Online resources : databases

Provides access to statistical data for over 550 development indicators and time series data from 1960 for 226 countries, as well as data for regions and income groups. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. Results can be scaled, indexed against a particular year, viewed by percentage change, and charted. Data can also be exported as Excel and ASCII files.

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.

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.

Access to: over 75,000 articles from the Encyclopædia Britannica; headlines from the New York Times, the BBC, the SBS Australian News Service, and full-text articles from more than 700 magazines and periodicals provided by EBSCO and Proquest; World data; Gateway to the classics; 166,000 Web sites selected by Britannica editors; over 27,000 images and maps, plus 3,300 animations, videos, and audio files; and world atlas.

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.

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.

Welcome to BibleGateway.com, a free service for reading and researching scripture online-- all in the language or translation of your choice! We provide advanced searching capabilities based on keywords or scripture references, and various tools to enhance your study of the Bible.

This site allows you to consult Chambers 21st Century Dictionary, The Chambers Thesaurus (1996) or Chambers Biographical Dictionary (1997 edition with amendments).

Classical Scores Library will contain 400,000 pages of the most important classical scores, manuscripts and unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 8,000 scores. Provides for textual searching by various criteria.

"Contemporary world music will contain 50,000 tracks that delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database will contain important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku and more. This database is a complementary database to Smithsonian global sound for libraries - it includes a blend of contemporary and traditional world music recordings from many labels throughout the world"--About the database.

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.

Full text image-based searchable database of legal periodicals, representing four major library collections: the Law Journal Library, the Federal Register Library, the Treaties and Agreements Library, and the U.S. Supreme Court Library. Database coverage for each periodical is from the beginning issue to the most current allowed under contract.

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.

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.

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.

ScienceResearch.com is a free, publicly available Internet web portal allowing access to science information provided by U.S. Government and numerous scientific journals and public science databases. Powered by a deep web search engine, a single query will search thousands of high quality journals and databases. It covers both major publishers and free journal sources but full text access to commercial journals requires a subscription or payment.

Site contains documents related to the study of the American Presidency, including public papers, annual messages to Congress, inaugural addresses, radio addresses, acceptance speeches, presidential candidates debates, party platforms, elections data, and an audio/video archive.

Online version of the Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy. Articles can be browsed alphabetically or by philosophical themes, philosophies, historical periods, and religions. Full text entries can be searched by keyword, contributor, or bibliography. Bibliographies. Frequently updated.

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.

Free online, searchable, access to a selection of 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century Welsh and Wales-related journals held at The National Library of Wales and partner institutions. These materials cover a very wide range of subject areas, including humanities, social sciences, science and technology. The site is in development at present, and expects to host 50 titles by September 2009.

This dynamic searchable map displays archaeological sites which have been surveyed or excavated since Israel occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem in 1967. Use keyword search boxes to select time periods and types of sites. The contained in the database about each site are included in the Archaeological Sourcebook, a large PDF file linked from this home page, and is updated periodically.

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.

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.

When children begin to read and write they are as interested in information as they are in fiction. But information is not conveyed only with print; the wealth of visual texts are often the clearest communicators of information. Charts, diagrams, cross sections, and maps are a few of the elements that are as critical as the words they supplement. In many cases, the visual text is the clearest way to present information. In this video Steve Moline presents the basics of visual literacy and its place in the curriculum, illustrating his points with classroom sequences with students and workshop sessions with teachers. Viewers will learn: how reading for "story" differs from reading for information; why the visual element is such a central part of complete literacy; how to help students select the best form of visual text to incorporate in their writing; how to integrate visual and verbal texts; how to select the right visual device to communicate your ideas and information; how to use details of graphic design to organize and support meaning. What Is Visual Literacy? includes notes of questions and activities that can be used individually or with a group prior to further exploration in Steve's definitive book I See What You Mean. In What Is Visual Literacy? teachers, curriculum supervisors, and inservice directors have the basis for a workshop or discussion group on this critical topic that teachers in all parts of the curriculum increasingly want to know about.

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.

You can read books or attend workshops about how to teach writing, but there's no substitute for seeing master teachers put ideas into practice with real kids. When Students Write takes us into the classrooms at Bailey's Elementary School in the outskirts of Washington, DC, where teachers wrestle with the questions of what it means to become an effective writer and what is a teacher's role in developing students' competence as writers. The four videos cover all the practical components necessary for establishing and implementing a successful writing workshop, including the importance of choice, creating a risk-taking environment, the difference between skills and craft, the writer's notebook, the writing conference, revision, the role of literature, and much more. When used in conjunction with the authors' books, Craft Lessons and Nonfiction Craft Lessons, these programs provide a practical resource on how best to teach writing.

Provides full text access to journals, reference works, books, and databases published by Wiley in a wide range of subject areas. The full text of articles from over 1000 journals are available on the database.

Among the first professors of psychology in the United States and the author of its first comprehensive book, William James with his openness to the breath of human experience and possibility established the wide scope of psychology. In his book, The principles of psychology, he considered virtually every human behavior, emotion, attitude, and way of experiencing. Even though he died in this house 100 years ago, his discussions of human perceiving, thinking, feeling and acting resonate today, not only in the form of study of psychology, but also can have great relevance to how we construct our own individual lives.

Contains the full text of the British Library's 93 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the theatres were closed in 1642. These pamphlet editions are thought to be working drafts of the plays, and as such are thought to be the closest versions of the way the plays were actually performed.

A collection of 19th-century anti-slavery pamphlets received in 1923 from the executors of Henry Joseph Wilson (1833-1914), the distinguished Liberal Member of Parliament for Sheffield. The collection is of particular importance for the study of the activities of the provincial philanthropic societies, such as the Birmingham and Midland Freedmen's Aid Association, the Birmingham and West Bromwich Ladies' Negro's Friend Society, the Glasgow Emancipation Society, the Manchester Union and Emancipation Society, and the Sheffield Ladies Female Anti Slavery Society. Of interest is the prominent role of women in the movement, who formed themselves into societies which lobbied MPs and printed pamphlets on the conditions of slaves. Here we have details of what was sold at their bazaars to raise funds and lists of names of subscribers, the minutiae which bring alive the history of the movement.

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

The World Almanac database offers factual information on a wide range of subjects, and includes the contents of: World almanac and book of facts, World almanac of the U.S.A., World almanac of U.S. politics, World almanac for kids.

The World Almanac database offers factual information on a wide range of subjects, and includes the contents of: World almanac and book of facts, World almanac of the U.S.A., World almanac of U.S. politics, World almanac for kids.

The World Almanac database offers factual information on a wide range of subjects, and includes the contents of: World almanac and book of facts, World almanac of the U.S.A., World almanac of U.S. politics, World almanac for kids.

The World Almanac database offers factual information on a wide range of subjects, and includes the contents of: World almanac and book of facts, World almanac of the U.S.A., World almanac of U.S. politics, World almanac for kids.

The World Almanac database offers factual information on a wide range of subjects, and includes the contents of: World almanac and book of facts, World almanac of the U.S.A., World almanac of U.S. politics, World almanac for kids.

"The World Bank eLibrary provides access to a growing collection of more than 5,000 ebooks, journal articles, and working papers from the world's most authoritative source on international development as they are published."

Provides access to statistical data for over 550 development indicators and time series data from 1960 for 226 countries, as well as data for regions and income groups. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. Results can be scaled, indexed against a particular year, viewed by percentage change, and charted. Data can also be exported as Excel and ASCII files.

WorldCat is a worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 member institutions. With millions of online records built from the bibliographic and ownership information of contributing libraries, it is the largest and most comprehensive database of its kind.

This database provides fast and convenient access to the dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries. Many theses are available electronically, at no charge, directly from the publishing institution.

Contains the current constitution for every country, constitutional histories, texts on constitutional law, links to scholarly articles about constitutional development, and a bibliography of selected constitutional books. Browsable by country or resource.

The eHRAF collection is a web-based, multi-cultural database for disciplines with an interest in cultural diversity. For each culture included, eHRAF contains ethnographic information on all aspects of cultural and social life with diverse topics ranging from religious beliefs, bringing up children, causes and cures of diseases, to economic and political behavior. This annually-growing database is unique in that in every paragraph of the full-text source (book, article, dissertation) is subject-indexed for precise retrieval of information. Cultures range from ethnic groups in Africa, Asia, and Oceania, to indigenous and immigrant groups in North and South America.

Features "The World Factbook," a publication from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Includes country-based information on flags, maps, geography, people, government, the economy, transportation, communication, and defense. Highlights the regions to choose from, including Europe, Asia, Australia, North and South America, Antarctica, and Africa. Also includes a world summary.

"Explore ten years of [BBC] Radio 3 on-location recordings from 2000 to the present in the World Music archive, recording the life and musical traditions of countries ranging from Brazil to North Korea and Cuba to Turkmenistan." -- homepage, viewed 13 October 2011.

This archive of primary documents from World War One has been assembled by volunteers. International in focus, the archive intends to present in one location primary documents concerning the Great War.

The database provides access to citations and abstracts of journal articles appearing political science journals. Years of Coverage: 1975 to the present.

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.

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.