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"From the American Academic of Pediatrics, the Red Book provides up-to-date information on a wide variety of infectious diseases that physicians encounter in children. Includes the full Red Book text as well as vaccination schedules and a robust multimedia library of images and videos related to infectious disease."
Alternate Name(s) Academic One File
Gale Academic OneFile provides articles from a database of scholarly journals and other trusted periodicals in a variety of different subject areas. Best for academic research.
Alternate Name(s) AVON
Academic Video Online contains more than 62,000 video titles covering anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music and more.
Alternate Name(s) AWN
Access World News contains the full-text of thousands of national and international newspapers, newswires, journals and blogs as well as transcripts and video archives of many respected news sources.
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Alternate Name(s) Access Medicine
AccessMedicine “is a comprehensive online medical resource that provides medical students with a variety of resources needed to excel in basic science studies and clerkships.” You must create an account to use the study tools.
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Alternate Name(s) Access Neurology
AccessNeurology provides ebooks, multimedia, assessments, and curriculum guides on neurology topics. You must create an account to use the study tools.
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Alternate Name(s) Access OBGYN
AccessOBGYN covers the entire spectrum of obstetrics and gynecology, with ebooks, drug information, multimedia presentations, review questions, and more. You must create an account to use the study tools.
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Alternate Name(s) Access Pediatrics
AccessPediatrics “covers the entire span of pediatric practice, from neonatology through adolescent medicine.” You must create an account to use the study tools.
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Alternate Name(s) Access Pharmacy
AccessPharmacy “allows users to explore leading pharmacy references, search curriculum topics, research drugs and supplements.” You must create an account to use the study tools.
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Alternate Name(s) Access Surgery
AccessSurgery “enhances medical knowledge and delivers quick answers to surgical inquiries – all in one place.” You must create an account to use the study tools.
Acland’s Video Atlas of Human Anatomy is a realistic, three-dimensional quality video atlas of human anatomy which can be used as an adjunct to dissection as well as a review tool.
Alternate Name(s) History E-Book
ACLS Humanities E-Book (formerly History E-Book) from ACLS provides electronic books in the humanities including history, art, literature, music, etc., "that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, are frequently cited in the literature, and are currently not widely available."
Alternate Name(s) ACM Digital Library
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery includes magazines and journal articles, conference proceedings, etc. Only the journal articles are available in full text.
Alternate Name(s) Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database
Advanced Technologies and Aerospace Database includes the renowned Aerospace Database and provides full-text titles from around the world including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more. For those researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorial-controlled A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline. This database is a part of the Proquest SciTech Premium Collection database.
Advertising Age is a publication that covers the advertising and marketing industry. It includes access to the Datacenter, which includes proprietary annual reports. To obtain access, you must first REGISTER using your UTRGV email address at https://home.adage.com/site/UTRGV, and then validate your email address. If you forget your password, use this link: https://home.adage.com/forgotmypassword.
Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina this resource presents multiple aspects of the African American community through pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, reports and in-depth oral histories, revealing the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and a unique African American culture and identity.
African American Heritage provides essential historical records for African Americans, including Federal Census, Marriage and Cohabitation records, Military Draft and service records, Registers of Slaves and Free Persons of Color, Freedman’s Bank, and more.
African American Historical Serials Collection features 173 periodicals spanning from 1816 through 1922. The periodicals in this collection include newspapers and magazines, in addition to reports and annuals from various African American organizations, including churches and educational and service institutions.
African American Newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and Congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion.
The collection also provides a great number of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience.
African American Newspapers in the South, 1870-1926 provides a unique journalistic record of the African American experience in segregated southern America. Includes all complete runs of representative newspapers from the District of Columbia, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
Alternative Press Index provides citations to hundreds of periodicals presenting alternative views on political, social, economic, and cultural issues.
The AMA Manual of Style is the style guide of the American Medical Association. It provides guidance for writing, editing, and citation styles for use in the journals published by the American Medical Association. AMA style is used widely by many other scientific journals (including medical, nursing, and other health care journals).
America: History and Life with Full Text "is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present."
American Ancestors is a resource for family history research, and is the online repository for more than 1.4 billion searchable names from America and beyond. They provide expertise and research across every era of American family history. THIS RESOURCE IS ONLY AVAILABLE FOR USE ON CAMPUS.
Alternate Name(s) AAS 1, AAS Series 1
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Collection Series 1 contains primary sources related to American society and history from 1691-1820.
Alternate Name(s) AAS, AAS Series 2
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Collection Series 2 contains primary sources related to American society and history from 1821-1837.
Alternate Name(s) AAS, AAS Series 3
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Collection Series 3 contains primary sources related to American society and history from 1838-1852.
Alternate Name(s) AAS, AAS Series 4
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Collection Series 1 contains primary sources related to American society and history from 1853-1865.
Alternate Name(s) AAS, AAS Series 5
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Collection Series 1 contains primary sources related to American society and history from 1866-1877.
Alternate Name(s) ACS Publications
American Chemical Society provides full image articles from dozens of chemistry journals.
Alternate Name(s) Civil War Letters and Diaries
The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries contains thousands of primary documents about the U.S. Civil War.
Alternate Name(s) AFSO
American Film Scripts Online contains over 1,000 scripts "together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. In addition, the database includes facsimile images for more than 500 of these screenplays. Most of the scripts have never been published before, and nowhere else are they available online."
American Periodicals Series Online "contains digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741, when Andrew Bradford's American Magazine and Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine were launched, and 1900" as well as materials from the Twentieth Century.
The American West contains primary documents covering frontier life, Native American life, the rise of the railways, and much more, and includes the papers of early pioneers and explorers, early emigrants, ranchers, and more.
Alternate Name(s) Anatomy TV
Anatomy.TV is an interactive 3-D human anatomy atlas which features assessment tools, labeled dissection slides, muscle function animations, annotated illustrations, video clips, and cross-sectional anatomy.
Annual Reviews provides full-text access to reviews of primary research literature related to the biomedical, life, physical and social sciences.
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APA eBooks collection contains ebooks published by the American Psychological Association.
Alternate Name(s) APhA Drug Info Line
APhA DrugInfoLine is a monthly newsletter of interpreted drug and pharmacotherapeutic information designed to keep pharmacists current on the latest trends in the biomedical literature.
Applied Science and Technology Full Text provides citations, abstracts, and some full text/full image from over 500 engineering, technology, and applied science publications.
Alternate Name(s) Art Full Text H W Wilson
Art Full Text provides citations and abstracts on the arts, architecture, design, cinema, etc., from magazines published around the world. It also includes full text/full image articles.
Alternate Name(s) Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1, Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 2
Arte Publico Hispanic Historical Collection presents a digital collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, literature, and culture.
Alternate Name(s) ASME Digital Collection, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASME Digital Library is the American Society of Mechanical Engineer's primary repository of current and archival literature. Our collection consists of 31 full-text journal titles that focus on topics such as applied mechanics, computing and information science, robotics, solar energy, nanotechnology, turbomachinery, and more. We do not have access to Conference Proceedings. [Coverage varies].

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Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination “Delivers head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques. The site features more than 8 hours of video content."
Behavioral and Mental Health Online provides a collection of video and text for anyone studying or teaching in the area of mental health. Programs in counseling, social work, nursing, psychology and behavioral health will all benefit from the content in this collection.
Alternate Name(s) BIOSIS
Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS) 1969-Present covers international journals in the life sciences.
Alternate Name(s) Bio One
BioOne "provides a unique aggregation of high-impact bioscience research journals, featuring timely content on a wide-array of today's most pressing topics, including global warming, stem cell research, ecological and biodiversity conservation."
Birds of the World is a powerful ornithological research platform that brings together deep, scholarly content from several celebrated works of ornithology with millions of bird observations from eBird and multimedia from the Macaulay Library into a single platform where biologists and birders can explore comprehensive life history information on birds.
The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) finds regions of local similarity between sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance of matches. BLAST can be used to infer functional and evolutionary relationships between sequences as well as help identify members of gene families.
Bloomberg Businessweek Archive contains indexing, abstracting, and full text for the complete archive of Businessweek, beginning with its first issue in 1929 and ending in December 2000.
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Board Vitals is a powerful board review tool that can be used anytime and from any device. UTRGV has access to question banks for Podiatry/Podiatric Medicine. Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Ob/Gyn, Psychiatry Package, Surgery. and Shelf Exams for Medical Students. Click here to sign up and here to sign in. When registering for your Board Vitals account, you must use your @utrgv.edu email address to verify your affiliation with the University.
Border and Migration Studies Online is a collection that explores and provides historical background on more than thirty key worldwide border areas, including: U.S. and Mexico; the European Union; Afghanistan; Israel; Turkey; The Congo; Argentina; China; Thailand; and others.
British Periodicals Collection provides "facsimile page images and searchable full text for more than 500 British periodicals published between 1681 and 1921."
Business Source Elite provides full text for over 1,000 business publications. The rich collection of titles in Business Source Elite provides information dating back to 1985. More than 10,100 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included.

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C19 forms the bibliographic spine of 19th century research. It comprises tens of millions of records and provides integrated access to the most important finding aids for books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers, archives, and reference material. It includes: Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue, The Nineteenth Century, American Periodicals, British Periodicals, Cotgreave's Index, An Index to Legal Periodical Literature, Cumulative Index to Niles' Register 1811–1849, Periodicals Index Online, Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, Stead's Index to Periodical Literature, The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, Proceedings of the Old Bailey, The U.S. Serial Set, Archive Finder, Palmer's Index to The Times, The "Bookman" Directory of Booksellers, Publishers and Authors, and Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism.
Alternate Name(s) Cabells
Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities provides contact information, publication guidelines, and other information to help professors and students get their manuscripts published.
Cambridge University Press publishes peer-reviewed academic journals covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine.
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Cambridge University Press eBooks publishes academic ebooks, research monographs, academic reference books, and textbooks for professionals and students covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine.
Alternate Name(s) Kanopy
Canopy, spelled Kanopy, is a video streaming solution for colleges offering a "Netflix-like" user experience and a broad selection of over 26,000 documentaries, feature films and training videos from thousands of producers. If your video is not in Kanopy, please check AVON or Swank.
Alternate Name(s) formerly CCH IntelliConnect or CCH Tax Service
CCH AnswerConnect contains federal, state, and international tax resources, as well as up to date tax news information.
Checkpoint is a comprehensive federal, state and international tax database that includes primary source literature, editorial materials, news alerts, a tax thesaurus, and more.
The Chicago Manual of Style Online is the venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar in an accessible online format. It is useful for writers, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, and publishers.
Alternate Name(s) CLCD
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) is the premier academic research and teaching tool for courses needing quality information for locating Children’s and Young Adult books and other media. The content includes over 2.6 million fiction/non-fiction records with 650,000+ national and international awards plus 540,000+ quality, professional reviews. It includes over 330,000 author/title links plus lesson plans and teaching guides. The search engine offers 45 search-limiters to easily find appropriate materials such as: determining interest & reading levels; select trade books based on standards; create thematic, annotated biographies; interpret reviews; develop STEM book collections and more. Distant education students use a World Cat link to find materials at a local library. Students can set up their own My CLCD account to save their search assignments. Student access is FREE for one year after graduation.
Chilton Library provides detailed information and manuals to tackle vehicle maintenance and repairs.
Choice Reviews provides 600 reviews every month, identifying the best new books and digital content in academia.
Chronicle of Higher Education is one of the most widely used sources of information for college & university professors and others interested in higher education. Contains an archive of past issues, vibrant discussion forums and thousands of current job postings.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text indexes over 3000 nursing, allied health, and related journals, including full text for over 330 journals, as far back as 1937.
Classical Scores Library provides scores from all major music genres and time periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. Contains full, study, piano, and vocal scores.
Clinical Checklist ensures patient care quality is addressed and safety imperatives are applied around essential must do and never do care recommendations based on evidence-based content.
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Alternate Name(s) Clinical Key
ClinicalKey is a clinical search engine that supports clinical decisions by making it easier to find evidence-based information from hundreds of textbooks, medical journals and drug monographs.
The Cochrane Library "is a unique source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care...The Cochrane Library is designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care."
Alternate Name(s) Com Abstracts
ComAbstracts (from CIOS) contains "article abstracts, books, bibliographic records, and other sources of relevance to researchers, scholars, and students interested in fields related to human communication studies."
Alternate Name(s) Communication Sciences and Disorders Dome
ComDisDome (Communication Sciences and Disorders Dome) indexes and abstracts journal articles, books, dissertations, grants, and other web sites dealing with speech-language pathology and audiology.
Communication and Mass Media Complete, a merger of Mass Media Articles Index and CommSearch, "provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media."
Compendex is “the most comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research available, covering all engineering disciplines.” Contains citations and abstracts only.
Counseling and Therapy in Video “is a classic collection of videos filmed between 1985 and 2010, providing faculty and students with a first-hand look at the realities of working with clients and the challenges associated with putting theoretical concepts into practice.”
CQ Researcher (1991 - 2014) "offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy." We have access to content from January 1st, 1991 - December 31st, 2014.
Criminal Justice Abstracts "provides comprehensive coverage of the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, extensive coverage of books, and unparalleled access to reports from government and nongovernmental agencies."
Criminal Justice Database provides citations/abstracts from around 200 journals, with full text/full image articles from more than one fourth of them.
CRSP
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Alternate Name(s) The Center for Research in Security Prices
CRSP - The Center for Research in Security Prices contains stock price information from stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. This database is available only at the College of Business.

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Dallas Morning News Historical Archive contains the full-text of all Dallas Morning News newspapers published between 1885-1977.
Datastream
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Datastream contains more than two million financial instruments, securities, and indicators for over 175 countries in 60 markets. Holding up to 50 years of history and over 8,000 different fields, it provides access to over one million time series. Datastream is available only at the College of Business.
Alternate Name(s) Scientific American Medicine, Decker Medicine
A comprehensive professional medical database which provides practicing clinicians and students with detailed and up-to-date medical information.
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Degruyter publishes materials covering the Humanities and the Sciences. We also have access to imprints from different university presses available, including Harvard University Press, Princeton University Press, Columbia University Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, University of Toronto Press, Cornell University Press, Yale University Press, University of Hawaii Press, and others.
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Alternate Name(s) Dissertation Abstracts
Digital Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts) "is the single, authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses... from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities."
Digital National Security Archive has "the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to US foreign and military policy since 1945."
Alternate Name(s) Texas Digital Sanborn Maps
Texas Digital Sanborn Maps "are valuable historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists, and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods."
Alternate Name(s) Digital Theatre Plus, Digital Theater Plus
Digital Theatre+ contains hundreds of classic and contemporary productions in live-capture and audio formats, including insights from casts, creatives, and academics. Also contains thousands of pages of written resources, including essays, guides, lesson plans, and more.
Alternate Name(s) ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, Dissertation Abstracts
Dissertations and Theses (Dissertation Abstracts) "is the single, authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses... from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities." Make sure only ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - A&I is checked off to search just Digital Dissertations.
Alternate Name(s) Ditki Neuroanatomy
Ditki (Draw It to Know It) Neuroanatomy is an online multimodal learning tool designed to help students master neuroanatomy and fundamental clinical neuroscience concepts. Ditki includes narrated, animated educational videos, interactive exercises, drills, quizzes, downloadable flashcards, and review questions. Ditki can be accessed via the web or mobile app. Please note the UTRGV subscription includes the Ditki Neuroanatomy course only.
Alternate Name(s) Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online
The Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online provides reliable information on authors and their works in an easy to understand, engaging format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.
Docuseek contains a selection of independent, social-issue and environmental streaming films.
Drama Online Core Collection, designed for literature and drama courses, includes over 1,300 playtexts from Methuen Drama, Arden Shakespeare, and Faber and Faber. Please select "Show subscribed content only" (on the right hand side of the page) in order to view the content UTRGV provides access to. UTRGV does not have access to all the content in this database.
DrugPoints System offers 1,400+ concise, unbiased synapse on FDA-approved drugs, both prescription and nonprescription.

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Early Encounters in North America contains "over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters."
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Early English Books Online includes full image works from 15th, 16th, and 17th century English literature. It includes lesser known works, as well as the classics, along with "prayer books, pamphlets, and proclamations; almanacs, calendars, and many other primary sources."
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Ebook Central provides authoritative, full-text e-books in a wide range of subject areas along with powerful tools to find, use, and manage the information.
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EBSCO eBooks includes reference material, as well as classics. Only one user can look at a specific book at a time. Patrons need to set up an account to "check out" books.
EBSCO en Espanol provides directions to many different databases in Spanish.
Econlit - "the American Economic Association's electronic database, is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature." It contains over 700,000 records, with some links to full text.
Education Full Text indexes and abstracts periodicals and books dealing with all aspects of education. It also includes full text/full image articles.
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Alternate Name(s) 18th Century Collections Online
Eighteenth Century Collections Online has "the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century [including] full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages." Some of the subjects covered are history, science, philosophy, literature, the arts, and law.
Emerald provides full text articles from hundreds of journals in the fields of criminal justice, economics, education, engineering, healthcare, librarianship, management, marketing, and more.
Engineering Village contains Compendex, which is “the most comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research available, covering all engineering disciplines.” Contains citations and abstracts only.
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable, Internet-based bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information.
Essential Evidence Plus & AHFS DI Essentials is a powerful and comprehensive clinical decision support tool that integrates information on 9,000 diagnoses into clinical workflows Feature over 13,000 topics, guidelines, abstracts, tools, images and summaries of conditions, diseases and procedures clinicians come into contact with every day.
Ethnic Newswatch contains the full text of newspapers, magazines and journals of ethnic, minority and native publications.
Alternate Name(s) Enthnologue
Ethnologue.com is useful for locating profiles for every language spoken on earth and locating maps of where languages are spoken.
Produced in collaboration with the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive and the Ethnomusicology Archive at the University of Washington, the material in this collection includes thousands of audio field recordings and interviews, educational recordings, film footage, field notebooks, slides, correspondence and ephemera from over 60 fields of study.

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Filmakers Library Online "provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum-race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more."
Films on Demand provide every academic department on campus with the most essential video titles for their field of study.
Includes the full collection of First Aid review books to help students excel on rotations and clerkship exams as well as board review texts.
Includes the full collection of review books from the First Aid USMLE series.
Fold3 provides convenient access to military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served.

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Alternate Name(s) Academic OneFile
Gale Academic OneFile provides articles from a database of scholarly journals and other trusted periodicals in a variety of different subject areas. Best for academic research.
Gale Books and Authors helps to answer the age-old question, 'What do I read next?' Search and match reading interests to books, authors, genres, or topics.
Learn how to start, finance, or manage your small business. Includes sample business plans, how to guides, articles, and more.
Compare global economies, countries, and industries with in-depth analysis on over 400,000 companies.
Alternate Name(s) General One File
Access general interest magazines and key serials in a single resource. Best for general research.
Search a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to alternative medical practices.
Discover the world's most influential people by searching narrative biographies, news, magazine, and multimedia content.
An engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a wide array of subjects.
Introduce elementary students to database searching with resources featuring age-appropriate, curriculum-related content.
Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.
Explore thousands of topics across subjects including literature, science, history, and social issues using different sources.
Explore the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, history, literature, and more.
Manipulate 3D interactive models to visualize and understand concepts in biology, chemistry, earth, and space science.
Gale Legal Forms: create accurate, reliable legal documents with Gale Legal Forms.
Find up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers from all eras.
Access literary works and authors throughout history, including full-text poems, plays, short stories, speeches, and more.
Browse original scholarly essays on authors from around the world. Places authors and their works in personal and historical context.
Find in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers. Includes influences of literary movements.
Find up-to-date information on a range of health care topics. Best for students, researchers, and health care professionals.
Search magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference on a range of topics. Best for middle- and high-school students.
Search across full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines from and about Latin America.
Access major U.S. and international newspapers online to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, or other fields.
Research full-text titles cited in CINAHL and other resources to support specialized care, treatment, and patient management.
Access academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine.
Find authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology.
Explore amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space. Best for children aged 6–14.
Gale Science in Context provides contextual information on hundreds of today’s most significant science topics. Gale’s authoritative, curriculum-aligned reference content is merged with full-text magazine, academic journal, and news articles; experiments, images, videos, audio files, and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
Gale Virtual Reference Library includes subject encyclopedias and other reference books on the arts, business, education, biological and physical sciences, history and other social sciences, medicine, and other subjects.
Gartner is a research and consulting firm that provides in-depth data and analysis of information technology and related issues.
Essential primary sources documenting the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations from the nineteenth century to the present. This expansive collection offers sources for the study of women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics.
GenderWatch focuses on how gender impacts a wide variety of disciplines. Articles contained within this database provide historical perspectives on the evolution of the women's movement, men's studies, the transgendered community and the changes in gender roles over the years.
The Gerritsen Collection: Women's Online History, 1543--1945, is "the greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world, with materials spanning four centuries and fifteen languages...[with] two million page images exactly as they appeared in the original printed works."
Alternate Name(s) Grants Dissection Videos The Point LWW
Grant's Dissection Videos includes "80 high-resolution videos, totaling more than 13 hours, that demonstrate the Grant's method of cadaver dissection includes "80 high-resolution videos, totaling more than 13 hours, that demonstrate the Grant's method of cadaver dissection sequences, as described in Grant’s Dissector. Organized by body region, each video includes narration by Dr. Alan Detton and on-screen labeling and text."
Grove Music Online See Oxford Music Online. NOTE: THIS RESOURCE ONLY SUPPORTS 14 SIMULTANEOUS USERS. IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ACCESS, PLEASE TRY AGAIN AT A DIFFERENT TIME.

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Alternate Name(s) Hispanic American Periodical Index
HAPI Hispanic American Periodical Index (HAPI) "is your source for over 265,000 journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States."
Alternate Name(s) Harp Week
HarpWeek "consists of the pages of Harper's Weekly, scanned as images", from 1857 to 1893, with searchable full text to 1912.
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Harvard University Press contains ebooks published by the Harvard University Press covering areas such as History, Social Sciences, Economics, Literary Studies, and Philosophy, among others.
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HathiTrust is a collection of digitized books and serials, some of which are accessible to all and some of which are only accessible to members due to copyright restrictions. UTRGV is a member of Hathi Trust. To log in, you first have to select University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley from the institution drop down list; after that, use your UTRGV username and password.
Alternate Name(s) HAPI
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) "provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/manuals ... vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science."
Alternate Name(s) LWW Health Library - Medical Education/Premium Basic Sciences
Health Library contains texts, audio and video, self-assessments, case studies, and clinical skills training resources for medical students.
Health Research Premium Collection addresses the diverse needs of students, researchers, medical professionals, hospital administrators, and patients and their families by offering a central access point to a variety of essential content. Health Research Premium Collection provides a broad collection of journals, evidence-based resources, and full-text dissertations.
HeritageQuest Online "provides libraries a unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture," which includes complete U.S. federal Census, 1790--1930, obituaries, Freedman's Savings & Trust Company bank records, records on veterans of the American Revolution, and more.
Hispanic American Newspapers 1808-1980 provides access to hundreds of searchable Hispanic American newspapers published in the United States. It is based on the “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project”.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text is a "complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life)."
Historical New York Times has pdf images of New York Times articles back to 1851 and up to a few years ago. Make sure only ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times is checked off before you begin your search.
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History E-Book Project from ACLS provides electronic books in history "that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, are frequently cited in the literature, and are currently not widely available."
Alternate Name(s) Hospitality and Tourism Complete
Hospitality & Tourism Complete covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism.
Humanities International Index "provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals . . .[including] a multitude of international journals, [plus] books and reference works. . . as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations."

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IBISWorld is a comprehensive collection of Industry Market Research and Industry Risk Ratings.
Alternate Name(s) Inter university Consortium for Political and Social Research
ICPSR (the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) "established in 1962, is an integral part of the infrastructure of social science research. [It] maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction...ICPSR does not provide publications, reports, or ready-made statistics,... [but instead supplies] the numeric raw data used to create publications, reports, and figures."
Alternate Name(s) IEEE Xplore Electronic Library Online
IEEE Xplore Electronic Library Online has nearly a third of the world's current literature in electrical engineering, electronics, and computer science, including full text database of journals, conference proceedings and standards in the field.
Images of America: A History of American Life in Images and Texts "presents the everyday people, places, and events that have shaped American history and culture. The collection, drawn from Arcadia Publishing's award-winning line of local history books, features images and texts assembled by thousands of local experts."
Alternate Name(s) American Indian Histories and Cultures
Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America is a collection of manuscripts, artwork, speeches, diaries, essays, correspondence, maps, and more covering areas such as American Indians and the European Powers, American Indians and the US Government, military encounters, cultural encounters, the native American civil rights movement, and more.
Alternate Name(s) American Indian Newspapers
From historic pressings to contemporary periodicals, explore nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the US and Canada. With newspapers representing a huge variety in publisher, audience and era, discover how events were reported by and for Indigenous communities.
Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios (Archive data) consists of U.S. corporations, partnerships and proprietorships both public and privately owned, in all size ranges, and includes over 800 different lines of business as defined by the U.S. Standard industrial Classification (SIC) code numbers.
Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios (Current data) consists of U.S. corporations, partnerships and proprietorships both public and privately owned, in all size ranges, and includes over 800 different lines of business as defined by the U.S. Standard industrial Classification (SIC) code numbers.
Ingentaconnect has millions of citations and abstracts from more than 13,000 journals. The Library only subscribes to and has full text access to some of the titles.
INSPEC includes bibliographic citations and indexed abstracts from publications in the fields of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, communications, computer science, control engineering, information technology, manufacturing and mechanical engineering, operations research, material science, oceanography, engineering mathematics, nuclear engineering, environmental science, geophysics, nanotechnology, biomedical technology and biophysics.
Inspec Analytics enables research professionals to explore beyond the literature in Inspec to uncover trends and patterns across a wide range of physics and engineering disciplines at both local and global levels. With Inspec Analytics, you can monitor the research output of your institution and see how this ranks globally, benchmark an institution against collaborators and competitors to find strengths and areas for growth, and monitor global trends for over 14,000 research topics to explore new fields and find collaborators.
Alternate Name(s) Institute of Physics, The Institute of Physics
IOP, the Institute of Physics, offers full text physics magazines, full image articles from dozens of journals, and other physics information.
Alternate Name(s) I Poll, Roper iPoll
Provided by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, Roper iPoll is the largest collection of poll data anywhere — from 1935 to present. Contains data from U.S. and international polling firms with broad topical coverage of opinions and behavior on social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, and more. International and U.S. datasets available for immediate download.
Issues and Controversies helps researchers understand the crucial issues we face today, exploring more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture. Updated weekly, with links to a 12 year back file, Issues and Controversies offers in-depth articles made to inspire thought provoking debates. This database is ideal for research papers and debate preparation.

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Journal Citation Reports (JCR): Science Edition is the leading authority for evaluating the impact of cited references in science and indexes over 5,900 international science journals.
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive provides a collection of dance videos from the 1930’s to the present.
JAMAevidence provides Evidence based medical care ebooks, guides, calculators, glossary, and more.
Journal Citation Reports (JCR): Social Sciences Edition is the leading authority for evaluating the impact of cited journals in social sciences and indexes over 1,700 social science journals.
Journals@Ovid provides citations, abstracts, and references to articles from Nursing and other medical journals, and some full text.
"JoVE Science Education is a revolutionary video library dedicated to teaching scientific fundamentals through simple easy-to-understand video demonstrations."
Alternate Name(s) Journal of Visualized Experiments, The Journal of Visualized Experiments
JOVE "the Journal of Visualized Experiments, is the world's first peer reviewed scientific video journal. Established in 2006, JoVE is devoted to publishing scientific research in a visual format to help researchers overcome two of the biggest challenges facing the scientific research community today; poor reproducibility and the time and labor intensive nature of learning new experimental techniques."
JSTOR is a full image database of back issues of scholarly journals in African American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, botany, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics.

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Alternate Name(s) Canopy
Kanopy is a video streaming solution for colleges offering a "Netflix-like" user experience and a broad selection of over 26,000 documentaries, feature films and training videos from thousands of producers. If your video is not in Kanopy, please check AVON or Swank.

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Alternate Name(s) LAWW
Latin American Women Writers brings together "the most important writers from 19 countries, as well as the works of the principal feminists, in one single collection [including] ... literary works, memoirs, feminist essays, and other materials" from the colonial period to the present."
Alternate Name(s) The Latino-Hispanic American Experience Leaders, Writers and Thinkers: Arte Publico Series 2
The Latino-Hispanic American Experience Leaders, Writers and Thinkers: Arte Publico Series 2 - This resource “presents manuscript, book, and newspaper content in the areas of Hispanic American civil rights, religion, and women’s rights ranging from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. The database features over 250,000 pages of manuscript content, over 100 newspaper titles, and over 400 books.”
Alternate Name(s) Learning Express Library
LearningExpress Library "provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass." Use it to prepare for a GED or EMT exam, the GREs, MCATs, ACTs, or just about any other test. First time users must create their own Username and Password.
Alternate Name(s) Nexis Uni
LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe has "full text company news & financial information...full text federal, state & international legal materials...full text & abstracted medical & health information...general reference sources" and national and international news. Note: LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe has been changed to Nexis Uni.
Library Literature & Information Science Full Text "indexes articles and book reviews of key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere...Books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed." It also includes full text/full image articles.
Libro Rojo is the Dictionary of Doubts and Difficulties in English-Spanish Medical Translation by Fernando A. Navarro.

If you are logging in from off campus, please click on the link that says “Login with OpenAthens”, then type in “University of Texas Rio Grande Valley”, then click on the university name, and fill in your credentials as requested.
Life Magazine Archive 1936-2000 consists of cover to cover processing dating back to issue number one in 1936 of the American variety magazine Life, published by Time Inc.
Alternate Name(s) LLBA
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) "abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics."
Literature Criticism Online contains the complete sets of the following Gale Literary Criticism Series: Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (CMLC); Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC); Drama Criticism (DC); Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 (LC); Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (NCLC); Poetry Criticism (PC); Shakespearean Criticism (SC); Short Story Criticism (SSC); and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC).
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Health Library contains texts, audio and video, self-assessments, case studies, and clinical skills training resources for medical students.
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"Offers content for each of the core clerkship rotations including key texts for Internal Medicine, OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Surgery, Family Medicine, and Psychiatry. Also included are key general reference and exam preparation texts as well as over 150 case studies and 4,700 Q&A for board prep."

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Mango Languages - “Build language proficiency and cultural understanding around real-world communication skills that you'll actually need. Over 60 different languages can be learned and explored.”
MathSciNet "is the searchable Web database providing access to ... Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications, produced by the American Mathematical Society." The latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader should be used for this product.
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The Medical Letter, publishes critical appraisals of new prescription drugs and comparative reviews of drugs for common diseases, and also includes 52 CME/CE credits per user per year, a free downloadable app for handheld devices, and essential drug comparisons in each issue.
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Alternate Name(s) Medicine Net Base
MEDICINEnetBASE from CRC, MEDICINEnetBASE contains e-books on topics such as Clinical Medicine, General Reference and Medical Education, and Surgery.
MEDLINE (Ovid) “covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Information is indexed from approximately 5,600 journals published world-wide.”
Alternate Name(s) Medline Plus Spanish
MEDLINEPlus (Español) Informacion de salud de la Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina.
Alternate Name(s) Medline Plus
MEDLINEPlus is a "goldmine of good health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine."
Mental Measurements Yearbook contains full text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks.
Alternate Name(s) FIS Online, FISOnline
Mergent Online (formerly FISOnline) has business and financial information from Mergent, Inc. (formerly Moody's).
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Micromedex provides in-depth drug information including medication safety, disease management and treatment, patient education, toxicology, laboratory tests. Includes information on drug interaction, IV compatibility, drug ID, drug comparison, international drug information from the Martindale Drug Reference, and a neonatal/pediatrics drug information tool called NeoFax/Pediatrics. Please Note: Micromedex is licensed to UTRGV for academic and training use only. Use of this subscription for direct patient care is strictly prohibited as per the terms of our license.
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MIT Press Ebooks Library contains eBooks on subjects such as computer science and programming, artificial intelligence, information theory and technology, and electrical engineering.
Alternate Name(s) MLA International Bibliography
MLA Bibliography "indexes critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics and folklore."
MLA Directory of Periodicals offers detailed information on over 7,000 journals.

MLA Handbook Plus includes the full text of the handbook, the MLA Guide to Digital Literacy and the MLA Guide to Undergraduate Research in Literature, and a video course that teaches the principles of MLA documentation style.

MTS Lab Training Library provides samples and interactive training for biology and medical labs, electrical/engineering safety training, and more. To access the training modules, click the "Training Library" tab.
Music Index Online contains citations for articles in hundreds of periodicals in the field of music and related disciplines. Includes book reviews, recording and performance reviews and obituaries.
Music Online: American Music Contains over 68,000 songs from a diverse range of Americans. Allows the user to save playlists and browse music by genre, historical event, artist, instruments used and more.
Music Online: Classical Music Library "the world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries ... ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera" and includes over 50,000 recordings from over 1,800 composers by thousands of ensembles and artists.
Music Online: Contemporary World Music contains over 66,000 contemporary world music tracks. Allows the user to save playlists and browse the collection by album, artist(s), cultural groups, genre, instruments used, location and more.
Music Online: Jazz Music Library "is the largest and most comprehensive collection of streaming jazz available online — with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.”
Music Online: Listening "is a multidisciplinary collection of audiovisual content that touches on the curriculum needs of virtually every department. Music Online: Listening allows students and researchers alike to analyze unique and valuable content from over 500 producers and distributors around the world."
Music Online: Popular Music Library "contains a wide range of popular music from around the world, including hundreds of thousands of tracks from major genres in pop music, including alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks", etc.
"Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.”
Alternate Name(s) IIMP
Music Periodicals Database (formerly known as IIMP) includes articles on "all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms, and composition."

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NASW Clinical Register "provides a listing of clinical social workers who have met national standards for education and experience."

  • NCBI Chemicals

    NCBI's Chemical resources include catalogs and tools for bioactivity screening studies and a repository of chemical information, as well as a database of molecular pathways that provides links to relevant records in companion databases for participating compounds, proteins and genes.

  • NCBI Genomes

    NCBI's Genome resources include information on large-scale genomics projects, genome sequences and assemblies, and mapped annotations, such as variations, markers and data from epigenomics studies.

  • NCBI Genes

    NCBI's Gene resources include collections of curated nucleotide sequences used as references, sequence clusters to predict and study homologs, and various databases and tools for the study of gene expression.

  • NCBI Proteins

    NCBI's Protein resources include protein sequences and structures and related comparison and visualization tools, as well as databases and tools to predict and analyze functional domains.

National Geographic Magazine Archive provides the full text of the National Geographic Magazine, including color images, from 1888-2020.
National Theatre Collection 1 draws on 10 years of National Theatre Live broadcasts, alongside high-quality archive recordings never previously seen outside of the NT’s Archive. The National Theatre Collection 1 contains 30 filmed performances.
Naxos Music Library is the world´s largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 52,677 CDs with more than 756,740 tracks, standard and rare repertoire. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month.
Alternate Name(s) Net Advantage
NetAdvantage offers ready access to Standard & Poor's premium content such as Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Fund Reports, Corporation Records, The Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, The Outlook, Mutual Fund Reports, and others.
The New York Times covers a variety of topics through breaking news articles, blogs, videos and interactive features. In addition, you will be able to share content on social networks, save articles of interest, subscribe to email newsletters and set up personalized alerts. Once activated access to NYTimes.com is available from any location, on or off campus. Please take a minute at the beginning of the semester to activate your subscription. Faculty and staff will need to renew annually whereas students will have access until their anticipated graduation date.
To use this tool: you must first REGISTER HERE to sign up and activate your access to NYTimes.com. Follow the simple instructions. Once activated, your Pass will provide access to NYTimes.com from any location. To download your free NYT apps: visit nytimes.com/mobile.
Newsweek Magazine Archive 1933-2012 comprises 80 years of news reporting and commentary, charting the key US and global events during this period.
Nexis Uni has "full text company news & financial information...full text federal, state & international legal materials...full text & abstracted medical & health information...general reference sources" and national and international news.
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories, "composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, ... provides a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines."
North American Women's Letters and Diaries "is the largest collection of women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, [it] brings the personal experiences of some 1,325 women to researchers, students, and general readers" via 150,000 pages of letters and diaries.
Numeridanse is a multimedia dance platform that provides access to filmed performances, documentaries, interviews, fictions, and dance videos in multiple genres, styles, and forms.
Nursing Education in Video is a collection of "videos created specifically for the education and training of nurses, nursing assistants, and other healthcare workers".

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Alternate Name(s) Omni File Full Text
OmniFile Full Text includes complete content from most of our other WilsonWeb databases, plus full text biological, agricultural, and legal articles.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context contains Pro/Con information on thousands of current topics.
Ovid MEDLINE “covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Information is indexed from approximately 5,600 journals published world-wide.”
Oxford English Dictionary covers words from across the English-speaking world and offers etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and phonetic pronunciation.
Alternate Name(s) Grove Music Online
Oxford Music Online contains 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, as well as The Oxford Dictionary of Music, the Oxford Companion to Music, and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music. NOTE: THIS RESOURCE ONLY SUPPORTS 14 SIMULTANEOUS USERS. IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ACCESS, PLEASE TRY AGAIN AT A DIFFERENT TIME.
Alternate Name(s) OU Press Journals
Oxford University Press Journals publishes high quality journals in the fields of Arts & Humanities, Law, Medicine & Health, Science & Mathematics, and Social Sciences.

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Palgrave Connect contains eBooks published by Palgrave Macmillan in the Humanities and the Social Sciences. Subject areas covered include Business, Education, History, Literature, and others.
Past Masters is a searchable full-text Philosophy database.
PBS Video Collection: Fourth Edition provides access to a large range of streaming video content of series and documentaries from PBS, including science, history, art, Shakespeare, diversity, business & economics, and more.
Periodicals Archive Online contains full page images to millions of articles, from hundreds of journals, in 37 subject areas within the humanities and social sciences, with deep chronological coverage going back over 200 years.
Philosopher's Index "is a bibliographic database with ... abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy ... and includes journal articles, [over 550 journals from more than 40 countries ... updated quarterly] books, book chapters such as contributions to an anthology, and book reviews."
Philosophical Research Online is a comprehensive index of philosophy books and articles. PhilPapers offers unique features such as real-time indexing of pre-prints, fine-grained classification by topic, email alerts, reading lists, advanced search functionality, and discussion forums.
Pivot® allows researchers and research administrators to identify new funding resources and potential collaborators while offering
unparalleled insights and short-cuts to help research organizations win a larger share of available funding. Instructions to use Pivot are here.
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Alternate Name(s) Prescribers Letter, The Prescribers Letter, Prescriber's Letter
The Prescriber Insights provides recommendations on new developments in drug therapy.
A collection of over 150 clinical reference texts to support primary care.
Alternate Name(s) Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanisticas
PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanisticas) "is a comprehensive reference resource providing full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin."
Project Euclid - Project Euclid's mission is to advance scholarly communication in the field of theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. It is designed to address the unique needs of low-cost independent and society journals through a collaborative partnership arrangement.
Project MUSE provides online full-text access to over 300 peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journal titles.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: El Paso Herald/El Paso Times includes the full text of the El Paso Herald from 1896-1996, and the El Paso Times from 1881-2009.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Austin American Statesman provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage: 1871 – 1980
Alternate Name(s) Psyc Articles
PsycARTICLES "is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals."
Alternate Name(s) Psyc Books
PsycBooks includes over 38,000 chapters in PDF from over 2,500 books, published by the APA and other distinguished publishers, and includes digitized content of historical significance from the Archives of the History of American Psychology (AHAP) collection . It also contains over 1,600classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology dating from the 1600s, and the exclusive electronic release of more than 1,500 authored entries from APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.
Alternate Name(s) Psyc Extra
PsycEXTRA is produced by the American Psychological Association (APA) and provides extensive coverage of gray literature relating to psychology and the behavioral sciences.
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Offers comprehensive online access to psychiatric textbooks, journals, and professional development tools. This all-in-one virtual library provides psychiatrists and mental health professionals with key resources for diagnosis, treatment, research, and professional development.
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Alternate Name(s) Psyc Info
"Contains more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology [and psychological aspects of other disciplines]. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 35 languages."
Alternate Name(s) APA Psych Therapy
PsycTherapy provides streaming psychotherapy demonstration videos. It provides access to playlists, clips, searchable transcripts of videos, along with other features. Once in the database, choose “Select Databases” and then choose “PsycTherapy” to limit your search to this video content. It can also be searched together with APA Journals and APA Books if desired.
Alternate Name(s) PILOTS: Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress
PTSDpubs (formerly PILOTS: Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress) - This bibliographic database, covering the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its provides citations and abstracts to the international literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events.
PubChem is the world's largest collection of freely accessible chemical information. Search chemicals by name, molecular formula, structure, and other identifiers. Find chemical and physical properties, biological activities, safety and toxicity information, patents, literature citations and more.
PubMed - "a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources."

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This collection gives researchers an unparalleled look at administrative and community responses to diseases devastating to public health as found in the press from colonial America through World War I. This database provides a vivid picture ripe for essential historic exploration to compare past outbreaks, civilian and governmental reactions, and disease control practices to what is happening today.
This collection allows users access to monographs and county histories and the wealth of details these resources can provide on many aspects of public health and contagious diseases. Searches will retrieve results from books published in the 19th century through World War I.

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Documenting three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights, this resource showcases the speeches, reports, surveys and analyses produced by the Fisk University Race Relations Department’s staff and Institute participants, including Charles S. Johnson, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall.
Alternate Name(s) Readers Guide Full Text
Readers' Guide Full Text, covering all topics, contains abstracts of the most popular general-interest periodicals from the United States and Canada. It also includes full text/full image articles.
RefWorks (new version) is “an online research management, writing and collaboration tool” that allows you to “read, annotate, organize, and cite your research as well as collaborate with friends and colleagues by sharing collections.” You must create an account to use RefWorks. Go to “Login” and create an account using your UTRGV email account.
Rehabilitation Therapy in Video is a streaming video resource that contains videos pertaining to subjects such as occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech language pathology, vision therapy, neuro-developmental treatment, and others.
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Rotunda Publications includes the full text of The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, and The Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America.

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SAGE Online contains scholarly journals published by Sage in the areas of Health Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, Engineering and Materials Sciences, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
Sage Psychology Video Collection provides videos to support instruction, learning, and research in psychology.
SAGE Research Methods “is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. Researchers can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. Since SAGE Research Methods focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and more.”
SAGE Research Methods Cases provides case studies showing how methods are applied in real research projects.
SAGE Research Methods Datasets provides datasets using data from real research, designed to support the teaching and independent learning of data analysis techniques.
SAGE Research Methods Video "includes hours of tutorials, interviews, video case studies, and mini-documentaries covering the entire research process."
Sage Research Methods: Cases: Medicine & Health includes hundreds of examples of research methodologies and techniques applied across medical specialties, as well as dentistry, nursing, and public health. It explores an extensive range of studies, including clinical trials, observational studies, epidemiologic research, systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
Science Direct provides full image articles from more than 1000 agriculture, arts and humanities, astronomy, biology, business, chemistry, clinical medicine, computer science, earth and planetary sciences, economics, engineering, energy and technology, environmental science, life sciences, materials science, mathematics, physics, and social and behavioral sciences journals.
Alternate Name(s) General Science Full Text
General Science Full Text provides citations and abstracts to British and American science magazines and journals. It also includes full text/full image articles.
Scientific American Surgery provides practicing surgeons and students with comprehensive and up-to-date surgical information including cutting-edge reporting to incorporate relevant articles into the surgical database.
Alternate Name(s) Sci Finder Scholar
SciFinder Scholar is a research discovery tool that allows college students and faculty to access a wide diversity of research from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, material science, agricultural science, and more!
To use this tool: you must first REGISTER HERE to create your own user name and password. This account will give you access to the SciFinder database. CAS requires that each registrant use a functioning email address ending in the campus' standard domain name, e.g. @utrgv.edu.
Alternate Name(s) Sci Tech Premium
SciTech Premium “includes the Natural Science Collection and Technology Collection databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more.” This database includes the Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection, the Biological Science Collection, the Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Collection, the Materials Science Collection, the Engineering Collection, and the Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Collection databases.
Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice Bringing together primary source documents from archives and libraries across North America and the UK, this resource allows students and researchers to explore and compare unique material relating to the complex subjects of slavery, abolition and social justice. In addition to the primary source documents there is a wealth of useful secondary sources for research and teaching; including scholarly essays, tutorials, a visual sources gallery, chronology and bibliography.
Social Sciences Full Text covers "a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals." It also includes full text/full image articles.
Social Work Abstracts "contains more than 35,000 records ... from social work and other related journals."
Alternate Name(s) Soc Index with Full Text
SocINDEX with Full Text has millions of citations and articles, from thousands of journals (some going back to 1895), plus conference papers, books, and other items.
Alternate Name(s) Sport Discus with Full Text
SPORTDiscus with Full Text provides full-text access to periodical and monographic literature in the areas of sports, recreation, exercise physiology, sports medicine, coaching, physical fitness, the psychology, history and sociology of sport, training, and conditioning.
Alternate Name(s) Springer Link
SpringerLINK provides abstracts, full text, and full image articles from journals published by Springer. The articles/journals are in the fields of computer science, economics, engineering, law, medicine, mathematics, and life and physical sciences.
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Stahl Online is a comprehensive and updated resource, covering the entire Cambridge portfolio of neuropsychopharmacology books by Dr. Stahl, which contains everything that a doctor, teacher, or student will ever need to know about neuropsychopharmacology.
Alternate Name(s) Stat Ref
STAT!Ref enables users to intuitively cross-search full-text titles, journals and evidence-based point-of-care authoritative resources. STAT!Ref provides the latest healthcare information in a customizable and convenient format. STAT!Ref goes where you go, accessible by desktop, laptop and wireless or web-enabled mobile devices.
StatPearls Question Banks for Board Prep is a suite of practice question banks for board exams in the health sciences including USMLE Step 1-3, Family Medicine, Pharmacy/NAPLEX, PA/PANCE, CCRN, Nursing/NCLEX, Certified Anesthesiology Assistants, EMS-EMT, Registered Dietician, and Radiology Technology. Users must register for a StatPearls account using an @UTRGV.edu email account.
Swank is a streaming video service which provides availability to recent films as well as classic films, documentaries, and many other genres.
Films for Mental Health Education & Training

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Taylor & Francis publishes peer-reviewed journals in a variety of different subject areas.
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Taylor & Francis eBooks has eBooks published by Taylor & Francis.
Alternate Name(s) Teaching Books .net
TeachingBooks.net adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. Our online database is developed and maintained to include thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities.
Texas County Histories from Accessible Archives provides primary source resources for local historical and genealogical research.
Texas Digital Library Theses and Dissertations "will serve as a repository for research output including electronic theses and dissertations, faculty datasets, departmental databases, digital archives, course management and learning materials, digital media, and special collections" from The University of Texas, Texas A&M University, The University of Houston, and Texas Tech University.
Texas Digital Sanborn Maps "are valuable historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists, and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods."
Time Magazine Archive 1923-2000 consists of cover to cover processing dating back to issue number one in 1923 of the American popular magazine Time, published by Time Inc.
Alternate Name(s) 20th Century Advice Literature
Twentieth Century Advice Literature contains "fully searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books that illustrate both how Americans actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave."
Alternate Name(s) 20th Century American Poetry
Twentieth Century American Poetry includes over 50,000 poems from 1,000s of volumes from over 300 American poets.
Alternate Name(s) 20th Century English Poetry
Twentieth Century English Poetry includes over 50,000 poems from 1,000s of volumes from over 280 English poets.

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Up To Date "is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource..." useful for making point-of-care decisions in a health care setting.

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Alternate Name(s) WSJ
The Wall Street Journal is a national newspaper that provides daily coverage of the news as well as of market conditions. In order to use this database, you must REGISTER HERE for a free account first. Once activated, your account will provide access to wsj.com from any location.
Web of Science contains multiple citation databases, including Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Emerging Sources Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, Index Chemicus, and others, which include citations and some links to full text articles from 1975 to the present.
Who’s Who Biography Online offers biographical profiles of over 1 million accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including government, business, science and technology, the arts, entertainment, and sports, among others.
Wiley Online Library hosts the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers seamless integrated access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, 9000 books, hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.
Women and Social Movements International "provides an unparalleled survey of how women's struggles against gendered inequalities promoted their engagement with other issues over time and across cultures." The "final release (September 2013) includes about 4,660 sources [and] 25 scholarly essays spanning approximately 150,000 pages, as well as links to 124 online resources."
Alternate Name(s) World Scholar Latin America and the Caribbean Archive
World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean Archive "serves the needs of students and researchers by bringing together in a single place a rich collection of primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean; academic journals and news feeds covering the region; reference articles and commentary; maps and statistics; audio and video; and more."
Alternate Name(s) World Cat
WorldCat has almost a billion records of materials cataloged by OCLC member libraries, including citations to books, journal articles, internet sites, etc.

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Alternate Name(s) Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Eighteenth Century Collections Online has "the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century [including] full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages." Some of the subjects covered are history, science, philosophy, literature, the arts, and law.
Alternate Name(s) Twentieth Century Advice Literature
Twentieth Century Advice Literature contains "fully searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books that illustrate both how Americans actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave."
Alternate Name(s) Twentieth Century American Poetry
Twentieth Century American Poetry includes over 50,000 poems from 1,000s of volumes from over 300 American poets.
Alternate Name(s) Twentieth Century English Poetry
Twentieth Century English Poetry includes over 50,000 poems from 1,000s of volumes from over 280 English poets.

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