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- Advanced Technologies & Aerospace
- The Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database includes the renowned Aerospace Database and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. For those researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorially-curated A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline.
, and the Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol
- Business Source Complete
- Full text academic journals as well as trade (i.e. non-academic) journals relating to business, economics, trade, and so on. This database also provides specific targeted subsets of information as indicated; EBSCOhost
- Family Studies Abstracts
- Family Studies Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy, and other rare as of key relevance. The index contains more than 53,500 records.
- Films on Demand
- Films On Demand is a web-based digital video delivery platform that allows you to view streaming videos from Films Media Group anytime, anywhere, 24/7! Many subject areas are covered. Cite it as a source for your next paper.
- Fuente Academica Premier
- This database is an expanding collection of over 570 scholarly journals from LAtin America, Portugal and Spain. All major subject areas are covered with particular emphasis on agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion, and sociology.
- Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
- This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
- GaleNet-all available databases
- Includes such databases as Business Resource Center, MLA, the Gale Virtual Reference Library and the Texas Almanac.
- Gale PowerSearch
- Gale PowerSearch provides access to almost all the Gale content in your library’s collection through one, single search query. If this retrieves too many hits select Change Databases at the top of the page and select the single database you wish to focus on.
- Gale’s Literature Reference Center with Twayne’s Authors and Scribner Writers
- Uses an specialized interface aimed at literary research; full biographies as well as significant critical studies of major US, British and many international authors of belles letters and literature.
- Gale Literary Databases
- Focused on contemporary literature; contents are: Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism and Dictionary of Literary Biography
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
- More than 300 full-text reference titles including such things as The Gale Encyclopedia of Science, 4th edition, 2008; Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia: Evolution, 2011; Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West; Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education; Business Plans Handbook, volume 19, 2011; Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol & Addictive Behavior, 3rd edition, 2009; Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media, 2007.
- GeoRef (1693-current)
- The GeoRef database, established by the American Geosciences Institute (AGI) in 1966, provides access to the most comprehensive geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef contains millions of references to geoscience maps, serial, and non-serial literature. The database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Master's theses and doctoral dissertations from US and Canadian universities are also covered. Coverage for North American resources starts in 1669, whereas worldwide coverage starts in 1933.
- GeoRef in Process
- This database contains records that are, literally, in the process of being indexed prior to their integration in the main GeoRef database. The majority of the records originate from non-English language literature that was not necessarily published recently. GeoRef In Process does not contain the most current records and should not be confused with a database of Recent References.
- The Gerritsen Collection: Women’s History Online, 1453-1945
- Choice Outstanding site; 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. ProQuest / Chadwyck-Healey
- GPO Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
- Index of U.S. government publications; also links directly to electronic government documents.
- GreenFILE
- GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
- Grove Music Online
- Grove Music Online has been the leading online resource for music research since its inception in 2001, a comprehensive compendium of music scholarship offering the full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition (2002), as well as numerous subsequent updates and emendations. Including more than 50,000 signed articles and 30,000 biographies contributed by over 6,000 scholars from around the world, Grove Music Online is the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of music.
- HarpWeek, 1857-1912
- 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 Aidsfor some of the most common areas of interest--e.g. Geography, Literary Genre, Occupation or Role in Society and so on; Harper’s Publishing
- Health Source - Consumer Edition
- This database is a 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: Nursing/Academic Edition
- This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. It also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide; EBSCOhost
- 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
- Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007)
- Choice Highly Recommended site; Full text historical news and newspaper articles; ProQuest
- Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center
- This database is a collection of resources on arts & crafts, collecting, home & garden, indoor recreation, kids' crafts, model building, needlecrafts & textiles, outdoor recreation, performing arts, science & technology, scrapbooking & papercrafts, and much more.
- Home Improvement Reference Center
- This database is a collection of resources on decorating, electrical, maintenance, outdoor, plumbing, remodeling, and woodworking.
- Humanities and Social Science Retrospective, 1907-1984
- Choice Highly Recommended site; The complete online backfile indexing of Wilson’s Humanities and Social Science Index and the subsequent Humanities Index and Social Science Index.
Subjects covered:
Addiction Studies, Area Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Economics, Environmental Studies, Ethics, Family Studies, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, Geography, Gerontology, History, International Relations, Journalism, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Planning & Public Administration, Policy Sciences, Political Science, Psychiatry, Psychology, Religion and Theology, Social Work, Sociology, and Urban Studies; Formerly WilsonWeb, now owned by EBSCOhost
- Humanities Full Text
- Includes many of the most important academic journals in the humanities with the full text of articles from over 300 periodicals dating back to 1995, and high-quality indexing for almost 700 journals -- of which 470 are peer reviewed --dating as far back as 1984. Provides coverage of feature articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, and original works of fiction, drama, poetry and book reviews, as well as reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, radio and television programs, plays, operas, and more.
- IBISWorld
- Research reports contain trends, statistics and analysis on market size, market share of competitors, and industry growth rates. Performance analysis includes emerging industry trends as well as recent production performance and 5 year forecasts. Includes over 600 specialized industry reports, 75 global industry reports, 200 reports on industry sectors in China, and brief profiles of more than 8,000 public companies from around the world.
- IEEExplore
- Choice Highly Recommended site; Selected journals, conference proceedings and standards.
- Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full Text
- Subject oriented periodical index; nearly 500,000 records since 1981; Formerly WilsonWeb, now owned by EBSCOhost
- Information Science & Technology Abstracts
- Information Science & Technology Abstracts 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.
- IOPScience
- An online service for journal content published by IOP Publishing. IOPscience embraces innovative technologies to make it easier for researchers to access scientific, technical and medical content.
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- JoVE Science Education
- A revolutionary video library dedicated to teaching scientific fundamentals through simple easy-to-understand video demonstrations.
- JSTOR
- Choice Outstanding site; Archives & provides full-image for more than 1,200 scholarly journals from their beginnings to the most recent 1 to 7 years (varies with vendor contracts). In short, this provides access to more than 3 million full-length scholarly articles.
- Latin American Women Writers
- 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). Alexander Street
- Legal Collection
- This database contains full text for more than 250 of the world's most respected scholarly law journals.
- Legal Information Reference Center
- This database provides full text for more than 225 publications and thousands of legal forms, with more content added on a regular basis.
- LexisNexis Academic
- Provides current hot topics in the news, financial information of a specific company, or a following of a judgment on a case.
- Library Literature & Information Science Full Text
- Academic subject oriented periodical index; provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting of over 400 journals, including key library and information science periodicals, and full-text coverage of over 170 journals. Coverage reaches as far back as 1980; EBSCOhost
- Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
- 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.
- Literary Reference Center
- This database combines information from major respected reference works, books, liteary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing. Literary Reference Center contains full text for more than 25,000 plot summaries, synopses, and work overviews, nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticisms, more than 253,000 author biographies, and much more.
- MAS Complete
- This database contains full text for more than 540 popular, high school magazines. It also provides more than 440 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles for key magazines.
- MasterFILE Complete
- This database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1922. It also contains full text for more than 1,000 reference books and over 164,000 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags.
- Materials Science & Engineering
- The Materials Science & Engineering Database includes the renowned METADEX, Copper and Polymer Library databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings and government publications.
- MathSciNet : Mathematical Reviews on the Web
- MathSciNet is a comprehensive database covering the world’s mathematical literature of the past 65 years; American Mathematical Society.
- MEDICINEnetBASE
- A complete and in-depth collection of over 390 ebooks providing authoritative and practical references on topics ranging from cardiology and clinical neuroscience to dermatology and gastroenterology in the armamentarium of the clinicians who need them on a daily basis.
- MedicLatina
- MedicLatina contains full text for 130 peer-reviewed medical journals in native Spanish.
- Medline
- Using this address you may chose to access Medline through one of two gateways; PubMed or the National Library of Medicine [NLM] Gateway.
- MEDLINE : EBSCOhost
- 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 uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
- MEDLINE : PubMed
- Choice Highly Recommended site; Comprised of more than 20 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central; NIH.gov
- MedlinePLUS: Health Information
- Choice Outstanding site; 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; NIH.
- Mergent Online
- This database is the electronic equivalent of Moody’s full-text company data; includes US company data for more than 10,000 public companies and their SEC filings; access to these companies annual reports, along with selected access to international company data and annual reports.
- The Merriam-Webster Unbridged Dictionary
- provided through Britannica Publishing
- Middle Search Plus
- 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).
- Military & Government Collection
- Offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites.
- Military Database
- The Military Database covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more. An important benefit of the Military Database is its content diversity. Included are scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
- MLA
- Choice Highly Recommended site; GaleNet/MLA; Indexes literature, languages, linguistics, folklore; 1926 to the present; more than 2 million citations.
- National Criminal Justice Reference Services
- Choice Highly Recommended site; Cooperative effort of US Department of Justice, state and other agencies and organizations; NCJRS.gov
- National Security Archive
- 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.
- Natural & Alternative Treatments
- Natural & Alternative Treatments contains detailed information on almost 200 different conditions and the conventional and natural treatments used to treat them, over 300 herbs and supplements, plus drug-herb and drug-supplement interactions for more than 90 drug categories. [Note: Access only available on-campus.]
- Natural Science Collection
- The Natural Science Collection includes the Agri & Env, Bio Science, and Earth, Atmospheric & Aqua Databases and provides full-text titles from around the world including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more.
- Nature, Nature Archives Online
- 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.
- Nature GeoScience
- Monthly, peer reviewed, scientific journal focusing on theoretical research, modeling, and field work pertaining to the earth sciences. Broad topical coverage includes Atmospheric science, Geology, Geophysics, Climate science, Oceanography, Paleontology, and the Space sciences. Includes full-text and full-image (PDF) files available; PDF files usually print better, but full-text files handle some types of graphics better.
- Nature Methods - Techniques for Life Scientists and Chemists
- Monthly, peer reviewed scientific academic journal covering new techniques for science. Aimed at a broad, interdisciplinary audience of academic and industry researchers actively involved in laboratory practice.
- Naxos Music Library
- The most comprehensive collection of classical music available online offering over 1,247,500 tracks of Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Includes more than 10,000 composer and artist biographies and a pronunciation guide for composer and artist names. (5-concurrent-user license)
- New England Journal of Medicine Online : NEJMO
- Complete content; a mix of text+graphics and full-image files
- Newspaper Source Plus
- EBSCOHost; provides access to nearly 100 full text newspapers
- Newswires
- Provides near real-time access to top world-wide news from Associated Press, United PRess International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire on a continuous basis.
- North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories
- Choice Highly Recommended site; The full images of 37,500 pages, authored by 342 writers; North America includes Canada and covers the period from 1800 to 1950; Alexander Street
- North American Women’s Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950
- Choice Outstanding site; The full images of more than 150,000 pages of diaries and letters written by 1,325 North American women; Alexander Street
- OAIster: Union catalog of Digital Resources
- Indexes nearly 19 million records available in the following digital formats--audio, dataset, image, text, video. On the whole this is NOT direct access to the work itself, but the correct information to find the material. Originally funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the University of Michigan Libraries; now wholly supported by OCLC.
- Odessa American
- Local newspaper. You will need to login (after authenticating) to access the online edition of the Odessa American. The username is libraryservices@utpb.edu and the password is Password1.
- OmniFile Full Text Mega
- OmniFile Full Text Mega contains a wealth of essential material for learning and detailed research with full text articles from over 2,500 publications, and indexing and abstracts from nearly 3,600 publications.
- Open Access Electronic Journals
- There are three primary lists or directories that link to many academic (but some non-academic) free electronic journals.
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- Directory of Open Access Journals Choice Highly Recommended site
- e-journals.org
- HighWire Press Choice Outstanding site
- Open Textbook Library
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The Open Textbook Library is supported by the Center for Open Education and Open Textbook Network.
Make a difference in your students' lives with free, openly-licensed textbooks.
Textbooks every student can access and afford.
Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded at no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.
- Oxford American National Biography Online
- Choice Outstanding site; The premier source of information about over 19,000 people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture.
- Oxford English Dictionary [OED] Online
- Choice Outstanding site; 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, monthly updates of new words Oxford Reference
- Oxford Language Dictionaries
- Choice Outstanding site; French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, and Chinese; a cite link provides the correct MLA and Chicago / Turabian citation styles. Oxford Reference
- Oxford Music Online
- Oxford Music Online is the gateway offering users the ability to access and cross-search multiple music reference resources in one location. With Grove® Music Online as its cornerstone, Oxford Music Online also contains The Oxford Companion to Music (revised 2011), which offers more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms and genres, and individual works; and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd edition (revised 2006), which supplements Grove’s more-extensive articles with content geared toward undergraduates and general users. Both of these sources are included in subscriptions to Grove Music Online.
- Oxford Premium Reference Online
- Choice Outstanding site; single-user license; more than 300 full-image reference titles; at least basic coverage available for most academic disciplines; Oxford Reference
- PAO Full-Text Collection
- PAO: Periodicals Archive Online [formerly PCI] covers 37 key subject areas in the humanities and social sciences; it contains the contents of 600 journal runs, providing access to over 6 million articles. 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. Access provided to PAO Collections 1-8 and British Periodicals Collection II.
- PapersFirst
- FirstSearch; Provides indexing for every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre. Over 6.5 million records; updated twice monthly.
- Physical Education Index
- Physical Education Index provides specialized, editorially curated A&I resources critical to researchers with an academic, professional or personal interest in the field of physical education. Through scholarly and trade literature, the database covers a wide range of topics, ranging from physical and health education to fitness and recreation and the business of sports, as well as Kinesiology, physical therapy, motor learning, and sport sociology and psychology.
- Play Index
- Play Index searches over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present in convenient electronic form. It covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama.
- Polymer Library (1972-current)
- RAPRA Polymer Library (formerly known as RAPRA: Rubber and Plastics) is dedicated exclusively to rubbers, plastics, adhesives, and polymeric composites. The database contains a large collection of extensively indexed summaries covering technical, academic, commercial, and marketing aspects of the rubber and plastics industries.
- Portico
- Portico provides a comprehensive approach to digital preservation combines long-term content management with a mission to address the needs of tomorrow’s scholars.
- Primary Search
- 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.
- Professional Development Collection
- Professional Development Collection provides highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles.
- Project MUSE
- Choice Outstanding site; This database contains the complete texts with all graphics, footnotes, and references of all JHUP journals. Beginning in 2001 additional titles from more than 100 prestigious scholarly and university presses have been added for a total of more than 600 high quality academic journals. The project focuses on humanities & social science titles, but also publishes journals dealing with the history of science. Johns Hopkins University Press / Project Muse.
- PsycARTICLES
- Full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles covering from 1894 to the present for nearly 80 journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA); EBSCOhost
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
- Comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world’s largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals.
- PsycINFO
- Comprehensive professional psychology index; abstracts of psychology literature since 1806; more than 2.2 million records; updated weekly.
- PubMed
- More than 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life journals and online books.
- Race Relations Abstracts
- This database includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key freelance to the discipline.
- Rand Daily Mail, 1902-1985
- Searchable edition of one of South Africa’s most important newspapers, with deep coverage of the country during the Apartheid Era.
- Readers’ Guide Full Text
- OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition™ indexes and provides full text to a broad range of journals and magazines; FYI: Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition contains full text of articles from over 2,500 publications, and indexing and abstracts from nearly 3,600 publications including:
Education Full Text
General Science Full Text
Humanities Full Text
Readers’ Guide Full Text
Social Sciences Full Text
Wilson Business Full Text [BPI]
- Reader’s Guide Retrospective, 1890-1982
- Choice Highly Recommended site; Readers’ Guide has earned the trust of researchers at all levels, and was hailed by Library Journal as One of the 50 Best Reference Sources for the [2nd] Millennium. RG Retrospective presents one of the the richest accounts of U.S. cultural history you’ll find in any single source.
- Readex All Search-Multiple Search Tool
- Search across all of your available Readex collections, including newspapers, books, pamphlets, government publications, and more.
- Referencia Latina
- This database contains the following subject areas: artes y literatura, carreras, ciencia y technologia, deportes, entretenimiento, finanzas peronales, geografia e historia, inmigracion, negocios, religion, salud, temas de actualidad.
- RefWorks
- RefWorks is a web-based commercial reference management software package for storing and managing bibliographic references. It has an improved user experience, full-text management and collaboration features. Produced by RefWorks-COS, a business unit of ProQuest LLC, RefWorks gives students and faculty a tool that enables a more efficient and reliable process for producing research papers.
- Regional Business News
- This database provides full text coverage for regional business publications.
- Religion and Philosophy Collection
- This database provides 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.
- Salud en Espanol
- Salud en Español provee reportes completos basados en evidencias y fichas de datos relacionados a todos los aspectos de la salud y el bienestar. Reportes específicos por tema que cubren todos los aspectos de la salud, dan información general importante en relación a enfermedades, afecciones y procedimientos de diversos tratamientos.
- SAGE Methods
- is the ultimate methods library with more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences, including the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online from any scholarly publisher.
- Science & Technology Collection
- The Science & Technology Collection contains over 830 leading full text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technology community. Subject include aeronautics, astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, and materials science.
- ScienceDirect
- Elsevier; Full-text of 600+ science journals; also includes more than 100 social science journals.
- SciFinder
- A research discovery application that provides integrated access to the world’s most comprehensive and authoritative source of references, substances and reactions in chemistry and related sciences. Note: Each user must create his/her own ID for login with the SciFinder Registration link here.
- http://ezproxy.utpb.edu/login?url=https://scifinder.cas.org/registration/index.html?corpKey=CF6A9334X86F350ABX11F2BF18188DC9D861
- SciTech Premium Collection (1946-current)
- The SciTech Premium Collection includes the Natural Science Collection and Technology Collection databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more.
- Scopus
- Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
- Serials Directory
- A listing of more than 200,000 serial publications titles--primarily journals and magazines--with keyword searching available. Made available without cost by EBSCO.
- Serials Solutions: Electronic Journal Listings for UTPB
- This service lists and provides direct links (on-campus only) to more than 95% of all electronic journal titles (more than 43,000) available through our databases.
- Short Story Index
- This database indexes all the important collections and anthologies of short stories that are published each year. All literary generes are covered.
- Small Business Reference Center
- This database covers Business Areas, Industry Information by Small Business Type, Business Basics, and Start-Up Kit & Business Plans.
- Small Engine Repair Reference Center
- The Small Engine Repair Reference Center provides information in the areas of all terrain vehicles, generators & other small engines, marine/boat motors, motorcycles, outdoor power equipment, personal water craft, snowmobiles, and tractors.
- SocINDEX with Full Text
- Choice Highly Recommended site; 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.
- SportDiscus with Full Text
- 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.
- SpringerLink Journals
- Providing researchers with access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works.
- Sustainability Reference Center
- The Sustainability Reference Center offers content from more than 800 publications including journals, monographs, magazines, and trade publications.
- Technology Collection
- The Technology Collection includes the Advanced Technology & Aerospace and Materials Science & Engineering Databases. It combines broad indexing coverage of the scholarly literature in advanced technology, computer science, engineering, materials science and related areas with full-text titles full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.
- Texas Almanac
- Provided by the Texas State Historical Association.
- Texas Reference Center
- A Texas specific product comprised of periodicals, reference books, reports, and other content relevant to the state. Contains more than 75 full text periodicals, 150 full text reference books, several Texas newspapers, and much more.
- Teacher Reference Center
- This database provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
- TexQuest
- TexQuest is a statewide digital resources program that provides anytime, anywhere access to high quality, authoritative digital resources to all educators, students, and students’ immediate families in Texas K-12 public schools and open enrollment charter schools. The username is j068803 and the password is learn.
- TOPICsearch
- This database contains full text for over 150,961 articles from 475 diverse sources including international and region newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
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- Value Line
- Provides flexible tools that give you the keys to Value Line’s statistical analyses, projections and insightful commentaries/
- Vocational and Career Collection
- This database id designed for vocational and technical libraries services high schools, community colleges, trade institutions, and the general public.
- Web News
- Provides near real-time access to thousands of top news feeds from around the globe and includes over 14,000 feeds covering a range of business and general news topics.
- Wiley Online Library
- Choice Highly Recommended site; Full-image of more than 1,500 journals. The new interface indicates which titles are journals and which are books. It also has a little icon of a padlock; if the padlock is open UTPB has access; if there is no padlock or the padlock is "closed" then UTPB does not have access.
- World Almanac
- FirstSearch; includes World Almanac and Book of Facts, World Almanac of the U.S.A., and World Almanac of U.S. Politics
- World History Collection
- Contains full text for 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals; full text dates as far back as 1964.
- WorldCat
- FirstSearch; More than 179 million catalog records for books and other materials owned by libraries and museums worldwide
- WorldCat Dissertations
- FirstSearch; A database of all dissertations and theses available in WorldCat; 8 million records of dissertations and theses that have been catalogued in WorldCat
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UTPB to preserve various materials into accessible digital archives
Watch for the virtual library, with 3-D no less
Nov. 17, 2017
There is a saying that: “Once you have poured your heart and soul into a master’s thesis that only a handful of people will have read it (namely your committee), and the bound book that you purchase will languish on your bookshelf gathering dust.” And what about faculty research not being digitally archived? Faculty research includes the full spectrum of digital scholarship, from already published research articles to reports, working papers, data sets, video, creative works, and more. Student scholarship includes master’s theses, honors projects, creative work, student events, under-graduate research posters, and student-edited journals and publications.
And what about such treasures as KOSA-TV news scripts from the 1970s, and a core of rock taken from an oil well site that can be digitally rendered to reveal its geological entirety in three-dimensional form? Or founding documents of The University of Texas of the Permian Basin (UTPB), or even photographs of former attorney general John Ben Shepperd with former Presidents LBJ and First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, along with Ronald Reagan’s appearance at UTPB in the mid-1970s?
Welcome to the ground-breaking initiative, the FalconCommons Institutional Repository. FalconCommons will feature an array of pertinent current historical data, including master’s theses and projects, historical picture files and archival collections (print, video, and audio), OER (open educational resources) textbooks, faculty research — published articles, conference proceedings, poster sessions, accreditation papers and files, etc. FalconCommons will support all research, teaching, and public engagement on our campus. This new digital repository and archive of UTPB will transform the University Library by allowing us to bring the materials directly to the user via the web rather than the user visiting the library building. In other words: "You do not need to visit the Library, the Library is at your fingertips."
The first segment of FalconCommons will be the conversion of our UTPB master’s theses and master’s projects into digital files on the FalconCommons website. Our dedicated faculty can then connect their students, via the internet, to our FalconCommons website, thus allowing them to draw on past University research. This will allow them to do their own course-related research projects. FalconCommons contains internal firewalls that can constrict the use of any document to campus only.
Our repository readily provides real-world metrics worldwide from scholars and peers at other institutions and allow us to share and collaborate data and information exchange. When researchers access UTPB research and historical data globally, the generated usage metrics will be used by our faculty and administration to promote our University.
Our FalconCommons database is being hosted by Digital Commons from bepress™, a division of Elsevier, a world recognized leader in library digitization. This is a system for gathering in one place all the valuable digital work produced on campus, in order to showcase and disseminate it for maximum effect. Content in FalconCommons is optimized for discovery, access, and scholarly impact on the open web, and even has built-in real-world metrics stretching globally.
This is what you can expect from FalconCommons:- Faculty research. Including the full spectrum of faculty digital scholarship, from already published research articles to reports, working papers, data sets, video, creative works, and more.
- Student scholarship. Master’s theses, honors projects, creative work, student events, and student-edited journals and publications.
- Scholarly publishing. Digital Commons is a professional publishing platform and supports online peer review and publishing, lowering the barriers to publish and manage digital journals, books, and conferences.
- Open Educational Resources. The platform’s multimedia capabilities allow the university to share with the world all the valuable curricular materials learning objects produced on campus, as well as to give faculty and instructors the opportunity to author and publish open access textbooks.
- Archives and special collections. UTPB’s archival collections will benefit immensely from being shared with a global audience. The library will share its plans to give new life to rarely-accessed archival collections once they become instantly available to millions of users.
- Data metrics on how our University generated research is being utilized.
The Library has submitted for approval with the University graduate council to the Graduate Studies and Research department an official legal waiver form for graduate student theses and projects that all graduate students in 2018 and beyond would have to approve, if they are to have their work published in FalconCommons.
The implementation of FalconCommons will ensure that the University meets the complex challenges of the official "Strategic Plan for 2009 to 2019 Update 2015" of the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. It specifically answers, ’Closing the Gaps: The Texas Higher Education Plan.’ "Research — Increase the research productivity, particularly externally funded research, of Texas higher education institutions to address the technological and science needs of Texas." FalconCommons will centralize, preserve and make accessible our University’s intellectual capital as technology-enabled education materials. Translation: these new modalities of learning can improve a student’s course performance!
To access the link when Irene Kamotsky, Ph.D., Director of Strategic Initiatives for bepress™ (Elsevier, Inc.) appeared on Wednesday, November 1 for a Lunch n’ Learn Symposium: Showcasing Your Research and Digital Scholarship with faculty, staff, and community members, visit: https://utpb.sharepoint.com/portals/hub/_layouts/15/PointPublishing.aspx?app=video&p=p&chid=fa1f0068-c00e-48fc-8330-6f0b836cda74&vid=c0fdfe23-66f9-4058-a0db-03df1c755ccc&from=2
FalconCommons. Where campus research and discovery takes flight.Contact Information
- Services/Circulation Desk - Phone: 432-552-2370
- Research Assistance Desk - Phone: 432-552-2396
- Resource Use Instruction - Phone: 432-552-2407
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