Online resources : databases

"The United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence"--Readex.

"The United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence"--Readex.

"The United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence"--Readex.

"The United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence"--Readex.

A searchable collection of full text newspapers. Updates generally occur within 48 hours of print.

DARE, the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness, is a full text database containing critical assessments of systematic reviews from a variety of medical journals. DARE is produced at the National Health Services' Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (NHS CRD) at the University of York, and consists of structured abstracts of systematic reviews from all over the world. DARE records cover topics such as diagnosis, prevention, rehabilitation, screening, and treatment.

Includes open access research theses which are made available by the DART-Europe partners, which are research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses.

Consists of 6 databases: Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Cochrane reviews), Database of abstracts of reviews of effect (DARE), Cochrane central register of controlled trials (CENTRAL), Cochrane database of methodology reviews (Methodology reviews), Health technology assessment database (HTA), and NHS economic evaluation database (NHS EED).

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.

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

David Irving is a British historian of World War II. He achieved notoriety when he was accused of Holocaust denial, particularly after 1996, following the unsuccessful attempt to clear his name of the charge. The documents in this collection comprise both Irving's personal notes and a significant proportion of the copies of original documents that he used, enabling researchers to draw their own conclusions on two levels: historical and historiographic. First, what does the material tell us about the conduct of the War? Second, to what extent do these documents, combined with other archives known to be accessible at the time Irving wrote Hitler's war, Göring and other works, betray a manipulation of the available evidence in order to achieve the objective of which this historian stood accused.

This historical map collection has over 27,000 maps and images online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa are also represented.

This scholarly biographical encyclopedia is the standard source for information on prominent men and women from Italian history. The title is in progress and as of August 2009 had covered names A-M. The Web site updates coverage as new volumes are completed.

Includes open access research theses which are made available by the DART-Europe partners, which are research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses.

Searchable collection of electronic books - only locally purchased content will be available full-text.

DIR is an on-line encyclopedia on the rulers of the Roman empire from Augustus (27 BC-AD 14) to Constantine XI Palaeologus (1449-1453). The encyclopedia consists of (1) an index of all the emperors who ruled during the empire's 1500 years, (2) a growing number of biographical essays on the individual emperors, (3) family trees ("stemmata") of important imperial dynasties, (4) an index of significant battles in the empire's history, (5) a growing number of capsule descriptions and maps of these battles, and (6) maps of the empire at different times. Wherever possible, these materials are cross-referenced by live links. These contents are supplemented by an ancient and medieval atlas, a link to a virtual catalog of Roman coins, and other recommended links to related sites. The contents of DIR have been prepared by scholars but are meant to be accessible to non-specialists as well. They have been peer- reviewed for quality and accuracy before publication on this site.

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.

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

Collection of German periodicals considered to be among the most important in the following areas of research: Anglistik, Buch- / Bibliothekswesen, Geowissenschaften, Germanistik, Geschichte, Kunst, Mathematik, Musikwissenschaft, Naturwissenschaften, Neuere Philologien, Rechtswissenschaften, Romanistik, Soziologie, and Wirtschaftswissenschaften.

The goal of teaching is to promote independent learning so reading and writing becomes a lifelong habit. As children become better readers, they also become better writers. A workshop format provides a literacy context for building connections between the reading and writing processes. In this two-part video series, Donnie Skinner and Vicki Altland demonstrate how they implemented reading and writing workshops in two Arkansas schools. Program 1: Exploring Literature in Third Grade In the first program, Donnie Skinner and third-grade students at Boone Park Elementary in North Little Rock, Arkansas, explore how literature is used to promote deeper comprehension during reading and writing workshops. The first part of the program demonstrates the components of writing workshop, including a mini-lesson for crafting a good lead, independent practice, and writing conferences. The second part of the tape illustrates the components of reading workshop, including a mini-lesson for teaching a visualization strategy, independent practice, reading conferences, and a literature discussion group. The features of the workshop include: guided demonstrations and think-aloud;guided practice with teacher assistance; independent practice with teacher and peer conferences; language interactions that promote deeper comprehension.Program 2: Conducting Research in First Grade In the second program, Vicki Altland and her first graders at Ida Burns Elementary in Conway, Arkansas, use a workshop approach to conduct research with nonfiction texts. Vicki scaffolds her first graders as they apply a ten-step process for conducting research, including choosing a topic, gathering materials, organizing information, and publishing the results. The features of the workshop include: mini-lesson with guided practice; group work with teacher conferences; group sharing with teacher assessment.

Each biography in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online reproduces one that was originally commissioned by the Dictionary of Canadian Biography for its print version and was republished, sometimes with minor corrections, in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volumes I-XIV, CD-ROM (2000). In 2003, a licensing agreement was reached between the Department of Canadian Heritage and the two universities to make the Dictionary of Canadian Biography available on the Internet. Library and Archives Canada then became responsible for putting the Dictionary of Canadian Biography into its online form.

Oxford DNB is an illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, in the British Isles and beyond, from the fourth century BC to the year 2009.

Contains all surviving Old English material (over 3000 texts), excluding some variant texts. Each text includes a reference to its genre, period and language; a unique text number; a Cameron number; a short and expanded title used to identify the text in the Dictionary of Old English.

The Dictionary of substances and their effects (DOSE) brings together all relevant data for over 4,100 chemicals, making it a vital reference for all health, safety and environmental officers, toxicologists and regulatory bodies. All the information in DOSE is fully referenced and is presented in concise, easy-to-read summaries. Data include physical properties, occupational exposure limits, mammalian and avian toxicity, genotoxicity, ecotoxicity, environmental fate, plus regulatory requirements including risk and safety phrases.

Documents on Irish Foreign Policy is a project of the Royal Irish Academy, the Department of Foreign Affairs and the National Archives of Ireland and was established in 1997. The project publishes essential source material for anyone interested in the development of Irish foreign policy since 1919. The full and searchable text of volumes II and III of the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series is now available. The new material runs from 1923 to 1932 and joins that from 1919 to 1921 already available.

The Digest of Social Legislation covers a wide range of legislation for England and Wales, and Scotland. It is divided into several sections, covering Consumer Protection, Education, Employment, Housing, Social Security and other topics. The Digest is designed for advisers and aims to give as exact an account of the relevant statutory provisions as possible, and its users include solicitors, Citizens Advice Bureaux, advice centres, welfare officers, colleges and universities, and local authorities. This electronic version incorporates changes in legislation up to the present year.

Digimap is an EDINA service that delivers Ordnance Survey map data to UK tertiary education. Data is available either to download to use with appropriate application software such as GIS or CAD, or as maps generated by Digimap online. Digimap allows users to view and print maps of any location in Great Britain at a series of predefined scales.

Geology Digimap is part of the Digimap Collection of on-line mapping and data delivery facilities. Users can view maps through their web browser, save maps for printing and download the geological map data for use in geographical information systems. The following geological maps and data are available: 1:625,000 solid and drift geology; 1:250,000 solid and drift geology; 1:50,000 solid and drift geology, mass movement and artificial ground; the BGS Lexicon of named Rock Units.

Includes citations for over 2.3 million dissertations and theses from around the world, ranging from 1861 to those accepted last semester. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts; master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Where available, PQDT provides twenty-four page previews. In addition, more than 750,000 are available for download in PDF format (digital dissertations and theses are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution).

The database features the English translation of Barth's magnum opus, The Church Dogmatics, in its entirety. The original German version, Die kirchliche Dogmatik, is also included as are the first 45 volumes of Barth's Gesamtausgabe, which includes hundreds of letters, sermons, lectures, conversations, and academic writings. These volumes are supplemented by seven additional German works that have not yet been published as part of the Gesamtausgabe and English translations of thirteen important texts by Barth.

A uniquely exhaustive resource for historians, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, the Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras.The database uses PhiloLogic software, developed at the University of Chicago, to enable in-depth browsing and searching of a treasury of theological writings, biblical commentaries, confessional documents, sermons, letters, polemical treatises, and other works by hundreds of Protestant authors.

Transcriptions and facsimiles of documents "including papal and synodal decrees, catechisms and inquisitorial manuals, biblical commentaries, theological treatises and systems, liturgical writings, saints' lives, and devotional works" by Catholic authors of the 16th and 17th centuries.

DQC is a digital library containing full text and page images of over 500 individual Quaker works from the 17th and 18th centuries. The proprietary software developed for Earlham School of Religion provides multiple search functions and an interface for viewing pages.

The DLF/OCLC Registry of Digital Masters provides a central place for library staff to search for, and find, digitally preserved materials. As such, the Registry broadens access to your organization's publicly-available digital books and journals. The Digital Library Federation (DLF) and OCLC developed the Registry, which functions as a subset of WorldCat. To be included in the Registry, an item must appear in a digital format. Typical items include monographs and serials. A registered object ensures that the digital object (or soon to be digitized) follows established standards and best practices for digitization and that the institution that digitized it has made a commitment to digital preservation of this object.

This site provides a sample of the rich collection of Arabic texts held by the Library of the University of Leeds, and its Special Collections, digitised as scans and backlights. The texts have been scanned comprehensively at high resolution to reveal of the text, paper texture and manufacture, and watermarks. This product will be of interest to papyrologists, arabists, digital archivists and others. The Leeds project is interested in developing techniques to examine the watermark in such documents, together with other concealed properties of the paper.

Collection of German periodicals considered to be among the most important in the following areas of research: Anglistik, Buch- / Bibliothekswesen, Geowissenschaften, Germanistik, Geschichte, Kunst, Mathematik, Musikwissenschaft, Naturwissenschaften, Neuere Philologien, Rechtswissenschaften, Romanistik, Soziologie, and Wirtschaftswissenschaften.

The DDS are a research project aiming to edit key documents on Swiss foreign relations. The work of the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland is both academic and practical in nature. The editors provide researchers and practitioners with official sources in printed and digitalised form which are necessary to reconstruct and gain an understanding of the history of Swiss foreign policy. The relevant documents are selected and edited by a research group whose members are historians from Swiss universities. It is also responsible for the annotation of the documents.

DIR is an on-line encyclopedia on the rulers of the Roman empire from Augustus (27 BC-AD 14) to Constantine XI Palaeologus (1449-1453). The encyclopedia consists of (1) an index of all the emperors who ruled during the empire's 1500 years, (2) a growing number of biographical essays on the individual emperors, (3) family trees ("stemmata") of important imperial dynasties, (4) an index of significant battles in the empire's history, (5) a growing number of capsule descriptions and maps of these battles, and (6) maps of the empire at different times. Wherever possible, these materials are cross-referenced by live links. These contents are supplemented by an ancient and medieval atlas, a link to a virtual catalog of Roman coins, and other recommended links to related sites. The contents of DIR have been prepared by scholars but are meant to be accessible to non-specialists as well. They have been peer- reviewed for quality and accuracy before publication on this site.

"The Directory of Open Access Books (www.doabooks.org), is a discovery service for peer reviewed books published under an Open Access license. DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher's website or repository. The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide the metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. These metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. At the start of the service there are just over 20 publishers participating with about 750 Open Access books and new publishers and books will be added [progressively]..."--Press release, The Hague, April 12, 2012.

The Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in all subjects and languages. There are now over 500 journals in the directory.

Presents detailed information on more than 7,100 periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, with 4,400 currently indexed in the MLA International Bibliography. The entries list editorial addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, frequency of publication, descriptions of the periodicals' scopes, circulation figures, subscription prices and addresses, advertising information, and submission guidelines.

Includes citations for over 2.3 million dissertations and theses from around the world, ranging from 1861 to those accepted last semester. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts; master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Where available, PQDT provides twenty-four page previews. In addition, more than 750,000 are available for download in PDF format (digital dissertations and theses are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution).

This scholarly biographical encyclopedia is the standard source for information on prominent men and women from Italian history. The title is in progress and as of August 2009 had covered names A-M. The Web site updates coverage as new volumes are completed.

Transcriptions and facsimiles of documents "including papal and synodal decrees, catechisms and inquisitorial manuals, biblical commentaries, theological treatises and systems, liturgical writings, saints' lives, and devotional works" by Catholic authors of the 16th and 17th centuries.

The Monumenta Germaniae Historica (frequently abbreviated MGH in bibliographies and lists of sources) is a comprehensive series of carefully edited and published sources for the study of German history from the end of the Roman Empire to 1500. It has primary source material for study of the Middle Ages and extends beyond Germany. The collection consists of five main areas, Antiquitates, Diplomata, Epistolae, Leges, Scriptores, as well as Necrologia. Many subsidiary series have also been established, including a series of more compact volumes for school use (Scriptores in usum scholarum) and special studies (MGH Schriften). The project, one of the great encyclopaedic group efforts of historical scholarship, continues in the 21st century. In 2004, the MGH, with the support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft began making all of its publications, which have been in print for more than five years, available online, via a link on the MGH homepage.

Oxford DNB is an illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, in the British Isles and beyond, from the fourth century BC to the year 2009.

The DDS are a research project aiming to edit key documents on Swiss foreign relations. The work of the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland is both academic and practical in nature. The editors provide researchers and practitioners with official sources in printed and digitalised form which are necessary to reconstruct and gain an understanding of the history of Swiss foreign policy. The relevant documents are selected and edited by a research group whose members are historians from Swiss universities. It is also responsible for the annotation of the documents.

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

Documents on Irish Foreign Policy is a project of the Royal Irish Academy, the Department of Foreign Affairs and the National Archives of Ireland and was established in 1997. The project publishes essential source material for anyone interested in the development of Irish foreign policy since 1919. The full and searchable text of volumes II and III of the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series is now available. The new material runs from 1923 to 1932 and joins that from 1919 to 1921 already available.

The Dictionary of substances and their effects (DOSE) brings together all relevant data for over 4,100 chemicals, making it a vital reference for all health, safety and environmental officers, toxicologists and regulatory bodies. All the information in DOSE is fully referenced and is presented in concise, easy-to-read summaries. Data include physical properties, occupational exposure limits, mammalian and avian toxicity, genotoxicity, ecotoxicity, environmental fate, plus regulatory requirements including risk and safety phrases.

WRDS (generally pronounced as "words") is an Internet-based data subscription service that is provided by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. This data service gives users access to a number of companion databases under the Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) including; COMPUSTAT North America (from Standard & Poors) 300 annual & 100 quarterly data items on more than 24,000 listed companies. CRSP (Center for Research in Security Prices) a comprehensive collection of data from NYSE, AMEX and the Nasdaq markets. IBES (Institutional Brokers Estimates System) provides forecasts from securities analysts. NYSE TAQ (Trade and Quote) provides trade and quote data from NYSE, AMEX and the Nasdaq markets.

Provides worldwide full text coverage of international and US newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, business-rich Web sites, investment analyst reports, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles, historical market data.

DQC is a digital library containing full text and page images of over 500 individual Quaker works from the 17th and 18th centuries. The proprietary software developed for Earlham School of Religion provides multiple search functions and an interface for viewing pages.

One of the things that I've really come in to believe from working with boy writers and working with teachers who've really been involved with trying to engage boy writers in a more productive way is that when you give boys more leave way you get good stuff out of them. I mean, I've seen that again and again when you are willing to sort of push back the boundaries a little bit and make it a little bit less restrictive, so more inclusive into the kind of topics that boys wanna write about. Not just what they wanna write about but also how they wanna write about it.

DYABOLA is a navigable, source-oriented text and image registration system equipped with a semantic network, a syntax generator and a data-scrolling machine. Developed for the humanities and the arts, it contains electronic subject catalogs of publications on the history of art and the ancient world and includes the subject catalogs of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome, the Bibliography of Iberian Archaeology from the German Archaeological Institute in Madrid, and the Archaeology of Roman Provinces from RGK Frankfurt.

Medical reference tool containing clinically-organized summaries for nearly 2,000 topics - diseases, disorders, and symptoms, with information on etiology, associated conditions, history and research findings, differential diagnosis and diagnostic testing, prognosis, treatment, prevention, and links to patient information. It monitors the content of over 500 medical journals and systematic evidence review databases. New evidence is then integrated with existing content, and overall conclusions are changed as appropriate representing a synthesis of the best available evidence. Summaries are derived from peer-reviewed sources.