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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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