Coverage of monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays, and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards. Includes links to the full text of 120 journals.
Search a complete database comprising full-text business periodicals and news sources from ABI/INFORM Global, Dateline, and Trade & Industry. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
The ACCESS PA Database is a world wide web-based bibliographic union catalog and resource sharing guide to over 2,500 school, public, academic and special libraries in Pennsylvania. The database contains over 5.6 million unique records from the catalogs of Pennsylvania library collections covering over 35 million Pennsylvania library holdings.
Access Science provides online access to over 8,500 online articles from the tenth edition of the McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. Articles include bibliographies, links to evaluated related websites and over 15,000 illustrations and graphics. Also included are research updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology, definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms biographies of more than 2,000 well-known scientists, and the latest news and videos. Subject areas covered include: agriculture, anthropology, astronomy, biomedical science, chemistry, computing and information technology, earth science, engineering, food science, mathematics, military science, paleontology, physics, psychiatry, psychology, and veterinary science.
The electronic editions of record for local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources -- all in one easy-to-search database with a world map. Each provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community, as well as a distinctive focus offering a variety of viewpoints on local and world issues. Also includes limited streaming video. Navigating Access World News with JAWS
Accessible Archives provides access to the full texts of articles from a selection of 18th & 19th century American newspapers (more than 175,000 articles). The newspapers selected are especially useful for researching African American, women's studies, and Pennsylvania topics but can also help with many other types of historical research. Keywords: Civil War, colonial, revolution, Revolutionary War, abolition, abolitionists, slavery.
AccessUN is an index to United Nations documents and publications, from 1966-to date. The database is used to access the microfiche collection held in the Social Sciences Library, Second Floor, West Pattee.
The foremost index to a finite collection of United Nations Development Programme Project Reports issued and held by UN headquarters between the years 1972-1998. The index provides access to evaluative, technical and terminal reports (available imicrofiche in the Social Sciences Library)
Full text of every article ever published by ACM.
AdSpender provides advertising expenditures for over 3 million brands across 18 media, such as TV, Magazines, Newspapers, Radio, Internet and Outdoor advertising. AdSpender data is organized by product category, parent company, subsidiary and brand. AdSpender provides a top-level summary of the multi-media advertising marketplace.
Includes full-text reports of state and federal laws and regulations, industry self-regulating guidelines, and new developments. Also includes explanatory notes to help interpret the law and and explanations by authors with expertise in advertising, marketing, and intellectual property issues.
The Aerospace Database provides bibliographic coverage of basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, and space sciences. The database also covers technology development and applications in complementary and supporting fields such as chemistry, geosciences, physics, communications, and electronics. In addition to periodic literature, the database also includes coverage of reports issued by NASA, other U.S. government agencies, international institutions, universities, and private firms. Coverage: 1962-present. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
Beginning with the Freedom's Journal (NY)--the first African American newspaper published in the United States--this database includes page reproductions of African American newspapers from every region of the United States.
A fully searchable collection of over 40 African newspapers published in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Features English- and foreign-language news from Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Zimbabwe and other countries.
A database of modern and contemporary African American poetry, featuring thousands of poems by some of the most important African American poets between 1750 and 1900.
AgeLine is the premier source for the literature of social gerontology and includes aging-related content from the health sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, and public policy. AgeLine also includes information for professionals working in aging-related fields and for consumers.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
AGRICOLA contains references for journal articles, book chapters, audiovisuals, and other agricultural resources. These resources encompass all aspects of agriculture such as animal and veterinary sciences including poultry and dairy, entomology, plant sciences such as horticulture, crop and soil science, and plant pathology, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, rural and community development, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, food science, agricultural engineering, and earth and environmental sciences. Also indexes publications from USDA, State Experiment Stations, and State Extension Services.
The NAL Online Public Access Catalog (AGRICOLA Books) contains citations to books, audiovisuals, serials, and other materials, most of which are in the USDA's National Agricultural Library in Beltsville, MD. These resources encompass all aspects of agriculture such as animal and veterinary sciences including poultry and dairy, entomology, plant sciences such as horticulture, crop and soil science, and plant pathology, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, rural and community development, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, food science, agricultural engineering, and earth and environmental sciences.
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is devoted to the scientific study of Earth and its environment. The AGU focuses its research in four fundamental areas: atmospheric and ocean sciences; solid-Earth sciences; hydrologic sciences; and space sciences. This resource provides access to the fulltext of six AGU journals: the Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR), Geophysical Research Letters, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, G-Cubed (Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems), Paleoceaonography, Reviews of Geophysics, Tectonics, and Water Resources Research. Coverage is from 1994 to date.
This resource provides access to the full text of all articles and technical papers published since 1963 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
A subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals. The Index contains citations since 1988 and is updated continuously.
The online editorial manual for the scientific journals published by the American Medical Association. Includes chapters on medical nomenclature, manuscript preparation, visual display of data, and formatting for references and citations including more than 50 examples of references to electronic resources. There is also a lengthy chapter on ethical and legal considerations such as copyright and trademark, patient privacy issues, policies on group authorship, author relations with the news media, and much more.
Readex's Early American Newspapers (1690-1922) is a unique, webbased archive of Americana that provides a fascinating glimpse into our nation's past. The Early American Newspaper Collection will feature the images and full-text content from scores of historical publications.
America's News Magazines (NewsBank) provides full-text articles from leading magazines that provide coverage and analysis of current events in a range of categories including: news, business, entertainment, lifestyle, science and technology, and sports. One easy-to-search interface is used for all titles. Paid advertisements are excluded.
Search for articles on all aspects of the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Articles from national, state and local historical journals are covered, as well as historical articles in major humanities and social science journals. Also includes citations to reviews, books, and dissertations.Keywords: African-American, Afro-American, Black, Hispanic, Latino, Colonial, Pennsylvania, Native Americans, women, gender, revolution, revolutionary war, civil war, Vietnam War, Cold War, World War I, World War II, Immigration, Immigrants, labor, agriculture, culture, society, politics, religion, economic, military, historiography.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
Based on the American Antiquarian Society's collection this database offers fully searchable facsimile images of approximately 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900, and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. Broadsides range from contemporary accounts of the Civil War, unusual occurrences and natural disasters to official government proclamations, tax bills and town meeting reports. Ephemera include early trade cards, theater playbills, stock certificates, menus and invitations, popular songs and music, and poetry. American Broadsides and Ephemera can be searched as a single collection, or combined with other resources in the Archive of Americana.
Provides full text access to American Chemical Society publications.
Containing more than 1,500 dramatic works from the early eighteenth century up to the beginning of the twentieth, American Drama 1714���1915 reflects American dramatic writing in all its richness and diversity: plays in verse, farces, melodramas, minstrel shows, realist plays, frontier plays, temperance dialogues and a range of other genres are represented. Major dramatists include David Belasco, Rachel Crothers, Augustin Daly, Clyde Fitch, Edward Harrigan, James Herne, William Dean Howells and Joaquin Miller.
Over a thousand hours of archival and documentary films of historical interest. Includes selected content from the History Channel, PBS, the U.S. Government and other educational media sources. Also includes the entire series of newsreels from Universal. Transcripts are fully searchable and synchronized to the video. Video clips can be selected to create customized playlists that can be annotated, copied, and shared.
Full text access to American Institute of Physics publications.
The AMS is devoted to publishing research mathematics of high quality and significance in all areas of pure and applied mathematics. For journals that appear in dual electronic and print formats, articles are posted individually on the Web soon after proof is returned from authors and before appearing in issues for the print product. The AMS also publishes refereed electronic-only journals that receive the same timely posting that dual-format journals receive. Items in article bibliographies are linked to their reviews on MathSciNet when available.
The American Medical Association JAMA & Archives JournalsWeb site includes the full text of all journals from January1998 forward, abstracts from 1975 forward, and tables ofcontents from as early as 1962 forward.
The American National Biography Online offers portraits of more than 17,000 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation. The online version reproduces the full-text of the original 24 volume set published in 1999, with new and updated entries added regularly. The online edition features thousands of illustrations, hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities.
A large collection of digitized journals from the nineteenth to the early 20th century selected from the collections of the Center for Research Libraries. Includes art, labor, trade, literary, scientific, medical, photographic, and other historically significant titles. Full texts may be searched. All issues are reproduced in full color.
Search a selection of periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals. Contains full-text of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741 and 1900. Digitized page images reproduce the publications as they appeared when originally published.
Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.
Search the journals of the American Meteorological Society (AMS).
Contains information on livestock and poultry breeds, diseases, pathogens, foodborne contaminants and food animal products. As well as over 135,000 bibliographic records updated weekly and over 13,000 Library and full text journal and conference articles.
L'Annee Philologique is an exhaustive index of periodicals, books and essays in classics and classical studies. It covers Greek and Latin linguistics and literature and Greek and Roman archaeology, history, mythology, religion, epigraphy, numismatics and palaeography. The database indexes over 1,500 journals from 1969 to the present.
Since 1932, Annual Reviews has offered comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 29 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.
Anthropology Plus is the world's most comprehensive, focused index of bibliographic materials from the late 1800s to today in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology; ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture; and interdisciplinary studies. Beyond these disciplines, researchers and scholars in art history, demography, economics, genetics, geography, geology, history, psychology, religion, or sociology will all find relevant anthropological material. Anthropology Plus unites two premier indexes created in two hemispheres. The result is extensive, worldwide coverage of core journals plus local and lesser-known journals. Together, Harvard University's highly respected Anthropological Literature database and the United Kingdom's Anthropological Index (Royal Anthropological Institute) provide a uniquely broad and rich resource for education and research in anthropology and related fields.
AnthroSource is a fully integrated information resource. Its powerful search engine makes precision research quick and easy. AnthroSource is more than a content collection. It is an evolving, interactive repository of research and communications tools designed to bring the most credible and relevant of anthropological scholarship together in one place and to support a strong community of scholars, teachers, and students in the field.
Includes electronic journals published by the American Physical Society.
A family of primary source historical collections covering nearly three centuries of American History. The resources can be searched together or separately. Currently includes: American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I Broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints from the disnguished bibliography created by Charles Evans. Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 Bbooks, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the distinguished bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker. America's Historical Newspapers Early American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 present states.
An index produced by the Research Libraries Group to finding aids and other descriptive information about the holdings of manuscript and archival collections in libraries and research institutions throughout the world
Annotated alphabetical list of EAD (Encoded Archival Description) finding guides to some of the archival and manuscript collections in the Special Collections Library, The Pennsylvania State University.
This resource provides access to an integrated database of three major information resources (NUCMC--National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, NIDS--National Inventory of Documentary Resources in the United States, and DAMRUS--Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States). ArchivesUSA gives access to holdings and contact information of more than 4,400 repositories, and indexes to nearly 100,000 special collections. Coverage: Current edition. Updates: Continuous.
Covers international and internal conflicts, as well as terrorism. It provides an interactive source of information on 70 armed conflicts including terrorism, refugees, and returnees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), weapons used and their flows, fatalities, costs ($US), historical backgrounds, annual updates and timelines. Users can generate reports and download data as well as browse through year-by-year analyses and fact sheets online.
AATA Online is a comprehensive database of more than 100,000 abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage.
Indexes over 290 international art publications, including English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, and Swedish. Indexing is available for publications 1929+; abstracting for 1994+, and select Full Text is available for 1997+. Indexes 260 international art publications, including English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, and Swedish. Indexing is available for publications 1929+; abstracting for 1994+, and select Full Text is available for 1997+.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, with approximately 12-13,000 new entries being added each year. Entries date back as far as the late 1960s. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
Full text database ranging from classic works in French literature to nonfiction prose and technical writings. Mostly 18th-20th century texts. Coverage: about 2000 texts in the French language.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. Navigating Web of Knowledge with JAWS
ARTstor is a database of digital images of works of art and of artifacts of visual culture, intended to support teaching, research and learning in visual culture and related fields. The database contains hundreds of thousands of good-quality images and is growing rapidly.
All of the recent technical documents published by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers including full text access to journals, standards, technical reports, conference proceedings, and monographs.
These are the online journals and conference proceedings published by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
The Alloy Center contains property data for thousands of metals and alloys. Some non-metallic (e.g., ceramics, composites, coatings, etc.) materials data are also included.
This database provides access to binary and ternary phase diagrams and associated phase data for more than 6200 alloy systems. Crystal data, reaction data, transformation, phase diagrams are included.
This resource features extensive engineering and property data for materials of all types. It contains the fulltext of several ASM handbooks including the Metals Handbook and the Engineered Materials Handbook.
ASME Digital Library (mechanical engineering) Full text access to the American Society of MechanicalEngineers online journals and conference papers.
The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) strives to democratize access to the best data on religion. The targeted audience and the data collection have both greatly expanded since 1998, now including American and international collections and developing features for educators, journalists, religious congregations, and researchers.
This reference database has information and locations on nearly 144,000 nonprofit membership organizations worldwide: International and U.S. National, Regional, State, and Local. It covers everything from local Chambers of Commerce to the American Medical Association, and beyond. Note: In January 1998, the name was changed from Encyclopedia of Associations to Associations Unlimited. Current edition. Updates: Continuous.
This database provides access to the full text versions of all current ASTM standards. ASTM is the American Society for Testing and Materials.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals. The ATLA Religion Database includes more than 488,000 article citations from more than 1,500 journals (506 currently indexed), more than 215,000 essay citations from over 15,700 multi-author works, and more than 446,000 book review citations. This database begins in 1949 although indexing for some journal titles extends back into the nineteenth century. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
Contains descriptions of articles on the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, furniture, and interior design and decoration in more than 700 international magazines. Most indexing began with 1934, but some titles are indexed to dates as early as 1741. Updated weekly. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
Literature and reference books on the web.
Including over 11,000 quotations, the first new edition of John Bartlett's corpus to be published after his death in 1905 keeps most of his original work intact.
This digital content of the student newspaper of Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, contains the issues from 1948 through 1989. Through the 41 years, the paper has been through many title changes, including Behrend Collegian, Penn State Behrend Collegian, Collegian, The Behrend College Collegian, and currently The Behrend Beacon.
Beilstein and Gmelin are handbooks that cover organic chemistry and inorganic/organometallic chemistry respectively back to the late 1700s. They are searchable by property values or by chemical structures using CrossFire software. You must install the software on your workstation in order to access the databases. To obtain the information needed to download the software, please contact njb2@psu.edu and request it. Please use your PSU e-mail account. The contact information will not be sent to a non-PSU e-mail account.
The Bible in English contains twenty versions of the Bible, from Old English, through the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and into the twentieth century. In addition to the twelve complete Bibles, there are five New Testament works, two Gospel works and William Tyndale's New Testament, Pentateuch and Jonah translations.
The on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide.
Indexing for articles and some books on European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present. In addition to coverage of 1400 periodicals, selected books, conference proceedings, essays, exhibition catalogues, and some art dealer's catalogues, doctoral dissertations, and microform publications are indexed. Indexing begins with 1973 and is updated 4 times each year.
The Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina is a definitive collection of Latin texts from the earliest times, through classical antiquity and the Middle Ages to the present. The online edition comprises the data of BTL 4,supplemented by the texts of all Latin editions of theBibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana printed by 2008. This means that formerly omitted texts from BT editions of the 19th and 20th centuries are now included, especially those of scholia and grammarians. The extension ranges around 1 million word forms, so that the BTL Online now includes approximately 13 million word forms in total.
An index (not full text resource) to biographical information about influential people worldwide, both living and historical. Lists the contents of readily available current reference books as well as major reference works from the past. It currently has over 10 million references, with about 450,000 new ones added annually. See the Gale Web site for additional information and copyright statement. Coverage: Current edition. Updates: Continuous.
Biological Abstracts is the premier database for the biological sciences. BA monitors more than 5,000 international journals to ensure that virtually every life science topic is covered, including agriculture, biochemistry, biology, botany, molecular biology, biotechnology, physiology, microbiology, neurology, pharmacology, public health, toxicology, zoology, and ecology and the environment. Coverage is from 1926 to date. Navigating Web of Knowledge with JAWS
BioOne is a unique aggregation of high-impact bioscience research journals.
A unique set of primary sources from African Americans actively involved in the movement to end slavery in the United States between 1830 and 1865. The content includes letters, speeches, editorials, articles, sermons, and essays. The majority of the content is from the United States, with some coverage of the abolitionist movement in England, Scotland, Ireland and Canada, Over 15,000 items written by nearly 300 Black men and women are available for searching.
Includes full texts of plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. The plays are fully searchable and extensively indexed.
Includes three historical black newspapers: Chicago Defender (1910-1975); Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001)and the Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002).
Black Studies in Video features award-winning documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture in the United States. The collection will eventually comprise 500 hours of content. Collection Highlights: Racial Justice and Diversity Films, SNCC Legacy Video Collection, and Documentaries created by WNET Television from the 60s and 70s.
Selected BNA databases are now available to all Penn State students, faculty, and staff. The BNA Criminal Law Reporter provide in-depth news and analysis of criminal law along with applicable statutes and court cases. Updated weekly.
Selected BNA databases are now available to all Penn State students, faculty, and staff. The BNA Environment Reporter provides in-depth news and analysis of environmental law along with applicable statutes and court cases. Updated weekly.
Selected BNA databases are now available to all Penn State students, faculty, and staff. The BNA Family Law Reporter provide in-depth news and analysis of family law along with applicable statutes and court cases. Updated weekly.
Selected BNA databases are now available to all Penn State students, faculty, and staff. The BNA Health Law Reporter provides in-depth news and analysis of health law along with applicable statutes and court cases. Updated weekly
Selected BNA databases are now available to all Penn State students, faculty, and staff. The BNA Labor and Employment Library provides in-depth news and analysis of labor law along with applicable statutes and court cases. Updated weekly.
A collection of more than 200 law related news, analysis, and reference products, providing intensive coverage of legal and regulatory developments and case law covering a wide range of topics including Antitrust, Banking, Bankruptcy, Corporate, Criminal Law, Employee Benefits, Employment and Labor, Environment and Safety, Ethics, Family Law, Health Care, Homeland Security, Intellectual Property, International, International Tax, Litigation, Product Liability, Securities, Tax law, Trade, and Commerce.
Provides quick access to reviews of books and other media appearing in more than 600 publications. Includes reviews published from 1965 to present. To locate the text of a review select the Penn State Search link.
An international publisher in the humanities and social sciences, Brill's electronic book collection covers the following subject areas: religion, Asian studies, biblical studies, classics, European history/culture, Middle East and Islamic studies, and Social Sciences.
Brill's New Jacoby (BNJ) is a new edition of the 856 fragmentary historians that comprise F. Jacoby's monumental Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker Parts I-III, with significant additions. Each author has a Greek text (updated from that of Jacoby where relevant); facing English translation; new, critical commentary (for the first time for authors 608-856, on which Jacoby did not write commentaries); a brief encyclopaedia-style entry about his life, works, importance, etc.; and a select bibliography. BNJ also includes several new authors and many fragments of existing authors that were either unknown to Jacoby or excluded by him. Jacoby's numbering system has been retained so that readers may also consult FGrH without having to refer to a concordance.
A digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Most of the documents are freely available to anyone, but some require a subscription. Penn State does not have access to the premium (subscription) content. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust.
The 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection. Can be cross-searched with the Burney Collection of 17th and 18th Century newspapers.
Consists of two major newspaper collection collections from the British Library which span three hundred years of newspaper publishing in the U.K. Includes the 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers and 19th Century Newspapers. The two collections combined contain nearly 3 million pages and 40 million artic
Full texts of hundreds of journals from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. Includes some of the major magazines as well as specialized titles in literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences.
The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. Our goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers (pre 1830 in England) out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader. We support research on women's writing, text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and scholarship.
BuildingGreen Suite integrates online versions of GreenSpec product listings, high-quality articles about green buildings, peer-to-peer comments, project case studies, and full text access to Environmental Building News from 1992 to date. This information is searchable and cross-referenced by CSI MasterFormat division, LEED credit, or green topic. Each article, product listing, and case study also lists related content and information sources.
The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection, totals almost 1 million pages and over 1,000 titles from London, the British Isles, and the colonies.
The Business Cycle Indicators - U.S. Indicators database provides economic indicators that have proven to be most useful in determining current conditions and predicting the future direction of the United States economy. A common spreadsheet-type format is used, allowing the BCI series to be easily imported into numerous software programs (including EXCEL, LOTUS-123, FREELANCE, EVIEWS, TSP, and SAS). More than 250 economic series are in the U.S. BCI dataset, with many series beginning in 1945.
A fully searchable collection of more than 100 current business-related e-books.
An essential article database for business research providing the full text for more than 2,000 periodicals, including about 1,000 scholarly journals. Covers virtually all disciplines in business and economics, including: accounting, economics, econometrics, finance, marketing, management, MIS, QMM and supply chain management.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
CAB Abstracts via CAB Direct covers all areas of agriculture including animal production and welfare (equine, dairy, cattle, poultry), horticulture, (fruits, nuts, vegetables ornamentals, flowers) crop science (grains, forages) and plant protection, applied economics and rural studies, animal nutrition, entomology, aquaculture and veterinary science, food science and nutrition, forestry and the management and conservation of natural resources, leisure and tourism, microbiology, parasitology, mycology, nematology, bacteriology and virology, biotechnology, and plant pathology and postharvest factors. CAB Direct also includes a Global Health section which covers international and public health, including bacterial, viral and prion diseases, mycology, parasitology, disease vectors, zoonotic diseases, nutrition and food safety, medicinal plants, toxicology and public and rural health.
Cabell's Directories helps identify journals that are most likely to publish a manuscript, by giving the topic areas emphasized, the type of review process, number of external reviewers, acceptance rate, time required for review, availability of reviewers' comments, and if fees charged to review or publish the manuscript. Directories are available for Accounting; Economics and Finance; Management; Marketing; Educational Curriculum and Methods; Educational Psychology and Administration; and Psychology.
Cambridge Collections Online-covering the subjects of literature, philosophy, religion, culture and the classics (Greece and Rome), Cambridge Collections Online consists of over 2,000 essays that can be searched by title, author, keyword, subject, etc. in the Advanced Search mode. Individual books and chapters within the Collection can also be browsed.
Comprehensive histories published by Cambridge University since 1960. These volumes cover a wide range of subjects including History, Philosophy, Religion, Economic history, History of Science,and the history of language and literature. You can search and browse across all subjects and volumes.
Access to electronic editions of journals to which the Penn State University Libraries subscribe. Cambridge University Press is the publisher.
Created in partnership with the Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick Libraries, this unique collection contains the full text of more than 19,000 poems by 177 poets including Bliss Carman, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Archibald Lampman, Charles G. D. Roberts and Duncan Campbell Scott, offering a comprehensive survey of Canadian poetry from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth.
The CAS Source Index (CASSI) is a cross-index to journal abbreviations and titles used in chemistry and many related sciences. It is searchable by journal title, abbreviated title, CODEN, ISSN, and ISBN.
The online catalog of materials owned by Penn State Libraries. All formats (books, journals, audiovisuals, maps, recordings, etc.) are included. Circulation status for individual items also provided. Coverage: Presently contains about 2 million titles. Updates: Continuous up-to-the-minute as new records are added
The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) is the finding tool for electronic and print publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government. These publications make up the National Bibliography of U.S. Government Publications. The CGP contains descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. The CGP is the online counterpart of the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, which dates from the passage of the Printing Act of 1895. At present the Monthly Catalog should be consulted for pre-1976 indexing. The Monthly Catalog and many of the publications indexed in it were distributed through the Federal Depository Library Program.
The Catholic Periodical and Literature Index (CPLI) Online is the product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Library Association. The database covers all aspects of the Catholic faith and lifestyle, and includes over 380,000 index citations of articles and reviews published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
CCH Business and Finance Network provides primary research materials on mergers and acquisitions, product liability and safety, corporate governance, banking, international business, securities, intellectual property, and antitrust and trade regulation. Full text materials include statutes, judicial opinions, regulations, newsletters, foreign laws and rules, and forms.
CCH Health and Human Resources Network provides federal and state research materials on topics such as labor and employment, pensions, benefits, health care compliance and reimbursement, and safety compliance. Full-text materials include statutes, regulations, agency directives and letters, judicial opinions, and forms.
Comprehensive tax service providing federal, state, and international tax research source materials, including full-text statutes, regulations, administrative and judicial opinions, commentary, and citations.
CenStats is a Web-based subscription service that provides interactive search-and-display access to the following databases: Annual Survey of Manufactures Building Permit Data Census Tract Street Locator Consolidated Federal Funds Report County Business Patterns International Trade Data Occupation by Race and Sex USA Counties Zip Business Patterns Note: This database is available to all users; it is not restricted to Penn State users only.
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives, and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching and makes them available to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery.
A growing collection containing over 1,000 images focusing on the buildings and landscape of central Pennsylvania. These pictures have been selected and photographed by experts in the unique architecture and landscapes of our region.
The Centre Daily Times, four years straight winner of the top newspaper in its circulation category, is committed to providing the best local news coverage in the area. The Daily Times covers many businesses headquartered in the region such as AccuWeather, Ratheon, Uni-Marts Inc. and Corning Asahi. Particular emphasis is placed on Penn State University as a result of its proximity. Coverage: 9/28/1995 - present
The Index includes only obituaries or death notices included in the obituary section of the Centre Daily Times, 1937-1995, and does not include news stories about deaths that appeared in other sections.
This selective database, created at Penn State, primarily indexes local news articles. National and state news items are not indexed unless they are relevant to local persons, places or events. The Sports section is not indexed unless an article relates to another larger issue such as Title IX, gender equity, medicine, etc. Friday's Weekender section is not indexed either. The following topics are indexed: Local news articles Selected Editorials Theater Music Visual arts Book reviews Obituaries (beginning in 1990) Coverage: 1981-2002.
Chinese Ancient Text (CHANT) is a comprehensive full-text database of ancient Chinese texts. The database contains five components: pre-220 AD (the Pre-Han and Han period) traditional texts; 220-581 AD (the Weijin period) traditional texts; excavated texts on wood/bamboo strips and silk (Jianbo); excavated oracular inscriptions on tortoise shells and bones (Jiaguwen); traditional as well as excavated bronze inscriptions (Jinwen).
Chemical Abstracts is available online through SciFinder Scholar. It is a bibliographic database that covers the literature of chemistry from 1907 to present. Chemical Abstracts is one of the databases available through SciFinder Scholar. To access Chemical Abstracts you must download the SciFinder Scholar client software to your workstation.
Robert Sengstacke Abbott founded the Defender in May 1905 and by the outbreak of the First World War it had become the most widely-read black newspaper in the country, with more than two thirds of its readership based outside Chicago. When Abbott died in 1940, his nephew John Sengstacke became editor and publisher of the Defender, which began publishing on a daily basis in 1956.
Includes a digitized image of issues of The Chicago Tribune from 1849-1986: news stories, editorials, photos, graphics, and advertisements. Searchers can use basic keyword, advanced, guided, and relevancy search techniques to locate information. Or, they can browse through issues page by page, as one would browse a printed edition. Search results lists provide bibliographic information, including date, issue, article headline, page number, and byline (where given). Users may choose to display the full page image of any page in any issue.
Penn State subscribes to CAJ series on Literature/History/Philosophy which offers access to full-text articles from more than 600 journals published in China. To achieve best result, please use IE and Chinese input for searching. Coverage: 1994-present.
China Data Online provides comprehensive and updated information on China's economic development at national, provincial, city, county, and industrial levels, which include the following databases: Monthly Statistics (1998-current), National Statistics (1949 ��current), Provincial Statistics (1949 to current), City Statistics (1996-current), County Statistics (1997-current), Industrial Statistics monthly and yearly statistics by industries (1999-current), and Statistical Yearbooks (1981-current) published by the National Bureau of Statistics of China.
Full-text Chinese e-books and reprint journals covering a variety of subject areas published since 1900 with the majority after 1949. Penn State's collection is limited and growing. Full text access is limited to purchased titles, which can also be found in CAT. For accessing the e-books, please follow Users Guide contained in the login page.
The Missionary Recorder (later the Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal) was created to inform Protestant missionaries in China. Distrbuted abroad, the Chinese Recorder provides English language accounts of secular events in China including the crusade against opium, the Boxer Rebellion, the 1911 Revolution, and the Sino-Japanese war. Religious topics such as the founding of missionaries and the growth of the Chinese church are well documented.
Provides electronic access to all Choice reviews published since September 1988. The database is updated monthly, in the middle of the month, adding reviews schedule for publication in the next print issue.
The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. Online, The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe.
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) is a comprehensive source for research in international affairs. It includes full text of selected books on international affairs, working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. It also, contains abstracts and some full text of selected journal articles
One of two major databases for nursing, providing references to over 1,800 nursing and allied health journal articles in addition to citations for book chapters, nursing dissertations, association publications, educational software, conference proceedings and selected full-text for state nursing journal articles, legal cases, patient education material, research instruments, standards of practice, critical paths, nurse practice acts, drugs, clinical innovations and government publications. References for alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and health sciences librarianship are also included. Coverage: 1982 - Present. Updates: Monthly.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
Contains searchable full-text from the writings of over 400 authors. When complete, the collection will include more than 100,000 pages of primary materials, as well as author biographies and a Civil War chronology.
The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database offers information about children's books, videos, and audio books ranging from baby board books to novels and nonfiction for young adults. Of the more than 500,000 MARC format records, about 10% include full text book reviews from well-respected sources such as KIRKUS Reviews, Science Books & Films, andVoice of Youth Advocates(VOYA).
Climatewire provides daily coverage of the debate over climate policy and its effects on business, the environment and society. Topics include: federal and state agency programs, legislation, and policies: Kyoto and post Kyoto negotiations and implementation; carbon markets; alternative energy research; corporate/multi-national responses; lobbying by stakeholder groups; science findings; effects on water resources, species, ecosystems and agriculture; economic effects; costs to consumers; and more.
The Cochrane Library includes the following evidence-based medicine tools: the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), the Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE); the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL; Clinical Trials); the Cochrane Methodology Register (CMR; Methods Studies); the Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA; Technology Assessments); and the NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHSEED; Economic Evaluations).
CMMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth in the communication and mass media fields.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
The Community Health Data Base (CHDB) is provided by the Philadelphia Health Management Corporation (PHMC). The CHDB contains statistical information from the Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Survey, which is administered every two years. The CHDB also maintains U.S. Census and vital statistics data. The Community Health Data Base has become a unique, critical resource for area health and social service agencies. It provides: Local data, not extrapolations based on national or state data Data that are community-based rather than resource-based Data that can be examined by different levels of geography, including census tract, health district, Minor Civil Division, and ZIP code, as well as by county and region Longitudinal data that can be used as a baseline to measure changes in health, social status and access to care over time
The Community of Science (COS) home page, a venture funded by Johns Hopkins University, contains multiple resources which members of Penn State can access. Databases we have access to are: GeoRef U.S. Patents Scientific Journals Federally Funded Research in the U.S. (the full grants database of the NIH, NSF, USDA, SBIR, and Advanced Technology Program) The are additional choices on the COS home page which, are not available to Penn State users. They are: MEDLINE, Compendex, Federal Register and Commerce Business Daily. However, you can access PubMed (Medline) and Compendex (Ei Village 2) from the Databases by Title (A-Z) list.
Compendex is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world with over 9 million records referencing 5,000 engineering journals and conference materials dating from 1884.
A collection of newspapers from Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and Alabama ranging from 1861-1865. Some states have only scattered issues available - check the holdings statement on the front page to confirm dates of coverage.
Full-text research reports (from 1998 on) on recent issues in business and economics. Subscription also incudes access to 'Straight Talk' (brief analyses of economic issues), 'Across the Board' (the Board's magazine), the 'Executive Action Series' (brief reports addressing topics of interest to senior executives), and the Board's economic working papers.
Conference Papers provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science. Information is derived from final programs, abstracts booklets and published proceedings, as well as from questionnaire responses. Records include complete ordering information to obtain preprints, abstracts, proceedings and other publications derived from the conference, together with title and author information needed to track the specific papers.
Congressional provides access to the best web resources for congressional and legislative information. This includes services available only to Penn State Users only, such as Congressional Universe (1789-to date) as well as other free services that provide similar or related information such as Thomas (1993-to date) and GPO Access (1993-to date). The Guided Tour provides a step-by-step approach to congressional and legislative information for users who have never done research of this type before. Updates:Continuous Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
Research papers written by the Library of Congress for the use of Congress. Provide objective, non-partisan analysis of public policy issues before the legislature. Full text PDF of reports.
MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information on over 700 diseases and conditions from the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, a medical dictionary, interactive patient tutorials, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials. Pre-formulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus is updated daily. This resource is designed for educational use only and not intended to replace advice from a health professional. Learn more about MedlinePlus at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/medlineplus.htm
Provides brief biographical information and lists of publications by and about over 90,000 current authors of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, media, etc., active in the U. S. and internationally. Coverage: Current edition. Updates: Continuous.
This is a selective collection of full-text literary criticism of contemporary authors. Although not every entry includes full-text, this source does act as an index for the entire paper collection. The full-text entry is generally a reprinting of a critical essay from a recognized journal or essay collection. The database can be searched by author name and profile, titles, subject/themes, critics, and critical responses.
This is a collection of Middle English texts assembled from works contributed by University of Michigan faculty and from the Oxford Text Archive.
This collection consists of items originating from prisoners held in German concentration camps, internment and transit camps, Gestapo prisons, and POW camps, during and just prior to World War II. Most of the materials are letters written or received by prisoners, but also included are receipts for parcels, money orders and personal effects; paper currency; and realia, including Star of David badges that Jews were forced to wear.
Counseling and Therapy in VideoCounseling and Therapy in Video is an online video collection for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling - over 400 hours and more than 330 videos of actual, re-enacted, and scripted therapy sessions. Includes searchable transcripts to find footage of interest. Many videos include Teaching and Discussion Guides and a number are eligible for Continuing Education (C.E) Credits as indicated.
Summarizes all major legislative actions taken by congress each year. 1945-to date.
CQ Congress Collection is a dynamic research and reference tool allowing historical analysis of members of Congress, their legislative voting behavior, interest groups, and their interactions in crafting public policy.
A reference source for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. The suite includes the online version of --CQ Weekly --CQ Researcher --CQ Congress Collection, --CQ Voting and Elections Collection --CQ Historic Documents Online
Similar to CQ Researcher, CQ Global Researcher provides students with definitive, in-depth coverage of global affairs from a number of international viewpoints.
Historic Documents Series Online Edition collects more than 2,500 primary sources covering current events around the world from 1972 to present. Each source document is preceeded by an introductory essay giving context to the source. Users can search by keyword, or browse by topic or date. Topics range from presidential speeches to statements by sports figures such as Magic Johnson on his retirement from the NBA.
The CQ Researcher is a collection of reports covering political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Keywords: hot topics, current events, social issues, social trends, archive, English 15, CAS 100, background information, general interest, contemporary issues, overviews. Navigating CQ Researcher with JAWS
CQ Supreme Court Collection contains summaries and analysis of more than four thousand major decisions, historical and contemporary, including all cases in which the Burger and Rehnquist Courts (October 1969 to the present) issued a written opinion. Includes links to the full text of the cases. The collection can be searched by topic, justice, and case name. Includes tools to research justices' voting records and opinion alignments.
Expert analysis, demographics, and data of elections-realted information.
Each issue of CQ Weekly contains an unbiased, objective and comprehensive roundup of virtually all Capitol Hill activity from the previous week.
Provides comprehensive bill histories for legislation since the 105th Congress. Also includes Line item budget information for FY 1978-Current
Provides properties data for physics and chemistry.
Provides abstracts of articles from the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, as well as books and reports from government and nongovernmental agencies. For each document, an informative summary of the findings, methodology, and conclusions is provided. Topics include crime trends, prevention projects, corrections, juvenile delinquency, police, courts, offenders, victims, and sentencing.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
Contains over 3400 detailed datasheets on pests, diseases, natural enemies and crops, and basic information on a further 20,000 species. This is supported by the latest scientific findings with bibliographic records and Full Text journal and conference articles updated weekly.
CumInCAD is a cumulative index of publications about computer aided architectural design. It provides abstracts to thousands of papers in journals and conferences and it provides the full text and illustrations for more than half of the papers. When asked to logon, create your own ID and password.
The Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in mathematical statistics and related fields. The CIS Extended Database includes cover-to-cover coverage of 100 'core journals', selected articles from 900 additional related journals, and about 8,000 books since 1974.
The Daily Collegian and its predecessors, serve as an important source for documenting student life at the Pennsylvania State University. Newspapers, and specifically, student-run newspapers, such as the Daily Collegian, often document university life better than any other source--through their pictures, their editorials, and their reports on student activities and interests. The Daily Collegian as we know it today was preceded by: ��� Free Lance (monthly) -- April 1887 to April 1904 ��� State Collegian (weekly) -- September 28, 1904 to June 10, 1911 ��� Penn State Collegian (weekly) -- September 28, 1911 to August 2, 1940 (also had Summer Collegian issues for some dates during this time period). The Historical Digital Collegian provides access to all words, photographs, and advertisements as well as an exact page image of the newspaper page containing the article. For those readers who prefer to see the newspaper intact, each issue can be browsed page-by-page. Thus, the Historical Digital Collegian allows researchers greater flexibility in locating articles of interest and in allowing greater access for those researchers not able to visit The University Libraries.
This selective database, created at Penn State, is an index of news articles pertaining largely to Penn State and, to a lesser extent, the surrounding communities. National and state news items are not indexed unless they relate to persons, places or events associated with either Penn State or its surrounding communities. The Sports section is not indexed unless an article relates to a larger issue such as Title IX, gender equity, medicine, etc. Friday's Weekender section is not indexed either. The following topics are indexed: Local news articles Selected Editorials Theater Music Visual arts Book reviews
Online service that enables researchers to build statistical tables and charts from multiple sources in a single interface. Data includes a wide range of social and demographic data both from the US and international sources. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
The Deal Pipeline is a comprehensive online resource providing news and analysis on mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, financings, and bankruptcy. Information can be searched by companies, people or topic.
The Declassified Documents Reference System provides online access to over 500,000 pages of previously classified government documents. Covering major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond, this single source enables users to locate key information underpinning studies in international relations, American studies, United States foreign and domestic policy studies, journalism and more.
Deutsche Biographie is a full-text, searchable database of over 46,000 historical and biographical articles from the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie(ADB) and the Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB).
This new and growing database covers authors from all genres and time periods. Entries provide a good starting point for students by providing a general essay and biographical information. In addition to the essay there are references to primary and further critical information. All entries are written by scholars and academic specialists.
Covers the vocabulary of the English language between the years 600-1150 A.D., giving definitions, examples of use, variations in spelling, and references to contemporary texts. The Dictionary is being compiled incrementally.
The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts is an exhaustive resource for historians, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries. DLCPT gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras. With new content uploads occurring on a weekly basis, the database offers a constantly growing treasury of theological writings, biblical commentaries, confessional documents, and polemical treatises written by more than 300 Protestant authors.
A uniquely exhaustive resource for historians, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, the Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras.
A database with more than 63,000 declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions. There are 30 complete collections such as the Cuban Missle Crisis, death squads in Guatemala, US relations with Iran and Iraq, Afghanistan, and terrorism policy.
Provides statistics on the value of merchandise exports and imports between each country and all its trading partners.
Search journal articles at the 'one stop shop for users to Open Access Journals'.
Contains listings for radio and television stations and cable companies. Print media entries provide address; phone, fax numbers, and e-mail addresses; key personnel, including feature editors; and much more. Broadcast media entries provide address; phone, fax, and e-mail addresses; key personnel; owner information; hours of operation; networks carried and more. Scope includes U.S., Canadian, and international media.
Contains material from 280,000+ conferences, congresses, meetings & symposia in the areas of Science/Engineering/Technology Medical / Life Sciences Pollution Control / Ecology Social Sciences / Humanities
With more than 2 million entries, PQD&T is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
Full-text access to dissertations and theses written by graduates of CIC institutions are available.
Over 60,000 documents trace the debate over the ratification of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. This scholarly edition includes retains the significant editorial contributions of the original print series as well as the ability to search and browse by keyword, name, date, and state.
Includes the full text and bibliographic records of DOE (Department of Energy)-sponsored technical reports published since 1996. Coverage: DOE technical reports issued since 1996
Providing streamed audio files from 26 independent record labels, DRAM is a not-for-profit, online music database dedicated to preserving and disseminating important musical recordings that may be difficult or impossible to obtain by other means. The collection includes all recordings from the labels New World Records and Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI), and reflects the diversity of American music as well as other recordings of aesthetic and historical value largely ignored by the commercial marketplace. Liner notes and cover art are included. To ensure that your computer is set up to listen, please consult the publisher's technical requirements at http://www.dramonline.org/page/requirements
The largest outside of France, this collection from Harvard's Houghton Library, covers the controversy from Dreyfus' humiliating arrest in 1894 to 1908, the year Emile Zola's ashes were transferred to the Pantheon with ceremonial reverence. Comprising over 1,000 volumes, the collection contains all the well-known Dreyfus publications, such as Zola's 1898 newspaper article "J'accuse," as well as rarely seen archival materials. Documents from many different countries and all sides of the controversy reflect the depth and breadth of attention the Dreyfus Affair generated at the turn of the 19th century.
E&E TV supplements the coverage in Greenwire, Climatewire, Land Letter, and Environment &Energy Daily with video of interviews of leading policy makers in the fields of energy and environment.
Provides information about 70,000 chemical reagents and catalysts. Database is searchable by chemical structure and reaction as well as by chemical name.
E-STAT is Statistics Canada's dynamic interactive teaching and learning tool available on the Internet. It is designed to bring an enormous warehouse of timely, reliable and accurate data about Canada and its ever-changing people to educational institutions, using current Canadian Socio-economic Information Management System(CANSIM) multidimensional tables, and the most recent census data, as well as historical data. E-STAT lets you bring the columns of data to life by presenting them as colourful graphs and maps, which reveal the trends.
E-ZBorrow is a web gateway that allows simultaneous searching of over 60 academic library catalogs in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and West Virginia, including the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh, Temple University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Rutgers University. Penn State faculty, staff, and students can place requests for books within E-ZBorrow.
Early American Fiction 1789���1875 offers the full text of more than 700 first editions of American novels and short stories by such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain, as well as a host of minor writers of the period.
A selection of digitized and encoded texts selected from the titles in the Evans Early American Imprints collection. Includes materials printed in the American colonies and United States before 1820.
Evans Digital Edition (1639-1800) consists of digitized facsimiles of publications produced in the American colonies and the early United States. Derived from entries listed in Charles Evans's American Bibliography, and supplemented from other sources, it includes books, pamphlets, and broadsides on many topics, and is a fundamental resource for early American history, literature, philosophy, and religion.
Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to some 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early nineteenth century. The works cover all aspects of American life, including scientific thought, religion, politics, arts and literature, economics, Indian relations, military affairs, Westward expansion and more. The database is based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker, supplemented by thousands of newly identified items. The database continues the Early American Imprints: Series I, 1639-1800.
Early English Books Online contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard's and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). Coverage includes the first book printed in English by William Caxton and features works by Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, and Galileo. Novels, prayer books, pamphlets, almanacs, calendars, and many other types of primary sources are included. The works are presented as images that can be viewed online or downloaded in PDF format for viewing off-line.
A selection of digitized and encoded texts chosen from images in the Early English Books Online Project (works printed in the British Isles or in English from 1473 to 1700). Works chosen must be associated with an author whose name appears in the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, or be named by title in the Bibliography.
A collection of more than 200 works from the period 1500���1700, exploring the rich diversity of prose fiction in English in the period preceding the emergence of the realist novel as its dominant form. Early English Prose Fiction offers the full text of works by key writers such as John Bunyan, Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Nashe and Aphra Behn, and has been produced in association with the Salzburg Centre for Research on the Early English Novel (SCREEN).
A digital collection containing Records of the U.S. Department of State Relating to East German internal affairs. The documents contain reports from U.S. diplomatic personnel describing political, military, economic, social, industrial and other internal conditions and events in East Germany.
EBL is a platform that provides access to selected electronic books purchased by the Penn State Libraries.
ebrary is a platform that provides access to electronic books acquired by Penn State University Libraries.
Ecology Abstracts focuses on how organisms of all kinds - microbes, plants, and animals - interact with their environments and with other organisms. Also includes works on the impacts of environmental change. Coverage is from 1982 to date.
EconLit provides citations, with selected abstracts, to the international publications on economics since 1969.EconLit covers a broad range of document types, including journal articles, books, dissertations,and articles in collective works.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
A complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2003. New full-colour images, multiple search indexes, exportable financial tables and a gallery of front covers highlighting a key topic of each week. Covers political, business, scientific, technological and cultural news. For more up to date articles use the e-journal list from the libraries' home page.
Contains the following: eleven major editions from the first folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1853-6 twenty-eight separate contemporary printings of individual plays and poems selected apocrypha and related works. more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, including the whole of Bell's acting edition of Shakespeare's plays (1774).
The Edmund Spenser World Bibliography is the largest online source of bibliographic information on the poet. Searchable by names and keywords, it also provides extensive annotations which include all the book reviews and abstracts printed in The Spenser Newsletter and The Spenser Review from 1970 on.
Education in Video is an online collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers. It includes teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms.
The Human Relations Area Files are designed to facilitate the cross-cultural study of human society, culture, and behavior. Two HRAF databases are available: Ethnography Collection and Archaeology Collection. They provide full-text access to source material on a wide variety of cultures around the world, as well as a cultural summary and bibliography for each culture covered.
The Human Relations Area Files are designed to facilitate the cross-cultural study of human society, culture, and behavior. Two HRAF databases are available: Ethnography Collection and Archaeology Collection. They provide full-text access to source material on a wide variety of cultures around the world, as well as a cultural summary and bibliography for each culture covered.
Full texts and images of over 180,000 titles and editions printed in the British Isles and the Americas between 1701 and 1800. Includes books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more.
A selection of digitized and encoded texts selected from titles in Eighteenth Century Collections Online.
A collection of digitized newspapers and periodicals from 1699 to 1812 selected from the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas. Searchable by date, publisher, location, and full text. Supplements "Eighteenth Century Journals from the Hope Collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford," available in the University Park News and Microforms Library.
A collection of 96 complete works of English prose from the period 1700���1780 by writers from the British Isles. Key figures covered include Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne and Jonathan Swift. In addition to a scanned version of Sterne's Tristram Shandy, the collection also contains two different editions of Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela, and of Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
The ECS Digital Library provides searchable access to the journals, books, and other collections published by The Electrochemical Society. Dates covered vary by title - ECS Journal (1930+), Interface (1992+), ESSL (1998+), Abstracts (2002+), and Transactions (2005+).
This project brings together approximately 60,000 images of original sources, both manuscript and printed materials, documenting the history of exploration, cultural contact, and colonialism. Thematic essays introduce the material and place the documents within a broad historical,literary and cultural context. Topics include race, class and empire, religion, art, and economic aspects of empire.
The Encyclopaedia of Islam (New Edition) sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World. It is a unique and invaluable reference tool, an essential key to understanding the world of Islam, and the authoritative source not only on the religion, but also on the believers and the countries in which they live. It embraces articles on distinguished Muslims of every era and origin, on tribes and dynasties, on crafts and sciences, on political and religious institutions, on the geography, ethnography, flora and fauna of the various countries and on the history, topography and monuments of the major towns and cities. In its geographical and historical scope it encompasses the old Arabo-Islamic empire, the Islamic countries of Iran, Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Indonesia, as well as the Ottoman Empire and all other Islamic countries. The Encyclopaedia of Islam is the most important reference tool on Islam presently available.
The Encyclopedia of American Studies provides interdisciplinary coverage of the American experience, from pre-colonial days to the present. Over 660 articles cover areas such as history, literature, art, photography, film, architecture, urban studies, ethnicity, race, gender, economics, politics, wars, consumer culture, and global America.
The Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications (EIMC) seeks to provide 'clear knowledge of the workings of the media and communications worldwide' and to outline possible futures. 'Communications' is restricted to communications technology. EIMC's international authorship consists mainly of academics, a quarter of whom are from 26 countries outside the US--a globally diverse pool. An outline of section headings and glossary preface each article, and black-and-white figures, tables, and occasional photographs appear throughout. The editor defines the audience for EIMC broadly--professors, students, 'scholars and researchers ... journalists and other writers, librarians and historians, educators and executives of multinational corporations--in fact, anyone who needs information' related to media and communications. --Choice Review, Nov. 2003.
The Energy Citations Database (ECD) contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related STI from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The Database provides access to DOE publicly available citations from 1948 through the present, with continued growth through regular updates.
Compendex is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world with over 9 million records referencing 5,000 engineering journals and conference materials dating from 1884.
A unique collection of more than 3,900 plays in verse and prose tracing the development of drama in English from the medieval mystery cycles to the comedies of Oscar Wilde.
Provides complete texts of the works of over 2,700 poets from the 8th to early 20th century--in all, more than 183,000 poems. Based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, but also includes English language poets from Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Generally includes original texts published during the authors' lifetimes.
The ESTC is a comprehensive bibliographic record of works printed in Britain and North America or in the English language anywhere else in the world between 1473 and 1800. It includes books, serials, pamplets, and single-sheet items, and notes the location of copies in some 2,000 contributing libraries worldwide.
Newsletters providing comprehensive, daily coverage of environmental and energy policy and markets. Consisting of 4 separate newsletters: Greenwire, Climatewire, Landletter, and Environment & Energy Daily. The newsletters cover legislative, regulatory, and policy issues. E&E TV provides webcast programs featuring in-depth interviews and analysis with energy and environmental policy leaders. In-depth subject reports are also available on hot topics such as natural gas drilling, Solyndra, etc.
Environmental Engineering Abstracts covers the world literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production. More than 700 primary journals are thoroughly indexed and abstracted. Over 2,500 additional sources, including monographs and conference proceedings, are also monitored for relevant articles.Dates of CoverageApproximately 1990-current. The oldest record in the database has a publication date of 1973; about 50% of its records have publication dates of 1997 or later. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
The Environmental Sciences Collection provides abstracts and references to the environment literature covering all areas of air, land, water, and noise pollution as well as bacteriology, ecology, toxicology, risk assessment, environmental engineering, environmental biotechnology, waste management, and water resources from 1967 to the present. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is the major database for education literature, sponsored by the U.S. Department. of Education. The same database content is available on many platforms.
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is the major database for education literature, sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Education.
"Over 30.5 million documents including the most recent 24months of publications from the European Patent Office,recent 24 months of PCT-publications from World IntellectualProperty Organization (WIPO), the EPODOC database for"worldwide documents" where coverage varies by country (withUS Patents from 1836 to present), or Japanese Documents -PAJ (Patent Abstracts of Japan) bibliographic database since1976."
Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW) is a comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Continuously growing since 1991, with archival material back to 1985, Ethnic NewsWatch is now a collection of more than 470,000 full-text articles from over 200 publications. Searchable in both English and Spanish, with titles in both languages and more than 100,000 articles in Spanish, ENW offers in-depth coverage of a wide range of current and retrospective topics easily accessed using free text and fielded searching. An average of 7,500 new articles is added each month. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
ENA is a multilingual, multisource and multimedia knowledge base that contains more than 15,000 documents on the historical and institutional development of a united Europe from 1945 to the present day.In this knowledge base, students, teachers, researchers, and anyone interested in the European integration process can find original material such as photos, audio and video clips, press articles and cartoons, together with explanatory synopses, tables and interactive maps and diagrams.
Dow Jones Factiva database A global information resource, providing full-text access to top national and international newspapers (including full text of the Wall Street Journal), newswires, business journals, market research reports, analysts reports and web sites. Contains over 8000 publications with content from 118 countries in 22 languages. This database was formerly called Dow Jones Interactive. Updated daily. We have a limited number of users for this database. Please select the logout option before you leave your session.
Translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world are the sources of this information.Full text is currently available for selected areas only. For access to all FBIS reports use the A-Z link for the FBIS Index. All reports are available on microfiche in the Social Sciences Library 2nd floor Paterno.
An index to the microfiche collection FBIS Daily Reports, which include translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world are the sources of this information. Microfiche of full reports are available in the Social Sciences Library, 2nd floor Paterno.
The U.S. Government Printing Office disseminates official information from all three branches of the Federal Government.
Search Federal News Service transcripts.
This database provides information on research grants awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation. The database includes current grants, and several years of retrospective information.
The Medieval Feminist Index covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. Librarians and scholars began compiling the index (MFI) in July 1996. Books written by a single author are not included. To locate these, search The CAT.
A collection of primary sources-texts, letters, essays, radio broadcasts, and memoirs. The documents, most of which are in Spanish, fall into three categories: works by feminists about feminists and their causes, works by men on the status of women, and literary works by feminist writers that illustrate or discuss the condition of women.
Film & Television Literature Index is a comprehensive bibliographic database covering the entire spectrum of television and film writing, including theory, preservation and restoration; writing, production, cinematography; production and film and television reviews. It has been designed for use by a diverse audience including film scholars, college students, and general viewers. Publications include Film Journal International, Journal of British Cinema & Television, Film Criticism, Post Script, Variety, and more as well as technical publications such as SMPTE. Mirroring the international film & television industries and cultures, FTLI also includes publications such as Cahiers du Cinema, Filmihullu, SegnoCinema, and Kinetoscopio. Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
The Film Literature Index (FLI) annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular. More than 2,000 subject headings provide detailed analysis of the articles. The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Indiana University a grant to convert the print version of the Film Literature Index (FLI) to electronic form. The FLI Online contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001.
Over 900 video titles distributed by Filmakers Library are available through this online streaming service. Topics covered include: race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more.
FSTA contains comprehensive coverage of all aspects of food science, food technology and food-related human and pet nutrition, including: raw materials and ingredients; manufacturing & distribution; food safety; product development & consumer issues; food biotechnology; functional and novel foods; food additives, nutrition and packaging. The database contains information from scientific journals, patents, books, conference proceedings, reports, theses, standards, legislation and more. Coverage: 1969 ��� Present. Navigating Web of Knowledge with JAWS
Foreign Law Guide is a comprehensive resource which provides essential information on primary and secondary sources of law for many foreign jurisdictions. It provides the researcher with complete bibliographic citations to legislation, the existence of English translations whenever possible, and selected references to secondary sources in English. It is arranged by country and includes an introduction to the legal system of that country and lists the codes, session laws, and court reports available in print and on the Internet. Each country also contains a section arranged by subject that outlines the major laws for the subject and provides references to English translations, when available.
Contains comprehensive, worldwide coverage of tropical, subtropical, temperate and boreal tree species of major economic importance. Update weekly.
Forrester Research identifies and analyzes emerging trends in technology and their impact on business and the economy. It provides reports, briefs, surveys, data and product evaluations.
Bandleader, choral conductor, glee club pioneer, music educator, entrepreneur and renaissance man Fred Waring was a pioneer in every field of show business as well as music education and manufacturing. As the guiding force behind his large musical organization, he and his musicians earned accolades from listeners and critics alike throughout a career that spanned almost the entire 20th century.
Electronic versions of the following resources:Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies; Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media; and Market Share Reporter.
The Gale NewsVault allows researchers to cross-search historical newspaper collections, including the Times Digital Archive, the 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection, 19th Century US Newspapers, and many more. Providing access to over 10 million digitized facsimile pages, Gale NewsVault allows the most effective searching across many newspapers.
A collection of over 1000 reference resources.Navigating the Gale Virtual Reference Library with JAWS
The Gallup Brain is a searchable, living record of 70 years of public opinion. Inside, you'll find answers to more than 136,000 questions, and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed by The Gallup Poll since 1935. This unparalleled public opinion database also houses Gallup Poll News Service articles, Gallup Poll Tuesday Briefing articles, and Gallup Management Journal articles that feature in-depth public opinion and management data analyses. Replicas of historical news stories and press releases are available as well.
A comprehensive collection of current research reports on business-related aspects of Information Technology.
Global Development Finance (GDF) is the World Bank's annual report on external financing prospects for developing and transition countries. It tracks the yearly movement of international capital flows to developing countries, and analyzes policy issues for developing countries. GDF provides statistical data for 137 countries. Data may be displayed as charts or maps and exported.
Indexes geographical publications(books, periodical articles, pamphlets, government documents, maps and atlases) from 1984-present. Replaces the paper tile, Current Geographical Publications, produced by the American Geographical Society Library, UW-Milwaukee.
Full-text of journals published by the Geological Society of America, from 1988-date.
GeoRef contains over 2 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, theses and dissertations. Covers the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. The database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey, and US Canadian theses in the geosciences.
A comprehensive Internet resource for research and communications in the geosciences, built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals indexed, linked, and inter-operable with GeoRef.
A collection of magical and occult texts, chapbooks, folklore, popular superstition and fairy tales of the German Renaissance compiled by Stuttgart antiquarian Johann Scheible between 1845 and 1849.An accessible introduction to German folklore, this collection provides numerous examples of German folkways, presents a wide ranging selection of texts, and provides insight into the pervasive influence of German folklore on literature and popular culture.
Offers current, international news and perspectives on a variety of topics and events throughout the world. It brings together an array of sources to explain the historical and contemporary conditions in a wide range of subject areas, including sociology, civics, politics, science, economics, cultural/religious studies, women?s studies, and human rights. Updated daily.
Data on budgetary operations, extra-budgetary operations, social security, and consolidated financial operations of central governments. A section of the Government Finance Statistics Yearbook is devoted to a cross-country comparison of data. The Government Finance Statistics Database on CD-ROM contains this statistical data on government financial operations for 145 IMF member countries.
GreenFILE is a database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE will serve as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) is an interdisciplinary resource that offers content on the development of emerging green technologies and discusses issues on the environment, sustainability and more. It is interactive and current, allowing users to navigate issue, organization and country portals.
Greenwire provides daily coverage of environmental issues with the emphasis on energy, environment, and sustainability. Topics covered include: climate change issues; the development of wind, solar and other renewable energy; trends in fossil fuel resources and development; Clean Air Act regulation and litigation; electric utility regulation; biofuels development; new energy technologies; endangered species; public lands management; water resources; and many other issues.
Grove Music Online offers a dynamic research tool combining the full text of the 29-volume print edition with the added benefit of sophisticated search capabilities, one-click cross-referencing, and an ever increasing network of web-links to musical sites around the world.
Full text Chinese newspaper.
The [ACM] Guide to Computing Literature consists initially of more than 350,000 citations of core works in computing covering the last fifteen years, with a mid-term growth goal of one million works. These works are of all types (journal articles, proceeding papers, books, technical reports, dissertations, among others), and are from all the major publishers in the discipline. A wide search of the world's computing literature is made possible by the "Online Guide", which also includes reference linking.
Guides to Microforms, one of the History Universe products from Lexis Nexis, allows users to search the guides for 195 of the most popular microform collections from University Publications of America (UPA) via the WEB. Coverage will expand with some 50 more titles each yearincluding new titles, backlist titles, and widely-held titles from other microform publishers. This source includes the guides for many collections owned by the Penn State University Libraries, including the Papers of the NAACP; Black Workers in the Era of the Great Migration, 1916-1929; the Papers of Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933-1945; and Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1954-1970. NOTE: The Libraries does not own every collection indexed in the Guides to Microforms, and in some cases, the Libraries only owns pieces of a collection. To determine exactly what the Libraries owns, PLEASE search the CAT or go to MicrofinderIndex of Collections available in Micoforms.
The Gutenberg-e titles combine distinguished and innovative scholarship with creative and thoughtful use of digital technology. The e-books are selected by the American Historical Association and produced by the electronic publishing staff at Columbia University Press. The electronic versions offer elements that cannot be conveyed in print: extensive documentation, hyperlinks to supplementary literature, images, music, video, and links to related web sites.
The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources.
HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
The online version of Harper's Weekly, a leading 19th Century illustrated magazine, covering political, military, social, and cultural stories. It contains many images by noted artists such as Winslow Homer, Thomas Nast, and Mathew Brady. In addition, over 30,000 advertisements, categorized by topic and advertiser, are included. Literature in the database is searchable by title, author and literary genre. HarpWeek may be browsed by date or literary genre and the full text is searchable by keywords. Penn State access includes the The Civil War Era 1857 - 1871, and Reconstruction, 1872 - 1877.
Sponsored by the libraries of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California, and other partners, HathiTrust is a repository of digitized materials in all disciplines. Its content--primarily scanned books and journals-- may be searched via authors, titles, subjects, and other data elements.
The Hazleton Collegian flourished from December 1937 to December 1954. The publication was published monthly through 1941, then became a weekly edition. The title changed to Highacres Collegian in January 1955 and is the current name of the student newspaper. This digital collection is through April 1994.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments features material on unpublished information-gathering tools for clinicians that are discussed in journal articles, such as questionnaires, interview schedules, tests, checklists, rating and other scales, coding schemes, and projective techniques. The majority of tools are in medical and nursing areas such pain measurement, quality of life assessment, and drug efficacy evaluation. However, HaPI also includes tests used in medically related disciplines such as psychology, social work, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech & hearing therapy.
This database provides a comprehensive, timely survey of recent work relating to public health, safety, and industrial hygiene. Coverage: 1981-dateMajor subject areas included: oOccupational Safety and Health oTransportation oEnvironmental and Ecology oFood and Drugs oPesticides oNatural Disasters, Civil Defense, and Emergency Management oFire Safety oRadiation Safety, and Electrical Safety oConsumer and Recreation Safety oErgonomics, and Human Factors oDiseases, Injuries and Trauma oEpidemology and Public Health oMedical SafetyoToxicologyoCivil and Structural Engineering. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
Hein Online is a full-text research collection offering more than 900 legal journals; federal publications such as the Federal Register, U.S. treaties and agreements, U.S. Supreme Court opinions, federal legislative histories, presidential documents; a collection of legal classics; and Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court competition materials.
Search for articles and other publications on world history from 1450 to present, (except for the United States and Canada which are indexed in the companion work, America: History and Life). The database includes articles in journals worldwide, including a selection of major social science and humanities journals. Also included are references to dissertations and books.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
Provides a comprehensive compendium of statistics from over 1,000 sources recording every aspect of the history of the United States from population to prices; from voting patterns to Vietnam veterans; from energy to education; from abortions to zinc and everything in between. Over 80 scholars have contributed their efforts and expertise to select, assemble, and document the data, to write the introductory essays, and to analyze the material.
The full-text of recent issues of the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, Labour History, Environmental History, and other journals. Project partners include the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians and other publishers.
Describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields. Keywords: History, Agricultural Science, Astrology, Astronomy, Science, Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Electronics, Engineering, Environmental Science, Geography, Historiography , Mathematics, Medical Science, Military Technology, Natural History, Neurosciences, Physics, Public Health
Christian Leadership Conference, Revolutionary Action Movement, etc...), and government reports documenting the quest for equality; The NAACP Papers includes annual reports, meeting minutes and records on education, voting, employment, and housing; Slavery and the Law contains petitions to southern legislatures and courts, as well as State Slavery Statutes; Southern Life and African-American History, 1775-1915 contains diaries, account books, and other records illustrating daily life on plantations; The Struggle for Women's Rights, 1880���1990, provides records of three organizations: the National Woman's Party, the League of Women Voters, and the Women's Action Alliance; The Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960���1975 provides documents from the State Dept, the Associated Press and the Defense Dept.Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
The Homeland Security Digital Library is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Office of Grants and Training and the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security. The HSDL is the nation's premier tool for homeland security policy and strategy research. The collection includes homeland security strategy, policy and research documents published by: Federal, state and local government agencies; International governments and institutions; and Research institutions, universities, think tanks.
Hoover's Online provides company and industry information, company news, information on initial public offerings, and career and personal finance information.
The Horn Book Guide Online, updated each spring and fall, publishes short, critical reviews of virtually every hardcover trade book published in the United States for young people. The reviews are clear and succinct (about 60 to 75 words), identifying strengths and weaknesses and rating the books on a scale from one (high) to six. The database is searchable by author, illustrator, title, subject, and bibliographic data, as well as by rating. Currently, there are more than 51,000 full text reviews from 1989 through the current issue.
Science of Synthesis is the new edition of the Houben-Weyl Methods in Organic Chemistry, a major reference work that provides synthetic methods for the preparation of organic chemicals. The original edition began publication in 1909 and covers the organic chemistry literature back to 1835. All editions of Houben-Weyl as well as the E-Series are also included as an electronic backfile within Science of Synthesis. Please note that the earlier editions of Houben-Weyl are in German.
Human Rights Documents Online contains documents collected since 1980 by the Human Rights Internet, the unofficial depository for documentation produced by more than 480 non-governmental human rights organizations throughout the world. Reports may be universal in scope or focus on a specific area of the world. Users can find documents by using a keyword search or browsing by country. The database is updated regularly.
IBISWorld provides over 700 full-text industry reports, 700 US industry risk rating reports, and information on over 8000 Publicly Traded US Companies as well as hundreds of economic and demographic profiles.
IBZ is an index of periodical literature covering basic research from all fields of knowledge, and is particularly strong in the humanities and the social sciences. Over 11,000 periodicals are indexed by this multilingual database, now containing over 1.7 million records. It is international in scope, and indexes a significant proportion of the periodicals published on the European continent. Coverage: 1984-present Current edition. Updates: Continuous.
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is a membership-based, non-profit data archive located at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. It serves member colleges and universities in the United States and abroad by providing: Access to the world's largest archive of computerized social science data, Training facilities for the study of quantitative social analysis techniques, Resources for social scientists using advanced computer technologies.
The Index of German Journals contains 100.000 records of articles published 1750 - 1815. These articles are indexed with German subject headings.
IEEE Xplore contains the full text of all IEEE and IEE journal articles, conference papers, and standards published since 1988. The material can be accessed through a searchable database or by browsing. Navigating IEEE Xplore with JAWS
The world's first illustrated weekly newspaper. The Digital Archive contains the full run from the initial launch in 1842 to the final issue in 2003. The database has more than one and half million color images providing a vivid pictorial commentary on domestic and world affairs. Searches can be limited to illustrations, or sections such as advertising, news and business, arts and leisure, or people.
Collected summary for Image Databases at Penn State
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is a collection of movie information. IMDb tries to catalog every pertinent detail about a movie, from who was in it, to who made it, to trivia about it, to filming locations, and even where one can find reviews and fan sites on the web. IMDb then do their best to present this information in a manner that is easy to search and access.
Index Islamicus is an international bibliography of publications in European languages covering all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world, including history, beliefs, societies, cultures, languages, and literature. The database includes material published by Western orientalists, social scientists and Muslims and contains indexing for 3,470 titles with coverage dating back to 1906. Index Islamicus is produced by Brill Academic Publishers.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
A descriptive and bibliographic index of thematic and iconographic content of early Christian and medieval art from apostolic times to 1400 A.D. The online database contains all of the works electronically processed for the print version of the index at Princeton University since 1991 (over 23,000 work of art records as of June 2002), including a growing number of images and bibliographic entries covering iconography, art history, archaeology, and classical and religious studies.
The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals provides access to legal literature worldwide and covers all forms of foreign law. Types of documents covered include journal articles, congress reports, essay collections, yearbooks, and book reviews. Coverage is 1985 to current.
Index to Jewish Periodicals is the definitive index on Jewish history, activity and thought. This database provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs. Index to Jewish Periodicals is intended for students of Jewish thought and others interested in contemporary Jewish and Middle Eastern affairs. Journal coverage dates back as far as 1988.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
Index to Legal Periodicals and Books indexes legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, and bar association publications from 1918 to the present. Coverage also includes books and full-text of selected articles from the early 1990s to the present.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
This database is the only electronic resource for finding individual pieces of music published in standard scholarly editions. Included is music from ancient Greek times to the present.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716.
The INDEX TRANSLATIONUM data base contains cumulative bibliographical information on books translated and published in about a hundred of UNESCO's Member States since 1979 and totalizing some 1,300,000 notices in all disciplines: literature, social and human sciences, natural and exact sciences, art, history and so forth. It is planned to update this every quarter.
ITIL is an Information Technology (IT) management framework that provides practices for Information Technology Services Management, IT Development and IT Operations. ITIL is the most widely accepted approach to IT service management in the world. ITIL provides a cohesive set of best practice, drawn from the public and private sectors internationally. ITIL principles are for senior executives, managers and decision makers whose businesses make use of IT. The ITIL V3 Publication Suite is available online to Penn State faculty, staff, and students. It contains all 5 ITIL core reference books. These books include: Service Strategy, Service Design, Service Transition, Service Operation, and Service Improvement. These are the books from which the ITIL examination syllabus is set. ITIL principles are for senior executives, managers and decision makers whose businesses make use of IT.
Authoritative resource for foreign audiences seeking information about American society, political processes, official U.S. policies and culture.
ingentaconnect.com is a comprehensive multi-disciplinary document delivery service providing access to thousands of online journals from leading scholarly, academic and business publishers.
Covers nuclear science and technology; indexes and abstracts journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports; 1970 - present
Inspec is a leading bibliographic information database covering the fields of physics, electronics, computing, control engineering and information technology with more than 7.7 million records taken from 3,500 technical and scientific journals and 1,500 conference proceedings. Coverage: 1896-present.
Search electronic journal articles from the Institute of Physics.
The National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade's InterAm Database is an on-line collection of laws, regulations, case law, and secondary source materials for countries in the Americas. This collection is primarily in the original language (Spanish or Portuguese) but some materials are translated into English. The database is updated daily and arranged in over 25 topical areas related to trade and investment.
Indexing for European art from late antiquity to the present, American art from the colonial era to the present, and some coverage of global art since 1945. With indexing beginning in 2007, this is the successor to the the Bibliography of the history of Art (BHA.) Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
Use the International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance to search for journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance. IBTD was initiated by the American Society for Theatre Research and continued by the Theatre Research Data Center (TRDC) at Brooklyn College.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences is the online equivalent of the 24 volume encyclopedia published in 2002. Content is organized around more than 30 primarily interdisciplinary topical areas of active research and significant promise (for example, memory, crime and violence, markets, modernization), combined with the categories: Overarching Topics,Disciplines, Intersecting fields, and Applications. Includes extensive indices, searchable full-text, and embedded electronic reference links. Annual updates are planned for release from 2004.
IFS Online is the principal statistical publication of the International Monetary Fund. Tables for each Fund member country include data on the country's exchange rates, Fund position, international liquidity, money and banking accounts, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, national accounts, and population. Selected series are published in area and world tables. Data may be downloaded as HTML, MS Excel, comma-delimited, or tab-delimited files. Some series begin with 1945. Updated monthly.
IIBP Full Text draws its current content from more than 150 international scholarly and popular periodicals in Black Studies and contains full-text coverage of 40 core Black Studies periodicals. It covers a wide array of humanities-related disciplines including art, cultural criticism, economics, education, health, history, language and literature, law, philosophy, politics, religion, and sociology among others.
International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text (IIMPFT) is an outstanding resource for music periodicals available on the web. It enables you to find articles on a comprehensive variety of subjects about music from a wide range of scholarship. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
Indexes articles in journals, conference proceedings, and essay collections published worldwide. Publications dealing with the period 400-1500 and published since 1967 are covered. Subject areas include: Classics, Language and Literature, History and Archaeology, Theology and Philosophy, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Art History, Music, Theatre and Performance Arts, Crusades, Hagiography, Onomastics, Numismatics, Historiography, Epigraphy, medieval Manuscripts, Charters, Documents. Middle Ages.
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, the Internet Archive provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.
A categorized index of more than 4000 select web sites in 238 nations, islands, and territories, as well as thousands of locally stored web pages, legal forms, and downloadable files, this site was established in 1995 to serve as a comprehensive resource of the information available on the Internet concerning law and the legal profession, with an emphasis on the United States of America.
Encyclopedic resource containing information on over 1500 invasive species and animal diseases. Updated weekly
A comprehensive source for US nationwide public opinion data from academic, commercial and media survey organizations such as ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, The Gallup Organization, Los Angeles Times, National Opinion Research Center, NBC News, New York Times, Princeton Survey Research Associates, the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, USA Today and The Washington Post. iPOLL is organized at the question-level providing the tools to sift through 350,000 questions asked on national public opinion surveys since 1935.
ITER is an interdisciplinary database for finding information on topics pertaining to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (400-1700AD). The database includes citations for books, articles, and selected reviews. Iter Italicum, contains descriptions of Renaissance manuscripts in libraries and archives worldwide. Subject areas include: Classics, Language and Literature, History and Archaeology, Theology and Philosophy, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Art History, Music, Theatre and Performance Arts, Crusades, Hagiography, Onomastics, Numismatics, Historiagraphy, Epigraphy, Medieval Manuscripts, Charters, Documents.
The Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists is a compact but highly complex, multi-layered compilation of documents, sound recordings, and visual images.
JAMAevidence leverages the content of the Users' Guides to the Medical Literature, 2nd ed., and The Rational Clinical Examination electronic books with added tools that map key evidence-based medicine topics for use in educational settings. Includes media-rich features such as calculators, and question wizards. Allows downloadable and customizable PowerPoint slides for teaching and learning and includes live links to subscribed full-text AMA journal resources.
JapanKnowledge is a portal to Japanese encyclopedias, dictionaries and databases that provide access to various reference sources in Japan including Encyclopedia Nipponica, Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, Progressive Japanese-English/English-Japanese Dictionaries, Gendai Yogo No Kiso Chishiki, Nihon Jinmei Daijiten, recent issues of the Economist Japanese edition, collection of Toyo Bunko series and other visual and sound databases. The Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan is in English, the remaining reference sources are in Japanese.
A collection of more than 65,000 full-color items drawn from the Bodleian Library and issued from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. Subjects covered include nineteenth-century entertainment; the book trade; popular prints; crimes, murders, and executions; and advertising.
The Guide consists of 226 alphabetically arranged entried on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods.
Journal performance metrics offer a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals delivers quantifiable statistical information based on citation data Helps determine a publication's impact and influence in the global research community Includes journal and category data
JSTOR (www.jstor.org) is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. For complete lists of titles and collections, please refer to http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html.
Monthly news summary of the world's political, social, and economic events since 1931.
The Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology is a major reference resource for chemistry, chemical engineering, and related disciplines. It contains substantial articles on topics in these areas and has extensive bibliographies that accompany the articles.
KluwerArbitration.com is a comprehensive database of international commercial arbitration primary and secondary materials. It is produced by Kluwer law International in association with the Institute for Transnational Arbitration and the International Council of Commercial Arbitration. It contains full text of almost 1700 bilateral investment treaties, over 5,400 court decisions, and 1,800 arbitral awards. The database also includes major treatises and journals, news, blogs, and time saving practice materials
Knovel contains over 800 engineering and science handbooks, and related databases. The system has interactive capabilities that provide analytical tools to analyze the data they contain and produce tables and graphs.
Lancaster Farming is one of Pennsylvania's most popular farming newspapers and celebrated its 50th anniversary in November 2005.
Land Letter provides daily coverage of legislative, regulatory, and policy issues related to natural resources. Topics include forestry, oil and gas issues, public lands, wildlife. and more.
An online collection of Latin American newspapers published in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Titles are from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and elsewhere, published between 1805 and 1922. The Latin American papers can be searched along with other papers in the World Newspaper Archive.
The Oxford Bibliographies help researchers find reliable sources of information selected by experts in the subject. The Latin America module contains recommended sources from a vast range of disciplinary perspectives, including history, literature, sociology, economics, anthropology, and political science. Sources are linked to the library collections.
An annual public opinion survey that involves interviews in 18 Latin American countries, representing more than 400 million inhabitants. Topics covered include: Economy and International Trade; Integration and Trade Agreements; Political Democracy and Social and Political Institutions; Distribution of Wealth; Civic Culture; Social Capital and Participation; Environment; Gender and Discrimination; Current Topics
Gale Group Infotrac database for research in case law, government regulations, the practice of law, statutes, taxation and international law. Covers all major law reviews, and specialty law and bar association journals.
Proquest Legislative Insight is a legislative history service offering full-text PDF versions of publications generated by the United States Congress during the legislative process from 1929 to the present. The publications include the full text of the Public Law, all versions of related bills, law-specific Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, and prints. Also included are Presidential signing statements, CRS reports, and miscellaneous congressional publications. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Covers many news sources for 20 years. Court cases and statutes from all federal and state jurisdictions are included. Most resources can be searched in full text.
State Capital Universe is the world's most comprehensive access to state government information. The service provides access to: state bills and laws; constitutions; proposed and enacted regulations; newspapers of record; articles about legislative issues affecting the states; legislature membership. Users can search for information about one state, any combination of states, or all 50 states from a single source
GLBT Life is the premier resource to the world's literature regarding gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues. Designed for academic, professional and public communities, this database contains indexing and abstracts for GLBT-specific core periodicals.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
LGBT Studies in Video is a cinematic survey of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as well as the cultural and political evolution of the LGBT community. This first-of-its-kind collection features award-winning documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and select feature films exploring LGBT history, gay culture and subcultures, civil rights, marriage equality, LGBT families, AIDS, transgender issues, religious perspectives on homosexuality, global comparative experiences, and other topics
Identifies articles on librarianship, information science, and related fields. Includes many related areas such as publishing, and applications of information technology in specific fields. The database abstracts over 550 periodicals from more than 60 countries and in over 20 different languages.
Library Literature is an index to journal articles, books, pamphlets, and theses on library and information science published since December 1984. It also indexes editorials that appear as regular features in library science journals, along with book reviews that appear as part of review articles. One can search Library Literature by author, title, subject, or words anywhere in the indexed items records. Searches can be limited by the language or the publication year of the sources. Help screens are available for each function of the database.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
The Library of Congress Online Catalog is a database of books, serials, computer files, manuscripts, cartographic materials, music, sound recordings, and visual materials in the Library's collections.
LISTA indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals, as well as books, research reports and proceedings. Indexed titles include the /PaLA Bulletin/, newsletter of the Pennsylvania Library Association, from 2007-date. General coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
The definitive database on the nature and use of language, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts covers three fundamental areas: research in linguistics (the nature and structure of human speech); research in language. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
Literary Theory traces the history of literary theory and criticism from Plato to the present. It contains over 800 works by more than 350 writers. Among the works included are: formal treatises on criticism, essays and manifestos, literary prefaces, theories of imagination, taste and aesthetics, and major examples of contemporary theory.
Literature Criticism Online offers biographical and critical essays on authors and their works including novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, literary theorists, and other writers. The database features full-text content from a number of Gale print literature sets.
With over a third of a million full-text works of poetry, prose and drama in English, together with the definitive online criticism and reference library, Literature Online is the world's largest cross-searchable database of literature and criticism.
LLMC Digital is a service that makes available online many of the law and law-related materials on microfiche published by the Law Library Microform Consortium. The current online collection includes U.S. federal executive, legislative, and judicial materials, as well as selected materials from state and foreign jurisdictions.
LoisLaw is an online legal research service providing access to primary and secondary legal materials. Primary materials are grouped by type of law and by jurisdiction and include federal and state case law, statutes, administrative rules and regulations, and court rules. Secondary materials include a collection of treatises arranged by practice areas. User limit is 135.
Palmer's Index to The Times contains records from the 461 printed volumes of Palmer' Index to the London Times newspaper. Articles can be located by broad subject headings, date of publication, or title keywords. Obituaries are under the heading "Deaths". For articles after 1905 consult the print volumes for the Official Index to the Times, available in the Microforms and Newspapers Library, Ground Floor West Pattee (Call # A121.T46). The text of the Times is on microfilm, Call # Microfilm E200
Lynda.com, Inc. offers over a thousand video tutorials on leading software topics like Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, SQL, Drupal, audio and video editing applications, ColdFusion, operating systems, and many more. These high-quality tutorials are taught by industry experts and available 24/7 for convenient, self-paced learning.
The electronic editions of record for major national newspapers, local, regional, and U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources -- all in one easy-to-search database with a world map. Each provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community, as well as a distinctive focus offering a variety of viewpoints on local and world issues.
"The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926" is a full-text collection of Anglo-American Legal Treatises. It allows full-text searching of more than 22,000 works including casebooks, local practice materials, form books, manuals, letters, speeches, and more
Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 is a collection of more than 7,000 titles derived from the Law Libraries of Harvard, Yale and the Library of the Bar of the City of New York. The fully searchable content contains trial books from all countries and languages, but most books are in English and published in the U.S. or Great Britain. Books include unofficially published accounts of trials; official trial documents, briefs and arguments; and official records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings, and arbitrations.
Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978, is a comprehensive online collection of nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court.
From 1935 to 1967, Time Inc's newsreel series, "The March of Time��" chronicled the events of our lives. These award-winning motion pictures recorded global events and brought them to big screens around the world and then later, television. The collection also contains historic footage dating back to 1913.
This database serves as a resource for designers in their search for new and/or unique materials. Material ConneXion currently holds 2,000+ material samples of architectural, landscape architectural, interior and industrial design products. Material samples include an index of manufacturer, material composition, environmental/sustainability, and descriptive information.
MathSciNet is a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature of the past 61 years. It provides Web access to reviews and bibliographic data from Mathematical Review and Current Mathematical Publications. It provides links to original articles and free access to Featured Reviews.
MD-Consult is a searchable collection of full text medical reference books, journals, drug information, peer-reviewed clinical practice guidelines and customizable patient education materials. Although originally designed for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, physician assistants and other allied health professionals will also find it useful.
Lists the films and videotapes which are available in the University's Media & Technology Support Services collection. Use this database to identify information about specific items in the collection and determine their availability.For faculty or rental scheduling of audiovisual materials in the collection: At University Park, call 863-3202 or 865-6314 or fax 863-2574 to schedule a film or video. At a Penn State College Campus, contact the instructional services specialist for more information. Non-local rental customers should call (800) 826-0132.Current collection. Updates: Continuous. Coverage: Films and Videos from the University's collection
The Medical Letter databases include The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics, Treatment Guidelines, The Medical Letter Adverse Drug Interactions Program, The Electronic Handbook of Antimicrobial Therapy, and a platform to obtain up to 50 CME/CE credits for physicians, PA's, pharmacists, and ARNP's.
Primary source documents. mostly covering British, Irish, and Scottish history during the years 1100-1800. Key sources include the Calendar of State Papers, Close Rolls, Fine Rolls, Acts of the Privy Council, publications from the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and selected original manuscripts from the British National Archives. The documents record the political, ecclesiastical, social, and economic conditions in Britain, Ireland, and Scotland, with some coverage of Continental Europe and the American colonies.
Mental Health Directory with association information, resource centers, and support groups. Subject specific book, journal, audio, video, and website recommendations.
The database covers more than 2,200 commercially-available tests in categories such as personality, developmental, behavioral assessment, neuropsychological, achievement, intelligence and aptitude, educational, speech & hearing, and sensory motor.
Mergent Archives is an online database with access to a collection of over 180,000 corporate and industry related documents, including Annual Reports. Covering over 100 countries and industries, Mergent Archives is primarily useful for historical research.
Mergent's WebReports contains the complete archive of the Mergent/Moody's Corporation Manuals, including the Mergent/Moody's Industrial Manual. It also provides access to Mergent's Industry Reports.
MergentOnline (formerly FISonline) is a subscription-based service offering information on over 15,000 U.S. public companies and 30,000 non-U.S. public companies. MergentOnline is produced by Mergent, Inc., formerly known as Moody's). Mergent/Moody's is a publisher of detailed business descriptions, corporate histories and financial statements since 1900.
The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and On-Line Teaching (MERLOT) is a high quality collection of interactive learning materials, assignments, reviews, and people.
This web site provides access to over 500 collections and 500 newspapers that are available in the News and Microforms Library of the Penn State University Libraries. BOOK, JOURNAL, MANUSCRIPT, ARCHIVE, AND ORAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS. This web site provides alphabetical, subject, and chronological access to descriptions of over 500 collections. For each collection, the following information is given: title of the collection, microform call number, title and call number of the guide, number of microform units, description of the collection, and list of subject headings. The descriptions include, where appropriate, biographical information for individuals or information on groups or organizations, location of the original materials, types of materials included, and a description of subject content. The descriptions are adapted from information in the various guides, information in the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, or information at the beginning of the first reel/fiche. Many of the descriptions were authored by Sandra Romanow (1982 guide), Lynn Vacca, Philip Frigm, and Jack Pontius. Susan Lieberman helped greatly in the editing of the original printed guide. The web version was edited by Cliff Hughes. NEWSPAPERS Among the most important and heavily used materials in the Microforms Collection are backfiles of about 500 newspapers. However, it is sometimes difficult to determine what newspapers are available for various cities or countries or for various time periods. While most titles are cataloged in The CAT, the Penn State Libraries online catalog, The CAT does not provide geographical or chronological access. This web site allows you to search the Microforms Newspaper Collections: Alphabetically | By chronological period | Geographically.
Arab-Israeli Relations 1917-1970 offers a range of original source material from the British Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers from the 1917 Balfour Declaration through to the Black September war of 1970-1.
Iraq 1914-1974, offers a broad range of original source material from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers covering the period from the Anglo-Indian landing in Basra in 1914 through the British Mandate in Iraq of 1920-32 to the rise of Saddam Hussein in 1974. Here major policy statements and other working documents are set out in context, the minor documents and marginalia revealing the workings of the mandate administration, diplomacy, treaties, oil and arms dealing. Photographs and colour maps, as well as contemporary film, help bring this vital strand of modern history to life. Topics covered include:The British administration in Baghdad Gertrude Bell, advisor to the British administration, in both reports and memos *The Arab Uprising of 1920 *The Cold War and Soviet intervention in Iraq *Kurdish unrest and the war in Kurdistan *Oil concessions and oil exploration *The Rise of Ba'athism and Saddam Hussein *Iran-Iraq relations
Provides access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to an associated network of electronic resources.
Its 15,000 pages offer a comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500, based on the analysis of a collection of over three million citation slips, the largest collection of this kind available. This electronic version of the MED preserves all the details of the print MED, but goes far beyond this, by converting its contents into an enormous database, searchable in ways impossible within any print dictionary.
Mintel publishes market research reports for the U.S. and European consumer markets. Reports analyze market drivers, trends, market forecasts, market segmentations, demographics, and consumer attitudes and purchasing behaviors. Mintel publishes over 600 reports each year.
This collection includes 468 glass lantern slides dating from 1897 to about 1902, apparently used by Mira Lloyd Dock in her lectures at the Mont Alto Forestry School. Many of these photos were taken at Wetzel's Swamp near Harrisburg (now Wildwood Park) but other states and European sites are also represented. Most are black and white, but a few of the slides of plants were beautifully hand-colored. The collection provides an interesting perspective on ecology a century ago and a view of the broad interests of Dock, who was a noted champion for the city beautiful movement and for the restoration of Pennsylvania's forests ��� as well as the first woman to be appointed by a Pennsylvania governor.
MIT CogNet, the Cognitive and Brain Sciences Community Online, provides access to a searchable, full-text library of books, journals, and reference works from the MIT Press, as well as content and links to resources from other publishers, professional associations, institutions, and individuals. Additional features are conference materials, a directory of cognitive science programs, threaded discussion groups, job listings and other career information, and more.
The MLA International Bibliography contains more than 1.7 million records for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.
Economic, industrial, trade, and population statistics (monthly or quarterly) from more than 200 countries. Data may be graphed, printed, or downloaded. Compiled by the United Nations.
The MRS Proceedings Library includes over 20,000 peer-reviewed papers presented at Materials Research Society meetings primarily since 2000.
This webpage provides links to several music audio databases licensed by the Penn State University Libraries for use by students, faculty, and staff.
The Music Index Online indexes articles in 670 international music journals and magazines. The list of journals indexed by The Music Index Online is at http://www.harmonieparkpress.com/period.a.html Coverage: 1979-current
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project whose main resource is an Abstract Service, which includes four sets of abstracts: 1) astronomy and astrophysics 2) instrumentation 3) physics and geophysics 4) Los Alamos preprint server Each dataset can be searched by author, object name (astronomy only), title, or abstract text words. In addition, the abstract service includes links to the full text of articles appearing in most of the major astronomical journals.
Includes the full text and bibliographic records of selected NASA-sponsored technical reports. Coverage: NASA-sponsored technical reports; dates vary
The National Agricultural Library Digital Repository(NALDR) provides access to historic publications of the Department of Agriculture either digitized by NAL or through NAL's partnerships with other institutions.
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 150,000 publications on criminal justice, including Federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Subject areas include corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, and victims of crime. Coverage: The time period covered is from the early 1970's to the present.
Featuring the complete archive of the magazine from 1888 to 1994, National Geographic Magazine Archive includes every page and every photograph, providing in-depth coverage of cultures, nature, science, technology and the environment. The database is fully searchable by subject, geography, or image.
Full-text of key magazines, newsletters, books and directories from the National Journal Group. Focused on government, politics, and public policy. Includes general public policy as well as focused publications on health policy and technology policy. Publications include: The National Journal - weekly journal on politics and government Congress Daily (twice daily covering Congressional activity) Hotline (campaign info) Government Executive (monthly) American Health Line (daily) Technology Daily Almanac of American Politics Poll Track -- polls related to government, politics, & public policy
The Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database provides the most comprehensive listing of brand name product ingredients available giving a summary of safety, effectiveness, drug interactions, and adverse effects. Other clinical tools include a drug interaction checker and an effectiveness checker. Over 1,100 profiles of natural ingredients are included as well as Canadian licensed natural health products and herbal fixed combination products.
Naxos Music Library streams over 900,000 tracks from the complete Naxos, Marco Polo, and Dacapo record catalogs plus many other independent labels: mostly classical music, with some jazz, world, and folk music. While listening, users can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers and artists. To ensure that your computer is set up to listen, please consult the publisher's minimum system requirements at http://pennstate.naxosmusiclibrary.com/help/userguides/userguides.asp?type=4&page=sysrequirements
Provides access to NBC's video archive, NBC News, Today Show, sports and 26 subject collections. Researchers may download playlists and video to insert in course-related materials. Partner content from Washington Post and others.
Founded in 1920, the National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. The NBER is committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community.
netLibrary provides access to a PALCI-shared collection of electronic books. Access to a title is limited to one concurrent user at a time.
Brill's New Pauly and Der Neue Pauly have become a recognized standard reference work for students and scholars of the ancient world. Now, the complete original Der Neue Pauly together with Brill's New Pauly are offered online. New Pauly Online will allow the researcher to have the most complete database available. New Pauly Online is automatically updated whenever a new volume is published.
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.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
From Magazines for Libraries (Mar 22, 2007) To browse the archives of the New York Review of Books is to view a Who's Who of contemporary American literature and culture; its inaugural issue, for example, included contributions from Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Adrienne Rich, and William Styron. Stimulating essays on current topics, lengthy reviews by and about major authors, and original poetry comprise the core of this highly regarded publication. The online archive provides the full text of articles, searchable by date, author, keyword, and other fields.
Includes a digitized image of every backfile issue of The New York Times from cover to cover, including news stories, editorials, photos, graphics, and advertisements. Searchers can use basic keyword, advanced, guided, and relevancy search techniques to locate information. Or, they can browse through issues page by page, as one would browse a printed edition. Search results lists provide bibliographic information, including date, issue, article headline, page number, and byline (where given). Users may choose to display the full page image of any page in any issue.
The University Libraries provide access to many newspaper titles in print, electronic, and microfilm formats. Use NewsCAT to locate newspapers in any format and location within the University Libraries collections.
An average of 800 state, regional, national and international photos are added daily to the AP Photo Archives. After a year, approximately 200 of the best daily photos are retained permanently. The Photo Archive's historical collection continues to grow, featuring images from significant news and features events of the 20th century. The earliest photograph available is a photograph of Abraham Lincoln taken in 1844. Permitted uses of these images include: 1. printing copies for educational and research use; 2. creating PowerPoint presentations, slides, and multimedia presentations when usage is confined to the licensed institution; 3. posting on a secure web site available only to authorized users; 4.e-mailing single images to an individual e-mail recipient. 4 concurrent users.
NewspaperARCHIVE is a database of newspaper page images. Penn State's subscription includes only Pennsylvania titles, with a handful of others. It is fully text-searchable, using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). NewspaperARCHIVE is particularly good for accessing the historical newspapers of some of the smaller and medium-sized cities and towns across the Commonwealth (e.g., Altoona, Dubois, Gettysburg). There are gaps in coverage for many of these titles. When searching, users are advised to select "Pennsylvania" as the state to search to avoid hits in titles not included in Penn State's subscription.
Digital Microfilm access provided to the:Chicago Tribune (2008-)Los Angeles Times (2008-)New York Times (2008-)Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (2009-)USA Today (2009-)Wall Street JournalMicrofilm can be viewed, printed, and displayed.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online* provides full-text, fully searchable content from a wide range of primary sources. Archives include works in Western as well as non-Western languages and are sourced from rare collections at libraries and other institutions from around the globe.Currently, collections include *British Politics and Society*, *European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection*, *Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange*, and *British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture*, with more collections to come.
Full-text database containing digital facsimile images of newspapers; presented as full page layout as well as single articles; advertisements and illustrations included. This collection includes numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.
The 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection. Can be cross-searched with the Burney Collection of 17th and 18th Century newspapers.
A collection of 250 British and Irish novels from the period 1782 to 1903, stretching from the golden age of Gothic fiction to the Decadent and New Woman novels of the 1890s. Major novelists of the period such as Austen, Scott, Mary Shelley, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy and the Bront��s feature alongside popular romances, sensation fiction, colonial adventure novels and children's literature.
The NLM Gateway is a Web-based system that lets users search simultaneously in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).
North American Women's Letters and Diaries includes approximately 100,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950 plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials. Drawn from more than 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, much of the material is in copyright. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous. More than 1,500 biographies will enhance the use of the database. The collection includes one of the most comprehensive bibliographies of women's diaries and letters yet published. It lists over 2,000 published and unpublished items from a variety of sources, including online resources and microform.
NTIS is the preeminent resource for accessing the latest US government sponsored research, and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering and business related information. Coverage: 1964-present. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
A collection of printed Pennsylvania town views, portraits, maps, and historical scenes. Through a combination of donation and purchase from the collectors John C. O'Connor and Ralph M. Yeager, this collection of 330 prints came to the Palmer Museum of Art in 1986. It includes lithographs, engravings, aquatints, photogravures, and woodcuts created by artists of the late eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. These prints offer a unique glimpse into Pennsylvania's past.
The Odum Institute maintains one of the oldest archives of polling data in the United States and is the exclusive repository for Louis Harris public opinion data. The Odum Institute's Public Opinion Poll Question Database allows users to search for specific poll questions from more then 230,000 questions in the Institutes archive. It also provides access to data files.
Full-text book and serial publications from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Also includes many of the data sets available from the organization.
The Corpus contains all surviving Old English material, excluding variant texts. Altogether there are over three thousand different texts.
Old Testament Abstracts Online is a product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Biblical Association. The database features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and much more.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
This collection includes papers published by the major mining engineering societies from around the world, including the Society of Mining Engineers, AIME, SAIMM, TMS, and others. Coverage includes publications from the 1800s to date.
OnePetro is a multi-society database of materials related to the oil and gas production industry. Penn State users have access to the fulltext of the Society of Petroleum Engineers technical papers and journals through this resource.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center provides research and background information on social issues. The database contains the essays from the Opposing Viewpoints series, supplemented by, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. Keywords: hot topics, current events, social issues, social trends, English 15, CAS 100, background information, general interest, contemporary issues, overviews. Navigating Opposing Viewpoints with JAWS
OT BibSys is a bibliographic database covering the literature of occupational therapy and related subject areas, such as rehabilitation, education, psychiatry or psychology, and health care delivery or administration. The full text of the indexed resources is not in this database, just the bibliographic information to identify the material and the author's abstract when one exists.
African American Studies Center The AASC features the new, three-volume Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895, published by Oxford in 2006; the three-volume Black Women in America, Second Edition, edited by Darlene Clark Hine in 2005, the highly acclaimed five volume Africana: the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience The Center also includes content from much-anticipated forthcoming print publications including the African American National Biography project (estimated at 8 volumes), edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., scheduled for publication in 2008; and the Encyclopedia of African American Art and Architecture, due for publication 2007. In addition to these major reference works, AASC offers other key resources from Oxford's reference program, including the Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature and selected articles from other reference works.
Grove Art Online provides Web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art with quarterly additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links and all the sophisticated search advantages possible with an online reference source.
An illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of noteworthy men and women who shaped Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2000
Traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources.
The complete texts of the Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion. Extensive links make the online Handbooks easy to navigate making these valuable reference resources more easily discoverable, accessible and searchable.
Oxford Reference Online consists of a wealth of facts, figures, definitions, and translations found in dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
The Oxford Reports on International Law (ORIL) database brings together decisions on public international law from international courts and tribunals as well as domestic courts and ad hoc tribunals.
Provides access to full historical runs from 1849 to 1995 of over 150 journals published by Oxford University Press. More recent coverage is selective, depending on whether Penn State Libraries maintain current subscriptions to individual titles. Texts are fully searchable
iCollection Features: Streaming Video of 18,000+ television shows, radio programs & commercials; Spanning almost 100 years and 70 countries; Find programs by title, airdate, cast, commercials, networks, summary information; Create a personalized collection.Special CollectionsThe Johnny Carson Collection; The 9/11 Collection; She Made It.
PapersFirst provides access to papers presented at conferences worldwide. Coverage: Oct. 1993+. Updates: bi-weekly (24 times per year)
Passport GMID provides business intelligence on industries, countries, and consumers. Content includes: international demographic, macro-economic, and marketing data; industry statistics; statistics on brand and company rankings; comment on emerging industry, country, and consumer trends; consumer lifestyle statistics, future demographic reports.
Past Masters encompasses the largest collection of full-text electronic editions in philosophy in the world. The series includes important works in the history of political thought and theory, religious studies, economics, classics, history, and German studies. The databases are based on excellent editions, in both original language and in English translation, using meticulous text conversion processes. Combined with powerful web-based search and reference tools, the Past Masters series provides scholars with significantly-enhanced and highly-flexible access to the classic texts of philosophy.
This page describes several of the most useful databases for searching patents on the Web. Direct links are provided to sources of U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, European Patent Office and Japanese Patent Office search pages.
The Patrologia Latina Database contains 221 volumes and represents a complete electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina (1844-1855 and 1862-1865).
Covers essential areas related to peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, Genocide, human rights, international law, refugees voluntary and nongovernmental organizations, armed conficts, civil wars, territorial disputes, terrorism, counterterrorism, democratisation, migration, arms control, peackeeping, peacebuilding, humanitarian aid, cultural relations, race relations, interpersonal violence, ethnic relations, race relations, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
Provides access to Penn State electronic theses and dissertations.
Provides access to a selection of Pennsylvania newspapers published during the critical years before, during, and after the U.S. Civil War. The dates of coverage vary by the paper, some publications go back to the late 1840's, others extend beyond the Civil War into the early Reconstruction years. The digital reproductions include all words, photographs, and advertisements as well as an exact page image of the newspaper. For readers who prefer to see the newspapers intact, each issue can be browsed by date. In addition to national issues such as war, abolition, and slavery, readers will find many articles documenting political and social life on the homefront. These include topics such as recreational and social events, sports, prose, and local business and economic news.
Described in 1924 as ���the most remarkable series of reports ever issued by any survey���, the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania (1874-1889) produced an unprecedented volume and quality of geologic reports. With over 80 texts, nearly 600 accompanying maps and illustrations, a hand atlas, a six-volume grand atlas, and miscellaneous other publications, the Second Survey contains a treasure trove of geologic, economic and historic information about Pennsylvania during the Golden Age.
This collection includes 148 manuscript and printed Pennsylvania German Fraktur, broadsides (sheets of paper printed on one side only, such as commentaries on religious texts and political events), and German-language newspapers. These documents provide us with insight into the everyday life of German immigrants and show the process of acculturation of German settlers to their new environment.
The State Library of Pennsylvania continues to add digitized copies of historic Pennsylvania newspapers to the AccessPA Digital Repository. New titles and dates will continue to be added as they are available.
This database provides access to digital images from three of Penn State's collections: ��� The O'Connor/Yeager Collection: 19th- and early 20th-century prints depicting Pennsylvania from the Palmer Museum of Art. ��� University Park Campus History Collection: Photos, drawings, and documents from the University Archives chronicling the growth of Penn State's Largest Campus. ��� Mira Dock Forestry Lantern Slide Collection: Lantern slide images of early 20-century forest management from the collection at Penn State Mont Alto.
The electronic editions of record for major national newspapers, local, regional, and U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources -- all in one easy-to-search database with a world map. Each provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community, as well as a distinctive focus offering a variety of viewpoints on local and world issues.
Periodicals Archive Online is the new name for PCI Full Text - an archive of hundreds of full-text journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Though the focus is on the twentieth century, coverage of some titles dates to the eighteenth century.
Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) is an electronic index to millions of articles published in over 4,250 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences.
Phase Equilibria Diagrams Online contains all published NIST/American Ceramic Society phase equilibria diagrams and commentaries.
The Philosopher's Index is a bibliographic database with informative author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in the fifteen fields of philosophy, published in journals and books since 1940. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
The Philosophy Documentation Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing affordable access to materials in applied ethics, classics, philosophy, and religious studies.
Covers all of U.S. communications law regulations and full-text cases back to the mid-1960s. Also includes topical digests and an update service for recent developments in telecom law and significant new additions to decisions and other regulatory developments. The equivalent of the print source: Pike & Fisher Communications Regulation.
The PILOTS database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
The Plant Management Network is a unique cooperative resource for the applied plant sciences. Designed to provide plant science practitioners fast electronic access to proven solutions, the Plant Management Network offers an extensive searchable database comprised of thousands of web-based resource pages from the network's partner universities, companies, and associations.
Plunkett Research Online provides industry reports covering industry sector analysis and research, industry trends and industry statistics, market research and trends, and company profiles.
PolicyFile draws its content from public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers. Some well known contributors include: the American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Cato Institute, Center for Defense Information, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Democratic Leadership Council, Economic Strategy Institute, Federation of American Scientists, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution, Hudson Institute, Institute for International Economics, International Monetary Fund, National Center for Policy Analysis, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, RAND Corporation, United States Institute of Peace, and the World Bank. Where available, access to home pages, electronic mail addresses and fulltext are made available within individual abstracts.
PolicyMap (www.policymap.com) is an online mapping application created by The Reinvestment Fund and contains over 15,000 indicators related to housing, education, mortgage originations, jobs and more. It���s fast, efficient and captures data in visually powerful ways through custom maps, tables and reports.
Country Reports on 106 countries. Gives political and economic risk analysis available. Each Country Report focuses specifically on political and business information: finding developing markets, determining currency movements, preparing for capital investments, or making judgments about corporate security.
Reproduces the six principal Military Intelligence Division files relating to China for the period 1918 to 1941 (general conditions, political conditions, economic conditions, army, navy, and aeronautics). These reports were filed weekly or monthly detailing conditions in China. Three of the six files document current political, economic, and social events, while the other three focus on the Chinese military.
A searchable database of questions from more than 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries from 1986 to the present. Each of the nearly 350,000 records reports a question asked and the responses given. Also included in each record is the polling organization responsible for the work, the date the information was released, the sample size, and universe, i.e., the groups or areas included in the interview.
This database provides fast access to the environmental information necessary to resolve day-to-day problems, ensure ongoing compliance, and handle emergency situations more effectively. Pollution Abstracts combines information on scientific research and government policies in a single resource. Topics of growing concern are extensively covered from the standpoints of atmosphere, emissions, mathematical models, effects on people and animals, and environmental action in response to global pollution issues. To ensure comprehensive coverage, material from conference proceedings and hard-to-find documents has been summarized along with information from primary journals in the field. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
Pop Culture Universe(PCU) is an authoritative digital library of information on American and world popular culture, past and present and includes more than 250 volumes of reviewed, published material comprising thousands of articles, fully indexed by a team of librarians and subject specialists.Built on hundreds of award-winning titles for all levels of researchers, PCU provides a safe haven for investigating topics that appeal to students - without the bias, advertising, suggestive content, or questionable authorship of commercial or fan sites
POPLINE��(POPulation information onLINE) contains citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues. POPLINE is maintained by the K4Health Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs and is funded by the United States Agency for International Development. (USAID). POPLINE has nearly 370,000 records and has been maintained since 1973 by the K4Health Project (formerly INFO Project). The majority of items are published from 1970 to the present, however, there are selected citations dating back to 1827. The database adds 8,000 records annually.
Interdisciplinary and diverse in political perspective, Praeger Security International Online publishes material on international security, including defense and foreign policy, strategy, regional security, military history, and terrorism.
PressDisplay provides a global perspective on the World's events and news and is the most convenient and complete way to read all your favorite newspapers on one site. Users will gain access to newspapers from within the library, from home and around the world on the day they are published. Researchers will find convenient searching, a traditional 2-page newspaper view, table of contents, article jumps (linking article sections) and easy to read text views. PressDisplay can also provide translations into ten major foreign languages.
Project Euclid's mission is to advance effective and affordable scholarly communication in the field of theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. Through a collaborative partnership arrangement, publishers join forces and participate in an online presence with advanced functionality while maintaining their quality, intellectual and economic independence, and commitment to affordable subscription prices. Since some electronic access is granted directly by the publisher (not Project Euclid), Penn State has access to most titles but not all. Check The CAT or 'E-journals at Penn State' to confirm access to specific titles.
This collection is based on documents produced by Project Gutenberg. Founded by Michael Hart in 1971 with the aim of distributing a trillion (1,000,000,000) electronic literature files by the year 2001, Project Gutenberg has evolved into an on-going project to produce and distribute free electronic editions of literature. The literature carried by Project Gutenberg is typically out of copyright and includes many historically important documents (especially American ones) and much 'fine literature' (Shakespeare, Dickens, etc). Project Gutenberg unashamedly aims at the low end of the quality-price spectrum, aiming to publish as many titles as possible for the lowest price rather than high-quality expensive editions.
Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers. MUSE began in 1993 as a pioneering joint project of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at JHU. Grants from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities allowed MUSE to go live with JHU Press journals in 1995. Journals from other publishers were first incorporated in 2000, with additional university press and scholarly society publishers joining in each subsequent year.
Searches multiple ProQuest products, indexing5,000+ magazines, journals, and newspapers. Itcontains Full text (word file with no photos or tables) orimages (looks like real paper publication) to over 2,000journals, and Full text to 150+ newspapers. Keywords: news, new york times,current events, contemporary issues, hot topics, english 15,cas100. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
ProQuest Education Journals provides access to over 785 journals, more than 615 in full text, including all aspects of education, with coverage since 1991-. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
A full text database subset of CINAHL, including only 300 full-text journals that are licensed to ProQuest. Coverage is typically from 1996, with a few titles prior to that date. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, the database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 to the present are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
Public Documents MasterFile provides indexing for United States Government publications beginning in 1774 through the present. The database also provides indexing for international and foreign public documents as well as state, provincial and local government public documents. Searching is available by title, author, subject and other index terms. Over 4,000,000 documents are included in this database. Links to full text are provided if available.
PubMed is a web interface that allows you to search MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine's premier database of citations and abstracts for biomedical research articles. The core subject is medicine, but subject coverage also includes bioethics, biology, chemistry, dentistry, environmental health, genetics, gerontology, health care planning and administration, history of medicine, hospital administration, microbiology, nutrition, nursing (International Nursing Index), physiology, pre-clinical sciences, public health, sports medicine, veterinary medicine and zoology. MEDLINE covers over 4,800 journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. The database contains over 15 million citations dating back to 1950. Coverage is worldwide and updated weekly. Learn more about PubMed at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/pubmed.html. or Try the Tutorial at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1001.html
A collection of "high-resolution, colour images of every page of the surviving volumes of Queen Victoria's journals, from her first diary entry in 1832 to shortly before her death in 1901, along with separate photographs of the many illustrations and inserts within the pages." Much has been transcribed and is searchable.
Published quarterly, SAGE Race Relations Abstracts offers summaries of the best and most recent journal articles, books and conference papers from around the world. It assesses more than 300 publications providing you with the latest information and research findings in the area of race relations. Issues covered include discrimination, education, employment, health, politics, law and legislation. SAGE Race Relations Abstracts provides unique resources for scholars, activists and students.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
The online version of the original Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, offers subject access to over 3 million articles from approximately 375 leading magazines. Use Readers Guides Retrospective to find contemporary magazine accounts documenting events in politics, fashion, media, film, television, health and medicine, literature, popular culture, religion and science.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
Reaxys provides properties and reactions data for organic, inorganic, and organometallic chemicals. The database is searchable by chemical structures, reactions, specific properties, and literature references. Data are obtained from journal articles and chemical patents.
Full text, Chinese newspaper.
RIA Checkpoint is a comprehensive tax and accounting research service. It includes federal tax information, AICPA and FASB publications, a segment on SEC Compliance, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Reporter.
RIA Checkpoint is a comprehensive tax and estate planning research service. It includes federal and state primary law documents such as legislation, regulations, and court opinions. Selected journals and treatises offer detailed analysis of complex tax and estate planning issues.
RILM Abstracts indexes and abstracts current literature about music, including periodical articles, Festschriften articles, books, reviews, and dissertations. Scope is international, but all abstracts are in English." Coverage: 1969-present
RIPM, the international index to nineteenth-century music periodicals, indexes articles in over 50 periodicals published in 15 countries during the nineteenth century.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
The database covers risk-related concerns ranging from public and environmental health to social issues and psychological aspects.Coverage: 1990-date Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
Rock's Backpages is a full-text online library of rock music journalism published since 1960, including reviews, interviews, and features on artists from Aaliyah to ZZ Top, from over 100 of the most influential magazines and newspapers, including Cashbox, Creem, Crawdaddy!, Melody Maker, Mojo, Spin, Uncut, and Vibe.
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is one of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion back to the 1930s. The archive provides access to their resources through two principle resources:iPOLL allows you to search a database of more then 400,000 questions from surveys. Response frequencies are provided for each question and for some questions simple cross-tabulations are available [these are designated with a RoperExplorer Icon].Roper Express provides searching capablity and access to the code books and raw data files of Over 10,000 US and 8,000 International polls. Note: there are many questions in iPOLL that do not have corresponding data files in Roper Express.
A product of the University of Virginia Press, Rotunda is a collection of historical British and American letters, diaries, manuscripts, and published texts from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Provides daily analysis of the global economy in the form of Critical Issue and Briefings, as well as regular analysis and strategy outlooks each month.
This web page contains electronic versions of journals published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Most of these begin with volumes beginning with the year 1997.
Full-text files of over 30 of the Russian newspapers are accessible online for browsing, searching and analyzing. Includes some English language papers. For more recent content, as well as other Russian newspaper titles, please use Factiva.
Safari Books Online is a joint venture of O'Reilly Media and The Pearson Technology Group. Safari's flagship service, Safari Tech Books Online, sells site licenses to Fortune 50 companies, major universities and leading training organizations worldwide.
SAFEHAVEN was the code name of a U.S.-led effort to block the transfer of German assets out of the country in the later years of World War II. The SAFEHAVEN project also identified and restored looted artworks to their rightful owners. The database contains reports, letters, cables, and other documents referring to SAFEHAVEN-related topics. The collection supports research in Holocaust Studies, European Studies, World War II Studies, Art History, Military History, Diplomatic History, Law and Legal History, and Political Science.
Provides full-text access to Sage journals.
A gateway to those SAGE reference publications (encyclopedias and handbooks) Penn State has acquired.
Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. Navigating Navigating Web of Knowledge with JAWS
Science's Next Wave is a weekly online publication that covers scientific training, career development, and the science job market. News Features: Job Market News; Career Transitions; Career and Job-Hunting News; Family and Career Issues; Women in Science; and Science's Big Debates. Free Access: Jobs Net (Job Listings) and Grant Net (Funding Source Database) Forum Topics: Career Advice, Careers in Science, Research Dilemmas, Job Search Support, Post Doc Issues, Big Debates, Grad Student Support Group, The Academic Life, and The Corporate Life Updates: Weekly
This resource contains recent full-text technical reports from the U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense, several NASA labs, and the Environmental Protection Agency. Coverage varies, but usually includes reports from the mid-1990s to the present.
This system provides access to the electronic versions of the Elsevier journals and books that we subscribe to. Current issues and back files are included. Currently, it includes more than 1,200 journals. The full text collection contains over 1.5 million articles and book chapters from 1995 to present across all fields of science.
The Chemical Abstracts database is available through SciFinder Scholar. Although SciFinder Scholar is a web-based interface, you must register to use it. To get to the registration information, go to http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/pams/download.html and follow the onscreen instructions.
The U.S. Serial Set, a full-text collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under the directive of Congress, includes Congressional reports and documents, executive agency and departmental reports ordered to be printed by Congress, the American State Papers, and all maps, illustrations, photos, and lithographs found within the U.S. Serial Set from 1789-1969. Covering every aspect of American life from the early 19th century onward, from farming, to westward expansion, scientific exploration, politics, international relations, business, and manufacturing.
The full run (1872-1949) of Shanghai-based Shen Bao (formerly transliterated as Shun Pao) was the longest-lasting and probably most influential newspaper in modern China. Its history is enmeshed in the major Chinese political and cultural developments of the first half of the twentieth century. Searches are allowed only in traditional (not simplified) Chinese.
SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) books cover applied mathematics and computational science. Access includes almost every title in SIAM?s 14 book series. Other subjects include Aerospace engineering, Biological sciences, Chemical engineering, Computer science, Control and optimization, Data mining, Economics and finance, Electrical engineering, Image processing, Industrial engineering, Management sciences, Mathematical programming, Mechanical engineering, Operations research, Physics, Simulation and modeling, Social sciences, and Statistics and probability. Math
The electronic editions of SIAM's journals are published on an accelerated article-by-article basis. They are the definitive editions for SIAM's nine research journals; electronic articles are now published in final form months, and in some cases years, in advance of their print counterparts.
Locus contains the electronic full text for every SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) journal article published from the journal's (11 titles) inception through 1996. That's approximately 14,000 articles, about 285,000 pages, and more than 250,000 reference links.
Full text for the entire set of Siku Quanshu; results can be viewed as text or images.
Based on an annual survey of 30,000 households, Simmons OneView provides national consumer studies about products and brand usage. The data can be used to create customized reports analyzing the demographic and psycho-graphic characteristics of product users and their media behavior.The following surveys are available for 2004, 2006, and 2008: National Hispanic Consumer Study, Kids Study. Teen Study and the Adult National Consumer study.
SimplyMap enables non-technical users to quickly create professional quality thematic maps and reports using extensive demographic, business and marketing data. SimplyMap turns complex data into valuable information that is easily accessed through an innovative and user-friendly interface.
Chronicles American history, culture and politics through letters, diaries, memoirs, oral histories; posters, broadsides, pamphlets, advertisements, newsreel footage and other materials from the sixties and early seventies. Topics include the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the Equal Rights Amendment, Earth Day, the Free Speech Movement, the Stonewall riots, Woodstock, the Summer of Love, the Space Race and more.
A massive digital collection of 18th and 19th century documents; Pamphlets, Books, Correspondence, Newspapers, Legal Documents, Manuscripts, and other materials. Includes over 1 million pages of unpublished archival material produced by pro and anti-slavery organizations and individuals.
Smithsonian Global Sound streams world music, American folk music, blues, jazz, American Indian music, and children's music. This collection also streams spoken word. The music is sourced from the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label, the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, and other labels. To ensure that your computer is set up to listen, please consult the publisher's compatibility overview webpage that outlines system requirements at http://glmu.alexanderstreet.com/help/view/system_requirements
Social Explorer provides easy access to demographic information about the United States, from 1790 to present. It allows you to easily create visual maps and reports for a variety of variables.
The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. Navigating Web of Knowledge with JAWS
This database provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Coverage is from 1979 to date. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
Sociometrics Social Science Electronic Data Library (SSEDL) consists of eight topically focused data archives, an online data analysis system, and teaching modules.
SodaPop or Simple Online Data Archive for Population Studies is a web-based system that allows users to extract data and view codebooks and other documentation on line. Data is selected from the existing PRI Data Archive (a facility of the Information Core at PRI), and is maintained (for currency) by the data archivist.
Biography, criticism, recommended reading, and other information about authors of children's and young adult literature. Covers more than 12,000 individuals, from Caldecott and Newbery award-winners to the latest writers.
Provides more than 400,000 fully searchable pages of newspapers published in South Asia dating from the 19th century. Features titles published in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka in the English, Bengali, and Gujarati languages. The South Asian papers can be searched along with other titles in the World Newspaper Archive.
The SPIE Digital Library contains the full text of all papers appearing in SPIE Proceedings and SPIE journals from 1998 to the present, plus a substantial amount of full text coverage going back to 1990. SPIE publications cover all areas of optics and photonics.
SPIN is the Searchable Physics Information Notices Database. It provides bibliographic citations and abstracts to articles published in 80 journals since 1975. It is updated daily.
SPORT Discus is a resource for literature on sport, physical fitness and physical education topics. Topics covered include sports medicine, exercise psychology, biomechanics, kinesiology, sport and exercise psychology, sport law, training techniques, coaching, physical education and fitness, facilities, and other sport- and fitness-related topics. Both practical and research level literature is covered, with about 25% of the citations to research level materials. Sources include journals, magazines, newsletters, books, microforms, reports, pamphlets, conferences, and theses and dissertations. The coverage is international, with citations in 50 languages included, and range from 1975 to the present. Because of its international scope, much of the literature indexed in SPORT Discus will need to be requested via ILL.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
Sports Business Resource Network is a sporting goods and sports marketing database containing full-text market research reports,industry statistics, consumer expenditures, and full-text publications.
Access to electronic editions of journals and electronic books to which Penn State University Libraries subscribes, published by a company called Springer-Verlag. Journals cover the fields of chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine, and physics. Coverage: 1996-present. Updates: Continuous
SRDS provides a number of different advertising sources covering: television, radio, newspapers,and consumer and business publications.
This database serves as a current (1997 - present) guide to articles on military and naval art and science, operational warfare, joint planning, national and international politics, and other areas researched by Joint Forces Staff College faculty, staff, and students. The index is updated quarterly. Retrospective conversion for records from the past 40+ years is ongoing.
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage offers Web access to Standard & Poor's traditional library of company, financial, industry, and equity information.
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a dynamic reference work in which each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public. Because of this dynamic model, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is responsive to new research.
STATRef is a cross-searchable medical information database for healthcare professionals, integrating core full-text biomedical and nursing books with evidence-based resources and innovative tools in one site.
State Papers Online, 1509-1714 contains more than 3 million pages of documents; correspondence, reports, memoranda, Parliamentary drafts and depositions from ambassadors, civil servants and provincial administrators serving the Monarch. The digital facsimile manuscripts are linked to searchable Calendar entries (abstracts or transcriptions of the originals). This collection contains information on every facet of English government, including social and economic affairs, law and order, religious policy, and crown possessions. There is also substantial information on Britain's international relations and foreign policy including correspondence with the monarchs of Europe, intelligence reports from agents abroad, and relations with the Vatican.
Statistical Universe is a powerful index to statistics and data contained in federal agency government publications. It duplicates all American Statistics Index (ASI) abstract and index records (with monthly updates). In addition, it also links to 800 full-text documents published since 1994 and stored on LEXIS��-NEXIS��, and links to 2,000 publications on federal agency Web sites. The University Library owns most of these collections in paper or microfiche format that do not contain full-text links. ASK for assistance locating information at any University Library Service Desk. The abstracts of all publications covered by ASI in 1996-97 include active links to agency Web sites where the full-texts can be accessed. The primary purpose of these links is to supplement the coverage of Statistical Universe as its full-text coverage expands. The links also enable users to explore an agency's Web site.
The State and University Library is a legal deposit library. According to law it receives a free copy of all books, periodicals, newspapers and other material published in Denmark. The State and University Library is also the domicile of The National Newspaper Archive.As the main library to the University of Aarhus the State and University Library supplies researchers, teachers, and students at the university and also at other institutions of higher education in the ��rhus-area with books and papers, and information and documentation in all subject areas.
This database provides independent, non-ideological analysis of political, economic, and military developments around the world. It includes: breaking news reports and analysis of daily events; quarterly and annual forecasts and predictions of what will happen next;Multimedia materials including videos and interactive maps; and internal memos that guide STRATFOR staff in their intelligence-gathering operations.
This site provides a list of streaming videos licensed by Penn State for use in course instruction.
Independent from the Times of London, the Sunday Times was known for its investigative journalism, commentary and in-depth analysis of the week's news. To search with the Times of London and other historical British news sources use the Gale News Vault database
The Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum systematically collects newly published Greek inscriptions as well as publications on previously known documents. It presents complete Greek texts of all new inscriptions with a critical apparatus; it summarizes new readings, interpretations, and studies of known inscriptions, and occasionally presents the Greek text of these documents.The online edition will provide scholars and students with easy and quick access to this vast amount of information and will allow them to search the entire corpus for particular words, names, and inscriptions. Indexes and cross references to related texts offer additional research functionality.The online edition includes the electronic equivalent of all 54 SEG volumes (approx. 50.000 records) published so far, and will incorporate all future volumes in the series.
In-depth analysis of every US Supreme Court Case since the 1989/90 term. Covers the background of the case, arguments presented, and summary of ruling.
This database contains resources related to sustainable development and conservation of natural resources. Coverage is from 1995 to date. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
The Syriac Studies Reference Library is a collection of rare and out-of-print titles that are of vital importance for Syriac studies. It is especially rich in early manuscript catalogs, dictionaries, and grammars, and contains many of the indispensable editions of Syriac texts that were produced in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. This collection was scanned from the holdings of the Semitics/ICOR Library of The Catholic University of America.
An online publications website from Informa, hosting journals, e-books, reference works and abstracts from Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare.
TV market rankings, programming carried, fees for installation and monthly service, full programming service, executives' names and titles, franchise fees, system start dates, franchise, and expiration dates. The Ownership section contains entries for more than 1400 MSOs. The Media Services section includes details on key industry organizations and suppliers.
The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events such as the Watergate hearings, the plight of American hostages in Iran, the Persian Gulf war, and the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001. Material in the archive can be identified for use through our TV-NewsSearch Database.
This online, easily searchable online resourced of rare historical material from The Wiener Library, London, provides documentary evidence for the study of Nazi Germany and its crimes against the Jewish people from many perspectives. The Wiener Library is the oldest institution in the world established to document the Nazi regime and its crimes against the Jewish people. The material in this online archive is organized into four sections: original Nazi propaganda materials, eyewitness accounts, photographic material, and Wiener Library publications.
The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) is a research center at the University of California, Irvine. Founded in 1972, the TLG has already collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. The database now contains over 76 million words of text from over 6,600 works and work collections from nearly 2,000 authors.
The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) is a monumental dictionary of Latin. It encompasses the Latin language from the time of its origin to the time of Isidore of Seville (c. 636). The project began in 1894 and it is scheduled to be completed around the year 2050. The data of the online edition has been enlarged by the fascicles published in 2007 and 2008 and now comprises the letters A -- M, O, P -- pomifer, porta -- pulsio.
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Union Catalog will serve as a repository of rich graduate educational material contributed by a number of member institutions worldwide. The hope is that this project will increase the availability of student research for scholars, empower students to convey a richer message through the use of multimedia and hypermedia technologies and advance digital library technology worldwide.
NOTE: Must use Internet Explorer to view Investext Investment Research. Contains research reports written by top analysts at over 1,000 leading investment banks, brokerage houses, and consulting firms worldwide. Nearly 4,000 new reports are added each business day. This resource replaces Reuters Research on Demand.
Palmer's Index to The Times contains records from the 461 printed volumes of Palmer' Index to the London Times newspaper. Articles can be located by broad subject headings, date of publication, or title keywords. Obituaries are under the heading "Deaths". For articles after 1905 consult the print volumes for the Official Index to the Times, available in the Microforms and Newspapers Library, Ground Floor West Pattee (Call # A121.T46). The text of the Times is on microfilm, Call # Microfilm E200
Researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.
A digital reproduction of every page of every issue of the Times Literary Supplement through 2007. All content including reviews, articles, advertising, and letters is searchable by word, date, or format. Supplements and expands the range of the TLS Centenary Archive.
TOCS-IN provides the tables of contents of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals, both in text format and through a Web search program.
Toxicology Abstracts covers issues from social poisons and substance abuse to natural toxins, toxicology studies of industrial and agricultural chemicals, household products, pharmaceuticals, and myriad other substances, from legislation and recommended standards to environmental issues. Topics of current concern such as the effects of alcohol and smoking, drug abuse, hydrocarbon studies, nitrosamines, radiation and radioactive materials, and much more are extensively examined. Toxicity testing methodology and analytical procedures for toxic substances are also covered. Coverage is from 1981 to date. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
TOXLINE offers rapid access to information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
TOXNET is a cluster of Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.
TRID is a newly integrated database that combines the records from TRB's Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre's International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to over 900,000 records of transportation research worldwide.
The Turfgrass Information Center (TIC) provides access to a database of published materials reporting on aspects of turfgrass and its maintenance. This includes conference proceedings, trade publications, scientific journals, extension bulletins, and newsletters.TIC is a specialized unit at the Michigan State University Libraries and has over 100,000 records in its primary database, the Turfgrass Information File (TGIF).
AA database of modern and contemporary African American poetry, featuring almost 9,000 poems by 62 of the most important African American poets of the last century, including Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde and Rita Dove.
This collection includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song.
Contains full texts of some two thousand plays from throughout the English-speaking world, including works by George Bernard Shaw, Langston Hughes, Sean O'Casey, Noel Coward, David Mamet, Eugene O'Neill, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard and Thornton Wilder. Many regional and ethnic works are included. Plays are searchable by text, first performance date, genre, and nationality.
Full texts of the works of over 285 poets from Kipling and Yeats to the present day. Incorporates works from the Faber Poetry Library, including the works of Americans such as Eliot and Plath
The U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs digital collection offers full-text searching of documents from 1832 to 1978. Types of records include appellant and appellee briefs, amicus briefs, petitions, trial transcripts, and more.
Uborrow simultaneously searches the catalogs of the CIC 'Big Ten' libraries such as Ohio State, Michigan State, the University of Michigan, the University of Illinois, and the University of Chicago. Penn State faculty, staff, and students can place requests for books and other material for loan within Uborrow.
Ulrichsweb.com provides data on over a quarter-million serials titles (magazines, newspapers, newsletters, journals, etc...) produced around the world. Information typically provided includes: status (active/inactive),subscription price, publisher information, frequency of publication, ISSN, whether the publication is refereed, and which indexes cover the title. In some cases circulation and advertising data, tables of contents, and links to online materials are provided. Includes reviews from the publication Magazines for Libraries.
Comtrade provides commodity trade data for all available countries and areas since 1962. Currently, it contains almost 700 millions records. Download functions are limited.
UNSTATS provides data on a wide range of social and economic data series from 30 specialized international intergovernmental agencies including POPIN, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, UNICEF, and WHO. Data can be displayed in HTML or downloaded in Excel or CSV format.
Online full text of underground comic books and graphic novels
This collection includes five categories of treaty-related data: Status of Multilateral Treaties deposited with the Secretary-General The United Nations Treaty Series (full text) Recently Deposited Multilateral Treaties Photographs of Treaty Signature ceremonies Tiles of the Multilateral Treaties deposited with the Secretary-General in the UN official languages. A complete description of the database is available at: http://untreaty.un.org/English/overview.asp As of April 2000, the database contains full text of treaties from 1992-to date. Additional years are continually added.
This collection of primary source materials focuses on the design and planning of the Penn State University Park campus. The development of the campus from the 1870s to the 1970s is documented by a selection of maps, photographs, construction drawings, specifications, statistical information, and news releases and articles. Important designers such as Charles Z. Klauder have shaped the campus which includes two National Register Historic Districts ��� the Ag Hill District and the Old Campus Complex. This selection of approximately 200 images provides examples of the much larger collection in the University Archives, part of the Libraries' Special Collections.
USA.gov is the official U.S. gateway to all government information.
The database consists includes information about all US patents (including utility, design, reissue, plant patents and SIR documents) from the first patent issued in 1790 to the most recent issue week. Patents from January 1976 to the present offer the full searchable text, including all bibliographic data, such as the inventor's name, the patent's title, and the assignee's name; the abstract; the full description of the invention; and the claims. The display of each patent's full-text includes a hyperlink to obtain full-page images of each page of the patent. Information from Certificates of Correction and Reexaminations is not included in the full-text database per se, but can be found as pages attached to the full-page images of the original patent. Patents from 1790 to December 1975 offer only the patent number and the current US patent classification in the text display, and can be searched only by those fields.
Value Line is the standard investment advisory service. The Web research center provides access to the standard Value Line Investment Survey and to its related resources.
The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events such as the Watergate hearings, the plight of American hostages in Iran, the Persian Gulf war, and the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001. Material in the archive can be identified for use through our TV-NewsSearch Database. In addition, through its detailed content related to news events, this resource also serves as a unique reference tool for studying historical and political events. Users will have the ability to view online video from the Archive's collection of CNN material. if they have the RealOne media player from RealNetworks. This software can be obtained from the Real Networks website.
Vault provides full-text career and industry guides; company profiles; occupation descriptions; and career-related articles.
200 tables on US elections and political parties, public opinion and voting, the media, the three branches of U.S. government, foreign, military, social and economic policy. Contains some time series data. Data can be exported for use in excel or other statistical software.
"La France pendant la guerre 1939-1945: journaux de la Resistance et de VichyThe complete French holdings of the British Library - acquired through intelligence, clandestine and neutral sources - offers as full a view of life in France during World War II as was possible at the time.The British Library holds many resistance titles never acquired by the Biblioth��que Nationale because France was under German occupation. Digitized and full-text searchable, Voices from Wartime France 1939-1945 constitutes the sum of the French press that reached Britain during the German Occupation of France from 1940-44."
Full texts of the Irish author's poetry, plays, and prose, taken from the standard Scribner/Macmillan Collected Edition of the Works of W. B. Yeats and from other sources.
Water Resources Abstracts provides summaries of the world's technical and scientific literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources. Abstracts are drawn from journals, books, conference proceedings, and technical reports in the physical and life sciences, as well as from engineering, legal and government publications. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
Web of Science provides access to: the Science Citation Index Expanded 1900-present; the Social Sciences Citation Index 1956-present; and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index 1975-present. Web of Science indexes articles from thousands of journals and also indexes the citations used in those articles, thus allowing the user to see which papers have cited a core paper, and how many times a paper was cited in a given time period. Covers published content is almost every discipline.Navigating Web of Knowledge with JAWS
The full text of the 1961 edition of the standard work, with updates to 1996.
Westlaw China provides single-source access to law from the People's Republic of China. It includes more than 352,000 laws and regulations; cases from the Supreme Court, provincial, local and special courts; digests of the law for 34 topics; daily summaries of Chinese current awareness information compiled from more than 120 online sources. Documents are in Chinese with English translation, if available.
WRDS provides Web access to a number of financial research databases, including Compustat, CRSP (Center for Research in Securities Prices), Dow Jones Averages, FDIC, Phildelphia Stock Exchange, and TAQ (Trades and Quotations). Accessing the Database: Users open individual accounts by applying at the WRDS home page. WRDS will send the user's account name and password to the Penn State WRDS administrator within 48 hours, who will verify that the user is a Penn State faculty, staff, or student. The Penn State WRDS administrator will then forward account information to the individual user.
Wikipedia has rapidly grown into the largest reference website on the Internet. The content of Wikipedia is free, written collaboratively by people from all around the world. This website is a wiki, which means that anyone with access to an Internet-connected computer can edit, correct, or improve information throughout the encyclopedia, simply by clicking the edit this page link (with a few minor exceptions such as protected articles).
Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide is the world's largest index to literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. All aspects of wildlife and wildlife management are covered, with a global perspective. Major topic areas include studies of individual species, habitat types, hunting, economics, wildlife behavior, management techniques, diseases, ecotourism, zoology, taxonomy and much more. Coverage is 1935 to present.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
More than 300 online publications (electronic journals, books and reference works) for researchers and professionals.
The database includes books, images, audiofiles, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies on women's social movements from colonial times to the present.
Backed by a global editorial board of 130 leading scholars from around theworld, this landmark collection [Women and Social Movements, International]of primary sources illuminates a vast area of modern history. Through thewritings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, andconference proceedings at which pivotal decisions were made and socialmovements were born, this online collection traces the global history ofwomen's international agendas and illuminates their enormous influence onthe course of events and shifts in attitudes that have defined modern life.
Full text books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the evolution of feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights through 1945. Includes materials from continental Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand, dating from 1543-1945. The anti-feminist case is presented as well as the pro-feminist; many other titles present a purely objective record of the condition of women at a given time.
This resource provides access to over 232,000 records drawn from ten important Women's Studies databases. Among the databases included in Women's Resources International are Womens Studies Abstracts, one of the premiere Women's Studies indexes; four files from Women Studies Librarian at the University of Wisconsin; Popline Subset on Women; and Women's Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography of Mostly English Language Journal Articles from the World Health Organization. Coverage: 1972 to date; citations and abstracts only. Updated semiannually.Navigating EBSCO with JAWS
Includes 2000+ indicators, many with 50 years of data, including contains the full World Development Indicators (WDI), Global Development Finance (GDF), and Africa Development Indicators (ADI) as well as several other World Bank databases such as Global Economic Monitor (GEM), Education Statistics, etc.
World Bank E-Library presents fulltext PDF-format versions of all new World Bank books and selected books beginning in 1984. More than 1,200 titles cover all areas of World Bank interests. This collection complements World Development Sources, the fulltext grey literature collection of World Bank documents and reports.
The World Christian Database (WCD) includes detailed information on all major world religions. Extensive religious and secular statistics are available on 9,000 Christian denominations, 238 countries and 13,000 ethnolinguistic peoples, as well as on 5,000 cities and 3,000 provinces. The WCD incorporates the core data from the World Christian Encyclopedia(WCE) and World Christian Trends (WCT). However, statistics in the WCD constitute a significant update of the data published in WCE/WCT in 2001. WCD is an initiative of the Center for the Studyof Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
World Development Indicators includes nearly 800 statistical indicators related to social and economic development. It is organized in six sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links. The tables cover 152 economies and 14 country groups-with basic indicators for a further 55 economies. Data can be downloaded for further manipulation.
Streaming video of selected documentaries from PBS, the BBC, and other educational filmakers covering human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century. Transcripts are fully searchable and synchronized to the video. Video clips can be selected to create customized playlists that can be annotated, copied, and shared.
World News Connection�� (WNC) contains full-text translated summaries from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports for the following materials: newspaper articles conference proceedings radio and television broadcasts periodicals non-classified technical reports
The World Religion Database (WRD) contains detailed statistics on religious affiliation for every country of the world. It provides source material, including censuses and surveys, as well as best estimates for every religion to offer a definitive picture of international religious demography. It offers best estimates at multiple dates for each of the world?s religions for the period 1900 to 2050.
Provides access to electronic journals published by World Scientific to which Penn State subscribes. Major subject areas included are physics, mathematics, and computer science.
An index to recent literature on all aspects of public administration. A database of scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1972 and the present. Includes books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions,audiovisual materials, electronic media.
OCLC WorldCat database is the OCLC online union catalog. It contains over 43 million records describing library holdings around the world.
This growing collection of several thousand color images of historic architecture and landscape design focuses on the major monuments in found in the textbooks most commonly used in survey courses. These pictures have been gathered for Penn State users from a variety of sources: professional color photography that has been licensed for Penn State use, original color photography provided by university faculty, and some copies from books and similar sources. This version of the database has been provided exclusively for Penn State users.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts is building on the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts, published by IFI / Plenum, 1975-2000, and ABC POL SCI, published by ABC-CLIO, 1984-2000. The database provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. The serials list of the new database is actively under construction, with a focus on expanding international coverage. As of February 2004 approximately 1,432 titles are being monitored for coverage; this list will continue to grow. Navigating ProQuest with JAWS
Contains full texts of American novels first published between 1851 and 1875. Includes works by Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and many others.
This guide to global civil society networks provides extensive coverage of non-profit international organizations available today whether governmental or non-governmental. More then just a directory, the yearbook provides: organization descriptions; international organization participation; global action networks; a bibliography of resources; and statistics.
Index to Japanese Magazines and Periodicals from the Meiji Era to the Present.
Zephyr is a comprehensive database of deal information. It contains information on global Mergers & Acquisitions (M & A), Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), private equity and venture capital deals, and news about pending M & A activity.
