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Electronic Indexes and Databases by Document Type

Image and Sound Databases
Title and Description	Some Fulltext	Coverage

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.

ARTstor
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.