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- AGRICOLA , 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, 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, 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.
- Astrophysics Data System (ADS), 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 594m468 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.
- BIOETHICSLINE, 1973 - present. (National Library of Medicine)
Updated bimonthly. Covers ethics and related public policy issues in health care and biomedical research (such as euthanasia and other end-of-life issues, organ donation and transplantation, allocation of health care resources, patients' rights, professional ethics, new reproductive technologies, genetic intervention, abortion, behavior control and other mental health issues, AIDS, human experimentation, and animal experimentation). Includes journal articles, monographs, newspaper articles, court decisions, bills, laws, audiovisual materials, and unpublished documents.
- Britannica Online, (Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.)
Britannica is a free knowledge and learning center for people who seek thoughtful and engaging context to today's affairs. Only Britannica.com lets users simultaneously search the world's most respected encyclopedia, expert reviews of the Web's best sites, timely articles from leading magazines, and related books. Special interactive features extend these resources to create a distinctive, authoritative Internet destination.
- CANCERLIT, 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.
- Census Lookup, 1990 Census. (U.S. Census Bureau)
This service allows 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.
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- ERIC (The Educational Resources Information Center)
It is a national information system designed to provide users with ready access to an extensive body of education-related literature. ERIC, established in 1966, is supported by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, and the National Library of Education.
- 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.
- Financial
Times- Global Archive, Search and read over 8.5 million articles from 3,000 periodicals worldwide, most of them for free. Keyword searches may be modified in a number of ways, and users can select to search one, several, or all of the publication groups indexed. Registered users may also save their searches for later reference.
- 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.
- 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.
- HCI Bibliography, 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 Movie Database, 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.
- Inter-Play, 19th century - present. (Portland State University)
Updated frequently. Provides an index to plays in collections, anthologies and periodicals. Approximately
15,007 locations are currently cited to plays in many languages. The call numbers cited are those assigned by the Portland State University Library and do not necessarily correspond to the holdings of the General Libraries at UT Austin.
- Library Chronicle Index, 1970 to 1989. (The University of Texas General Libraries)
- Medieval Feminist Index, 1994-1997. (Haverford College)
Updated periodically. Covers over 381 international journals as well as book reviews and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages (450 C.E. to 1500 C.E.). Subject coverage for gender and sexuality means that articles on masculinity and male homosexuality are included.
- National Archeological Database, Dates of coverage vary. (U.S. National Park Service)
Updated periodically. Contains approximately 240,000 reports on archeological investigation and planning, mostly of limited circulation. This �gray literature� represents a large portion of the primary information available on archeological sites in the U.S.
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is one of the most extensive sources of information on criminal and juvenile justice in the world, providing services to an international community of policymakers and professionals. NCJRS is a collection of clearinghouses supporting all bureaus of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs: the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Office for Victims of Crime, and the OJP Program Offices. It also supports the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
- National Library of Medicine (NLM) Databases
MEDLINE, Pubmed, Taxonomy, AIDSInfo, …
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- 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.
- POPLINE , 1970- present. (National Library of Medicine)
Updated monthly. Provides worldwide coverage of population, family planning, and related health issues, including family planning technology and programs, fertility, and population law and policy.
- 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.
- 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. Pubmed General Information
- PubSCIENCE, Dates of coverage vary.
Updated weekly. PubSCIENCE is a web search system developed by the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) to facilitate searching and accessing peer reviewed journal literature in the physical sciences and other energy-related disciplines. To date, publishers of over 1000 separate journal titles have agreed to participate in PubSCIENCE. Citations and abstracts for these journals are added as they are provided. Links to the full-text articles are provided when available, subject to UT subscription status.
- Recent Advances in Manufacturing (RAM), 1990 - present.
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 CiteSeer, Dates of coverage vary.
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.
- TOXLINE, 1965 - present. (National Library of Medicine)
Updated monthly. Collection of online bibliographic information covering the biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals. Contains more than 2.5 million bibliographic citations, most with abstracts, indexing terms and CAS Registry Numbers.
- U.S. Government Information
Contains full-text of the Congressional Record, Congressional Bills, Public Laws, Federal Register, GAO Reports, and the United States Code.
- UTNetCAT
Updated daily. Catalog of materials held by the General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin.
- 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.
- World Biographical Index (WBI),
Contains over 2 million short biographical entries for eminent individuals who lived in North and South America, Western and Central Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania. Each entry contains the name, variations of the name, pseudonyms, the years of birth and death or years mentioned, occupation, source quoted (archive, fiche number and page) and bibliographic information about the sources used. The UT Austin General Libraries owns microfiche copies of some of the archives containing the complete texts of the biographical descriptions. See also: www.biography.com
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