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.

Contains annual bibliographies and material not covered in the journal Paléorient : revue interdisciplinaire de préhistoire et protohistoire de l'asie du sud-ouest.

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.

Indexes over two million papers presented at conferences worldwide. Also covers congresses, expositions, workshops, symposiums, and other meetings on a wide variety of subjects.

Microform Academic Publishers' online gateway to British archives builds on a tradition of over fifty years at the forefront of archival preservation and publishing in Britain. It provides scholars with remote access to entire primary sources for the purpose of academic study and research across many disciplines in humanities and social sciences, including: minutes of political parties; reports of national institutions; official government publications; commercial archives relating to the Industrial Revolution, the slave trade or colonisation; the papers of individuals prominent in the history of Britain and its Empire during the modern era; the Communist Party of Great Britain, missionary, naval and other records relating to Africa, Asia and the Americas. The digitised collections which comprise this website are drawn both from recently scanned or microfilmed manuscripts and archives and from printed publications.

HCPP will include digital versions of 4.2 million pages of sessional papers covering 1800-1899. It does not include debates (Hansard) or the House of Commons Journal. Sessional papers, sometimes called "blue books," were required for the work of the House of Commons, providing information on matters of policy and administration, and "ordered by the House to be printed." They fall into the following three categories: Bills--drafts of legislation, to be reviewed through various parliamentary stages. If the Bill passes through these stages, it will become an Act of Parliament. House Papers--documents resulting from the work of the House and its Committees. Command Papers--Government papers (from Ministers) conveying information or decisions the Government wishes to draw to the attention of the House, presented "by Command of Her Majesty." Both Houses of Parliament, the Commons and the Lords, produce parliamentary papers. Although HCPP is a collection of Commons papers, some from the Lords are also included. This is because the Lords often presented papers to the Commons, such as reports prepared by Lords Select Committees. These reports were then included in the House of Commons Papers, and therefore appear in HCPP.

Contains full text and translation of the meetings of the English parliaments from Edward I to Henry VII, covering the years from 1275 to 1504.

Contains manifestos for Conservative, Labour, Liberal (or Liberal Democrat) parties until 1992, as well as other parties from 1997-.

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.

The database contains almost every work of St. Thomas which has been translated into English (over fifty texts). Documents are retrieved using Folio views, a text management program by Folio Corp.

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.

A full-text electronic version of the Latin portion of the Patrologiae Cursus Completus, published by nineteenth-century ecclesiastical publisher Jacques-Paul Migne. Its 221 volumes cover the works of the Latin Fathers, from Tertullian in 200 A.D. to Pope Innocent III in 1216. [For subscribers who own both Patrologia Latina Database and Acta Sanctorum database a cross-searchable facility allows users to find entries on search terms and texts that are included in both corpora, in one search].

The Paul Mellon Centre archive catalogue contains primarily information about its Collected Archive holdings. The Collected Archives consist of material acquired by the Centre from external sources because of its relevance to the study of British art history and architecture. The majority of the collections comprise the research papers of art historians, many of whom were pioneers in the formation of the discipline. The majority of the material concerns the study of seventeenth and eighteenth-century British art, although the range extends from the sixteenth to nineteenth century. The papers chart the historiography of British art history, and reveal the networks of scholars, curators, dealers, collectors, publishers, museums and societies that shaped discourses on artistic practice, often resulting in major publications and exhibitions. Particular subject strengths include the Grand Tour and country house collections.

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.

This film defines the crucial elements of all assessments and visits three classrooms: a Head Start, a kindergarten and a third grade, to show how the academic progress of young students can be evaluated without recourse to norm-referenced, standardized testing. Dr. Meisels makes his case for the documentation of achievement while also providing viewers with the vocabulary necessary to understand the field of assessment.

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

Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. Combines CLASE (Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades), which indexes indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities (over 1,200 sources) and PERIODICA, which covers journals specializing in science and technology (over 1,400 sources). Offers access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues.

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.

Includes a large database of images (coins, vases, sculpture), Greek and Latin texts and translations, resources for textual studies, and English word searches of the texts.

"Website for scientific journals in social and human sciences, established by the Ministry of State Education, Higher Education and Research. Launched on the initiative of the research community, who are keen for their scientific output to have greater visibility, the PERSEE website has as its mission the digitisation and online distribution of back collections of a vast corpus of periodicals. Wider availability of this rich scientific heritage will benefit French research by making it freely and publicly accessible." Provides full text articles in French from online academic journals via the 'Revues scientifiques' tab, including Cahiers d'études africaines, Annales de géographie, and Revue française de science politique, and to the monograph series Publications de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée and Publications de l'École Française de Rome via the 'Publications et séries' tab.

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

Provides indexing and abstracts of journal articles, books, contributions to anthologies, and book reviews published worldwide since 1940. Topics covered include aesthetics, axiology, philosophy of education, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of history, philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, metaphilosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of science, social philosophy, and the philosophy of religion.

The work of Jean Piaget has become the foundation of current developmental psychology and the basis for changes in educational practice. David Elkind, author of The Hurried Child and Miseducation, and a student of Jean Piaget, explores the roots of Piaget's work and outlines important vocabulary and concepts that structure much of the study of child development. Using both archival film of Dr. Piaget and newly shot sequences of Dr. Elkind conducting interviews with children of varying ages, this film presents an overview of Piaget's developmental theory, its scope and content.

According to Piaget's developmental theory, thinking processes changed during adolescents as formal reasoning patterns become established and supplement the concrete reasoning patterns that arouse during earlier years. Concrete reasoning patterns includes serial ordering, simple classification, conservation and other processes applied to objects and real events. Formal reasoning patterns involve these and other mental operations applied to hypothetical objects or events, relationships and concepts.

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.

This film offers both theoretical and practical perspectives on dramatic play. Using enchanting sequences of young children playing house, doctor's office, rescue squadron, and trick or treating, the theoretical positions of Lev Vygotsky and other prominent theorists have taken in systematically studying play are illustrated. This film carefully reviews the traditional ways of studying play: the Freudian-Eriksonian emphasis on its emotional content, the Piagetian view of its importance in symbolic representation and the social psychological approach of looking at how play contributes to socialization. Lev Vygotsky's unique contribution of seeing play as an arena in which a child can begin to master her own behavior is carefully detailed. The video ends with practical suggestions for fostering high level play in early childhood settings.

A full-text electronic version of the Latin portion of the Patrologiae Cursus Completus, published by nineteenth-century ecclesiastical publisher Jacques-Paul Migne. Its 221 volumes cover the works of the Latin Fathers, from Tertullian in 200 A.D. to Pope Innocent III in 1216. [For subscribers who own both Patrologia Latina Database and Acta Sanctorum database a cross-searchable facility allows users to find entries on search terms and texts that are included in both corpora, in one search].

Microform Academic Publishers' online gateway to British archives builds on a tradition of over fifty years at the forefront of archival preservation and publishing in Britain. It provides scholars with remote access to entire primary sources for the purpose of academic study and research across many disciplines in humanities and social sciences, including: minutes of political parties; reports of national institutions; official government publications; commercial archives relating to the Industrial Revolution, the slave trade or colonisation; the papers of individuals prominent in the history of Britain and its Empire during the modern era; the Communist Party of Great Britain, missionary, naval and other records relating to Africa, Asia and the Americas. The digitised collections which comprise this website are drawn both from recently scanned or microfilmed manuscripts and archives and from printed publications.

Contains annual bibliographies and material not covered in the journal Paléorient : revue interdisciplinaire de préhistoire et protohistoire de l'asie du sud-ouest.

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).

An annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other material on population topics. This website is a searchable and browsable database containing abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-1999.

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.

Portal to newspapers and periodicals c1685-1815 offers integrated access to the Hope Collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Eighteenth Century Journals I), the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center University of Texas (Eighteenth Century Journals II) and the British Newspaper Library at Colindale, London and the Cambridge University Library (Eighteenth Century Journals III). It brings together rare journals printed between c1685 and 1815, illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. Topics include: the writings of Sir Isaac Newton; the French Revolution; reviews of literature, the theater, and fashion throughout Europe; the origins and rise of Romanticism; political debates; gender, religion, influence of the press, and coffee house gossip and discussion.

A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to researchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing. This enables users to gain access to article citations that otherwise would not be available. Once the bibliographic records are complete, they are added to the CINAHL database and removed from Pre-CINAHL.

The database of biomedical literature from the U.S. Department of Health, with additional coverage of the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology. Provides access to indexes of all areas of medicine (over 3,500 journals published internationally from 1965 to the present, including dentistry, nursing, and health services. Includes records with astracts. Also available in French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It contains all citations published in Index Medicus, and corresponds in part to the Index to Dental Literature and the International Nursing Index.

Contains citations to proceedings of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library from October 1993 to the present. User interface available in French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

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

The video follows a high school teacher as she demonstrates how to use strategies such as collaborative grouping, service learning, and interdisciplinary curriculum with her class of English Language Learners to improve English/native language fluency and critical thinking skills.

Features Project Gutenberg, which has the goal of making information, books, and other materials available to the public in forms that are easy to read, use, quote, and search. Offers access to electronic text listings, recent releases, newsletters, articles, and other archives. Discusses electronic texts and publishing, how to make a donation, and how to volunteer.

Searchable database that provides access to the full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Covers such fields as literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and others.

What's in a name? is a two year project funded by the Heritage Lottery designed to study and record the origins and significance of the street names of Sunderland.

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.

Contains full text and translation of the meetings of the English parliaments from Edward I to Henry VII, covering the years from 1275 to 1504.

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).

Diverse array of printed sources from the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. Opens the door to some of the world's most significant collections of early printed books. All works printed in Europe before 1701, regardless of language, fall within the scope of the project, together with all pre-1701 works in European languages printed further afield. Builds upon and complements Early English Books Online (EEBO) and is largely concerned with non-Anglophone materials; however, books in English or printed in the English-speaking world that are already represented in EEBO are not omitted from Early European Books where they form an integral element of the predominantly non-Anglophone collections that have been made available for digital capture. Full-colour, high-resolution (400 ppi) facsimile images scanned directly from the original printed sources. Each item in the collection is captured in its entirety, complete with its binding, edges, endpapers, blank pages, and any loose inserts.

Provides full text access to articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations since 1988. Covers general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology in areas including animal behavior, cognition, memory, neuroscience, perception, physiological psychology, psycholinguistics, psychometrics, social and personality psychology.

The PsycINFO database covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. PsycINFO's coverage is worldwide, and includes references and abstracts to over 1300 journals in more than 20 languages, and to book chapters and books in the English language. Over 50,000 references are added annually. Popular literature is excluded.

"Website for scientific journals in social and human sciences, established by the Ministry of State Education, Higher Education and Research. Launched on the initiative of the research community, who are keen for their scientific output to have greater visibility, the PERSEE website has as its mission the digitisation and online distribution of back collections of a vast corpus of periodicals. Wider availability of this rich scientific heritage will benefit French research by making it freely and publicly accessible." Provides full text articles in French from online academic journals via the 'Revues scientifiques' tab, including Cahiers d'études africaines, Annales de géographie, and Revue française de science politique, and to the monograph series Publications de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée and Publications de l'École Française de Rome via the 'Publications et séries' tab.

"Website for scientific journals in social and human sciences, established by the Ministry of State Education, Higher Education and Research. Launched on the initiative of the research community, who are keen for their scientific output to have greater visibility, the PERSEE website has as its mission the digitisation and online distribution of back collections of a vast corpus of periodicals. Wider availability of this rich scientific heritage will benefit French research by making it freely and publicly accessible." Provides full text articles in French from online academic journals via the 'Revues scientifiques' tab, including Cahiers d'études africaines, Annales de géographie, and Revue française de science politique, and to the monograph series Publications de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée and Publications de l'École Française de Rome via the 'Publications et séries' tab.

This database gives access to full-text Parliamentary Papers (Command Papers, House of Commons and House of Lords Papers, Bills, Explanatory Notes, Public Bill and Standing Committee Debates) for the 2006/07 Parliamentary Session onwards.

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.

PubMed is a service of the National Library of Medicine that includes over 15 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

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).