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A2A - Access to Archives

Contains catalogues describing archives held throughout England and dating from the 900s to the present day.

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ABES: Annotated Bibliography of English Studies

Covers secondary literature in English Studies in four main subject areas: Language and Linguistics, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, and Film Studies.

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New York Online Virtual Electronic Library

Academic One File

This article database includes full-text and abstracts of scholarly, trade, and general-interest periodicals covering topics in the areas of current events, general sciences and technology, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

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Academic Search Premier

A multi-disciplinary database of more than 4,600 magazines and journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full-text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for 8,470 journals.

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Access: The Supplementary Index to Periodicals

Access provides a unique indexing resource for popular periodicals. It indexes approximately eighty-five of the most important popular periodicals. Access also indexes new national publications as they first appear and most major city and regional magazines.

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ACLS Humanities E-Book Project

Provides online access to a fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars.

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AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors

Provides links to websites of publishers throughout the world, searchable by alphabetical, geographical, and topical lists.  

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Advertising Red Books Online

This directory includes information necessary for advertising research on agencies and advertisers.

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African American Experience

Full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of African Americans, as well as the greater Black Diaspora.

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African American Newspapers, 1827-1998

270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience from more than 35 states.

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African American Newspapers: The 19th Century

Searchable full-text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century.

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African American Periodicals, 1825-1995

More than 170 periodicals, published in 26 states, by and about African Americans. Includes academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, and annual reports. 

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Agricola

AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators.

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AHDS (Arts & Humanities Data Service)/Performing Arts

Searchable collection of online digital resources in the performing arts, mostly from Britain.

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All-Russia Census 2002

The latest All-Russia Population Census took place on October 9-16, 2002. Conducted by Goskomstat, the State Committee on Statistics of the Russian Federation, this is first official census of modern Russia.

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ALLDATA Online

Provides comprehensive resource for automotive (1982-to-current) diagnostic and repair information. Online SEARCH feature allows people to locate information quickly.

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Alternative Press Index

The Alternative Press Index indexes more than 300 alternative, radical, and left publications that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political, and social change. 

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Alternative Press Index Archive

An index to alternative press published in the United States and around the world. 

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AMA Doctor Finder

Provides information on virtually every licensed physician in the United States and its possessions, including doctors of medicine (MD) and doctors of osteopathy or osteopathic medicine (DO).

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Amazing Animals of the World

Detailed facts about where each animal lives, what it eats, how it sounds, and why it might be endangered today or in the near future helps students conduct meaningful research and prepare reports.

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America's Historical Imprints

Search full-text early American books, pamphlets, broadsides, government documents and rare printed materials. Combined search of American Broadsides and Ephemera (1760-1900) and Early American Imprints (1639-1819).

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America's Historical Newspapers

Searchable full-text and page images of newspapers from across the county including early newspapers, 1690-1922, African American Newspapers, 1827-1998; Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971 and Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980.

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America: History and Life with Full Text

Indexes the scholarly literature of the history and culture of Canada and the United States from prehistoric times to the present.

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American Ancestors

Databases of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Highlights include full-text access to the New England Historical and Genealogical Register from 1847 to 1994 and the Massachusetts Vital Records to 1910.

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American Book Prices Current

Contains annual records of books, manuscripts, autographs, maps, and broadsides sold at auction in North America, the United Kingdom, Germany, Holland, Australia, and other locations, for the auction years starting with 1975.

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American Broadsides and Ephemera

Digital collection of broadsides printed between 1820-1900 and ephemera, such as invitations, menus and programs, printed between 1760-1900.

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American Drama

Containing more than 1,100 dramatic works from the early 18th Century up to the beginning of the twentieth, American Drama 1714

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American Fact Finder

Provides statistics for population, housing, industry, and business.

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American Film Scripts Online

Current edition includes 823 authorized versions of copyrighted screenplays, formatted in the conventional screenplay format. Also includes a bibliographic and biographic database of directors and writers. Search by character, scene, race, nationality, age, subject, and year of writing, as well as by author and title.

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American Indian Experience

Full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of American Indians.

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American Memory

A rich collection of primary source material relating to U.S. history and culture, compiled by the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program.

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American National Biography

Offers portraits of more than 18,000 men and women — from all eras and walks of life — whose lives have shaped the nation.

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American Periodicals (1740-1940)

APS Online provides searchable full-text and page images from over 1,800 popular magazines, journals and newspapers which began publication between 1740 and 1900 with coverage through 1940. Also contains titles archived at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), including labor, trade, literary, scientific, and photographic periodicals, as well as other historically-significant titles.

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American State Papers, 1789-1838

U.S. legislative and executive materials originating from 1789 -1838 but not published until the second and third quarters of the 19th century.

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Amnesty International Library

Provides full text of many of the human rights organization's recent publications, including annual reports back to 1993, country reports, and thematic reports.

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AncestorsOnBoard.com

Outward Passenger Lists for long-distance voyages leaving the British Isles from 1890-1960. View index for free but you must pay to view information on passenger lists.

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Ancestry Library Edition

Access to more than 7 billion names in more than 4,000 genealogical databases including Census Records, Passenger Lists and UK & Ireland records. Library version of Ancestry.com.

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Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature

Contains citations to books, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays, and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 to the present.

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Anthropological Index Online

Indexes articles in journals received by the British Museum's Department of Ethnography library. Particular emphasis is given to social and cultural anthropology and the archaeology of Eastern and Central Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

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Antique Map Price Guide

Record of antiquarian map trade appraisals derived from over 20,000 dealer and auction catalogs from the last 25 years.

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AP Multimedia Archive

Contains the Associated Press's current year's photo report and a selection of images from their vast negative and print library.

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ArchiveGrid (formerly RLG Archival Resources)

Provides researchers with comprehensive access to information about collections of manuscripts and archives.

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Archives and Manuscript Collections

A selective guide, from Columbia University, to archives and manuscript collections. Includes national libraries, state archives and libraries, college and university collections, and society archives.

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Archives Hub (UK)

A national gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities and colleges.

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Archives of American Art

A tool to locate artist papers and gallery records.
 

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Archives Portal

UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, provides a list of links to archives around the world with a Web presence.

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Archives USA

Provides information and detailed indexing to manuscript collections from over 5,000 U.S. repositories.

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ArchNet -- Archaeology

Indexes resources in archaeology and anthropology on the Internet. Includes region-specific archaeological Websites and those dedicated to a particular subject area such as archeometry, ceramics, and lithics.

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ARL Latin Americanist Research Resources Project

Provides access to the tables of contents of journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America.

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Art and Architecture Thesaurus

Provides a structured vocabulary of around 125,000 terms, scope notes, and other information for describing fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culture.

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Art Full Text

Indexes and abstracts articles from an international selection of periodicals including French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, and English-language journals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins.

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Art Index Retrospective

Indexes articles in periodicals, yearbooks, and museum publications, 1929-1984.

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ARTbibliographies Modern

Covers twentieth-century art, design, and photography movements.

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Artcyclopedia

A comprehensive index of artists represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources.

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Artfact - Only available in SASB Room 300

Provides access to more than 4 million auction records -- some with images -- covering the fine and decorative arts such as sculpture, painting, prints, photographs, collectibles and jewelry.

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ARTFL

A collection of nearly 2000 electronic French texts, including classic literary works, nonfiction, and technical writing.

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ArtInfo: Art Sales Index

Includes auction sales results from 1980-89, searchable by artist's name, dates, nationality, century, the title, description, medium, or dimensions of a picture, the auctioneer, date of sale, lot number, sale estimates, and the hammer price in pounds, dollars or local currency.

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Artnet

Contains fine arts auction records -- many with images --from international and national auction sales. Database is updated daily with records from 1989 to present, searchable by artist's name.

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ARTstor

ARTstor is a nonprofit resource that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, and other fields in the humanities and sciences.

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ArXiv

ArXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology.

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AskART

AskArt covers American artists providing biography, images, citations, museums owning their work and galleries representing the artist's work.

Available only in Room 300, the Art & Architecture Division.

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Associations on the Net

A collection of websites providing information about a wide variety of professional and trade associations, cultural and art organizations, political parties and advocacy groups, labor unions, academic societies, and research institutions.

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ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials

ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials provides the full-text access to major religion and theology journals. ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials contains full-text journals in English and other major European languages, and covers all aspects of religion.

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ATLA Religion Databases

Contains citations to articles, books, theses, and book reviews on all aspects of religion and theology.

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Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945)

The Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.

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Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003)

The Atlanta Daily World had the first black White House correspondent and was the first black daily in the nation in the 20th century

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Atlas of Historical County Boundaries

Covers every change in the size, shape, location, name, organization, and attachment of each U.S. county and state from the creation of the first county in 1634 through 2010.

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Auto/Biography

Auto/Biography is an international and interdisciplinary journal addressing theoretical, epistemological, and empirical issues relating to autobiographical and biographical research.

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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

Indexes articles on architecture in its broadest sense, including archaeology, decorative arts, interior design, furniture, landscape architecture, and city planning from 1930s to present.

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