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TLU Library Catalog
Provides full-text access to 28,000 e-books, links to many full-text government documents, and bibliographic descriptions for more than 103,000 items (books, CDs, videos, music recordings, etc.) in the library. Off-campus access to full-text e-books requires a TLU logon.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Provides full-text access to scholarly publications in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences.

ACS Publications (American Chemical Society)
Provides citations, full text, and images from 39 scholarly publications of the American Chemical Society.

AGRICOLA (EBSCO)

AGRICultural OnLine Access contains citations to documents about agriculture and allied disciplines (ex., veterinary and environmental science), with many links to full-text documents.

Alt-HealthWatch (EBSCO)
Provides full text for 180 publications dating back to 1990, including many peer-reviewed journals, related to complementary and alternative medicine.

America: History and Life (EBSCO)
Provides citations to 450,000 resources on the history of the U.S. and Canada (prehistory-present).

Annual Reviews
Provides access to citations and abstracts of reviews in the fields of biochemistry, ecology, evolution, entomology, microbiology, psychology, and physical chemistry.

Bibliography of Native North Americans (EBSCO)
Provides citations to resources on native North American culture.

Business Source Complete (EBSCO)
Provides scholarly full text and citations to publications in management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business.

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (U.S. Govt. Printing Office)
Provides citations to federal publications, with links to many full-text documents (provided by U.S. Govt. Printing Office).

Classical Music Library (Alexander Street Press) (3 simultaneous users)
Provides classical recordings that can be listened to online; after registering, users can buy/download tracks (usually $1 each). Also provides biographies, images, glossary of musical terms, and concise history of musical periods.

Classical Scores Library (Alexander Street Press)
Classical Scores Library will eventually contain 400,000 pages of classical scores. This first release contains the compositions of 49 composers (800 complete scores), including works from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Links to recordings available in Classical Music Library.

Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)
Provides full text for about 200 journals as well as citations and abstracts to additional journals.

Computer Source (EBSCO)
Provides the latest information and current trends in high technology, including full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.

Consumer Health Complete (EBSCO)
Provides full-text patient information on health-related topics.

Directory of Open Access Journals
Provides full-text access to 2752 scientific and scholarly journals, 830 of which are searchable at the article level.

EBSCO Animals
Offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. Provides indexing, abstracts, and full-text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.

Economia y Negocios (EBSCO) (Spanish & Portuguese)
Provides citations to Spanish and Portuguese business and economics journals; offers keyword searching in Spanish and English.

eLibrary Curriculum Edition (BigChalk/ProQuest)
Includes full-text periodicals, newswires, books, reference works, maps, and photographs; coverage includes curriculum materials, literature, and art.

ERIC (EBSCO interface)
EBSCO (U.S. Dept. of Education)
Provides many full-text documents as well as citations and abstracts to education-related journals.

Fuente Academica (EBSCO) (Spanish)
Provides full-text access to 200 multi-disciplinary Spanish-language scholarly academic journals from Latin American and Spanish publishers.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (EBSCO)
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Gale Databases
Provides full-text access to all Gale databases to which the library subscribes.

Gale Literary Databases
Provides simultaneous searching of Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Dictionary of Literary Biography.

Handbook of Texas Online (Texas State Historical Association)
Provides full-text encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture (Texas State Historical Association and UT-Austin General Libraries).

Health & Wellness Resource Center (Gale)
Provides full-text medical/health/wellness information (from medical sources, magazines, journals, and pamphlets) and links to appropriate Web sites.

Health Reference Center - Academic (Gale)
Includes articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health/safety, alcohol/drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, etc.

Health Source: Consumer Edition (EBSCO)
Provides full text to nearly 150 journals related to consumer health.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (EBSCO)
Provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals in many medical disciplines.

HeritageQuest Online (ProQuest)
Provides genealogical information and many full-text documents.

Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO)
Provides full-text, citations, and abstracts for journals, books, reports, proceedings, and patents.

InfoTrac Custom Newspapers (Gale)
Provides full-text articles from Austin American-Statesman, Christian Science Monitor, Dallas Morning News, Houston chronicle, Los Angeles times, NY Times, Times (London), Washington Post, etc.

IngentaConnect
Provides full-text access to journals to which the library subscribes, plus abstracts and citations to thousands of scholarly journals.

Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts (EBSCO)
Provides full text, abstracts, and citations to literature on PC products, business developments, the Internet, the home, and applied areas.

JSTOR Arts and Sciences I Collection
Provides full text for complete backissues of 119 core scholarly journals (economics, history, political science, sociology, humanities, social sciences), with some titles from ecology, mathematics, and statistics. (Provided in honor of Helen Martin, thanks to a grant from the Community Hospital Foundation and proceeds from the Roland K. Blumberg Endowment Fund.)

Kids Search (EBSCO)
Provides full-text material through a search interface designed for K-12 students and teachers.

Legal Collection (EBSCO)
Provides full text for nearly 250 scholarly law journals.

LexisNexis Academic Universe
Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO)
Provides citations to literature related to library science, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management.

Literature Resource Center (Gale)
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors (novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers).

MarciveWeb DOCS: Catalog of Government Printing Office Documents
Provides citations to U.S. government documents (1976-present), with some full-text links.

MAS Ultra - School Edition (EBSCO)
Provides full text to general and cultural publications, pamphlets, reference books, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps, and flags.

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)
Provides full text for nearly 1,880 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, and health.

MathSciNet (American Mathematical Society)
Indexes the mathematical sciences literature (books and journals). Provides full-text reviews, abstracts, and citations.

MedicLatina (EBSCO) (Spanish)
Provides full-text coverage inSpanish to peer-reviewed medical journals and citations to other Latin American medical publications.

MEDLINE (EBSCO)
Provides citations to biomedical literature, with some full-text articles.

Middle Search Plus (EBSCO)
Provides full-text access to magazines, photos, flags, and maps appropriate for middle and junior high school students or teachers.

Military & Government Collection (EBSCO)
Provides full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals related to military and government.

MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)
Provides citations to journal articles, books, and dissertations, with links to many full-text resources (produced by the Modern Language Association).

Natural & Alternative Treatments (EBSCO)
Provides evidence-based full-text information on medical conditions, alternative medicine therapies, herbs, supplements, and foods.

Newspaper Source (EBSCO)
Provides selected full text for regional, national, and international newspapers as well as television and radio news transcripts.

NoodleBib (NoodleTools)
NoodleBib allows TLU students, faculty, and staff to create a bibliography, citations for reference lists, and notes for research papers in either the MLA or APA styles. Users must create their own ID and password when first using NoodleBib.

Primary Search (EBSCO)
Provides full-text magazines for elementary school students or teachers.

Professional Development Collection (EBSCO)
Provides full text for about 550 professional education journals, 350 peer-reviewed titles, and 200 educational reports.

ProjectMUSE - Standard Collection

Provides full-text access to almost 300 scholarly journal titles, primarily in the humanities and social sciences.

ProQuest Learning: Literature
Provides full-text access to literature (medieval-present), author biographies, criticism, reviews, and multimedia resources.

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO)
Provides full-text access to about 500 peer-reviewed titles indexed in PsycINFO, including topics such as emotional/behavioral characteristics, psychiatry, psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational/experimental methods.

PsycINFO 1887-Current (EBSCO)
Provides some full text but mainly citations and abstracts of articles, book chapters, books, reports, and dissertations. Covers psychology and related fields (medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, business, and law).

PubMed (U.S. National Library of Medicine & the National Institutes of Health)
Provides citations from MEDLINE and life science journals for biomedical articles (1950-present), with some full-text links.

PubMed Central (U.S. National Institutes of Health)
Provides full-text articles from over 300 life sciences journals.

RCLweb (Resources for College Libraries (Bowker)
Provides access to Choice Reviews and Bowker's Books for College Libraries. Suitable for finding (1) titles to recommend the library purchase for the collection, (2) books and authoritative websites/e-resources for assignments, and (3) appropriate course materials.

Regional Business News (EBSCO)

Provides full-text coverage for regional business publications, journals, newspapers, and newswires.

Religion and Philosophy Collection (EBSCO)
Provides full-text access to peer-reviewed titles pertinent to theology and philosophy.

Science & Technology Collection (EBSCO)
Provides access to over 800 full-text journals on topics such as astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology, geology, physics, and archaeology.

ScienceDirect (document delivery service) (Elsevier)
Provides citations and abstracts to 2000+ scholarly journals in physical sciences, engineering, life & health sciences, social sciences, and humanities. The library will obtain ScienceDirect articles for TLU faculty, students, and staff once they click ORDER DOCUMENT; ScienceDirect will prompt users to login or register and create a username and passowrd. Users must provide their TLU email address because requests for articles are accepted only from TLU email addresses.

Searchasaurus (EBSCO)

Provides full-text materials for elementary and meddle school students or teachers.

Serials Directory (EBSCO)
Provides publisher and bibliographic information and pricing for journals, magazines, and newspapers.

Student Research Center (EBSCO)
Provides full text for students or teachers, by topic; users can limit results by material type (magazines, newspapers, books/encyclopedias, biographies, radio/TV news transcripts, country/state/province reports, primary source documents, and photos/maps/flags).

Texas Digital Sanborn Map (ProQuest)
Provides access to large-scale maps of Texas towns and cities.

Texas Reference Center (EBSCO)
 
Includes full-text access to journals and books on Texans and Texas history, diversity/gender issues, literature, public health, business, home/garden, and sports/leisure.

TOPICsearch (EBSCO)
Provides full-text material on current events and popular topics.

Twentieth-Century American Poetry (Chadwyck-Healey/ProQuest)
Provides full text to 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 American poets.

Twentieth-Century English Poetry (Chadwyck-Healey/ProQuest)
Provides full-text access to 598 volumes of poetry by 283 English poets from 1900-present, including the poets in The Faber Poetry Library.

Vocational and Career Collection (EBSCO)
Provides full-text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals.

World History Collection (EBSCO)
Includes full text, dating back to 1964, for nearly 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals.

WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch)
Provides access to all records (books and other materials) cataloged by Online Computer Library Center member libraries.

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