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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window

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Coverage dates vary. See "more" for details. Unlimited users. 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.

Coverage note: A "PDF Full Text" or "HTML Full Text" link indicates available full text access. TWU Libraries may not subscribe to all titles on this platform: full access is not guaranteed. If you wish to obtain a copy of something the library does not have access to, please submit an Interlibrary Loan request. Visit this page for more information on how to submit an ILL request.

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window

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1937 - present. Unlimited users. Updated monthly.

The CINAHL database provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health disciplines. Includes indexing for more than 5,100 journals with coverage as far back as 1937 and full text coverage for more than 700 journals. In addition to journals, includes healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of professional practice, and educational software.

Coverage note: A "PDF Full Text" or "HTML Full Text" link indicates available full text access. TWU Libraries may not subscribe to all titles on this platform: full access is not guaranteed. If you wish to obtain a copy of something the library does not have access to, please submit an Interlibrary Loan request. Visit this page for more information on how to submit an ILL request.

EBSCOhost Databases This link opens in a new window

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Coverage dates, user restrictions, and update schedule vary by database.

A list of all EBSCO Databases TWU Libraries subscribe to select from.

JSTOR Journals This link opens in a new window

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Coverage dates vary. Unlimited users. Updated regularly.

Journal Storage (JSTOR) has 1,500+ full-text academic journals. Online archiving database for academic journals.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text (LISTA) This link opens in a new window

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Coverage dates vary. Unlimited users. Updated regularly.

Provides indexing for more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

PubMed This link opens in a new window

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Coverage dates vary. Unlimited users. Updated weekly.

28+ million records in 30+ languages, encompassing the largest biomedical research and clinical health sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical and bioengineering database in any language, with full text scholarly peer-reviewed and some limited popular information from 5,600+ journals, plus full text and peer reviewed books, dissertations, software. Excellent standards of care and evidence-based nursing, some legal case and conference proceedings and other health sciences. 34,000+ records added annually. Medline citations are included and updated daily.

Full-text availability subject to TWU Libraries subscription status. Click the Find It @ TWU button to search the Libraries catalog.
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New / Trial Databases

The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.

Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archea and Bacteria (BMSAB) This link opens in a new window

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All available content. Unlimited users. Updated 4x per year.

Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (BMSAB) is a reference work. About a hundred new genera and 600+ new species have been described per year for each of the last 5 years. To remain abreast of this explosion in knowledge of the microbial world, an electronic manual with frequent updates is necessary. The BMSAB is an essential tool for anyone at the forefront of research in microbiology.

Bergey's is the most complete and authoritative description of bacterial and archaeal diversity. Now available online for the first time, this edition provides descriptions of the taxonomy, systematics, ecology, physiology and other biological properties of all described prokaryotic taxa.

This is a new, unique, single point of online reference for microbiology with over 1,750 articles – equivalent to over 8 volumes in print.

COVID-19 - ProQuest Coronavirus Research Database This link opens in a new window

New Trial

Unlimited users. Updated daily.
Complimentary access to this database has been provided to Texas Woman's University Libraries through December 31, 2020 due to the COVID-19 crisis.

The Coronavirus Research Database is a collection of journal articles, preprints, conference proceedings, dissertations and more related to COVID-19 and other coronaviruses. It includes comprehensive research background coverage of past pandemics and epidemics, like MERS and SARS, to give researchers and students context around the current global crisis.

Music Online: Listening This link opens in a new window

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Updated monthly. Unlimited users.

Note: This comprehensive database combines the content from, and replaces the Contemporary World Music, and the Classical Music Library databases.
Music Online: Listening is the most comprehensive and highest quality streaming audio collection to support the teaching and research of music. It currently provides academic libraries with streaming access to over 10 million tracks, and is growing monthly as new recordings are added.

Teaching Professor This link opens in a new window

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2015 - present. Unlimited users.

A newsletter created to help college faculty improve their teaching, share best practices, and stay current on the latest pedagogical research.