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ABI/ INFORM Complete
This database comprises ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. Wall Street Journal and Wall Street Journal Online are included. The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, key business and economics periodicals, and more.

ABI/Inform Dateline
This database includes hard-to-find local and regional business publications, including McClatchey Tribune titles, Texas Business Review, Cinco Dias and others. Also includes news about local companies, analysis, information on local markets and more. It also allows users to research employment opportunities, compile data on benefits and compensation, learn about corporate strategies and other topics from a local and regional perspective.

ABI/Inform Global
Covers 2,100+ worldwide business & economics periodicals, with 1,200+ available in full text. Includes access to data on 60,000 companies with business and executive profiles.  

Academic One File
The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.View tutorial

Academic Search Complete
Academic multidisciplinary database providing full text for 4,450+ scholarly publications, including full text for 3,500+ peer-reviewed journals.   View tutorial 

AccessPharmacy
This database is an online curriculum resource.  Users have access to core curriculum topics, organ systems, textbooks, and other pharmacy resources.

AccessScience
This database is the online equivalent of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th edition.  It provides access to authoritative articles in all major areas of science and technology.

Access UN
Current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications.

Access World News (Newsbank)
Includes Access UN (1991-2007) which is the premier index to UN documents with full-text to several thousand UN documents. It also has the electronic records for major local, regional and national newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources.

Accounting & Tax
This database is a premier accounting research database bringing together highly ranked global and scholarly journals with key resources for locating quick and precise results. It includes top journals, reference reports, proceedings, dissertations, and over 2350 publications with hundreds in full-text.

ACM Digital Library (DL)The most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records in existence today covering the fields of computing and information technology. The full-text database includes the complete collection of ACM's publications, including journals, conference proceedings, magazines, newsletters, and multimedia titles. Trial only, access restricted to on campus users.

African American Biographical Database
Biographical sketches of African American activists, business people, former slaves, performing artists, educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers, religious workers, government workers, athletes, farmers, scientists, factory workers, and more--both the famous and the everyday person.   View tutorial

African American Poetry (1750-1900)
The early history of African American poetry, from the first recorded poem by an African American (Lucy Terry Prince's "Bars Fight," c. 1746) to the major poets of the nineteenth century, including Paul Laurence Dunbar and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

AGRICOLA
This database contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Library dating back to 1970 and including 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.

Agriculture Collection
A custom collection of nearly 200 titles focused on agriculture and its related fields: from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture.

Alt Health Watch
This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full text articles for more than 180 international and often peer-reviewed journals and reports.   View tutorial 

America: History and Life
Database of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With selective indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present, this database is a bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. Also provides full-text coverage of nearly 200 journals and more than 100 books.  View tutorial

American Periodical Series
Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children’s and women’s magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.

Asian Business & Reference
This database focuses on business and financial news from the eastern hemisphere. It covers Asian business and financial information from key international publications.

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Background Notes series is a collection of works by the United States Department of State providing background information on different countries and US relations with them. These publications include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. Available through the State Department's website.

Banking Information Source
This database enables you to search essential banking industry publications for information about the financial services industry, banking and industry trends.

Bibliography of Native North Americans
A bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, life and covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 122,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index
This database is a first stop index tool for learning where to look for biographical material on people from all time periods, geographical locations and fields of endeavor. Biography and Genealogy Master Index indexes any print product that includes biographical information on multiple persons. It also acts as an index to other indexes.

Biography in Context
Biography in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. It merges Gale's authoritative reference content with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while also allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player. View Tutorials:Navigating the Homepage     Searching       Topic Pages and Documents    

Biological and Agricultural Index Plus
This is a bibliographic database that indexes English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Periodical coverage includes a wide range of scientific journals, from popular to professional, that pertain to biology and agriculture.

Biology Journals (ProQuest)
Provides access to a wide range of biology topics. There are more than 325 titles available in full-text covering a wide range of biology-related topics.

Biotechnology Information 
Advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information.
FREE ACCESS 

Black Studies Center
This is a leading tool that supports research, teaching, and learning in Black Studies and other disciplines that benefit from a more detailed coverage of the black experience such as history, literature, political science, sociology, philosophy, and religion.   View tutorial       View brochure 

Black Studies Center Dissertations
Contains a thousand doctoral dissertations and Masters' theses examining a wide variety of topics and subject areas relating to Black Studies. Included are dissertations written between 1970 and 2004 at over 100 universities and colleges across the United States. These dissertations were selected for their relevance to Black Studies scholars. View tutorial 

Black Studies Center History Makers Oral History Videos
Contains videos and full transcripts for interviews with 100 contemporary African Americans.

Black Studies Center Newspapers
The full text backfile of six influential black Newspapers: Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003); Chicago Defender (1910-1975); Daily Defender (1956-1975); Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005); New York Amsterdam News (1922-1994); Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002).

Book Review Index Plus
Includes more than 5 million review citations; it also includes more than 634,000 full-text reviews, as well as full text via links to library holdings. Access to full-text reviews allows users to conduct research in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, education, psychology, and more.

Books In Print
Offers valuable information on more than 7.5 million U.S. book, audio book, and video titles, as well as 12 million international titles, making it the industry’s largest bibliographic database.

Business Collection (ProQuest)
Comprises all content from ABI/INFORM Complete Accounting & Tax, Asian Business & Reference, Banking Information Source, Entrepreneurship, and the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences. The Collection features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, trade publications, and periodicals such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, the Economist and more.

Business Economics and Theory
With a strong emphasis on titles covered in the EconLit database, this collection provides academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics. Perfect for business classes, users will find more than 150 full-text journals to support their research.Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

Business Insights: Global Business Insights: Global is a unique source for international business intelligence offering the most comprehensive and convenient way to find case studies, in-depth statistical data coupled with deep research, and the ability to compare global economies, countries and industries

Business Search Interface
Provides access to business videos, Harvard Faculty Seminar Series, detailed company information and analysis, overview of industry profiles, including market value, market research report, market insights, and emerging trends.  View tutorial

Business Source Complete
Provides full text for 3,650+ scholarly business journals, including full text for 1,000+ peer-reviewed business publications.   View tutorial 

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Chem ID Plus
A free database of 350,000 chemical compounds. Records consist of name, synonyms, CAS number, molecular formula, and direct links to biomedical resources.   FREE ACCESS 

Child Development & Adolescent Studies                                                                                         
A source for references to the current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21. It includes more than 342,000 records indexing book reviews and abstracts, technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations covering biomedical and social sciences worldwide.

Communication and Mass Media Collection
From marketing professionals to students studying for advanced degrees in linguistic theory, this collection provides current and accurate information from more than 100 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects covered include: advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and many more. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

Computer Database
Use this database to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.  Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.     View tutorial

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 publication.   View tutorial

Consumer Health Complete
The single most comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support the information needs of patients, and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full-text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc. View tutorial 

Contemporary Authors
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on all of the more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors whose entries appear in Contemporary Authors and Contemporary Authors New Revision Series. Updated monthly, Contemporary Authors allows users to search for an author by name, title of work, nationality, date and place of birth and death, subject/genre, personal and career information, awards and honors, and more.   View Tutorial 

Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select & Dictionary of Literary Biography
Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical information on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select collects more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors, with biographical, critical, principal works, and further study information. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary figures from all eras and genres.

Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select
An extensive collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC-Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study. Updated monthly, Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select allows users to search by author name, title of work, nationality, subject/genre, ethnicity, critic name, and more.   View Tutorial 

Credo Reference
Credo Reference is an online reference service featuring full-text content from hundreds of reference books covering every major subject. Other types of content include images, maps, photos, diagrams, sound clips and more.   Credo Reference-User Guide (PDF)

Criminal Justice Collection
Whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection rises to the challenge. Users will have access to 150 journals.   Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

Culinary Arts Collection 
The Culinary Arts collection includes 150 of the major cooking and nutrition magazines. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.  Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

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DailyMed
Provides high quality information about marketed drugs. This information includes FDA labels (package inserts). This website provides health information providers and the public with a standard, comprehensive, up-to-date, look-up and download resource of medication content and labeling as found in medication package inserts. FREE ACCESS

Daily Med Mobile   FREE ACCESS 

Demographics Now - Library Edition
Up-to-date resources on demographics and extensive market level information. View Tutorial 

Dictionary of Literary Biography
Provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.

Directory of Open Access Journals
This service covers free full text quality control scientific and scholarly journals, all subjects, and languages.

Dissertations and Theses - Multidisciplinary
With more than 2.4 million entries, the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) database is the most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the world. UMI offers over 2 million titles for purchase in microfilm or paper formats. More than 930,000 are available in PDF format for immediate free download and an average of 2,000 new PDFs are added to the database each week.

Dissertations and Theses – The Arts

Dissertations and Theses – Busines

Dissertations and Theses - Health & Medicine

Dissertations and Theses – History

Dissertations and Theses – Literature & Language

Dissertations and Theses - Science & Technology

Dissertations and Theses – Social Sciences

Dissertations for Black Studies
Database contains doctoral dissertations and masters’ theses on a wide variety of topics and subject areas relating to Black Studies. It provides access to the record of scholarship on Black Studies in the United States. View Dissertations by author

Diversity Studies
Explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community. Includes more than 2.7 million articles from 150 journals updated daily, including: Contemporary Southeast Asia, Israel Studies, Italian Culture, Western Journal of Black Studies, and Latino Leaders.

Drug Information Portal
This portal gives users a gateway to selected drug information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and other key U.S. Government agencies.     FREE ACCESS

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eBook Collection (EBSCO)
Provides access to EBSCOhost eBook Collection of more than 28,000 electronic books covering a wide variety of subject disciplines.  Formerly known as NetLibrary.   View tutorials: Searching:   Flash   PowerPointDownloading:   Flash   PowerPoint

ebrary
A collection of online full text books in all academic subject areas which allow multiple users simultaneous access.  Quick Start Guide

EBSCOhost 
This menu provides access to a variety of proprietary full text and popular databases covering a variety of subjects.   The comprehensive databases range from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases.    Tutorials: Basic Search     Advanced Search –Guided Style   Creating a Journal Alert 

Economia y Negocios
Has more than 84,500 records, dating back to the early 1980s; provide coverage for more than 340 Spanish and Portuguese-language periodicals published in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, the United States and elsewhere.

Education Research Complete
The definitive online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,100 journals, as well as full text for more than 1,200 journals, and includes full text for nearly 500 books and monographs.

Educational Administration Abstracts
Includes bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. You can find full text documents by indicating Linked full-text on the Basic Search Page under the Limit Your Results section or after a search is done by Refine Results on the left and indicating Linked Full Text.

Educators Collection
Perfect for educating future teachers and administrators, this set covers the latest technologies, developments, instruction and coaching breakthroughs. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

EJS E-Journals
EBSCOhost Electronic Journals Service (EJS) is a gateway to thousands of e-journals containing millions of articles from hundreds of publishers.

EMBASE
Provides access to more than 18 million biomedical and pharmacological records from 1974 to present.

Entrepreneurship
This database delivers a collection of content types such as video clips, start-up plans, templates and forms, journal content, business cases, working papers, conference proceedings, and more.

Environmental Health & Toxicology
A comprehensive website with access to resources produced by TEHIP and other government agencies and organizations.   Toxicology Tutorial-Basic Principles     Tutorial -Toxicokinetics      Tutorial-Cellular Toxicology   FREE ACCESS 

Environmental Studies and Policy
A collection of over 800 journals and 6 subject specific Delmar reference titles provide robust coverage of environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.  Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.   

ERIC (EBSCO)
The Education Resource Information Center contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966. View Tutorial 

ERIC.ed.gov 
The world’s largest digital library of education literature. ERIC in partnership with ProQuest has added more than 1,700 education related doctoral dissertations to the ERIC Collection. ERIC Help & Tutorials    
FREE ACCESS    

Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch™ (ENW) features newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. With titles dating from 1990, ENW presents an unmatched, comprehensive, full-text collection of more than 2.2 million articles from more than 330 publications offering both national and regional coverage. It includes community publications, as well as top scholarly journals on ethnicities and ethnic studies. This unique resource thoroughly covers these ethnic groups: African American/Caribbean/African, Arab/Middle Eastern, Asian/Pacific Islander, European/Eastern European, Hispanic, Jewish, and Native People.

Ethnic NewsWatch: A History
This full-text database provides the historical background to the ethnic, minority, and native press content in Ethnic NewsWatch, with materials dating from 1959–1989. Ethnic NewsWatch: A History™ presents the other sides of the stories on local, national, and international events that changed the course of history across three turbulent decades—the civil rights struggle, Vietnam War protests, dramatic changes in immigration law, trickle down economics, and the status of migrant workers. With more than 300,000 articles, ENW: A History gives undergraduates access to the real story of the 60s, 70s, and 80s. 

European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750
This bibliographic database is a valuable index for libraries, scholars and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. Created from “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed in Europe relating to The Americas, 1493-1750” this resource contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.

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Films On Demand is a web-based digital video delivery service that allows you to view streaming videos. Choose from thousands of high-quality educational titles in dozens of subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to organize and bookmark clips, create and share playlists, personalize folders, and manage their entire collection through a robust administrative reporting system. Films On Demand delivers outstanding digital video ideal for students, faculty, and public library patrons through online catalogs, distance-learning courses, and learning management systems. For information about Films on Demand Collections, click here: http://ffh.films.com/digitallanding.aspx. For access, please contact a TSU Librarian for login credentials. TRIAL.

Fine Arts and Music Collection
With more than 100 full-text magazines and journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection will provide students with resources to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.  Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

Fuente Academica
Offers more than 450 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. The database is updated weekly.

Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia
Indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas.

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Gale Literary Databases
A cross searchable database of three databases: Contemporary Authors provides biographical and bibliographical information on more than 120,000 national and international authors. Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select has more than 35,000 critical essays on contemporary authors and critical principal works. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides 10,000 biographical and critical essays on their lives, works and careers.  

Gale PowerSearch
Gale PowerSearch provides the ability to browse more than 20,000 publications and search across more than 150 million documents. Includes Web 2.0 sharing tools (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) ReadSpeaker technology, on demand translation of documents and inclusion of multimedia (videos, audios, and podcasts) in search results content types.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a collection of specialized electronic reference sources.  These eBooks are  accessible online from the library or remotely 24/7.   The R. J. Terry Library subscribes to titles from the Literature eBook Collection.   View Title List          View Tutorial 

Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection
This collection of nearly 50 journals is focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture. A fertile and growing collection, this collection includes content relating to both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

General BusinessFile ASAP
Analyzes company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics and politics. Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and company directory listings with full text and images available.

General Reference Center Gold
General interest database that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

Gender Studies Collection
This collection of nearly 40 journals aims to provide balanced coverage of this significant aspect of our culture, covering such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and many more. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided; choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

General Science Collection
A custom collection of over 200 journals, providing researchers with the information needed to stay current on the latest scientific developments -- including such topics as particle physics, advanced mathematics, and nanotechnology.  Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text.

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. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.

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Handbook of Texas Online
A multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture.  

Health Reference Center-Academic
Multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in InfoTrac's award-winning Health Reference Center. All in a single, easy-to-use database, the material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.  Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

Health Sources: Consumer Edition
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 provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.          

Health Source: Nursing/ Academic
This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient educationsheets with more than 4,700 brand names.

Heritage Quest Online
One of the most valuable resources available today to research ancestry using census data of the U.S. Federal Census Records from1770-1930 for family records and local history.   View Tutorial  

Highwire Press
Free online full-text articles of peer reviewed journals and scholarly content produced by a Division of the Stanford University Libraries.   FREE ACCESS    

Historical Chicago Defender
The Chicago Defender (1910-1975) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Historical New York Times
The New York Times (1851-2007) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Historical Washington Post
The Washington Post (1877-1994) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Home Improvement Collection
Even the smallest home improvement project can be daunting: with this collection of nearly 100 home improvement focused titles, hobbyists and professional carpenters alike will immediately put their projects on a more solid foundation. Coverage includes such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

Hoover’s Company Profiles
Business, economics, finance, reference. Find up to date proprietary editorial content covering more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives. Hoover’s widely recognized as a leading provider of corporate data, delivers in depth industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, and more.

Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure
With current and relevant content from over 500 industry journals, this collection provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism field, while also allowing for focused study of specialized aspects of the industry - including cultural aspects of travel, leisure activities, economic aspects of tourism, and more. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

Human Resources Abstracts
Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to human resources, including human resource management, employee assistance, organizational behavior, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 64,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.  You can find full text documents by indicating Linked full-text on the Basic Search Page under the Limit Your Results section or after a search is done by Refine Results on the left and indicating Linked Full Text

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Information Science and Library Issues Collection
Comprised of content from nearly 100 leading industry journals, this collection provides current and accurate information for the information professional. Coverage includes such topics as data processing techniques, metadata architectures, and more.  Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

Information Science & Technology Abstracts
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.  You can find full text documents by indicating Linked full-text on the Basic Search Page under the Limit Your Results section or after a search is done by Refine Results on the left and indicating Linked Full Text.

InfoTrac Newsstand
An innovative Web-based full-text newspaper database which allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields.  Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

IngentaConnect
IngentaConnect offers one of the most comprehensive collections of academic and professional research articles online - some 4.5 million articles from 13,500 publications. Ingenta connect provides researchers with online access to the full text of electronic articles, through subscriptions to publications.

INSPEC
The INSPEC database contains nearly 12 million bibliographic abstracts and indexing to journal articles, conference proceedings, technical reports and other literature in the fields of science and technology. You can find full text documents by indicating Linked full-text on the Basic Search Page under the Limit Your Results section or after a search is done by Refine Results on the left and indicating Linked Full Text

Insurance Liability Collection
This collection, comprised of nearly 40 journals, takes a broad view of the insurance and liability industry, covering such topics as labor relations, mortgage banking, legal issues, and more. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
This database includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,800 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books are included each year.

International Index to Music Periodicals Full-Text
This database covers the full spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition. There are more than 770,000 records.

International Index to Performing Arts Full Text
This database is a comprehensive  database/ guide providing indexing , abstracts, and full text covering a broad spectrum to the journal literature of the performing arts- drama, theater, stagecraft, dance, musical theatre, film, television and more.

Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts
Provides abstracts and indexing for literature related to personal computing products and developments in business, the Internet, the home, and all other applied areas. 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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JSTOR
JSTOR is a service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content of academic journals and other scholarly content including images, letters, oral histories, pamphlets, other primary sources.   Texas Southern University currently participates in the following JSTOR collections: Arts & Sciences I Collection, Arts & Sciences II Collection, Business I Collection, Ecology & Botany Collection, and Health & General Sciences Collection.  View Tutorial       Collections and journal titles available at TSU.

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Kids Search
Offers K-12 students an easy to use interface with emphasis on searching by topics such as geography, arts and music, health, and sports. View Tutorial 

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Legal Collection
This database contains full text for more than 250 of the world’s most respected law journals. Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world. 

LexisNexis-Academic
An outstanding service for researching news, business, and legal topics. It contains more than 6,000 sources from all over the world, drawn from print, broadcast, and online media.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.  You can find full text documents by indicating Linked full-text on the Basic Search Page under the Limit Your Results section or after a search is done by Refine Results on the left and indicating Linked Full Text.

Library of Texas Library of Texas makes available valuable resources from academic libraries, public libraries, article collections (journals, magazines, etc.) and special groups such as TexShare Card Program participants. Click on the TexShare link at top right of page to access the TexShare databases.   View Tutorial 

Literary Index
A master index to every literary series published by Gale. It combines and cross references author names, including pseudonyms and variant names and more than 140,000 sources into one source. It provides easy access to the printed edition of Gale’s literary series. These series contain complete biographies on authors and critical essays on their writings.   Help           FREE ACCESS

Literary Reference Center
A comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time frames. It includes full-text reference books and literary works including titles with a focus on plays, drama, poetry, and African American and Hispanic literature. Full text literary journals and magazines are also included with a focus on multicultural studies, folklore and Latin American literature. You may browse authors and their works, books are highlighted with critical essays and book reviews, along with author biographies and interviews, classic and contemporary poems and short stories.

Literature Criticism Online
Comprised of the ten individual series that represents a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres, this database contains broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals.

Literature Online
A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 328 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

Literature Resource Center - LRC, Scribner Writers Series Online, Twayne's Authors Online      
A comprehensive online source for literary criticism and other information about authors, their works, topic and work overviews, primary sources and literary works, and more. All three databases can be searched simultaneously or individually

Literature Resources from Gale
Research authors and their works, literary movements and genres. Search across several major Literature databases to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism, reviews, biographical information and overviews.    View tutorial

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MAS Ultra: School Edition
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.

MasterFILE Premier
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.  View tutorial 

MedicLatina
A unique collection of medical research and investigatory journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. This Spanish language database contains full-text for 130 peer-reviewed medical journals.

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.

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
Provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2700 contemporary testing instruments and all yearbooks from the first edition, 1938, to the present. It contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within areas such as psychology, education, business, and leadership. Tests in Print serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print and provides vital information including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).

Mergent
Offer a wealth of detail on items including business description, history, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt and capital stock. Financial statements are presented in "as-reported" form and in native currencies, maintaining the full integrity of this critical information. U.S. Company Data and International Company Data offer seamlessly access to reports on companies based around the world, searching by company name or ticker symbol, or searching across all global boundaries to find companies that match specific financial and/or textual search criteria.

Metalib GPO
Searches multiple U.S. federal government databases. It is provided as a service of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications.   Metalib GPO Help          FREE ACCESS      

MICROMEDEX                                                                                                                                     
This powerful database contains evidence based information on drugs, toxicity, diseases, acute care, and intelligence medicine. Also included are the CareNotes System, Red Book Online, Formulary Advisor, PDR Electronic Library, and NeoFax. 

Middle Search Plus
Provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and a SchoolImage Collection of photos, maps and flags.

Military and Government Collection
Offers current news pertaining to all branches  of the military and government and provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals.    Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.    View tutorial 

Military and Intelligence Database                                                                                               
Both the historian and reporter on the frontline will find useful information in this collection, composed of content from over 400 journals, which covers all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. Key subjects covered include: socioeconomic effects of war, governmental policies, the structure of armed forces, and many more. Articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text. Language options and audio files are provided, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.

Million Dollar Directory
The Dun & Bradstreet Million Dollar Directory (MDDI) provides a valuable source of information on both privately and public companies and their executives.  It combines complete coverage on all businesses in the U. S. and Canada with business profiles on firms in over 200 countries worldwide.

MLA Directory of Periodicals
Offers detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. Detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as, frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.

MLA International Bibliography
A detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. The electronic version dates back to 1920 and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. Indexed materials coverage is international and includes 60 titles from JSTOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text. 

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National Newspaper Index
Provides quick access to the indexing of America’s top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. 

National Security Archive
Contains the most comprehensive collection of primary documents available, including some 63,000 important declassified of critical U.S. policy decision and 29 complete specialized collections.

Natural & Alternative Treatments
Contains detailed information and almost 200 different conditions and conventional and natural treatments used to treat them, over 300 herbs and supplements, plus drug-herb and drug supplements,interactions for more than 60 drug categories.

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
Facilitates research in criminal justice and criminology, through the preservation, enhancement, and sharing of computerized data resources; through the production of original research based on archived data; and through specialized training workshops in quantitative analysis of crime and justice data. Home to web sites for two separately maintained programs: the Project for Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) and the Terrorism and Preparedness Data Resource Center (TPDRC).   FREE ACCESS      

Naxos Music Library
The Naxos Music Library is an online library of more than 1,227,000 tracks of music from the catalog of Naxos, a leading classical music label, and selected additional labels. Although Naxos is best known for its classical recordings, it also includes world music, jazz, blues legends, pop and rock, and national anthems. All of the Naxos repertoire may be searched in standard/advanced modes or browsed in a large number of categories and genres. In addition, Naxos offers a number of text resources including overviews of music history, program notes for recordings, and the complete libretti of many operas. Students will find composer biographies, glossary of musical terms, work analyses, CD liner notes, and many other useful text resources. Playlists can be created by students and professors alike for private use or to facilitate in-classroom discussion. Trial ends 5/31/13.

NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts)
A federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide. Services and resources are available to anyone interested in crime, victim assistance, and public safety including policymakers, practitioners, researchers, educators, community leaders, and the general public.  FREE ACCESS  

NeoFax  (Included in MICROMEDEX)   
Helps clinicians prescribe, calculate, formulate, and administer essential drugs and parental nutrition solutions for neonates. By providing complete neonatal drug information covering more than 180 substances, NeoFax helps reduce medication errors and decreases time spent ordering and compounding.

NetLibrary  see eBook Collection  or Ebscohost eBooks

Newspaper Source
Provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 (U.S.) & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.Web-based full-text newspaper database which allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields. Finally, a one-stop source for the day's news and searchable archives. You can customize your online newspaper database features including search options. With InfoTrac Newsstand, you can search a collection of more than 1,000 newspapers, then select your own screen appearance, search options and results format.

NewsVault Delivers the definitive cross-searching experience for exploring your library's collection of Gale historical newspapers. With the power to search over 10 million digitized facsimile pages, NewsVaultprovides an unparalleled window to the past.

Nursing and Allied Health Collection
All aspects of the Nursing profession -- from direct patient care to health care administration -- are covered in this collection. Including nearly 400 titles, this collection's current and authoritative content will be of use to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.

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OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson)
This database contains a wealth of essential material for learning and detailed research in a single, easily-searched database. With the full text of articles from over 2,500 publications, and indexing and abstracts from nearly 3,600 publications, this database provides invaluable support for research in all core undergraduate subjects and for cross-disciplinary work.

O*NET OnLine                                                                                                                                    
O*NET OnLine (Occupational Information Network) is a comprehensive database of worker attributes and job characteristics. The O*NET database includes information on skills, abilities, work activities, and interests associated with over 950 occupations. Each occupational title and code is based on the most current version of the Standard Occupational Classification system.   FREE ACCESS

Opposing Viewpoints in Context
An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. Database features continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audiofiles and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.  Language options are provided. To access audio files, choose an article and then select “listen” or download to an MP3 player.   View Tutorial 

Oxford African American Studies Center
This reference site contains more than 10,000 articles by top scholars in the field. The core content includes the full-text of Africana, Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895, Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present, Black Women in America, African American National Biography, as well as other reference works.

Oxford Music Online                                                                                                                        
Oxford Music Online is the gateway through which users can access an expanding range of Oxford's premier music resources, including Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, The OxfordDictionary of Music, and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music.  (Librarian's note: For contemporary artists, try also the Pop Culture Collection and the International Index to Music Periodicals.) View tutorial   Tips for Oxford Music Online Users 

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PAIS Archive
Retrospective database chronicling global public policy and social issues from the early twentieth century through the mid 1970 providing selective subject and bibliographical access to periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications and other English-language materials published around the world.

PAIS International
The PAIS International database from CSA contains citations to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. PAIS International includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world.

Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection Collection includes over 100 titles covering the fields of physical therapy and sports medicine. Covering a wide spectrum of information, researchers will have access to a diverse, but focused set of topics in the field, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research theses, and many more. 

Policy File
Offers access to U.S. foreign and domestic policy papers and gray literature, Policy File is updated weekly with abstracts and links to the latest reports, papers, and documents from think tanks, research institutes, and agencies. 

Political Science (ProQuest)
Search the full-text of leading political science and international relations journals. This collection provides full-text coverage of many core titles included in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.

Pop Culture Collection                                                                                                                      
From the Hunger Games to the SXSW Festival, this collection provides sources for those researching popular culture.This collection is made up of more than 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals. 

Popular Magazines
Includes 1000 of the most searched magazines across our InfoTrac products. All the titles were selected based on actual publication searches performed by library patrons. This database is 100% full text and includes over 600 titles recommended by Bowker's "Magazines for Libraries." Titles like Consumer Reports, Time, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, US News and World Report, Vogue, Fortune, Business Week, National Review, Cosmopolitan, NPR and even Oprah are included in this database.

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.