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Academic OneFile

Gale Academic OneFile is the premier source of peer-reviewed full-text scholarly content across the academic disciplines. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. All Gale OneFile Series databases are indexed in this database.

 

Academic Search Complete

This full-text database of peer-reviewed academic journals covers nearly all areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, arts, and literature. Content from these databases is also available inComputer Source, Health Source, Professional Development Collection, Psychology and Behavioral Science, Religion and Philosophy and the Sociology Collection. DEDICATED GUIDE | HELP SHEET | VIDEO TUTORIAL

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Academic Video Online

Academic Video Online contains video documentaries, interviews, performances, new programs, news reals, and so much 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.

 

African American Heritage by ProQuest

Search essential historical records for African Americans, including federal census, marriage and cohabitation records, military draft and service records registers of slaves and free(d) persons of color, Freeman's Bank, and more.

 

Agricola

Containing bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library, AGRICOLA provides access to more than 4.9 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, book chapters, monographs, thesis, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture. 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, extension and education, food and human nutrition, agricultural engineering and technology, and earth and environmental sciences.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Agriculture

Gale Onefile: Agriculture provides a comprehensive view of agriculture and related fields. The database provides access to current and authoritative content that spans the industry -- from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Alt HealthWatch

This alternative health database provides full-text for 180 publications in the collection, including full-text for many peer-reviewed journals. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals: All 5 Series

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection, Series 1-5 is the premier library documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction, providing digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.

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American Welding Society (AWS) Digital Library

The American Welding Society Digital Library is a collection of materials which focus on welding. San Jacinto College's offerings include AWS Codes & Standards, AWS Reference Packages and AWS Simulations and Videos. Institutional access purchased with Carl D. Perkins funds. (528430)

 

Archives of Sexuality & Gender

Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 covers topics including LGBTQ activism and the HIV/AIDS crisis. It provides researchers with the documents necessary to delve deep into the Gay Rights Movement with resources that may otherwise go undiscovered. Repositories for this collection include: Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation; Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives; Women's Energy Bank; GLBT Historical Society; National Library of Medicine; among other archives.

 

Associates Program Source Plus

A comprehensive article and book database for student research. This database covers a wide range of subjects from automotive technology and culinary arts to paralegal and technical writing. This resource also contains more than 1200 unique full-text resources not found in other databases.

 

The Austin American Statesman

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers, and scholars with online, easy to search first-hand accounts, and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society, and events of the time.

 

Behavior and Mental Health Online

Alexander Street's Behavioral and Mental Health Online provides a comprehensive, rich, and diverse collection of video and text for anyone studying or teaching mental health.

 

Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America

Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of North American Indigenous culture, including its history and life. It contains more than 80,000 citations to books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Biography

Gale In Context: Biography is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. It merges Gale's authoritative reference content (including Lives & Perspectives) with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while also allowing users to search for people based by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates, and place of birth.

 

Biography and Genealogy Master Index

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

 

Bloom's Literary eBook Collection

A collection of 568 eBooks from editor Harold Bloom covering a broad array of information on all forms of Literature including study guides, interpretation guides and guides to themes in literature. These eBooks are replicas of their hard copy counterparts. Also accessible through our catalog: https://libcat.sanjac.edu

 

Book Review Digest Plus

Book Review Digest Plus is an essential library tool that 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 the reviews are serious, academic works.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Books and Authors

Gale Books and Authors is a readers advisory databases containing read-a-likes, reviews, award winning books, and themed book lists.

 

Book Review Index

Gale Literature: Book Review Index is a comprehensive online guide to book reviews that includes more than five million review citations from thousands of publications, with linking to more than 630,000 full-text reviews.

 

Business

Gale OneFile: Business provides coverage of all business disciplines, including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management, and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. Users will understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through business and trade publications, complemented by a selection of international, U.S., and regional news publications. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Business Abstract with full-text

Business Abstracts with full-text contains full-text articles from hundreds of key publications, and provides access to product evaluations, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, obituaries, surveys, statistical rankings, book reviews, and reports from associations, societies, trade shows, conferences, and more.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

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.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Business Insights: Global

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

 

Business Source Complete

This is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the ultimate collection of bibliographic and full-text content. Business Source Complete contains far more active, peer-reviewed, business related journals than any other database currently available. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886 are included. In addition, there are searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Chilton Library

Chilton Library 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. Chilton Library gives you the confidence to service or repair virtually any system on your vehicle.

 

The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education provides news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. The Chronicle's website features the complete contents of the latest issue, daily news and advice columns, thousands of current job listings, an archive of previously published content, vibrant discussion forums, and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.

 

CINAHL Complete

CINAHL Complete is the most comprehensive set of nursing and allied health resources with full-text for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators, and researchers. With full-text coverage dating back to 1937, this authoritative file contains full-text for more than 1,300 journals, many with no embargos, and over 1,460 journals with searchable cited references. CINAHL Complete boast 71% more full-text journals than are available in CINAHL Plus with full-text.

 

Civil Rights and Social Justice

Civil Rights and Social Justice is a free resource provided by HeinOnline comprised of more than 650 titles from the US commission on Civil Rights. This collection includes congressional hearings, legislative histories, books, reports, and publications addressing a variety of civil rights issues.

 

Cochrane Library

The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases containing different types of high-quality, journal articles, trade serials, books and diagrams to inform healthcare decision-making. Databases include Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), and Cochrane Clinical Answers. VIDEO TUTORIAL

 

College

Gale in Context: College is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a wide array of subjects. The solution merges Gale's authoritative and continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files, and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

 

Communications and Mass Media

Gale OneFile: Communications and Mass Media provides access to academic journals and magazines focusing on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects covered in the database include advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and more. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Computer Science

Gale OneFile: Computer Science provides access to leading business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries. The database includes computer-related product introductions, news, and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications, and the application of technology. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Computer Source

Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in computer science technology. This database offers full-text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Consumer Health Complete

Consumer Health Complete (CHC) is the single most comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full-text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs and alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men and women's health, etc. CHC offers a unique search interface designed to call attention to the full-text content available from many important source-types, and provide an intuitive means for searching this specific information.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Contemporary Women's Issues

Gale OneFile: Contemporary Women's Issues, a multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press -- with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries. This database includes hard to find newsletters and NGO research reports, plus ephemeral literature from leading research institutes and grass roots organizations. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Coronavirus Research Database

Coronavirus Research Database contains thousands of open access articles from the world's leading publishers and current researchers on the coronavirus and the COVID-19 outbreak.

 

CQ Researcher

CQ Researcher is a weekly publication that reports on current, newsworthy social issues. Each week CQ Researcher explores one hot issue in-depth. Topics range from American and International government and politics, economics, science and technology, and health.

 

Criminal Justice

Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice provides access to academic journals and magazines on topics in criminal justice and related fields. Key subjects covered in the database include law, law enforcement, security, and terrorism. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Culinary Arts

Gale OneFile: Culinary Arts provides access to academic journals and magazines on all aspects of cooking and nutrition. The database includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Dictionary of Literary Biography Online

Provides over 12,000 biographical and full-text critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary figures from all eras and genres.

 

Diversity Studies

Gale OneFile: Diversity Studies provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community. The database is a must-have for social science, history, and liberal arts coursework. Part of Academic OneFile

 

eBook Central by ProQuest

A large collection of eBooks covering a vast number of topics including anthropology, business, IT, education, engineering and technology, fine arts, history, language and literature, law, science, medicine, psychology, and religion.

 

eBook Collection

This is a rich resource for all kinds of e-content, including MP3 audiobooks, e-books, and more. There is even a special medical e-book collection containing more than 500 titles.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Economics and Theory

Gale OneFile: Economics and Theory provides access to academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics and related fields. The database has an emphasis on titles indexed in the American Economic Association's EconLit bibliography. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Educational Administration Abstracts

This research database includes abstracts (article summaries) covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. This is NOT a full-text database but does link to some full-text articles when available.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Educator's Reference Complete

Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete provides access to academic journals, reports, and many premier reference sources in the field of education. The database includes content in key subject areas including administration, bilingual education, child development and psychology, funding, health education, technology, and testing. The majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database. Part of Academic OneFile

 

eLibrary by ProQuest

This database contains full-text articles from popular magazines, newspapers and reference books. You will also find maps, television transcripts, and photograph collections.

 

Engineering Workbench

Engineering Workbench contains the world’s largest collection of continuously updated engineering and technical reference documents from nearly 500 standards developing organizations and publishers. Users will need to create an account using their SanJac email address.

 

Entrepreneurship (Business)

Gale Business: Entrepreneurship is a comprehensive database that covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more. It combines authoritative periodical and reference content to support prospective and current entrepreneurs as well as business students.

 

Entrepreneurship (Onefile)

Gale Onefile: Entrepreneurship provides access to academic journals and magazines perfect for both business school students and entrepreneurs. The database offers content that includes insights, tips, strategies, and success stories. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Environment Complete

This database offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine and freshwater science, geography, pollution and waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains more than 1,670,000 records from more than 1,600 domestic and international titles going back to the 1950s (including 1,075 active core titles) as well as more than 100 monographs. The database also contains full-text for nearly 600 journals.

 

Environmental Studies

Gale in Context: Environmental Studies focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues. Topic, organization, and country portals form research centers around issues covering energy systems, health care, agriculture, climate change, population, and economic development. Portals include authoritative analysis, academic journals, news, case studies, legislation, conference proceedings, primary source documents, statistics, and rich multimedia.

 

Environmental Studies and Policy

Gale OneFile: Environmental Studies and Policy provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and other reference sources covering environmental issues and policies. The database includes diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policymakers, and corporate interests. Part of Academic OneFile

 

ERIC

Eric is an educator's premier resource for journals, books and reports on all topics in K-12 and Higher Education. Most articles not directly linked to full-text in this database can be retrieved through eric.ed.gov. Please ask your librarian for assistance.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database through EBSCO will be discontinued in August 2023. ERIC resources will still be available at https://eric.ed.gov

 

Essay and General Literature Index

This unique reference database cites records contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. Coverage spans the entire range of social sciences including archeology, art, literature, film, history, linguistics, music, psychology and religion.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

European Views of the Americas:1493-1750

In cooperation with the John Carter Brown Library, EBSCO is now offering this free authoritative bibliography to print records about the Americas written before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples.

 

Family Studies Abstracts

This database includes abstracts (article summaries) covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. This is NOT a full-text database but does link to some full-text articles when available.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Films on Demand

Films on Demand is a streaming service that provides access to thousands of videos in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Business and Economics, Health and Medicine, Science and Mathematics, and archival films and newsreels. It is available on both desktop and mobile.

 

Fine Arts

Gale OneFile: Fine Arts provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that support research in areas including drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. The database emphasizes full-text content for publications included in the Wilson Art Index and RILM bibliography. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Fold3 Library Edition

Fold3 Library Edition by Ancestry provides convenient access to US military records, including the stories, photos, and documents of the people who served. It contains millions of records from world-class archives, many of which are exclusively available on Fold3.

 

Fuente Academica Premier

Provides full-text access to a collection of 980 scholarly journals and 111 academic books from Latin America, Portugal, and Spain; over 20 country's are represented.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Gale Interactive Science

Gale Interactive Science is a highly visual online learning tool that takes visual-spatial learning to the next level by bringing the lab to the classroom. High-value, rich media digital content selected from authoritative classroom resources like Gale in Context: Science and Gale OneFile is paired with interactive 3D models to deliver a virtual laboratory simulation experience for students.

 

Gale Literature

Gale Literature is our literary resource power search! Search all of our Gale Literature databases in one place. This search engine includes Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online, Literary Resource Center, LitFinder, Scribner Writers, and Twayne's Author Series databases.

 

Gardening and Horticulture

Gale OneFile: Gardening and Horticulture provides access to academic journals and magazines focused on both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies. The database offers biotechnologists, farmers, hobbyists, and landscape architects alike access to important content relevant to their pursuits. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Gender Studies

Gale OneFile: Gender Studies provides balanced coverage of this significant aspect of culture and society. The database offers access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family and marital issues, and more. Part of Academic OneFile

 

General OneFile

Gale General OneFile is a one-stop source for news, magazine, and periodical articles across a wide range of general interest topics and academic disciplines. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, General OneFile serves a wide audience of readers.

 

GeoRef

The GeoRef Database was established by the American Geosciences Institute (AGI) and provides access a comprehensive selection of geoscience literature from around the world. This database includes references to all U.S. Geological Survey publications and Geoscience Master's thesis and Doctoral dissertations from the US and Canada.

 

Global Issues

Gale in Context: Global Issues offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, relevant sources for analysis of these issues. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search, or Advanced Search to explore the database.

 

Global Road Warrior

This resource provides detailed access to country information for nearly two hundred countries on topics such as culture & society, travel, education, history, holidays and festivals, language, media outlets, music, maps, money, national symbols, and religion including an extensive collection of photos, maps, and flag images. Video Tutorial

 

GreenFILE

GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Gun Regulation and Legislation in America

Provided free of charge by HeinOnline, this collection brings together more than 500 titles on gun regulation in the United States. The collection features over 500 scholarly articles as well as federal legislative histories, congressional hearings, CRS Reports, Supreme Court Briefs and more.

 

Handbook of Texas

Online full-text encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture.

 

Health and Medicine

Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine is a full-text collection of general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional journals, reference books and pamphlets. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Health and Wellness

Gale Health and Wellness provides access to full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and much more. This comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices for researchers of all levels.

 

Health Research Premium Collection

Health Research Premium Collection serves a wide range of users with a broad collection of journals, evidence-based resources, and full-text dissertations, and includes the top ProQuest health and medical databases. This database collection includes Consumer Health Database, Health and Medical Collection, Healthcare Administration Database, MEDLINE, Nursing and Allied Health, Psychology Database, and Public Health Database.

 

 

Health Source: Consumer Edition

This is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide. It covers medical sciences, food sciences, nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health. It also has full-text for nearly 150 journals and is updated daily.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Health Source: Nursing / Academic Edition

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 scholarly journals and full-text of nearly 550 of them. Updated daily, this database focuses on a wide range of medical disciplines.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Heritage Quest

Provides a unique and continuously expanding collection of research materials to help patrons trace their family lineage and American culture. Heritage Quest Online provides many of most-requested resources for genealogists and local historians.

 

History Reference Center

This database features full-text for more than 1,500 reference books, encyclopedias, and non-fiction books from leading history publishers as well as full-text for more than 100 leading history periodicals and 58,000 historical documents, 43,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 12,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical videos.

 

Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center

Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center features how-to instruction for hundreds of hobbies, crafts and creative projects. Highlights include over 3,000 recipes, full-text for more than 1,500 magazines and books and access to over 700 videos. Topics include Dance, Culinary Arts and Needlecraft and Textiles.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Home Improvement Reference Center

Home Improvement Reference Center features full-text content from leading home improvement magazines images not found anywhere else online, and videos of popular home repair projects. All of the content is organized in a powerful, easy-to-use manner so that users can quickly gain the information they need. Includes plumbing, electrical work and wood working tutorials and information.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Home Improvement

Gale OneFile: Home Improvement puts the research of hobbyists and professionals alike on a solid foundation with more than 4.5 million articles from more than 200 home improvement-focused titles, covering topics including architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and others.Part of Academic OneFile

 

Hospitality and Tourism

Gale OneFile: Hospitality and Tourism provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and trade publications that cover topics including the cultural and economic aspects of travel and tourism. The database offers current and relevant content that provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and the present conditions in the hospitality and tourism industries. Part of Academic OneFile.

 

Humanities full-text

Provides full-text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. The database indexes, abstracts, and delivers the full-text of feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs, and more.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Index To Texas Magazines and Documents

This index provides the location of journals and documents about Texas. Emphasis is on business, education, history, and government, with magazines of general interest also included.

 

Information Science

Gale OneFile: Information Science provides access to scholarly journals and trade publications essential for information professionals and other knowledge workers. The database offers coverage of topics including information infrastructure, metadata architecture, publishing, and more. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Information Science and Technology Abstracts (ISTA)

Information Science and Technology Abstracts is a leading database in the areas of information science. ISTA indexes journal articles from more than 450 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings and patents, with ongoing comprehensive coverage of the most important periodicals in this field. Coverage dates back to the mid 1960s.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Informe Academico

Gale OneFile: Informe Académico meets the research needs of Spanish-speaking users with a wide range of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America. Informe Académico provides quality reference material--not simply translations of English-language materials--on a powerful, easy-to-use interface configured for Spanish-speaking users, allowing researchers to analyze topics and conduct research in Spanish.

Proporciona acceso a peridicos y revistas especializadas de lengua espanola y portuguesa. La base de datos ofrece una amplia gama de contenidos sobre America Latina. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Insurance and Liability

Gale OneFile: Insurance and Liability connects researchers to hundreds of thousands of updated articles from leading journals, including: Business Insurance, Claims, Employee Benefit News, National Underwriter Life and Health, Pensions and Investments, Risk Management, and more. Part of Academic OneFile.

 

Issues and Controversies

This collection of essays reviews all sides of today's most topical and controversial issues. Each essay includes a bibliography and links to related magazine, journal, and newspaper articles, as well as links to biographies, news updates and relevant websites
HELP SHEET | VIDEO TUTORIAL

 

Job & Career Accelerator [JCA]

JCA is an online career and job search platform now accessible exclusively from Learning Express Library 5.0. It is designed to guide any job seeker through the most effective career selection and job search possible. From creating powerful resumes to assessing career alternatives, job seekers have everything they need in one easy-to-use application. Note: You will need to complete New User Registration on the JCA site. This will allow you to take advantage of all the resources including creating a resume and applying for jobs.

 

JSTOR

This resource provides access to full-text articles covering a wide array of topics including literature, history, economics, life science, and the arts. HELP SHEET | VIDEO TUTORIAL

 

Latin America and the Caribbean

Gale World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean provides a portal with access to reference, periodicals, multimedia, reports, studies, journals, newspapers, and statistical data. This archive of digitized primary documents focuses on the history of Latin America and the Caribbean back to the early 1800s through the contemporary period sourced from collections in the U.S. and abroad. The archive and portal serve as both an integrated and standalone resource.

 

Leadership and Management

Gale OneFile: Leadership and Management Provides access to authoritative periodical content covering topics such as 21st-century skills, organizational dynamics and leadership, adult learning and continuing education, and more. Updated daily, this library resource is useful for researchers or any professional interested in career development. Part of Academic OneFile.

 

LearningExpress Library

Welcome to the new and improved Learning Express Library 5.0. LEL 5.0 features 9 separate Learning Centers - The Adult Learning Center: for improving basics skills and the path to citizenship; The Career Center: for access to career information, entrance and occupational exams; The College Center: for subject skills review, graduate admission, college placement and CLEP exams; The College Prep Center: for college entrance exams and essay writing; The Computer Skills Center: for computer basics and software tutorials; The High School Equivalency Center: for GED, HiSET and TASC help; The Job and Career Accelerator: for exploring occupations and resume and interview preparation; The School Center: for grade school skills improvement and Recursos Para Hispanohablantes: a Spanish language option of the database.

 

Legal Collection [EBSCO]

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

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Legal Information Reference Center

Legal Information Reference Center 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 through Nolo. Content includes state-specific and Multi-state legal forms and full-text publications and reference books.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

LegalTrac

Gale OneFile: LegalTrac provides indexing and selective full-text for all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals and legal newspapers. The database offers coverage of federal and state cases, laws and regulations, legal practice and taxation, as well as British Commonwealth, European Union, and international law. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Lexicomp Online

Lexicomp provides drug, disease, and toxicology information for the healthcare professional. This database also includes patient education, lab test, and diagnostic procedure information.

 

LGBTQ+ Rights

LGBTQ+ Rights is a free resource provided by HeinOnline comprised of nearly 800 titles chronicling the gay rights movement in America. This collection is comprised of six areas of focus: Marriage and Family, Employment Discrimination, Military Service, AIDS and Health Care, Public Spaces and Accommodations, and Historical Attitudes and Analysis, and includes an interactive time-line.

 

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)

LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. This database does provide some full-text coverage.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Literary Reference Center (EBSCO)

Combining information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals, and original content from EBSCO , Literary Reference Center features an expansive collection of author biographies, plot summaries and work overviews, full-text essays from leading publishers, literary reference books and monographs, cover-to-cover full-text for literary magazines and journals, book reviews from the most prestigious publications, poems from hundreds of sources, short stories, classic texts, author interviews, and much more.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Literature Resource Center

Gale Literature Resource Center provides full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines are combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements. Researchers at all levels will find the information they need, with content covering all genres and disciplines, all time periods, and all parts of the world.

 

LitFinder

Gale LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.

 

MAS Complete

This comprehensive database contains full-text for more than 500 popular magazines including America's Civil War, American Heritage, American History, Archeology, Astronomy, Bioscience, Careers & Colleges, Civil War Times, Congressional Digest, Discover, Economist, History Today, Nation, National Review, New Republic, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, Smithsonian, World War II, etc. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). full-text is also available for 85,670 biographies and 105,786 primary source documents. MAS Complete also contains more than 360 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book and World Almanac and Book of Facts), an image Collection of over 440,000 photos, maps and flags, color PDFs and expanded full-text back files (back to 1975) for key magazines.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

MasterFILE Complete

MasterFILE Complete provides full-text periodicals covering an extensive range of subject areas including business, health, education, fitness, sports and leisure, personal finance, general science, multicultural issues, DIY and fashion. This database also contains full-text for more than 870 reference books, 73,000 primary source documents, 70,000 Associate Press videos and an Image Collection of 1.6 million photos, maps & flags. MasterFILE Complete now offers PDF back files (as far back as 1975) for key publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Judaism, Library Journal, National Review, Saturday Evening Post, etc.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

MedicLatina

A Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers. This unique database provides access to full-text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

MEDLINE

Access to all indexing of the National Library of Medicine, Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index and The Index to Dental Literature. Provides table of contents information for 2,400 journals and a medical subject headings index.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

MedlinePlus Health Information

MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.

 

Military Database

Military Database includes information across all government and military branches, including international relations. political science, criminology, aeronautics and space flight, and civil engineering. This database includes scholarly journals as well trade journals and magazines, tech reports, government publications, and conference proceedings.

 

Military and Government Collection

Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of these sites. The Military and Government Collection provides full-text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals. The database also includes full-text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles. Publications covered in this database include Air Force Comptroller, Army Reserve Magazine, Defense Studies, Global Security Review, JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, National Review, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces, and many more. Additionally, many full-text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF or scanned-in-color.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Military and Intelligence

Gale OneFile: Military and Intelligence provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. The database offers content in key subject areas including governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, the structure of the armed forces, and more. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Mometrix Test Prep

Mometrix offers unlimited access to test preparation materials for thousands different standardized exams. Access study guides and practice questions for exams including the GED, SAT, ACT, NCLEX, HESI, CLEP, ASVAB, CDL career, and technical certifications.

 

Music: IPA Source

The web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.

 

Natural and Alternative Treatments

This database contains almost two hundred articles on medical conditions, presenting in an evidence-based manner the alternative medicine therapies proposed for use in their treatment. It also contains detailed, evidence-based information on herbs and supplements, functional foods, and other alternative therapies such as acupuncture and homeopathy. The evidence-based content has been developed and reviewed by a team of physicians and pharmacologists with the goal of providing consumers with reliable information.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

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. Sources include AP, CNN Wire, PR Wire, UPI, and Xinhua.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

News

Gale OneFile: News provides access to full-text newspapers and allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section, or other fields. The database offers a one-stop source for current news and searchable archives. Part of Academic OneFile

 

The New York Times: 1851 to present

Use this link to access your very own year-long subscription to The New York Times, 1851-present. Once registered, you can sign on directly to The New York Times via the Website or APP. After a year you will be required to re-authenticate with the library. Please note: Articles from 1923-1980 are restricted to 5 per person per 24-hour period. Activation Instructions

 

The New York Times in Education

NYT in Education offers faculty members recommendations of articles for use in assignments and questions for discussion and analysis of these articles, co-curricular activities, and general instruction strategies. Registration with a @sjcd.edu or @stu.sanjac.edu URL is required. NYT in Education Registration Instructions

 

Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers

With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement, and illustration.

 

Nursing and Allied Health

Gale OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health provides access to academic journals and other reference content covering all aspects of the nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration. The database offers current and authoritative content for professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Nursing Video in Education

Nursing Education in Video is a unique online collection of videos created specifically for the education and training of nurses, nursing assistants, and other healthcare workers. All videos in the collection have been created with the guidance of the Medcom-Trainex advisory board, and are regularly reviewed for accuracy, currency, and compliance with US Federal regulations from agencies such as OSHA and CMS.

 

Opposing Viewpoints

Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints is an online library of current event viewpoints. Each article explores both sides of currently debated social issues. HELP SHEET | VIDEO TUTORIAL

 

Open Society Justice Initiative

Open Society Justice Initiative is a free resource provided by HeinOnline comprised of over 300 titles from the Open Society Foundations archive. The Justice Initiative publishes reports, handbooks, briefing papers, legal and policy submissions, and fact sheets exploring and advocating on issues of human rights and justice

 

Orange Book

Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations. The products in this list have been approved under section 505 of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and is updated daily.

 

Peterson's Test Prep

Gale presents: Peterson's Test Prep includes information on private high schools, undergraduate and graduate programs, and executive education programs, searchable by location, major, tuition, sports, and more. Also features interactive online practice tests for preparatory examinations including entrance exams and certification and licensing tests.

 

Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine

Gale OneFile: Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine provides access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields of fitness and sports. The database offers a wide spectrum of information, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research, and more. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Play Index

Resource used to find which books over 31,000 plays and 600 monologues are published. Not a full-text database.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Pop Culture Studies

Gale OneFile: Pop Culture Studies provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. The database offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Popular Magazines

Gale OneFile: Popular Magazines provides access to the most searched magazines across the OneFile products. All titles are selected based on actual publication searches performed by library patrons and the database includes many titles recommended by Bowker's "Magazines for Libraries." Part of Academic OneFile.

 

Professional Development Collection

Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full-text education journals in the world.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Pronunciator

This language learning resource allows you to learn 80 languages in 50 different languages. Pronunciator also offers ESL courses in 50 non-English languages. This database can be used on your desktop or on the go from your iPad, iPhone, and Android phones or tablets.

 

Psychological Experiments Online

Psychological Experiments Online is a multimedia collection that synthesizes the most important psychological experiments of the 20th and 21st centuries, fostering deeper levels of understanding for students and scholars alike. These experiments have far-reaching impacts on fields as diverse as sociology, business, advertising, economics, political science, law, ethics, and the arts.

 

Psychology

Gale OneFile: Psychology provides access to academic journals and magazines that cover the study of emotions, personality, and the human mind. The database offers content of interest to both researchers and general users. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

Updated daily, this database provides nearly 575 full-text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed titles. Topics include emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. VIDEO TUTORIAL

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Publicly Available Content Database

A free offering from Proquest, this database is a collection of major subject repositories, open access journals, pre-prints, books, reports, and conference papers.

 

Pubmed.gov

A free database provided by the National Library of Medicine, Pubmed.gov provides 35 million citations for medical articles, many which are available in full-text. Be sure to us the "free full-text" limiter to eliminate articles that are not available in full-text.

 

Race Relations Abstracts

This resource provides a sole focus on content relating specifically to the relationship between races. It is a rich source of abstracts (article summaries) covering fundamental areas relevant to race relations. Specific areas covered include ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline, as listed. This is NOT a full-text database but does link to some full-text articles when available.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Referencia Latina

Referencia Latina's intuitive, theme-based Spanish-language interface is designed to make content readily accessible to non-English users. This full-text Spanish-language database covers a broad array of subjects inside and outside academia. Sources include current articles from a dozen prominent foreign language newspapers from 8 Latin American Countries, multi-disciplinary reference books, general interest magazines, health reports and over a million images captioned in Spanish.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Regional Business News

This database is a supplemental database for customers of Business Source Premier. With daily updates, Regional Business News provides comprehensive full-text for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). Regional Business News has full-text for more than 50 sources.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Religion and Philosophy

Gale OneFile: Religion and Philosophy provides access to scholarly journals and magazines of interest to both researchers and general users. The database offers balanced content that covers topics across a wide range of philosophies and religions. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Religion and Philosophy Collection [EBSCO]

This database provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers more than 300 full-text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Salud en Español:(Consumer Health Complete in Spanish)

This source provides topic specific reports covering all aspects of health and wellness overviews on diseases, conditions, procedures, and various treatments. Salud en Español is the one stop resource for evidence-based reports and fact sheets that are all in the Spanish Language. Topics include disease, mental health, and alternative medicine.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Science (In Context)

Gale In Context: Science covers an array of science topics including Chemistry, Biology, Earth and Environmental Science, Health and Medicine, Math, Engineering and Technology, and Physics and Astronomy. 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. Many biographies on scientists are also found here.

 

Science (Onefile)

Gale OneFile:Science provides access to over 350 full-text journals that contain the latest scientific developments in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nano-technology, geology, and hundreds of other areas." Part of Academic OneFile.

 

Science and Technology Collection

The Science and Technology Collection contains over 800 leading full-text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community. Topics include aeronautics, astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archeology, and materials science. In addition to the full-text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,700 publications.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

SciTech Premium Collection

The SciTech Premium Collection includes the Natural Science Collection and Technology Collection databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more. Subjects Covered include advanced technologies, engineering, agriculture, automotive, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, atmospheric sciences, geography, geology, construction, life science, natural science, physical science, natural science, polymer science, veterinary science, and so much more.

 

Scribner Writer Series

Gale Literature: Scribner Writer Series offers access to over 1,800 original and detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world.

 

Serials Directory

Provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials. This database contains nearly 184,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers, historical data for an additional 20,000 titles and data from nearly 83,500 publishers worldwide.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Short Story Index

Resource used to find which books over 117,000 stories are published. full-text database for nearly 5,000 stories also included.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive

The largest and most ambitious project of its kind, this collection is devoted to the scholarly study and understanding of slavery from a multinational perspective. An unprecedented collection developed under the guidance of a board of scholars, it offers never before available research opportunities and endless teaching possibilities.

 

Slavery in America and the World: History Culture & Law

Provided free of charge by HeinOnline,the Slavery in America and the World: History Culture & Law collection contains an array of primary and secondary source materials focusing on slavery and in particular slavery within the United States. The collection contains scholarly articles, select books chapters, slavery statutes, judicial cases, and a comprehensive bibliography.

 

Small Business Reference Center [EBSCO]

Small Business Reference Center by EBSCO offers readers a collection of state-specific resources supported with demographic data and other local information. Completing the database are business videos that provide critical information for business owners including interviews, ‘lessons learned’ features, lectures, and ‘how to’ videos to help foster success in all aspects of managing a business.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Small Engine Repair Reference Center

Small Engine Repair Reference Center offers assistance in providing routine maintenance (tune-ups, brake service, etc.) as well as extensive repairs (engine and transmission disassembly) and allows users to search by product type, brand, model/engine type, specific area of model/engine type, and model numbers. PDF full-text is available for all documents. Includes boat, ATV, tractor, motorcycle and power tool repair.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Springer Open

Springer Open is a growing collection of open access journals, books and conference papers with primary focus in health and hard science. Additional topics include computer science, psychology, economics, political science, literature and criminal justice.

 

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. Topics include corporate social responsibility, environmental stewardship, government regulation, Renewable Energy, LEED, resource conservation, and sustainable business practices.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Swank

Swank is a streaming video service that includes feature films, independent films, documentaries, TV shows, and more. It is available on both desktop and mobile.
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Teacher Reference Center

The Teacher Reference Center (TRC) provides indexing and abstracts for 280 periodicals. In addition, 96% of journals indexed in TRC are peer-reviewed. Topics include: Assessment, Best Practices, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, School Administration, Science & Mathematics, and Teacher Education. Some full-text access is available.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Teaching Books

This resource focuses on books for use in the classroom for Pre-K through 12th grade. Teaching Books allows searching for book resources by grade level, genre, subjects and awards. Book entries include annotations, lesson plans, author information and interviews, vocabulary lists, and more.

 

Texas Digital Sanborn Maps

This site provides digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of over 12,000 American towns and cities. Founded in 1867 by D. A. Sanborn, the Sanborn Map Company was the primary American publisher of fire insurance maps for nearly 100 years.

 

Texas Legal Forms Library

Gale LegalForms: Texas Legal Forms Library features access to popular legal forms, legal informational resources, tax forms, and an attorney directory. Legal reference documents include the Law Digest, a legal Q & A, and LegalLife articles.

 

Texas Reference Center

Texas Reference Center includes more than 80 full-text journals and books about Texas history, ethnic and cultural diversity, gender studies, literature, public health, business, home and garden, and sports and leisure. The database contains biographies portraying famous historical and contemporary Texans such as George Herbert Walker Bush, Lady Bird Johnson, Dan Moody, Susanna Dickinson, and Sam Houston. Also available in the Texas Reference Center is the Spanish-language newspaper El Sol de Texas with Texas and national news coverage. This EBSCOhost database is updated weekly.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Texas State Law Library

Accessible to all Texas Residents, the Texas State Law Library website provides links to many legal resources, plus provides access to the following databases with a valid Texas State Law Library library card: AILALink, Fastcase, GVRL Law, HeinOnline, Lexis Advanced, National Consumer Law Center, Tax and Labor Law Library and Westlaw. Information on how to obtain your free library card can be found here.

 

The Times (of London) Digital Archive

First published in 1785, The Times of London is widely considered to be the world's 'newspaper of record'. The Times Digital Archive allows users to search over 200 years of this invaluable historical source.

 

TOPICsearch

This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full-text for over 102,800 articles from more than 2,500 diverse sources, including more than 1,550 full-text periodicals.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Twayne's Author Series

Gale Literature: Twayne's Authors Series of literary criticism offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres.

 

Twentieth Century American Poetry

Twentieth-Century American Poetry offers 50K poems by over 300 poets. Some authors you can find here include Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, Cathy Song and Langston Hughes.

 

Twentieth Century English Poetry

Twentieth-Century English Poetry offers online access to the poetry of some of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. It incorporates the works of 285 of the most widely studied poets of the British Isles and beyond, including over forty distinguished authors from The Faber Poetry Library. Twentieth-Century American Poetry includes 52,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 American poets.

 

 

U.S. History

Gale OneFile: U.S. History provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in U.S. history and scholarly work being established in the field. Part of Academic OneFile

 

U.S. History (In Context)

Gale in Context: U.S. History is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events, and topics in U.S. History. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files, and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

 

Vocational and Career Collection [EBSCO]

Vocational & Career Collection by EBSCO is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full-text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals. VIDEO TUTORIAL

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Vocations and Careers

Gale OneFile: Vocations and Careers provides access to journals and magazines that aid users in researching a vocation, finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career. The database offers current and applicable content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals. Part of Academic OneFile

 

War and Terrorism

Gale OneFile: War and Terrorism provides access to academic journals and magazines of interest to analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science. The database offers balanced coverage of both historic and contemporary topics in the fields of war and terrorism. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Women's Studies Archive

Focusing on the 19th and 20th centuries, Women's Studies Archive provides a history of the social, political, and professional aspects of women's lives and offers a look at the roles, experiences, and achievements of women in society. Through a variety of documents such as diaries, letters, photographs, news clippings, organizational records, and journals, it presents a record of the issues that have affected women, societal contributions, social status, and women's movements.

 

WorldCat (via FirstSearch)

The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 58 million bibliographic records representing over 400 languages and all types of materials ranging from stone tablets to electronic books. WorldCat is updated daily and is now easier to search than ever. Recent enhancements include the ability to search by Library of Congress or Dewey Decimal Classification numbers, and to limit searches by material types, audiences and material formats. WorldCat includes information from before 1,000 BC to the present with thousands of records containing evaluative content such as tables of contents, cover art, book summaries and notes about the authors. It uses the Library of Congress Subject Headings as its thesaurus.

 

Worldcat Discovery

Worldcat Discovery contains all information contained in Worldcat's Firstsearch Database plus incorporates links to several of our database resources.

 

World History

Gale OneFile: World History provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field. Part of Academic OneFile

 

World History (In Context)

Gale In Context: World History is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in World History. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

 

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Business

Gale OneFile: Business provides coverage of all business disciplines, including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. Users will understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through business and trade publications, complemented by a selection of international, U.S., and regional news publications. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Business Abstract with full-text

Business Abstracts with full-text contains full-text articles from hundreds of key publications, and provides access to product evaluations, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, obituaries, surveys, statistical rankings, book reviews and reports from associations, societies, trade shows, conferences, and more.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

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.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Business Insights: Global

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

 

Business Source Complete

This is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the ultimate collection of bibliographic and full-text content. Business Source Complete contains far more active, peer-reviewed, business related-journals than any other database currently available. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886 are included. In addition, there are searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Economics and Theory

Gale OneFile: Economics and Theory provides access to academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics and related fields. The database has an emphasis on titles indexed in the American Economic Association's EconLit bibliography. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Entrepreneurship (Business)

Gale Business: Entrepreneurship is a comprehensive database that covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more. It combines authoritative periodical and reference content to support prospective and current entrepreneurs as well as business students.

 

Entrepreneurship (OneFile)

Gale Onefile: Entrepreneurship provides access to academic journals and magazines perfect for both business school students and entrepreneurs. The database offers content that includes insights, tips, strategies, and success stories. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Hospitality and Tourism

Gale OneFile: Hospitality and Tourism provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and trade publications that cover topics including the cultural and economic aspects of travel and tourism. The database offers current and relevant content that provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and the present conditions in the hospitality and tourism industries. Part of Academic OneFile.

 

Insurance and Liability

Gale OneFile: Insurance and Liability connects researchers to hundreds of thousands of updated articles from leading journals, including: Business Insurance, Claims, Employee Benefit News, National Underwriter Life & Health, Pensions & Investments, Risk Management, and more. Part of Academic OneFile.

 

Regional Business News

This database is a supplemental database for customers of Business Source Complete. With daily updates, Regional Business News provides comprehensive full-text for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). Regional Business News has full-text for more than 50 sources.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Small Business Reference Center

Small Business Reference Center offers readers a collection of state-specific resources supported with demographic data and other local information. Completing the database are business videos that provide critical information for business owners including interviews, ‘lessons learned’ features, lectures, and ‘how to’ videos to help foster success in all aspects of managing a business.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

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. Topics include corporate social responsibility, environmental stewardship, government regulation, Renewable Energy, LEED, resource conservation, and sustainable business practices.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Career Center Plus

A part of the Learning Express Library, Career Center Plus provides practice tests for college admission exams, Texas state placement exams (THEA & TSIA),and the CLEP and DSST exams. In addition, there are skills reviews for math, reading, grammar and writing, and science.

 

College Admission Test Preparation Center

A part of Learning Express Library, College Admission Test Preparation Center provides preparation for the ACT, SAT, PSAT/NMAQT, AP, TOEFL iBT, and IELTS tests.

 

Gale in Context: High School

Gale in Context: High School offers cross-curricular content that supports national and state curriculum standards and reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Explore topics within business and economics, geography, government, history, literature, science and health, social issues, and more. This database contains offers cross-curricular content that supports national and state curriculum standards and reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Explore topics within business and economics, geography, government, history, literature, science and health, social issues, and more.

 

Gale Interactive Science

Gale Interactive Science is a highly visual online learning tool that takes visual-spatial learning to the next level by bringing the lab to the classroom. High-value, rich-media digital content selected from authoritative classroom resources—like Gale In Context: Science and Gale OneFile—is paired with interactive 3D models to deliver a virtual laboratory simulation experience for students.

 

Gale OneFile: High School Edition

Gale OneFile: High School is designed for middle- and high-school students and provides access to age-appropriate, authoritative digital content for classroom assignments. Learners can research magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference books covering a wide range of subjects, from science, history, and literature to political science, sports, and environmental studies. Part of Academic OneFile.

 

Job and Career Accelerator

Job and Career Accelerator has tools to build your own resume, find a career match, explore occupations, search for jobs and internships, and discover schools and scholarships. This database also supplies help with preparing for an interview and a career eBook library.

 

PrepSTEP for High School

A part of Learning Express Library, PrepSTEP for High School features tutorials for math, science, English and social studies; as well as study, classroom, life and information literacy skills. There are also tutorials for preparing to take the ACT, PSAT/NMSQT, SAT, AP, TOEFL iBT, IELTS, and college placement test. There is also a section for career tests, work place skills, entering the military and licensing and certification for educators.

 

Peterson's Test Prep

Gale presents: Peterson's Test Prep includes information on private high schools, undergraduate and graduate programs and executive education programs, searchable by location, major, tuition, sports and more. Also features interactive online practice tests for preparatory examinations including entrance exams and certification and licensing tests.

Looking for practice tests? Please also see our Test Prep dropdown

For additional resources, see the General Research/Multi-subject dropdown

Associates Program Source Plus

A comprehensive article and book database for student research. This database covers a wide range of subjects from automotive technology and culinary arts to paralegal and technical writing. This resource also contains more than 1200 unique full-text resources not found in other databases.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education provides news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. The Chronicle's website features the complete contents of the latest issue, daily news and advice columns, thousands of current job listings, an archive of previously published content, vibrant discussion forums, and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.

 

Educational Administration Abstracts

This research database includes abstracts (article summaries) covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. This is NOT a full-text database but does link to some full-text articles when available.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Educator's Reference Complete

Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete provides access to academic journals, reports, and many premier reference sources in the field of education. The database includes content in key subject areas including administration, bilingual education, child development and psychology, funding, health education, technology, and testing. The majority of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database. Part of Academic OneFile

 

ERIC

Eric is an educator's premier resource for journals, books and reports on all topics in K-12 and Higher Education. Most articles not directly linked to full-text in this database can be retrieved through eric.ed.gov. Please ask your librarian for assistance.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database via EBSCO will be discontinued in August 2023. ERIC resources will still be available via https://eric.ed.gov

 

Job & Career Accelerator

JCA is an online career and job search platform now accessible exclusively from Learning Express Library 5.0. It is designed to guide any job seeker through the most effective career selection and job search possible. From creating powerful resumes to assessing career alternatives, job seekers have everything they need in one easy-to-use application. Note: You will need to complete New User Registration on the JCA site. This will allow you to take advantage of all the resources including creating a resume and applying for jobs.

 

Leadership and Management

Gale OneFile: Leadership and Management Provides access to authoritative periodical content covering topics such as 21st-century skills, organizational dynamics and leadership, adult learning and continuing education, and more. Updated daily, this library resource is useful for researchers or any professional interested in career development. Part of Academic OneFile.

 

LearningExpress Library

Welcome to the new and improved Learning Express Library 5.0. LEL 5.0 features 9 separate Learning Centers - The Adult Learning Center: for improving basics skills and the path to citizenship; The Career Center: for access to career information, entrance and occupational exams; The School Center: for subject skills review, graduate admission, college placement and CLEP exams; The College Prep Center: for college entrance exams and essay writing; The Computer Skills Center: for computer basics and software tutorials; The High School Equivalency Center: for GED, HiSET and TASC help; The Job and Career Accelerator: for exploring occupations and resume and interview preparation; The School Center: for grade school skills improvement and Recursos Para Hispanohablantes: a Spanish language option of the database.

 

The New York Times in Education

NYT in Education offers faculty members recommendations of articles for use in assignments and questions for discussion and analysis of these articles, co-curricular activities and general instuction stategies. Registration with a @sjcd.edu or @stu.sanjac.edu URL is required. NYT in Education Registration Instructions

 

Peterson's Test Prep

Gale presents: Peterson's Test Prep includes information on private high schools, undergraduate and graduate programs and executive education programs, searchable by location, major, tuition, sports, and more. Also features interactive online practice tests for preparatory examinations including entrance exams and certification and licensing tests.

 

Professional Development Collection

Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full-text education journals in the world.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Teaching Books

This resource focuses on books for use in the classroom for Pre-K through 12th grade. Teaching Books allows searching for book resources by grade level, genre, subjects and awards. Book entries include annotations, lesson plans, author information and interviews, vocabulary lists and more.

 

Vocational and Career Collection [EBSCO]

Vocational & Career Collection by EBSCO is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full-text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals. VIDEO TUTORIAL

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Vocations and Careers

Gale OneFile: Vocations and Careers provides access to journals and magazines that aid users in researching a vocation, finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career. The database offers current and applicable content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals. Part of Academic OneFile

For additional resources, see the Literature, Language Learning and Multi-subjectdropdown

Communications and Mass Media

Gale OneFile: Communications and Mass Media provides access to academic journals and magazines focusing on all aspects of the communications field. Key subjects covered in the database include advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and more. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Fine Arts

Gale OneFile: Fine Arts provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that support research in areas including drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. The database emphasizes full-text content for publications included in the Wilson Art Index and RILM bibliography. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Humanities full-text

Provides full-text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. The database indexes, abstracts and delivers the full-text of feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs, and more.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Music: IPA Source

The web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.

 

Pop Culture Studies

Gale OneFile: Pop Culture Studies provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. The database offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses. Part of Academic OneFile

For additional resources, see the Multi-subject and Social and Behavioral Science dropdown

Alt Health Watch

This database provides full-text for 180 alternative health publications. You will discover in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas in complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Behavior and Mental Health Online

Alexander Street's Behavioral and Mental Health Online provides a comprehensive, rich, and diverse collection of video and text for anyone studying or teaching in the area of mental health.

 

CINAHL Complete

CINAHL Complete is the most comprehensive set of nursing and allied health resources with full-text for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. With full-text coverage dating back to 1937, this authoritative file contains full-text for more than 1,300 journals, many with no embargoes, and over 1,460 journals with search-able cited references. CINAHL Complete boast 71% more full-text journals than are available in CINAHL Plus with full-text.

 

Cochrane Library

The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases containing different types of high-quality, journal articles, trade serials, books and diagrams to inform healthcare decision-making. Database include Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) and Cochrane Clinical Answers. VIDEO TUTORIAL

 

Consumer Health Complete

Consumer Health Complete (CHC) is the single most comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full-text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc. CHC offers a unique search interface designed to call attention to the full-text content available from many important source-types, and provide an intuitive means for searching this specific information.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Coronavirus Research Database

Coronavirus Research Database contains thousands of open access articles from the world's leading publishers and current researchers on conrona virus and the COVID-19 outbreak.

 

Gale Interactive Science

Gale Interactive Science is a highly visual online learning tool that takes visual-spatial learning to the next level by bringing the lab to the classroom. High-value, rich-media digital content selected from authoritative classroom resources—like Gale In Context: Science and Gale OneFile—is paired with interactive 3D models to deliver a virtual laboratory simulation experience for students.

 

Health and Medicine

Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine is a full-text collection of general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional journals, reference books and pamphlets. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Health and Wellness

Gale Health and Wellness provides access to full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and much more. This comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices for researchers of all levels.

 

Health Research Premium Collection

Health Research Premium Collection serves a wide range of users with a broad collection of journals, evidence-based resources, and full-text dissertations, and includes the top ProQuest health and medical databases. This database collection includes Consumer Health Database, Health and Medical Collection, Healthcare Administration Database, MEDLINE, Nursing and Allied Health, Psychology Database, and Public Health Database.

 

 

Health Source: Consumer Edition

This is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide. It covers medical sciences, food sciences, nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health. It also has full-text for nearly 150 journals and is updated daily.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Health Source: Nursing / Academic Edition

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 scholarly journals and full-text of nearly 550 of them. Updated daily, this database focuses on a wide range of medical disciplines.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Lexicomp Online

Lexicomp provides drug, disease, and toxicology information for the healthcare professional. This database also includes patient education, lab test, and diagnostic procedure information.

 

MedicLatina

This is a Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals from renowned Latin American medical publishers. You will have access to the full-text of nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

MEDLINE

Gain access to all indexing of the National Library of Medicine, Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index, and The Index to Dental Literature. You will see table-of-contents information for 2,400 journals and a medical subject headings index.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

MedlinePlus Health Information

This resource compiles authoritative information from the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, and other government agencies and health-related organizations. You will also find extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials and the latest health news.

 

Natural & Alternative Treatments

This is a database of nearly 200 articles on medical conditions and the alternative medicine therapies proposed for treatment. It also contains detailed, evidence-based information on herbs and supplements, functional foods, and other alternative therapies such as acupuncture and homeopathy.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Nursing and Allied Health

Gale OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health provides access to academic journals and other reference content covering all aspects of the nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration. The database offers current and authoritative content for professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Nursing Video in Education

Nursing Video in Education is a unique online collection of videos created specifically for the education and training of nurses, nursing assistants, and other healthcare workers. All videos in the collection have been created with the guidance of the Medcom-Trainex advisory board, and are regularly reviewed for accuracy, currency, and compliance with US Federal regulations from agencies such as OSHA and CMS.

 

Orange Book

Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations. The products in this list have been approved under section 505 of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and is updated daily.

 

Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine

Gale OneFile: Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine provides access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields of fitness and sports. The database offers a wide spectrum of information, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research, and more. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Pubmed.gov

A free database provided by the National Library of Medicine, Pubmed.gov provides 35 million citations for medical articles, many which are available in full-text. Be sure to us the "free full-text" limiter to eliminate articles that are not available in full-text.

 

Science

Gale In Context: Science covers an array of science topics including Chemistry; Biology; Earth and Environmental Science; Health and Medicine; Math, Engineering and Technology; and Physics and Astronomy. 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. Many biographies on scientists are also found here.

 

Springer Open

Springer open is a growing collection of open access journals, books and conference papers with primary focus in health and hard science. Additional topics include computer science, psychology, economics, political science, literature and criminal justice.

For additional resources, see the Multi-subject and Newspaper and Other Primary Sources dropdown

African American Heritage by ProQuest

Search essential historical records for African Americans, including federal census, marriage and cohabitation records, military draft and service records, registers of slaves and free(d) persons of color, Freeman's Bank, and more.

 

Contemporary Women's Issues

Gale OneFile: Contemporary Women's Issues, a multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press -- with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries. This database includes hard to find newsletters and NGO research reports, plus ephemeral literature from leading research institutes and grass roots organizations. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Fold3 Library Edition

Fold3 Library Edition by Ancestry provides convenient access to US military records, including the stories, photos, and documents of the people who served. It contains millions of records from world-class archives, many of which are exclusively available on Fold3.

 

Global Issues

Gale in Context: Global Issues offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, relevant sources for analysis of these issues. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search, or Advanced Search to explore the database.

 

Handbook of Texas

Online Full-text encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture.

 

Heritage Quest

Provides a unique and continuously expanding collection of research materials to help patrons trace their family lineage and American culture. Heritage Quest Online provides the most requested resources for genealogists and local historians.

 

History Reference Center

The database features full-text for more than 1,500 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers, full-text for more than 100 leading history periodicals and 58,000 historical documents; 43,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 12,000 historical photos and maps; and more than 80 hours of historical videos.

 

Latin America and the Caribbean

Gale World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean provides a portal with access to reference, periodicals, multimedia, reports, studies, journals, newspapers, and statistical data. This archive of digitized primary documents focuses on the history of Latin America and the Caribbean back to the early 1800s through the contemporary period sourced from collections in the U.S. and abroad. The archive and portal serve as both integrated and standalone resources.

 

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive

The largest and most ambitious project of its kind, this collection is devoted to the scholarly study and understanding of slavery from a multinational perspective. An unprecedented collection developed under the guidance of a board of scholars, it offers never before available research opportunities and endless teaching possibilities.

 

Slavery in America and the World: History Culture & Law

Provided free of charge by HeinOnline,the Slavery in America and the World: History Culture & Law collection contains an array of primary and secondary source materials focusing on slavery and in particular slavery within the United States. The collection contains scholarly articles, select books chapters, slavery statutes, judicial cases and a comprehensive bibliography.

 

Texas Digital Sanborn Maps

This site provides digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of over 12,000 American towns and cities. Founded in 1867 by D. A. Sanborn, the Sanborn Map Company was the primary American publisher of fire insurance maps for nearly 100 years.

 

Texas Reference Center

Texas Reference Center includes more than 80 full-text journals and books about Texas history, ethnic and cultural diversity, gender studies, literature, public health, business, home and garden, and sports and leisure. The database contains biographies portraying famous historical and contemporary Texans such as George Herbert Walker Bush, Lady Bird Johnson, Dan Moody, Susanna Dickinson, and Sam Houston. Also available in the Texas Reference Center is the Spanish-language newspaper El Sol de Texas with Texas and national news coverage. This EBSCOhost database is updated weekly.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

U.S. History

Gale OneFile: U.S. History provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in U.S. history and scholarly work being established in the field. Part of Academic OneFile

 

U.S. History (In Context)

Gale in Context: U.S. History is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files, and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

 

World History

Gale OneFile: World History provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field. Part of Academic OneFile

 

World History (In Context)

Gale In Context: World History is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in World History. The new solution merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files, and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

Language Learning

Pronunciator

This language learning resource allows you to learn 80 languages in 50 different languages. Pronunciator also offers ESL courses in 50 non-English languages. This database can be used on your desktop or on the go from your Ipad, Iphone, and Andriod phones or tablets.Account Instructions

Spanish Language Databases

Fuente Academica Premier

Provides full-text access to a collection of 980 scholarly journals and 111 academic books from Latin America, Portugal and Spain; over 20 country's are represented.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Informe Academico

Gale OneFile: Informe Académico meets the research needs of Spanish-speaking users with a wide range of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America. Informe Académico provides quality reference material--not simply translations of English-language materials--on a powerful, easy-to-use interface configured for Spanish-speaking users, allowing researchers to analyze topics and conduct research in Spanish.

Proporciona acceso a peridicos y revistas especializadas de lengua espanola y portuguesa. La base de datos ofrece una amplia gama de contenidos sobre America Latina. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Referencia Latina

Referencia Latina's intuitive, theme-based Spanish-language interface is designed to make content readily accessible to non-English users. This full-text Spanish-language database covers a broad array of subjects inside and outside academia. Sources include current articles from a dozen prominent foreign language newspapers from 8 Latin American Countries, multi-disciplinary reference books, general interest magazines, health reports and over a million images captioned in Spanish.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Salud en Español:(Consumer Health Complete in Spanish)

This source provides topic specific reports covering all aspects of health and wellness overviews on diseases, conditions, procedures and various treatments. Salud en Español is the one stop resource for evidence-based reports and fact sheets that are all in the Spanish Language. Topics include disease, mental health and alternative medicine.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

For additional resources, see the Multi-subject dropdown

Criminal Justice

Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice provides access to academic journals and magazines on topics in criminal justice and related fields. Key subjects covered in the database include law, law enforcement, security, and terrorism. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Gun Regulation and Legislation in America

Provided free of charge by HeinOnline, this collection brings together more than 500 titles on gun regulation in the United States. The collection features over 500 scholarly articles as well as federal legislative histories, congressional hearings, CRS Reports, Supreme Court Briefs and more.

 

Legal Collection

The Legal Collection provides full-text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected scholarly law journals. This is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts, and trends of the legal world.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Legal Information Reference Center

Legal Information Reference Center 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 through Nolo. Content includes state-specific and Multi-state legal forms and full-text publications and reference books.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

LegalTrac

Gale OneFile: LegalTrac provides indexing and selective full-text for all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals and legal newspapers. The database offers coverage of federal and state cases, laws and regulations, legal practice and taxation, as well as British Commonwealth, European Union, and international law.Part of Academic OneFile

 

Military Database

Military Database includes information across all government and military branches, including international relations. political science, criminology, aeronautics and space flight and civil engineering. This database includes scholarly journals as well trade journals and magazines, tech reports, government publications and conference proceedings.

 

Military and Government Collection

Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of these sites. The Military & Government Collection provides full-text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals. The database also includes full-text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles. Publications covered in this database include Air Force Comptroller, Army Reserve Magazine, Defense Studies, Global Security Review, JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, National Review, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces, and many more. Additionally, many full-text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF or scanned-in-color.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Military and Intelligence

Gale OneFile: Military and Intelligence provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. The database offers content in key subject areas including governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, the structure of the armed forces, and more. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Open Society Justice Initiative

Open Society Justice Initiative is a free resource provided by HeinOnline comprised of over 300 titles from the Open Society Foundations archive. The Justice Initiative publishes reports, handbooks, briefing papers, legal and policy submissions, and fact sheets exploring and advocating on issues of human rights and justice.

 

Texas Legal Forms Library

Gale LegalForms: Texas Legal Forms Library features access to popular legal forms, legal informational resources, tax forms, and an attorney directory. Legal reference documents include the Law Digest, a legal Q & A, and LegalLife articles.

 

Texas State Law Library

Accessible to all Texas Residents, the Texas State Law Library website provides links to many legal resources, plus provides access to the following databases with a valid Texas State Law Library library card: AILALink, Fastcase, GVRL Law, HeinOnline, Lexis Advanced, National Consumer Law Center, Tax and Labor Law Library and Westlaw. Information on how to obtain your free library card can be found here.

For additional resources, see the Multi-subject dropdown

 

Biography

Gale In Context: Biography is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. It merges Gale's authoritative reference content (including Lives & Perspectives) with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while also allowing users to search for people based by name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates, and place of birth.

 

Bloom's Literary eBook Collection

A Collection of 568 eBooks from editor Harold Bloom covering a broad array of information on all forms of Literature including study guides, interpretation guides and guides to themes in literature. These ebooks are replicas of their hardcopy counterparts. Also accessible through our catalog: https://libcat.sanjac.edu

 

Books and Authors

Gale Books and Authors is a readers advisory databases containing read-alikes, reviews, award winning books, and themed book lists.

 

Book Review Index

Gale Literature: Book Review Index is a comprehensive online guide to book reviews that includes more than five million review citations from thousands of publications, with linking to more than 630,000 full-text reviews.

 

Gale Literature

Gale Literature is our literary resource power search! Search all of our Gale Literature Databases in one place. This search engine includes Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online, Literary Resource Center, LitFinder, Scribner Writers, and Twayne's Author Series Databases.

 

Humanities full-text

Provides full-text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. The database indexes, abstracts and delivers the full-text of feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs, and more.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

JSTOR

This resource provides access to full-text articles covering a wide array of topics including literature, history, economics, life science and the arts. HELP SHEET | VIDEO TUTORIAL

 

Literary Reference Center (EBSCO)

Combining information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals, and original content from EBSCO, Literary Reference Center features an expansive collection of author biographies, plot summaries and work overviews, full-text essays from leading publishers, literary reference books and monographs, cover-to-cover full-text for literary magazines and journals, book reviews from the most prestigious publications, poems from hundreds of sources, short stories, classic texts, author interviews, and much more.

 

Literature Resource Center

Gale Literature Resource Center provides full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines that are combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more to provide a wealth of information on authors, their works, and literary movements. Researchers at all levels will find the information they need, with content covering all genres and disciplines, all time periods, and all parts of the world.

 

Scribner Writer Series

Gale Literature: Scribner Writer Series offers access to over 1,800 original and detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world.

 

Short Story Index

Resource used to find which books over 117,000 stories are published. full-text database for nearly 5,000 stories also included.

 

Twayne's Author Series

Gale Literature: Twayne's Authors Series of literary criticism offers in-depth introductions to the lives and works of writers, the history and influence of literary movements and to the development of literary genres.

 

Twentieth Century American Poetry

Twentieth-Century American Poetry offers 50K poems by over 300 poets. Some authors you can find here include Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, Cathy Song, and Langston Hughes.

 

Twentieth Century English Poetry

Twentieth-Century English Poetry offers online access to the poetry of some of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. It incorporates the works of 285 of the most widely studied poets of the British Isles and beyond, including over forty distinguished authors from The Faber Poetry Library.

 

Academic OneFile

Gale Academic OneFile is the premier source of peer-reviewed full-text scholarly content across the academic disciplines. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. All Gale OneFile Series databases are indexed in this database.

 

Academic Search Complete

More than 8,000 publications are indexed here, with full-text for more than 4,500 of those titles. PDF back files to 1975 or further are available for well over 100 journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Full-text coverage includes biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, and much more. DEDICATED GUIDE | HELP SHEET | VIDEO TUTORIAL

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Associates Program Source Plus

Associate Program Source Plus is a comprehensive article and book database for student research. This database covers a wide range of subjects from automotive technology and culinary arts to paralegal and technical writing. This resource also contains more than 1200 unique full-text resources not found in other databases.

 

College

Gale in Context: College is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a wide array of subjects. The solution merges Gale's authoritative and continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

 

CQ Researcher

CQ Researcher is a weekly publication that reports on current, newsworthy social issues. Each week CQ Researcher explores one hot issue in-depth. Topics range from American and International government and politics, economics, science and technology, and health.

 

eBook Collection

This is a rich resource for all kinds of e-content, including MP3 audiobooks, e-books, and more. There is even a special medical e-book collection containing more than 500 titles.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

eBook Central by Proquest

A large collection of eBooks covering a vast amount of topics including anthropology, business, IT, education, engineering and technology, fine arts, history, language and literature, law, science, medicine, psychology, and religion.

 

eLibrary by ProQuest

This database contains full-text articles from popular magazines, newspapers and reference books. You will also find maps, television transcripts and photograph collections.

 

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

With 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a universe of subjects, this database is nice addition to your research arsenal.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

General OneFile

Gale General OneFile is a one-stop source for news, magazine, and periodical articles across a wide range of general interest topics and academic disciplines. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, General OneFile serves a wide audience of readers.

 

Global Road Warrior

This resource provides detailed access to country information for nearly two hundred countries on topics such as culture & society, travel, education, history, holidays and festivals, language, media outlets, music, maps, money, national symbols, and religion including an extensive collection of photos, maps, and flag images. Video Tutorial

 

Humanities full-text

This database is teeming with abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities – plus numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Find countless feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, poetry, book reviews, ballet reviews, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, radio and television programs, and more.

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Issues and Controversies

This collection of essays reviews all sides of today's most topical and controversial issues. Each essay includes a bibliography and links to related magazine, journal and newspaper articles, as well as links to biographies, news updates and relevant websites.
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JSTOR

This resource provides access to full-text articles covering a wide array of topics including literature, history, economics, life science and the arts. HELP SHEET | VIDEO TUTORIAL

 

MAS Complete

This comprehensive database contains full-text for more than 550 popular magazines including America's Civil War, American Heritage, American History, Archeology, Astronomy, Bioscience, Careers & Colleges, Civil War Times, Congressional Digest, Discover, Economist, History Today, Nation, National Review, New Republic, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, Smithsonian, World War II, etc. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). full-text is also available for more then 120,000 biographies and over 73,000 primary source documents. MAS Complete also contains more than 430 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book and World Almanac & Book of Facts), an image Collection of over 440,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full-text back files (back to 1975) for key magazines.

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MasterFILE Complete

MasterFILE Complete provides full-text periodicals covering an extensive range of subject areas including business, health, education, fitness, sports and leisure, personal finance, general science, multicultural issues, DIY and fashion. This database also contains full-text for more than 870 reference books, 73,000 primary source documents, 70,000 Associate Press videos and an Image Collection of 1.6 million photos, maps & flags. MasterFILE Complete now offers PDF back files (as far back as 1975) for key publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Judaism, Library Journal, National Review, Saturday Evening Post, etc.

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Opposing Viewpoints

Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints is an online library of current event viewpoints. Each article explores both sides of currently debated social and political issues. HELP SHEET | VIDEO TUTORIAL

 

 

Popular Magazines

Gale OneFile: Popular Magazines provides access to the most searched magazines across the OneFile products. All titles are selected based on actual publication searches performed by library patrons and the database includes many titles recommended by Bowker's "Magazines for Libraries." Part of Academic OneFile.

 

Publicly Available Content Database

A free offering from Proquest, this database is a collection of major subject repositories, open access journals, pre-prints, books, reports and conference papers.

 

TOPICsearch

This current-events database allows you to explore social, political and economic issues; scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. It contains the full-text for over 102,800 articles from more than 2,500 diverse sources.

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WorldCat (via FirstSearch)

The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 58 million bibliographic records representing over 400 languages and all types of materials ranging from stone tablets to electronic books. WorldCat is updated daily and is now easier to search than ever. Recent enhancements include the ability to search by Library of Congress or Dewey Decimal Classification numbers, and to limit searches by material types, audiences and material formats. WorldCat includes information from before 1,000 BC to the present with thousands of records containing evaluative content such as tables of contents, cover art, book summaries and notes about the authors. It uses the Library of Congress Subject Headings as its thesaurus.

 

Worldcat Discovery

Worldcat Discovery contains all information contained in Worldcat's Firstsearch Database plus incorporates links to several of our database resources.

AAS Historical Periodicals: All 5 Series

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection, Series 1-5 is the premier library documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction, providing digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.

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Archives of Sexuality & Gender

Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 covers topics including LGBTQ activism and the HIV/AIDS crisis. It provides researchers with the documents necessary to delve deep into the Gay Rights Movement with resources that may otherwise go undiscovered. Repositories for this collection include: Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation; Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives; Women's Energy Bank; GLBT Historical Society; National Library of Medicine; among other archives.

 

The Austin American Statesman (1871-1980)

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers, and scholars with online, easy to search first-hand accounts, and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society, and events of the time.

 

The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education provides news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. The Chronicle's website features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; an archive of previously published content; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.

 

eLibrary by ProQuest

This database contains full-text articles from popular magazines, newspapers and reference books. You will also find maps, television transcripts and photograph collections.

 

Heritage Quest

Provides a unique and continuously expanding collection of research materials to help patrons trace their family lineage and American culture. Heritage Quest Online provides many of most-requested resources for genealogists and local historians.

 

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. Sources include AP, CNN Wire, PR Wire, UPI, and Xinhua.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

News

Gale OneFile: News provides access to full-text newspapers and allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section, or other fields. The database offers a one-stop source for current news and searchable archives. Part of Academic OneFile

 

The New York Times: 1851 to present

Use this link to access your very own year long subscription to The New York Times, 1851-present. Once registered, you can sign on directly to The New York Times via the Website or APP. After a year you will be required to re-authenticate with the Library. Please note: articles from 1923-1980 are restricted to 5 per person per 24 hour period.Activation Instructions

 

The New York Times in Education

NYT in Education offers faculty members recommendations of articles for use in assignments and questions for discussion and analysis of these articles, co-curricular activities and general instruction strategies. Registration with a @sjcd.edu or @stu.sanjac.edu url is required. NYT in Education Registration Instructions

 

Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers

With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.

 

Regional Business News

This database is a supplemental database for customers of Business Source Premier. With daily updates, Regional Business News provides comprehensive full-text for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). Regional Business News has full-text for more than 50 sources.

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Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive

The largest and most ambitious project of its kind, this collection is devoted to the scholarly study and understanding of slavery from a multinational perspective. An unprecedented collection developed under the guidance of a board of scholars, it offers never before available research opportunities and endless teaching possibilities.

 

Slavery in America and the World: History Culture & Law

Provided free of charge by HeinOnline,the Slavery in America and the World: History Culture & Law collection contains an array of primary and secondary source materials focusing on slavery and in particular slavery within the United States. The collection contains scholarly articles, select books chapters, slavery statutes, judicial cases and a comprehensive bibliography.

 

The Times (of London) Digital Archive

First published in 1785, The Times of London is widely considered to be the world's 'newspaper of record'. The Times Digital Archive allows users to search over 200 years of this invaluable historical source.

 

Women's Studies Archive

Focusing on the 19th and 20th centuries, Women's Studies Archive provides a history of the social, political, and professional aspects of women's lives and offers a look at the roles, experiences, and achievements of women in society. Through a variety of documents such as diaries, letters, photographs, news clippings, organizational records, and journals, it presents a record of the issues that have affected women, societal contributions, social status, and women's movements.

For additional resources; see the History and Multi-subject dropdowns.

Archives of Sexuality and Gender

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 covers topics including LGBTQ activism and the HIV/AIDS crisis. It provides researchers with the documents necessary to delve deep into the Gay Rights Movement with resources that may otherwise go undiscovered. Repositories for this collection include: Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Women's Energy Bank, GLBT Historical Society and the National Library of Medicine.

 

Civil Rights and Social Justice

Civil Rights and Social Justice is a free resource provided by HeinOnline comprised of more than 650 titles from the US commission on Civil Rights. This collection also includes congressional hearings, legislative histories, books, reports, and publications addressing a variety of civil rights issues.

 

Contemporary Women's Issues

Gale OneFile: Contemporary Women's Issues, a multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press -- with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries. This database includes hard-to-find newsletters and NGO research reports, plus ephemeral literature from leading research institutes and grass roots organizations. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Diversity Studies

Gale OneFile: Diversity Studies provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community. The database is a must-have for social science, history, and liberal arts coursework. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Gender Studies

Gale OneFile: Gender Studies provides balanced coverage of this significant aspect of culture and society. The database offers access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family and marital issues, and more. Part of Academic OneFile

 

LGBTQ+ Rights

LGBTQ+ Rights is a free resource provided by HeinOnline comprised of nearly 800 titles chronicling the gay rights movement in America. This collection is comprised of six areas of focus: Marriage and Family, Employment Discrimination, Military Service, AIDS and Health Care, Public Spaces and Accommodations, and Historical Attitudes and Analysis, and includes an interactive time-line.

 

Psychological Experiments Online

Psychological Experiments Online is a multimedia collection that synthesizes the most important psychological experiments of the 20th and 21st centuries, fostering deeper levels of understanding for students and scholars alike. These experiments have far-reaching impacts on fields as diverse as sociology, business, advertising, economics, political science, law, ethics, and the arts.

 

Psychology and Behavior Sciences Collection

Updated daily, this database provides nearly 575 full-text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed titles. Topics include emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. VIDEO TUTORIAL

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Psychology

Gale OneFile: Psychology provides access to academic journals and magazines that cover the study of emotions, personality, and the human mind. The database offers content of interest to both researchers and general users. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Religion and Philosophy Collection

This database provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers more than 300 full-text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies.

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American Welding Society (AWS) Digital Library

The American Welding Society Digital Library is a collection of materials which focus on welding. San Jacinto College's offerings include AWS Codes & Standards, AWS Reference Packages, and AWS Simulations and Videos. Institutional access purchased with Carl D. Perkins funds (528430)

 

Computer Source

Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in computer science technology. This database offers full-text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.

Provided by the Texshare Consortium. Access to this database will be discontinued in August 2023.

 

Engineering Workbench

Engineering Workbench contains the world’s largest collection of continuously updated engineering and technical reference documents from nearly 500 standards developing organizations and publishers. Users will need to create an account using their SanJac email address.

 

Environment Complete

Environment Complete provides coverage in agriculture, ecology, energy, renewable sources, marine and; freshwater science, geography, pollution, waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. This database contains more than 1.6 million records from more than 1,600 domestic and international titles going back to the 1950s as well as more than 100 monographs.

 

Gale Interactive Science

Gale Interactive Science is a highly visual online learning tool that takes visual-spatial learning to the next level by bringing the lab to the classroom. High-value, rich-media digital content selected from authoritative classroom resources—like Gale In Context: Science and Gale OneFile—is paired with interactive 3D models to deliver a virtual laboratory simulation experience for students.

 

GeoRef

The GeoRef Database was established by the American Geosciences Institute (AGI) and provides access a comprehensive selection of geoscience literature from around the world. This database includes references to all U.S. Geological Survey publications and Geoscience Master's thesis and Doctoral dissertations from the US and Canada.

 

Home Improvement

Gale OneFile: Home Improvement puts the research of hobbyists and professionals alike on a solid foundation with more than 4.5 million articles from more than 200 home improvement-focused titles, covering topics including architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and others. Part of Academic OneFile

 

Home Improvement Reference Center

Home Improvement Reference Center features full-text content from leading home improvement magazines images not found anywhere else online, and videos of popular home repair projects. All of the content is organized in a powerful, easy-to-use manner so that users can quickly gain the information they need. Includes plumbing, electrical work and wood working tutorials and information.

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Information Science & Technology Abstracts (ISTA)

Information Science & Technology Abstracts is a leading database in the areas of information science. ISTA indexes journal articles from more than 450 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings and patents, with ongoing comprehensive coverage of the most important periodicals in this field. Coverage dates back to the mid 1960s.

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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)

LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. This database does provide some full-text coverage.

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Science & Technology Collection

The Science and Technology Collection provides full-text of more than 800 leading science and technology journals. Explore topics like aeronautics, astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, and materials science. In addition to full-text, it offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,700 publications.

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Science (In Context)

Gale In Context: Science covers an array of science topics including Chemistry; Biology; Earth and Environmental Science; Health and Medicine; Math, Engineering and Technology; and Physics and Astronomy. 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. Many biographies on scientists are also found here.

 

Science (Onefile)

Gale OneFile:Science provides access to over 350 full-text journals that contain the latest scientific developments in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nano-technology, geology, and hundreds of other areas." Part of Academic OneFile.

 

SciTech Premium Collection

The SciTech Premium Collection includes the Natural Science Collection and Technology Collection databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more. Subjects Covered include advanced technologies, engineering, agriculture, automotive, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, atmospheric sciences, geography, geology, construction, life science, natural science, physical science, natural science, polymer science, veterinary science and so much more.

 

Small Engine Repair Reference Center

Small Engine Repair Reference Center offers assistance in providing routine maintenance (tune-ups, brake service, etc.) as well as extensive repairs (engine and transmission disassembly) and allows users to search by product type, brand, model/engine type, specific area of model/engine type, and model numbers. PDF full-text is available for all documents. Includes boat, ATV, tractor, motorcycle and power tool repair.

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Springer Open

Springer open is a growing collection of open access journals, books and conference papers with primary focus in health and hard science. Additional topics include computer science, psychology, economics, political science, literature and criminal justice.

LearningExpress Library

Welcome to the new and improved Learning Express Library 5.0. LEL 5.0 features 9 separate Learning Centers – The Adult Learning Center: for improving basics skills and the path to citizenship; The Career Center: for access to career information, entrance and occupational exams; The School Center: for subject skills review, graduate admission, college placement and CLEP exams; The College Prep Center: for college entrance exams and essay writing; The Computer Skills Center: for computer basics and software tutorials; The High School Equivalency Center: for GED, HiSET and TASC help; The Job and Career Accelerator: for exploring occupations and resume and interview preparation; The School Center: for grade school skills improvement, and Recursos Para Hispanohablantes: a Spanish language option of the database.

Mometrix Test Prep

Mometrix offers unlimited access to test preparation materials for thousands of different standardized exams. Access study guides and practice questions for exams including the GED, SAT, ACT, NCLEX, HESI, CLEP, ASVAB, CDL career and technical certifications.

Peterson's Test Prep (Formerly Testing and Education Resource Center)

Gale presents: Peterson's Test Prep includes information on private high schools, undergraduate and graduate programs and executive education programs, searchable by location, major, tuition, sports and more. Also features interactive online practice tests for preparatory examinations including entrance exams and certification and licensing tests.

Please visit https://sjcd.libguides.com/databasetrial to view our trials.

 

Films on Demand

Films on Demand is a streaming service that provides access to thousands of videos in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Business and Economics, Health and Medicine, Science and Mathematics, and archival films and newsreels. It is available on both desktop and mobile.

Nursing Video in Education

Nursing Education in Video is a unique online collection of videos created specifically for the education and training of nurses, nursing assistants, and other healthcare workers. All of the videos in the collection have been created with the guidance of the Medcom-Trainex advisory board, and are regularly reviewed for accuracy, currency, and compliance with US Federal regulations from agencies such as OSHA and CMS.

Psychological Experiments Online

Psychological Experiments Online is a multimedia collection that synthesizes the most important psychological experiments of the 20th and 21st centuries, fostering deeper levels of understanding for students and scholars alike. These experiments have far-reaching impacts on fields as diverse as sociology, business, advertising, economics, political science, law, ethics, and the arts

Swank

Swank is a streaming video service that includes feature films, independent films, documentaries, TV shows, and more. It is available on both desktop and mobile.VIDEO TUTORIAL

Academic Video Online

Academic Video Online contains video documentaries, interviews, performances, new programs, news reals, and so much 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.

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