Optics InfoBase
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Optics InfoBase [1917-present] provides indexing and abstracts to access over one dozen journals and 70 conference proceedings in the field of optics. Full text is provided for the journals Applied Optics, Journal of the Optical Society of America Part A (JOSA A), Journal of the Optical Society of America Part B (JOSA B), Optics & Photonics News, and Optics Letters.

Oxford English Dictionary Online     
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The OED is "the ultimate authority on the English language as well as a history of English speech and thought from its infancy to the present day." It is a unique source of scholarly information on the meaning, history and pronunciation of 500,000 words, tracing their historical appearances through 2.5 million quotations. For an introduction and guide to the OED.

Oxford Reference Online     
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The award-winning Oxford Reference Online (ORO) database contains the full text of over 200 reference books and dozens of English and bilingual dictionaries, plus 50,000 in-depth articles, hundreds of links to valuable web resources, and thousands of maps and illustrations, all produced by the authoritative Oxford University Press. ORO provides efficient one-stop-shopping for facts, definitions, biographies, and dates in one scholarly, full-text database.


PAIS
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PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) is an index to periodicals, books, and international, federal and state documents published since 1915. Subjects covered include economics, the media, health conditions, banking and business, politics, law and ethics, social issues, and public administration.

Palmer's Full Text Online, (The Times of London)      
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An excellent starting point for students and scholars of British life and world affairs in the nineteenth century, this database indexes the Times of London from 1790 to 1905. It also provides the full text of this newspaper from 1800 to 1870.  It is especially useful for researchers in the fields of history, politics, economics, business, the arts, and genealogy. For a step-by-step demonstration.

PapersFirst  
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PAPERSFIRST (index to conference papers) covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by the British Library from 1993 to the present. Extensive Help pages are available for basic, advanced and expert searches. PapersFirst is updated twice a month.

Past Masters (major works in philosophy)      
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PAST MASTERS (major works in philosophy) is a collection of primary-source full-text philosophy databases. Past Masters titles are usually comprised of the complete works of an individual author, and can include diaries, letters and correspondence. A list of available collections is available in the "Select a Title" box. UTD does not currently have a subscription to the POEISIS journal collection.

Patent Database   
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Includes information about all US patents (including utility, design, reissue, plant patents and SIR documents) from the first patent issued in 1790 to the most recent issue week. Full-text information, including the inventor's name, patent title and description, are provided for patents from 1976 to the present online. Pre-1976 information is searchable only by patent number and classification. More extensive information on patents from 1967 - 1975 available in the print title Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office - Patents (located in U.S. Government Documents - 2nd Floor, Call No. C 21.5:). Electronic database updated weekly. Provided by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. User's Web browser must be able to display TIFF images (more about system requirements).

The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800  
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Published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800, The Pennsylvania Gazette is considered The New York Times of the 18th century. It provides a first hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of the periods. Thousands of articles, editorials, letters, news items and advertisements cover the Western Hemisphere, from the Canadian Maritime Provinces, through the West Indies and North and South America, giving a detailed glimpse of issues and lifestyles of the times. Also included is the full-text of such important writings such as: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Letters from a Farmer, Thomas Payne`s Common Sense, The Federalist Papers, etc.

Performing Arts POWERSEARCH
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Performing Arts POWERSEARCH searches the following databases simultaneously: Humanities Abstracts, Art Abstracts, Essay and General Literature Index, Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984, Academic Search Complete, Communication & Mass Media Complete, and Humanities International Index.

Periodicals Archive Online (PAO)
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Periodicals Archive Online database is the new name of PCI Full Text---an archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Researchers can access over 200 years of scholarship on a wide variety of subjects.

Periodicals Index Online (PIO)  
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PIO indexes hundreds of humanities, science, and social science journals from different countries in several languages. Many full-text articles are included. Coverage for some journals begins in the 17th century. Especially useful for scholarly book reviews.

Philosopher's Index     
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An international index with abstracts to books and scholarly journals of philosophy and related fields written after 1939.  It covers ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, logic, and metaphysics, as well as material on the philosophy of disciplines such as law, religion, science, history, and education. It is the most important database for philosophy.

Philosophy & Religion POWERSEARCH
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Philosophy & Religion POWERSEARCH searches the following databases simultaneously: Humanities Abstracts, Humanities International Index, Essay & General Literature Index, Academic Search Complete, and Religion and Philosophy Collection.

Physical Education Index
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Physical Education Index (1970-) covers a broad collection of materials including, but not restricted to, peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents and popular press. Subject coverage includes kinesiology, coaching, sports law, sports equipment, business and marketing, sports psychology, patents, health education and physical therapy as well as other sports-related topics.

Physics POWERSEARCH
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Physics POWERSEARCH searches the following databases simultaneously: Academic Search Complete, INSPEC, General Science Abstracts, and Science & Technology Collection.

PHYSICSnetBASE
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Covers books from astrophysics to quantum physics, materials science to optoelectronics, this unified database offers both fundamental theories as well as contemporary investigations of time, matter, and space. It includes many publications from the world-renowned Institute of Physics.

Population Index   
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An index of books, articles, working papers, and other material on population topics. Population Index begins in 1986 and stops in 2000. For help using Population Index, click here.

POWERSEARCH    
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Searches one or all of the EBSCO databases simultaneously.


Pre-CINAHL
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A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to searchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing.

Primary Search
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Primary Search provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates back to 1993.

ProceedingsFirst  
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Indexes citations of every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library. Covers 1993 to the present.

Professional Development Collection
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Professional Development Collection indexes and abstracts more than 700 journals. The collection includes full-text for nearly 550 education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. The majority of full text titles included in the database are available in PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in the Professional Development Collection dates as far back as 1965.

Project Muse (electronic journals from Johns Hopkins Press)   
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PROJECT MUSE (electronic journals from Johns Hopkins Press) provides full-text access to more than 300 scholarly journals in arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics. Coverage is from 1993 to the present. A list of titles indexed is available under "journals". Searching can be done within all journals, a selection of journals or just one journal. Searching is simple, with help pages for basic and advanced searches.

PsycArticles     
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The PsycArticles database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. This database contains more than 100,000 searchable full text articles from 48 journals published by the American Psychological Association and 11 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 59 journals. Coverage spans from 1894 to the present.

PsycBOOKS
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PsycBOOKS is a database of more than 17,000 chapters in full-text PDF from over 1,100 scholarly books published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and other distinguished publishers. Coverage ranges from 1806 to 2005, including 100 out-of-print books from 1950-2002. Select the database PsychBooks for book searching options.

PsycInfo 
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PsycINFO is the premier online index for researching psychological literature, including related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. PsycInfo indexes over 2,100 psychology journals, including book chapters, books and dissertations. The index starts in 1806 (1887 for journals) and is updated weekly. This version of PsycInfo includes links to electronic journals.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
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Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database providing nearly 575 full text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed journals. The database covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1965. Updated daily.

Public Policy POWERSEARCH  
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Public Policy POWERSEARCH searches all of these databases simultaneously: Academic Search Complete; Business Source Complete; Econlit; Essay & General Literature Index; HAPI; Index to Legal Periodicals & Books; Military & Government Collection; Social Sciences Abstracts.

PubMed
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PubMed, developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine, provides access to citations and abstracts from biomedical literature. Over 10,500 journals are indexed by PubMed with coverage back to the 1950s. Links to full-text articles at other journal Web sites are provided for many of the citations within PubMed. PubMed includes the Medline database as well as in-process citations.