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Academic Search Premier This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 8500 journals, including full text for more than 4600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles.
AllAfrica This database provides users with a powerful research tool for exploring the AllAfrica archive, which contains over a million articles from 100 news publications throughout Africa and from several hundred other sources, including governments, non-governmental organizations and other newsmakers, inside and outside of Africa.
America: History & Life This database includes abstracts of articles, book chapters, media reviews and dissertations covering United States & Canada from prehistory to the present.
American Song American Song is an eclectic collection of music from Americans of diverse origins and all walks of life, from past and present. The songs are by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. They touch topics as varied as Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. And the range of genres includes country, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, shape note singing, doo-wop, Motown, R&B, soul, funk, and others. Liner notes to all the albums are included (in PDF format) as well as static URLs to each track and album in the database. Labels include Rounder Records, Appleseed Recordings, Stax, Specialty Records, Testament Records, McNeil Music, Native Ground Music, Rebel Records, County Records, Smithsonian Folkways, Document Records, and more.
Anthropological Literature Indexing of articles from English- and European-language journals and book chapters related to anthropology and archaeology, with some coverage of art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies. Coverage from the early 19th century to the present.
AnthroSource 250,000+ full-text articles and essays on anthropology published between the 19th century and today. Maintained by the American Anthropological Society (AAS).
Art Full Text Indexing and abstracts of articles and reproductions from more than 313 periodicals, yearbooks and museum bulletins.
ArticleFirst This is an OCLC index that includes items listed on the table of contents pages of journals. It also provides a list of libraries that have the journal title for most items. The date coverage is 1990 to the present and it is updated daily. Users can place Interlibrary Loan requests directly from within the database.
ARTstor ARTstor is a rich digital library that offers coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as software tools that enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library's content includes approximately 500,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology.
ATLA Religion Database ATLA (American Theological Library Association) Religion Database provides information on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. ATLA contains more than one million bibliographic records covering the research literature of religion in 35 languages. It includes more than 350,000 article citations from 600 journals, more than 200,000 essay citations from 15,500 multi-author works, and over 360,000 book review citations. Most coverage spans from 1949 to the present and is an essential resource for researchers and students in theology as well as in social sciences, history and humanities.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) BHA indexes and abstracts publications from 1973 to the present. This database covers visual arts in all media including traditional fine arts (painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, architecture), decorative and applied arts, material culture, photography and contemporary new media, and visual arts aspects of the performing arts. BHA includes European art from late Antiquity to the present, American art from the European arrival to the present, and Christian and European art in Africa, Asia, and Australia. BHA includes references to journal articles, monographs, collections of essays, conference proceedings, dissertations and exhibition catalogues.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index A comprehensive index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2700 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.
Biography, American National The landmark American National Biography offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women, from all eras and walks of life, whose lives have shaped the nation. More than a decade in preparation, the American National Biography is the first biographical resource of this scope to be published in more than sixty years.
Biography, Oxford Dictionary of National More than 57,000 full-text biographies of individuals from or concretely associated with the British Isles. Biographies of individuals from the 4th century BC to the present are included. The database does not cover living people.
Britannica Online (Encyclopedia) With over 75,000 articles, Encyclopedia Britannica is one of the most complete and accurate information sources in the world. It contains both short and book-length introductions to numerous subjects.
Business Full Text Business Full Text provides fast, convenient access to a multitude of outstanding business magazines and scholarly journals. Users will find feature articles, product reviews, interviews, biographical sketches, corporate profiles, obituaries, surveys, book reviews, reports from associations, societies, trade shows and conferences, and more. Over 600,000 corporate names with cross-references to specific industries and countries are included, as well. Full text of articles from more than 500 key publications from 1995+. Abstracts and indexing of more than 900 publications from 1982+.
Business Source Premier Business Source Premier, the industry's most popular business research database, features the full text for more than 2,200 journals. Full text is provided back to 1965, and searchable cited references back to 1998. Includes company profiles, industry reports, country reports, and market research reports.
Classical Music Library Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. Coverage of repertoire is increasing as new labels are added, with a particular focus on content that meets the needs of educators and students.
Cochrane Library The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Cochrane reviews represent the highest level of evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions. In addition to Cochrane reviews, The Cochrane Library provides other sources of reliable information: other systematic review abstracts, technology assessments, economic evaluations, and individual clinical trials--all the current evidence in one single environment.
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Contains 250,000 poems in full text and 450,000 citations. The poems in full text are the most widely-read in the English language, as well as in Spanish, French, German, and Italian. Included also is poetry in Portuguese, Polish, Yiddish, Welsh, Gaelic, and other Celtic languages, as well as poems in the ancient languages: Anglo-Saxon, Provencal and Latin. Scholars in each of these languages have reviewed and guided the selection of poems.
Contemporary Authors A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television and other fields. Provides complete biographical and bibliographical references for more than 90,000 authors in the U.S. and around the world.
Contemporary World Music Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database will contain important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
Dissertations and Theses: Sciences and Engineering A comprehensive collection of scholarly research in the Sciences and Engineering, this database covers more than 1.7 million dissertations and theses.
DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) DRAM is a not-for-profit resource providing CD quality audio, complete and original liner notes and essays from New World Records, Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI) and other important labels. DRAM offers the educational community on-demand, high-quality streaming access to complete works.
Early American Newspapers America's Historical Newspapers allows users to search more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states. Created by Readex through partnerships with the American Antiquarian Society, Library of Congress, Wisconsin Historical Society and others, America's Historical Newspapers enables researchers to explore virtually every aspect of America during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries.
Early English Books Online From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection. Additionally, the Early English Books Tract Supplement provides an exceptional perspective on many aspects of 16th and 17th-century British life.
EBSCO Databases Access to full text for over 1,250 journals with many dating back to 1990; abstracts and indexing for nearly 2,880 scholarly journals with many dating back to 1984; coverage of 1,666 peer-reviewed journals.
Education Full Text Education Full Text brings you comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Full text of articles, with indexing cover to cover, from hundreds of journals, make this a one-stop source for research.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online This database includes over 180,000 titles comprising books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more. Based on the English Short Title Catalogue, included are works published in the UK during the 18th century plus thousands from elsewhere. new
Electronic Collections Online This is an index to the OCLC collection of scholarly journals. It includes bibliographic information for all journals and lets you view abstracts and full-text articles from journals to which SLC subscribes. The dates covered are 1995-present and it is updated daily.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences Good for background information. A comprehensive coverage of the life sciences, from structural biology to ecology. Over 4600 specially commissioned articles explaining key concepts in the life sciences. The full-text of over 1800 articles can be searched on this site as well as author and contents details for a further 1150 articles currently in preparation. Articles are added on a regular basis.
ERIC Indexing and abstracts of journal articles and documents in the field of education, 1966-present.
Ethnic NewsWatch Ethnic NewsWatch features newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. With titles dating from 1990, ENW presents a comprehensive, full-text collection of nearly 1.6 million articles from more than 280 publications offering both national and regional coverage. While the content may mirror mainstream media coverage, the viewpoints are decidedly unique.
Fed in Print This database provides access to research published by the Board of Governors and all 12 Federal Reserve Banks. Coverage includes the core economic reviews, as well as specialized regional and international publications, working papers, and annual report essays. Also included are selected speeches, community development publications, and conference papers. Links to many full-text documents are included.
Gale NewsVault Gale NewsVault allows you to search or browse across various historical newspaper and periodical collections: 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part 1; 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part 2; and 19th Century UK Periodicals: Empire. new
Gender Studies Database The Gender Studies Database (GSD) covers the spectrum of gender engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents on the web are available. Several hundred links provide access to carefully selected websites.
General Science Full Text General Science Full Text features full text, plus graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations that convey an abundance of scientific information. Coverage dates: Indexing 1984+, Abstracting 1984+, Select Full Text 1994+ Subjects Covered Astronomy, Atmospheric Science, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Conservation, Earth Science, Environment, Food, Genetics, Health, Mathematics, Medicine, Microbiology, Nutrition, Oceanography, Physics, Physiology, Zoology.
Government Finance Statistics The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Data eLibrary contains analysis on the financial crisis, development, macroeconomics, poverty reduction, trade, globalization, and more. Search by Country, Topic, or Data source, or build your own query using multiple datasets.
Government Printing Office (GPO) GPO corresponds to the Monthly Catalog and includes citations from the annual Periodicals Supplement and the United States Congressional Serial Set Supplement. The Monthly Catalog contains approximately 50 percent of the published government documents. GPO includes works such as, monographs, serials, maps and some audiovisuals. Database coverage includes topics such as finance, business, demographics, agriculture, medicine, and public health.
Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) HAPI is your source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. From analyses of current political, economic, and social issues to unique coverage of Latin American arts and letters, HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews (through 2001), documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 600 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
Historical Abstracts Indexing and abstracts of articles, book reviews and dissertations covering world history since 1450 excluding the United States and Canada.
Historical New York Times (1851-2008) The New York Times (1851-2008) 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.
Historical Statistics of the United States Historical Statistics of the United States (HSUS) is the standard source for the quantitative facts of American history. Topics include population, work and welfare, economic sectors, and governance and international relations. Users can graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting their own particular areas of interest.
Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation's premier collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. The HSDL is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security.
Humanities Full-Text Articles from English-language journals covering archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary and social criticism, literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion, and theology. Coverage from 1984 to the present.
Index Islamicus The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It is produced by an editorial team working at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, established to transmit knowledge about Islamic and Middle East studies, which have traditionally been part of the curriculum of SOAS. Records included in the database cover almost 100 years of publications on the world of Islam.
Iter A bibliography comprised of secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books and journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues).
Jazz Music Library Jazz Music Library will be the largest and most comprehensive collection of jazz available online, with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres. At launch, the collection includes works licensed from legendary record labels, including Audiophile, Concord Jazz, Contemporary Records, Fantasy, Jazzology, Milestone, Nessa Records, Original Jazz Classics, Pablo, and Prestige. Labels being added include Circle Records, GHB Records, Good Time Jazz, GRP Records, Impulse, Peak, Riverside, Solo Art Records, Stretch Records, Verve, and dozens more. The list of artists is enormous, ranging from past greats to musicians performing and recording today.
JSTOR Full-text access to scholarly journals in the fields of African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies and sociology. The search engine is extremely literal. Therefore, in order to find variants of the stem "region", one must search "region or regional". In order to retrieve variant spelling of the word color, search "color or colour". Also, try spelling out acronyms, (e.g., "NATO" or "North American Treaty Organization"). Use synonyms for keyword searches, (e.g., "regions or locales or areas").
LexisNexis Access over 10,000 news, business, and legal sources. The outstanding news coverage includes up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. Use the included Company Dossier module to retrieve detailed company information and financial performance measures or identify and compare companies matching specific criteria. This product also provides access to the renowned Shepard's Citations service for all federal and states court cases back to 1789.
Luna - Digital Image Collections Our digital image collections are available to all staff, faculty, and students of Sarah Lawrence College. The collections encompass every major area of the Visual Arts, Performing Arts, and the Humanities, with special emphasis on the disciplines of Art and Architecture. Visual Resources also supports the historical documentation of these disciplines through cartographic materials, photographs, and other supplementary materials.
MathSciNet Provides access to Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications, from 1940 to the present. The resource only has reviews of articles, and often their references, not the full text of the articles.
MedlinePlus Health information for professionals, consumers and students. The database's content information is provided by the National Library of Medicine. Find information on diseases, clinical trials, prescription and nonprescription drugs. MedlinePlus also contains a medical encyclopedia, health care directories, and dictionaries.
Middle East Online: Arab-Israeli Relations 1917-1970 With over 200,000 pages of primary source documents that chronicle the politics, wars, administration and diplomacy surrounding the Palestine Mandate and the Arab-Israeli conflict, this product is an essential research tool for Middle East scholars. new
Middle East Online: Iraq 1914-1974 The Middle East Online: Iraq 1914-1974 presents British government and diplomatic documents--dispatches, monthly and annual reports, minutes, official correspondence and other primary source documents--covering the political history of Iraq in the 20th century. new
MLA International Bibliography Indexed citations to journal articles, relevant books, working papers, conference proceedings, bibliographies, fiction and poetry. Subject coverage includes literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Coverage from 1963 to the present.
Music Online Music Online offers hundreds of thousands of audio recordings, growing monthly, plus 400,000 pages of 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, you 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.
Naxos Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues of over 306,000? tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Whilst listening, you can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database.
New York Times, Historical (1851-2008) The New York Times (1851-2008) 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.
Newspaper Source Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 U.S. and International newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television and radio news transcripts are also provided.
Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers 19th Century British Library Newspapers contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society. new
Nineteenth Century Masterfile With 19th Century Masterfile, researchers have a single resource for exploring pre-1925 literature. 19th Century Masterfile begins with an enhanced, expanded digitization of William F. Poole's seminal Index to Periodical Literature, and expands on this through massive digitization of over 60 unique, specialized indexes to books, newspapers, patents, and government documents published during the late 19th and early 20th century.
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals: Empire A major multi-part series which covers the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th century world. It is mainly based on the repositories of the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, the National Library of South Africa, the National Library of Australia, and many others. new
NLM Gateway The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, MEDLINEplus, DIRLINE, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, Space Life Sciences Meetings, and HSRProj.
NORD Rare Disease Database The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) provides reports in patient-friendly language on more than 1,200 rare diseases. Each report provides a basic introduction with links to resources for additional information and assistance.
OECD Economic Outlook Twice a year, the OECD Economic Outlook analyses the major trends and forces that shape short-term economic prospects. It provides in-depth coverage of the economic policy measures required to foster growth and stable prices in each Member country. This is the database used by the OECD's Economics Department in producing the OECD Economic Outlook and it is made available as soon as possible after the release of each Preliminary Edition in May and November of each year.
OECD National Accounts Statistics The OECD National Accounts Statistics database includes annual and quarterly data of a wide range of areas from 1955, such as gross domestic product with its three approaches: expenditure based, output based and income based, disposable income, population and employment, PPPs and exchange rates, general government accounts, financial accounts flows and stocks and central government debt for OECD countries and non-member economies. Data are internationally comparable according to the 1993 System of National Accounts (SNA).
OECD Tax Statistics OECD Tax Statistics are published in two volumes. The Revenue Statistics database provides detailed information on tax and other government revenues broken down by type of tax or revenue and level of government. Data are provided for the period 1975 onwards for all OECD countries. The Taxing Wages database provides information on taxes paid and benefits received by workers under 8 different income and family composition situations.
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) A catalog of human genes and genetic disorders, with links to literature references, sequence records, maps, and related databases.
OmniFile Full Text Wilson OmniFile Full Text dramatically expands your periodical resources with electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from thousands of sources (Full text of articles from over 1,750 publications and article abstracts and indexing from over 3,500 publications). Coverage back as early as 1982 ensures that every search is as deep as it is broad.
Oxford Art Online The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts. Coverage is worldwide from prehistory to the present day.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) The online version of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) offers access to the wealth of material contained in the 20-volume print edition of the OED and its 3-volume Additions Series, and has been integrated with the Historical Thesaurus of the OED. The OED Online allows you to display entries according to your needs, that is, you can turn pronunciation, dating, etymologies, variant spellings, and quotations on and off. Also allows you to compare revised entries with entries from the Second Edition to see how the language has changed.
Oxford Music Online Contains Grove's Music Online (the updated Grove Dictionary of Music), the Oxford Companion to Music, which offers more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms and genres, and individual works; and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, which supplements Grove's more extensive articles with extra content.
PAIS International The Public Affairs Information Service database (PAIS) contains information on global public policy and social issues. It provides bibliographic access to periodicals, books, hearings, reports, grey literature, government publications, Internet resources, and other publications from 120 countries. It covers literature from 1972 to the present and contains 480,000 records, each with a brief abstract.
Project Muse Indexed full-text articles, reviews, fiction, poetry, and drama from scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. Emphasis is on literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and gender studies. Coverage starts in 1995, but the bulk of articles are from 2000 to the present.
PROLA (Physical Review Online Archive) The Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) is the American Physical Society's online archive for Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, and Physical Review A-E. It contains all APS journal articles published from 1893-2004. Each January, another year is added to the archive.
ProQuest ProQuest's multiple databases provide citations, abstracts and often the complete text of magazine, journal and newspaper articles. Some databases are general (that is, covering all topics) but are aimed at different audiences. Some databases are specialized (by subject) so are able to provide more depth of coverage about the subject.
PsycARTICLES This database contains the full-text of articles from APA journals and selected EPF (Educational Publishing Foundation) journals for the years 1989 to Present.
PsycCRITIQUES The American Psychological Association (APA) produces the PsycCRITIQUES database, an electronic book review serial which features full text reviews of current scholarly and professional books in the field of psychology. Also included in the database are reviews of popular films and trade books from a psychological point of view. The 40,000 searchable reviews span from 1956 to the present.
PsycINFO Indexing and abstracting of journal articles, books and book chapters, reports, theses and dissertations published internationally. Subject coverage of applied psychology; communication systems; developmental psychology; educational psychology; experimental human and animal psychology; personality; psychological and physical disorders; physiological psychology and neuroscience; professional personnel and issues; psychometrics and statistics; social psychology; social processes and issues; sports psychology and leisure; treatment and prevention. Coverage from the 1840 to the present.
PubMed PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. It contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,600 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. The file contains over 22 million citations dating back to the mid-1960's. Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts.
Readers' Guide Full Text Readers Guide to Periodical Literature allows you to access a large amount of articles and abstracts. Coverage dates: Indexing 1983+, Abstracting 1984+ and Select Full Text 1994+ Subjects Covered include: Aeronautics, African-Americans, Aging, Astronomy, Automobiles, Biography, Business, Canada, Children, Computers, Consumer Education, Current Events, Education, Environment, Fashion, Film, Fine Arts, Food, Foreign Affairs, Health, History, Hobbies, Home, Journalism, Leisure Activities, Medicine, Music, News, Nutrition, Photography, Politics, Religion, Science, Sports, and Television.
RefWorks RefWorks is a web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases and other various sources. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds to almost any citation format of your choice, including MLA, APA, and Chicago.
Science Direct Contains nearly 10 million articles (some full-text) from over 2,500 journals. The articles are grouped in four main sections: Physical Sciences and Engineering, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, and Social Sciences and Humanities. For most articles on the website, abstracts are freely available; if the icon before the article is green, we have access to the full text of the article through ScienceDirect. If white, use 360link to see if another database has it.
Serials Directory Provides access to the most up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials. This database contains nearly 250,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers, and data from nearly 108,235 publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet addresses.
Smithsonian Global Sound Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries is a joint venture with Smithsonian Global Sound, an international network of music audio archives and an educational resource that delivers the world's diverse cultural expressions in an informative way via digital media. Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries allows educators and students around the world to access full-length streams of the vast audio database through an array of subscription options.
Social Sciences Full Text This resource provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language social science journals. Social Sciences Full Text includes full-text articles from hundreds of journals, covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.
Social Services Abstracts Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,300+ serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.
Sociological Abstracts Indexing and abstracting of international sociological literature and related social/behavioral science disciplines. Database contains journal articles, book reviews, book chapters, dissertations and conference papers. Subjects covered include women's studies, demography, religion and science, economic development, and family/social welfare. Coverage is from 1952 through present.
STAN: OECD Structural Analysis Statistics The Structural Analysis Statistics enable researchers to analyze industrial performance at a relatively detailed level of activity across countries. It includes annual measures of output, labour input, investment and international trade. The industry list provides sufficient detail to enable users to highlight high-technology sectors and is compatible with those used in related OECD databases.
Women and Social Movements in the US This resource is a must for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, the website seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students.
World DataBank World DataBank is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. It includes more than 900 indicators in over 80 tables organized in 6 sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links. Data are shown for 152 economies with populations of more than 1 million, as well as for Taiwan, China, in selected tables.
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online A searchable electronic database consisting of the most comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide between 1960 and 2012. Containing over 131,000 annotated entries, this collected information is an essential tool for anyone engaged in research on Shakespeare or early modern England.
WorldCat WorldCat is an extremely large, collaborative catalog of books, videos, journals, dissertations, and other material worldwide. It contains all the records cataloged by almost 27,000 libraries, archives, and museums in 86 countries and offers over 41,000,000 bibliographic records. Interlibrary loans can be placed directly through WorldCat. It is updated daily and run by OCLC. It does not contain articles from periodicals.
