What topics do these TexShare databases cover? How do I begin using a specific database? These questions and more are covered in these quick and easy guides.

Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection
by Leanna Miles

The Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection, published by EBSCOhost, allows users to explore the scholarly literature in the field of psychology and behavioral science. Examples of prominent sources receiving attention are American Journal of Family Therapy, Current Psychology, and Journal of Mental Health. It includes approximately 550 full-text publications, and of these publications, more than 500 are peer-reviewed journals. The index does not provide information from popular media sources. The dates of coverage for these sources vary, but some journals have coverage back to 1965. It receives updates daily.

Academic Search Premier
by Sara Albert

EBSCOhost's Academic Search Premier is a powerful research tool for finding articles and other documents on almost any academic subject. This database provides indexing and abstracts for over 8,000 scholarly publications, as well as full-text articles for over half of these publications. Use Academic Search Premier when researching topics in social sciences, physical sciences, technology, and humanities.

InfoTrac Custom Newspapers
by Astrid Oliver

InfoTrac Custom Newspapers provides access to the articles of more than 100 U.S. newspapers and 60 international English-language newspapers. It is updated daily with first-hand accounts of current and historical events on local, national and international scales. Articles are provided in full-text and are completely indexed, including proper names.

ArticleFirst (OCLC)
by Lauren Reiman

ArticleFirst is an index produced by OCLC that allows you to search for journal articles by subject, title, and/or author.The index includes articles from the table of contents pages of more than 12,000 journals from 1990 to the present and it is updated daily. The index includes scholarly journals and popular works (such as magazines and newspapers), making ArticleFirst a valuable research tool for accessing articles for reference and for leisure purposes alike. Publications indexed in the database include American Journal of Health Studies, Economic Review, Good Housekeeping, National Geographic, People, Performing Arts Journal, Rolling Stone, and TV Guide.

WorldCat (OCLC)
by Laura Young

WorldCat is an index produced by OCLC that includes records of items in almost any format from thousands of libraries around the world. Items included date back as far as 1000BC. It is a large database containing millions of records, which exist in approximately 400 languages. The search pages are user friendly as they will keep track of previous searches, allow the user to email records, and link the user to libraries in their area.

Texas Almanac Online
by Renata Caldwell

Texas Almanac Online is a database which provides users with a comprehensive collection of historical, cultural, political and geographical information on the state of Texas. It is useful for accessing online information for use in reports and research on the history of Texas. Texas Almanac Online allows for an easy way to print hard copies of relevant documents, maps, tables and photos.

HeritageQuest
by Lore Guilmartin

HeritageQuest presents a varied and in-depth set of data for genealogists and historians. HeritageQuest is designed to help amateur and professional geneaologists, local historians, and public library patrons to search and use data from all of the U.S. Censuses until 1930, an index of 6,500 local history and genealogy periodicals (PERSI), a database of Revolutionary War pension and bounty-land warrant, plus the full text of 25,000 local histories and family histories.

Newspaper Source
by Monique Delatte

Newspaper Source is an index produced by EBSCOhost that provides well-researched articles by high quality, relevant and authoritative news sources. It carries selected full-text articles for 25 national and international newspapers such as The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Times (London). In addition, Newspaper Source carries selected full-text articles for 200 regional newspapers from the U.S. such as The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, and The Miami Herald. Of regional interest: Newspaper Source carries the following Texas newspapers in selected full-text: The Amarillo Globe-News, The Austin American-Statesman, The Beaumont Enterprise, The Brownsville Herald, The Dallas Morning News, The Forth Worth Star-Telegram, The Houston Chronicle, McAllen's The Monitor, The Odessa American, The San Antonio Express-News, The Tyler Morning Telegraph, Harlingen's The Valley Morning Star, The Victoria Advocate, and The Waco Tribune-Herald.