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17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
This database consists of the British Library's collection of the newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by Reverend Charles Burney. Although the majority is published in London, there are some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, as well as a handful of examples from the American colonies. It includes over 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the 17th and 18th centuries.
19th Century British Library Newspapers
This database features British newspapers from the 19th century selected by the British Library's editorial board. Many of the newspapers are available in complete runs, and all are searchable full-text.
19th Century Historical United States Newspapers
Full-text content and images from a range of urban and rural newspapers throughout the U.S., with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture, Western migration and Antebellum-era life.
19th Century Masterfile
A vast "Index of Indexes" for historical research prior to 1925. Includes Poole's index to Periodical Literature, Stead's Index to Periodicals, Jones and Chipman's Index to Legal Periodical Literature, Richardson's Index to Periodical Articles in Religion, and Cumulative Index to a Selected List of Periodicals 1896-1899.
19th Century U.K. Periodicals Series
The 19th century was a time of revolutionary change and expansion. Britain was one of the world’s first industrial, urban superpowers and developed a press to feed the demands of its increasingly literate population. 19th Century UK Periodicals Online, 1800-1900 is a major new series that covers the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th century world.
AAPG Datapages
Search the various collections of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
ABI/INFORM Global
Search nearly 1,800 premier worldwide business periodicals for information on companies, computers, advertising, marketing, economics, personnel, finance, taxation, etc. Includes the Wall Street Journal full-text 1984-
Abstracts in Social Gerontology
Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to social gerontology, including the psychology of aging, elder abuse, society and the elderly, and other key areas of relevance to the discipline. The index contains 70,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline, such as: Journals of Gerontology Series, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Experimental Gerontology, etc. EBSCO has digitized the full archive of this index, bringing coverage back to 1990.
Academic Info: United States History
Created by an individual, this site offers a well-chosen selection of major U.S. history-related links.
Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 2,000 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Access World News
Newspaper collections from NewsBank provide full-text articles from the electronic editions for over 600 U.S. and over 700 international newspapers. Includes: New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and some Iowa newspapers.
AccessMedicine.com
AccessMedicine.com is an online resource that provides complete references and services for physicians, students, and health professionals who need immediate access to authoritative and current medical data. It is updated daily. The service's central resource is a repository of medical knowledge from internal medicine, cardiology, genetics, pharmacy, diagnosis and management, basic sciences, patient care, and more. All databases in the repository contain the latest editions core medical titles from the AccessLange collection.
AccessPharmacy
AccessPharmacy is an online curricular resource designed to meet the changing demands of pharmacy education. A flexible resource, AccessPharmacy allows students to select a core curriculum topic, browse by organ system, review textbooks, or search across leading pharmacy online references.
AccessUN
The Readex United Nations Index provides access to current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications.
AccessUNDP
Indexes a finite collection of United Nations Development Programme Project Reports issued and held by UN headquarters between the years 1972-1998. Provides access to evaluative, technical and terminal reports (available in full-text on microfiche from NewsBank/Readex) submitted to the UN by numerous participating and executing agencies.
ACLS Humanities E-Book
A collection of over 1,700 books of high quality in the humanities, accessible through institutional and individual subscription. These are works of major importance, from 250 publishers, that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature.
ACP Medicine
ACP Medicine (was: Scientific American Medicine) is a comprehensive online textbook.
ACP PIER
ACP PIER is the American College of Physicians' peer reviewed EBM resource. Sections on diseases, prevention, CAM and procedures are highly synthesized and designed for point-of-care use. Browse table of contents or search through Stat!Ref.
Africa-Wide: NiPAD
An electronic information resource which is an aggregation of 40 bibliographic databases from around the world. Databases include Index to South African Periodicals, Ibiscus, the database from the Africa Institute, African Journal Online, Media Africa, and NAMLIT which is compiled from the national Library of Namibia. Africa-Wide is a multidisciplinary database and with access to over 2.4 million records is unique in its extensive coverage on the subject of Africa, including information written on and about Africa and offering access to African research. The records and abstracts are derived from journal articles, research reports, conference proceedings, grey literature, books, monographs, theses and dissertations. Subscribers to Africa-Wide include public libraries, universities, African and South African Institutes and governmental departments. Africa-Wide includes abstracts and direct links to full text, author contact information, links to publisher's websites and information on holding libraries.
AfricaFocus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent
A source of multimedia (slides, photographs, sound files) on African life. Accessible by collection, subject, or country; through an interactive atlas; or keyword or multiple fields.
African American Music
[Content from African American Music is now a part of American Song.] African American Song is the first online resource to document the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others. Includes a few spoken word recordings.
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
Complete texts of major 19th century African American newspapers. Includes first-hand reports of events and issues of the day, as well as biographies, vital statistics, essays, editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements.
African American Poetry
The early history of African American poetry, from the first recorded poem by an African American (Lucy Terry Prince's 'Bars Fight', c.1746) to the major poets of the nineteenth century, including Paul Laurence Dunbar and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Part of Literature Online (LION).
African Writers Series
The publication of this historic collection in online form restores access to a substantial body of literature, much of which is out of print and only accessible in specialist research libraries, opening up new possibilities for scholarship and teaching in the fields of African and literary studies.
Africana Conference Paper Index
Africana Conference Paper Index includes individual papers of Africana conference proceedings (in Western European languages) held by Northwestern University's Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, the largest separate Africana collection in the world. The database includes conference papers from the earliest period of the Northwestern Africana collections to the present, including 245,000 volumes, 2,500 current serials, 275 current African newspapers, 10,500 books in African languages, as well as other research materials.
AgeLine
Produced by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), AgeLine provides bibliographic coverage of social gerontology, i.e. the study of aging in psychological, health-related, social, and economic contexts. Also covered are the delivery of health care to the older population and its associated costs and policies, and consumer, employment, and public policy issues. Of interest to researchers, health professionals, service planners, policymakers, employers, older adults and their families, and consumer advocates.
AGRICOLA
Accesses NAL's Online Public Access Catalog and Journal Article Citation Index.
Alt-Press Watch
Full-text database indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals. (Main Library Reference Area holds vol. 1- July 1969- to present in the paper edition.)
America's News Magazines
Coverage of U.S. and international news, business, lifestyle, entertainment, sports, and science and technology from 26 familiar magazines.
America: History and Life
Covers the world's scholarly literature in United States and Canadian history. It includes article abstracts from 1700 journals and bibliographic citations of books and dissertations. The coverage is 1954- .
The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
Covers North American scholarship on East-Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I
Based on the American Antiquarian Society's landmark collection, this offers fully searchable facsimile images of approximately 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. The subjects of these broadsides range from contemporary accounts of the Civil War, unusual occurrences and natural disasters to official government proclamations, tax bills and town meeting reports. Featuring many rare items, the pieces of ephemera include clipper ship sailing cards, early trade cards, bill heads, theater and music programs, stock certificates, menus and invitations documenting civic, political and private celebrations.
American Drama 1714-1915
Containing more than 1,500 dramatic works from the early eighteenth century up to the beginning of the twentieth, American Drama 1714 -1915 reflects American dramatic writing in all its richness and diversity: plays in verse, farces, melodramas, minstrel shows, realist plays, frontier plays, temperance dialogues and a range of other genres are represented. Major dramatists include David Belasco, Rachel Crothers, Augustin Daly, Clyde Fitch, Edward Harrigan, James Herne, William Dean Howells and Joaquin Miller. Part of Literature Online (LION).
The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States
The AFI Catalog, the premier, authoritative resource of American film information for the years 1893-1972, is produced by the American Film Institute (AFI).
American Periodical Series Online 1740-1900
Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically significant periodicals. Coverage 1740-1940.
American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Journals
Search all ASM journals.
American Song
American Song is a history database that will contain 50,000 tracks that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database will include songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more.
American State Papers, 1789-1838
Legislative and executive documents, many originating from the important period between 1789 through 1838, including 1st Congress, 1st Session through 25th Congress, 2nd Session.
American West
Over 300 manuscripts- ranging from the original manuscript journal and papers of James Audubon, and a twelve page letter of General Custer, to the logbook of a cattle trail driver and the Hinman papers describing the overland trail to California and the Gold Rush. A host of extremely rare or unique ephemeral material including advertisements, claim certificates, cheques, photos, wanted notices and news-sheets. Maps - an important and underutilised resource for teaching the American West - partly due to their size and unwieldy nature - partly due to their rarity. Includes many unique or extremely rare items - ranging from extra-illustrated volumes and association copies to city directories and pamphlets and leaflets.
The Animate Atlas of African History
The Animated Atlas of African History offers a visual presentation of selected themes in the continent's history between 1879 and 2002. As the AAAH clicks through its year-by-year frames, labels, color-coded classifications and other symbols show territorial names, violent conflicts, the course of colonization and decolonization, post-colonial political developments, as well as economic and demographic changes.
L'Annee philologique
APh Online contains over 600,000 bibliographic records dating back to 1949.
The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)
ABELL contains 860,000 records, covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards. Part of Literature Online (LION).
Anthropology Plus
Describes articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies. Indexes articles two or more pages long in works published in English and other European languages. Internet version covers from the 19th century to the present.
AnthroSource
Current issues for 15 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications.
AP Images (was: AP Photo Archive)
AccuNet/AP multimedia archive contains the current photo report from Associated Press and a selection of images from their negative and print library. Most photographs date from late 1995, from two databases: the International and the Euro/Asia photo archives. Includes a separate database (1999+) containing graphics, maps, illustrations and logos, downloadable as PDF files.
Archive Finder
Chadwyck-Healey's automated combination of traditional manuscripts finding aids, including The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (but not including RLIN's AMC file; for that, request Reference assistance), this search tool indexes the holdings of more than 4,400 American repositories, amounting to some 100,000 collections. It is restricted to UI searchers, one at a time. A UI searcher may be bumped off after 15 minutes if another UI searcher begins a search. UI possesses a CD-ROM version, use of which entails no such difficulties, but the information it contains is less up to date, and it is accessible from the UI Main Library only.
Art Full Text
Indexes 1984 to date, abstracts 1994 to date, and full text 1997 to present for 376 international journals. Coverage includes periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins in English and other Western European languages, with a broad subject range. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals.
Art Retrospective
(Also called: Art Index Retrospective). Coverage: 1-32, 1929-1984 - parallels Art Full Text. Subjects covered: Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles.
ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM)
Abstracts of current literature in modern art, photography and design.
ARTFL (Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language)
A full-text retrieval database of classical French writings; users can create a dictionary and frequency count of words used in a text, trace origins of words or phrases back through the 17th century, etc. The database includes literary works, political tracts, philosophical writings, and technical treatises.
ARTstor
Due to cost, the Libraries will be unable to maintain access to ARTstor after December 31, 2009. Questions and concerns can be addressed to Ed Shreeves or Rijn Templeton.
Searchable database of digital images and associated catalog data, with new image collections added several times a year. ARTstor covers many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, anthropology, ethnographic and women's studies, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Users can search, view, download and organize images. Access through the 2009 Fall Semester is generously provided by ARTstor.
ASCE Research Library
A comprehensive online tool for locating articles of interest across all disciplines of civil engineering. The Research Library includes ASCE conference proceedings and all 30 ASCE journal and periodical volumes.
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
AskART: The Artists Bluebook
A database of information about American artists, including names, birth and death dates, state or local affiliation, fields in which artist worked, book and periodical references to artist, dealers and museums where works may be viewed, auction prices of works, some biographical details, etc.
AskERIC
ERIC focuses on education-related topics. It also covers many other subject areas, such as psychology, social sciences, health education, recreation and leisure, communications, and personnel issues. ERIC integrates two print indexes. The Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) covers journal articles, and Resources in Education (RIE) covers many types of materials, including conference papers and grant-sponsored research reports. ERIC subject descriptors are listed in the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors, available at the public service desks in the Main Library and the Psychology Library. NOTE: This resource uses the freely available AskERIC interface.
ASM Alloy Center
The ASM Alloy Center enables you to search in one easy step across ASM property data, performance charts, and processing guidelines for specific metals and alloys. Contains five content areas: Data Sheets & Diagrams, ALLOY finder, Materials Property Data, Coatings Data, and Corrosion Data.
ASM Handbooks Online
v. 1. Properties and selection--irons, steels, and high-performance alloys -- v. 2. Properties and selection--nonferrous alloys and special-purpose materials -- v. 3. Alloy phase diagrams -- v. 4. Heat treating -- v. 5. Surface engineering -- v. 6. Welding, brazing, and soldering -- v. 7. Powder metal technologies and applications -- v. 8. Mechanical testing -- v. 9 Metallography and microstructures -- v. 10 Materials characterization -- v. 11 Failure analysis and prevention -- v. 12 Fractography -- v. 13 Corrosion -- v. 14 Forming and forging -- v. 15 Casting -- v. 16 Machining -- v. 17 Nondestructive evaluation and quality control -- v. 18 Friction, lubrication, and wear technology -- v. 19. Fatigue and fracture -- v. 20. Materials selection and design. -- v.21 Composites
ASM Materials Information
The Alloy Center enables searching in one easy step across ASM property data, performance charts, and processing guidelines for specific metals and alloys. The Alloy finder features alloy designations and trade names from around the world and includes information on composition, producer, tensile properties and similar alloys. The ASM property data features mechanical properties, physical properties and processing characteristics for most industrial alloys. Coatings data features information on commercial coating processing. Corrosion data features information on corrosion of specific alloys in specific environments. Data sheets & diagrams feature material data sheets from Alloy digest, Heat treater’s guides, and other publications. Data for time-temperature curves, creep curves and fatigue curves from ASM atlas publications is also included.
ASME Digital Library
Provides abstracts and some full-text access to regularly published journals and annual publications from The American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Includes Technical Papers and Symposia/Proceedings.
Associations Unlimited
Contains information for approximately 160,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields. Contains information for approximately 115,000 U.S. regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields.
ASTM Standards
Technical standards from the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). These are included in the larger IHS Engineering Resource Center - Specs and Standards database. ASTM standards are available as part of the library's subscription. Specs and standards for other groups in the database are available for purchase.
ATLA Religion Database + ATLAS
Contains the complete contents of Religion Index One (journal literature in religion from 1949-present), Religion Index Two (multi-author works, such as Festschriften, conference proceedings, and other volumes of collected articles and essays, 1960-present), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion. Included are article citations from some 650 journals and essay citations from over 14,000 multi-author works as well as book review citations.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Journal articles on architecture and design, including bibliographic descriptions and indexes on subjects such as the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, and interior design and decoration.
Beilstein CROSSFIRE
The Beilstein CrossFire database is the online version of the Beilstein Handbuch der Organischen Chemie. It covers the organic chemistry literature (primarily journal articles plus patents) back to the late 1700s. It indexes over 8,000,000 compounds, 5,000,000 chemical reactions, 35,000,000 associated chemical and bioactivity records, and 750,000 abstracts and titles indexed from the primary organic chemical literature since 1980.
The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress)
Bertolt Brechts Werke : Jubilaumsausgabe im WWW
The first authorised electronic edition is based on Bertolt Brecht, Ausgewahlte Werke in sechs Banden, Jubilaumsausgabe zum 100. Geburtstag, edited by Werner Hecht, Wolfgang Jeske and Jan Knopf. In German; choice of menus in German and English
Bible in English
20 different versions of the English Bible from the tenth to the twentieth century, including 12 full Bibles, 5 New Testament texts, 2 versions of the Gospels only, and William Tyndale's translations of the Pentateuch, Jonah and the New Testament. The texts were selected with the aim of providing a balanced collection of editions covering the whole chronological period and appealing to scholars of a number of different disciplines. Part of Literature Online (LION).
Biblical Archaeology Society Online Archive
Only accessible on campus. Contains the content of selected journals and books published by the Biblical Archaeology Society. Includes each issue of the magazines Biblical archaeology review, Bible review, and Archaeology odyssey, and the content of five books.
Bibliografia de la literatura Espanola desde 1980
BLE provides references to "...monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, bibliographies, congress proceedings, and other miscellaneous material..." written from 1980 to present. The subject areas covered are literary theory, literary genres, popular literature, Hispanism, bibliographies, and information about authors. The database not only refers to editions of works, but also translated editions and critical studies.
Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
An online version of the bibliographic index founded by Eppelsheimer and continued by Kttelwesch. Covers the fields of German language and literature. The online version covers the years 1985-1997.
Bibliography of American literature
Bibliography of American Literature (9 vols, Yale University Press, 1955-1991) provides nearly 40,000 records of literary works of approximately 300 American writers from the period of the Revolution to 1930."--About BAL.
Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) / University of Michigan
This on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains more than 410,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.
Bibliography of British and Irish History
Bibliography of British and Irish History provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present. It is the successor to the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History, available online from 2002 to 2009.
Bibliography of Native North Americans
Indexes works from the sixteenth century to the present, including monographs, essays, journal articles, dissertations and U.S. and Canadian government publications. Areas covered include native American topics and issues, including education, anthropology, psychology, political science, sociology, and legal and medical research. This bibliography, from Human Relations Areas Files (HRAF), contains the citations from the cumulative eight volumes of the Ethnographic bibliography of North America as well as additional new citations.
Bibliography of the History of Art
Bibliography of the History of Art contains records describing current literature about art. Materials indexed include books, dissertations, exhibition catalogs, and articles drawn from more than 4,300 periodicals. Subject coverage includes Western Art, architecture, decorative and applied arts, popular and folk art, and selected contemporary art, as well as painting, sculpture, drawing, and prints.
Biblioteca Digital Hispanica
Created by the Biblioteca Nacional de Espana (BNE), the Biblioteca Digital Hispanica (BDH) makes available the digitized versions of many important works held by the BNE. These works include manuscripts, books, engravings, drawings, posters, photographs and maps. The BDH website has a search engine and it also has links to other Spanish digitization projects.
Biochemistry
5th ed. (2002) - NCBI Bookshelf
[Jeremy M Berg, John L Tymoczko, and Lubert Stryer]
Biography and Genealogy Master Index
A consolidated index to biographical sketches in current and retrospective biographical dictionaries.
Bioline International
Provides access to quality research journals published in developing and transitional countries. The periodicals included cover all subject areas, with the majority in the life and medical sciences. Most journals are in English and Spanish. The website provides a search engine that covers all articles in all journals, while users can retrieve articles in both HTML and PDF formats. All material is available on an open-access (free) basis.
Biological Abstracts
Biological Abstracts encompasses the entire field of life sciences and provides comprehensive coverage of the world's published biological and biomedical research. This includes traditional areas of biology, such as botany, zoology and microbiology, as well as experimental, clinical and veterinary medicine, biotechnology, environmental studies, and agriculture. Interdisciplinary fields such as biochemistry, biophysics and bioengineering are also included. More than 6,500 serials are monitored for inclusion.
BioMed Central
BioMed Central is an independent publishing organization committed to providing immediate and free access to peer reviewed biomedical research.
BioOne
Collection of the full texts of various research journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.
BioOne Abstracts and Indexes
This BioOne bibliographic database is an indexed and fully-searchable collection of abstracts that link to the fulltext articles available from the BioOne organization. BioOne provides a unique aggregation of over 82 high-impact bioscience research journals from more than 66 publishers.
The Birds of North America Online
This database provides scientific information for each of the 716 species of birds nesting in the USA and Canada, with image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, recordings of bird's songs and calls selected from the collection in Cornell's Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds. Includes also an extensive bibliography for each species.
Black Drama - 1850 to present
Currently contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. Many works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print. Nearly a quarter of the collection will consist of previously unpublished plays by such writers as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Femi Euba, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston.
Black Studies Center
Black Studies Center combines three invaluable resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index of Black Periodicals (IIBP), and The Chicago Defender. This fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies includes scholarly essays, recent periodicals, and historical newspaper articles.
Black Thought and Culture : African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Black Thought and Culture is a single source for the published works of numerous historically important black leaders. Along with well-known works, the collection features approximately 5,000 pages of unique, fugitive, and never-before-published materials. When complete, Black Thought and Culture will provide approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975. Black teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other leaders form the mainstay of this corpus. The collection is intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art.
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
The encyclopedia consists of over 1800 entries on all aspects of social organization. It is updated three times a year.
BMJ Clinical Evidence
BMJ Clinical Evidence is a six monthly, updated compendium of evidence on the effects of clinical interventions. It summarises the current state of knowledge, ignorance, and uncertainty about the prevention and treatment of clinical conditions, based on thorough searches and appraisal of the literature. It is not a textbook of medicine nor a book of guidelines. It describes the best available evidence, and where there is no good evidence, it says so.
Books24x7
Electronic books, chiefly in the field of computer science (Business and Culture, Certification and Compliance, Databases, Desktop and Office Applications, Enterprise Computing, Graphic Design and Multimedia, Hardware, IBM Technologies, Networks and Protocols, Operating Systems, Programming Languages, Security, Software Engineering, Telecommunications, Web Programming and Development) and Business (Business Skills, Corporate Case Studies and Interviews, Employee Training and Development, Finance and Accounting, Human Resources, International Business, Management and Leadership, Marketing and Sales, Project Management, Quality and Manufacturing Management, Team Skills, Technology in Business). LOGIN FROM THE LIBRARY CATALOG using a Hawk ID to access content.
British Newspapers
The most comprehensive digital historic newspaper archive. Includes 17-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers, 19th Century British Library Newspapers, 3 million pages of historic newspapers, newsbooks & ephemera,
and National & Regional papers from British Isles.
British Periodicals
Includes British Periodicals Collection I and British Periodicals Collection II. British Periodicals Collection I consists of more than 160 journals that comprise the UMI microfilm collection Early British Periodicals, the equivalent of 5,238 printed volumes containing approximately 3.1 million pages. Covers literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences. British Periodicals Collection II consist of more than 300 journals from the UMI microfilm collections English Literary Periodicals and British Periodicals in the Creative Arts together with additional titles, amounting to almost 3 million pages. Covers literature, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture.
Business Knowledge Research
Provides full-text research reports from the Conference Board on the latest issues in business management and on United States and global economics, covering topics such as business outlook, leadership decisions, performance excellence, corporate governance, human resource management, productivity, economic indicators and analysis/forecasts of regional, national, and international economic conditions.
Business Monitor Online
Provides in-depth market research reports on 175 global markets, emphasizing emerging markets. Also provides extensive economic and political risk ratings and analysis, macroeconomic analysis and forecasts, and financial analysis of debt and equity. Also includes profiles for over 500 multinational companies and their subsidiaries, and intra-daily alerts on economic, industrial, and political developments, business deals, multinational joint ventures, and regulatory changes.
Business Source Complete
Business Source Complete provides full text for scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. This database is updated daily.
C19, The Nineteenth Century Index
Provides integrated bibliographic coverage of over over 1.3 million books and official publications, and 10 million articles published in over 2,000 journals, magazines and newspapers.
Caliber: Journals of the University of California Press
Cambridge Histories Online
Provides full text online access to the complete 250-plus volumes of Cambridge Histories reference series. Provides political, economic and social history, philosophy and literature of selected countries and subjects.
Cambridge History of English and American Literature (Bartleby.com)
Contents range from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing. The set encompasses a broad range of writing on humorists, publicists, orators, newspaper columnists, religious leaders, economists, Native Americans, song writers, and even non-English writers, such as Yiddish and Creole.
Cambridge History of Latin America
Part of Cambridge Histories Online.
Canadian Human Rights Reporter
CHRR Online is a database of Canadian human rights decisions. The database has published decisions from the Canadian Human Rights
Reporter (C.H.R.R.) from Volume 1 (1980) to the most recent bound volume. It also includes the Current Law Notes page for current awareness and unreported decisions. Decisions are added to the database soon after they arrive in the CHRR office.
Canadian Poetry
Created in partnership with the Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick Libraries, this unique collection contains the full text of more than 19,000 poems by 177 poets including Bliss Carman, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Archibald Lampman, Charles G. D. Roberts and Duncan Campbell Scott, offering a comprehensive survey of Canadian poetry from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth. Part of Literature Online (LION).
Cardiosource Plus
REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Cardiosource Plus is an online cardiovascular information and educational resource produced by the American College of Cardiology Foundation. Cardiosource enables cardiovascular professionals to easily stay up-to-date with the most relevant research findings and best practices, with analysis and commentary by experts in the field to help put the findings in perspective for immediate application in practice. Cardiosource brings to market the most comprehensive digital cardiovascular resource, featuring the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, a comprehensive clinical trials database, news and expert commentaries, clinical images, self-assessment educational materials, the full complement of the ACCF clinical guidelines and quality standards, and much more. Cardiosource integrates research and clinical information from multiple credible sources to create a complete digital reference for the cardiology community - helping users stay on top of global cardiology developments without having to travel.
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
The CGP is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general key word, or click on "Advanced Search" for more options. The catalog offers you the option to find a nearby Federal depository library that has a particular publication or that can provide expert assistance in finding and using related U.S. government information. Click on the title of interest from your search results list. Then click on the Locate in a Library link within the displayed record.
Catholic Periodical and Literature Index
Includes indexed citations to articles published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers.
CCH Accounting Research Manager
Online database of expert-written analytical accounting, auditing, governmental and SEC information as well as primary source data.
CCH Business & Finance Research Network
CCH IntelliConnect
Provides access to full text primary and secondary materials in the areas of human resources management, payroll, pensions, benefits, employment law, OSHA, health care reimbursement, corporate governance, mergers & acquisitions, intellectual property, government contracts, antitrust and trade regulation, and transportation law. Also contains federal and state tax materials including codes, regulations, forms, IRS letter rulings, and current news. This new interface merges the resources formerly known as CCH Internet Research Network, CCH Business and Finance, and CCH Tax Research Network.
CCH Internet Research NetWork
Searchable database of laws, codes, etc. regarding various aspects of health and human resources.
Center for Electronic Resources in African Studies
A "virtual" space of scholarly electronic resources in text, multimedia, and interactive format to support students and faculty at the University of Iowa and scholars nationally and internationally.
Chemical Abstracts (CAS SciFinder Scholar)
SciFinder Scholar is a desktop client which allows you to search Chemical Abstracts & MEDLINE by author and topic.
Chemical Abstracts on CD
The leading index for chemical article searching, available with abstracts from 1977 - present.
Chicago Defender (Black Studies Center)
The full text backfile of the influential black newspaper The Chicago Defender is available through the Black Studies Center site. It includes the Saturday edition (1910 to 1975) and the Daily edition (1956-1975).
Chicago Defender (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
This database provides full page and article images with searchable full text from the Chicago daily defender (1966-1973 : Big weekend ed.), Chicago daily defender (1960-1973 : Daily ed.), Chicago defender (1905-1966 : Big weekend ed.), Chicago defender (1973-1975 : Big weekend ed.), Chicago defender (1973-1975 : Daily ed.), Chicago defender (1921-1967 : National ed.), and the Daily defender (1956-1960 : Daily ed.). The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue in PDF format.
Chicago Homer
Includes all the texts of ancient Greek epic in the original Greek and in English translations. Texts include: the Iliad and the Odyssey, with translations by Richmond Lattimore; the Homeric Hymns, with a translation by Daryl Hine; and Theogony and Works and Days by Hesiod, also with translations by Daryl Hine.
The Chicago Manual of Style Online.
A style manual for writing, editing, and publishing.
Chicago Tribune - Proquest Historical Newspapers
Contains full-text access to the Chicago Tribune dating from 1849-1985. Documents display in PDF. See Access World News for 1985+ articles online. The Main Library also archives issues back to 1849, available in Media Services.
The Chicano Database
A comprehensive bibliographic index for all types of material about Mexican-Americans. Extensive coverage from the 1960s to the present, with selective coverage dating back to the early 1900s. Records added since 1992 have expanded its scope to include the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants.
Child Care and Early Education Research Connections
A continuously updated, multidisciplinary database of nearly 9,000 resources, including citations for peer-reviewed journal articles, books, research reports, fact sheets and briefs, grey literature, instruments, and government documents. Research Connections selects, archives, and indexes publications and data relevant to early education and child care research and policy, and provides access to bibliographic information and full text for many resources. In addition, Research Connections offers data and statistics for download and analysis, and tools for quick online analysis of data.
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
Offers more than 240,000 reviews of both fiction and non-fiction children's and young adult books, as well as related professional books--all full text searchable from 35 review sources. You can limit your search by age, grade level, lexile level, year of publication and genre. There are also links to author and illustrator sites, awards and prizes, teaching materials, booktalks and other resources from the CLCD home page.
China Academic Journals (CAJ): Series G, F & H
This database covers journal articles published in China in almost all the subject areas of the Humanities and Arts. Series the U of I subscribes to is Education and Social Sciences (series H), Politics/Military Affairs/Law (series G) and Literature/History/Philosophy (series F) and It includes back files dated back to 1994. It is part of the electronic project of the CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure). The database provides full texts in CAJ and PDF formats.
ChoiceReviews.online
Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries is the premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
CINAHL Plus
CINAHL Plus provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. CINAHL Plus also contains searchable cited references for more than 1,160 journals. Full text material includes more than 80 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. Please see Hardin Library's tutorial How to Search CINAHL Effectively (PDF file). [March 31, 2009: Pre-CINAHL merged with CINAHL Plus]
CIOS Journal Index
This system allows you to perform electronic searches of 58 core serials and annuals in the discipline of communication studies and related fields (e.g., journalism, rhetoric, mass communication, and social linguistics).
CiteSeer.IST : Scientific Literature Digital Library
CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science.
The Civil War : A Newspaper Perspective : November 1860-April 1865 : The Charleston Mercury, The New York Herald, Richmond Enquirer
Full text of articles taken from issues of The New York herald, The Charleston mercury and the Richmond enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865. Begins with the events preceding the outbreak of war at Fort Sumter and concludes with the assassination and funeral of Abraham Lincoln. Includes news articles, eye-witness accounts and official reports of battles and events, editorials, advertisements, and biographies. Also includes articles describing other than military concerns of the day, such as travel, arts and leisure, sports, social events, etc.
Classical Music Library
A classical music service that enables listening and learning at library and home computers. It includes around 15,000 recordings, along with program notes, composer biographies, and images cross-referenced to the recordings.
Clinical Anesthesiology
4th ed. (2006) - AccessMedicine
[G. Edward Morgan, Jr., Maged S. Mikhail, Michael J. Murray]
Clinical Evidence
See: BMJ Clinical Evidence
Clipp: The Computer-Assisted Learning in Pediatrics Project
The Computer-assisted Learning in Pediatrics Program (CLIPP) is a comprehensive Internet-based learning program for use by third-year medical students during their pediatric clerkship. CLIPP's 31 interactive virtual patient cases are designed to cover all of the core content of the curriculum of the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP).
Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more. Cochrane reviews bring you the combined results of the world's best medical research studies, and are recognised as the gold standard in evidence-based healthcare.
CogNet Library
A major electronic resource for cognitive and brain sciences which provides searchable full-text of major reference works, books, and journals from MIT Press and other publishers and resource providers. Also includes conference materials, CogSci Dictionary, Almanac of cognitive science programs, and much more.
The Collected Dialogues of Plato
The Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce
The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882-1953
The Collected Works of Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Collected Works of St. Thomas Aquinas
Columbia Encyclopedia
[Note: The content of Columbia Encyclopedia is temporarily located in EBSCOhost's Academic Search Elite until Dec. 2008] The largest one volume encyclopedia available, the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia is unmatched in its scope and reputation for accuracy and authority. It contains more than 51,000 entries, addressing current hot topics and providing updated geographical, political, and statistical information.
Columbia International Affairs Online
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is designed to be the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.
ComAbstracts
This database contains abstracts of articles published in the discipline of communication studies and related fields (e.g., journalism, rhetoric, mass communication, and social linguistics).
Combined Chemical Dictionary
Includes descriptive and numerical data on chemical, physical and biological properties of compounds; systematic and common names of compounds; literature references; structure diagrams and their associated connection tables. Contains all those compounds published in: Dictionary of organic compounds (200,000 records), Dictionary of natural products (120,000 records), Dictionary of inorganic and organometallic compounds (90,000 records), Dictionary of pharmacological agents (30,000 records), Dictionary of analytical reagents (14,000 records).
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Combines CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University).
Communication Institute for Online Scholarship
CIOS online services provide access to thousands of files in the resource library as well as dozens of scholarly conferences enrolling over 6,000 and students. The U of I is a "CIOS Affiliate Institution." Also, see the CIOS/Comserve Journal Index and CIOS/ComAbstracts.
Compendex
Compendex is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research available, covering all engineering disciplines. It includes millions of bibliographic citations and abstracts from thousands of engineering journals and conference proceedings. When combined with the Engineering Index Backfile (1884-1969), Compendex covers well over 120 years of core engineering literature.
The Complete Works and Correspondence of David Hume
The Complete Works of Aristotle
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
Includes more than 240,000 words, phrases, and definitions, providing meanings for everyday words including scientific and technical vocabulary, as well as English from around the world. This revised edition of the dictionary has been updated with hundreds of new words and phrases, including sub-prime, social networking, and carbon footprint.
Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionary (English-German)
Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionary (German-English)
Concise Oxford-Hachette French dictionary : French-English, English-French
175,000 words and phrases, 270,000 translations. Completely updated to include the very latest vocabulary, the Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary offers authoritative coverage. Brand-new features include cultural notes on life in the French-speaking world.
Contemporary Authors
A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television and other fields.
Les Corpus des oeuvres de philosophie en langue francaise
COS (Community of Science) Expertise
An electronic, searchable directory of UI faculty and staff research interests and activities.
COS (Community of Science) Funding Opportunities
The most comprehensive source of funding information available on the Web, with more than 24,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion. Updated daily.
CountryWatch.com: Website to the world
Up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world, for educational purposes and for public and private sector organizations with global operations and interests. Includes Country ReviewsTM and Country WireTM.
CQ Electronic Library
CQ Electronic Library (CQEL) is an extensive reference resource comprised of fourteen separate modules, each with its own focus, for researching American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs including the CQ Almanac, CQ Global Reseacher, CQ Researcher Plus Archive, CQ Weekly, CQ Congress, CQ Public Affairs, CQ Supreme Court, CQ Voting and Elections, CQ Encyclopedia of American Government, CQ Congress and the Nation, CQ Historic Document Series, CQ Political Handbook of the World, CQ's Politics in America, CQ Supreme Court Yearbook, CQ Vital Statistics on American Politics, and CQ Washington Information Directory.
CQ Global Researcher
Provides students with definitive, in-depth coverage of newsworthy global affairs from a number of international viewpoints.
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences
CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences is the first in a series of CSA Illustrata databases of searchable tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from the scholarly research and technical literature.
Current Index to Statistics
The Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. References are drawn from over 160 core journals that are fully indexed, non-core journals from which articles are selected that have statistical content, proceedings and edited books, and other sources.
Current Research @ CIC Institutions
Full text of all CIC dissertations (including University of Iowa, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Indiana University, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, and University of Wisconsin-Madison) from 1997 to the present. Abstracts are available for earlier dissertations.
D&B Million Dollar Database
Dun and Bradstreet's company information on over 1,300,000 U.S. leading public and private businesses.
Dance in Video
Captures dance performances from the stage and brings them directly to your computer screen through online streaming video - including 250 dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century.
DARE - Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness
DARE is a Full Text database containing critical assessments of systematic reviews from a variety of medical journals.
Database of Latin Dictionaries
The database will continue to grow gradually and will comprise three kinds of dictionaries: dictionaries to assist translation from Latin into modern languages,
dictionaries providing semantic and etymological explanations in Latin of Latin words historical Latin dictionaries. The aim of the database is not only to integrate different types of Latin dictionaries, whether modern, medieval or early-modern, but also to build in links between these different tools.
Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM)
A collection of sound recordings documenting American music largely ignored by the commercial recording companies. Works can be browsed by work, album or track titles, as well as by artist roles, and date of recording and composition. Some biographical and role information are provided for artists.
Declassified Documents Reference System
The database ranges from the years immediately following World War II, when declassified documents were first made widely available, through the 1970s. Nearly every major foreign and domestic event of these years is covered: the Cold War, Vietnam, foreign policy shifts, the civil rights movement, and others.
The Des Moines Register (Iowa)
Available through ProQuest.
Design and applied arts index
The Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) contains over 130,000 annotated references from more than 500 design and craft journals and newspapers published from 1973 onwards, and data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms etc., making it the largest index of its kind in the world. Research articles are covered, along with topical news items, conference and seminar reports, and book, video and exhibition reviews. Each reference includes full bibliographic details and a brief abstract. Also includes two supplementary databases: Education Directory and Periodicals Directory.
Die Deutsche Lyrik im WWW
A full-text database of German lyric poetry from Chadwyck-Healey; it will eventually include collected editions of the works of 100 poets from the 17th through the 20th centuries.
DGR Web: ACS Directory of Graduate Research
Diagnostic and statistical manual : DSM-IV-TR
Dictionary of Literary Biography
A collection of biographical, bibliographic and critical essays on authors. The scope includes North American, British, Commonwealth, modern European, Latin American, African and Caribbean literature. Authors include novelists, dramatists, poets, essayists, critics, historians, journalists and biographers.
Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism in C19
The Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism is a new reference work with over 1600 entries detailing British and Irish newspaper and periodical publishing in the nineteenth century.
Dictionary of Old English, A to G Online
Produced in part with the support of the Canada Foundation for Innovation through the TAPoR project, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Dictionary of Old English, Old English Corpus
Contains all surviving Old English material (over 3000 texts), excluding some variant texts. Each text includes a reference to its genre, period and language; a unique text number; a Cameron number; and a short and expanded title used to identify the text in the Dictionary of Old English. Also includes "Latin word wheel".
The Dictionary of Substances and Their Effects (DOSE)
Dietary Supplements Labels Database
The Dietary Supplements Labels Database includes information from the labels of over 2,000 brands of dietary supplements in the marketplace, including vitamins, minerals, herbs or other botanicals, amino acids, and other specialty supplements.
A Digital Library of Tobacco Documents
The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL) contains more than 9.7 million documents (50+ million pages) created by major tobacco companies related to their advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research activities.
Digital Sanborn maps 1867-1970
Digital Sanborn Maps is a collection of large-scale landbook maps which includes information such as the outline of each building, the size and shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, and location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. Textual information includes construction details, ownership and building use.
Direct Marketing List Source
Provides U.S., Canadian, and international list rental information. The database contains sources, selects, costs, and other valuable information that help you refine your list strategy for your direct marketing campaigns.
Directory of American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries
Comprehensive coverage of over 190 countries in which American corporations have foreign operations. Searching capabilities provide the ability to search by country, region, state, company, zip codes, NAIC codes and revenue.
Dissertation Abstracts
See: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals.
DynaMed
DynaMed (Dynamic Medical Information System) is a quick and easy-to-use medical reference system designed for use at the point of care. DynaMed contains clinically organized summaries of nearly 1,800 topics and is updated daily from review of the research literature. This means that the reference information is always up-to-date and does not require new editions. DynaMed is a useful resource in clinical, educational and research settings. [From: About Dynamed]
Early American Fiction 1789-1875
A collection of 730 full texts of the first editions of American novels and short stories written before 1875 by authors of significance during their lifetimes. Criteria used for inclusion in the collection: first edition found in Wright's American Fiction 1774-1850, Bibliography of American literature and owned by the University of Virginia Library, covering 730 titles in 882 volumes by 130 authors, containing 225,000 pages. Part of Literature Online (LION).
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
Online version of the microfiche set Early American Imprints, 1639-1800. Resource for aspects of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, e.g., agriculture, auctions, foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, and witchcraft.
Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876
Includes images and full-text content from scores of historical publications. Based mainly on Clarence Brigham's "History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820" and concentrating on publication starts pre-1820.
Early English Prose Fiction
A collection of more than 200 works from the period 1500 - 1700, exploring the rich diversity of prose fiction in English in the period preceding the emergence of the realist novel as its dominant form. EEPF offers the full text of works by key writers such as John Bunyan, Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Nashe and Aphra Behn, and has been produced in association with the Salzburg Centre for Research on the Early English Novel (SCREEN). Access via Literature Online (LION).
ebrary
Academic Complete is a highly interactive eBook database from ebrary that covers all academic subject areas. The collection currently includes more than 30,000 titles from more than 220 of the world's leading academic, STM, and professional publishers.
EBSCO Animals
Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
EBSCOhost
A collection of databases, including Academic Search Elite, which offers full text for nearly 2,000 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles, covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and much more.
EBSEES - European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
This database covers books, journal articles, reviews, and theses about Eastern Europe from 1991 to the present. It covers topics such as social sciences, humanities, literature, linguistics, and art.
ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
A comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century microfilm set, which has aimed to include every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. Consists of over 180,000 titles of books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera. Subject categories include history and geography; fine arts and social sciences; medicine, science, and technology; literature and language; religion and philosophy; law; general reference. Also included are significant collections of women writers of the eighteenth century, collections on the French Revolution, and numerous eighteenth-century editions of the works of Shakespeare. Where they add scholarly value or contain important differences, multiple editions of each individual work are offered.
Econlit
Source material in this database includes journal articles, essays, research papers, books, dissertations, book reviews, and working papers. Contains more than 735,000 records covering 1969-present. The subjects covered within EconLit include accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labor, marketing, demographics, modeling, economic theory, planning, and much more.
Econometric Society Monographs
Econometric Society monographs are high-quality research works in the fields of Economic Theory, Econometrics, and Quantitative Economics more generally. Publications range from more or less extensive accounts of the state of the art in a field to which the authors have made significant contributions, to shorter monographs representing important advances on more specific issues.
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
The Economic Commission for Latin America is one of the five regional commissions of the United Nations. Information found on this website includes full text press releases, speeches, interviews, and nearly all of its publications.
Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003
The Economist Historical Archive delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2003. New full-colour images, multiple search indexes, exportable financial tables and a gallery of front covers highlighting a key topic of each week - all combine to offer a primary source of research covering the 19th and 20th centuries. The Economist Historical Archive complements the Times Digital Archive also available from Gale/Cengage Learning.
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
Contains 11 major editions from the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, 28 separate contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha and related works, as well as over 100 adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the 17th thru 19th centuries. Part of Literature Online (LION).
Education Full Text
This database covers periodicals, books, and yearbooks concerning the field of education. It has indexing from 1983, abstracts from 1994, and full-text from 1996.
The Educator's Reference Desk
Through The Educator's Reference Desk you can access AskERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
EEBO-TCP: Early English Books Online -- Text Creation Partnership
Searchable text-based version of the page images available in EEBO: Early English Books Online, an online corpus of the titles published between 1475 and 1700 listed in Pollard and Redgrave, Wing, and the Thomason Tracts catalogs. The marked-up text provides full keyword searching, allowing scholars to pinpoint even minute references to their subjects as they appeared in a wide variety of early modern works. The search interface also allows scholars to uncover repeated word patterns across texts that ten years ago were only available in archives or on microfilm. Links from this text version to the page images are planned.
EEBO: Early English Books Online
From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare this collection contains over 100,000 titles listed in Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and Thomason Tracts and their revised edition.
eHRAF Archaeology
The eHRAF Collection of Archaeology, published annually by Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), is a full-text, fully-indexed archaeology database. eHRAF differs from other databases in that documents (i.e. books, journal articles, dissertations) are indexed at the paragraph-level with over 700 subject codes from the Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM).
eHRAF World Cultures
The Human Relations Area Files at Yale University contain information about world cultures. The HRAF Collection currently contains nearly 1,000,000 pages of information on the cultures of the world--past and present. Only a portion of HRAF documentation are accessible on the Internet. Older material in microform which the UI Libraries has is not included.
Ei Engineering Village
Engineering Village is a Web-based information service that offers a wide range of quality resources for information specialists, professionals, and researchers working in the applied science and engineering fields.
Engineering Village features:
COMPENDEX is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research available, covering all engineering disciplines. It includes millions of bibliographic citations and abstracts from thousands of engineering journals and conference proceedings. When combined with the Engineering Index Backfile (1884-1969), Compendex covers well over 120 years of core engineering literature.
INSPEC includes bibliographic citations and indexed abstracts from publications in the fields of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, communications, computer science, control engineering, information technology, manufacturing and mechanical engineering, operations research, material science, oceanography, engineering mathematics, nuclear engineering, environmental science, geophysics, nanotechnology, biomedical technology and biophysics.
Eighteenth-Century Fiction
A collection of 96 complete works of English prose from the period 1700 - 1780 by writers from the British Isles. Key figures covered include Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne and Jonathan Swift. In addition to a scanned version of Sterne's Tristram Shandy, the collection also contains two different editions of Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela, and of Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Part of Literature Online (LION).
Electronic Elightenment
Searchable and browseable database offering extensive access to the web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the long eighteenth century and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers. Coverage includes letters and documents, document sources such as manuscripts and early printed editions, scholarly annotations, and links to biographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, and other online resources.
Elsevier ScienceDirect
Full text collection of over 1,000,000 articles from 1995 to present covers a variety of subject areas and disciplines, including biochemistry, biological sciences, business, chemistry, earth sciences, economics, engineering, mathematics and computer science, neurosciences, physics and social sciences.
Emerald Library
Emerald Library includes management and library information science journals as well as a specialist range of engineering and applied science and technology journals.
The Encyclopaedia of Islam
The Encyclopaedia of Islam sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World from religion and history to politics and culture. It includes articles on distinguished Muslims of every age and land, on tribes and dynasties, on the crafts and sciences, on political and religious institutions, on the geography, ethnography, flora and fauna of the various countries and on the history, topography and monuments of the major towns and cities. Its geographical and historical scope encompasses the old Arabo-Islamic empire, the Islamic countries of Iran, Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Indonesia, the Ottoman Empire and all modern Islamic states. The entire text of volumes I to XI and Supplement (Volume XII) of the printed edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam is included.
Encyclopedia of Biostatistics
The Encyclopedia of Biostatistics, 2nd Edition offers the definitive reference to support the development and use of statistical methods for addressing the problems and critical issues that confront scientists, practitioners and policy makers engaged in the life and medical sciences. With the growing importance and application of biostatistics, reflected in the increasing number of statisticians employed in the pharmaceutical industry, healthcare sector and medical schools, this new edition will find widespread application in basic medical science; the planning, financing and distribution of health care; and the measurement of health care status and progress in the population.
Encyclopedia of China
The essential reference to China, its history and culture.
Encyclopedia of Social Work
This new edition includes coverage of areas that have come to the fore since the 1995 publication of the 19th edition, including demographic changes from immigration, technology, the implications of managed care, faith-based assistance, evidence-based practice, gerontology, and trauma and disaster. The Encyclopedia contains four hundred subject entries and two hundred brief biographies of key figures in the history of social work.
Encyclopedia of Television
The Encyclopedia of Television includes more than 1,000 original essays from more than 250 contributors and examines specific programs and people, historic moments and trends, major policy disputes and such topics as violence, tabloid television and the quiz show scandal. It also includes histories of major television networks as well as broadcasting systems around the world and is complemented by resource materials, photos and bibliographical information.
Energy Citations Database
Energy Citations contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The Database provides access to DOE publicly available citations from 1948 through the present, with continued growth through regular updates.
Energy Citations includes bibliographic records of literature in disciplines of interest to DOE such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related disciplines. It includes citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents.
Energy, Science, and Technology Information
Contains similar material to that formerly found in PubScience.
English Drama
Contains 3,900 plays in verse and prose tracing the development of drama in English from the medieval mystery cycles to the comedies of Oscar Wilde. Part of Literature Online (LION).
English Poetry, Second Edition
Contains over 183,000 poems essentially comprising the complete English poetic canon from the 8th century to the early 20th. Drawn from nearly 4,900 printed sources, more than 2,700 poets are represented. The main bibliographic source for English Poetry, Second Edition is the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. It also includes poetry written in English during the same period by authors from Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the world, together with the work of additional English poets missing from NCBEL. Part of Literature Online (LION).
English Short Title Catalogue
Contains records for works printed in any language in England or its dependencies from the beginning of printing through the end of the eighteenth century, as well as works printed in English anywhere else in the world during that period. Includes the former Eighteenth-Century Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) and the two print short-title catalogues covering 1475-1640 (Pollard and Redgrave) and 1641-1700 (Wing).
ERIC (CSA version)
ERIC focuses on journal and non-journal education-related topics. ERIC subject descriptors are listed in the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors, available at the public service desks in the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, Main Library and the Psychology Library as well as electronically through EBSCOhost or CSA. Full-text of ERIC documents from 1993 to the present is available from the ERIC website free. NOTE: There is a choice of interface based on user preference.
ERIC (EBSCOhost version)
ERIC focuses on journal and non-journal education-related topics. ERIC subject descriptors are listed in the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors, available at the public service desks in the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, Main Library and the Psychology Library as well as electronically through EBSCOhost or CSA. Full-text of ERIC documents from 1993 to the present is available from the ERIC website free. NOTE: There is a choice of interface based on user preference.
ERIC Full-text Documents
Full text of the ERIC documents (EDs) from 1993 to the present are available. Please note that ERIC documents 1966-July, 2004 are available in microfiche in the Media Collection, Main Library. New ERIC documents (July, 2004 to the present) are available in electronic format only. There is an effort to digitize documents acquired by the ERIC system1966-1992. If there is no link to the full-text in a database for ERIC documents 1966-1992, check with the South Circulation Desk, Main Library for the microfiche copy.
Escholarship editions
The eScholarship Editions collection includes almost 2000 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction. Access to the entire collection of electronic books is open to all University of California faculty, staff, and students, while over 500 of the titles are available to the public.
Essay and General Literature
The coverage of the database includes all of the humanities and social sciences with indexing of 5,300 anthologies and collections.
ETDEWEB: Energy Information Sources
Searchable database of documents from the international scientific and technical literature in the field of energy and related topics. Includes abstracts and complete articles as well as links to available full text on the environmental impact of energy production and use, including climate change, energy R & D, energy policy, and nuclear, coal, hydrocarbon, and renewable energy technologies.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
Europa Sacra
Key features: "Complete coverage of Church prelates obedient to Rome to 1503 from C. Eubel, Hierarchia catholica medii aevi... ab anno 1198 [Munster, 1898ff] and P.B. Gams, Series episcoporum ecclesiae catholicae, vol. 1 [Regensburg, 1873]) For the first time 'Eubel' and 'Gams' available online Information on all 1300 medieval bishoprics, archdioceses and patriarchates of the early, patristic and medieval Church obedient to Rome Prosopographical information on 18,507 bishops, archbishops and patriarchs for the period 1198-1503; and all those cited by Gams for the period to 1198 . . . - - Database information page.
The European Register of Microform Masters
The European Register of Microform Masters has been set up as an international database accessible online, where information about all works, that have already been reformatted or are about to be reformatted shall be available. Microforms and other reformatted items that have been produced to standard by commercial agencies and where service copies of individual works are available, are to be included.
Evans-TCP: Evans Digital Edition -- Text Creation Partnership
Searchable text-based version of the page images available in Evans Digital Edition.
EXAM MASTER OnLine: USMLE and Medical Specialty Board Exams
Allows users to create various kinds of exams from about 24 available products by choosing (a) quickstart automatic 50 question exams, (b) topic, subject, category, or subcategory, or (c) words or phrases found in the questions, answers, or explanations.
The Faber Poetry Library
A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. The Faber list spans the seventy-year history of this major publishing house, and includes the poetry of Thom Gunn, Siegfried Sassoon, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Wendy Cope and Seamus Heaney. In total The Faber Poetry Library contains 140 volumes by 50 poets. Part of Literature Online (LION).
Factiva
Contains a wide variety of financial information including business and economic news, text-search services, stock market quotations, financial and investment services and general news and information.
Faculty of 1000. Biology
Reviews the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 1000 selected leading researchers.
Faculty of 1000. Medicine
Based on the recommendations of a selected faculty of nearly 2500 leading international researchers and clinicians, it systematically highlights and reviews the most pertinent papers in any field of medicine.
Family Studies Abstracts
Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains 45,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline, such as: Journal of Family Studies, Journal of Marriage & Family, Family Relations, etc. EBSCO has digitized the full archive of this index, bringing coverage back to 1979.
Federal Register
Issued by the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), and published on the web by Community of Science (COS), the Federal Register (FR) lists U.S. federal agency announcements and information, such as presidential documents, agency meetings, grant opportunities, and proposed federal regulations.
Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
An index to over 300 journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. Books written by a single author are not indexed. Time period covered is 450 C.E. to 1500 C.E. Geographic area is Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Subject coverage for gender and sexuality means that articles on masculinity and male homosexuality are included. Publications in English, French,German, and Spanish are currently being indexed.
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals
FIAF Index to Film Periodicals is a bibliographical index offering in-depth coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals from 1972 to the present day. Includes the following databases: The Index to Film Periodicals allows detailed searching of a third of a million records contained in the database including comprehensive television periodical indexing until 2000 and TV related articles from film periodicals continue to be indexed; The Treasures from the Film Archives database contains credits and holdings information for more than 40,500 silent-era films (features, short films, actualities and fictional works) in the collections of the major international film archives; The Documentation Collections database contains comprehensive information about the world's foremost film archives, libraries, and educational institutions; The FIAF Members' Publications search allows you to find detailed information on books, pamphlets, programmes, and other materials published since 1966 by FIAF archives.
FictionConnection
FictionConnection is designed to help find titles similar to those you already enjoy. It allows browsing titles by topic, genre, setting, character, location, and timeframe. Please note that Fiction Connection includes US titles only.
Film and Television Literature Index
Covers over 300 journal and magazine titles for film and television reviews, scholarly and critical analysis of cinema and television, and articles of popular interest about film and television. About half the journals and magazines are film periodicals and the other half cover film and television with some regularity. Subject coverage includes film and television theory, preservation and restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. Some full text is available.
Film Index International
Index to over 120,000 films from 170 countries, with biographical information for 720,000 persons in the film industry. Based on the Summary of Film and Television database maintained by the British Film Institute.
Film Literature Index
The Film Literature Index (FLI) annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular. More than 2,000 subject headings provide detailed analysis of the articles. The FLI Online contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001.
Find Articles.com
A free ad-based archive of searchable articles from over 900 magazines and journals dating from 1998, covering topics such as business, health, society, entertainment, and sports. Published as a joint effort between Gale Group and LookSmart.
FirstGov for Science
Searches multiple federal government sites.
Foreign Broadcast Information Services (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974-1996
The United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence, FBIS is an index foreign media reports covering political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events throughout the world. FBIS includes full-text English-language and English-language translations of radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements.
Foreign Firms Operating in the United States
Foreign firms listed have a substantial investment in American operations--wholly or partially owned subsidiary, affiliate or branch.
Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)
FRUS begins with the administration of Abraham Lincoln. Two cumulative indexes cover 1861-1899 and 1900-1918. The series provides official documentary history of major foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication. For other volumes, see http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/frus.html.
FRANCIS
A multilingual and multidisciplinary bibliographic database covering the humanities (archaeology, history of art, history of science, linguistics, literature, philosophy, prehistory, religions), social sciences (administration, computer and law, education, ethnology, geography, health , sociology) and economics (economy, energy economics, management ).
Funk & Wagnalls new world encyclopedia
Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry.
Gale Directory Library
The Gale Directory Library hosts a variety of directory products such as Ward's Business Directory of U.S private and public companies. Use it to search, sort and export information both from current directory editions as well as prior editions that are maintained as searchable backfiles. Multiple directories can be cross-searched. Or users can mine individual directories for the particular kinds of data they contain, such as financial information for companies, circulation figures for publications, and much more.
Gallica, Bibliotheque Numerique de la Bibliotheque Nationale de France
Gazette (Cedar Rapids)
Available from NewsBank Access World News. Date range: 1992-
GDF Online
A comprehensive set of tables with statistical data for 136 countries that report debt under the World Bank Debtor Reporting System, as well as summary data for regions and income groups.
GenderWatch
Primarily a full text database with some abstracts that contains periodicals, academic journals, newsletters, magazines, regional publications, and government reports focused on gender and women's issues.
GeoRef
References and selected abstracts to the world's literature in geology, covering North America since 1785 and other areas since 1933. Corresponds to the print publications: Bibliography of North American geology; Bibliography and index of geology exclusive of North America; Geophysical abstracts (Washington, D.C.); and: Bibliography and index of geology; with additional citations from other sources.
Gerontological Society of America Journals
Search all of the Gerontological Society of America journals.
Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online, 1543-1945
The Gerritsen Collection was begun by Aletta Jacobs Gerritsen in the late 1800s. The online resource delivers two million page images exactly as they appeared in the original printed works. It includes monographs, periodicals and pamphlets in fifteen languages, and is searchable by keyword and Boolean operators.
Global GIS Data Bundle
This dataset contains Global Data Bundles compiled by Land Info and was purchased by the University of Iowa for distribution within the UI community. Data is accessible only to UI on-campus IP addresses.
Global Health
Global Health is the definitive international public health database for academics, researchers, NGOs, policy makers, clinicians, healthcare professionals and students.
Global Health Archive [1910-1972]
Global Health is the definitive international public health database for academics, researchers, NGOs, policy makers, clinicians, healthcare professionals, and students.
Godey's Lady's Book
19th century magazine intended to "entertain and educate" women of America. Early issues include biographical sketches, articles about mineralogy, handcrafts, fashion, dance, equestrienne procedures, health & hygiene, recipes & remedies, and piano forte sheet music. Later issues contain book reviews and works by such 19th century authors as Poe, Hawthorne, Longfellow and Stowe. Illustrations.
Goethe's Werke
The Weimar Edition of Goethe's complete works, with supplementary material.
Google Scholar
Click on the "UIowa InfoLink:Full Text" link next to each citation in your results list for InfoLink services including full text (when available), links to the InfoHawk Catalog, Interlibrary Loan requests and more.
Grant Advisor Plus
A monthly listing of upcoming public and private funding opportunities.
GreenFILE
A freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond.
Grove Art Online
A scholarly art encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art
Grove Music: New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians
Now called: Oxford Music Online
Gutenberg-e
A collection of books from the American Historical Association and Columbia University Press. (Adobe Acrobat reader is required to view PDF files; QuickTime or RealOne players are required to play audio and video files.)
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
Handbook of Paleoanthropology
Winfried Henke, Ian Tattersall (eds.) ; in collaboration with Thorolf Hardt.
HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index
HAPI contains citations to articles published since 1970 in more than 500 scholarly journals treating Latin American or U.S. Hispanic topics. Coverage includes Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, German and Italian language articles.
HarpWeek: the Civil War Era through Reconstruction (1857-1875)
Full text of the popular 19th century magazine, Harper's Weekly, on literature, history, current events, culture and society. Includes images from Harper's Weekly, with index.
Harrison's Online (AccessMedicine)
Featuring the complete contents of the world's leading textbook of medicine Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)
Provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, and tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.
Health and Wellness Resource Center
Use this database to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse, prescription drugs, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases.
Health Source - Consumer Edition
Covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs and alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition and dietetics, children's health, women's health, etc. as far back as 1985. Provides access to consumer health periodicals, health-related pamphlets, health reference books, Clinical reference systems reports, and includes Clinical pharmacology, which provides access to information for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products, and new drugs.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Heirs of Hippocrates
Heirs of Hippocrates: The Development of Medicine in a Catalogue of Historic Books in the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, the University of Iowa.
Historical Abstracts
Historical Abstracts offers coverage of world history, from 1450 onward, outside the US and Canada. (The companion index for those countries is America: History and Life). Historical Abstracts provides citations with abstracts to articles in over 1,700 journals, published 1954 to the present. It also contains bibliographic citations to books and dissertations.
Historical Newspapers Online
Includes Palmer's Index to the Times (London Times), The Official Index to the Times, The Historical Index to the New York Times, and Palmer's Full Text Online, 1785-1870.
Historical Statistics of the United States
Expanded and rev. ed. of: Historical statistics of the United States, colonial times to 1970. Bicentennial ed. Washington : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1975. Many [data] series in these volumes are continued on a regular basis with periodic updates and revisions by the agency, group, or individual responsible for the original data
The History Cooperative
Full text of The American Historical Review, Journal of American History, William and Mary Quarterly, and Western Historical Quarterly is available to subscribers. Full text of The History Teacher, Law and History Review, Common-Place, Environmental History, History of Education Quarterly, Labour History, Journal of World History, Labour/Le Travail, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and Oregon Historical Quarterly are freely accessible.
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
HST describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations on the history of science and technology in these and allied fields. Citations reflect the contents of nearly 9,500 journals. Coverage includes all languages in which these materials are published.
Homeland Security Digital Library
Electronic documents made available by the Dudley Knox Library at the Naval Postgraduate School, searchable by keyword or by topic, including general U.S. policy documents, national strategy documents, theses and research papers from the Center for Homeland Defense and Security and the Naval Postgraduate School, and homeland security executive orders. Also includes notices of events and conferences pertaining to homeland security, and news items drawn from various news sources.
IAEA Nuclear Information Database
International Atomic Energy Agency
IBISWorld United States
Business reports in four categories: industry market research, industry risk ratings, company research, and economic and demographic data.
IBZ Online
Internationale Bibliographie der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur (IBZ) The international bibliography of periodical literature covering all fields of knowledge, since 1896. Website is in English.
ICE Virtual Library
The ICE Virtual Library contains every peer-reviewed paper produced by the Institution of Civil Engineers since its first meeting in 1836.
IDIS/Web
[Click "Login by IP"] IDIS/Web is a database of index records to articles about drugs and drug therapy in humans taken from over 200 leading medical and pharmaceutical journals. The complete article is also available online (1994 through the current month). The system is designed to retrieve specific information concerning a drug and/or drug treatment of a disease state.
IDZ - Index of German Journals 1750-1815
The Index of German Journals contains 100,000 records of articles published 1750 - 1815. These articles are indexed with German subject headings.
IEEExplore
Provides full-text access to IEEE transactions, IEEE and IEE journals, magazines, and conference proceedings published since 1988, and all current IEEE standards; brings additional search and access features to IEEE/IEE electronic library users.
Images. MD: The Online Encyclopedia of Medical Images
Consists of over 48,000 high-quality images spanning all of internal medicine, all derived from Current Medicine's series of illustrated atlases. Each image is accompanied by detailed explanatory text and citation of the source.
Immanuel Kant: Gesammelte Schriften
Index Islamicus
The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It is produced by the Islamic Bibliography Unit at Cambridge University Library.
Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals
Indexes 42 art journals published in the US during the 19th century, providing nearly complete coverage of journals from this period. The Index describes the entire journal contents (articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems, and advertisements) and offers information on popular culture and industry, artists and illustrators, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture and design, exhibitions and sales, decorations, and collecting.
Index to American Botanical Literature
The Index contains entries dealing with various aspects of extant and fossil American plants and fungi, including systematics and floristics, morphology, and ecology, as well as economic botany and general botany (publications dealing with botanists, herbaria, etc.). "America" is defined in the broadest possible sense, encompassing land and marine plants and fungi from Greenland to Antarctica. American territory outside this area, e.g., Hawaii, is not included. The searchable database includes all those entries published in the Index since 1996, and thus includes botanical literature appearing since late 1995.
Index to Early American Periodicals
The three Indexes to Early American Periodicals cover three separate time periods from 1700 to 1935 and are thought to include all known periodical publications that had their inception and ending during this time period. The actual periodicals are on microfilm in three microfilm collections of the same names (often referred to as APS I, APS II and APS III).
Index to English Literary Periodicals, 1681 to 1941
Indexes the microfilm collection English Literary Periodicals Series (ELPS), which consists of 233 titles published during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries in England concerning a variety of subjects: theater, art, music, history, politics, sociology, philosophy, economics, religion and science, as well as the English slant on life in America and the American Revolution. Covers English writers such as Defore, Steele, Addison, Swift, Fielding, Johnson, Smollett, Dickens and Thackeray.
Index to International Statistics
Comprehensive guide to the statistical publications of international intergovernmental organizations. More than 2500 titles, including 150 periodicals, are abstracted and micropublished each year. Covers statistical publications of the United Nations system, its regional commissions and affiliated organizations; the European Community; the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; the Organization of American States; and commodity organizations, development banks, and other intergovernmental regional and special purpose organizations. Various languages.
Index to Jewish Periodicals
Index to Jewish Periodicals is the definitive index on Jewish history, activity and thought. This database provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs. Titles include Contemporary Jewry, Holy Land Studies, Jewish Culture and History, Journal of Palestine Studies, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and many more. Most references are not found in standard periodical literature guides. Index to Jewish Periodicals is intended for students of Jewish thought and others interested in contemporary Jewish and Middle Eastern affairs. Journal coverage dates back as far as 1988.
Inspec
Inspec includes bibliographic citations and indexed abstracts from publications in the fields of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, communications, computer science, control engineering, information technology, manufacturing and mechanical engineering, operations research, material science, oceanography, engineering mathematics, nuclear engineering, environmental science, geophysics, nanotechnology, biomedical technology and biophysics
Inspec Archive 1898-1968
Access to over 70 years of international scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, computing and control engineering.
International Bibliography of Book Reviews
An interdisciplinary index to book reviews published in scholarly journals, primarily in the social sciences and the humanities, including many European journals.
International Dada Archive
Founded in 1979 as part of the Dada Archive and Research Center, the International Dada Archive is a scholarly resource for the study of the historic Dada movement. The Archive has compiled a comprehensive collection of textual documentation relating to Dada which includes books, articles, microfilmed manuscript collections, videorecordings, sound recordings, and a few computer files. The primary access to the entire collection is through a card catalog indexing an estimated 47,000 titles, and an online catalog containing approximately 42,000 titles (the International Online Bibliography of Dada).
International Encyclopedia of Communication
Continuous and immediate 24/7 access to this major new resource in communication studies for students and academics. Powerful searching and browsing capabilities. Extensive cross-referencing.
International Financial Statistics
International Index to Music Periodicals
Indexing and abstracts for more than 420 international music periodicals, plus full text for 83 journals.
International Medieval Bibliography
International Medieval Bibliography covers the European Middle Ages (c450-1500). It provides over 300,000 entries from 4,500 periodicals and 5,000 miscellany volumes, published from and including 1967.
International Pharmaceutical Abstracts
Provides worldwide coverage of pharmaceutical science and health related literature from 1970 to the present, and is updated monthly. Comprehensive information is included for drug therapy, toxicity, and pharmacy practice as well as legislation, regulation, technology, utilization, biopharmaceutics, information processing, education, economics, and ethics as related to pharmaceutical science and practice.
Investext Plus
Investext Plus is the premier financial research database available today. Search this database to find investment, company and industry reports from over 500 brokers in North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. All company and industry reports are provided in full page PDF image.
Iowa City Press-Citizen
Available from ProQuest.
ISI Web of Knowledge
A citation database that includes the Web of Science (Science Citation Index, 1900-present, the Social Science Citation Index, 1956-present, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, 1975-present) and Journal Citation Reports (JCR).
iSinoLaw
Chinese law and regulations.
Issues and Controversies (Facts on File)
Published by Facts on File News Services, this database contains information about the most debated issues of the day.
Italian Women Writers
Bio-bibliographical information on Italian women writers, with a growing full-text collection.
Iter : Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Iter, meaning 'a journey' or 'a path' in Latin, is a non-profit research project with partners in Toronto, Canada (the headquarters), New York City, and Tempe, Arizona. The goal of Iter is to increase access to all published materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700), through the creation of online bibliographic databases.
Izvestiia
One of the oldest Russian newspapers founded in March 1917.
Jacoby Online
Jacoby Online brings together online Felix Jacoby's monumental Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker and Brill's New Jacoby, a completely new edition of the great work with abundant new commentaries in English by contemporary scholars, as well as facing English translations of the Greek texts, in a fully searchable and indexed online format. Beginning in March 2007 and proceeding in twice-yearly updates at the rate of about 60 historians per update (approximate equivalent of 1,000 printed pages), each of Jacoby's 856 entries, comprising a total of more than 12,000.
JAMAevidence
Includes text of two books (Users' guides to the medical literature : a manual for evidence-based clinical practice and The rational clinical examination : evidence-based clinical diagnosis), education guides, glossary, calculators, worksheets, question wizards, weekly RSS feed of featured JAMA articles, compiled clinical scenarios, podcasts, and user-level customization features.
JapanKnowledge
Includes dictionaries (Japanese, English-Japanese, Japanese-English and English-English); the Nihon daihyakka zensho (Nipponica), a full text 30 vol. encyclopedia; two dictionaries of current words: Imidas and Gendai yogo no kiso chishiki; a dictionary of scientific terms: Kagaku gijutsu ryakugo jiten; a biographical dictionary: Nihon jinmei daijiten; the JK Who's Who; the Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan; a news database (NNA) that covers Asia and the European Union; a full-text journal: Shukan ekonomisuto; Edo-Tokyo kasane chizu (map); full-text of books in the Toyo bunko series; chronologies (world history, Japan by period, Japan by prefecture, science, culture, society, daily life, social movements, economics and for individuals); a database of video (TV, news) recordings from 1908 to 2005; database of dissertations from the humanities departments of six universities in Japan; URL database; books in print database; sound library; music library. In JK select series, Jitsu (character dictionary compiled by Shirakawa Shizuka) and Nihon rekishi chimei taikei are available.
The Jazz Discography
General discography of all categories of recorded jazz, from 1896 to today. Covers all categories of jazz and other creative improvised music, including Traditional, Swing, Bop, Modern, Avant-Garde, Fusion, Third Stream, etc.
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Journal Citation Reports on CD ROM
Covers 1994-2000.
Journal Citation Reports on the Web
A comprehensive resource for journal evaluation, ISI's Journal Citation Reports uses citation data drawn from over 7,600 scholarly and technical journals worldwide and includes all specialties in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences. Data reveals the highest impact journals, most frequently used journals, hottest journals, and largest journals.
JSTOR (Journal Storage)
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, philosophy, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title. Note that this database contains ONLY back issues. Journals may be searched across multiple titles as well as by the individual titles below. The JSTOR database does NOT include full-text of the most recent 3 to 5 years.
Key business ratios
Contains industry balance sheet and income statement information along with ratios organized by SIC codes.
Kinesiology Publications
A collection of master's theses and dissertations from the International Institute for Sport and Human Performance.
The King James Bible
'Authorized' edition of the Bible (1611). Text is given in full, with all introductory matter, annotation, calendars, genealogies and tables included. Part of Literature Online (LION).
Kompass Worldwide Database
Kompass has over 60 years of experience in providing business to business intelligence. The Kompass business directory is accessible through a variety of media. Kompass is a business to business import and export directory that enables you to gather information about other companies and promote your company in the global marketplace. Kompass business to business directory has 2.3M companies in 70 countries referenced by 57.000 product & service keywords 860,000 trade names, 4.6M executive names
LAPTOC: Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents
A database that provides access to the tables of contents of more than 800 journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America.
Latin America Data Base
Searchable database of articles from LADB news publications (including SourceMex, NotiSur, and EcoCentral). Also includes articles in Spanish from Latin American economics journals and publications.
Latin American Newspapers
Searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the world. Begins with Latin American newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries. Forthcoming are African, European, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Southeast Asian newspapers. Can be cross-searched with collection: America's historical newspapers.
Lexikon des Mittelalters Online
LexisNexis Academic
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal research, medical and reference information. The news section provides access to full text of newspapers from the U.S., Europe, Africa, North and South America and Australia in English, as well as some in Dutch, French, German, Italian and Spanish; news wires, television and radio transcripts are also available.
LexisNexis Congressional
The world's most comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information from Congressional Information Service, Inc. It includes the following U.S. Congressional materials: members and committees, bills, laws, hearing transcripts, committee prints, documents, the Congressional Record, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Code, and Congressional Research Service reports.
LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index
LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index (1988-present) locates articles from journals and magazines published by U.S. government agencies on issues relating to public policy, commerce, and science-based topics of general interest for both consumers and researchers. Searchable by subject, keyword, author, and title.
LexisNexis Statistical
Provides abstracts and indexes of statistical information from over 100,000 U.S. government publications from 1973, state and private sources from 1980, and approximately 2000 documents from international organizations from 1983. Incorporates ASI subject and keyword searching. Full text or web links provided for some citations. PDF texts of all documents indexed and abstracted in ASI from 2003 forward.
Library Literature and Information Science Full Text
Indexes articles and book reviews in more than 234 key library and information science periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed. Indexing and abstracting begins in the mid-1960s, selected full text begins in 1994. Subjects covered include: Automation, Cataloging, Censorship, Children's Literature, Circulation Procedures, Classification, Copyright Legislation, Education for Librarianship, Government Aid, Information Brokers, Internet software, Library Associations and Conferences, Library Equipment and Supplies, Personnel Administration, Preservation of Materials, Public Relations, Publishing, and Web sites.
Library of Latin texts
CLCLT is the world's leading database for Latin texts. It contains texts from the beginning of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus, 240 BC) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). It covers all the works from the classical period, the most important patristic works, a very extensive corpus of Medieval Latin literature as well as works of recentior latinitas including texts from the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. The complete works of writers such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas a Kempis can thus be consulted. The texts have been taken from the Corpus Christianorum series and from many other leading editions.
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts
LISTA indexes journal articles from more than 600 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings, with coverage extending back to 1966. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, search engines, printed and electronic information sources, the information industry, scholarly communication, and electronic publishing. Formerly called Information Science and Technology Abstracts (ISTA).
The Life and Times of Jorge Luis Borges
Database originates from the Jorge Luis Borges Collection and Documentation Center of the Fundacion San Telmo, which contains the world's largest collection of materials related to Borges' life and works. The collection was begun in 1886 and includes manuscripts and letters, books, periodicals, photographs, audio and video recordings, newspaper and magazine clippings, and other objects and documents.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
Contains non-evaluative abstracts of articles from approximately 1,500 serials published worldwide.
Linguistics Data Consortium (LDC)
An open consortium of universities, companies and government research laboratories that creates, collects and distributes speech and text databases, lexicons, and other resources for research and development purposes. Offers access to a catalog of LDC resources. Includes news items and a site search engine. Posts contact information for the headquarters in Philadelphia via street address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail. Links to other related sites. UI-affiliated researchers should contact the linguistics bibliographer at the Main Library (319/335-5299) for information regarding the acquisition of linguistic corpora for research.
Literature Criticism Online
Searchable database that provides access to the literary criticism collections Classical and Medieval Literary Criticism (CMLC), Children’s Literature Review (CLR), Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC), Drama Criticism (DC), Literature Criticism from 1400-1800 (LC), Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (NCLC), Poetry Criticism (PC), Shakespeare Criticism (SC), Short Story Criticism (SSC), and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC).
Literature Online (LION)
A fully searchable library of over 350,000 works of English and American literature, overseen by an academic advisory board.
Literature Online, Journals
This collection draws its current content from over 200 core journals in literature. Part of Literature Online (LION).
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Published Works
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tagebucher und Briefe
The Making of America, Cornell University
A digital library of primary sources in American social history, this site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926
Derived from two essential reference collections for historical and more contemporary legal studies--the Nineteenth-Century Legal Treatises and Twentieth-Century Legal Treatises microfilm collections. Legal Treatises comprises over 21,000 works from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on British Commonwealth and American law, with 14,900 titles from the nineteenth century and 7,100 titles from the years 1900 to 1926. It covers nearly every aspect of law, encompassing a range of analytical, theoretical, and practical literature, some very rare. The monographs and materials in Legal Treatises include casebooks, local practice manuals, books on legal form, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, and speeches.
The Making of Modern Law: Trial, 1600-1926
This collection provides access to digitized versions of published trial accounts, official trial documents including briefs and arguments, and records of legislative and administrative proceedings that examine historically important trials. Most of the titles were originally published in English in the U.S. or Great Britain but the collection also contains non-English language materials from other jurisdictions.
The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records & Briefs Digital Archive
Features a fully searchable database of approximately 11 million pages and more than 350,000 separate documents. Approximately 150,000 Supreme Court cases are featured, the majority consisting of those for which the Court did not give a full opinion. It is derived from the holdings of the Jenkins Memorial Law Library, America's first law library (for the period 1832 (when printed Court records began) through 1915) and the Library of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (for 1915-1978).
MarketResearch.com Academic
Access to extensive, detailed market research reports.
MAS Ultra - School Edition
This database provides full text for more than 700 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating as far back as 1975 for key magazines. It provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, more than 350 full text reference books, 84,011 biographies, 83,472 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 192,999 photos, maps and flags.
MasterFILE Premier
Provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Also includes 500 full text reference books, nearly 100,000 biographies, 86,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of 188,000 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily.
MathSciNet
Providing Web access to reviews and citations from Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications, MathSciNet covers the literature of mathematics and related areas back to 1940.
MD Consult
MD Consult provides access to more than 50 renowned medical texts, articles from more than 70 clinical journals, practice guidelines, drug information, 2,500 patient education handouts, CME, and daily medical updates customized for a given specialty.
Medieval Sourcesonline
Contains several full text books, which include hundreds of original medieval history documents compiled for the teaching and study of history.
MedlinePlus
Health information from the National Library of Medicine. MedlinePlus includes over 700 health topics, drug information, medical encyclopedia and dictionary, directories and other resources.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains full text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed "Mental Measurements Yearbooks."
Mergent Horizon
Contains up-to-date company description, stock price performance, and financial data. Allows users to perform industry comparisons and peer-group analyses, evaluate a company's business based on its products and services, and identify its competitors, major customers, suppliers and partners. Covers all companies actively traded on the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ exchanges.
Mergent Online
Source for global business and financial information. Provides news reports for "Moody's Manuals."
Middle English Compendium
The Middle English Compendium has been designed to offer easy access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and an associated network of electronic resources.
Middle Search Plus
Provides full text for over 145 magazines covering general topics appropriate for middle and junior high school students.
Miller's Anesthesia
6th ed. (2005) - MD Consult [Ronald D Miller]
Mintel Reports
Offers research reports covering European, UK-specific, and US consumer markets. The reports analyse market drivers, sizes and trends, market segmentation, along with consumer attitudes and purchasing habits. The reports are supplemented by brief digests of relevant recent events, UK and US demographic and economic statistics and useful lists. Coverage is 2001 to date.
MLA Directory of Periodicals
Contains information available on the journals and series that are covered in the MLA International Bibliography database. The Directory is a master list that aims to cover journals available to libraries or universities that publish articles on language, literature, folklore, or pedagogy with some frequency, as well as any series that includes books on those subjects, regardless of the frequency of publication. Over 5,800 titles are included; of these, over 4,400 are currently indexed. The records consist of editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, submission guidelines, and information on whether or not journals are peer reviewed. The directory also provides statistics on how many articles and book reviews the periodicals publish each year, as well as how many are submitted.
MLA International Bibliography
The MLA International Bibliography is a subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. It is produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), an organization dedicated to the study and teaching of language and literature. The electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1925 and contains over 2 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals (including peer-reviewed e-journals) and 1,000 book publishers.
MRS Electronic Library: Online Proceedings from MRS Symposia.
Music Index
This database covers 775 periodicals from 1975 to the present. Topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music.
Music Online
Most comprehensive database in streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web.Single cross-searchable platform that can potentially cross-search any combination of subscribed databases. When complete, Music Online will offer more than 400,000 audio tracks, 400,000 scores, 100,000 pages of music reference, and over 500 hours of video. Every object in the collection is indexed for subjects, historical events, genres, people, cultural groups, places, time periods, ensembles. As a result, students and scholars can combine keyword and fielded search capabilities to frame creative and highly targeted queries. Users can also select to view a single database by using the dropdown menu at the bottom of the homepage of Music Online.
The Music-in-Print Series
Includes the Music-In-Print volumes on Sacred Choral, Classical Vocal, Orchestral, String, Classical Guitar, Woodwind, and Piano Music. Also Band, Brass, Handbell, Percussion, Harp, Secular Choral and Organ Music, Chamber Music and Popular Music.
MyiLibrary
Includes the Springer & Humana Press e-book collections.
NAL Catalog (AGRICOLA)
NAL Catalog (AGRICOLA) is a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators.
NASW Register of Clinical Social Workers
Nation Digital Archive
The archive currently contains PDF page images and searchable OCR text for all issues of The Nation published from 1865. Issues dated after June 1999 through 2000 will be added in the near future.
National Journal Group's Policy Central
"Comprehensive resource on politics and policy for the academic community." -from the Web site.
Native Health Database
The Native Health Database contains bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations. The database provides information for the benefit, use, and education of organizations and individuals with an interest in health-related issues, programs, and initiatives regarding North American indigenous peoples.
Natural Standard
Provides evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. It contains three sub-databases: Herbs and supplements, condition center, and alternative modalities. For each therapy covered by Natural Standard, a research team gathers scientific data and expert opinions. Validated rating scales are used to evaluate the quality of available evidence. Information is incorporated into comprehensive monographs which are designed to facilitate clinical decision making. All monographs undergo blinded editorial and peer review prior to inclusion in Natural Standard databases.
Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues of over 75,000 tracks, including Classical music, Historical recordings, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Whilst listening, users can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database.
Naxos Music Library Jazz
Includes the Fantasy Jazz collection, which is different content than the jazz included in Naxos Music Library.
Naxos Spoken Word Library
One of the most comprehensive collections of classic audiobook material available online. Concentrates on literary classics and educational themes. The library offers Naxos AudioBooks' full range of recordings, many of which can also be followed with the texts on screen. Also included are Naxos Educational products, focusing closely on the background to operas and the lives of great composers. Almost all the recordings are illustrated with music from the unrivalled Naxos catalogue.
netLibrary
A collection of electronic books, chiefly in the fields of Business and Computer Science. A complete listing of netLibrary books available to University of Iowa users is available through the library catalog on InfoHawk.
New Electronic Titles : A GPO Access Finding Aid
NET includes full-text publications recently released by the U.S. government on topics such as health, environment, education, consumer guides, business statistics, foreign affairs, government information and social policy.
New Grove Dictionary of Opera / edited by Stanley Sadie
"First published 1992 by the Macmillan Press Limited, London" -T.p. verso.
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world's leading economists.
New Testament Abstracts
Includes indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-authored books, book reviews, and biblical software programs. All abstracts are in English, regardless of the language of the original work. The capability to search by specific scripture passages is useful.
New York Public Library Dance Collection
Choose 'Performing Arts: Dance' in the second pull-down menu. The online catalog of North America's most comprehensive collection of dance resources, including books, journals, journal articles, and audiovisual material. This is the electronic equivalent of the Dictionary Catalog of the Dance Collection and the Bibliographic Guide to Dance.
New York Times
The New York Times daily newspaper via Access World News. For more full text of current articles, see LexisNexis Academic. Issues are also held in print or on microfiche in Media Services at the Main Library.
New York Times - Proquest Historical Newspapers
Full-text access to the New York Times from 1851 (New York Daily Times) to 2004. Documents display in PDF.
Newspaper Source
Newspaper Source provides selected full text for over 200 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers. This database is updated daily.
Nietzches Werke: Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
Nineteenth-Century Fiction
A collection of 250 British and Irish novels from the period 1782 to 1903, stretching from the golden age of Gothic fiction to the Decadent and New Woman novels of the 1890s. Major novelists of the period such as Austen, Scott, Mary Shelley, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy and the Brontes feature alongside popular romances, sensation fiction, colonial adventure novels and children's literature. Part of Literature Online (LION).
North American Indian Thought and Culture
A compilation of biographical information on indigenous peoples from all areas of North America. When complete, the database will include 100,000 pages of content, including biographies, autobiographies, oral histories, reference works, manuscripts, and photographs, presenting the life stories of American Indians and Canadian First Peoples in their own words and through the words of others. Coverage: 1677 to present.
NoveList
This database includes both children's and adult books, and provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also allows you to search by series, "Find Similar Books" by choosing specific subject headings, or "Describe a Plot" to locate books when you can't remember the title or want to choose specific plot elements/characteristics. Limits can be set for age and lexile level. Librarians and teachers will appreciate other features such as Picture Book Extenders, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, Annotated Book Lists, and articles on Teaching with Fiction.
NTIS (National Technical Information Service)
The National Technical Information Service is a federal agency that collects technical, scientific, business, health, and social sciences research materials produced by the U.S. government, foreign governments, and other organizations throughout the world. The NTIS database contains records for 2,500,000 titles that summarize products collected by NTIS from 1964 to the present; some materials date back to the late 1940s. The collection covers more than 375 scientific, technical, engineering, and business related subjects. Information in the collection is available in the forms of reports, videos, software, and data files. Consult Government Publications staff for assistance in determining whether any of the University's libraries hold items that interest you.
NUCMC (National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections)
Records for archival and manuscript collections in North American research libraries, museums, state archives, and historical societies.
OACIS for the Middle East (Online Access to Consolidated Information on Serials)
OACIS for the Middle East (Online Access to Consolidated Information on Serials) is a union list of serials from or about the Middle East. The mission of OACIS is to improve access to Middle Eastern serials in libraries in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.
OAIster
Integrated searching of digital library resources from over 617 institutions. OAIster provides some access to the "hidden web" -- those resources in digital library collections and other database-driven repositories that cannot be crawled by web search engines like Google.
OCLC FirstSearch
WorldCat (a bibliographic database of over 62,000,000 records from over 2,000 libraries) and MusicLiterature (RILM Abstracts of Music Literature) are widely available. Other databases (some full text) can only be accessed from the computers near the Main Library's reference desk, due to licensing restrictions.
Official documents of the United Nations
The database comprises the full text of all United Nations parliamentary documents, including resolutions and decisions issued at United Nations Headquarters in New York and the United Nations Office at Geneva since 1993 (with selected earlier coverage), and at the United Nations Office at Vienna since 1997, as well as documents from the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific beginning in 1997. In addition to parliamentary documentation, all currently valid United Nations administrative issuances (ST/AI/-, ST/IC/- and ST/SGB/-) are included in the database.
Old Testament Abstracts
Includes indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) studies. All abstracts are in English, regardless of the language of the original work. The capability to search by specific scripture passages is useful.
OLDMEDLINE
OLDMEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's online data of approximately 1,760,000 citations to articles from international biomedical journals covering the fields of medicine, preclinical sciences and allied health sciences from 1950 through 1965. Available through PubMed and the NLM Gateway.
In PubMed, click the Limits tab and select the OLDMEDLINE subset. In the NLM Gateway select the Limits/Settings link to limit to OLDMEDLINE.
Online Geographical Bibliography (GEOBIB)
A searchable online database of all bibliographic entries found in current geographical publications, from 1985-present.
Open Science Directory
Search tool for open access journals and journals in special programs for developing countries.
OpenDOAR
The OpenDOAR service provides a quality-assured listing of open access repositories around the world. OpenDOAR staff harvest and assign metadata to allow categorisation and analysis to assist the wider use and exploitation of repositories. Each of the repositories has been visited by OpenDOAR staff to ensure a high degree of quality and consistency in the information provided: OpenDOAR is maintained by SHERPA.
OpinionArchives
OpinionArchives provides electronic archives for journals of opinion, including The Nation, Commentary, The New Republic, Commonweal, Dissent, NACLA, American spectator, National review, Harper's magazine, New York review, and the New Yorker. The OpinionArchives metasearch tool provides cross-journal searching for all titles in the archive.
OVID
Ovid includes the following databases: Global Health, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, and Biological Abstracts.
Oxford African American Studies Center : The Online Authority on the African American Experience.
Comprehensive collection of scholarship focused on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture, coupled with precise search and browse capabilities. Features over 7,500 articles from Oxford's reference works, approximately 100 primary sources with specially written commentaries, over 1,300 images, over 100 maps, over 200 charts and tables, timelines to guide researchers through the history of African Americans and over 6,000 biographies. The core content includes: Africana, which presents an account of the African and African American experience in five volumes ; the Encyclopedia of African American history ; Black women in America, 2nd ed ; and the African American national biography. [LIMITED TO 3 SIMULTANEOUS USERS]
Oxford Art Online
Provides access to Grove Art Online, Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Oxford Classical Dictionary
Contains over 6,200 entries. The Oxford Classical Dictionary has been regarded as the unrivalled one-volume reference work on all aspects of the Graeco-Roman world. It provides both scholars and non-specialists with a comprehensive source of reference which aims to answer all their questions about the classical world. The Dictionary provides coverage of Greek and Roman history, literature, myth, religion, linguistics, philosophy, law, science, art and archaeology, and topics in near eastern studies and late antiquity. The approach is interdisciplinary: all areas, regions, and cultures are represented beyond the core areas of Greece and Rome. As well as providing factual information, the Dictionary contains many thematic entries on subjects relevant to the 21st century such as nationalism, race, and ecology. The text is written in an accessible style and all Latin and Greek words have been translated.
Oxford Classical Dictionary
This link is to the Past Masters database. Under 'Select a title' on the Past Masters page, scroll down to Oxford Classical Dictionary. Also available through Oxford Digital Reference Shelf.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford DNB is a collection of 55,000 specially written biographies, which describe the lives of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
This resource provides an international study of economic history that spans all time periods.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures is the first comprehensive reference source to chronicle Pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern Mesoamerica, defined as the lands stretching from Mexico to the southern tip of Central America. With more than 600 articles, it is invaluable for those interested in the rich heritage of this land. Encompassing the great civilizations of the pre-Columbian era (including the Olmec, Aztec, and Maya peoples) up through the colonial and postcolonial periods, the Encyclopedia covers art, archaeology, religious studies, anthropology, history, and historiography of the region in fully cross-referenced, signed articles by the leading scholars in the discipline.
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
Through its fluent global coverage, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World provides information about major world developments from 1750 to the present, with close attention to social, economic, cultural, and political topics.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, edited by Bonnie G. Smith, captures the experiences of women throughout history in a far-reaching, four-volume work. With over 650 biographies of influential women and over 600 topical articles covering topics such as geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and gender studies, Women in World History is the definitive reference work in the field.
Oxford English Dictionary
OED online.
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
OLDO offers fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries including French-English, English-French, German-English, English-German, Italian-English, English-Italian, Spanish-English, and English-Spanish.
Oxford Music Online
Includes the Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, and the Oxford Companion to Music.
Oxford Reference Online
Multi-part database of the online versions of seminal Oxford University Press texts. Each topical division contains the searchable version of the latest edition of published dictionaries and encyclopedias. Additionally, information about Oxford University Press is provided. Online texts will be updated after new editions of the print monographs are published.
Oxford Reference Online : A-Z of Medicinal Drugs
Oxford Reference Online : Religion and Philosophy
Topical division contains the searchable version of the latest edition of published Oxford encyclopedias and dictionaries on the Bible, Buddhism, Islam, Philosophy, etc.
Oxford Scholarship Online
Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford books in the areas of Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion.
Oxford Spanish Dictionary
Fully searchable, comprehensive Spanish-English, English-Spanish dictionary, part of Oxford Language Dictionaries Online.
Oxford-Duden German Dictionary
Fully searchable, comprehensive German-English, English-German dictionary, part of Oxford Language Dictionaries Online.
Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary
Fully searchable, comprehensive French-English, English-French dictionary, part of Oxford Language Dictionaries Online.
Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary
Fully searchable, comprehensive Italian-English, English-Italian dictionary, part of Oxford Language Dictionaries Online.
PAIS International
PAIS International covers the literature of public affairs including political, economic and social issues. PAIS International contains references to articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, research reports, conference reports and publications of international agencies. Publications from more than 120 countries are included.
Parker Library
high-resolution digital copy of every imageable page of most manuscripts in the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College
Past Masters
Full-text humanities database, including works of such philosophers as Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Hobbes, Mill, Bentham, Machiavelli, Rousseau, Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Wittgenstein, Peirce, Kierkegaard, A. Smith; mostly in English.
Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image Databases
This database contains full-text of patents issued since 1976 and full page images of patents issued since 1790.
Periodicals Archive Online
Companion to: Periodicals index online. Archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Periodicals Index Online
Electronic index to over 4,500 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, covering each periodical from its first issue (as early as 1665) . Every article is indexed. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other languages.
The Perseus Digital Library
A multimedia library of Archaic and Classical Greek literature, history, art, and archaeology. Pictures of ancient ruins, antique art, and much more. Read Greek texts online in Greek or English. The University of Iowa Libraries Information Arcade has the CD-ROM and laser disk version of the compendium of Classical Greek culture.
Philologic @ NU
Philologic at NU brings together the full corpus of 14,486 searchable early modern English texts created by the Text Creation Partnership (TCP) based on Chadwyck-Healey's (ProQuest's) "Early English Books Online" (EEBO) database. Please note: we do not subscribe to all the databases included in Philologic@NU. You will be able to search EEBO but you will not be able to search all of the Chadwyck-Healey sources listed, nor will you be able to search the database called Combo.
Philosopher's Index
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields--ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.
Philosophical Works & Selected Correspondence of John Locke
Philosophy Documentation Center
The Web site of a nonprofit organization producing bibliographies, directories, scholarly journals, and software in the field of Philosophy.
Physics World Buyer's Guide
Available online as part of PhysicsWeb.
PILOTS Database
The PILOTS bibliographic database, covering the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress, is produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction, Vermont. The PILOTS database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage.
Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary (English-Italian)
Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary (Italian-English)
Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill
Political Risk Yearbook
Country Reports on 106 countries (including Latin America)--each giving accurate political and economic risk analysis. Each Report focuses specifically on vital political and business information.
Polling the Nations
Insight into American life and opinions revealed by polls and surveys.
Primary Search
Primary Search provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research.
PrimateLit: A Bibliographic Database for Primatology
This database provides bibliographic access to scientific research on primates for the research community. Coverage is from 1940 to the present.
Professional Development Collection
Provides a highly specialized collection of over 550 full text journals, designed for professional educators.
Project Euclid
Project Euclid is a partnership of independent publishers of mathematics and statistics journals.
Project Muse
With full text for well over 300 journal titles from university publishers, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others. Coverage begins in 1995.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (Full Text) is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. The official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. It includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. The Database offers researchers unlimited access to digital copies from their own institutions as well as affordable copies from others.
Proquest Historical Newspapers Atlanta Daily World
This database provides full page and article images with searchable full text from the Atlanta world (1931-1932) and the Atlanta daily world (1932-2003). The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue in PDF format.
Proquest Historical Newspapers Los Angeles Sentinel
This database provides full page and article images with searchable full text from the Los Angeles sentinel (1934-2005). The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue in PDF format.
Proquest Historical Newspapers New York Amsterdam News
This database provides full page and article images with searchable full text from the New York Amsterdam news (1922-1938), New York Amsterdam news (1938-1941 : City ed.), New York Amsterdam news (1943-1961 : City ed.), New York Amsterdam news (1962-1993), New York Amsterdam star-news (1941-1943), and the New York star & Amsterdam news (1941-1941). The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue in PDF format.
Proquest Historical Newspapers Pittsburgh Courier
This database provides full page and article images with searchable full text from the Courier (1950-1954 : City ed.), New Pittsburgh courier (1969-1981 : City ed.), New Pittsburgh courier (1981-2002), Pittsburgh courier (1911-1950 : City ed.), and Pittsburgh courier (1955-1965 : City ed.). The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue in PDF format.
PsycCRITIQUES
Searchable database of book reviews in psychology.
PsychCrawler
A product of the American Psychological Association.
Psychonomic Society Publications Journal Archives
PsycINFO
The PsycINFO database covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. PsycINFO's coverage is worldwide, and includes references and abstracts to over 1500 journals in more than 35 languages, and book chapters and books in the English language. Over 50,000 references are added annually. Popular literature is excluded.
PubList.com
A list of magazines and journals, this site calls itself "the most comprehensive directory of...more than 150,000 publications from around the world." Selected information from Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (but no subscription prices included). Search for words in title, publisher, subject, ISSN.
PubMed
Provides access to bibliographic information in Medline and other sources.
Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature
Over 300 periodicals which are acquired regularly from 29 African countries are indexed.
RAMBI: Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
Compiled and edited by the editorial board of 'Kiryat Sefer', bibliographical quarterly of the Jewish National and University Library.
Readers' Guide Retrospective
A comprehensive index to the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States. This database is available through WilsonWeb and covers the time period from 1890-1982.
RedBooks
Information on agencies and advertisers.
RefWorks
Import references from online databases to create personal citation databases and produce bibliographies.
Regional Business News
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.
ResearchNow : a bepress portal
Allows you to Search or Browse through the quasi-open access Berkeley Electronic Press journals, plus a wealth of unrestricted working paper series, preprints monographs, and other content from institutional and subject-matter repositories hosted by bepress.
RGALI: Russian State Archive of Literature and Art
More than 2,500 full descriptions of record groups (fondy), nearly 1,000,000 documents listed by accumulative finding aids (opisi), more than 500 photos, and additional biographic information.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
RILM is a comprehensive music bibliography featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. Publications originate from 151 countries and are in 214 languages. There are currently over 550,000 records in RILM on traditional music, popular music, and classical music. Coverage of all document types begins in 1967. Coverage of Conference Proceedings goes back to 1835.
RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals
This database provides access to periodical literature dealing with music from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600
The RISM Series A/II Database contains bibliographic records of music manuscripts written after 1600. The records include information in standard bibliographic categories as well as graphical images of over 740,000 music incipits.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Royal Historical Society Bibliography
Database contains 300,000 records on British and Irish history, including relations with the empire and Commonwealth. Bibliography includes books, articles in journals and collective volumes, and review articles, incorporating the content of the print annual bibliographies for 1993-2000; with updates to follow. The on-line edition also includes some earlier publications not included in the print and CD-ROM editions, with near-comprehensive coverage of works published since 1900 and select earlier works. A comprehensive hierarchical scheme of subject-indexing terms has been prepared. This scheme has been used for indexing all publications of 1993 and later, and is now being applied to earlier publications.
Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies
The Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies covers the social sciences and humanities with topics as diverse as archaeology, economics, history, law, linguistics, literary criticism, philosophy, political science, religious studies, and much more. The database includes citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, manuscripts, and dissertations published primarily in Russia, the republics of the former Soviet Union, and countries in Eastern Europe. The Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies covers from 1986 to the present, with two to three updates per year.
Sage eReference
A database of reference books published by SAGE covering the social sciences and education, including such areas as African American Studies, Aging & Gerontology, Anthropology, Communication and Media Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Economics, Education, Gender & Sexuality Studies, History, Politics, Psychology, Social Issues, Social Work & Social Policy, and Sociology.
SAI Global (Formally ILI Standards)
The ILI standards database is the leading bibliographic standards database. It covers 350,000 worldwide standards. Coverage extends across the industrialised world. Information given includes the Number, Title, Version, Summary, International Equivalents, Table of Contents and more. Included are the relevant EU Directives listing the standards required to attain the CE Mark. Over 250 Standards issuing authorities are covered including all the major ones around the world.
The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project whose main resource is an abstract service, which draws abstracts from a variety of national and international scientific sources. The abstracts are divided into four sets: astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, physics and geophysics, and the ArXiv Preprints archive.
SARDS 3
SARDS3 is an electronic database containing bibliographic references to South Asia research articles published in journals, collective volumes, conference proceedings, Festschriften, etc. SARDS3 is a joint undertaking of the Indological Chairs at the Universities of Bonn, Halle, Munich and the management of the University Library Halle. It aims at the retrospective filling of identifiable bibliographic gaps in the previous version SARDS2 (publications between 1797 and 2000). The focus of SARDS3 is on the humanities and social sciences. To date, over 67.000 citations are electronically searchable, covering the period from 1797 until 2009. All entries can be downloaded and printed.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
An online index to historical and critical items about science fiction, fantasy and horror, from Texas A & M University. Material from 1878-.
SciFinder Scholar
This resource provides access to several Chemical Abstracts Service databases, including Chemical Abstracts, Registry, CASREACT, CHEMLIST, and CHEMCAT.
Scirus
A science-specific Internet search engine. Searching can be restricted to specific disciplines and resource types in advanced search. A search will lead to full-text journal articles in e-journals the library subscribes to, as well as free resources on the Web.
Shakespeare Survey
Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances.
SHARP Web (The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing)
The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing was created in 1991 to provide a global network for book historians, who until then had usually worked in isolation. SHARP now has over 1000 members in over 20 countries, including professors of literature, historians, librarians, publishing professionals, sociologists, bibliophiles, classicists, booksellers, art historians, reading instructors, and independent scholars.
Short Story Index
This index allows you to find the location of over 84,000 stories. There is full-text available for over 1,600 stories.
Siku Quanshu (Wenyuange Edition) Intranet Version
Siku Quanshu is the electronic version of the Wenyuange edition of Siku Quanshu. It features a collection of 3,460 Chinese classical works in 36,000 volumes or 4,700,000 pages, which includes works on philosophy, history, literature and art, political systems, social studies, economics, astronomy and geography, mathematics, medical studies, technology, etc. As the largest encyclopedic collection of Chinese classical works, it is the single richest source for Chinese studies.
SimplyMap
SimplyMap is a web-based mapping application that lets users quickly create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing data for the United States.
Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007
This digital collection documents key aspects of the history of slavery worldwide over six centuries. Topics covered include the African Coast, the Middle Passage, the varieties of slave experience, religion, revolts, abolition, and legislation. The collection also includes case studies from America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Cuba.
Smithsonian Global Sound
Smithsonian Global Sound is a network of international cultural institutions working to preserve and distribute music from archives worldwide, and to foster appreciation for traditional roots music. Through its Web site, Global Sound will offer audio and video downloads, streaming media, educational resources, and detailed liner notes to music lovers, students, historians, teachers, and the academic community. Also, various musical collections will be available for purchase and immediate download.
Social Psychology Network - NRC Ranking of U.S. Psychology Ph.D. Programs
Social Sciences and Humanities Journals (UDB-EDU)
This unique database provides researchers with hands-on access to the contents of all leading Russian periodicals on social sciences and humanities. It comprises journals of the Russian Academy of Sciences, popular literary editions, and independent scholarly publications. New titles are added on a regular basis. The Universal Database grows retroactively as well. Full-text and full-image content of print editions is reproduced with original pagination. It is available to subscribers in their office, library, or at home.
Social Services Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts current research (articles are from 1980 to the present) in social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Major areas of coverage include community and mental health services; crisis intervention; evaluation research; the family and social welfare; gerontology; policy, planning and forecasting; poverty and homelessness; professional issues in social work; social development; social work education; support groups/networks; violence, abuse and neglect; and welfare services.
Social Work Abstracts
Social Work Abstracts offers extensive coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals, dating back to 1966. The database provides citations and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field including: theory & practice, areas of service and social issues & problems.
Sociological Abstracts
Provides article abstracts from 1,800 journals in sociology, from 1952 to the present.
Soren Kierkegaard: Samlede Vaerker
SourceOECD
SourceOECD provides comparative statistics from the 30 member states (industrialized nations) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, as well as development statistics from other countries. Includes an interactive data browser as well as PDF downloadable files. Click on Statistics link at the top of the page to get started.
SourceOECD OECD Health Data
OECD Health Data offers the most comprehensive source of comparable statistics on health and health care systems of the OECD economies. It is an essential tool, enabling health researchers and policy advisors in governments, the private sector and the academic community to carry out comparative analyses and draw lessons from cross-country comparisons of national health care systems.
SPIE Digital Library
Contains more than 70,000 full-text papers on optics and photonics from SPIE journals and proceedings published since 1998. It also includes citations and abstracts for most SPIE papers published since 1990. Plans are underway to expand the DL back to 1990 by the end of 2004, an archive of nearly 200,000 papers covering a wide scope of optical technologies and applications. Approximately 15,000 new papers will be added each year.
SPIN (Sponsored Programs Information Network)
SPIN (Sponsored Programs Information Network) currently contains information from more than 1,200 different sponsoring agencies, which together fund over 11,000 separate funding opportunities.
SPIRES HEP Literature Database
The HEP literature database contains more than 500,000 high-energy physics related articles indexed by the SLAC and DESY libraries since 1974.
SPORTDiscus
SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains over 650,000 records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800. The content also consists of multi-disciplinary, international references from journal and magazine articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings and more. SPORTDiscus is provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre.
Sports Business Research Network
A continuously updated source of full text articles providing news and market research information from sports industry sources. Includes international sporting goods equipment market reports for 35 countries, export and import statistics, trade magazine and newsletter pages dealing with finance, licensing, fashion, women's and youth sports, marketing, sponsorship, research reports, sports broadcasting, ratings and more.
Springer E-Book Collection
The University of Iowa Libraries through CIC has licensed a large package of E-books from Springer Verlag, published between 2005 through 2008 (with selected pre-2005 content). This link should allow library users to search and retrieve books forming part of this package until we are able to add cataloging records to InfoHawk for individual books and to link to them through InfoLink. You can also view the Springer E-Book Collection through MyiLibrary.
SpringerLink
Electronic versions of the Springer journals in chemical sciences, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine, and physics. Includes former Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Standard and Poor's Net Advantage
(Pappajohn Business Building access only)
STAT-USA Internet
This database provides access to current and historical economic, trade and financial data for the U.S. and the world markets. Included are country analysis, market research, statistical sources and an issue-based Trade Library.
STATRef
Electronic medical library.
Su Tzu's Chinese Philosophy Page
People with Chinese language kits on their computer will have a richer experience, but there is plenty of material for everyone else too. Links to philosophers not found in many other philosophy pages.
SUMSearch
SUMsearch is a search interface that simultaneously searches PubMed, DARE, National Guidelines Clearinghouse, and other resources
Sur Digital Archive
Full text searchable database of The Sur Magazine (1931-1992) produced by Nicolas Helft and authorized by Fundacin Sur of Buenos Aires. Sur (South) was the magazine and publishing house founded by Victoria Ocampo and had enormous influence in the Spanish-speaking world.
Teacher Reference Center
Provides indexing and abstracts for over 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals to assist professional educators.
Teacher Rules, Roles and Rights
The National Council on Teacher Quality has developed a database called Teacher Rules, Roles and Rights that provides a glimpse into the collective bargaining agreements for the 50 largest school systems in the United States. It allows users to sort data from teacher contracts in hundreds of ways. NCTQ says its goal was to create a user-friendly and transparent source of information to help the public analyze and compare collective bargaining agreements in different markets as a way to stimulate discussion and spark school reform.
Television News Archive
Searchable archive of abstracts of news broadcasts from 1968 to present (ABC, CBS, NBC), 1995 to present (CNN), selected content from PBS and FOX News. Video content from CNN viewable with RealOne media player. Descriptive summaries of the Vanderbilt University collection of network television news programs and other news-related programming collected in its archive since August 5, 1968. Loan copies of videotapes in 3/4 inch U-matic and 1/2 inch VHS format are available for a fee from the Archive.
Tests in Print
Tests in Print, produced by the Buros Institute, is a listing of commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP compliments and supplements the Mental Measurements Yearbook.
Theatre in Video
Contains performances of the world's leading plays and film documentaries on the subject of theater in streaming video. Some plays presented in multiple productions exemplifying various interpretations of the text, and technical and cultural differences among the presentations. Stage work of directors and actors are cross-searchable and available for side-by-side comparison. Interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors, along with excerpts of live performances, provide illustration of the development of texts and the productions.
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)
Fulltext database of literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of the Byzantium in AD 1453. Users may search on author, title, publication or text string.
The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985
Researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching. Current issues of The Times can be found here.
Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive
A subscription research database from Primary Source Media, The Gale Group, offering the world's premier contemporary literary review in fully searchable image format.
TOPICsearch
This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 102,800 articles from more than 2,500 diverse sources, including more than 1,550 full text periodicals.
TranWeb: Transportation Article File
TRANweb contains citations for journal articles, conference papers, and other materials on transportation and law enforcement from 1979 to the present. This database is available from Northwestern University.
TRIP: Turning Research into Practice
TRIS Online
TRIS Online contains almost 525,000 records of published transportation research.
Twentieth-Century African American Poetry
A database of modern and contemporary African American poetry, featuring almost 9,000 poems by 62 of the most important African American poets of the last century, including Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde and Rita Dove. Part of Literature Online (LION).
Twentieth-Century American Poetry
This unparalleled collection includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song. Part of Literature Online (LION).
Twentieth-Century English Poetry
A collection of 598 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Thom Gunn, Fleur Adcock, Paul Muldoon, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy, and incorporating the poets in The Faber Poetry Library. Part of Literature Online (LION).
TWST.com: The Wall Street Transcript
Investment information for the USA and abroad. Vols. 1+ (from June 10, 1963- ) also on microfilm.
Typee: A Fluid-Text Edition
One of America's most startling fluid texts, Herman Melville's Typee exists in multiple critically diverse versions, in both manuscript and print. Based on the recently discovered working draft of Typee, this electronic edition offers digital images, a transcription of each manuscript page, corresponding print texts, and a dynamic reading text, which allows readers to inspect the revision sequences and narratives of more than 1000 revision sites.
U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980
Database of texts from the bound, sequentially numbered volumes of all the reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Texts constitute a rich source of primary source material on all aspects of American history. Upon completion, the digital version of the Serial set will consist of over 12,000,000 pages. Database searchable by subject, publication category, standing committee author, and other parameters.
UIUC Cultural Heritage Repository
Integrated searching of numerous cultural heritage collections throughout the United States. Includes the finding aids from the Iowa Women's Archives which seeks to document the experiences of a broad spectrum of Iowa women and to represent the cultural, ethnic, religious, and occupational diversity of women in Iowa.
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
A bibliographic database providing detailed and authoritative information on journals and other serials published throughout the world. Ulrich's covers all subjects, and includes regularly and irregularly published serials that are available free or by paid subscription.
United Nations Common Database (UNCDB)
More than 450 statistical time series for countries from around the world covering a wide range of economic and socio-demographic topics. Descriptions of the international sources and definitions used in compiling the data are included.
United Nations Statistics Division
Provides a variety of information via its web site, including statistical databases.
United Nations Treaty Collection
Contains full-text of the United Nations Treaty Series, the United Nations Treaty Series Cumulative Index, and the League of Nations Treaty Series, the current status of the Multilateral Treaties deposited with the Secretary-General, and texts of recently deposited multilateral treaties.
United Nations Yearbook Collection
All volumes presented in this collection are identical to those in print format and can be explored using full text search of the combined indices.
The University of Chicago Press
UpToDate Online
UpToDate is a practical clinical information service designed to provide instant access to just the information you need. It is written by a recognized faculty of experts who each address a specific clinical issue. They synthesize the latest evidence and best practices and provide detailed recommendations. [Access to UpToDate is co-funded by the Carver College of Medicine, the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, and Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.]
Urban Studies Abstracts
Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains 40,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline, such as: Urban Affairs Review, Urban studies, Journal of Urban Affairs, etc. EBSCO has digitized the full archive of this index, bringing coverage back to 1973.
Vetus Latina: Bible Versions of the Latin Fathers
VisualDx
VisualDx gives general practitioners the ability to build a differential diagnosis that provides specialist information for more than 900 diseases and offers more than 16,000 related images.
Vocational and Career Collection
This database is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for nearly 350 trade and industry-related periodicals.
Voltaire Electronique
Based upon the Voltaire Foundation Oxford edition of the Complete Works of Voltaire (edited by T. Besterman, et al.), this database includes all of Voltaire's literary works, searchable by keyword, title, literary form, and date of edition.
Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies
Available through the Gale Directory Library, Ward's Business Directory is a guide to over 114,500 public and private U.S. companies in alphabetic, geographic, and industry arrangements. Includes rankings of companies by sales within SIC and NAICS codes, as well as by state.
Washington Information Directory
Brings together CQ's wealth of contact and descriptive information on more than 10,000 federal government offices, regulatory agencies, congressional committees, judicial offices, public interest groups, nongovernmental organizations, and international organizations in a single, easy-to-use, and fully integrated database. Searchable and browsable, the Washington Information Directory Online Edition provides verified and updated mailing addresses, phone and fax numbers, e-mail and Web site addresses, contact names, and descriptions for thousands of organization--along with letter templates, a customized Address Book, and much more.
The Washington Post
Full-text available from Access World News. Date range: 1977- . See Main Library Media Services for the current issue in print and copies on microfilm back to 1877.
WDI Online
Statistical data for over 550 development indicators, and 1960-2000 time series data for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators.
Web of Science
See: ISI Web of Knowledge
Web Thermo Tables Professional Edition
WTT - Professional Edition, a Web version of the TRC Thermodynamic Tables, represents a complete collection of critically evaluated thermodynamic property data primarily for pure organic compounds.
Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged
America's premier lexicographical work in searchable electronic form, containing 450,000 vocabulary entries. Part of Literature Online (LION).
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900
Wellesley is an index to the authorship of articles, and to the articles written by each contributor, along with brief biographical and vocational details. Citations of evidence are provided to support attributions of authorship. 45 monthly and quarterly titles are included, covering the period from the beginning of the Westminster Review in 1824 to the end of the century.
Wiley Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials
An online site for the definitive reference on all facets of clinical trials. More than 500 entries from the world's leading experts in the field on the basic concepts, methodologies, and applications in clinical trials. The range of topics includes: basic statistical concepts, design and analysis of clinical trials, ethics, regulatory issues, and methodologies for clinical data management and analysis.
WilsonWeb
This database provides access to the following indexes: Art Full Text, Art Retrospective, Education Full Text, ERIC, Essay and General Literature, Library Literature and Information Science Full Text, Readers' Guide Retrospective, and Short Story Index.
Wittgenstein: Letters, Lectures, Conversations, Memoirs
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
A set of learning modules in the form of mini-monographs, each of which is organized around a specific question about a single social movement. Each module contains fifteen to twenty documents that address the question.
Women Writers Online
Provides a list of women author's and links to a full-text of their various works.
Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)
World Bank Documents and Reports
A collection of data, research publications, and news releases from the World Bank Group. Includes current information on a variety of countries, worldwide.
World Bank e-Library
Contains over 3,400 World Bank titles, searchable by keywords, title, and author.
World News Connection
WNC is an online news service of non-U.S. media sources provided by the National Technical Information Service.
World News Digest (Facts on File)
A complete archive of the publication Facts on File World News Digest dating back to 1940, updated weekly with current news provided by Reuters. Includes an extensive full-text collection of biographies, historical documents, editorials, and background articles.
World Newspaper Archive
World Newspaper Archive is a fully searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the globe. This uniquely comprehensive online resource was created in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries - one of the world's largest and most important newspaper repositories.
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
Provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare that were published or produced between 1964 and the present. The scope is international, with coverage extending to more than 118 languages and representing every country in North America, South America, and Europe, and nearly every country in Asia, Africa, and Australasia.
WorldCat
A bibliographic database of over 62,000,000 records from over 2,000 libraries around the world.
WorldCat.org
The freely accessible version of WorldCat on the Web. WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of local libraries and thousands more around the world. [If you are not affiliated with the University of Iowa please use this URL http://www.worldcat.org/]
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
This database provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.
Wright American fiction, 1851-1875
A product of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), this is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are over 2,800 texts by almost 1,500 authors.
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