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| 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers (Gale) | 17th-18th centuries | |
| Digitized versions of the British Library's Burney Collection. Includes newspapers, newsbooks, pamphlets, addresses, broadsides, proclamations, Acts of Parliament, etc. | ||
| 18th-Century Fiction (LION) |  |
1700-1780 |
| English prose by writers from the British Isles from 1700 to 1780. | ||
| 19th Century British Library Newspapers (Gale) | |
1800-1900 |
| Full runs of selected 19th-Century British newspapers including national and regional papers and those from established country or university towns and the manufacturing Midlands as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Includes newspapers that helped lead political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule and penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes. | ||
| 19th Century Masterfile (Paratext) | 1802-1906 | |
| Index to 19th-Century Anglo-American publications. Periodical indices include: Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1970; Index to Legal Periodical Literature, 1786-1922; Index to Periodicals, 1890-1902; and An Alphabetical Subject Index and Index Encyclopedia to Periodical Articles on Religion, 1890-1899. Patent and Government Document indices include: Compilation of the Message and Papers of the Presidents (1789-1897), Subject Matter Index of Patents Issued by the U. S. (1790-1873), Cobett's Parliamentary History of England (1066-1803), Hansard's Index to Debates, House of Commons (1803-1830), Hansard's Index to Debates, House of Lords (1803-1830), Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the U.S. (1774-1881), and Index to Congressional Record of the first 40 US Congresses. | ||
| 19th-Century Fiction (LION) | |
1782-1903 |
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English prose by writers from the British Isles from 1700 to 1780.
Limited to 4 simultaneous users. Does not work with Mac/Safari | ||
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Title and Description |
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| 20th Century African-American Poetry (LION) | |
Early 20th century - current |
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Poems by 20th-Century African-American poets. Limited to 4 simultaneous users. Does not work with Mac/Safari | ||
| 20th Century American Poetry (LION) | |
1900-1999 |
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Poems from the colonial period to the early 20th century. Includes dedications, notes, arguments, and epigraphs, texts of individual poems, and complete texts of four major anthologies published before 1840. Limited to 4 simultaneous users. Does not work with Mac/Safari | ||
| 20th Century English Poetry (LION) | |
1901-2000 |
| Poetry of over 285 poets from 1900 to the present, from Carcanet, Enitharmon, Anvil Press, Bloodaxe Books and other poetry publishers, as well as the Faber Poetry Library. Includes poetry in English by poets from outside the British Isles as well as significant translations of non-English poetry. | ||
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Title and Description |
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| ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) (Chadwyck-Healey) | 1920-current | |
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Indexes books, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations. Covers English language syntax, phonology, lexicology, etc. and English poetry, prose, fiction, films, biography, travel writing, literary theory and studies of individual authors, bibliography, and traditional culture of the English-speaking world (custom, belief, narrative, song, dance and material culture) Limited to 4 simultaneous users. Does not work with Mac/Safari | ||
| ABI/Inform Global (Proquest) | |
1971-current |
| In-depth coverage of business conditions, trends, corporate strategies and tactics, management techniques, competitive and product information, and more. | ||
| ABSEES (American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies) (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) | 1990-current | |
| North American (U.S. and Canadian) scholarship on East-Central Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. Contains references to journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, and more. | ||
| AccessScience (McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology) (McGraw-Hill) | |
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| Science encyclopedia with biographies of scientists, new trends and developments in science and technology and definitions of scientific and technical terms. | ||
| AccessUN (News Bank) | |
1956-current |
| Indexes United Nations publications including those issued by the six main bodies, sessional and standing committees, functional commissions, conferences, and regional bodies: official records, sales publications, masthead documents, and limited and restricted documents. Full text of General Assembly, Security Council, and Economic and Social Council resolutions. Selected full-text Minutes and Summary Records (SR) containing voting records were included in 1997. Index with some full text of resolutions and voting. | ||
| ACLS Humanities E-Book (formerly History E-Book Project) | ||
| Digital collection of 2,200 full-text titles in the humanities offered by ACLS in collaboration with fourteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. | ||
| ACM Digital Library (Association for Computing Machinery) | |
1985-current |
| Full-text of all ACM journals. Also indexes ACM Proceedings series without full text. | ||
| African American Song (Alexander Street Press) | ||
| Collection of African American music in genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others. | ||
| African Journals Online | Dates vary. Most from 1999-current. | |
| Tables of contents and abstracts from over 180 African-published peer-reviewed journals with links to full text if available. | ||
| African-American Poetry (LION) | |
1750-1900 |
| Full text of nearly 3,000 poems by 18th and 19th century African-American poets. First edition texts used whenever possible. Contents based upon the bibliography of William French, "Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975: A Guide to Information Sources" (Gale Research, 1979). | ||
| Agricola | ||
| Alt-Press Watch (Proquest) | |
1995-current |
| Full-text newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press. | ||
| Alternative Press Index (FirstSearch) | 1991-current | |
| Indexes alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines covering cultural, economic, political and social change. | ||
| America's Historical Newspapers (Newsbank) | |
1690-1922 |
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Currently includes text of early American newspapers. If using Firefox as your browser, use the Firefox Print command, not the Adobe (or Preview) Print option. | ||
| America: History and Life (EBSCOHost) | 1964-current | |
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Index to articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, book and media reviews on history and culture of U.S. and Canada from prehistory to the present. Does not work with IE on a Mac | ||
| American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications (ACS Publications) | |
1996-current |
| Index and full text of periodicals in chemistry and related sciences. | ||
| American Civil War: Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press) | |
1855-1875 |
| Full text of diaries, letters, and memoirs written between 1855 and 1875 by the famous and the unknown. Gives not only Northern and Southern perspectives, but those of foreign observers also. Provides biographical information on the authors. | ||
| American Drama (LION) | |
18th and 19th centuries |
| American drama from the colonial period through the 19th century. | ||
| American FactFinder | |
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| Population, housing, economic and geographic data from 1990 and 2000 Decennial Censuses, the latest Economic Census, and reference maps. | ||
| American Film Scripts Online (Alexander Street Press) | |
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| Contains 1008 scripts together with information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. | ||
| American Institute of Physics | ||
| Journals from the AIP. | ||
| American Periodical Series (ProQuest) | |
1741-1920s |
| Index to and digitized images of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741 and the early 20th century. | ||
| American Poetry (LION) | |
1600-2000 |
| Poems from the colonial period to the early twentieth century. | ||
| American State Papers (Newsbank) | |
1789-1838 |
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Covering the 1st-25th Congresses,the Papers precede and overlap the Serial Set collection. If using Firefox as your browser, use the Firefox Print command, not the Adobe (or Preview) Print option. | ||
| Annee Philologique (Societe Internationale de Bibliographie Classique) | 1949-current | |
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Indexes journal articles, articles in collections, and conference papers in Classical literature, linguistics and philology, antiquities, history, law and justice, philosophy, and science and technology. Use IE with Macs. Loads slowly using Netscape 4.7 on a Mac. | ||
| Annual Reviews | |
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| Full-text of reviews in biomedical, physical, and social sciences. | ||
| Anthropology Plus (FirstSearch) | late 19th century-current | |
| Combines Anthropological Literature (Harvard U.) and Anthropological Index, (Royal Anthropological Institute). | ||
| AnthroSource | |
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| Includes current issues of 15 of the American Anthropological Association's most critical peer-reviewed publications, an electronic archive of all AAA journals, and access to archival content in JSTOR for key AAA publications. | ||
| Archives of Americana (Newsbank) | |
dates vary |
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Family of historical collections containing books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera printed in America over three centuries. Includes America's Historical Newspapers, American State Papers, 1789-1838, Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800, U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 187-1980. If using Firefox as your browser, use the Firefox Print command, not the Adobe (or Preview) Print option. | ||
| Art Abstracts (WilsonWeb) | |
1984-current |
| Index with abstracts to articles on all aspects of art. Indexes major English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as European periodicals in a number of different languages. Indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Provides access to a wide range of bibliographies, notices of competitions and awards, reports of conferences, exhibition listings, review articles, interviews, and film reviews. | ||
| Art Index Retrospective (WilsonWeb) | 1929-1984 | |
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Indexing of art related materials published from 1929-1984. Includes articles, reviews, reproductions. Provides international coverage for all aspects of the visual arts. Limited to 1 user at a time. | ||
| ARTBibliographies Modern (CSA) | 1974-current | |
| Indexing and abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews about late 19th- and 20-century fine arts, decorative arts, design, and photography. | ||
| ARTFL (University of Chicago) | |
1300-2000 |
| Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) at the University of Chicago. Includes 2000 texts covering literature, philosophy, arts, and sciences from the 13th to the 20th centuries and also dictionaries. | ||
| Article1st (FirstSearch) | |
1990-current |
| Listing of articles from the table of contents of journals in business, science, humanities, social science, medicine, technology,and popular culture. | ||
| Arts & Humanities Search (FirstSearch) | 1980-current | |
| Index to articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews, and more in leading arts and humanities journals and selected articles from social science and science journals. | ||
| ARTstor | ||
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Collections of art images and descriptive information as well as software tools for viewing and analyzing images. Special tools are available for instructors. For general inquiries, contact Thomas Hill, Art Librarian, (thill@vassar.edu). Faculty who would like more information on ARTstor's advanced utilities should contact Sarah Goldstein, Visual Resources Curator (sagoldstein@vassar.edu). Requires Flash Player 6 or higher. Pop-up blocking software must be disabled or set to allow pop-up windows from www.artstor.org and cookies must be enabled. | ||
| ATLA Religion Index (OvidSP) | 1949-current | |
| Religion and theology scholarship in journals and multi-author works. Citations and some full text from Religion Index One (RIO), Religion Index Two (RIT), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR). | ||
| AustLit | 1780-current | |
| Indexes and describes Australian literature published in print and electronic sources. Includes selected critical articles and creative writing in full text. | ||
| Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (CSA) | 1930-present, selective back to 1860s | |
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International coverage of scholarly and popular periodicals in architecture, architectural sculpture, city planning, and landscape architecture. Limited to 5 simultaneous users. | ||
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Title and Description |
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Coverage |
| Barron's (Proquest) | |
1988-current |
| Full text of Barron's, a leading newspaper in business and economics. | ||
| Bible in English (LION) | |
10th-20th centuries |
| Twenty versions of the Bible: King James, William Tyndale’s New Testament, Pentateuch and Jonah translations, Coverdale, Bishops’ and Geneva. Texts from all eras and from Protestant, Roman Catholic and non-conformist traditions. | ||
| Bibliography of American Literature (LION) | ||
| Describes the works of America's most important literary writers from the time of the Revolution to 1930. | ||
| Bibliography of Asian Studies (University of Michigan) | 1971-current | |
| Index to articles, books, book chapters, etc., on East, Southeast, and South Asia (especially humanities and social sciences) | ||
| Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) (CSA) | 1973-current | |
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Covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present. Indexes and abstracts articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and art exhibition and dealer's catalogs. Includes and extends coverage of Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie and RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) Limited to 5 simultaneous users. | ||
| Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Gale) | ||
| Indexes current and retrospective biographical reference works. No full text. Includes contemporary and historical figures from every field of activity and all areas of the world. | ||
| Biology (Gale) | ||
| 4 volume collection of articles on all aspects of biological science published 2002. Includes articles on biology-related careers and important individuals, as well as topics from active transport to zoology research. | ||
| BioOne (BioOne) | |
2000-current |
| Indexes and provides over 50 full-text research and high-impact journals in the fields of biology, ecology, and the environmental sciences. | ||
| Black Drama (Alexander Street Press) | |
1850-current |
| Full-text of plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. | ||
| Black Studies Center (Proquest) | ||
| Gateway to Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), historical black newspapers, and the Black Literature Index. | ||
| Black Thought and Culture: African Americans to 1975 (Alexander Street Press) | |
Earliest times to 1975 |
| Non-fiction published works of leading African Americans: monographs, essays, speeches, interviews, journal articles, letters, biographical essays by leading scholars and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database. | ||
| Books In Print (FirstSearch) | |
annual |
| In-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios and videos from North American publishers and U.S. distributors and wholesalers. | ||
| Britannica Online (Britannica) | |
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| Online encyclopedia, also includes Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. | ||
| British Humanities Index (CSA) | 1962-current | |
| Indexes over 320 arts and humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK. | ||
| British Periodicals | Late 17th-early 20th cent. | |
| Searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late 17th century to the early 20th. | ||
| Business and Company ASAP (Gale) | |
1980-current |
| Information on domestic and international companies and associations. | ||
| Business And Company Resources Center (Gale) | |
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| Company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, industry overviews, company histories and financials, chronologies, periodical articles, news, press releases, industry and company rankings, market share data, etc. for domestic and international companies and associations. | ||
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| C19 The Nineteenth Century Index | ||
| Integrated access to indexes for nineteenth-century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives: Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, Poole's Index and Periodicals Index Online, as well as indexing British Periodicals Collections I and II. | ||
| Cambridge Journals Online (Cambridge University Press) | |
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| Canadian Poetry (LION) | ||
| 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. | ||
| Caribbean Literature (Alexander Street Press) | 19th-20th centuries | |
| Collection of poetry and fiction produced in the region during the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes rare and hard-to-find works written in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creole languages. | ||
| Carlyle Letters Online: a Victorian Cultural Reference | ||
| Collection of the letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. Features correspondence with some of the most influential artistic, philosophic, and literary personalities of the day. | ||
| Charleston Advisor (Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries) | |
1999-current |
| Online reviewing service of web-based products for libraries. | ||
| Chicago Manual of Style Online: Citation Quick Guide | ||
| Chicago Manual of Style Online: Table of Contents | ||
| Chicago Tribune (Proquest) | |
1985-current |
| CHOICE (Bowker) | 1988-current | |
| Contains reviews of significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education. | ||
| CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) (Columbia University) | |
1991-current |
| Covers theory and research in international affairs. Includes working papers from university research institutes, books, journals, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, conference proceedings, policy briefs and economic indicators. Also includes maps and country data and more. | ||
| Clase/Periodica (FirstSearch) | 1978-current | |
| Consists of 2 databases: CLASE (Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales and Humanidades) and PERIODICA (Indice de Revistas Latinoamericanas en Ceincias), which can be searched together or separately. Sources are in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English. | ||
| Columbia Granger's World of Poetry | |
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| Contains the contents of the following works: Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Anthologies (eds. 8-11), Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works, Columbia Granger's Guide to Poetry Anthologies (2nd ed.), Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations, Classic Hundred Poems, as well as new content not published previously | ||
| Communications and Mass Media Complete (Ebsco) | 1915 (a few titles) - current | |
| Communications and mass media | ||
| Congressional Record (GPO) | |
1995-current |
| Contains full-text of proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. Published daily when Congress is in session. Includes "Daily Digest", summary of the day's floor and committee activities. | ||
| Congressional Universe, see LexisNexis Congressional | ||
| Contemporary Poets (Thomson Gale) | ||
| Biographical and bibliographical information on 789 of the world's most important contemporary English-language poets including personal and career information, addresses, a detailed bibliography, a list of further reading sources, and more. Part of Gale Virtual Reference Library. | ||
| Contemporary Women's Issues (Gale) | |
1992-current |
| Provides full-text access to global information on women in over 150 countries. Indexes books, journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, and fact sheets. | ||
| CQ Researcher (Congressional Quarterly) | |
1991-current |
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Reports and analysis on political and social issues in the news. Regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Includes background and chronology, tables and maps, opposing viewpoints, and bibliographies. Limited to 5 simultaneous users | ||
| CQ Weekly Report (CQ Press) | |
1983-current |
| Includes weekly reports and analysis of the activities of Congress: current topics, status of bills in play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates and all roll-call votes. | ||
| Credo Reference | ||
| Extensive collection of full-text reference works. | ||
| Custom Newspapers (Gale) | |
1996-current |
| Covers over 100 national and international newspapers. | ||
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| DDRS (Declassified Documents Reference System) (Gale) | |
1940s-1970s |
| Contains previously classified government documents covering major domestic and international events since the end of World War II. Documents include cabinet meeting minutes, correspondence, diary entries, intelligence reports, political analyses and technical studies from the White House, State Department, National Security Agency, FBI, and CIA. | ||
| Dictionary of Canadian Biography | |
1000-1930 |
| History and culture of the people of Canada. | ||
| Dictionary of Old English A-G Online | ||
| Dictionary of Old English Old English Corpus (University of Michigan) | |
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| The DOE electronic corpus is a complete record of surviving Old English, with the exception of some variant manuscripts of individual texts. There are 3037 texts in the corpus. | ||
| Digital National Security Archive (Chadwyck Healey) | |
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| Significant primary documents central to US foreign and military policy since 1945. Largest collection of contemporary declassified national security information outside the United States Government. Comprised of 15 collections, each of which contains a diverse range of policy documents including presidential directives, memos, etc. | ||
| Directory of Open Access Journals | |
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| Directory of scientific and scholarly journals freely available via the Web | ||
| Dissertation Abstracts (FirstSearch) | 1861-current; abstracts starting in 1980 | |
| Selectively covers masters theses and dissertations including dissertations from Canada, Great Britain, and Europe. | ||
| Documenting the American South | |
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| Digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. Projects include slave narratives, first-person narratives, Southern literature, Confederate imprints, materials related to the church in the black community, and North Caroliniana. Sponsored by the American Affairs Library at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. | ||
| Duke University Press Journals Online (eDuke) | ||
| Access to twenty-nine Duke Univ. Press humanities and social science journals | ||
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Title and Description |
Some Fulltext |
Coverage |
| E-PRINT Network (Dept. of Energy) | |
1998-current |
| Gateway to web sites and databases worldwide containing e-prints in basic and applied sciences, primarily in physics, but also in such areas as chemistry, biology and life sciences, materials science, nuclear sciences and engineering, energy research, computer and information technologies, and other disciplines. Included are pre-publication drafts of journal articles (preprints), scholarly papers, technical communications, or similar documents relaying research results among peer groups. | ||
| Early American Fiction (LION) | |
pre-1850 |
| Selected full texts of first editions of American novels and short stories written before 1850 owned by the University of Virginia library. | ||
| Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker | |
1801-1819 |
| Online edition of Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819). Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the distinguished bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker | ||
| Early American Imprints/Evans Digital Edition (Newsbank) | 1639-1800 | |
| Online edition of Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800). It includes the complete text of works cited in Charles Evans’ American Bibliography, as enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement. This set has long served as a rich resource for research involving early American history, literature, philosophy, religion, and more. | ||
| Early Canadiana Online (Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions) | |
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| Digital versions of texts of works from Canada's heritage. Includes Canadian Women's History, Champlain Society Publications, Colonial Government Journals, English Canadian Literature, and more. | ||
| Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment (Alexander Street Press) | |
dates vary |
| Contains primary texts on the people, cultures, and the environment in North America from 1534 to 1850. The database focuses on personal accounts (published and unpublished) and reflects the relationships among the various cultures as well as the environment. | ||
| Early English Books Online (Proquest) | |
1475-1700 |
| Contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). | ||
| Early English Prose Fiction (LION) | |
1500-1700 |
| A single edition of each work, usually the first, has been included. The entire text of each individual work has been included, with all prefatory matter and annotation by the original author. All accompanying material, such as illustrations, contents pages, appendices, lists of subscribers, dedications, errata lists, etc. also appears. | ||
| EBSCOhost (Ebsco) | |
dates vary |
| Multidisciplinary database provides full text of general reference publications covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Select also includes 37 full text reference books and an Image Collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags. | ||
| EconLit (CSA) | 1969-current | |
| Covers international economic journals. Includes articles, essays, research papers, books, dissertations, working papers about accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labor, marketing, demographics, modeling, economic theory, and more. | ||
| Editions & Adaptations of Shakespeare (LION) | |
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| Full texts, with all introductions, prefaces, appendices, indices, notes editorial and authorial, essays, tables, figures, illustrations etc. reproduced in full. Half title pages, publisher's advertisements and decorations have not been captured. Hypertext links have been created to connect editorial matter to the texts whenever possible. | ||
| Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale) | |
1701-1800 |
| A project in progress that when completed will contain a digital version of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom between 1701 and 1800, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. VC has a significant number of these titles on microfilm: Microfilm 981 for Eighteenth Century Literature and Language and Microfilm 982 for Eighteenth Century Religion and Philosophy. | ||
| Eighteenth-Century Fiction (LION) | 1700-1780 | |
| English prose by writers from the British Isles from 1700 to 1780 | ||
| EM-DAT: International Disasters Data Base | 1988-current | |
| Essential core data on the occurrence and effects of over 12,800 mass disasters in the world from 1900 to present compiled from various sources, including UN agencies, non-governmental organisations, insurance companies, research institutes and press agencies. | ||
| Encyclopaedia Judaica (Macmillan) | |
2007 |
| Jewish culture, history, and religion | ||
| Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (Wiley) | |
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| Encyclopedia of the biological sciences. Includes biochemistry, cell biology, clinical medicine, ecology, genetics and molecular biology, immunology, microbiology ad virology, neuroscience, plant science, sicence and society, and more. | ||
| Encyclopedia of World Biography (Gale) | |
2nd ed., 2004 |
| Part of Gale Virtual Reference Library. | ||
| English Drama (LION) | |
1280-1915 |
| A unique collection of more than 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. | ||
| English Poetry (LION) | |
600-1900 |
| English Poetry contains over 160,000 poems essentially comprising the complete English poetic canon from 600-1900. Drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources, with more than 1,250 poets are represented. | ||
| English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) | To 1801 | |
| Union catalog of holdings in more than 2000 libraries world-wide, including the British Library. Covers monograph and serial letterpress items printed before 1801 in the British Isles, Colonial America, United States of America (1776-1800), Canada, or territories governed by Britain, in all languages and printed in any other part of the world, wholly or partly in English or other British vernaculars. Includes records for every item in Pollard and Redgrave's A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad 1473-1640 (STC); every item in Wing's A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries 1641-1700; every item in the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (the predecessor of ESTC), including items catalogued by the American Antiquarian Society as part of the North American Imprints Program (NAIP); and newspapers and other serials which began publication before 1801. | ||
| Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland, 1801-1922 (EPPI) | |
1801-1922 |
| Full-text of some 13,700 British Parliamentary papers. | ||
| Environment Complete (EBSCOHost) | 1940s-current | |
| Environment Complete contains records from more than 1,700 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s as well as more than 120 monographs. Also contains full text for more than 680 journals. Covers agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, and more. | ||
| ERIC (CSA) | 1966-current | |
| National education database containing citations to research documents, journal articles, technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular materials. Items identified with an ERIC Document (ED) number are available full text through E-Subscribe, a companion resource. | ||
| Ethnic Newswatch (Proquest) | |
1990-current |
| Newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses | ||
| Ethnic Newswatch: A History (ProQuest) | |
1960-1989 |
| Full-text of newspapers of the U.S. ethnic and minority press in both English and Spanish. | ||
| Ethnologue | ||
| Encyclopedia reference work cataloging the world's living languages, published by the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL). Organized geographically by country. Also provides links to citations from the SIL Bibliography from 1935-current. | ||
| Europa World Plus (Routledge) | ||
| Historical, political and economic surveys of more than 250 countries and territories. | ||
| Evans Digital Edition (Newsbank) | |
1639-1800 |
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Online edition of Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800). It includes the complete text of works cited in Charles Evans' American Bibliography, as enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement. This set has long served as a rich resource for research involving early American history, literature, philosophy, religion, and more. If using Firefox as your browser, use the Firefox Print command, not the Adobe (or Preview) Print option. | ||
| Expanded Academic Index (Gale) | |
1980-current |
| Multidisciplinary index to articles in scholarly and popular English-language periodicals. | ||
| F | ||
Title and Description |
Some Fulltext |
Coverage |
| Faber Poetry Library (LION) | |
20th century |
| The Faber Poetry Library is comprised of 140 volumes of poetry containing the works of 50 poets. | ||
| Faculty Scholarship Database | ||
| Citations to various types of scholarly research and activities of the Vassar College faculty. | ||
| FBIS Daily Reports | |
1974-1996 |
| Comprehensive media reports (news, interviews, speeches and editorial commentary) translated into English that offer foreign views and perspectives on historical events. | ||
| Federal Register (GPO) | |
1995-2001 |
| Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive Orders and other Presidential Documents. | ||
| Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index | 1996-current | |
| Covers 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. | ||
| FIAF International Film Archive (SilverPlatter) | 1972-current | |
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Published by the International Federation of Film Archives, contains records from the International Index to Film Periodicals and the International Index to Television Periodicals. Does not work on a Mac | ||
| FirstSearch (FirstSearch) | |
Dates vary by database |
| Contains over 30 databases on a variety of subjects. | ||
| France in America/La France en Amerique | |
Early 16th-early 19th centuries |
| History of the French presence in North America and interactions between the French and American peoples from the early 16th to the early 19th centuries. Digital versions of rare books, manuscripts, maps and material from the print collections of the Library of Congress and the Bibliotheque nationale de France. | ||
| G | ||
Title and Description |
Some Fulltext |
Coverage |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library (Gale) | |
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| Reference titles focusing on health, history and business | ||
| Gallica (Bibliotheque nationale de France) | |
Middle Ages-20th Century |
| Fulltext collections (dossiers), grouped by themes. Interface in English; much of the fulltext is English. Interface also available in French. | ||
| Gender Inn | ||
| Searchable database of records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature. | ||
| GenderWatch (Proquest) | |
1998-current |
| Full-text of publications that focus on issues of gender in a broad spectrum of subject areas. Includes books, booklets/pamphlets, conference proceedings, magazines, newsletters, newspapers and reports. | ||
| GEOBASE (FirstSearch) | 1980-current | |
| Covers journals, books, conference proceedings, and reports on geography, geology, ecology, and more. | ||
| GeoRef (CSA) | 1785-current | |
| Covers geology and geoscience. The database is comprised of four major reference publications: Bibliography of North American Geology, Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America, Geophysical Abstracts, and the Bibliography and Index of Geology. Additional items come from special bibliographies produced on request for state surveys or societies, and annual subject and author indexes. | ||
| GeoScienceWorld (GSW) | |
Varies by journal |
| Comprehensive Internet resource for research and communications in the geosciences, built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals indexed, linked, and inter-operable with GeoRef. | ||
| Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online, 1542-1945 (Chadwyck-Healey) | |
1543-1945 |
| Contains primary source materials in women's history that span four centuries and fifteen languages. | ||
| Google Scholar | ||
| Links to peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations | ||
| GPO Access (GPO) | |
Dates vary |
| Provides search and retrieval of full text from over 50 online databases as well as tools and finding aids for other government information. Full text databases include the Congressional Record, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, public laws and Congressional bills, U.S. Code, U.S. Government Manual, Economic Indicators, Economic Report of the President, GAO Reports, Supreme Court decisions (1937-1975), and other government publications. Includes the Federal Bulletin Board, Congressional information, The Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, The Government Information Locator Service (GILS), and other indexes. | ||
| GPO Monthly Catalog (FirstSearch) | 1976-current | |
| The most comprehensive finding aid for U.S. government publications. A catalog of and index to U.S. government publications received by the Government Printing Office (GPO). An electronic version for 1976 to date of The Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications. | ||
| Grove Music Online (Oxford) | |
|
| Now part of Oxford Music Online, a collection of online music dictionaries and encyclopedias. | ||
| Guide to "India During the Raj" Microfilm 1044, pt. 2 (Adam Matthew) | 1819-1859 | |
| Diaries and related records describing life in India, 1819-1859 | ||
| H | ||
Title and Description |
Some Fulltext |
Coverage |
| Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) (Library of Congress) | 1936-current | |
| Bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. | ||
| HarpWeek | 1857-1912 | |
| Digitized access to America's leading 19th century illustrated newspaper. | ||
| Health & Wellness Resource Center (Gale) | |
1980-current |
| Provides full-text materials, abstracts and citations to patient and consumer health information found in journals, magazines, pamphlets and reference works. Provides browsable access to Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Medical & Health Information Directory, Mosby's Medical, Nursing & Allied Health Dictionary, the USPDI, vol. 2: Advice for the Patient, and other resources. | ||
| Highwire Press (Some Free Journals) | |
|
| Archive of free full-text science articles | ||
| Hispanic American Periodical Index (HAPI) (University of California at Los Angeles) | 1970-current | |
| The principal index to articles on Latin America and Hispanic Americans in the US, it includes journals in the social sciences and humanities published in the Western world since 1970. Journals indexed are those devoted exclusively to Latin American and Caribbean themes. Book reviews are also indexed. | ||
| Historical Abstracts (EBSCOHost) | 1955-current | |
|
World history after 1450, excluding U.S. and Canada: articles, books, collections, and dissertations. Does not work with IE on a Mac | ||
| Historical Census Browser | 1790-1960 | |
| Data on the population and economy of U.S. states and counties from 1790 to 1960 from ICPSR and the University of Virginia's Geostat Center. | ||
| Historical Statistics of the United States | |
1790-Present |
| Historical statistics of the United States ranging from migraton to economics to population to health to work and welfare to the Confederate States of America placed in historical context. | ||
| History Cooperative | |
|
| Full text of current journals in history | ||
| History E-Book Project (now ACLS Humanities E-Book) | |
|
| Digital collection of 2,200 full-text titles in the humanities offered by ACLS in collaboration with fourteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. | ||
| House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (Chadwyck Healey) | 1800-1900 | |
| Hudson River Valley Heritage | |
Varies |
| Collection of photographs, maps, letters, postcards, manuscripts, scrapbooks, programs from events, memorabilia and ephemera, audio and video clips, and many other materials from New York State's Hudson River Valley region libraries, archives, and museums. | ||
| Humanities E-Book (formerly History E-Book Project) | ||
| Digital collection of 2,200 full-text titles in the humanities offered by ACLS in collaboration with fourteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. | ||
| I | ||
Title and Description |
Some Fulltext |
Coverage |
| ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) | ||
| Archive of social science datasets. | ||
| Images of Early Vassar | 1861-early 20th cent. | |
| Materials relating to the early history of Vassar College, from its founding in 1861 to the early years of the 20th century. Includes 200 photographic images. | ||
| In the First Person | |
1550s-2000s |
| Index to more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. Contains references to diaries, letters, and oral histories. | ||
| Index Islamicus (CSA) | 1906-current | |
| Indexes literature (journals, conference proceedings, monographs, etc.) on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world from 1906-current. Includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. | ||
| Index of Articles on Jewish Studies (Jewish National and University Library) | 1966-current | |
| Material listed in Rambi is compiled from thousands of periodicals and from collections of articles - in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages- mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library, a world center for research on the Jewish people and Eretz Israel. | ||
| Index of Christian Art (Princeton University) | |
Early apostolic times to A.D. 1400 |
| Documents works of art in all media produced from apostolic times through the 15th century with Christian themes or for ecclesiastical settings. Entries include bibliographies, scholarly commentaries and images. | ||
| IndexCat: the Surgeon General's Index | 1880-1961 | |
| The online version of the Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, U.S. Army (61 volumes in 5 series, 1880-1961), is a comprehensive subject catalog of books, pamphlets, dissertations, reports, and journal articles published from the 17th-20th century and held by NLM. | ||
| Ingenta (Ingenta) | Dates vary | |
| Index to print and online periodicals. Choose "online" to limit to online; choose "fax/ariel" articles to include print titles. Note that online fulltext is only available for those titles to which Vassar subscribes. Ingenta's document delivery charges are steep; use Vassar's ILL service instead. | ||
| Ingenta Select (Ingenta) | varies by title | |
| Index to online periodicals. Note that online fulltext is only available for those titles to which Vassar subscribes. Ingenta's document delivery charges are steep; use Vassar's ILL service instead. | ||
| International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology (Knovel) | |
2003 |
| Critical data on inorganic and organic compounds, and pure substances. | ||
| International Index to Music Periodicals Full-Text (Chadwyck-Healey) | |
1874-current |
| Covers nearly all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes. Includes international music periodicals from over 20 countries. Also includes retrospective coverage from periodicals dating back as far as 1874. | ||
| International Political Science Abstracts (Sage) | 2007-current | |
| Non-evaluative abstracts of articles in the field of political science published in major political science journals (and yearbooks) all over the world | ||
| IOP (Institute of Physics) | |
Dates vary |
| ITER: Gateway to the Renaissance (Iter) | 400-1700 | |
| Bibliography of articles, essays, books, and reviews covering Medieval and Renaissance Europe. | ||
| J | ||
Title and Description |
Some Fulltext |
Coverage |
| JAKE | ||
| Identifies which databases index specific journal titles (includes services to which VC may not subscribe). | ||
| Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism (Johns Hopkins University Press) | |
current |
| Literary theory and criticism from Plato and Aristotle to the present with wide geographical and cultural coverage. Concentration is on modern criticism and theoretical research. Includes entries on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. | ||
| JSTOR | |
Dates vary |
| Backfiles of selected electronic journals in economics, finance, language, literature, mathematics, population/demography, philosophy, political science, history, sociology, ecology, higher education, and Asian studies. | ||
| K | ||
Title and Description |
Some Fulltext |
Coverage |
| King James Bible (LION) | |
|
| The King James or 'Authorized' edition of the Bible (1611) was the standard edition of the Bible for nearly three centuries, drawing heavily on previous editions and providing the principal influence for many subsequent versions. It is arguably the most influential single document for English literary studies in general. The text (of the 'He' version) is given in full, with all introductory matter, annotation, calendars, genealogies and tables included. | ||
| Kluwer Journals Online | |
|
| Knovel Critical Tables (Knovel) | |
2003 |
| Tables of physical, solvent, and thermodynamic properties. The physical property tables include over 21,000 inorganic and organic compounds and pure substances. The solvent property tables have data for 385 common solvents, and the thermodynamic property tables have data for over 15,000 compounds. Additionally, several tables make use of the interactive Equation Plotter to plot thermodynamic properties as a function of temperature. | ||
| L | ||
Title and Description |
Some Fulltext |
Coverage |
| LexisNexis Academic (Lexis-Nexis) | |
Dates vary |
| Includes general news, business, legal (law reviews and case law) and medical information. Also includes reference works such as biographical information, polls & surveys, quotations, state profiles, and country profiles. | ||
| LexisNexis Congressional (Lexis-Nexis) | |
1789-current |
| Indexes congressional publications and CIS Legislative Histories (1970-present) Includes full text of congressional reports, documents, prints, bills, and the Congressional Record, testimony from congressional hearings, bill tracking through the House and Senate, public laws, Statutes at Large, and the U.S. Code, the Federal Register, information about members and committees, and more. | ||
| LexisNexis Statistical (Lexis-Nexis) | |
|
| Statistical data from federal agencies, U.S. Congress, state governments, United Nations, international organizations. | ||
| Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (Ebsco) | |
mid-1960s-current |
| Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. | ||
| Literature Online (LION) | |
Dates vary |
|
English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources. Limited to 4 simultaneous users | ||
| Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database (NYU) | ||
| Annotated multimedia listing of prose, poetry, film, video and art related to medicine. | ||
| LitFinder (Gale) | Antiquity-current | |
| Includes fulltext of poems, short stories, essays, speeches and plays from antiquity to the present. | ||
| Los Angeles Times (Proquest) | |
1986-current |
| Indexing from 1986-current. Full-text from 12/4/96. | ||
| Luna Insight | ||
| Software tool for building, publishing, searching and presenting collections of digital images and other media via the web. The Vassar College system currently contains ten different collections with over 200,000 images including art from prehistory to contemporary, architectural photographs, images from Colonial America, historical maps from the Americas and Asia, and select items from the National Palace in Taipei. | ||
| M | ||
Title and Description |
Some Fulltext |
Coverage |
| Making of America (Cornell) | |
1840-1900 |
| Contains primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. | ||
| Making of America (University of Michigan) | |
Antebellum period through reconstruction |
| Contains primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Particularly strong in areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Currently contains books and journal articles with 19th century imprints. | ||
| MarciveWeb DOCS (Marcive) | 1976-current | |
| Index to documents published by the U.S. Government. | ||
| MathSciNet (American Mathematical Society) | 1940-current | |
|
Indexes articles and reviews from the world's mathematical literature. Provides access to bibliographic data and reviews of mathematical research literature contained in the Mathematical Reviews Database. Provides links to original articles and other original documents, when available. ArticleLinker does not work with Macs | ||
| MEDLINE (FirstSearch) | 1965-current | |
| Indexes journals in all areas of medicine including dentistry and nursing. Corresponds to the print indexes Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index. | ||
| MedlinePlus (NLM) | |
|
| Authoritative and up to date professional and consumer health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine. | ||
| Middle English Dictionary | 1100-1500 | |
| Comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500. | ||
| MLA Bibliography (FirstSearch) | 1926-current | |
| Indexes scholarship on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. Includes journal articles, monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats. Also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals. | ||
| N | ||
Title and Description |
Some Fulltext |
Coverage |
| Nation Archive (Ebsco) | |
1865- |
| America's oldest weekly magazine and journals of opinion, covering politics, culture, books and the arts | ||
| National Newspaper Index (Gale) | |
1977-current |
| Covers 5 major U.S. newspapers: New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. | ||
| National Newspaper Index (Proquest) | |
1977-current |
| Covers 27 major papers. | ||
| National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) | ||
| Database of archives and manuscript holdings of the RLG (Research Libraries Group) Includes historical documents and inventory of NY State historical material. | ||
| NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) Working Papers | |
November 1994-current |
| Includes abstracts and full-text of working papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research in all areas of economics. Working papers have not been reviewed by NBER Board of Directors. | ||
| NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service) Abstracts Database | ||
| Abstracts of publications in criminal justice (corrections, courts, drugs and crime, juvenile justice, law enforcement, crime victims, etc.) from NCJRS sponsoring agencies (National Institute of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office for Victims of Crimes, Bureau of Justice Statistics, and Bureau of Justice Assistance. When fulltext is available online, a link is included with the abstract. | ||
| New Literature on Women (Samlingarna) | 1980-current | |
| References to journal articles, books and papers in social sciences and humanities mainly in Goteborg University Library. | ||
| New Pauly Online: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World | |
|
|
English and German editions; provides coverage of the ancient world from the prehistory of the Aegean (2nd millennium BCE) to late antiquity (600-800 CE). Before you start using this website, you need to install Brill's New Pauly font. Instructions provided on website. | ||
| New York Heritage Digital Collections | ||
| Gateway to hundreds of digital collections of images, artifacts, and documents about New York State's people, places, and institutions. | ||
| New York State Newspapers (Gale) | |
1996-current |
| Papers covered: Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) Herald American (Syracuse, NY) Herald-Journal (Syracuse, NY) Journal News (Westchester, NY) New York Observer (New York, NY) New York Post (New York, NY) New York Times (last 365 days only) Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) Press & Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, NY) Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY) | ||
| New York Times (Proquest) | |
1986-current |
| Full-text only last four years. | ||
| New York Times Historical File (Proquest) | |
1851-1999 |
|
Printing only works on PCs. | ||
| Niles Register: Cumulative Index, 1811-1849 | 1811-1849 | |
|
Index to Niles’ Register, a microfiche collection of 19th century newspaper clippings covering both the U.S. and the world. Also known as The Weekly Register, Niles’ Weekly Register, and Niles’ National Register.
Includes more than 2,500 full-text articles.
Limited to 1 user at a time | ||
| Nineteenth Century (Proquest) | 1801-1900 | |
| Index to Nineteenth-Century English language works available on microfiche. VC has part of the General Collection (microfiche #1.1.1- # 1.1.14337), covering Politics, Economics, Geography and Topography, Agriculture, History and Archaeology, Jurisprudence, Philosophy, Psychology, Education, Recreation, Science, Medicine, Useful Arts, Religion, Household Management and the entire Specialist Collection (Publishing, the Booktrade and the Diffusion of Knowledge) in the Microtext Room. | ||
| Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers (Gale) | |
1800-1900 |
| Contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. Includes "national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection." | ||
| Nineteenth Century Masterfile (Paratext) | 1802-1906 | |
| Index to Anglo-American publications from the 19th century. Periodical indices include: Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1970; Index to Legal Periodical Literature, 1786-1922; Index to Periodicals, 1890-1902; and An Alphabetical Subject Index and Index Encyclopedia to Periodical Articles on Religion, 1890-1899. Patent and Government Document indices include: Compilation of the Message and Papers of the Presidents (1789-1897), Subject Matter Index of Patents Issued by the U. S. (1790-1873), Cobett's Parliamentary History of England (1066-1803), Hansard's Index to Debates, House of Commons (1803-1830), Hansard's Index to Debates, House of Lords (1803-1830), Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the U.S. (1774-1881), and Index to Congressional Record of the first 40 US Congresses. | ||
| Nineteenth-Century Fiction (LION) | |
1782-1903 |
| English prose by writers from the British Isles from the period 1700 to 1780. | ||
| North American Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press) | |
Colonial-1950 |
| Includes full-text of women's letters and diaries. Also includes biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography of the sources in the database. | ||
| NUMDAM | |
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| Digitized versions of ancient mathematics documents published in France. | ||
| O | ||
Title and Description |
Some Fulltext |
Coverage |
| OAIster | ||
| Freely available, difficult-to-access, digital resources (electronic books, online journals, audio files, images, movies, reference texts, etc.) OAIster is a project of the Univ. of Michigan Digital Library Production Services. | ||
| Official Document System of the United Nations, See United Nations, Official Document System | ||
| Oxford English Dictionary (OED) | |
|
| Complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition and its 3-volume Additions Series. | ||
| Oxford Music Online | ||
| Music reference sources from Oxford including Grove Music Online, Oxford Dictionary of Music, and Oxford Companion to Music | ||
| Oxford Reference Online | |
|
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Dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. Limited to 5 simultaneous users | ||
| P | ||
Title and Description |
Some Fulltext |
Coverage |
| PAIS International (CSA) | 1915-1976 (Archive) and 1972-current | |
| Indexes journals, books, hearings, reports, government publications, etc., on global public policy and social issues. Covers banking and public finance, culture and religion, economic conditions, education, energy and environment, health conditions, human rights, international relations, media, science and technology, and more. | ||
| Palmer's Index to the Times (London) see Times Digital Archive | ||
| PapersFirst (FirstSearch) | 1993-current | |
| Indexes papers presented at conferences worldwide. Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre. | ||
| Patrologia Latina (Chadwyck Healey) | |
200 AD-1216 |
| Works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. Contains the complete first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina (1844-1855) including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes (1862-1865) | ||
| Periodical Abstracts Research II - see Research Library | ||
| Periodicals Archive Online (Chadwyck Healey) | 1802-1995 | |
| Archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. A sister database, Periodicals Index Online, provides additional indexing for articles in over 4,700 periodicals. | ||
| Periodicals Index Online (Chadwyck-Healey) (formerly PCI) | 1665-1995 | |
|
Indexes scholarly journals in humanities and
social sciences from their first issues to 1995. A sister database, Periodicals Archive Online, provides a full-text archive of some 475 journals published between 1802 and 1995.
Does not work on IE with a Mac | ||
| Perseus Digital Library | |
|
| Evolving digital library of resources for the study of the humanities. Includes Greek and Roman texts and tools and primary and secondary sources in early modern English literature (Renaissance) | ||
| Pew Hispanic Center | |
2001-current |
| The Pew Hispanic Center has as its prime mission "to improve understanding of the U.S. Hispanic population and to chronicle Latinos' growing impact on the entire nation." To achieve this goal, the Center has embarked on a number of ambitious projects, including a regular program of research papers, performing an annual survey of Latino attitudes, and communicating these findings to policy-makers, business leaders, and various media organizations. | ||
| Philosopher's Index (CSA) | 1940-current | |
|
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. Covers ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.
Does not work on a Mac | ||
| PILOTS Database (CSA) | 1871-current | |
| Citations to journals, books, book chapters, etc., on post-traumatic stress disorder, other psychiatric disorders associated with exposure to a traumatic event, and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events. | ||
| Poughkeepsie Journal (NewsBank) | |
1999-current |
| Poughkeepsie Journal (Latest Week) | |
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| ProceedingsFirst (FirstSearch) | Current year plus most recent 3 years | |
| Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre. Contains in each record a list of the papers presented at each conference. | ||
| Project Muse (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press) | |
Dates vary |
| Provides access to full text of scholarly journals in arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics. | ||
| ProQuest | |
1986-current |
| Multidisciplinary index to articles in scholarly and popular periodicals. Includes some newspapers, Historical New York Times and Wall Street Journal. | ||
| PsycArticles (CSA) | |
varies by title |
|
Full text of articles from APA journals and selected Educational Publishing Foundation journals. new interface effective 8/1/05 | ||
| PsycINFO (CSA) | |
1887-current |
| Citations and abstracts of journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports and dissertations in psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. | ||
| PubMed Central (NLM) | |
Dates vary |
| U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. | ||
| R | ||
Title and Description |
Some Fulltext |
Coverage |
| Readers' Guide Abstracts (WilsonWeb) | 1983-current | |
| Contains abstracts of articles from popular magazines on business,fashion, consumer affairs,fine arts, current events,health and nutrition, education, sports. | ||
| Readers' Guide Retrospective (WilsonWeb) | 1890-1982 | |
| Indexes articles from the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the U.S. Reflects the history of 20th century America. | ||
| RefWorks | ||
|
Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. Note: Does not work with Safari | ||
| Religion Index (ATLA) (OvidSP) | 1949-current | |
|
Indexes journal articles, book chapters, book review citations in religion (Biblical studies, world religions, Church history and religious perspectives on social issues, etc.) Includes Religion Index One: Periodicals, Religion Index Two: Multi-author works, and Index to Book Reviews in Religion. Does not work on a Mac | ||
| Religious and Theological Abstracts | ||
| Abstracts of articles in scholarly journals in religion and theology, including Christian, Jewish, and other World religions, and English language abstracts of articles in English, Hebrew, Afrikaans, and major European languages. | ||
| RePEc (Research papers in Economics)/IDEAS | |
|
| Free abstracts for journal articles, working papers, books, book chapters, and software; many links to fulltext. | ||
| Research Library (Proquest) | |
1971-current |
| Scholarly and popular journals | ||
| RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (CSA) | 1969-current | |
| International bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines. Includes articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, Festschriften, e-publications, films and videos, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings, conference proceedings, reviews. | ||
| Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy | |
2000 |
| S | ||
Title and Description |
Some Fulltext |
Coverage |
| Science Online (AAAS) | |
1997-current |
| Access to the complete online Science database with hypertext links to related citations in Medline, the ISI Citation Index, and to full text articles in 200 scientific journals. Also allows access to ScienceNOW, an online news service of Science magazine. | ||
| Science Reference Center | ||
| Contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife. Designed to support the middle school and high school curriculum. | ||
| Science.gov | ||
| Gateway to millions of pages of authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. government agencies, including research and development results. | ||
| ScienceDirect (Elsevier) | |
Dates vary |
| Access to scientific, technical and medical peer-reviewed journals. Search over 40 million abstracts from scientific articles. Link out to articles from over 120 other publishers. | ||
| SciFinder Scholar (CAS) | ||
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Chemistry abstracts. Requires a SciFinder account. Please click here to create an account before using SciFinder for the first time. | ||
| SCImago Journal & Country Rank | ||
| Portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.). These indicators could be used to assess and analyze scientific domains. | ||
| Scopus (Elsevier) | dates vary | |
| Abstract and citation database covering over 15,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 publishers. Emphasis on science and social science. | ||
| Shakespeare Bibliography | 1900-current | |
| Indexes books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, production reviews, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced since 1900. | ||
| Short Story Index | |
1984-current |
| Index to short stories written in or translated into English that have appeared in collections and selected periodicals, with full text of more than 1600. | ||
| SIAM Journals Online | |
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| Full-text journals from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) | ||
| Siku Quanshu | ||
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Siku Quanshu, comprising four traditional divisions of Jing (Classics), Shi (Records), Zi (Scholars) and Ji (Collections), contains more than 3,400 titles, total of 79,000 volumes bound into more than 36,000 books on philosophy, history, literature and art, political systems, social studies, economics, astronomy and geography, mathematics, medical studies, etc. These classics represent the most abundant, complete and comprehensive canon of Chinese civilization. PC only, Internet Explorer only. Follow link to download software and instructions for installing. | ||
| Smithsonian Global Sound | ||
| A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. Includes American folk music, blues, American Indian, jazz, classical, spoken word and sounds, and more. | ||
| Smithsonian Physical Tables (Knovel) | |
9th rev. ed. , 2003 |
| Physics tables of general interest to scientists and engineers, and of particular interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense. Originally published by the Smithsonian Institution Press. | ||
| Social Science Research Network (Social Science Electronic Publishing) | |
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| Working papers and forthcoming papers in the social sciences. Consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts of scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection containing full-text documents. | ||
| Social Services Abstracts (CSA) | 1980-current | |
| Current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,406 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews. | ||
| Sociological Abstracts (CSA) | 1963-current | |
| Provides access to world's literature in sociology and related disciplines (anthropology, economics, education, medicine, political sciences, and more) Abstracts of journal articles, conference papers, dissertations, books, and book reviews. | ||
| Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online | current | |
| Statistics on crime and criminal justice-related topics. | ||
| South and Southeast Asian Literature (Alexander Street Press) | ||
| Fiction and poetry written in English by authors from South and Southeast Asia and their Diasporas focusing on works composed during the late-colonial and postcolonial eras. | ||
| SpringerLink | |
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| Online scientific, technical, and medical journals from Springer Verlag. | ||
| Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy | |
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| Encyclopedia of Philosophy, incomplete but so far includes over 600 in-depth entries with bibliographies. | ||
| STAT-USA/Internet (Dept. of Commerce) | |
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Business, economic and trade information from the Federal government. Includes State of the Nation (U.S. domestic economic and financial data) and Globus & NTDB (daily trade leads from Trade Opportunities Program and Dept. of Agriculture) Title to be cancelled effective 8/1/05 | ||
| State and Metropolitan Area Data Book, 5th Ed. | |
1997-98 |
| Statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States at the State and metropolitan area levels. Selected data for component counties and central cities of metropolitan areas are also included. | ||
| Statistical Abstract of the United States | 1995-2003 editions | |
| Statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Also a guide to other data sources from the Census Bureau, other federal agencies and private organizations. | ||
| Statistical Universe (LexisNexis) | |
varies |
| Statistical data from federal agencies, U.S. Congress, state governments, United Nations, international organizations. Coverage: <br /> - all statistics issued by the U.S. government back to 1973 through CIS' American Statistics Index. <br /> - some 1,000 of the best statistical publications of private and state government sources from 1980 forward through CIS' Statistical Reference Index. <br /> - approximately 2,000 titles from 00 international intergovernmental organizations, all published annually since 1983 through CIS' Index to International Statistics. | ||
| Story Finder | |
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| Contains short stories, from classic to contemporary with explanations, biographies, pictures and more. | ||
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Title and Description |
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| Thermochemistry of the Chemical Substances (Knovel) | |
2003 |
| Table of values with a list of substances accompanied by thermochemical data. Includes values of heats of formation, transition, fusion, vaporization, and reaction. | ||
| Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) | |
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| Digital library of Greek literature. | ||
| THOMAS (LC) | |
dates vary |
| Federal legislative information. Includes current Congressional activity, bill summaries and status, Congressional Record, Congressional roll call votes, committee information, historical documents, and links to other federal government web sites. | ||
| Thomas Register of American Manufacturers (Thomas Publishing) | |
Current |
| Listings of companies and products manufactured in North America. Online company catalogs and links to websites. | ||
| Times Digital Archive (Gale) | |
1785-1985 |
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Times (London) digital edition with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos. Limited to 1 user at a time. Printing tips: http://library.vassar.edu/resources/databases/tdaprinting.html | ||
| Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive (Primary Source Media) | |
1902-1990 |
| Book reviews | ||
| Twayne Author Series (Gale) | ||
| Literary criticism of English, American and world authors. Critical introductions to lives and works of writers, history and influence of literary movements, or development of literary genres. Presents major literary trends and important contributions to scholarship and criticism. Includes chronologies, biographies, critical analyses, and annotated bibliographies. | ||
| Twentieth Century African-American Poetry (LION) | ||
| Twentieth Century American Poetry (LION) | ||
| Twentieth Century English Poetry (LION) | 1900-current | |
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Contains poetry of over 285 British poets from 1900 to the present day.
Limited to 4 simultaneous users. Does not work with Mac/Safari | ||
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| U*X*L Encyclopedia of Science | 2nd ed., 2002 | |
| Topics profiled are related to the physical, life, and earth sciences, as well as to math, psychology, engineering, technology, and the environment. Part of Gale Virtual Reference Library. | ||
| U.S. Code (GPO Access) | |
1995 with supplements through 2000 |
| General and permanent laws of the U.S. codified by subject matter. Divided by broad subjects into 50 titles and published by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives. Since 1926, the United States Code has been published every six years with annual cumulative supplements published in between editions. | ||
| U.S. Congressional Serial Set (Newsbank) | |
15th-90th Congresses, 2nd session, 1817-1967, Serial Set Vols. 1-12792 |
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Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Upon completion, the set will cover 1817-1980. If using Firefox as your browser, use the Firefox Print command, not the Adobe (or Preview) Print option. | ||
| Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory | |
1979-current |
| Provides data on regularly published and irregularly issued serials including cessations. Includes purchasing and contact information for publishers in 200 countries. | ||
| United Nations, Official Documents of the | |
1993- |
| Full-text of official documents of the United Nations. | ||
| University of Chicago Press | |
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| Journals from the U. of Chicago presenting original research from international scholars in social sciences, humanities, education, biological and medical sciences, and physical sciences. | ||
| Urban Studies Abstracts (Ebsco) | ||
| Covers essential areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. | ||
| USA.gov | Current. | |
| Official U.S. Government gateway to all government information. | ||
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| Vassar Encyclopedia | ||
| Articles on the history of Vassar College by the College Historian. | ||
| Victorian Database Online | 1945-current | |
| References to articles, books, and dissertations on every field of nineteenth-century British studies. | ||
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| Wall Street Journal (Proquest) | |
1986-current |
| Wall Street Journal Historical File (Proquest) | |
1889-1985 |
| Web of Science (ISI) | 1984-current | |
| Library no longer subscribes to WOS. Use Scopus for citations to articles in scholarly journals in science and social science. Use Arts & Humanities Search (FirstSearch) for Arts & Humanities Citation Index. | ||
| Webster's Unabridged (LION) | |
1993 ed. |
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Online version of Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, published in 1961, and subsequent updates. Limited to 4 simultaneous users. Does not work with Mac/Safari | ||
| Wiley Interscience Journals (Wiley) | |
dates vary |
| Includes full-text of Wiley journals in science, business, education, law, mathematics, medicine, psychology, social sciences. | ||
| Wilson SelectPlus (FirstSearch) | |
1994-current |
| Multidisciplinary database of full-text articles. Includes US and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines. Many articles are linked to citations in other FirstSearch databases. | ||
| Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (Alexander Street Press) | |
1600-2000 |
| History of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. | ||
| Women Writers Online (Brown Univ.) | |
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| Includes texts by pre-Victorian women writers. | ||
| Women's History Online, 1542-1945 (Gerritsen Collection) | 1543-1945 | |
| Contains primary source materials in women's history that span four centuries and fifteen languages. | ||
| Women's Studies Encyclopedia Online (Greenwood) | |
2002 |
| Contains information about women from all fields and disciplines of study. Focus is on American women. Revised and updated version of the print edition published in 1999. | ||
| World Development Indicators Online (World Bank) | |
1960-current |
| Access to more than 600 development indicators, with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 to 2004, where data are available. | ||
| World Shakespeare Bibliography (Johns Hopkins) | 1900-current | |
| Indexes books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, production reviews, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced since 1900. | ||
| WorldCat (FirstSearch) | Dates vary | |
| Online catalog of books and other material cataloged by OCLC member libraries worldwide. | ||
| Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations (Gale) | |
11th ed., 2004 |
| Information on 200 countries and dependencies from around the world. Entries discuss a variety of topics in detail, from banking and securities to climate, from government data to demographic statistics. Also includes biographical essays on national leaders. Part of Gale Virtual Reference Library. | ||
| Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (CSA) | 1975-current | |
| Politics, international relations, government, public policy. | ||
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