Reference Databases

Academic Search Complete  Full Text Available Part of TexShare Program
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

Dictionary of Literary Biography full text available Part of TexShare Program
Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary figures from all eras and genres.

Bibliographic Index Plus Full Text Available
A reference classic for over 60 years, Bibliographic Index Plus has added full text bibliographies from over 2,000 journals that cover a broad range of disciplines. Turn to this cumulative bibliography of bibliographies for convenient answers to a variety of research questions in all areas. Researchers will appreciate the in-depth indexing of more than 530,000 bibliographies, appearing in periodicals, as whole books or parts of books. Bibliographic essays, literature reviews, serial bibliographies, and bibliographies appearing as regular features are among the resources cited.

Directory of Open Access Journals full text available
Provides indexing, abstracting, and free full text access for selected international scholarly journals in many subject areas, including agriculture and food science, biology, chemistry, health science, languages and literature, mathematics, physics, engineering, the arts, business, environmental science, history, law, political science, philosophy, religion, and social science.

EBSCO Animals full text available Part of TexShare Program
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.

Federal Registrar full text available
Federal Government publications and Presidential documents.

Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia full text available Part of TexShare Program
Student, home and general reference encyclopedia containing over 25,000 articles.

GPO Access
Excellent resource to government publications.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
Bibliography of Latin America issues, pointing users to excellent resources.

Handbook of Texas
Encyclopedia of Texas history, geography & culture.

Oxford Music Online full text available
Oxford Music Online is a new gateway that offers users the ability, for the first time ever, to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. The cornerstone of Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online, has been completely redesigned with a number of functional enhancements and new content.

Texas Reference Center full text available Part of TexShare Program
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.

Wilson Select Plus  full text available
Covers high-quality periodicals with in-depth indexing and abstracts. All records point to complete online full text.

World Almanac full text available Part of TexShare Program
Includes the full text of all of the Almanac titles The World Almanac and Book of Facts, providing key facts on a wide variety of subjects internationally; The World Almanac of the U.S.A. with essential facts about the United States-current and historical, and etc.