Book Collection: Nonfiction – More than 4,500 nonfiction titles covering all core subject areas, as well as information on careers, health, sports, adventure, technology, life skills, and more.
Books at JSTOR – Contains over 32,000 ebooks from 100+ academic publishers with subject strengths in the humanities and social sciences.
Credo Reference – Access to over 3 million full-text entries alongside thousands of easily searchable images, audio files, and videos from over 100 publishers, helping students start their research.
Digital Sanborn Maps – Louisiana – Provides access to fire insurance maps of Louisiana from 1867–1970, including building outline, size and shape. Click the Browse and Explore button to start your search.
Dissertations & Theses – The world’s most comprehensive collection of multidisciplinary dissertations and theses, featuring 6 million records from more than 70 countries and over 4,100 institutions, of which over 3 million are full-text.
Encyclopedia of Women and Crime – A multi-volume encyclopedia that provides global, historical, and contemporary perspectives on crime, justice, and gender, analyzing women as both offenders and victims of crime.
EndNote – A web-based tool for managing and citing references in papers and creating bibliographies.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia – Indexes and provides full-text records, images, and brief biographies, covering an array of topics.
Gale in Context: Biography – Covers historically significant figures to present-day newsmakers with authoritative reference content, magazines, journal articles, primary sources, videos, audio, and images.
Gale Ebooks – Provides full-text access to hundreds of reference sources in a wide array of disciplines.
History Reference Source – Provides full-text reference books, encyclopedias, nonfiction books, magazines, historical documents, and biographies of historical figures, as well as historical photos, maps, and videos.
Journal Citation Reports – Assess the role of each journal in the evolving scholarly publishing landscape to make informed decisions about manuscript submission, collection development, and portfolio management.
Louisiana Digital Library – An online library of more than 400,000 digital items, including photographs, maps, manuscript materials, books, oral histories, and more, from Louisiana archives, libraries, museums, and other repositories documenting the state’s history and culture.
Mango Languages – An online language learning system that provides interactive audio tutorials to teach conversational skills in over 70 languages. Users can create a profile to track their progress.
Oxford Bibliographies – Offers research guides across a variety of subject areas, combining an annotated bibliography and an encyclopedia.
Oxford English Dictionary – Guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words past and present from across the English-speaking world.
Oxford Reference – Includes approximately 50 subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, and subject companion books, published from 2002 to 2018.
Publication Finder – Lists journals that are available in full-text format via Sims Library electronic resources, both alphabetically and by subject.
Referencia Latina – Offers content from a variety of sources, including an inclusive collection of images, health reports, and full text for reference books and a spectrum of Spanish-language academic publications.
Sage Reference & Academic Books – Provides access to ebooks in the social sciences, including scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, and professional development titles.
Serials Directory – Provides bibliographic, subscription, and access information for popular and scholarly U.S. and international serial publications, including newspapers.
Statistical Abstracts of the United States – A comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States.
WorldCat – Indexes and provides information on library locations of materials at libraries worldwide.