AARP Ageline  1978-   [Indexes and Abstracts]

Materials related to aging and middle age, from an interdisciplinary perspective of psychology, economics, sociology, gerontology, public policy, business, health and health care services, and consumer issues.

Abbreviationes Online     [Web Sites]

A database of medieval abbreviations to assist in deciphering and transcribing medieval Latin manuscripts.

ABI/INFORM     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Includes the full text of articles in over 500 business and management journals, both trade and scholarly.

Academic OneFile     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Academic OneFile has over 8,000 peer-reviewed journals, the majority in full-text, from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Full text articles are available in both PDF and HTML. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology  1992   [Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks]

Christopher Morris, ed. Available via Xreferplus.

Access Science: McGraw Hill Online Encyclopedia of Science and Technology     [Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks]

Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. Access to over 7,100 full text articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, biographies and Research Updates in science and technology. Updated daily.

Access Surgery     [Database]

AccessUN (1998 - )     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Index to United Nations Documents, some full text is available.

ACLS Humanities E-Book     [e-book]

A collection of scholarly e-books in the Humanities. Strongest in history, the collection also includes works in Art History, Folklore, Literature, Musicology, Philosophy, and Religion.

ACM Digital Library     [Electronic Journals Collection]

A resource for bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and full text for ACM periodicals (1985-) and proceedings (1991-).

ACP Journal Club  1991 -   [Electronic Journals Collection]

This collection consists of two journals: ACP Journal Club, a publication of the American College of Physicians, and Evidence-Based Medicine, a joint publication with the British Medical Journal Group. Ovid MEDLINE links to article reviews in this file from its citations for the reviewed articles.

ACP's Pier:The Physician's Information & Education Resource     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Produced by the American College of Physicians, this evidence-based collection of disease modules can be searched, or browsed alphabetically or by organ system on Stat!Ref. It also contains the AHFS Drug Information Essentials.

Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionary     [Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks]

Definitions of a wide variety of acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations and similar contractions that allows users to quickly and easily translate terms into their full names or meanings. New terms from subject areas such as associations, education, the Internet, medicine and others are now included.

Acta Sanctorum     [Primary Sources]

A collection of documents examining the lives of saints.

Adams and Victors' Principles of Neurology  2005 8th edition   [e-book]

This textbook can be searched in Books@Ovid with natural language or Boolean combinations. Its chapters are indexed and may be browsed.

Africa Yearbook     [e-book]

The Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa — all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern, Southern Africa) focusing on major cross-border developments and sub-regional organizations as well as one article on continental developments and one on European-African relations.

Africa-Wide: NiPAD     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Offers multidisciplinary information and provides the opportunity to search across 40 integrated databases sourced worldwide. Combining South African Studies and African Studies, NiPAD provides access to two million records with full-text links.

African American Music Reference     [Primary Sources]

African American Music Reference, a resource under development, brings together reference texts, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. Coverage includes blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

African American Newspapers - 19th Century     [Primary Sources]

African-American Newspapers ultimately will contain the complete text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century.

African-American History     [Primary Sources]

This subset of History Universe allows access to full-text resources in the field of African American history.

African-American Poetry     [Primary Sources]

Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late 18th and 19th centuries.

Agricola  1970 -   present [Indexes and Abstracts]

Covers the agriculture literature and related fields published in books, technical reports, journals, theses, patents, software, and audio-visual materials.

AHFS Drug Information     [e-book]

Produced by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, this compendium of drug monographs on Stat!Ref gives comprehensive, unbiased, evaluative drug data and goes beyond FDA-approved labeling with references to the medical literature.

Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Subject index to articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals. The index contains citations since 1988 and is updated continuously.

Algology Mycology & Protozoology Abstracts (Microbiology C)     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Focus is on indexing the literature pertaining to algae, fungi, protozoa, lichens; covers reproduction, growth, life cycles, biochemistry, genetics and infection/immunity.

All About Birds     [Web Sites]

All About Birds is created by the staff of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. They aim to make this site the Web’s best and most comprehensive resource for North American birds, bird watching, and bird conservation. The Cornell Lab’s mission is to interpret and conserve the earth's biological diversity through research, education, and citizen science focused on birds.

Almanac of American Politics     [e-book]

Profiles every senator, representative and governor, as well as the people and politics of every state and congressional district.

Alt-PressWatch     [Indexes and Abstracts]

ProQuest platform maintenance will take place from Saturday, June 27, 2009, at 22:00 Eastern Standard Time to Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 10:00 Eastern Standard Time. ProQuest Databases will be unavailable during this period. Contains full-text articles from magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press. Coverage includes a broad range of critical issues confronting contemporary society, including ecology and the environment, grassroots organizing, labor, indigenous peoples, public policy, genetics, and much more.

AltMedDex     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Although part of Micromedex, this database only retrieves records from its sections that are offered with the alternative-medicine files: AltCareDex, AltMedDex & Protocols, AltMedReax, LabAdvisor & RPS Herbal Medicine.

Altweb     [CD Rom]

Altweb, the Alternatives to Animal Testing Web Site, was created to serve as a gateway to alternatives news, information, and resources on the Internet and beyond.

Aluka     [Electronic Journals Collection]

The Aluka Digital Library includes a wide variety of high-quality scholarly materials related to Africa. These range from archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides in many disciplines including history, anthropology, botany, economics, and more.

America's Historical Newspapers 1690-1922     [Primary Sources]

Includes Early American Newspapers series 1 through 7, 1690-1922, and Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980. Series 1 (1690 - 1876) provides images and full-text content access to historic newspapers listed in Clarence Brigham's authoritative bibliography and in additional subsequent bibliographies. Series 2 (1758 - 1900) focuses on the 18th- and 19th-century newspapers. Series 3 (1829 - 1922) focuses on the 19th- and 20th-century newspapers including Civil War, Reconstruction, the Progressive Era and beyond. Series 4 (1756 - 1922); Series 5 (1777 - 1922); Series 6 (1741 - 1922); Series 7 (1773 - 1922)

America: History and Life  1964 -   [Indexes and Abstracts]

Scholarly literature on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada.

American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies  1939   present [Indexes and Abstracts]

Provides information on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. Sources indexed include journals, books, dissertations, online resources and selected government publications published in the U.S. and Canada.

American Broadsides and Ephemera     [Primary Sources]

Broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900, and ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900.

American Chemical Society Publications     [Electronic Journals Collection]

Basic research journals in the field of chemistry, also includes some technoeconomic titles such as Chemical and Engineering News.

American Factfinder     [Web Sites]

Access to 1990 and 2000 decennial censuses, the American Community Survey, and the 1997 Economic Census.

American Heritage Concise Dictionary     [e-book]

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language  4th edition 2003   [Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks]

American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary     [Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks]

American Indian CD-ROM     [CD Rom]

A research source on Native Americans, containing the text and graphics from several books, documents, letters, census data, and graphic material.

American Institute of Physics Online Journals     [Electronic Journals Collection]

Journals published by the AIP including the virtual journals.

American Mathematical Society (AMS) Journals     [Electronic Journals Collection]

Pure and applied math journals published by AMS.

American Men and Women of Science     [Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks]

A biographical dictionary of the significant scientists in the physical, biological, and related fields. Each edition includes biographical entries on approximately 120,000 living scientists, providing birthdate; birthplace; field of specialty; education; honorary degrees; current position; professional and career information; awards; memberships; research information; and addresses for each entrant where available. Volume 8 of the set is a comprehensive index listing scientists by field, and by state under field.

American National Biography Online     [Indexes and Abstracts]

The American National Biography Online has biographical information on over 17,000 notable Americans from colonial times to the present.

American Periodical Series Online     [Primary Sources]

The American Periodical Series contains the full text of a wide variety of early American periodicals such as The American Apollo (1792-1792), The Boston Weekly - Magazine (1743-1743), and The Philadelphia Minerva (1795-1798). The date range of the entire series is 1740 to 1900.

American Poetry     [Primary Sources]

Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial period to the early 20th century.

American Society of Civil Engineers Journals  1996-   [Electronic Journals Collection]

Full text of all American Society of Civil Engineers journals, starting in 1996.

American Society of Mechanical Engineers Journals  1996-   [Electronic Journals Collection]

Full text of all American Society of Mechanical Engineers journals, except Heat Transfer, Recent Contents, starting in 2000. Tables of contents are available starting in 1996. A group of 15 of these journals constitutes the Transactions of the ASME.

American State Papers 1789-1838     [Primary Sources]

Legislative and executive documents originating from the period between 1789 and the beginning of the "U.S. Congressional Serial Set" in 1817.

Analytical Abstracts     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Animal Behavior Abstracts     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Indexes papers in animal behavior from neurophysiology to behavioral ecology and applied ethology.

Animal drugs @ FDA     [Web Sites]

The FDA Approved Animal Drug Products (aka Green Book), is updated monthly by FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine. The Generic Animal Drug and Patent Restoration act requires that each sponsor of an approved animal drug must submit to the FDA certain information regarding patents held for the animal drug or its method of use. The Act requires that this information, as well as a list of all animal drug products approved for safety and effectiveness, be made available to the public. This list must be updated monthly under the provisions of the Act.

AnimalBase     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Database with searching capabilities of animal taxonomic names with access to old zoological literature including all zoological taxa described between 1757 and 1764. Links to the digital editions of taxonomic literature including various editions of Linnæus. The project has various collaborators that may add information to the database.

Annee Philologique     [Indexes and Abstracts]

L'Annee Philologique Online edition of the annual bibliography of classical studies, containing, as of January 2003, entries from 1969-1999. Future updates will add both more recent entries as well as earlier volumes. Supercedes Database of Classical Bibliography and is used in conjunction with earlier printed volumes.

Annual Egyptological Bibliography     [Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks]

Includes the contents of the printed Annual Egyptological Bibliography from the 1947 to the 2001 editions, plus additional and more recent entries.

Annual Reviews     [Electronic Journals Collection]

29 series covering the biomedical, physical and social sciences. Search full text of recent volumes or across all the annual review volumes using Bibliographic Search 1984-95.

Anthropology Plus     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University, and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. It covers over 2,500 journals and begins coverage in the late 19th century.

AnthroSource     [Electronic Journals Collection]

A service developed by the American Anthropological Association containing a complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003, as well as current issues of eleven critical peer-reviewed publications.

AP Images     [Primary Sources]

AP Images is a database of every news event covered by the Associated Press for the last 150 years; it contains over 3 million news photographs from the 1840s through the present. All images may be downloaded and used for educational purposes ONLY.

APA Style Guide to Electronic References     [Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks]

Approved Lists of Bacterial Names  1992   [e-book]

V.B.D. Skerman, et al., eds. Lists all valid names of bacteria with compilation of nomenclatural changes that have occurred from January 1, 1980, through January 1, 1992.

Archive of Celtic Latin Literature     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Full-text database of the corpus of Latin literature produced in Celtic-speaking Europe from the period CE 400-1200. It contains more than 400 Latin works spanning the fields of theology, liturgy, computistics, grammar, hagiography, poetry and historiography, and including legal texts, charters, inscriptions, etc.

ArchivesUSA     [Primary Sources]

Information about primary source materials from U.S. manuscript repositories, with detailed indexes of manuscript and other special collections.

Aristoteles Latinus Database     [Indexes and Abstracts]

This database contains texts 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.

Armed Conflict Database     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Armed Conflict Database from International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) covers international and internal conflicts, as well as terrorism, refugees and returnees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), weapons used and their flows, fatalities, costs, historical backgrounds, annual updates and timelines. Users can generate reports and download data.

Art Abstracts     [Indexes and Abstracts]

More than 250 key international, English-language arts publications. Includes periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition and award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, film reviews, and more.

ARTbibliographies Modern     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art.

ARTFL     [Primary Sources]

A full-text retrieval database of classical French writings. Users can create a dictionary and frequency count of words used in a text, trace origins of words or phrases back through the 17th century, etc. The database includes literary works, political tracts, philosophical writings, and technical treatises. For accompanying print Bibliography (Vol. 1) and User's Guide (Vol. 2), see [PRINT. Tisch reference desk PQ1101 .A87].

Arts & Humanities Citation Index     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Institute for Scientific Information. Provides author, subject and citation access to journal articles and book reviews in the arts and humanities. Coverage from 1974. Part of Web of Science.

ARTstor     [Primary Sources]

ARTstor is an image database of architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, decorative arts and design, and archaeological and anthropological objects--with associated catalog data--from many major collections. Users are able to register themselves via the tools in the ARTstor Library. Faculty who want the higher level of access that allows them to create folders to share Image Groups with students or colleagues need to upgrade their user accounts by selecting "Instructor Privileges Manager" from the "Tools" toolbar menu. When registering for Instructor Privileges, users will be prompted to obtain the required authorization code and password, available from the reference desk at 617-627-3460.

ASFA Aquaculture Abstracts     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Resources on aquaculture yields; cultivating marine, freshwater & brackishwater species.

ASFA Marine Biotechnology Abstracts     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Covers the literature of molecular biology & genetics as applied to marine and aquatic organisms; also includes US patents.

ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts     [Indexes and Abstracts]

ASFA1:Biological Sciences & Living Resources     [Indexes and Abstracts]

The focus is on basic and applied research on aquatic organisms with particular attention to fisheries.

ASFA2: Ocean Technology, Policy & Non-Living Resources     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Policy resources for managing all aspects of oceanography: chemical, geological and biological.

ASFA3: Aquatic Pollution & Environmental Quality     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Abstracts dealing with research & policy in the contamination of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers and estuaries.

Associations Unlimited     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Contains information for approximately 444,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations. For some 2,500 major U.S. national associations, provides full-text association materials such as brochures, pamphlets, and membership application forms

ATLA Religion Database     [Indexes and Abstracts]

The American Theological Association's Religion Database covers journals, multi-author books, and book reviews in Biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religious perspectives on social issues. This is the online edition of Religion Index One and Two, and Index to Book Reviews in Religion.

Atlas of Primary Care Procedures  2003   [e-book]

This atlas can be searched in Books@Ovid with natural language or Boolean combinations. Its chapters are indexed and may be browsed.

Atlas of Procedures in Neonatology  2007 4th ed.   [e-book]

Mhairi G. MacDonald, Jayashree Ramasethu , editors

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals  1934 -   [Indexes and Abstracts]

The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals indexes more than 1,000 periodicals published worldwide on archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture. Updated daily, the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals covers 1934 to the present.

Avibase  2003   [Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks]

Avibase is an extensive database information system about all birds of the world, containing over 2 million records about 10,000 species and 22,000 subspecies of birds, including distribution information, taxonomy, synonyms in several languages and more.