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Faber Poetry Library 
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
(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.