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. Usage Rights

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. Usage Rights

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.

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1 This link opens in a new window

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1684 - 1820. Unlimited users.

From the library of the American Antiquarian Society, this collection contains more than 500 periodicals related to America from the colonial era through the first years of the Republic. See here for a list of titles included.

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 2 This link opens in a new window

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1821 - 1837. Unlimited users.

From the library of the American Antiquarian Society, this collection of more than 1,200 periodicals represents the Jacksonian Democracy era in history and is broad in scope including agriculture, entertainment, history, literary criticism, and politics. See here for a list of titles included.

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 3 This link opens in a new window

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1838 - 1852. Unlimited users.

From the library of the American Antiquarian Society, this collection of more than 2,000 periodicals includes contemporary coverage from the era of the Second Great Awakening, the early temperance movement, and the abolitionist movement. See here for a list of titles included.

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 4 This link opens in a new window

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1853 - 1865. Unlimited users.

From the library of the American Antiquarian Society, this collection of more than 1,700 periodicals focuses on the Civil War and a diverse record of the continuance of daily life for many Americans—both leading up to and during the war. See here for a list of titles included.

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 5 This link opens in a new window

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1866 - 1912. Unlimited users.

From the library of the American Antiquarian Society, this collection of more than 2,800 periodicals covers all aspects of American life from the Reconstruction through the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. See here for a list of titles included.

Directory of Music Faculties This link opens in a new window

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2019. Unlimited.

Published by the College Music Society. The Directory provides complete listings of institutions in higher education offering instruction in the fine and performing arts in the U.S. and Canada, degrees offered, faculty listings and their teaching specialty

Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies This link opens in a new window

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Coverage varies. Unlimited.

The Fortunoff Archive currently holds more than 4,400 testimonies, which are comprised of over 12,000 recorded hours of videotape. Testimonies were produced in cooperation with 36 affiliated projects across North America, South America, Europe, and Israel, and each project maintains a duplicate collection of locally recorded videotapes. The Fortunoff Archive and its affiliates recorded the testimonies of willing individuals with first-hand experience of the Nazi persecutions, including those who were in hiding, survivors, bystanders, resistants, and liberators. Testimonies were recorded in whatever language the witness preferred, and range in length from 30 minutes to over 40 hours (recorded over several sessions).

The archive is accessible to UT affiliates both on and off campus, as well as to non-UT walk-in visitors on campus. All users would need to create an account with Yale’s Aviary, the Fortunoff Archive's digital access system. Searching and browsing is done through that personal account. There is no cost involved. UT affiliates could also access their Aviary account, and the archive, through a proxy connection to UT and/or a VPN.

Maruzen eBook Library This link opens in a new window

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2015. 1 user per title.

Select Japanese ebooks published by Maruzen.

Oxford Bibliographies Online This link opens in a new window

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Coverage varies. Unlimited.

These Bibliographies provide an authoritative guide to the current scholarship, expert recommendations and authoritative commentary on the best works available in the discipline covered, making them particularly useful for anyone beginning research.

UT Austin has access to the following subject areas:

Anthropology
Atlantic History
Cinema and Media Studies
Classics
Islamic Studies
Latin American Studies
Latino Studies
Literary & Critical Theory
Linguistics
Political Science
Sociology

Oxford Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window

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Coverage varies. Unlimited.

The Oxford Handbooks contain in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field. Each Handbook offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship, creating an original conception of the field and setting the agenda for new research. Handbook articles review the key issues and cutting-edge debates, as well as providing arguments for how those debates might evolve.

UT Austin currently has access to Handbooks in the following subjects areas, with dates of coverage varying by subject:

Economics & Finance
Foundation Political Science Collection
Foundation Psychology Collection
History
Law
Linguistics
Literature
Music
Philosophy
Political Science
Psychology

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History This link opens in a new window

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Most current edition. 5 users.

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History is a comprehensive digital research encyclopedia that describes Latin America’s peoples and experiences from 1491 and before to contemporary times. Updated monthly, the encyclopedia contains in-depth, peer-reviewed articles by leading scholars in the field.

Pravda Digital Archive This link opens in a new window

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1912 - Present. Unlimited.

Contains all published issues of Pravda between 1912 to present. Founded in 1912 in St. Petersburg, Pravda originated as an underground daily workers’ newspaper, and soon became the main newspaper of the revolutionary wing of the Russian socialist movement. Today, Pravda still remains the official organ of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. This database features full page-level digitization, complete original graphics, and searchable text.

PsyArXiv This link opens in a new window

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2016 - Present. Unlimited

A free preprint service for the psychological sciences, maintained by the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science. Allows scholars to post working papers, unpublished work, and articles under review (preprints), making them accessible to other researchers and to the public at no cost.

PsycTESTS This link opens in a new window

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1899 - Present. Unlimited.

Professionally indexed, the PsycTESTS® database is an extensive collection of items associated with psychological measures, scales, surveys, and other instruments essential to the research needs of professionals, students, and educators across the behavioral and social sciences.

Focused on a collection of instrumentation tools developed for research but not made commercially available, PsycTESTS helps researchers easily find scales and measures for their own use. PsycTESTS is an indispensable resource for researchers looking to conduct, create, or measure research in multiple fields of study.

PubChem This link opens in a new window

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Unlimited.

An open database of freely available chemical information including chemical and physical properties, biological activity, toxicity and safety, with literature and patent citations. PubChem mostly contains small molecules, but also larger molecules such as nucleotides, carbohydrates, lipids, peptides, and chemically-modified macromolecules. Searchable by name, molecular formula, structure, and other identifiers.