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IBISWorld 
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
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
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)
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)
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
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
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
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
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. 
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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.