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From Chadwyck-Healey/Proquest:
Chadwyck-Healey Literature Collections
Contains Twentieth-Century American Poetry and Twentieth-Century English Poetry databases.
eLibrary Curriculum Edition
The ultimate easy-to-use curriculum and reference resource--delivers one of the largest collections of periodical and digital media content designed specifically for K-12 schools and libraries.
Heritage Quest
A comprehensive treasury of family lineage and local histories, including materials for tracing family lineages and American culture, beginning with the 13 original colonies. One can trace their family tree, research folklore topics, and trace the history of their hometown. This database contains genealogies, local histories, third-party histories, and primary source materials of not only towns and families of all 50 states, but also includes information for Canada, England, and Ireland.
Texas Digital Sanborn Maps
Texas Digital Sanborn Maps These digitized maps provide detailed property and land-use records that depicts the architecture of more than 12,000 U.S. towns and cities throughout the past one hundred years. The maps enable researchers to trace the architectural history of individual buildings or entire communities.

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Health Reference Center Academic
A full service resource for people needing health related research. It provides an integrated collection of general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books and pamphlets. Records are available in a combination of indexing, abstracts or full text formats.
Health and Wellness Resource Center
Instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference resources such as Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence, and PDR Family Guide to Health and Nutrition. Key health web sites are also listed here, as well as 2, 200 general interest health publications, and over 400 health and medical journals.
Literature Resource Center:
Contemporary Authors Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography. This all-inclusive database contains information on both classical and contemporary authors and their works. Obtain biographies of authors, bibliographies of all they have written, critical essays and contextual information.
Info Trac Custom Newspapers
Search newspapers from in the United States for full text articles. Cover-to-cover coverage of the Austin-American Statesman, Houston Chronicle, New York Times, Washington Times, The Financial Times and The Times (London) and many others.
Scribner Writers Series
Gain access to 1,600 original and detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world. Now students, faculty and other researchers can access these literary references with flexibility and simplicity. Each entry averages 15-20 pages in length and includes a concise essay, hyperlinks for cross-referencing, a citation and biographical information that places the author's work in personal and historical context.
Twayne's Authors Series
This literary criticism database 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

NetLibrary—E-books
Search through thousands of books on-line and then download one of them and read it on your computer!

TexShare Free Databases by Subject

Resources by Subject:

Multi-disciplinary Sources

Handbook of Texas Online

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. Provided by the Texas State Historical Association in collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin.

UTCAT Library Catalog - Telnet Access | UTNetCAT - Web Access | UTCAT - encrypted session | User's Guide - Telnet Access | UTNetCAT User's Guide Updated daily. Catalog of materials held by the General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin.

Arts and Humanities

Internet Movie Database - Web Access, Dates of coverage vary. (IMDb) Updated weekly. Provides access to information about movies (including those made for television) from across the world, starting with the earliest cinema through the latest releases and titles still in production. Covers over 170,479 titles with over 2,462,516 filmography entries, including major actors, minor bit players and crew members.

Handbook of Texas Online

Vanderbilt Television News Archive, August, 1968 - present. (Vanderbilt University)

Updated daily. Indexes the Television News Archive at Vanderbilt University. The archive includes national television evening news broadcasts, as well as special reports and periodic news broadcasts.

Business and Statistics

Census Lookup - Web Access, 1990 Census. (U.S. Census Bureau)

This service allow users to retrieve data 1990 Census data. With 300 CDs (150 gigabytes) online, it is the largest collection of U.S. Census data on the Internet.

Population Index On the Web, 1986 - present. Updated annually. Covers all fields of interest to demographers. Contains selective indexing with abstracts from journals, books, working papers, doctoral dissertations and other sources.

User's Guide - Web Access

Updated annually. Covers all fields of interest to demographers. Contains selective indexing with abstracts from journals, books, working papers, doctoral dissertations and other sources.

Govenment Information and Law

Census Lookup - Web Access, 1990 Census. (U.S. Census Bureau)

This service allow users to retrieve data 1990 Census data. With 300 CDs (150 gigabytes) online, it is the largest collection of U.S. Census data on the Internet.

Commerce Business Daily (CBD Net) via GPO Access

CBDNet is the official FREE online listing of Government contracting opportunities which are published in the Commerce Business Daily.

Federal Register Online via GPO Access; Official daily publication for Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive Orders and other Presidential Documents. Database contains 1995 to present.
: Political Database of the Americas, Dates of coverage vary. (Georgetown University) Updated periodically. Provides a comprehensive source of documentary and statistical political information on Latin American politics. Useful for students, academics, policy analysts and government officials.

Population Index On the Web, 1986 - present.

User's Guide - Web Access

Updated annually. Covers all fields of interest to demographers. Contains selective indexing with abstracts from journals, books, working papers, doctoral dissertations and other sources.

U.S. Government Information - Web Access Dates of coverage vary. (GPO)

Contains full-text of the Congressional Record, Congressional Bills, Public Laws, Federal Register, GAO Reports, and the United States Code.

Science/Technology/Health

AGRICOLA - Web Access, 1970 - present. (National Agriculture Library)

Updated daily. Contains bibliographic citations with some abstracts covering agriculture, animal husbandry, animal and human nutrition, forestry, plant pathology, plant science, human ecology, agricultural economics and rural sociology. Includes journal articles, books, state extension and experiment station publications and USDA documents.

Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database - Web Access, 1960 - present. (National Library of Medicine) Updated monthly. Covers all aspects of alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Contains approximately 100,000 records, including abstracts and bibliographic references to journal articles, books, dissertation abstracts, conference papers and proceedings, reports and studies, and chapters in edited works.

Astrophysics Data System (ADS) - Web Access, 1975 - present. (NASA); NASA-funded project whose main resource is an Abstract Service, which includes three sets of abstracts: 1) astronomy and astrophysics, containing approximately 594,468 abstracts; 2) instrumentation, containing approximately 586,979 abstracts; and 3) physics and geophysics, containing approximately 910,562 abstracts. In addition to the Abstract Service, the ADS provides pointers to astronomical data catalogs and data archives, making data collected by NASA space missions available.

CANCERLIT - Web Access, 1963 - present. (National Library of Medicine) Updated monthly. Provides coverage to cancer literature with more than 1.5 million citations and abstracts from over 4,000 different sources including biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports, and doctoral theses.

HCI Bibliography - Web Access, Dates of coverage vary. (HCIBIB) Updated frequently. Provides a bibliographic database on Human-Computer Interaction.; HighWire Press - Stanford, HighWire Press is one of the two largest archives of free full-text science on Earth! As of 4/18/00, we are assisting in the online publication of 171,456 free full-text articles and 742,484 total articles.
: Internet Grateful Med Internet Grateful Med offers assisted searching in MEDLINE and other online databases of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). | General Information

netLibrary.com -. The Free Reading Room area has a sizable collection of public domain eBooks.

PubMed

NLM's preferred web-based search engine to access the 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating online journals), and other related databases. | General Information

Recent Advances in Manufacturing (RAM) - Web Access , 1990 - present. (EEVL)

Updated monthly. Provides bibliographic information for manufacturing and related areas. Covers items in over 500 niche and mainstream journals and magazines, and also details of books, videos and conference proceedings.

ResearchIndex, Dates of coverage vary. (NECI) Updated daily. ResearchIndex is a scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness. ResearchIndex indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web.

Social Sciences / Education

Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database - Web Access, 1960 - present. (National Library of Medicine) Updated monthly. Covers all aspects of alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Contains approximately 100,000 records, including abstracts and bibliographic references to journal articles, books, dissertation abstracts, conference papers and proceedings, reports and studies, and chapters in edited works.

Anthropological Index Online - Web Access, 1970 - present. (CSAC)

Updated monthly. Provides basic bibliographic references to over 700 periodicals in the British Museum's Museum of Mankind Library (incorporating the former Royal Anthropological Institute Library). A browsable list of journal titles and abbreviations is also available.

GrayLIT Network provides a portal for over 100,000 FULL TEXT technical reports located at the Department of Energy, Department of Defense, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Collections in the GrayLIT collaboration include the DOE Information Bridge; the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Report Collection; the EPA National Environmental Publications Internet Site (NEPIS); the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Reports; and the NASA Langley Technical Reports.

Library Chronicle Index - Web Access, 1970 to 1989. (The University of Texas General Libraries)

netLibrary.com -. The Free Reading Room area has a sizable collection of public domain eBooks.

Political Database of the Americas, Dates of coverage vary. (Georgetown University) Updated periodically. Provides a comprehensive source of documentary and statistical political information on Latin American politics. Useful for students, academics, policy analysts and government officials.

Population Index On the Web, 1986 - present.

User's Guide - Web Access

Updated annually. Covers all fields of interest to demographers. Contains selective indexing with abstracts from journals, books, working papers, doctoral dissertations and other sources.


	From Chadwyck-Healey/Proquest: Chadwyck-Healey Literature Collections Contains Twentieth-Century American Poetry and Twentieth-Century English Poetry databases. eLibrary Curriculum Edition The ultimate easy-to-use curriculum and reference resource--delivers one of the largest collections of periodical and digital media content designed specifically for K-12 schools and libraries. Heritage Quest A comprehensive treasury of family lineage and local histories, including materials for tracing family lineages and American culture, beginning with the 13 original colonies. One can trace their family tree, research folklore topics, and trace the history of their hometown. This database contains genealogies, local histories, third-party histories, and primary source materials of not only towns and families of all 50 states, but also includes information for Canada, England, and Ireland. Texas Digital Sanborn Maps Texas Digital Sanborn Maps These digitized maps provide detailed property and land-use records that depicts the architecture of more than 12,000 U.S. towns and cities throughout the past one hundred years. The maps enable researchers to trace the architectural history of individual buildings or entire communities.

	From the Gale Group: Health Reference Center Academic A full service resource for people needing health related research. It provides an integrated collection of general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books and pamphlets. Records are available in a combination of indexing, abstracts or full text formats. Health and Wellness Resource Center Instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference resources such as Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence, and PDR Family Guide to Health and Nutrition. Key health web sites are also listed here, as well as 2, 200 general interest health publications, and over 400 health and medical journals. Literature Resource Center: Contemporary Authors Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography. This all-inclusive database contains information on both classical and contemporary authors and their works. Obtain biographies of authors, bibliographies of all they have written, critical essays and contextual information. Info Trac Custom Newspapers Search newspapers from in the United States for full text articles. Cover-to-cover coverage of the Austin-American Statesman, Houston Chronicle, New York Times, Washington Times, The Financial Times and The Times (London) and many others. Scribner Writers Series Gain access to 1,600 original and detailed bio-critical essays on the lives and works of important authors from around the world. Now students, faculty and other researchers can access these literary references with flexibility and simplicity. Each entry averages 15-20 pages in length and includes a concise essay, hyperlinks for cross-referencing, a citation and biographical information that places the author's work in personal and historical context. Twayne's Authors Series This literary criticism database 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

	NetLibrary—E-books Search through thousands of books on-line and then download one of them and read it on your computer!