#Databases A-Z: Full List
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- 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers This link opens in a new windowThis database consists of the British Library's collection of the newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by Reverend Charles Burney. Although the majority is published in London, there are some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, as well as a handful of examples from the American colonies. It includes over 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the 17th and 18th centuries.
- 19th Century British Newspapers, (aka British Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
This database features British newspapers from the 19th century selected by the British Library's editorial board. Many of the newspapers are available in complete runs, and all are searchable full-text. Access includes British Library Newspapers, Part I: 1800-1900, British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800-1900, British Library Newspapers, Part III: 1741-1950, British Library Newspapers, Part IV: 1732-1950 and British Library Newspapers, Part V: 1746-1950
- 19th Century U.S. Newspapers This link opens in a new windowFull-text content and images from a range of urban and rural newspapers throughout the U.S., with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture, Western migration and Antebellum-era life.
- 19th Century U.K. Periodicals Series This link opens in a new windowThe 19th century was a time of revolutionary change and expansion. Britain was one of the world's first industrial, urban superpowers and developed a press to feed the demands of its increasingly literate population. 19th Century UK Periodicals Online, 1800-1900 is a major new series that covers the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th century world.
- 20th Century American Newspapers, Series 1 This link opens in a new window20th-Century American Newspapers provides access to the issues of major U.S. newspapers published after 1922. Series 1 includes: Times-Picayune, 1923-1988 (New Orleans), Oregonian,1923-1987 (Portland), and the Plain Dealer, 1923-1991 (Cleveland).
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- AAPG Datapages This link opens in a new windowSearch the various collections of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
- ABC-CLIO eBooks This link opens in a new windowThe ABC-CLIO eBook Collection provides modern tools for successful research inquiries. It offers the same high-quality, authoritative, scholarly information librarians have come to expect from ABC-CLIO plus enhanced readability via a new reading pane, improved search and browse capabilities, and more. Customize your digital collection with encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, and guides from ABC-CLIO, Greenwood, Libraries Unlimited, and Praeger.
- ABI/INFORM Global This link opens in a new windowSearch nearly 1,800 premier worldwide business periodicals for information on companies, computers, advertising, marketing, economics, personnel, finance, taxation, etc. Includes the Wall Street Journal full-text 1984-
- Certification Matters: Is My Doctor Board Certified? This link opens in a new windowCertification Matters is a free service to see if a doctor is board certified by one of the 24 medical specialty boards (ABMS Member Boards) affiliated with the American Board of Medical Specialties® (ABMS®).
- Abstracts in Social Gerontology This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME; Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to social gerontology, including the psychology of aging, elder abuse, society and the elderly, and other key areas of relevance to the discipline. The index contains 70,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline, such as: Journals of Gerontology Series, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Experimental Gerontology, etc. EBSCO has digitized the full archive of this index, bringing coverage back to 1990.
- Academic Search Elite This link opens in a new windowThis multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 2,000 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis.
- Access World News Research Collection This link opens in a new windowCurrent and archived information from thousands of local, regional, national, and international news sources. Find diverse perspectives on topics related to business and economics, controversial issues, criminal justice, education, environmental studies, health, international studies, performing and fine arts, political science, science, social issues and more from a variety of current and retrospective news media including newspapers, newswires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, periodicals, videos and web-only content. Includes the Chicago Tribune and some Iowa newspapers.
- AccessEngineering This link opens in a new windowDelivers comprehensive authoritative information that accelerates research and innovation, and features content from a broad range of must-have McGraw-Hill engineering publications, including the latest editions of classics such as Marks’ Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Perry’s Chemical Engineers Handbook, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, Roark’s Formulas for Stress and Strain, and many more.
- Accessible Archives This link opens in a new windowA site devoted to primary source material in American history. Information archived is from leading historical periodicals and books, and includes eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and genealogical records. Databases are encyclopedic in scope and allow full Boolean, group, name, string, and truncated searches. Transcribed individual entries are complete with full bibliographic citations and are organized chronologically. Titles will continue to be added covering important topics and time periods for scholars and students of all academic levels.
- AccessMedicine This link opens in a new windowAccessMedicine.com is an online resource that provides complete references and services for physicians, students, and health professionals who need immediate access to authoritative and current medical data. It is updated daily. The service's central resource is a repository of medical knowledge from internal medicine, cardiology, genetics, pharmacy, diagnosis and management, basic sciences, patient care, and more. All databases in the repository contain the latest editions core medical titles from the AccessLange collection.
- AccessPharmacy This link opens in a new windowAccessPharmacy is an online curricular resource designed to meet the changing demands of pharmacy education. A flexible resource, AccessPharmacy allows students to select a core curriculum topic, browse by organ system, review textbooks, or search across leading pharmacy online references.
- ACLS Humanities E-Book This link opens in a new windowA collection of over 1,700 books of high quality in the humanities, accessible through institutional and individual subscription. These are works of major importance, from 250 publishers, that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature.
- ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new windowFull text of all articles from 1991 to date published in 21 ACM journals and transactions, as well as tables of contents of conference proceedings, are available at this site. A search engine allows the user to find relevant information from all sources.
- AM Explorer This link opens in a new windowAccess millions of pages of primary source collections across the entire portfolio of AM (Adam Matthew), spanning content from the 15th-21st centuries.
- African American Newspapers: The 19th Century This link opens in a new windowComplete texts of major 19th century African American newspapers. Includes first-hand reports of events and issues of the day, as well as biographies, vital statistics, essays, editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements.
UI access includes Parts I - XII. - African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 This link opens in a new windowFeatures more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans. Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, annual reports and other genres.
- African American Poetry This link opens in a new windowThe early history of African American poetry, from the first recorded poem by an African American (Lucy Terry Prince's 'Bars Fight', c.1746) to the major poets of the nineteenth century, including Paul Laurence Dunbar and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Part of Literature Online (LION).
- African Newspapers, 1800-1925 This link opens in a new windowMore than 40 nineteenth- and twentieth-century African newspapers. Featuring titles from Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Our subscription includes Series 2, 1835-1925 and Series 1, 1800-1922
- African Writers Series (Jan 2021 now found in Literature Online) This link opens in a new windowAS OF JAN 2021 CONTENT NOW FOUND ONLY IN PROQUEST LITERATURE ONLINE ONLY; The publication of this historic collection in online form restores access to a substantial body of literature, much of which is out of print and only accessible in specialist research libraries, opening up new possibilities for scholarship and teaching in the fields of African and literary studies.
- African American Newspapers Series 1 and 2 This link opens in a new windowIncludes Series 1 (1827-1998) AND Series 2 (1835-1956). Part of the Readex America's Historical Newspapers collection, African American Newspapers is a record of African American history, culture, and daily life. Covers life in the Antebellum South through the Civil Rights movement and more
- Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922 This link opens in a new windowThis collection spans nearly 400 years, from the early 16th to the early 20th century. These essential books, pamphlets and broadsides, including many lesser-known imprints, hold an unparalleled record of African American history, literature and culture.
- AgeLine This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME; Produced by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), AgeLine provides bibliographic coverage of social gerontology, i.e. the study of aging in psychological, health-related, social, and economic contexts. Also covered are the delivery of health care to the older population and its associated costs and policies, and consumer, employment, and public policy issues. Of interest to researchers, health professionals, service planners, policymakers, employers, older adults and their families, and consumer advocates.
- Academic Video Online This link opens in a new windowAcademic Video Online delivers almost 80,000 titles spanning a wide range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
- Alt-Press Watch This link opens in a new windowFull-text database indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals. (Main Library Reference Area holds vol. 1- July 1969- to present in the paper edition.)
- America's News Magazines This link opens in a new windowCoverage of U.S. and international news, business, lifestyle, entertainment, sports, and science and technology from 26 familiar magazines.
- America: History and Life This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME; Covers the world's scholarly literature in United States and Canadian history. It includes article abstracts from 1700 journals and bibliographic citations of books and dissertations. The coverage is 1954- .
- American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME; Covers North American scholarship on East-Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
- American Book Prices Current (ABPC) -- CEASED PUBLICATION DECEMBER 2022 This link opens in a new windowNB: AMERICAN BOOK PRICES CURRENT CEASED PUBLICATION DECEMBER 2022
American Book Prices Current is an annual record of books, manuscripts, autographs, maps and broadsides sold at auction. Regions covered include North America and the UK, with sales from such other countries as Switzerland, Germany, Monaco, Holland, Australia and France. - American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I This link opens in a new windowBased on the American Antiquarian Society's landmark collection, this offers fully searchable facsimile images of approximately 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. The subjects of these broadsides range from contemporary accounts of the Civil War, unusual occurrences and natural disasters to official government proclamations, tax bills and town meeting reports. Featuring many rare items, the pieces of ephemera include clipper ship sailing cards, early trade cards, bill heads, theater and music programs, stock certificates, menus and invitations documenting civic, political and private celebrations.
- American Drama 1714-1915 This link opens in a new windowContaining more than 1,500 dramatic works from the early eighteenth century up to the beginning of the twentieth, American Drama 1714 -1915 reflects American dramatic writing in all its richness and diversity: plays in verse, farces, melodramas, minstrel shows, realist plays, frontier plays, temperance dialogues and a range of other genres are represented. Major dramatists include David Belasco, Rachel Crothers, Augustin Daly, Clyde Fitch, Edward Harrigan, James Herne, William Dean Howells and Joaquin Miller. Part of Literature Online (LION).
- American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States This link opens in a new windowThe AFI Catalog, the premier, authoritative resource of American film information for the years 1893-1972, is produced by the American Film Institute (AFI).
- Film Scripts Online This link opens in a new windowContains over 1,100 scripts and makes available accurate and authorized versions of copyrighted screenplays.
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- Film Scripts Online, vol. I (aka, American Film Scripts Online)
- Film Scripts Online, vol. II - America's Historical Imprints This link opens in a new windowAmerica's Historical Imprints users will see a variation of the following at the top of this integrated interface: America's Historical Imprints including Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800; Early American Imprints, Series I: Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1670-1800; and American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I.
- American Indian Histories and Cultures This link opens in a new windowExplore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers right up to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century. Browse through a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, to historic maps and travel journals.
- American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism This link opens in a new windowThe American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism includes FBI documentation on the evolution of AIM as an organization of social protest, as well as valuable documentation on the 1973 Wounded Knee standoff. Informant reports and materials collected by the Extremist Intelligence Section of the FBI provide insight into the motives, actions, and leadership of AIM and the development of Native American radicalism.
- American Periodical Series Online 1740-1940 This link opens in a new windowOver 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically significant periodicals. Coverage 1740-1940.
- American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Journals This link opens in a new windowSearch all ASM journals.
- American Song This link opens in a new window
American Song is a history database that contains 50,000 tracks that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database will include songs by and about Native Americans, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more.
- American State Papers, 1789-1838 This link opens in a new windowLegislative and executive documents, many originating from the important period between 1789 through 1838, including 1st Congress, 1st Session through 25th Congress, 2nd Session.
- American West This link opens in a new windowOver 300 manuscripts- ranging from the original manuscript journal and papers of James Audubon, and a twelve page letter of General Custer, to the logbook of a cattle trail driver and the Hinman papers describing the overland trail to California and the Gold Rush. A host of extremely rare or unique ephemeral material including advertisements, claim certificates, cheques, photos, wanted notices and news-sheets. Maps - an important and underutilised resource for teaching the American West - partly due to their size and unwieldy nature - partly due to their rarity. Includes many unique or extremely rare items - ranging from extra-illustrated volumes and association copies to city directories and pamphlets and leaflets.
- Anatomy.TV This link opens in a new windowAnatomy.TV is a suite of 3D interactive models of human anatomy. In addition, supporting media, surch as MRIs, X-rays, and movies and animations are included.
- Ancestry library edition This link opens in a new windowContains coverage of the U.S. and the U.K. data including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada and other areas. A collection of more than 4,000 databases and 1.5 billion names including U.S. federal census images and indexes from 1790 to 1930; the Map Center containing more than 1,000 historical maps; American Genealogical Biographical Index (over 200 volumes), Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage (over 150 volumes), The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1630, Social Security Death Index, WWI Draft Registration Cards, Federal Slave Narratives, and a Civil War collection.
- L’Année Philologique This link opens in a new windowAPh Online contains over 600,000 bibliographic records dating back to 1949.
- Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) This link opens in a new windowABELL contains 860,000 records, covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards. Part of Literature Online (LION).
- Annual Reviews This link opens in a new windowAnnual Reviews is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide the worldwide scientific
community with a useful and intelligent synthesis of the primary research literature for a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines. - Anthropology Online This link opens in a new windowBrings together a wide range of written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies, covering human behavior the world over.
- Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME; As a compilation of the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Anthropological Index and Harvard University's Anthropological Literature databases, Anthropology Plus is the world’s most comprehensive index covering the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and related interdisciplinary research. This database offers worldwide indexing of journals from the early 19th century to today, providing extensive indexing of journal articles, reports, and commentaries.
- Archive Finder [SEE ProQuest Archive Finder]Chadwyck-Healey's automated combination of traditional manuscripts finding aids, including The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (but not including RLIN's AMC file; for that, request Reference assistance), this search tool indexes the holdings of more than 4,400 American repositories, amounting to some 100,000 collections. It is restricted to UI searchers, one at a time. A UI searcher may be bumped off after 15 minutes if another UI searcher begins a search. UI possesses a CD-ROM version, use of which entails no such difficulties, but the information it contains is less up to date, and it is accessible from the UI Main Library only.
- Archives Unbound This link opens in a new windowArchives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level. Covers a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history. Collections are chosen for Archives Unbound based on requests from scholars, archivists, and students.
- Art Full Text This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME; Indexes 1984 to date, abstracts 1994 to date, and full text 1997 to present for 376 international journals. Coverage includes periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins in English and other Western European languages, with a broad subject range. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. (Formerly on WilsonWeb)
- Art Full Text plus Art Index Retropsective This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME; Cross-searching both Art Full Text and Art Index Retrospective databases.
- Art Index Retrospective This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME; Coverage: 1-32, 1929-1984 - parallels Art Full Text. Subjects covered: Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles. (Formerly on WilsonWeb)
- Art Theorists of the Italian Renaissance This link opens in a new windowThe database is a collection of treatises on art and architecture from the period 1470 to 1775. It is structured around the two Italian editions of Giogio Vasari's Lives of the Artists. This collection is not available in its entirety in any university or museum library. Sponsored by The University of Chicago Library and The ARTFL Project.
- ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME; Abstracts of current literature in modern art, photography and design.
- ARTFL (Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) This link opens in a new windowA full-text retrieval database of classical French writings; users can create a dictionary and frequency count of words used in a text, trace origins of words or phrases back through the 17th century, etc. The database includes literary works, political tracts, philosophical writings, and technical treatises.
- Artstor on JSTOR This link opens in a new windowSearchable database of digital images and associated catalog data within JSTOR, with new image collections added several times a year. Artstor covers many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, anthropology, ethnographic and women's studies, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Users can search, view, download and organize images.
To download images users MUST register for a personal account.
MOBILE USERS: For Apple: mobile.artstor.org. For Android: Download app from Google Play. - arXiv.org This link opens in a new windowarXiv is a pre-print and open-access archive for scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.
- ASABE Technical Information Library This link opens in a new windowProvides full-text access to the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers standards, journals, conference proceedings, textbooks, and monographs. Some material published prior to 2001 has been added to the site in PDF only format.
- ASCE Research Library This link opens in a new windowThe American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Research Library includes ASCE conference proceedings, journal and periodical volumes, e-books, and standards (backlist through present).
- Asian Film Online This link opens in a new windowAsian Film Online is a collection of culturally and historically significant films from Asia and the Pacific that entertain, educate and inspire viewers to think beyond boundaries, predominantly comprised of films never before seen outside their country of origin.
- AskART: The Artists Bluebook This link opens in a new windowA database of information about American artists, including names, birth and death dates, state or local affiliation, fields in which artist worked, book and periodical references to artist, dealers and museums where works may be viewed, auction prices of works, some biographical details, etc.
- ASM Alloy Center This link opens in a new windowThe ASM Alloy Center enables you to search in one easy step across ASM property data, performance charts, and processing guidelines for specific metals and alloys. Contains five content areas: Data Sheets & Diagrams, ALLOY finder, Materials Property Data, Coatings Data, and Corrosion Data.
- ASM Handbooks Online This link opens in a new windowv. 1. Properties and selection--irons, steels, and high-performance alloys -- v. 2. Properties and selection--nonferrous alloys and special-purpose materials -- v. 3. Alloy phase diagrams -- v. 4. Heat treating -- v. 5. Surface engineering -- v. 6. Welding, brazing, and soldering -- v. 7. Powder metal technologies and applications -- v. 8. Mechanical testing -- v. 9 Metallography and microstructures -- v. 10 Materials characterization -- v. 11 Failure analysis and prevention -- v. 12 Fractography -- v. 13 Corrosion -- v. 14 Forming and forging -- v. 15 Casting -- v. 16 Machining -- v. 17 Nondestructive evaluation and quality control -- v. 18 Friction, lubrication, and wear technology -- v. 19. Fatigue and fracture -- v. 20. Materials selection and design. -- v.21 Composites
- ASME Digital Library This link opens in a new windowProvides abstracts and some full-text access to regularly published journals and annual publications from The American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Includes Technical Papers and Symposia/Proceedings.
- Associated Press Collections Online This link opens in a new windowAssociated Press Collections Online is a publishing program focusing on making varied treasures of the Associated Press Corporate Archives, AP Images, and AP Archive available to libraries worldwide. Includes: News Features & Internal Communications, U.S. City Bureaus Collection, Washington, D.C. Bureau Collection
- ATLA Religion Database + ATLAS This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME; Contains the complete contents of Religion Index One (journal literature in religion from 1949-present), Religion Index Two (multi-author works, such as Festschriften, conference proceedings, and other volumes of collected articles and essays, 1960-present), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion. Included are article citations from some 650 journals and essay citations from over 14,000 multi-author works as well as book review citations.
- Atlanta Constitution, 1868-1984 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowThis historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
- Atlanta Daily World, 1931-2003 (Proquest Historical Newspapers: Black Newspapers Collection) This link opens in a new windowThis database provides full page and article images with searchable full text from the Atlanta world (1931-1932) and the Atlanta daily world (1932-2003).
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals This link opens in a new windowJournal articles on architecture and design, including bibliographic descriptions and indexes on subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) This link opens in a new windowA multidisciplinary citation index to the journal literature of the arts and humanities, 1975 - present. Includes some full text. Part of the Web of Knowledge database.
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- Bertolt Brechts Werke : Jubilaumsausgabe im WWW This link opens in a new windowThe first authorised electronic edition is based on Bertolt Brecht, Ausgewahlte Werke in sechs Banden, Jubilaumsausgabe zum 100. Geburtstag, edited by Werner Hecht, Wolfgang Jeske and Jan Knopf. In German; choice of menus in German and English
- Bibliografía de la Literatura Española desde 1980 This link opens in a new windowBLE provides references to "...monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, bibliographies, congress proceedings, and other miscellaneous material..." written from 1980 to present. The subject areas covered are literary theory, literary genres, popular literature, Hispanism, bibliographies, and information about authors. The database not only refers to editions of works, but also translated editions and critical studies.
- Bibliography of American literature This link opens in a new windowBibliography of American Literature (9 vols, Yale University Press, 1955-1991) provides nearly 40,000 records of literary works of approximately 300 American writers from the period of the Revolution to 1930."--About BAL.
- Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME; This on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains more than 410,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.
- Bibliography of English Women Writers 1500-1640 This link opens in a new windowlist of scholarship about 738 recovered writers and located texts, canonical and non-canonical. It identifies many hitherto unknown writers, including among them not only already familiar figures, but also women refugees such as the recusants, women in the colonies, Marrano women (Anusot), women translators, and English women writers in French, Greek, Latin, Spanish, Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh.
- Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME; Indexes works from the sixteenth century to the present, including monographs, essays, journal articles, dissertations and U.S. and Canadian government publications. Areas covered include native American topics and issues, including education, anthropology, psychology, political science, sociology, and legal and medical research. This bibliography, from Human Relations Areas Files (HRAF), contains the citations from the cumulative eight volumes of the Ethnographic bibliography of North America as well as additional new citations.
- Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) This link opens in a new windowBibliography of the History of Art contains records describing current literature about art. Materials indexed include books, dissertations, exhibition catalogs, and articles drawn from more than 4,300 periodicals. Subject coverage includes Western Art, architecture, decorative and applied arts, popular and folk art, and selected contemporary art, as well as painting, sculpture, drawing, and prints.
- Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (BTL Online) This link opens in a new windowThe BTL Online database provides electronic access to all editions of Latin texts published in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana, ranging from antiquity and late antiquity to medieval and neo-Latin texts. A total of approximately 13 million word forms are thus accessible electronically.
- Bioline International This link opens in a new windowProvides access to quality research journals published in developing and transitional countries. The periodicals included cover all subject areas, with the majority in the life and medical sciences. Most journals are in English and Spanish. The website provides a search engine that covers all articles in all journals, while users can retrieve articles in both HTML and PDF formats. All material is available on an open-access (free) basis.
- Biological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowBiological Abstracts encompasses the entire field of life sciences and provides comprehensive coverage of the world's published biological and biomedical research. This includes traditional areas of biology, such as botany, zoology and microbiology, as well as experimental, clinical and veterinary medicine, biotechnology, environmental studies, and agriculture. Interdisciplinary fields such as biochemistry, biophysics and bioengineering are also included. More than 6,500 serials are monitored for inclusion.
- BioMed Central This link opens in a new windowBioMed Central is an independent publishing organization committed to providing immediate and free access to peer reviewed biomedical research.
- BioOne Complete This link opens in a new windowBioOne Complete is a database of more than 200 subscribed and open-access titles in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
- Biopolymers Online This link opens in a new windowProvides a comprehensive overview of the occurrence, metabolism, and applications of all important biopolymer classes.
- BizMiner This link opens in a new windowOffers industry financial analysis benchmarks for over 5,000 lines of business and industry market trends on thousands more.
- Black Abolitionist Papers This link opens in a new windowThis collection searches a unique set of primary sources from African Americans actively involved in the movement to end slavery in the United States between 1830 and 1865.
- Black Drama - 1850 to present This link opens in a new windowCurrently contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. Many works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print. Nearly a quarter of the collection will consist of previously unpublished plays by such writers as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Femi Euba, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston.
- Black Freedom Struggle (ProQuest History Vault) This link opens in a new windowThe first Black Freedom module of the ProQuest History Vault consists of 37 collections from the records of federal government agencies, covering The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century from the perspective of the men, women, and sometimes even children, who waged one of the most inspiring social movements in American history.
- Black Studies Center This link opens in a new windowBlack Studies Center combines three invaluable resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index of Black Periodicals (IIBP), and The Chicago Defender. This fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies includes scholarly essays, recent periodicals, and historical newspaper articles.
- Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present This link opens in a new windowBlack Thought and Culture is a single source for the published works of numerous historically important black leaders. Along with well-known works, the collection features approximately 5,000 pages of unique, fugitive, and never-before-published materials. When complete, Black Thought and Culture will provide approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975. Black teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other leaders form the mainstay of this corpus. The collection is intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art.
- Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology This link opens in a new windowThe encyclopedia consists of over 1800 entries on all aspects of social organization. It is updated three times a year.
- BoardVitals This link opens in a new windowBoardVitals Question Bank is an exam preparation database, offering practice questions for a variety of medical, nursing, dental, and pharmacy exams, such as USMLE, NAPLEX, COMLEX, NBDE, and NCLEX. After registration, users can proceed through practice questions by topic or section, or through a random selection of all sections. There are options for timed or self-paced practice sessions. Detailed explanations are provided for each question and the content is updated regularly to reflect the most current version of exams.
NB: Requires on-campus registration for first use. - BREPOLS Miscellanea Online This link opens in a new windowBrepols Miscellanea Online comprises leading collections of scholarly essays in the histories, literatures, cultures, and societies of medieval Europe
- BREPOLS Periodica Online Archive This link opens in a new windowAccess to full text of articles in the Brepols Periodica Archive (through 2006) is limited to the following journals in medieval studies: Bulletin de philosophie medievale, European medieval drama, Hortus artium medievalium, Journal of medieval Latin, Manuscripta, Mediaeval studies, Moyen francais, Nottingham medieval studies, Peritia, and Viator.
- Brill Online Bibliographies This link opens in a new window
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- Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online I This link opens in a new windowBrill’s Companions in Classical Studies Online I presents the best in current scholarship in a variety of subjectsm ranging from Homer to Ovid and from Aegean Greece in the Fourth Century BC to Flavian Rome.
- Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism This link opens in a new windowBrill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism presents the latest research on all the main aspects of the Hindu traditions. Its essays are original work written by the world’s foremost scholars on Hinduism. The encyclopedia aims at a balanced and even-handed view of Hinduism, recognizing the divergent perspectives and methods in the academic study of a religion that is both an ancient historical tradition and a flourishing tradition today.
- British Literary Manuscripts Online This link opens in a new windowBritish Literary Manuscripts Online
presents facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials. Searching is based on tags and descriptive text associated with each manuscript. Includes: Medieval and Renaissance, 1600-1900. - British Newspapers 1600-1950 This link opens in a new windowThe most comprehensive digital historic newspaper archive. Includes 17-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers, 19th Century British Library Newspapers, 3 million pages of historic newspapers, newsbooks & ephemera, and National & Regional papers from British Isles.
- British Online Archives: Colonial and Missionary Records This link opens in a new windowIncludes the following collections: African Blue Books, 1821-1953; Early colonial and missionary records from West Africa; Papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies, 1694-1709; Universities' Mission to Central Africa; Papers relating to the Jamaican estates of the Goulburn family of Betchworth House; Records of the Committee on Women's Work, 1861 - 1967; South American Missionary Society records, 1844-1919; Archives of the Associates of Dr Bray to 1900; Indian papers of Colonel Clive and Brigadier-General Carnac, 1752-1774; Indian papers of the 4th Earl of Minto; Papers of Sir Mark Sykes, 1879-1919: the Sykes-Picot Agreement & the Middle East; and United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (USPG) records for the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, Polynesia, South Asia, and West Indies.
- British Periodicals This link opens in a new windowIncludes British Periodicals Collection I and British Periodicals Collection II. British Periodicals Collection I consists of more than 160 journals that comprise the UMI microfilm collection Early British Periodicals, the equivalent of 5,238 printed volumes containing approximately 3.1 million pages. Covers literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences. British Periodicals Collection II consist of more than 300 journals from the UMI microfilm collections English Literary Periodicals and British Periodicals in the Creative Arts together with additional titles, amounting to almost 3 million pages. Covers literature, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture.
- Brockelmann Online This link opens in a new windowBrockelmann Online consists of both original volumes Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (GAL) by Carl Brockelmann (1868-1956), as well as the three supplement volumes, including the indexes. It is full-text searchable, making it much easier to consult for researchers and students. The "Brockelmann" has become an indispensible research tool for anyone working on the Islamic world in general and the Middle East in particular.
- Business and Economics Portfolio This link opens in a new windowProvides full-text research reports from the Conference Board on the latest issues in business management and on United States and global economics, covering topics such as business outlook, leadership decisions, performance excellence, corporate governance, human resource management, productivity, economic indicators and analysis/forecasts of regional, national, and international economic conditions.
- Business Expert Press This link opens in a new window“Business Expert Press’s Digital Libraries are filled with practical, concise books covering specific areas of business, including supply and operations management, international business, social media, finance, accounting, public relations, and marketing strategy. They’re written by international authorities, specifically for students seeking bachelors or masters degrees.”
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME; Business Source Complete provides full text for scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. This database is updated daily.
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- C19, The Nineteenth Century Index This link opens in a new windowProvides integrated bibliographic coverage of over over 1.3 million books and official publications, and 10 million articles published in over 2,000 journals, magazines and newspapers.
- Cambridge Collections Online This link opens in a new windowCambridge Collections Online offers two components, Shakespeare Survey and Econometric Society Monographs. Shakespeare Survey Online makes all issues of the Survey, including over 90% of the original images, available online for the first time. The latest volume, Close Encounters with Shakespeare's Text (Volume 62), has been added to the collection as part of the November update to Cambridge Collections Online and Econometric Society monographs are high-quality research works in the fields of Economic Theory, Econometrics, and Quantitative Economics more generally. Publications range from more or less extensive accounts of the state of the art in a field to which the authors have made significant contributions, to shorter monographs representing important advances on more specific issues.
- Cambridge Companions Complete Collection This link opens in a new windowProvides access to 400+ titles in the well-regarded Cambridge Companions series of essay collections on writers, composers, philosophers, cultural movements, and historical periods as a searchable textual corpus.
- Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson online This link opens in a new window"The online edition presents a fully searchable version of the Print Edition, including all the original introductions, collations, and commentary, but it complements, develops, and vastly extends the Print Edition with a large and flexible array of textual and contextual materials... In addition, the Online Edition includes a comprehensive body of essays and archives necessary for full study of Jonson’s life, performance history, and afterlife."
- Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new windowThis unique historical reference compendium allows instant access to the renowned texts of the Cambridge Histories series. With access to the most up to date and authoritative scholarly content, Cambridge Histories Online is an invaluable resource, for undergraduates, graduates, lecturers and researchers alike.All the available volumes are grouped into topics, making it quick and easy to search and browse through an array of historical subject areas. The extensive bibliographic referencing and other leading functionality, enhances usability and makes this resource ideal for any type of historical research.
- Cambridge History of English and American Literature This link opens in a new windowContents range from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing. The set encompasses a broad range of writing on humorists, publicists, orators, newspaper columnists, religious leaders, economists, Native Americans, song writers, and even non-English writers, such as Yiddish and Creole.
- Cambridge Journals Online This link opens in a new windowUniversity of Iowa subscribes to ALL eJournals but years may vary for access
- Canadian Poetry This link opens in a new windowCreated in partnership with the Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick Libraries, this unique collection contains the full text of more than 19,000 poems by 177 poets including Bliss Carman, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Archibald Lampman, Charles G. D. Roberts and Duncan Campbell Scott, offering a comprehensive survey of Canadian poetry from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth. Part of Literature Online (LION).
- Cardiosource Plus This link opens in a new windowCardiosource Plus is an online cardiovascular information and educational resource produced by the American College of Cardiology Foundation.
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* Requires registration for (free) personal account. Some content requires a promotion code. Please contact Hardin Library for help. - Caribbean Literature This link opens in a new windowCaribbean literature is a searchable collection of poetry and fiction produced in the region during the 19th and 20th centuries. Among the titles selected are numerous rare and hard-to-find works written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages. Future releases will also feature journals, reference works, and interviews with key writers. New content is uploaded on a biweekly basis, giving users immediate access to a steadily growing treasury of classic, rare, and contemporary literature. The database currently has over 7,000 pages.
- Catalog of U.S. Government Publications This link opens in a new windowThe CGP is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general key word, or click on "Advanced Search" for more options. The catalog offers you the option to find a nearby Federal depository library that has a particular publication or that can provide expert assistance in finding and using related U.S. government information. Click on the title of interest from your search results list. Then click on the Locate in a Library link within the displayed record.
- Catholic Periodical and Literature Index This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME; This resource is part of ATLA Religion Database + ATLAS. Includes indexed citations to articles published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers.
- AnswerConnect (formerly Accounting Research Manager) This link opens in a new windowOnline database of expert-written analytical accounting, auditing, governmental and SEC information as well as primary source data.
- Vital Law (formerly Cheetah/CCH IntelliConnect) This link opens in a new windowProvides access to full text primary and secondary materials in the areas of human resources management, payroll, pensions, benefits, employment law, OSHA, health care reimbursement, corporate governance, mergers & acquisitions, intellectual property, government contracts, antitrust and trade regulation, and transportation law. Also contains federal and state tax materials including codes, regulations, forms, IRS letter rulings, and current news. This new interface merges the resources formerly known as CCH Internet Research Network, CCH Business and Finance, and CCH Tax Research Network.
- Chatham House Online Archive This link opens in a new windowChatham House Online Archive contains the publications and archives of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), the world-leading independent international affairs policy institute founded in 1920 following the Paris Peace Conference.
Includes years 1920-2008.
- Chemical Abstracts (CAS SciFinder)Access to Chemical Abstracts is now provided by SciFinder; please see the SciFinder Scholar entry.
- Chicago Defender (Black Studies Center) This link opens in a new windowThe full text backfile of the influential black newspaper The Chicago Defender is available through the Black Studies Center site. It includes the Saturday edition (1910 to 1975) and the Daily edition (1956-1975).
- Chicago Defender, 1909-1975 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Black Newspapers Collection) This link opens in a new windowThis database provides full page and article images with searchable full text.
- Chicago Manual of Style Online This link opens in a new windowA style manual for writing, editing, and publishing.
- Chicago Tribune, 1849-2000 (Proquest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowContains full-text access to the Chicago Tribune dating from 1849-2000.
- Chicano Database This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME; A comprehensive bibliographic index for all types of material about Mexican-Americans. Extensive coverage from the 1960s to the present, with selective coverage dating back to the early 1900s. Records added since 1992 have expanded its scope to include the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants.
- Child Care and Early Education Research Connections This link opens in a new windowA continuously updated, multidisciplinary database of nearly 9,000 resources, including citations for peer-reviewed journal articles, books, research reports, fact sheets and briefs, grey literature, instruments, and government documents. Research Connections selects, archives, and indexes publications and data relevant to early education and child care research and policy, and provides access to bibliographic information and full text for many resources. In addition, Research Connections offers data and statistics for download and analysis, and tools for quick online analysis of data.
- Children's Core Collection (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME; A comprehensive collection development guide, this database provides librarian-selected titles chosen specifically for readers from preschool through grade five. Containing titles at five recommendation levels, this collection covers fiction and nonfiction works, story collections, picture books, graphic novels and magazines.
- Children's Literature Comprehensive Database This link opens in a new windowOffers more than 240,000 reviews of both fiction and non-fiction children's and young adult books, as well as related professional books--all full text searchable from 35 review sources. You can limit your search by age, grade level, lexile level, year of publication and genre. There are also links to author and illustrator sites, awards and prizes, teaching materials, booktalks and other resources from the CLCD home page.
- China Academic Journals (CAJ): Series A, F, G, & H This link opens in a new windowThis database covers journal articles published in China in almost all the subject areas of the Humanities and Arts.The U of Iowa subscribes to Series A (Physics/Astronomy/Mathematics), Series F (Literature/History/Philosophy), Series G (Politics/Military Affairs/Law), and Series H (Education and Social Sciences), including back files dating back to 1994. It is part of the electronic project of the CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure). The database provides full texts in CAJ and PDF formats.
- China: Culture and Society This link opens in a new windowSpanning three centuries (c1750-1929), this resource makes available extremely rare pamphlets from Cornell University Library’s Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia. The resource is full-text searchable, allowing for the collection to be comprehensively explored and studied. In addition, China: Culture and Society features a host of secondary resources, including scholarly essays, an interactive chronology, mini guides, and editors’ choices from the collection.
- Chinese Periodical Full-Text Database (1833-1949) This link opens in a new windowChinese Periodical Full-text Database (1833-1949) covers around 10,000,000 pieces of writing in over 20,000 different kinds of periodicals published between 1833 and 1949. As an important part of the historical archive, this database has significant academic and historical value.
- ChoiceReviews.online This link opens in a new windowChoice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries is the premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education.
- Chronicle of Higher Education This link opens in a new window
- CINAHL This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME
[Help Sheet for Search CINAHL - PDF] CINAHL Plus provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. CINAHL Plus also contains searchable cited references for more than 1,160 journals. Full text material includes more than 80 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. NB: 20 concurrent user limit - CIOS Journal Index This link opens in a new windowThis system allows you to perform electronic searches of 58 core serials and annuals in the discipline of communication studies and related fields (e.g., journalism, rhetoric, mass communication, and social linguistics).
- Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective This link opens in a new windowFull text of articles taken from issues of The New York herald, The Charleston mercury and the Richmond enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865. Begins with the events preceding the outbreak of war at Fort Sumter and concludes with the assassination and funeral of Abraham Lincoln. Includes news articles, eye-witness accounts and official reports of battles and events, editorials, advertisements, and biographies. Also includes articles describing other than military concerns of the day, such as travel, arts and leisure, sports, social events, etc.
- CLASE This link opens in a new windowCLASE (Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades) indexes Latin American journal articles, specializing in the social sciences and humanities. Spanish language interface.
- Classic Mexican Cinema This link opens in a new windowMexican Cinema, from its beginnings in the late 1890s to its “Golden Age” (1930s to 1960), was consistently the largest and most important of all the Spanish-speaking countries. During its heyday, the Mexican film industry produced an average of one hundred films annually and supplied screen entertainment to both domestic audiences and international markets in Latin America, the United States, and Europe. The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema is illuminated in this collection of popular movie periodicals.
- Classical Music Library This link opens in a new window
A classical music service that enables listening and learning at library and home computers. It includes around 15,000 recordings, along with program notes, composer biographies, and images cross-referenced to the recordings.
- ClinicalKey This link opens in a new windowClinicalKey provides access to more than 1100 medical texts published by Elsevier, articles from more than 500 journals, practice guidelines, drug information, and patient education handouts. All can be searched together, individually, or by type of resource (books, journals, etc.) ClinicalKey replaces MDConsult.
Users must log in to (free) personal accounts to download book chapter PDFs. - ClinicalTrials.gov This link opens in a new windowClinicalTrials.gov is a registry and results database of federally and privately supported clinical trials conducted in the United States and around the world. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details.
- Cochrane Library This link opens in a new windowThe Cochrane Library contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more. Cochrane reviews bring you the combined results of the world's best medical research studies, and are recognised as the gold standard in evidence-based healthcare.
- Cold War Intelligence Online: The Secret War Between the U.S. and the USSR, 1945-1991 This link opens in a new windowThis collection of 2,360 formerly classified U.S. government documents (most of them classified Top Secret or higher) provides readers for the first time with the declassified documentary record about the successes and failures of the U.S. intelligence community in its efforts to spy on the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
- ComAbstracts This link opens in a new windowThis database contains abstracts of articles published in the discipline of communication studies and related fields (e.g., journalism, rhetoric, mass communication, and social linguistics).
- Combined Chemical Dictionary This link opens in a new windowIncludes descriptive and numerical data on chemical, physical and biological properties of compounds; systematic and common names of compounds; literature references; structure diagrams and their associated connection tables. Contains all those compounds published in: Dictionary of organic compounds (200,000 records), Dictionary of natural products (120,000 records), Dictionary of inorganic and organometallic compounds (90,000 records), Dictionary of pharmacological agents (30,000 records), Dictionary of analytical reagents (14,000 records).
- Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME; Combines CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University).
- Communication Institute for Online Scholarship This link opens in a new windowCIOS online services provide access to thousands of files in the resource library as well as dozens of scholarly conferences enrolling over 6,000 and students. The U of I is a "CIOS Affiliate Institution." Also, see the CIOS/Comserve Journal Index and CIOS/ComAbstracts.
- Compendex This link opens in a new windowCompendex is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research available, covering all engineering disciplines. It includes millions of bibliographic citations and abstracts from thousands of engineering journals and conference proceedings. When combined with the Engineering Index Backfile (1884-1969), Compendex covers well over 120 years of core engineering literature. [Elsevier recommends using Firefox or Internet Explorer on Windows for best experience.]
- Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 11th edition This link opens in a new window
- Oxford-French dictionary This link opens in a new window175,000 words and phrases, 270,000 translations. Completely updated to include the very latest vocabulary, the Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary offers authoritative coverage. Brand-new features include cultural notes on life in the French-speaking world.
- Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 This link opens in a new windowConfidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 covers the whole of the modern period of European colonization of Africa: from coastal trading in the early nineteenth century, through the Conference of Berlin of 1884 and the subsequent Scramble for Africa, to the abuses of the Congo Free State, fights against tropical disease, Italy’s defeat by the Abyssinians, World War II, apartheid in South Africa and colonial moves towards independence. The Confidential Print series, issued by the British Government between c. 1820 and 1970, originated out of a need to preserve the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. Documents range from single-page letters or telegrams to comprehensive dispatches, investigative reports and texts of treaties.
- Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 This link opens in a new windowConfidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 covers the whole of modern British involvement in North Africa and the Middle East: from the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the nineteenth century, the Middle East Conference of 1921, the Mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia and the Suez Crisis in 1956, to the partition of Palestine, post-Suez Western foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict. The Confidential Print series, issued by the British Government between c. 1820 and 1970, originated out of a need to preserve the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. Documents range from single-page letters or telegrams to comprehensive dispatches, investigative reports and texts of treaties.
- Congressional Record Permanent Digital Collection (1789-1997) This link opens in a new windowFormerly LexisNexis Congressional, this resource is the digitized version of the bound Congressional Record (1873-to date) and its three predecessors, the Annals of Congress (1789-1824), the Register of Debates (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873). The Congressional Record Permanent Digital Collection covers the period 1789-1997.
- Contemporary Authors This link opens in a new windowA bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television and other fields.
- Contemporary World Music This link opens in a new window
Contemporary World Music contains the sounds of all regions from every continent. This database is a complementary database to Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries - it includes a blend of contemporary and traditional world music recordings from many labels throughout the world. The focus is concentrated on contemporary genres, such as fusion and world beat. Users can trace the history of a people’s music by comparing the traditional styles with the modern interpretations offered in this database.
- Corporate ResourceNet (Now called EBSCO Management Collection) This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME; Index to over 1,300 business and management periodicals, with abstracts and full text of many articles. Includes profiles of the world's 5,000 largest companies and a collection of images.
- Counseling and Therapy in Video This link opens in a new windowProvides the online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling--400 hours and more than 330 videos on completion. Includes volumes I - IV.
- CQ Researcher This link opens in a new windowWritten by experienced journalists, footnoted and professionally fact-checked. CQ Researcher provides in-depth coverage of the most important issues of the day.
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics This link opens in a new window
- CRL Digital Collections This link opens in a new windowThe Center for Research Libraries acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives, and other traditional and digital resources from a global network of sources. Most materials acquired are from outside the United States, and many are from five "emerging" regions of the world: Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Latin America. Some material is digitized; the rest is available through interlibrary loan.
- Cross-National Time-Series Data Archive (CNTS) This link opens in a new windowContains social and economic indicators. Provides access to the database of over 250 countries, over 200 series and data beginning in the year 1815 and continuing to the present. Searchable by keyword, or by browsing variables.
Includes LINKS: An optional file with links to the sources for each Domestic Conflict Event, beginning with 2011 data for: General Strikes, Purges, Government Crises, Riots, Assassinations, Anti-Government Demonstrations, Guerilla Warfare and Revolutions. - Dissertations & Theses @ CIC Institutions This link opens in a new windowFull text of all CIC dissertations (including University of Iowa, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Indiana University, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, and University of Wisconsin-Madison) from 1997 to the present. Abstracts are available for earlier dissertations.
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- Daily Mail Historical Archive,1896-2016 This link opens in a new windowAn online archive of every headline, article, editorial, announcement, image and advertisement published in the Daily Mail (London).
- Dance in Video This link opens in a new windowCaptures dance performances from the stage and brings them directly to your computer screen through online streaming video - including 250 dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Volumes I & II.
- DBpia This link opens in a new windowMostly in Korean. Full text database including over 570 Korean scholarly journals. The journal titles are arranged by 11 subject categories such as economics, engineering, education, medicine, etc. and all journals are available from the first issue.
- U.S. Declassified Documents Online (formerly Declassified Documents Reference System) This link opens in a new windowU.S. Declassified Documents Online provides immediate access to a broad range of previously classified federal records spanning the twentieth and twenty first centuries. The collection brings together the most sensitive documents from all the presidential libraries and numerous executive agencies in a single, easily searchable database.
- Defining Gender, 1450-1910 This link opens in a new windowExplore gender through a vast body of British source material from the fifteenth to early twentieth century. Through correspondence, advice literature, periodicals, ephemera and government documents, traditional models of gender and contemporary perceptions of these can be explored. This is an interdisciplinary resource that will enrich the teaching and research of gender, history, sociology, education and literature.
- Des Moines Register (Proquest Digital Microfilm) This link opens in a new windowDigital newspaper for Des Moines, Iowa. Current content with a delayed 3 months.
- Design and applied arts index This link opens in a new windowThe Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) contains over 130,000 annotated references from more than 500 design and craft journals and newspapers published from 1973 onwards, and data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms etc., making it the largest index of its kind in the world. Research articles are covered, along with topical news items, conference and seminar reports, and book, video and exhibition reviews. Each reference includes full bibliographic details and a brief abstract. Also includes two supplementary databases: Education Directory and Periodicals Directory. [Not compatible with Internet Explorer 9]
- Diagnosaurus This link opens in a new windowMcGraw-Hill's Diagnosaurus 2.0 on AccessMedicine is a differential diagnosis tool that allows you to search 1000+ of differential diagnoses by: Symptoms, Diseases, & Organ system.
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual: DSM-5-TR This link opens in a new windowThe American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is a classification of mental disorders with associated criteria designed to facilitate more reliable diagnoses of these disorders. With successive editions over the past 60 years, it has become a standard reference for clinical practice in the mental health field. Includes DSM-5 Handbook of Differential Diagnosis, DSM-5 Clinical Cases and DSM-5 Update
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual: Previous Editions This link opens in a new windowPrevious editions of DSM are included here for reference and archival purposes.
- Dialnet This link opens in a new windowProvides access to tables of contents of more than 3,000 journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences published in Spain and Latin America. Provides access to the full text of some Spanish doctoral dissertations as well as the full text of working papers from some research centers in Spain and Latin America. Content is primarily in Spanish.
- Dictionary of Irish Biography This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive and authoritative biographical dictionary for Ireland. It contains over 9,000 signed biographical articles describing the careers of individuals in all fields of endeavour, including politics, law, religion, literature, journalism, architecture, painting, music, the stage, science, medicine, engineering, entertainment and sport.
- Dictionary of Literary Biography This link opens in a new windowProvides more than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres.Comprised of Dictionary of literary biography series, Dictionary of literary biography yearbook, and Dictionary of literary biography. Documentary series.
- Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism in C19 This link opens in a new windowThe Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism is a new reference work with over 1600 entries detailing British and Irish newspaper and periodical publishing in the nineteenth century.
- Dictionary of Old English, A to Le Online This link opens in a new windowProduced in part with the support of the Canada Foundation for Innovation through the TAPoR project, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Dictionary of Old English, Old English Corpus This link opens in a new windowContains all surviving Old English material (over 3000 texts), excluding some variant texts. Each text includes a reference to its genre, period and language; a unique text number; a Cameron number; and a short and expanded title used to identify the text in the Dictionary of Old English. Also includes "Latin word wheel".
- Digital dictionary of Buddhism This link opens in a new windowA compilation of Buddhist technical terminology texts, temples, schools, persons, etc. that are found in East Asian Buddhist canonical sources. Since much of what East Asian Buddhists have written about is the Buddhism of India, Central Asia, and Tibet, the content of this database/dictionary/encyclopedia/translation glossary is pan-Buddhist in character. Dictionaries and other reference sources are in many East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Pali, Sanskrit and Tibetan).
- Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation This link opens in a new windowTranscriptions and facsimiles of documents "including papal and synodal decrees, catechisms and inquisitorial manuals, biblical commentaries, theological treatises and systems, liturgical writings, saints’ lives, and devotional works" by Catholic authors of the 16th and 17th centuries.
- Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) This link opens in a new windowDNSA contains the most comprehensive collection of primary documents available. The database includes more than 875,000 pages and approximately 140,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions.
- Sanborn maps 1867-1970 This link opens in a new windowDigital Sanborn Maps is a collection of large-scale landbook maps which includes information such as the outline of each building, the size and shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, and location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. Textual information includes construction details, ownership and building use.
- DigiZeitschriften This link opens in a new windowDigiZeitschriften provides full text access to backfiles of German scholarly journals primarily in the social sciences and humanities.
- Dissertation AbstractsSee: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new windowDirectory of Open Access Journals is a service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals.
- DynaMed This link opens in a new windowDynaMed Plus (Dynamic Medical Information System) is a quick and easy-to-use medical reference system designed for use at the point of care. It contains clinically organized summaries of thousands of topics and is updated several times daily from review of the research literature. Providing the most current, unbiased, evidence-based information to enable physicians to help them provide the best care possible to their patients, DynaMed is a useful resource in clinical, educational and research settings.
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- e-EROS: encyclopedia of reagents for organic synthesis This link opens in a new windowContains a database of approximately 70,000 reactions and 4000 of the most frequently consulted reagents. Fully searchable by structure and sub-structure, reagent, reaction type, experimental conditions, and keyword. Also includes a searchable interface: Acronym finder (an interface for Scientific and technical acronyms, symbols, and abbreviations).
- Early American Fiction 1789-1875 This link opens in a new windowA collection of 730 full texts of the first editions of American novels and short stories written before 1875 by authors of significance during their lifetimes. Criteria used for inclusion in the collection: first edition found in Wright's American Fiction 1774-1850, Bibliography of American literature and owned by the University of Virginia Library, covering 730 titles in 882 volumes by 130 authors, containing 225,000 pages. Part of Literature Online (LION).
- Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 This link opens in a new windowOnline version of the microfiche set Early American Imprints, 1639-1800. Resource for aspects of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, e.g., agriculture, auctions, foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, and witchcraft.
- Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 This link opens in a new windowEarly American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 provides a comprehensive set of American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early part of the 19th century. It is based on the noted “American Bibliography, 1801-1819” by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker. More than four million pages from over 36,000 items—including 1,000 catalogued new items unavailable in previous microform editions. Includes Series II Supplement.
- Early American Newspapers, Series 1-3 and 6-7 This link opens in a new windowFor searching and browsing American newspapers published in the 17th,18th, 19th and 20th centuries, Early American Newspapers, 1690-1922 is the most comprehensive online resource available. This expanding collection offers fully searchable digital facsimiles of more than 1,500 titles from all 50 states. With eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative information, letters, poetry, advertisements, matrimony and death notices and more, Early American Newspapers provides a chronicle of the evolution of American history, culture and daily life across three centuries.
- Early Encounters in North America This link opens in a new windowProvides access to over 100,000 letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts concerning events that took place in North America between 1534 and 1860. The focus of the database is on description, travel, and accounts of interactions among various cultural groups.
- Early English Prose Fiction This link opens in a new windowA collection of more than 200 works from the period 1500 - 1700, exploring the rich diversity of prose fiction in English in the period preceding the emergence of the realist novel as its dominant form. EEPF offers the full text of works by key writers such as John Bunyan, Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Nashe and Aphra Behn, and has been produced in association with the Salzburg Centre for Research on the Early English Novel (SCREEN). Access via Literature Online (LION).
- Early European Books: printed sources to 1700 (EEB) This link opens in a new windowA diverse array of printed sources from the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, opening the door to some of the world’s most significant collections of early printed books. All works printed in Europe before 1701, regardless of language, fall within the scope of the project, together with all pre-1701 works in European languages printed further afield. Builds upon and complements Early English Books Online (EEBO).
- Early Western Korans This link opens in a new windowKoran Printing in the West, 1537-1857. This collection of Early Printed Korans demonstrates what impact the holy book of Islam achieved in Europe.
- EBSCOhost This link opens in a new windowA collection of databases, including Academic Search Elite, which offers full text for nearly 2,000 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles, covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and much more.
- EBSCOhost eBook Collection This link opens in a new windowTo use the Full Download/Checkout functionality for an eBook, a user must sign into a personal folder.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century microfilm set, which has aimed to include every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. Consists of over 180,000 titles of books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera. Subject categories include history and geography; fine arts and social sciences; medicine, science, and technology; literature and language; religion and philosophy; law; general reference. Also included are significant collections of women writers of the eighteenth century, collections on the French Revolution, and numerous eighteenth-century editions of the works of Shakespeare. Where they add scholarly value or contain important differences, multiple editions of each individual work are offered.
- EconLit This link opens in a new windowSource material in this database includes journal articles, essays, research papers, books, dissertations, book reviews, and working papers. Contains more than 735,000 records covering 1969-present. The subjects covered within EconLit include accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labor, marketing, demographics, modeling, economic theory, planning, and much more.
- Econometric Society Monographs This link opens in a new windowEconometric Society monographs are high-quality research works in the fields of Economic Theory, Econometrics, and Quantitative Economics more generally. Publications range from more or less extensive accounts of the state of the art in a field to which the authors have made significant contributions, to shorter monographs representing important advances on more specific issues.
- Economist Historical Archive 1843-2006 This link opens in a new windowThe Economist Historical Archive delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2006. New full-colour images, multiple search indexes, exportable financial tables and a gallery of front covers highlighting a key topic of each week - all combine to offer a primary source of research covering the 19th and 20th centuries. The Economist Historical Archive complements the Times Digital Archive also available from Gale/Cengage Learning.
- Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare This link opens in a new windowContains 11 major editions from the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, 28 separate contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha and related works, as well as over 100 adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the 17th thru 19th centuries. Part of Literature Online (LION).
- Education Source This link opens in a new windowFull text for more than 1,700 journals, 550 books and monographs, education-related conference papers, citations for over 4 million articles including book reviews.
- EEBO: Early English Books Online This link opens in a new windowFrom the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare this collection contains over 100,000 titles listed in Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and Thomason Tracts and their revised edition.
- eHRAF Archaeology This link opens in a new windowThe eHRAF Collection of Archaeology, published annually by Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), is a full-text, fully-indexed archaeology database. eHRAF differs from other databases in that documents (i.e. books, journal articles, dissertations) are indexed at the paragraph-level with over 700 subject codes from the Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM).
- eHRAF World Cultures This link opens in a new windowThe Human Relations Area Files at Yale University contain information about world cultures. The HRAF Collection currently contains nearly 1,000,000 pages of information on the cultures of the world--past and present. Only a portion of HRAF documentation are accessible on the Internet. Older material in microform which the UI Libraries has is not included.
- Ei Engineering Village This link opens in a new windowEngineering Village is a Web-based information service that offers a wide range of quality resources for information specialists, professionals, and researchers working in the applied science and engineering fields.
- Eighteenth Century Journals: A Portal to Newspapers and Periodicals, c1685-1815 This link opens in a new windowBringing together rare journals printed between c.1685 and 1835, this resource illuminates all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. Topics covered are wide-ranging and include colonial life, provincial and rural affairs, the French and American revolutions, reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe, political debates, and London coffee house gossip and discussion.
- Eighteenth-Century Fiction This link opens in a new windowA collection of 96 complete works of English prose from the period 1700 - 1780 by writers from the British Isles. Key figures covered include Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne and Jonathan Swift. In addition to a scanned version of Sterne's Tristram Shandy, the collection also contains two different editions of Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela, and of Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Part of Literature Online (LION).
- Elsevier ScienceDirect E-Books This link opens in a new windowElsevier purchase includes over 450 books published beginning in 2008.
- Embase This link opens in a new windowDue to higher security needed, EMBASE now requires a login for all exports.
Help Searching Embase A biomedical and pharmaceutical database contains bibliographic records with abstracts from EMBASE (1974-present) and Medline (1966-present) deduplicated and searchable with EMTREE. (See the available Help Sheet) - Emerald Library This link opens in a new windowEmerald Library includes management and library information science journals as well as a specialist range of engineering and applied science and technology journals.
- Empire Online This link opens in a new windowThis resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and it's theories, practices and consequences. The materials span across the last five centuries and are accompanied by a host of secondary learning resources including scholarly essays, maps and an interactive chronology.
- Encyclopaedia Islamica This link opens in a new window"Encyclopaedia Islamica Online is based on the abridged and edited translation of the Persian Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif-i Buzurg-i Islāmī, one of the most comprehensive sources on Islam and the Muslim world. A unique feature of the encyclopaedia Islamica Online lies in the attention given to Shiʿi Islam and its rich and diverse heritage."
- Encyclopaedia of Islam This link opens in a new windowThe Encyclopaedia of Islam sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World from religion and history to politics and culture. It includes articles on distinguished Muslims of every age and land, on tribes and dynasties, on the crafts and sciences, on political and religious institutions, on the geography, ethnography, flora and fauna of the various countries and on the history, topography and monuments of the major towns and cities. Its geographical and historical scope encompasses the old Arabo-Islamic empire, the Islamic countries of Iran, Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Indonesia, the Ottoman Empire and all modern Islamic states. The entire text of volumes I to XI and Supplement (Volume XII) of the printed edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam is included.
- Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān This link opens in a new windowThe Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān Online is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qur’ānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur’ānic studies.
- Encyclopedia Iranica This link opens in a new windowThe Encyclopædia Iranica is dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. The academic reference work will eventually cover all aspects of Iranian history and culture as well as all Iranian languages and literatures, facilitating the whole range of Iranian studies research from archeology to political sciences.
- Encyclopedia of Actuarial Science This link opens in a new windowDrawing on the experience of leading international editors and authors from industry and academic research the encyclopedia provides an authoritative exposition of both quantitative methods and practical aspects of actuarial science and insurance.
- Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and LinguisticsThe Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics (EAGLL) brings together the latest research from across a range of disciplines which contribute to our knowledge of Ancient Greek. It is a research tool for scholars and students of Greek, of linguistics, and of other Indo-European languages, as well as of Biblical literature.
- Encyclopedia of Ancient History This link opens in a new windowThe only comprehensive collection of twenty-first century scholarship available on the entire ancient Mediterranean world, collecting over 5,000 original entries spanning the late Bronze Age through the seventh century CE. Entries extend to all Mediterranean civilizations, including the Near East and Egypt.
- Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics This link opens in a new windowIncludes over 1,100 entries written by an international team of scholars from over 40 countries, and covers 27 key areas of the field, including Language Learning and Teaching, Bilingual and Multilingual Education, Assessment and Testing, Corpus Linguistics, Conversation Analysis, Discourse, Cognitive Second Language Acquisition, Language Policy and Planning, Literacy, and Technology and Language.
- Encyclopedia of Arabic language and linguistics This link opens in a new windowComprehensively covers all aspects of Arabic languages and linguistics. It is interdisciplinary in scope and represents different schools and approaches to be as objective and versatile as possible.
- Encyclopedia of Biostatistics This link opens in a new windowThe Encyclopedia of Biostatistics, 2nd Edition offers the definitive reference to support the development and use of statistical methods for addressing the problems and critical issues that confront scientists, practitioners and policy makers engaged in the life and medical sciences. With the growing importance and application of biostatistics, reflected in the increasing number of statisticians employed in the pharmaceutical industry, healthcare sector and medical schools, this new edition will find widespread application in basic medical science; the planning, financing and distribution of health care; and the measurement of health care status and progress in the population.
- Encyclopedia of China This link opens in a new windowThe essential reference to China, its history and culture.
- Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive reference work on the history and impact of Christianity. Over 1,400 entries provide an in-depth and dynamic look at Christianity both through its history and the way it has shaped societies around the world.
- Encyclopedia of Condensed Matter Physics This link opens in a new windowCovers selected key topics in the field of condensed matter physics, provides historical background to some of the major areas and directs the reader, through detailed references, to further reading resources. Authors were sought from those who have made major contributions and worked actively in the area of the topic.
- Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice This link opens in a new windowComprising over 500 entries on the essential topics and informed by the latest theory and research, this innovative reference resource offers a state-of-the-art survey of the fields of criminology and criminal justice. It combines this breadth of coverage with the authority and international perspective of an experienced editorial team, creating a definitive reference resource for students, scholars, and professionals.
- Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural Psychology This link opens in a new windowThe Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural Psychology presents a collection of our current state of knowledge relating to the fields of cross-cultural, cultural, and indigenous psychology. A wealth of supplemental references and suggestions for further reading is included for those wishing to pursue specialized topics or identify key source material.
- Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration This link opens in a new windowThe Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration provides a complete exploration of the prominent themes, events, and theoretical underpinnings of the movements of human populations from prehistory to the present day. It includes thematic interpretations and theories of migration, as well as the significant contemporary scientific discoveries and scholarly interpretations that have reshaped the way historians and social scientists analyze and map the past.
- Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy This link opens in a new windowThis comprehensive reference work covers all facets of the distinct form of dramatic theater that flourished in ancient Greece and reached its apex in Athens of the 5th century BCE. Written by a team of international experts and emerging scholars, entries reflect a careful balance between scholarly precision and accessibility to facilitate a better understanding and appreciation of the great surviving works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and their contemporaries.
- Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics This link opens in a new windowThe Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics Online offers a systematic and comprehensive treatment of all aspects of the history and study of the Hebrew language from its earliest attested form to the present day. With over 850 entries and approximately 400 contributing scholars, it is the authoritative reference work for students and researchers in the fields of Hebrew linguistics, general linguistics, Biblical studies, Hebrew and Jewish literature, and related fields.
- Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World Online This link opens in a new windowThe EJIW is the first cohesive and discreet reference work which covers the Jews of Muslim lands particularly in the late medieval, early modern and modern periods.
- Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology This link opens in a new windowThe Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology is derived from the four volume print work containing nearly 1,000 articles. All the topics are divided into short, digestible entries.
- Encyclopedia of Political Science This link opens in a new windowThe Encyclopedia of Political Science comprehensively examines the central ideas, concepts, and frameworks underlying the study of politics and highlights the intersections of politics with other disciplines.
- Encyclopedia of Quantitative Finance This link opens in a new windowA reference work aimed at quants, risk managers, graduate students, academic researchers and all those interested in quantitative modeling in finance. Published in 4 volumes of approximately 500 pages each, the Encyclopedia includes alphabetically arranged entries compiled from the contributions of more than 400 authors.
- Encyclopedia of Radicals in Chemistry, Biology and Materials This link opens in a new windowThis Encyclopedia offers a description of free radicals within an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary context, connecting structural characteristics and chemical properties to their applications in different areas of chemistry and related disciplines.
- Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics This link opens in a new windowThis work explores how the rise of social media is altering politics both in the United States and in key moments, movement, and places around the world. Its scope encompasses the disruptive technologies and activities that are changing basic patterns in American politics.
- Encyclopedia of Social Work This link opens in a new windowA continuously updated online collaboration between the National Association of Social Workers (NASW Press) and Oxford University Press (OUP). Incudes 400+ overview articles on key topics from international issues to ethical standards, 200+ biographies on key figures, and references and links to related social work resources.
- Encyclopedia of Social Work (2008) This link opens in a new windowThis new edition includes coverage of areas that have come to the fore since the 1995 publication of the 19th edition, including demographic changes from immigration, technology, the implications of managed care, faith-based assistance, evidence-based practice, gerontology, and trauma and disaster. The Encyclopedia contains four hundred subject entries and two hundred brief biographies of key figures in the history of social work.
- Encyclopedia of Space Science and Technology This link opens in a new windowThis state-of-the-art reference outlines what astronomers know about the sun, planets, galaxy, and universe as well as the effect of the space environment on human and other biological systems.
- Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences This link opens in a new windowReference tool covering statistics, probability theory, biostatistics, quality control, and economics with emphasis in applications of statistical methods in sociology, engineering, computer science, biomedicine, psychology, survey methodology, and other client disciplines. This 2nd edition collects the entire original edition, plus supplements and updates.
- Encyclopedia of Telecommunications This link opens in a new windowOnline encyclopedia dedicated to telecommunications for electrical engineers. Topics Include: Optical communications, modulation and demodulation, coding and decoding, communication networks, and antennas.
- Encyclopedia of U.S.-Latin American Relations This link opens in a new windowThe Encyclopedia of U.S.-Latin American Relations explores more than 200 years of political, military, economic, and cultural connections between the United States of America and its neighbors to the south.
- Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures Online This link opens in a new windowThis encyclopedia is an interdisciplinary, trans-historical, and global project embracing women and Islamic cultures in every region where there have been significant Muslim populations. It aims to cover every topic for which there is significant research, examining these regions from the period just before the rise of Islam to the present.
- EndNote Basic This link opens in a new windowUSE https://login.proxy.lib.uiowa.edu/login?url=http://my.endnote.com to register OFF CAMPUS; EndNote Basic is the web-based version of the EndNote citation manager software. This website will allow you to import, organize and format citations for papers, articles, etc. (See the available Help Sheet)
- Engineering Case Studies Online This link opens in a new windowProvides a single, comprehensive source for a wide range of video and text material focusing on engineering failures and successes. At completion, the collection will contain 250 hours and 50,000 pages of quality documentaries, accident reports, experiments, visualizations, case studies, lectures and interviews from leading engineering institutions around the world.
- English Drama This link opens in a new windowContains 3,900 plays in verse and prose tracing the development of drama in English from the medieval mystery cycles to the comedies of Oscar Wilde. Part of Literature Online (LION).
- English Poetry, Second Edition This link opens in a new windowContains over 183,000 poems essentially comprising the complete English poetic canon from the 8th century to the early 20th. Drawn from nearly 4,900 printed sources, more than 2,700 poets are represented. The main bibliographic source for English Poetry, Second Edition is the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. It also includes poetry written in English during the same period by authors from Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the world, together with the work of additional English poets missing from NCBEL. Part of Literature Online (LION).
- Enlarged Yeonhaengrok Collections This link opens in a new windowContains 556 personal records by the identified authors about 314 envoys and delegation that visited Beijing during Goryeo and Joseon Dynasty (from 13th to 19th century).
- Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive (EIMA) This link opens in a new windowAn archival research resource containing the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000. The core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are all included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles.
- ERIC (EBSCOhost version) This link opens in a new windowThis database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to education-related literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
- ERIC (ProQuest version) This link opens in a new windowThis database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to education-related literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
- UC Press E-Book Collection, 1982-2004 (formerly eScholarship Editions) This link opens in a new windowIncludes almost 2000 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction. Access to the entire collection of electronic books is open to all University of California faculty, staff, and students, while over 700 of the titles are available to the public.
- Essay and General Literature This link opens in a new windowThe coverage of the database includes all of the humanities and social sciences with indexing of 5,300 anthologies and collections. (Formerly on WilsonWeb)
- Essential Cardiac Auscultation Online This link opens in a new windowALL USERS MUST LOGIN VIA PROXY; Essential Cardiac Auscultation Online is a web-based program that will teach you the most important findings (The "Big 12") & their associated pathophysiology. The "Big 12" were chosen from national surveys of Program Directors and are emphasized by Certification Boards. They are presented using Harvey, The Cardiopulmonary Patient Simulator, a proven system used to teach bedside skills at medical centers worldwide.
SAFARI USERS: Click the Safari menu and select Preferences. Click the Privacy tab. uncheck the Prevent cross-site tracking option. Depending on your version you may also need to uncheck the Block all cookies option. Close the Safari Preferences window and refresh or restart your browser - ETDEWEB: Energy Information Sources This link opens in a new windowSearchable database of documents from the international scientific and technical literature in the field of energy and related topics. Includes abstracts and complete articles as well as links to available full text on the environmental impact of energy production and use, including climate change, energy R & D, energy policy, and nuclear, coal, hydrocarbon, and renewable energy technologies.
- Ethnic Newswatch Complete This link opens in a new windowEthnic NewsWatch is a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. The database now also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989
- Ethnographic Video Online This link opens in a new windowIntended to be a visual encyclopedia of human behavior and culture, online in streaming video. Contains classic and contemporary documentaries; previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field; and select feature films. Includes footage from every continent and hundreds of unique cultures. Thematic areas include: language and culture, kinesthetics, body language, food and foraging, cooking, economic systems, social stratification and status, caste systems and slavery, male and female roles, kinship and families, political organization, conflict and conflict resolution, religion and magic, music and the arts, culture and personality, and sex, gender, and family roles. Includes volumes I - III.
- Europa World Plus This link opens in a new windowEconomic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of 250+ countries and global regions. Contact information for political, business, media, and cultural agencies and officials, including 1,900 international organizations. Search or browse by country, region, organization, or people.
- Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest (Nineteenth Century Collections Online) This link opens in a new windowThrough a variety of official government documents, political papers of prominent individuals, and newspaper accounts, researchers can trace the development of British strategic imperatives, French and Belgian desire for the expansion of trade and raw materials, and Germany and Italy’s late entrance onto the imperial stage. Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest covers exploration, military and missionary activities, and economic and political imperialism in the ninetenth century. Documents are sourced from The National Archives, Kew; the U.S. National Archives; the Library of Congress; the National Library of Scotland; and Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
- European Register of Microform Masters This link opens in a new windowThe European Register of Microform Masters has been set up as an international database accessible online, where information about all works, that have already been reformatted or are about to be reformatted shall be available. Microforms and other reformatted items that have been produced to standard by commercial agencies and where service copies of individual works are available, are to be included.
- European Views of the Americas, 1493-1750 This link opens in a new windowThis database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery. The original bibliography was co-developed by John Alden and Dennis Landis, Curator of European Books at The John Carter Brown Library.
- Evans-TCP: Evans Digital Edition -- Text Creation Partnership This link opens in a new windowSearchable text-based version of the page images available in Evans Digital Edition.
- Everyday Life & Women in America This link opens in a new windowThis digital collection provides access to rare primary source material on American social, cultural, and popular history from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History, Duke University and The New York Public Library. It comprises thousands of fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes, emphasizing conduct of life and domestic management literature, the daily lives of women and men, and contrasts in regional, urban and rural cultures.
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- Faber Poetry Library This link opens in a new windowA collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. The Faber list spans the seventy-year history of this major publishing house, and includes the poetry of Thom Gunn, Siegfried Sassoon, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Wendy Cope and Seamus Heaney. In total The Faber Poetry Library contains 140 volumes by 50 poets. Part of Literature Online (LION).
- Factiva This link opens in a new windowLos Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune are not accessible from Factiva. Contains a wide variety of financial information including business and economic news, text-search services, stock market quotations, financial and investment services and general news and information.
NB: 10 simultaneous user limit. - H1 Connect (formerly Faculty Opinions) This link opens in a new window
H1 Connect is an article recommendation service, providing up-to-date notifications and information about science you shouldn’t miss.
Our global virtual Faculty of nearly 8000 leading experts from across the life sciences, health and physical sciences recommend articles they consider to be highly important to others working both in their field and beyond.
Coverage includes research from basic and fundamental, to clinical application and social and behavioral sciences. In addition, a substantial body of recommended content provides insight into science and research policy and practice. - Family Studies Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIncludes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains 45,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline, such as: Journal of Family Studies, Journal of Marriage & Family, Family Relations, etc. EBSCO has digitized the full archive of this index, bringing coverage back to 1979.
- govinfo This link opens in a new windowFDsys provides free authenticated online access to official Federal Government publications through advanced search capabilities and browse features by collection, date, and Congressional committee.
- Federal Register This link opens in a new windowIssued by the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO), and published on the web by the National Archives, the Federal Register (FR) lists U.S. federal agency announcements and information, such as presidential documents, agency meetings, grant opportunities, and proposed federal regulations.
- Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s This link opens in a new windowOrganized alphabetically by organization, this collection covers a wide range of viewpoints on political, social, cultural, and economic issues. It sheds light on internal organization, personnel, and activities of some of the most prominent American radical groups and their movements to change American government and society
- Feminism in Cuba, 1898-1958 This link opens in a new windowThis collection, compiled from Cuban sources, spans the period from Cuban independence to the end of the Batista regime. The collection sheds light on Cuban feminism, women in politics, literature by Cuban women and the legal status of Cuban women.
- FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals This link opens in a new windowFIAF Index to Film Periodicals is a bibliographical index offering in-depth coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals from 1972 to the present day.
- Fieser and Fieser's Reagents for Organic Synthesis This link opens in a new windowThe entire contents of all print volumes, including an A to Z listing of all reagents cited in synthetic literature with concise descriptions and illustrations of chemical reactions. To save you time in researching, all information about a particular reagent is collected in one single article.
- Film and Television Literature Index This link opens in a new windowCovers over 300 journal and magazine titles for film and television reviews, scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, and articles of popular interest about film and television. About half the journals and magazines are film periodicals and the other half cover film and television with some regularity. Subject coverage includes film and television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. Some full text is available.
- Film Index International This link opens in a new windowIndex to over 120,000 films from 170 countries, with biographical information for 720,000 persons in the film industry. Based on the Summary of Film and Television database maintained by the British Film Institute.
- Financial Times Historical archive, 1888-2016 This link opens in a new windowThe Financial Times Historical Archive delivers the complete searchable run of the world's most authoritative daily business newspaper. Every item ever printed in the paper, from 1888-2006, can be searched and browsed by article and page by page. It includes over 700,000 pages of past issues for the stated period of coverage, including Special Supplements and the FT Magazine.
- First Research This link opens in a new windowFirst Research is an Internet-based tool that allows users to easily understand the challenges, opportunities, and operations of more than 900 Industry Segments.
- First World War This link opens in a new windowThe First World War portal makes available invaluable primary sources for the study of the Great War, brought together in four thematic modules. From personal collections and rare printed material to military files, artwork and audio-visual files, content highlights the experiences of soldiers, civilians and governments on both sides of a conflict that shook the world.
Includes modules: Personal Experiences; Propaganda and Recruitment; Visual Perspectives and Narratives; A Global Conflict - Foreign Broadcast Information Services (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1941-1996 This link opens in a new windowThe United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence, FBIS is an index foreign media reports covering political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events throughout the world. FBIS includes full-text English-language and English-language translations of radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements.
- Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, 1947-1980 This link opens in a new windowThis collection of files from the Foreign Office (later the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) and Dominions Office focuses on the political and social history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The files address these events from the standpoint of British officialdom. In addition to high politics, they deal with such issues as economic and industrial development, trade, migration, visits to South Asia by British politicians and by South Asian politicians to Britain and elsewhere, education, administrative reorganisation, conflict over language, aid, political parties, agriculture and irrigation, and television and the press. Together they form a resource of fundamental value to scholars and students of modern South Asia. - Foreign Relations of the United States This link opens in a new windowThe Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication.
- Freedonia Focus Portal This link opens in a new windowA collection of industry market research, consisting of over 250 reports covering 18 industry sectors. The reports provide market size, historical and forecasted demand by product and markets, and profiles of the market leading companies.
- Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia This link opens in a new windowProvides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.
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- Gale Directory Library This link opens in a new windowSearch, sort and export information from current and prior directory editions. Users can mine individual directories for financial information for companies, circulation figures for publications, and much more.
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- Consultants and Consulting Organizations Directory (2011 edition only)
- Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies (2008-2009)
- Business Rankings Annual (2011-2019 editions)
- Market Share Reporter (v.20 2010-v.29 2019 editions) - Gale NewsVault This link opens in a new windowGale NewsVault delivers the definitive cross-searching experience for exploring Gale's range of historical newspaper and collections. Users can simultaneously search or browse across multiple products owned by their institution, including: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; 19th Century British Library Newspapers, Parts I and II; 19th Century UK Periodicals, Series I: New Readerships; 19th Century UK Periodicals, Series II: Empire; 19th Century U.S. Newspapers; Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2006; Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003; Times Digital Archive 1785-1985; and Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 1902-2005.
- Gale eBooks This link opens in a new windowGale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
- Gazette (Cedar Rapids) This link opens in a new windowAvailable from NewsBank Access World News. Date range: 1992-
- GDF Online This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive set of tables with statistical data for 136 countries that report debt under the World Bank Debtor Reporting System, as well as summary data for regions and income groups.
- GenderWatch This link opens in a new windowPrimarily a full text database with some abstracts that contains periodicals, academic journals, newsletters, magazines, regional publications, and government reports focused on gender and women's issues. [Not compatible with Internet Explorer 9]
- GeoRef This link opens in a new windowReferences and selected abstracts to the world's literature in geology, covering North America since 1785 and other areas since 1933. Corresponds to the print publications: Bibliography of North American geology; Bibliography and index of geology exclusive of North America; Geophysical abstracts (Washington, D.C.); and: Bibliography and index of geology; with additional citations from other sources. [Not compatible with Internet Explorer 9]
- GeoScienceWorld This link opens in a new windowServes as a comprehensive resource for research and communications in the geological and earth sciences. GeoScienceWorld is built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals indexed, linked, and inter-operable with GeoRef.
- Gerontological Society of America Journals This link opens in a new windowSearch all of the Gerontological Society of America journals.
- Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online, 1543-1945 This link opens in a new windowThe Gerritsen Collection was begun by Aletta Jacobs Gerritsen in the late 1800s. The online resource delivers two million page images exactly as they appeared in the original printed works. It includes monographs, periodicals and pamphlets in fifteen languages, and is searchable by keyword and Boolean operators.
- Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration, and Cultural Exchange This link opens in a new windowThis resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. The commodities featured in this resource have been transported, exchanged and consumed around the world for hundreds of years. They helped transform societies, global trading operations, habits of consumption and social practices.
- Global GIS Data Bundle This link opens in a new windowThis dataset contains Global Data Bundles compiled by Land Info and was purchased by the University of Iowa for distribution within the UI community. Data is accessible only to UI on-campus IP addresses.
- Godey's Lady's Book This link opens in a new window19th century magazine intended to "entertain and educate" women of America. Early issues include biographical sketches, articles about mineralogy, handcrafts, fashion, dance, equestrienne procedures, health & hygiene, recipes & remedies, and piano forte sheet music. Later issues contain book reviews and works by such 19th century authors as Poe, Hawthorne, Longfellow and Stowe. Illustrations.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowClick on the "ViewIt@UILink" in your results list for UILink services including full text (when available), links to the InfoHawk+ Catalog, Interlibrary Loan requests and more. [TO USE THIS OPTION FROM OFF-CAMPUS: Additional information about Google Scholar]
- GreenFILE This link opens in a new windowA freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond.
- Green's Dictionary of Slang This link opens in a new windowA collection of this often reviled but endlessly fascinating area of the English language, these volumes cover slang from the past five centuries right up to the present day, from all the different English-speaking countries and regions.
- Grove Art Online This link opens in a new windowA scholarly art encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art
- Grove Music Online This link opens in a new window
Part of Oxford Music Online.
Limited to eight (8) simultaneious users.
- Guardian and The Observer, 1791-2003 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowThe Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Coverage includes all titles of these newspapers. Observer (London, England) (1791- ) and The Manchester guardian and British volunteer (1925-1828), Manchester guardian (Manchester, England : 1828) (1828-1959), Guardian (Manchester, England) (1959- ). [Not compatible with Internet Explorer 9]
- Gutenberg-e This link opens in a new windowA collection of books from the American Historical Association and Columbia University Press. (Adobe Acrobat reader is required to view PDF files; QuickTime or RealOne players are required to play audio and video files.)
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- Handbook of High-Resolution Spectroscopy This link opens in a new windowCombining the knowledge of spectroscopy, laser technology, chemical computation, and experiments, Handbook of High-resolution Spectroscopy provides a comprehensive survey of the whole field as it presents itself today, with emphasis on the recent developments.
- Handbook of Latin American Studies This link opens in a new windowContains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
- Handbook of Measurement in Science and Engineering This link opens in a new windowProvides a multidisciplinary resource of engineering measurement theory, necessary tools, techniques of measurement and analysis, and applications.
- Handbook of Pragmatics Online This link opens in a new windowCovers Linguistic Pragmatics, characterized by its continuous worldwide development into an extremely productive, innovative and intriguing research area within language studies.
- Handbook of Vibrational Spectroscopy This link opens in a new windowVibrational spectroscopy is an area of analytical chemistry and measurement science that incorporates infrared and Raman spectroscopy. This reference work presents more than 300 detailed articles that discuss the theory, instrumentation, data handling and applications of vibrational spectroscopy.
- HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index This link opens in a new windowHAPI contains citations to articles published since 1970 in more than 500 scholarly journals treating Latin American or U.S. Hispanic topics. Coverage includes Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, German and Italian language articles.
- HarpWeek: the Civil War Era through the Gilded Age (1857-1912) This link opens in a new windowFull text of the popular 19th century magazine, Harper's Weekly, on literature, history, current events, culture and society. Includes images from Harper's Weekly, with index.
- Hathi Trust Digital Library This link opens in a new windowHathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository and highly functional access platform that contains books, primarily in English, from the collections of some of the largest libraries in the United States, including The University of Iowa Libraries. It provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives. To access full-text material, sign in with your HawkID and password.
- Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary This link opens in a new windowProvides extensive data and descriptive information for thousands of chemicals and chemical phenomena. Not a dictionary in the traditional sense, Hawley’s provides descriptions of chemicals, raw materials, processes and equipment; definitions of chemical entities, phenomena, and terminology; and descriptions of an array of trademarked products used in chemical industry.
- Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) This link opens in a new windowProvides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, and tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.
- Health Source: Consumer Edition This link opens in a new windowCovers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs and alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition and dietetics, children's health, women's health, etc. as far back as 1985. Provides access to consumer health periodicals, health-related pamphlets, health reference books, Clinical reference systems reports, and includes Clinical pharmacology, which provides access to information for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products, and new drugs.
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new windowProvides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.
- Healthcare Videos from Alexander Street Press This link opens in a new windowHealthcare Videos from Alexander Street Press defines and explores medical progress in health and wellness issues. The collection uses documentaries, profiles, reports, and interviews to bridge the gap between medical research and public understanding of health. The videos are designed for use by students, instructors, and the general population to better understand the realities of illness, wellness, and the modern healthcare system. Focus is on public health and medicine, epidemiology, pathology, geronotology, nutrition and wellness, childhood development, cultural and environmental health issues, mental health, and the experience of living with chronic conditions and diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, cognitive disorders, fibromyalgia, and obesity.
- HeinOnline This link opens in a new windowHeinOnline is the world's largest image-based legal research collection and contains more than nine centuries of legal history. All content is image-based in PDF format just as they appear in the original print copy thus preserving the authenticity of the hard copy in a digital environment.
- Heirs of Hippocrates This link opens in a new windowHeirs of Hippocrates: The Development of Medicine in a Catalogue of Historic Books in the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, the University of Iowa.
- HighWire Press This link opens in a new window
- Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 This link opens in a new windowHispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 represents the single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. The distinctive collection features hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers, including many long scattered and forgotten titles published in the 19th century.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowHistorical Abstracts offers coverage of world history, from 1450 onward, outside the US and Canada. (The companion index for those countries is America: History and Life). Historical Abstracts provides citations with abstracts to articles in over 1,700 journals, published 1954 to the present. It also contains bibliographic citations to books and dissertations. Limited to 6 simultaneous users.
As of Sep 2023, we've received some reports from users encountering access issues while using Chrome. - Historical Statistics of the United States This link opens in a new windowHistorical Statistics of the United States represents data series from earliest times to the present and has long been a standard source for quantitative indicators of American history. Broad topic categories include Population, Work and Welfare, Economic Structure, Economic Sectors, and Governance and International Affairs.
- History of Afghanistan online This link opens in a new windowThe most important history of Afghanistan ever written (originally written in Persian), Sirāj al-tawārīkh or The History of Afghanistan. The roots of much of the fabric of Afghanistan’s society today—tribe and state relations, the rule of law, gender issues, and the economy—are elegantly and minutely detailed in this immense work.
- Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new windowElectronic documents made available by the Dudley Knox Library at the Naval Postgraduate School, searchable by keyword or by topic, including general U.S. policy documents, national strategy documents, theses and research papers from the Center for Homeland Defense and Security and the Naval Postgraduate School, and homeland security executive orders. Also includes notices of events and conferences pertaining to homeland security, and news items drawn from various news sources.
- UK Parliamentary Papers This link opens in a new windowEncompasses all areas of British social, political, economic and foreign policy, "showing how issues were explored and legislation was formed. Many contributors to the papers were found outside the official world, providing evidence or supplying memoranda to committees and commissions."
- Homer Encyclopedia This link opens in a new windowThe Homer Encyclopedia represents the first comprehensive reference work encompassing the world and artistry of Homer, the historical and cultural background of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Homeric scholarship, and Homeric reception from antiquity to the present.
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- IBISWorld This link opens in a new windowBusiness reports in four categories: industry market research, industry risk ratings, company research, and economic and demographic data. US, Global, and China coverage.
If you have difficulty viewing this site, please clear your cache and open a new browser window. - ICE Virtual Library This link opens in a new windowContains every peer-reviewed paper published in the transactions, proceedings and journals of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) since its inception in 1836. Full-text articles published from 2013 – 2019 in the ICE Complete Engineering Journals Collection are available.
- IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new windowProvides full-text access to IEEE transactions, IEEE and IEE journals, magazines, and conference proceedings published since 1988, all current IEEE standards, and all IEEE-Wiley eBooks titles copyrighted in the year(s) 1974-2015.
- Illustrated London news historical archive, 1842-2003 This link opens in a new windowThe Illustrated London News Historical Archive gives students and researchers unprecedented online access to the entire run of the ILN from its first publication on 14 May 1842 to its last in 2003. Each page has been digitally reproduced in full colour and every article and caption is full-text searchable with hit-term highlighting and links to corresponding illustrations."
- Independent Digital Archive, 1986-2016 This link opens in a new windowThe Independent Digital Archive, 1986-2012 presents a digital collection of every page of every issue of the The Independent, a national daily newspaper launched in 1986.
- Independent Voices: An Open Access Collection of an Alternative Press. This link opens in a new windowIndependent Voices is a four-year project to digitize over 1 million pages from the magazines, journals and newspapers of the alternative press archives of participating libraries.
- Index Islamicus This link opens in a new windowThe Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It is produced by the Islamic Bibliography Unit at Cambridge University Library.
- Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals This link opens in a new windowIndexes 42 art journals published in the US during the 19th century, providing nearly complete coverage of journals from this period. The Index describes the entire journal contents (articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems, and advertisements) and offers information on popular culture and industry, artists and illustrators, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture and design, exhibitions and sales, decorations, and collecting.
- Index to Early American Periodicals This link opens in a new windowThese two (of three) 'Indexes to Early American Periodicals' cover 1700 - 1799 and 1800 - 1850 and are thought to include all known periodical publications that had their inception and ending during this time period. The actual periodicals are on microfilm in three microfilm collections of the same names (often referred to as APS I and APS II).
- Index to Jewish Periodicals This link opens in a new windowIndex to Jewish Periodicals is the definitive index on Jewish history, activity and thought. This database provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs. Titles include Contemporary Jewry, Holy Land Studies, Jewish Culture and History, Journal of Palestine Studies, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and many more. Most references are not found in standard periodical literature guides. Index to Jewish Periodicals is intended for students of Jewish thought and others interested in contemporary Jewish and Middle Eastern affairs. Journal coverage dates back as far as 1988.
- Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981 This link opens in a new windowIndexes over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Content is also drawn from 38 printed compendia, which provides access to approximately 540,000 records. Coverage also includes: annual surveys of laws by jurisdiction; annual surveys of federal court cases; yearbooks and annual institutes. (Formerly on WilsonWeb)
- Indigenous Peoples: North America This link opens in a new windowIndigenous Peoples: North America provides users with a robust, diverse, informative source that will enhance research and increase understanding of the historical experiences, cultural traditions and innovations, and political status of Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Canada.
- IngentaConnect This link opens in a new windowingentaconnect offers one of the most comprehensive collections of academic and professional research articles online - some 4.5 million articles from 13,500 publications. ingentaconnect provides researchers with online access to the full text of electronic articles, through online purchase of individual articles, or through subscriptions to publications.
- Inspec Archive 1898-1968 This link opens in a new windowAccess to over 70 years of international scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, computing and control engineering.
- Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: the West’s response to Jewish emigration. This link opens in a new windowThe Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees (IGCR) was organized in London in August 1938 as a result of the Evian Conference of July 1938, which had been called by President Roosevelt to consider the problem of racial, religious, and political refugees from central Europe.
- International Aristotle Bibliography This link opens in a new windowThe International Aristotle Bibliography Online gives access to over 50,000 books, articles, book reviews and dissertations on the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. The IABO is a comprehensive international bibliography comprising publications from the period of 1900 to the present (as well as some earlier printed works) in European languages on all aspects of Aristotle studies and closely related subjects.
- International Bibliography of Art (IBA) This link opens in a new windowThe definitive resource for scholarly literature on Western art, IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), and retains the editorial policies which made BHA one of the most trusted and frequently consulted sources in the field.
- International Dada Archive This link opens in a new windowFounded in 1979 as part of the Dada Archive and Research Center, the International Dada Archive is a scholarly resource for the study of the historic Dada movement. The Archive has compiled a comprehensive collection of textual documentation relating to Dada which includes books, articles, microfilmed manuscript collections, videorecordings, sound recordings, and a few computer files. The primary access to the entire collection is through a card catalog indexing an estimated 47,000 titles, and an online catalog containing approximately 42,000 titles (the International Online Bibliography of Dada).
- International Directory of Company Histories This link opens in a new windowProvides a listing of, and access to all titles in this series available electronically so far. Each directory gives information on the development of any of the world's 4,550 largest and most influential companies. Entries provide information on founders, expansions and losses, labor/management actions, NAIC codes, key dates, ticker symbol, principal subsidiaries, divisions, operating units, and competitors and other significant milestones.
- International Encyclopedia of Communication This link opens in a new windowContinuous and immediate 24/7 access to this major new resource in communication studies for students and academics. Powerful searching and browsing capabilities. Extensive cross-referencing.
- International Encyclopedia of Linguistics This link opens in a new windowThe Encyclopedia encompasses the full range of topics in linguistics, including such areas as historical, comparative, formal, mathematical, functional, philosophical, and sociolinguistics. Special attention is given to interrelations within these branches of the field and to relations of linguistics with other disciplines.
- International Encyclopedia of Media Studies This link opens in a new windowThis landmark Encyclopedia brings together over 175 critical essays to redraw the boundaries of this rapidly evolving and dynamically complex area. Global in scope, wide-ranging in its inclusion of topics, and edited by an international team of the world’s best scholars, this is the definitive resource for the field.
- Music Periodicals Database This link opens in a new windowIndexing and abstracts for more than 420 international music periodicals, plus full text for 83 journals.
- International Tables for Crystallography This link opens in a new windowThe online version of International Tables for Crystallography provides access to a fully interactive symmetry database and all eight volumes in the series in pdf and richly linked html format.
- Investext PlusSee ThomsonONE Investment Banking
- IOP ebooksIOP ebooks™ is a book programme that brings together innovative digital publishing with leading voices from across physics to create the essential collection of physics books for a digital world. Subscribed to: 2014.
- IOPscience This link opens in a new windowIOPscience is an online service for journal and book content published by IOP Publishing.
- iPoll databank This link opens in a new windowUsers that have an email address with the extension @uiowa.edu can self-register by visiting: https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/login although registration is no longer necessary to search or download when connected to the campus network.
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IPoll is a comprehensive, up-to-date source for US nationwide public opinion. A full-text retrieval system, the iPoll online database is organized at the question level, providing the tools to sift through nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys, 1935 to present. Surveys archived in the Roper Catalog were originally gathered by academic, commercial and media survey organizations such as Gallup Organization, Harris Interactive, Pew Research Associates, and many more. - Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance This link opens in a new windowIter, meaning 'a journey' or 'a path' in Latin, is a non-profit research project with partners in Toronto, Canada (the headquarters), New York City, and Tempe, Arizona. The goal of Iter is to increase access to all published materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700), through the development of online resources.
- Izvestiia This link opens in a new windowOne of the oldest Russian newspapers founded in March 1917. Content is 2010-present time
- Izvestiia Digital Archive This link opens in a new windowAmong the longest-running Russian newspapers, Izvestiia was founded in March 1917 and during the Soviet period was the official organ of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Remarkable for its serious and balanced treatment of subject matter, Izvestiia has traditionally been a popular news source within intellectual and academic circles. This archive covers 1917-2010.
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- Jacoby Online This link opens in a new windowJacoby Online brings together online Felix Jacoby's monumental Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker and Brill's New Jacoby, a completely new edition of the great work with abundant new commentaries in English by contemporary scholars, as well as facing English translations of the Greek texts, in a fully searchable and indexed online format. Beginning in March 2007 and proceeding in twice-yearly updates at the rate of about 60 historians per update (approximate equivalent of 1,000 printed pages), each of Jacoby's 856 entries, comprising a total of more than 12,000.
- JAMAevidence This link opens in a new windowIncludes text of two books (Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice and The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence-Based Clinical Diagnosis), education guides, glossary, calculators, worksheets, question wizards, weekly RSS feed of featured JAMA articles, compiled clinical scenarios, podcasts, and user-level customization features.
- JapanKnowledge This link opens in a new windowIncludes dictionaries (Japanese, English-Japanese, Japanese-English and English-English); the Nihon daihyakka zensho (Nipponica), a full text 30 vol. encyclopedia; two dictionaries of current words: Imidas and Gendai yogo no kiso chishiki; a dictionary of scientific terms: Kagaku gijutsu ryakugo jiten; a biographical dictionary: Nihon jinmei daijiten; the JK Who's Who; the Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan; a news database (NNA) that covers Asia and the European Union; a full-text journal: Shukan ekonomisuto; Edo-Tokyo kasane chizu (map); full-text of books in the Toyo bunko series; chronologies (world history, Japan by period, Japan by prefecture, science, culture, society, daily life, social movements, economics and for individuals); a database of video (TV, news) recordings from 1908 to 2005; database of dissertations from the humanities departments of six universities in Japan; URL database; books in print database; sound library; music library. * Use the Login button *
- Jerusalem Post, 1932-2008 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowThe Jerusalem Post is an Israeli daily English-language broadsheet newspaper, founded on 1 December 1932 by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post in the British Mandate of Palestine. During the Mandate period, the publication supported the struggle for a Jewish homeland in Palestine and openly opposed British policy restricting Jewish immigration. In 1950, two years after the State of Israel was declared, the paper was renamed The Jerusalem Post.
- Johns Hopkins ABX Guide This link opens in a new windowThe Johns Hopkins ABX Guide features up-to-date, authoritative, evidenced-based information on the treatment of infectious diseases to help you make decisions at the point of care. The guide breaks down details of diagnosis; drug indications, dosing, pharmacokinetics, side effects and interactions; pathogens; management; and vaccines into easily accessible, frequently-updated, quick-read entries. (uCentral is the Unbound Medicine portal to the John Hopkins ABX guide, pre-selected MEDLINE content, and links to uCentral downloads and tools including a mobile app.)
- Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports This link opens in a new windowFrom international research developments to political events, this unique collection—fully searchable for the first time—features English translations of foreign-language monographs, reports, serials, journal and newspaper articles, and radio and television broadcasts from regions throughout the world. With an emphasis on communist and developing countries, this digital edition of Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, 1957-1994, contains a wealth of hard-to-find scientific, technical, and social science materials translated from many languages.
- Journal Citation Reports or JCR Web This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive resource for journal evaluation, Journal Citation Reports (JCR) uses citation references culled from over 7,600 scholarly and technical journals worldwide and includes all specialties in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences. Data reveals the highest impact journals via journal impact factor, most frequently used journals, hottest journals, and largest journals. See the Web of Science .
- Journals@Ovid Full Text This link opens in a new windowOvid helps researchers, librarians, clinicians, and other healthcare professionals find important medical information so that they can make critical decisions to improve patient care, enhance ongoing research, and fuel new discoveries.
- JoVE Unlimited This link opens in a new windowEncompasses all current and future JoVE video resources. JoVE publishes more than 1,200 videos annually across the 13 sections of the JoVE Video Journal and launches new subject series and collections to the JoVE Science Education Library several times a year. Access to both the fundamental building blocks of common laboratory techniques and the newest, cutting-edge experiments
- JSTOR (Journal Storage) This link opens in a new windowProvides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, philosophy, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each titles. Journals may be searched across multiple titles as well as by the individual titles below
Note that this database comprises mostly back issues: for most titles the JSTOR database does NOT include full text of the most recent 3 to 5 years.
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- Key business ratios This link opens in a new windowContains industry balance sheet and income statement information along with ratios organized by SIC codes.
- King James Bible This link opens in a new window'Authorized' edition of the Bible (1611). Text is given in full, with all introductory matter, annotation, calendars, genealogies and tables included. Part of Literature Online (LION).
- KRpia This link opens in a new windowMostly in Korean. Full-text collection of Korean classical books including: history, literature, folk literature, natural history, oriental medicine, and other classical works.
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- Latin American Newspapers, 1805-1922 This link opens in a new windowSearchable collection of historical newspapers from around the world. Begins with Latin American newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries. Forthcoming are African, European, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Southeast Asian newspapers. Can be cross-searched with collection: America's historical newspapers. Parts I & II.
- Legacy Tobacco Documents Library This link opens in a new windowThe Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL) contains more than 9.7 million documents (50+ million pages) created by major tobacco companies related to their advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research activities.
- Les Corpus des oeuvres de philosophie en langue francaise This link opens in a new window
- LexisNexis Academic (now called Nexis Uni) This link opens in a new windowTURN OFF POP-UP BLOCKER; Researchers can quickly and easily search full-text documents from over 17,000 credible sources of information and pinpoint relevant information for a wide range of academic research projects. Extensive legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790
- LGBT Studies in Video This link opens in a new windowLGBT Studies in Video is a cinematic survey of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as well as the cultural and political evolution of the LGBT community. It features award-winning documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and select feature films exploring LGBT history, gay culture and subcultures, civil rights, marriage equality, LGBT families, AIDS, transgender issues, religious perspectives on homosexuality, global comparative experiences, and other topics.
- LGBT Thought and Culture This link opens in a new windowLGBT Thought and Culture is an online resource hosting books, periodicals, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day.
- Liberty Magazine, 1924-1950 This link opens in a new windowLiberty: A Weekly for Everybody was founded in 1924 by Joseph Patterson, publisher of the New York Daily News and Robert McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune and often regarded as the world's greatest publisher. From its inception, they set out to make the magazine more topical, daring and exciting than any competitors.
- Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA) This link opens in a new window
LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts is an international abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists. LISA currently abstracts over 440 periodicals from more than 68 countries and in more than 20 different languages. [Not compatible with Internet Explorer 9]
- Library Literature and Information Science Full Text This link opens in a new windowIndexes articles and book reviews in more than 400 key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere, going as far back as 1984. Books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed. Subjects covered include: Automation, Care & Restoration of Books, Cataloging, Censorship, Circulation Procedures, Classification, Copyright, Education for Librarianship, Electronic Searching, Government Aid, Indexing, Information Brokers, Internet Software, Library Associations & Conferences, Library Equipment & Supplies, Literature for Children & Young Adults, Personnel Administration, Preservation of Materials, Public Relations, Publishing, Rare Books, Reference Services, and Web Sites. (Formerly on WilsonWeb)
- Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts This link opens in a new windowLISTA indexes journal articles from more than 600 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings, with coverage extending back to 1966. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry, scholarly communication, and electronic publishing. Formerly called Information Science and Technology Abstracts (ISTA).
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) This link opens in a new windowContains non-evaluative abstracts of articles from approximately 1,500 serials published worldwide. [Not compatible with Internet Explorer 9]
- Linguistics Data Consortium (LDC) This link opens in a new windowAn open consortium of universities, companies and government research laboratories that creates, collects and distributes speech and text databases, lexicons, and other resources for research and development purposes. Offers access to a catalog of LDC resources. Includes news items and a site search engine. Posts contact information for the headquarters in Philadelphia via street address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail. Links to other related sites. UI-affiliated researchers should contact the linguistics bibliographer at the Main Library (kelly-hangauer@uiowa.edu ) for information regarding the acquisition of linguistic corpora for research.
- Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991 This link opens in a new window"The Listener was a weekly magazine established by the BBC in 1929 under its Director-General Lord Reith. It was the intellectual counterpart to the BBC listings magazine, Radio Times. Developed as the medium for reproducing broadcast talks – initially on radio, but in later years television as well - The Listener is one of the few records and means of accessing the content of many early broadcasts. As well as commenting on and expanding on the intellectual broadcasts of the week, The Listener also previewed major literary and musical programmes and regularly reviewed new books. The online archive consists of the complete 62 year run of the paper, allowing users to search across 129,000 pages and more than 226,000 articles - all newly digitised from originals in full colour."
- Gale Literature Criticism This link opens in a new windowSearchable database that provides access to the literary criticism collections Classical and Medieval Literary Criticism (CMLC), Children's Literature Review (CLR), Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC), Drama Criticism (DC), Literature Criticism from 1400-1800 (LC), Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (NCLC), Poetry Criticism (PC), Shakespeare Criticism (SC), Short Story Criticism (SSC), and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC).
- Literature Online (LION) This link opens in a new windowA fully searchable library of over 350,000 works of English and American literature, overseen by an academic advisory board.
- Literature Online, Journals This link opens in a new windowThis collection draws its current content from over 200 core journals in literature. Part of Literature Online (LION).
- London Low Life This link opens in a new windowRare books, ephemera, maps, periodicals, and other materials relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London. Chronology, interactive maps, essays, online galleries and links. Fast literature, street ephemera (posters, advertising, playbills, ballads and broadsides), penny fiction, cartoons, Tallis’ Street Views, chapbooks, Old London Street Cries, Swell’s guides to London prostitution, gambling and drinking dens, tourist guides, and topography, manuscripts of George Gissing.
- Los Angeles Sentinel, 1934-2005 (Proquest Historical Newspapers: Black Newspapers Collection) This link opens in a new windowThis database provides full page and article images with searchable full text from the Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005).
- Los Angeles Times, 1881-1999 (Proquest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowThe Los Angeles Times (1881-1999) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
- Lyell Collection This link opens in a new windowThe Lyell Collection, created to mark the Geological Society of London's 200th anniversary in 2007, brings together key journals, Special Publications and Society book series on a single electronic platform.
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- Making of America, Cornell University This link opens in a new windowA digital library of primary sources in American social history, this site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
- Making of Modern Law Digital Archive: Primary Sources This link opens in a new windowWe use the term primary sources not in the historian's sense of a manuscript, letter, or diary, but rather in the legal sense of a case, statute, or regulation. Designed to complement The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, this archive offers online access to state and municipal codes, documents relating to constitutional conventions, and other resources in American legal history.
- Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources, 1600-1970 This link opens in a new windowComplements the collection of treatises found in Foreign, Comparative and International Law 1600-1926, and provides an interpretive analysis with books on codes, the “primary sources” of law.
- Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926 This link opens in a new windowIncludes pre-1926 treatises and similar monographs, sourced from the collections of the Yale, George Washington University, and Columbia law libraries, in the following areas: International Law; Comparative Law; Foreign Law; Roman Law; Islamic Law; Jewish Law; and Ancient Law.
- Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 This link opens in a new windowDerived from two essential reference collections for historical and more contemporary legal studies--the Nineteenth-Century Legal Treatises and Twentieth-Century Legal Treatises microfilm collections. Legal Treatises comprises over 21,000 works from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on British Commonwealth and American law, with 14,900 titles from the nineteenth century and 7,100 titles from the years 1900 to 1926. It covers nearly every aspect of law, encompassing a range of analytical, theoretical, and practical literature, some very rare. The monographs and materials in Legal Treatises include casebooks, local practice manuals, books on legal form, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, and speeches.
- Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926 This link opens in a new windowThis collection provides access to digitized versions of published trial accounts, official trial documents including briefs and arguments, and records of legislative and administrative proceedings that examine historically important trials. Most of the titles were originally published in English in the U.S. or Great Britain but the collection also contains non-English language materials from other jurisdictions.
- Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records & Briefs Digital Archive This link opens in a new windowFeatures a fully searchable database of approximately 11 million pages and more than 350,000 separate documents. Approximately 150,000 Supreme Court cases are featured, the majority consisting of those for which the Court did not give a full opinion. It is derived from the holdings of the Jenkins Memorial Law Library, America's first law library (for the period 1832 (when printed Court records began) through 1915) and the Library of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (for 1915-1978).
- Making of the Modern World This link opens in a new windowIncluding books, serials, pamphlets, essays and more,
tracks the development of the modern, western world through the lens of trade and wealth. - MarketResearch.com Academic This link opens in a new windowAccess to extensive, detailed market research reports.
- Mass Observation This link opens in a new windowFounded in 1937 by anthropologist Tom Harrisson, film-maker Humphrey Jennings and poet Charles Madge, the aim was to document the social history of Britain by recruiting a team of observers and volunteers to write about their lives and opinions.
This resource offers revolutionary access to the original Mass Observation project, the bulk of which was carried out from 1937 until the mid-1950s, offering an unparalleled insight into everyday life in Britain during these transformative years. Explore original manuscript and typescript papers created and collected by the Mass Observation organization, as well as printed publications, photographs and interactive features. - MasterFILE Premier This link opens in a new windowProvides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Also includes 500 full text reference books, nearly 100,000 biographies, 86,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 188,000 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily.
- Materials for Medical Devices This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive set of mechanical, physical, biological response, and drug compatibility properties for the materials and coatings used in cardiovascular and orthopaedic medical devices.
- MathSciNet This link opens in a new windowProviding Web access to reviews and citations from Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications, MathSciNet covers the literature of mathematics and related areas back to 1940.
- Medieval Sourcesonline This link opens in a new windowContains several full text books, which include hundreds of original medieval history documents compiled for the teaching and study of history.
- MEDLINE (Ovid) This link opens in a new windowOvid MEDLINE is an alternative to PubMed for searching MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine database covering the breadth of biomedicine. Ovid MEDLINE does not include the non-MEDLINE portions of PubMed, which also includes all citations from PubMed Central.
- Meet the Press This link opens in a new windowNBC's Meet the Press is broadcast-television's longest-running program, with interviews, panels and debates from across the political spectrum. The collection includes every surviving program from the show's inception in 1947 through the present day. All programs can be watched in streaming format and are fully searchable. All programs are provided with running transcripts. Programs and clips can be saved to a playlist and shared with others.
- Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print This link opens in a new windowMental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains full text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed "Mental Measurements Yearbooks." Tests in Print, produced by the Buros Institute, is a listing of commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP compliments and supplements the Mental Measurements Yearbook.
- Merck Index Online This link opens in a new windowAn authoritative and reliable source of information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals, the Merck Index* Online offers the same highly authoritative information as the print edition in a convenient and easily searchable full text database. It contains over 11,500 monographs – including historic records not available in the print edition. The Merck Index Online will be updated regularly with accurate information curated by experts.
- Mergent Horizon This link opens in a new windowContains up-to-date company description, stock price performance, and financial data. Allows users to perform industry comparisons and peer-group analyses, evaluate a company's business based on its products and services, and identify its competitors, major customers, suppliers and partners. Covers all companies actively traded on the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ exchanges.
- Mergent Online This link opens in a new windowSource for global business and financial information. Provides news reports for "Moody's Manuals."
- Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs: The International Encyclopedia of Adverse Drug Reactions and Interactions This link opens in a new windowMeyler's Side Effects of Drugs: The International Encyclopedia of Adverse Drug Reactions and Interactions, Sixteenth Edition builds on the success of the 15 previous editions, providing an extensively reorganized and expanded resource that now comprises more than 1,500 individual drug articles with the most complete coverage of adverse reactions and interactions found anywhere.
Side Effects of Drugs Annual updates Meyler’s between editions. - Micromedex This link opens in a new windowMicromedex is a search engine for drug databases that provides in-depth information for drugs (both prescription and over-the-counter commercial products), diseases, toxicology, and alternative medicine. It also provides patient counseling tools for medications, procedures, and conditions as well as dosing calculators. Databases searched include POISINDEX, DRUGDEX, DISEASEDEX, PDR, MARTINDALE, and RED BOOK.
- Middle and Junior High Core Collection (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new windowFor libraries serving readers in grades five through nine, this is a collection development tool containing titles for nonfiction works, fiction and collections for children and adolescents. Selected and recommended by collection development specialists at 3 recommendation levels, listed books encompass a wide variety of topics for youth.
- Middle English Compendium This link opens in a new windowThe Middle English Compendium has been designed to offer easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and an associated network of electronic resources.
- Milton : a bibliography for the years 1624-1700 (revised) and for the years 1701-1799 This link opens in a new windowThis present bibliography is a revision and a continuation of Milton: A Bibliography For the Years 1624-1700, published by Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (MRTS), Binghamton, New York, in 1984. The Addenda and Corrigenda published by MRTS in 1990 has, of course, been incorporated into the current revision ... [it] tries to bring together all manuscripts and editions of John Milton's works and all studies and critical statements concerning his life and works, all allusions and quotations, and all significant imitations during the years 1624-1799."--Preface.
- Mintel This link opens in a new windowOffers research reports covering European, UK-specific, and US consumer markets. The reports analyse market drivers, sizes and trends, market segmentation, along with consumer attitudes and purchasing habits. The reports are supplemented by brief digests of relevant recent events, UK and US demographic and economic statistics and useful lists. Coverage is 2001 to date.
- Monthly Catalog of US Government Publications, 1895-1976 This link opens in a new windowThis online version makes all issues of the Monthly Catalog from 1895 to July 1976 available online, both as keyed full text records and as page images of the original printed catalog. A finding aid only, it does not include full text for any of the publications included; however, it is intended that in future links will be included to digitized government documents elsewhere.
- Music Index This link opens in a new window
This database covers 775 periodicals from 1975 to the present. Topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music.
- Music Online This link opens in a new windowMost comprehensive database in streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web.Single cross-searchable platform that can potentially cross-search any combination of subscribed databases. When complete, Music Online will offer more than 400,000 audio tracks, 400,000 scores, 100,000 pages of music reference, and over 500 hours of video. Every object in the collection is indexed for subjects, historical events, genres, people, cultural groups, places, time periods, ensembles. As a result, students and scholars can combine keyword and fielded search capabilities to frame creative and highly targeted queries. Users can also select to view a single database by using the dropdown menu at the bottom of the homepage of Music Online.
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- NAACP Papers collections (ProQuest History Vault) This link opens in a new windowThe collection is nearly two million pages of internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action
summaries from national, legal, and branch offices throughout the country. It charts the NAACP’s work and
delivers a first-hand view into crucial issues. - Nanotechnology This link opens in a new windowNot only fundamentals but also applications of nanotechnology are presented in close to 100 contributions by leading professionals in this field.
- NCLC digital library This link opens in a new windowThis source is the one location for the most up-to-date editions for 20 NCLC treatises, which are listed below. The treatises are searchable, with live links between them, and there are over 5,000 pleadings and discovery documents and primary sources integrated into the text. Researchers may also highlight the new, updated text within the treatise chapters.
- National Technical Reports Library (NTRL) This link opens in a new windowNTRL provides indexing and access to a collection of more than two million historical and current government technical reports archived by the National Technical Information Service. Over 500,000 documents are available in full-text format.
- NatMed Pro (formerly Natural Medicines) This link opens in a new windowNatMed Pro provides unbiased, evidence-based information and ratings on over 90,000 dietary supplements, natural medicines, and integrative therapies. This resource includes evidence-based monographs, commercial product ratings for over 90,000 dietary supplement products, an interaction checker, an effectiveness checker, and a nutrient depletion checker. (This resource was previously called Natural Medicines).
- Nature Publications This link opens in a new windowNature Research is the home of high impact scientific and medical information in print and online. The Nature Research portfolio includes journals, online databases, and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences and clinical medicine.
- Naver News Library This link opens in a new windowNaver News Library is a full-text Korean newspaper article archive database containing four major newspapers: Tonga ilbo / Dong-A ilbo : 1920-1999, Kyonghyang sinmun / Kyunghyang Shinmun : 1946-1999, Maeil kyongje sinmun / Maeil Business Newspaper : 1966-1999, Han'gyore / The Hankyoreh : 1988-1999. This resource is free to academic institutions.
- Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. There is an app available for iOS and Android, to log in follow the instructions for Student/Faculty at a subscribing institution: How to access the Mobile App
- Naxos Music Library Jazz This link opens in a new windowIncludes the Fantasy Jazz collection, which is different content than the jazz included in Naxos Music Library.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) This link opens in a new windowMulti-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the long nineteenth century, with archives releasing incrementally beginning in spring 2012. The content is sourced from the world’s preeminent libraries and archives. It consists of monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs, statistics, and other kinds of documents in both Western and non-Western languages. Collections I - XII.
- New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online This link opens in a new windowThe New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world's leading economists.
- New Testament Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIncludes indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-authored books, book reviews, and biblical software programs. All abstracts are in English, regardless of the language of the original work. The capability to search by specific scripture passages is useful.
- New World Cinema: Independent Features & Shorts This link opens in a new windowThe collection includes approximately 200 full-length feature films from leading independent distributors such as Kino Lorber, First Run Features, Film Movement, MK2, and the Global Films Initiative. All films were presented at major film festivals, many were nominated for awards, and many have major awards. Collectively the films in the database have won more than 1,000 awards.
- New York Amsterdam News, 1922-1993 (Proquest Historical Newspapers: Black Newspapers Collection) This link opens in a new windowThis database provides full page and article images with searchable full text from the New York Amsterdam news (1922-1938), New York Amsterdam news (1938-1941 : City ed.), New York Amsterdam news (1943-1961 : City ed.), New York Amsterdam news (1962-1993), New York Amsterdam star-news (1941-1943), and the New York star & Amsterdam news (1941-1941).
- New York Times (Factiva) This link opens in a new windowCurrent content from the New York Times daily newspaper back to 1980 is also available from LexisNexis Academic. Issues are also held in print or on microfiche in Media Services at the Main Library. Link will not go directly to newspaper
- New York Times, 1851-2019 (Proquest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowFull-text access to the New York Times from 1851 (New York Daily Times) to 2019.
- Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new windowNewspaper Source Plus provides selected full text for over 200 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers. This database is updated daily.
- Nineteenth-Century Fiction This link opens in a new windowA collection of 250 British and Irish novels from the period 1782 to 1903, stretching from the golden age of Gothic fiction to the Decadent and New Woman novels of the 1890s. Major novelists of the period such as Austen, Scott, Mary Shelley, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy and the Brontes feature alongside popular romances, sensation fiction, colonial adventure novels and children's literature. Part of Literature Online (LION).
- North American Indian Thought and Culture This link opens in a new windowA compilation of biographical information on indigenous peoples from all areas of North America. When complete, the database will include 100,000 pages of content, including biographies, autobiographies, oral histories, reference works, manuscripts, and photographs, presenting the life stories of American Indians and Canadian First Peoples in their own words and through the words of others. Coverage: 1677 to present.
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- OAIster This link opens in a new windowIntegrated searching of digital library resources from over 617 institutions. OAIster provides some access to the "hidden web" -- those resources in digital library collections and other database-driven repositories that cannot be crawled by web search engines like Google.
- OCLC FirstSearch This link opens in a new windowWorldCat (a bibliographic database of over 62,000,000 records from over 2,000 libraries) and MusicLiterature (RILM Abstracts of Music Literature) are widely available. Other databases (some full text) can only be accessed from the computers near the Main Library's reference desk, due to licensing restrictions.
- Old Testament Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIncludes indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) studies. All abstracts are in English, regardless of the language of the original work. The capability to search by specific scripture passages is useful.
- Open Science Directory This link opens in a new windowSearch tool for open access journals and journals in special programs for developing countries.
- Opera in Video This link opens in a new windowOpera in Video contains five hundred hours of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon.
- OpinionArchives This link opens in a new windowOpinionArchives provides electronic archives for journals of opinion, including The New Yorker, Commonweal, American Spectator, New York Review of Books, Commentary, Washington Examiner, Harper’s, Orion, and Dissent Digital Archives. The OpinionArchives metasearch tool provides cross-journal searching for all titles in the archive.
- Optics Encyclopedia This link opens in a new windowWith around 100 expert articles in 5 volumes, The Optics Encyclopedia is a rapid reference for skilled professionals, while newcomers from physics and engineering will appreciate its readily comprehensible style and structure.
- Organic Reactions This link opens in a new windowOrganic Reactions is the definitive resource for synthetic transformations, with an emphasis on preparative aspects. Comprehensive coverage of all examples of a given reaction is provided in tabular form. In addition to providing reaction scope, stereochemical aspects, and side reactions, a selection of representative experimental conditions are given.
- OrthoEvidenceOrthoEvidenceTM is the global online source for high quality and timely orthopaedic–only evidence-based summaries, pre-appraised by orthopaedic medical experts. OrthoEvidence is the first of its kind, orthopaedic-focused evidence-based summary provider; built for the orthopaedic community by orthopaedic experts.
- Overland Journeys: Travels in the West, 1800-1880 This link opens in a new windowWestern settlers created what we think of as the American West. Explorers came and went, soldiers came and went, miners and others came and went. But the settlers came to stay. For settlers, the ways of reaching a destination in the frontier country were either wretched ordeals or wondrous adventures. Fortunately, many of these men and women recorded daily events and their thoughts with such picturesque zest that some accounts of westward journeys have elements of great literature within them
- Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new windowProvides access to Grove Art Online, Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
- Oxford Bibliographies Online This link opens in a new windowCombining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, Oxford Bibliographies Online guides researchers to the best available scholarship across a wide variety of subjects.
Subscribed modules: African Studies, American Literature, Anthropology, Art History, Atlantic History, Buddhism, Classics, Communications, Hinduism, Islamic Studies, Linguistics, Management, Medieval Studies, Music, Philosophy, Renaissance and Reform, Victorian Literature - Oxford Classical Dictionary This link opens in a new windowContains over 6,200 entries. The Oxford Classical Dictionary has been regarded as the unrivalled one-volume reference work on all aspects of the Graeco-Roman world. It provides both scholars and non-specialists with a comprehensive source of reference which aims to answer all their questions about the classical world. The Dictionary provides coverage of Greek and Roman history, literature, myth, religion, linguistics, philosophy, law, science, art and archaeology, and topics in near eastern studies and late antiquity. The approach is interdisciplinary: all areas, regions, and cultures are represented beyond the core areas of Greece and Rome. As well as providing factual information, the Dictionary contains many thematic entries on subjects relevant to the 21st century such as nationalism, race, and ecology. The text is written in an accessible style and all Latin and Greek words have been translated.
- Oxford Companion to the Book This link opens in a new windowThe Oxford Companion to the Book covers the book, broadly conceived, throughout the world from ancient to modern times. It includes traditional subjects such as bibliography, palaeography, the history of printing, editorial theory and practice, textual criticism, book collecting, and libraries, but it also engages with newer disciplines such as the history of the book and the electronic book. It pays particular attention to how different societies shape books and how books shape societies.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography This link opens in a new windowOxford DNB is a collection of 55,000 specially written biographies, which describe the lives of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond.
- Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages This link opens in a new windowThe Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages is an essential new reference work covering all key aspects of European history, society, and culture from 500 to 1500 A.D., as well as the Byzantine Empire, Islamic dynasties, and Asiatic peoples of the era. It is designed both for medievalists, who need a detailed and reliable reference tool, and for students and general readers seeking an accessible guide to the period. Over 800 scholars have assembled thousands of comprehensive entries, lavishly supplemented by hundreds of illustrations and dozens of maps.
- Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought This link opens in a new windowThe Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought offers a comprehensive view of African thought, covering the intellectual tradition on the continent and throughout the diaspora. All major trends in African philosophy, political theory, and religion will be covered, as well as significant historical figures and social movements. The encyclopedia is a nice complement to our other well-regarded reference works in African and African American history and culture. It provides background into the intellectual traditions that have shaped this history and culture.
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2nd ed.) This link opens in a new windowCovers the significant events, inventions, and social movements that have shaped the way Americans view, prepare, and consume food and drink. Entries range across historical periods and the trends that characterize them, from the extravagant feasts of the Gilded Age to the diet fads of the nineties.
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures This link opens in a new windowThe Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures is the first comprehensive reference source to chronicle Pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern Mesoamerica, defined as the lands stretching from Mexico to the southern tip of Central America. With more than 600 articles, it is invaluable for those interested in the rich heritage of this land. Encompassing the great civilizations of the pre-Columbian era (including the Olmec, Aztec, and Maya peoples) up through the colonial and postcolonial periods, the Encyclopedia covers art, archaeology, religious studies, anthropology, history, and historiography of the region in fully cross-referenced, signed articles by the leading scholars in the discipline.
- Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World This link opens in a new windowThe Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World offers extensive comparative and systematic analyses of Islamic beliefs, institutions, movements, practices, and peoples on an international scale. The articles range from brief 500-word essays to major interpretive and synthetic treatments of topics such as the Islamic state, pilgrimage, law, marriage, and foreign relations. Related entries cover areas of general interest such as social and political movements, women, Muslim minorities, human rights, Islam in the West, and interreligious affairs. Prominent figures that had a lasting impact on Islam are also explored.
- Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World This link opens in a new windowThrough its fluent global coverage, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World provides information about major world developments from 1750 to the present, with close attention to social, economic, cultural, and political topics.
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History This link opens in a new windowThe Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, edited by Bonnie G. Smith, captures the experiences of women throughout history in a far-reaching, four-volume work. With over 650 biographies of influential women and over 600 topical articles covering topics such as geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and gender studies, Women in World History is the definitive reference work in the field.
- Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
AUGUST 2023 : THERE IS A KNOWN ISSUE WITH THIS RESOURCE ON OXFORD'S PLATFORM. OXFORD IS ACTIVELY WORKING ON A SOLUTION. THE LIBRARIES RECOMMEND USING FIREFOX WHEN USING THIS RESOURCE TO MINIMIZE ACCESS ISSUES.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language, serving as a guide to the meaning, history, and usage of 500,000 words and phrases past and present, from across the English-speaking world.
Along with present-day meanings, users will also find the history of individual words and of the language—traced through 3.5 million quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts, song lyrics, and social media posts. - Oxford Handbooks : Archaeology This link opens in a new windowOHO Archaeology brings together the world's leading scholars to discuss research and the latest thinking in a range of major topics in archaeology. Containing specially-commissioned essays with extensive referencing to further reading, the handbooks offer both thorough introductions to topics in the discipline, and a useful reference resource for scholars and advanced students.
- Oxford Handbooks : Classical Studies This link opens in a new windowOHO Classical Studies brings together the world's leading scholars to discuss research and the latest thinking in a range of major topics in classics. Containing specially-commissioned essays with extensive referencing to further reading, the handbooks offer both thorough introductions to topics in the discipline, and a useful reference resource for scholars and advanced students.
- Oxford Handbooks : History This link opens in a new windowOHO History brings together the world's leading scholars to discuss research and the latest thinking in a range of major topics in history. Containing specially-commissioned essays with extensive referencing to further reading, the handbooks offer both thorough introductions to topics in the discipline, and a useful reference resource for scholars and advanced students.
- Oxford Handbooks : Linguistics This link opens in a new windowOHO Linguistics brings together the world's leading scholars to write review essays that evaluate the current thinking on a field or topic, and make an original argument about the future direction of the debate.
- Oxford Handbooks : Philosophy This link opens in a new windowOHO Philosophy brings together the world's leading scholars to discuss research and the latest thinking in a range of major topics in philosophy. Containing specially-commissioned essays with extensive referencing to further reading, the handbooks offer both thorough introductions to topics in the discipline, and a useful reference resource for scholars and advanced students.
- Oxford Handbooks : Political Science This link opens in a new windowOHO Political Science brings together the world's leading scholars to discuss research and the latest thinking in a range of major topics in political science. Containing specially-commissioned essays with extensive referencing to further reading, the handbooks offer both thorough introductions to topics in the discipline, and a useful reference resource for scholars and advanced students.
- Oxford Handbooks : Psychology This link opens in a new windowOHO Psychology brings together the world's leading scholars to discuss research and the latest thinking in a range of major topics in psychology. Containing specially-commissioned essays with extensive referencing to further reading, the handbooks offer both thorough introductions to topics in the discipline, and a useful reference resource for scholars and advanced students.
- Oxford Journals This link opens in a new window
- Oxford Dictionaries This link opens in a new windowThe University of Iowa subscription includes: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Chinese and Arabic
- Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Includes the Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, and the Oxford Companion to Music.
Limited to eight (8) simultaneous users.
- Oxford Reference This link opens in a new windowMulti-part database of the online versions of seminal Oxford University Press texts. Each topical division contains the searchable version of the latest edition of published dictionaries and encyclopedias. Additionally, information about Oxford University Press is provided. Online texts will be updated after new editions of the print monographs are published.
- Oxford Scholarship Online This link opens in a new windowCross-searchable library containing SELECTIVE full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford books in the areas of Classical Studies, Economics and Finance, History, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Public Health, and Religion.
- Oxford Spanish Dictionary This link opens in a new windowFully searchable, comprehensive Spanish-English, English-Spanish dictionary, part of Oxford Language Dictionaries Online.
- Oxford-German Dictionary This link opens in a new windowFully searchable, comprehensive German-English, English-German dictionary, part of Oxford Language Dictionaries Online.
- Oxford-Italian Dictionary This link opens in a new windowFully searchable, comprehensive Italian-English, English-Italian dictionary, part of Oxford Language Dictionaries Online.
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- PAIS International This link opens in a new windowPAIS International covers the literature of public affairs including political, economic and social issues. PAIS International contains references to articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, research reports, conference reports and publications of international agencies. Publications from more than 120 countries are included. [Not compatible with Internet Explorer 9]
- Parker Library This link opens in a new windowHigh-resolution digital copy of every imageable page of most manuscripts in the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College
- Past Masters This link opens in a new windowFull-text humanities database, including works of such philosophers as Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Hobbes, Mill, Bentham, Machiavelli, Rousseau, Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Wittgenstein, Peirce, Kierkegaard, A. Smith; mostly in English.
- PBS Video Collection This link opens in a new windowThis three-year subscription assembles a core of 245 titles, selected for their high quality and relevance to academic curricula, covers many educational disciplines, including history, science and technology, diversity studies, business, and current events.
- Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new windowCompanion to: Periodicals index online. Archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
- Periodicals Index Online This link opens in a new windowElectronic index to over 4,500 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, covering each periodical from its first issue (as early as 1665) . Every article is indexed. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other languages.
- Perseus Digital Library This link opens in a new windowA multimedia library of Archaic and Classical Greek literature, history, art, and archaeology. Pictures of ancient ruins, antique art, and much more. Read Greek texts online in Greek or English.
- Persée This link opens in a new windowThe Persee portal offers access to fulltext of French “scientific,” i.e., scholarly journals. Titles marked by an é are in the Érudit database, mostly Canadian publications; tables of contents can be viewed, but full text of these journals is not available.
- Philologic @ NU This link opens in a new windowPhilologic at NU brings together the full corpus of 14,486 searchable early modern English texts created by the Text Creation Partnership (TCP) based on Chadwyck-Healey's (ProQuest's) "Early English Books Online" (EEBO) database. Please note: we do not subscribe to all the databases included in Philologic@NU. You will be able to search EEBO but you will not be able to search all of the Chadwyck-Healey sources listed, nor will you be able to search the database called Combo.
- Philosopher's Index This link opens in a new windowProvides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields--ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language. [Not compatible with Internet Explorer 9]
- PhilPapers This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers, PhilPapers monitors all sources of research content in philosophy, including journals, books, open access archives, and personal pages maintained by academics.
- Sports Medicine & Education Index (PREVIOUS TITLE: Physical Education Index) This link opens in a new windowThese abstracts feature content ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology. Health education and physical therapy are also covered.
- Picture Post Historical Archive This link opens in a new windowThe Picture Post Historical Archive comprises the complete archive of the Picture Post from its first issue in 1938 to its last in 1957 - all digitized from originals in full colour.
- PTSDpubs (formerly PILOTS) This link opens in a new windowThis database, formerly called PILOTS, is produced by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD. The database provides citations and abstracts to the worldwide literature on PTSD and other psychological effects of trauma. Coverage: 1871 - current
- Pittsburgh Courier, 1911-2002 (Proquest Historical Newspapers: Black Newspapers Collection) This link opens in a new windowThis database provides full page and article images with searchable full text from the Courier (1950-1954 : City ed.), New Pittsburgh courier (1969-1981 : City ed.), New Pittsburgh courier (1981-2002), Pittsburgh courier (1911-1950 : City ed.), and Pittsburgh courier (1955-1965 : City ed.).
- Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary (English-Italian) This link opens in a new window
- Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary (Italian-English) This link opens in a new window
- Politics and Current Affairs Video Online This link opens in a new windowPolitics and Current Affairs Video Online brings together documentaries covering immigration and border studies, Middle East studies, urban studies, politicial science, globalization, human rights, and related topics.
- Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950 - 1975: Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest This link opens in a new windowRock and Roll explores the dynamic period of social, political and cultural change between 1950 and 1975. The resource offers thousands of colour images of manuscript and rare printed material as well as photographs, ephemera and memorabilia from this exciting period in our recent history. Topics include student protests, civil rights, consumerism, and the Vietnam War.
- Pravda This link opens in a new windowOfficial organ of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
- Primary Search This link opens in a new windowPrimary Search provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research.
- PrivCo This link opens in a new windowUSERS MUST create a login to use resource. Database of financial data on major privately-held companies. Includes private financials and revenues; private M&A deals and deal multiples, private firm valuations, VC funding, private equity deal history; and private and family ownership data.
- Project Euclid This link opens in a new windowProject Euclid is a partnership of independent publishers of mathematics and statistics journals.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowWith full text for well over 300 journal titles from university publishers, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others. Coverage begins in 1995.
- ProQuest Archive Finder This link opens in a new window
Archive Finder is a current directory of over 5,750 repositories and over 206,000 collections of primary source material housed across the United States and the United Kingdom. Archive Finder draws from three major information sources: the Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States (DAMRUS), the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC), and the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS).
Archive Finder provides information for these types of primary source material:
- Collections of original manuscript materials such as family papers, personal papers, and collections about a person or subject. This can include printed material, maps, and photographs if it is part of a larger manuscript or archival collection.
- Single item manuscripts such as diaries, logbooks, account books, or letters
- Collections of private company or government archives provided that they are regularly available to the public
- Collections consisting entirely of handwritten, typewritten, or photo-reproduced copies of manuscripts or archives
- Oral history records consisting of tapes and/or transcripts of interviews.
This product is updated annually. - ProQuest Recent Newspapers This link opens in a new windowMust scroll down to ProQuest Recent Newspapers. All newspapers are searchable databases for the years 2008+ with a 3 month embargo. Includes newspapers from the U.S. and Canada such as Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Indianapolis Star, Cincinnati Enquirer, Toronto Star, Vancouver Sun, and more.
[Not compatible with Internet Explorer 9] - ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global (PQDT Global) This link opens in a new windowProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. [Not compatible with Internet Explorer 9]
- ProQuest Historical Annual Reports This link opens in a new windowOffers corporate annual reports for U.S. companies from 1884 to the present. Key data (financial, Fortune 500 ranking, industry classification, key people, geographic location, auditor, and related companies) are indexed in the citation and can be searched.
- ProQuest History Vault This link opens in a new windowProQuest is introducing primary source materials from its University Publications of America (UPA) Collection in a digital format. Researchers can access letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and much more from a single interface.
UI subscriptions: Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century (Federal Government Records); NAACP Papers (all); Slavery and the Law; Struggle for Women's Rights, 1880-1990. - ProQuest Legislative Insight This link opens in a new windowFull-text publication types associated with a legislative history include the Public Law, all versions of enacted and related bills, Congressional Record excerpts, and committee hearings, reports, and documents. Other full-text publication types are included in our legislative histories to provide users with background material are committee prints, CRS reports, and miscellaneous congressional publications. Presidential signing statements are also included.
- ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the U.S. This link opens in a new windowThe ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. The online version includes monthly updates to tables, deep searching at the line-item level, powerful facets for narrowing search results, image and spreadsheet versions of all current and historical tables, along with links to provider sites.
- PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new windowPsycARTICLES®, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It contains articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to the present and nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1.
- PsycBOOKS This link opens in a new windowPsycBOOKS® is a full-text database that provides electronic access to thousands of scholarly and professional titles published by the American Psychological Association (APA, including the most recent titles in psychological and behavioral science, plus a substantial backfile of classic and historic works.
- PsycCRITIQUES This link opens in a new windowDatabase of the American Psychological Association, ended publication in Fall 2017. The critiques are made available here in partnership with the APA.
PsycCRITIQUES contains 43,056 full-text reviews of books in psychology and the social sciences, as well as professional videos and popular films from a psychological perspective. Reviews occasionally include comparative or retrospective book reviews.The database also includes all reviews published in the print journal Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books between 1956 (Volume 1, Issue 1) and 2004. - PsychiatryOnline This link opens in a new windowPsychiatryOnline is a website that features DSM-5-TR, including updates and The American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of a collection of psychiatric references, including books, journals, and self-assessment tools. PsychiatryOnline features sophisticated searching and indexing tools that enable users to quickly target all the information needed
- Psychotherapy.net This link opens in a new windowPsychotherapy.net provides streaming access to a collection of psychotherapy, counseling, and addiction training videos. They also publish articles, interviews, blogs, and cartoons as free, additional educational resources; many of the therapists from the videos are also featured in interviews on this website.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowThe APA PsycINFO database from the American Psychological Association (APA) covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. PsycINFO's peer-reviewed coverage is worldwide, and includes references and abstracts to 2,400 journals in more than 30 languages, and book chapters and books in the English language. Coverage spans 1600s – present and includes over 5 million peer-reviewed records.
- PsycTESTS This link opens in a new windowRECOMMENDED BROWSER IS CHROME; To limit searches to tests where the full text is available, use the “Full Text” checkbox. A research database from the American Psychological Association (APA) that provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, and other assessments as well as descriptive and administrative information.
- PsycTherapy This link opens in a new windowA database containing more than 300 videos featuring therapy demonstrations showing clinicians working with individuals, couples, and families.
- PubMed This link opens in a new windowProvides access to bibliographic information in Medline and other sources. (See the available Help Sheet). For full functionality, log in to your MyNCBI account..
- PubMed Central This link opens in a new windowPubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
- Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992 This link opens in a new windowThe Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992 presents a digital collection of every page of every issue of the weekly Punch magazine, including its celebrated cartoons and humorous Almanacks.
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- Quaderni d'italianistica This link opens in a new windowQuaderni d'italianistica is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles and book reviews in English, French, or Italian touching on any aspect of Italian literature from the origins to the present, Italian language, linguistics, and pedagogy.
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- Radical Scatters: Emily Dickinson's Late Fragments and Related Texts, 1870-1886 This link opens in a new windowA searchable database of the manuscript fragments left by Emily Dickinson and now preserved in the Special Collections of Amherst College Library.
For off-campus access: radicaliowa / radicaliowa - Readers' Guide Retrospective This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive index to the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States. This database is available through WilsonWeb and covers the time period from 1890-1982. (Formerly on WilsonWeb)
- Reaxys This link opens in a new windowReaxys is a unique web-based chemistry database consisting of deeply excerpted compounds and related factual properties, reaction and synthesis information as well as bibliographic data, navigated and displayed via an actionable interface. Use it to access the combined wealth of trustworthy, experimental substance and reaction data and bibliographic data housed in the Beilstein, Gmelin and Patent Chemistry Databases.
- RedALyC This link opens in a new windowProvides full-text collections of journals in Latin America and the Caribbean. These journals are from a variety of fields in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. Content is primarily in Spanish and Portuguese.
- ReferenceUSA (SEE new title Data Axle) This link opens in a new windowDirectory information on U.S. and Canadian business, health care, and residential listings. Search by company name, geographic area, business type, SIC code, yellow page listing, revenue, location, number of employees or any combination of the above. In addition to address and phone number, each entry includes officer names and titles, corporate affiliation, business type and size of yellow page advertising. Toll free and fax numbers are given for some companies.
- Regional Business News This link opens in a new windowThis database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
- RGALI: Russian State Archive of Literature and Art This link opens in a new windowMore than 2,500 full descriptions of record groups (fondy), nearly 1,000,000 documents listed by accumulative finding aids (opisi), more than 500 photos, and additional biographic information.
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is a comprehensive bibliography on writings about music featuring citations, abstracts and indexes. It covers nearly one and a half million publications from around the world on traditional music, popular music, jazz, classical music and related subjects. Coverage begins in the early 19th century and extends to the present. Includes the contents of the former RILM Retrospective Abstracts of Music Literature,
- RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals This link opens in a new windowAn index including selected full text to a collection of primary source materials of more than eighty historical music periodicals in thirteen languages, published primarily in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600 This link opens in a new window
The RISM Series A/II Database contains bibliographic records of music manuscripts written after 1600. The records include information in standard bibliographic categories as well as graphical images of over 740,000 music incipits.
- Rittenhouse Digital Library (R2) This link opens in a new windowR2 is a web-based application that aggregates health sciences book content from leading publishers in a single platform. This service is available exclusively through hospital, academic, and institutional libraries.
- RKMA Market Research Reports This link opens in a new windowRichard K. Miller & Associates (RKMA), founded in 1972, publishes market research reports in the fields of energy, healthcare, and consumer markets. With over 30,000 copies in print, RKMA ranks as one of the country's largest market research publishers.
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- Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 This link opens in a new windowBased on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana – A Dictionary of Books Relating to America From its Discovery to the Present Time, Sabin Americana, 1500–1926 is an online collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
- SAE Mobilus (formerly SAE Digital Library) This link opens in a new windowTechnical Papers (1906 - present); Aerospace Material Specifications; Aerospace Standards; Ground Vehicle Standards
- SAGE eReference This link opens in a new windowSAGE Knowledge includes an expansive range of carefully selected SAGE eBook, eReference and Navigator content, more than 5,500 titles in total, including scholarly titles, monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, professional development titles across academic disciplines. Titles are easily searchable by keyword or collection making this the ultimate social science digital library for students, researchers, and faculty.
- SAGE Journals This link opens in a new windowSAGE is the world's 5th largest journals publisher. Titles include more than 645 journals spanning the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology, and Medicine, and more than 280 are published on behalf of 225 learned societies and institutions.
- SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System This link opens in a new windowThe SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. The ADS maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 8.7 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and arXiv e-prints.
- Sax’s Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials This link opens in a new windowSax’s Dangerous Properties contains extensive data on approximately 28,000 substances, including 2,400 new entries. Each entry includes a DPIM code, hazard rating, entry name, CAS number, DOT number, molecular formula, molecular weight, line structural formula, description of material and physical properties, and synonyms. The book also contains Immediately Dangerous to Life or Health (IDLH) levels for approximately 1,000 chemicals. It also covers exposure-level classifications for a number of regulatory agencies, from OSHA to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
- SciELO This link opens in a new windowProvides full-text collections of journals in Latin America and the Caribbean. These journals are from a variety of fields in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. Content is primarily in Spanish and Portuguese.
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) This link opens in a new windowA multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. From 1899 - present. Includes some full text. Part of the ISI Web of Knowledge database.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowFull text collection of over 1,000,000 articles from 1995 to present covers a variety of subject areas and disciplines, including biochemistry, biological sciences, business, chemistry, earth sciences, economics, engineering, mathematics and computer science, neurosciences, physics and social sciences.
As of 1 January 2016, ScienceDirect no longer supports the IE8 browser. - Scientific American Medicine (SEE Decker: Medicine) This link opens in a new windowNOW CALLED Decker: Medicine. Scientific American Medicine (was: ACP Medicine) is a continually updated, evidence-based reference of internal medicine.
- Scientific Style and Format Online This link opens in a new windowReference for authors, editors, publishers, students, and translators in all areas of science and related fields.
- Scopus This link opens in a new window[Help Searching Scopus]Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
- Scriver's OMMBID (see OMMBID) This link opens in a new windowA compendium of genetic disorders and information from the entire field of genetics. Obtain answers as well as retrieve updates on pathophysiology and treatment.
- Senior High Core Collection (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new windowThis collection is a selective list of fiction and non-fiction titles—recommended by collection development specialists—for high school students (grades 9 through 12), along with review sources and other professional aids for librarians and school media specialists.
- Shakespeare Survey This link opens in a new windowEach volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances.
- Shen Bao digital archive, 1872-1949 This link opens in a new windowEstablished in 1872, Shen Bao (historically transliterated as Shun Pao or Shen-pao) was the most influential and longest lasting commercial newspaper of before the establishment of the People’s Republic. Published in Shanghai until 1949, Shen Bao was founded by Englishman Ernest Major, but, uniquely, as a newspaper for Chinese readers, written by Chinese reporters. During its existence, Shen Bao gradually shifted from a conservative to a more liberal perspective, and played a pivotal role in the formation of public opinion in the imperial period and into the tumultuous beginnings of modern China.
- Short Story Index This link opens in a new windowThis index allows you to find the location of over 84,000 stories. There is full-text available for over 1,600 stories. (Formerly on WilsonWeb)
- Silent Film Online This link opens in a new windowSilent Film Online database brings together more than 500 films which together represent the basis of modern cinematic technique and film theory. Carefully curated with ASP's Video Advisory Board, the database covers silent features, serials, and shorts from the 1890s to the 1930s. High quality versions of films have been selected for the collection from leading distributors such as Kino Lorber, Lobster Films, Flicker Alley, and Image Entertainment.
- SimplyAnalytics This link opens in a new windowUsers have a choice to either create an account to log-in using their e-mail address or click a button to log-in as a guest
SimplyMap is a web-based mapping application that lets users quickly create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing data for the United States. NB: 5 concurrent user limit. - Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974 This link opens in a new windowThe Sixties brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. With 150,000 pages of material at completion, this searchable collection is the definitive electronic resource for students and scholars researching this important period in American history, culture, and politics. The database currently has over 34,000 pages.
- Slavery & Anti-Slavery, A Transnational Archive This link opens in a new windowIn addition to the standard primary sources one would expect—newspaper collections and books published in the antebellum era, for example—SAS includes a broad selection of documents from several different archives.
Includes Parts I-IV. - Slavery and the Law (ProQuest History Vault) This link opens in a new windowIncludes race, slavery, and free blacks petitions to southern legislatures and southern county courts as well as State slavery statutes.
- Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007 This link opens in a new windowThis digital collection documents key aspects of the history of slavery worldwide over six centuries. Topics covered include the African Coast, the Middle Passage, the varieties of slave experience, religion, revolts, abolition, and legislation. The collection also includes case studies from America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Cuba.
- Small Business Source (Small Business Reference Center) This link opens in a new windowSmall Business Source offers readers a collection of state-specific resources supported with demographic data and other local information. Completing the database are business videos that provide critical information for business owners including interviews, ‘lessons learned’ features, lectures and ‘how to’ videos to help foster success in all aspects of managing a business.
- Smithsonian Collections Online, 1970- This link opens in a new windowGale and the Smithsonian Institution have partnered to give libraries a unique opportunity to provide students, faculty, and researchers the chance to look behind the glass of the Smithsonian exhibits and collections.
Includes: Trade Literature and the Merchandizing of Industry, World's Fairs and Expositions: Visions of Tomorrow, Air & Space and Smithsonian Magazine Archive. - Smithsonian Global Sound This link opens in a new windowSmithsonian Global Sound is a network of international cultural institutions working to preserve and distribute music from archives worldwide, and to foster appreciation for traditional roots music. Through its Web site, Global Sound will offer audio and video downloads, streaming media, educational resources, and detailed liner notes to music lovers, students, historians, teachers, and the academic community. Also, various musical collections will be available for purchase and immediate download.
- Social Explorer This link opens in a new windowSocial Explorer is an online research tool designed to provide quick and easy access to historical census data and demographic information. It creates fast, intuitive, and appealing maps and reports to help users visually analyze and understand demography and social change throughout history. The site currently includes the entire US Census history from 1790 to 2000, all annual updates from the American Community Survey, and the Religious Congregations and Membership Study from 1980 to 2000.
Users may wish to create an individual account to save maps and other features in Social Explorer. - Social Sciences Citation Index or SSCI This link opens in a new windowSSCI is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences, 1898 - present. Includes some full text. Part of the ISI Web of Knowledge database.
- Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIndexes and abstracts current research (articles are from 1980 to the present) in social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Major areas of coverage include community and mental health services; crisis intervention; evaluation research; the family and social welfare; gerontology; policy, planning and forecasting; poverty and homelessness; professional issues in social work; social development; social work education; support groups/networks; violence, abuse and neglect; and welfare services. [Not compatible with Internet Explorer 9]
- Social Work Abstracts This link opens in a new windowSocial Work Abstracts offers extensive coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals, dating back to 1966. The database provides citations and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field including: theory & practice, areas of service and social issues & problems.
- Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowProvides article abstracts from 1,800 journals in sociology, from 1952 to the present. [Not compatible with Internet Explorer 9]
- Something About the Author (SATA) This link opens in a new windowProvides comprehensive online access to all volumes ever printed in Gale's acclaimed and long-standing Something About the Author series, which examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators for children and young adults and is the preeminent source on authors and literature for young people, and includes both the main series and Something About the Author Autobiography Series, totaling more than 217 volumes, 12,000 entries, and nearly 17,000 images.
- SourceOECD (now OECD iLibrary)SourceOECD provides comparative statistics from the 30 member states (industrialized nations) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, as well as development statistics from other countries. Includes an interactive data browser as well as PDF downloadable files. Click on Statistics link at the top of the page to get started. See OECD iLibrary.
- SourceOECD OECD Health Data (now included in OECD iLibrary)OECD Health Data offers the most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health care systems of the OECD economies. It is an essential tool, enabling health researchers and policy advisors in governments, the private sector and the academic community to carry out comparative analyses and draw lessons from cross-country comparisons of national health care systems. See OECD iLibrary.
- South Asian Newspapers This link opens in a new windowPublished by Readex in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries.South Asian Newspapers is the third collection module of the World Newspaper Archive, created in partnership with Readex, a division of NewsBank. It will provide more than 400,000 fully searchable pages of newspapers published in South Asia between 1864 and 1922.
- SPIE Digital Library This link opens in a new windowUSERS MUST LOGIN ON CAMPUS; Contains more than 70,000 full-text papers on optics and photonics from SPIE journals and proceedings published since 1998. It also includes citations and abstracts for most SPIE papers published since 1990. Plans are underway to expand the DL back to 1990 by the end of 2004, an archive of nearly 200,000 papers covering a wide scope of optical technologies and applications. Approximately 15,000 new papers will be added each year.
- SPORTDiscus This link opens in a new windowSPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains over 650,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800. The content also consists of multi-disciplinary, international references from journal and magazine articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and more. SPORTDiscus is provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre.
- Sports Business Research Network This link opens in a new windowA continuously updated source of full text articles providing news and market research information from sports industry sources. Includes international sporting goods equipment market reports for 35 countries, export and import statistics, trade magazine and newsletter pages dealing with finance, licensing, fashion, women's and youth sports, marketing, sponsorship, research reports, sports broadcasting, ratings and more.
- Springer E-Book Collection This link opens in a new windowSpringer Nature Link offers an integrated full-text database for thousands of e-books, protocols, eReferences, and book series published by Springer since 2005.
- Springer Nature Link This link opens in a new windowElectronic versions of the Springer journals, books, and protocols in chemical sciences, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine, and physics. Includes former Kluwer Academic Publishers.
- SpringerProtocols This link opens in a new windowIncludes peer-reviewed life science and biomedical research protocols compiled from Methods in Molecular Biology, Methods in Molecular Medicine, Methods in Biotechnology, Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology, Neuromethods, Springer Protocols Handbooks, and more.
- Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage This link opens in a new windowNetAdvantage offers ready access to Standard & Poor's premium content such as Industry Surveys, Stock Reports and Fund Reports.Timely features and commentary from Standard & Poor's on topics such as the economy, daily stock market activity, industry sectors, stocks, bonds, funds, and investment strategies are also available.
[Not compatible with Safari browser.] - State Papers Online. Parts I-IV, and 18th Century, Part I This link opens in a new windowState Papers Online, 1509-1714 is a collection of English government documents originating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--when the King or Queen acted as Prime Minister as well as Monarch. The papers feature the office archives and correspondence of the secretaries of state serving the Monarch as facsimile manuscript documents accessed directly or via the fully searchable Calendar entries (abstracts or transcriptions).
- Statista This link opens in a new windowProvides access to statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on over 600 industries.
- Stereoselective Synthesis of Drugs and Natural Products This link opens in a new windowFeatures experimental procedures for stereoselective synthetic reactions applicable to drug targets and natural products. The reference details synthetic methodology, reaction mechanisms, and applications for medicinal chemistry and drug discovery; and explores strategy and interdisciplinary work, laboratory synthesis for natural products, the preparative aspects of stereoselective synthesis for drugs, natural products, and potential biologically active compounds.
- Struggle for Women's Rights, Organizational Records, 1880-1990 This link opens in a new windowAs the movement for women’s suffrage in America was accelerating, the National Woman’s Party (NWP) brought to the campaign a new militancy and daring. Originally a committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), the NWP was founded in 1913 when Alice Paul and her colleagues broke away from NAWSA in dissent over strategy and tactics.
- Sunday Times Digital Archive, 1822-2016 This link opens in a new windowCompletely separate from the Times of London, the Sunday Times is known for their investigative journalism, providing commentary and analysis of the week’s news.
- Sur Digital Archive This link opens in a new windowFull text searchable database of The Sur Magazine (1931-1992) produced by Nicolas Helft and authorized by Fundacin Sur of Buenos Aires. Sur (South) was the magazine and publishing house founded by Victoria Ocampo and had enormous influence in the Spanish-speaking world.
- Synthesis -- Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science This link opens in a new windowThe basic component of the library is a 75- to 125-page "Lecture"; a self-contained electronic book that synthesizes an important research or development topic, authored by an expert contributor to the field. Published by Morgan & Claypool.
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- Teacher Reference Center This link opens in a new windowProvides indexing and abstracts for over 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals to assist professional educators.
- Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRIAL) This link opens in a new windowSearch U.S. government technical reports issued primarily prior to 1975 and digitized by the TRAIL Working Groups.
- TechStreet This link opens in a new windowTechstreet offers simultaneous access to a custom set of standards in electronic format. Includes automatic updates. Includes ISO standards related to medical devices and health services.
- Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print This link opens in a new windowTests in Print, produced by the Buros Institute, is a listing of commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP compliments and supplements the Mental Measurements Yearbook.
- Theatre in Video This link opens in a new windowContains performances of the world's leading plays and film documentaries on the subject of theater in streaming video. Some plays presented in multiple productions exemplifying various interpretations of the text, and technical and cultural differences among the presentations. Stage work of directors and actors are cross-searchable and available for side-by-side comparison. Interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors, along with excerpts of live performances, provide illustration of the development of texts and the productions.
- Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) This link opens in a new windowFull-text database of literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of the Byzantium in AD 1453. Users may search on author, title, publication or text string.
Users must register and/or log in to the TLG site for access. - Thesaurus Linguae Latinae This link opens in a new windowThe new digital online version of the Thesaurus linguae Latinae (TLL) replaces the former CD-Rom version of TLL 5. It offers both an extension of the data, and a fundamentally remodelled user interface. The help function offers support with special queries of the application. Additionally, an extensive introduction to the Thesaurus linguae Latinae is offered in its Praemonenda, to be found at the beginning of its table of contents. The data of Thesaurus linguae Latinae (TLL) Online has been enlarged by the fascicles published in 2007 and 2008 and now comprises the letters A-M, O, P-pomifer, porta-pulsio.
- Times Digital Archive, 1785-2007 This link opens in a new windowResearchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching. Current issues of The Times can be found here.
- Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 1902-2019 This link opens in a new windowThe TLS historical archive provides searchable access to the full text of the Times Literary Supplement from 1902. It includes more than 300,000 reviews, letters, poems, and articles.
- Times of India, 1838-2010 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowThe Times of India (1838-2010) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
- TOPICsearch This link opens in a new windowThis current events database allows researchers to explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 102,800 articles from more than 2,500 diverse sources, including more than 1,550 full text periodicals.
- TRAIL (Technical report archive & image library) This link opens in a new windowA collaborative project to digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975.
- TRIP Database This link opens in a new windowThe TRIP (Turning Research into Practice) Database is a clinical search tool designed to allow health professionals to rapidly identify high quality clinical evidence. It finds evidence from systematic reviews, evidence-based synopses, clinical guidelines, and international guidelines, from sources such as e-textbooks, PubMed and PubMed Central, BMJ, Lancet, JAMA, and NEJM. You must register for a free account and be logged in to use most of the features of TRIP.
- Twentieth-Century African American Poetry This link opens in a new windowA database of modern and contemporary African American poetry, featuring almost 9,000 poems by 62 of the most important African American poets of the last century, including Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde and Rita Dove. Part of Literature Online (LION).
- Twentieth-Century American Poetry This link opens in a new windowThis unparalleled collection includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song. Part of Literature Online (LION).
- Twentieth-Century English Poetry This link opens in a new windowA collection of 598 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Thom Gunn, Fleur Adcock, Paul Muldoon, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy, and incorporating the poets in The Faber Poetry Library. Part of Literature Online (LION).
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- U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994 This link opens in a new windowDatabase of texts from the bound, sequentially numbered volumes of all the reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Texts constitute a rich source of primary source material on all aspects of American history. Upon completion, the digital version of the Serial set will consist of over 12,000,000 pages. Database searchable by subject, publication category, standing committee author, and other parameters.
- U.S. Intelligence on the Middle East, 1945-2009 This link opens in a new windowThis comprehensive document set sheds light on the U.S. intelligence community’s spying and analytic efforts in the Arab world, including the Middle East, the Near East, and North Africa. It covers the time period from the end of World War II to the present day, up until the 2002-2003 Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) assessments, the Global War on Terror, the Iraq War, and Iran’s nuclear program.
- Uborrow This link opens in a new windowSearch over 90 million books from the collections of 13 research libraries, request, and receive within a week.
- Ulrichsweb This link opens in a new windowA bibliographic database providing detailed and authoritative information on journals and other serials published throughout the world. Ulrich's covers all subjects, and includes regularly and irregularly published serials that are available free or by paid subscription.
- UNdata This link opens in a new windowThe United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) launched a new internet based data service for the global user community. It brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point. Users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN system.
- Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels This link opens in a new windowPrimary source database focusing on adult comic books and graphic novels. Beginning with the first underground comix from the 1960's to the works of modern sequential artists, this collection contains more than 75,000 pages of comics and graphic novels, along with 25,000 pages of interviews, criticism, and journal articles that document the continual growth and evolution of this artform. Volumes I & II.
- United Nations Treaty Collection This link opens in a new windowContains full-text of the United Nations Treaty Series, the United Nations Treaty Series Cumulative Index, and the League of Nations Treaty Series, the current status of the Multilateral Treaties deposited with the Secretary-General, and texts of recently deposited multilateral treaties.
- United Nations Yearbook Collection This link opens in a new windowAll volumes presented in this collection are identical to those in print format and can be explored using full text search of the combined indices.
- University of Chicago Press This link opens in a new window
- UpToDate This link opens in a new windowUpToDate is a practical clinical information service designed to provide instant access to just the information you need. It is written by a recognized faculty of experts who each address a specific clinical issue. They synthesize the latest evidence and best practices and provide detailed recommendations. [Access to UpToDate is co-funded by the Carver College of Medicine and the University of Iowa Health Care.]
- Urban Studies Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIncludes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains 40,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline, such as: Urban Affairs Review, Urban studies, Journal of Urban Affairs, etc. EBSCO has digitized the full archive of this index, bringing coverage back to 1973.
- USP-NF Online This link opens in a new windowUsers are required to create a individual account to access this resource. Please use your University (uiowa.edu) email address for your account.
The USP-NF (United States Pharmacopeia–National Formulary) is a combination of two official compendia, the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) and the National Formulary (NF). It contains standards for medicines, dosage forms, drug substances, excipients, biologics, compounded preparations, medical devices, dietary supplements, and other therapeutics.
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- Van Nostrand’s Scientific Encyclopedia This link opens in a new windowThis online edition maintains VNSE’s authoritative and accessible coverage of all scientific disciplines. Topics covered include animal science, anatomy, astronomy, atmospheric science, chemistry, chemical engineering, civil engineering, computer science, earth science, energy sources, information science, life science, materials, mathematics, mechanical engineering, medicine, mining, physics, physiology, planetary science, plant science, power technology, space science, structural engineering, and a host of other subjects.
- Virgil Encyclopedia This link opens in a new windowThe first comprehensive reference volume to be published in English on Publius Vergilius Maro, the classical Roman poet whose works and thoughts have been at the center of Western literary, cultural, artistic, and pedagogical traditions for more than two millennia.
- VisualDx This link opens in a new windowVisualDx is a diagnostic clinical support tool that includes over 2,800 adult and pediatric conditions as well as over 40,000 images. Clinicians can search by a diagnosis, build a patient- specific differential, or review over 20,000 medication reactions and adverse events. With expanded content across general medicine, VisualDx delivers speed and diagnostic accuracy at the point of care.
Mobile Device Users will need to create an account while logged in on-campus . - Vocational and Career Collection This link opens in a new windowThis database is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for nearly 350 trade and industry-related periodicals.
- Vogue Archive This link opens in a new windowA complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month.
- Voltaire Electronique This link opens in a new windowBased upon the Voltaire Foundation Oxford edition of the Complete Works of Voltaire (edited by T. Besterman, et al.), this database includes all of Voltaire's literary works, searchable by keyword, title, literary form, and date of edition.
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- Wall Street Journal, 1889-2013 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowThe Wall Street Journal (1889-2013) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
- Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies This link opens in a new windowAvailable through the Gale Directory Library, Ward's Business Directory is a guide to over 114,500 public and private U.S. companies in alphabetic, geographic, and industry arrangements. Includes rankings of companies by sales within SIC and NAICS codes, as well as by state.Please note that our subscription ended in 2009.
- Washington Information Directory This link opens in a new windowBrings together CQ's wealth of contact and descriptive information on more than 10,000 federal government offices, regulatory agencies, congressional committees, judicial offices, public interest groups, nongovernmental organizations, and international organizations in a single, easy-to-use, and fully integrated database. Searchable and browsable, the Washington Information Directory Online Edition provides verified and updated mailing addresses, phone and fax numbers, e-mail and Web site addresses, contact names, and descriptions for thousands of organization--along with letter templates, a customized Address Book, and much more.
- Washington Post, 1877-2008 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowThe Washington Post (1877-2008) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
- WDI Online This link opens in a new windowStatistical data for over 550 development indicators, and 1960-2000 time series data for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators.
- We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death: Freedom Riders in the South, 1961 This link opens in a new window“We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death”: Freedom Riders in the South, 1961 is a source for African American history, radical studies, civil rights, political science and more, including surveillance reports, chronologies, and witness statements. These materials provide unique (and in some cases recently declassified) insight into the Freedom Rides, the Kennedy administration and the segregated South.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new window[Help Searching Web of Science]A citation reference that includes Science Citation Index (1900-present), Social Science Citation Index (1900-present), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present), Book Citation Index- Science (2005-present), Book Citation Index- Social Sciences & Humanities (2005-present), and Medline, and links to Journal Citation Reports and EndNote web version.
If you experience trouble connecting to WoS from off-campus, try clearing your cache or changing browsers. Firefox seems to be best for this. - Web Thermo Tables Professional Edition This link opens in a new windowWTT - Professional Edition, a Web version of the TRC Thermodynamic Tables, represents a complete collection of critically evaluated thermodynamic property data primarily for pure organic compounds.
- Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900 This link opens in a new windowWellesley is an index to the authorship of articles, and to the articles written by each contributor, along with brief biographical and vocational details. Citations of evidence are provided to support attributions of authorship. 45 monthly and quarterly titles are included, covering the period from the beginning of the Westminster Review in 1824 to the end of the century.
- Westlaw China This link opens in a new windowProvides full text access to Chinese laws and regulations promulgated at the national, provincial, and municipal levels. The database also contains cases from the Supreme People's Court, provincial and municipal courts, and special courts such as maritime courts. Westlaw China provides a digest system that allows researchers to locate information on specific legal topics and is creating headnote summaries for the cases it contains. All content is available in both Chinese and English.
- Wiley E-Books This link opens in a new windowWiley/Blackwell purchase includes over 2000 books for years 2007-2009
- Wiley Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials This link opens in a new windowAn online site for the definitive reference on all facets of clinical trials. More than 500 entries from the world's leading experts in the field on the basic concepts, methodologies, and applications in clinical trials. The range of topics includes: basic statistical concepts, design and analysis of clinical trials, ethics, regulatory issues, and methodologies for clinical data management and analysis.
- Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new windowHosts the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers seamless integrated access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, almost 10,000 online books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases
- Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements This link opens in a new windowThe Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements contains over 400 entries exploring social and political movements and related collective phenomena throughout the world.
- Witchcraft in Europe and America This link opens in a new windowThe earliest texts in this comprehensive collection on witchcraft date from the 15th century and the latest are from the early 20th century. The majority of the material concerns the 16th to 18th centuries, the so-called "classic period." In addition to these classic texts, the collection includes anti-persecution writings, works by penologists, legal and church documents, exposés of persecutions, and philosophical writings and transcripts of trials and exorcisms.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 This link opens in a new windowA set of learning modules in the form of mini-monographs, each of which is organized around a specific question about a single social movement. Each module contains fifteen to twenty documents that address the question.
- Women and Social Movements, International— 1840 to Present This link opens in a new windowOnline archive of published and manuscript primary sources focusing on women’s international activism since the mid-nineteenth century. The archive includes proceedings of women’s international conferences, books, pamphlets, articles from newspapers and journals, as well as correspondence, diary entries, and memoirs. Also contains numerous online publications of contemporary Non-Governmental Organizations.
- Women Writers Online This link opens in a new windowProvides a list of women author's and links to a full-text of their various works.
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) This link opens in a new windowThe NBER distributes more than 1,200 working papers each year. These papers have not been peer reviewed.
- World Bank Data Catalog This link opens in a new windowThe World Bank's Open Data initiative is intended to provide all users with access to World Bank data. The data catalog is a listing of available World Bank data sources. This listing will continue to be updated as additional data resources are added. These resources include databases, pre-formatted tables and reports. Each of the listings includes a description of the data source and a direct link to that source. Where possible, the databases are linked directly to a selection screen to allow users to select the countries, indicators, and years they would like to search. Those search results can be exported in different formats. Users can also choose to download the entire database directly from the catalog.
- World Constitutions Illustrated This link opens in a new windowProvides full text access to current and historical constitutions for more than 190 countries. It provides the original text in the original language, amending laws, consolidated texts, and English language translations. The collection also includes the World Fact Book back to 1981, the Modern Legal Systems Cyclopedia, the Country Studies Series from the U.S. Library of Congress, the British and Foreign State Papers from 1812 - 1968, the Annual Human Rights Reports submitted to Congress by the U.S. State Department back to 1976, more than 800 books on constitutional law, and links to scholarly articles and web resources on constitutional law and political development.
- World News Connection (East View version) This link opens in a new windowWNC is an online news service of non-U.S. media sources provided by the National Technical Information Service.
- World Newspaper Archive This link opens in a new windowWorld Newspaper Archive is a fully searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the globe. This uniquely comprehensive online resource was created in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries - one of the world's largest and most important newspaper repositories.
- World Shakespeare Bibliography Online This link opens in a new windowProvides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare that were published or produced between 1964 and the present. The scope is international, with coverage extending to more than 118 languages and representing every country in North America, South America, and Europe, and nearly every country in Asia, Africa, and Australasia.
- WorldCat This link opens in a new windowA bibliographic database of over 62,000,000 records from over 2,000 libraries around the world.
- WorldCat.org This link opens in a new windowThe freely accessible version of WorldCat on the Web (http://www.worldcat.org/). WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of local libraries and thousands more around the world.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new windowThis database provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. [Not compatible with Internet Explorer 9]
- Wright American fiction, 1851-1875 This link opens in a new windowA product of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), this is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are over 2,800 texts by almost 1,500 authors.
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- Yomidasu Rekishikan This link opens in a new windowIncludes Yomiuri shinbun 1874 to the present: image format from 1874 to 1989; full text 1986 to the present, along with the English edition: the Daily Yomiuri (Sept. 1989- to the present), both searchable by article, keyword, subject category, and issue. Charts and photographs are not included. Also includes biographical information on 26,000 people.
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- Zasshi kiji sakuin shusei detabesu This link opens in a new windowIndex to periodical articles published in Japanese, including those in former Japanese colonies, and including local periodicals not present in many other indexes. Coverage is from 1868 onwards. Merges data from various composite periodical indexes by Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan.