Two New Databases

The VC/UHV Library is pleased to announce the addition of two new electronic databases to our collection – RAND Texas and Library Press Display. Both databases are available to on and off-campus users.

 Library Press Display provides instant online access to today’s newspapers from around the world in full-color, full-page format.  The collection currently includes more than 1,700 U.S. and international titles—from 94 countries in 48 languages. Just like reading the print edition, viewers can browse articles and other key content, such as pictures, advertisements, classifieds, and notices. The service also provides up to a 60-day backfile and the ability to perform keyword searches across all titles and the entire backfile.

Access to the Library Press Display is limited to 3 simultaneous users so please logout when finished.

RAND Texas, a service of the nation’s leading think tank, is a collection of 110 databases on TX and 49 other states.  RAND Texas now contains 110 databases (with about one-half covering all 50 U.S. states).  RAND Texas Statistics offers a comprehensive portfolio of statistics for the state of Texas. These datasets are broken down into seven categories:

• Business and Economics contains information on employment, unemployment, industry and occupational wages, occupational projections, construction and real estate (including non-residential vacancy rates), inflation, foreign trade, retail and taxable sales, sales tax rates, gross state product, personal and per capita income, farm income, city budgets, and airport operating statistics.
• Community includes a number of “quality of life” measures, such as crime rates, air quality, traffic, population density, and tax rates.
• Education covers public and private Kindergarten through college schools in Texas. It includes enrollment, test scores, class size, student and teacher demographics, teacher salaries, district finances, and other data. Many of the databases are searchable by zip code.
• Energy and Environment reports energy generation, sources, consumption, expenditures and prices, gas emissions, wind power capacity, and estimated water usage.
• Government Finance summarizes federal, state, and local expenditures in Texas. This link includes tax rates, R&D spending, and government employment.
• Health and Socioeconomic covers public assistance programs, such as TANF (welfare), and health care providers, including physicians and others.
• Population and Demographics contains U.S., Texas, county, and city population estimates, including population estimates by race, ethnicity, and age for most areas. It also includes population projections, border crossing and immigration statistics, and vital statistics.

You can access Library Press Display or RAND Texas from the VC/UHV Library website under the “List of all databases A to Z” or by clicking on the hyperlinks in this post. If you have any questions about using the new databases (or any of the Library resources), please contact the Reference Librarian.