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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 
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
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
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
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
1944-present; provides access to current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications.
ACLL
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
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
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
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 
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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)
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)
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
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
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
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.)
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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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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Asian-American Drama
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 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
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