Online resources : databases

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.

Bibliographic database compiled by the London School of Economics and Political Science. IBSS includes nearly two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,700 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books included each year. The database covers the references in the print publications "International bibliography of anthropology", "International bibliography of economics", "International bibliography of political science" and "International bibliography of sociology".

The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Virtual Library archive contains every peer-reviewed technical paper published by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) from 1836. The archive contains more than 18,000 illustrated papers on subjects related to civil engineering and construction by almost every leading British or British-trained engineer that ever lived.

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.

"In a four year cycle the IEA publishes incisive economic analysis on the whole range of policy issues including education, the environment, welfare, trade, monetary policy and pensions. IEA publications also deal with wider issues such as corporate social responsibility, public choice economics, morality and the market, corruption and the legal foundations of the market economy".

Provides full-text access to all IEEE transactions, IEEE and IEE journals and magazines, and brings additional search and access features to IEEE/IEE electronic library users.

Electronic information service, maintained by Internet Securities, Inc., designed to meet the unique requirements of Sharia compliant financial industry participants.

"The OECD iLibrary, the new platform giving access to selected OECD statistical data, books, journals and working papers, is now available. It replaces SourceOECD."

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.

Searchable database of digital images that allows access to more than one million rights-cleared images from over 40 of the best collections in the world, including: Action Plus, Photo Researchers, akg-images, Encyclopaedia Britannica, and more.

Indexes articles, notes, and similar literature on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the date range of 400 to 1500 for the entire continent of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa for the period before the Muslim conquest and parts of those areas subsequently controlled by Christian powers. Includes more than 300,000 articles published 1967-, all of which are fully classified by date, subject and location.

Provides access to International Monetary Fund publications, including Country Reports, Occasional Papers, Working Papers, Pamphlet Series, Policy Discussion Papers, and Papers on Policy Analysis and Assessment.

The International Monetary Fund Country reports and publications, arranged by country. The IMF promotes international monetary cooperation and exchange rate stability, facilitates the balanced growth of international trade, and provides resources to help members in balance of payments difficulties or to assist with poverty reduction.

The Economic and Social Data Service is a national data archiving and dissemination service which came into operation in January 2003. The service is a jointly-funded initiative sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The ESDS is a distributed service, based on a collaboration between four key centres of expertise: UK Data Archive (UKDA), University of Essex; Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex; Manchester Information and Associated Services (MIMAS), University of Manchester; Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research (CCSR), University of Manchester.

Provides access to International Monetary Fund publications, including Country Reports, Occasional Papers, Working Papers, Pamphlet Series, Policy Discussion Papers, and Papers on Policy Analysis and Assessment.

Provides access to International Monetary Fund publications, including Country Reports, Occasional Papers, Working Papers, Pamphlet Series, Policy Discussion Papers, and Papers on Policy Analysis and Assessment.

Provides access to International Monetary Fund publications, including Country Reports, Occasional Papers, Working Papers, Pamphlet Series, Policy Discussion Papers, and Papers on Policy Analysis and Assessment.

Provides access to International Monetary Fund publications, including Country Reports, Occasional Papers, Working Papers, Pamphlet Series, Policy Discussion Papers, and Papers on Policy Analysis and Assessment.

This video follows a team of two elementary school teachers as they demonstrate how to work together, while making use of each other's strengths, and effectively collaborate to teach a classroom of students with varying levels of ability.

The video documents a team of two high school teachers as they demonstrate how to use collaborative teaching strategies and shared responsibilities in a secondary school setting to most effectively address individual learning styles of students and engage them regardless of ability level.

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

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

Index to literature on Islam, the Middle East and Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, and Muslim minorities elsewhere. Includes citations to over 2,000 journals, conference proceedings, monographs, and book reviews from 1906 to present. Database produced by the Islamic Bibliography Unit, Cambridge University Library.

Provides access to citations on various areas of Jewish studies. Some full text articles are available. Based on the print publication by the same title (ceased publication in 2000). Text in English, Hebrew, and various European languages. Provides a link to the JNUL home page.

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.

An index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. Working with archives, repositories, publishers, and individuals, first person narratives have been indexed from hundreds of published volumes, including those that are publicly available on the Web and those that are held by repositories and archives around the world. This site lets you keyword search and explore the personal thoughts of thousands of individuals from all walks of life and through hundreds of years of history. It also contains pointers to audio and video files, as well as bibliographic records.

"ION contains all the animal, plant, and virus names data found within the Thomson BIOSIS literature databases - Zoological Record, BIOSIS Previews and Biological Abstracts. Bacteria names will be added soon." Available via ISI Web of Knowledge.

A comprehensive listing of theses accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716. Abstracts are included for all theses as of 1986, and selectively from 1970-1986.

The Index Translationum is a list of books translated in the world, i.e. an international bibliography of translations. The database contains cumulative bibliographical information on books translated and published in about a hundred of UNESCO's Member States since 1979. It covers more than 1,300,000 notices in all disciplines: literature, social and human sciences, natural and exact sciences, art, history and others. Updated quarterly.

"Major reference work that provides a comprehensive entry point into all of the existing literature on child development from the fields of psychology, genetics, neuroscience, and sociology"-- About page.

Provides full-text (page image) access to articles from all journals published by companies in the Taylor & Francis Group. Subject coverage includes the sciences, health sciences, social sciences and humanities. Quick search options include searching articles by citation, articles by text, and by specific publications. Quick browse options include browsing by publications, publishers, and subjects. Full text access restricted to institution subscriptions in print.

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

Provides free searching and citations, with abstracts (often free) from scientific and academic journals, reports, and periodicals. Offers search interface for MEDLINE, UnCover, and online articles found in "Ingenta journals." Most articles are available in full text to registered users, via fee-based document delivery options. Includes 20,100,219 articles, chapters, reports and more, as well as 29,904 publications.

In her book In the Company of Children, Joanne Hindley invites you inside her third-grade New York City classroom to "have a look" as she describes her reading and writing workshops. Joanne extends the invitation once again through a series of four video programs that give you a close-up look at mini-lessons and conferences during those workshops. In the two programs on reading mini-lessons and writing mini-lessons, she explores and rethinks the resources, teaching strategies, and challenges surrounding the lead-in to a workshop. She sorts this whole-class instruction into three categories: 1. workshop management: practical matters of how books are organized in the room, how the room runs, and how to keep reading logs; 2. literary elements: how an awareness of the qualities of good writing, differences between genres, or the attraction of series books affects how children choose books; 3. strategies: understanding and developing the skills necessary to become successful readers and writers. The two programs on conferences also explore resources, this time regarding the one-to-one conversations on reading and writing that Joanne has with her students. "Conferring is a topic that will always be of great interest to all of us," she explains. "We all relate to that uneasy feeling of not knowing what to say, fearing that we don't always know enough to push our students further, and our uncertainty in general with just how much to push in the first place. I doubt that any of us will ever get to the point where we think, 'Oh, conferring - I'm great at that'." Joanne explains what resources she relies on to help her feel more confident in her conferring, including: keeping records on conferences with each child; using children's iterature; sharing the teacher's own history as a reader and writer; using other students'; writing as models. In a crowded classroom setting, this practical series of videos shows how one teacher deals with the diversity of students as readers and writers, and how the students in that classroom serve as the most important curriculum informants.

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.

"In a four year cycle the IEA publishes incisive economic analysis on the whole range of policy issues including education, the environment, welfare, trade, monetary policy and pensions. IEA publications also deal with wider issues such as corporate social responsibility, public choice economics, morality and the market, corruption and the legal foundations of the market economy".

Provides access to all tables of contents and to abstracts and full article text in Acrobat, PDF or PostScript formats for all Institute of Physics electronic journals. Now includes access to the Institute of Physics electronic journal archive covering IOP journals between 1874 and 1998.

The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Virtual Library archive contains every peer-reviewed technical paper published by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) from 1836. The archive contains more than 18,000 illustrated papers on subjects related to civil engineering and construction by almost every leading British or British-trained engineer that ever lived.

"CLCLT is the world's leading database for Latin texts. It 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. The complete works of writers such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas a Kempis can thus be consulted. The texts have been taken from the Corpus Christianorum series and from many other leading editions"--Publisher's website.

This video follows an elementary school teacher as she demonstrates how to successfully integrate technology into a curriculum, using the computer as a teaching tool, in order to most successfully engage a classroom of diverse learners.

Webpages providing free access to IPCC publications and data, including reports and technical papers.

Bibliographic database compiled by the London School of Economics and Political Science. IBSS includes nearly two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,700 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books included each year. The database covers the references in the print publications "International bibliography of anthropology", "International bibliography of economics", "International bibliography of political science" and "International bibliography of sociology".

The Index Translationum is a list of books translated in the world, i.e. an international bibliography of translations. The database contains cumulative bibliographical information on books translated and published in about a hundred of UNESCO's Member States since 1979. It covers more than 1,300,000 notices in all disciplines: literature, social and human sciences, natural and exact sciences, art, history and others. Updated quarterly.

The Economic and Social Data Service is a national data archiving and dissemination service which came into operation in January 2003. The service is a jointly-funded initiative sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The ESDS is a distributed service, based on a collaboration between four key centres of expertise: UK Data Archive (UKDA), University of Essex; Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex; Manchester Information and Associated Services (MIMAS), University of Manchester; Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research (CCSR), University of Manchester.

Indexes articles, notes, and similar literature on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the date range of 400 to 1500 for the entire continent of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa for the period before the Muslim conquest and parts of those areas subsequently controlled by Christian powers. Includes more than 300,000 articles published 1967-, all of which are fully classified by date, subject and location.

Bilingual bibliographic database on the history of post-classical Western art including: fine arts; decorative and applied arts; industrial design and architecture; popular and folk art; and material culture. Indexes and abstracts, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, exhibition catalogues, and articles from over 2,500 periodicals, about European and American art from late antiquity to the present.

"The Internet Archive "was founded [in 1996] to build an 'Internet library,' with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format," such as Internet sites and other cultural digital artifacts (i.e. movies, interviews, images, etc.). Using the Internet Archive's "Wayback Machine," users can look at their own Web site and track how it has evolved. Plug-ins are made available as needed. "Special Wayback Collections" provide a sense of how events such as September 11, 2001, were recorded digitally. This site is appropriate for anyone doing research on the history of the Internet and for those who want to see how the Internet has changed over the years." "Best Free Reference Web Sites 2002." RUSA Quarterly, Fall 2002; reviewed Feb. 19, 2002.

A reference tool for research and study developed by James Fieser (general editor). Articles include adaptations from public domain sources, adaptations of material written by the editor for classroom purposes, and original contributions by professional philosophers around the internet.

While literacy development begins long before children are of school age, the kindergarten classroom marks an important moment as students embark on their lifelong journey as writers. In the Beginning: Young Writers Develop Independence offers a close-up view of master teacher Emelie Parker's writing workshop at Bailey's Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences in Falls Church, VA, a school where nearly all students enter kindergarten as English language learners. In the Beginning captures the sights and sounds of a busy kindergarten classroom as Emelie works with her students. Viewers will observe a skillful teacher who knows how to listen, record, and tailor her instruction to writers at widely varying levels of development. We see how Emelie creates a workshop environment that nurtures her students while holding them accountable for their learning. This video explores many of the essential teacher-student transactions that support young children as they break into print including teaching skills in context, word work, and conferring with young writers. The camera follows one student, Jesse, from start to finish in a segment that reveals how simple and powerful the publishing event can be for a child. Throughout, we see the crucial, ongoing link Emelie forges between her students' reading and their writing. In the Beginning offers a rare view inside the mind of an accomplished teacher as she makes a million moment-to-moment decisions during a hectic kindergarten day, while never losing sight of her primary goal: to help her students develop into independent writers.

An index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. Working with archives, repositories, publishers, and individuals, first person narratives have been indexed from hundreds of published volumes, including those that are publicly available on the Web and those that are held by repositories and archives around the world. This site lets you keyword search and explore the personal thoughts of thousands of individuals from all walks of life and through hundreds of years of history. It also contains pointers to audio and video files, as well as bibliographic records.

"ION contains all the animal, plant, and virus names data found within the Thomson BIOSIS literature databases - Zoological Record, BIOSIS Previews and Biological Abstracts. Bacteria names will be added soon." Available via ISI Web of Knowledge.

Provides access to all tables of contents and to abstracts and full article text in Acrobat, PDF or PostScript formats for all Institute of Physics electronic journals. Now includes access to the Institute of Physics electronic journal archive covering IOP journals between 1874 and 1998.

IOS Press was established in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 1987 and publishes some 80 international journals, ranging from computer science and mathematics to medicine and the natural sciences and services a variety of scientific and medical communities in all parts of the world. All journals are available online from this website.

Webpages providing free access to IPCC publications and data, including reports and technical papers.

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.

Multilingual collection of news and information sources about the emerging markets of selected countries in the Middle East. This resource delivers online hard-to-get information on more than 55 emerging markets. It aggregates and produces unique content including full-text news articles, financial statements, company information, industry analyses, equity quotes, macroeconomic statistics, legal information and market-specific information, which are derived directly from more than 8500 local and global information providers.

Tool to identify highly cited scientific researchers. Contains biographical information: education, faculty and professional posts, memberships and/or offices, current research interests, and personal Web sites. Also contains a researcher's full listing of publications: journal articles, book or book chapters, conference proceedings, web sites and other Internet resources. The bibliography is enhanced by links to the full bibliographic information indexed in the ISI Web of Science.

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.

Describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations on the history of science, technology, medicine and allied historical fields. The database combines four bibliographies: Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science Current Bibliography in the History of Technology Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Citations reflect the contents of over 600 journals, plus partial contents of several hundred more. Coverage includes all languages in which these materials are published.

BiologyBrowser, produced by Thomson Reuters, is a free web site offering resources for the life sciences information community. Allows users to access information resources exclusively produced for Zoological Record & BIOSIS from the Scientific business of Thomson Reuters. Available via ISI Web of Knowledge.

"ION contains all the animal, plant, and virus names data found within the Thomson BIOSIS literature databases - Zoological Record, BIOSIS Previews and Biological Abstracts. Bacteria names will be added soon." Available via ISI Web of Knowledge.

Includes cited references to primary journal literature on biological research, medical research findings, and discoveries of new organisms. It covers original research reports and reviews in botany, zoology, and microbiology, and related fields such as biomedical, agriculture, pharmacology, and ecology, and interdisciplinary fields such as medicine, biochemistry, biophysics, bioengineering, and biotechnology. Available with up to 18 million records to 1926.

Electronic information service, maintained by Internet Securities, Inc., designed to meet the unique requirements of Sharia compliant financial industry participants.

"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.

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.

Issues Online is a comprehensive reference source addressing contemporary social issues. With more than sixty topics to choose from, it provides a wide range of information including: articles with news and views on each topic, key facts, key statistics, lobby group links, newspaper archives, reference sites, research guides plus assignment/debate suggestions.

The database contains 1,369 vernacular texts (16.4 million words) dated prior to 1375, the year of Boccaccio's death. The verse and prose works include early masters of Italian literature like Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as lesser-known and obscure texts by poets, merchants, and medieval chroniclers. The OVI database was created to aid in the compilation of an historical dictionary of the Italian language, the Tesoro della lingua italiana delle origini.

"Iter's bibliography includes literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books, journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts, and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues)."--About the Iter bibliography page.

Provides electronic access to the first online edition of Paul Oskar Kristeller's Iter Italicum, the most comprehensive finding list available of previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections all over the world. Originally published in six volumes between 1963 and 1992, it is an essential tool for any scholar working in the fields of classical, medieval and Renaissance studies.