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APA PsycArticles
APA PsycArticles is a collection of social and behavioral sciences articles providing access to 119 journals, including our flagship publication, American Psychologist.
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EBSCO Academic Search Complete
The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary database containing full-text for more than 8,500 publications in a user-friendly format with many helpful special features.
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Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues, featuring continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and website links organized into a user-friendly experience.
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JSTOR
JSTOR's trusted digital archive of over one thousand academic journals and other scholarly items provides a wide range of content in more than 50 disciplines.
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NewsBank
A large collection of local news sources, blogs, and media transcripts, including the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Coverage of the Dallas Morning News (DMN) is available from 1984 to June, 2016. Current content of the DMN is available from EBSCO's Newspaper Source.
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formerly Dallas Metro Collection, Dallas Morning News, and North Texas Metro News
Current Dallas Morning News content available from EBSCO's Newspaper Source.
Oxford Reference Online
Bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias, Oxford Reference is the premier online reference product, spanning 25 different subject areas, with results that range from short-entry, general reference to more in-depth articles on specialized subjects.
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Offers citations for over 2.2 million theses and dissertations in every academic field. In addition, over 750,000 items are available as full-text PDF files.
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SAGE
The world's 5th largest journals publisher, with more than 645 journals spanning the humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine.
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NOTE: DBU's subscription includes all SAGE journal articles published from 1999 to the present.
Springer
Providing researchers with access to scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works, SpringerLink provides over 8.5 million scientific documents at your fingertips.
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Academic OneFile
Contains more than 6,200 full-text titles in all disciplines, with an intuitive interface and powerful extras.
Academic Search Complete
The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary database containing full-text for more than 8,500 publications in a user-friendly format with many helpful special features.
Access Science
Articles, research updates, videos, animations and images relating to scientific knowledge, and nearly 3,000 biographies of well-known scientists.
AGRICOLA
This database contains more than 4.8 million bibliographic citations from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. AGRICOLA encompasses all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.
Alexander Street Counseling & Therapy Videos
Alexander Street's Counseling and Therapy Channel provides a rich collection of video and text for the study of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. Students can study, observe, and experience a wide variety of different therapy and counseling methods as practiced by experts in their fields.
Alt HealthWatch
This database provides in-depth coverage on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness, featuring over 180 full-text journals as well as pamphlets, booklets, and special reports in the fields of complementary and alternative medicines.
American Art
Dedicated to exploring all aspects of American visual heritage from colonial to contemporary times, this journal covers the fine arts, popular culture, public art, film, electronic multimedia, and decorative arts, revealing the nation’s rich and diverse artistic legacy.
American Biology Teacher
This peer-refereed professional journal for K-16 biology teachers covers modern biology content, teaching strategies, field activities, social and ethical implications of biology, and ways to incorporate such concerns into instructional programs.
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (AJO) exists to promote mental health and social justice, including the protection of human rights, publishing articles that clarify, challenge, or reshape the prevailing understanding of factors in the prevention and correction of injustice and in the sustainable development of a humane and just society.
American West
This source allows browsers to explore tales of frontier life, pioneers, Wild West shows, the Gold Rush, and vigilantes and outlaws. Document types include: manuscripts, trade cards, wanted posters, photographs, claim certificates, news sheets, rare printed works, brand books, broadsides, correspondence, diaries, directories, journals, pamphlets, periodicals, and artworks.
APA PsycArticles
APA PsycArticles is a collection of social and behavioral sciences articles providing access to 119 journals, including our flagship publication, American Psychologist.
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ArchiveGrid Archival Collections Index
The first stop for locating historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world.
Art Discovery Group Catalog
A special version of the WorldCat catalog that brings together items from leading art libraries around the world, this resource offers an art-focused research experience within the WorldCat environment.
ARTSTOR Public Collection
Artstor’s ever-growing public collections offer approximately 1 million freely accessible images, videos, documents, and audio files from library special collections, faculty research, and institutional history materials, as well as hundreds of thousands of open access images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
ATLA Theological Database
Articles, book reviews, and essays from major religion and theology journals. Searchable by scripture passage as well as keyword.
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Bibliography of Native North Americans
BNNA contains more than 137,000 citations covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. The database is an essential research tool for anthropologists, educators, historians, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, linguists, theologians, and ethnobotanists.
Book Review Digest Plus
Brings together book reviews on a wide range of topics, from a variety of sources. Unlike reviews on book-sale sites and the open Internet, many of these reviews are serious, academic works.
Business Abstracts with Full Text
Offering a multitude of business magazines and scholarly journals, this database contains the full text of articles from more than 510 business publications, as well as product evaluations, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, and reports from associations, trade shows, conferences, and more.
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Reference Center
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Reference Center is a full-text database designed to support continuity experts and information professionals. It covers all aspects of business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR), including risk evaluation, emergency preparedness and crisis communications.
Business Source Complete
The world's definitive scholarly business database, containing far more active, peer-reviewed, business related journals than any other database currently available.
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Career Accelerator / Test Prep
Tools for successful job searching, including writing résumés and cover letters, navigating the interview experience, and finding the type of career that's just right for you.
Cell
Cell publishes findings of unusual significance in any area of experimental biology, including but not limited to cell biology, molecular biology, neuroscience, immunology, virology and microbiology, cancer, human genetics, systems biology, signaling, and disease mechanisms and therapeutics. In addition to primary research articles in four formats, Cell features review and opinion articles on recent research advances and issues of interest to its broad readership.
Checkpoint Edge
The premier provider of advanced research, practice materials, and compliance tools for tax, accounting and corporate finance professionals.
Choice has established itself as an authoritative source for the evaluation of scholarly resources and as the publisher of trusted research in areas of interest to a changing academic library community. Choice works to bring librarians, scholars, publishers, and the reading public together, facilitating a shared concern for the discovery, management, and preservation of scholarly information.
Christian Higher Education
This peer-reviewed journal features articles on developments in the study and practice of Christian higher education. This journal addresses issues in finance, enrollment management, innovative teaching methods, higher education administration, program assessment, faculty development, curriculum development, and student services.
Classical Dictionary
Covers all aspects of the classical world from literature and history to religion, science, and archaeology. As well as providing factual information, it contains many thematic entries on subjects relevant to the 21st century such as nationalism, race, gender, and ecology.
Communication Source
Provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse, speech-language pathology, and media studies, including many unique sources not previously available in other databases.
Companion to Chaucer
Information on Chaucer's life and times, his works and the characteristics of them, his language and meter, and his major moral and literary themes, as well as the development of critical opinion about his works
Companion to Classical Civilization
An authoritative survey of the Greek and Roman worlds in all their aspects, offering articles on history and politics; ethics and morals; law and punishment; social and family life; language, literature, and art; religion and mythology; technology, science, and medicine.
Companion to English Literature
All aspects of English literature ― from writers, their works, and the historical and cultural context in which they wrote, to critics, literary theory, American literature, European history and culture, post-colonial literature, and popular genres such as children's literature, science fiction, biography, crime fiction, fantasy, and travel literature.
Companion to German Literature
Entries cover authors and their major works, as well as historical, intellectual, and cultural backgrounds, for everyone with an interest in the literature and literary culture of the German‐speaking world from the eighth century onward.
Companion to Shakespeare
From Shakespeare's favorite figures of speech to the staging of Othello in South Africa, this is a lucid, stimulating, and authoritative guide to Shakespeare's plays and poems, and their interpretation around the world. Special feature entries on every play are included.
Companion to the Bible
From brief identifications to extensive interpretive essays on topics such as the influence of the Bible on music or law, here are extended entries on religious concepts and explorations of biblical views of modern issues and the impact of the Bible on the secular world.
Companion to the Body
Provides concise accounts of the structure and function of all the major systems of the body and the causes of disorders that affect them, including articles on attitudes toward the body and its significance for artists, philosophers, and writers.
Companion to the Mind
An indispensable guide to the mysteries of the human mind, including concepts such as language, memory, and intelligence, with new entries on attachment theory, caffeine, extra-terrestrial intelligence, and imagination, among many others.
Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
This accessible and authoritative guide is essential for anyone interested in the impact of the Supreme Court’s decisions on American society. The Supreme Court continues to write constitutional history, so this updated edition includes entries of key cases and full treatment of crucial areas of constitutional law, such as abortion, freedom of religion, school desegregation, freedom of speech, voting rights, military tribunals, and the rights of the accused.
Companion to Twentieth Century Literature in English
This reference work examines English-language writers and writing throughout the twentieth century, in all major genres and from all around the world. Fiction, plays, poetry, and a whole range of non-fictional writings are explored, along with literary movements in modern and post-modern English literature.
Computer Source
Provides full-text coverage of nearly 300 publications with the latest information and current trends in high technology.
Concise Companion to African American Literature
Presents more than 400 biographies of authors, critics, literary characters, and historical figures, as well as plot summaries of major works. Icons of black culture are addressed, and general articles on literary genres and other related topics are also included.
Concise Dictionary of World Religions
Contains entries on all the major and many minor religions, movements, sects, and cults, including short biographies of founders, leaders, gurus, philosophers, mystics, and heretics. There are details of sacred sites and customs, and artifacts such as altars, icons, etc.
Consumer Health Complete
Consumer Health Complete supports the information needs of patients and fosters an overall understanding of health-related topics. This resource provides content covering all key areas of health and wellness, from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary and holistic medicine.
Criminal Justice Collection
For those studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection rises to the challenge.
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Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
A comprehensive survey of modern biochemistry and molecular biology, including definitions of terms from the fields of Bioinformatics, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Chemistry, Genetics, Immunology, Microbiology, Systems Biology, and Toxicology.
Dictionary of Creation Myths
Devoted to creation myths from cultures throughout the world, providing quick access to information on the beliefs (both exotic and ordinary) of ancient civilizations from Sumeria and Babylonia to Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, China, and many other cultures.
Dictionary of Modern Quotations
Offering a vivid picture both of the world today, and of the landmark events and key voices leading to it, the dictionary is author-organized, with special categories for film taglines, cartoon captions, misquotations, official advice, newspaper headlines, and many more.
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Explores the stories behind names and sayings that can be found in classic literature or today's news. Covers a range of topics, such as classical and other mythologies, history, religion, folk customs, superstitions, and popular culture.
Dictionary of Political Quotations
Brings together both words of wisdom and things that might have been better left unsaid, charting the most influential political events of recent times via the things people said about them, and digging deep into the rich heritage of political history from around the world.
Dictionary of the Christian Church
Contains over 6,000 entries, and offers coverage of all aspects of this vast and often complex subject, from theology; churches and denominations; patristic scholarship; and the Bible; to the church calendar and its organization; popes; archbishops; saints; and mystics.
Dictionary of the Jewish Religion
Covering Jewish religious thought, custom, law, and practice, from traditional approaches to Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist and post-denominational Judaism, including the major figures, folklore, and events in the history of Judaism throughout the world.
Dictionary of the Middle Ages
An essential new reference work covering all key aspects of European history, society, and culture from 500 to 1500 A.D., as well as the Byzantine Empire, Islamic dynasties, and Asiatic peoples of the era.
Dictionary of the Renaissance
All aspects of the Renaissance in 14th to 17th century Europe, including art, literature, science, culture, philosophy, religion, economics, history, and conflicts of the period. Nearly half the entries are biographical, covering artists, thinkers, statesman, and reformers.
Digital Public Library of America
Bringing together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, its goal is to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America's heritage, to the efforts and data of science.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Free, full-text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals covering all subjects and languages. Offers 673 searchable journals plus thousands of articles.
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Early Childhood Research Quarterly
ECRQ publishes predominantly empirical research (quantitative or qualitative methods) on issues of interest to early childhood development, theory, and educational practice. Topics of interest include children's social, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, language, and motor development; the efficacy of early intervention and prevention programs; best classroom practices and effective early childhood curricula; and professional development and training for early childhood practitioners.
eBooks / Audiobooks
Ebsco offers a comprehensive collection of eBooks, making it possible for you to access a wide range of research, reference, and reading materials for online or offline reading.
EBSCO Academic Search Complete
The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary database containing full-text for more than 8,500 publications in a user-friendly format with many helpful special features.
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Economics & Business Theory
This collection of 150 full-text periodicals covers topics such as economic development, forecasting, and history; fiscal theory; monetary theory and finance, and more.
Educational Administration Abstracts
This source is a clearinghouse for citations and abstracts covering educational administration, leadership, management, research, and other key areas in the field of education.
Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History
Offers information about the concepts, institutions and organizations, events, and individuals that have shaped the history of business, labor, and economics in the US, including entries that explore the changing character of capitalism and the evolution of business practices and organizations from the 17th century to the present.
Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History
America’s values, aspirations, anxieties, and beliefs as expressed in both everyday life and formal bodies of thought, encompassing the experiences of ordinary citizens as well as the accomplishments of prominent artists and writers.
Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History
Covers key events, historical actors, presidential elections, court cases, and larger political and legal trends throughout American history, from presidents and Supreme Court judges to critical legislation and party formation.
Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece & Rome
Offers a comprehensive overview of the major cultures of the classical Mediterranean world—Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman—from the Bronze Age to the fifth century BC.
Encyclopedia of Biblical Interpretation
Detailed, comprehensive treatments of the latest approaches to, and methods for, interpretation of the Bible, providing a single source for authoritative reference overviews of the scholarship on some of the most important topics in the field of biblical studies.
Encyclopedia of Business Ethics & Society
This reference work spans the relationships among business, ethics, and society by featuring coverage of topics including corporate social responsibility, the obligation of companies to various stakeholder groups, the contribution of business to society and culture, and the relationship between organizations and the quality of the environment.
Encyclopedia of Climate & Weather
Offers over 330 entries on climatology and meteorology, including biographical accounts of those who have made significant contributions to these fields. Over 250 photographs, maps, and charts offer depictions of various weather and climate conditions.
Encyclopedia of Communication
The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication is a digital resource covering the large and diverse scholarly world of communication research. Its essays are based on the latest, most impactful research written by the most respected scholars within the discipline. Searchable and browse-able, the ORE of Communication is organized into seventeen categories, including topics such as “Communication and Culture,” “Interpersonal Communication,” “Journalism Studies,” “Political Communication,” and more.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication
Encyclopedia of Mammals
Covers the behavior, diet, and distribution of every known living mammal in the world, and is superbly illustrated throughout with photographs and original artwork. Feature articles include: Why do primates have big brains? Why do lions roar? And much more.
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Archaeology
Understanding the lifeways of the biblical world may transform the reading of biblical texts. By going beyond mere architecture and chronology into the social organization of biblical society, this Encyclopedia presents an important breakthrough for the study of the Bible and archaeology.
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Ethics
This encyclopedia explores the intersection between biblical sources and ethical issues, both historical and modern, through extensive analytical and constructive treatments of a wide range of topics, including modern movements and hot-button issues.
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law
Entries in this encyclopedia focus on biblical law, its various contexts, and the continuance and influence of biblical law in the ancient and modern worlds. Essays cover the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount, and topics such as testimony and witness, property, ritual, and rhetoric.
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology
This resource is situated in the tension between what the Bible meant and what it means, covering traditional and historical perspectives on biblical concepts, but also addressing questions that biblical authors may not have anticipated, with the goal of providing a resource for theological reflection in the marketplace of public discourse.
Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible
Contains almost 120 in-depth entries on each of the canonical books of the Bible, major apocryphal books of the New and Old Testaments, important noncanonical texts, and thematic essays on topics such as canonicity, textual criticism, and translation.
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
Covering the “long” Enlightenment, from the rise of Descartes' disciples in 1670 to the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1815, these 700 articles range from discussions of mercantilism and democracy to the dissemination of ideas in salons and coffeehouses.
Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
Presents scholarship on all aspects of the world's fastest-growing religion and the areas it affects: society, politics, economics, everyday life, culture, and thought, with nearly 300 images and 40 maps.
Encyclopedia of the Reformation
Provides information about the entire range of religious and social changes that altered the face of Europe in the sixteenth century, encompassing not only issues of church polity and theology but also developments in politics, economics, demographics, art and literature.
Encyclopedia of Underwater Life (Oxford)
Covers the fish and aquatic invertebrates that inhabit our rivers, lakes, and oceans, including the anatomy, behavior, habitat, breeding, and conservation status of these species. Feature articles examine origins of coral reefs, the cycle of the salmon, and much more.
Enhanced Business Search Interface
Allows for keyword searching as well as a "lookup" feature that lets you search indexes and author files. Browse lists of available Company Profiles, Industry Reports, Market Research Reports, and view videos from the Harvard Business School Faculty Seminar Series.
Environmental Sciences Info - GreenFILE
Offers information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment, including global warming, renewable energy, recycling, and much more.
ERIC (Ebsco)
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than a million records and links to hundreds of thousands of full-text documents from ERIC back to 1966, now available in Ebsco's user-friendly interface.
ERIC Online (ERIC)
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, ERIC's new website includes resources such as teaching guides, research reports, bibliographies, issue papers, instructional materials, and evaluation instruments. The new site allows easier access to full-text articles.
Essay and General Literature Index
This unique database can help you find individual essays and other works contained in collections and anthologies, published yearly in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada.
Evangelical Missions Quarterly (EMQ)
For over half a century, Evangelical Missions Quarterly (EMQ) has served the missionary community worldwide by providing relevant, engaging, thoughtful articles on a vast array of ministry topics. EMQ is one of the top journals for missiologists and is the premier journal for the North American mission community.
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Family Studies Abstracts
This database includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
Fine Arts & Music
This collection of 200 full-text periodicals provides broad coverage of the arts, including music and music theory, drama and the performing arts, and the visual arts and art history.
FirstSearch Collections
Compilation of approximately 11 databases organized by topic, plus WorldCat. NOTE: Most databases in FirstSearch are not full-text.
Fuente Academica Premier
Offers more than 570 scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. All major subject areas are covered, including biology, economics, history, law, literature, psychology, religion and sociology.
Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues, featuring continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and website links organized into a user-friendly experience.
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Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Gale in Context: Science
Science in Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. The solution merges Gale's authoritative and continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
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Science in Context
Gale Literature Resource Center
Find up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers from all eras.
Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine
This multi-source database provides access to full-text nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources.
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Health Reference Center Academic
Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)
In the past you had to visit the library in order to use the reference materials available there, but now these resources are available to you—online and searchable—from the comfort of your home, 24/7. The GVRL provides access to general encyclopedias as well as specialized reference materials.
Gale: Chilton Library
ChiltonLibrary.com represents the most authoritative automotive repair information available to car owners. There are thousands of year, make and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models. ChiltonLibrary.com gives you the confidence to service or repair virtually any system on your vehicle.
General OneFile
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics.
General Reference Center Gold
A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.
GeoRef
The GeoRef database, established by the American Geosciences Institute (AGI) in 1966, provides access to the most comprehensive geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef contains millions of references to geoscience maps, serial, and non-serial literature. The database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Master's theses and doctoral dissertations from US and Canadian universities are also covered.
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Government Information Online
Government Information Online is a virtual reference service for government information that was begun in 2008 as a partnership between a group of federal depository libraries and the Government Pulbishing Office (GPO).
Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art
Featuring engaging articles on artists, artisans, patrons, painting, architecture, sculpture, cities, theory, criticism, and more, this reference work offers comprehensive scholarly information on the visual arts of the Renaissance in Northern Europe.
Grove Music Online
Offers users the opportunity to access and cross-search Oxford’s music reference resources, including the Oxford Dictionary of Music, the Oxford Companion to Music, and the New Grove Dictionaries of Music and Musicians, Opera, and Jazz.
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Handbook of Texas
A multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture, with more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions, and more.
Health Source: Consumer
Providing access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines, this database offers information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic
Provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, plus Clinical Pharmacology (US drug monographs).
HeinOnline
HeinOnline is the world's largest fully searchable, image-based government document and legal research database. It contains comprehensive coverage from inception of both U.S. statutory materials, U.S. Congressional Documents and more than 2,500 scholarly journals, all of the world's constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, and access to the full text of state and federal case law powered by Fastcase. This Government, Politics & Law HeinOnline 18-database package offers special collections on Criminal Justice, Religion and the Law and Women and the Law among others.
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HeritageQuest Online
Rich in unique primary sources, this comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources offers local and family histories, and finding aids. It delivers an essential collection of genealogical and historical sources—with coverage dating back to the 1700s—that can help people find their ancestors and discover a place’s past.
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Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center
Offers "how-to" instructions for virtually every hobby enthusiast with full text for more than 1,500 leading hobby books and craft magazines that cover Arts & Crafts, Collecting, Home & Garden, Indoor Recreation, Kids' Crafts, Model Building, Needlecrafts & Textiles, and more!
Home Improvement Reference Center
Provides users with user-friendly “how-to” information covering a range of home improvement and repair projects and features full-text content from leading magazines, images not found anywhere else online, and videos of popular home repair projects.
Humanities Full Text
Provides feature articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, and original works of fiction, drama, poetry and book reviews, as well as reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, radio and television programs, plays, operas, and more.
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Information Science & Library Issues Collection
Created for the information professional, this collection provides current and accurate coverage of such topics as data processing techniques, metadata architectures, and more.
Information Science & Technology Abstracts
This database's coverage includes classification, cataloging, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, the information industry, and more. It is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.
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Journal of Business Research
This journal applies theory developed from business research to actual business situations. Recognizing the intricate relationships between the many areas of business activity, JBR examines a wide variety of business decisions, processes and activities within the actual business setting. Theoretical and empirical advances in buyer behavior, finance, organizational theory and behavior, marketing, risk and insurance, and international business are evaluated on a regular basis.
Journal of Business Strategy
Full-text articles directed toward middle and senior managers at companies of all sizes and types, as well as consultants and academics who want to think about their businesses in new ways. (from 1980-present).
Journal of Communication Management
Full-text articles for communications and public relations professionals in private and public sector organizations as well as academics in universities and business schools. (from 2000 - present)
Journal of Criminal Justice
This international journal seeks to disseminate new information, ideas and methods in the criminal justice area. Although materials are presented relating to crime and the individual elements of the criminal justice system, the emphasis of the Journal is to tie together the functioning of these various elements and to illustrate the effects of their interactions. Articles that reflect the application of new disciplines or analytical methodologies to the problems of criminal justice demonstrate the Journal’s emphasis on innovation and creative thought.
Journal of Immunology
Publishes peer-reviewed findings in all areas of experimental immunology, including innate and adaptive immunity, inflammation, host defense, clinical immunology, autoimmunity and more.
Journal of the American Musicological Society
Recognized for the breadth of its intellectual scope, JAMS publishes scholarship from a broad array of musical inquiry, including historical musicology, critical theory, music analysis, pedagogy, performance practice, ethnomusicology, popular music, and cultural studies.
JSTOR
JSTOR's trusted digital archive of over one thousand academic journals and other scholarly items provides a wide range of content in more than 50 disciplines.
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JSTOR Open Access eBooks
More than 3,000 Open Access ebooks are now available at no cost to libraries or users. Top publishers such as the University of California Press, Cornell University Press, and Brill have contributed titles. These titles reflect JSTOR’s high standards for quality content and are freely available for anyone in the world to use. Users won’t need to register or log in, and there are no DRM restrictions or limits on chapter PDF downloads or printing.
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Leadership Quarterly
This journal brings together a focus on leadership for scholars, consultants, practicing managers, executives, and administrators. It provides timely publication of leadership research and applications with a global reach, as well as a broad range of leadership topics, emphasizing cutting edge areas through special issues.
Legal Collection
A collection of respected, scholarly peer-reviewed publications including law journals, documents, and case studies, offering full-text for nearly 250 of the world's best law journals.
Legal Forms
Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen's language.
Legal Information Reference Center
This source offers everyday users the necessary tools and detailed how-to instructions covering a wide-range of legal issues. A majority of the full-text legal reference books are provided. With the “Legal Forms by U.S. State” feature, users can search legal forms by top subject areas including adoption, bankruptcy, name changes and more.
Library Music Source
Download and print clean copies of vocal, choral, piano, and orchestral music from the world's greatest composers. Over 18,000 titles are available, and permission is granted to make multiple copies.
Literary Criticism Online
This growing online resource continues the library’s print collection of Gale's critical essay series. Includes the complete text of six critical series, starting from 2008 to the present.
Literary Reference Center
A huge, full-text collection of articles and essays of literary criticism, plot summaries and work overviews, author biographies and interviews, book reviews, classic and contemporary poems and short stories, classic texts, and much more.
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MAS Complete
Designed specifically for high school libraries, MAS Complete is a full-text database providing hundreds of popular high school magazines and reference books. Covering subjects such art, history, sports and music, it also includes thousands of biographies and primary source documents, plus over a million photos, maps and flags.
MasterFILE Complete
MasterFILE Complete offers the largest collection of popular full-text magazines, reference books and other highly-regarded sources from the world's leading publishers. Covering virtually every general interest subject area, it also includes an extensive collection of photos, maps and flags.
MedicLatina
This Spanish-language database provides full-text coverage for over 130 medical research and investigatory journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers.
MEDLINE
Provides authoritative information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
Middle Search Plus
Provides full text for over 140 popular, middle school magazines. The collection also includes thousands of biographies, historical essays, primary source documents, and an Image Collection of maps, flags, and photos. Articles are assigned a Lexile reading level indicator.
Military / Government Collection
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, providing cover-to-cover full-text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals, plus 245 full-text pamphlets.
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Natural Science Collection
As part of the SciTech Premium Collection, the Natural Science Collection provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade & industry publications, magazines, technical reports, and more. These titles cover a multitude of scientific disciplines, including agriculture, environmental & earth science, biology & life sciences, aquatic sciences, and atmosphere, meteorology, & weather, among many others.
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Naxos Music Library
The world’s largest classical music listening service, with over one million tracks of streaming music. Also includes jazz, folk, blues, and world music selections.
Naxos Music Library World
Naxos Music Library World offers a wide range of World music, from legendary historical musical performances to contemporary world music. Recordings of over 32,000 artists are represented, from over 150 countries and over 1,500 cultural groups. Naxos Music Library World includes the complete Smithsonian Folkways catalog, the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution.
New Encyclopedia of Insects and Their Allies
This volume provides a summary of the current scientific understanding of this fascinating group of animals. Exceptionally illustrated, this is the one-stop guide to the most successful, variable, and bizarre group of living things to have evolved on our planet.
New Encyclopedia of Reptiles and Amphibians
Vividly illustrated, this authoritative overview of reptiles and amphibians manages to combine scientific research with easy to read essays, for those interested in natural history as well as specialists requiring an accurate, up-to-date reference work.
New York Times
Full access to New York Times and International New York Times content, including breaking news, multimedia, reviews and opinion, blogs, videos, and more.
You must be on campus to set up your account. After set-up, you can access the NYT from any computer.
NewsBank
A large collection of local news sources, blogs, and media transcripts, including the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Coverage of the Dallas Morning News (DMN) is available from 1984 to June, 2016. Current content of the DMN is available from EBSCO's Newspaper Source.
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formerly Dallas Metro Collection, Dallas Morning News, and North Texas Metro News
Current Dallas Morning News content available from EBSCO's Newspaper Source.
Newspaper Source Plus
Newspaper Source Plus provides a full-text digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires and news magazines. In addition, it offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.
Novum Testamentum
International coverage of New Testament studies, including literary and textual criticism, critical interpretation, theology and the historical and literary background of the New Testament and early Christian literature.
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OmniFile Full Text Mega
Provides 100% full-text access to nearly 4,000 publications, providing invaluable support for research in all core undergraduate subjects as well as in cross-disciplinary studies.
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Oxford Academic Journals
Oxford Academic features 357 highly cited and authoritative journals published in collaboration with many of the world’s influential scholarly and professional societies. The Collection includes journals across six subjects: Medicine, Life Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, and Law. Titles are accessible through a user-friendly platform, which enables extensive searching in order to support your research needs.
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is an authoritative guide to the English language. It contains the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world. As a historical dictionary, you’ll find the history of individual words, and of the language—traced through 3 million quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
Oxford Reference Online
Bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias, Oxford Reference is the premier online reference product, spanning 25 different subject areas, with results that range from short-entry, general reference to more in-depth articles on specialized subjects.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedias
The Oxford Research Encyclopedias (OREs) offer long-form overview articles by leading scholars in twenty-five distinct encyclopedias focusing on major areas of research across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Substantive, peer-reviewed, and regularly updated, the OREs contain multi-media features embedded in the articles, along with cross-referenced links to related content, further expanding their utility and scope.
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Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine
This custom collection provides researchers with access to many topics in the field, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research theses, and many more.
Play Index
Covers over 31,000 classic and historical plays dating from 1949, including one-act plays, pageants, plays in verse, radio and television plays, classic drama and monologues from famous playwrights.
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Publications of the Modern Language Associations
Since 1884 PMLA has published members’ essays judged to be of interest to scholars and teachers of language and literature. The journal covers a variety of topics, whether general or specific, and to all scholarly methods and theoretical perspectives.
Primary Search
Provides full text for more than 70 popular magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a Lexile reading level indicator.
Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high-quality, full-text education journals and more than 200 educational reports.
ProQuest Databases
Perform a cross-platform search of three ProQuest databases: GeoRef, Dissertations & Theses, and the SciTech Collection. This interface also allows users to browse by subject area.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Offers citations for over 2.2 million theses and dissertations in every academic field. In addition, over 750,000 items are available as full-text PDF files.
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ProQuest Ebook Central
ProQuest Ebook Central offers authoritative ebooks in a wide range of subject areas, along with powerful tools to help you find, use, and manage the information you need.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Offers 575 full-text publications covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, and observational and experimental methods.
Psychology Career Resources
A panel of experts provides psychology and counseling students with the resources to understand the journey they are about to embark upon. The site includes a number of guides on some of the more broad career options and degree programs available to students, as well as an overview of the field of study and a number of interviews with practicing professionals.
Psychology Collection
This collection gives individuals a basic understating of the study of the mind, emotions, and how the human mind develops over time.
PubMed
From the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's, with links to many sites providing full-text articles and other related resources.
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Quarterly Review of Biology
Since 1926, the QRB has presented insightful historical, philosophical, and technical treatments of important biological topics, including scholarship in related areas, such as policy studies and the history and philosophy of science.
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Race Relations Abstracts
This resource provides content relating specifically to the relationship between races. It is a rich source of bibliographic records covering ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
Reference Shelf
In-depth explorations of American history and sociology topics, including Racial Tension, Surveillance, Whistleblowers, the Supreme Court, and more.
Referencia Latina
This full-text Spanish-language database covers a broad array of subjects inside and outside academia. It offers content from a variety of sources, including reference books, general interest magazines and health reports.
Regional Business News
Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Religion & Philosophy (EBSCO)
Offers more than 300 full-text journals, covering world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and more.
Religion & Philosophy (GALE)
This custom collection provides coverage of different religions, philosophies, and how they impact our daily lives.
Religious Resources (Ministry Matters)
An e-library of eight biblical commentary series, Bible dictionaries and other reference sources, plus two standard Bible translations.
Collection of speeches from U.S. political leaders such as the president, supreme court justices, and senators. Primary source speech records also include international figures and cultural figures who speak on the national platform such as the UN General Assembly.
RIA Tax Research (RIA Checkpoint)
The premier provider of advanced research, practice materials, and compliance tools for tax, accounting and corporate finance professionals.
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Checkpoint
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SAGE
The world's 5th largest journals publisher, with more than 645 journals spanning the humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine.
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SAGE Business Cases
SAGE Business Cases bring business to life – inspiring researchers to develop their own best practices and prepare for professional success. The SAGE Business Cases database is highly-interactive, faculty-friendly, and designed to suit a range of academic uses: from short vignettes to narrative long form, written using both field research and publicly available sources. Many cases will include teaching notes and discussion questions to ensure effective classroom use.
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Salem Press
In-depth explorations of American history and sociology topics, including Racial Tension, Surveillance, Whistleblowers, the Supreme Court, and more.
Salem Press: Critical Insights
Articles of literary criticism and analysis from the publisher of the famous Magill Books series. Topics include Authors: Flaubert, Bolaño, & Henry James; Works: Beloved, & The Canterbury Tales; Themes: Family, The Hero’s Quest, the Harlem Renaissance, & Contemporary Immigrant Short Fiction.
Salem Press: Milestone Documents of World Religions
The online version of this 3-volume reference set includes primary source documents spanning 4,000 years of the world's major religions, plus expert analysis and commentary for each.
Salud en Espanol
This Spanish-language database covers all aspects of consumer health and wellness, including diseases, conditions, procedures and various treatments, and features a diverse collection of health related themed reports on first aid, infant/ child care and illnesses, alternative medicine, and aging.
Science & Technology
Contains over 800 leading full-text journals covering aeronautics, astrophysics, biology, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, marine sciences, etc.
Science Direct Open Access
Elsevier’s ScienceDirect offers a growing number of open access journals in the fields of Social Sciences and Humanities, Physical Sciences and Engineering, Life Sciences, and Health Sciences. When conducting your search, be sure to check the box for “Open Access articles” under the “Refine your search” heading.
Science, Technology, and Society
With accessible information on contemporary topics such as cloning and AIDS, as well as more esoteric fields such as the sociology of mathematics and the anthropology of information technology, this work covers problems, issues, and questions related to the relationships between science, technology, and society.
SciTech Premium Collection
Combining natural science and technology collections, this resource provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, and more. For those researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorial-controlled A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline.
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Serials Directory
This database provides up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information for popular serials. It contains nearly 250,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers, and data from nearly 108,235 publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet addresses.
Short Story Index
This database indexes all the short stories that are published in collections and anthologies each year, and covers all literary genres.
Small Business Reference Center
Provides information on starting a company, operations management and sales, and growing or rescuing a business. Includes a help and advice section on creating business plans as well as informational videos and state-specific demographic data and other local information.
Small Engine Repair Reference Center
Provides repair guides for small engines and routine maintenance (tune-ups, brake service, etc.) as well as extensive repairs (engine and transmission disassembly) and also allows users to search by product type, brand, model/engine type, and model numbers.
Springer
Providing researchers with access to scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works, SpringerLink provides over 8.5 million scientific documents at your fingertips.
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Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
The authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States.
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The Statistical Abstract of the United States is a comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Online it is 1400+ individually indexed tables with attached spreadsheets.
Sustainability Reference Center
Designed for sustainability experts and information professionals, this collection offers unmatched full-text coverage of content relevant to many integral areas of sustainability initiative management.
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Teacher Reference Center
Provides indexing & abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines for professional educators. Topics include assessment, best practices, current research, curriculum development, literacy standards, school administration, and more.
Teaching Books
TeachingBooks.net is an easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. It includes thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities.
Technology Collection
As part of the SciTech Premium Collection, the Technology Collection provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade & industry publications, magazines, technical reports, and more. These titles cover a multitude of scientific disciplines, including engineering of all kinds, biotechnology, chemistry, computer science & advanced technologies, mathematics, telecommunications, and military and defense topics, including international relations, homeland security & terrorism.
Texas Digital Sanborn Maps
Sanborn fire insurance maps are valuable historical tools for anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods.
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Texas Reference Center
Provides full-text for more than 1,700 general periodicals covering general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more.
The Oxford Companion to Music
Articles range from clear, concise definitions of musical ideas and terms to extended surveys of musical forms and styles, covering virtually every musical subject. Includes analysis, theory, ethnomusicology, and performance practice, for all varieties of musical forms, including jazz, popular music, and dance.
TOPICsearch
Coverage in this database is especially geared for exploring current events and controversial issues and offers full-text information from a wide variety of sources, including newspapers, periodicals, public opinion polls, book reviews, and government information.
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US Government Resources (USGPO)
USA.gov is the official U.S. gateway to all government information. Search millions of web pages from federal and state governments, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories.
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Vocational & Career Collection
This collection provides full-text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals.
Vocations, Careers, & Tech Education
Providing content from nearly 400 journals, this collection provides content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.
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War & Terrorism Collection
A definitive collection for students of history, social science and current events, providing insight into conflicts and their multiple causes.
Wolfram|Alpha
Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. This resource make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Their goal is to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.
WorldCat
The shared catalog of books, periodicals, and media owned by libraries worldwide. Use WorldCat to find items not available at DBU, and then request them through Interlibrary Loan.
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19th Century Music
Covering all aspects of Western art music between the mid-18th and mid-20th centuries, including composers and compositions, styles, performance, historical and cultural formations, and critical methods, this journal is at the leading edge of musical and multidisciplinary scholarship.
20th Century Poetry
Presents the poems of over 580 English and American poets of the 20th century in full text, plus biographical and critical information for each poet represented.