| 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 such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, as well as country-and industry-focused reports and data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world. | 1984 to current | Yes |
| AccessUN | Provides access to United Nations publications from agencies such as the General Assembly, Economic and Social Council, and Security Council. | Yes | |
| ACLS Humanities E-Book | American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Humanities E-Book (HEB) Project provides searchable full-text of over 3,700 books in the humanities, especially in history. These are frequently cited works of major importance to historical studies. | 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, gospel, and other forms. | 1700s - present | Yes |
| African American Newspapers: The 19th Century | Cultural life and history during the 1800s in the U.S. and the Canadian province of Ontario: first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. Large numbers of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements, all of which portray the African-American experience. | 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. Publications include African Repository (1825-92), Black Panther (1967-75), Black Worker (1929-68), and Soul (1966-76). Search full-text by any or all of these periods: Slavery and Antebellum Era (1825 to 1860), U.S. Civil War (1861 to 1865), Reconstruction and Post War South (1866 to 1895), Segregation and the Rise of Black Protest Thought (1896 to 1920), African American Culture in the New Era (1921 to 1945), Civil Rights Era (1946-1960), The Second Reconstruction (1961-1972), Modern / Contemporary Era (1973-1998). The collection is based upon James P. Danky's African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography (Harvard, 1998) and drawn from holdings of the Wisconsin Historical Society. | 1825-1995 | Yes |
| African American Poetry | Over 2,500 searchable and browsable full-text poems by African-American Authors, base on William French et al., Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975. | 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. These books, pamphlets and broadsides, including many lesser-known imprints, span nearly 400 years, from the early 16th to the early 20th century. Afro-Americana Imprints can be searched along with Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800). | 1535-1922 | Yes |
| America: History and Life with full text | Abstracts of selected journal articles, citations of book and media reviews, and dissertations covering the history of what is now the United States and Canada for all time periods. Covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide. All abstracts are in English. Every year about 16,000 new entries are added. Includes some 6,000 citations of book and media reviews. | 1964 - present | Partial |
| American County Histories to 1900 | Full-text of county histories for Delaware, New York, and Pennsylvania. These large county volumes, most published between 1870 and 1900, form the cornerstone of local historical and genealogical research. | 18th and 19th centuries | Yes |
| American Periodicals Series online | Over 1,240 American periodicals that began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals. For periodicals that continued into the 20th c., the cut-off date is 1940. APS Online offers digitized images and is fully keyword searchable. It derives from the American Periodicals Series microform collections APS I, APS II, and APS III. | 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, including archaeology, linguistics, literature, philosophy, religion, science and technology. Records often contain a brief abstract and links to related records. Earlier printed volumes (1924 to 2001), which include a key to abbreviations, are available in HSSE Reference [016.4 An74]. | 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. Areas covered include information technology and computing, electronics, biotechnology, medical technology, as well as engineering and allied subject areas | 1981 - present | No |
| Anthropology Plus | Anthropology Plus brings together two resources: Anthropological Literature from Harvard University, and the Anthropological Index from the Royal Anthropological Institute in the UK. It provides worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present. | late 1800s - current | No |
| Archive Finder | Provides information on primary source materials from nearly 4,500 manuscript repositories in the U.S.. Includes records, complete with detailed indexes, of nearly 100,000 manuscript and other special collections. Describes each repository's holdings. Three major info. resources are integrated in ArchivesUSA: (1) A newly compiled directory of manuscript repositories, giving full addresses, including e-mail addresses and URLs, opening hours and details of holdings and areas of special interest. This directory replaces the Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States (DAMRUS) last published in 1988. (2) Collection records from the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC), info. gathered and compiled by the Library of Congress from the 1950s to the end of 1995, covering some 75,000 collections. Each record also includes the LC's subject and name indexing of the collection. Only ArchivesUSA makes all of NUCMC fully searchable in electronic form. (3) Names and detailed subject indexing of over 42,000 collections whose finding aids have been published separately in Chadwyck-Healey's major microfiche series, National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS). | not applicable | Partial |
| ArchiveGrid | Descriptions of archival holdings and special collections of manuscripts and other primary source materials nationwide. Includes full text finding aids describing the contents of archival collections at various libraries, museums, and archival repositories throughout the U.S. with links to the repositories. | 00-present | Partial |
| Art Bibliographies Modern | Coverage of articles, monographs, dissertations, museum catalogues, etc. for modern and contemporary studies in art history, critical theory and criticism, industrial design, photography, fine arts, graphic arts, and aesthetics. International in scope, its includes other valuable language sources; i.e. French, German, Italian, etc. | 1974 - present | Partial |
| Art Full Text--EBSCO Portal | A comprehensive resource for art information from more than 900 periodicals, including 280 peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracting of over 13,000 art dissertations. 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. Partial full-text from 300 journals dating back to 1995. | 1984- current | Partial |
| ARTFL -- the Treasury of the French Language | The ARTFL database is a corpus of nearly 150,000,000 words and almost 2000 texts with an emphasis in the 17th to 20th centuries. Complete novels and collections of poetry are included, but also works in philosophy, mathematics, and biology. This database is searchable via keywords or proper names. | 17th - 20th c | Yes |
| Arts and Humanities Citation Index | Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Searches may focus on authors, contents of individual journals, ranges of publications dates, keywords, and by combinations of the above. An added feature is the capacity to trace citatons to given authors, etc. A Representative selection of non-English language journals is included. | 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. In most cases, the full-text journals cover articles from volume 1. These include: Journal of ASTM International, Journal of Testing and Evaluation, Geotechnical Testing Journal, Journal of Forensic Sciences, Cement, Concrete and Aggregates, and Journal of Composites Technology and Research | Late 1940s to present | Yes |
| BAS (Bibliography of Asian Studies) | This on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) references western-language journal articles, book chapters, and monographs on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present. | 1971 - present | No |
| Black Drama | Black Drama:1850 to Present 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 gateway to Black Studies combines three resources: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), and The Chicago Defender. The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience contains the full-text of commissioned essays detailing the Black Experience and other related materials. The IIBP covers scholarly and popular Black Studies journals, including full text for 58 titles. Black Studies also features the full text backfile of the influential black newspaper 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 newspapers, newsbooks, ephemera and national & regional papers from British Isles. This interface searches: 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers and 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) | Contains over 600,000 records of books for children and young adults,with full reviews for over 50,000 of these titles. | Partial | |
| Children's Literature Review | Illustrated series provides 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, psychology, religion, and sports: 1) China Academic Journals (CAJ), current year and an archive back to 1994; 2) China Dissertations and Master's Theses (CDMD), current year and an archive back to 2000; 3) China Conference Proceedings (CPCD), current year an archive back to 2000. | 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: The Soldiers Perspective (regimental histories). III: The Generals Perspective (memoirs). IV: The Midwestern Perspective (Indiana newspapers published between 1855 and 1869, including Vincennes Gazette and Vincennes Western Sun). | 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. Documents German attempts to win over important groups in occupied countries; the reaction to the German occupation; the propaganda struggle; the creation of the first resistance units, etc. Also includes information regarding Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Vatican. | 1940-1945 | Yes |
| Contemporary Literary Criticism | CLC gathers critical responses to the works of contemporary authors of all sorts (novelists, poets, playwrights, philosophers, journalists) from many regions of the world. Each entry includes an introductory essay followed by previously published reviews and other critical responses excerpted from scholarly books and journals, thus creating a history and cross-section of critical responses. Covers more than 3,000 contemporary authors=authors living or who died after 1959. | 1960-2011 | Yes |
| Contemporary Literary Criticism Select | A collection of citations and excerpts of critical essays on contemporary writers, selected from volumes of Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) published 1998-2007. These volumes and all those published 1970-2011 are included in Contemporary Literary Criticism. | 1960-2007 | Yes |
| Dictionary of Literary Biography | Documents the lives and careers of authors from all eras and genres. As DLB is augmented several times over the course of a year, it will grow to include essays on more than 6,000 authors. addition to providing biographical and critical studies written | 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. Texts listed in A Plan for the Dictionary of Old English, ed. by R. Frank & A. Cameron (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973. | Yes | |
| Digital United States Congressional Serial Set | Includes congressional and executive branch publications produced as part of the American State Papers and U.S. Congressional Serial Set. Coverage covers U.S. political, diplomatic, economic, social, scientific, and military historical development between 1789-1969. Complete coverage will be available approximately 2006. | 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: A Chronological Dictionary of all Books, Pamphlets, and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America from the Genesis of Printing in 1639 down to and including the Year 1800. Includes Early American Imprints, Series I: Supplement from the 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. Series 6 includes the Detroit Plaindealer; Detroits first successful black newspaper, The Colored American; also the Arkansas Gazette, one of the first papers west of the Mississippi. Series 7 includes New Orleans' Times-Picayune, established in 1837, and The Oregonian, founded in 1850 in Portland and still the states largest daily. | 1741-1922 | Yes |
| Early English Books Online | Yes | ||
| Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2003 | Delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2003, including supplements. Color images, exportable financial tables, and a gallery of front covers are included. | 1843-2003 | Yes |
| Eighteenth Century Collections online | Full-text searchable facsimile pages of approximately 150,000 items published in the British Isles, colonial America, the United States (1776 - 1800), Canada, and territories governed by Britain during any period of the eighteenth century, in any language; plus all relevant items printed wholly or partly in English, or other British vernaculars, in any part of the world. ECCO includes a variety of materials from books, directories, Bibles and sermons to shipping lists, advertisements and works by many well-known and lesser-known authors, all providing a diverse collection in History, Geography, Science, Technology, Medicine, Law, Philosophy, Religion, Social Sciences, Literature, and the Fine Arts. ECCO is based on the British Library's Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (ESTC). | 1701-1800 | Yes |
| Electronic Enlightenment | Edited 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. A research project of the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, EE provides a network of interconnected documents allowing scholars to see the complex web of personal relationships in the early modern period. Forty-five nationalities, 11 languages, and 688 occupations are represented. | 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, from economics, political science, and history to criticism of literary works, art history, drama, and film. | 1985-present | No |
| Ethnic NewsWatch | Provides access to full-text articles from 200 magazines, journals, and newspapers published by the ethnic, minority, and native press in America. Searchable in both English and Spanish. | 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. Author/subject alphabetical arrangement with geographic and general sub-headings provide easy access. Over 2,000 subject headings provide detailed subject analysis of articles. | 1973 - current | Partial |
| FRANCIS (International Humanities and Social Sciences) | Indexes multilingual, multidisciplinary information published in over 4,200 journals from around the world. Subject descriptors are in both English and French. Abstracts are provided in 80% of the records. Also indexes books, book chapters, conference papers, French dissertations, and exhibition catalogs. | 1984 - present | Partial |
| Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online | Covers music of all the world's peoples. Each volume contains an overview of the region, a survey of its musical traditions and themes, descriptions of specific musical genres, practices, and performances, including photographs of musicians, instruments, and the cultural context of dances. Volume 1. Africa; 2. South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean; 3 The United States and Canada; 4. Southeast Asia; 5. South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent; 6. The Middle East; 7. East Asia: China, Japan, Korea; 8. Europe; 9. Australia and the Pacific Islands; 10. The World's Music: General Perspectives and Reference Tools. Ten volume printed set in HSSE, Call Number 780.9 G183 1998 | ancient-current | Yes |
| Godey's Lady's Book, 1830-1890 | Godey`s Lady`s Book (1830-1885) (includes 18,000 images) has both a cultural and an egalitarian thrust. Intended to entertain, inform, educate, and empower the growing audience of middle class women in America. In addition to extensive fashion descriptions and plates, the early issues included biographical sketches, articles about mineralogy, handcrafts, female costume, the dance, equestrienne procedures, health & hygiene, recipes, remedies, etc. Each issue also contained two pages of sheet music, written essentially for the piano forte. Gradually the periodical matured into an important literary magazine and contained extensive book reviews and works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and many other celebrated 19th century authors who regularly furnished the magazine with essays, poetry and short stories. The Lady`s Book was also a vast reservoir of handsome illustrations, which included hand-colored fashion plates, mezzotints, engravings, woodcuts, and ultimately chromolithographs. In 1836, Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879) became the new editor of Godey`s Lady`s Book. Mrs. Hale brought substance to the magazine, and wrote frequently about the notion of "women`s sphere." In 1846 she stated, "The time of action is now.We have to sow the fields-the harvest is sure. The greatest triumph of this progression is redeeming woman from her inferior position and placing her side by side with man, a help-mate for him in all his pursuits." Her steadfast devotion of purpose and her unwavering editorial principles regarding social inequalities and the education of American women, made her one of the most important editors of her time. Under Mrs. Hale`s leadership the magazine flourished, reaching a pre-civil war circulation of 150,000. Editor, then publisher Louis Antoine Godey (1804-1878) and editor Sarah Hale became a force majeure in 19th century American life and culture. | 1830-1885 | Yes |
| Graphic Novels Core Collection | Highlights over 2,000 recommended titles with descriptive and evaluative annotations (including review excerpts and awards the title has won), plus cover art. Standards for rating material by age appropriateness are strictly applied, plus all titles are searchable by author, title, subject, genre, and grade level. | 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, bibliographic entries, and discographies. | Yes | |
| HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index | Indexes more than 400 international social science and humanities journals that feature articles, book reviews, documents, and original literary works about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. | 1970 - present | Partial |
| HarpWeek Archives | Harper's Weekly (1857-1912), one of America's leading illustrated newspapers. is an important primary resource for examining nineteenth century America on a cumulative week-to-week basis. All pages, including advertisements, have been scanned as facsimile images. These are integrated with searchable full-text and thesaurus-based indexing. The Purdue community has access to all segments of the database: The Civil War Era: 1857 1865 Reconstruction I: 1866 1871 Reconstruction II: 1872 1877 Gilded Age I: 1878 - 1883 Gilded Age II: 884 - 1889 Gilded Age III: 1890 - 1895 Gilded Age IV: 1896 - 1901 Gilded Age V: 1902 - 1907 Gilded Age VI: 1908 - 1912 | 1857-1912 | Yes |
| Historical Abstracts with full text | Abstracts of selected journal articles, citations of books, book reviews and dissertations on the history of all parts of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to present. Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts currently covers over 2,000 journals published throughout the world. Besides article citations, each year it adds approximately 3,000 book citations, for a total of over 20,000 entries added each year. All abstracts are in English, and titles in languages besides English also appear in English translation. Historical Abstracts on the Web also includes in-process English-language article entries prior to their completion and inclusion in the print and CD-ROM versions. For these, the abstracts, subject terms, and chronologies are not yet available. | No | |
| Historical Statistics of the United States | The electronic version of Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to Present; Millennial Edition (Cambridge UP, 2006) presents thousands of annual time series of quantitative historical information covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history: population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations. Chapters are preceded by essays that introduce the quantitative history of their subject, and provide a guide to the sources. Enables searching, combining, and downloading of data using Excel or CSV spreadsheets. | 1500-2000 | Partial |
| HRAF World Cultures (eHRAF) | World cultures in all their manifestations are included, primarily form the anthropological and ethnographical perspective. | 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. Search this resource with Humanities Full Text and/or Social Sciences Full Text for coverage up to the present. | 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. It is produced by an editorial team working at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Material cited in the Index Islamicus includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. | 1906 - current | No |
| Informe (English) | Provides indexing and abstracts for over 70 popular Spanish-language and bilingual magazines, newspapers, and pamphlets, with full-text coverage of over 50 titles. Searchable in English. | 1996 - present | Partial |
| Informe (Spanish) | Provides indexing and abstracts for over 70 popular Spanish-language and bilingual magazines, newspapers, and pamphlets, with full-text coverage of over 50 titles. Searchable in Spanish. | 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 | The Roper Center's iPOLL databank, the most comprehensive source for US nationwide public opinion, provides tools to sift through nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys conducted by organizations such as The Gallup Organization, Louis Harris and Associates, and many news organizations. The data come from all the surveys in the Roper Center archive that have US national adult samples or samples of registered voters, women, African Americans, or any subpopulation that constitutes a large segment of the national adult population. iPOLL does not include state samples or foreign samples (see Catalog of Holdings). However, surveys of these populations are available from the Roper Center at (860)486-4440. | 1935 - current | Yes |
| Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance | Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) offers a suite of databases that includes the Iter Bibliography, which indexes over 1,346 journals published since 1784 and over 2,800 books published since 1980. There are four other Iter databases available:Internationl Directory of Scholars, being scholars of the Renaissance Society of America and of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference; Aestimatio, a journal reviewing books published in the history of science from antiquity up to the early modern period; Baptisteria Sacra, which offers detailed descriptions of baptismal fonts from the early Christian period to the 17th century; and The Electronic Capito Project, which provides the text of letters from and to Wolfgang Capito (1478 1541). | 1784-current | No |
| JSTOR - The Scholarly Journal Archive | Full-text digital archive of over 700 scholarly journals, especially strong in Social Sciences, Humanities, Economics, and Mathematics. | Varies | Yes |
| LexisNexis Academic | Provides full text access to federal and state court cases and laws, European Union law, patents, tax law, law review articles, newspaper articles, and additional reference information. Includes U.S. Supreme Court opinions from 1789 to present. | 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. The music and editions were published before 1923 and are in the public domain (out of copyright). | c. 1550-1923 | Yes |
| Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts | Covers all aspects of linguistics and the study of language: Speech, hearing, phonetics, interpersonal behavior, learning disabilities, nonverbal communication, grammar, morphology, semantics, history of languages, etc. | 1973 - present | Partial |
| Literature Resource Center | Access and simultaneously search Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (CLC Select) and Dictionary of Literary Biography and other literature reference tools. | Ancient - present | Partial |
| Middle English Compendium | The Middle English Compendium offers access to and interconnectivity between 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, as well as links to an associated network of electronic resources. The Middle English Compendium is a product of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service. | 1100-1500 | Partial |
| Military & Intelligence | Provides access to articles and other matierials on U.S. and international military and intelligence topics. | Yes | |
| MLA Directory of Periodicals | Information about journals in the areas covered by the MLA bibliography for contributors and subscribers. | current | Yes |
| MLA International Bibliography (CSA Software) | International coverage of the modern languages and literatures, including film and folklore. Indexes jounal articles, and book chapters in all languages, and N. American dissertations. Does not index book reviews. | 1926 - present | Partial |
| MLA International Bibliography (ProQuest Software) | International coverage of the modern languages and literatures, including film and folklore. Indexes jounal articles, and book chapters in all languages, and N. American dissertations. Does not index book reviews. | 1926 - present | Partial |
| Music Index Online | Published since 1949 and now made available online by Harmonie Park Press, this index covers more than 725 music periodicals from over 40 countries in 23 languages. References articles, book reviews, obituaries in a framework which includes Subject and Geographic headings. | 1978-Current | No |
| New York Times Historical | Complete cover-to-cover backfiles of the New York Times from 1851 up to three years prior to the current year. Fully searchable content includes articles, photos, ads, editorials, maps, graphics, and cartoons. (Current issues available via Lexis Nexis). | 1851 - 3 years prior to current year | Yes |
| Newspaper Source | Provides selected full text coverage of over 150 U.S. and international newspapers, with indexing and abstracting for New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. | 1994 - present | Partial |
| Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers | 19th Century British Library Newspapers provide searchable full text of full runs of newspapers specially selected by the British Library to represent nineteenth-century Britain. This collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as newspapers from: established country or university towns; the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands; and Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. Penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also included. There are also contextual essays regarding the role of newspapers in the Victorian age, bibliographic headnotes and a chronological overview. | 1800-1900 | Yes |
| Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) | NCCO will be an extensive database with multiple content types, developed in a rolling release over several years. Sources will include monographs, newspapers, manuscripts, photographs, maps, ephemera, and statistical data. The collection modules are topically based, in addition to some devoted to specific regions. AVAILABLE MODULES: 1) British Politics and Society; 2) Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange; 3) British Theatre, Music and Literature: High and Popular Culture; 4) European Literature 1790-1840: the Corvey Collection. FORTHCOMING MODULES will include: 5) South Asia; 6) History of Science; 7) History of Photography; 8) Nineteenth-century Americana. A large portion of the initial content will come from the British Library and the British National Archives. A key criterion for inclusion is avoidance of overlap with existing digitized nineteenth-century source documents, e.g. the content scanned in the Google Books project and available in HathiTrust. | 1750s-1930s | Yes |
| Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers | 19th Century U.S. Newspapers is a searchable database of digital facsimile images of newspapers; presented as full page layout as well as single articles; advertisements and illustrations included. This collection includes numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.; and it encompasses the entire 19th century. | 1800-1900 | Yes |
| Oxford Art Online | Gateway to major reference works in the visual arts includes Grove Art Online (based on the 34 volume Dictionary of Art, ed. by Jane Turner), the Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Includes images from ARTstor, the Bridgeman Art Library, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and numerous international art galleries and artists. | 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. It aims to cover the full spectrum of English language usage, from formal to slang, as it has evolved over time. It includes both main entries, which make up the bulk of the content, and cross-reference entries. Most entries contain information on all of the following: spelling, pronunciation, derivation, meaning, and usage. The usage of each word, meaning, or idiom in the Dictionary is documented through comprehensive examples drawn from quotations taken from printed texts of the present and the past. These quotation paragraphs begin with the earliest recorded occurrence of a term, and follow its development up to the modern period, unless the documentary evidence shows that the term has fallen out of use along the way. | 1150 AD - present | Partial |
| Oxford Music Online | Provides full-text access to multiple music reference sources including the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, The Oxford Companion to Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Contains over 50,000 signed articles, and 28,000 biographies contributed by 6,000 scholars from around the world. | Yes | |
| Patrologia Latina Database | The Patrologia Latina Database is an electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. The Patrologia Latina comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. The database contains the complete Patrologia Latina, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes. Migne's column numbers, essential references for scholars, are also included. | 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, 1728-1800. Articles, news, editorials, advertisements, and letters. Social, political, religious, and cultural content. Includes the full text of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Letters from a Farmer, Thomas Paine`s Common Sense, The Federalist Papers, etc. | 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. PAO contains the full-text backfiles of over 700 journals, including many in foreign languages. It also indexes and links to articles in JSTOR. | 1665 - 1995 | Yes |
| Philosopher's Index | Indexes and abstracts books and articles (over 400 journals) in philosophy. Among the subfields covered are aesthetics, epistemology, ethics (pure and applied), logic, metaphysics, and social and political philosophy. Author, title, journal, and keyword(s) may be searched. International in scope, it includes both English and non-English literature. | 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, including plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama. 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 | Project MUSE Premium Collection provides full-text online editions of over 340 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. For some journal titles Project Muse provides links to back issues archived in JSTOR. | 1990 - current | Yes |
| ProQuest Congressional | Provides access to historic and recent U.S. Government publications from 1789-2000 on including U.S. Congressional Serial Set documents, federal agency reports, congressional committee publications, statistics, maps, and congressional debates. | 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. Cross-searchable with other Proquest historic collections. | 1844-current | Yes |
| ProQuest Statistical Insight | Provides access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. Search between approximately 200,000 to 500,000 tables with its advanced Search Tables functionality. | 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. Continued by Readers' Guide Full- Text. No abstracts, no full-text. | 1890-1982 | No |
| Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 | Searchable full-text collection, based on Joseph Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana, contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to 1926. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide information about North, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the Arctic. These include original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. | 1500-1926 | Yes |
| Science Online | More than the journal, Science, the content of this website extends into ethics, policies, sociology, pedagogy, etc. as it relates to science and how science impacts those areas. The journal, Science, and its preprint version, ScienceExpress, and Science Now, a daily news web page are all available full-text. Also accessible: Three virtual knowledge environments - Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment (STKE), Science of Aging Knowledge Environment (SAGE), and AIDS Online - each of which has an online journal, laboratory protocol section, various bioinformatics products, and more. Functional Genomics. Full access to current awareness services. Some of these resources, especially those within SAGE, are aimed at non-scientists and teachers of science. | Yes | |
| Seventeenth-Eighteenth Century Burney Collection Newspapers | 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Searchable full-text access to the British Library's collection of the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) The nearly 1270 titles and one million pages are predominantly London newspapers from 1603 up to the early 1800s. | 1603-early 1800s | Yes |
| Short Story Index--EBSCO portal | Index of more than 90,000 short stories in English or in English translation published in anthologies and journals. Searchable by author, title, and, in many cases, by subject. 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 | The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines, and is searchable by keyword, author, journal title, and by date. An added feature is searching for citations to individual authors and/or publications. This database indexes a representative selection of non-English language journals. | Indexes from 1977-prsesent. | Partial |
| Sociological Abstracts | Abstracts of the world's serial literature in sociology and related disciplines and enhanced bibliographic citations of relevant dissertations from the Sociological Abstracts and SOPODA. Approximately 1600 journals in 30 languages from 55 countries are abstracted in this resource. | 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, conference papers, and journal articles published by Springer. Purdue University Libraries' subscription to e-books starts in 2005 and covers many disciplines. | 2005 - present | Yes |
| TeachingBooks.net | Website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. Includes resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia, author, and book materials into reading activities. | n/a | Yes |
| Textile Technology Index | Textile Technology Index, is designed to serve academic institutions and libraries by providing extensive coverage of the scientific and technological aspects of textile production and processing. First published in 1944, as the Institute of Textile Technology's Textile Technology Digest, the collection traces the body of knowledge in textile science and technology as far back as the 1800's. The Textile Technology Index contains indexing and abstracting for over 400 periodical titles, and for thousands of titles drawn from sources such as books, conferences, theses, technical reports, and trade literature. Extensive and thorough coverage is given to subjects such as manufacturing techniques, textile end products, chemicals and dyes, the properties of natural and synthetic fibers and yarns, environmental issues, and the related areas of chemistry, biology, and physics. | 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 earliest times to 600 A.D. and in inscriptions up to the early Principate. 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 | The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985 provides access to 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. | 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. Delivered to Purdue Libraries on CD-ROM from the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) of the U of Pennsylvania. Requires separate search software. | 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 from the 1960s to the works of contemporary creators. Still growing, the collection will contain more than 75,000 pages of comics (mostly from the USA) along with 25,000 pages of secondary sources, including a complete run of The Comics Journal. Includes some material from the 1950s, notably Dr. Frederic Werthams Seduction of the Innocent, as well as influential works by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder. | 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. Collection includes images of almost all the known extant issues, which can be searched using the index or browsed by date. | 1736-1780 | Yes |
| Wall Street Journal, Historic | The Wall Street Journal (1889-1988) 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. | 1889 - 1988 | Yes |
| Women and Social Movements in the U.S. 1600-2000 | Books, letters, images, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, all of which document the multiplicity of American womens reform activities from the colonial period into the 20th century. Primary document projects cover a broad range of topics; books, pamphlets, and related materials provide scholars with in-depth access to the published histories and records of womens reform organizations throughout the United States during the 19th and early 20th centuries; there is also a extentsive Dictionary of Social Movements, and a Chronology of Women's History. | 1600-2000 | Yes |
| Women's Studies International | An index to over 255,800 records drawn from a variety of essential women's studies databases, including Women Studies Abstracts, Women's Studies Database, Women Studies Librarian, Popline Subset on Women, Women of Color and Southern Women, and Women's Health and Development. | 1972 - present | Partial |
| Worldwide Political Science Abstracts | Up-to-date indexing, abstracts, and full-text Internet links in political science, international relations, law, sociology, economics, and public administration/policy. Has backfiles from 1975 onward of the ceased Political Science Abstracts and the ceased ABC POL SCI. Book & film reviews; dissertation info.; abstracts of journal articles, books, & book chapters. Relevant items in 34 languages. Advanced searching includes author affiliation. Thesaurus available. | Thorough: 1975-present. Some coverage 1960-1974. A few items from even earlier years. | Partial |
| WWD | Often called "the fashion bible," Womens' Wear Daily serves as the voice of authority, international newswire and agent of change for the fashion, beauty and retail industries. In 1999, all the properties carrying the Women's Wear Daily name were reorganized under a single umbrella, creating WWD MediaWorldWide. | Yes |
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