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A2A - Access to Archives
Contains catalogues describing archives held throughout England and dating from the 900s to the present day. more info
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. more info
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Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for 4,000 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. more info
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Access: The Supplementary Index to Periodicals
Supplements the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. more info
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AccessUN
Index, articles and full-text database of United Nations documents covering 1998-2003. more info
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ACLS History E-Book Project
see ACLS Humanities E-Book Project
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. more info
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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. more info
Advertising Red Books Online
Directory. Includes information necessary for thorough advertising research on agencies and advertisers. The Agency Database contains detailed profiles of nearly 13,500 U.S. and international advertising agencies, including accounts represented by each agency, fields of specialization, breakdown of gross billings by media, and contact information on agency personnel. more info
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African American Experience
Covers African American history and culture from its African origins to the present day, in addition to a collection of over 500 searchable titles. more info
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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. more info
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African-American History Online
Covering more than 500 years of African-American history, features biographies, primary sources, images, timelines, and maps and charts. more info
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African-American Poetry
African-American Poetry contains nearly 3,000 poems by African-American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. more info
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Agricola
AGRICOLA is a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators. more info
AHDS (Arts & Humanities Data Service)/Performing Arts
Searchable collection of online digital resources in the performing arts, mostly from Britain. more info
ALLDATA Online
Provides comprehensive resource for automotive (1982-to-current) diagnostic and repair information. Online SEARCH feature allows people to locate information quickly. more info
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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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Alt HealthWatch EBSCO
Focus on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.
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Alternative Press Index
Indexes and abstracts alternative, radical, and leftist publications. more info
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Alternative Press Index Archive
Index of journals (1969-1990) covering cultural, economic, political & social change. more info
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AMA Physician Select
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). more info
America: History and Life
Indexes the scholarly literature of the history and culture of Canada and the United States from prehistoric times to the present. more info
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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. more info
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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. more info
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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 1714–1915 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 featured in this release include Clyde Fitch, Augustin Daly, David Belasco, James Herne and Joaquin Miller.
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American Fact Finder
Provides statistics for population, housing, industry, and business. more info
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. more info
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American Indian History Online
Covering more than 5,000 years of culture, legends, and leaders of over 500 Native American groups, this database provides entries on primary source documents, biographies, maps & charts, images, and timelines. It also features searchable tribe and culture area indexes, as well as the ability to search for tribes by region.
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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. more info
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. more info
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American Periodical Series Online
APS Online provides searchable full-text and page images from over 1,100 popular magazines, journals and newspapers which began publication between 1740 and 1900 with coverage through 1940. more info
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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. more info
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American Women's History
Provides direct access to thousand of entries—biographies, historical and topical entries, speeches, maps, timelines, tables and charts, primary sources, and photographs—that are essential to understanding the experiences of American women throughout our nation’s history.
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America's Historical Newspapers
Full-text digital images of American newspapers published from 1690-1922. more info
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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. more info
AncestorsOnBoard.com
Outward Passenger Lists for long-distance voyages leaving the British Isles from 1890-1960 (work in progress). View index for free but you must pay to view information on passenger lists. more info
Ancestry Library Edition
Access to more than 5 billion names in more than 4,000 genealogical databases including Census Records, Passenger Lists and UK & Ireland records. Library version of Ancestry.com. more info
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Ancient & Medieval History Online
This database provides a balanced, global view of the ancient world as it explores six ancient centers of civilization—Africa, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mesoamerica, and Mesopotamia, spanning the period from the early Hominids 3 to 5 million years ago through 1522 CE.
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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. more info
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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. more info
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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. more info
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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. more info
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Archival Materials Access Tool (AMAT)
Contains over 3000 entries for significant archival collections of the New York Public Library. Each entry includes the collection's name and holding division, and often includes links to catalog records and online finding aids when available. more info
Archival Resources (RLG)
see ArchiveGrid (formerly RLG Archival Resources)
ArchiveGrid (formerly RLG Archival Resources)
Provides researchers with comprehensive access to information about collections of manuscripts and archives. more info
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Archives and Manuscript Collections
A selective guide to archives and manuscript collections. Includes national libraries, state archives and libraries, college and university collections, and society archives. more info
Archives Hub (UK)
A national gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities and colleges.
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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. more info
Archives USA
Provides information and detailed indexing to manuscript collections from over 5,000 U.S. repositories. more info
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ArchNet -- Archaeology
Indexes resources in archaeology and anthropology on the Internet. more info
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. more info
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. more info
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. more info
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Art Index Retrospective
Indexes articles in periodicals, yearbooks, and museum publications, 1929-1984. more info
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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. more info
ARTbibliographies Modern
Covers twentieth-century art, design, and photography movements. more info
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Artfact - Only available in HSSL 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. more info
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ARTFL
A collection of nearly 2000 electronic French texts, including classic literary works, nonfiction, and technical writing. more info
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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. more info
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Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Indexes articles and provides cited references found in over 1,130 journals in a wide variety of arts and humanities subjects. more info
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ARTstor
ARTstor is an independent not-for-profit organization that develops, stores and distributes electronically digital images and related scholarly materials for the study of art, architecture, and other fields in the humanities. more info
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AskART
AskArt covers American artists providing biography, images, citations, museums owning their work and galleries representing the artist's work. more info
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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. more info
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. more info
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ATLA Religion Databases
Contains citations to articles, books, theses, and book reviews on all aspects of religion and theology. more info
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Atlanta Constitution (1868-1942)
The Atlanta Constitution (1868-1942) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. more info
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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 more info
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Atlas Etnograficas De Cuba
Provides an historical and ethnographic overview of traditional and popular culture in Cuba.
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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. more info
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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. more info
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