teatro Espanol del Siglo Oro Chadwyck-Healey TESO is a full-text database which contains the most important dramatic works of sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain. It contains more than 800 plays by 16 dramatists.

Note: The UT Permian Basin EZProxy server is now operational. Most library databases can now be accessed off-site. Go to Remote Access to Library Databases. The server is new enough, just installed the third week of August, so that not all databases are activated for remote access, yet. About 70% are operational now the remainder should be available early in September. See IRD Proxy server page or call (915-552-2415). For help in searching specific databases--developing search strategies, understanding coverage information, and so on--contact the Reference Desk (915-552-2396).


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