Electronic Resources

UNM-Los Alamos Library

Electronic Resources

Online Catalog

LIBROS - provides access to library holdings at UNM-Los Alamos, other UNM libraries, and other university libraries in the state.
WorldCat - searches library catalogs internationally (contains over 71 million records in OCLC member libraries)

General Periodical Index Databases

Academic Search Complete (mixture of full-text and citations/abstracts) - select from resulting list.
Academic Search Premier (some full-text - select from Ebsco menu) - general index to articles across many disciplines.
APS (American Periodical Series) Online (full-text through ProQuest) - index to articles published between 1740 & 1900.
Expanded Academic ASAP (some full-text) - general index to articles across many disciplines.
First Search (some full-text) - general index to articles across many disciplines.
Oxford University Press Publications (full-text) - select from resulting list. 196 titles in Life Sciences, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law, and including some of the most authoritative journals in their fields. 1996-present.
Periodicals Archive Online - select from resulting list - More than 475 journals covering international, scholarly literature in the humanities and social sciences disciplines.
Project Muse (full-text) - index to articles in 250 scholarly journals in many subject areas.
ProQuest (some full-text) - general index to articles across many disciplines.
Sage Publications (full-text) - select from resulting list; limit search to "SAGE Content available to me." Provides articles in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Technology, and Medicine.

Newspaper Index Databases

America's Historical Newspapers, Early American Newspapers, Series I, II, III 1690-1922 - full text and images from newspapers published in North America.
Black Studies Center (full-text) - select from resulting list. Includes studies, newspapers, periodicals, images and video clips.
Civil War Era, ProQuest (full-text) - includes a combination of pamphlets and newspaper articles about the Civil War.
Hispanic American Newspapers 1808-1980 (full-text) - select from resulting list. Includes some bilingual titles.
Historical Newspapers, ProQuest (full-text) - Atlanta Constitution 1868-1939; Atlanta Daily World 1931-2003; Chicago Tribune 1949-1986; Christian Science Monitor 1908-1994; Los Angeles Sentinel 1934-1995; Los Angeles Times 1881-1986; New York Amsterdam News 1922-1993; Pittsburgh Courier 1911-2002; Washington Post 1877-1991.
Latin American Newsstand (full text - select from ProQuest databases) - selection of Latin-American newspapers and newswires covering international and Latin-American regional topics.
Lexis Nexis (full-text) - primarily an index to articles in major newspapers throughout the world.
Lexis Nexis Corporate Affiliations - select from resulting list.
New Mexico Newspapers (full-text) - select from resulting list. Includes access to Albuquerque Journal 1995-present; Las Cruces Sun-News Feb. 14, 2004-present; and Roswell Daily Record 2002-present.
New Mexico Newsstand (full text - select from ProQuest databases) - index to articles in New Mexico newspapers.
New York Times 1851-2002 - offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. (Click on the databases selected link, then scroll to the bottom of databases list to select this database).
New York Times 1995-present (full text select from ProQuest databases)
Regional Business News (full-text) - select from resulting list.
US Hispanic Newsstand (full text - select from ProQuest databases) - major Hispanic newspapers published in the United States and representing diverse regions of the country. Includes Spanish and English language publications focusing on the Hispanic community .

Subject-Specific Periodical Index Databases

Applied Science & Technology Full Text - select from resulting list.
Art Full Text - select from the resulting list.
Bibliography of Native North Americans (full-text - select from Ebsco Host databases) - contains citations from the cumulative 8 volumes of the ethnographic Bibliography of North America as well as additional new citations.
BioOne (full-text) - select from resulting list.
Black Studies Center (full-text) - select from resulting list. Includes studies, newspapers, periodicals, images and video clips.
Business and Company Resource Center (full-text)
CINAHL (full-text through Ebsco Host) - more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937. CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
Communication and Mass Media Complete (full-text - select from Ebsco Host databases) - combines the resources from CommSearch, Mass Media Articles Index and full text from 200 titles in areas related to communication and mass media.
Computer and Applied Sciences Complete (some full-text) - select from resulting list. Indexes almost 1,500 journals.
Education Research Complete (full-text) - select from Ebsco Host databases. See description on Ebsco list.
Environment Complete (full-text) - select from Ebsco Host databases. See description on Ebsco list.
Ethnic NewsWatch (some full-text) - select from resulting list.
Film and Television Literature Index (full-text - select from Ebsco Host databases) - definitive index to film and television literature.
Gender Watch (some full-text) - select from resulting list.
Gerritsen Collection (women's history) (full-text) - select from resulting list - Includes books, pamphlets, and periodicals from 1543 to 1945, in up to 15 languages.
Health and Wellness Resource Center (full-text)
History Cooperative (full-text) - current issues of the American Historical Review, Journal of American History and others.
History Reference Center (full-text) - select from Ebsco Host databases. See description on Ebsco list.
Humanities International Complete (full-text - select from Ebsco Host databases)) - index to hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world.
International Index to Music Periodicals (full-text) - select from resulting list.
International Index to the Performing Arts (full-text) - select from resulting list.
J-STOR Language and Literature Collection (full-text) - complete back files of more than over 40 scholarly
journals in JSTOR's Language and Literature Collection.
Latino American Experience (full text) - select from resulting list.
Literary Criticism Online (full text) - select from resulting list.
Military and Government Collection (some full-text - select from Ebsco Host databases) - current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government.
MIT Journals (full-text) - select from resulting list. 39 journal titles in arts and humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.
Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present (full text) - select from resulting list.
PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanisticas) - Full text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin.
PsycARTICLES (full-text through CSA Illumina) - index to articles in almost 50 psychology journals.
Reference USA Business Database (full-text)
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature - (abstracts only - select from Ebsco Host databases) - comprehensive guide to publications on music from all over the world.
Sociological Abstracts with ProQuest Full Text (some full-text) - select from resulting list.

Legal Resources

Drunk Driving Defense Library - select from resulting list.
Elder Law Library - select from resulting list.
Employment Discrimination Law Library - select from resulting list.
Family Law Library - select from resulting list.
Lexis Nexis Academic (full-text) - select the "Legal" tab.
Lexis Nexis Congressional Publications - select from resulting list.
Lexis Nexis Government Periodicals Index - select from resulting list.
Lexis Nexis Statistical Universe - select from resulting list.
Loislaw - legal assistance database (full-text)

General Online Reference Sources

Career Library (full-text) - online interactive site for exploring careers, finding colleges, etc.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online (full-text)
Facts.com (full-text) - a very dynamic current events and historical information database
Gale Virtual Reference Library (full-text)
General Reference Center - (full-text)
Reference USA Business Database (full-text)
U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection (Historical full-text - select from resulting menu) - archive of U.S. Congressional legislative reports (1789-1969)
xreferplus (full-text) - Contains over 150 reference books including dictionaries, quotations, thesauri, and encyclopedias. 1.25 million entries, 30 million cross-references, 20,000 searchable images, 76,000 audio files of pronunciation.

Subject-Specific Online Reference Sources and Books

African American Poetry (full-text) - select from resulting list. Contains over 15,000 poems dating from 1760-20th Century.
African Writers Series (full-text) - select from resulting list. Works of African prose, poetry and drama from the mid- and late- 20th century.
American Drama 1714-1915 (full-text) - select from resulting list. Includes over 1,500 early American plays.
American Indian History Online - select from resulting list. Includes biographies, images, maps and charts, legends, primary sources, and timeline entries.
Art Museum Image Gallery - select from resulting list.
Birds of North America Online (full-text) - includes information on all 716 species of birds in the United States and Canada.
Black Studies Center (full-text) - select from resulting list. Includes studies, newspapers, periodicals, images and video clips.
Civil War Era, ProQuest (full-text) - includes a combination of pamphlets and newspaper articles about the Civil War.
Dance in Video - select from resulting list. Includes 250 dance productions and documentaries from the 20th-Century.
Declassified Documents Reference System (full-text) - select from resulting list. Contains hundred of declassified post-WWII government documents.
Digital National Security archive (full-text) - contains over 400,000 pages of de-classified information - select from resulting list.
Early American Imprints, Series I, II, 1639-1819 - select from resulting list - books, pamphlets, other imprints
Early English Books Online (full-text)
Education Research Complete (full-text) - select from Ebsco Host databases. See description on Ebsco list.
Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (full-text)
Energy Technology Data Exchange World Energy Base (some full-text) - select from resulting list - over 4,000,000 bibliographic records and over 200,000 full-text documents. Registration required.
Environment Complete (full-text) - select from Ebsco Host databases. See description on Ebsco list.
Gerritsen Collection (women's history) (full-text) - select from resulting list - Includes books, pamphlets, and periodicals from 1543 to 1945, in up to 15 languages.
GreenFILE (some full-text) - select from result list. A "green" technology resource.
Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (full-text) 2 concurrent users only - the 88th edition.
History Reference Center (full-text) - select from Ebsco Host databases. See description on Ebsco list.
JSTOR - Language and Literature Collection (full-text)
Literary Reference Center (full-text) - select from resulting list. See description on list.
MedlinePlus (full-text)- a free consumer health database from the National Library of Medicine.
New Mexico Health Connection Go Local - a health service directory for all of New Mexico.
North American Indian Drama - select from resulting list. Contains 93 plays by 18 playwrights.
North American Indian Thought and Culture - select from resulting list - biographies, auto-biographies, oral histories, etc.
Points of View Reference Center (full-text) - select from resulting list. Contains essays on controversial current issues.
RMOA - Rocky Mountain Online Archive (finding aids to archival materials in Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming) - select from resulting list.
Sabin Americana 1500-1926 (full-text) - select from resulting list. Contains important rare primary sources about the Americas. Topics include exploration, pioneering, settlement, the western movement, military actions, Native Americans, and slavery and abolition.
Sanborn Maps
Small Engine Repair Reference Center (full-text) - select from resulting list. Repair manuals from everything from boats and motorcycles to cars and tractors.
SPORTSDiscus (full-text) - select from resulting list.
Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro (full-text) - select from resulting list. Contains hundreds of works from Spain's "Golden Age" 1500-1700.
Twentieth-Century Drama - select from resulting list.

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