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1. Academic OneFile [GaleGroup] Includes many mainstream and specialized sources to support research across virtually all academic disciplines plus many peer-reviewed, full-text articles in HTML or PDF format. Also includes the text from the New York Times newspaper back to 1995. The content of database Expanded Academic ASAP, formerly a separate database, is in this database.

2. Academic Search Complete [EBSCO] Contains indexing for 9,810 publications, with full text for more than 5,300 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1865 are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Academic Search Complete contains full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc.

3. Access Science: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Online[McGraw-Hill] Full text database includes the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science and Technology, and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms.

4. AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive [AccuNet/AP] Searchable archive of historical and contemporary Associated Press photographs from the nineteenth century to the present. Brief stories available for most contemporary photos 48 hours after publication. Also included are maps, charts, logos and other graphics produced for the AP. WARNING! Use Internet Explorer. Netscape Navigator 6.2 is not supported by this database.

5. AGRICOLA [EBSCO] This database contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage for AGRICOLA dates back to 1970 and includes more than 2.5 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture.

6. AGRICOLA [U.S. Dept. of Agriculture] (AGRICultural OnLine Access) indexes articles from all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines.

7. Alt Health Watch [EBSCO] This alternative health database provides full text for 180 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.

8. America: History and Life [EBSCO] Includes citations from over 2000 international periodicals on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada. Also includes some book reviews and relevant doctoral dissertations.

9. American FactFinder [U.S. Census Bureau] Searchable access to reports, statistical tables, and thematic maps from the Census Bureau that reveal the trends and characteristics of the population, communities, and economy from Census 2000. Includes historical information on the U.S. Census from 1790 to 2000.

10. American National Biography [Oxford UP] Provides access to information on more than 17,000 American men and women who have helped shape the country. Contains links to illustrations, web sites, an dlinked cross-references. Published under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies.

11. American Periodical Series Online, 1740-1900 [ProQuest] Digitized reproductions of more than 1,000 18th and 19th century newspapers and periodicals, useful in the study of U. S. History, American literature, and journalism.

12. Architectural Publications Index (API), 1980 - present. [Royal Institute of British Architects] International coverage; updated daily, a free index produced by the RIBA library. Indexes over 200 highly respected architectural periodicals as well as books and other information from the RIBA library.

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13. Art Full Text [H.W. Wilson Co.] indexes and abstracts articles. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Also indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in 1997. Access to this database is limited to 4 simultaneous users. If you can't get in, please try later.

14. Art Index Retrospective [H.W. Wilson Co.] Cumulation of bibliographic citations from Art Index volumes 1-32 published between 1929-1984. Coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, foreign art journals, and reproductions of works of art in art journals. Access to this database is limited to 4 simultaneous users. If you can't get in, please try later.

15. ARTstor [ARTstor] Non-profit ARTstor's collection provides over 300,000 high quality images of works of art from curated collections and associated data. For more complete information on copyright and on limitations to access and use of this collection, see the ARTstor web page Terms and Conditions. Need to access a shared folder? Click here for instructions.

16. Avery Index to Architectural Publications [Ebsco] A comprehensive guide to the literature of architecture and design surveying more than 2500 journals covering the U.S., Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Coverage begins in the 1930s with selective coverage back to the 1860s

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17. Bibliography of Native North Americans [EBSCO] Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 80,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present.

18. Biography Resource Center [GaleGroup] Database of biographical information on more than 150,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

19. Book Review Digest [H.W. Wilson Co.] Bibliographic citations to reviews plus selected excerpts from reviews of current English language fiction and non-fiction for children and adults from approximately 90 magazines. Begins 01/1983. Access to this database is limited. If you can't get in, please try later.

20. Book Review Index Online Plus Full Text [Gale/InfoTrac] A comprehensive online guide to book reviews of which many have full-text links. Coverage: 1965- .

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21. Bowker's Books in Print [R.R. Bowker Co.] Find title, author, ISBN number ( a unique number for the book) and publisher information for over 3.4 million books, along with 600,000 full text reviews of many of these books. Give the information to a librarian for easy ordering for their collection or through interlibrary loan. One can also search by "Children's Room" to find age and reading level specific books, cassettes and videos; or search "In the Media," which allows one to browse titles mentioned on such popular media as Oprah Book Club, Today Show, and National Public Radio.

22. Business & Company Resource Center [GaleGroup] Find dynamic and up-to-date company and industry intelligence of more than 300,000 companies. Displays company profiles, including parent/sibling relationships, industry rankings, products and brands, financial ratios and much more. Find contact information for a company in your area using the geographic location search option.

23. Business Source Complete (more sources than in Business Source Premier) [EBSCO] This is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the ultimate collection of bibliographic and full text content. Business Source Complete contains far more active, peer-reviewed, business related journals than any other database currently available. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals.

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24. The Chronicle of Higher Education Source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.

25. CINAHL Plus with Full Text [EBSCO] (the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) Provides indexing for 3,001 journals, with coverage dating as far back as 1937, the articles formerly available in the Pre-CINAHL database (i.e., before the articles are fully indexed), and searchable cited references for more than 1,155 journals. CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides full text for 336 journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. Back file begins with 1937 and includes articles in PDF format.
    

    Commerce Business Daily [U.S. Dept. of Commerce] Changed to FedBizOpp. See listing for that title.

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    Community Assistance Directory, see Information and Referral Service.

26. Computer Database formerly Computer ASAP. [GaleGroup] Includes computer-related product introductions, news, and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology. License Agreement

27. Computer Source [EBSCO] Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.

28. Congressional Research Service Reports Free search service for all Congressional Research Service reports that have been posted on the web. The CRS is the public policy research arm of the U.S. Congress and is known for non-partisan, in-depth analysis of public policy issues. CRS does not publish its reports, but many of them have been made available by government agencies and members of Congress.

29. Consumer Health Complete [EBSCO] Designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc. Includes Spanish language content.

30. Contemporary Women's Issues [GaleGroup] Searchable database of articles and other texts covering over 150 topics of interest to women and women's studies. Access to this database is limited to 2 simultaneous users. If you can't get in, please try later.

31. CQ Almanac[Congressional Quarterly, Inc.] The online edition of CQ Almanac brings together over sixty years (1945 to the last session of Congress) of authoritative, unbiased congressional reporting in one, easy-to-use resource. The Almanac includes the people, elections, legislation, and controversies in the U.S. Congress; in-depth review and analysis of legislation and policy for each year, organized by policy area; and comprehensive roll call votes for all major legislation. Special features: Browse by subject, decade, or by a particular year's table of contents. Or, use Policy Tracker to explore a specific policy topic and see how it has changed over the years.
32. CQ Researcher [Congressional Quarterly, Inc.] Covers the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more. Users may browse through articles in the current issue or search for past articles using words, dates or other criteria.

33. CQ Weekly [Congressional Quarterly, Inc.] Nonpartisan news and analysis of legislative issues in plain English covering virtually every act of the U.S. Congress including floor votes from 1983 to the present day. Searchable by topic, exact phrase, bill number, date, and Boolean full-text.

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34. Credo Reference [Credo Reference] Provides access to the full text of select dictionaries, language reference and subject reference books from several publishers. Includes a wide variety of subject areas. (Note: formerly XRefer Plus) Similar to the Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection.

35. Criminal Justice Periodical Index (CJPI) [ProQuest] Includes citations for articles published in criminal justice periodicals, plus some abstracts and some full-text journals. Uses the generic search page from Proquest Direct with no mention of CJPI until you click on "Select Database". Back file is limited; consult the printed CJPI in the SAC Library Reference Area.

36. Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) [Lund University Libraries] 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. Coverage varies by title (updated continuously).

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    eBooks [NetLibrary] Electronic books available through netLibrary and provided by TexShare. Titles may be checked out for 24 hours. Off-campus access: Current SAC students, faculty, and staff must click on the "Create an account" link after entering netLibrary in order to search for and check out eBooks. Other individuals must "Create an account" from a publicly accessible computer at the SAC Library or any other TexShare library in order to have access. After this free, confidential account is created, all users can then login and access eBooks directly at http://www.netlibrary.com.

37. Economia y Negocios [EBSCO]

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38. eHRAF Archaeology [eHRAF] (formerly, eHRAF Collection of Archaeology) A full-text database with informati on on prehistory of the world. Has brief overviews of archaeological traditions in general topics such as time period, settlement, subsistence, environment and more. Users can browse a single archaeological tradition or conduct cross-cultural research within regions or throughout the world.
39. eHRAF World Cultures [eHRAF] (formerly, eHRAF Collection of Ethnography) A cross-cultural database containing descriptive information on cultures and ethnic groups of the world.
40. eLibrary Curriculum [Chadwyck-Healey] Articles from magazines, newspapers and journals plus transcripts for media broadcast programs, maps and other quick reference resources. The articles include an assessment of the reading level. Originally titled Electric Library, then BigChalk, and now eLibrary Curriculum.

41. Encyclopedia of Animals [EBSCO] This extensive database provides students with thousands of easy-to-read entries about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. Each entry begins with a simple category breakdown of the animal including Kingdom, Class, Order, Genus & Species, and Geographical Locale as well as a detailed description. Many entries include colorful images.

42. Encyclopedia of Popular Music [Oxford UP] Fourth edition. Features a broad musical scope covering popular music of all genres and periods from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music. Thousands of additional entries cover popular music genres, trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals. Key dates, biographies, and further reading are provided for artists covered, along with complete discographies that include record labels, release dates, and a 5-star album rating system.
43. ERIC [U.S. Dept. of Education] Free version of the ERIC database. Information culled from the journals Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Designed for teachers, students, administrators, researchers and others interested in the field of education. Full text of over 2,200 ERIC Digests, including references for even more information. Citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.

44. ERIC [EBSCO] ERIC - Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.

45. Ethnic Newswatch [ProQuest] News, culture and history from 200 publications of the ethnic, minority and native press. Approximately 350,000 complete articles (1995 onward) are available. Approximately 7,500 new articles are added each month. Searchable in both English and Spanish, with titles in both languages.

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46. Europa World Plus [Routledge; Taylor & Francis Group] Includes the Europa World Yearbook and the Europa Regional Surveys of the World. Covers the economy, physical and social geography, politics and government, and international relations for 250 countries.

    Expanded Academic ASAP [GaleGroup] is now included in the database Academic OneFile

47. Facts.com [Facts on File News Services] Databases included are: the World News Digest from 1940 to present, the World Almanac, the World Almanac Encyclopedia, Issues and Controversies, and Today's Science. Factual information about events, people, ideas and hot topics that are newsworthy.

48. FedBizOpps [U.S. General Services Administration] FedBizOpps.gov is the single government point-of-entry (GPE) for Federal government procurement opportunities over $25,000. allows commercial vendors seeking Federal markets for their products and services to search, monitor and retrieve opportunities solicited by the entire Federal contracting community.

49. Federal Register Online [U.S. National Archives & Records Administration] 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 the 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998 Federal Register (Volumes 60, 61, 62, and 63).

50. Ferguson's Career Guidance Center [Facts on File News Services] Information on 2000 jobs in 93 industries plus tips on interviewing, skills employers look for in potential employees and how to prepare a resume. The resource section includes information on selecting a college, applying for admission to a college, scholarships and grants and professional associations and publications by industry.

51. Fuente Academica [EBSCO]

52. Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia [EBSCO] This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

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53. Gale Virtual Reference Library[GaleGroup] Full text eBook editions of 27 reference works published by Gale Research, Charles Scribner's Sons, MacMillan Reference, and their divisions. Includes Gale Reference's popular series: Drama for Students, Novels for Students, Poetry for Students, and Short Stories for Students plus important reference works such as The New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. For complete holdings, please search the library catalog by Author for Gale Virtual Reference.

    Gale's Literary Index, see Literary Index

    Gale's Literature Resource Center, see Literature Resource Center

    Gale's Science Resource Center, see Science Resource Center

54. General OneFile [GaleGroup] A one-stop source for news and periodical articles. Includes the database General Reference Gold (GPIP).

    General Reference Center Gold (GPIP) [GaleGroup] is now included in the database General OneFile.

55. Grove Art Online [Oxford UP] Provides access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art with more than 45,000 articles on the fine arts (painting, sculpture, and architecture) and the decorative arts (ceramics, textiles, jewellery, interior design, etc.) and biographies. Includes links to images from museums and other sites including The Bridgeman Art Library. Updated annually.

56. Grove Music Online [Oxford UP] Provides access to the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz with links to sound archives and illustrations. Updated annually.

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57. Handbook of Texas Online [Texas State Historical Association] A multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture. A searchable online version of this standard reference work includes more than 23,000 articles on people, places, events, institutions, and historical themes. The online file includes the corrections made with the Handbook's 1997 second printing plus 400 new articles not included in the print edition.

58. HAPI Online [UCLA] Online version of the Hispanic American Periodical Index. Indexes over information on Latin America from over 400 international journals in the social sciences and humanities. Covers from 1970 to present day. Access to this database is limited. If you can't get in, please try later.

59. Health & Wellness Resource Center [GaleGroup] Instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference resources such as Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence, and PDR Family Guide to Health and Nutrition. Key health web sites are also listed here, as well as 2, 200 general interest health publications, and over 400 health and medical journals. Reliable information can be found by searching under latest news, subject, or key words.

60. Health Reference Center--Academic [GaleGroup] multi-source database that provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources. Integrates the full text and images of respected nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical interviews; and reference books.

61. Health Source: Consumer Edition [EBSCO] This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.

62. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition [EBSCO] This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals, plus indexing and full text of Clinical Pharmacology, and the Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary for drug information and medical terminology respectively. This database is updated on a daily basis

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63. HeritageQuest Online [ProQuest] Includes local histories, published family genealogies, and primary source materials for towns and counties of all 50 States beginning with the 13 original colonies, and for Canada, England, and Ireland. Images of the decennial U.S. Federal Census for 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1860, 1870, 1890, 1910 and 1920 have been indexed and are fully searchable by name. Browsable images of the Census are available from each decade 1790 to 1930 except for 1900. Indexing and images for the Census will be added as they become available.

64. Historical Archive of The London Gazette [Various Publishers] "Published by Authority". The London Gazette is the official newspaper of record for England; The Crown copyright. This web site also provides access to the Edinburgh (Scotland) Gazette and the Belfast (Ireland) Gazette, the other two official newspapers of record for the United Kingdon. Each gazette includes government notices, regulations, etc. (similar to the U.S. government's Federal Register) and notices of legal proceeings such as bankruptcies. Of special interest to students is the historical archive for each Gazette which includes issues of the Gazette and its Supplements published during World War I and World War II or relating to those wars. The archive is fully searchable; Adobe Reader is required for viewing the issues which are in PDF format. Best viewed with Internet Explorer v.5 or higher.
    

65. Historical Newspapers: New York Times [ProQuest] Fully searchable access to the content of the New York Times newspaper from 1851 to 2004. Includes full page, PDF format images for non-copyrighted years. Images for an additional year will be added annually to the Deep Backfile as copyright expires. Includes the full run of the newspaper beginning with issue number one in 1851.

66. History Cooperative [History Cooperative] Includes full-text of: American Historical Review, Common-place, History Teacher, Journal of American History, Law and History Review, Western Historical Quarterly, and William and Mary Quarterly. Coverage begins with 2000 to 2002 issues. Indexed in and linked to by America: History and Life.
    

67. History Resource Center: U.S. [GaleGroup] Provides integrated access to over 1,000 historical (primary) documents, more then 30,000 reference articles, and over 65 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present. The material also includes access to the citations for over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

68. History Resource Center: World [GaleGroup] Draws on themes and trends from the history curriculum from antiquity to present with extensive coverage of the 20th Century. Seamlessly integrates over 25 reference titles from the Gale Group, Macmillan Reference USA and Charles Scribner's Sons, along with full-text articles from more than 110 academic journals, and maps and images. Full-text and facsimile images for over 2,000 primary source documents from Primary Source Microfilm collections are also included in the collection.

69. History Study Center [ProQuest] Includes current and backfile journal articles, rare books, newspaper articles, video clips, parliamentary papers, criminal trial records, radio and television news, maps, images, student guides and a bookshelf of respected reference titles plus links to reliable Web sites of interest to students and historians.

70. In the First Person [Alexander Street Press] Searchable database of personal narratives, oral histories, letters, and diaries of over 300,000 individuals. Indexes materials available in historical archives and special collections; provides full text online for some of the items indexed.

71. Index to Texas Magazines and Documents [Victoria College/Univ. of Houston at Victoria Library] A free index to selected magazines and documents published in Texas from January, 2000 to present. No full text is available in the Index, however, indexing records frequently include the URL for the article being indexed. Use the "Journal Locator" link on our home page to determine whether or not a publication is available either in the library or in one of our full text databases.

72. Information and Referral Service [United Way of San Antonio] Searchable database of social service agencies and programs located in the San Antonio, Bexar county and eleven surrounding counties. Compiled for the Community Assistance Directory published by United Way of SA. Online database is updated daily and is more up-to-date than the printed directory.

73. Information Science & Technology Abstracts [EBSCO] Information Science & Technology Abstracts is a leading database in the areas of information science. ISTA indexes journal articles from more than 450 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings and patents, with ongoing comprehensive coverage of the most important periodicals in this field. Coverage dates back to the mid 1960s.

74. InfoTrac Custom Newspapers for TexShare [GaleGroup] Includes articles from the Austin, Houston, Dallas, and Fort Worth daily newspapers, plus the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Times (London, England), the Financial Times and the Knight-Ridder/Tribune newswire backfile and more. See: http://www.gale.com/tlist/online/CUSN_by_state.xls for a complete list of the newspapers.

75. Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts [EBSCO] Provides abstracts and indexing for literature related to personal computing products and developments in business, the Internet, the home, and all other applied areas. Over 400 of the most important trade publications, mainstream computer magazines, and professional journals are covered, including those that focus on specific topics such as Macintosh and Windows platforms, programming, web development and more.

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76. Journals by Title for the San Antonio College Library [Serials Solutions] Used to determine which database includes full text articles from a particular magazine, journal, or newspaper. Titles and information are based on the Library's subscriptions to databases with full text articles and the periodical holdings of the Library. Includes the beginning and ending dates of full text coverage and a link to the database.

77. JSTOR [JSTOR] A searchable, printable, electronic backfile of important scholarly journals delivering in high quality images of journal articles in PDF format. Coverage usually stops from 2 to 5 years prior to the current year depending on the "moving wall" agreed to by each journal's publisher. Subjects included in SAC's subscription: African American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Language & Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, & Statistics. Some journals are indexed in America: History and Life with links to the full-text article in JSTOR.

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78. Legal Collection [EBSCO] This database contains full text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. The Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.

79. LexisNexis Academic [LexisNexis] International in scope. Includes news, business and company information, health, legal cases/articles, Federal and State laws, and Federal regulations, and reference information. Full-text for most items.
    

80. LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index [LexisNexis] Subject and author indexes to 170 magazines and newsletters published by U.S. Government Agencies. Updated quarterly with approximately 2,000 new articles.

81. LexisNexis Statistical [LexisNexis] Includes the American Statistical Index and Abstracts and the full-text of the Statistical Abstract of the United States, plus the full-text of many US government statistical publications from 1995 onward.

82. Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) [EBSCO] Abstracts of jouranal articles and other publications in the subject areas of Library Science, Information Science and Information Technology. Use our journal locator, Journals by Title, to determine if an article is available in the Library or one of our databases.
83. Literary Index [GaleGroup] This is an index to the printed volumes in Gale's series on authors and their works. The series include Contemporary Literary Criticism, Short Story Criticism, the Dictionary of Literary Biography, etc. Not full-text. Most users should begin their search with the Literature Resource Center which is also published by Gale. WARNING! Use Internet Explorer if you wish to print from this database. Netscape Navigator 6.2 prints many blank pages.

84. Literature Criticism Online [GaleGroup] The 10 individual Thomson Gale series that comprise Literature Criticism Online represent a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. The 10 series included are: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Shakespeare Criticism, Literature Criticism 1400-1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, and Children's Literature Review. Users may browse the database by author or by title, or, may search by author, title, or a variety of criteria.
85. Literature Online [ProQuest] Database of literary criticism, reference sources, biographies, and literature. Includes the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, the full text of over 350,000 works of English and American literature, the complete full text of 100 literature journals, and links to literature journals in the JSTOR collections.

86. Literature Resource Center [GaleGroup] Provides online access to bibliographies and to full-text biographies and critical analyses of over 90,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Searchable by author, title, literary genre, literary movement, or literary theme. Includes Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature.

87. LitFinder [GaleGroup] Searchable database of the full text (in English) of poems, plays, short stories, essays, and speeches not limited by time period or nationality. For entries that do not include full text, the database provides indexing and bibliographic information from published literary anthologies. Brief explications are included for well known works. A glossary of literary terms is also included.

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88. Magill on Literature [EBSCO] Provides brief summaries of literary works, critical essays and reviews, literary characters, and biographies of authors. Includes the complete Magill's Masterplots and Masterplots II series plus: Magill's Literary Annuals, The Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Magill Book Reviews, and The Cyclopedia of World Authors and Magill's Guide to Scienc Fiction and Fantasy Literature. Full-text keyword searches may be limited by: title, author, genre, locale, and character.

89. MarciveWeb DOCS [Marcive] WWW version of the U.S. Superintendent of Documents Monthly Catalog.

90. MAS Ultra: School Edition [EBSCO] General periodical database that covers general reference, business, consumer health, general health, general science and multi-cultural titles. Indexing and abstracts for the New York Times and 528 other titles. Over 459 titles have PDF and ASCII full text cover-to-cover coverage for issues beginning as early as 1990.

91. MasterFILE Premier [EBSCO] Designed specifically for the Public Library, MasterFILE Premier offers informationon a broad variety of subjects, including general interest, multi-cultural, business, and much more. Searchable full text for over 1,820 journals, including Consumer Reports, and Business Week and other major U.S. weekly new magazines, the New York Times, and the Christian Science Monitor. Also included are searchable full text for nearly 5,000 Magill's Book Reviews, nearly 1,400 journals with images, the Essential Documents in American History database, full transcripts of major political speeches and news briefings, over 1.7 million company records from Dun & Bradstreet, and much more.
    

92. MedicLatina [EBSCO]

93. MEDLINE [EBSCO] Offers users access to information from all journals indexed in the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE file. Gain access to information from such fields as medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and preclinical sciences. Links to full text of over 350 full text journals. Included are abstracts and indexing for over 3,800 current biomedical journals published in the U.S. and 70 foreign countries, and citations found in Index Medicus, the International Nursing Index and the Index to Dental Literature. Additionally, table of contents information for 2,400 titles (provided by the British Document Supply Centre) and the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) index with tree numbers, tree hierarchy is also included.

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94. MEDLINEplus [U.S. National Library of Medicine] The National Library of Medicine's consumer health database; includes link to Current Clinical Trials. Consumer information includes a medical encyclopedia, medical dictionaries, drug information, and directories listing the locations and credentials of doctors, dentists, and hospitals.

95. MEDLINEplus Informacion de Salud [U.S. National Library of Medicine] The Spanish version of The National Library of Medicine's consumer health database. Includes an illustrated encyclopedia with over 4,000 articles on diseases, injuries, tests, and surgeries. Also includes interactive health tutorials that describe medical procedures, surgeries, and the symptoms and effects of diseases.

96. Middle Search Plus [EBSCO] Designed to assist middle and junior high school students in learning how to research current events. The database includes searchable full text from over 150 of the most popular K-12 magazines, abstracts and indexing for over 150 titles, searchable full text of the Christian Science Monitor, and tables and graphs converted to ASCII text for a better understanding of the written article. Also included are the reference books Encyclopedia of Animals, Funk and Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book, and Essential Documents in American History.

97. Military & Government Collection [EBSCO] formerly Military Library FullTEXT. Military & Government Collection provides full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals, full text for 245 pamphlets, and abstracts and indexes nearly 400 additional periodicals. Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military. Also included are many country reports from CountryWatch.

98. MLA International Bibliography [EBSCO] Covers from 1926 to present and includes over 1,200,000 bibliographic citations for scholarly, critical materials on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Indexes over 3500 internationally published journals, books, etc. The full text of many articles is available in EBSCO's databases and through links to full text in the JSTOR and Project MUSE collections.

99. The Morgue: Mortuary Journals Database[Kansas City Kansas Community College] Indexes 11 professional journals in the mortuary field. Dates of coverage varies with each journal; earliest year covered is 1997. Citations only, no full text.

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100. NBII Digital Image Library [U. S. Geological Survey] Searchable collection of digital images from the National Biological Information Infrastructure. Includes images of plants, animals, scenic landscapes and wildlife management/fieldwork. Most images are in the public domain and may be used free of change, however, please include proper credit for any image used. Additional information on the collection and crediting images used.

101. National Image Library - Digital Library System [U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service] Includes the National Image Library of the U. S. FWS. Still images, pictures and graphics of endagered species, wildlife, fish and environmental scenes. Browse or search through this database of fish and animals, including those on the endangered species list. Most photographic images are in the public domain, some images are black and white line drawings. Additional information on the collection and crediting images.

102. Natural & Alternative Treatments [EBSCO]

103. Naxos Music Library [Naxos] Audio library; includes over 8800 titles (over 130,000 tracks) by nearly 7,000 composers plus notes on composers, selections in the library, fundamental music terms, pronunciation guide, operatic librettos and more. Musical genres include: classical, world/folk, contemporary, New Age, Chinese and jazz. Musical categories include: ballet, chamber music, choral, composers, concertos, educational, film music, instrumental, musicals, opera/operatta, orchestral, vocal and collections. Browse the collection or use the Advanced Search to look for a title, composer, instrument, genre, period, etc. Users must log out when finished using the collection.

104. NetLibrary [OCLC] Electronic books are available through NetLibrary and provided by TexShare. After entering NetLibrary, current SAC students, faculty, and staff can "View" an eBook. While you are "viewing" a copy of an eBook, no one else can access the eBook, but if an eBook is inactive for 15 minutes it will become available again for use. You can also set up a free, confidential account by clicking on the "Create a Free Account" link on NetLibrary's opening web page. After you set up the account, you can add a book to your virtual bookshelf, make notes, highlight text, place bookmarks and login to our online collection of eBooks directly at .

105. NewsBank [Newsbank] Includes Access World News (the full text from U. S. and international newspapers current through the previous day), Newsbank Retrospective (full text on selected subjects from selected U. S, newspapers, 1970-1991), Newbank Special Reports ( current topics), and Newsbank Maps. For The San Antonio Express-News click on the link under "Access World News."

106. Newspaper Source [EBSCO]

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107. NFPA Codes Online [NFPA] Searchable, full text of national fire codes from the National Fire Protection Association, Inc. Access to this database is limited. If you can't get in, please try later.

108. NYPL Digital Gallery [New York Public Library] Images of over 275,000 maps, architectural plans, drawing, photographs, etc. from image collections of the New York Public Library. May be used free of charge for scholarship, research and teaching. Commercial or for profit use is prohibited without prior permission of NYPL. Due to copyright restrictions only images in the public domain (pre-1923) are available in the database.

109. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center [GaleGroup] Covers controversial topics. Includes background information and pro and con essays published in the following series: Opposing Viewpoints, Information Plus, At Issue, Contemporary Issues Companion, Current Controversies, Opposing Viewpoints Digests, and Teen Decisions. Resources may also include: text from a limited selection of reference books, magazine and newspaper articles, statistics, images, primary documents, and web sites on the topics. Study tools and guidelines include tips on judging information; using the essays; citing resources; and organizing, writing, developing and presenting reports and oral presentations.

110. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [Oxford UP]The standard biographical reference for individuals connected to Great Britian and the British empire. The over 50,000 biographees (10,000 with portraits) included are either historically significant persons or individuals noteworthy for their achievments. Coverage includes individuals from the earliest times through those who died in 2001. Each January the publisher will "extend the dictionary's coverage to the next year in the twenty-first century." Also included are articles on topics relevant to the dictionary and reference lists of colonial or territorial governors and heads of state. NOTE: Users must click on the link "Subscribers enter here" in the top right corner of the dictionary's home page to access all available online text.

111. Oxford English Dictionary Online [Oxford UP] Contains the text of the Second Edition together with the Additions Series. Also available is the New (Third) Edition which is currently in production.

112. Oxford Islamic Studies Online [Oxford UP] Scholarly, integrated resource features reference content and commentary in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture. Includes over 3,000 A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur'anic materials, primary sources, images, and timelines.

113. Oxford Language Dictionaries Online [Oxford UP] Unabridged bilingual (English) dictionaries for: French, German, Spanish and Italian. Database includes millions of words, phrases, translations, usage examples and illustrative phrases, grammar guidance, click-through verb tables and pronunciation charts, explanations of grammatical terms, and help with spelling and punctuation. Also included are hundreds of correspondence templates (e.g. sample letters, CVs and resumes) to provide practical help with writing in each language. Contextualized language reference help includes notes on life and culture, guidance on grammar and idiomatic usage, and Words of the Day. Updated every six months to ensure inclusion of the most current meanings and the latest new words.
114. Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection [Oxford UP] Provides access to dictionary, language reference, and subject reference books published by Oxford University Press. Includes access to the Oxford Companions Series and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

115. PLoS Biology[PLoS] Public Library of Science Biology is an open access, peer reviewed, full text, scientific journal available free online. First issue published on October 13, 2003.

116. PLoS Medicine[PLoS] Public Library of Science Medicine is an open access, peer reviewed, full text, scientific journal available free online. First issue published on October 19, 2004.

117. Primary Search [EBSCO] Designed for elementary schools and children's reading rooms, this database contains World Almanac of the USA and World Almanac for Kids, searchable full text from over 50 of the most popular K-12 magazines, abstracts and indexing for over 180 titles and pamphlets. Also included are Funk and Wagnall's New Encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia of Animals, and many charts, tables and graphs converted to ASCII text in order to retain the original meaning of featured articles.

118. Professional Development Collection [EBSCO] Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.

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119. Project Muse [Johns Hopkins Univ. Press] Full text of articles from over 200 scholarly journals published by over 20 not-for-profit, scholarly presses in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Search across the entire database or limit a search to selected journals. Provides current issues for some titles in JSTOR.

120. Proquest Education Journals [ProQuest] Provides access to 745 top education magazines and journals, nearly 600 in full text, from 1991 to present. Subjects covered include primary, secondary and higher education; adult education; home schooling; special education; and related subjects.

121. Proquest Learning: Literature [ProQuest] This database is small part of Literature Online (LION) and includes the most frequently studied authors in secondary schools. San Antonio College students should use the complete database, Literature Online.

122. PsycARTICLES [Ovid] Full text articles from over 50 premier journals published by the APA and allied orgainzations. Includes over 25,000 articles in the fields of psychology and psychiatry published from 1988 to the present.

123. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection [EBSCO] This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

124. PubMed [U.S. National Library of Medicine] The National Library of Medicine'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.

125. PubMed Central [U.S. National Library of Medicine] An electronic archive for full text journal articles, offering unrestricted access to its contents. Every full text article in PubMed Central has a corresponding entry in PubMed.

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126. The Ranger Image Collection. This collection is composed of scanned images of The Ranger, the student newspaper for San Antonio College. Breaks in the collection are due to the unavailability of copies for scanning. The collection includes: Vol. 7, Fall 1931- Vol. 15, 1941; Fall 1946 - Fall 1959 (some semesters missing); Spring 1960 - Fall 1982; Spring 1988 - Fall 1998; Fall 2003; Spring 2004 - Fall 2006. (NOTE: No issues were found for Fall 1941 - Spring 1946 (WWII) and the years 1956 - 1957.) Additional images from the backfile will be added periodically. In the future, images for the current year will be added during the following year, e.g., 2005 during 2006. This collection is not searchable by keyword or subject and lacks a published index. The Ranger Online includes archives for the issues of the newspaper from Fall 2004 to present. Question or comments regarding this collection may be sent to Susan Myers smyers@alamo.edu.
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127. Readers' Guide Retrospective [H.W. Wilson Co.] This database contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. The complete database covers the years 1890 through 1982. The current coverage includes the years 1963 through 1982.

128. Regional Business News [EBSCO] formerly Business Wire News. Updated daily, Business Wire News provides comprehensive full text for 35 international newswires and 49 regional business publications. This database also provides abstracts and indexing for 14 additional regional business publications. Full-text for most items.

129. Religion & Philosophy [EBSCO] This database provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

130. ResearchIndex [NEC Research Institute] A digital library comprised of over 300,000 full-text scholarly articles and papers in computer science.

131. Safari Tech Books Online [ProQuest] Search across a broad range of online text of books (ebooks) published between 2002 and present (2005) in computer science and information technology (some business titles are included) or browse by subject area. Search the collection for a specific book by author, title, ISBN or publisher. Includes titles from major publishers such as: O'Reilly, Peachpit Press, Microsoft Press, Sun, New Riders, Cisco Press and others. This collection works with browsers that are HTML 4.0 compliant and have cookies, JavaScript and pop-ups enabled. Access to this database is limited to 3 concurrent users. If you can't get in, please try later.
     
     The San Antonio Express-News is in Newsbank, in the "Access World News" section at the top of the page.

132. Sanborn's Digital Texas Maps [Chadwyck-Healey] These digitized maps provide detailed property and land-use records that depicts the architecture of more than 12,000 U.S. towns and cities throughout the past one hundred years. The maps enable researchers to trace the architectural history of individual buildings or entire communities. One can see everything from building outline, size and shape, construction materials, height, building use, windows and doors, street and sidewalk widths, boundaries, house numbers, and more. Symbols for stables, garages, warehouses, and other commercial sites are also included. Factories are often labeled with the owner's name, as well as the products manufactured there. Also depicted are pipelines, railroads, wells, water mains, and dumps. Search for the maps by typing in the state or community. Each map's index helps locate streets, landmarks, and other places of historical interest. Once displayed, the maps can be manipulated, expanded, printed, and downloaded.

133. Science Resource Center [GaleGroup] Content includes: topic overviews, biographies, experiments, pictures and illustrations; news of new scientific discoveries from articles in over 200 magazines and scholarly journals and links to quality web sites.

134. Science & Technology Collection [EBSCO] Includes indexing and abstracting for 1700 scholarly scientific journals and full text of articles from 800 journals. Topics covered include: aeronautics, astrophysics, biology, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, marine sciences and materials science.

135. Science.gov [U.S. government] Fourteen scientific and technical information organizations from 10 major science agencies have collaborated to create science.gov, the "FirstGov for Science" web site. Science.gov is the gateway to reliable information about science and technology from across Federal government organizations. Users can find over one thousand government information resources about science. These resources include: technical reports, journal citations, databases, Federal web sites, and fact sheets. The information is all free, and no registration is required.

136. SciTechResources.gov: a Catalog of Government Science and Technology Web Sites [U.S. National Technical Information Service] Searches are available by keyword, area of interest, agency, or resource type. Records may be viewed alphabetically or by most relevant. The Science for Citizens search helps to locate general interst resources. The Browse by Topic search shows a predetermined list of areas of interest, such as Earth and Ocean Sciences or Health and Medicine.

137. Serials Directory [EBSCO] Provides up to date bibliographic and subscription information on over 182,500 periodicals and newspapers published in the U.S. and overseas.

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138. Testing and Education Reference Center [GaleGroup] Search for a college or vocational school, a degree program or vocational training. Find a distance learning program by subject area. Review for and take online practice tests for various standardized exams: GED, college entrance, college credit by examination (CLEP, AP, Dantes), military, civil service, etc. Database is divided into the following sections: College Search, Graduate Search, Speciality & Career Program Search, and Test Preparation. NOTE: available premium services require individual users to register and pay for the premium services.

139. Texas Reference Center [EBSCO]

140. TexShare Newspapers [GaleGroup] Includes articles from the Austin, Houston, Dallas, and Fort Worth daily newspapers, plus the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Times (London, England), the Financial Times and the Knight-Ridder/Tribune newswire backfile.

141. TOPICsearch [EBSCO]

142. Union List of Periodicals [OCLC] Search for periodicals by location to find magazines and journals in libraries close to your area. Includes more than 7 million listings linked to over 750,000 bibliographic records in WorldCat (the OCLC online union catalog).

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143. Vocational & Career Collection [EBSCO]

144. World Cat [OCLC] The world's largest database of bibliographic information, OCLC's online union catalog, is culled from the shared records of libraries from all over the world. Over 43 million records, in over 400 languages, that contain holdings information, and other information vital to collection development, cataloging, authority control, and retrospective conversion services.

145. World History Collection [EBSCO]

     XRefer, see Credo Reference.