MULTIDISCIPLINARY DATABASES

Type of access:    Free to the public        Faculty, staff, and students only


Academic Search Complete - [Contents: abstracts & full text | Coverage: 1965 - Present | Updates: regularly | Provider: Ebsco] 
This database is designed specifically for academic institutions. It is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 5,500 scholarly periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 9,500 journals in the collection.

AfricaBib - [Contents: citations & abstracts | Coverage: 1974 - present | Updates: regularly | Provider: IEA Research Library] 
This database provides bibliographic access to Africana periodical literature and African Women's literature. This database also has a comprehensive bibliography on women travelers and explorers to Africa.

Article 1st - [Contents: citations & abstracts | Coverage: 1990 - present | Updates: daily | Provider: OCLC] 
This database contains over 15,000 sources and over 15 million records covering business, humanities, medicine, popular culture, science, social science, and technology.

Chicano Database - [Contents: citations only | Coverage: 1967 - present | Updates: quarterly | Provider: OCLC] 
This database identifies materials across the disciplines (esp., literature, education, sociology, psychology, the arts) pertaining to Mexican-Americans. Since 1992, scope expanded to include the broader Latino experience.

CQ Researcher [Contents: full text & citations | Coverage: 1991 - present | Updates: weekly | Provider: Congressional Quarterley]  
This database explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology.

  
Credo Reference [Contents: full-text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Credo Reference]
This databases consists of over 350 reference e-books covering a range of subjects from different scholarly publishers. There are also over 200,000 images and audio files. The Credo platform allows users to do seamless outbound seaching in other OLLU resources such as the online catalog or scholarly databases.

Directory of Open Access Journals - [Contents: full text | Coverage: varies | Updates: varies | Provider: Lund University Libraries] 
This service covers over 3400 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Approximately 1186 are searchable at article level. 

eLibrary Curriculum - [Contents: full-text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: ProQuest] 
Gain access to more than 2,225 magazines, newspapers, reference books, transcriptions as well as pictures, maps ,weblinks, and audio/video content.

  

Fuente Academica - [Contents: full-text | Coverage: varies | Updates: weekly | Provider: Ebsco] 

Fuente Academica is a unique collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin America, Portugal, and Spain. This database provides full text coverage (including PDF) for nearly 450 publications from 18 countries. Particular emphasis given to agriculture, biological sciences, economics, history and law, philosophy, religion, sociology, etc.


Google Scholar -[Contents: citations & full text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Google] 
Google Scholar allows users to search across multiply resources in one search engine. It contains scholarly information from books, journals, reviewed papers, scholarly organizations and repositories, academic publishers and much more. Google scholar automatically links to full-text articles that are in the OLLU library collection.

GPO Access - [Contents: full text | Coverage: varies | Updates: daily | Provider: U.S. Government] 
GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government.

HeritageQuest Online - [Contents: citations & full-text | Coverage: 1790-1930 | Updates: regularly | Provider: ProQuest] 
 
This database contains a collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture, including a collection of over 25,000 family and local histories and the complete U.S. Federal Census, 1790-1930.

Ingenta - [Contents: citations & abstracts | Coverage: 1988 - present | Updates: daily | Provider: Ingenta] 
This database contains over 11 million citations, abstracts, and links to electronic journal articles from more than 20,000 periodicals in all subject disciplines. This database also contains a current awareness service that delivers search alerts and topics of selected journals.

JSTOR - [Contents: full-text & citations | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: JSTOR] 
This database contains an interdisciplinary archive of scholarly academic publications that includes journals, manuscripts, and pamphlets. Users have access to the Arts and Sciences I and III Collection, along with the Life Sciences Collection. Topics range from mathematics, economics, sociology, and political science, to language and literature, and biological, health, and general science journals.
Note: The most recently published issues (past 3-5 years) are not available.

Manybooks.net - [Contents: full text | Coverage:| Updates: daily| Provider: ]
Manybooks.com links to over 29,000 public domain books.  These ebooks are available free for download in many in a veriety of ereader and audiobook formats.  This site does not require OLLU authentication.

MAS Ultra: School Edition - [Contents: full text | Coverage: 1975-present | Updates: daily | Provider: EBSCOhost] 
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text for more than 500 popular high school magazines and current events publications.The database also has more than 360 full text reference books, including biographies, primary source documents, and an image Collection of photos, maps and flags.

MasterFile Premier - [Contents: abstracts & full text | Coverage: 1975 - present | Updates: regularly | Provider: EBSCO] 
This database provides full text for nearly 1,750 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - [Contents: full text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Gale] 
This database provides balanced information on contemporary issues with sources deriving from books, journals, newspapers, multimedia, and websites.

Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World[Contents: full-text | Coverage: 1750-present | Updates: regularly | Provider: Amigos] 
Consists of over eight volumes with 2,000 articles on world events pertaining to social, economic, cultural, and political topics. Each article has an up-to-date bibliography, and the text has over 700 images and 50 maps.
Part of the Oxford Digital Reference Shelf.

PapersFirst - [Contents: citations only | Coverage: 1993 - present | Updates: monthly | Provider: FirstSearch] 
This database identifies papers from conferences & symposia worldwide.

ProceedingsFirst - [Contents: citations only | Coverage: 1993 - present | Updates: monthly | Provider: FirstSearch] 
This database identifies proceedings of conferences & symposia worldwide.

Student Resources in Context - [Contents: full text | Coverage: present | Updates: regularly | Provider: Gale Group] 
For high school students, This database contains reference materials, primary source documents, and magazine articles about literature, science, and history.

Texas Digital Sanborn Maps - [Contents: images | Coverage: 1867-1970 | Updates: regularly | Provider: Chadwyck-Healey] 
This database contains digital fire insurance maps of Texas towns and cities from 1867 to 1970 which document the history, growth and development of urban areas.

Texas Reference Center - [Contents: full text | Coverage: varies | Updates: varies | Provider: Ebsco] 

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 EBSCOhost database is updated weekly.


UNBISnet - [Contents: Citations & Full Text | Coverage: 1979 - present | Updates: regularly | Provider: United Nations] 
This database contains a catalogue of UN publications and documentation indexed by the United Nations Dag Hammarskjold Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva. Also included are non-UN publications held in the collection of the Dag Hammarskj Library.

WorldCat - [Contents: citations & abstracts | Coverage: thousands of years | Updates: daily | Provider: OCLC] 
This database is the largest Bibliographic database with over 58 million records of everything from stone tablets to electronic books.

WorldAlmanac -[Contents: full text | Coverage: current year | Updates: annually | Provider: FirstSearch] 

This database is best used to find data, statistical profiles, and other factual information on a wide range of topics including arts and entertainment, U.S. states and nations of the world, science & technology, national defense, economics, history
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