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AATA Online is a free research database containing abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage. It has been managed and published by the Getty Center since 1983. AATA Online contains over 156,000 records, and regular updates add approximately 4,000 new records each year.

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Academic Search Complete is a large, easy-to-use, multidisciplinary collection with many full-text articles dating from before 1900s. Search thousands of newspapers, popular magazines, and scholarly journals from a variety of subjects. Your search can also be limited to full-text and peer-reviewed (scholarly) articles.

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Alternate Name(s):AVON

Academic Video Online makes video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, and more. Search for award-winning films including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners and access content from PBS, BBC, 60 MINUTES, National Geographic, Annenberg Learner, BroadwayHD™, A+E Networks’ HISTORY® and more.

Please Note: This database includes some SAMPLE videos that UTD does not have access to.

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Access World News Research Collection covers news and current events on the local, regional, national, and international levels. Access thousands of newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts, and videos. The library subscription includes Dallas Morning News, Dallas Metropolitan Collection, Arlington Morning News, and multiple news sources from across Texas.

Access thousands of articles, dictionary terms, and research updates in all areas of science and technology. AccessScience also includes thousands of biographies of leading scientists, weekly updates of breakthroughs and discoveries in science and technology, a science dictionary, and links to related websites.
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Search and browse thousands of full-text books offered by the American Council of Learned Societies. These online books in the humanities are recommended and reviewed by scholars.

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ACM Digital Library contains the full text of all articles published by the Association for Computing Machinery back to 1947, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters, and publications of special interest groups. This is one of the premier databases for computer science and technology research.

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The ACS Symposium Series contains peer-reviewed books developed from the ACS technical divisions' symposia. The series covers a broad range of topics including agricultural and food chemistry, cellulose and renewable materials, chemical education, organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, materials, and others.

This digital collection contains the complete diaries, selected legal papers, and the ongoing series of family correspondence and state papers of John Adams (1735-1826). All 30 volumes of the Adams Papers are fully annotated. This digital edition is fully searchable by date, series, author or recipient, and it contains linked cross-references as well.
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AAC presents multiple aspects of the African American community through pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, reports and in-depth oral histories, revealing the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and a unique African American culture and identity.

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This collection includes several hundred periodicals dating from the early 19th century through the early 20th century. It contains newspapers and magazines as well as reports and annuals from various African American organizations such as churches and educational and service institutions.

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A collection of primary documents containing cultural life and history in the 19th century. This database is a repository of first hand reports of various events and important racial issues, written by African-Americans for African-Americans.

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This database provides materials from the African American press in the South during the Reconstruction through the Jim Crow period (1870-1926).

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African American Newspapers, Series 1 and 2, 1827-1998, provides online access to more than 350 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. Content covers life in the Antebellum South, growth of the Black church, the Jim Crow Era, the Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights movement, political and economic empowerment, and more.

Created by the National Agricultural Library, AGRICOLA contains citations to literature that cover all aspects of agricultural science and related disciplines. AGRICOLA links to full text when available.
Alt-HealthWatch focuses on the perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It provides access to hundreds of peer-reviewed (scholarly) journals in the field of alternative medicine.
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Alternative Press Index Archive contains bibliographic information on articles from hundreds of alternative, radical, and left-wing periodicals and newspapers published between 1969 and 1990. International and interdisciplinary, this database is especially useful in the fields of the social sciences and humanities and links to full text when available. For information from 1991 onward, use Alternative Press Index.

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Ambrose Video primarily contains documentaries and theatre productions from the British Broadcasting Corporation and Ambrose Video. Collection highlights include multiple documentary series The Long Search, The Making of Mankind, A History of the U.S Constitution, Ancient History. The collection also contains several BBC Shakespeare theatre productions.

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This database contains articles on the United States, Canadian, and Mexican cultural, social, economic, diplomatic, and military histories. It covers periods from prehistory to the present and includes many full-text articles.

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America's Historical Imprints contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, and ephemera printed in early America.

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America's Historical Newspapers allows users to search thousands of U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states.
American Film Scripts Online contains hundreds of scripts, together with detailed information on the scenes, characters, and people related to the scripts. In addition, the database includes many original images of previously unpublished screenplays.
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Alternate Name(s):Indigenous Newspapers in North America

Please note the database name has changed to Indigenous Newspapers in North America. Explore nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the US and Canada. The database represents a huge variety in publisher, audience, and era, permitting users to discover how events were reported by and for Indigenous communities.

These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America. They provide a useful digital archive of primary documents in American history.
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American Periodicals contains the complete text of thousands of periodicals published between 1740 and 1940. Titles range from America's first science journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like Vanity Fair and Saturday Evening Post. It is a valuable collection of primary source material on American history.
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This database provides access to a growing list of prison newspapers covering more than 200 years. Most of the titles were written by inmates. JSTOR worked with many research institutions to assemble and fund this collection.

Anatomy.tv covers more than 50 titles in medical and health science subjects and offers interactive 3D anatomy of each region of the body. The interactive 3D components were built from imaging data, allowing users to rotate the models, and they link to supporting content including images, video, and other animations.

The Anthropological Index Online (AIO) is published by the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) in cooperation with Anthropology Library and Research Centre at the British Museum. It is an index to articles in journals taken by the Library and to films held at the Royal Anthropological Institute. The Library, which incorporates the former RAI library, holds some 4,000 periodical titles (1,500 current) covering all branches and areas of anthropology. Nearly 800 journals, published in more than 40 languages, are indexed on a continuing basis. Records cover 1957 to the present.
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This powerful resource from the American Psychological Association guides users who have questions about how to conduct research, structure their papers, and format what they write. Academic Writer’s self-paced learning modules, reference building tools, and guided writing center support libraries and writing centers to facilitate academic success by training students to build a strong writing foundation.

The APA PsycArticles database covers journal articles published by the American Psychological Association and other allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from more than 50 journals. Coverage extends more than 120 years, beginning in 1894.
APA PsycInfo is the premier index for researching psychological literature, including related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and others. APA PsycInfo indexes thousands of psychology journals, as well as appropriate book chapters, books and dissertations. The index starts in 1806 (1887 for journals) and is updated weekly.
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APA PsycNet contains eBooks published by the American Psychological Association.

APA PsycTests provides descriptive summaries, full text (if available), and relevant citations on the development and assessment of tests and measures that can be used in research and teaching. This repository includes unpublished tests, tests developed by psychologists for which no source documentation is available, and information about commercially published tests. Information on each test includes: data on the scope of the test, test implementation, a high-level overview of the test’s development, and reliability and validity data (when available). Coverage begins in 1910 and the database is updated monthly.
Applied Science & Technology Source contains full-text articles from almost 1,200 journals as well as additional citations to millions of articles. The coverage includes research and development issues in the disciplines of applied sciences and computing from leading trade journals, professional and technical society journals, and conference proceedings.

Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level.

Art and Architecture Complete includes full-text coverage for hundreds of periodicals dating back to 1937 and additional full-text for hundreds of books. It also contains abstracts for almost 800 academic journals as well as a collection of more than 63,000 images.
Part of the Web of Science Core Collection, A&HCI contains citations and bibliographic information for hundreds of leading journals in the fields of art, architecture, history, literature, music, film, philosophy, dance, religion, and more. This index features analysis and sorting of articles by the amount of times they have been used or cited.
Explore Artstor's collections of high-quality images, curated from leading museums and archives around the world. Artstor's diverse collections are rights-cleared for education and research, and include Open Access content as well as rare materials not available elsewhere.
Asian American Drama brings together hundreds of plays by dozens of playrights beginning with the works of Sadakichi Hartmann, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information. The plays have relevance to the study of literature, drama, Asian-American studies, history, culture, and more.

ASME Digital Collection provides abstracts and full-text access to journals sponsored or published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. ASME is ideal for research in mechanical engineering, biomechanical engineering, robotics, medical devices, vibration and acoustics, and related engineering fields.

ASTM Compass - Standards and Engineering Digital Library grants access to thousands of standards and publications in more than 130 industry areas, including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science, and solar engineering. The library subscription includes access to all Active, Redline, Historical and Withdrawn ASTM standards. It also includes access to ASTM journals, manuals, monographs, data series, and STPs (special technical publications). To use this database you must be on campus.
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Founded by William Alexander Scott II, this African-American newspaper includes first-hand coverage of the Scottsboro Case, which would result in two landmark supreme court cases (Powell v. Alabama and Norris v. Alabama).

The Atlantic Magazine Archive, 1857-2014, covers events and political issues through literary and cultural commentary. It includes more than 1,800 issues providing a broad view of 19th, 20th and early 21st-Century American thought. It has featured articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, science and more.

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The Austin American-Statesman offers full-text articles and abstracts from the newspaper from 1871 to 1980.

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The Austin American-Statesman offers full-text articles and abstracts from the newspaper from 1989-current.

The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals is a comprehensive guide to articles on architecture and design. It covers hundreds of American and international journals, both scholarly and popular, as well as publications of professional associations and biographical information about architects. Subjects include city planning, historic preservation, and interior design.

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Founded by former slave John Henry Murphy, Sr., The Baltimore Afro-American became one of the most widely circulated African American newspapers on the Atlantic Coast. In addition to featuring the first black female reporter and female sportswriters, the paper contains the writings of writer Langston Hughes, intellectual J. Saunders Redding, artist Romare Bearden, and sports editor Sam Lacy. This resource covers the years 1893 – 2010. For current Baltimore Afro-American content, please see ProQuest Global Newsstream.

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This archive of Barron’s offers a vast collection of financial news and analysis dating from 1921 to 2010, making it an invaluable resource for researchers and students studying financial history, market trends, investment strategies, and the history of specific companies or industries. For current Barron’s content, please see:
ProQuest Global Newsstream.

The Bibliography of Indigenous people in North America covers topics relating to native North Americans from the 16th century to the present, including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, folklore, culture, history, and literacy. It contains hundreds of thousands of citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada.
This database contains the full text of hundreds of plays written from the mid-19th century to the present by hundreds of playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare or out of print. Information on related productions, theaters, and production companies, as well as selected playbills, production photographs and other related material is also available.
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The Bloom’s Literary Criticism eBook Collection includes more than 600 titles from a variety of series including Major Dramatists, Modern Critical Views, Literary Themes, and Shakespeare Through the Ages. The collection covers a broad selection of literary works, their authors, and genres. Each title in the collection was edited by Harold Bloom, a known American literary critic and Humanities Professor at Yale University.

The Bloomberg Businessweek Archive offers full-text of Businessweek, from its first issue in 1929 until December 2000.
Book Review Digest Plus is an index to reviews of fiction and non-fiction items published since 1903. The reviews originate from selected periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and general science published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain.
Border and Migration Studies Online includes hundreds of hours of video, thousands of images, and hundreds of thousands of pages of text surrounding issues related to border(land) and migration studies. The resources are from a variety of perspectives as well as historical contexts and address areas such as history, law, politics, diplomacy, area and global studies, anthropology, medicine, the arts, and more. Materials were selected and organized by an international board of scholars and focus around themes such as border identities, border enforcement and control, border disputes, and human trafficking.

Letters and Diaries from 1500-1900 provides a collection of primary sources from journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs and conference proceedings. The personal experiences of more than 500 women are represented and include all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous, and the not so famous.

This database provides access to product evaluations, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, obituaries, surveys, statistical covers many aspects of business, including management, production and marketing as well as activities of specific businesses and trades. Full text of articles dates back to 1995, with indexing and abstracts dating back to 1982.
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Reference Center is a full-text database designed to support continuity experts and information professionals. It covers subjects such as risk evaluation, emergency preparedness and crisis communications.
Alternate Name(s):formerly Business Insights: Essentials
Business Insights Global provides current business, company, and industry content including: periodical articles, press releases, corporate structures, financials and earning estimates, investment reports, case studies, country profiles, and company histories. Sources include Market Share Reporter, Ward's Business Directory of U.S. and Private Companies, and other authoritative industry databases. Companies can be searched by name, ticker symbol, SIC/NAICS code, product/brand name or location.
Introduced as a single-database interface for business researchers, the functionality of EBSCO's Business Searching Interface (BSI) has been expanded to accommodate searching within multiple databases. This means that certain databases formerly available only via the EBSCOhost interface can be added to BSI profiles, providing additional convenience to users, while expanding the scope of BSI features and functionality.
The Company View component of Business Source Complete provides detailed corporation information for more than one million of the world’s largest public and private companies. Data includes financials, subsidiaries, products, employees, industry information and more. This database also provides access to industry profiles; case studies; SWOT analyses; articles from business journals, magazines, and trade publications; market research reports; product reviews; and country reports.

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The C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an extensive resource, housing over 25 million records that form the backbone of 19th-century bibliographic research. It serves as a significant finding aid, encompassing a wide range of books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers, archives, and reference materials.

Included within this resource are ProQuest’s American periodicals (1770-1919), 17th through 19th-century British periodicals, The Cotgreave’s index, Index to legal periodical literature, Cumulative Index to Niles’ Register (1811-1849), Periodical Index Online (1770-1919), Pool’s Index to periodical Literature (1802-1906), Stead’s Index to Periodical Literature, The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals (1824-1900), The 19th Century Bibliographic records of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, Proceedings of the Old Baily (1770-1913), U.S Serial Set (1789-1901), Archive Finder, Palmer’s Index to the Times (1800-1870), “Bookman” Directory of Booksellers, Publishers and Authors, and the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism.

 

The Casualty Actuarial Society Research Library contains thousands of records, including full-text journal articles and book citations, on actuarial science research in the property-casualty fields. Everything that CAS has published appears here plus more from outside organizations.
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The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries. CRL provides a shared collection of five million books, journals, documents and newspapers. To borrow materials, please contact the Library’s Interlibrary Loan Service at www.utdallas.edu/library/services/ill/

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Checkpoint Edge contains comprehensive federal, state, and international tax resources, including information on pensions, estate planning, corporate finance, tax rulings, and more. New users need to register for an account from an ON CAMPUS connection. Already registered users can open Checkpoint to log in from anywhere
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Founded by Robert S. Abbott in 1905, this African-American newspaper includes coverage and support of the Great Migration, The Red Summer race riots of 1919, and editorialized for antilynching legislation and the integration of blacks into the U.S. military.

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The Chicago Tribune informs readers of the latest news from the Chicago area, the nation, and the world. Content is updated daily and is thoroughly indexed. 
 

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Access the text and full-image scans of news articles, photos, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, cartoons, and more available as downloadable PDFs. For current Chicago Tribune content, please see ProQuest Global Newsstream.

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Alternate Name(s):Historic American Newspapers

Jointly sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress, Chronicling America gives users access to historic U.S. newspaper pages from 1770-1963. Use the Advanced Search to limit searches to particular states or specific newspapers. Users may also access the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

This database provides indexing from journals related to nursing and allied health professions.
This indexes Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences, humanities, sciences, and technology.
This digital edition of Clotel, or The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States, by William Wells Brown Clotel, presents the full extant texts of the novel's four versions, published between 1853 and 1867. The fully searchable texts may be read individually or in parallel and are accompanied by biographical, critical, and historical commentary as well as line-by-line annotations and textual collation.
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Cochrane Library is a suite of databases that offer health care professionals and researchers a variety of systematic reviews and other synthesized research to inform evidence-based decisions and learning. Included here: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR); Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL); Cochrane Clinical Answers (CCA).
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This provides full-text access to a selection of books and journals relating to cognitive and neurological sciences published by MIT Press.

The database offers indexing and full text coverage for journals covering communication and mass media.
This POWERSEARCH searches the following databases simultaneously: Computer Source, INSPEC (engineering, computer science, physics), Inspec Archive - Science Abstracts 1898-1968, and Science & Technology Collection.
This database offers full-text coverage of articles on topics such as computers, telecommunications, electronics and the Internet; and provides a balance of technical journals and consumer computer titles.
This database contains citation information for conference proceedings in scientific and technical fields as well the social sciences and humanities. Links to full text are provided when available. Coverage begins in 1990.
Consumer Health Complete provides content covering areas of health and wellness, from mainstream medicine to the perspectives of complementary and holistic medicine. It aims to support the information needs of patients and to fosters an overall understanding of health-related topics.
Counseling and Therapy in Video is an online collection of videos created for the study of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling from multiple perspectives.
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The CQ Press Library provides access to three resources:
CQ Researcher Plus Archive--Authoritative reports on political and social-policy issues extending back to 1923
CQ Magazine--A weekly news magazine on public policy, politics, congressional legislation, and elections extending back to 1983.
Politics in America--Guide to politics with authoritative information on each member of Congress and their districts.

CQ Politics in America offers comprehensive, nonpartisan commentary, and data about members of Congress. Detailed member profiles provide insight and analysis through biographical data, committee assignments, election results, and contact data, as well as legislative agendas, political ambitions and reputation.
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The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is a large reference source containing data and other information on multiple areas of Chemistry.

Criminal Justice Abstracts covers international journals, books, reports, dissertations, and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.
The Current Index to Statistics is an index to publications in statistics, probability, and related fields.

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Provides full text coverage of all local and regional news appearing in the Dallas Morning News beginning in 1984 until to June 28, 2016. (The latest issues are available in print at the Services Desk)

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This provides a digital image archive of the Dallas Morning News including classifieds and display advertising, photos and graphics.

This directory provided by the North Central Texas Council of Governments includes information and contacts for cities, counties, appraisal districts, school districts, universities, and other special districts in North Central Texas.

ProQuest's Digital National Security Archive online contains a large collection of primary documents on U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. It includes declassified documents that led to U.S. policy decisions and other collections on the organization and operations of the U.S. intelligence community.
Dissertations and Theses @ University of Texas at Dallas is a subset of Dissertations and Theses Global for researching the dissertations and theses produced by the University of Texas at Dallas only.

If a title is not available in electronic full text, users will have one of two options to attain access. After locating your title in Dissertations and Theses @ University of Texas at Dallas, click on the "Order a copy" link located under the title. If the "Order a copy" option is not provided (as will be the case for any master's theses not available in electronic full text), search the library catalog by the document's title or author. A paper copy and/or microform copy of the document should be available at the library. For more help searching this database, Ask a Librarian for help.
Dissertations and Theses Global provides many complete dissertations and theses from more than 1,000 universities including those produced at UT Dallas. The index begins in 1861. Dissertations published after 1980 and master’s theses written after 1987 include author abstracts. Most dissertation and theses added since 1997 are available in full-text format with selected full-text coverage for older (historical) graduate works.

The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution traces the Constitution's progress from Philadelphia through each of the state ratifying conventions. It includes the official records of the conventions and also notes and commentaries about the Constitution published during and after ratification.

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The Docuseek Collection contains over 2000 different documentaries from highly rated documentary production companies such as Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films, The National Film Board of Canada, and Women Make Movies. This collection focuses on a wide variety of historical, social, cultural, environmental, religious, and interdisciplinary topics.

This is a collection of all the known correspondence of Dolley Payne Madison (1788-1843), one of the most significant First Ladies of the nineteenth century.
This collection of First Lady Dolley Payne Madison's correspondence includes additional sources for historical context.
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Drama Online is a great resource for researching plays and theatrical works. The database provides a growing collection of historical and contemporary plays as well as the audio editions of various works. It includes reference tools for students and faculty members.

A free web resource to learn or refresh your foreign language skills in over 30 languages.

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This full-text database is a collection of primary source material on history, literature, philosophy, religion, agriculture, and other aspects of American life in the 17th and 18th centuries. With thousands of primary documents, it also has supplements from the Library Company of Philadelphia and the American Antiquarian Society that provide hundreds of additional pamphlets, broadsides, and books.

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This full-text database provides access to primary source material for the early decades of 19th-century America, including coverage of politics, war, economics, and social and cultural thought. Supplements from the Library Company of Philadelphia and the American Antiquarian Society provide an additional thousand books, pamphlets, and broadsides spanning the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson to the Adams-Onis Treaty.

Alternate Name(s):America's Historical Newspapers
The America's Historical Newspapers database contains thousands of articles from historic American newspapers from all 50 states. Coverage begins in 1690.
This collection of primary sources holds more than 100,000 books and pamphlets published in England and its colonies from 1473-1700. It is especially useful for research in the areas of English history, literature, philosophy, linguistics, and the fine arts.
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This collection of primary sources holds more than 100,000 books and pamphlets published in England and its colonies from 1473-1700. It is especially useful for research in the areas of English history, literature, philosophy, linguistics, and the fine arts.

Since 1945, Ebony has served as an influential African-American magazine promoting stories important to the black community and focusing on the achievements of African-American leaders. This searchable archive includes the full text of the magazine from 1945 to 2014 and is useful for African-American business, history, politics, and culture.
This provides access to any of the currently subscribed EBSCO databases. You can also choose multiple databases to search simultaneously.
Produced by the American Economic Association, this database provides links to full text articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and more.
This POWERSEARCH searches all of these databases simultaneously: Business Source Complete, EconLit, Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson), and SocINDEX.
The weekly news magazine, The Economist, presents the world's political, business, scientific, technological, and cultural developments and the connections between them. Full-text content of thousands of issues is available and also includes exportable financial tables. The Supplements, Special Reports and Surveys that appear in The Economist are also included as part of the archive.
Funded by the Jaffe Collection, this official statistical source provides detailed data on the German economic situation during the Third Reich up to and throughout World War II.
EDGAR compiles data on company financials as submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Topics covered in this resource for education research include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education as well as educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete includes the full text of hundreds of journals, books, and education-related conference papers.
Educational Administration Abstracts contains hundreds of thousands of records for scholarly articles on educational administration, leadership, management, and research, many with full-text coverage. Coverage includes Educational Administration Quarterly, Review of Higher Education, and the Journal of Educational Administration.
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This collection provides full-text access to digital images of hundreds of thousands of books published during the 18th Century in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.

This encyclopedia provides access to thousands of articles, dictionary terms, and research updates in areas of science and technology and is updated daily. It also includes thousands of biographies of scientists, weekly updates of breakthroughs and discoveries in science and technology, a science dictionary, and links to related websites.
The Energy Citations Database was created by the U.S. Department of Energy for locating citations to energy-related literature published by government agencies. The database includes citations for government reports, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents.
This POWERSEARCH searches the following databases simultaneously: Applied Science & Technology Source, Computer Source, Engineering Source, General Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson), INSPEC
(engineering, computer science, physics), INSPEC Archive - Science Abstracts 1898-1968, and Science & Technology Collection
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Introduced as a single-database interface for business researchers, the functionality of EBSCO's Business Searching Interface (BSI) has been expanded to accommodate searching within multiple databases. This means that certain databases formerly available only via the EBSCOhost interface can be added to BSI profiles, providing additional convenience to users, while expanding the scope of BSI features and functionality.
ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) is an index to both non-journal material (examples include lesson plans and reports) from Resources in Education (RIE) and an index to journal articles in the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). (EBSCO version)

ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) is an index to both non-journal material (examples include lesson plans and reports) from Resources in Education (RIE) and an index to journal articles in the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). (ProQuest version)

ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) is an index to both non-journal material (examples include lesson plans and reports) from Resources in Education (RIE) and an index to journal articles in the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE). (OCLC version)
The Essay & General Literature Index (EGLI) covers history, economics, political and social science, religion, philosophy, the arts, and literature, with particular emphasis on materials in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage for this index to collections of essays includes more than 100 years of material.
Presenting content from across the globe, this diverse and comprehensive resource features thousands of audio field recordings and interviews, educational recordings, film footage, field notebooks, slides, correspondence and ephemera from over 60 fields of study, including sites in West Africa, North America, South East Asia and more. Produced in collaboration with the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive – a world centre for the study of Ethnomusicology – the content within this collection gives access to the cultural and social lives of the source communities represented within the recordings which cover research projects from 1950-1980.
European Views of the Americas is based on a bibliography developed by the John Carter Brown Library. It is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe between 1493 and 1750. It contains citations for thousands of entries covering the history of European exploration.
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Alternate Name(s):Everyday Life and Women in America

Everyday Life & Women in America includes primary source material from 1800-1920 related to the study of American social, cultural, and popular history. The collection features texts of rare books, periodicals, pamphlets, and broadsides from the 19th and early 20th centuries. It covers a variety of themes including popular culture, social history, family life, education, race, class, employment, and advice literature.

Alternate Name(s):US Census Data

Explore Census Data is the new and free platform to access data and digital content directly from the U.S. Census Bureau, and allow users a single place to seamlessly access data and digital content from the Census Bureau.

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Factiva, a database from Dow Jones & Reuters Company, provides national and international content, including Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and The Wall Street Journal. It provides timely information from financial quotes, market data, newspapers, companies and industry news.
Family Studies Abstracts includes hundreds of thousands of records from journals related to studies of the family. Subjects include divorce, family therapy, marriage, and family dynamics. Coverage of the abstracts spans more than 30 years.
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The Film Platform Collection contains over 600 different documentaries curated for academic audiences. This collection includes many award-winning documentaries on a wide variety of subject matters.

The Film Powersearch searches all of these databases simultaneously: Essay and General Literature Index
(H.W. Wilson), Essay and General Literature Retrospective (H.W. Wilson),Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson), and MLA International Bibliography.
Medline, produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, is a source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature. Medline encompasses information in the areas of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more.
Fold3 provides convenient access to military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served. The records at Fold3 help you discover and share stories about these everyday heroes, forgotten soldiers, and the families that supported them. The Fold3 name comes from a traditional flag folding ceremony in which the third fold is made in honor and remembrance of veterans who served in defense of their country and to maintain peace throughout the world.
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This comprehensive archive begins with the first issue in February 1917 through December 2000. This fully searchable full-text archive provides in depth analysis on a variety of business, political and cultural topics.

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The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) was a publicly available source provided by the Central Intelligence Agency.  FBIS monitored, translated, and disseminated the text of daily radio and television broadcasts, newspapers and periodicals, government statements, books, and other sources of unrestricted information. Reports with translations were issued for eight world regions daily.  Topics cover political, socioeconomic, scientific, technical and environmental information. Reports are available from 1941 to 1996.

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This comprehensive archive begins with the first issue in February 1930 through December 2000. Published by Time Magazine, Fortune provided news and analysis initially from the United States and then later on from across the globe. Database Includes fully indexed articles and cover pages. In addition, advertisements are individually identified.

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The Fortunoff Video Archive provided by Yale University includes thousands of video testimonies from those who experienced the Jewish Holocaust. The Archive provides a search engine to limit the testimonies for the researcher's specific needs. This resource includes information recorded in a variety of languages. Recordings vary in length from 30 minutes to several hours. 

To gain access to all of the testimonies and permissions you must first create an account. After logging in the first time you will be asked to verify your account .

The Founders Early Access is an online database of personal and official correspondence and other papers written by three of our Founding Fathers. Researchers have access to the Presidential papers of George Washington for 1794, the papers of James Madison from 1823-1836, and the papers of John Adams from 1785-1798.
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The Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes an array of topics in full text. The database contains images, brief biographies, and information on a variety of subject areas and is updated annually.

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Gale Databases: Provides access to many databases published by Gale Cengage Learning.
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Alternate Name(s):formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)

Gale Ebooks: Encyclopedias and Reference Sources is a collection of searchable reference books. The multidisciplinary collection includes Arts and Humanities, Child Care studies, History, Business and Finance, Education, Arts and Technology, and more.

Alternate Name(s):Opposing Viewpoints
Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints covers social issues such as capital punishment, immigration, and marijuana use. This research database supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes by providing differing views with the goal of helping learners to develop critical-thinking skills and to draw their own conclusions about issues. Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints is also recommended for debaters and includes frequently studied and debated issues, pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, interactive maps, and infographics.
Covering hundreds of topics from biology to chemistry to physics to environmental science, Gale in Context: Science offers a multitude of resources for faculty and student researchers. Gale in Context: Science includes journal articles, reference entries, images, and videos in the sciences.
Gale LegalForms offers a collection of various types of samples of legal documents. It allows users to create actual legal documents. The Law Digest also contains information about cases, statutes, legal terms and concepts, and other documents.
Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine provides access to a wide range of full-text nursing and allied health journals, magazines, newsletters and select consumer health information sources with full-text reference works and hundreds of health-related multimedia.
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Gale Primary Resources is a research tool that allows researchers to cross-search multiple primary source databases using a single search box. It includes the following databases: Archives Unbound, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, The Making of the Modern World, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, and Sabin Americana 1500-1926 as well as the historical archives of several major periodicals (The Economist, Punch, The Times and more). Each database can also be searched individually.

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This database includes journal articles, conference papers, theses, dissertations, books, and book chapters along with links to preselected websites related to gender studies.

The Gender Studies Powersearch searches the following databases simultaneously: Gender Studies Database, Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson), PsycARTICLES, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, PsycINFO, SocINDEX, and Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson).

This collection of primary sources is ideal for the study of women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics. Content spans from the nineteenth century to present and documents the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations.
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The GeoRef database, from the American Geosciences Institute, provides access to global geoscience literature. The database contains geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses.

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GeoRef In Process includes records that are in the process of being indexed before they are integrated into the main GeoRef database. The coverage includes books, maps, government reports, conference papers, and theses and dissertations related to the geosciences.

GeoRef Preview Database contains recently indexed records from geoscience literature which will later be included in the primary GeoRef database. GeoRef Preview is useful for locating current information without retrieving numerous older records.
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The GeoScienceWorld eBook Collection contains over one thousand scholarly earth science ebooks from 10 leading society publishers, including the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Geological Society of America, the Geological Society of London, and the Society of Economic Geologists. A cross-searching feature allows for simultaneous searching for 45 scholarly journals in the GeoScienceWorld Journal Collection as well as all GeoRef records. Book chapters are downloadable as PDF files. The site also features a mobile compatible ebook reader.

Serves as a comprehensive resource for research and communications in the geological and earth sciences. It is built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals indexed, linked, and inter-operable with GeoRef.

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The Gerritsen Collection is an electronic collection of books and periodicals reflecting the evolution of feminist consciousness and women's rights.

Global Development Finance is a statistical database produced by the World Bank Group. Updated annually, GDF Online offers data beginning in 1970 and includes indicators such as major economic aggregates, resource flows, debt stock and currency composition with contractual obligations data. Topical country data and regional aggregates showing time series in table and chart form are also included.
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Alternate Name(s):ProQuest Global Newsstream

Global Newsstream provides worldwide information from newspapers, newswires, news sites, and blogs in an active full-text format that is updated daily. This resource contains more than a thousand of the world's top domestic and international newspapers, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, The Guardian, Financial Times, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series. The database also provides transcribed video clips from various news sites, including The New York Times, Washington Post, and The Economist. 
 

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The Government Finance Statistics (GFS) database is an online service of the International Monetary Fund. GFS Online contains detailed annual statistical data. Content is available on revenues, expenses, transactions in assets and liabilities, and stocks of assets and liabilities of general government and its subsectors as reported by member countries.
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.
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Alternate Name(s):Oxford / Grove Art Online

Grove Art Online is a scholarly art database covering Western and non-Western visual art and includes current articles and bibliographies. The resource also includes the full text of Grove Dictionary of Art and is part of the larger Oxford Art Online database, which contains the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

Alternate Name(s):Oxford / Grove Music Online

Grove Music Online is an online encyclopedia offering comprehensive coverage of music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship. Through GMO, researchers can gain clear overviews of topics from a scholarly perspective and access extensive bibliographies leading to additional scholarship.

The United States' oldest and largest collection of civic art, GSA Fine Arts has two distinct characteristics: the artworks are commissioned to adorn and enhance civic architecture and they are paid for with taxpayers' funds. The collection contains mural and easel paintings, sculptures, architectural and environmental artworks, as well as prints and other works on paper dating from the 1850s.

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A multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography and culture that includes full-text articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions and a variety of other topics. Articles may be searched or browsed by subject.
HarpWeek contains the full text and scanned images of Harper's Weekly from the mid-1850s to the early 1900s. This database is especially useful for researchers of U.S. history, literature, politics, business, and advertising.
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HathiTrust is a large digital library bringing together materials from sources including Google Books, the Internet Archive, and other commercial digitization projects. This resource is being expanded daily and provides information on more than 10 million volumes with more than a third of these available for full text access and download (primarily books and journals published before 1923 and U.S. Government publications).

Health Source: Consumer Edition provides full-text access to approximately 80 consumer health magazines and also includes searchable full-text for health-related phamplets and health reference books. This resource covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, women's health, etc.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides access to more than 550 scholarly full-text journals, which focuses on many medical disciplines, with an emphasisis on nursing and allied health journals. This database also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which includes Drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers.
Begin your legal research with HeinOnline--a collection providing the U.S. Code, U.S. Congressional Documents, the U.S. Serial Set, the U.S. Federal Legislative History Library, and the U. S. Statutes at Large. Regulatory titles include the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, and U.S. Federal agency documents, decisions, and appeals. Other assets include the U.S. Presidential Library, Foreign Relations of the United States, the Supreme Court Library, U.S. Treaties and Agreements Library, World Constitutions and other files which are always evolving. Provides the Texas State Package Constitutions, Texas Attorney General Opinions, Texas Session Laws, and State Statutes.
The HEP (high-energy physics) database allows users to search for high-energy physics related journal articles, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers, and dissertations. Created by Stanford University's Linear Accelerator Center in cooperation with Germany's Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, the database includes citations as far back as the mid 1970s.
HeritageQuest Online is a comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids. The database provides genealogical and historical sources for more than 60 countries, with coverage dating back as early as the 1700s. Users can access Census records, books, maps, city directories, and other online resources for family information.
HAPI is a source of information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. From analyses of current political, economic, and social issues to unique coverage of Latin American arts and letters, HAPI contains citations to journal articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in hundreds of social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
An index (with abstracts) to journals published worldwide in many languages. Fields include all branches of world history, including, political, diplomatic, religious, economic, social, cultural, and military history. Many full-text articles are included. (NOTE: For U.S. and Canadian history, use America: History and Life.)

The Historical African American Newspaper PowerSearch searches the following newspaper databases simultaneously: Atlanta Daily World (1931-2010), Chicago Defender‎ (1910-2010), Louisville Defender‎ (1951-2010), New York Amsterdam News‎ (1922-2010), Philadelphia Tribune‎ (1912-2010), Pittsburgh Courier‎ (1911-2010), Baltimore Afro American Historical Archive, Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Sentinel.

Historical Statistics of the United States is a database of quantitative indicators of American history. This database includes data on population, work and welfare, economics, and other government collected data. It also covers American Indians, slavery, poverty, nonprofit organizations, and data on the Confederate States of America.
This documents collection focuses on the diplomatic, legal and political maneuvering during and after World War II regarding German art looting in Europe, recovery of cultural objects dispersed during World War II, and efforts by the U.S. and other Allied Powers to prevent the secreting of Axis assets. On the topic of looted art, the documents primarily relate to negotiations and litigation for return of items to legitimate owners.
The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) contains a collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. The HSDL is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security.
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The collection provides primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more than 30 additional subjects. Resources for each topic guide users through the full scope of the event, from the historical context that made such violations possible through the international response, prosecution of perpetrators, and steps toward rebuilding.

This indexes a broad range of periodicals covering the humanities and social sciences. It also contains citations to a considerable number of book reviews.
Humanities Full Text provides complete articles from more than 300 academic journals dating back to 1995. The database covers scholarly articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, fiction, drama, poetry, book reviews, and performance reviews.
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Humanities International Index provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings, and illustrations.

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IEEE - Wiley eBooks Library provides access to titles covering emerging technologies, such as bioengineering, photonics & electro-optics and robotics & control systems. Access is provided to individual chapters in PDF format.

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IEEE Xplore, produced by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is ideal for conducting research in the field of electronics, electrical engineering, telecommunications, wireless communications, and computer engineering. It provides access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines, and conference proceedings; IEEE-Wiley ebooks; as well as current IEEE standards (excluding "draft" standards).

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The IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) Digital Library contains a collection of professional and academic ebooks on the history of technology, control engineering, electrical technology, management of technology, power and energy, telecommunications, computing, and related fields. NOTE: for journals, magazines, and proceedings by the IET, select titles will be available in this database, or check the library catalog to determine full coverage.

Part of the ProQuest History Vault, this collection covers the investigations made by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) from 1880-1930. The files cover Asian immigration, especially Japanese and Chinese migration, to California, Hawaii, and other states; Mexican immigration to the U.S. from 1906-1930, and European immigration. There are also files on the INS’s regulation of prostitution and white slavery.
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The Index to Texas Magazines and Documents is an online index for many popular Texas magazines covering history, travel, business, and culture. For best results use the Advanced Search option and put asterisks before and after each search term. Examples: *Fort Davis* or *Dallas* AND *music*.

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Alternate Name(s):American Indian Newspapers

Explore nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the US and Canada. The database represents a huge variety in publisher, audience, and era, permitting users to discover how events were reported by and for Indigenous communities.

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Information Science and Technology Abstracts (ISTA) indexes articles from publications, books, research reports, and conference proceedings and patents, with ongoing comprehensive coverage of important related periodicals covering the subject of information science and technology.

This database provides abstracts and indexing to the world's scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computing, information technology, manufacturing, production, and mechanical engineering. Includes Inspec Archive, which provides abstracts of articles from 1898 through 1968.
Inspec Archive provides abstracts of articles from 1898 through 1968. Created by the Institution of Engineering and Technology, it covers articles related to scientific and technical papers in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, and computing and control engineering.

Inter-Play indexes individual plays published in collections, anthologies, and periodicals.

This database, funded by the Jaffe Collection, includes IGCR subject files and more than 30,000 images from the US National Archives on virtually every group of racial, religious, and political refugees from 1938 to 1947.
International Bibliography of Art (IBA) indexes thousands of materials, from journals to monographs, essay collections, conference proceedings and exhibition catalogues. Its journals set emphasizes rare and specialized titles not frequently found in other indexes, and IBA strives to provide more than half of its content in languages other than English.
International Historical Statistics provides data collected from 1750-2010 on a wide variety of socio-economic topics. It includes statistics from the Americas and Europe, as well as Africa, Asia and Oceania. Data tables can be downloaded as PDFs and/or Excel files.

International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSC) website provides access to a global association of member organizations from about 100 countries that regulate the world's securities markets.

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Jet Magazine Archive covers art, news, politics and other social topics with an African-American focus. It includes over 3,100 issues providing a broad view of culture, fashion and entertainment from its first issue in 1951 through 2014.

The Berlin Document Center is a collection of documents pertaining to Jewish communities. It is organized into various sub-collections from a wide variety of sources including the Gestapo, local police and government offices, Reich ministries, and businesses, etc.
This resource includes occupational profiles, salary and job growth data, resume and cover letter preparation tips, interview skills development, and access to a database of current national internship and job opportunities, provided by LearningExpress. Create a personal account to keep track of your job search progress.
Alternate Name(s):InCites Journal Citation Reports
(Please click PRODUCTS in the upper right then click on Journal Citation Reports (Classic) to navigate to the earlier version of this resource).

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from scholarly and technical journals published around the world. It includes areas of science, technology, and the social sciences. By tabulating and aggregating citation and article counts, JCR offers functionality for journal evaluation and comparison.
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Alternate Name(s):Journal of Visualized Experiments

For full access, click "Sign In" in the upper right corner and select "Continue with Single Sign-On (SSO)" on the next page. Then search for "University of Texas - Dallas" and go to login.

JoVE publishes the leading peer-reviewed, PubMed-indexed video methods journal. Articles consist of high-quality video demonstrations and detailed text protocols which facilitate scientific reproducibility and productivity. The scope of the journal includes novel techniques, innovative applications of existing techniques, and gold-standard protocols in the physical and life sciences. Video demonstrations cover a wide range of STEM subjects including Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Psychology, Clinical Medicine and Engineering.

Coming this Summer: Microeconomics

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JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources, with a broad variety of coverage in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, spanning more than 50 disciplines. Collections on JSTOR include the complete archival records of thousands of journal titles.

Note: As of August 1st, 2024, ARTSTOR is fully incorporated into JSTOR.

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Kafkas Werke contains the full text of S. Fischer Verlag's critical edition of the works of Franz Kafka (1883-1924), including novels, short stories, essays, and diaries published during his lifetime and posthumously. Each work includes scholarly annotations by Kafka experts.

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This streaming video service includes documentaries, independent and foreign films, classics, and instructional films. It supports keyword searching as well as browsing by categories like Arts, Business, Education, Foreign Films, Global Studies & Languages, Health, Media & Communications, Movies and TV, Science, and Social Studies.



 

Note on Kanopy Access 

If a required film for a course is unavailable in Kanopy, please reach out to your course instructor to request access. While the McDermott library will make reasonable efforts to acquire materials required for coursework, the library may not honor all requests due to budgetary reasons. Many of the films may also be available on course reserves as a physical DVD.

The library has a large selection of physical DVDs. If you have questions on obtaining a film, please feel free to contact one of the reference librarians who can assist. Films that we do not have can also often be requested through Interlibrary Loan.

In addition, Students, Faculty, and Staff also have access to streaming films on a wide variety of topics from PBS, Film Platform, and Docuseek. We encourage viewing films on these platforms.

Faculty members may request Kanopy titles for classroom use by email libresv@utdallas.edu or Davin.Pate@utdallas.edu. Physical copies of DVD can be put on Media Course Reserve. The library may request faculty to place the physical copy of a film on course reserves if the class is taught in an in-person setting.


 

Key Business Ratios (KBR) presents industry benchmarks compiled from Dun & BradstreetÕs database of public and private companies, featuring 14 key business ratios Ð like solvency, efficiency and profitability Ð for hundreds of types of businesses. Data is searchable by SIC and NAICS code, type of business, asset range, and year. Other features include the creation of mapping, downloadable reports, and customer/supplier profiles for a given company, as well as comparison of balance sheets with industry benchmarks. Search KBR Mergent Archives for access to historical industry benchmarks.
This encyclopedia contains articles on chemical substances, including their properties, manufacturing, and uses. It also presents information about industrial processes and unit operations in chemical engineering, environmental and health issues concerning chemical technology, and scientific subjects related to the field.
Though less well known than his other diaries and until now never published in full, the complete and unabridged diaries of Victor Klemperer provide significant insights into the divided post-war Germany and early East Germany, as well as Klemperer’s engagement with Communism and Zionism. His careful observations and analyses from the Weimar Republic, the National Socialist era, and the German Democratic Republic illuminate what it meant to live under these three regimes. The database covers the entire four-decade period (from 1918 to 1959) in which Klemperer kept his diaries.

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This database contains the full text of many 19th and 20th-century Latin American newspapers, including Spanish, Portuguese and English titles from North and South America.

The Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) contains high quality surveys of the democratic values, opinions and behaviors of citizens in the Americas, including North, Central and South America, and the Caribbean.
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This full text database contains prose, poetry, memoirs, and essays by women writers from Mexico, Central, and South America. Materials are presented in their original language (Spanish or Portuguese). With coverage spanning from the colonial era to the present, it is a vast resource of feminist literature and feminine perspective during the development of an entire continent.

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Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction (LALI) is comprised of hundreds of plays and more than 100,000 pages of fiction and poetry by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latino authors working in the United States. Documents are available in their original language. A considerable quantity of rare or previously unpublished works may also be found here, in addition to supplementary materials like playbills, book covers, photographs, and audio files.

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LearningExpress offers access to a variety of test preparation and skill building resources. From elementary students to adult learners, LearningExpress offers ebooks, online courses and scored practice exams. Topics include computer basics, occupational practice tests and graduate school entrance exams. First time users will need to register.
Searches following databases simultaneously: Legal Collection, and Legal Information Reference Center.
This digital edition represents the most comprehensive collection of correspondence of 19th century poet and critic Matthew Arnold. It is fully searchable and includes both a linked index and a complete chronological listing of thousands of his letters.
The LGBT Magazine Archive features periodicals related to LGBT+ interests and chronicles more than 60 years of the community’s history, culture, and arts. Noted publications include Gay Times and The Advocate, which is the oldest surviving continuously published title of its type in the United States. More specialist magazines and newsletters are also included and are digitized from cover to cover in full color with coverage dating back to 1954. There is also subject material related to sociology, political science, psychology, health, and the arts.
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Alternate Name(s):Overdrive

The OverDrive collection contains thousands of popular ebooks and audiobooks available for reading in your web browser or for download using the Libby app on any iOS (Apple App Store) or Android (Google Play) device. Titles span a variety of bestselling and leisure reading genres: science fiction and fantasy, mysteries, thrillers, romance, self-improvement, self-help, history, true crime, LGBTQA+, and much more.

After installing the Libby app on your device, add “University of Texas at Dallas” as your library. For more help with the Libby app, see the Libby Help page.

Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) indexes hundreds of international periodicals about all aspects of librarianship, library users, and the retrieval and management of information.
This database contains cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting of hundreds of library and information science periodicals, many of which are available in full text. Subject coverage includes librarianship, information retrieval and management, censorship, copyright, and more.
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This comprehensive archive begins with the first issue in November 1936 through December 2000. Published by Time Magazine, this periodical covered events with the United States and around the world through informative captions and documentary photography. Database Includes fully indexed articles and cover pages. In addition, advertisements are individually identified.

This database abstracts and indexes international journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers in the field of language sciences including the subjects of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.
This searches all of the following databases simultaneously: Academic Search Complete and MLA International Bibliography.
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Alternate Name(s):Lynda

Update: LinkedIn Learning will remain as a resource for the UTD campus through the 2025 calendar year. For questions, please contact davin.pate@utdallas.edu.

LinkedIn Learning is now available to all currently enrolled students as well as current UT Dallas faculty and staff. This service is a leading online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology, and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. With over 12,000 courses and an average of 60 courses added per month there is something for everyone.

Developed as the medium for reproducing broadcasts, The Listener was the weekly newspaper published by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). It included additional discussion of the news of the day, reviews of literature and music, and more. This complete archive is a chronicle of cultural history and the progression of radio and television in the twentieth century.
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This database contains hundreds of volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts in a variety of subjects including epic and lyric poetry, tragedy and comedy, history, philosophy, theology, oratory, and more. Greek and Latin Classical heritage is represented here with up-to-date texts and English translations. Users may browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content.

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Description: This crucial resource documents the history of the Los Angeles African American community. Access news articles, photographs, advertisements, obituaries, cartoons, and more available as downloadable PDFs. The paper covers the years 1934 - 2010. For current Los Angeles Sentinel content, please see ProQuest Global Newsstream.

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The Los Angeles Times informs readers of the latest news from the Los Angeles area, the nation, and the world. Content is updated daily and is thoroughly indexed.

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Access the archives of the award-winning Los Angeles Times with its unique coverage of Southern California and the American West. News articles, photographs, advertisements, cartoons, and more are available as full-page scans in PDF format. For current Los Angeles Times content, please see ProQuest Global Newsstream.

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Frank L. Stanley, Sr. was the senior editor and publisher of the Louisville Defender for 38 years. This African-American newspaper includes first-hand coverage of Martin Luther King, Jr, desegregation, equal job opportunities, and local civil rights leader protests. Frank L. Stanley, Sr., was senior editor and publisher for the paper for 38 years.

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Collection of earth science literature; includes the Journal of the Geological Society, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, the Society's Memoir series, Special publications series, and the Engineering geology special publications series.

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This database features the full text of thousands of books on economics and business published between 1453 and 1914. The collection includes world history, political science, philosophy, business, economics, law, and women's studies from the Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection, the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature and the Seligman Collection.

This collection spans 1935-1965 and contains thousands of reports commissioned by advertising agencies as well as material on advertising and global brands. Coverage includes hundreds of advertising images and brand information on topics related to consumer goods including tobacco, broadcasting, and automobiles. Using the market research reports of consumer analyst Ernest Dichter, the chronology of the consumer boom is interactive and searchable.
MAS Complete is a full-text database providing hundreds of popular young adult magazines and reference books. Periodicals contained in MAS Complete cover a wide range of subject areas that are of interest to young adult students including art, history, sports, music, film, travel, science, the Internet, fashion, religion, nature, hobbies, current events, fiction and much more. It also includes thousands of biographies and primary source documents, plus over a million photos, maps and flags.
This provides the full text of general magazines covering a broad range of subjects including business, education, health, general science, and multicultural issues.
MathSciNet provides access to bibliographic data and reviews of mathematical research literature from journals, conference proceedings, and books. Links to original articles are provided when available.
MathSciNet provides access to bibliographic data and reviews of mathematical research literature from journals, conference proceedings, and books. Links to original articles are provided when available.
Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers, provides access to full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals in native Spanish. A wide range of topics are covered including neuroscience, cardiology, nephrology, biomedicine, clinical research, pediatrics, human reproduction, clinical pathology, cancer research, and hematology.
Medline encompasses information in the areas of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more.
Mental Measurements Yearbook is a comprehensive guide to contemporary testing instruments within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
Mergent Archives provides digitized access to the print Mergent (formerly Moody's) Manual series of corporate and municipal manuals. Corporate, industry and financial information from individual companies, as well as proprietary analyses of stocks and bonds (Equity Reports and Bond Portraits) are included. The database covers lists of issuers of municipal securities for each U.S. state and more than 100 countries from 1955 forward as well as annual reports back to 1925. The manual series are useful for research on industries, corporate history, financial statements, annual reports and business descriptions.
Alternate Name(s):Mergent Online (company financial information)
Mergent Online provides access to an index of real-time EDGAR (SEC) filings. The database has searchable data companies on the NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ exchanges including business and financial data on global publicly listed, private, and inactive companies. Mergent Online Premium also includes: Mergent Online Basic, Annuals, Global Equity Pricing, Mergent Equity RR, Standard Financial Data, Executive Biographies, Global Annual, Standardized Fin Data D&B Global, and Mergent Active.
MetaLib is a database that searches multiple U.S. Federal government databases, retrieving reports, articles, and citations while providing direct links to selected resources available online.
This contains the full text of popular, middle school magazines. All full- text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), an estimate of the reading difficulty, and approximate reading ability required for comprehension.
This provides full-text coverage of periodicals pertaining to all branches of the United States military. Some publications included are: Defence Studies, Military Technology, JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Foreign Affairs, and Naval Forces.
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Alternate Name(s):Modern Language Association

MLA Handbook Plus is the go-to resource for writers of research papers and anyone citing sources is now available online through institutional subscriptions. MLA Handbook Plus includes the full text of the ninth edition of the handbook, the second editions of both the MLA Guide to Digital Literacy and the MLA Guide to Undergraduate Research in Literature, as well as video courses to help users improve their writing and citing skills.

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An index to periodicals and collections of essays published since 1921, MLA covers the fields of literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore, and is an important index for literary criticism.

Classical Scores Library is a reliable and authoritative destination for in-copyright digital scores of the classical canon, as well as a resource for the discovery of diverse and lesser-known contemporary works. Classical Scores Library’s extensive collection of scores enhanced by powerful educational platform tools supports the teaching and learning of music history, performance, composition, and theory for today’s music scholars.

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This database provides searchable full-text access to collections of digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and more primary source materials.

Alternate Name(s):The Nation Archive

The Nation Archive makes it possible for researchers to access 14 decades of America's best alternative journalism. The archive contains thousands of historic articles, editorials, letters, reviews, poems, and puzzles dating back to the magazine's first issue from July 6, 1865.

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Contains more than 4,000 downloadable PDF versions of books published by the National Academies Press. Titles cover many subjects including biology, computer science, mathematics, chemistry, and physics.

This database covers literature related to research, policy and practice in criminal and juvenile justice and drug control.
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The National Geographic Magazine Archive online includes complete page-to-page coverage of every issue of the magazine from 1888 to 1994 in a high resolution color format.

This database is a catalog of paper and digital maps for geology, hazards, earth resources, geophysics, geochemistry, geochronology, paleontology, and marine geology.
National Review has been an important American journal of opinion and has consistently provided readers with well-reasoned editorial commentary on critical issues. This archive offers complete indexing, abstracting and full text for the magazine dating back to the first issue in 1955 through 2020.
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NTC is a streaming video database of dozens of world-class theater productions created in collaboration with the U.K.’s National Theatre. In addition to significant insight into theatre and performance studies, users can gain access to exclusive digitized archival materials such as prompt scripts, costume designs, and costume bibles for behind-the-scenes background and contextual information.

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Naxos offers thousands of tracks of jazz, film music, world music, and classic and contemporary rock, with customizable playlists supported. Recordings are searchable by genre, label, instrument, composer, or performer.

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Naxos Spoken Word Library consists of hundreds of audiobooks, with subjects ranging from literary classics, biographies, and histories to philosophy, religion, and children's stories.

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This is a performing arts streaming video library with hundreds of videos of operas, ballets, documentaries, classical music performances, and musical tours of historic places.

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The New Republic Magazine Archive is a digital collection of the prominent political and cultural opinion magazine, covering issues dating back to 1914. Providing full-text, indexing and abstracting, the archive is an essential tool for researchers of American politics, foreign policy, culture and arts.

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Founded in 1909 by James Henry Anderson with a 10-dollar investment, this African-American newspaper covered the cultural impact of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, spoke for the desegregation of the U.S. military during World War II, and fought against civil rights abuses in the 1960s. Contributors to the paper included W. E. B. DuBois, Roy Wilkins, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and Malcolm X.

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New York Times (1851-Current)

Provides subscriber access to US and International News and Sports from The New York Times, including today’s news in real-time. Archival access goes back to 1851 in fully searchable scans. UTD students, faculty, and staff can create a subscriber access account using their netID@utdallas.edu email. 
Download The New York Times app to access the same content on your phone or tablet.

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Newspaper Source Plus provides full-text access to major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires and news magazines from around the world. It also offers television and radio transcripts and daily updates from popular news sources.

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Alternate Name(s):LexisNexis

Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis) features more than 15,000 news, business, and legal sources. It includes a wide variety of local, state, national, and international newspapers; business and industry news; company information; SEC filings and reports; accounting literature. The legal research section contains federal and state court decisions, federal and state codes, articles from law reviews, and U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) is a digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the nineteenth century. Consisting of books, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and statistics, the collections may be searched individually or collectively.

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories provide a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950.
This database contains thousands of plays by hundreds of playwrights, along with selected playbills, production photographs and other related ephemera, spanning from the 18th century to present day.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries includes the experiences from diaries and letters. The collection also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database.
This collection consists of index cards listing the name, date and place of birth, occupation and last address of Jews whose German citizenship was revoked in accordance with the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, including Jews from Germany, Austria and Czech Bohemia. Listed in alphabetical order, suffix names "Israel" for men and "Sara" for women were added by law in 1936 to readily identify persons of Jewish descent.

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Alternate Name(s):formerly Safari Books Online

O'Reilly Online Learning (formerly known as Safari Books Online) grants access to thousands of ebooks on business, management, computer science, programming languages, and technology in addition to interactive online tutorials, training videos, and video “case studies.” O'Reilly provides timely access to materials published by Java, Addison-Wesley, O'Reilly, Que, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall, Sams, Macromedia, Microsoft, CISCO, and Adobe.

Users must have a VALID UT Dallas email address in order to access O'Reilly. Additionally, users who create an account (free) may enjoy extra benefits such as direct access to www.oreilly.com without logging in through the library site, the ability to bookmark ebook and video content, and access to O'Reilly on tablets and mobile devices through the O'Reilly app (iOS and Android compatible). O'Reilly Training is not included in this subscription.

Open Dissertations contains the abstracts of hundreds of thousands of electronic theses and dissertations from 1933 until the present. The project is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs designed to make ETDs more discoverable. The database is publicly available.
OSA Publishing provides indexing and abstracts to access over many journals conference proceedings in the field of optics. Full text is available for many of these resources.
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Alternate Name(s):Libby

The OverDrive collection contains thousands of popular ebooks and audiobooks available for reading in your web browser or for download using the Libby app on any iOS (Apple App Store) or Android (Google Play) device. Titles span a variety of bestselling and leisure reading genres: science fiction and fantasy, mysteries, thrillers, romance, self-improvement, self-help, history, true crime, LGBTQA+, and much more. 

After installing the Libby app on your device, add “University of Texas at Dallas” as your library. For more help with the Libby app, see the Libby Help page.

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Alternate Name(s):Oxford Journals Online

Oxford Academic provides access to journals and eBooks from the Oxford University Press. Users can browse content from Oxford Journals or search for research across all Oxford publications. Please Note: This platform will include books that UTD has not purchased access to read. 

Alternate Name(s):https://libproxy.utdallas.edu/login?url=https://oed.com/
The Oxford English Dictionary, commonly known as the OED, is the recognized authority for words in English. It provides the history and pronunciation of each word.
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The Oxford Reference Online (ORO) database contains the full text of hundreds of reference books and dozens of English and bilingual dictionaries. It also includes in-depth articles on various topics, links to valuable web resources, and thousands of maps and illustrations.

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PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) is an index to periodical articles, books, and international, federal and state documents published since 1915. Subjects covered include economics, the media, health conditions, banking and business, politics, law and ethics, social issues, and public administration.

PAPERSFIRST (index to conference papers) covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by the British Library from 1993 to the present. Extensive Help pages are available for basic, advanced and expert searches. PapersFirst is updated twice a month.
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Concentrating on primary sources in philosophy, religion, and literature, Past Masters gathers the books, diaries, letters, and correspondence of major intellects from across the centuries. Titles are typically comprised of the complete collected works of each individual author. Users may conduct searches or browse materials by title, subject (e.g., Women Writers, Religious Studies, or Continental Philosophy), or language (e.g., English, Latin, Greek, or Russian).

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PBS Video Collection contains over 1200 different documentaries and episodes from series initially broadcasted on the Public Broadcasting Service. Some highlights include Shakespeare Uncovered, American Experience: Eyes on the Prize, NOVA, Nature, Frontline, and many documentaries produced and directed by Ken Burns.

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Published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1815, the Gazette provides a first hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of the periods. Thousands of articles, editorials, letters, news items and advertisements give a detailed glimpse of issues and lifestyles of the times.

Alternate Name(s):International Index to Performing Arts Full Text
This database provides indexing of performing arts journals (many in full text) on subjects including film, television, theater, ballet, opera, musical theater, puppetry, mime, rodeos, circuses, etc.
Periodicals Archive Online database is an archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Researchers can access over 200 years of scholarship on a wide variety of subjects.
PIO indexes hundreds of humanities, science, and social science journals from different countries in several languages, and it includes items that are especially useful for scholarly book reviews. Many full-text articles are included. Coverage for some journals begins in the 17th century.
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Founder by Christopher James Perry in 1884, The Philadelphia Tribune‎ is the oldest continuously published daily African-American newspaper in the United States. This newspaper fought against segregation and tackled issues like the race riots in Pennsylvania.

An international index with abstracts to books and scholarly journals of philosophy and related fields written after 1939, it covers ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, logic, and metaphysics, as well as material on the philosophy of disciplines such as law, religion, science, history, and education. It is one of the most important databases for philosophy.
Alternate Name(s):POEISIS, Philosophy Online
Philosophy Documentation Center (PDC, also known as Philosophy Online) accesses numerous leading scholarly journals in philosophy, critical analysis, phenomenology, ethics, and related philosophical disciplines.
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PhilPapers is an index to articles in philosophy journals, books and open access archives submitted by researchers. PhilPapers offers unique features such as real-time indexing of pre-prints, email alerts, reading lists, advanced search functionality, and discussion forums.

Physical Education Index (1970-) covers a broad collection of materials including, but not restricted to, peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents and popular press. Subject coverage includes kinesiology, coaching, sports law, sports equipment, business and marketing, sports psychology, patents, health education and physical therapy as well as other sports-related topics.
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This African-American newspaper, founded by Edwin Nathaniel Harleston in 1907, advocated expanding medical facilities in Pittsburgh’s black communities and led the “Double V” campaign during World War II that demanded equal rights for African-American soldiers fighting overseas.

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Pivot provides faculty members, student researchers, and administrators with timely information about funding opportunities. Profiles can be created to keep you in touch with the latest information on finding money for research.
Play Index provides the full publication details needed to locate a particular play.
Political Extremism and Radicalism provides insight on unorthodox, extremist groups from both the right and left of the political spectrum through rare primary sources. This database offers a diverse mixture of materials, including periodicals, campaign propaganda, government records, oral histories, and various ephemera. It covers a period of just over a century (1900s to 2010s) when the world saw the formation of several civil rights movements, including for the rights of minorities, women's rights, and gay rights.
Political Handbook of the World provides information on the major aspects of each country's government and political party system. Each country profile includes key facts, government and political history, current issues, political parties and organizations, legislatures and cabinets, and communications.

A gateway to rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas, created and maintained by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries. Users may access historical newspapers, television footage, images, books, musical scores, letters, pamphlets, and other types of digitally preserved primary sources produced in or about Texas.

This source includes primary sources for the study and understanding of the challenges facing the European peoples in the aftermath of World War II. It covers the politics and administration of the refugee crisis in Europe after World War II as well as the day-to-day survival of the refugees themselves.
This indexes citations of every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library. Coverage begins in 1993.
The collection includes hundreds of education journals and reports. The majority of full-text titles included in the database are available in PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in the Professional Development Collection dates as far back as 1965.
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Project MUSE provides full-text access to hundreds of journals and ebooks in the humanities and social sciences from 1993 to current. Beginning in 2025, some Project Muse journals will benefit from a Subscribe 2 Open (S2O) program. Journals that are part of the program and that reach a sustainability threshold, as determined by Project Muse, will have articles converted to open access at no additional cost. 

Learn more about S2O here.  Questions about this program can be sent to Davin Pate at djp130330@utdallas.edu

ProQuest Databases: Provides access to many databases published by ProQuest Company.
The British Online Archives' collection, Prosecuting the Holocaust: British investigations into Nazi war crimes, 1944-1949, provides insight into the Nazi state activities during World War II. It contains hundreds of thousands of pages of documents and photos and provides access to primary sources related to this time. The collection includes records relating to war crimes, policies and procedures, correspondence, and more.
The APA PsycArticles database covers journal articles published by the American Psychological Association and other allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from more than 50 journals. Coverage extends more than 120 years, beginning in 1894.
The Psychology and Behavioral Sciences collection provides indexing to hundreds of publications in psychology including topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, and observational and experimental methods. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1965 and is updated daily.
APA PsycInfo is the premier index for researching psychological literature, including related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and others. APA PsycInfo indexes thousands of psychology journals, as well as appropriate book chapters, books and dissertations. The index starts in 1806 (1887 for journals) and is updated weekly.
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APA PsycNet contains eBooks published by the American Psychological Association.

APA PsycTests provides descriptive summaries, full text (if available), and relevant citations on the development and assessment of tests and measures that can be used in research and teaching. This repository includes unpublished tests, tests developed by psychologists for which no source documentation is available, and information about commercially published tests. Information on each test includes: data on the scope of the test, test implementation, a high-level overview of the test’s development, and reliability and validity data (when available). Coverage begins in 1910 and the database is updated monthly.
PTSDpubs, formerly called PILOTS, is produced by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD. It includes citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health results of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations. Coverage begins in the 1870s and continues through the present.
PubChem is an open chemistry database from the U.S. National Institutes of Health. PubChem contains information on chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, patents, health, safety, toxicity data, and many others. PubChem mostly contains small molecules, but also larger molecules such as nucleotides, carbohydrates, lipids, peptides, and chemically-modified macromolecules.
This searches all of these databases simultaneously: EconLit, Social Sciences Full Text, and SocINDEX.
PubMed provides access to citations and abstracts from biomedical literature and covers the literature back to the 1950s. Links to full-text articles at other journal websites are provided for many of the citations within PubMed.
Punch Historical Archive contains the complete text and images (in color and black and white) of all issues published from 1841 through 1992. It was the world's most celebrated magazine of humor and satire, publishing some of the finest comic writers in the English language - from William Makepeace Thackeray to P.G. Wodehouse.

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Collection indexes primary records of administrative and public responses to serious disease outbreaks in American History, from 1736-1923, covering Colonial America through the First World War.
Books collection gives access to books, county histories and documents that many aspects of disease and public health from the 19th century through 1928. Varieties of perspectives are included documenting the cooperation of quarantine restrictions from federal, state, and local communities.

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Race Relations Abstracts contains thousands of bibliographic records from various magazines and journals relevant to the study of race relations.
Documenting three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights, this resource showcases the speeches, reports, surveys and analyses produced by Fisk University’s Race Relations Department (1943-1970), including Charles S. Johnson, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall. Explore key themes such as the desegregation of schools, industries, and public transport; the migration of African Americans from the rural South to urban centers; the role of the church in the civil rights movement; race riots and other racial tensions; and more.
This standard index to U.S. Periodicals provides a well-balanced selection of non-technical magazine articles representing various subject fields. Coverage is from 1890 to 1982.
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This full-text Spanish-language database covers both academic and popular subjects. It offers content from a variety of sources, including hundreds of reference books, more than 50 general interest magazines, and thousands of health reports.

Regional Business News provides full-text coverage for dozens of regional business publications covering both rural and urban areas of the United States.
The Religion and Philosophy Collection provides full-text coverage of hundreds of relevant journals covering topics such as major denominations, biblical studies, history, epistemology, as well as philosophy and ethics.

RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is the collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 89 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The database contains journal articles, working papers, books, and book chapters from thousands of sources.

Alternate Name(s):formerly Research Methods Primary Sources
RSPS helps introduce humanities and social science researchers to the key approaches and methodologies of working with source material. It contains hundreds of essays, videos, “How to” guides, and case studies, all developed by subject specialists and designed to answer your questions about working with primary sources.
HeritageQuest's Revolutionary War Records database contains scanned copies of more than 80,000 pension and bounty-land-warrant application files for soldiers and their widows who served in the American army and navy during the Revolutionary War. Most of the records are from the early 1800s and contain revealing information about each applicant. This is a helpful source for historical and genealogical information.
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Alternate Name(s):Checkpoint Edge

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"Checkpoint Edge contains comprehensive federal, state, and international tax resources, including information on pensions, estate planning, corporate finance, tax rulings, and more. Table of contents are not accessible from off-campus."
 

RILM features the content of over 45 countries published from the early 20th century to the present on a variety of topics in music studies: musicology, ethnomusicology, theory, performance, and more. Users may also access indexing and abstracting of content (journals, books, dissertations, and more) spanning back to the 19th century and available in over 140 languages.
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary exploration of the modernist period, covering eight key subject areas: Architecture, Dance, Drama/Performance, Film, Intellectual Currents, Literature, Music, and Visual Arts. Researchers can navigate by subject, movement, and location, with cross-references to assist in the discovery of connections between significant modernist topics and fields.
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The Royal Society of Chemistry provides access to more than 1200 high-quality chemistry ebooks.

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Alternate Name(s):Books from the Royal Society of Chemistry

The Royal Society of Chemistry provides access to more than 1200 high-quality chemistry ebooks.

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Sabin Americana, 1500-1926, is based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography. This collection contains full-text works about the Americas, including Latin America and Canada, published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900s. Also included are books, pamphlets, serials, and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western migration, Native Americans, military history, and more.

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Alternate Name(s):Research Methods Cases
SAGE Research Methods Cases include more than 1100 case studies written by the researchers and discussing how actual research projects were conducted. They can be used to demonstrate particular methods and applications in research, or as examples to students preparing their research projects. The peer-reviewed cases show why the researchers chose the methods they did and how they overcame challenges in their research. Learning objectives and discussion questions are also included.
Alternate Name(s):Research Methods Datasets
SAGE Research Methods Datasets is a collection of teaching datasets and instructional guides that are downloadable and indexed by method and data type. Professors can use the collection in classroom exercises or on exams, and students can practice data analysis independently as well.
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Alternate Name(s):Research Methods Online

SAGE Research Methods Online is a comprehensive resource for gathering information and assistance on research methodologies, from basic terminology to complex interactive maps depicting the relationships among different types of research methods. Access hundreds of online handbooks, dictionaries and encyclopedias, the entire "Little Green Book" and "Little Blue Book," journal articles, instructional videos, podcasts, and interactive research methods tools.

Salud en Español provides Spanish language readers with consumer health care information from many sources.
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Access the archives of the San Francisco Chronicle, the seminal newspaper of San Francisco, spanning 1865 – 1922. Readers can gain special insights into the history of San Francisco while encountering the writings of Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Jack London, and Rex Beach, who all contributed in the paper’s early years. News, photographs, advertisements, obituaries, and more are available as downloadable PDFs. For current San Francisco content, please see Access World News Research Collection.

SciELO is part of the Web of Science family of databases. SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) citation index provides access to scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities published in leading open-access journals from Latin America, Portugal, Spain, and South Africa. Coverage begins in 1997.
Science & Technology Collection contains hundreds of leading full-text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts to thousands of publications. Topics include aeronautics, astrophysics, biology, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, marine sciences and materials science.
ISI’'s Science Citation Index Expanded provides access to thousands of articles from journals in the natural, life, physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences. Each article contains full indexing with abstracts as well as complete bibliographies, allowing for cited reference searching as well. Full-text links are provided for articles which are part of the library'’s collection.
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Alternate Name(s):Elsevier

Millions of publications from full-text journal articles to authoritative books. Journals are guided by eminent editorial boards and articles are rigorously peer-reviewed. Books on ScienceDirect cover multiple subject collections across disciplines such as physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities. 

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SciFinder is the world's premier database for chemical literature, containing millions of searchable records derived from thousands of international journals published from the early 1900s to the present. In addition to journal articles, SciFinder also indexes chemical patents, dissertations, conference proceedings, and technical reports.
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SCOPUS provides scholarly and peer-reviewed articles in the natural sciences and social sciences, as well as business and management. For access, click the building icon in the upper right corner and enter "university of texas at dallas" when prompted for organization or email.
The Canadian System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR) is the official website that provides access to Canadian public securities documents and filings by public companies with the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA).
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SEG Digital Library is a collection of geophysics books and other materials published by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

The Serials Directory provides access to bibliographic information and current pricing structures for popular serials. It contains hundreds of thousands of U.S. and international serial titles, including newspapers as well as data from publishers worldwide.
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The Shoah Visual History Archive allows users to view more than 50,000 audiovisual testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides. These testimonies were recorded in a variety of countries and languages. UTD affiliates must create a free login to use this database.

The Short Story Index identifies thousands of stories published in thousands of collections, either written in English or translated into English. It is searchable by subject, author, date, title, keyword, or by any combination. Although primarily an index, it will link to the full-text if available.
SIAM Journals (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) include research in applied and computational mathematics, including the modeling of physical, chemical, and biomedical phenomena, and the optimizing of manufacturing processes. It includes full-text coverage of dozens of peer-reviewed journals beginning in 1997, including SIAM Review, Theory of Probability and Its Applications, and the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing.
This resource brings together documents from libraries and archives from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Africa and the Americas from 1490 to 2007. Topics covered include the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective, and the continued existence of slavery today. Contents include archival documents, manuscripts, and maps organized in thematic and geographic groups.
The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index with abstracts covering thousands of scholarly journals from numerous social sciences disciplines.
Social Sciences Full Text includes articles from hundreds of publications and covers a range of interdisciplinary fields such as addiction studies, anthropology, corrections, economics, gender studies, gerontology, political sciences, psychology, and more. Indexing is also included for almost 800 periodical. Coverage begins in 1972; for articles published between 1907 and 1972, use the Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective.
SocINDEX includes abstracts for thousands of core sociological journals and related areas of study dating back to 1895. The database also indexes books, monographs, conference papers, and other content sources. Additionally, it features more than 25,000 author profiles covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database; profiles include biographical data and information, areas of expertise, and academic/professional focus of the authors.
Sociological Abstracts draws information from an international selection of hundreds of journals, conference papers, books, and dissertations. Subjects include community development, family and social work, group interactions, religion, women's studies, social psychology, and demography.
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The SPIE Digital Library is a collection of optics and photonics research, with papers spanning biomedicine, communication, sensors, manufacturing, electronics, energy, and imaging. It includes all SPIE proceedings back to 1962, all SPIE journals, and hundreds of ebooks.

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This comprehensive archive begins with the first issue in August 1954 through December 2000. Published by Time Magazine, Sports Illustrated chronicled the weekly events within sports. Database Includes fully indexed articles and cover pages. In addition, advertisements are individually identified.

Sports Medicine and Education Index provides resources to researchers with an interest in the field of physical education. The database covers both scholarly and trade literature 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. Coverage of peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, and more begins in 1970 and is updated monthly.
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SpringerLink, by Springer-Verlag publishers, is one of the world's leading online information services for scientific, technical, and medical books and journals. SpringerLink contains full-text of over 500 fully peer reviewed journals and a growing roster of series publications and online books. Coverage varies from journal to journal, but most titles go back as far as the mid 1990s.

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S&P's NetAdvantage is a source of business and investment information, offering on-line access to popular Standard & Poor's research products such as Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Corporation Records, The Outlook, and Mutual Fund Reports. This resource also provides data on thousands of private companies that are not publicly traded.
The Statesman's Yearbook online contains the full-text of the current print edition, and it includes reliable information and data for countries world wide.
The Statistical Abstract of the United States is a summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic condition of the United States, containing hundreds of searchable and browsable individually indexed statistical tables. The Abstract can be used for statistical reference and as a guide to sources of more information both in print and online.
Statistical Insight is a full-text database containing statistical charts and tables derived from federal and state government agencies, international bodies, and private organizations. It includes demographic data as well as data about crime, economics, health, education, and labor.
This collection offers full-text coverage of content relevant to sustainability initiative management. It is designed for sustainability experts and information professionals and covers topics such as corporate social responsibility, environmental stewardship, and governmental regulations.

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Testaments to the Holocaust is a digitized, searchable full-text and image resource. Taken from the Wiener Library in London, England. This unique archive is organized into five sections: eyewitness accounts, photograph collection, propaganda materials, Wiener Library publications, and biographical index cards.
This database provides access to large-scale maps of Texas towns and cities. The maps include information such as the size, shape, and construction materials for urban buildings; heights and functions of structures and property boundaries.
This website provides information about the Texas Legislature from 1989 to the present. When the Texas Legislature is in session, a streaming video of the proceedings is available. The site includes the text of bills, statutes, reports, and voting information. In addition, information about each legislator including their committee assignments, bills authored and sponsored, and a link to personal websites.
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Texas Reference Center is comprised of newspapers, magazines, reference books, reports, and other content relevant to the state.

Alternate Name(s):Philatelic Union Catalog
The David Straight Memorial Philatelic Union Catalog, hosted by the American Philatelic Research Library, contains records for books, journals, auction catalogs and other library holdings. As a union catalog it enables you to search the holdings of multiple philatelic libraries.
Philatelics is the study and collection of postage stamps and other postal materials.
This database contains detailed information on thousands of theatrical figures, plays, theatres, major productions, and production companies in Canada and the United States, including tens of thousands of images, playbills, postcards, scrapbooks and other resources.
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This comprehensive archive begins with the first issue in March 1923 through December 2000. Published Weekly. Time Magazine captured relevant news, political discussions, sports, cultural events, and entertainment from within the United States and around the world.

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The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) Historical Archive (1902-2011) contains digitized copies of the TLS published from 1902 through 2011.

  • Newspaper Resource
Alternate Name(s):Sunday Times Digital Archive

An online archive of every headline, article, editorial, announcement, image and advertisement published in The Sunday Times (London) from 1822 - 2006

This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political, and economic issues as well as scientific discoveries and other popular topics. TOPICsearch contains information from international and regional newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
The Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) is a searchable database of registered and dead U.S. trademarks and applications. It is provided by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and updated daily.

Doctoral dissertations and masters theses published at UT Dallas. For a more complete list, see Dissertations and Theses @ University of Texas at Dallas or search the library catalog.

The Twentieth Century North American Drama database contains a selection of plays from the 1890s through the 20th century. Along with the plays, the database also contains information on theaters and production companies, as well as selected playbills, production photographs, and other materials related to the plays.
The Twentieth-Century Poetry database contains a collection of American Poetry and one of English Poetry. It also includes the works in The Faber Poetry Library.

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  • Newspaper Resource

This comprehensive archive includes United States Daily, 1926 -1933, United States News, 1933-1948, World Report, 1946-1948, and U.S. News & World Report, 1948-1984. The periodical features a broad variety of articles that covered current events, politics, and business.

Funded by the Jaffe Collection, this database provides correspondence, reports, and other documents that spotlight America's relations with the Vatican during World War II and the Holocaust.
Ulrichsweb.com is an online directory of journals, magazines, and other periodicals. Ulrichsweb.com also indicates if a journal or magazine is refereed or peer reviewed.
UNdata allows a simultaneous search of statistics produced by United Nations Statistics and Population Divisions as well as other United Nations agencies.
The Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS) is a searchable database of registered and dead U.S. trademarks and applications. It is provided by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and updated daily.
The Historical Topographic Map Collection contains all editions and scales of United States Geographic Survey standard topographic quadrangle maps published from 1884 to 2006. Scales range from 1:250,000 to 1:12,000. Maps are downloadable.
Alternate Name(s):United States Patent and Trademark Office Patent Full-Text Database

Includes information about all US patents (including utility, design, reissue, plant patents and SIR documents) from the first patent issued in 1790 to the most recent issue week. Full-text information, including the inventor's name, patent title and description, is provided for patents from 1976 to the present. Pre-1976 information is searchable only by patent number and classification. More extensive information on patents from 1967 - 1975 is available in the print title Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office - Patents (located in U.S. Government Documents - 2nd Floor, Call No. C 21.5:).

Collection of online resources about State of Texas provided by University of Texas at Austin.

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This collection provides full text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals.

This database contains digital copies of Vogue, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. The Vogue Archive preserves the work of the world's commercial artists, stylists, and photographers and is a unique record of fashion, culture, advertising, and society from the beginning of the 20th century to the present.

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  • Newspaper Resource

Wall Street Journal Historical Archive offers full-text articles and abstracts from the newspaper covering world market news and data from 1889 to 2012.

  • Newspaper Resource

Wall Street Journal offers full-text articles and abstracts from the newspaper covering world market news and data from 1984 to the present. The weekday print subscription to the paper (Southwestern Edition) is also available at the McDermott Library Circulation Desk.

  • Newspaper Resource
Alternate Name(s):WSJ

Provides subscriber access to the full content of the Wall Street Journal online, including daily news and archives.  UTD students, faculty, and staff can sign-up for an account. Log in with your net-id and password and fill out the new account form using your utdallas.edu email address.


After creating an account, UTD users can download the WSJ app to access the same content.

  • Newspaper Resource

The Washington informs readers of the latest news from the Washington D.C , Maryland, and Virginia Metro areas. The paper also covers important National and World events. Content is updated daily and is thoroughly indexed.

  • Newspaper Resource

The first newspaper in Washington to publish seven days a week. Contains contributions by Joseph Pulizer and editorial cartoonist Herbert L. Block (“Herblock”). The archive covers important events such as the Watergate Scandal, Civil Rights Movement, and the publication of the Pentagon Papers. Covers the period of 1877-2007.

The Web of Science (Core Collection) includes access to these WoS databases:

-Science Citation Index Expanded 1900-present
-Social Sciences Citation Index 1900-present
-Arts and Humanities Citation Index 1975-present
-Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science 1990-present
-Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities 1990-present and
-Emerging Sources Citation Index 2015-present.

Select any or all of the databases to search simulateneously. WoS allows citation searching to determine which scholar is citing another scholar. Citation searching can also be used to determine how many times an article has been cited since it was published. This data is often used to determine the importance of the research and the pros and cons of the article.
  • Access not available for Community Users
Alternate Name(s):WRDS

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) provides a research platform to analyze data across disciplines including accounting, banking, economics, finance, and statistics. WRDS provides access to S&P Capital IQ, CRSP, NYSE, Thomson Reuters, Global Insight, OptionMetrics, Revelio Labs, and other important business research databases.

UTD faculty, graduate students and staff gain access to WRDS by registering for an account.

Please note that WRDS began requiring two-factor authentication on December 5, 2022. Directions on setting up two-factor authentication may be found here.

  • E-book Resource

Wiley Online Library delivers full-text content for hundreds of leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals, plus major reference works, the acclaimed Current Protocols laboratory manuals, and the full text of select Wiley print books online. This collection does not include access to all the publisher's journals and books, only those that the library licenses.

This database provides information and resources on the history of women in social movements in the United States between 1600 and 2000 and includes collections of primary sources as well as over a hundred document projects, book reviews, thousands of images, teaching tools, and other features including a chronology, a biographical section, and links to other websites.
The Women’s Suffrage Collection includes full text of historical documents, newspapers, and books related to the struggle for women’s suffrage, women’s rights, and the temperance movement dating from roughly 1812 through 1920.
Developed by the World Bank, WDI provides online access to financial and demographic data for hundreds of countries and regions of the world. Data retrieved can be manipulated by adjusting output parameters and downloaded as an Excel file. Coverage begins in 1960.
The World Development Report contains the complete text of every annual report published by the World Bank since 1978 and includes all color illustrations, charts, and tables. WDR is the World Bank's major annual analytical publication with each report covering a different topic or challenge relevant to global peace, knowledge, and economic and social advancement. Users may also browse and search OKR, the Open Knowledge Repository, a collection of thousands of books and reports providing economic, social, political, and state of the environment data.
World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean features primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean, academic journal articles, newspapers, maps and statistics. World Scholar covers topics such as politics, economics, religion, culture, international affairs, the environment, science, and technology. The collection includes manuscripts, signed letters, expedition records, reports, maps, diaries, descriptions of voyages, and more.
WorldCat contains the catalog records of thousands of libraries worldwide and provides information on millions of books, newspapers, maps, periodicals, government documents, etc. This is one of the most important resources for determining which library owns a particular work.
WPSA provides abstracts and indexing for articles in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. Coverage begins in 1975, and the database links to full text when available.
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