Online resources : databases

Gale NewsVault delivers the definitive cross-searching experience for exploring Gale's range of historical newspaper and collections. Users can simultaneously search or browse across multiple products owned by their institution, including: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers; 19th Century British Library Newspapers, Parts I and II; 19th Century UK Periodicals, Series I: New Readerships; Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003; Times Digital Archive 1785-1985; Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive 1902-2005; and Picture Post Historical Archive.

Provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures.

The Garland encyclopedia of world music online is a comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. Each volume contains an overview of a geographic region, a survey of its musical heritage, and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Articles include detailed photographs that show musicians, musical instruments, and the cultural context of dances, rituals, and ceremonies. Other images include drawings, maps, and musical examples for further study. Contains the full text of the 10 volume print encyclopedia (originally published in 1997), which is searchable all together for the first time.

GDF online offers external debt and financial flow data for the 135 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System. The timeseries for 216 indicators run from 1970 to 2006, with contractual obligations data until 2015. The indicators include external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructurings, and scheduled debt service projections. The database is released in January each year and updated in April, to include the latest-year estimates prepared for the print editions. The subscription also includes topical country data and regional aggregates showing time series in table and chart form. The topics are: external debt, aggregate net resource flows (long term), net flows and transfers on debt, net financial flows from multilateral institutions, and international bond issues (new and outstanding).

GENESIS consists of a database with descriptions of women's history collections from museums, libraries and archives in the UK, and a guide to sources that provides access to a wide range of international web resources on women's history.

"The Lyell Collection is an online collection comprising of the Society's journal titles, Special Publications and key book series."--About.

"The Lyell Collection is an online collection comprising of the Society's journal titles, Special Publications and key book series."--About.

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.

The Geophysical Survey Database provides an on-line index of the archaeological geophysical surveys undertaken by the Archaeometry Branch of the Ancient Monuments Laboratory since 1972. For many of the surveys that have been reported since 1993 it also includes a link to a hypertext copy of the report, complete with plots and interpretations. Additionally it aims to include details of geophysical surveys, undertaken by anyone, over scheduled ancient monuments and sites under EH guardianship.

The GeoRef In Process database contains records that are in the process of being indexed prior to their integration in the main GeoRef database. The majority of the records originate from non-English language literature that was not necessarily published recently. GeoRef In Process does NOT contain the most current records and should not be confused with a database of Recent References. In Process records may lack a few fields or contain minimal data in some fields. It is recommended that you select both the GeoRef and GeoRef In Process to perform the most comprehensive search.

Indexes the geoscience literature of the world, including journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses. Subject coverage includes crystallography, economic geology, environmental geology, engineering geology, geochemistry, geophysics, hydrogeology, hydrology, marine geology, mineralogy, oceanography, and paleontology. Dates covered are: 1785 to present for North America and 1933 to present for international.

Browses, searches and orders books, newspapers, almanacs, electronic resources, textbooks, etc. available in German speaking areas.

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 video follows a high school teacher as she demonstrates how to effectively guide a class of English Language Learners to explore literary genres and encourage them to strengthen their English skills through a fondness for reading.

A collection of e-books concerning Scotland and Glasgow.

"Thomson Research", formerly known as Global Access, is a comprehensive, searchable financial database of U.S. and international companies. The database includes real-time and historical SEC filings, scanned images of annual reports, full-text articles and summaries from the financial and business press. Financial reports are downloadable to Excel and include ten year histories. Included in the service is access to the following databases: Business & Industry database, Business & Management Practices and Table Base.

GDF online offers external debt and financial flow data for the 135 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System. The timeseries for 216 indicators run from 1970 to 2006, with contractual obligations data until 2015. The indicators include external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructurings, and scheduled debt service projections. The database is released in January each year and updated in April, to include the latest-year estimates prepared for the print editions. The subscription also includes topical country data and regional aggregates showing time series in table and chart form. The topics are: external debt, aggregate net resource flows (long term), net flows and transfers on debt, net financial flows from multilateral institutions, and international bond issues (new and outstanding).

"GEM provides daily updates of global economic developments, with coverage of high income, as well as developing countries. Data is provided for exchange rates, equity markets, interest rates, stripped bond spreads, commodity prices and emerging market bond indices. Monthly data coverage (updated daily and populated upon availability) is provided for consumer prices, high-tech market indicators, industrial production and merchandise trade. Links are provided for easy access to relevant indicator pages, data sets (via DDP and Excel), live Factiva newsfeed, and related sites." (Abstract from JOLIS Library Catalog)

A comprehensive reference to current clinical practice for clinicians and other medical professionals - constantly updated, fully referenced and peer reviewed. The primary feature of this site consists of 442 specialist chapters on women's medicine, plus 53 supplementary chapters, authored by over 650 expert contributors citing more than 40,000 references.

"Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms."

An online glossary of rhetorical terms. Includes definitions and examples of terms including alliteration, anadiplosis, anastrophe, aporia, assonance, climax, euphemism, hendiadys, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, onomatopeia, oxymoron, paradox, paronomasia, pleonasm, prolepsis, simile, synchysis, tautology, and zeugma. Links to literary and grammar-related Internet sites.

Crossfire is Beilstein's structure database management and indexing system. The Beilstein and Gmelin databases are available as part of the Crossfire system. The Beilstein database provides worldwide coverage of the literature relating to the preparations and properties of organic compounds and covers the literature from 1771 onwards. The contents and the data structure are based on the Beilstein handbook of organic chemistry. The Gmelin database, the most complete collection of structures, properties, and references to the literature in organometallic and inorganic chemistry, contains all the structural, factual, and bibliographic data cited in the Gmelin handbook of inorganic and organometallic chemistry from 1648 to 1975 and 110 top journals from 1975 to 1994.

Reaxys is a workflow solution for accessing the combined wealth of trustworthy, experimental substance and reaction data and bibliographic data housed in the Beilstein, Gmelin and Patent Chemistry Databases.

GMID contains over a million demographic, economic and marketing statistics for 205 countries worldwide. The database also contains 6-year historic market size data for more than 330 consumer products in 52 countries, plus 5-year forecasts.

Provides information about jobs and careers throughout the globe. Includes country-specific guides, job and internship postings, and an employer directory containing over 400,000 company profiles.

The ability to select just-right books is a key element in developing confident, successful, independent readers. Gail starts this mini-lesson with Joan's K-2 multiage students by modeling how she picks a pair of shoes that are a good fit for her. Having engaged the class, the sisters show how to use a similar five-step process to select appropriate books for a Daily Five book box: look at the book, consider the purpose and decide, am I interested in it? Do I comprehend it? Do I know most of the words? They show examples of successful and unsuccessful matches to clarify the children's understanding.

State papers online contains 3 million pages of 16th- & 17th-century British government documents, over 200,000 searchable pages of Calendars and catalogues. Each Manuscript document is linked to its calendar entry.

Includes a scan of the Gutenberg Bible itself, as well as the Model Book for painting manuscripts which was used to illuminate the Göttingen Bible and the "Helmasperger Notarial Instrument", a document which records the legal dispute between Gutenberg and his backer Johannes Fust. Together with other supporting documentation.

Provides online access to bibliographic citations to all types of U.S. government documents from 1976 to the present, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.).

The Grove Dictionary of Art contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography from prehistory to the present day. Compiled over a period of 15 years, it represents the work of more than 6,800 scholars from around the world, each writing on his or her own specialist field of study. The online version provides access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996) with constant additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links. It offers original essays on each subject by scholars in the field, originally commissioned maps, diagrams, line drawings, art resources, site links (which include images), etc.

"This authoritative, dynamic resource brings together the best current scholarship in the field for students, scholars, government officials, community groups, and librarians to foster a more accurate and informed understanding of the Islamic world. Oxford Islamic Studies Online features reference content and commentary by renowned scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture, and is regularly updated as new content is commissioned and approved"--About page.

Oxford Music Online (OMO) is the access-point for Oxford music reference subscriptions and products, including Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music. With OMO patrons can cross-search Grove and Oxford reference content in one location. Articles from specialist dictionaries such as The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed., are available via OMO.

This film examines the work of Lev Vygotsky and Jean Piaget, illuminating the similarities and differences of their contributions to our understanding of the cognitive development of young children. Dr. Elkind uses their research and his own work to look at three aspects of intellectual growth: reasoning, visual perception, and language use. Children are seen both in interview situations and busily participating in an accredited child care center to illustrate Dr. Elkind's points about their ever-changing intellectual abilities.

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

This is a guide to the pamphlet collections retro-catalogued in the framework of the 19th Century Pamphlets Project, a RSLP project led by the Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL) and managed by Information Services at the University of Birmingham. You can search by institution/collection or by subject. For each entry the details of the exact location of the collection, a link to the library where the collection is held, a short description of the collection are given. In additon information about how to access the collection in question and a link to the library's online catalogue are provided.

"On this site you will find the British Library's two copies of Johann Gutenberg's Bible, the first real book to be printed using the technique of printing which Gutenberg invented in the 1450s. In the Background section you can find out about Gutenberg, how he produced the Bible and the texts he printed. There is also a section about the digitisation of the Bibles. Other web resources on Gutenberg appear in our Links section and further reading in References. You can also view a Timeline"

Includes a scan of the Gutenberg Bible itself, as well as the Model Book for painting manuscripts which was used to illuminate the Göttingen Bible and the "Helmasperger Notarial Instrument", a document which records the legal dispute between Gutenberg and his backer Johannes Fust. Together with other supporting documentation.