Databases

Arts & Humanities Database

Featuring hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theater and Cultural Studies.

Artstor

The most comprehensive image resource available; access to more than 2 million images from 280 art collections.

Gale OneFile: Fine Arts

Search millions of articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Diverse resource for serious fine arts students.

JSTOR

An interdisciplinary archive of academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, including select monographs and other materials.

O’Reilly for Higher Education

O’Reilly has 60K+ titles (including early release books and audiobooks), 30K+ hours of video, hundreds of live events, interactive sandboxes and labs, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers. Coverage includes cloud computing, software architecture, infrastructure and operations, programming languages, AI and machine learning, security, team management, critical thinking, art, and more.

Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection

Bringing together global scholarly journals with other key resources for professional and academic journal articles covering the trends and history influencing important accounting, tax, banking, and financial issues of the day.

Asian & European Business Collection

Providing information pertinent to the study of business and finance topics across Asia and Europe, including academic journals, newspapers, newswires, and magazines.

Business Market Research Collection

Conduct company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research of U.S. and Worldwide industries and markets.

Gale Business: Economics and Theory

Discover content useful for starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, and more.

Gale Business: Insights Global

Compare global economies, countries, and industries with in-depth analysis on over 400,000 companies.

Computer Science Database

This collection provides computer science discipline-specific coverage spanning thousands of publications, many in full text.

Gale OneFile: Computer Science

Access leading business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries.

O’Reilly for Higher Education

O’Reilly has 60K+ titles (including early release books and audiobooks), 30K+ hours of video, hundreds of live events, interactive sandboxes and labs, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers. Coverage includes cloud computing, software architecture, infrastructure and operations, programming languages, AI and machine learning, security, team management, critical thinking, art, and more.

Access: The Newsmagazine of the American Dental Hygienists’ Association

The magazine of the American Dental Hygienists’ Association. Access publishes news and information relevant to dental hygienists with a focus on helping them improve their job performance.

Gale OneFile: Nursing & Allied Health

Research full-text titles cited in CINAHL and other resources to support specialized care, treatment, and patient management.

Health Research Premium Collection

An extensive Health Sciences database covering a wide range of topics and includes the top ProQuest health and science databases, including psychology, nursing, respiratory, sonography, surgical, and dental coverage.

Journal of Dental Hygiene

The journal of the American Association for Dental Research/American Academy of Implant Dentistry. The Journal of Dental Hygiene is the premier, peer-reviewed scientific research publication for dental hygienists.

Ovid Dental Hygiene Journals

Access to the Journal ofPublic Health Dentistry and the Journal of Clinical Periodontology.

STAT!Ref

An electronic medical library that cross-searches more than 35 medical resources, including Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, Mosby’s Drug Consult, and the Griffith 5 Minute Clinical Consult.

StatPearls

An extensive reference and training database for doctors, nurses, EMS, and other clinicians. StatPearls is especially well designed for practice tests and board exam preparation.

ABC-CLIO eBook Collection

A multidisciplinary eBook collection.

eBook Central

A multidisciplinary eBook collection with access to over 18,000 titles.

EBSCO eBook Collection

A multidisciplinary eBook collection with access to over 54,000 titles.

Gale eBooks

Formerly known as Gale Virtual Reference Library. Multidisciplinary eBook collection; includes Gale Virtual Reference Library - Nursing, Novels for Students, Poetry for Students, Short Stories for Students, and Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography.

Literary Reference Center

Literary Reference Center is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.

Salem Press Collections/Critical Insights

Access to the acclaimed Critical Insights series; history, health and science resources.

STAT!Ref

An electronic medical library that cross-searches more than 35 medical resources, including Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, Mosby’s Drug Consult, and the Griffith 5 Minute Clinical Consult.

Childhood Education

Publishes international research on the education of children, including education challenges, curriculum approaches, education financing and school technology.

Education Database

Supports the study and application of education across all levels of education, including early childhood education, primary and secondary education, and higher education.

Gale Onefile: Educator’s Reference Complete

Gain insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy. Best for educators, administrators, and education students.

TeachingBooks.net

A collection of fiction and non-fiction books, reading material and multimedia for use in the K-12 environments.

Ovid EMS

Access to the Annals of Emergency Medicine.

Prehospital Emergency Care

Prehospital Emergency Care publishes international research relevant to the practice, educational advancement and investigation of emergency medical services. Full text issues include 1997 to present.

STAT!Ref

An electronic medical library that cross-searches more than 35 medical resources, including Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, Mosby’s Drug Consult, and the Griffith 5 Minute Clinical Consult.

StatPearls

An extensive reference and training database for doctors, nurses, EMS, and other clinicians. StatPearls is especially well designed for practice tests and board exam preparation.

Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database

A full-text database covering comprehensive scholarly output, managed by an expert editorial team overseeing content selection and indexing supported by a controlled vocabulary.

Career & Technical Education Database

The definitive source for vocational information and career search resources.

Engineering Science Database

This database provides unmatched discipline-specific coverage spanning thousands of publications, many in full text.

Materials Science Database

This database provides unmatched discipline-specific coverage spanning thousands of publications, many in full text regarding materials science.

O’Reilly for Higher Education

O’Reilly has 60K+ titles (including early release books and audiobooks), 30K+ hours of video, hundreds of live events, interactive sandboxes and labs, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.  Coverage includes cloud computing, software architecture, infrastructure and operations, programming languages, AI and machine learning, security, team management, critical thinking, art, and more.

SciTech Premium Collection

Science & Technology Collection contains Science Database, Technology Collection, Materials Science Database, Engineering Database, and Environmental Science Database.

Bloom’s Literature

Literary criticism resources; examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature. Full text access to many literary classics.

Gale Literary Sources

Gale Literary Sources includes biography, criticism, reviews, interviews, and primary texts from many sources. Gale Literary Sources unites content from Literature Criticism Online, Literature Resource Center, Scribner Writers Online, Twayne’s Authors Online, and LitFinder.

Gale Literature Criticism

Explore the most extensive compilation of literary commentary available. Includes analysis from book excerpts, periodicals, and more.

JSTOR

An interdisciplinary archive of academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, including select monographs and other materials.

Oxford English Dictionary

A complete and enhanced dictionary that also provides history of the English language and other supplemental materials.

Twentieth-Century American Poetry

Access to over 50,000 poems in the Twentieth-Century American Poetry collection and the Twentieth-Century English Poetry collection and biographical information on poets.

Twentieth-Century English Poetry

Access to over 50,000 poems in the Twentieth-Century American Poetry collection and the Twentieth-Century English Poetry collection and biographical information on poets.

CloudSource OA

This database assembles Open Access (OA) and Open Education Resources (OER) from nearly all known resource locations and makes them easily accessible along with useful information regarding the type of material it is, peer review status, and open license status.  With over 60 million titles and growing, this resource will be useful to all students, faculty, and staff.

CloudSource OA Advanced Search Terms (opens new window)

Creative Commons Licenses Cheat Sheet (opens new window)

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

A community-curated online directory that indexes and provides high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Gale Academic OneFile

Quickly access articles from a database of scholarly journals and other trusted periodicals. Best for academic research.

ProQuest Central

The largest single ProQuest periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, and Humanities.

Gale OneFile: U.S. History

Search balanced coverage of events in U.S. history. Best for novice historians and academic researchers. Updated daily.

Gale OneFile: World History

Access balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field.

GeoRef

Millions of references to geoscience maps, serial, and non-serial literature, including references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Coverage for North American resources starts in 1669, whereas worldwide coverage starts in 1933.

Handbook of Texas Online

A multidisciplinary encyclopedia with over 23,000 articles on Texas history, geography, and culture.

Salem Press History

Information social issues and the 1990s in America and Issues in U.S. Immigration reference sets.

CQ Press Supreme Court Collection

Collection of historical analysis and expert commentary of Supreme Court decisions, the U.S. Constitution, Supreme Court institutional history, and Supreme Court justice biographies.

Criminal Justice Database

Covering 1981 to the present, this comprehensive database covers crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends.

Gale Legal Forms

A wide selection of legal forms and legal information resources.

HeinOnline

Historical and government documents in a fully searchable, image-based format. This resource provides comprehensive coverage of more than 2,700 law-related periodicals, as well as Congressional, Federal, and regulatory records, and entire databases dedicated to treaties, constitutions, case law, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and more.

Political Science Database

Providing access to hundreds of leading political science, public policy, and international relations journals, as well as thousands of full-text dissertations, conference proceedings, policy papers, and more.

A to Z Maps Online

Thousands of contemporary and historical down­loadable maps. Includes map resources, visual glossaries, video dictionaries, flag images, and more.

Digital Sanborn Maps (Texas) 1867-1970

Digitized maps that provide detailed property and land use records depicting the architecture of over 12,000 U.S. towns and cities throughout the past 100 years.

GeoRef

Millions of references to geoscience maps, serial, and non-serial literature. Includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey.

Bloomsbury Popular Music

A digital library for global popular music, bringing together leading scholarship and interactive tools to hit the right note for research and learning.

Handbook of Texas Music Online

Texas music scholarship, with almost 900 entries along with hundreds of images and audio samples.

Oxford Music Online

Access to the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, and The Oxford Companion to Music.

Canadian Newsstream - ProQuest

A database offering full text articles to over 190 Canadian newspapers, including current and historical content.

Gale OneFile: News

Access major U.S. and international newspapers online to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, or other fields.

Global Breaking Newswires - ProQuest

Newswires provide timely access to the best content available from around the globe for the modern researcher.

International Newsstream - ProQuest

Over 660 international newspapers, including The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications are available in this database.

Portal to Texas History - Temple College

Digital access to historical Temple College Annuals: The Cotton Blossom and the Templar, and Newspaper: Leopard Tales.

U.S. Newsstream - ProQuest

Offering full text articles to such newspapers as the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as many local and regional newspapers including the Austin American-Statesman and the Waco Tribune-Herald.

Behavior & Mental Health Online

A comprehensive and diverse collection of video and text in the field of mental health. This collection is useful for programs in counseling, social work, nursing, psychology and behavioral health and includes clinical mental health demonstrations, therapy sessions, documentaries, transcripts, client narratives, and reference works.

CINAHL

The world’s most comprehensive source of full text for more than 1,300 nursing and allied health journals.

Ditki: Anatomy & Physiology

Offering hundreds of tutorials in basic Chemistry, Cell Biology, Anatomy, and Physiology, as well as flash cards, practice test questions, and more, this database is sure to be helpful to those studying Anatomy and Physiology.

Ditki: Neuroanatomy

Offering over a hundred tutorials in Neuroanatomy, as well as flash cards, practice test questions, and more, this database may be helpful supplemental material for those studying or interested in the function of the brain.

Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine

A multidisciplinary eBook collection including over 4,000 documents with focus on the field of medicine.

Gale OneFile: Nursing & Allied Health

Research full-text titles cited in CINAHL and other resources to support specialized care, treatment, and patient management.

Health Research Premium Collection

An extensive Health Sciences database covering a wide range of topics and includes the top ProQuest health and science databases, including psychology, nursing, respiratory, sonography, surgical, and dental coverage.

Healthcare Administration Database

A collection of reliable and relevant resources in the field of health administration, including journals and dissertations.

Medcom- Nursing Education in Video

Over 320 streaming videos, provided through Alexander Street, on a variety of topics useful to nursing and allied health students. Accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Nursing & Allied Health Database

This database offers reliable, comprehensive coverage of the fields of nursing and allied health including journals, video, dissertations, reference books and more.

Ovid Nursing Journals

Access to thousands of full text articles from authoritative nursing journals.

STAT!Ref

An electronic medical library that cross-searches more than 35 medical resources, including Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, Mosby’s Drug Consult, and the Griffith 5 Minute Clinical Consult.

StatPearls

An extensive reference and training database for doctors, nurses, EMS, and other clinicians. StatPearls is especially well designed for practice tests and board exam preparation.

Behavior & Mental Health Online

A comprehensive and diverse collection of video and text in the field of mental health. This collection is useful for programs in counseling, social work, nursing, psychology and behavioral health and includes clinical mental health demonstrations, therapy sessions, documentaries, transcripts, client narratives, and reference works.

Gale OneFile: Diversity Studies

Access a range of periodical content to explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community.

Gale OneFile: Gender Studies

Discover balanced coverage of topics related to gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.

Gale OneFile: Psychology

Find authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology.

Health Research Premium Collection

An extensive Health Sciences database covering a wide range of topics and includes the top ProQuest health and science databases, including psychology, nursing, respiratory, sonography, surgical, and dental coverage.

Psychology Database

Providing abstracts and indexing for key Psychology titles, many which are available in full text.

Social Science Database

Offering indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, communication, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology.

Sociology Database

Includes hundreds of full-text scholarly journals, as well as dissertations and other sources covering the international literature of sociology and social work, including relevant titles from related fields such as social policy, social care, social services, social anthropology, gender studies, gerontology, social psychology and population studies.

Credo Reference

A multidisciplinary information skills solutions provider offering access to over 2 million full text articles in over 700 titles, from over 100 authoritative publishers.

Gale eBooks

Previously known as Gale Virtual Reference Library. Multidisciplinary eBook collection, includes Novels for Students, Poetry for Students, and Short Stories for Students.

Research Library

Covering over 150 subjects and topics, this database provides one-stop access to thousands of full-text periodicals from one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases.

Gale in Context: College

Previously known as Student Resources in Context. Authoritative news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals, multimedia content, primary source and overviews.

Gale OneFile: Religion & Philosophy

Research the impact of religion on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language. Updated daily.

Gale OneFile: Nursing & Allied Health

Research full-text titles cited in CINAHL and other resources to support specialized care, treatment, and patient management.

Health Research Premium Collection

An extensive Health Sciences database covering a wide range of topics and includes the top ProQuest health and science databases, including psychology, nursing, respiratory, sonography, surgical, and dental coverage.

Ovid Respiratory Care

Access to American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine and CHEST.

Respiratory Care

Use the username 9348878 and password rcjournal1 to log in within the journal. Full text issues include 1990 to present.

STAT!Ref

An electronic medical library that cross-searches more than 35 medical resources, including Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, Mosby’s Drug Consult, and the Griffith 5 Minute Clinical Consult.

StatPearls

An extensive reference and training database for doctors, nurses, EMS, and other clinicians. StatPearls is especially well designed for practice tests and board exam preparation.

Biological Science Database

Offering abstracts, citations, and full-text to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science from over 6000 serials.

Ditki: Anatomy & Physiology

Offering hundreds of tutorials in basic Chemistry, Cell Biology, Anatomy, and Physiology, as well as flash cards, practice test questions, and more, this database is sure to be helpful to those studying Anatomy and Physiology.

Ditki: Neuroanatomy

Offering over a hundred tutorials in Neuroanatomy, as well as flash cards, practice test questions, and more, this database may be helpful supplemental material for those studying or interested in the function of the brain.

Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database

Contains full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.

Environmental Science Database

A cross-disciplinary resource of full-text content of global literature across this field and related disciplines providing resources in environmental science and related fields.

Gale in Context: Environmental Studies

Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.

Gale in Context: Science

Full text academic journals, magazines, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files, and links to vetted websites.

SciTech Premium Collection

Includes the Natural Science Collection and the Technology Collection. Provides full text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.

Today’s Science

Covers health, the environment, technology, life science, physical science, earth and space science, and science and society.

Gale OneFile: Nursing & Allied Health

Research full-text titles cited in CINAHL and other resources to support specialized care, treatment, and patient management.

Health Research Premium Collection

An extensive Health Sciences database covering a wide range of topics and includes the top ProQuest health and science databases, including psychology, nursing, respiratory, sonography, surgical, and dental coverage.

Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography

Access to the Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, presenting the latest diagnostic techniques and interpretation methods, case reports, research applications, and the newest hardware/software technologies and equipment in a variety of specialty areas, including abdominal, breast, echocardiography, neurosonology, OB/GYN, and vascular sonography.

Ovid Sonography

Access to the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.

STAT!Ref

An electronic medical library that cross-searches more than 35 medical resources, including Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, Mosby’s Drug Consult, and the Griffith 5 Minute Clinical Consult.

StatPearls

An extensive reference and training database for doctors, nurses, EMS, and other clinicians. StatPearls is especially well designed for practice tests and board exam preparation.

CQ Researcher

In-depth analysis and reports on current and controversial issues of the day.

Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints

Opposing Viewpoints in Context is the premier online resource covering today’s hottest social issues. Opposing Viewpoints in Context helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more. 

Issues and Controversies

Contemporary, in-depth and objective information on strongly debated issues of the day.

ProQuest Statistical Insight

Millions of full text reports and published tables on thousands of topics. Access to statistical information from U.S. federal agencies, states, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations.

Statista

A multidisciplinary database of 1.5 million statistics, covering over 80,000 topics from 18,000 data sources.

Academic Video Online - ProQuest

A streaming video collection with over 68,000 titles from sources including PBS, BBC, 60 MINUTES, National Geographic, Annenberg Learner, BroadwayHD™, A+E Networks’ HISTORY®. This product has the same content as Academic Video Online - Alexander Street, but with a database interface.

Academic Video Online - Alexander Street

A streaming video collection with over 68,000 titles from sources including PBS, BBC, 60 MINUTES, National Geographic, Annenberg Learner, BroadwayHD™, A+E Networks’ HISTORY®. This product has the same content as Academic Video Online - ProQuest, but with a YouTube-like interface and enhanced functionality.

Behavior & Mental Health Online

A comprehensive and diverse collection of video and text in the field of mental health. This collection is useful for programs in counseling, social work, nursing, psychology and behavioral health and includes clinical mental health demonstrations, therapy sessions, documentaries, transcripts, client narratives, and reference works.

Digital Theatre Plus

Digital Theatre+ provides powerful ways to connect ELA and Theatre students with dramatic texts, poetry and performance. Partnerships include the Royal Shakespeare Company, the BBC, Frantic Assembly, BroadwayHD, the Lincoln Center Theater, the Old Vic, the Lyric Hammersmith, the Young Vic, the Stratford Festival, Complicité, Shakespeare’s Globe, Gecko Theatre, the Donmar Warehouse, L.A. Theatre Works, the Liverpool Everyman, the Royal Opera House, the Almeida Theatre, the English Touring Theatre, the English National Ballet, and many more.

Films on Demand

A streaming video collection with over 35,000 titles, including programs from the History Channel, the Biography Channel, the BBC, PBS and more.

Kanopy

Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video platform for public libraries and universities. The platform includes thousands of independent, foreign, and older films and documentaries to support curriculum and instruction.

Medcom- Nursing Education in Video

Over 320 streaming videos, provided through Alexander Street, on a variety of topics useful to nursing and allied health students. Accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Swank Motion Pictures Academic

Swank Motion Pictures Academic streaming content is curated specifically for educators. The platform includes thousands of films to support curriculum and instruction, such as top feature films, documentaries, and foreign titles.

AAMI TIR79:2024

ST79 Self-assessment for health care facilities. Access requires enrollment in sterile processing course. Login is in the top right corner.

ANSI/AAMI ST79:2017/(R)2022

Comprehensive guide to steam sterilization and sterility assurance in health care facilities.  Access requires enrollment in sterile processing course.  Login is in the top right corner.

Health Research Premium Collection

An extensive Health Sciences database covering a wide range of topics and includes the top ProQuest health and science databases, including psychology, nursing, respiratory, sonography, surgical, and dental coverage.

Ovid Surgical Technology

Access to AORN Journal.

STAT!Ref

An electronic medical library that cross-searches more than 35 medical resources, including Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, Mosby’s Drug Consult, and the Griffith 5 Minute Clinical Consult.

StatPearls

An extensive reference and training database for doctors, nurses, EMS, and other clinicians. StatPearls is especially well designed for practice tests and board exam preparation.

Surgical Technologist

Use the user name: ASTJournal and password: 6GaR@tp8-2. Full text issues include 2007 – present.

Bloomsbury Drama Online - Core Collection

The Core Collection forms the heart of Drama Online. With over 1,875 playtexts and more added each year, this collection is truly the foundation of the platform and offers a diverse and rich catalogue of plays by the world’s leading dramatists.

Bloomsbury Drama Online - Critical Studies and Performance Practice

This collection features 450 academic books from the prestigious Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare imprints. Together they offer invaluable critical, contextual and pedagogic content from leading voices in theatre, performance and Shakespeare studies. The titles in this collection are grouped under two broad areas: Context and Criticism and Theatre Craft. The collection also includes 60 actor training videos through PATAZ: Physical Actor Training - an online A-Z.

Digital Theatre Plus

Digital Theatre+ provides powerful ways to connect ELA and Theatre students with dramatic texts, poetry and performance.  Partnerships include the Royal Shakespeare Company, the BBC, Frantic Assembly, BroadwayHD, the Lincoln Center Theater, the Old Vic, the Lyric Hammersmith, the Young Vic, the Stratford Festival, Complicité, Shakespeare’s Globe, Gecko Theatre, the Donmar Warehouse, L.A. Theatre Works, the Liverpool Everyman, the Royal Opera House, the Almeida Theatre, the English Touring Theatre, the English National Ballet, and many more.