Diversity

Electronic Databases - from the E-Resource List (A - Z)

(available only to Penn State students, staff and faculty)

African American Biographical Database, 1790-1950
The AABD is comprised of the 290+ sources that make up the Series: B lack Biographical Dictionaries, 1790-1950 , and substitutes electronically for their index: Black Biography, 1790-1950, A Cumulative Index. As such, the AABD is an historical database, covering narratives on leading African-Americans who lived and worked prior to 1950. 

African American Poetry, 1760-1900
Covers the works of 54 African-American poets writing in the 18th and 19th centuries. Searchable collection of poems and individual volumes from all of the major movements and schools of Twentieth Century African American poetry from 1902 to the present day.  

Bibliography of Asian Studies 
The online bibliography of Asian Studies is produced by the Association for Asian Studies, a major association for scholars interested in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. This online index replaces the printed Bibliography of Asian Studies volumes for the year 1971-1991, and supplements the earlier printed cumulations dating back to 1941. While the BAS covers all fields, its primary strengths are its coverage of the humanities and the social sciences. Fields such as history, geography, literature, anthropology, politics, the arts, and many others are well covered in the Bibliography. Contents: It includes references to over 400,000 scholarly journal articles, monographs, and chapters from books published in Western languages from 1971 to 1991.

Black Drama
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.  

Brown Women Writers Project 
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.

Contemporary Women's Issues 
This database provides access to full text sources covering global information on women. The sources include periodicals, newsletters, reports, fact sheets, and pamphlets. Topics covered range from human rights to health and reproductive issues to legal information.  

Ethnic NewsWatch 
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.

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
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.

Gale Virtual Reference Library: Multicultural Studies, Religion, etc.
 A collection of over 400 reference resources covering – ##Abbreviations, Africa, African Americans, Aging, AIDS, Alcohol, Almanacs, America, American, Animals, Anthropology, Arts, Asia, Authors, Biodiversity, Bioethics, Biographies, Biography, Biology, Bisexual, Bisexuals, Bisexuality, Black, Blacks, Buddhism, Business plans, Cancer, Careers, Catholic, Chemistry, Children’s Literature, Cinema, Cities, Civil Rights, Civilization, Clothing, Colleges, Communication, Companies, Company History, Computer Science, Conflicts, Congress, Constitution, Correctional Systems, Countries, Crime, Culture, Cultures, Data, Death, Decades, Dictionaries, Dictionary, Directories, Directory, Disorders, Distribution, Drama, Drugs, Earth Science, Eating Disorders, Economics, Education, Encyclopedias, Endangered Species, Energy, Environment, Ethics, Europe, Family, Fashion, Fellowships, Feminism, Film, Finance, Food, Forensics, Gay, Gender, Genetics, Genocide, Geographical, Geography, Government, Depression, Health, History, Holocaust, Humanities, Immigration, India, Industries, Islam, Justice, Knowledge Management, Labor, Law, Leisure, Lesbian, Literary, Literature, Loans, Management, Manufacturing, Marriage, Mathematics, Medicine, Middle East, Military, Labor, Movies, Multicultural, Musicians, Nations, Newsmakers, Novels, Nursing, Obesity, Occupations, Patients, Philosophy, Physics, Poetry, Poets, Policy, Politics, Pollution, Population, Poverty, Presidents, Primary Sources, Prisons, Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Public Health, Punishment, Recreation, Reference, Religion, Renaissance, Revolution, Scholarships, Science, Security, Sex, Sexuality, Short stories, Social Trends, Society, Sociology, Space Exploration, Sports, States, Statistics, Technologies, Technology, Telecommunications, Television, Terrorism, Theatre, Tobacco, Trade Unions, Virtual, War, Water, Weather, Women, World, Writers, Yearbook.

HRAF-Human Relations Area Files
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.

eHRAF World Cultures: This database is an important resource in the field of cultural anthropology. The Ethnography Collection is a compilation of ethnographic and other texts that are indexed by culture and subject.

eHRAF Archaeology: The Collection of Archaeology provides access to archaeological materials for comparative studies within and across regions.

LGBT Life 

The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage of journals,newspapers, books, and magazines in LGBT studies as well as full text for some of the most important andhistorically significant works. Fulltext is available for 50+ titles including The Advocate, Gay Parent Magazine, Girlfriends, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies, James White Review, ISNA News, Ladder, Lesbian Tide, New York Blade, ONE, TANGENTS, and Washington Blade.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries 
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. 

Oxford African-American Studies Center

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.

Oxford Reference Online 

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.

Women's Resources International
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 Women's 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.

World News Connection
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; and non-classified technical reports.

African Studies

African-American Arts 

African-American Studies

American Indian Leadership

Asian Studies 

Ethnic and Race Relations

Global Studies: Interdisciplinary Global Studies 

Jewish Studies

Latin American Studies: Latin America and the Caribbean

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Studies

Malcolm X Guide

Multicultural Health Resource Site

Penn State Great Valley Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Resources

Religious Studies 

Study Abroad and International Travel Resources

Women's Studies