Online resources : databases

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.

NHS Evidence provides free access to clinical and non-clinical information - local, regional, national and international. Information includes evidence, guidance and Government policy.

The official UK statistics site, this allows users to search the latest comprehensive range of official UK statistics and information about statistics, and provides free access to a selection of recently released publications and press releases.

Natural Product Updates (NPU) provides graphical abstracts of new developments in natural product chemistry, selected from dozens of key primary journals. Coverage includes: Isolation studies, Biosynthesis, New natural products, Known compounds from new sources, Structure determinations, New properties and biological activities. Around 200 graphical abstracts are contained in each monthly bulletin, including structure diagrams, trivial and taxonomic names, molecular formulae, physical and biological properties.

A fully searchable, working editorial site of articles by scientists and scientific historians in the fields of biochemistry and physiology, cell biology, developmental biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, immunology, molecular biology, neuroscience, microbiology and virology, plant science, structural biology, and science and society.

Neuroscience Gateway is a comprehensive source for the latest research, news and events in neuroscience and genomics research developed collaboratively by the Allen Institute for Brain Science and Nature Publishing Group. It offers a collection of expertly selected content from Elsevier's leading publications in the neurosciences. Updated every two weeks to bring neuroscience researchers the latest field-related scientific and feature articles, research updates, book reviews and more.

The Naxos Music Library is an online collection of recorded music in streaming audio--primarily classical music, plus smaller collections of world music and jazz. Naxos contains 85,000 tracks from over 5,500 CDs from the Naxos Music and Marco Polo catalogs. Full liner notes are included for most recordings. Naxos also features world music anthologies from Arc and Celestial Harmonies labels, reissues of 20th-century premieres on the First Edition label, and selected classical recordings from the Analekta, Bis, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and Haenssler labels. The Naxos Music Library includes most works from the standard concert repertoire, and contemporary and unusual repertoire as well. Two ongoing series, the American Classics Series and the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music, demonstrate the range of music available online. Naxos also features Chinese music, both classical and folk.

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

Searchable collection of electronic books in the public domain and available for purchase.

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

Online version of: Der neue Pauly, which was published in 18 volumes (13 on Antiquity, 5 on the Classical Tradition) and one index volume, and: Brill's New Pauly (included as English volumes become available).

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.

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.

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.

Jacoby Online presents a completely new edition of "Jacoby" - byword for one of the fundamental modern sources of classical scholarship - in a fully searchable and indexed online format. Beginning in January 2007 and proceeding in twice-yearly updates at the rate of about 60 historians per update (approximate equivalent of 1,000 printed pages), each of Jacoby's 856 entries, comprising a total of more than 12,000 pages.

This video follows a high school teacher as he demonstrates a creative lesson plan to incorporate digital media in the classroom through online blogging, creating an interactive writing and reading community for students to express their ideas and practice important skills.

This video follows a high school music teacher as he effectively brings technology into the classroom through a podcasting project, and as a result demonstrates how to creatively challenge and motivate students to learn material, while strengthening important research and language skills.

JISC Mediahub provides a single point of access to major multimedia archives purchased on behalf of members. It enables cross searching and exploration of TV news, documentary films, still images and classical music and includes the contents of Film & Sound Online and Newsfilm online. The films are of high quality, and are fully downloadable, either in full or as segments, and can be used freely in learning, teaching and research.

Kidon Media-Link is an independent site which aims to offer a complete directory of newspapers and other news sources available on the internet. Includes TV, radio, newspapers and news agencies. Coverage is worldwide and lists entries down to the regional level - it has links to 19,251 newspapers and other news sources from almost every country and territory in the world.

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.

New Testament Abstracts Online is a product of a partnership between ATLA and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. The database has become an indispensable research and bibliographic aid for scholars, librarians, clergy and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu. The database contains more than 38,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 13,500 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts. All abstracts are in English, regardless of the language of the original work. The capability to search by specific scripture passages is useful.

"CATNYP is the online catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library. This catalog includes materials added to the collections after 1971, as well as some materials acquired before 1971"--About CATNYP.

The complete backfile of The New York Times, over 13 million articles from 1851 to the present day, can be searched. Full text articles from 1851-1922 are available for free as PDFs; articles from 1981 onwards are available for free as HTML; articles from 1923-1980 are available for a charge.

The complete backfile of The New York Times, over 13 million articles from 1851 to the present day, can be searched. Full text articles from 1851-1922 are available for free as PDFs; articles from 1981 onwards are available for free as HTML; articles from 1923-1980 are available for a charge.

Database of fulltext information taken from local, national and international general news sources and agencies, professional journals and specialist trade, company and industry sources. Includes company information from ICC, Extel, Disclosure, and Directory of Directors. Aimed at business users, but also covers general current affairs. Information is drawn from over 4000 business information sources, including the Financial Times and other global news sources, offering company news items and financial information on UK and international companies.

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).

NHS Evidence provides free access to clinical and non-clinical information - local, regional, national and international. Information includes evidence, guidance and Government policy.

This database features 48 British newspapers from the 19th century selected by the British Library's editorial board. Many of the newspapers are available in complete runs, and all are searchable full-text.

A multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the nineteenth century; will be comprised of numerous collections to be released over many years, including a variety of material types--monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more--in one cross-searchable location. The first collection available to Durham University is "British Politics and Society"

Nineteenth-century serials edition is a collection of six full-text British 19th century newspapers and journals: Monthly repository (1806-1837), Unitarian chronicle (1832-1833), Northern star (1838-1852), Leader (1850-1860), English woman's journal (1858-1864), Tomahawk (1867-1870), and Publisher's circular (1880-1890). Digitization was a collaboration between Arts and Humanities Research Council, Birkbeck College, King's College London, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, the British Library, and Olive Software. The titles were chosen for their emphasis upon social issues, political reform, and women's rights issues.

This database contains 1.2 million pages of periodicals published in Great Britain from 1800-1900. It includes publications on women, children, leisure and sport, and humor.

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.

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.

Using vignettes filmed at an exemplary children's center, students are introduced to the vocabulary of language studies. Dr. Honig describes the development of spoken language in infancy, toddlerhood and early childhood. She details strategies caregivers should use to nourish language development during the early stages of language acquisition. The video abounds with excellent examples of adults interacting verbally with children, illustrating Dr. Honig's ardent belief in the importance of language to the intellectual, social and emotional development of young children.

Natural Product Updates (NPU) provides graphical abstracts of new developments in natural product chemistry, selected from dozens of key primary journals. Coverage includes: Isolation studies, Biosynthesis, New natural products, Known compounds from new sources, Structure determinations, New properties and biological activities. Around 200 graphical abstracts are contained in each monthly bulletin, including structure diagrams, trivial and taxonomic names, molecular formulae, physical and biological properties.

New Testament Abstracts Online is a product of a partnership between ATLA and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology. The database has become an indispensable research and bibliographic aid for scholars, librarians, clergy and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu. The database contains more than 38,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 13,500 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts. All abstracts are in English, regardless of the language of the original work. The capability to search by specific scripture passages is useful.

CINAHL, the Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, covers nursing, allied health, biomedical and consumer health journals, publications of the American Nursing Association, and the National League for Nursing. Articles (some with abstracts) from 1200 journals, books, dissertations, standards of professional practice, educational software are included.

"CATNYP is the online catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library. This catalog includes materials added to the collections after 1971, as well as some materials acquired before 1971"--About CATNYP.