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.

College Source
Over 22,000 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format on CollegeSourceT Online!

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.

Directory of Open Access Journals    full text available   Part of TexShare Program
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.

Grove's Music Online    full text available
Universally acknowledged as the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of music. This great work is widely used throughout the academic and professional community, and revered by music lovers worldwide. A physical copy is available in the reference section.

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

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

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.