Online resources : databases

This covers artists, illustrators, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture, design, decoration, popular culture, and indexes articles from journals published in the US in the 19th century. Indexes 42 American art journals, with nearly complete coverage of those published between 1840 and 1907. Entire journal contents are indexed.

This is the combined search-and-retrieval website for AAPG publications and related collections. Includes full-text and abstracts.

A service of the Getty Conservation Institute in association with The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. AATA Online, formerly the print publication Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts, is an online database of abstracts of worldwide literature related to the management and conservation of international material cultural heritage. Materials included are works of art, cultural objects, museum collections, archives and library materials, architecture and historic sites.

ABELL contains over 750,000 records covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world on English language, English literature, and bibliographic studies from 1920 onwards.

Over 200,000 citations on international music corresponding to the printed RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. Includes all data from the RILM printed year 1969 to the present.

In his book, Greater Expectations, Robin Turner, a high school English teacher in Anaheim, California, describes how he helps prepare the underrepresented -- predominantly Latino and African-American -- students in his class for the literacy challenges of higher education. In addition to sound literacy strategies Robin draws on principles from the Puente Project, creating personal and cultural connections that help students become more engaged and invested their work.In Academic Literacy viewers get a glimpse into Robin's classroom, where many students are the first in their families to attend high school, let alone college. Robin employs careful, systematic, and rigorous methods to help students acquire the literacy skills they need to succeed in even the most elite college programs. These methods include the use of short sophisticated texts, practice in academic writing genres, ongoing guided discussion, mastery of literary and technical terms, involvement of families, and peer mentoring from older high school students and graduates of the program who have moved on to successful college careers.Practical, thoughtful, and inspiring, Academic Literacy demonstrates that when we combine higher standards with appropriately-targeted literacy support, students who are often left behind in traditional tracked high school programs can succeed beyond our greatest expectations.

Collection of science reference materials based on the full text and illustrations from the latest edition of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, plus updates from the Yearbooks of Science and Technology, definitions from Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, biographies from Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography, headline news from Science News, bibliographies, study guides, and more.

Contains the texts processed thus far from the corpus of Celtic-Latin literature from the period 400-1200 as part of the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources project.

A collection of major scholarly works from all areas of the humanities, including online versions of printed works as well as original electronic publications.

Provides bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since 1985 are available in the library together with works published by affiliated organizations. All material associated with an article is provided: bibliographic reference, index terms, abstracts, reviews, full-text.

The ACP Journal Club Collection consists of two journals: ACP Journal Club, a publication of the American College of Physicians, and Evidence-Based Medicine, a joint publication with the British Medical Journal Group. The editors of ACP Journal Club screen top clinical journals and identify studies that are both methodologically sound and clinically relevant. They write an enhanced abstract of the chosen articles and provide a commentary on the value of the article for clinical practice. Using this source, clinicians can quickly understand and apply to their practice important changes in medical knowledge, without having to read and synthesize for themselves thousands of journal articles. Every word of the document text in ACP Journal Club is searchable, including references, captions, and footnotes.

Presents Action Without Borders, Inc., formerly the Contact Center Network. Action Without Borders is a nonprofit organization that promotes the sharing of ideas, information, and resources. Lists over 27,000 nonprofit and community organizations in 153 countries, which you can search or browse by name, location or mission.

Searchable database for Allgemeine deutsche biographie, and Neue deutsche Biographie.

The Australian Dictionary of National Biography is an authoritative historical biographical resource, and contains entries for more than 11,000 people.

It is not just teenage bodies that undergo tremendous changes in adolescence; young minds begin working in new ways that sometimes cause awkward situations just as do the newly elongated legs or deeper voices. Referring to the work of Piaget, Erikson, Goffman and his own studies, David Elkind looks at the intellectual, emotional and social consequences that result from the changes in thinking. These changes permit new ways of reasoning and enable students to take on much more challenging materials, but sometimes the transition results in inconsistent forms of thinking that create social and emotional difficulties. PP The film includes newly shot film of a public middle school and structured interviews illustrating the intellectual challenges of this period of life when adolescents are constructing personal identities and new mental capacities.

The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project which maintains four bibliographic databases containing more than 4.1 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics, and Los Alamos preprint server. The main body of data in the ADS consists of bibliographic records, which are searchable through the Abstract Service query forms, and full-text scans of much of the astronomical literature which can be browsed though the Browse interface. Included in the abstracts are links to scanned images of journal articles from major astronomical journals. In addition, the ADS provides access or pointers to astronomical data catalogs and data archives from NASA.

The aim of the Archaeology Data Service (ADS) is to collect, describe, catalogue, preserve, and provide user support for digital resources that are created as a product of archaeological research. The ADS also has a responsibility for promoting standards and guidelines for best practice in the creation, description, preservation and use of spatial information across the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) as a whole. For those classes of archaeological data where there are existing archival bodies the role of the ADS will be to collaborate with the appropriate national and local agencies to promote greater use of existing services.

Resources cover company, country, industry and product intelligence as well as business strategies and news and opinion.

Cross-searches on one platform all the audio, video, scores, and full-text reference material from all the Alexander Street Press music products that each institution subscribes to (therefore content will vary).

The Master index and Further web resources are structured indexes to Lion and Internet resources for English and American literature. Lion includes Chadwyck-Healey fulltext databases: English poetry, English drama (combining English verse drama and English prose drama databases), Early English prose fiction, Editions and adaptations of Shakespeare, The Bible in English, The King James "Authorized" Version, Eighteenth-century fiction, American poetry, and African-American poetry. Lion also includes reference databases: Annual bibliography of English language and literature; Bibliography of American literature; Webster's Third new international dictionary, unabridged; and Periodicals contents index: Literature.

African American Song is the first online resource to document the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others.

A digital collection of some 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920.

Contains detailed economic, social, and environmental data for African countries.

The AGU Digital Library is a comprehensive collection of more than 100 years of earth and space science research. The library contains articles from journals dating back to 1896. Full text and Boolean searching across publications is available. Book titles will be added as they are available.

Website of Arts and Humanities Data Service Visual Arts, one of five Centres of the service which is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Board and Joint Information Systems Committee of the UK. Provides access to searching multiple online digital collections containing images of visual art works. Describes the preservation and educational mission of AHDS Visual Arts and the services it provides, and gives guidelines for creation and submission of digital image collections.

The complete corpus of medieval Greek-Latin translations of the works of Aristotle as published in the printed work, Aristoteles Latinus.

The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of about 14,000 "classic" public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.

This video follows a high school history teacher as he fully engages at-risk students in grade-level history curriculum using creativity as well as a focused agenda.

This video follows a middle school teacher as he demonstrates his process of assessing students through action research and aligning the curriculum to meet individual needs so that each student can successfully reach the required standards.

Catalog and collection of digitized ballads from the 16th through early 20th century. Some ballads that have music notation are accompanied by sound files. Database has multiple searchable fields, including an index of items and themes depicted in illustrations.

The Allen Brain Atlas is a web-based application that is designed to aid the expansion of brain science. It enables users to access an extensive database of ISH images, ABA reference atlas, and gene expression masks. The Allen Brain Atlas project, named for its founder Paul G. Allen, will combine the disciplines of neuroanatomy and genomics to create the most comprehensive map of the brain at the cellular level, illustrating the functional anatomy of the brain through a collection of gene expression maps, brain circuits and cell locations.

Searchable database for Allgemeine deutsche biographie, and Neue deutsche Biographie.

Contains the complete works of William Shakespeare from the original electronic source of the Complete Moby(tm) Shakespeare.

All the World's Primates is the comprehensive and authoritative resource for information about all the species and subspecies of living lorises, galagos, lemurs, tarsiers, monkeys, and apes. The relational database has contributions from more than 300 scientists, most of whom have done research on primates in their natural habitats. Containing all of the 612 species and subspecies recognized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), as well as exciting current discoveries, the database details habitat, social behavior, diet, physical measurements, risks of extinction, and other facts critical to understanding primate lives. Users can organize primates by multiple methods that best suit their needs. Fully referenced with over 10,000 citations, the data accompany more than 3,000 photographs, as well as interactive maps for each species and subspecies, video, audio, links, search tools, multilingual glossaries, review articles, and other resources.

This is the combined search-and-retrieval website for AAPG publications and related collections. Includes full-text and abstracts.

The ACP Journal Club Collection consists of two journals: ACP Journal Club, a publication of the American College of Physicians, and Evidence-Based Medicine, a joint publication with the British Medical Journal Group. The editors of ACP Journal Club screen top clinical journals and identify studies that are both methodologically sound and clinically relevant. They write an enhanced abstract of the chosen articles and provide a commentary on the value of the article for clinical practice. Using this source, clinicians can quickly understand and apply to their practice important changes in medical knowledge, without having to read and synthesize for themselves thousands of journal articles. Every word of the document text in ACP Journal Club is searchable, including references, captions, and footnotes.

The AGU Digital Library is a comprehensive collection of more than 100 years of earth and space science research. The library contains articles from journals dating back to 1896. Full text and Boolean searching across publications is available. Book titles will be added as they are available.

The Master index and Further web resources are structured indexes to Lion and Internet resources for English and American literature. Lion includes Chadwyck-Healey fulltext databases: English poetry, English drama (combining English verse drama and English prose drama databases), Early English prose fiction, Editions and adaptations of Shakespeare, The Bible in English, The King James "Authorized" Version, Eighteenth-century fiction, American poetry, and African-American poetry. Lion also includes reference databases: Annual bibliography of English language and literature; Bibliography of American literature; Webster's Third new international dictionary, unabridged; and Periodicals contents index: Literature.

The Master index and Further web resources are structured indexes to Lion and Internet resources for English and American literature. Lion includes Chadwyck-Healey fulltext databases: English poetry, English drama (combining English verse drama and English prose drama databases), Early English prose fiction, Editions and adaptations of Shakespeare, The Bible in English, The King James "Authorized" Version, Eighteenth-century fiction, American poetry, and African-American poetry. Lion also includes reference databases: Annual bibliography of English language and literature; Bibliography of American literature; Webster's Third new international dictionary, unabridged; and Periodicals contents index: Literature.

Site contains documents related to the study of the American Presidency, including public papers, annual messages to Congress, inaugural addresses, radio addresses, acceptance speeches, presidential candidates debates, party platforms, elections data, and an audio/video archive.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals. The ATLA Religion Database includes more than 575,000 article citations from more than 1,679 journals (506 currently indexed), more than 239,000 essay citations from over 16,800 multi-author works, and more than 530,000 book review citations. Full text is provided for more than 294,000 electronic articles and book reviews. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association--Database description at EBSCOhost as of Sept. 22, 2010.

This website provides a central access point for Canadian theses. It allows one to search AMICUS, Canada's national online catalogue, for bibliographic records of all theses in the Library and Archives Canada theses collection, which was established in 1965, and free access to the full text electronic versions of Canadian theses and dissertations that were published from 1998 onwards.

Analytical Abstracts is the premier current awareness and information retrieval service for analytical scientists. More than 100 international journals are scanned for inclusion. Around 1,400 abstracts are included in each monthly issue. Analytical Abstracts Online (Analytical WebBase) contains over one-third of a million records from 1980 to date, and is updated weekly.

An online dictionary of the Anglo-Norman or, more accurately, Anglo-French language, the form of French used in Britain between 1066 and the middle of the fifteenth century.

ABELL contains over 750,000 records covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world on English language, English literature, and bibliographic studies from 1920 onwards.

The Master index and Further web resources are structured indexes to Lion and Internet resources for English and American literature. Lion includes Chadwyck-Healey fulltext databases: English poetry, English drama (combining English verse drama and English prose drama databases), Early English prose fiction, Editions and adaptations of Shakespeare, The Bible in English, The King James "Authorized" Version, Eighteenth-century fiction, American poetry, and African-American poetry. Lion also includes reference databases: Annual bibliography of English language and literature; Bibliography of American literature; Webster's Third new international dictionary, unabridged; and Periodicals contents index: Literature.

Reviews of topics in biomedical, physical and social sciences published as annual journals.

Anthropology Plus combines Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and the Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.

AnthroSource was developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA). It brings 100 years of anthropological material online including a complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003 and current issues for 11 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications. Features newsletters and bulletins. Journal issues generally appear online prior to distribution in print.

Contains the complete works of William Shakespeare from the original electronic source of the Complete Moby(tm) Shakespeare.

An indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, economics, politics, race relations, and education. Dates of coverage: 1987 - current.

The aim of the Archaeology Data Service (ADS) is to collect, describe, catalogue, preserve, and provide user support for digital resources that are created as a product of archaeological research. The ADS also has a responsibility for promoting standards and guidelines for best practice in the creation, description, preservation and use of spatial information across the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) as a whole. For those classes of archaeological data where there are existing archival bodies the role of the ADS will be to collaborate with the appropriate national and local agencies to promote greater use of existing services.

The British Library's Archival sound recordings website gives UK higher and further education staff and students free access to over 12,000 recordings as follows: 400 popular music tracks (mostly British bands from the 1930s to 1990s); African Writers' Club (250 hours on art, literature, music and politics); Art and design interviews (e.g. Denys Lasdun, Eduardo Paolozzi, Paula Rego); Beethoven string quartets (750 recordings from the last 100 years); David Rycroft Africa recordings (music and poetry, mainly from Southern Africa); Klaus Wachsmann Uganda recordings (1,500 recordings from 26 culture groups); Oral history of jazz in Britain (with musicians, promoters and label-owners); Records and record players (developments in recording technology); Sony Radio Awards - drama (every short-listed play 1986-1997); Soundscapes (evocative environmental sounds from Great Britain and Canada); St Mary-le-Bow public debates (e.g. John Betjeman, Jonathan Miller, Diana Rigg)

Catalogue of descriptive records for archival collections and items, together with a fast-growing set of online finding aids, providing a single point of entry to many of the world's archival holdings.

The Library of Latin texts contains texts from the beginning of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus, 240 BC) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). It covers all the works from the classical period, the most important patristic works, a very extensive corpus of Medieval Latin literature as well as works of recentior latinitas including texts from the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. The complete works of writers such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas Kempis can be consulted. The texts have been taken from the Corpus Christianorum series and from many other leading editions. The Monumenta Germaniae historica consists of medieval historical texts. The complete corpus of medieval Greek-Latin translations of the works of Aristotle as published in the printed work, Aristoteles Latinus.

Contains the texts processed thus far from the corpus of Celtic-Latin literature from the period 400-1200 as part of the Royal Irish Academy's Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources project.

PubMed Central is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Provides a single point of access to descriptions of archival collections that are available for research in universities and colleges in the UK. The Archives Hub forms one part of the UK's National Archives Network, alongside related networking projects.

The archaeology journal holdings of over 20 UK university, museum and private libraries have been united to create one searchable resource.

The complete corpus of medieval Greek-Latin translations of the works of Aristotle as published in the printed work, Aristoteles Latinus.

Regional Business News incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Included in this database are Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, Crain's New York Business (and other Crain Communications editions), Des Moines Business Record, Enterprise Salt Lake City, Fort Worth Business Press, Orange County Business Journal, Westchester County Business Journal, etc.

Contains bibliographic citations describing items listed on the table of contents pages of more than 13,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. 1990 to the present for most journals, 1992 or 1994 to the present for some.

When Kelly Gallagher learned that his ninth grade students could not name the vice president of the United States, and when two seniors asked him in all seriousness, "Who is this guy, Al Qaeda?", Kelly was shocked into realizing he needed to do something outside the standard curriculum to build his students' background knowledge. In response, he developed the Article of the Week activity to address the serious gaps in his students' education. Each week, students read a short article that informs them about the world. Students highlight passages and words they don't understand, consider the author's purpose and intended audience, and work through any confusion. The class then discusses how the structure and craft of the article informs reader comprehension and how they can implement these elements into their own writing. In 15-minutes, Kelly shows teachers how to integrate the Article of the Week into their own classrooms in a manner that provides the background knowledge that is the foundation for critical reading.

During the 1980s, Graham Potts and Geoff Milburn of the University of Sunderland oversaw a Manpower Services Commission scheme to find and list articles published in regional and national journals about the history and archaeology of north-east England. The result was a card index with over 6,000 entries. Thanks to a grant from the Marc Fitch Fund, this card index has been digitised and is now online and searchable. The database includes articles about the history of Northumberland, Durham and Cleveland, mostly post-1066. North Yorkshire, Cumbria and Scotland were largely excluded from the original search, although there are some articles about the Anglo Saxon period, North Yorkshire and north-west England.

CAMIO fills the gap left by the end of operations of the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO). This new database not only supports art history, studio art, and design departments, it also provides rich context for history, religion, and other humanities programs. It covers antiquity to the present, and includes photographs, paintings, sculpture, decorative and utilitarian objects, prints, drawings and watercolors, jewelry and costumes, textiles, books, installations, and architecture - plus audio-video and mixed media.

ISI Web of knowledge is an integrated platform designed to support research in academic, corporate, government, and not for profit organizations. ISI citation databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed to be searched by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. They can also be searched for articles that cite a known author or work. Cited reference searching allows use of a given work as if it were a subject term, to identify more recent articles on the same topic.

Multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. IIndexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from major science and social science journals.

ARTstor is a digital library of images covering the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. The collections comprise contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.

An e-print service which presents papers in physics and related disciplines, mathematics, nonlinear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. ArXiv.org is a fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for research papers which functions as a means of communicating ongoing research information in these subject areas.

AnthroSource was developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA). It brings 100 years of anthropological material online including a complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003 and current issues for 11 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications. Features newsletters and bulletins. Journal issues generally appear online prior to distribution in print.

"The Assayer is the web's largest catalog of books whose authors have made them available for free. Users can also submit reviews. The site has been around since 2000, and is a particularly good place to find free books about math, science, and computers" (Home page)

An indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, economics, politics, race relations, and education. Dates of coverage: 1987 - current.

Provides bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since 1985 are available in the library together with works published by affiliated organizations. All material associated with an article is provided: bibliographic reference, index terms, abstracts, reviews, full-text.

The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project which maintains four bibliographic databases containing more than 4.1 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics, and Los Alamos preprint server. The main body of data in the ADS consists of bibliographic records, which are searchable through the Abstract Service query forms, and full-text scans of much of the astronomical literature which can be browsed though the Browse interface. Included in the abstracts are links to scanned images of journal articles from major astronomical journals. In addition, the ADS provides access or pointers to astronomical data catalogs and data archives from NASA.

Contains the complete works of William Shakespeare from the original electronic source of the Complete Moby(tm) Shakespeare.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals. The ATLA Religion Database includes more than 575,000 article citations from more than 1,679 journals (506 currently indexed), more than 239,000 essay citations from over 16,800 multi-author works, and more than 530,000 book review citations. Full text is provided for more than 294,000 electronic articles and book reviews. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association--Database description at EBSCOhost as of Sept. 22, 2010.

The Australian Dictionary of National Biography is an authoritative historical biographical resource, and contains entries for more than 11,000 people.

This service covers a variety of subject areas including Adult and continuing education, Distance education, Educational policy, Educational psychology, Educational sociology, Educational technology, Language acquisition, Management in education, Multicultural education, Special education, and Teacher education.

A database of higher degrees theses accepted at Australian universities and colleges in the area of education. Contains over 10,200 records for theses dated from 1919. Records for years from 1978 contain abstracts.

The Australian Newspapers Beta service allows online access to historic Australian newspapers digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (ANDP), an ongoing project. The site contains 70,000 digitised newspaper pages for selected years between 1803 and 1954 and coverage is expanding weekly. The titles in the ANDP (as at July 31, 2008) include: Argus (Melbourne), Brisbane courier, Canberra times, Courier-mail (Brisbane), Hobart town gazette and southern reporter, Hobart town gazette and Van Diemen's land advertiser, Maitland mercury & Hunter River general advertiser, Mercury (Hobart), Perth gazette and Western Australian journal, South Australian advertiser and Sydney gazette and New South Wales advertiser. The site includes a link to the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program where full details of current coverage can be found.

"The Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters is a tool designed to encourage people to think about and learn from intercultural encounters that have made a strong impression or had a long-lasting effect on them. In discovering what underlies these encounters users become more aware of their experience and their reactions, thereby developing their intercultural competences" -- welcome page.

Contains digital documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government.

All the World's Primates is the comprehensive and authoritative resource for information about all the species and subspecies of living lorises, galagos, lemurs, tarsiers, monkeys, and apes. The relational database has contributions from more than 300 scientists, most of whom have done research on primates in their natural habitats. Containing all of the 612 species and subspecies recognized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), as well as exciting current discoveries, the database details habitat, social behavior, diet, physical measurements, risks of extinction, and other facts critical to understanding primate lives. Users can organize primates by multiple methods that best suit their needs. Fully referenced with over 10,000 citations, the data accompany more than 3,000 photographs, as well as interactive maps for each species and subspecies, video, audio, links, search tools, multilingual glossaries, review articles, and other resources.