Blume Library: Discovering Discover: Home

Discover - Basic Search Screen

Discover is a service that acts like a search engine of many of the Blume Library's resources, including books and eBooks, background articles, journal articles, streaming video, and government information. The Basic search screen default limit is set to items Available in the Library Collection.

Discover - Advanced Search Screen

Discover = EBSCO Discovery Service = EDS

Why & When to Use Discover

Starting research on a topic new to you or to your students
Topic is interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary
Uncertain about which library databases will retrieve the desired information
Especially helpful for undergraduates, but helpful for faculty & graduate students, too

What's Included

Library Catalog
records for books, DVDs, CDs, government documents and information, selected documents from other sources records and links to full-text for eBooks, government information, selected online videos
Subscription Databases
Nearly all of the library's subscription databases, with the exceptions noted below.

What's Not Included

This list is subject to change.

Open Dissertations This link opens in a new window
A free database with records for more than 1.2 million electronic theses and dissertations from around the world.
Cabells Scholarly Analytics This link opens in a new window
Provides journal information including acceptance rates, review type and time to review, journal citation metrics like Journal Impact Factor and Cabells Classification Index (CCI), publication model (traditional or types of open access), journal editors and contact information.

Our subscription provides access to accounting, business, and economics titles.
CiteSeerX This link opens in a new window
Free scientific literature digital library and search engine focused on the literature in computer and information science.
Dissertations & Theses @ St Mary's University - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Dissertations written by St. Mary's University doctoral students. Graduating doctoral students must upload an electronic copy of their dissertations to Proquest after graduate school approval and before the graduation deadline. Also included a few master's theses.
ESG Direct (MSCI) This link opens in a new window
An integrated suite of tools to conduct research and analysis across a broad spectrum of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors.
Google Books This link opens in a new window
Search across the full text of millions of books. Most books are not available full text. "Get the Book" links to WorldCat to see the libraries that own the book. Request books that our libraries don't own using Interlibrary Loan.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Search for scholarly works from a wide variety of disciplines. Use strong critical thinking and assessment when considering an article from this source. Only use academically sound resources. When in doubt, check with a librarian!
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Focuses on law journals, case law, and government documents. Some United States collections include the Congressional Record, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, and parts of the Serial Set. Other notable collections offered are the US state collections, Canon law materials, international treaties and agreements, English legal materials, and United Nations legal materials.

Learn more about this resource at: https://lib.stmarytx.edu/HeinOnline
HeritageQuest - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
US Federal Census records from 1790-1930 and over 25,000 genealogical books on local history, genealogy, and primary source materials. Covers 50 states and Canada, England, and Ireland.
Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Includes homeland security strategy, policy and research documents published by federal, state and local government agencies, international governments and institutions, research institutions, universities, and think tanks. To search the full collection from an off-campus location, students and faculty will need individual research accounts, which can be requested directly from HDSL. Be sure to use your St. Mary's University email account.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy This link opens in a new window
Provides open access to accessible, detailed, scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy.
Learning Express Library This link opens in a new window
Materials to help with job preparation, career advancement, career changes, and re-entry into the workforce. Includes SAT, ACT, GMAT, GRE, LSAT, and MCAT test prep, and other certification, licensing, and aptitude tests. Note: You need to create a free user account.
LLMC Digital (Law Library Microfiche Consortium) This link opens in a new window
Searchable online access to government and legal literature.
Historical Newspapers: New York Times with Index - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Full image articles published by the New York Times from 1851-2018.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) This link opens in a new window
"Aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions." Note: slow to load; slow to retrieve results
Open Library This link opens in a new window
Open Library is a partnership of libraries to offer interlibrary loan of eBooks directly to library patrons. Account holders can borrow eBooks from the site. St. Mary's University is a participant in the Open Library initiative. Create an account to start using Open Library. Take a look at the Help page for more information.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) This link opens in a new window
A historical dictionary that is the accepted authority on the English language as an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words, past and present, from across the English-speaking world.
PhilPapers This link opens in a new window
Open access index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers. Includes citations to journals, books, open access archives, and personal pages maintained by academics.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses This link opens in a new window
Locate open access dissertations and theses free of charge. Full text.
Proquest Dissertation Express This link opens in a new window
Citation-only database, freely available to search. Search by keyword, author, title, or UMI publication number. Users have the option to purchase dissertations in various format, including PDF download.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy This link opens in a new window
Each entry is maintained and kept up-to-date by an expert or group of experts in the field, and all entries and substantive updates are refereed by members of a distinguished Editorial Board.
Texas Digital Sanborn Maps (1867-1970) - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Provides digital access to large-scale maps of Texas towns and cities. Founded in 1867 by D. A. Sanborn, the Sanborn Map Company was the primary American publisher of fire insurance maps for nearly 100 years.
Wall Street Journal - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Full text of the Wall Street Journal. Coverage 1984 to the present. Searchable. Indexing includes subjects, companies, people, products, and geographic areas. the single most authoritative source of global and national business reporting.
Women Film Pioneers Project (WFPP) This link opens in a new window
A freely accessible database that showcases hundreds of women who worked behind-the-scenes in the silent film industry as directors, producers, editors, and more. It features career profiles on each pioneer, longer overview essays on national cinemas and occupations, still and moving images, and archival and bibliographic resource materials.
WorldCat FirstSearch This link opens in a new window
Subscription interface. Choose this version if you want to use advanced searching techniques, including sorting by number of libraries who own an item. WorldCat provides information on the holdings of the world's libraries. The public version, designed for most users, is available online at worldcat.org and on the databases list.
WorldCat Public This link opens in a new window
Public interface. Search the Blume Library's collection and many other libraries worldwide.

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