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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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