UTTC Digital Library

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AgeLine

1978 (select coverage 1966-1977) - present

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Updated regularly. Contains detailed summaries of publications about older adults and aging, including books, journal and magazine articles, research reports, and videos from the gerontology collection of AARP's Research Information Center, as well as selected articles from 300 magazines and journals. Covers English-language literature from many countries.

AIDSInfo

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Aimed at HIV/AIDS patients, the general public, health care providers, and researchers, this easily navigated site provides a central source for information on clinical trials for patients with HIV and AIDS, federally approved HIV treatment and prevention guidelines, and medical practice guidelines.

Alt Health Watch

1990 - present

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Updated regularly. Focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Offers full text articles, from more than 180 international, and often peer reviewed, reports, proceedings, associations and consumer newsletters. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. Provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990.

Baseball-Almanac: The "Official" Baseball History Site

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This site offers one-stop shopping for facts, statistics, and trivia on professional baseball. Organized by categories such as all-star games, awards, fabulous feats, famous firsts, hall of fame, player stats, record book and year in review, the site also features current baseball news and "Today in Baseball History" notes. Advertising is present on the site, as are some links to eCommerce sites such as eBay offering baseball related memorabilia ; however, all of the information on the Baseball Almanac site itself is free.

BBB: Better Business Bureau

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The Council of Better Business Bureaus, a nonprofit umbrella organization of US and Canadian Better Business Bureaus, works to foster "fair and honest relationships between businesses and consumers...through voluntary self-regulation." On this well-laid-out site, users can locate their local Better Business Bureau; check out companies, including length of time in business, BBB membership, and complaint history; users may also submit complaints online, get information on charities through the Council's affiliated site, http://give.org/ , and shop online from over 12,000 companies belonging to local Better Business Bureaus, as well as review general consumer information and news

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

1771 to present

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This searchable directory provides biographical information on the more than 13,000 persons who have served in the U.S. Congress, including those who served in the Continental Congress. Also included are territorial delegates, resident commissioners, and U.S. Vice presidents.

Census Bureau U.S. - American Fact Finder

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Governmental source for population, housing, economic and geographic data.

Computer Source

1985 - present

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Updated regularly. Provides users with the latest information and current trends in high technology.

Consumer Health Complete

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Updated regularly. Consumer Health Complete (CHC) is a resource for consumer-oriented health content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, men's & women's health, and children's health.

Farmers Almanac

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This resource is the online version of the popular Farmers' Almanac. In keeping with the Almanac's goal of being informative as well as entertaining, the site, offers astronomical data, gardening information, and cooking and household hints.

FirstGov.gov

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The US government's Official Web Portal

Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia

Most current edition

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Updated annually. Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

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Dozens of reference sources in many subjects.

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online

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"A structured vocabulary of more than 1,000,000 geographic names, including vernacular and historical names, coordinates, and place types, focusing on places important for the study of art and architecture," the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online is a gazetteer and much more.

GPO Access

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GPO Access provides "access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government," including the use of "over 2,200 databases of Federal information in over 80 applications," many containing full text. This site includes the Budget of the United States, numerous Congressional resources, the Code of Federal Regulations, core documents of U.S. democracy, Economic Indicators, the Federal Register, the U.S. Code, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents and more.

Health and Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health Module

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Provides reference material as well as full text periodicals and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources.

Health Source: Consumer Edition

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Updated daily. Features searchable full text for nearly 190 journals as well as abstracts and indexing for over 200 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications.

Heritage Quest

1790-1930

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Provides a unique and continuously expanding collection of research materials to trace family lineage and American culture.

Hoaxbusters

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The objective of this site is to "describe some of the warnings, offers, and pleas for help that are filling our mailboxes, clogging our mailservers, and that generally do not have any basis in fact.".

Informacion en Vivo: Servicios de referencia en español

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This site is a one of a kind reference resource in the United States. In addition to offering Spanish language chat reference without requiring a New York Public Library barcode authentication, there is also a comprehensive list of Spanish web sites, classified under thirty plus subject categories, entitled "sitios del Web," useful to Spanish-speakers for answering a range of questions. Both services are available from the link, "Información en Vivo / Pídalo Aquí."

Labordoc

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Updated regularly. Contains references to a wide range of print and electronic publications, including journal articles, from countries around the world, on all aspects of work and sustainable livelihoods, and the work-related aspects of economic and social development and human rights.

Latin American Network Information Center

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Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas, Austin. The ambitious mission of this site is "...to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America." From Peruvian recipes to Chilean economic policies, LANIC provides vast resources, and can be accessed in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.

LII: Legal Information Institute

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Produced by the Cornell Law School, this comprehensive, well-organized site provides easy access to a vast selection of legal information. Resources include recent and historic U.S. Supreme Court decisions, full-text access to every U.S. state statute and constitution, complete full-text of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and the U.S. Code, as well as bills pending in state legislatures.

Natural & Alternative Treatments

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Updated regularly. A complementary and alternative medicine database designed specifically for the consumer-health researcher. The evidence-based content has been developed and reviewed by a team of physicians and pharmacologists with the goal of providing consumers with reliable information.

NCES: National Center for Education Statistics

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Aimed at educators, students, and the general public, this site "is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education in the U.S. and other nations."

Newspaper Source

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Updated daily. Provides cover-to-cover full text for 20 national (U.S.) & international newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc. Also contains selected full text for more than 230 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, Daily News (New York), San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc.

OAIster

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OAIster serves as a search portal for digital collections of electronic books, online journals, audio and image files, and movies provided by the research library community. Users can search by keyword, title, creator, subject or resource type.

Online Books Page

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The goal of the Online Books Page is to facilitate "access to books that are freely readable over the Internet.

Religion & Philosophy

1975 - present

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Updated daily. A comprehensive database covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.

Serials Directory

Most Current

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Updated regularly. Provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials.

StartSpot Network

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The StartSpot Network is a family of "Spot" sites, each serving as an indepth web portal for its category by guiding users to a wealth of outstanding resources which have been selected by an editorial team. Current spots include BookSpot, CinemaSpot, EmploymentSpot, GovernmentSpot, GenealogySpot, HomeworkSpot, HeadlineSpot, LibrarySpot, MuseumSpot, and TripSpot.

Texas Digital Sanborn Maps

1867 - 1970

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ProQuest Information and Learning's Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 provides academic and public libraries digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities in electronic form.

Texas Reference Center

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Updated weekly. Includes more than 80 full text journals and books about Texas history, ethnic & cultural diversity, gender studies, literature, public health, business as well as home & garden and sports & leisure. The database contains biographies portraying famous historical and contemporary Texans. Also available in the Texas Reference Center is the Spanish-language newspaper El Sol de Texas with Texas and national news coverage.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

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The PTO now offers the ability to investigate patents and trademarks on its web site. The site also provides information about applying for patents, careers with USPTO and in patent law, and intellectual property. "Special Pages for First Time Visitors" are available to help users get started. Appropriate forms and fee structures are available for those interested in securing their own patent or trademark.

Vocational & Career Collection

1985 - present

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Updated regularly. Designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and public libraries. Provides full text coverage for nearly 350 trade and industry related publications. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for over 600 journals. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985.

WorldCat

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Updated daily. Union catalog of materials held by OCLC libraries. 49,000,000+ bibliographic records for audio-visual materials, books, maps, musical scores, newspapers, periodicals and more.