Scholarly and general interest sources in business, medicine, humanities, social sciences, and science and technology. Provides full text for more than 5,000 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Covers the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. This extensive database indexes over 2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, this database indexes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities.
Online, full text access to scholarly journals from date of inception to a "moving wall" of 2-5 years from present. The archived collection includes journals in humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The content is searchable by author, title, fulltext with limits by discipline, year, and article type.
Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790— and is a good source for foreign newspapers.
*Previously called Lexis Nexis Academic.
Nexis Uni offers an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
This index "covers issues in public policy, combining both PAIS Archive and PAIS International, with coverage from 1915 to present. Sources include journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material and more (ProQuest).
While the index itself has little fulltext, Fondren has 'linked' to our online journal subscriptions - click on the FullText@Fondren icon.
Provided by the Government Publication Office (GPO). Use MetaLib's federated searching to retrieve government reports, articles, and citations by simultaneously searching across more than fifty Federal Government databases.
Provides full-text access to historical (1789- ) and current U.S. Congressional publications, and information about members of Congress and Congressional committees. Track federal bills and laws.
HeinOnline is the world’s largest fully searchable, image-based government document and legal research database. Fondren Library has access to: 1) HeinOnline Academic; 2) U.S. State Full Package; and 3) Fastcase Premium.
Access to: CQ Almanac (analysis of major legislation), CQ Researcher, CQ Magazine (reports acts of Congress since 1983 ), Politics in America, Supreme Court Yearbook and Voting and Elections Collection.
"The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation’s premier collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. The HSDL is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security (HSDL)." Rice University's Fondren Library users are authorized to search the Full Collection (182,800 resources).
The Monthly Catalog comprises all publications of the United States government, including those of the Congress and all executive departments (except administrative and confidential or restricted documents). This online version will make all issues of the Monthly Catalog from 1895 to June 1976 available, both as keyed full text records and as page images of the original printed catalog.
Stream educational and documentary videos, including the following collections: 1) Feature Films for Education; 2) World Cinema Collection; and 3) Science Video Collection.
A collection of films available to stream on demand from a variety of producers covering many different subject areas. Includes a growing collection of international films.
Note: If using a public PC in the library, users need to use Firefox.