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guides are available for many of our databases. A link in the
Guide column indicates the availability of a research guide for that particular
database or group of databases. Click the link to view the guide.
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FT (y/n) : indicates availability of full-text articles
Y = database provides full-text articles (Note: some articles may be available in citation/abstract only)
N = database provides citations and/or abstracts only - no full-text available
NOTE: This page provides access to research guides only. To use the databases, visit our Find Articles page.
| Name |
Guide |
Category |
Provider |
FT (y/n) |
Description |
| Academic Search Complete |
Guide |
Premium |
EBSCO |
Y |
The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary database containing full-text for more than 5,500 publications. |
| Academic OneFile |
Guide |
Premium |
Gale |
Y |
Contains more than 6,200 full-text titles in all disciplines, with an intuitive interface and powerful extras. |
| Wilson SelectPlus |
Guide |
Premium |
FirstSearch |
Y |
Provides 100% full-text access to 2,188 popular and scholarly periodicals in general as well as academic fields. |
| 20th Century Poetry |
Guide |
Literature |
Chadwick |
Y |
Presents the poems of over 580 English and American poets of the 20th Century in full-text, plus biographical and critical information for each poet represented. |
ArchiveGrid Archival Collections Index |
|
History |
FirstSearch |
N |
The first stop for locating historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world. |
| ATLA Theological Database |
Guide |
Religion |
EBSCO |
Y |
Combines the premier index to religious periodicals with full-text articles from over 70 journals in all fields of religion. This collection is produced by the American Theological Library Association. |
Business Source Complete |
Guide |
Business |
EBSCO |
Y |
The world’s definitive scholarly business database, containing far more active, peer-reviewed, business related journals than any other database currently available. |
| CAMIO Digital Image Collection
|
|
Fine Arts |
FirstSearch |
n/a |
A growing collection of art images from the collections of prominent museums, highlighting the creative output of cultures from around the world. |
| Communication & Mass Media |
Guide |
Communication |
EBSCO |
Y |
Provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media, with abstracted indexing of over 600 journals, 240 of which are full-text. |
Computer Source |
|
Science & Math |
EBSCO |
Y |
Provides full-text coverage of nearly 300 publications with the latest information and current trends in high technology. |
| Consumer Health Complete |
Guide |
Health & Medicine |
EBSCO |
Y |
Provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. You can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles. |
Criminal Justice Collection |
|
Law & Government |
Gale |
Y |
For those studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection rises to the challenge. |
| Dallas Morning News |
Guide |
News |
NewsSource |
Y |
Provides complete full-text access to the content of The Dallas Morning News, The Arlington Morning News, and Quick DFW. Backfiles are available to 1984, and current issues are added daily. |
| Directory of Open Access Journals |
|
Supplemental Sources |
other |
Y |
Free, full-text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals covering all subjects and languages. Offers 673 searchable journals plus thousands of articles. |
| Dissertations & Theses |
Guide |
Graduate Research |
ProQuest |
Y |
Offers citations for over 2.2 million theses and dissertations in every academic field. In addition, over 750,000 items are available as full-text PDF files. |
Economics & Business Theory |
|
Business |
Gale |
Y |
This collection of 150 full-text periodicals covers topics such as economic development, forecasting, and history; fiscal theory; monetary theory and finance, and more. |
| ERIC Online |
Guide |
Education |
ERIC |
Y |
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education; includes resources such as teaching guides, research reports, bibliographies, issue papers, instructional materials, and evaluation instruments. |
|
|
Fine Arts |
Gale |
Y |
This collection of 200 full-text periodicals provides broad coverage of the arts, including music and music theory, drama and the performing arts, and the visual arts and art history. |
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| Name |
Guide |
Category |
Provider |
FT (y/n) |
Description |
| FirstSearch Collections |
Guide |
Graduate Research |
FirstSearch |
N |
Compilation of approximately 36 databases organized by topic, plus WorldCat. NOTE: Most databases in FirstSearch are not full-text (except Wilson Select Plus). |
| Funk & Wagnall's |
Guide |
Reference |
EBSCO |
Y |
Provides over 25,000 full-text entries covering an array of topics, many with images, in Ebsco's easy-to-use interface. |
|
|
Fine Arts |
Oxford |
Y |
Offers users the opportunity to access and cross-search Oxford’s music reference resources, including the Oxford Dictionary of Music, the Oxford Companion to Music, and the New Grove Dictionaries of Music and Musicians, Opera, and Jazz. |
| Handbook of Texas |
Guide |
History |
other |
Y |
A multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture, with more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions, and more |
| Health & Wellness Resources |
Guide |
Health & Medicine |
Gale |
Y |
Covers a wide variety of medical subjects, plus medical dictionary & encyclopedia, drug information, and an assortment of health assessment tools. For consumers as well as practitioners. |
Health Reference Academic |
|
Health & Medicine |
Gale |
Y |
This multi-source database provides access to full-text nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources. |
| Health Source Academic |
Guide |
Health & Medicine |
EBSCO |
Y |
Provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines, plus Clinical Pharmacology (US drug monographs). |
| History Collection |
Guide |
History |
EBSCO |
Y |
Offers a global look at history and contains cover-to-cover full-text for nearly 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals; full-text dates as far back as 1964. |
|
|
Communication |
Gale |
Y |
A custom collection of more than 100 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field; key subjects covered include advertising and public relations, linguistics, and literature. |
InfoTrac
Newspapers |
|
News |
Gale |
Y |
A collection of almost 600 full-text newspapers from the U.S. and around the world, including several Texas newspapers. |
| Legal Collection |
Guide |
Law/Government |
EBSCO |
Y |
Collection of respected, scholarly peer-reviewed publications including law journals, documents, and case studies, offering full-text for nearly 250 of the world's best law journals. |
| LexisNexis Academic |
Guide |
Business Law/Government News |
Lexis Nexis |
Y |
Provides full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options. |
Library Issues |
|
Supplemental Sources |
Gale |
Y |
Created for the information professional, this collection provides current and accurate coverage of such topics as data processing techniques, metadata architectures, and more. |
Literary Criticism Online |
|
Literatury |
Gale |
Y |
This growing online resource continues in digital format the library’s print collection of Gale collections of critical essays. Includes the complete text of six critical series, starting from 2008 to the present. |
| Literature Resource Center |
Guide |
Literature |
Gale |
Y |
Full-text biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline - novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers. |
| MasterFile Premier |
Guide |
History Reference |
EBSCO |
Y |
Provides full-text for nearly 1,950 general periodicals, 5,000 book reviews, 500 reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,135 primary source documents, & 188,323 photos, maps and flags. |
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| Name |
Guide |
Category |
Provider |
FT (y/n) |
Description |
| MEDLINE |
Guide |
Health & Medicine |
EBSCO |
N |
Provides authoritative information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. |
| Military / Government Collection |
Guide |
Law/Government |
EBSCO |
Y |
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, providing cover-to-cover full-text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals, plus 245 full-text pamphlets. |
| MLA Literature Collection |
Guide |
Literature |
FirstSearch |
N |
Provides over one million citations for items from journals and other sources in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. |
| Naxos Music Library |
Guide |
Fine Arts |
Naxos |
N/A |
The world’s largest classical music listening service designed for students and instructors of academic institutions, over 140,000 tracks of streaming music. |
| Newspaper Source |
Guide |
News |
EBSCO |
Y |
Provides cover-to-cover full-text for 20 national & international newspapers, selected full-text for 230 regional newspapers, and television & radio news transcripts, from CBS News, NPR, etc. |
|
|
Communication Law/Government
Literature |
Gale |
Y |
Your one-stop source for information on today’s hottest social issues, featuring viewpoint articles, topic overviews, primary source documents, and full-text articles from magazines, academic journals, and newspapers. |
Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine |
|
Health & Wellness |
Gale |
Y |
This custom collection provides researchers with access to many topics in the field, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research theses, and many more. |
| Professional Development |
Guide |
Education |
EBSCO |
Y |
Designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality, full-text education journals and more than 200 educational reports. |
| Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection |
Guide |
Psych/Counseling |
EBSCO |
Y |
Offers 575 full-text publications covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, and observational and experimental methods. |
Psychology Collection |
|
Psych/Counseling |
Gale |
Y |
This collection gives individuals a basic understating of the study of the mind, emotions, and how the human mind develops over time. |
| PubMed |
Guide |
Health & Medicine |
other |
Y |
From the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's, w/ links to many sites providing full-text articles and other related resources. |
| Regional Business News |
Guide |
Business |
EBSCO |
Y |
Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. |
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| Name |
Guide |
Category |
Provider |
FT (y/n) |
Description |
| Religion & Philosophy (Ebsco) |
Guide |
Religion |
EBSCO |
Y |
Offers more than 300 full-text journals, covering world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and more. |
Religion & Philosphy (Gale) |
|
Religion |
Gale |
Y |
This custom collection provides coverage of different religions, philosophies, and how they impact our daily lives. |
| Religious Reference eBooks |
Guide |
Religion |
|
Y |
An e-library of biblical commentaries, dictionaries, and other reference sources, plus 4 standard Bible translations and Hebrew & Greek texts. |
| RIA Tax Research |
Guide |
Business |
RIA |
Y |
RIA is the premier provider of advanced research, practice materials, and compliance tools for tax, accounting and corporate finance professionals. |
| RILM Music Abstracts |
Guide |
Fine Arts |
FirstSearch |
N |
Provides citations and abstracts for articles from over 500 scholarly journals in the fields of music and the performing arts, plus references to books, proceedings, discographies, dissertations, etc. |
| Science & Technology |
Guide |
Science & Math |
EBSCO |
Y |
Contains over 800 leading full-text journals covering aeronautics, astrophysics, biology, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, marine sciences, etc.. |
| TDNet Journal Finder |
|
Supplemental Sources |
TexShare |
N/A |
Use this source to discover which journals are available through which databases. Search for specific journal titles or browse. |
| Texas Digital Sanborn Maps |
Guide |
History |
TexShare |
N/A |
Sanborn fire insurance maps are valuable historical tools for anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods. |
| Texas Reference Center |
Guide |
History |
EBSCO |
Y |
Provides full-text for more than 1,700 general periodicals covering general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. |
| US Government Resources |
|
Law/Government |
other |
Y |
FirstGov is the official U.S. gateway to all government information. Search millions of web pages from federal and state governments, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. |
Vocational & Career Collection |
|
Career Building |
EBSCO |
Y |
This collection provides full-text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals. |
Vocations, Careers, & Tech Education |
|
Career Building |
Gale |
Y |
Providing content from nearly 400 journals, this collection provides content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals. |
War & Terrorism Collection |
|
Law/Government |
Gale |
Y |
A definitive collection for students of history, social science and current events, providing insight into conflicts and their multiple causes. |
Who's Who Biographies |
|
History Supplemental Sources |
Marquis |
Y |
Who’s Who provides comprehensive profiles of over 1.4 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor, updated daily. |
| WorldCat Book Finder |
|
Supplemental Sources |
FirstSearch |
N |
The catalog of books, periodicals, and media shared by libraries worldwide. Use to find items not available at DBU - linked directly to ILL. |
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