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Academic Search™ Complete
Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
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AGRICOLA
Compiled by the US National Agricultural Library (NAL), this comprehensive source of bibliographic information consists of over 2 million citations to journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audio-visual materials, and technical reports. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition. Auxiliary subjects that support NAL's Information Center activities, such as agricultural trade and marketing, rural information, and animal welfare are also included in the database. Coverage for AGRICOLA dates back to 1970.
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Alt HealthWatch™
This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It offers libraries an immediate resource of full text articles, from more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals, reports, proceedings and association & consumer newsletters.
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America's Obituaries & Death Notices
Obituaries & Death Notices, a unique resource that contains more than 15 million recent death records with new content added daily. America's Obituaries & Death Notices consolidates content from hundreds of newspapers across the nation, making it easy to find coverage of loved ones, colleagues, and friends from across the country.
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American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
(Note: This resource will be discontinued on February 12, 2010.) The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries knits together more than 400 sources of diaries, letters, and memoirs, to provide fast access to thousands of views on almost every aspect of the war. This extraordinary electronic collection includes 100,000 pages of re-keyed and indexed text, including 4,000 facsimile pages of previously unpublished manuscript material.
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Ancestry Library (Library Use Only)
AVAILABLE ONLY FROM LIBRARY COMPUTERS -- This collection of more than 4,000 databases and two billion names is essential to having a broad genealogy collection, and its valuable content is a strong complement to HeritageQuest™ Online.
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Ayuda de Tareas en Vivo
Ayuda individual con un tutor certificado. Matemáticas. Ciencias. Estudios Sociales.
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Bibliography of Native North Americans
A bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics, including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present. The database is an essential research tool for anthropologists, educators, historians, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, legal and medical researchers, linguists, theologians, ethnobotanists, and policy makers. BNNA will appeal to anyone interested in exploring the contributions, struggles, and issues surrounding North America's indigenous peoples.
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Biography Resource Center
This database integrates biographies from Gale Group sources with related full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals, as well as tens of thousands of images and links to hand-picked web sites. Search for people -- both current and historic from all eras and fields of endeavor -- based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as keyword and full text.
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Books in Print
An authoritative database of information on over 5 million books, audio books, videos, and e-books. Includes professional book reviews and such services as a "Children’s Room," a "Fiction Room," and "What Year Were You Born?" which allows patrons to search over 100 years of bestsellers. You can browse the winners and nominees of over 400 book industry awards, titles by your favorite author or fiction titles in a favorite series or featuring a favorite character and by fictional or children’s genre. You can sign up for BIP Alert, which allows you to save your search criteria and receive alerts via email when new titles are released that match your saved search. You can also save your results in a personalized reading list which can then be edited, emailed, or printed.
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Business & Company Resource Center - Article Search
Business & Company Resource Center brings together a wide variety of global business information, enabling users to efficiently research business case studies, competitive intelligence, and career and investment opportunities.
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Business Decision
This web service features customizable business-oriented reports, data, and maps for the San Antonio metro area. BusinessDecision provides powerful consumer market data that enables business owners to better reach existing customers and to identify new opportunities.
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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.
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Career Center
Connect to a live specialist who can review resumes or provide interview coaching. Other resources include: GED prep, links for job search sites and citizenship test preparation.
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Centro de Adultos
Ayuda individual con un tutor certificado. Preparación de GED. Ciudadanía. Regreso a la Escuela.
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Centro Universitario
Ayuda individual con un tutor certificado. Matemáticas. Ciencias. Estudios Sociales. Preparación de GED.
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Chilton Auto Repair Library
The Chilton Library contains automotive repair information. There are thousands of year, make and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models. ChiltonLibrary.com gives you the confidence to service or repair virtually any system on your vehicle. Some features include step-by-step service and repair procedures, close-up photographs and illustrations, vacuum and wiring diagrams to help explain system operation, troubleshooting and diagnostics, and maintenance and specification tables.
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College Center
Connect to a live, certified tutor for help with math, science, English and social studies. Tutors can proofread papers for you. Assistance with GED prep and career help is also provided.
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Computer Source
This database contains nearly 300 full text journals and magazines covering topics such as computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software. Computer Source provides a balance of full text technical journals and full text consumer computer titles.
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Consumer Health Complete
The Consumer Health Complete (CHC) interface is designed for the everyday consumer of health care information. CHC provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. Consumers can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles.
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Contemporary Authors
Offers continuous access to current biographical and bibliographical data on more than 120,000 modern authors. You can easily search for an author by name, title of work, subject/genre, nationality, date and place of birth, honors, awards and much more.
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Contemporary Literary Criticism - Select
Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select is an extensive collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study. Updated monthly, Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select allows users to search by author name, title of work, nationality, subject/genre, ethnicity, critic name, and more.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography
The essays of DLB outline the lives and careers of authors from all eras and genres and summarize the critical response to their work. Each DLB entry contains personal information (birth/death dates, nationality/ethnicity, principal genres, awards, family history, and some entries include an author portrait), a list of the author's most important writings and a list of additional writings, published interviews, biographies, and a bibliography of writings about the author.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
The DOAJ indexes over 2200 online journals and over 100,000 articles from across all academic disciplines. To ensure the quality of these materials, the DOAJ requires publishers to meet guidelines for content control either through peer review or editorial supervision. Journals are intended for researchers and come from a variety of academic, government, commercial and non-profit private sources.
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EBSCO Animals
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
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Economia y Negocios
This continuously updated bibliographic database is an indispensable tool for research conducted in the areas of business and economics. Search functionality is enhanced through the incorporation of author keywords supplied in Spanish and English. More than 60,000 records, dating back to the early 1980s, provide coverage for over 200 Spanish and Portuguese-language periodicals published in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, the United States and elsewhere. Active titles include Revista de la CEPAL, Revista de Administraçao, Estudios Empresariales, and Agroeconómico.
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eLibrary Curriculum Edition
eLibrary Curriculum Edition users find the answers they need from more than 2,225 full-text magazines, newspapers, reference books, and transcripts—plus thousands of pictures, maps, weblinks, and audio/video content. Titles include:The Economist, History Today, Jet, The Lancet, Library Journal, Newsweek, Science, Time, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents and The World & I.
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Enhanced Business Search
An alternative search interface for the Business Source database.
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ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center)
ERIC provides access to education literature and resources. The ERIC database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and the Resources in Education Index. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
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Factiva Global
Factiva gives you access to the full-text of thousands of the world's leading business news and information sources, including newspapers, magazines and company reports. Easy-to-browse business intelligence, in the form of charts, graphs and company profiles of public companies around the world will help you make important business decisions quickly and ensure your research is authoritative, reliable and current.
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Fiction Connection
Looking for your next good read? Use Fiction Connection to discover titles similar to those you already enjoy. [more] Or feel free to browse titles by topic, genre, setting, character, location, and timeframe.
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Footnote.com (Library Use Only)
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Foundation Directory Online (Central Library use only)
(AVAILABLE FROM THE CENTRAL LIBRARY COMPUTERS ONLY) Foundation Directory Online Professional provides information on over 95,000 foundations, charities and corporate givers and the grants they provide. Additional information includes a searchable collection of over 1.3 million recently awarded grants and a database of over 533,000 recently filed IRS Forms 990 and 990-PF.
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Foundation Grants to Individuals Online (Central Library use only)
(AVAILABLE FROM THE CENTRAL LIBRARY COMPUTERS ONLY) The Foundation Grants to Individuals database makes it easy for individuals to find grants for scholarships, student loans, fellowships, program development, internships, professorships, arts and cultural projects, research, awards/grants by nomination only and general welfare. Individuals can search based on geographic location, types of support and area of interest.
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Fuente Academica
Fuente Academica is a unique collection of scholarly journals from renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers. This multi-disciplinary database offers full text content to many academic areas including business & economics, medical sciences, political science, law, computer science, library & information sciences, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy and theology. Fuente Academica provides full text (including PDF) for more than 200 scholarly Spanish language journals. Content is provided in Spanish from respected publishers worldwide, including Revista de Arquitectura, Estudios Sobre Educacion, Revista de Estudios Hispanicos, Comunicacion y Sociedad, Revista de Ciencia Politica, and Revista Historia.
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Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia
The Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually.
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Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Designed for high-school students and lay adults, this collection of entries covers major areas of science, including biology, genetics, microbiology, astronomy, chemistry, physics, engineering, technology, geology, weather, archaeology, psychology, mathematics, and medicine, and provides readers with a wide range of up-to-date, relevant, and accurate information.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library
Provides access to a wide variety of electronic reference titles in virtually any subject, including health, science, art, history, and biography.
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Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia is a resource containing information on all animal life on Earth. The work gives detailed explanations of animal life in easy-to-understand language.
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Grzimek's Student Animal Life Resource
Grzimek's Student Animal Life Resource offers broad, comprehensive coverage of the animal kingdom, ranging from the simple -- sponges and corals -- to the complex -- mammals. Animals are grouped by major classifications: sponges; corals; jellyfishes; segmented worms; crustaceans and mollusks; insects; fishes; amphibians; reptiles birds; and mammals. In addition, this student edition includes an overview with photos and illustrations, and the "Words to Know" section gives pronunciations and definitions within the text for scientific or other difficult terms and names. Also included in this version are the Species List by Biome and Species List by Geographic Range.
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Handbook of Texas
The New Handbook of Texas is a multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture. It comprises more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions, and a host of other topic categories. The scope is broad and inclusive, designed to provide readers with concise, authoritative, and accessible articles that provide factual, nonpartisan accounts on virtually every aspect of Texas history and culture.
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Health & Wellness Resource Center
Provides access to medical reference materials that include nearly 400 health/medical journals, numerous reference volumes, over 700 health videos, hundreds of pamphlets and health-related articles from 2,200 general interest publications. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.
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Health Reference Center - Academic
Integrates the full text and images of respected nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference books.
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Health Source: Consumer Edition
Provides access to nearly 300 full text, consumer health periodicals, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Fit Pregnancy, Harvard Health Letter, HealthFacts, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.
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HeritageQuest Online Census
This online database is an essential collection of unique material for both genealogical and historical researchers, with coverage dating back to the late 1700s. Researchers can use HeritageQuest Online to find their ancestors, trace their paths across America, and learn what life was like in the areas where they settled.
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Historic Dallas Morning News
A unique historical digital image collection accessible by keyword and date searching. It documents major events in Texas, the United States, and the world, providing valuable primary source information. Includes articles, matrimony, death and birth notices, classifieds. Advertising, photos and graphics are also included (1885-12/31/1977)
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Historic New York Times (Central Library use only)
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History...It's Happening!
This resource helps to promote North America 's vivid history and help celebrate such events as Women's History Month. Students can use History–It’s Happening! to begin their own research or just browse key primary source documents, historic video footage, speeches, selected articles and Web sites about notable men and women from Canada and the United States . The Web site also features suggested reading information from NoveList focusing on history in fiction.
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Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Provides indexing and abstract coverage of topics, including classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, Internet search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry, electronic publishing, and more. This database indexes journal articles from more than 450 publications. Sources indexed include books, research reports, conference proceedings, and patents. Coverage extends back to 1966.
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Informe
Full text magazine articles in Spanish to meet the needs of the Hispanic community. Covers business, health, technology, culture, current topics and other subjects.
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InfoTrac Newspapers
Growing collection of over 100 newspapers from the US and around the world, including several Texas newspapers. Dates of coverage vary, with start dates beginning January 1996, and a 365 day rolling file for the New York Times. Classifieds not included.
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Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts
Provides abstracts and indexing for literature related to personal computing products and developments in business, the Internet, the home, and all other applied areas. IPCA content coverage extends back to the 1980s. Over 400 of the most important trade publications, mainstream computer magazines, and professional journals are covered, including those that focus on specific topics such as Macintosh & Windows platforms, programming, web development and more. Special emphasis is also given to hardware and software reviews. Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts includes content from such titles as Byte.com, PC World, Macworld, and Linux Journal. The product also includes editor-selected articles from hundreds of popular magazine titles.
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Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations
Comprehensive--with all the information students need to compare the nations of the world--and written clearly, directly, and expressly for students, Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations features consistent coverage of all countries; maps of each country; flags and seals on color end sheets; more than 600 photographs; and much more.
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Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States
This resource focuses on the facts and details of every state in the US, including the District of Columbia and US dependencies. Entries cover the geography, history, politics, economy, and other facts about each state.
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Kids Health
KidsHealth provides doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence. KidsHealth was created by The Nemours Foundation's Center for Children's Health Media and provides separate sites for parents, kids and teens.
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Kids Search
Kids Search is designed especially for youth in grades K-8 and serves as an interface for searching across multiple databases.
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La Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos
La Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos está organizada de modo que los estudiantes puedan encontrar información rápida y fácilmente. Pulse en la primera letra del título del artículo para ver el artículo.
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Latin American Women Writers
A searchable collection of prose, poetry, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America. The collection features 36 plays and over 52,000 pages of prose, some dating back to the 16th century.
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Latino Literature
A collection of poetry, fiction, and drama written in English and Spanish by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latin authors working in the United States.
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Learning Express Library
Online academic and career practice tests and full-texts of test prep books. Areas covered include academic, such as SAT, GRE, GMAT, LSAT; basic skills, civil service, cosmetology, EMS, firefighter, GED, law enforcement, ASVAB, postal services, real estate, and U.S. citizenship. Test score report includes explanation of right and wrong answers.
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Legal Collection
Centered on the discipline of law and legal topics, the Legal Collection database is a collection of respected, scholarly peer-reviewed publications including law journals, documents, and case studies. This database is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world. Legal Collection offers full text for more than 250 of the world's best law journals. This database provides information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment and much more. Full text journals contained in this database include: American Criminal Law Review, American Journal of Criminal Law, California Law Review, and many more. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1965.
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Legal Forms
Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen's language.
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Literature Criticism Online
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Literature Resource Center
Provides access to more than 371,000 full text journal articles from more than 230 literary journals. Other resources include 38,000 critical essays; 4,329 work overviews, plot summaries and explications; more than 5,000 links to authoritative related websites; more than 122,000 author biographies; 2,500 author portraits; and Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature.
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Live Homework Help
Free tutoring in a safe online environment by certified subject specialists. Subjects covered include: math, science, social studies and English. SAT preparation, skills review and help with essay writing is also provided. Tutors are available for students of all ages from kindergarten through adult learners. Spanish-speaking tutors are also available.
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Local and Regional History
An ebook collection of local history books from Arcadia Publishing. The series features "images and texts assembled by thousands of local experts with unparalleled knowledge of their community's history."
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MAS Ultra -- School Edition
This comprehensive database, designed specifically for high school libraries, contains full text for more than 700 popular high school magazines.
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MasterFILE Premier
Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFILE Premier contains full text for more than 1,900 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more.
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MedicLatina
Medic Latina is 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 more than 140 peer-reviewed medical journals in native Spanish. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. A wide range of topics are covered including neuroscience, cardiology, nephrology, biomedicine, clinical research, pediatrics, human reproduction, clinical pathology, cancer research, and hematology. Publications covered in this database include Revista Medica Del Imss, Revista Mexicana De Patologia Clinica, Boletin Medico Del Hospital Infantil De Mexico, Archivos De Neurociencias, Revista Biomedica, Veterinaria De Mexico, Salud Publica De Mexico, ACIMED, and the important publication, Archives of Medical Research (in English).
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MEDLINE Plus Health Information
Authoritative health information from the National Library of Medicine. Contains directories, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, easy-to-understand tutorials on common conditions, tests, and treatments, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.
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Middle Search Plus
Middle Search Plus contains full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
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Military & Government Collection
Offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government from periodicals and academic journals. The collection provides full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles. Publications covered in this database include Air Force Comptroller, Army Reserve Magazine, Defence Studies, JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, National Review, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces, and many more.
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Natural & Alternative Treatments
The Natural & Alternative Treatments database was originally created in 1997 to satisfy an ever-growing demand for accurate, unbiased information on natural health. Subsequently, the database has been expanded, refined and updated. It currently consists of over 550 articles as follows: 219 on Herbs and Supplements, 185 on Conditions, 100 on Drug Interaction, 29 on Alternative Therapies and 33 on Homeopathy. These articles are entirely based on double-blind, placebo-controlled studies and other forms of meaningful scientific evidence. At present, more than 12,000 such studies are cited in the material, and new studies are added as they appear. This evidence-based content has been developed and reviewed by a team of physicians and pharmacologists with the goal of providing reliable information without exaggeration or misrepresentation.
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NetLibrary
NetLibrary eBooks are digital full text and audio versions of over 28,000 books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction, and 3,400 publicly-accessible titles.
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Newspaper Source
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 35 national and international newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), The Toronto Star, etc. Also contains selective full text for 375 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, and The San Jose Mercury News. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, and NPR.
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Non-Fiction Connection
Find non-fiction titles based on books you have already read. Enter the title of a book you already know you enjoy, and search for similar books from the non-fiction database. The browse feature helps locate books within various narrative non-fiction genres, such as true crime, travel, history, food, animals, politics and biographies.
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North American Women's Letters and Diaries
(Note: This resource will be discontinued on February 12, 2010.) North American Women’s Letters and Diaries is the largest electronic collection of women’s diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, it presents the personal experiences of hundreds of women. The database is used for research in women’s studies, history, sociology, literature, genealogy, and other fields.
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North East Independent School District Catalog
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Noticias en Español
Includes full text international news services articles (1992-current) and full text articles from US Hispanic newspapers (1998-current). Articles cover social, economic, environmental, government, sports, health, science, cultural, and business issues and events in the United States, Latin America, and the world. Articles and interface are in Spanish.
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NoveList
NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction.
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
A one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to websites.
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Oral History Online
(Note: This resource will be discontinued on February 12, 2010.) Oral History Online is a collection of English language oral histories. It contains more than 34,000 pages of full-text content. This full-text material ranges from Ellis Island oral history narratives to rare Black Panther Party interviews. New content is added quarterly. Oral History Online is also an index to free oral history information on the Web.
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Overdrive
Download audio books, ebooks, music and video titles to your PC or portable device 24/7.
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Photofact Online
Search for thousands of repair schematics for consumer electronics from Sams Technical Publishing. Includes schematics for the latest models, incuding HDTV, rear projection and LCD TVs.
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Plunkett Research (Central Library use only)
(Available only from Central Library computers). Plunkett Research offers business intelligence, industry trends, statistics, market research, sales leads & corporate profiles. Coverage includes such vital industry sectors as health care, financial services, retailing, entertainment, energy and information technology.
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Primary Search
Contains full text for nearly 70 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).
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Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of more than 550 high-quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles.
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Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.
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PubMed
PubMed, a service of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), includes millions of citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. PubMed does not include copies of journal articles. However, many articles are available for free via PubMed Central.
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Reference Universe (Central Library use only)
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Reference USA
A national residential and business directory. Business listings offer a variety of indexes so you can create targeted results: by industry, geographic location and more. Perfect for finding new customers or researching an industry.
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Regional Business News
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Religion & Philosophy Collection
Full-text coverage of over 300 titles that cover topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
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Safari Select
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Salud en Español
Salud en Español provee reportes completos basados en evidencias y fichas de datos relacionados a todos los aspectos de la salud y el bienestar. Reportes específicos por tema que cubren todos los aspectos de la salud, dan información general importante en relación a enfermedades, afecciones y procedimientos de diversos tratamientos.
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San Antonio Express-News
Includes full text articles written for the San Antonio Express-News. Accessible by keyword and date. No images or classifieds. The Express-News provides news, business, features, sports and opinion for Central and South Texas and has bureaus in Washington, D.C., Austin, Corpus Christi, Brownsville, Laredo and Mexico City. (Jan. 1, 1990-current)
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SAPL Catalog
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Science & Technology Collection
Over 800 leading full-text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,700 publications.
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Scribner Writers Series
Provides access to over 1,600 original and detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world.
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Searchasaurus
Three popular elementary and middle school databases (Primary Search, Middle Search Plus and BookSource: Nonfiction) can be accessed via Searchasaurus. Searchasaurus is a user search experience for users in elementary or middle schools. Complete with erupting volcanoes, dinosaur guide and compass, Searchasaurus is an exciting and easy way for young researchers to experience online searching. It is an animated interface with a dinosaur theme that encourages young researchers to enhance and develop basic search methodologies. They will be riveted by the colorful, animated interface as they gather information on a wide range of topics. Searchasaurus offers Lexile limiters (reading level), making it easy for young patrons to read and research only appropriately challenging materials.
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Serials Directory
The Serials Directory provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials. It contains over 184,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers; historical data for an additional 20,000 titles; data from nearly 83,500 publishers worldwide, including email and Internet addresses; and Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal Classifications for every entry.
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South Texas Go Local
A directory of health providers, facilities, and services provided to the consumer by the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Searches for specific diseases and conditions will link to local health providers that treat those conditions.
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Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage
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STAT!Ref
Electronic medical library lets you cross-search more than 31 medical reference texts.
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Student Reseach Center
The Student Research Center is designed especially for youth in grades 6-12 and serves as an interface for searching across multiple databases.
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TD Net (E-Journal Title Index)
Provides a searchable and browsable list of e-journal titles available via TexShare databases. Many journals include back issues archives and a table of contents.
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Texas Digital Sanborn Maps
Digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. Users have the ability to easily manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and layer maps from different years. Sanborn maps are valuable historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods. They are large-scale plans containing data that can be used to estimate the potential risk for urban structures. This includes information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. Seven or eight different editions represent some areas.
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Texas Reference Center
Texas Reference Center includes more than 80 full text journals and books about Texas history, ethnic & cultural diversity, gender studies, literature, public health, business as well as home & garden and sports & 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 database is updated weekly.
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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.
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Twayne's Authors Series
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. This online series features the content of nearly 600 books that comprise three print series --United States Authors, English Authors and World Authors.
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Twentieth-Century American Poetry
Covers more than 316 of the most important and studied American poets and includes over 52,000 works. Includes the works of most major twentieth-century American poets, beginning with the traditionalists; continuing through the modernists, represented by such poets as Wallace Stevens; and moving on to the contemporary works of the 1990s.
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Twentieth-Century English Poetry
Containing over 44,000 works by 288 poets, Twentieth-Century English Poetry is the most complete overview collection of poetry in English and by far the largest electronic anthology of its kind. It provides an unprecedented overview of poetry written in the 20th century by both established and emerging writers.
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Vocational & Career Collection
Provides full text coverage for nearly 350 trade and industry related periodicals including American Machinist, Modern Machine Shop, Pediatric Nursing, Wireless Week, Drug Store News, Video Business, Reeves Journal, Hotel & Motel Management, Restaurant Business, Advertising Age, and many more
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World Book Kids Edition
The Kids Edition of the online World Book Encyclopedia provides a kid-friendly, picture-based way of searching for information. Entries are rewritten for younger audiences, but still link back to the full encyclopedia for more information and related content.
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World Book Online
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World History Collection™
Offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. World History Collection contains cover-to-cover full text for more than 140 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals.
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WorldCat (Free)
Search the collections of more than 9,000 libraries to locate hard-to-find books, movies and music. Place requests to borrow items from across the country using the Interlibrary Loan Service.
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