Guest Databases for Government, Law, and Military Topics
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Databases by subject
Specific database services
Databases marked "IN LIBRARY USE ONLY"
can be searched
exclusively from the Public Access/Gov Docs computers in the Library.
indicates a TexShare database
| Database | Description | Full Text | Service |
| Academic Search Complete
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. This scholarly collection offers unmatched full text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields. |  |
EBSCOhost |
| Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals (AULIMP) | Subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals | |
Gov |
| Book Review Digest
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
A reference database that provides review excerpts and book summaries for current English-language fiction and non-fiction books for all ages. Abstracting and indexing is included for more than 112,000 books, with more than 8,000 new records from 109 periodicals added per year. Review abstracts contain bibliographic indexing for further reviews. Book Review Digest is searchable by title, author, keywords, subject heading, ISBN, call number and more. Abstracts include age/grade level of children's books and include the approximate number of words in the complete review, allowing users to search for any word or name in this field. | |
EBSCOhost |
| Criminal Justice Abstracts
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Criminal Justice Abstracts covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing. The database contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on a wide range of topics in criminal justice. | Cambridge Scientific Abstracts | |
| FindLaw: Cases & Codes | Access U.S. federal and state codes, statutes, regulations, and cases, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions back to 1893, California Supreme Court and Appellate Court decisions back to 1934 (with citations and internal page numbers), recent U.S. Circuit Court and other state court decisions and federal and state codes [FindLaw home page] | |
Free |
| GAO Reports | Contains all publicly released reports ("blue books"), testimonies, correspondence, and special publications on audits, surveys, investigations, and evaluations of Federal programs conducted by the Government Accounting Office (GAO) from FY 1995 to the present, as well as approximately 85% of the publicly released reports for FY 1994 and 3% for FY 1993. | |
Gov |
| Global Road Warrior
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
175 country resource for the international traveler, with a focus on business travel. Covers society and culture, communications, media, travel, trade, business, money and banking, and downloadable country maps. | |
World Trade Press |
| GPO Access | Official federal government information. Databases at this gateway include: Core Documents of U.S. History, Congressional Record, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, and other primary legislative sources | |
Gov |
| History Resource Center: U.S.
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Access to this resources is available until May 2010.
History Resource Center: U.S. provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes citations from over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index, as well as the entire "American Journey Online" series. |
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Gale / Infotrac |
| Homeland Security Digital Library
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Gateway to a wide range of authoritative resources on the subject of homeland security,collected from a wide range of sources, including federal, state, tribal, and local government agencies, professional organizations, think tanks, academic institutions, and international governing bodies. Resources are carefully selected and evaluated by a team of librarians and subject-matter specialists. The HSDL is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security. | |
Gov |
| Info Trac Custom Newspapers
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Full text coverage of selected articles from over 100 newspapers from the U.S. and around the world, including Austin American-Statesman (1/96- ), Christian Science Monitor (1/96- ), Financial Times (1/98- ), Houston Chronicle (1/96- ), Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (1/96- ), Los Angeles Times (1/96- ), and New York Times (rolling 365-day file) | |
Gale/InfoTrac |
| Latin America Network Information Center | LANIC facilitates access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. Covers areas such as the social sciences, economy, governments, and history. Includes a Castro Speech Database | |
Free/UT Austin |
| MasterFILE Premier
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes 315 full text reference books, nearly 100,000 biographies, 76,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags | |
EBSCOhost |
| Military & Government Collection
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. Provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles. | |
EBSCOhost |
| Nation Master | A massive, yet easy to use, source of facts, statistics, charts, and maps on every country in the world, compiled from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the World Bank, the World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF and OECD. | |
Free |
| National Criminal Justice Reference Service Virtual Library - Full-text publications | NCJRS is an online collection of over 7,000 full text publications from the web sites of the agencies of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. Covers all aspects of law enforcement and criminal justice including: police, courts, corrections, juvenile justice, community crime prevention, criminal justice system, fraud, waste, and abuse in government programs |
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Gov |
| National Issues | A non-partisan web site that presents both sides of major national issues making the rounds in the media | |
Free |
| Newspaper Source
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Provides full text of 139 regional U.S. newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, six news wires, and nine newspaper columns, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Los Angeles Times | |
EBSCOhost |
| PAIS International
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Database chronicling global public policy and social issues. Includes materials in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish with English language abstracts and subject headings, and links to web resources and publisher websites | |
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts |
| Polling Report | An independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion | |
Free |
| STARnet | A science, technology and research network developed by the Information Management Committee of the NATO
Research Technology Agency (RTA). The purpose of this network is to facilitate access to information elements existing worldwide, in terms of science, technology and overall research. STARnet is a database of Web-based data sources, which will allow comprehensive and sophisticated searches. There are seven thematic or scientific areas (called "nodes") of
STARnet:
Aerospace and Aerospace-Related Research Information Node (ARIN) Defense Against Terrorism Node (DTIN) Environmental and Biological Sciences Node (EBSIN) Information Science Node (INSCIN) Land-based Operations Node (LBON) Naval, Marine and Sea-based Operations Node (NAVMAS) Research Planning Node (RESPLAN) |
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NATO |
| State and Local Government on the Net | Guide to government-sponsored Internet sites | Free | |
| Scientific and Technical Information Network (STINET) | "Public STINET" gives access to all unclassified, unlimited citations to documents added to the Defense Technical & Information Center from late December 1974 to present. The link is to "Quick Search". For more information see the home page. | |
Gov |
| TexasLawHelp.org | Web site dedicated to providing free, reliable legal information to those who cannot afford legal help. | |
Partnership for Legal Access |
| Wiley InterScience®
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Provide full-text access to journal articles in the fields of business; chemistry; computer science; earth and environmental science; education; engineering; law; life sciences; mathematics and statistics; medicine and healthcare; physics and astronomy; polymers and materials science; psychology; and social sciences. | |
Wiley |
| World Factbook | Online version of the current edition of the Factbook, produced by the CIA | |
Gov |
