Databases A-Z

Popular Databases

The most frequently-used databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window

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Updated daily. A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database, with more than 5,300 full text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.

Features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 journals.

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window

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1990 - present. Unlimited users.

Updated monthly. A scholarly business database providing a collection of bibliographic and full text content in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Indexing and abstracts for scholarly business journals back to 1886 are included.

Searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals. Contains detailed author profiles for the 20,000 most-cited authors in the database.

Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, and SWOT analyses.

Mintel This link opens in a new window

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Most current edition. Unlimited users.

Updated regularly. Includes market research reports for Europe, the UK, and the US. Reports cover a variety of sectors including consumer goods, travel and tourism, financial industry, internet industry, retail, and food & drink. Reports discuss market drivers, market size & trends, market segmentation, supply structure, advertising and promotion, retail distribution, consumer characteristics, and market forecasts.

In order to use Mintel, you must first agree to the terms of Mintel Academic Access. After you agree, you then need to sign in with your Mintel Reports Personal Profile before you can use the database. New users can create a profile using an online form that provides Mintel with your name, email address and a password of your own choosing; however, the email address must include the ""utexas.edu"" domain [e.g. @mccombs.utexas.edu, @mail.utexas.edu, @austin.utexas.edu]. Addresses from other domains [e.g., @yahoo.com, @gmail.com, @utexas.net] will not be accepted.

New Databases

The following databases are newly acquired this semester.

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry This link opens in a new window

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Coverage varies. Unlimited.

This resource provides trusted health information that focuses on the prevention of harmful exposures and diseases related to toxic substances. Content includes toxicological profiles, toxic substance information, exposure registries, surveillance data, emergency response training, and more.

Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases This link opens in a new window

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2018 - present. Unlimited.

This database presents real-world cases of challenges facing the business of fashion, including sustainability, technology, ethics, and leadership.

Brill's Encyclopedia of Jainism This link opens in a new window

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Coverage varies. Unlimited.

Makes available up-to-date research on main aspects of the Jain traditions in original essays written by some of the world’s foremost scholars on Jainism. The encyclopedia is thematic and seeks to present a balanced and impartial view of Jainism with a focus on both historical and contemporary traditions and institutions.

Brill's Encyclopedia of Sikhism This link opens in a new window

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Coverage varies. Unlimited.

Aims to make available in-depth critical scholarship on all the main aspects of the Sikh traditions in a number of original essays written by the world's foremost scholars on Sikhs and Sikh traditions. The articles, published in two volumes, focus on history, literature, and the rich social landscape of the Sikh community.

Corpus of French-speaking Literature from Black Africa This link opens in a new window

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end 18th century - 1960. Unlimited.

: This large-scale scholarly enterprise gathers together all the French-speaking literature from sub-Saharan Africa it was possible to collect: oral and written literature from the origins (end of the 18th century) to Independence (1960, as date of authors’ death). The written literature gathered comes either from works benefiting from a wide distribution or from publications with a local or temporary distribution and kept on short-lived media (such as press, periodicals, parish bulletins, and pamphlets). Built up from a vast bibliographical research, followed by the collection and edition of the texts, the Corpus is both a scholarly database and a precious collection of Africa's cultural heritage.

Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture This link opens in a new window

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1975 - 1950s. Unlimited.

Online encyclopedia covering the history of Jews from 1750 until the 1950s, from Europe to America to the Middle East, North Africa and other non-European Jewish settlement areas.

Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World This link opens in a new window

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Coverage varies. Unlimited.

The first cohesive and discreet reference work which covers the Jews of Muslim lands particularly in the late medieval, early modern and modern periods.

HERO: Health and Environmental Research Online This link opens in a new window

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Coverage varies. Unlimited.

The Health and Environmental Research Online database (HERO) includes more than three million scientific references and associated data from the peer-reviewed literature used by EPA to develop reports that support critical agency decisionmaking for chemical regulation

角川日本地名大辞典 (Shinpan Kadokawa Nihon Chimei Daijiten) This link opens in a new window

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Coverage varies. 2 users.

A comprehensive reference for place names. Each prefecture is covered i with lists of cities and towns, histories, chronologies and general information on locations.