Find the best library databases for your research.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This database provides materials from the African American press in the South during the Reconstruction through the Jim Crow period (1870-1926).
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.
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.
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.
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.
America's Historical Imprints contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, and ephemera printed in early 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.
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.
Searches the following databases simultaneously: America: History and Life, Art & Architecture Complete, Art Index Retrospective, Bibliography of Native North Americans, Historical Abstracts, Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984, Humanities Full Text, SocINDEX, and Social Sciences Full Text.
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.
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.
Searches the following databases simultaneously: Art & Architecture Complete, Art Index Retrospective, Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, and Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson).
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.
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.
The Austin American-Statesman offers full-text articles and abstracts from the newspaper from 1871 to 1980.
The Austin American-Statesman offers full-text articles and abstracts from the newspaper from 1989-current.
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.
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.
Searches following databases simultaneously: APA PsycARTICLES, APA PsycINFO, ERIC, MEDLINE, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, and SocINDEX.
Searches the following databases simultaneously: Agricola, Applied Science & Technology Source, General Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson), MEDLINE, and Science & Technology Collection.
This powersearch searches the following databases simultaneously: Agricola, Applied Science & Technology Source, General Science Full Text, MEDLINE, and Science & Technology Collection.
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.
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.
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 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/
Searches the following databases simultaneously: Applied Science & Technology Source, General Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson), MathSciNet via EBSCOhost, Medline, and Science & Technology Collection.
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.
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.
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.
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 provides full-text access to a selection of books and journals relating to cognitive and neurological sciences published by MIT Press.
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.
The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is a large reference source containing data and other information on multiple areas of Chemistry.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This POWERSEARCH searches all of these databases simultaneously: Education Research Complete, Educational Administration Abstracts, ERIC, and Professional Development Collection.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Searches the following databases simultaneously: Agricola,General Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson), GeoRef, GeoRef In Process, GreenFILE, and Science & Technology Collection.
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.
The Gerritsen Collection is an electronic collection of books and periodicals reflecting the evolution of feminist consciousness and women's rights.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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*.
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.
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.
Inter-Play indexes individual plays published in collections, anthologies, and periodicals.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This searches the following databases simultaneously: Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA), and Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Searches the following databases simultaneously: Bloomberg Businessweek Archive, Business Abstracts with Full Text, Business Source Complete, Regional Business News, Small Business Reference Center, and Vocational and Career Collection.
Searches the following databases simultaneously: Applied Science & Technology Source, EconLit,General Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson), and MathSciNet via EBSCOhost.
Searches all of the following databases simultaneously: Alt HealthWatch, APA PsycARTICLES, APA PsycINFO, CINAHL, General Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson), Health Source Consumer Edition, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, MEDLINE, and Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection.
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.
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.
This POWERSEARCH searches all of these databases simultaneously: Art and Architecture Complete, Art Index Retrospective, Communication & Mass Media Complete, Humanities Full Text, Humanities International Index, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text .
This database provides searchable full-text access to collections of digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and more primary source materials.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
This searches the following databases simultaneously: Art & Architecture Complete, Art Index Retrospective, Communication & Mass Media Complete, Humanities Full Text and RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text
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.
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.
Searches the following databases simultaneously: Applied Science & Technology Source,General Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson), Inspec, Inspec Archive - Science Abstracts 1898-1968, and Science & Technology Collection.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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."
The Royal Society of Chemistry provides access to more than 1200 high-quality chemistry ebooks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
**Note: This collection does not allow access to ALL the publisher's journals and books. Only the titles licensed are available.
SEG Digital Library is a collection of geophysics books and other materials published by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
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.
This POWERSEARCH searches the following databases simultaneously: APA PsycARTICLES, APA PsycINFO, CINAHL, Communication & Mass Media Complete, Education Research Complete, MEDLINE, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, Social Sciences Full Text, and SocINDEX.
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.
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.
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.
**Note: This collection does not allow access to ALL the publisher's journals and books. Only the titles licensed are available.
Texas Reference Center is comprised of newspapers, magazines, reference books, reports, and other content relevant to the state.
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.
The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) Historical Archive (1902-2011) contains digitized copies of the TLS published from 1902 through 2011.
An online archive of every headline, article, editorial, announcement, image and advertisement published in The Sunday Times (London) from 1822 - 2006
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.
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.
This POWERSEARCH searches all of these databases simultaneously: Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete, EconLit, Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson), and SocINDEX.
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:).
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.
Wall Street Journal Historical Archive offers full-text articles and abstracts from the newspaper covering world market news and data from 1889 to 2012.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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