| Database Title | Summary - Full Description | Coverage | Full Text |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABI Inform/Complete | This database is the most comprehensive ABI/INFORM database, comprised of ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, ABI/INFORM Dateline and ABI/INFORM Archive, featuring over 3,000 full-text journals, 25,000 Dissertations, 14,000 SSRN working papers, key newspapers. | 1984 to current | Yes |
| AccessUN | Provides access to United Nations publications. | Yes | |
| ACLS Humanities E-Book | Provides searchable full-text of over 3,700 books in several fields of the Humanities, especially History. | 18th c. - 21st c. works | Yes |
| African American Music Reference | Provides full-text books, reference articles, biographies, images, sheet music, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies that chronicle the African American experience through music. Covers blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, and other forms. | 1700s - present | Yes |
| African American Newspapers: The 19th Century | U.S. and some Canadian cultural life and history during the 1800s. | 1827-1900 | Yes |
| African American Periodicals: 1825-1995 | Over 170 African American newspapers and magazines published in the U.S. from 1825-1995, from slavery during the Antebellum Period to the struggles and triumphs of the modern era. | 1825-1995 | Yes |
| African American Poetry | Nearly 3,000 poems by African-American poets of the 18th and 19th centuries. | 1760-1975 | Partial |
| Afro-Americana Imprints:1535-1922 | From the Library Company of Philadelphia's Afro-Americana Collection, this still-growing resource will provide researchers with full-text searchable, digital facsimiles of more than 12,000 printed works. | 1535-1922 | Yes |
| America: History and Life with full text | U.S. and Canadian history. | 1964 - present | Partial |
| American County Histories to 1900 | Full-text of county histories for Delaware, New York, and Pennsylvania. | 18th and 19th centuries | Yes |
| American Periodicals Series online | Over 1,240 American magazines and journals that began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including general magazines, literary and professional journals, and other historically-significant periodicals. For periodicals that continued into the 20th c., the cut-off date is 1940. | 1740-1940 | Yes |
| Année philologique | International index of scholarship in classical studies covering journal articles and book chapters on ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Records can be searched by ancient author, modern author, title words, subjects and disciplines. | 1924-current 2yr delay | Partial |
| Annual Reports at Academic Business Libraries | An index of the printed copies of corporate Annual Reports to shareholders held by the following universities: Columbia U., Cornell U., Harvard U., MIT, Purdue U., Stanford U., U of Alabama, U. of California-Berkeley, U. of Pennsylvania, U. of Western Ontario, Yale U., and the Science/Industry/Business Library of New York Public Library. | 1870-2005 | No |
| ANTE: Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering | ANTE monitors approximately 350 academic and trade publications from the U.K. and the U.S. for information on new technologies. | 1981 - present | No |
| Anthropology Plus | Indexes over 2500 journals in social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and interdisciplinary studies. | late 1800s - current | No |
| Archive Finder | Directory of archival repositories and special collections of manuscripts and papers. | not applicable | Partial |
| ArchiveGrid | Descriptions of archival holdings and special collections of manuscripts and other primary source materials nationwide. | 00-present | Partial |
| Art Bibliographies Modern | Art History, Industrial Design, Photography, Fine Arts, Graphic Arts, Aesthetics are covered. | 1974 - present | Partial |
| Art Full Text--EBSCO Portal | Art information from more than 900 periodicals, including 280 peer-reviewed journals. Partial full-text dating back to 1995. Subjects include Architecture, Art History, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Painting, Pottery, Sculpture, Textiles, Photography, Film, Video, and more. | 1984- current | Partial |
| ARTFL -- the Treasury of the French Language | Full-text, French dictionary and French texts with an emphasis in the 17th to 20th centuries. | 17th - 20th c | Yes |
| Arts and Humanities Citation Index | Bibliographic information and cited references from arts and humanities journals plus relevant items from science and technology journals are covered. | Since 1977-present. | Partial |
| ASTM Digital Library | Contains the complete ASTM library of books and journal papers as well as papers from the special technical publications, manuals, and monographs. Individual books, papers, book chapters, and journal articles may be downloaded. | Late 1940s to present | Yes |
| BAS (Bibliography of Asian Studies) | All subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia. | 1971 - present | No |
| Black Drama | Contains approximately 1,200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with detailed information on related productions, theaters & production companies. Also shows selected playbills, photographs and other ephemera related to some of the plays. | 1850-present | Yes |
| Black Studies Center | Fully cross-searchable combination of three resources: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), and The Chicago Defender (1935-1975). | varies | Partial |
| Black Thought and Culture | Non-fiction works (books, essays, articles, speeches, interviews and letters) by African-American leaders and others who have dealt with issues of race from colonial times to the present. The collection is intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art. | colonial times-present | Yes |
| British Newspapers, 1600-1900 | Provides access to historic national & regional papers from British Isles. Searches across two collections: 1)The 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; 2) 19th Century British Library Newspapers. | 1603-1900 | Yes |
| Children's Core Collection | a selective annotated list of fiction and nonfiction books and magazines for readers in preschool through sixth grade, along with review sources and other professional aids for children's librarians and school media specialists. | 1947-current | Partial |
| Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) | More than 110,000 full-text reviews of children's books. | Partial | |
| Children's Literature Review | Excerpts from reviews, criticism, and commentary on books for children and young people. Covers over 600 writers and illustrators. Publication began in 1976. | 1976-current | Yes |
| China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) | Three CNKI databases in the Chinese language feature full-text articles in the fields of history, literature, and philosophy, including subtopics such as archaeology, the arts, biography, folklore, language, religion, and sports: 1) China Academic Journals (CAJ), 1994-present; 2) China Dissertations and Master's Theses (CDMD), 2000-present; 3) China Conference Proceedings (CPCD), 2000-present. | 1994 - present; 2000 - present | Yes |
| China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI)--Chinese Interface | Three CNKI databases in the Chinese language feature full-text articles in the fields of history, literature, and philosophy, including subtopics such as archaeology, the arts, biography, folklore, language, religion, and sports: 1) China Academic Journals (CAJ), 1994-present; 2) China Dissertations and Master's Theses (CDMD), 2000-present; 3) China Conference Proceedings (CPCD), 2000-present. | Yes | |
| Civil War (Collection) | Four- part collection of newspaper articles and books published at or near time of the war, 1860-1865. I: A Newspaper Perspective. II: Soldiers Perspective. III: Generals Perspective. IV: Midwestern Perspective (Indiana newspapers) | 1860-1865 | Yes |
| Conditions and Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945 | Text-searchable images of British Foreign Office information files gathered from across German-occupied territories following the collapse of peacetime diplomacy. | 1940-1945 | Yes |
| Contemporary Literary Criticism | CLC gathers critical responses to contemporary authors (novelists, poets, playwrights, philosophers, journalists) from many regions of the world. Contains critical responses excerpted from scholarly books and journals. Contemporary authors=authors living or who died after 1959. | 1960-2011 | Yes |
| Contemporary Literary Criticism Select | Critical analysis of selected late 20th century and early 21st century literature. For more complete coverage see Contemporary Literary Criticism. | 1960-2007 | Yes |
| Dictionary of Literary Biography | Biographical and analytical coverage of the world's most influential authors. | ancient - present | Yes |
| Dictionary of Old English/Corpus | A complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts. TEI compatible version. | Yes | |
| Digital United States Congressional Serial Set | Provides coverage of major U.S. Government publications produced as part of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set from 1789-1969. | 1789-1969 | Yes |
| Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800) Digital Edition | Full-text archive of nearly 37,000 early American publications based on Charles Evans' American Bibliography of all books, pamphlets, and periodicals printed in the U.S. from the genesis of printing in 1639 to the year 1800. Includes Supplement from Library Company of Philadelphia. | 1639-1800 | Yes |
| Early American Newspapers, Series, VI & VII | Fully searchable runs of 215 newspapers from 27 states and the District of Columbia from 1741-1922. | 1741-1922 | Yes |
| Early English Books Online | Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). | Yes | |
| Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2003 | Delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2003, including supplements. | 1843-2003 | Yes |
| Eighteenth Century Collections online | ECCO offers full-text searchable facsimile pages of approximately 150,000 English-language and foreign-language books published in Britain and its colonies (including N. America) during the 18th century. | 1701-1800 | Yes |
| Electronic Enlightenment | Letters of over 7,000 correspondents from Europe, the Americas, and Asia from the 17th to the mid-19th centuries, including the correspondence of philosophers, scientists, clerics, government ministers, merchants, and people of many other occupations. Limited to one user at a time. | 1619-1878 | Yes |
| Essay and General Literature Index--EBSCO Portal | Indexes essays and chapters in anthologies, and multi-author collections. Coverage spans the entire range of the humanities and social sciences. | 1985-present | No |
| Ethnic NewsWatch | The ethnic, minority, and native press in America. | 1985 - present | Partial |
| Fiction Connection | A readers' advisory service that browses fiction titles in the Books-in-Print Online database. Browses by topic, genre, setting, character, location, and timeframe. Finds similar titles. | 1979-current | Partial |
| Film and Television Literature Index | Provides thorough indexing of over 300 film and television periodicals from over 30 countries and selective indexing of other periodicals, both scholarly and popular. | 1973 - current | Partial |
| FRANCIS (International Humanities and Social Sciences) | Covers disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences. | 1984 - present | Partial |
| Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online | Covers music of all the world's peoples. Each volume contains an overview of a region's musical traditions and themes, descriptions of musical genres and practices. Ten volume printed set in HSSE, Call Number 780.9 G183 1998 | ancient-current | Yes |
| Godey's Lady's Book, 1830-1890 | Intended to entertain, inform, educate, and empower the growing audience of middle class women in America by its pictorial, fashion, literary, musical, health, egalitarian, and cultural appeal. | 1830-1885 | Yes |
| Graphic Novels Core Collection | Highlights over 2,000 recommended titles with descriptive and evaluative annotations, review excerpts, plus cover art. Material rated by age appropriateness. | 1974-current | Partial |
| Grove Art Online | Art encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art. It includes the full text of The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (1996, 34 volumes) and images from numerous collections. | ancient to 21st century | Yes |
| Grove Music Online | Provides direct access to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, a 29 volume collection of reference articles, biographies, and discographies. | Yes | |
| HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index | Index to Latin American journals primarily in the area of social sciences and humanities. | 1970 - present | Partial |
| HarpWeek Archives | A searchable, full-text archive of Harper's Weekly (1857-1912), one of America's leading illustrated newspapers. Contains facsimile images of all pages, including advertisements. | 1857-1912 | Yes |
| Historical Abstracts with full text | Indexes materials covering World history (excluding U.S. and Canada) from 1450 onward. | No | |
| Historical Statistics of the United States | Presents thousands of annual time series of quantitative historical information covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history from colonial times to the present. Enables searching, combining, and downloading of data using Excel or CSV spreadsheets. | 1500-2000 | Partial |
| HRAF World Cultures (eHRAF) | Human behavior, society, and culture. Worldwide coverage. | Partial | |
| Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984--EBSCO portal | Indexes a wide range of important scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences as far back as 1907. | 1907-1984 | Partial |
| Humanities Full Text | Leads to scholarly journal articles on the Arts, Classical Studies, Communications, History, Literature, Religion. Can be searched with Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984. | 1984 - present | Partial |
| Index Islamicus | Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. | 1906 - current | No |
| Informe (English) | Hispanic reference material covering cultural and lifestyle issues, health and parenting, entertainment, politics and current events. | 1996 - present | Partial |
| Informe (Spanish) | Spanish-language Hispanic reference material covering cultural and lifestyle issues, health and parenting, entertainment, politics and current events. | 1996 - present | Partial |
| International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance | IBTD, a fully-indexed databank of journal article, book, and dissertation citations on all aspects of theatre and performance the world over, includes full-text from over 140 journals and 300 books. | 1910-current | Partial |
| IPoll databank @ the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research | A comprehensive source for US nationwide public opinion, provides access to nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys conducted by The Gallup Organization, L. Harris and Associates, and many news organizations. | 1935 - current | Yes |
| Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance | Iter Bibliography indexes books and journals pertaining to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (400 - 1700 A.D.) Over 1,346 journals are indexed. | 1784-current | No |
| JSTOR - The Scholarly Journal Archive | Full-text digital archive of over 700 scholarly journals. | Varies | Yes |
| LexisNexis Academic | General news; business, medical, and legal news and information; reference information. | Varies | Partial |
| Library Music Source | Classical music scores and parts ready to download, save, view, and print. Over 35,000 works from over 350 Western composers. | c. 1550-1923 | Yes |
| Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts | Covers all aspects of linguistics and the study of languages: speech, hearing, grammar, etc. | 1973 - present | Partial |
| Literature Resource Center | Biographical, bibliographical, critical, and contextual information on authors and their works. | Ancient - present | Partial |
| Middle English Compendium | Offers three major Middle English electronic resources: the Middle English Dictionary [MED], a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. | 1100-1500 | Partial |
| Military & Intelligence | Provides access to articles and other materials on U.S. and international military and intelligence topics. | Yes | |
| MLA Directory of Periodicals | Contributor and subscriber information on MLA journals. | current | Yes |
| MLA International Bibliography (CSA Software) | Literature, Criticism, Drama, Film, Folklore, and Linguistics are covered. | 1926 - present | Partial |
| MLA International Bibliography (ProQuest Software) | Literature, Criticism, Drama, Film, Folklore, and Linguistics are covered. | 1926 - present | Partial |
| Music Index Online | Indexes more than 725 international music periodicals covering nearly all styles and genres of music. and the music industry. References articles, book reviews, obituaries, and more. | 1978-Current | No |
| New York Times Historical | Complete cover-to-cover backfiles of the New York Times with page images. | 1851 - 3 years prior to current year | Yes |
| Newspaper Source | Content from newspapers and newswires. | 1994 - present | Partial |
| Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers | Searchable full text of full runs of newspapers specially selected by the British Library to represent 19th-century Britain. Includes national and regional newspapers. | 1800-1900 | Yes |
| Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) | A growing database of fully cross-searchable primary and secondary works organized into four collection-modules: 1) British Politics and Society; 2) Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange; 3) British Theatre, Music and Literature; 4) European Literature, 1790-1840: the Corvey Collection. Additional collection-modules are planned. | 1750s-1930s | Yes |
| Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers | 19th Century U.S. Newspapers provides searchable facsimile images of urban and regional newspapers, advertisements and illustrations included. | 1800-1900 | Yes |
| Oxford Art Online | Gateway to major reference works in the visual arts includes Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Includes images. | ancient to 21st century | Yes |
| Oxford English Dictionary online | The most comprehensive dictionary of the English language, tracing the development of English in all its varieties from approximately 1150 A.D. up to the present day. | 1150 AD - present | Partial |
| Oxford Music Online | Provides full-text access to music reference resources. Includes over 50,000 articles, 28,000 biographies, 400,000 bibliographic entries, and thousands of discographies. | Yes | |
| Patrologia Latina Database | Medieval and church history. The full-text electronic version of the Patrologia Latina (221 volumes), 200 AD-1216. | 200 AD - 1216 | Partial |
| Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800 | The newspaper of record for the eastern side of North America, the West Indies, and parts of South America during the eighteenth century. | 1728-1800 | Yes |
| Periodicals Archive Online | PAO provides online access to over 700 periodicals that are indexed in its companion database, Periodicals Index Online, which indexes over 6,000 journals and is accessible from the PAO homepage. Like JSTOR, PAO is strong in the humanities and social sciences. | 1665 - 1995 | Yes |
| Philosopher's Index | Aesthetics, epistemology, ethics (pure and applied), logic, metaphysics, and social and political philosophy are covered. | 1940-present | No |
| Picture Book Database | Combines data from many online and print sources, picture books, publisher, author, and illustrator websites, to catalog picture books by author/illustrator, subjects, artistic styles, characters, genres, age ranges, etc. | 1845-current | No |
| Play Index --EBSCO Portal | Searches over 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published in books, anthologies, or journals. Covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English. Search by title, author, subject, genre. | 1949-present | No |
| PressDisplay | 1,700+ newspapers from 92 countries, in 48 languages. Full-color, full-page format includes all articles, pictures, advertisements, and classifieds. | Current issues with 90-day backfile | Yes |
| Project Muse | Provides full-text online editions of over 340 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. | 1990 - current | Yes |
| ProQuest Congressional | Indexing and full text coverage of congressional and executive branch publications from 1789-2000 | 1789-1997 | Yes |
| ProQuest Historical Annual Reports | ProQuest Historical Annual Reports (1844-current) covers over 800 companies and contains digital reproductions for more than 43,000 reports. Key data include: financial information; Fortune 500 ranking; industry classification; key people; location; auditor; and related companies. | 1844-current | Yes |
| ProQuest Statistical Insight | Provides access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. | 50+ years | Yes |
| Readers' Guide Full Text Mega and Retrospective:1890-1982 | Wide range of subject areas in popular general-interest periodicals. Especially good for U.S. cultural history. | 1890-1982 | No |
| Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 | Searchable full-text of works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets and other documents about North, Central and South America, including accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, Native Americans, and much more. Based on Joseph Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana. | 1500-1926 | Yes |
| Science Online | Full-text access to Science, ScienceExpress (the preprint version of Science), three virtual knowledge environments, Science Now, and other web sites. | Yes | |
| Seventeenth-Eighteenth Century Burney Collection Newspapers | 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers provide full-text access to the British Library's collection of newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by Rev. Charles Burney. | 1603-early 1800s | Yes |
| Short Story Index--EBSCO portal | Index of more than 90,000 short stories published in anthologies and journals. Indexes 3,000-4,000 stories per year. Includes the full-text of more than 16,000 stories published since 1994. | 1984-present | Partial |
| Social Sciences Citation Index | Bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references from social science journals are covered. | Indexes from 1977-prsesent. | Partial |
| Sociological Abstracts | Activism & action research, community organization, demographics, family studies, feminist studies, gerontology, media, political science, social security programs, sociology are covered. | 1974 - present | Partial |
| Something About the Author Online | Examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults. Full-text with illustrations from 200+ volumes of Something About the Author and the Autobiography series (1971-current). | 1971-current | Yes |
| Springer E-Books | Contains full-text of books, book chapters and conference papers published by Springer. This site also includes journal articles. | 2005 - present | Yes |
| TeachingBooks.net | Website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. (Access with Username: Indiana : Password: INSPIRE ) Includes resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K-12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia, author, and book materials into reading activities. | n/a | Yes |
| Textile Technology Index | The Textile Technology Index contains bibliographic citations, with abstracts, of the literature of textiles and related subjects. | 1900? - present | No |
| Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) | Searchable collection of all Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600 and the majority of surviving works up the fall of Byzantium in A.D. 1453. Includes indexing from the Canon of Greek Authors and Works. (In Greek) | 700 B.C.- 1453 A.D. | Yes |
| Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) | A dictionary of ancient Latin providing all instances of a given word in Latin literature from the earliest times to 600 A.D.. In progress since 1894, TLL currently includes the letters A-M, O, P-pomifer; the Onomasticon volumes (letters C and D); the Index librorum; and the Praemonenda de rationibus et usu operis, a multilingual introduction to the Thesaurus. The HSSE Library also holds a printed version, call no. 473 T343. | 400 B.C. - 600 A.D. | Yes |
| Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985 | Provides access to the complete back run of The Times (London), 1785-1985. | 1785-1985 | Yes |
| Treebank-3 (English Language Corpus) | A downloadable zip file of parsed text corpora including one million words of Wall Street Journal material and a sample of ATIS-3 material annotated in Treebank II style, also a fully tagged version of the Brown Corpus. | n/a | Yes |
| Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels | A collection of adult comic books and graphic novels from the first underground comix of the 1960s to the works of contemporary independent creators. Still growing, the collection will contain more than 75,000 pages of comics (mostly from the USA) and 25,000 pages of secondary sources, including a complete run of The Comics Journal. | 1960s - 2010 | Yes |
| Virginia Gazette, 1736-1780 | Virginia Gazette newspapers, published in Williamsburg, 1736-1780, served as a critical source of news for the colonists. | 1736-1780 | Yes |
| Wall Street Journal, Historic | The Wall Street Journal (1889-1988) | 1889 - 1988 | Yes |
| Women and Social Movements in the U.S. 1600-2000 | Books, letters, images, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies documenting American women's reform activities from the colonial period into the 20th century. | 1600-2000 | Yes |
| Women's Studies International | Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities, Gender Studies are covered. | 1972 - present | Partial |
| Worldwide Political Science Abstracts | Up-to-date indexing, abstracts, and Internet links in political science, international relations, law, sociology, economics, and public administration/policy. | Thorough: 1975-present. Some coverage 1960-1974. A few items from even earlier years. | Partial |
| WWD | International news on fashion, beauty and retail industries. | Yes |
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