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ABELL   
The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) contains over 860,000 records, covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards.

ABSEES   full text icon   
1990-present; ABSEES covers North American (U.S. and Canadian) scholarship on East-Central Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. It contains bibliographic records, some with full text links, for journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications.

Abstracts in Anthropology   
2001-present; includes references to journal articles, miscellaneous papers,and books, arranged under sections on archaeology, ethnology, linguistics, and physical anthropology.

Academic Search Premier   full text icon   
Current; multi-discipline, full text database, designed for the academic community. Includes full text coverage for just under 4,700 journals, including 3,600 peer-reviewed journals.

AccessMedicine   full text icon   
Current; McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine.com provides online access to medical textbooks, such as Harrison's Online; Hurst's The Heart; Goodman and Gilmans The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics; Schwartzs Principles of Surgery; the Lange Educational Library, and the Lange Self-Assessment Tool for National Boards Review. The textbooks are updated daily and may be searched by disease, test or drug for results in print, audio or video formats. AccessMedicine can be accessed using a PDA, iPod and MP3.

AccessScience   full text icon   
Current; AccessScience is the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 9th edition, with even more content, including: new trends and developments in science and technology, access to the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, biographies of scientists, late-breaking science and technology news, bibliographies, links to evaluated related web sites, and more.

AccessUN   full text icon   
1944-present; provides access to current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications.

ACLL   full text icon   
The Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature (ACLL) is a full text database of the corpus of Latin literature produced in Celtic-speaking Europe from the period 400-1200 AD / CE. It includes more than 400 Latin works spanning the fields of theology, liturgy, computistics, grammar, hagiography, poetry and historiography, and including legal texts, charters, inscriptions, and more. This resource is part of Brepols Latin Complete and may be cross-searched via the Cross-Database Search Tool.

ACM Digital Library   full text icon   
1954-present; the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) Digital Library is a collection of citations and full text from ACM journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings. Access is also provided to the ACM Guide, which is a collection of bibliographic citations and abstracts of works published by ACM and other publishers. Citations for all ACM published works are included in the Guide.

ACM Guide to the Computing Literature   full text icon   
The Guide is a collection of bibliographic citations and abstracts of works published by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and other publishers. Citations for all ACM published works are included in the Guide, as well as citations from 3,000+ publishers. Citations include books, journal articles, conference proceedings, doctoral dissertations, master's theses, and technical reports.

African American Poetry   full text icon   
African American Poetry contains poems by African American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from the first recorded poem by an African American (Lucy Terry's Bars Fights, c.1746) to the major poets of the nineteenth century, including Paul Laurence Dunbar and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

African American Song      music icon
African American Song is the first online resource to document the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others. This collection features recordings from the first half of the 20th century and includes iconic artists such as The Fisk Jubilee Singers, Memphis Minnie, Blind Willie McTell and Huddie Ledbetter. It provides a rich source of blues and early jazz recordings as well as a lot of sacred music.

African Writers Series   full text icon   
For over 40 years, Heinemann's African Writers Series has published the key texts of modern African literature. It has a unique importance in the history of postcolonial writing. Release Seven of this online edition includes over 230 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose, including works by Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Steve Biko, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Nelson Mandela, Dambudzo Marechera, Christopher Okigbo, Okot p'Bitek and Tayeb Salih.

AGRICOLA
1970-present; articles, book chapters on agriculture, animal sciences, plant sciences, nutrition. [This resource is publicly available.]

AHD.COM (American Hospital Directory)   full text icon   
Current; ahd.com provides online data for over 6,000 hospitals. The database is built from both public and private sources including Medicare claims data (MedPAR and OPPS), hospital cost reports, hospital profiles, department statistics, IP and OP data, quality measures, and other public use files obtained from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). For assistance, contact Thomas_Stieve in the Rockefeller Library.

Alternative Press Index   
1991-present; international and interdisciplinary, Alternative Press Index provides access to nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political and social change.

Alternative Press Index Archive   
1969-1990; international and interdisciplinary, Alternative Press Index Archive provides access to nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political and social change.

America: History and Life   
1954-present; article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada.

American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies   full text icon   
1990-present; ABSEES covers North American (U.S. and Canadian) scholarship on East-Central Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. It contains bibliographic records, some with full text links, for journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications.

American Civil War: Letters and Diaries   full text icon   
Ongoing; this database knits together more than 1,000 sources of diaries, letters, and memoirs to provide fast access to thousands of views on almost every aspect of the war, including what was happening at home. The writings of politicians, generals, slaves, landowners, farmers, seaman, wives, and even spies are included. The letters and diaries are by the famous and the unknown, giving not only both the Northern and Southern perspectives, but those of foreign observers also.

American Drama 1714-1915   full text icon   
Includes dramatic works from the early eighteenth century up to the beginning of the twentieth, reflecting 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 include David Belasco, Rachel Crothers, Augustin Daly, Clyde Fitch, Edward Harrigan, James Herne, William Dean Howells and Joaquin Miller.

American FactFinder   full text icon
Current; a new data access and dissemination system that provides useful facts and information about your community, your economy, and your society.

American History in Video   
American History in Video is an online collection of video available for the study of American history. The collection allows students and scholars to see, experience, and study American history in ways never before possible. This collection is an exclusive collaboration with A&E Television Networks and features some of their most important documentaries and series from The History Channel, A&E Network, and Biography. Historical coverage ranges from the early history of Native Americans, to the lost colony of Roanoke, to the 1988 Vicennes Affair in the Persian Gulf. Biographical coverage ranges from eighteenth century figures such as Benedict Arnold and Daniel Boone to modern day figures such as Thurgood Marshall and Helen Thomas.
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American Hospital Directory (ahd.com)   full text icon   
Current; ahd.com provides online data for over 6,000 hospitals. The database is built from both public and private sources including Medicare claims data (MedPAR and OPPS), hospital cost reports, hospital profiles, department statistics, IP and OP data, quality measures, and other public use files obtained from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). For assistance, contact Thomas_Stieve in the Rockefeller Library.

American Periodical Series (APS Online)   full text icon   
1740-1900; APS (American Periodical Series) Online contains over 1,100 periodicals including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.

American Poetry   full text icon   
American Poetry contains over 40,000 poems by more than 200 poets, covering the Colonial period to the early twentieth century, and drawn from over 1,200 printed sources. The collection begins with early Colonial poems and continues through to early twentieth-century writers. Major canonical poets and important literary groups, such as the Transcendentalists and the Knickerbocker school, can be read alongside substantial bodies of work by less familiar authors well known in their day.

American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography   full text icon   
2000 edition; a study of the WPA slave narratives. A massive historical collection, it includes complete records for each narrative identifying the narrator, his or her year of birth, and the county and state where the narrator was in bondage.

Anchor Bible Dictionary   full text icon
1997 edition. Anchor Bible Dictionary CD-ROM includes all entries in all six volumes of the Anchor Bible Dictionary as well as photos, drawings and bibliographies, plus the King James and the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible. ((Available on Computer 2 in the Rockefeller computing cluster.) (Rockefeller Library)

Anita
The Art Slide Library catalog of slides and photographs.

Annee Philologique   
1959-2003; subtitled A Critical and Analytical Bibliography of Greco-Latin Antiquity, L'Ann�e Philologique is an international, multi-lingual bibliography of all aspects of classical studies, including authors and texts, literature, archaeology, history, philosophy, and other disciplines. Includes over 375,000 citations from about 1,500 periodicals and hundreds of monographic volumes. Like the print edition, the online version of L'Ann�e Philologique is published approximately two years behind.

Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, 1920 -   
The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) contains over 860,000 records, covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards.

Anthropological Literature   
1984-present; indexes articles on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religion.

AnthroSource   full text icon   
Current plus archive to 2006; AnthroSource is an online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists. Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource brings 100 years of anthropological material online to scholars and the public.

APS Online   full text icon   
1740-1900; APS (American Periodical Series) Online contains over 1,100 periodicals including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.

Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature   full text icon   
The Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature (ACLL) is a full text database of the corpus of Latin literature produced in Celtic-speaking Europe from the period 400-1200 AD / CE. It includes more than 400 Latin works spanning the fields of theology, liturgy, computistics, grammar, hagiography, poetry and historiography, and including legal texts, charters, inscriptions, and more. This resource is part of Brepols Latin Complete and may be cross-searched via the Cross-Database Search Tool.

Archive of Early American Images   full text icon   
A database of pictures of the colonial Americas, from the Hudson Bay to Tierra del Fuego, based entirely on primary sources printed or created between 1492 and circa 1825. The Archive of Early American Images is drawn entirely from the holdings of the John Carter Brown Library. [This resource is publicly available.]

Aristoteles Latinus Database   full text icon   
A part of Brepols Latin Complete this database contains those texts that have been critically edited in the printed Aristoteles Latinus series. Other corpora complete the database, whether editions that have already been published or ones in preparation or unpublished, to produce the finished Aristoteles Latinus. This electronic edition provides an integrated database of all the medieval translations of Aristotle's work. The electronic database is not identical to the printed edition, as it omits the prefaces describing the manuscript tradition; nor does it include the apparatus of variant readings, the Greek-Latin comparative apparatus, or the bilingual indexes of the printed version.

Art Abstracts   
1984-present; Wilson Art Abstracts is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. In addition to articles, Art Abstracts indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Subjects indexed include: antiques, archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, computers in art, fashion design, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, television, textiles, and video. Menu of OvidSP Databases.
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Art Index Retrospective   
1929-1984; cumulates citations from volumes 1-32 of the printed Art Index. In addition to art and architecture, topics covered include advertising, antiques, archaeology, crafts, industrial design, motion pictures, museology, photography, and television. Menu of OvidSP Databases.
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ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language)   full text icon   
Over 2,600 texts (mostly scholarly editions) ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The powerful search and retrieval engine, PhiloLogic3, enables scholars to perform textual analysis, and to limit and extend both the searches and search results from various points of view.

Arts and Humanities Citation Index   
1975-present; source for information in all arts and humanities disciplines. Useful for retrieving recent articles that cite a known earlier article.

ARTstor   
ARTstor is a rich digital library that offers coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. ARTstor's initial content will include approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. Brown provides access to the basic collection of 16,000 images through ARTstor. In 2008, Archivision Digital Research Library was added, offering digital images of important sites, buildings, gardens, parks, and works of public art from the following time periods: Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, 18th and 19th Century, Islamic, and Modern. For help getting started see ARTstor HELP for Brown University users.

Asian-American Drama   full text icon   
Asian American Drama brings together more than 250 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information, so providing a comprehensive overview of this growing field. The collection begins with the works of Sadakichi Hartmann in the late nineteenth century and it is planned to include contemporary playwrights, such as Philip Kan Gotanda, Elizabeth Wong, and Jeannie Barroga.

Atelier Historique de la Langue Franaise   full text icon
Full-text of seven historical dictionaries of the French language from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. (Available on Computer 2 in the Rockefeller computing cluster.)

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials   full text icon   
1949-present; the ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. Links are provided to 100,000 full text articles in ATLASerials, from more than fifty journals selected by religion scholars in the United States. Full text resources from the Religion and Philosophy Collection are also linked within this database.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals   
1930-present; treats architecture and related subjects, such as city planning, historic preservation, and interior design. Avery is an index with very short abstracts for some citations; it does not contain full text articles. User Guide

BAMCO
The manuscripts and archives of Brown University are a rich and diverse resource for students, faculty, and other researchers from a variety of disciplines. The collections are particularly strong in the following areas: American literature (especially poetry and drama), American political and diplomatic history, Rhode Island history, women's studies, history of education, and history of science. The collections are not limited to these areas, however, and new uses and interpretations of the materials are continually being discovered. The BAMCO site does not encompass all of the holdings of the Brown University Library. Interested researchers should consult the Collections A-Z page for further information on our holdings and for contact information. [This resource is publicly available.]

Bases de Datos del CSIC   
Created by the Center for Scientific Information and Documentation (CINDOC) for the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in Spain, the Bases de Datos del CSIC contains three databases that index Spanish journals and conference papers.

  • ISOC - 1975-present; contains seventeen subdatabases in the social sciences and humanities.

  • ICYT - 1979-present; contains ten subdatabases on science and technology.

  • IME - 1971-present; biomedicine.

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Beilstein   full text icon   
1779-present; Reaxys is a web-based discovery tool that searches across the combined content of databases Crossfire Beilstein (organic data), Crossfire Gmelin (inorganic and organometallic data), and Patent Chemistry. Results include structures, reactions (with multi-step synthetic pathways), physical properties, and pharmacological, toxicological, and ecological data. Search by structure and/or fields or use names or phrases to find structures. Replaces Crossfire Beilstein client software.

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Bible in English (990-1970)   full text icon   
Contains twenty versions of the English Bible.

BibleWorks 4   full text icon
1999 edition. BibleWorks is an electronic Bible concordance and morphological analysis program. It includes texts of the Hebrew O.T., Greek O.T. and N.T. and a wide range of English and modern foreign language texts. It also has Bible dictionaries and other aids. (Available on Computer 2 in the Rockefeller computing cluster.) (Rockefeller Library)

Biblical World in Pictures
More than 1,300 photographs of Bible sites, archaeological remains, maps, artifacts, inscriptions, and ancient manuscripts. (Available on Computer 2 in the Rockefeller computing cluster.)

Bibliografía de la Literatura Española desde 1980   
1980-present; a resource for scholars of Spanish literature, Bibliografía de la Literatura Española provides bibliographic information on a wide range of subject areas including literary theory, literary genres, popular literature, Hispanism, bibliographies and authors.

Bibliography and Index of Micropaleontology   
1970-present; the Bibliography and Index of Micropaleontology is an online reference service that provides full-feature, one-query searches of world micropaleontological literature. Intelligent searches can be narrowed according to fossil groups, range of dates, types of publications, GeoRef keywords, singly or in combination. Matched citations and groups of citations can be downloaded as plain text files for reference lists.

Bibliography of American Literature   full text icon   
Bibliography of American Literature describes in exhaustive detail the works of America's most important literary writers from the time of the Revolution to 1930. More than 37,000 works are listed.

Bibliography of Asian Studies   
1971-present; this online version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains more than 610,000 records of materials in all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia.

Bibliography of the History of Art   
1990-2007; covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present. Menu of OvidSP Databases.
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Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (BTL-2)   full text icon
2003 edition; BTL-2 is the electronic version of the Bibliotheca scriptorum Romanorum Teubneriana. It offers the user the complete texts, other than the prefaces or critical apparatus, from the standard editions (editions maiores) of about 500 works spread over eight centuries (c. 300 BC/BCE to c. 500 AD/CE). BTL-2 includes the complete corpus of texts of the 'Grammatici Latini', 'Servius Grammaticus', a small selection of other texts together with all texts offered in BTL-1. (Available at the Reserves Desk for use on Computer 2 in the Rockefeller computing cluster.) (Rockefeller Library)

Biography and Genealogy Master Index   full text icon   
For nearly twenty-five years, Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) has been the best place to begin a search for information about people. It indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.

BioKnowledge Library   full text icon   
Six protein information volumes make up the Proteome BioKnowledge Library. Each volume focuses on a specific research organism or set of organisms. Proteome's team of scientific curators and editors gather publicly available translated cDNA sequences and manually comb the published scientific literature to collect and organize information on characterized proteins. This information is compiled into a comprehensive database containing all published proteins in the target species. A protein report, containing tabulated data and a compendium of research results gathered from the scientific literature, is central to all BioKnowledge Library databases. A protein report exists for each protein in the database.

Biological Abstracts   
1969-present; international coverage of research in the life sciences.

BioOne   full text icon   
BioOne is the product of innovative collaboration between scientific societies, libraries, academe and the private sector. BioOne brings to the Web a uniquely valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of the titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form. BioOne provides integrated, cost-effective access to a thoroughly linked information resource of interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.

BioOne Abstracts and Indexes Database   full text icon   
2000-present; the BioOne bibliographic database is an indexed and fully-searchable collection of abstracts that link to the fulltext articles available from the BioOne organization. BioOne provides a unique aggregation of over 65 high-impact bioscience research journals from more than 50 publishers. Subject coverage includes: economic botany, entomology, environmental science, evolutionary biology, genetics, microbiology, natural history, photobiology, veterinary science and zoology.

Black Drama   full text icon   
1850-present; when complete, Black Drama will contain the full text of 1,200 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. Many of the works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print. Nearly a quarter of the collection will consist of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Femi Euba, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.

Book Review Index Online Plus   full text icon   
1965-present; a comprehensive online guide to book reviews that includes more than five million review citations from thousands of publications, with linking to more than 634,000 full-text reviews.

Brepols Latin Complete   full text icon   
A collection of works published by Brepols which have been grouped together, and may now be cross-searched at one time using the Cross-Database Search Tool. Works included are Library of Latin Texts: CLCLT, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, and the Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature.

Brill's New Pauly   full text icon   
Brill's New Pauly is an English translation (with revisions) of the German Der Neue Pauly which itself is the latest revision of the great multi-volume encyclopedia of the ancient world, known familiarly as Pauly-Wissowa. This resource in print was known as the Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft begun by August Pauly in 1839, with an expanded edition by Georg Wissowa published between 1890 and 1980. The New Pauly is still in progress, but includes access to the German edition, which was completed in 2003. The online version, like the print edition, includes two sections: Antiquity and the Classical Tradition.

Britannica Online   full text icon   
Current; a reference site for students and educators synthesizing editorially reviewed websites and the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

British Parliamentary Papers
1990-present; CD-ROM index to the sessional papers of the House of Commons and House of Lords, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, and the Journal of the House of Commons. (Available on Computer 2 in the Rockefeller computing cluster) (Rockefeller Library)

Brown Archival & Manuscript Collections Online (BAMCO)
The manuscripts and archives of Brown University are a rich and diverse resource for students, faculty, and other researchers from a variety of disciplines. The collections are particularly strong in the following areas: American literature (especially poetry and drama), American political and diplomatic history, Rhode Island history, women's studies, history of education, and history of science. The collections are not limited to these areas, however, and new uses and interpretations of the materials are continually being discovered. The BAMCO site does not encompass all of the holdings of the Brown University Library. Interested researchers should consult the Collections A-Z page for further information on our holdings and for contact information. [This resource is publicly available.]

Brown Theses and Dissertations   
The Brown University Theses and Dissertations database includes over 15,000 records for dissertations written and submitted in fulfillment of Brown University degree requirements from 1893 to 2000. Included are undergraduate honors theses, master's theses, and doctoral dissertations. Records include the author's name, thesis title, degree awarded, year, granting department, and when available, thesis advisor. [This resource is publicly available.]

BuildingGreen.com   full text icon   
Current; designed to help building-industry professionals and policy makers improve the environmental performance and reduce the adverse impacts, of buildings. Both print and electronic resources are available to help design and build construction projects from a whole-systems perspective and take an integrated design approach that minimizes ecological impact and maximizes economic performance. BuildingGreen.com publishes Environmental Building News, the GreenSpec directory of green products, and the BuildingGreen Suite of online tools.

Business Source Complete   full text icon   
Date varies; Business Source Complete is a scholarly business database. It contains indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the 25,000 most-cited authors in the database. Disciplines covered include business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.

Cambridge Structural Database   
Current; the Cambridge Structural Database (WebCSD) consists of the bibliographic, chemical, and crystallographic (single crystal and powder diffraction) records for organic molecules and metal-organic compounds whose 3-D structures have been determined using x-diffraction and/or neutron diffraction. Almost all records have the three-dimensional coordinate data for at least non-hydrogen atoms. The crystal structure data comes from the open literature or direct deposits by researchers. Search by substructure, reduced cell, similarity, or text/numeric.

Canadian Poetry   full text icon   
Created in partnership with the Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick Libraries, this unique collection currently contains the full text of more than 19,000 poems by 177 poets including Bliss Carman, Isabella Valancy Crawford and Archibald Lampman. The collection comprises essentially the complete canon of English-language Canadian poetry from the seventeenth century up to the early twentieth century.

CenStats   full text icon
Current; census data and online publications from the U.S. Census Bureau.

CETADOC   full text icon   
The Library of Latin Texts: CLCLT (sometimes called CETADOC) is the world's leading database for Latin texts. It contains texts from the beginning of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus, 240 BC) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). It covers all the works from the classical period, the most important patristic works, a very extensive corpus of Medieval Latin literature as well as works of recentior latinitas including texts from the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. The complete works of writers such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas Kempis can thus be consulted. The texts have been taken from the Corpus Christianorum series and from many other leading editions. This resource is part of Brepols Latin Complete and may be cross-searched via the Cross-Database Search Tool.

China Academic Journals (CAJ)   full text icon   
1994-present; CAJ is one of several major databases of China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI). It includes full text, full image articles (many in English) for subject areas in the humanities and social sciences such as literature, history, philosophy, economics, politics, law, and education.More information on CAJ

China Data Online   full text icon   
1952-present; collection of statistical materials including: Monthly Statistics, National Statistics, Provincial Statistics, Monthly Industrial Data, Yearly Industrial Data, Statistics with Map & Charts, and Statistical Yearbooks.

CINAHL   
1982-present; CINAHL provides indexing for over 1,835 current nursing and allied health journals and other publications. CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Full text material includes 70 journals plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments, and clinical trials. This resource now includes material formerly available in Pre-CINHAL.

Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism   full text icon   
Accessible as part of Literature Resource Center. The LRC covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, and indexes publications such as Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Authors.

Classical Music Library      music icon
Current; a music database of 20,000 tracks sourced from leading classical music recording labels and major artists, increasing at the rate of 2,000 per month. Content partners include Hyperion, Vox, Vanguard, Arabesque, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sanctuary and many other respected labels. The collection includes Hnssler Classics complete Bach collection and many other great performances and artists. The music is cross-referenced to biographies and liner notes, as well as links to external databases such as Grove Dictionary of Music.

Clinical Pharmacology   full text icon   
Current; Clinical Pharmacology is the primary drug information and medication management resource of the majority of the countrys largest retail pharmacy chains and consultant pharmacy corporations, many U.S. pharmacy and medical schools, over 700 hospitals, well-known health information websites, and by hundreds-of-thousands of healthcare professionals and consumers worldwide. Written by pharmacists who have been formally trained in drug information, Clinical Pharmacology provides up-to-date, peer-reviewed, clinically-relevant information on all U.S. prescription drugs, as well as off-label uses and dosage, herbal supplements, nutritional and over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs. This resource includes monographs, overviews of dozens of therapeutic drug classes, and advanced searching capabilities. Clinical Pharmacology also includes drug interactions reports, IV compatibility reports, product identification, an enhanced product comparison utility, and patient education such as OBRA-compliant Drug Information Handouts, written in English or Spanish and specific to each dosage form for educating patients on medication safety.

Cochrane Library   full text icon   
Current; provides access to information compiled by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international network of individuals and institutions committed to reviewing the best evidence from clinical trials in medicine.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)   full text icon   
1991-present; designed to be the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. Includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, books, journals, policy briefs, and proceedings from conferences.

Compendex   
1969-present; Compendex is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world. Compendex references over 5,000 international engineering sources including journal, conference, and trade publications.

Contemporary Authors   full text icon   
Accessible as part of Literature Resource Center. The LRC covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, and indexes publications such as Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Authors.

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select   full text icon   
Accessible as part of Literature Resource Center. The LRC covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, and indexes publications such as Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Authors.

Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books   full text icon   
PsycCRITIQUES is a new searchable database of book reviews in psychology. The database replaces the print journal Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, providing major enhancements, very current reviews, and much more content. In each weekly release, PsycCRITIQUES will deliver approximately 15 reviews of psychological books, most from the current copyright year.

Contemporary World Music   full text icon      music icon
When completed, Contemporary World Music will contain 50,000 tracks that delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database will contain important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more. This database is a complementary database to Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries - it includes a blend of contemporary and traditional world music recordings from many labels throughout the world. The focus is concentrated on contemporary genres, such as fusion and world beat. Users can trace the history of a people's music by comparing the traditional styles with the modern interpretations offered in this database.

CQ Researcher   full text icon   
1991-present; explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from the environment, health, education and science, technology and social issues.

CQ Weekly   
1983-present; pre-eminent resource for Congress-watchers who need non-partisan information on Capitol Hill.

CREDO Reference   full text icon   
Current; CREDO Reference is the world's largest online reference service, offering access to 169 electronic reference books on most subjects, including dictionaries, biographical sources, quotations, medicine, literature, music, technology, and many other interdiscipinary sources. Click here for a list of the publications included.

Current Index to Statistics Extended Database   
1974-present; a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. The database indexes both journals and books.

Database of Latin Dictionaries   full text icon   
A part of Brepols Latin Complete, the aim of the database is not only to integrate different types of Latin dictionaries, whether modern, medieval or early-modern, but also to build in links between these different tools. Where the dictionaries provide Latin terms and vernacular equivalents or explanations (whether in contemporary or historic forms of English, French or German), searches will be possible on both the Latin lemmata and the English, French or German lemmata.

Decameron Web   full text icon
1994-present; easily accessible and flexible wealth of information on the literary, historical and cultural context of Boccaccio's Decameron. [This resource is publicly available.]

Declassified Documents Reference System   
1979-present; provides an index and abstracts to nearly 75,000 declassified documents from the CIA, FBI, Department of State, Department of Defense, National Security Council, and other agencies.

Dictionary of Literary Biography   full text icon   
Accessible as part of Literature Resource Center. The LRC covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, and indexes publications such as Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Authors.

Dictionary of National Biography   full text icon   
2004 edition; an illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2001.

Dictionary of Old English: Old English Corpus   full text icon   
The Dictionary of Old English Corpus is an online database consisting of at least one copy of every Old English text. In some cases, more than one copy is included, if it is significant because of dialect or date. As such, the DOEC represents about three million words of Old English and another two million words of Latin.

Digital National Security Archive   full text icon   
1945-present; The Digital National Security Archive is a joint project between the National Security Archive and ProQuest Information and Learning Company. The DNSA is the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Over 55,000 of the most important, declassified documents totaling more than 420,000 pages are included in the database. Many are published now for the first time.

Digital Sanborn Maps 1867-1970 for Rhode Island   
Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 provide digital access to large-scale maps of Rhode Island. Founded in 1867 by D. A. Sanborn, the Sanborn Map Company was the primary American publisher of fire insurance maps for nearly 100 years. These maps are valuable historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods. A key is provided by the Sanborn Map Company. (Note: Because the key is a detailed file, it must be large so that you can view it completed. As a result, it may take a while for the key to load onto your computer screen.)

DigiZeitschriften   full text icon   
DigiZeitschriften is a digital archive of back issues of 100+ German scholarly journals. The archive offers browsing capabilities, phrase and keyword searching of titles of articles, chapters, and tables of contents for journals in the fields of art history, economy, education, geology, linguistics, literature, mathematics, music, natural sciences, religion and sociology. Years of coverage vary from journal to journal and are listed in the Open Access section of the site.

Dissertation Abstracts International   full text icon   
1637-present; ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Full Text is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. PQDT Full Text includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350 word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150 word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDT Full Text provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text also offers researchers unlimited access to digital copies from their own institutions as well as affordable copies from others.

Dissertations of China   full text icon   
1986-present; this database holds fulltext or abstracts and other descriptive information of Masters, Doctoral, and Post-doctoral dissertations from key Chinese research institutions. Covers all disciplines.

DOE (Department of Energy) Information Bridge   full text icon
1995-present; provides access to full-text DOE research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.

Drama Criticism   full text icon   
Accessible as part of Literature Resource Center. The LRC covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, and indexes publications such as Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Authors.

DYABOLA   
1956-present; books, book reviews, and journal articles in the disciplines of classics, prehistory and ancient history, archaeology, numismatics, epigraphy, and philology are indexed, including subject access based on the Realkatalog of the German Archaeological Institute. Most of the citations are to works not in English.

e-EROS: Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis   
Current; e-EROS contains a database of over 50,000 reactions and around 3,800 of the most frequently consulted reagents and is fully searchable by structure and substructure, reagent, reaction type, experimental conditions etc. and allows sophisticated full text searches.

Early American Fiction 1789-1850   full text icon   
Created in partnership with the University of Virginia Library, the collection consists of facsimile page images and keyword-searchable full text for more than four hundred works of American prose fiction published before 1850, including key titles such as James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.

Early American Fiction 1789-1875   full text icon   
Created in partnership with the University of Virginia Library, Early American Fiction 17891875 extends the coverage of the first Early American Fiction collection by twenty-five years (18511875) and currently offers the full text of 634 first editions of American novels and short stories by such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain and Herman Melville as well as a host of minor writers of the period.

Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800) Digital Edition   full text icon   
Ongoing; based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography, this resource serves as the foundation for research on every aspect of 17th and 18th century American life. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of over 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.

Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819): Shaw-Shoemaker, Digital Edition.   full text icon   
Ongoing, Shaw-Shoemaker covers every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States. Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. The continuation of Readex's Early American Imprints: Series I, this rich primary source database, based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker and now supplemented by thousands of new items, thoroughly chronicles the people, ideas and events behind the early political, social, cultural and geographic growth of the United States.

Early English Books Online (EEBO)   full text icon   
From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection now contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Subjects include English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) Text Creation Project   full text icon   
Fully searchable electronic texts of 25,000 of the 100,000+ titles in Early English Books Online (EEBO) are being made available through this Text Creation Partnership. These editions are presented in a modern format that can be accessed by topic, by date, by type of material, and various other parameters for both instructional and research purposes.

Early English Prose Fiction   full text icon   
A collection of more than 200 works from the period 15001700, 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).

ebrary   full text icon   
ebrary offers simultaneous multi-user access for over 60,000 titles by over 200 leading academic and professional publishers. Concentrations include Business and Economics, Computers and Technology, Humanities, Life and Physical Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Sciences. You will need to do an initial download of the ebrary reader---look on the home page for instructions. In addition, you may create a personal account. Copyright guidelines apply; printing more than 10%-15% of any book, online or print, is a copyright violation. ebrary allows you to print up to 40 pages from a book.

EBSCOhost   full text icon   
EBSCOhost is the interface for databases the Library subscribes to from EBSCO Publishing. There are several, including Academic Search Premier, Inspec, Business Source Premier, Religion and Philosophy Collection, and others. This link will take you a list of the databases.

ECCO   full text icon   
Based on the English Short Title Catalogue, Eighteenth Century Collections Online includes books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more. It contains works published in the UK during the 18th century plus thousands from elsewhere. ECCO is primarily in English, but does include other languages.

EconLit   
1969-present; a comprehensive index to the worldwide literature on economics compiled by the American Economic Association from over 300 major economics journals.

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Data Services   full text icon   
The EIU DataServices portfolio comprises the following global business databases: EIU Country Data, a comprehensive database of economic indicators and forecasts, covering more than 320 economic series for 150 countries, as well as 45 regional aggregates, running from 1980 and forecasting out five years; EIU Market Indicators & Forecasts, a powerful database of economic, demographic, consumption and industry data on 60 major countries, stretching back to 1990 and forward five years; EIU City Data, a global database of product prices and business costs providing over 330 prices levels on more than 160 products and services in 123 cities worldwide from 1990 to the present, and Combination of Country Data and Market Indicators, which is a combination of EIU Country Data and EIU Market Indicators & Forecasts.

Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911)   full text icon   
1591-1911; eleven major editions from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-86. Includes individual plays, related works, and more than one hundred adaptations.

EEBO Text Creation Project   full text icon   
Fully searchable electronic texts of 25,000 of the 100,000+ titles in Early English Books Online (EEBO) are being made available through this Text Creation Partnership. These editions are presented in a modern format that can be accessed by topic, by date, by type of material, and various other parameters for both instructional and research purposes.

eHRAF Archaeology   full text icon   
1700?-present; eHRAF Archaeology is a cross-cultural database containing information on prehistory. This unique, annually-growing database is organized by archaeological traditions and the full text documents are subject-indexed to the paragraph level.
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eHRAF World Cultures   full text icon   
1700?-present; eHRAF World Cultures is a cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually-growing database is unique in that the information is organized by cultures and ethnic groups and the full text documents are subject-indexed at the paragraph level.
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EI Compendex   
1969-present; Compendex is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world. Compendex references over 5,000 international engineering sources including journal, conference, and trade publications.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)   full text icon   
Based on the English Short Title Catalogue, Eighteenth Century Collections Online includes books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more. It contains works published in the UK during the 18th century plus thousands from elsewhere. ECCO is primarily in English, but does include other languages.

Eighteenth Century Fiction   full text icon   
A collection of 96 complete works of English prose from the period 17001780 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.

EIU Data Services   full text icon   
The EIU DataServices portfolio comprises the following global business databases: EIU Country Data, a comprehensive database of economic indicators and forecasts, covering more than 320 economic series for 150 countries, as well as 45 regional aggregates, running from 1980 and forecasting out five years; EIU Market Indicators & Forecasts, a powerful database of economic, demographic, consumption and industry data on 60 major countries, stretching back to 1990 and forward five years; EIU City Data, a global database of product prices and business costs providing over 330 prices levels on more than 160 products and services in 123 cities worldwide from 1990 to the present, and Combination of Country Data and Market Indicators, which is a combination of EIU Country Data and EIU Market Indicators & Forecasts.

eMGH   full text icon   
Monumenta Germaniae Historica Online is a corpus of historical works, charters, legal texts, letters, political texts, and literature from the European Middle Ages. Contains approximately 800 texts published so far in the Monumenta series. The online texts are prepared by Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium under the direction of Prof. Paul Tombeur. This resource is part of Brepols Latin Complete and may be cross-searched via the Cross-Database Search Tool.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online   full text icon   
Current; a reference site for students and educators synthesizing editorially reviewed websites and the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Encyclopaedia Islamica   full text icon   
This volume of Encyclopaedia Islamica is the first of a projected 16-volume publication, consisting of an abridged and edited translation of the Persian Dʾirat al-Maʿrif-i Buzurg-i Islm, one of the most comprehensive sources on Islam and the Muslim world. One unique feature of this work of reference lies in the attention it gives to Shiʿi Islam and its rich and diverse heritage, which makes it complementary to other encyclopaedias.

Encyclopaedia of Islam   full text icon   
Current edition; includes the text and illustrations of Volumes I-XI and the Supplement(Volume XII) to the printed version of the Encyclopaedia of Islam. Also included are addenda & corrigenda, glossary and index of terms, index of proper names, and index of subjects.

Encyclopedia Brunoniana   full text icon
Brown University from A to Z by University Archivist, Martha Mitchell. [This resource is publicly available.]

Encyclopedia of Literature   full text icon   
Accessible as part of Literature Resource Center. The LRC covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, and indexes publications such as Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Authors.

Encyclopedia Universalis   full text icon   
Part of the Global Reference Center.

Engineering Village 2   
Current; Engineering Information Village makes available all the resources of the paper and CD-ROM versions of Engineering Index. In addition, it includes links to the latest in technological and world news, career information, and a document delivery service.

English Drama   full text icon   
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.

English Poetry   full text icon   
The original ground-breaking Chadwyck-Healey collection, English Poetry contains essentially the complete English poetic canon from the 8th century to the early 20th. Over 160,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets are drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.

English Poetry, Second Edition   full text icon   
Redefines the English poetic canon for the 21st century with the addition of more than 20,000 poems from several new categories. Containing more than 183,000 poems by over 2,700 poets, it is the most comprehensive archive of English verse from the 8th century to the early 20th century.

English Short Title Catalog
The ESTC, English Short Title Catalog, is an in-process list of books published in all languages in Great Britain, and in English elsewhere, from 1475-1800. [This resource is publicly available.]

Environmental Issues and Policy Index   
Current; The Environmental Issues and Policy Index provides abstract/index information for over 1000 titles in the area of environmental policy and studies. The product has an Environment thesaurus that will assist users in research.

ERIC   full text icon
1966-present; direct access to The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) database sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC is a digital library of free education-related sources of interest to educators, researchers, and the general public, and consists primarily of electronic bibliographic records describing journal and non-journal literature. The collection has been expanded to include full text of specific articles and other electronic resources such as audio and video materials. ERIC is also available via the EBSCO interface.

ESTC
The ESTC, English Short Title Catalog, is an in-process list of books published in all languages in Great Britain, and in English elsewhere, from 1475-1800. [This resource is publicly available.]

Ethnic NewsWatch and ENW: A History   full text icon   
1980-present; Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press beginning in 1990. ENW: A History covers the years 1960-1989. The experiences and contributions of African Americans, Hispanics, Native Peoples, Asian Americans, European Americans, Jewish Americans and Arab Americans illuminate three critical decades in U.S. and world history.

Evans Digital Edition   full text icon   
Ongoing; based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans and enhanced by Roger Bristol's Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography, this resource serves as the foundation for research on every aspect of 17th and 18th century American life. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of over 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.

Faber Poetry Library   full text icon   
A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. The Faber list spans the seventy-year history of this major publishing house, and includes the poetry of Thom Gunn, Siegfried Sassoon, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Wendy Cope and Seamus Heaney. In total The Faber Poetry Library contains 140 volumes by 50 poets.

Facts on File Databases (formerly FACTS.com)   full text icon   
An online version of Facts on File, these databases include the World News Digest from 1940-present, as well as the World Almanac Reference Database, the World Almanac Encyclopedia, Issues and Controversies and links to special reports.

Faculty of 1000-Biology   full text icon   
Current; Faculty of 1000 is an online research service that will comprehensively and systematically highlight and review the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 1000 selected leading researchers. This service provides scientists with a continuously updated insider's guide to the most important papers within any given field of research, highlights papers on the basis of their scientific merit rather than the journal in which they appear, offers the researcher a consensus of recommendations from well over 1000 leading scientists, and systematically organizes and evaluates the mass of information within scientific literature. Faculty of 1000 provides an immediate rating of individual papers by the authors' peers, and an important complement to the indirect assessment provided by the journal impact factor.

FBIS Daily Reports   full text icon   
1974-1996; the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) was an office within the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency charged with monitoring, translating, and republishing selected foreign radio and television broadcasts, newspaper articles, government news agency releases, conference proceedings, political speeches, and non-classified technical reports. The primary target audiences of these translated reports were officials of the U.S. government. Coverage includes political, military, economic, and environmental topics. See also World News Connectionfor coverage from 1995 to the present.

FIAF: International FilmArchive Database   
1972-present; the FIAF Databases Online is a group of databases from the International Federation of Film Archives, bringing together contributions from experts around the world dedicated to film preservation, cataloguing and documentation. The FIAF Databases include:
* International Index to Film Periodicals
* International Index to Television Periodicals
* List of Periodicals Indexed
* Treasures from the Film Archives
* Bibliography of FIAF Affiliates Publications
* International Directory of Film and TV Documentation Collections
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Film Literature Index (FLI Online)
1976-2001; 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. [This resource is publicly available.]

Florentine Renaissance Resources: Online Catasto of 1427   full text icon
The Online Catasto is a World Wide Web searchable database of tax information for the city of Florence in 1427-29 (c. 10,000 records). It is based on the work of David Herlihy and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Principal Investigators, Census and Property Survey of Florentine Dominions in the Province of Tuscany, 1427-1480. [This resource is publicly available.]

Florentine Renaissance Resources: Online Gazetteer of Sixteenth Century Florence   full text icon
This website is a searchable gazetteer of late Renaissance Florence, ca. 1530-1630. It is the illustrative appendix to a book by R. Burr Litchfield, Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University, entitled: Florence Ducal Capital, 1530-1630 (New York: ACLS Humanities E-Book, 2008) published by the American Council of Learned Societies Humanities E-Book initiative. [This resource is publicly available.]

Florentine Renaissance Resources: Online Tratte of Office Holders 1282-1532   full text icon
This site gives access to a database (c. 165,000 records) with information about office holders of the Florentine Republic during its 250-year history. The database was developed initially by Professor David Herlihy at Harvard and Brown Universities, and then completed under the direction of Professors R. Burr Litchfield and Anthony Molho at Brown University. An edition of the Tre Maggiori, Guild elections and Birth registrations is now available. [This resource is publicly available.]

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports   full text icon   
1974-1996; the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) was an office within the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency charged with monitoring, translating, and republishing selected foreign radio and television broadcasts, newspaper articles, government news agency releases, conference proceedings, political speeches, and non-classified technical reports. The primary target audiences of these translated reports were officials of the U.S. government. Coverage includes political, military, economic, and environmental topics. See also World News Connectionfor coverage from 1995 to the present.

Foundation Grants Index
2002 edition; describes grants awarded to nonprofit organizations by philanthropic foundations located in the United States. (Rockefeller Library)

FRANCIS   
1984-present; through an international perspective, FRANCIS provides citations to interdisciplinary materials for the humanities and social sciences. Topics include: art, psychology, information science, archaeology, ethnology, geography, business management, history of science and technology, history and science of religion, linguistics, literature, philosophy, prehistory and protohistory, sociology, education and more. Citations include journal articles, conference papers, books, reports, and doctoral dissertations. Menu of OvidSP Databases.
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FREIDA   full text icon
(Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database Access system) - Current; FREIDA is a database containing information on approximately 7,800 graduate medical education programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and 200 combined specialty programs.

Gale Virtual Reference Library   full text icon   
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a collection of ebooks that includes encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online   full text icon   
Current; the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is a comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. Each volume contains an overview of the region, a survey of its musical heritage, traditions and themes; and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Articles include detailed photographs that show musicians, musical instrument, and the cultural context of dances, rituals, and ceremonies. Other images include drawings, maps, and musical examples for further study. This online version includes the entire set of 10 print volumes.

Gartner Core Research Service   full text icon   
Gartner Core Research is a service that provides research and advice about information technology for decision makers. It provides clients with the base of knowledge and advice needed to capitalize on IT technologies and markets. Gartner Core Research for higher education institutions is an offering designed to meet the specific needs of students, faculty and staff as well as technology professionals within the institution. Included are Spotlights, which reflect current client issues, consider the issues from several different perspectives and tie together research; Special Reports, which cover underlying research themes that cut across technology or industry specific research, or provide indepth strategic analysis of trends, industry developments, vendors,products and services; Research Notes that focus on companies, products, markets, decision frameworks, tactical guidelines, case studies, and strategic planning assumptions; Perspectives/Research Briefs to provide analysis and commentary on key technologies, companies, products, market opportunities, events, user and distribution trends, and strategic issues in the IT and telecom market segments tracked by Gartner Dataquest and Executive Summaries that contain top-level analysis and recommendations from Gartner Dataquest Cluster research reports.

Gender Studies Database   full text icon   
1972-present; Gender Studies Database, produced by NISC, combines the Womens Studies International database and Mens Studies databases to provide coverage of sexual diversity issues. GSD covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. It includes links to freely available and indexed full text articles and documents on the Web. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations and other sources.

GeoRef   
1785-present; GeoRef is an international comprehensive geosciences database containing bibliographic records to the geoscience literature of the world. Among the subjects covered in GeoRef are: environmental and engineering geology, hydrology, economic geology, geophysics, petrology, paleontology, marine geology and oceanography, and mineralogy. Includes journals as well as books, maps, government reports, conference papers, and theses and dissertations. The geology of North America is covered from 1785 to the present, and coverage dates back to 1933 for the rest of the world.

Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online   full text icon   
This collection is considered to be the greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world, with materials spanning four centuries and 15 languages. The broad scope of Gerritsen Online allows scholars to trace the evolution of feminism within a single country, as well as the impact of one country's movement on those of the others. Gerritsen Online consists of two segments: the Periodical Series and the Monograph Language Series.

Getty Provenance Index
Consists of six databases of information on the history of collecting and the provenance of individual works of art, gathered from sales catalogues, archival records, and museum files. Supplies a wealth of data drawn from British, French, and Netherlandish art sales catalogues of the nineteenth century and documents supplied by major European archives.

Global Health   full text icon   
1973-present; Global Health is a public health database that provides information on international health, biomedical life sciences, non-communicable diseases, public health nutrition, food safety and hygiene, and other subject areas. This database contains information from more than 3,500 serials, books, conference proceedings, and patents.

Global Reference Center   full text icon   
Global Reference Center, from the publishers of the Encyclopaedia Britannica Online, consists of several foreign language resources. Titles include: Encyclopedia Universalis, a French-lanuage encyclopedia; Britannica Online Korea; Britannica Online Japan; Britannica Concise Encyclopedia in Chinese; and the Spanish Reference Center which includes the Gran Enciclopedia Planeta, Enciclopedia Universal en Español, and the Enciclopedia Juvenil.

Gmelin   
1779-present; Reaxys (formerly Gmelin) is a web-based discovery tool that searches across the combined content of databases Crossfire Beilstein (organic data), Crossfire Gmelin (inorganic and organometallic data), and Patent Chemistry. Results include structures, reactions (with multi-step synthetic pathways), physical properties, and pharmacological, toxicological, and ecological data. Search by structure and/or fields or use names or phrases to find structures. Replaces Crossfire Beilstein client software.

Google Scholar
Google Scholar uses the Google search engine to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports. Google Scholar results now include links to Brown University Library resources. These links will appear automatically if you search from an on-campus computer; off-campus you must go to "Scholar Preferences" and search for "Brown". For further information see Google Scholar FAQ.

GPO Access   full text icon
Current; online access to the Federal Register, Congressional Record, U.S. Code, and other federal government sources. [This resource is publicly available.]

GreenFILE   full text icon   
Current; GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet.

Grove Art Online   full text icon   
Grove Art Online is now a part of Oxford Art Online.

Grove Music Online   full text icon   
Grove Music Online is now a part of Oxford Music Online.

Hispanic American Periodical Index (HAPI)   
1970-present; HAPI is an online source for information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Included are complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in over 400 key scholarly social science and humanities journals published worldwide.

Historical Abstracts   
1954-present; article abstracts and citations of books and dissertations on the history of the world from 1450 to the present. Excludes the U. S. and Canada.

Historical Newspapers   full text icon   
This database offers full text and full image articles for newspapers dating back to the 19th century. Brown University Library subscribes to:

Historical Atlanta Constitution
Historical Chicago Tribune
Historical Los Angeles Times
Historical New York Amsterdam News
Historical New York Times
Historical Wall Street Journal
Historical Washington Post

Note: Historical newspaper databases cannot be searched in combination with non-historical newspaper databases. Tips for printing from ProQuest Historical Newspapers

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine   
1975-present; this database indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields. The database integrates four bibliographies: the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (Technology and Culture), the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.

HRAF Human Relations Area Files   full text icon   
1700?-present; eHRAF Archaeology is a cross-cultural database containing information on prehistory. This unique, annually-growing database is organized by archaeological traditions and the full text documents are subject-indexed to the paragraph level.
THIS RESOURCE IS AVAILABLE FOR A SEMESTER TRIAL through December 2009. Please send any feedback you may have to: Ronald_Fark@brown.edu.
For assistance with searching, try the eHRAF User Guide

Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective   
1907-1984; Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of humanities and social sciences journals.

Humanities International Index   
1975-present; Humanities International Index is a comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. Humanities International Index provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals and contains more than 1.5 million records. Humanities International Index includes deep backfiles for some of the most important journals in the area of humanities. The database includes all data from the American Humanities Index plus bibliographic records from a multitude of international journals, books and reference works. This database provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations.

IBISWorld   full text icon   
Current; IBISWorld provides access to three collections of research reports of business and marketing information. (1) Industry Market Research Reports (typically 30 page reports) are available for over 700 U.S. industries and almost 60 global industries; reports include key statistics, market segmentation, market characteristics, industry conditions, key factors, key competitors, industry performance, and outlook. (2) Company Reports are available for over 8000 U.S., Canadian and global public companies; information includes key financial data. (3) Business Environment Research Reports (typically 2-3 page reports) are available for approximately 300 key business environment indicators and explain how economic, demographic and other changes impact business enterprises and commerce.

ICONCLASS
The ICONCLASS system classifies subjects of Western art, including 24,000 definitions of objects, persons, events, and abstract ideas. Includes references to books and articles on iconography. (Rockefeller Library)

ICPSR   full text icon   
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), established in 1962, is an integral part of the infrastructure of social science research. ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction. To ensure that data resources are available to future generations of scholars, ICPSR preserves data, migrating them to new storage media as changes in technology warrant. In addition, ICPSR provides user support to assist researchers in identifying relevant data for analysis and in conducting their research projects.

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IEEE Xplore   full text icon   
IEEE Xplore is a digital library providing full text access to technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. IEEE Xplore contains full text documents from IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, standards, and IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) publications. Content: IEEE journals, transactions, letters, and magazines from 1988 with select content back to 1913, IEEE conference proceedings from 1988 with select content back to 1953, IEEE standards from 1948, IET journals, letters, and magazines from 1988 with select content back to 1965, and IET conference proceedings from 1988.

IIMP Full Text (International Index to Music Periodicals)   full text icon   
Current; IIMP draws its content from nearly 400 international music periodicals from over 30 countries.

IIPA Full Text (International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text)   full text icon   
1864-present; draws its content from scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals, and also indexes a variety of documents such as biographical profiles, conference papers, obituaries, interviews, discographies, reviews and events. IPAFT covers nearly all aspects of the performing arts, from scholarly studies to snapshots of popular culture.

In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives
In the First Person is an index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. First person narratives from hundreds of published volumesthose that are publicly available on the Web and those that are held by repositories and archives around the world are included. Future updates will contain full-text sources and hundreds of thousands of bibliographic records. The index will allow users perform in-depth field and keyword searches across all letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within Alexander Street Press databases as well.

Index Islamicus   
1906-present; 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.

Index of Christian Art   full text icon   
ICA is the largest database of medieval art, documenting nearly 80,000 works of art dating from the 1st century CE to 1550, without geographic limitation. It is based on the analog archive at Princeton University. Seventeen different media are represented in the archive, including manuscripts, metalwork, sculpture, painting, and stained glass. The subject matter of each work is classified under one or more of 28,000 subject terms, and a full-text description accompanies each work. The online ICA database presently contains more than 100,000 images and nearly 50,000 bibliographic records covering iconography, art history, archaeology, religion (Christianity), and classical studies.

Index to Legal Periodicals and Books   
August 1981-present; indexes articles from legal journals, yearbooks, institutes, bar association organs, law reviews, and government publications. Covers the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.

INIS Database   full text icon
1970-present; INIS is the leading reference database for scientific literature published worldwide on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology. Coverage is international and provides access to bibliographic citations and abstracts of journal articles, scientific and technical reports, conference papers, books, patents, theses, laws, regulations and standards, and web documents. Also includes a unique online collection of full text documents: scientific and technical reports, conference proceedings, patents, theses, and preprints. [This resource is publicly available.]

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research   full text icon   
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), established in 1962, is an integral part of the infrastructure of social science research. ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction. To ensure that data resources are available to future generations of scholars, ICPSR preserves data, migrating them to new storage media as changes in technology warrant. In addition, ICPSR provides user support to assist researchers in identifying relevant data for analysis and in conducting their research projects.

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International Medieval Bibliography Online (IMBO)   
Current; IMBO is a comprehensive, current, international bibliography of more than 300,000 articles, review articles, scholarly notes and similar literature on all aspects of medieval studies in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide. IMBO covers publications in over 30 languages, and many disciplines including Classics, English Language and Literature, History and Archaeology, Theology and Philosophy, Medieval European Languages and Literatures, Arabic and Islamic Studies, History of Education, Art History, Music, Theatre and Performance Arts, Rhetoric and Communication Studies. To search, scroll down and click on the "Enter Databases" button. Select International Medieval Bibliography from the list.

International Nuclear Information System
1970-present; an international bibliographic database covering all aspects of the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology, with an emphasis on engineering, energy, safety and life sciences.

International Political Science Abstracts   full text icon   
1989-present; abstracts information from major journals in political science, including public law, and international relations.

International Repertory of the Literature of Art   
1975-1989; The International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA) includes abstracts and indexes on all aspects of European and American art and architecture. European art is covered from late Antiquity (4th c.) to the present. American art is covered from the European discoveries (16th c.) to the present. Art reflecting the Western tradition in other parts of the world is also included. All types of publication are covered: books, periodical articles, reviews, conference proceedings, Festschriften, collected essays, exhibition catalogues, museum publications, and doctoral dissertations. Menu of OvidSP Databases.

ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance   
1859-present; Iter's Journals Database is an electronic bibliography of interdisciplinary journal literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Iter citations include articles; bibliographies; catalogues; abstracts; and discographies. An online version of Paul Oskar Kristeller's Iter Italicum, the most comprehensive finding list available of previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections all over the world is now included.

JCR Online   full text icon   
2008 edition. Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. It is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences.

Journal Citation Reports can show you the:

Most frequently cited journals in a field.
Highest impact journals in a field.
Largest number of journals in a field.

Josiah
Current; Brown University's online library catalog, provides access to information about books, periodicals, and other materials owned by the Brown libraries.

Journal Citation Reports Online   full text icon   
2008 edition. Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. It is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences.

Journal Citation Reports can show you the:

Most frequently cited journals in a field.
Highest impact journals in a field.
Largest number of journals in a field.

JSTOR   full text icon   
Provides image and full text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title.

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Kafkas Werke   full text icon   
Current; an electronic version of the critical edition of Kafka's complete works, Franz Kafka, Kritische Ausgabe, Schriften und Tagebcher, of which the first volume was published in 1982. This product makes it possible to search Kafka's complex body of work for his central themes and to follow their development throughout his writings.

Knovel Library   full text icon   
Current; Knovel's "flagship" books are the Plastics Design Library Series, Perry's Chemical Engineers Handbook, ChemEssentials, Lange's Handbook of Chemistry, and a host of titles in mechanics & mechanical engineering featuring Mark's Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers along with the ASME Boiler and Pressure vessel codes. Knovel's toxicology offerings are quite comprehensive with 21 books. Popular books being the Dictionary of Substances and Their Effects, Sittig's Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens, Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials, and, Patty's Toxicology and Industrial Hygiene. Knovel has recently partnered with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers to make available the many important books in the Center for Chemical Process Safety Guidelines Series. Lastly, Knovel has many of the important DoD Military Handbooks, including a fully interactive version of MIL-HDBK-5H: Metallic Materials and Elements for Aerospace Vehicle Structures.

L'Annee Philologique   
1959-2003; subtitled A Critical and Analytical Bibliography of Greco-Latin Antiquity, L'Ann�e Philologique is an international, multi-lingual bibliography of all aspects of classical studies, including authors and texts, literature, archaeology, history, philosophy, and other disciplines. Includes over 375,000 citations from about 1,500 periodicals and hundreds of monographic volumes. Like the print edition, the online version of L'Ann�e Philologique is published approximately two years behind.

Latin American Newsstand   full text icon   
Current; Latin American Newsstand includes eight Brazilian newspapers and seven Mexican newspapers. Additionally, newspapers from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and other Latin American countries give added coverage and perspective. To round out the coverage, Latin American Newsstand also contains regional magazines and wire services including Noticias Financieras financial newswire focusing on finance,technology, market analysis, and regional economic trends.

Latin Complete   full text icon   
A collection of works published by Brepols which have been grouped together, and may now be cross-searched at one time using the Cross-Database Search Tool. Works included are Library of Latin Texts: CLCLT, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, and the Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature.

LehmanLive
Current; LehmanLive is the online information system of Lehman Brothers, a global financial services firm. The online system provides timely access to capital-markets data, research, information, analytical tools, and ideas on all facets of the balance sheet. Access to LehmanLive is provided free of charge to Brown University by Lehman Brothers in partnership with Browns program in Commerce, Organizations and Entrepreneurship (COE), the Brown University Library, and the Brown University Career Development Center. LehmanLive is accessible in the Rockefeller Library reference area (first floor) from one computer workstation only. Please ask at the lobby information desk for assistance in logging-on to the system. No printing or downloading is permitted from the LehmanLive terminal. (Rockefeller Library)

LexisNexis Academic   full text icon   
Current; said to be the world's largest full-text, online database, containing more than a billion full-text articles, citation abstracts, and documents. Emphasis is on current news and legal and business information. Link to A-Z list of resources on LexisNexis Academic.

LexisNexis Congressional   full text icon   
1789-1969 and 1970-present; index to U.S. Congressional reports, documents, hearings, and other publications with links to full-text sources.

LexisNexis Statistical Publications and DataSets   full text icon   
LexisNexis Statistical DataSets provides fast and easy access to 12 billion data points from licensed and public domain datasets. Scan the contents of over 580 datasets, select subjects and variables of interest, and view data in side-by-side tables and charts. Data includes numerous federal sources such as the Bureau of Labor, the Census, the IRS, and the FBI. International sources include the China Data Center, Shanghai Stock Exchange, Deutsche Boerse Group, Bombay Stock Exchange, and more. Results are customizable and instantaneous, with indicators arranged in folders by topic and source. Access statistics that are much more current than what is published, plus local data, time series typically extending back an average span of 34 years, and necessary bibliographic/citation information.

LGBT Life (formerly GLBT Life)   full text icon   
1945-present; LGBT Life is a resource to the world's literature regarding gay, lesbian, bisexual, transexual and transgender issues. GLBT Life provides comprehensive coverage of traditional academic, cultural, lifestyle, and regional publications, including The Advocate, Lesbian News, Washington Blade, Bay Area Reporter, etc. LGBT Life also indexes & abstracts the full run of many historically significant titles such as ONE, The Ladder, Mattachine Review, Christopher Street and Body Politic. In addition, grey literature including non-fiction titles, bibliographies, case studies, and dissertations is also represented. Disciplines covered by GLBT Life include civil liberties, culture, employment, family, history, psychology, religion, sociology and more.

Library of Latin Texts: CLCLT   full text icon   
The Library of Latin Texts: CLCLT (sometimes called CETADOC) is the world's leading database for Latin texts. It contains texts from the beginning of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus, 240 BC) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). It covers all the works from the classical period, the most important patristic works, a very extensive corpus of Medieval Latin literature as well as works of recentior latinitas including texts from the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. The complete works of writers such as Cicero, Virgil, Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas Kempis can thus be consulted. The texts have been taken from the Corpus Christianorum series and from many other leading editions. This resource is part of Brepols Latin Complete and may be cross-searched via the Cross-Database Search Tool.

Library PressDisplay   full text icon   
Current; Library PressDisplay is an online newspaper portal which offers over 1000 newspapers from 83 countries in 40 languages. List of Current Titles.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts   
Mid-1960s; Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts,(LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts   
1973-present; LLBA covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.

LISTA   
Mid-1960s; Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts,(LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

Literature and Culture of Francophone Africa and the Diaspora/Littrature et Culture de l'Afrique Francophone et de la Diaspora
Current; a bilingual site that features selected internet resources on primarily Francophone African & Diasporic cultural expression.

Literature Online (LION)   full text icon   
A fully searchable full text database of English and American poetry, drama and prose, accompanied by a substantial collection of full-text literary journals, and other critical and reference works.

Literature Resource Center (LRC)   full text icon   
Current; provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. The LRC covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, and indexes publications such as Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Authors.

LLBA   
1973-present; LLBA covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.

London Times Digital Archive   full text icon   
1795-1985; 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.

Luna Insight
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A software resource for viewing images. Images include the Brown University Image Collection, Rumsey Map Collection, and the AMICA Library. Report access problems to Libtech@brown.edu.

MathSciNet   
1940-present; an index to the international research literature in mathematics, math-related research in computer science, statistics, econometrics, and other disciplines, produced by the American Mathematical Society.

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology   full text icon   
Current; AccessScience is the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 9th edition, with even more content, including: new trends and developments in science and technology, access to the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, biographies of scientists, late-breaking science and technology news, bibliographies, links to evaluated related web sites, and more.

McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine.com   full text icon   
Current; McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine.com provides online access to medical textbooks, such as Harrison's Online; Hurst's The Heart; Goodman and Gilmans The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics; Schwartzs Principles of Surgery; the Lange Educational Library, and the Lange Self-Assessment Tool for National Boards Review. The textbooks are updated daily and may be searched by disease, test or drug for results in print, audio or video formats. AccessMedicine can be accessed using a PDA, iPod and MP3.

MD Consult   full text icon   
Current; access to the full text of medical textbooks, medical journals, clinical guidelines, drug information, CME and more.

Medical Letter   full text icon   
Current; the Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics and Treatment Guidelines from the Medical Letter are independent, peer-reviewed, non-profit publications featuring critical appraisals of new drugs, comparative reviews of older drugs and occasionally, new non-drug treatments or new diagnostic aids.

Medline
See PubMed

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary   full text icon   
1993 edition. This dictionary is based on the print version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.

Middle English Compendium   full text icon   
The Middle English Compendium is comprised of an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to an associated network of electronic resources.

Mideastwire.com   full text icon   
Current; Mideastwire.com offers a daily email newsletter of concise, translated briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing via the print, radio and television media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspora.

Military & Government Collection   full text icon   
Current; designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, the Military & Government Collection offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content. Cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals, and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.

MinAbs Online   
1982-present; Mineralogical Abstracts (MinAbs Online) provides a unique research tool for those researchers working in the fields of mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, petrology, environmental mineralogy and related topics. Both major journals and many less accessible journals are abstracted along with book notices, abstracts from books and special publications. MINABS Online is the electronic version of Mineralogical Abstracts, which ceased as a paper index in 2004.

Mineralogical Abstracts   
1982-present; Mineralogical Abstracts (MinAbs Online) provides a unique research tool for those researchers working in the fields of mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, petrology, environmental mineralogy and related topics. Both major journals and many less accessible journals are abstracted along with book notices, abstracts from books and special publications. MINABS Online is the electronic version of Mineralogical Abstracts, which ceased as a paper index in 2004.

MLA Directory of Periodicals   full text icon
The MLA Directory of Periodicals, produced by the Modern Language Association of America, lists over 3,700 periodicals in the areas of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore that are covered regularly in the MLA International Bibliography. The directory provides addresses, advertising rates, and information about submission for publication.

MLA International Bibliography   
1926-present; the MLA International Bibliography is a bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. The electronic version of the bibliography contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.

Modernist Journals Project   full text icon
1890-1990; published here at Brown University, the main piece of work of the MJP is the digital edition of The New Age, London 1907-1922. This is a work in progress and currently goes to 1915. In addition, MJP includes an edition of Cine-Tracts (complete 1977-1982), and MJP books, which are books published by the New Age Press or scholarly works that deal with The New Age. [This resource is publicly available.]

Monthly Bulletin of Statistics (United Nations)   
Current; monthly economic statistics for most the countries and areas of the world. In addition, each month a different selection of special tables is presented showing annual and/or quarterly data on a variety of subjects illustrating important economic long-term trends and developments. {This resource is publicly available.]

Monumenta Germaniae Historica Online   full text icon   
Monumenta Germaniae Historica Online is a corpus of historical works, charters, legal texts, letters, political texts, and literature from the European Middle Ages. Contains approximately 800 texts published so far in the Monumenta series. The online texts are prepared by Traditio Litterarum Occidentalium under the direction of Prof. Paul Tombeur. This resource is part of Brepols Latin Complete and may be cross-searched via the Cross-Database Search Tool.

MusicalAmerica.com   full text icon   
Current; the site is divided into three sections, industry news, directory articles, and listings, and includes both subscriber-based and free areas. The industry news portion of the site, which is subscriber-access only, consists of breaking news stories, posted daily, Monday through Friday. The database includes articles on the latest breaking news, people in the news, competitions and awards, reviews and more.

NANOnetBASE   full text icon   
Current; NANOnetBASE is the world�s premier online collection of nanoscience and nanotechnology reference books. It offers researchers, students, and professionals the most authoritative and convenient source available for both introductory and specialized information.

NASA Astrophysics Data System   full text icon
1975-present; this database of abstracts contains data from several sources, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and arXiv e-prints. The main body of data in the ADS consists of bibliographic records, which are searchable through our Abstract Service query forms and full-text scans of much of the astronomical literature which can be browsed though our Browse interface. Integrated in its databases, the ADS provides access and pointers to a wealth of external resources, including electronic articles, data catalogs and archives. [This resource is publicly available]

National Journal Group's Policy Central   
Current; comprehensive resource on politics and policy for the academic community. Policy Central helps to track American politics and campaigns, to follow the key players and legislative process on Capitol Hill, and to provide analysis and data on every member of Congress. It also monitors important news and trends in information technology politics and policy, provides a database of public opinion surveys, and tracks the status of specific legislation with coverage of every congressional markup session.

National Trade Data Bank (NTDB)   full text icon
Current; documents and statistics from the federal government on foreign trade along with trade contact information. Ask at the Reference Desk for a password.

Naxos Music Library   full text icon      music icon
Current; Naxos Music Library is a unique resource of classical music online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo, and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including classical music, jazz, world, folk and Chinese music. Users can access and play the entire catalogue of Naxos recordings, selecting works, for example, by composer, artist, period, year of composition, solo instrument or genre. Playlists can easily be created for educational use and hours of continuous enjoyment. Includes notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists.

Naxos Music Library Jazz   full text icon      music icon
Naxos Music Library Jazz is one of the most comprehensive collection of jazz music available online. It offers close to 20,000* tracks of jazz from over 1,900* albums. Over 500* jazz artists are represented. Naxos Music Library Jazz comprises Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz. Naxos Jazz, along with Prophone and Proprius, brings you the world of international jazz, covering Sweden and Scandinavian jazz artists. US-based Fantasy Jazz has the world's deepest jazz catalogue and offers the very best in blues and R&B.

NCCS (National Center for Charitable Statistics) Data Web   full text icon   
1989-present: NCCS Data Web, maintained by the National Center for Charitable Statistics, offers a weath of data about the non-profit sector in the United States. Data include the Busines Master File (BMF), which has descriptive data on organizations registered with the IRS; IRS Return Transaction Files (RTF), which contains financial data for organizations that file IRS Forms 990, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-PF; and IRS Statistics of Income Sample Files (SOI), which has 300 variables for 501(c)(3) organizations.

New Grove Music   full text icon   
Grove Music Online is now a part of Oxford Music Online.

New Pauly Online   full text icon   
Brill's New Pauly is an English translation (with revisions) of the German Der Neue Pauly which itself is the latest revision of the great multi-volume encyclopedia of the ancient world, known familiarly as Pauly-Wissowa. This resource in print was known as the Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft begun by August Pauly in 1839, with an expanded edition by Georg Wissowa published between 1890 and 1980. The New Pauly is still in progress, but includes access to the German edition, which was completed in 2003. The online version, like the print edition, includes two sections: Antiquity and the Classical Tradition.

Newscan Virtual News Library   full text icon   
Current; Virtual News Library (Newscan) provides online access and full text searching of major French newspapers and magazines. The archives of the following titles, which are updated daily, are available to Brown users: Le Monde (1987 to date), Libration (1995 to date), Le Courrier International (2004 to date), LExpress (1993 to date), Le Nouvel Observateur (2003 to date), and Le Point (1995 to date).

Niles Register Cumulative Index, 1811-1849   full text icon   
Niles' Register - also known as The Weekly Register, Niles' Weekly Register, and Niles' National Register - was a newsweekly founded by Hezekiah Niles in 1811. It covered both the United States and the world. The Register was famous in its own day for its comprehensiveness and reliability - it was routinely cited as an authoritative source of information in courtrooms and legislatures - and it has since become a standard source of information for historians and genealogists. More than 2,500 full-text articles are embedded in the index and will be retrieved automatically (along with index entries) in response to an appropriate search. The Cumulative Index will be updated at six-month intervals by the addition of at least 500 full-text articles per update.

Nineteenth (19th) Century Masterfile   
1802-early 20th Century; provides online access to an enhanced version of the major Anglo-American subject index for periodicals of the 19th century, as well as a number of other general and publication specific indexes for journals, newspapers, and books of the era. Now includes Catalogue of Scientific Papers!

Nineteenth (19th) Century U.S. Newspapers   full text icon   
Provides access to approximately 1.5 million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. The collection encompasses the entire 19th century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and Antebellum-era life among other subjects.

Nineteenth Century Fiction   full text icon   
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 Bronts feature alongside popular romances, sensation fiction, colonial adventure novels and children's literature.

Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism   full text icon   
Accessible as part of Literature Resource Center. The LRC covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, and indexes publications such as Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Authors.

North American Women's Letters and Diaries   full text icon   
Colonial-1950; ongoing. When complete, the collection will include approximately 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950, plus 7,000 pages of previously unpublished materials. Includes materials from more than 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings.

Nuevo Tesoro Lexicografico de la Lengua Espanola   full text icon
2001; includes 66 dictionaries, from Antonio de Nebrija's Vocabulario Espanol Latino (Salamanca, 1495) to the Real Academia Espanola's Diccionario Manual e Ilustrado de la Lengua Epa�ola (4. ed. rev. Madrid : Espasa Calpe, 1989).(Available at the Reserves Desk for use on Computer 2 in the Rockefeller computing cluster.) (Rockefeller Library)

OECD Health Data   full text icon   
Current; OECD Health Data is a source of comparable statistics on health and health care systems of the OECD economies. It enables health researchers and policy advisors in governments, the private sector and the academic community to carry out comparative analyses and draw lessons from cross-country comparisons of national health care systems. Many time series going back as far as 1960. Main fields covered include:
Health Status Health Care Resources Health Care Utilisation Expenditure on Health Health Care Financing Social Protection Pharmaceutical Market Non-medical Determinants of Health Demographic References Economic References

OLDO   full text icon   
Current; Oxford Language Dictionaries Online offers essential language resources never before available online: fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages. OLDO includes access to a vast range of materials that offer authoritative support for learners, students, and language users at every level. Other materials include hundreds of downloadable letters, grammar notes, verb tables, cultural information, and more.

Oxford Art Online   full text icon   
Prehistory to the present; Oxford Art Online (formerly Grove Art Online) provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art along with several other art resources such as The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography   full text icon   
2004 edition; an illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2001.

Oxford English Dictionary   full text icon   
The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3). The OED is currently being revised, with the aim of producing a completely updated third edition by the year 2010. Draft material from the revision programme will also be published online, representing the latest progress towards the new edition. More revised and new entries will be added to the online Dictionary every quarter.

Oxford Islamic Studies Online   full text icon   
Current; Oxford Islamic Studies Online is a comprehensive reference center with a global perspective and is a source of timely, reliable, and accessible information on the history, peoples, beliefs, individuals, and cultures that constitute the world of Islam. The site includes two essential English-language interpretations of the Qur'an, the first electronic version of the standard Concordance used by English-speaking scholars around the world, and primary source documents. Special features and tools include timelines, Qur'an Verse Look-up, a Date Converter for Western and Islamic calendar dates, and more.

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online   full text icon   
Current; Oxford Language Dictionaries Online offers essential language resources never before available online: fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages. OLDO includes access to a vast range of materials that offer authoritative support for learners, students, and language users at every level. Other materials include hundreds of downloadable letters, grammar notes, verb tables, cultural information, and more.

Oxford Music Online   full text icon   
Current; Oxford Music Online (formerly Grove Music Online) is an integrated music resource on the web. It includes not only the Oxford Dictionary of Music, but also Grove Music Online, Oxford Companion to Music and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music.

Oxford Reference Online Premium   full text icon   
Current; the core collection of Oxford Reference Online brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works published by the Oxford University Press into a single cross-searchable resource. The Premium Collection offers all of the above, plus added functionality and more detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series, to enhance the coverage already provided by the Core Collection. Click here for a list of the publications included.

PAIS Archive   full text icon   
1915-1976; retrospective companion to PAIS International which includes periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, and Internet resources. Subjects include politics, public policy, government, international relations, law and ethics, human rights, economics, business, finance, and other social sciences. SEARCH PAIS International (1972-present) and the PAIS Archive simultaneously.

PAIS International   full text icon   
1972-present; includes periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, and Internet resources. Subjects include politics, public policy, government, international relations, law and ethics, human rights, economics, business, finance, and other social sciences. SEARCH PAIS International and the PAIS Archive(1937-1976) simultaneously.

Patrologia Latina Database   full text icon   
Full-text electronic version of the 221 volumes of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina (1844-1855 and 1862-1865).

Patrologiae Gracae   full text icon   
Migne's Patrologiae Gracae contains more than 160 volumes of Greek material (with Latin translations) relevant to the study of the history of the Christian Church from its beginnings through the Council of Florence in 1439.

Peace Research Abstracts   
2008-present; Peace Research Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including International Journal of Peace Studies, International Journal on World Peace, and Conflict Management & Peace Science.

PEP web   full text icon   
1920-present; PEP was formed through the collaborative efforts of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Institute of Psychoanalysis (London). Included in the PEP Web database are both journal articles and books; PEPx is intended to be an inclusive collection of the available work of the most important psychoanalytic writers, independent of who published them. NOTE: PEP search will look at the full text of material right up to the present day and so help you to know anything recently published that could be relevant. However, you will NOT be able actually to read material which is not in the Archive yet.

Perseus   full text icon
Current; resources for the study of ancient Greek literature, history, art, and archaeology.

PHI : Greek Documentary Texts   full text icon
1996 edition (CD-ROM #7); the Packard Humanities Institute CD-ROM #7 contains over 140,000 Greek inscriptions and over 50,000 papyri. A selection of coptic texts is also available. (Available on Computer 2 in the Rockefeller Library computing cluster.) (Rockefeller Library)

PHI CD ROM #5.3   full text icon
1991 edition; a full-text database of ca. 350 authors of Latin literature (virtually all classical literary texts up to A.D. 200, together with a few later texts (Servius, Porphyry, Justinian, Zeno)), as well as the Latin Vulgate, the Hebrew Bible, the Greek New Testament, the Septuagint, the Coptic New Testament, the King James Bible, the Revised Standard Bible, and Milton's Paradise Lost and Defensionem regiam. (Available on Computer 2 in the Rockefeller Library computing cluster.) (Rockefeller Library)

Philosopher's Index   
1940-present; abstracts for books and journal articles on epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of various disciplines.

Poetry Criticism   full text icon   
Accessible as part of Literature Resource Center. The LRC covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, and indexes publications such as Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Authors.

Poets On Screen Library   
Current; Poets on Screen Library is included in Literature Online (LION Complete). It contains clips of poets reading their own and other poets' work. You will need to have version 5.0 of RealPlayer (or higher) installed on your PC to view these clips.

Policy File   full text icon   
Current; indexes research and publications on public policy. Includes links to web resources.

Polling the Nations   
1986-present; Polling the Nations is a compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries. Each of the records reports a question asked and the responses given, the polling organization responsible for the work, the date the information was released, the sample size, and the universe, i.e., the groups or areas included in the interview.

POPLINE   
POPLINE 1974-present; but also includes older substantive literature. POPLINE has information on topics relating to population such as demography, vital statistics, family planning, and related health, law,and policy issues. POPLINE indexes books, book chapters, journal articles, technical reports, conference papers, theses, dissertations, laws, bills, court decisions, and unpublished reports.

Project Muse   full text icon   
Project Muse is a searchable database that provides access to the full text of journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title. As of 6/2004, includes links to JSTOR.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Full Text   full text icon   
1637-present; ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Full Text is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. PQDT Full Text includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350 word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150 word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDT Full Text provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text also offers researchers unlimited access to digital copies from their own institutions as well as affordable copies from others.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers   full text icon   
This database offers full text and full image articles for newspapers dating back to the 19th century. Brown University Library subscribes to:

Historical Atlanta Constitution
Historical Chicago Tribune
Historical Los Angeles Times
Historical New York Amsterdam News
Historical New York Times
Historical Wall Street Journal
Historical Washington Post

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ProQuest Newspapers   full text icon   
The ProQuest Newspapers Database contains the following newspapers:

Atlanta Journal-Constitution 11/7/2001-present
Atlanta Constitution 1990-11/2/2001
Boston Globe 1997-present
Boston Globe 1/1/1980-12/3/1996
Chicago Tribune 12/4/1996-present
Chicago Tribune 1/1/1985-12/3/1996
Christian Science Monitor 9/30/1988-present
Los Angeles Times 12/4/1996-present
Los Angeles Times 1/1/1985 to 12/3/1996
New York Times 6/1/1980-present
Providence Journal 12/25/1983-present
USA Today 1997-present
USA Today 4/1/1987-12/14/1997
Wall Street Journal 1/2/1984-present
Washington Post 1/1/1987-12/3/1996
Washington Post 12/4/1996-present

Proteome BioKnowledge Library   full text icon   
Six protein information volumes make up the Proteome BioKnowledge Library. Each volume focuses on a specific research organism or set of organisms. Proteome's team of scientific curators and editors gather publicly available translated cDNA sequences and manually comb the published scientific literature to collect and organize information on characterized proteins. This information is compiled into a comprehensive database containing all published proteins in the target species. A protein report, containing tabulated data and a compendium of research results gathered from the scientific literature, is central to all BioKnowledge Library databases. A protein report exists for each protein in the database.

PsycARTICLES   full text icon   
1988-present; provides full text access to articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA)and allied organizations. Topics include general psychology, as well as specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.

PsycCRITIQUES   full text icon   
PsycCRITIQUES is a new searchable database of book reviews in psychology. The database replaces the print journal Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, providing major enhancements, very current reviews, and much more content. In each weekly release, PsycCRITIQUES will deliver approximately 15 reviews of psychological books, most from the current copyright year.

PsychiatryOnline   full text icon   
Current; PsychiatryOnline is a powerful web-based portal that features DSM-IV-TR,the most widely used psychiatric reference in the world, and The American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of a collection of psychiatric references from American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. Resources include DSM-IV-TR, DSM-IV-TR Casebook and its Treatment Companion, and the American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders. Also included are journals, textbooks, self-assessment tools for study, board certification, and clinical & research news.

Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP) Web   full text icon   
1920-present; PEP was formed through the collaborative efforts of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Institute of Psychoanalysis (London). Included in the PEP Web database are both journal articles and books; PEPx is intended to be an inclusive collection of the available work of the most important psychoanalytic writers, independent of who published them. NOTE: PEP search will look at the full text of material right up to the present day and so help you to know anything recently published that could be relevant. However, you will NOT be able actually to read material which is not in the Archive yet.

PsycINFO   full text icon   
1887-present; international source for journal articles, dissertations, and books in psychology and related disciplines, such as sociology, linguistics, law, business, and anthropology.

PubMED   
1947-present; PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. [This resource is publicly available.] The Library also has access to MEDLINE via Web of Knowledge.

Race Relations Abstracts   
1976- present;Race Relations Abstracts indexes essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including Race, Ethnicity & Education and Ethnic & Racial Studies.

Readers' Guide Abstracts   full text icon   
1983-present; popular periodicals published in the U.S. and Canada. Includes current events and news, and many other subject areas.

Readers' Guide Retrospective   
1890-1982; contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. See Readers Guide Abstracts for 1982 to present.

Reaxys   full text icon   
1779-present; Reaxys is a web-based discovery tool that searches across the combined content of databases Crossfire Beilstein (organic data), Crossfire Gmelin (inorganic and organometallic data), and Patent Chemistry. Results include structures, reactions (with multi-step synthetic pathways), physical properties, and pharmacological, toxicological, and ecological data. Search by structure and/or fields or use names or phrases to find structures. Replaces Crossfire Beilstein client software.

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Reference Universe   full text icon   
Current, Reference Universe indexes authoritative reference works in the Brown Library, through deep exploration of specialized, subject encyclopedias. This database contains links to over 6000 works, and includes:

Complete back-of-the-book indexes
Article titles
Articles and indexes in ebooks
Links to online reviews
Links to ebooks

These are all linked to Josiah, the Brown Library Catalog. Use Reference Universe to identify the authoritative article to begin research, whether it's on our Library shelves or in online resources.

ReferenceUSA   full text icon   
Current; this database of 14 million US Businesses contains verified, accurate data and is updated monthly. Selection criteria include: business name, executive title, business type, sales volume, employee size, and year established.

RefUSA   full text icon   
Current; this database of 14 million US Businesses contains verified, accurate data and is updated monthly. Selection criteria include: business name, executive title, business type, sales volume, employee size, and year established.

Regional Business News   full text icon   
1984-present; incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. Included in this database are Arizona Business, Business North Carolina, Crain's New York Business (and other Crain Communications editions), Des Moines Business Record, Enterprise Salt Lake City, Fort Worth Business Press, Orange County Business Journal, Westchester County Business Journal, etc. Full text is available from 1993-present.

Religion and Philosophy Collection   full text icon   
1975-present; Religion & Philosophy Collection is a comprehensive database covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. This database offers over 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles.

Religious and Theological Abstracts   
Objective summaries of articles appearing in scholarly journals in the fields of religion and theology. Includes a wide variety of periodical literature, including Christian, Jewish, and other world religions. Provides English language abstracts of articles in English, Hebrew, Afrikaans, and major European languages.

Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie   
1973-1989; The Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie (RAA) database includes abstracts and indexes on all aspects of European and American art and architecture. European art is covered from late Antiquity (4th c.) to 1939. American art is covered from the European discoveries (16th c.) to 1939. Art reflecting the Western tradition in other parts of the world is also included. All types of publication are covered: books, periodical articles, reviews, conference proceedings, Festschriften, collected essays, exhibition catalogues, museum publications, and, doctoral dissertations. Menu of OvidSP Databases.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature   full text icon   
1967-present; RILM (Rpertoire International de Littrature Musicale) Abstracts of Music Literature is a comprehensive music bibliography featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. RILM is international in scope with materials from 150+ countries and in more than 200 languages. There are approximately a half million records in RILM on traditional music, popular music, and classical music. Conference proceedings in go back to 1835.

Routledge Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900
The Wellesley CD-ROM Index to Victorian Periodicals provides access to the printed sources of Victorian thought and opinion. While of prime interest to those studying literature, history, and Victorian life, the Wellesley Index also covers articles on politics, religion, economics, art, science, archaeology, and philosophy. (Available on Computer 2 in the Rockefeller computing cluster.) (Rockefeller Library)

Sanborn Maps 1867-1970 for Rhode Island   
Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 provide digital access to large-scale maps of Rhode Island. Founded in 1867 by D. A. Sanborn, the Sanborn Map Company was the primary American publisher of fire insurance maps for nearly 100 years. These maps are valuable historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods. A key is provided by the Sanborn Map Company. (Note: Because the key is a detailed file, it must be large so that you can view it completed. As a result, it may take a while for the key to load onto your computer screen.)

Science Citation Index Expanded   
1973-present; source for information in all major scientific disciplines. Useful for retrieving recent articles which cite a known earlier article.

ScienceDirect   full text icon   
Current; source for scientific, technical and medical research that provides access to 2,000 journals across 16 fields of science, including the social sciences.

SciFinder   full text icon   
1907-present; comprehensive database of chemical literature from databases produced by Chemical Abstracts Service and the National Library Of Medicine. It covers the full range of chemistry-related information, including chemical structures, properties, and reactions; biosequences; and life sciences. Each user must REGISTER. USERS MUST HAVE A Brown IP (Ethernet or VPN) AND SUBMIT A BROWN EMAIL ADDRESS WHEN REGISTERING. CREATE A NEW USERNAME AND PASSWORD - DO NOT USE YOUR BROWN LOGIN/PASSWORD.

Use of this resource is limited to current faculty, administrative staff, and registered students and their use is limited to academic research, teaching, and publication purposes only. Any commercial use is strictly prohibited.

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Shakespeare Criticism   full text icon   
Accessible as part of Literature Resource Center. The LRC covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, and indexes publications such as Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Authors.

Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819) Digital Edition   full text icon   
Ongoing, Shaw-Shoemaker covers every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States. Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. The continuation of Readex's Early American Imprints: Series I, this rich primary source database, based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker and now supplemented by thousands of new items, thoroughly chronicles the people, ideas and events behind the early political, social, cultural and geographic growth of the United States.

Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive
Between 1994 and 1999, the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation -- now the USC Shoah Foundation Institute -- interviewed nearly 52,000 survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust. The Institute interviewed Jewish survivors, homosexual survivors, Jehovah's Witness survivors, liberators and liberation witnesses, political prisoners, rescuers and aid providers, Roma and Sinti (Gypsy) survivors, survivors of Eugenics policies, and war crimes trials participants. The complete archive of these testimonies, which were videotaped in 56 countries and in 32 languages, is now available to Brown students, faculty, and staff for ON-CAMPUS USE ONLY.

Short Story Criticism   full text icon   
Accessible as part of Literature Resource Center. The LRC covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, and indexes publications such as Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Authors.

Siku Quanshu   full text icon
Containing 3492 individual works and divided into four categories, the Siku Quanshu represents a massive heritage of Chinese thought and culture. Please note: Siku Quanshu only works with Internet Explorer and Windows XP. Off-campus access is through the VPN client only. Get installation instructions and download the client software.

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice   full text icon   
1490-2007; Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice is a portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together documents and collections covering more than five centuries from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world and the Mediterranean with contextual essays by prominent scholars in the field. Close attention is given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continuing existence of slavery today.

Smithsonian Global Sound   full text icon      music icon
Smithsonian Global Sound, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.

Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System   full text icon
1975-present; this database of abstracts contains data from several sources, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and arXiv e-prints. The main body of data in the ADS consists of bibliographic records, which are searchable through our Abstract Service query forms and full-text scans of much of the astronomical literature which can be browsed though our Browse interface. Integrated in its databases, the ADS provides access and pointers to a wealth of external resources, including electronic articles, data catalogs and archives. [This resource is publicly available]

Social Sciences Citation Index   
1973-present; source for information in all major social sciences disciplines. Useful for retrieving recent articles which cite a known earlier article.

SocINDEX with Full Text   full text icon   
1895-present; SocINDEX with Full Text is a comprehensive sociology research database. This product contains informative abstracts for more than 620 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895. In addition, SocINDEX with Full Text provides data mined from more than 500 "priority" coverage journals as well as over 1,390 "selective" coverage journals. Includes extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers, and other sources. Searchable cited references are also provided. SocINDEX with Full Text offers coverage from all subdisciplines of sociology, including abortion, anthropology, criminology, criminal justice, cultural sociology, demography, economic development, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, social structure, social work, sociological theory, sociology of education, substance abuse, urban studies, violence, welfare, and many others.

SourceOECD - OECD Health Data   full text icon   
Current; OECD Health Data is a source of comparable statistics on health and health care systems of the OECD economies. It enables health researchers and policy advisors in governments, the private sector and the academic community to carry out comparative analyses and draw lessons from cross-country comparisons of national health care systems. Many time series going back as far as 1960. Main fields covered include:
Health Status Health Care Resources Health Care Utilisation Expenditure on Health Health Care Financing Social Protection Pharmaceutical Market Non-medical Determinants of Health Demographic References Economic References

SourceOECD: Statistics   full text icon   
Current; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; this service provides online interactive access to selected OECD databases as well as online access to data tables included in OECD publications. Statistics cover all OECD member countries over a wide variety of subject areas including demographics, economics, education, the environment, health, and society.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy   full text icon
Current; from its inception, the SEP was designed so that each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public. Consequently, our dynamic reference work maintains academic standards while evolving and adapting in response to new research. You can cite fixed editions that are created on a quarterly basis and stored in our Archives (every entry contains a link to its complete archival history, identifying the fixed edition the reader should cite). The Table of Contents lists entries that are published or assigned. The Projected Table of Contents also lists entries which are currently unassigned but nevertheless projected.

STAT-USA   full text icon
Current; statistical releases, data, and online publication from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Ask at a Reference Desk for password.

Statistical Publications and DataSets   full text icon   
LexisNexis Statistical DataSets provides fast and easy access to 12 billion data points from licensed and public domain datasets. Scan the contents of over 580 datasets, select subjects and variables of interest, and view data in side-by-side tables and charts. Data includes numerous federal sources such as the Bureau of Labor, the Census, the IRS, and the FBI. International sources include the China Data Center, Shanghai Stock Exchange, Deutsche Boerse Group, Bombay Stock Exchange, and more. Results are customizable and instantaneous, with indicators arranged in folders by topic and source. Access statistics that are much more current than what is published, plus local data, time series typically extending back an average span of 34 years, and necessary bibliographic/citation information.

Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL)   full text icon
Pre-1975; TRAIL is a collaborative project to digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975. [This resource is publicly available.]

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG Digital Library)   full text icon   
The TLG Digital Library now contains virtually all ancient Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600, and a large number of texts deriving from the period between A.D. 600 and 1453, in excess of 80 million words. It covers a wide range of disciplines such as classics, archaeology, history, art, history, philosophy, linguistics, and theology/religious studies. The new online Web version is updated regularly with new texts as they become available. (First-time users required to register a user name and password.) See: TLG-L, discussion list for TLG users.

Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL)   full text icon
1st edition 2002; the TLL is the largest Latin dictionary in the world, covering all extant Latin texts from antiquity to approximately 600 A.D. Includes the etymology of each Latin word and its development in the romance languages. (Available on Computer 2 in the Rockefeller Library computing cluster.) (Rockefeller Library)

Times Digital Archive (London)   full text icon   
1795-1985; 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.

TRIP (Turning Research into Practice) Database   full text icon
Current;TRIP Database searches over 75 sites of high-quality medical information, providing you with direct, hyperlinked access to the largest collection of 'evidence-based' material on the web as well as articles from premier on-line journals such as the British Medical Journal, Journal of the American Medical Society (JAMA) and the New England Journal of Medicine. [This resource is publicly available.]

Twentieth Century Literary Criticism Select   
Accessible as part of Literature Resource Center. The LRC covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, and indexes publications such as Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Authors.

Twentieth-Century African American Poetry   full text icon   
Twentieth-Century African American Poetry includes poetry written by the most important and influential African American poets of the twentieth century. Coverage begins with the key writers of the early decades (James Weldon Johnson, Georgia Douglas Camp Johnson, Claude McKay), continues with major figures of the Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Arna Bontemps and Sterling Brown) and the Black Arts movement of the 1960s (Imamu Amiri Baraka, Etheridge Knight, Audre Lorde, Sonia Sanchez), and concludes with a considerable body of writing of the 1980s and 1990s, including major figures such as Ai, Rita Dove and Yusef Komunyakaa alongside young writers who have gained recognition through national poetry awards or inclusion within leading print anthologies.

Twentieth-Century American Poetry   full text icon   
This unparalleled collection includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets. It includes the major works of the Modernist period, works from the Black Mountain School and the Beats, works by underground poets, feminist writers, confessional poets, and many other schools of writing. It also contains two distinguished poetry series, the Yale Series of Young Poets and the University of Pittsburgh's Pitt Poetry Series.

Twentieth-Century English Poetry   full text icon   
A collection of 598 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Thom Gunn, Fleur Adcock, Paul Muldoon, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy, and incorporating the poets in The Faber Poetry Library.

Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory   full text icon   
Ulrich's is a database providing detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world. It covers all subjects, and can be useful in identifying where a specific journal may be indexed.

Universal Database of the 2002 All-Russia Census   full text icon   
2002; most current database of Russian census materials. Available in both Russian and English.

UpToDate   full text icon   
Current; UpToDate is specifically designed to answer the clinical questions that arise in daily medical practice and to do so quickly and easily so that it can be used right at the point of care. Physician editors and authors review and update the content on a continuous basis and a new, peer-reviewed version is issued every four months. The published evidence is summarized and specific recommendations made for patient care. Licensing allows this resource to be used on-campus only, and is not available through the proxy, the VPN client or WebVPN.

Virtual News Library   full text icon   
Current; Virtual News Library (Newscan) provides online access and full text searching of major French newspapers and magazines. The archives of the following titles, which are updated daily, are available to Brown users: Le Monde (1987 to date), Libration (1995 to date), Le Courrier International (2004 to date), LExpress (1993 to date), Le Nouvel Observateur (2003 to date), and Le Point (1995 to date).

Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation Institute
Between 1994 and 1999, the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation -- now the USC Shoah Foundation Institute -- interviewed nearly 52,000 survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust. The Institute interviewed Jewish survivors, homosexual survivors, Jehovah's Witness survivors, liberators and liberation witnesses, political prisoners, rescuers and aid providers, Roma and Sinti (Gypsy) survivors, survivors of Eugenics policies, and war crimes trials participants. The complete archive of these testimonies, which were videotaped in 56 countries and in 32 languages, is now available to Brown students, faculty, and staff for ON-CAMPUS USE ONLY.

Web of Knowledge   
1973-present; Web of Knowledge is a portal to different databases from which the Library subscribes to through the Institute of Scientific Information. At the Web of Knowledge site, you will find links to Journal Citation Reports, Web of Science, which includes the Social Science Citation Index, the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, and the Science Citation Index Expanded. Also included is a link to Medline, and ISI's HighlyCited.com, which provides author biographies and bibliographies.

Web Of Science   
1973-present; The Web of Science includes the three ISI citation indexes: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Science Citation Index.

WebCSD   
Current; the Cambridge Structural Database (WebCSD) consists of the bibliographic, chemical, and crystallographic (single crystal and powder diffraction) records for organic molecules and metal-organic compounds whose 3-D structures have been determined using x-diffraction and/or neutron diffraction. Almost all records have the three-dimensional coordinate data for at least non-hydrogen atoms. The crystal structure data comes from the open literature or direct deposits by researchers. Search by substructure, reduced cell, similarity, or text/numeric.

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary   full text icon   
Current; Websters Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged is Americas premier lexicographical work. First published in 1961, this online edition incorporates subsequent updates to take account of current usage. Comprising over 450,000 vocabulary definitions, each with etymological and phonological descriptions, this dictionary is presented here in fully searchable form.

Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900
The Wellesley CD-ROM Index to Victorian Periodicals provides access to the printed sources of Victorian thought and opinion. While of prime interest to those studying literature, history, and Victorian life, the Wellesley Index also covers articles on politics, religion, economics, art, science, archaeology, and philosophy. (Available on Computer 2 in the Rockefeller computing cluster.) (Rockefeller Library)

Wilson Art Abstracts   
1984-present; Wilson Art Abstracts is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. In addition to articles, Art Abstracts indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Subjects indexed include: antiques, archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, computers in art, fashion design, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, television, textiles, and video. Menu of OvidSP Databases.
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Wilson Art Index Retrospective   
1929-1984; cumulates citations from volumes 1-32 of the printed Art Index. In addition to art and architecture, topics covered include advertising, antiques, archaeology, crafts, industrial design, motion pictures, museology, photography, and television. Menu of OvidSP Databases.
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Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000: Scholar's Edition   full text icon   
Women and Social Movements in the United States brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of womens reform activities. The resource, which examines perspectives on womens social movements from Colonial times to the present, was developed by Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar of the State University of New York at Binghamton in an internationally-renown website of the same name.

Women Writers Online   full text icon   
1400-1850; full text collection of writing by women in English with currently about 200 texts and growing. Includes a wide range of subjects and genres, and all texts are transcribed in full, including front and back matter.

World Development Indicators   full text icon   
Current; published by the World Bank, WDI contains statistical data for over 550 development indicators and time series data from 1960-2003 for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators.

World News Connection (WNC)   full text icon   
1994 to present; an online news service of translated and English-language news and information. From non-U.S. media sources, WNC covers socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events within 24-72 hours of the original broadcast. Regional categories covered include: Central Eurasia, China, East Asia, Near East & South Asia, East Europe, West Europe, The Americas, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

World Shakespeare Bibliography Online   
1964-present; WSB Online provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare.

WorldCat   
Books, journals, sound recordings, videos and manuscripts collected and catalogued by your library and libraries around the world. WorldCat does not include individual articles, stories in journals, magazines, newspapers, or book chapters.

Xreferplus   full text icon   
Xreferplus is now CREDO Reference.

Zasshi Kiji Sakuin   
1948-present; covers academic and general journals held at the National Diet Library in Japan. For the years 1948-1974, subjects are all in the social sciences and the humanites. In 1974, natural sciences journals were added to the collection of more than 14,732 journals, most of which are Japanese-language titles. Be sure to click first on "NDL-OPAC" (upper right), and then click on "Zasshi Kiji Sakuin no kensaku/moshikomi"

Zentralblatt Math Database   
1868-present; Zentralblatt Math covers the entire spectrum of mathematics including applications in computer science, mechanics, physics, etc. It contains references to the worldwide literature drawn from currently about 2,300 journals and serials, from conference proceedings, collections of papers and books.

Zoological Record   
1995-present; comprehensive coverage of the zoological literature.