Temple Libraries: Research Database Descriptions

Database Descriptions

ABC-CLIO eBooks: A database of electronic versions of selected titles published by ABC-CLIO.

ABI/INFORM Complete: ABI/INFORM has been a premier source of business information for more than 30 years. The database contains abstracting and indexing from over 4,000 publications that help researchers track business conditions, trends, management techniques, corporate strategies, and industry-specific topics worldwide. Almost 3,000 titles are available full-text, including the Wall Street Journal.
Academic Search Premier: Multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for over 3,460 scholarly publications, including full-page images as well as color embedded images. Provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Updated daily.

Access World News (35 concurrent user limit): Full-text from over 1,400 U.S. and international newspapers. The unique map interface enables users to quickly and easily target any search to a single title, all titles in a country or a continent, the entire collection, or any customized grouping. Updated daily.

A vast collection of databases devoted to early American history, Accessible Archives has been described by leading academics as "one of the most important developments in early American research since microfilm". Accessible Archives' databases contain the rich, comprehensive material found in leading historic periodicals and books from the 18th and 19th centuries. Eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements and genealogical records are now available in a user-friendly on-line environment. These databases are encyclopedic in scope and allow full Boolean, group name, string and truncated searches. Transcribed individual entries are complete with full bibliographic citations and are organized chronologically. Titles will continue to be added, covering important topics and time periods for scholars and students of all academic levels.

Online science reference tool that includes the full-text of the latest editions of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms. New trends in science are covered via the full-text of the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology. This content is supplemented by biographies of scientists, bibliographies containing more than 28,000 literature citations, links to evaluated related web sites, learning resources and study guides, as well as illustrations, animations, and image galleries.

AccessUN is a commercially published index to United Nations documents and publications, from 1945 onward. Includes resolutions, treaties, and UN periodicals. Useful for research on international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian nature.

ACLS Humanities E-Book (formerly ACLS History Ebook Project)

"Contains books of major importance to historical studies. ...ACLS is collaborating in this initiative with eight Learned Societies and a select group of University Presses to assist scholars in the electronic publishing of high-quality works in history, to explore the intellectual possibilities of new technologies, and to help assure the continued viability of the history writing in today's changing publishing environment."

ACM Digital Library (Computing Journals and Proceedings)

Contains bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since 1985. While full-text is available for most articles, full-text is not yet available for every proceeding article published before 1991. As of September 30th, 1999, the library includes:

Over 31,000 full-text articles from ACM journals, magazines, and conference proceedings
Tables of Contents with over 7,000 citations from articles published in ACM journals and magazines from 1985 forward
Tables of contents with nearly 35,000 citations from articles published in over 700 volumes of conference proceedings since 1985

ACS (American Chemical Society) Journals

The American Chemical Society site contains full text articles for the journals published by American Chemical Society. The Division's comprehensive collection includes more than 30 journals and magazines (including 5 copublished with other scientific societies). Full text and images are available in HTML or Adobe Acrobat PDF format. ACS offers two e-mail alerting services - TOC Alerts and ASAP Alerts.

African American Biographical Database

The African American Biographical Database (AABD) brings together in one resource the biographies of thousands of African Americans, many not to be found in any other reference source. These biographical sketches have been carefully assembled from biographical dictionaries and other sources.

The collection contains extended narratives of African American activists, business people, former slaves, performing artists, educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers, religious workers, government workers, athletes, farmers, scientists, factory workers, and more--both the famous and the everyday person.

AABD draws its initial content from Chadwyck-Healey’s Black Biographical Dictionaries 1790-1950 and includes descriptive listings of individuals taken from Black Biography, 1790-1950: A Cumulative Index, edited by Randall K. Burkett, Nancy Hall Burkett, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Biographical portraits from newly uncovered dictionaries as well as from other published reference sources, obituary files, slave narrative collections, internet sites, etc. will be added as the database expands.

African American Experience: The African American Experience (AAE) includes the full-text of over 300 reference works from Greenwood Publishing as well as over 4,000 interviews with former slaves from the WPA slave narratives project. Primary source documents, audio clips, images, maps, photographs, and over 60 Negro University Press titles are also included.
African American Music Reference: African American Music Reference will bring together 50,000 pages of text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. The database is constantly expanding to include comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

African American Newspapers: The 19th Century: This enormous collection of African American Newspapers contains a wealth of information about the cultural life and history during the 1800s, and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. They also contain large numbers of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience.

Starting with the Freedom`s Journal in 1827 and continuing in chronological order with the addition of 10 to 12 million words of new text each year (downloaded monthly), this database will ultimately contain the complete text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century. Never before has such important original source material - written by African- Americans for African-Americans - been readily available for research and fresh interpretation by historians, sociologists, educators and students.
African American Song (3 concurrent user limit): This collection of music contains more than 50,000 African American songs from gospel to spirituals, folk, jazz, and blues, covering the late 19th century to the 1970s. The collection is searchable and browsable, and users can organize songs into playlists for online listening..
African-American Poetry (1750-1900): African-American Poetry contains nearly 3,000 poems by African-American poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The contents are based upon the bibliography of William French et al, Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975: A Guide to Information Sources (Gale Research, 1979). Generally, the policy has been to use first editions whenever possible; later editions were selected if they were more inclusive. Where poems appeared in their original dialect in an earlier edition and standardized in a later edition, both forms have been included for comparison purposes. Poems originally published in periodicals have also been included. Textual apparatus and front matter to the poems are generally omitted, except the poet's own notes, which have been included in the database.
African Journals Online: AJOL 2000 offers the tables of contents and abstracts of articles from journals in agricultural sciences, science and technology, health and social sciences, published in Africa.

African Writers Series: Over 180 volumes from Heinemann's African Writers Series including works by Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Steve Biko, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Dambudzo Marechera, Christopher Okigbo, Okot p'Bitek and Tayeb Salih.

AgeLine: The AgeLine database is produced by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) and provides bibliograpic coverage of social gerontology--the study of aging in social, psychological, health-related, and economic contexts. The delivery of health care for the older population and its associated costs and policies is particularly well covered, as are public policy, employment, and consumer issues. Literature covered is of interest to researchers, health professionals, service planners, policymakers, employers, older adults, and their families and consumer advocates.
Agricola: Includes over 3 million citations to material acquired by the National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions. Includes articles, AV materials, books, computer databases and software, maps, sound recordings, manuscripts, book chapters. Coverage/update: 1970 to the present. (Updated quarterly)
Agricola PlusText: Provides access to the Agricola agricultural literature database (see above) via Proquest along with full-text access to a number of the journals indexed in Agricola.

Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts: Covers agricultural products involving both plants and animals, new applications across the food industry, environmental developments, plant genome studies, food, chemical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology companies 1993-current. (Updated bi-monthly)
Alternative Press Index: This database is regarded as a unique resource in its field and considered to be the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to alternative sources of information available today. The Alternative Press Index is produced quarterly by the Alternative Press Center and indexes nearly 290 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political and social change. The coverage in the Alternative Press Index covers 1991 to the present; Alternative Press Index Archive covers 1969 to 1990. (Updated quarterly)
America: History & Life (6 concurrent user limit): America: History and Life is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. The database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries. This database covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, coverage includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities. Over 90% of the articles included are published in English-language journals. In addition to articles, each year America: History and Life includes approximately 6,000 citations of book and media reviews from a selection of over one hundred key journals in US and Canadian history and related fields, as well as citations to abstracts of dissertations published in these areas. (Updated monthly)

America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922: Offers fully searchable, cover-to-cover reproductions of more than one million pages from more than 1,000 historical American newspapers. Holdings include Early American Newspapers, Series 1-5. Series 1, 1690-1876: This collection provides images and full-text content access to historic newspapers listed in Clarence Brigham's authoritative bibliography, History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, and in additional subsequent bibliographies. Series 2, 1758-1900. This collection focuses on the 18th- and 19th-century newspapers. Series 3, 1829-1922. This collection focuses on the 19th- and 20th-century newspapers including Civil War, Reconstruction, the Progressive Era and beyond. Series 4, 1756-1922: This collection includes 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century newspapers from all 50 present states. Series 5, 1777-1922: This collection presents 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century newspapers from all 50 present states, including the North Star, the famous anti-slavery newspaper founded by Frederick Douglass.

American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES): Covers journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union published in the United States and Canada from 1990-present in the areas of Anthropology, Ethnology, and Archaeology; Culture and the Arts; Economics and Foreign Trade; Education and Scholarship; Geography and Demography; Government, Law, and Politics; History; International Relations; Language and Linguistics; Literature; Military Affairs; Philosophy, Political Theory, and Ideology; Psychology; Religion; Science and Technology; Sociology; Women's Studies. (Updated monthly)

American Civil War Letters and Diaries: This first release is a functional prototype and contains 290 authors and approximately 22,000 pages of information. When complete, the collection will include more than 100,000 pages of primary materials from 1850-1870. Each source has been carefully chosen using leading bibliographies. The database includes some previously unpublished manuscripts - for example, the letters of Amos Wood and his wife. The collection also includes biographies, an extensive bibliography of the sources in the database, and material licensed from The Civil War Day-by-Day by E.B. Long.
American Drama: When complete, this collection will contain more than 2,000 plays by American dramatists that chronicle the history and culture of America through its dramatic writing. At present, American Drama includes 711 plays by dramatists such as Thomas Paine, Edward Hitchcock, and James Lawson.
American Film Scripts Online: American Film Scripts Online (AFSO) is an ongoing project to digitize and thoroughly index 1,000 film scripts aimed at opening access to many previously unpublished screenplays. Provides access at the scene or character, scene and era level. The primary focus of the database is the written work, rather than the film itself. It allows users to see and understand the structure of films, character development, beginnings and endings, plot points and scenes. It lets scholars see, for example, how derivative scripts are developed.
American National Biography: Offers more than 17,400 biographies, thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities.
American Periodicals Series Online (APS Online): "This unique and valuable collection contains digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741, when Andrew Bradford's American Magazine and Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine were launched, and 1900. Deriving from the acclaimed American Periodicals Series microform collection, APS Online features over 1,100 periodicals spanning nearly 200 years-from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II. Titles range from America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal.

American Periodicals Series Online chronicles the development of America across 200 years. The journals in this collection cover three broad periods:

* 89 journals published between 1740 and 1800 offer insights into America's transition from a British colony to an independent nation. The journals support research for a range of academic fields. Titles include Massachusetts Magazine, which published America's first short stories, and Thomas Paine's Pennsylvania Magazine, which reported on inventions. One of the first mass printings of the Declaration of Independence, a letter by George Washington on the crucial Battle of Trenton, and the thoughts of Benjamin Franklin are among the highlights of content from this period.

* More than 900 titles from the first 60 years of the nineteenth century showcase "the golden age of American periodicals." General interest magazines, children's publications, and more than 20 journals for women are among the historically-significant content that also includes the serialization of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin in National Era. Like most great literary works of the nineteenth century, this piece first appeared in a magazine. Also available are hard-to-find materials, such as Edgar Allan Poe's contributions to the Southern Literary Messenger, as well as the first appearances of Nathaniel Hawthorne's stories in New England Magazine, and Margaret Fuller's contributions to the Dial.

* 118 periodicals published during the Civil War (1861-1865) and Reconstruction (1865-1877) eras reflect the nation in turmoil and growth, and titles from the 1880s through 1900 capture the settling of the West and the emergence of modern America. Early professional journals, including Publications of the American Economic Association and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Proceedings, popular titles such as Scribner's Monthly and Lippincott's issued by publishing houses, celebrations of Americana in Ladies' Home Journal, thoroughly-researched investigative journalism in McClure's, and the incisive political and social commentary of Puck illustrate the variety of the American experience. Titles like Forum (1886-1930) and Forum and Century (1930-1940), and Littell's Living Age (1844-1896) and Living Age (1897-1941), expand the range of primary source material in APS across 200 years.

Because the database contains digitized images of periodical pages, researchers can see all of the original typography, drawings, graphic elements, and article layouts exactly as they were originally published.

In addition, a Search for Periodicals function in APS Online leads to bibliographic information and a summary of the historical significance of all the periodicals represented in the database. Extensive primary source content in its original context and a history of American magazine publishing are made available in APS Online."
American Poetry(1600-1900): Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.


American Song: American Song is a history database that will contain 50,000 tracks of music from America's past. The database encompasses the great American musical genres including country, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, and shape note singing. Included are songs of the Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more. Liner notes to all the albums are included (in PDF format) as well as static URLs to each track and album in the database.

L�Ann�e Philologique Online (10 concurrent user limit): L�Ann�e Philologique Online is an index of publications related to the history, language, literature and civilization of ancient Greece and Rome. The L�Ann�e Philologique Online Online contains references to material published since 1969, and is updated once per year. There is a two to three year delay before references are added to the index. Many of the books and articles indexed are in languages other than English. Abstracts are not provided for books, but the database indicates where reviews of books have been published. The database often gives brief abstracts of journal articles, but an abstract may be in French, German, English, Spanish or Italian.
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL): ABELL contains over 783,000 records covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards.
Annual Reviews Online: Critical reviews of the most significant primary research literature in 32 disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.
Anthropology Plus (Anthropological Index and Anthropological Literature) (5 concurrent user limit): Anthropological Index covers scholarly literature from physical anthropology, archaeology, cultural ethnography, and linguistics. Anthropological Index entries are compiled from over 900 journals in the Library of the British Museum Department of Ethnography -- now known as the Anthropology Library -- which incorporates the former Royal Anthropological Institute library. Broad geographic coverage emphasizes the Commonwealth and Africa and extends to Eastern Europe, the Americas, Asia, Australasia, and the Pacific, including both standard journals and many titles outside the mainstream.

Supplied by the Tozzer Library at Harvard University, Anthropological Literature provides a broad subject index to articles and essays two or more pages in length from about 1000 journals, as well as colloquia and symposia, publications and Festschriften, in English and in other European languages. Covers late 19th century to the present. Updated quarterly.

Together, Anthropological Index and Anthropological Literature provide international coverage with minimal overlap in citations, providing access to research in anthropology and related fields.
AnthroSource: Full-text of current and past journals from the American Anthropological Association.

AP Images: About 800 photos per day feed into this photo archive moments after moving onto the AP's spot picture system. Over 3 million U.S. and international photos, from 1826 to present. Almost 200 per day are saved for all time, while others are archived for about one year. Also includes over 60,000 graphics, charts, and timelines.

Applied Science & Technology Index (4 concurrent user limit): Full-text of over 180 periodicals in the applied sciences and technology from 1997 to the present. Access is via Wilson OmniFile. Select "Applied Science & Technology" as the Subject Area in OmniFile to limit your search to this subfile.

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA): Indexes the social sciences literature, focusing on health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Coverage begins in 1987. Publications from 16 different countries are included though the UK is emphasized.

APS (American Physical Society) Journals

Full-text of journals from the American Physical Society back to 1893.

Art Index

Indexes more than 200 key international arts publications. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. Reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals are also covered. Coverage is from 1929 to the present.

ARTbibliographies Modern

Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews. The scope of ARTbibliographies Modern extends from artists and movements beginning with Impressionism in the late 19th century, up to the most recent works and trends in the late 20th century. Photography is covered from its invention in 1839 to the present. A particular emphasis is placed upon adding new and lesser-known artists and on the coverage of foreign-language literature. Approximately 13,000 new entries are added each year. Covers all aspects of modern and contemporary art, including performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theater arts, crafts, jewelry, illustration, and more, as well as the traditional fine arts of painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing. The Web version of the database covers volume years 1974 to the present. An excellent resource for Art History, Art Criticism, Art Theory, Design, Photography, Biographical Details, Graphic Art, History, Fine Arts. (Updated 6 times a year).

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975 - present)

Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. A&HCI provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1975 forward. Averages 2,250 new articles per week. Includes approximately 15,250 new cited references per week. Contains a current total of over 2.5 million articles. Contains unique implicit citations that reference you to actual representations of a work of art or music score. Contains title enhancements added to obscure or hard-to-categorize article titles to clarify article contents. Some of the disciplines covered include:

Archaeology
Linguistics
Architecture
Literary Reviews
Art
Literature
Asian Studies
Music
Classics
Philosophy
Dance
Poetry
Folklore
Radio, Television, & Film
History
Religion
Language
Theater

ARTstor

ARTstor is a digital library of art images, associated information, and software tools designed to enhance teaching, learning and scholarship. ARTstor contains approximately 500,000 images of art, architecture and archeology from a wide range of cultures and time periods, with initial strengths in European, American and Asian cultures.

arXiv.org

ArXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science and computer science. arXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution. ArXiv is also partially funded by the National Science Foundation.

ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution andEnvironmental Quality

ASFA 3 covers research and policy on the contamination of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and estuaries, specifically aquatic environments and marine pollution problems. Has relevance for biology, oceanography, limnology, environmental engineering.

Asia-Studies Online: Humanities: A full-text database focused on Asian arts, culture, history, language, literature, philosophy, and religion.

Asia-Studies Online: Social Sciences: Reports on 53 countries in Asia, Australia/New Zealand, the Americas Pacific Rim countries, and Pacific Islands about finance, trade, environment, human resources development, government, fisheries, tourism, education and women's studies. The average 50-page study contains statistics, research, analysis, and forecasts. Browse by country to find annual statistical overviews.

AskART.com: Provides access to comprehensive information about nearly 30,000 American artists from the 16th to the 21st century, including artist biographies, bibliographical links and links to museums that exhibit the artists' books and works. Temple has access to the free content on the site.

ASM Alloy Center

Search ASM property data, performance charts, and processing guidelines for specific metals and alloys.

The Alloy Center contains five content areas:

Data Sheets & Diagrams
Features thousands of documents in PDF format, including material data sheets from Alloy Digest and other ASM publications; heat treating data sheets from the Heat Treater's Guides; and time-temperature curves, creep curves, and fatigue curves. All organized by alloy and fully searchable.

Alloy Finder
Features alloy designations and trade names from around the world. Find key information, including composition, producer, tensile properties, and similar alloys.

Materials Property Data
Features mechanical properties, physical properties, and processing characteristics for most industrially important alloys. Find data plotted over a range of temperatures.

Coatings Data
Features detailed information for commercial coating processes. Search by trade name, manufacturer, process type, coating type, or key words.

Corrosion Data
Features corrosion information for specific alloys in specific environments. Search by alloy or environment.

ASM Handbooks Online: Online access to the complete content of 20 ASM Handbook volumes plus the Engineered Materials Handbook Desk Edition and the Metals Handbook Desk Edition.

ASME Journals (American Society of Mechanical Engineers): Online access to the following journals from the ASME:
Journal of Applied Mechanics
Journal of Biomechanical Engineering
Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering
Journal of Dynamic Systems , Measurement and Control
Journal of Electronic Packaging
Journal of Energy Resources Technology
Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power
Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology
Journal of Fluids Engineering
Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology
Journal of Heat Transfer
Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering
Journal of Mechanical Design
Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering
Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology
Journal of Solar Energy Engineering
Journal of Tribology
Journal of Turbomachinery
Journal of Vibration and Acoustics

ATLAS Full Text Plus (Religion)

ATLAS Full Text Plus is the full text version of the ATLA Religion Database (ATLA). This database is a collection of major religion and theology journals selected by some of the major religion scholars in the United States. Coverage of this database dates back to 1949.

AUL Index to Military Periodicals

AULIMP is the Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals. It contains citations to articles in English language military journals. Air University Library (AUL) has been producing AULIMP since 1949 and distributes paper copies to libraries and military units around the world. In addition to paper copies, issues covering the years 1990-current issue are available online through our online catalog and on the Web through our web based catalog. If for some reason you are temporarily unable to access our Web-based catalog, the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) also makes AULIMP available on the Web.

You can see a list of titles indexed between 1990-current issue on our web site. This list has links to those periodicals that have full text articles available on the web. Not all of those titles have full text articles for all the years covered in AULIMP. DTIC also has a list of titles as well as a list of subject headings used in AULIMP. (Updated quarterly.)

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

Indexes 2,500 + periodicals published worldwide on architecture, urban design, historic preservation, urban planning history, city planning, interior design, and archaeology. Avery covers the international scholarly and popular periodical literature, including the publications of professional associations; US state and regional periodicals; and major serial publications in the architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Coverage is from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) to the present. The Index was expanded in 2001 to include 13,000 citation records for architects' obituaries. Avery is produced by the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. (Updated weekly)

Bacteriology Abstracts

Aimed at researchers and clinicians, Bacteriology Abstracts covers a range of topics from bacterial immunology and vaccinations to diseases of man and animals. Provides access to clinical findings as well as pure bacteriology, biochemistry, and genetics. (Updated monthly)

Beilstein

Beilstein is the major database to organic chemistry, indexing three primary data domains: substances, reactions, and literature. The substance domain stores structural information with all associated facts and literature references, including chemical, physical, and bioactivity data. The reaction domain details the preparation of substances, enabling scientists to investigate specific reaction pathways with reaction search queries. The literature domain includes citations, titles, and abstracts, which are hyperlinked to the substance and reaction domain entries. Beilstein contains information about more than 7 million organic chemical compounds, from 1771 to the present (abstracts from 1980-current). Reactions, chemical and physical properties, all with corresponding literature references, are available.

Beilstein is accessible either via the Crossfire Commander client or via the DiscoveryGate website. Off-campus access is only available using DiscoveryGate.

DiscoveryGate Instructions

System Requirements

* PC users: Windows 2000 or XP; IE 6.0; Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4.2_06 (installs automatically)
* Mac users: Mac 10.4 or higher; Safari 2.0

Installation

Note: Be sure to allow pop-ups for this site.

PC users

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Go to DiscoveryGate.
3. If this is your first visit, the site will automatically install JRE 1.4.2_06 (Java Runtime Environment). The browser may shut down after installation. Just reopen, return to the site, and continue.
4. Click on the Download Software tab.
5. Click on the Download button, and save the installer to your desktop.
6. Close all browsers. Then double-click on the installer, and follow instructions.

Mac Users

1. Open Safari.
2. Go to DiscoveryGate.
3. If this is your first visit, the site will automatically install JRE 1.4.2_06 (Java Runtime Environment).
4. Follow the directions.

Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS) Archive

The BAS Archive contains the editorial content of each issue of the bimonthly magazines Biblical Archaeology Review (1975-2003), Bible Review (1985-2003) and Archaeology Odyssey (1998-2003), as well as five books published by the Biblical Archaeology Society:

-Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple
-Aspects of Monotheism: How God is One
-Feminist Approaches to the Bible
-The Rise of Ancient Israel
-The Search for Jesus: Modern Scholarship Looks at the Gospels


Bibliography of American Literature: The Bibliography of American Literature provides more than 37,000 records of the literary works of 281 American writers from the period of the Revolution to 1930. It aims to include all first editions, chronologically arranged, of each author covered. In addition, it includes any book (pamphlet, broadside, etc.) containing the first appearance of any prose (except letters) or poetry by such authors. It records variant issues and states of the first editions, as well as details of illustrations and maps, and standard and variant publishers' bindings. European editions in English are included as and where necessary. Reprints which might be confused with first editions, and subsequent editions containing important textual changes by the author, are briefly noted. A selective list of bibliographical, biographical and critical works is also given for each author. Certain categories of material, including periodical and newspaper publications, unrevised reprints and translations into other languages, have been excluded.


Bibliography of Asian Studies: The online Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS), references western-language monographs, articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia that have been published since 1971. (Updated quarterly)
Bibliography of the History of Art: BHA is the most comprehensive art bibliography worldwide, covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present. This database indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from over 4,300 periodicals. Citations encompass fine arts-painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, architecture-, decorative and applied arts-crafts, graphic arts, folk and popular art. It is the product of collaboration between the Getty Research Institute of the J. Paul Getty Trust and the French Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Bibliography of the History of Art includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: Répertoire d'Art et d'Archéologie (RAA) from 1973 to 1989 and International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA) from 1975 to 1989. Updated quarterly.

BioethicsLine: Produced jointly by the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the BioethicsLine database includes more than 47,000 records of English-language materials on bioethics. Documents are selected from the disciplines of medicine, nursing, biology, philosophy, religion, law, and the behavioral sciences. Selections from popular literature are also included. Covered document types include journal and newspaper articles, monographs, court decisions, bills, laws, and audiovisual materials. Approximately 100 primary sources and 40 indexes and databases are scanned for citations.
Biographies Illustrated Plus (4 concurrent user limit): Contains more than 140,000 biographies and more than 36,000 photographs of the subjects. Biographies are drawn from H.W. Wilson reference series including Current Biography and the World Author Series. Biographies are also licensed from other reference sources.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index (4 concurrent user limit): Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) is an index for learning where to look for biographical material on people from all time periods, geographical locations and fields of endeavor. 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.

Biography Resource Center: Integrates hundreds of thousands of biographies drawn from over 135 well-known Thomson Gale print sources including Contemporary Authors and over 300 full-text periodicals.

Biological Abstracts: Biological Abstracts is a comprehensive reference database covering life sciences journal literature. Disciplines covered include Botany, Microbiology, Pharmacology, Biochemistry, Evolutionary ecology, Neurology, and Toxicology. Temple has access to abstracts from 1997 forward.

Biological & Agricultural Index (4 concurrent user limit): Full-text of over 85 periodicals in biology and agriculture from 1997 to the present. Access is via Wilson OmniFile. Select "Biological & Agricultural" as the Subject Area in OmniFile to limit your search to this subfile.
Biology Digest: Lengthy abstracts written in nontechnical style for students and nonscientists, but conveys solid, factual information useful to life scientists. Coverage/update: September 1989 to the present; adds about 300 new records monthly from September through May.

BioMed Central: Publisher of over 150 open-access journals in biomedicine. All research articles are freely available.

Biomedical Collection III(1995-present): Ovid Full Text currently includes six collections: the Ovid Core Biomedical Collection (CBC), the Ovid Biomedical Collections II (BC2), III (BC3), and IV (BC4), as well as the Ovid Mental Health Collection (MHC), and the Ovid Nursing Collection (NURC). Every word of the text is searchable, including references and graphics captions. Within the Full Text display, hypertext features allow users to display an outline of the document and move immediately to a selected section, to display complete references cited within the text of a document, and to link directly to MEDLINE and other full text documents. The Ovid Web Gateway interface includes all graphics, tables, and photographs as they appear in print. The Ovid Biomedical Collection IV (BC4) includes: Anesthesia & Analgesia American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases Archives of Disease in Childhood Archives of Disease in Childhood, Fetal and Neonatal Edition Archives of Family Medicine Archives of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine Critical Care Medicine Diabetes Care Genitourinary Medicine Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, British Volume Journal of Medical Genetics Journal of the American Board of Family Practice Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infections, and Critical Care Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Biomedical Collection IV(1995-present): Ovid Full Text currently includes six collections: the Ovid Core Biomedical Collection (CBC), the Ovid Biomedical Collections II (BC2), III (BC3), and IV (BC4), as well as the Ovid Mental Health Collection (MHC), and the Ovid Nursing Collection (NURC). Every word of the text is searchable, including references and graphics captions. Within the Full Text display, hypertext features allow users to display an outline of the document and move immediately to a selected section, to display complete references cited within the text of a document, and to link directly to MEDLINE and other full text documents. The Ovid Web Gateway interface includes all graphics, tables, and photographs as they appear in print. The Ovid Biomedical Collection IV (BC4) includes: Anesthesia & Analgesia American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases Archives of Disease in Childhood Archives of Disease in Childhood, Fetal and Neonatal Edition Archives of Family Medicine Archives of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine Critical Care Medicine Diabetes Care Genitourinary Medicine Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, British Volume Journal of Medical Genetics Journal of the American Board of Family Practice Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infections, and Critical Care Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Biotechnology Research Abstracts: Biotechnology Research Abstracts provides access to international research on all aspects of biochemical, medical, and microbial technology as applied to bioengineering, medicine, agriculture and environmental science.

Black Drama: 1,200 plays, almost a quarter previously unpublished, have been carefully selected by well known experts such as James V. Hatch to create this landmark collection. The collection includes the complete works of leading playwrights such as Amiri Baraka and Ed Bullins. Fielded, searchable performance and cast information, materials by Black writers from Africa, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom, in addition to African Americans are included. (Updated one or two times a year)

Black Historical Newspapers: Black Historical Newspapers offers primary source material from American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. It allows for study of major movements from the Harlem Renaissance to Civil Rights, and for exploration of everyday life as written in the Chicago Defender, New York Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier, and Atlanta Daily World.

Black Literature Index: Black Literature Index is an online index to the Chadwyck-Healey Black Literature: 1827-1940 microfiche collection. The Black Literature project documents the fiction, poetry and literary reviews which appeared in black owned and edited newspapers published in the United States between 1827 and 1940. A team of researchers at Harvard University, under the supervision of Henry Louis Gates Jr, have discovered over nine hundred such publications.
Black Short Fiction: Black Short Fiction (BLFI) contains approximately 1108 stories and folktales by 71 African, African American, and Caribbean authors. When complete this collection should have approximately 8000 works of short fiction. This first release of the database represents approximately 5% of its final size. During the next year, it will grow into the most comprehensive collection of African and African-Diaspora stories yet created. When complete, it will feature the English-language literature of more than 15 countries, with additional special units of French and Portuguese literature from the African continent. In addition, the collection will include literature in languages that have their origins in African countries and are still present in some regions today, such as the Gullah language of South Carolina.

BLFI will include short stories published from the mid-1900s to the present. In addition to these published works, the database will feature previously uncollected works and unpublished manuscripts by many authors. Fables and folktales, which arise from the oral traditions of many peoples and date back many hundreds of years, will also be widely represented within the collection. Researchers will be able to follow their development in both Africa and the New World.

Published by the Alexander Street Press and produced in collaboration with the University of Chicago, BLFI has extensive searching capabilities. BLFI uses PhiloLogic software, developed at the University of Chicago, to enable in-depth browsing and searching of both the bibliographic and the full-text elements within the database.

Black Studies Center: The Black Studies Center includes the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, a series of essays about the development of Black Studies as an academic field; historical backfiles of The Chicago Defender; and the International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text, a source for scholarly articles in the humanities and social sciences about the Black experience in the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean.

Black Thought and Culture: Landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major black leaders in North America. Works by teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures form the corpus. Unlike their white counterparts, black leaders have had to wrestle with the issues of their race alongside the issues of leadership in their chosen professions. They have been forced to defend positions, justify actions, correct perceptions, protest injustice, celebrate cultural achievement, and confront the agenda of a white-dominated society.

Encompasses 100,000 pages of materials, beginning with the ideas of Frederick Douglass and including those of W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Alain Locke, Sidney Bechet, Paul Robeson, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Sammy Davis, Jr., Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Dorothy Height, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, Constance Baker Motley, J. Saunders Redding, Sojourner Truth, Walter F. White, Amiri Baraka, and dozens more. Targeted for inclusion are the written and spoken words of Ralph Ellison, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Wright, Angela Davis, Muhammad Ali, Jesse Jackson, Ida B. Wells, Bobby Seale, Rosa Parks, Gwendolyn Brooks, and a long list of others.

In addition to including the most familiar writings, Black Thought and Culture presents a great deal of previously inaccessible material, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, trial transcripts, and interviews. Much of the material is fugitive, and approximately twenty percent of the collection has not been published previously.
Blackwell Compass: Blackwell Compass is a suite of state-of-the-art, peer-reviewed survey articles across entire disciplines. Disciplines currently covered are Geography, History, Literature, Philosophy, and Religion.

Blackwell Reference Online: Blackwell Reference Online contains full-text versions of reference titles from Blackwell Publishing including the highly regarded Blackwell Companions and Blackwell Handbooks. Temple currently has access to over 80 titles in the areas of Philosophy & Religion.

Blackwell Synergy: Hundreds of scientific, technical, social science, humanities and medical journals published by Blackwell Publishers and affiliated societies. Temple University has access back to 1997 issues where available. (Updated daily)

Book History Online (BHO): BHO is a database in English on the history of the printed book and libraries. It contains titles of books and articles on the history of the printed book worldwide. It is based on ABHB, the Annual Bibliography of the History of the printed Book and Libraries. The database contains 28,200 records. The files can be searched by names of authors, editors, title words (including periodicals), classification, geographical keywords, names of persons (printers, publishers etc.), firms and institutions, and by subjects and words in annotations.

Subjects covered by BHO correspond with those of ABHB: all scholarly valuable books and articles relating to the history of the printed book and libraries, and to book production, distribution, conservation, description and analysis. Also included are articles referring to the history of the arts, crafts, techniques, and equipment in relation to books, and to the book and library in their economic, social and cultural environment.

BHO contains all ABHB entries from 1990 onwards. For ABHB volume 1 (1970) to volume 17 (1986) a cumulative subject index was published in 1989 as volume 17A. There is no cumulative index for volume 18 (1987) to volume 20 (1989). Volume 21 (1990) to volume 29 (1998) are covered in BHO. (Updated yearly.)
Book Review Digest Plus (4 concurrent users): Includes information on over 1.3 million book reviews covering over 650,000 books. Over 100,000 reviews are available in full text. Coverage extends back to 1983.
Books24x7: Online library of approximately 5,000 titles on information technology topics. Users can annotate books and create personal bookshelves of favorite titles.

BookSource: Nonfiction: Contains the full text and abstracts for more than 1,600 popular nonfiction books found in school and public libraries. It includes fulltext articles on literature, social studies, history, and science but also covers high interest information on careers, health, sports, adventure, and technology.

British Periodicals Online: British Periodicals Online traces the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and beyond. On completion this digital archive will consist of almost 500 periodical runs published from the 1680s to the 1930s, comprising six million keyword-searchable pages. British Periodicals Online can be searched in tandem with hundreds of other journal backfiles via Periodicals Archive Online.

Business & Company Resource Center: Business & Company Resource Center brings together in a single database company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information. Covers 1980 - Sep 2000. (Updated daily)
Business & Industry: Business & Industry covers more than 900 major U.S. and international trade journals, general business publications, and national, regional and international newspapers and newsletters, from 1994 to the present, updated daily. Coverage is 50% U.S. content and 50% international and includes all industries and companies with over 340,000 records added each year. Approximately 60% of the database is full-text. (Updated daily)
Business & Management Practices: Business & Management Practices (BaMP) is a full-text resource with a focus on the practical aspects and approaches of business management. Updated weekly and providing coverage back to 1995, Business & Management Practices offers highly-focused coverage of more than 300 core management journals and trade publications. Also included are specific management-related articles from over 300 additional respected business sources. (Updated weekly)

Business Periodicals Index (4 concurrent user limit): Indexes over 850 and provides full text for over 400 periodicals in business. Indexing goes back to 1982, and abstracts start in 1984.

Business Source Premier: Contains 2,804 full text scholarly journals and business periodicals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, etc, including Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), Journal of Marketing, Journal of International Marketing, etc. The database also includes many leading journals in the areas of economics, finance, and accounting, as well as country economic reports from the EIU, DRI-WEFA, ICON Group and CountryWatch. More than 200 of the journals have PDF full text back to 1965 or the first issue published, with more than 2,200 PDF’s. Business Source Premier contains PDF images for the great majority of journals; many of these PDF's are native (searchable) or scanned-in-color. (Updated daily)

C19: The Nineteenth Century Index

C19 indexes millions of documents published between 1790 and 1919. It is currently comprised of the following components for which further detail is available.

Books:
--Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (1801-1919) (Index only)

--Nineteenth Century microfiche project (1801-1900) (Index only)

Periodicals:
--American Periodicals Series (1770-1919) (Full-Text)

--British Periodicals Series (Index only)

--Periodicals Index (1790-1919) (Index only, but links out to JSTOR)

--Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (Index only)

--Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals (1824-1900) (Index only)

Official Publications:
--House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (1801-1900) (Full-Text)

Archives:
--ArchivesUSA (19th century records only) (Index only)

Newspapers:
--Palmer's Index to the Times (1790-1905) (Index only - but full-text available via Times Digital Archive)

CAB Abstracts (4 concurrent user limit)

Covers the significant research and development literature in fields of agriculture, forestry, aspects of human health, human nutrition, animal health, as well as the management and conservation of natural resources. This database offers abstracts and indexing for journals, serial publications, conference proceedings, books, theses, annual reports, patents & standards back to 1910.

Cambridge Companions Online: Over 2,000 essays from 200+ authoritative guides in Cambridge Univesity Press' Companions series. Covers literature, philosophy, religion, classics and cultural studies.

Cambridge Journals Online

Fulltext online versions of approximately 200 journals from Cambridge University Press.


Canadian Encyclopedia Online: The full text of the Canadian Encyclopedia. Twenty years in the making, this work represents the cooperative efforts of over 3800 contributors from all parts of Canada. Published by the Historica foundation whose mandate is to provide Canadians with a deeper understanding of their history and its importance in shaping their future.
Canadian Poetry: 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 12,000 poems by 142 poets including Bliss Carman, Isabella Valancy Crawford and Archibald Lampman, and will soon offer a comprehensive survey of Canadian poetry from the seventeenth century to the early twentieth.
CANCERLIT: CANCERLIT® is a bibliographic database that contains more than 1.8 million citations and abstracts from over 4,000 different sources including biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports, and doctoral theses. The database contains references to cancer literature published from the 1960s to the present and is updated with approximately 10,000 records every month.

Cardiosource: Cardiosource ia an online cardiovascular information and educational resource produced by the American College of Cardiology Foundation. Cardiosource enables cardiovascular professionals to easily stay up-to-date with the most relevant research findings and best practices, with analysis and commentary by experts in the field to help put the findings in perspective for immediate application in practice. Cardiosource provides a comprehensive digital cardiovascular resource, featuring the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, a comprehensive clinical trials database, news and expert commentaries, clinical images, self-assessment educational materials, the full complement of the ACCF clinical guidelines and quality standards, and more.

Catalog of the State Library of Pennsylvania (PILOT): Use this catalog to connect users to PA State publications, most of which are not indexed anywhere else.


CCH Internet Research Network (35 concurrent user limit): Includes a broad range of news, research publications and research tools for business and legal research. Coverage includes:

--Antitrust and Trade Regulation
--Banking
--Corporate Governance
--Exchanges and SROs
--Federal Energy Guidelines
--Government Contracts
--Intellectual Property / Computer and Internet Law
--International Business
--Mergers and Acquisitions
--Products Liability and Safety
--Securities
--Transportation Law

From Commerce Clearing House. (Updated daily)


CCH Tax Research Network (35 concurrent user limit): Includes a broad range of news, research publications and research tools for tax related research. From Commerce Clearing House. (Updated daily)

Census Lookup (1990): Census Lookup is produced by the U.S. Census Bureau and offers access to the Summary Tape Files (STF) 1,2,3 and 4 for the 1990 Census of Population and Housing (the Census of Population and Housing is conducted every ten years). Each STF file contains a particular set of data tables for specific types of geographic areas. For further information about the Census Bureau and its products.
Center for Research Libraries Catalog: The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives, and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching and makes them available to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery.

CRL’s mission is to support advanced research and teaching in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences by ensuring the survival and availability of the knowledge resources vital to those activities. CRL accomplishes this mission through cooperative action with its member libraries and partners.

Items may be borrowed from the Center for Research Libraries. Please submit an online request form to request materials found in the CRL catalog.

CHEMnetBASE (2 concurrent user limit): Comprised of the following Chapman & Hall and CRC Press chemistry reference sources, CHEMnetBASE allows you to search and extract essential data and tables.
* The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
* Combined Chemical Dictionary
* Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds
* Dictionary of Drugs
* Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds
* Dictionary of Natural Products
* Dictionary of Organic Compounds
* Properties of Organic Compounds

Chicano Database (5 concurrent user limit)

A comprehensive bibliographic index representing all types of material on Mexican-American topics and about Chicanos. The Chicano Database provides extensive coverage from the 1960s to the present, with selective coverage dating back to the early 1900s. Records added since 1992 have expanded the scope to include the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants. Portions of the Chicano Database have been published as the Chicano Periodical Index, covering 1967-1988; the Chicano Index, of articles and books added since 1989; Arte Chicano: An Annotated Bibliography of Chicano Art, 1965-1981; the Chicano Anthology Index; and the Chicana Studies Index: Twenty Years of Gender Research, 1971-1991. The database is produced by the Chicano Studies Collection, Ethnic Studies Library, University of California at Berkeley. (Updated quarterly)
Child Abuse, Child Welfare and Adoption: Produced by the National Information Services Corp (NISC), this database includes citations and abstracts on the maltreatment of children, and features databases on literature, public awareness materials, Audio-visual programs, and the Child Abuse & Neglect Thesaurus. (Updated yearly)

Child Care & Early Education Research Connections: Offers a comprehensive and easily searchable collection of more than 10,000 resources from the many disciplines related to child care and early education. The site is a partnership among the National Center for Children in Poverty at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the Institute for Social Research, the University of Michigan; and the Child Care Bureau, Administration for Children and Families of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.


CINAHL: Provides indexing for over 1,600 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, the database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters.

Pre-CINAHL provides access to articles in the midst of being indexed for CINAHL. Once completely indexed, the articles become part of the CINAHL database and are removed from Pre-CINAHL.
CiteSeer: Online library of scientific literature that aims to improve the functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness of scholarly communication in computer science scholarship. Offers algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in other digital libraries. (Updated daily)
Civil Engineering Database (ASCE): Provides access to all ASCE publications published since 1972 including journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newspapers. Engineering subject areas include: Aerospace Engineering, Architectural Engineering, Bridges, Cold Regions, Computer Practices, Construction, Earthquake Engineering, Education, Engineering Mechanics, Environmental Engineering, Forensic Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Highways, Hydrology, Hydraulics, Irrigation and Drainage, Management, Materials Engineering, Structural Engineering, Transportation, Urban Planning, Water Resources, Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering.

Clase and Periódica: Indexes articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues. Clase indexes journals in the social sciences and humanities, while Periódica indexes journals in the sciences and technology. Together, they provide more than 400,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.

Classical Music Library (5 concurrent user limit)

A comprehensive, searchable database of online listenable classical recordings, containing tens of thousands of songs from Medieval to contemporary, from choral works to symphonies, operas, and the avant-garde.

Classical Scores Library

When completed, Classical Scores Library will contain hundreds of scores (totalling over 400,000 pages) from both in-copyright and public domain editions. The collection includes works spanning time periods from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Coverage of score types is comprehensive, with full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions.

Columbia Earthscape: This interdisciplinary resource connects the Earth and environmental sciences with their social, political, and economic dimensions. Students, teachers, and librarians will find a dynamic, inquiry-based educational resource, featuring illustrated lectures, animations, video and image banks, exercises and labs, syllabi, and basic textbook readings. Columbia Earthscape also gives policy makers and professionals a robust, carefully selected and assessed collection of environmental legislation, regional studies, international environmental documents, and white papers. And it offers scientists an educational venue in which to incorporate their research as well as a growing archive of journal articles, journal abstracts, conference literature, full-text monographs and selected chapters, and online data sets.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO): Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs, updated monthly. CIAO publishes "a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs."

ComAbstracts: The ComAbstracts database contains abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field (communication studies, rhetoric, journalism, mass communication, speech). The full text of the ComAbstracts database can be searched; that is, abstracts may be searched by word, phrase, or author. Covers 1966 - present. (Updated quarterly)
ComIndex (5 concurrent user limit): ComIndex CIOS (Communication Inst. for Online Scholarship): Indexes the core literature of the communications discipline (communication studies, rhetoric, journalism, mass communication, speech). Includes more than 16,000 references from 37 key international journals and annuals. (Updated yearly.)

Communication & Mass Media Complete: Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study. CMMC offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for over 370 journals, and selected coverage of over 230 more, for a combined coverage of over 600 titles. It also includes full text for more than 240 journals. Many major journals have indexing, abstracts, PDFs and searchable cited references from their first issues to the present (dating as far back as 1915). In addition, CMMC contains over 3,000 Author Profiles, providing biographical data and bibliographic information, and covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database. (adapted from Ebsco description)


Compendex: This is the electronic version of The Engineering Index, the world's premier link to the engineering literature. The database adds about 500,000 records yearly. Compendex covers over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences, and reports. All areas of engineering are represented. Approximately 22% of the database is conference literature, and 90% of the source documents are in English. About half the citations (from 2,000 journals and conferences) include abstracts and indexing. (Updated weekly)

Update (5/8/06): Now includes the Engineering Index Backfile. Including over 1.7 million records, the backfile covers the engineering literature from 1884-1968.

Computer Physics Communications Program Library: The CPC Program Library is an integral part of the journal Computer Physics Communications. The Library's function is the storage and dissemination of refereed computer programs in physics and physical chemistry, whose detailed descriptions have been published in the journal Computer Physics Communications. The Program Library provides access via the Internet to the Library programs and to the corresponding full-text articles. The Program Library currently holds over 1,800 refereed computer programs which have been contributed by scientists from all over the world. As such it represents a major repository of computational knowledge and technique. These programs range in size from under one thousand to tens of thousands of lines of code. The contributed programs have been coded in a variety of programming languages including Algol, Ada, C, C++, Lisp, Mathematica, Maple, Occam and Pascal: however, the vast majority of contributions are programmed in Fortran.

Computing Reviews: Computing Reviews is a powerful online database of reviews in computing literature from Reviews.com and the ACM. The site presents a continually updated overview of the best new material published in the field. In addition to a ten year-plus archive of reviews and articles, Reviews.com also provides individuals with personalized alerts, customized searching and browsing.

Conference Board Business Knowledge Research Library: Searchable database of full-text publications from the Conference Board including:
--Research Reports on key business topics. (approx. 15/year)
Includes the following annual surveys with previous years under Annual Reports:
>Top Executive Compensation
>Corporate Contributions
>Directorship Compensation and Board Practices
>CEO Challenge*
-- Executive Action series of concise, topical reports on issues of current concern. (approx. 48/year)
-- StraightTalk, our chief economist, Gail Fosler's in-depth analysis of critical economic topics. Includes regular forecasts of the U.S. economy, interest rates, and foreign exchange rates. (10 issues/yr.)
-- Topline data on business executives expectations (a measure of business confidence) consumer confidence, consumer internet barometer, country indicators, and help-wanted index.***
-- Backfiles of data from 1998 and selected earlier reports considered still relevant.

*Part of the regular research database.
***The database does not include business cycle indicator data, consumer confidence survey data or leading indicators data. These and historic and time series data are separate subscriptions.
Conference Papers Index: Provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science. Information is derived from final programs, abstracts booklets and published proceedings, as well as from questionnaire responses. Records include complete ordering information to obtain preprints, abstracts, proceedings and other publications derived from the conference, together with title and author information needed to track the specific papers. (Updated bi-monthly)

Constitutions of the Countries of the World Online (10 concurrent users): Contains the full text for the constitutions of 192 countries. Constitutional scholars who are familiar with the legal system, judicial language and official language of each foreign jurisdiction provide authoritative translations into English. Complementing these official documents are Introductory and Comparative Notes that examine recent amendments and highlights of pertinent historical, political and economic information.
(Derived from publisher description)

Consumer Health Complete: Consumer Health Complete is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc. (Description adapted from Ebsco Publishing) (Access courtesy of Access PA)

Contemporary Authors: Biographical and bibliographical details on 100,000 modern authors: novelists, poets, playwrights, short-story writers, screenwriters, journalists and other non-fiction writers. Major authors who were active prior to 1960 whose influence is still seen in contemporary literature, are also featured.
Contemporary Women's Issues: Provides access to global information on women. Journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, along with fact sheets are easily accessed through CWI. Information on women in over 150 countries is compiled in a single collection bringing together such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education and human rights. Coverage from 1995 to the present. (Updated weekly)
Contemporary World Music: 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. Content is added on a regular basis, and when completed, Contemporary World Music will contain 50,000 tracks from all regions and 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, Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.

COS Expertise: COS Expertise is an online database containing more than 480,000 first-person profiles of researchers from over 1300 institutions worldwide. The profiles include contact information, positions held, publications, patents, funding received, and a first-person narrative describing current research activities and expertise. COS Expertise profiles also include direct links to e-mail, a personal home page, an online CV, patent abstracts (and full-text where available), publication abstracts, and available research grants. (Courtesy of the Office of the Vice President for Research)

COS Funding: COS Funding Opportunities is the largest and most comprehensive research funding database on the Web. It is updated daily and contains more than 23,000 records, representing more than 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion in potential award dollars. Individual researchers and research administrators rely on COS Funding Opportunities to identify funding information as it relates to research, collaborative activities, travel, curriculum development, conferences, fellowships, post-doctoral positions, equipment acquisition, operating and capital expenses, and more. (Courtesy of the Office of the Vice President for Research)
COS Funding: COS Funding Opportunities is the largest and most comprehensive research funding database on the Web. It is updated daily and contains more than 23,000 records, representing more than 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion in potential award dollars. Individual researchers and research administrators rely on COS Funding Opportunities to identify funding information as it relates to research, collaborative activities, travel, curriculum development, conferences, fellowships, post-doctoral positions, equipment acquisition, operating and capital expenses, and more. (Courtesy of the Office of the Vice President for Research)

Counseling and Psychotheraphy, Transcripts, Client Narratives and Reference Works: This database contains a collection of real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions, along with first-person narratives, which illuminate the experience of mental illness and its treatment. Included reference works help to contextualize the primary material. Updated biweekly.

CQ Press Political Reference Suite

CQ Press Political Reference Suite of Online Editions integrates many of CQ Press's acclaimed reference titles on government and politics into a user-friendly, electronic format.

Users can now access political reference content from CQ Press online by either searching or browsing the Reference Suite as a whole or by entering one of the online editions and beginning there. Web-exclusive features in the Reference Suite include:

* Capability to search across all CQ Press Online Editions with a simple and robust quick search
* Advanced search options that allow searching by keyword across full texts or focusing searches to certain topic areas
* Multiple, customized browse options to help locate and explore content
* Personalization options that save user profiles, document history, and searches
* CiteNow!™-An exclusive CQ Press feature that helps users easily download full citations in MLA, Chicago, Bluebook, and APA styles

The following online editions are also available in the Suite:

Congress and the Nation Series 1945-2004

* Navigate seamlessly through all eleven volumes of this definitive resource documenting nearly 60 years of the events, trends, and controversies in the U.S. Congress and the presidency.
* Access in-depth review and analysis of legislation and policy during each Congressional session and presidential term
* View tables, graphs, and charts that help explain vital issues.
* Appropriate for research on politics, U.S. history, government, political science, legal studies, public policy, business regulation, and more.

Historic Documents Series 1972-2005

* Research the most important primary source documents from the last three decades.
* Read expert commentary and analysis that sets each year's events in context.
* Perform advanced searches for documents by subject, date, and more.
* Appropriate for research on current events, U.S. history, international affairs, political science, public policy, and more.

Political Handbook of the World 2005-2006

* Quickly find current, in-depth political information on more than 200 countries.
* Search and browse country profiles based on political characteristics.
* Find important information including names of key ambassadors, international memberships of each country, and profiles of over 120 intergovernmental organizations.
* Appropriate for research on international relations, political science, public policy, comparative government.

CQ's Politics in America 2006

* Access lively, unbiased profiles and assessments of every member of the U.S. Congress.
* Search the full database of member profiles back to the year 2000, or limit searches by state, member, or political party.
* Research key votes, interest-group ratings, election results, state and district information, biographical data, contact information, and other member facts.
* Appropriate for research on U.S government, public policy, current events, and more.

Supreme Court Yearbook Series 1989-2005

* Search and browse sixteen years of expert coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court
* Read case summaries of every opinion during each court term.
* View helpful tables and figures on voting patterns and constitutional law.
* Appropriate for research on legal studies, U.S. history, politics, current events, public policy, and more.

Washington Information Directory 2006-2007

* Quickly access over 10,000 current contacts in federal, congressional, and state government offices, nongovernmental organizations, policy groups, and foundations.
* View organizational charts and tables that untangle departmental structures.
* Export contact information into letter templates and other formats.
* A must-have resource for lobbyists, government offices, non-profit organizations, job seekers looking for work in Washington, DC, and informed citizens everywhere.

Vital Statistics on American Politics 2005-2006

* Research key data on U.S. elections, the U.S. Congress, the presidency, the Supreme Court, public opinion, and more.
* Access over 200 helpful tables and figures.
* Export and download data into Microsoft Excel®.
* Appropriate for research on politics, public policy, U.S. government, legal studies, and more.

Description adapted from CQ Press website

CQ Researcher Online (20 concurrent users)

Founded in 1923 as Editorial Research Reports, CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published weekly in print and online 44 times a year by CQ Press, a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc.

Each single-themed, 12,000-word report is researched and written by a seasoned journalist. The consistent, reader-friendly organization provides researchers with an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.

CQ Researcher Online offers access to CQ Researcher reports dating back to 1991. PDF files are available for reports from January 1996; color PDFs are available for reports published after January 2001.

Description adapted from text on the CQ Press website

CQ Weekly

Expert coverage of the U.S. Congress including the status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering. Archived issues go back to 1983.

Credo Reference (formerly xreferplus): xreferplus is an online reference tool that provides access to the full-text of over 200 authoritative reference sources from a number of respected publishers. All entries from these resources are cross-referenced to each other, providing a rich source of integrated reference information.

Criminal Justice Abstracts: Criminal Justice Abstracts, contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations, and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines. Prepared in cooperation with the Criminal Justice Collection of Rutgers University Library, Criminal Justice Abstracts covers trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment, and sentencing. The database contains indexes of print journals from 1968, as well as thousands of archival records not available in any other format. Coverage: 1968-Present; Data Type: Bibliographic with Abstracts; Number of Records: 59,140+; Records Added Annually: 2,500+; Subjects Covered: Crime, Drugs, Law, Safety ,Social Science, Sociology, Political Science , Public Administration, and Government. (Updated quarterly)
Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection: Criminology: A Sage Full-Text Collection is a searchable collection of bibliographic records with links to the full text in PDF format of 23 journals published by Sage and participating societies. The collection covers subjects such as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.

CURL Union Catalogue (5 concurrent user limit): From the Consortium of University Research Libraries, contains 17.5 million records that represent the holdings of member academic and legal deposit libraries throughout Great Britain and Ireland. Most CURL members are also members of RLG. The majority of records represent monographs (88 %), but the database also contains records for periodicals, conference papers, government publications, microforms, and music. More than half the records represent materials published since 1980. More than 73 % of the records represent materials in English, but records for documents published in a wide range of other languages are also included. (Updated daily)
Current Index to Statistics: The Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. The CIS Extended Database (CIS-ED) includes coverage, in most cases from 1974 (or first issue if later) to the present (currently, volumes published in 1997) from 106 "core journals" (and pre-1974 coverage for a number of them), selected articles since 1974 from about 900 additional journals, and about 8000 books in statistics published since 1974. Each year, the Extended Database is updated with an additional year of coverage. A Print Volume is also produced annually containing listings for the most recent year. CIS is a joint venture of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. (Updated twice yearly)
Current Protocols Series: The titles in the Current Protocols Series provide hundreds of basic to advanced research protocols and overviews covering areas of interest in the life sciences. Each protocol contains a materials list, and the units feature commentary and guidelines written and edited by experts. All protocols are carefully selected for maximum applicability, lab-tested in leading laboratories, and then thoroughly scrutinized by expert editorial boards to make sure you can easily duplicate them in your own labs. Temple University subscribes to the following Current Protocols:

Current Protocols in Bioinformatics
Current Protocols in Cell Biology
Current Protocols in Cytometry
Current Protocols in Human Genetics
Current Protocols in Immunology
Current Protocols in Microbiology
Current Protocols in Molecular Biology
Current Protocols in MRI
Current Protocols in Neuroscience
Current Protocols in Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Current Protocols in Pharmacology
Current Protocols in Protein Science
Current Protocols in Toxicology

Declassified Documents Reference System (3 concurrent user limit)

After 1974, as thousands of previously classified United States government documents were declassified, the Declassified Documents Reference System was developed to organize the tremendous volume of material and to make it easily accessible to researchers. Declassified Documents Reference System has become a major and highly respected source of information about United States post-World War II domestic policy and international relations. It remains the only compilation of materials that are recorded as they are released by United States government agencies, the National Archives and Presidential Libraries. Declassified Documents Reference System contains over 78,000 documents, constituting more than 450,000 pages of material and is an unprecedented research tool for researchers, political scientists and policymakers around the world. Declassified Documents Reference System enables users to examine documents originating from a wealth of United States government official bodies and agencies, including:

* Cabinet meeting minutes
* National Security Council policy statements
* CIA intelligence studies
* Presidential conferences
* State Department political analyses
* Joint Chiefs papers

Covering major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond, this single source enables users to locate key information underpinning studies in international relations, American studies, United States Foreign and Domestic Policy Studies, journalism and more. Information relating to all major political and military events from every corner of the globe since World War II offers fascinating insight into government viewpoints, activities and decisions. The information will also deepen the user's understanding of the inner workings of United States domestic affairs involving both the military and the White House.

Documents included in Declassified Documents Reference System were inaccessible for review until after their release, therefore, the information they provide often offers completely new perspectives and understandings of important events. Not only do they confirm, refute or expand contemporary military coverage of post World War II trends and events, but they also encourage critical re-evaluation of previously published memoirs or other subjective writings.
(Description from Thomson Gale)

Design & Applied Arts Index

Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) is a leading source of abstracts and bibliographic records for articles, news items, and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals from 1973 onwards. DAAI covers both new designers and the development of design and the applied arts since the mid-19th century, surveying disciplines including ceramics, glass, jewellery, wood, metalsmithing, graphic design, fashion and clothing, textiles, furniture, interior design, architecture, computer aided design, Web design, computer-generated graphics, animation, product design, industrial design, garden design, and landscape architecture.


Deutsche Bibliothek Database (5 concurrent user limit): Union catalog of the 8.5 million records of National Library of Germany, the Deutsche Bibliothek. The database includes the holdings of the Deutsche Bucherei Leipzig (founded in 1913), the Deutsche Bibliothek Frankfürt am Main (founded 1947), and the Deutsches Musikarchiv Berlin (since 1970). The Deutsche Bibliothek Database contains records of monographs, periodicals, microforms, dissertations, visual materials, maps, printed and recorded music, and electronic publications. Several special collections are represented: Anne-Frank-Shoah-Bibliothek, watermarks, paper samples, the Reichsbibliothek of 1848 Socialistica, posters, patents and documents of international organizations. (Updated daily)

Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970: Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 provides digital access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities.

Sanborn maps are valuable historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods. They are large-scale plans containing data that can be used to estimate the potential risk for urban structures. This includes information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers.

Textual information on construction details (for example, steel beams or reinforced walls) is often given on the plans while shading indicates different building materials. Extensive information on building use is given, ranging from symbols for generic terms such as stable, garage, and warehouse to names of owners of factories and details on what was manufactured in them. In the case of large factories or commercial buildings, even individual rooms and the uses to which they were put are recorded on the maps. Other features shown include pipelines, railroads, wells, dumps, and heavy machinery. Click here to access a key provided by the Sanborn Map Company.

DOE Information Bridge: The DOE Information Bridge provides free and convenient access to full-text and bibliographic records of Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics. DOE's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) makes this web site available to the public in partnership with the Government Printing Office (GPO), through GPO Access.


DRAM: DRAM Online provides CD quality audio, complete with original liner notes and essays of the diverse catalogue of American music recordings (over 1,500 CDs of 9,800 compositions from folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theatre, contemporary, electronic and beyond) from New World Records, Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI), Albany Records, Innova Recordings, Cedille Records and other important labels.

Early American Fiction: Provides both images and text for a well-defined and comprehensive collection of early American fiction. Presently includes 440 titles by 80 authors, including first printings of works by James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Montgomery Bird, Washington Irving, Catharine Sedgwick, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Published jointly with the University of Virginia Library. When complete, Early American Fiction 1789-1875 will incorporate the full text of more than 250 additional titles and over 60 new authors, including Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Herman Melville and Thomas Bailey Aldrich, as well as a host of minor writers of the period. Early American Fiction 1789-1875 will include more than 750 works of fiction by more than 130 authors.
Early American Imprints: This CD ROM contains North American Imprints Program records for materials printed before 1801 in what is now the U.S., including records for items recorded by Evans or Bristol but not filmed by Readex and records for materials unrecorded by Evans or Bristol and therefore not filmed.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800): Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819): Covering 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. A 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, allows students and scholars to explore the development of the American nation as never before. Designed for researchers of varying skill levels, the intuitive interface of this long-awaited digital edition offers both simple and advanced searching as well as in-depth browsing within sixteen carefully indexed subject categories.


Early Encounters in North America: Assembled from hundreds of primary sources, this database documents the relationships among peoples and with the environment in North America from 1534 to 1850. (Updated quarterly)
Early English Books Online: From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection contains over 96,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475 - 1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and Thomason Tracts and their revised edition. Designed for graduate scholars in the areas of English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, and the fine arts.
Early English Prose Fiction (1500-1700): Over 200 complete works in fictional prose from the period 1500-1700.
EBSCO Animals: "EBSCO's Encyclopedia of Animals offers information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Within some of the full text, image links are available for the Windows client. Images are accessed by double-clicking any image graphic." (Ebsco description)
ebusinessforum.com: Produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit, this is a compilation of news analysis, market research, best practices and descriptions of doing business for e-commerce in 45 countries. Does not include the U.S. It covers the current year. (Updated daily)
Ecology Abstracts: Covers current ecology research across a range of disciplines, focusing on how organisms of all kinds interact with their environments and with other organisms. Includes relevant papers on evolutionary biology, economics, and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment. (Updated monthly)
EconLit (4 concurrent user limit): Econlit, compiled by the American Economic Assn. from the Journal of Economic Literature and the Index of Economic Articles, is a comprehensive, indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the worldwide literature on economics from over 300 major economic journals, books, and collective volumes. (Updated monthly)
EDGAR: The Securities and Exchange Commission database of electronic filings, self-described as follows: "EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Its primary purpose is to increase the efficiency and fairness of the securities market for the benefit of investors, corporations, and the economy by accelerating the receipt, acceptance, dissemination, and analysis of time-sensitive corporate information filed with the agency." Searchable by company name. (Updated daily)
Education Index (4 concurrent user limit): Provides bibliographic information for articles from over 500 periodicals with full text available from over 300. Indexing goes back to 1929 and abstracts to 1994. Articles from books relating to education, which were published after 1995, are also included. Topics include a wide range of contemporary education issues including, adult education, continuing education, library science, literacy standards, multicultural/ethnic education, teaching methods, etc.

Education Research Complete: Education Research Complete (ERC) is a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. ERC also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals, as well as full text for more than 750 journals. Full text for more than 100 books and monographs, and numerous education-related conference papers are also included. (adapted from Ebsco description)


Educator's Reference Desk: Produced by the creators of AskERIC, The Educator's Reference Desk provides access to AskERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses through a search interface to the ERIC Database, providing access to over one million bibliographic records on educational research, theory, and practice.

e-EROS: Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis: e-EROS is the online version of the core reference work Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis. It contains systematic and exhaustive coverage of reagents used in organic synthesis. The database contains around 70,000 reactions and around 4000 of the most frequently consulted reagents and is fully searchable by structure and substructure, reagent, reaction type, experimental conditions.


Egrants.net: Egrants.net provides daily email notification of all new grant announcements and offers direct links to the grant summary and funding source, saving health professionals and researchers valuable time. Once you've registered and set up your own individual account, you can sign up for email notification of new grant opportunities as they are posted, and in your own interest areas. (Courtesy of the Office of the Vice President for Research)
eHRAF World Cultures: HRAF is an acronym for Human Relations Area Files, a non-profit institution founded in 1949 at Yale University. HRAF is a consortium of educational, research, and cultural organizations, and government agencies; its mission is to encourage and facilitate the study of human culture, society, and behavior. This mission is accomplished mainly through the compilation, indexing, and distribution of a collection of ethnographic and other texts that are indexed by culture and subject. Today, HRAF has over 400 member institutions located in over 30 nations. In its early years the collection was distributed on paper slips. In 1958, HRAF began to reproduce the paper slips on microfiche. Microfiche reproduction ended in 1991, and all new material as well as retrospective conversion and updating of existing material began with the release of eHRAF on CD-ROM in April 1995. (eHRAF stands for the electronic collections of HRAF.) Currently HRAF has collections of ethnography, available on both CD-ROM and WWW. In 1998 HRAF began distributing a collection of archaeology in both formats. While all material currently on microfiche remains available on the fiche format, no new microfiche installments are being produced and all material added after 1991 is available only in electronic form. (Updated yearly)

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

"Derived from the Eighteenth Century microfilm collection from Thomson Gale imprint Primary Source Microfilm™, Eighteenth Century Collections Online’s digitized format features 150,000 printed volumes — comprising more than 26 million pages — in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. With full-text search capabilities across all 26 million pages, this collection provides multidisciplinary research opportunities not possible until now.

Material found in this revolutionary resource is based on the English Short Title Catalogue bibliography and is derived from some of the world’s largest and most prestigious university, private, public and research libraries.

The value of this collection is that it makes hard-to-find material in every academic discipline available online including:

■ History and Geography
Ancient and contemporary history, accounts of voyages and discoveries, historical biographies and memoirs, genealogical collections, gazetteers, works on church antiquities and tourist guides of Britain. Topics include chronologies, recreation (travel, sports, parlor games), military history, maps, local history and topography. It should also be noted that this collection presents a comprehensive picture of the American Revolution from the British perspective.
■ Social Science & Fine Arts
Social Science — Materials on manufacturers and merchants, artisans and skilled workers, and international business, banking, taxation and lotteries. Topics include current events, social reform, business/economics/finance (general advertising, lotteries, trade bills and more), political science (parliamentary papers, political satire, political essays, speech/addresses, handbills, parish registers, poll books and more).
Fine Arts, Music, Art and Architecture —
Treatises on music, painting, theater andarchitecture as well as books on building and carpentry, catalogs pertaining to vocal and instrumental music, paintings, prints, drawings, coins and metals and other collectibles, and material about private art collections.
■ Medicine, Science and Technology
Many branches of science, works on applied science and technology, and works and treatises on the treatment of diseases and conditions. Topics include agriculture, cookbooks, military technology, natural philosophy, scientific education and more.
■ Literature and Language
Celebrated eighteenth-century essayists, novelists, poets and playwrights, as well as Shakespeare’s plays, poems and collected works. Topics include drama, poetry, ballads, religious poems, grammar, dictionaries, songs from plays, satire, book catalogues and more.
■ Religion and Philosophy
From sermons, Bibles and prayer books to moral and ethical debates and prescriptions for proper conduct.
■ Law
Development of law in the British Empire between 1701 and 1800. Topics include acts, criminal and international law, appellants’ cases and more."
(Description courtesy of Thomson Gale)

Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1700-1780)

96 complete works in English prose from the period 1700-1780, by writers from the British Isles. Includes a scanned version of Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and two different editions of Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela and of Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements

Provides access to detailed abstracts from all the environmental impact statements the federal government issues. EIS extracts the key issues from government-released environmental impact statements into concise, readable abstracts. Each entry includes a clear description of the project, sections on positive impact and negative consequences, and legal mandates. (Updated bi-monthly)

Electronic Research Archive for Mathematics

Complete electronic catalogue of the mathematical publications between 1868 - 1942 (Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik database). At the moment the database contains:

Volumes 1-46 (1868-1916): bibliographical data and abstracts (enhanced)
Volume 48, 49 (1922-23): bibliographical data and abstracts
Volume 51, 52, 53 (1925-27): bibliographical data and abstracts
Volume 55, 56 (1930-31): bibliographical data and abstracts
Volumes 47, 50, 54: bibliographical data

Emerald Fulltext

Fulltext journals published by Emerald.

Encyclopaedia Judaica

A CD-ROM Database, containing 26 volumes of the original text, updated and with hyperlinks, rare films, photographs, slideshows, music, maps, charts, and tables. Not Networked. Available only in Paley Library.

Encyclopedia of American Studies

"The Encyclopedia of American Studies brings together a wide range of disciplines related to the history and cultures of the United States, from pre-colonial days to the present. It features broad, synthetic articles covering areas such as history, literature, art, photography, film, architecture, urban studies, ethnicity, race, gender, economics, politics, wars, consumer culture, and global America.

Interdisciplinary in its coverage of the American experience, this comprehensive reference has been written by hundreds of internationally renowned scholars who present their topics in clear and lively prose.

With over 660 online, searchable articles and bibliographies, the Encyclopedia of American Studies provides an integrated approach to problems, themes, and issues that cut across disciplinary lines. The breadth and depth of disciplines, topics, and issues featured in this resource support research and study in a wide range of courses and assignments at all levels."

The Encyclopedia's editor in chief is Temple's own Miles Orvell.

Encyclopedia Britannica: This online edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is a fully searchable and browsable collection of over 73,000 authoritative reference articles. Several bonus features are included in this reference tool: Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus; thousands of photographs, illustrations, and sound files; hundreds of relevant videos; hot links from Encyclopaedia Britannica articles to related magazine and journal articles from EBSCO and ProQuest online databases; World Data containing information and customizable charts and tables about nations of the world; Notable Quotations from historical and contemporary important men and women; and Gateway to the Classics, hundreds of works by significant writers of the Western world.


Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert: "First published over the course of more than twenty years (1751-1777), the 32 volumes of the Encyclopédie include 21 volumes of text with more than 70,000 articles on subjects ranging from asparagus to zodiac. The remaining 11 volumes contain beautifully engraved plates illustrating many of the articles. The Encyclopédie was the major achievement of the French Enlightenment whose aim, in Diderot's words, was to "change the common way of thinking" through the expansion of knowledge and the development of critical modes of thought.

The Encyclopédie was a collaborative project, the work of a "society of men of letters," as its title page declared. By the time the last volume was published, more than 140 people had contributed articles to its pages. In the same spirit, this website is a collaborative effort of volunteer translators who share an interest in the Enlightenment and a belief in the value of making freely available to English readers articles from the Encyclopédie. The articles you will find here reflect the interests and expertise of the translators. Although we cannot hope to translate all 70,000 articles, we will continue to post new translations as they come in. This is an ongoing project to which we hope many more people will contribute.

For students and teachers, the Encyclopédie is a crucial resource as well as an important gateway into the project of Enlightenment. The Collaborative Translation Website allows you to browse articles that have been translated and to search the database of translations in a variety of ways. You will also find links to the original French versions of translated articles. Other enhancements are planned. " (from the Project description (http://www.hti.umich.edu/d/did/intro.html)
Encyclopedia of Islam Online: The Encyclopaedia of Islam Online Edition includes the entire text of volumes I to XI and Supplement (Volume XII) of the printed edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam. Additional search facilities, enhanced by the inclusion of two original indices (Index of Proper Names, Index of Subjects) and the Supplement enable the user to efficiently search and combine data from a vast corpus of over 12,000 printed pages.
In order to present the reader with the familiar print characteristics, a special font has been developed for the display – and searching – of the transliterations. For these to display properly, please download and install the Brill fonts as instructed on the Encyclopedia's introductory screen.

Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science: Online version of the second edition. Covers traditional areas of librarianship as well as competitive intelligence, decision support systems, digital library projects, electronic records preservation, ethical issues in information, online library instruction, software reliability, user-centered service. Targets new and dynamic movements in the distribution, acquisition, and development of print and online media—addressing recruitment, program planning in the digital era, information management, advances in digital technology and encoding, intellectual property issues, and hardware, software, and database selection and design.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS) includes articles, essays, and news in the biological and life sciences. More than 6,000 illustrations are provided. Core coverage: biochemistry, biodiversity, cell biology, clinical medicine, developmental biology, ecology, evolution, genetics history, philosophy of science, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology, neuroscience, plant science, structural biology, and virology.Contains peer-reviewed articles commissioned from 5,000 world-renown scientists. All articles have a list of reference, some of which provide links to external Web sources. Appendix and glossary components provide descriptions of biochemical and taxonomical data, acronyms and abbreviations, synonyms, units, and other technical data. "Special Essays" were commissioned to address 50 "hot topics." By creating an account on My Profile, users may save searching histories as well as articles for later review.
Energy Citations: Designed and developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) the Energy Citations provides access to the Department's scientific and technical information. Contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The Database provides access to DOE publicly available citations from 1948 through the present, with continued growth through regular updates. Covers literature in disciplines of interest to DOE such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related disciplines. It includes citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents.
English Drama (1280-1915): A combination of Chadwyck-Healey's English Verse Drama and English Prose Drama full-text databases. 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century.
English Poetry (600-1900): Essentially the complete English poetic canon from the 8th century to the early 20th. Over 160,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.
English Poetry, Second Edition: English Poetry, Second Edition redefines the English poetic canon for the 21st century, building on the achievement of its ground-breaking predecessor with enhanced functionality and the addition of more than 20,000 poems from several new categories. Containing more than 183,000 poems by over 2,700 poets, the most comprehensive archive of English verse from the 8th century to the early 20th now offers incomparable representation both of the literary heritages of Commonwealth and ex-colonial countries and of the poetic legacies of English writers who have only been brought back to scholarly attention during the last thirty years.

English Short Title Catalog: Describes English-language letterpress materials printed in Great Britain or its colonies from 1473 to 1800, as well as material printed in English anywhere in the world during that period. The database sources are ESTC/North America and The British Library and represents holdings of over 1600 libraries worldwide. (Updated daily)

ENGnetBASE: The complete text of over 500 engineering handbooks from CRC Press. Each chapter is a pdf file and is full-text searchable. Handbooks are in the fields of aerospace engineering, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, electronics, engineering (general), engineering management, environmental engineering, industrial Engineering & manufacturing, industrial engineering management, lasers & optics, material science, mechanical engineering, nanoscience/nanotechnology, operations research, packaging, systems engineering.

ENVIROnetBASE (2 concurrent user limit): The complete text of over 220 handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and treatises from Taylor & Francis imprints. Each chapter is a pdf file and is full-text searchable. Content covers earth science, ecological economics, ecology, environmental modeling & systems analysis, envrionmental & ecological risk assessment, environmental & occupational health/safety, environmental chemistry & toxicology, environmental engineering, environmental law, management, & compliance, geology, GIS & mapping, landscape ecology, remote sensing & photogrammetry, resource management & sustainability, turfgrass science & engineering, and water science, technology, & engineering.

Environmental Engineering Abstracts: Covers the world literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production. Offers indexing and abstracting of more than 700 primary journals. Over 2,500 additional sources, including monographs and conference proceedings, are also monitored for relevant articles.
Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management: Covers relevant fields across the environmental sciences and the primary sources for 11 abstracting journals. Date coverage varies. (Updated monthly)
ERIC: The ERIC database contains bibliographic records of research reports, conference papers, teaching guides, books, and journal articles relating to the practice of education. ERIC Digests are included. Covers the period 1966-present. (Updated monthly)
esp@cenet: Full-text of European (EP), World (WO) and other patents back to the 1970's. Also links to individual European country patent databases.
Essay and General Literature Index (4 concurrent user limit): Produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, is a unique reference database that cites records contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. More than 320 single and multi-authored volumes are indexed annually with more than 20 selected annuals and serial publications. Essay & General Literature Index provides access to nearly 65,000 essays found in over 5,300 printed anthologies and collections, with coverage dating as far back as 1985. Subjects covered in the database include archaeology, architecture, art, children's literature, classical studies, drama, economics, fiction, film, folklore, history, linguistics, music, poetry, political science, psychology, religion, women's studies and more, covering the entire range of the humanities and social sciences. (Updated yearly)
Ethnic NewsWatch (12 concurrent user limit): Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. A rich collection of articles, editorials, columns, reviews, etc. provide a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints -- the other sides of the stories. (Updated monthly)
Europa World: Europa World is the online version of the Europa World Year Book, a well respected source of information on world-wide affairs. First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.

The 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 James Joyce, Siegfried Sassoon, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney. In total The Faber Poetry Library contains 140 volumes by 50 poets.
Factiva (7 concurrent user limit): Factiva, from Dow Jones and Reuters, provides access to over 9,000 sources from 118 countries, in 22 languages including:

· 1,500+ global and local newspapers including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, South
China Morning Post, Le Monde, Les Echos, The Guardian, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
· 3,200+ journals and magazines, including industry-specific journals and newsletters including The Economist, Finanz & Wirtschaft, Satellite News, Computerworld, and Journal of Organizational Analysis
· 500+ newswires
· 160+ media programs
· 4,000+ websites in more than 20 languages
· Company Background Data on 42,500 listed companies
· Celex documents
· 3,000+ pictures added each week
· 6,500 articles updated daily
· 25,000 companies available in Company Screening
· 180,000 equity prices from 85 exchanges worldwide (Market Indexes, funds, corporate bonds,
stocks, US Treasury Bills, US Treasury Notes, and US Treasury Bonds)

FedStats: Official statistical information available to the public from the Federal Government. Track economic and population trends, education, health care costs, aviation safety, foreign trade, energy use, farm production, and more. Access official statistics collected and published by more than 100 Federal agencies. (Updated daily)
Fed In Print: An index to Federal Reserve economic research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, one of twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks across the U.S. that, together with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., serve as our nation's central bank. (Updated monthly)

FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus

From the International Federation of Film Archives, this resource is composed of 4 parts:

International Index to Film Periodicals
Indexes over 300 film periodicals as far back as 1972 using a 20,000+ subject-term thesaurus.

Treasures from Film Archives
Contains credit and holdings information about silent-era film holdings held in archives world-wide.

Documentation Collections
Includes Information about film document collections held around the world.

FIAF Members' Publications
Includes information on materials published since 1966 by FIAF archives.

Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text: Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text is an online tool for film and television research. It is a comprehensive bibliographic and full-text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 270 publications (and selected coverage of more than 300), as well as full text for 70 journals and nearly 50 books. The Image Collection contains over 24,000 classic black & white and color images of celebrity and entertainment photography, provided by the Motion Picture & Television Archives. The new Variety Movie Reviews authority file consists of over 32,500 full text reviews, dating back to 1914. This collection provides a unique overview of the development of cinema, from the early part of the 20th century to the present.

Film Index International

Film Index International is comprised of two databases. The first contains information about approximately 90,000 films which date back to the introduction of sound in 1930, and further back in the cases of film-makers such as Chaplin. The second database contains details about over 38,000 personalities. In addition, most of the records include a comprehensive list of references from periodicals. The full records of each database are linked with hyperlinks so one can call up information about a particular personality from a film record and then view another film in which the person appeared.
Film Indexes Online: Film Indexes Online brings Film Index International and American Film Insitute (AFI) Catalog together in one site.

Film Index International is a filmography that provides international coverage of more than 120,000 films and 700,000 film personalities from over 170 countries. Its rich content also includes coverage of international film awards and prizes as well as searchable plot summaries and full cast and crew lists.

Film records contain detailed film information detailing the director, full cast and crew lists, year of release and production information. Credits, awards and a synopsis are also included. Person records include complete biographical information, a list of awards received, plus a complete list of the films the subject featured in. Each record is hyperlinked to other related records, enabling you to navigate from the listed films to the corresponding film record. References to film journals are also cited in many film and person records, allowing you to extend your research.

All eras of film-making are covered - from the early silent movies to recent box-office hits. Based on the bfi's Summary of Information on Film and Television (SIFT) database, Film Index International is both inclusive and authoritative.

AFI Catalog is the premier resource for American films providing a detailed view of American feature films produced during the last century. Providing an unmatched level of detail, full production and cast information as well as extensive plot summaries and notes are included to give you the full picture.

The ultimate national filmography, AFI Catalog documents over 47,000 American films from 1893-1958 and 1961-1971. More than 17,500 entries cover the early years of American film from 1893 to 1910. Drawing on the expertise of specialist staff at the AFI, it is a key resource for any institution, media body or library that is involved with the research, study and teaching of film.

AFI Catalog also includes full listing of the Top 10 films from 2000-03. The AFI records the year's most outstanding achievements in film, and honours these at the annual AFI Awards. The site includes information on the chosen films listed in alphabetical order within each year the film was premiered.


FIRSTConsult: FIRSTConsult is an evidence-based clinical information tool for health care providers. In collaboration with an Editorial Board of respected authors and opinion leaders, FIRSTConsult synthesizes findings from journals and other respected references into a templated knowledge base that is organized into a highly accessible format.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974-1996: FBIS Daily Reports are translated transcripts of foreign radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements. The reports contain political, military, economic, environmental, and sociological news and information. FBIS Daily Reports became World News Connection after 1996.

Foreign Law Guide: Contains background information on the history and legal system of the countries of the world and discusses sources of the law for each country. The resource also provides a bibliography to locate primary sources of legislation for foreign jurisdictions.

FRANCIS (International Humanities & Social Sciences): Covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (67%), social sciences (30%), and economics (3%). FRANCIS is strong in all aspects of the humanities, with special emphasis in religion, the history of art, psychology, and literature, focusing on current trends in European and world literature. It is the successor to the highly regarded printed Bulletin Signaletique and covers over 4200 journals. Updated monthly, FRANCIS is produced by the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS) and covers 1984 to the present, with more than one and a half million records.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia: "indexes over 25,000 records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. The database contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually." (Ebsco description)

Gale Directory Library: Search, sort, and download text records from online versions of well-known directories from Gale, such as Ward’s Business Directory and the Encyclopedia of Associations.

Gale Ready Reference Shelf

Provides integrated access to over 300,000 entries culled from the databases of fourteen of Gale's most popular reference directories:

* Directories in Print
* Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers
* Encyclopedia of American Religions
* Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U.S.
* Encyclopedia of Associations: International Organizations
* Encyclopedia of Associations: Regional, State and Local Organizations
* Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory Organizations
* Gale Directory of Databases
* Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
* Newsletters in Print
* Publishers Directory
* Research Centers Directory
* International Research Centers Directory
* Government Research Centers Directory

Gale Reference works on netLibrary (1 concurrent user limit)

Online versions of reference works in the Social Sciences. Fulltext content is delivered in .pdf format, in color as appropriate. Fulltext searchable.

Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol & Addictive Behavior
Encyclopedia of Public Health
Encyclopedia of Aging
International Encyclopedia of Marriage & Family
Encyclopedia of Crime & Justice
Encyclopedia of Sociology

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Includes fulltext versions of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources across all subject areas.

Gallery: Temple University Image Database

Locally hosted database, currently holding almost 20,000 high quality images from the Tyler Slide Library. Images can be organized into slideshows, saved, viewied, and output as pdf files.

Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index: Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index covers a wide range of serial titles including general gardening titles of national, international, and regional interest, and titles devoted to specialty gardens and plant groups. Indexed and abstracted are more than 300 core titles, the majority of which are published in English. Coverage for many titles extends back further than a decade. Topics include horticulture, botany, garden and landscape design & history, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy. (adapted from Ebsco description)
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online: The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online contains over 9,000 pages of material, the full text of the 10-volume print encyclopedia (more than 700 articles) with links to associated audio examples, musical illustrations, photographs, and drawings; song texts and score examples; and charts and maps of world regions.

GenderWatch (12 concurrent user limit)

GenderWatch is a full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. GenderWatch supports programs in business, education, literature and the arts, health sciences, history, political science, public policy, sociology and contemporary culture, gender and women's studies and more. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, n-g-o and special reports. The database provides in-depth coverage of the subjects that are uniquely central to women's lives, including family, childbirth, birth control, daycare, domestic abuse, work and the workplace, sexual harassment, aging, aging parents, body image, eating disorders and social and societal roles. It also includes content on the impact of gender and gender roles on areas such as: the arts, popular culture and media, business and work, crime and criminology, education, research and scholarship, family, health care and medicine, politics, policy and legislation, pornography, religion, sexuality and sexology, sports and leisure. GenderWatch contains archival material, in some cases as far back as the 1970's with additional archival material continually added, making this the repository of an important historical perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles and understandings over the last fifteen to twenty years.

General Business File

Covers all aspects of business and management, including company and industry information. The database provides bibliographic references, abstracts or full text for articles from more than 900 business, economic, management, trade and industry publications; profiles of nearly 200,000 public and private companies; industry descriptions based on Standard Industrial Classification Codes (SIC) codes; and abstracts or full text of investment reports and forecasts for more than 11,000 US and international companies and for 53 industries prepared by Wall Street and international brokerage firms. Coverage of periodical material includes the current year to date and the previous three years; coverage of individual titles may vary. An email option and hypertext links to related material are also included.

General Science Index (4 concurrent user limit)

Produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, indexes articles from over 275 leading journals and magazines from the United States and Great Britain including popular science magazines and professional journals. Over 90 titles are available in full text. Designed for students and non-specialist, coverage in General Science Index includes feature articles, reports of symposia and conferences, biographical sketches, obituaries, review articles, selected letters to the editor, and book reviews. Topics covered include: Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Health & Medicine, Zoology, etc. General Science Index contains indexing back to 1984. (Updated monthly)

GEOBASE

Worldwide literature on geography, geology, ecology, and related disciplines. Over 2,000 journals fully covered, with an additional 3,000 selectively covered; also books, monographs, proceedings, reports are indexed. Coverage/update: 1980 to present; adds new records daily. (Updated monthly)

GeoRef

Produced by the American Geological Institute, this database is a comprehensive geoscience database containing over 2.2 million bibliographic records from more than 3,000 journals and other sources. GeoRef provides coverage in subject areas such as mineralogy and crystallography, general mineralogy, mineralogy of silicates, and mineralogy of non-silicates. (Updated twice monthly)

GeoScienceWorld

Comprehensive resource for research and communications in the geosciences, built on a core database aggregation of full-text peer-reviewed journals. GeoScienceWorld was founded by the following leading earth sciences organizations:

* American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG),
* American Geological Institute (AGI),
* Geological Society of America (GSA),
* The Geological Society of London (GSL),
* Mineralogical Society of America (MSA),
* Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), and
* Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)

Gerritsen Collection - Women's History Online, 1543-1945

In the late 1800s, Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs Gerritsen began collecting monographs and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and women's rights. By the time her successors finished their work in 1945, the Gerritsen Collection was the greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world, with materials spanning four centuries and fifteen languages.

Global Books in Print

Global Books in Print includes:

Access to Bowker's Books In Print® database of over 4 million titles that are available in the U.S. & Canada, as well as Whitaker's British Books In Print® database of over 1 million titles available in the U.K.

Access to Bowker's Publishers Authority Database, a comprehensive database of over 165,000 publishers, distributors, wholesalers and book agents
An easy way to download, e-mail and print title information and search results
The ability to check stock availability with various U.S. and Canadian wholesalers, plus you can check their discount schedules, return policies and more
The ability to check whether your library has a particular title ("Hooks To Holdings")
The ability to download title information into vendor-specific formats to streamline the ordering process (the new "Order Download" feature)
Search workspace for Forthcoming titles, Children's titles, and Fiction titles
A search workspace for titles that were nominated or won over 300+ awards
Access to over 450,000 Full text Reviews, over 400,000 cover images, over 500,000 annotations
Daily updates

Global Health (4 concurrent user limit): 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 much more. Coverage is 1910-present and includes abstracts and indexes of English and foreign language journals, books, research reports, theses, conference proceedings, annual reports, developing country information and other forms of hard to find literature from over 150 countries.

Global Insight

Global Insight provides comprehensive economic, financial, and political coverage of countries, regions, and industries — covering over 200 countries and spanning more than approximately 170 industries.

Advanced Country Analysis and Forecast provides the following key benefits:
--Issues and trends tracked daily for 203 countries through Global Insight's Same-Day Analysis service
--Country reports featuring in-depth political, economic, legal, tax, operational, and security analysis
--Daily updates for over 200 country and sovereign risk ratings, with interactive reports
--Economic Data and Forecasts, which include:
*Key monthly, quarterly, and annual economic indicators for 203 countries on up to 150 economic indicators
*Twenty-year forecast horizon
*All aspects of economic developments, sectors, and trade profiles
*Historical data going back to 1970
*Flexible download, comparison and graphing capabilities though the DataInsight-Web tool.

Global Insight also includes the following industry-specific services providing market and risk analysis, industry trends, and company data:

--World Markets Automotive
--World Markets Energy
--World Markets Healthcare
--World Markets Telecoms

Note: the DataInsight-Web tool requires Internet Explorer

Global Market Information Database

Global Market Information Database (GMID) is a marketing tool provided by Euromonitor that contains data for many countries on consumer market sizes, market data & forecasts, consumer lifestyles, companies and brands. Use Global Market Information Database to retrieve international market research data, including reports on specific products and industries.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a subset of Google Web Search that searches specifically for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. By searching Google Scholar from Temple's library web site, you will automatically have direct access, both on and off campus, to subscription articles already paid for through the library. Just look for the "Find Full-Text @ TU" link within search results.

GPO Access

GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted. This free service is funded by the Federal Depository Library Program and has grown out of Public Law 103-40, known as the Government Printing Office Electronic Information Enhancement Act of 1993. The free services of GPO Access include:

Government information databases for your online use
Individual Federal agency files available for download
Tools to assist you in finding Government Information
Collections of Government information available for free use at a library near you
User Support

GPO Monthly Catalog

Over 450,000 records on all subjects of interest to the U.S. government: Congressional reports, hearings, debates, judiciary materials, documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.). Coverage/update: July 1976 to the present; adds new records monthly.

GreenFILE: GreenFILE is a collection of scholarly, government, and general-interest titles that focuses on the relationship between human beings and the environment. Topics include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling. It covers the environmental effects of individuals, corporations, and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact.
Greenwood Digital Collection: Ebooks from the Greenwood Publishing Group.

Grove Art Online (3 concurrent user limit)

Grove Art Online provides Web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke (2001). It offers ongoing additions of new and updated articles, over 1,500 thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles, extensive image links, and sophisticated search and navigation tools.

Grove Music Online (3 concurrent user limit)

Grove Music Online is an integrated music resource on the Web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition; 29 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition; 3 volumes). It is updated annually to ensure it remains up to date and includes key features such as full-text searching with advanced capabilities, over 3000 links to related sites including sound archives and illustrations, and regular editorial updates.

Searching in Grove Music Online is organised around the following themes:

Search the full-text by concept, pattern and boolean methods
Browse to see articles at your leisure
Explore the dictionary by subject classifications

Guide to Computing Literature

From the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Guide includes more than 750,000 citations from books, journal articles, conference proceedings, doctoral dissertations, master's theses, and technical reports in the field of computer science.

Handbook of Latin American Studies

Bibliography of materials selected and annotated by scholars. It includes evaluations of books, book chapters, conference papers, and articles from more than 1400 social science and 600 humanities journals and conference proceedings published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Produced by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the online records correspond to the printed Handbook of Latin American Studies from volume 50 forward. The database is multilingual and multidisciplinary, covering the fields of anthropology, including archaeology and genealogy; art; economics; electronic resources; geography; government and politics; international relations; literature; music; philosophy; and sociology. Records representing approximately 6,000 monographs and 5,000 journal articles and conference papers are added each year.

HarpWeek

The HarpWeek database contains all the pages of Harper's Weekly (1857-1877) as scanned images, together with a series of indexes.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments

Features material on unpublished information-gathering tools for clinicians that are discussed in journal articles, such as questionnaires, interview schedules, tests, checklists, rating and other scales, coding schemes, and projective techniques. Over 2/3 of the tools are in medical and nursing areas such as pain measurement, quality of life assessment, and drug efficacy evaluation.

The database contains several categories of content -- citations to actual test documents that copyright holders authorize the database publisher to make available; bibliographic citations to journal articles which contain information about specific test instruments; and a catalog of commercial test publishers and their available instruments.

In addition to medical measurement instruments, the database presents tests used in medically related disciplines including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech & hearing therapy.

Coverage: 1985 to the present. (Updated quarterly)

Health and Safety Science Abstracts: Published in association with the University of Southern California's Institute of Safety and Systems Management, this database provides a survey of recent work relating to public health, safety, and industrial hygiene. Cited studies are geared to help individuals identify, evaluate, and eliminate or control risks and hazards across the spectrum of environmental and occupational situations. The database provides the latest perspectives on topics of widespread concern such as aviation and aerospace safety, environmental safety, nuclear safety, medical safety occupational safety, and ergonomics. Health and safety related aspects of pollution, waste disposal, radiation, pesticides, epidemics - and countless other phenomena having the potential to threaten the public, the environment, or the workplace itself - are reported here. Drawing on government reports as well as journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and other publications, Health and Safety Science Abstracts synthesizes the most important new developments in safety science and human factors research. (Updated monthly)

HealthStar: "Ovid Healthstar is comprised of data from the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) MEDLINE and former HealthSTAR databases. As such, it contains citations to the published literature on health services, technology, administration, and research. It focuses on both the clinical and non-clinical aspects of health care delivery. The following topics are included: evaluation of patient outcomes; effectiveness of procedures, programs, products, services and processes; administration and planning of health facilities, services and manpower; health insurance; health policy; health services research; health economics and financial management; laws and regulation; personnel administration; quality assurance; licensure; and accreditation.
As announced in October 2000, Ovid is offering Ovid Healthstar as a continuation of the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) now-defunct HealthSTAR database. Ovid Healthstar retains all existing backfile HealthSTAR citations and is updated with new journal citations culled from MEDLINE using the NLM's HealthSTAR search strategy. The database contains citations and abstracts (when available) to journal articles, monographs, technical reports, meeting abstracts and papers, book chapters, government documents, and newspaper articles from 1975 to the present. Citations are indexed with the National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings in order to ensure compatibility with other NLM databases. Information in Ovid Healthstar is derived from MEDLINE, the Hospital Literature Index, and selected journals."
(Description taken from Ovid)

HeinOnline: Image-based (PDF) collection of legal research material. Unlike other periodical databases that supply only post-1980 volumes, Hein-On-Line provides each journal from its inception and continues to the most current volume allowed under contract between Hein and the journal.
Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI): Online version of the print Hispanic American Periodicals Index. Covers Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Provides analyses of current political, economic, and social issues as well as Latin American arts and letters. Covers articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 400 social science and humanities journals published worldwide.
Historical Abstracts (6 concurrent user limit): Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered in the database. In addition to including the key historical journals from virtually every major country, Historical Abstracts includes a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities that are of special interest to researchers and students of history. (Updated monthly)
Historical Index to the New York Times 1851-1922 (*index only*): The current release of the The Historical Index to The New York Times contains data from the years 1863 to 1905, and 1913 to September 1922. The Paley and Ambler libraries have the full-text of the New York Times available in microform format. The index covering the years 1851-1862 and 1906-1912 is also available. Ask at the reference desk.
Historical Statistics of the United States Online (HSUS): Over 37,000 data series covering the vast scope of U.S history. In addition to updating and expanding the highly regarded 1975 print edition, HSUS also allows you to download data in Excel or CSV format as well build your own custom data sets. Additional features include:
* Save your search criteria
* Search within a chapter or volume
* Bookmark tables or essays
* Searchable term and contributor indexes
* View tables in PDF or HTML format
* Tables online include full documentation, sources, and footnotes
* Select certain years or series of years to view, download, print, or graph
* Download unrounded table data, for more detailed statistical analyses.
* Enhanced table display features: jump to a certain table column (series), skip over blank data cells, highlight table rows and columns for readability
* Toggle table sorting by ascending or decending year
* Create and download colorful charts, graphs, and plots
* Email a table or essay to a colleague
History Cooperative Journals: Resource for historians put together by the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the University of Illinois Press, and the National Academy Press. Provides full text of current issues of the American Historical Review and the Journal of American History as well as a number of other journals.
History of Science, Technology and Medicine (5 concurrent user limit): International bibliography for the history of science, technology, and medicine and their influence on culture, from pre-history to the present. This database integrates four separately created bibliographies: Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, from the History of Science Society, updated annually, mostly English language with some abstracts, 1975 - present. Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, from the Society for the History of Technology, updated 2-3 times a year, mostly English language, with some abstracts and book reviews, 1987-present. Bibliographia Italiana di Storia della Science, from Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza (IMSS), updated annually, 1982 to present. Most citations are in Italian, with subject headings in Italian and English. Some abstracts. Wellcome Bibliography of the History of Medicine, incorporating Current Work in the History of Medicine, with records from 1991 to the present. (Updated quarterly)
History Reference Center: Full-text history reference database designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. The database features cover-to-cover full text for more than 750 historical encyclopedias and other non-fiction books, including award winning titles from many top publishers, including: Branden Publishing, Chelsea House Publishers, Columbia University Press, Compass Point Books, Great Neck Publishing, Houghton Mifflin, Lerner Publishing Group, MacMillan Publishing USA, Mason Crest Publishers, Millbrook Press Inc., Morgan Reynolds Inc., Oliver Press, Oxford University Press, Primedia Special Interest Publications, Rourke Publishing LLC., Salem Press, Stackpole Books, Toucan Valley Publications, Webster Publishing, and more. The database also includes full text for nearly 60 leading history periodicals including America's Civil War, American Heritage, American Historical Review, American History, Archaeology, Aviation History, Beaver, British Heritage, Chinese America: History & Perspectives, Civil War Times, Early American Life, Foreign Affairs, German History, History, History Review, History Today (back to January 1975), History: Review of New Books, Kansas History, Journal of American History, Manitoba History, Military History, Naval History, North Carolina Historical Review, Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, Wild West, World War II and more. Further, the database contains 58,000 historical documents; 43,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 12,000 historical photos and maps; and 87 hours of historical film and video.
Hollywood Creative Directory: The many directories that make up the Hollywood Creative Directory catalogue, commonly known as "the phone books to Hollywood," offer regularly updated names, numbers, addresses and current titles of entertainment professionals from the film, television and music industries. The current catalogue includes the Hollywood Creative Directory, the Hollywood Representation Directory, the Hollywood Distributors Directory and the Hollywood Music Industry Directory.

Homeland Security Digital Library: The Homeland Security Digital Library collection provides easy access to U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national
strategy documents as well as specialized resources, such as dissertations, reports and position papers from universities, research
institutions, think tanks and U.S. local and state agencies as well as international governments.

Hospitality & Tourism Complete: Covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. The database combines the records of three collections: Cornell University's former Hospitality database, Articles in Hospitality and Tourism (AHT), formerly co-produced by the Universities of Surrey and Oxford Brookes, and the Lodging, Restaurant & Tourism Index (LRTI), formerly produced by Purdue University. Together, this collection contains more than 500,000 records from more than 500 titles, with coverage dating as far back as 1965. Hospitality & Tourism Complete contains full text for more than 200 publications. Sources are both domestic and international in range and scope, with material collected from countries and regions such as Canada, Australia, Europe and Asia. Publications include Hotel & Motel Management, Journal of Leisure Research, Nation's Restaurant News, Restaurants & Institutions and many more. Subject areas covered include the culinary arts, demographics & statistics, development & investment, food & beverage management, hospitality law, hotel management & administrative practices, leisure & business travel, market trends, technology and more.

House of Commons Parliamentarly Papers (19th Century): Online version of the Chadwyck-Healey microfiche edition of the nineteenth century House of Commons Sessional Papers (almost 80,000 papers) and the accompanying Subject Catalogue of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 1801-1900.



Human Population & Natural Resource Management: The sustainability of humanity depends in large measure on our ability to bring mankind into a lasting equilibrium with Nature. However, while the rate of human population growth is declining, the absolute number of people on Earth continues to increase. This places an ever-mounting pressure on the Earth's limited environmental and natural resources. This database provides fast access to the information essential to meeting this seminal challenge for of the 21st Century. Human Population & Natural Resource Management explores human population and demography topics, as well as societal issues involving natural resource management. Coverage includes relevant papers, reports, books and reviews from standard peer-reviewed scientific journals. To ensure comprehensive coverage, material from conference proceedings and hard-to-find gray literature has also been summarized. (1995 - current, Updated monthly)
Humanities Index (4 concurrent user limit): Indexes over 500 periodicals and provides full text for over 200, including some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous specialized magazines covering archaeology, classical studies, dance, journalism, linguistics, philosophy, theology and more. Indexing goes back to 1907, and abstracts start in 1994. (Updated monthly)

IBLS Internet Law Digital Library: IBLS is a source for information related to the intersection of Internet Law and business.


IEEE Xplore (15 concurrent user limit): Full-text access to over 120 IEEE journals, as well as transactions, conference titles, and standards from 1988 to the present with some items going back as far as 1950. (Updated weekly)


images.MD: images.MD compiles over 50,000 high-quality images spanning all of internal medicine, derived from Current Medicine’s series of illustrated atlases. Each image is accompanied by detailed and informative text written by over 2,000 contributing experts.

In the First Person: Lets users perform in-depth field and keyword searches across letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials that are freely available on the Web and Alexander Street Press databases. The search returns citation information and links to full text, audio, and video whenever available.

Index of Christian Art: The Index of Christian Art is the largest archive of materials on Early Christian and Medieval Iconography. It documents more than 18,000 works of art from early apostolic times to AD 1400, with emphasis on art of the western world, and includes mediums such as manuscripts, metalwork, sculpture, painting, and glass. Indexing is provided for theme/iconography, artist, location, school or style and other categories. Records include bibliography, references to reproductions and a growing number of links to images. Browsing and advanced searches are possible.

Index Islamicus: The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It is produced by an editorial team working at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, established to transmit knowledge about Islamic and Middle East studies, which have tradionally been part of the curriculum of SOAS. Records included in the database cover 1906 to the present.

Material cited in the Index Islamicus includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level. (Updated annualy)


Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series (5 concurrent user limit): "The Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series combines the Index Database, the Bibliography Database and the Names Database into the only electronic title for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions." Includes over 135,000 index entries.
Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A): Significant findings and practical applications in agricultural, food and beverage, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries.
ingenta: Includes article summaries from thousands of journals, primarily in the sciences, but also including the social sciences and arts & humanities. (Updated daily)

INSPEC: (Physics, Computing, Electronics, 1884-present). Covers all aspects of these subjects, in approximately 4,200 journals and 1,000 conferences as well as books, reports and dissertations. (Updated weekly)

Update (5/8/06): Now includes the Inspec Archive. Including over 800,000 records, the backfile covers the literature of physics, electrical engineering, and computing from 1884-1968. Corresponds to the print General Science Abstracts.
Institute of Physics: First launched in January 1996, The Institute of Physics Electronic Journals service makes 33(19 full-text) journals available online weeks before print publication. This package has full-text coverage from 1993- present and indexing and abstracting go back to 1969. The Electronic Journals offer full text with mathematics and graphics, and a variety of practical and time-saving features, including: powerful searching and browsing, a range of viewing and printing options, and valuable personalization features.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences: Includes nearly two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,700 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books are included each year. (Updated quarterly)
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text: Initiated by the American Society for Theatre Research, this database comprises a fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated databank of over 60,000 journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries.

International Finanical Statistics Online (IFS Online): IFS Online, from the International Monetary Fund, provides approximately 32,000 financial time series covering most countries in the world. The data available for each country includes data on exchange rates, international liquidity, interest rates, prices, production, national accounts and population. In many cases the data extend back to 1948.



International Index to Black Periodicals Full-Text (IIBP): Includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from scholarly journals and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals. Coverage is international in scope and multidisciplinary--spanning cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues of vital importance to the Black Studies discipline.

International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP): IIMP Full Text is a music information resource with indexing, abstracts and selected full text from many sources, covering the scholarly to the popular. Offering the widest span of scholarship available, IIMP Full Text ranges from 1874 to the most recent issues. (Updated monthly)
International Index to Performing Arts (IIPA): IIPA Full Text is a multidisciplinary information resource designed specifically for the performing arts. It provides indexing, abstracts and selected full text from many sources covering film, theatre, dance, stagecraft, television, and more. Offering the widest span of scholarship available, IIPA Full Text ranges from 1864 to the most current issues. (Updated monthly)

International Law in Domestic Courts: Brings you a regularly updated repository of domestic cases in international law from over 60 jurisdictions. The cases are selected by local reporters in conjunction with an editorial board and feature expert commentary, full texts of judgments in their original language and translations of key passages of non-English judgments into English.

International Medieval Bibliography Online: The International Medieval Bibliography was founded in 1967 with the support of the Medieval Academy of America, with the aim of providing a comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide.

The "International Medieval Institute", based at the University of Leeds, is responsible for producing the bibliography. A unique network of over 50 specialist contributors and teams throughout the world ensures regular coverage of periodicals and miscellanies published worldwide. They are supported by a distinguished international Editorial Board.

Features include:
* 300,000 records of articles, review articles, scholarly notes and similar literature on all aspects of medieval studies
* a comprehensive cataloguing and indexing system, using familiar, multilingual terminology defined by professional medievalists for medievalists
* 120,000 index terms, classified into six types (subjects, persons, texts, places, manuscripts, etc.)
* worldwide network of fifty teams to ensure regular coverage of 4,500 periodicals and a total of over 5,000 miscellany volumes

International Pharmaceutical Abstracts(1970-present): The International Pharmaceutical Abstracts Database provides worldwide coverage of pharmaceutical science and health related literature from 1970 to the present, and is updated monthly. Comprehensive information is included for drug therapy, toxicity, and pharmacy practice as well as legislation,regulation, technology, utilization, biopharmaceutics, information processing, education, economics, and ethics as related to pharmaceutical science and practice.
The International Who's Who: From heads of state, politicians, religious leaders and ambassadors, to the eminent and successful in business, finance, technology, film, music, fashion, sport, literature and the performing arts, The International Who's Who outlines the lives and achievements of more than 25,000 of the most distinguished men and women from almost every country in the world.

Investext Plus (4 concurrent user limit): Investext Plus provides investment, company and industry reports from over 500 brokers in North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. All company and industry reports are provided in full page PDF image format. (Updated daily)


iPoll from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research: iPOLL is the most comprehensive, up-to-date source for US nationwide public opinion available today. A full-text retrieval system, the iPOLL online database is organized at the question-level, providing the tools to sift through nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys since 1935 and updated daily. (description taken from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research)

The Roper Center requires users to provide an email address as part of a free registration process in order to access the database.

ITER:The Bibliography of Medieval & Renaissance Europe from 400-1700

Iter, meaning 'a journey' or 'a path' in Latin, is a non-profit research project with partners in Toronto, Canada (the headquarters), New York City, and Tempe, Arizona. The goal of Iter is to increase access to all published materials pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance(400-1700), through the creation of online bibliographic databases. The Journals component is a bibliographic database of interdisciplinary journal literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Types of works include articles; reviews; bibliographies; catalogues; editions; abstracts; discographies; and notes. To date, the full runs of more than 400 scholarly journal titles, published since 1859, have been indexed. A complete list of titles is available for review.

JCR Online (ISI Journal Citation Reports)

Provides statistical data about the impact factor of science and social science journals in a given fields. The Science edition covers about 5,700 international science journals from the ISI database; the Social Sciences Edition covers about 1,700 leading international social sciences journals from the ISI database. Note: JCR data is updated annually in the summer following the year of coverage (e.g. 2006 data becomes available in the summer of 2007).

Journals@OVID Full-Text

Online journal service offering of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies. NOTE: Requires OVID registration. (Updated daily)

JSTOR

JSTOR, originally funded by the Mellon Foundation, began as an effort to ease the increasing space problems faced by libraries by converting back issues of paper journals into electronic formats that would allow savings in space, improved access to journal content and offer a possible solution to preservation problems associated with storing paper volumes. Current content includes periodicals in the areas of Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Mathematics, Political Science and Population Studies. The Temple University Libraries subscribe to the entire JSTOR archive.

Justis

Justis provides online access to the following:

English Reports
"The English Reports brings together all the important English case reports from 1220 until 1873, just after the official Law Reports were published for the first time.

This indispensable title contains the full text of reports of early cases which played an important role in formulating the basis of the common law as we know it today and which continue to be binding.

The English Reports contains over 100,000 cases in over 200,000 pages of text. It is both comprehensive and authoritative, covering all the English courts and bringing together the most important cases from numerous earlier series. The Reports continue to be relied upon throughout the world’s common law jurisdictions by lawyers and academics alike.

Each case report record contains key bibliographic information, such as the parties, name of the court and citations (in the nominate reports and in the English Reports, plus a link to the original printed version of the complete report, in PDF format. Subject terms are also included, where available.

The English Reports database on Justis.com is fully searchable and can be searched simultaneously with other Justis titles. The interface is very easy to use and enables the rapid retrieval of a specific report simply by entering its reference. All commonly used reference formats are recognised, along with their variations.

The reports are cross-referenced and include extensive hypertext links between the reports themselves, and from the reports to UK Statutes."

UK Statutes
"Justis UK Statutes contains all Acts of Parliament for England, Wales and Scotland dating back to the Magna Carta (1235). The full text of the legislation, including repealed Acts, is provided as originally enacted.

Justis UK Statutes offers:

* Uniqueness – the only complete electronic source of Acts of Parliament and the only statute law database to contain Scottish Acts of Parliament and repealed legislation.
* Linking and cross-referencing – includes links to amended and amending legislation and provides a visual display of the path of legislation, allowing you to trace the development of the law.
* Familiarity – Acts retain their familiar appearance on screen and when printed."

King James Bible

'Authorized' Version via Chadwyk-Healey provides a single Bible for reference purposes.

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology

Written by prominent scholars from industry, academia, and research institutions, the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology presents a wide scope of articles on chemical substances—including their properties, manufacturing, and uses. It also focuses on industrial processes and unit operations in chemical engineering, as well as covering fundamentals and scientific subjects related to the field. Additionally, environmental and health issues concerning chemical technology are also addressed.

Key features of the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology Online include:

* Over 1,000 articles, with more than 600 new or updated -- over 10% of the content is updated annually
* Monthly updates that keep the online version on the cutting edge of chemical technology
* Previous versions of revised articles archived for posterity
* An easy to use interface that allows one to Search or Browse through the articles for quick reference and convenience
(description provided by publisher)

Knovel Library

Knovel Library provides Temple with online access to over 450 titles included in the following subject collections:

--Aerospace & Radar Technology
--Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
--Civil Engineering & Construction Materials
--Electrical & Power Engineering
--Environmental Engineering
--General Engineering
--Mechanics & Mechanical Engineering
--Metals & Metallurgy
--Oil & Gas
--Semiconductors & Electronics

Knovel expands the traditional ebook paradigm by adding the ability to interactively manipulate and search for content across this entire collection. Knovel's core technology is unique in that it aggregates text together with databases in an indexing structure that allows an unlimited number of products to work together. Users have the flexibility of navigating through e-References page-by-page or to search across the site and manipulate interactive tables, graphs, equations, spreadsheets, and other structured information.

Kraus Curriculum Development Library

An index of over 6000 curriculum materials for K-12 and Adult Basic Education, more than 200 in full-text. Includes curriculum, standards, frameworks, educational objectives, instructional strategies, and evaluation techniques. (Updated monthly)

Latin American Women Writers

Including literature by Latin American women from the colonial period in the 17th century forward to the present, the database presents the works in their original languages and includes literary works, memoirs, letters, and essays. There is much previously unpublished content. The database will contain approximately 100,000 pages of prose, poetry and drama by women writers from Mexico, Central, and South America when complete.

Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction

Contains fiction, poetry, and plays representing the Chicano culture and all the different ethnicities of Latin American writers with a Hispanic background working in the United States. The database also includes ancillary materials such as playbills and performance material, poetry readings and book presentation flyers, book covers, pictures, etcIncludes some 19th century materials but the vast majority of the materials are from the Chicano Renaissance to current times. Texts are presented in their original language, English or Spanish. In cases where authors produced more different language versions of their work, both are included. About 30% of the database is previously unpublished or rare materials from various sources including institutions such as the Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos at Hunter College, scholars’ personal archives and the authors themselves. The three major groups are represented, Chicanos, Puerto Rican and Cubans, as well as Argentineans, Salvadorans, Dominicans, and other Central and South Americans.

LawInfoChina / ChinaLawInfo (1 concurrent user limit): LawInfoChina provides English versions of Chinese laws & regulations as well as representative court cases. ChinaLawInfo provides original Chinese language versions of the same resources.
Legal Collection: A collection of scholarly peer-reviewed publications including law journals, documents, and case studies. Covers current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, and the environment. Offers full text for nearly 250 international law journals. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection. Updated regularly.

Legal Periodicals Index (4 concurrent user limit): Full-text of over 250 legal periodicals from as far back as 1994 to the present. Access is via Wilson OmniFile. Select "Legal" as the Subject Area in OmniFile to limit your search to this subfile.
LegalTrac: Index to over 1,300 titles including domestic and international law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals, and law-related articles from general interest periodicals. Coverage extends back to 1980 and full-text is available for 100+ titles. Access courtesy of the Temple Law Library.

Lexi-Comp Online: Lexi-Comp Online is a clinical, point-of-care information tool comprised of a series of drug information databases. The heart of Lexi-Comp Online is Lexi-Drugs, a comprehensive drug data resource of over 1600 drug monographs, covering over 8000 medications, each offering up to 55 fields of information. Other files in this package include a drug interaction tool; patient handouts; a comprehensive medical calculations application; a drug identification instrument and a natural products file.

LexisNexis Academic: Provides a wide array of FULL-TEXT Legal, Business & Government information sources. Areas covered include Top News; Biographical Information; General News Topics; Reference & Directories; Company News; General Medical & Health Topics; Industry & Market News; Medical Abstracts; Government & Political News; Accounting, Auditing, & Tax Topics; Legal News; Law Reviews; Company Financial Information; Federal Case Law; Country Profiles; U.S. Code, Constitution, & Court Rules; State Profiles; and State Legal Research.

LexisNexis Academic includes online access to continuously updated archives of state and federal case law, statutes and regulations, in addition to specialized libraries covering all major fields of practice. Also offers extensive news coverage, as well as company, country, financial, demographic, market research and industry reports from over 13,600 sources of news and business information. Over 120,000 new articles are added each day from worldwide newspapers, magazines, news wires and trade journals. (Updated daily)
LexisNexis Congressional (with U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection): Provides access to the full text of congressional working papers and legislation, a wide variety of information about Congress, including member biographical and committee assignment information, voting records, financial data, and the full text of the Congressional Record. The full text of key regulatory and statutory resources is also included. The U.S. Serial Set module includes the full text of over 325,000 U.S. Government publications compiled under the directive of Congress covering the period from 1789 to 1969. The Serial Set captures every aspect of American life from the early 19th century onward, from farming, to westward expansion, scientific exploration, politics, international relations, business, and manufacturing. It includes Congressional reports and documents as well as executive agency and departmental reports ordered to be printed by Congress.

Use Lexis Nexis Congressional with U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection to:

* Discover a law's intent by tracing its legislative history
* Gauge Congressional attitudes toward current topics
* Find out how members of Congress voted on legislation
* Investigate the finances of members of Congress
* Monitor legislation and public policy on almost any topic
* Review the federal regulations that implement legislation
* Learn the makeup and mission of Congressional committees
* Access "Hot Bills" and topics of Congress
* Research various aspects of United States history
LexisNexis Statistical: LexisNexis Statistical puts millions of facts and figures at your fingertips. Well over 400,000 indexed tables of data from federal, state and private sources are available for search and retrieval, with tens of thousands more added yearly. In addition, LexisNexis Statistical provides online access to the following highly respected finding aids for statistical data:

Federal Sources: American Statistics Index (ASI) 1973-
The U.S. Government is the world’s most important and prolific publisher of statistics. ASI indexes and abstracts statistical data published by all branches and agencies of the Federal Government, including both depository and non-depository publications. ASI includes federal agency publications that contain social, economic, demographic, or natural resources data, and a selection of publications with scientific and technical data.

State and Private Sector Sources: Statistical Reference Index (SRI) 1980-
SRI identifies statistical data published by consumer and trade magazines, private organizations, state government agencies, business organizations, independent research organizations, and universities and affiliated research centers. Publications covered by SRI contain important statistics on business, industry and finance, general economic conditions, government programs and politics, and social trends. SRI offers access to national data, such as production, costs, and earnings in major industries; statewide data, such as statistics on crime, health, or employment; data on foreign countries, such as world economic and demographic trends; and local or narrowly focused data, such as detail by county and municipality.

LGBT Life with Full Text: LGBT Life contains indexing and abstracts for more than 130 LGBT-specific core periodicals and over 290 LGBT-specific core books and reference works. Full text for 50 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full text monographs is also included. LGBT Life provides comprehensive coverage of traditional academic, cultural, lifestyle, and regional publications, including The Advocate, Lesbian News, Washington Blade, Bay Area Reporter, etc. (adapted from Ebsco description)

Library & Information Science Abstracts (LISA)

Abstracts library & information science articles in over 440 periodicals from more than 68 countries and in more than 20 different languages. Coverage begins in 1969 and is updated every two weeks..

Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA): LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management. Coverage begins in the mid-1960s.
Library Literature and Information Science Index (4 concurrent user limit): Full-text of over 140 periodicals in library and information sciences from 1997 to the present. Access is via Wilson OmniFile. Select "Library & Information Science" as the Subject Area in OmniFile to limit your search to this subfile.

Library of Latin Texts: Library of Latin Texts is a full-text database of modern critical editions of Latin classical, patristic, and medieval Christian writers including the entire corpus of ancient Latin literature up to the second century A.D. The database also contains a significant amount of Neo-Latin Literature (after 1500) including decrees from modern ecumenical councils up to Vatican II and sixteenth century translations into Latin of important medieval works.

Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA): The LLBA abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. Abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500 serials publications are included, as well as abstracts of books, book chapters, and dissertations. Coverage begins in 1973. (Updated monthly)

Literature Criticism Online: A comprehensive collection of literary criticism from classical to modern times. Includes online editions of Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC) and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC).

Literature Online (LION): Searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 128 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. (Updated monthly)
Literature Resource Center: In addition to biographical, bibliographical and contextual information from the Contemporary Authors® and Dictionary of Literary Biography® databases, Literature Resource Center provides access to full-text criticism from the Contemporary Literary Criticism® Select database and selected criticism from other titles in Thomson Gale’s Literary Criticism Series. These resources are supplemented by full-text from over 200 literary journals. Over 127,000 authors are covered.
Local & Worldwide Library Catalogs: This page provides links to library catalogs in the local (Delaware Valley) area in addition to Temple University Libraries. Also, there is a selective list of some of the larger research libraries in the United States, links to Web pages that have more comprehensive lists of catalogs worldwide (gateways), and to databases that indicate libraries which may have a particular publication (holdings databases).

(London) Times Digital Archive (1785-1985): Searchable, full-text and full-image archive of every page of the (London) Times from 1785 to 1985.

(London) Times Literary Supplement Centennary Archive (1902-1990)

"The Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive offers a rich new research database for students and researchers of English literature and other humanities or social science subjects. Unparalleled opportunities for tracking the views of influential opinion makers, the response of their peers, the controversies of the day and how they developed, are now possible in an easy-to-navigate digital environment.

This database offers a complete facsimile edition of the Times Literary Supplement, from 1902 through 1990, contains new information on anonymous contributors that allows students and scholars to explore in greater depth the literary activity and critical opinion makers of the 20th century.

More than 250,000 reviews, letters, poems and articles in more than 5,000 issues of the Times Literary Supplement, searchable by author and/or contributor, are available here in the context in which they were originally published. Users can access any page via the online version of the published index when executing a title, author or subject search.

For the first time, identities of contributors -- reviewers, essayists, and writers of letters and poems -- are disclosed. New writings and influential criticism of hundreds of the 20th century's most important writers and thinkers that were once kept anonymous to encourage a truly open forum are revealed in this database. Wherever possible, a contributor's biographical information is included, allowing scholars to get a better understanding of the reviewers. They will also be able to identify what other journals they worked for and the informal networks they formed which influenced the reception of books. Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive allows users to:

* Research specific contributions by leading literary figures
* Discover how well-known classics were received upon publication
* Research the number of reviews by individual contributors
* Explore the social groupings to which each individual contributor belonged
* Access publication of specific issues
* Read reviews of foreign language books
* And much more"
(Description taken from Thomson Gale)

Making of Modern Law

Provides the full-text of over 21,000 Anglo-American legal works including casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, and speeches from 1800 to 1926. This material has been separated into 99 different subject areas to aid in searching.

Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926

This digital collection contains books and pamphlets, official and unofficial trial documents and materials, legal transcripts, administrative proceedings, and arbitrations. The collection covers trials from all countries and languages, although the great majority are English-language and published in the U.S. or Great Britain. Documents are in PDF format and are fully searchable.


MarketResearch.com Academic: MarketResearch.com Academic provides over 1000 full-text market research reports, many with global coverage, from these industry-leading publishers:
* Packaged Facts: A trusted provider of authoritative consumer market research. For more than 30 years, their in-depth research, expert analysis and personalized client support have helped business professionals make the right strategic decisions. Reports cover consumer goods, food and beverage, and demographic topics.
* Kalorama Information: A leader in worldwide business intelligence and syndicated market research in the life sciences. For more than 30 years, Kalorama Information has been providing timely, high-quality research to decision makers in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostics sectors.
* MarketLooks: Concise, 15-30 page summaries of popular full-length market research reports published by Packaged Facts and Kalorama Information. Each MarketLooks report includes top-level findings from the respective parent report in a rich, easy to read format accompanied by select charts and graphs.
* Specialists in Business Information: Produces concise, comprehensive profiles on a wide range of industrial and consumer markets. The profiles are made up primarily of tabular data, making them useful for reference purposes. The profiles, summaries and analyses make them equally important as strategic assessments of the industries they cover.
MAS Ultra - School Edition: "Designed specifically for high school libraries, provides full text from more than 500 popular general interest and current events publications covering general reference, health, science, and other areas. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 600 titles. Every full text articles is assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Examples of titles offered in MAS Ultra - School Edition include: America's Civil War, American Heritage, American History, American Visions, Archaeology, Astronomy, Bioscience, Careers & Colleges, Civil War Times Illustrated, CQ Weekly, Discover, Economist, History Today, Nation, National Review, New Republic, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American, Smithsonian, World War II, etc. This database also includes more than 3,000 charts, tables and graphs; 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews; nearly 550 health and science-related full text pamphlets; coverage of nearly 250 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book and World Almanac & Book of Facts) and an image collection of 91,000 photos, maps & flags. Full text backfiles date as far back as January of 1985, while indexing and abstract backfiles date as far back as January of 1984." (Ebsco description) (Updated daily)
MasterFile Premier: Contains full text for nearly 1,950 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and more.

Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS): Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) Provides information about the occupational health and safety of commercially available materials and chemicals likely to be found in the workplace. The source of information: American Chemical Society, manufacturers, and suppliers.

MATERIALSnetBASE (2 concurrent user limit): The complete text of over 130 materials applications handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and treatises from CRC Press. Each chapter is a pdf file and is full-text searchable. Content ranges from ceramics and textiles to bioscience and pharmacology.

MathSciNet

MathSciNet is composed of the data in Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications, leading publications that catalog and review research literature in mathematics. It contains information from 1940 to the present. (Updated daily)

MD Consult

MD Consult Core Collection helps physicians answer clinical questions and stay abreast of recent developments by integrating:

Reference Books
51 renowned medical texts online give you just the right resources to answer clinical questions. Search the entire collection simultaneously.

Journal Search
Retrieve the full-text of articles from over 71 premier medical journals and clinics online. Search MEDLINE plus other key databases simultaneously to find full-text articles. PDFs available for many Elsevier Journals, dating back to 2002. PDF articles preserve the fonts, images, graphics, and layout of the article.

Drug Information
Complete prescribing information on more than 22,000 medications from the leading independent drug reference source.

Drug Updates
Highlighting recent drug approvals, notices, and other current pharmaceutical information.

This Week In Medicine
This Week in Medicine reviews new developments from all the major journals, government agencies, and medical conferences, and provides you with concise clinical summaries and links to related information.

In This Week's Journals
Keep up with all of the major weekly journals. The key contents of the big five journals are presented each week in an easy-to-scan format, including concise article summaries which help you quickly stay abreast.

What Patients Are Reading
...and what you need to know about it. We canvass the popular press each week to let you know what patients are hearing about medicine, then provide you with full-text, peer-reviewed material on each topic to help you prepare.

Clinical Topic Tours
A new tour each week lets you explore current thought and accepted wisdom on consequential topics in medicine.

Clinical Insights
This area features Clinical Cornerstone and Free CME, Images in Surgery, Patient Safety and Practice Management Articles, Systematic Reviews, and the Latest Postings from the Clinics of North America.

Case of the Week
Original medical cases written by physicians for MD Consult. Each case is presented as a series of questions and answers, with links to MD Consult's reference material. Sharpen your diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis skills with our Case of the Week.

Practice Guidelines
Access our collection of peer-reviewed practice guidelines, which are regularly updated and organized by topic and authoring organization for easy browsing.

Patient Handouts
Add your own comments to any of over 9,500 acclaimed patient education handouts. Then print the handout, complete with your own special instructions, practice name, and contact information.

CME Center
Study and receive your Continuing Medical Education credits on-line. Choose from over 200 modules to earn category 1 credit, with instant feedback.

Student Union
Student Union is the place where you will find information specific to your medical education experience, including a clerkship survival guide, practice case studies, and step-by-step procedure instructions.

My PDA/POCKET Consult
POCKET Consult puts current medical news, drug updates, and journal abstracts on your handheld device each time you hot-sync. You even get access to Mosby Drug Consult and Interactions with over 900 drug monographs including brand name indexing. You also get integrated access to any Elsevier e-dition electronic books on your PDA; Plus, you can record searches on your PDA, then automatically retrieve full search results the next time you're online.

MDX Health Digest

A consumer health database with authoritative answers to medical questions. Almost 200 regularly reviewed publications are included. Coverage/update: January 1988 to the present; adds new records monthly.

Mediamark Reporter (MRI+)

MRI+ consolidates many of the databases used to evaluate magazines in seeking directory and editorial information. It has a powerful search and access capability, plus a cost-planning module. Much of the data generated by MRI+ can be exported to spreadsheets or printed in the form of flowcharts and reports. MRI+ includes:

Syndicated audience research
General industry research about magazines and magazine advertising effectiveness
Special research from publishers
Subscriber studies
Competitive analyses
Publisher presentations
Mediamark audience data
Syndicated research summaries such as Mendelsohn Media Research
A cost planner and flowcharting package
Basic rate, contact, editorial, circulation (ABC/BPA) and mechanical data on more than 6,000 consumer and business magazines

Medline

MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database that contains approximately 13 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

Mental Measurements Yearbook Online (4 concurrent user limit)

"Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. All MMY entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts. To be included in the MMY, a test must be commercially available, be published in the English language, and be new or revised since it last appeared in the series." MMY Online covers Volume 9 to the present.

Mergent (formerly Moody's the FISonline) (6 concurrent user limit)

Mergent offers the following databases:

Company Data Direct/U.S. -- In-depth reports on over 10,000 U.S. companies
Company Data Direct/International -- In-depth reports on over 15,000 non-U.S. companies
Equity Research Reports
FIS Annuals/U.S. -- Over 35,000 U.S. annual report images
FIS Annuals/International -- Over 50,000 non-U.S. annual report images
EDGAR® -- Real-time feeds of SEC documents with archives dating back to 1993
FactSheets -- Presentation-quality summary reports
Institutional Holdings -- Top holders, purchasers and sellers
Insider Trading -- Investing activities of officers and directors
Broker Research -- Over 1 million fully graphical research reports from over 700 brokerage firms
(Updated daily)

Mergent WebReports

Full-text of Moody/Mergent Corporate Manuals back to 1909.

Merck Index: The Merck Index Online is the internationally recognized encyclopedia of chemical substances, including human and veterinary drugs, biologicals and natural products. It contains more than 10,000 monographs. Compounds are selected from biomedicine, agriculture, and various disciplines of chemistry.

The information provided includes chemical, common and generic names, trademarks and their associated companies, CAS Registry Numbers, molecular formulas and weights, physical and toxicity data, therapeutic and commercial uses, chemical structures and selected literature references for each substance.

The Merck Index Online consists of several databases:

* The Compound Search database allows searching for compounds by physical properties, compound attributes, and structure.
* The Organic Name Reactions database contains a list of reactions which have come to be recognized and referred to by name within the chemistry community. The descriptions are composed of name(s) associated with the reaction, the original and/or primary contributor(s), a concise description of the transformation, a reaction scheme, key references, and cross references to other organic named reactions.
* The Additional Tables section lists multiple tables, including abbreviations, glossary, and a chemical terms translator in PDF format.

Middle Search Plus: "Contains full text for more than 150 popular, middle school magazines. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 200 magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies, historical essays and student pamphlets. Additionally, Middle Search Plus contains Essential Documents in American History, and other important information resources such as an Image Collection of 107,000 photos, maps and flags, 88,000 biographies, and 83,500 primary source documents. Full text backfiles date as far back as 1989, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as January of 1984. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost." (Ebsco description) (Updated daily)
Military & Government Collection: "Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 300 journals and periodicals. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles. Some publications covered in this database include are Air Force Controller, Army Reserve Magazine, Defence Studies, Global Security Review, Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, National Review, Defense, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces, and many more. Many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color." (Ebsco description)
MINABS Online: MINABS Online replaces the print journal Mineralogical Abstracts, formerly published quarterly with a separate annual index issue. MINABS Online is a database containing continually updated abstracts covering mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, crystallography, gemmology, meteoritics and allied subjects.

Mintel Market Research Reports

Mintel began conducting and publishing market research more than three decades ago. Their coverage is global, with emphasis on the United States and Western Europe. Older reports are archived, and the archive dates back to 2001. Note: First-time users will need to create a personal profile using your Temple email address.

Areas of research for U.S. markets are:
Beauty and Personal Care Products
Clothing & Fashion
Drink
Electronics
Food and Foodservice
Health and Medical
Health and Wellness
Household Products
Lifestyles
Retailing
Travel.

For the UK the following reports series are published:
Food and Drink
Essentials
Leisure
Retail
Finance

For the European market:
Food & Drink
Household Goods
Personal Goods

For the international market the series are:
Retail
Travel & Tourism.

Reports typically cover market drivers, market size and trends, market segmentation, supply structure, advertising and promotion, retail distribution, consumers, the future and forecasts, and new product trends. The average length of a report is 100 pages.

There are currently close to 1000 reports in the database, with no embargo on current reports. Publishing levels have grown tremendously in recent years and about 600 new reports are currently being produced each year.

MIT CogNet: Includes the full text of MIT Press journals and books in the cognitive sciences along with job postings, graduate studies information, seminar announcements and calls for papers in cognitive and brain sciences.

MLA Directory of Periodicals: Provides detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in MLA International Bibliography, including editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
MLA International Bibliography: Produced by the Modern Language Association, MLA International Bibliography covers journal articles, books and dissertations back to 1926 and contains over 1.5 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.
Monthly Bulletin of Statistics: Presents current monthly economic statistics for most of 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. Many of these special tables are also reproduced in the United Nations Statistical Yearbook. It is, however, considered useful to publish these data in the Bulletin as soon as they become available so that readers may have immediate access to the most current international statistical information.
Movie Review Query Engine: Searchable database of links to movie reviews.
Music and Performing Arts Online: Portal that allows simultaneous searching of International Index to Music Periodicals Full-Text (IIMPFT) and International Index to the Perfroming Arts Full-Text (IIPAFT).


Music Index Online: Produced by Harmonie Park Press, Music Index is the single most comprehensive subject-author guide to music periodical literature. Online coverage spans from 1976 to the present and contains surveyed data from 775 international music periodicals from over 40 countries, with English translations from 22 languages. Some backfile data from the period 1962-1975 is also included. Topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music are thoroughly categorized and organized according to the framework of an internal Subject List, which includes both Subject and Geographic headings. Covering all styles and genres of music, The Music Index duly cites book reviews, obituaries, news periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.
NASA Astrophysics Data System: A NASA-funded project which contains millions of records in four bibliographic databases: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics, and Geophysics. Preprints are available in many of these areas, as well as links to full-text journal articles.
National Library of Australia Catalogue (5 concurrent user limit): The world's leading resource on materials relating to Australia and Australians, and holds an outstanding collection of Asian materials, begun in the early 1950s. With 2.7 million records, Australiana records represent 40 percent of the catalogue. A legal deposit library, the NLA receives copies of all works published in Australia, including books, journals, maps, newspapers, and printed music. The Library also acquires and catalogs materials by, for, or about Australia in microform and electronic forms.

National Science Digital Library: Funded by the National Science Foundation, the NSDL is a digital library of exemplary educational resources for social science, science, technology, engineering and mathematics. For all education levels, elementary through higher education.

Nature Publishing Group: This is the platform of the Nature Publishing Group (NPG), providing access to Nature journals in a variety of fields including biotechnology, cancer, medicine, genetics, immunology, materials science, microbiology, molecular cell biology, neuroscience, and pharmacology; also provided are publications from leading international organizations such as the Genetics Society and Cancer Research UK. From this site you can search all the Nature journals we subscribe to, or you can search within subjects or individual journal titles

Naxos

Naxos Music Library (10 concurrent users)
Naxos Music Library is a growing library of over 165,000 tracks from the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues. The music tracks can be streamed at either 20kbps (FM quality) or 64kbps (near-CD quality) depending on the speed of your internet connection. Genres include Classical, Jazz, World, Folk, and Chinese. Biographical information on composers and artists, and album liner notes are also included.

Naxos Music Library Jazz (10 concurrent users)
Naxos Music Library Jazz provides approximately 20,000 tracks of jazz from over 1,900 albums. Labels include Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz.

Minimum Technical Requirements

PC user:

* MS Windows 98SE, 2000, XP with MS IE 6.0 / Mozilla 1.7.1 / FireFox 1 / Netscape 7.1 / Opera 7.53 and Media Player 9 / 10
* Browser Settings: Privacy = Medium, ActiveX controls = Enable, Cookies = Accept, Pop-up Blocker = Off, Sound Scheme = No Sound.

Apple user:

* Mac OS X 10.2.8 / OS X 10.3.5 with MS IE 5.2 / Mozilla 1.7 / Netscape 7.1 / Opera 7.53 / Safari 1.0 and Media Player 9.0 ; or OS 8.6 / 9.0 with MS IE 5.1 and Media Player 7.1
* Browser Settings: Privacy = Medium, Cookies = Accept, Sound Effect = No

NCJRS Database: The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Document Data Base contains summaries of more than 140,000 publications on criminal justice, including Federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Subject areas include corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, and victims of crime. The time period covered is from the early 1970's to the present. The Document Data Base is produced by NCJRS, a service of the National Institute of Justice, with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office for Victims of Crime, Bureau of Justice Statistics, and Bureau of Justice Assistance, all part of the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
NDEO Research in Dance Education Database
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage: Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage is a comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering on-line access to popular Standard & Poor's research products including:
--Bond Reports
--Company Profiles
--Compustat Excel Analytics and Compustat International Fundamental Reports with five (5) years of extensive data and charts that can be downloaded directly into Excel
--Corporation Records
--Fund Reports (more than 14,000 mutual funds are included)
--Industry Surveys (back to 1998) with Trends and Projections (back to April 1999)
--Global Industry Surveys (back to 2004)
--The Outlook (back to 1996)
--Register – Executives and Directors
--Register – Private Companies
--Register – Public Companies
--Security Dealers of North America
--Stock Reports

Netlibrary (concurrent user limits vary): netLibrary provides online access to electronic versions of books from across all disciplines. The collection is comprised of a public collection of about 3400 titles, which are available to anyone and mainly consists of public-domain materials, as well as licensed titles, mainly from academic publishers. In the latter category, Temple University has licensed approximately 4500 ebooks in our netLibrary collection, including the netLibrary Reference Collection. NetLibrary's publishing partners include many prestigious university presses, and some commercial publishers. NOTE: netLibrary requires Internet Explorer 5.5+ or Netscape Navigator 6.2+.
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world's leading economists. Labor economics, human capital, industrial relations, and industrial organization are some of the broader topics of relevance with hundreds of related and narrower topics.

New Pauly: English edition of the premier reference work for scholars of the ancient world. The online version includes the full-text of the published print version and is automatically updated when a new volume is published. The complete original German edition is also available online.

New York Times Article Archive (1851-1995): Complete article archive from September 1851 to December 1995. Searching is free. You can search the full text, author, or headline. Search listings include the title, date, and author of the article, and view sample portion of the article or purchase the article. Individual article costs $2.99, or you can buy article packs.

19th Century Fiction: 250 novels from the period 1782 to 1903, including works by all the major Victorian novelists such as Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontës, Eliot and Hardy, as well as the landmarks of Gothic and other fiction from the Romantic period.

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories: When finished will include more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories. Much of the material is previously unpublished. Several thousand pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews, indexed and searchable for the first time, are included. The materials begin around 1840 and extend to the present, focusing heavily on the period from 1920 to 1980. People from many countries are represented, including more recent waves of immigrants from Latin America and Asia. In selected cases, users can to hear the actual audio voices of the immigrants or view images of their scrapbooks.
North American Women's Letters and Diaries: When complete, North American Women's Letters and Diaries will be the largest collection of women's diaries and correspondence ever assembled. Spanning more than 300 years, it will bring the personal experiences of 1,500 women to researchers, students, and general readers. When complete the collection will include approximately 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950, plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials. Drawn from more than 1,000 sources, including journal articles, pamphlets, newsletters, monographs, and conference proceedings, much of the material is in copyright. Represented are all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous. More than 1,500 biographies will enhance the use of the database. The collection includes one of the most comprehensive bibliographies of women's diaries and letters yet published. It lists over 2,000 published and unpublished items from a variety of sources, including online resources and microform. (Updated yearly)
NoveList: A readers' advisory service which offers a wide range of resources serving fiction readers. With over 100,000 titles in the database, 90,000 full text reviews, over 36,000 subject headings and a complete spectrum of searching options, and over 1,200 pre-constructed booklists on a wide range of topics and genres.
NTIS Electronic Catalog: A database of 450,000 titles from the National Technical Information Service of the US Dept of Commerce. This database can be used to locate and order government publications and other products issued by NTIS since 1990. Searching capability is limited to titles and topics. Most records do NOT include product summaries (Abstracts).
OCLC Union List of Periodicals: Holdings for journals and other covered items among OCLC member libraries. It can help you determine if a library holds a specific journal issue. As of July 13, 1997, this database included 7,400,000 records and it is updated 2 times per year.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is an illustrated collection of more than 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 (as of January 2005). Published on 23 September 2004, the Dictionary took 10,000 people twelve years' to compile and resulted in a 60 volume book which has been translated to a website with over 100,000 pages and more than 10, 000 images. The dictionary covers remarkable people in any walk of life who were connected with the British Isles-excluding living people. It includes not just the great and good, but people who have left a mark for any reason, good, bad, or bizarre. The online version includes a wide range of searching options from specialized biographical search terms to powerful full text searches. Extensive internal cross-referencing makes it possible to move easily to related articles, while ever growing lists of external links to carefully selected web sites (including the British National Archives) open up exciting new research possibilities.
OED Online (Oxford English Dictionary): 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). Many of the entries in the Additions volumes consist of sections which are additions to an entry previously published in the Second Edition; such sections are appended to the end of the appropriate Second Edition entry. Complete entries published for the first time in the Additions volumes are presented as free-standing entries, along with entries from the Second Edition.
Oral History Online: Oral History Online, published by Alexander Street, is the most comprehensive online index of oral history collections in English, with access to full text, audio, video, or bibliographic citations for more than 2,000 English oral history collections from all over the world. The narratives cover thousands of subjects from the late 19th Century to present, including civil rights and race relations, labor history, African American history, women's history, immigration studies, political history, American Indian history, regional history, and more. Oral History Online provides keyword searching of more than 129,000 pages of full-text by some 4,300 individuals, as well as pointers to some 1,400 audio and video files and over 10,000 bibliographic records. Additional indexing also permits searching by narrators' age, race, occupation, birth and death dates; by interview subject and place; by repository information; and many other search criteria.

Oxford African American Studies Center: Over 7,500 articles, images, and maps dealing with African American history and culture drawn from Oxford University Press reference sources. Further details are available here.
Oxford Journals Online: Major international publisher of over 180 academic and research journals, many in partnership with the world’s leading prestigious learned societies. The collections cover Life Sciences, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law.

Oxford Reference Online: Oxford Reference Online includes well over 100 subject and language reference sources from Oxford University Press, including many titles from the Oxford Companions Series. Browse or search single titles, specific subject areas, or the entire collection.


PAIS International / PAIS Archive: PAIS indexes national and international public policy information from journal articles, books, conference research reports, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. PAIS International covers materials from 1972 onward, while the Archive extends coverage back to 1915. PAIS contains some foreign language material but all index entries and abstracts are in English. Since PAIS tends to cover topics that are, have been or may become the focus of legislation it is particularly germane for students in the departments or schools of business administration, history, economics, law, political science, social administration, criminal justice, sociology and geography and urban studies, American studies and, African American studies. PAIS is a good choice if peer reviewed journals and or primary sources are needed to fulfill research requirements. (Updated monthly)
PapersFirst: Contains citations of papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses, and symposia. The Proceedings database contains records for the meetings that relate to the papers described in PapersFirst. Covers October 1993 to the present. Adds new records monthly.
Past Masters (5 concurrent user limit per title): Past Masters is a collection of hundreds of electronic texts in philosophy. Contents include texts by philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Machiavelli, Rousseau, Bentham, Mill, Sidgwick, Dewey, Peirce, Santayana, Wittgenstein, and more. A search engine provides the ability to search hundreds of thousands of pages of text for any word or combination. The software provides an index of each word in the text, with each word linked directly to the relevant passages.
Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image Databases (US Patent & Trademark Office): All US patents from 1790 - present. Download or view images of the actual patents (requires TIFF image plug-in). Patents from 1976 to the present are available full text in an HTML text format.
Pennsylvania County Histories to 1900: A collection of full-text histories of Pennsylvania's counties written between 1870 and 1900.
The Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800: Published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800, The Pennsylvania Gazette is considered The New York Times of the 18th century. It provides the reader with a first hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of the periods. Thousands of articles, editorials, letters, news items and advertisements cover the Western Hemisphere, from the Canadian Maritime Provinces, through the West Indies and North and South America, giving a detailed glimpse of issues and lifestyles of the times. Also included is the full-text of such important writings such as: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Letters from a Farmer, Thomas Payne`s Common Sense, The Federalist Papers, etc.

Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue: Chester County 1809-1870: This database is primarily a listing of marriages, deaths and obituaries from the Village Record, published in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Included, however is information about emigration patterns, customs and traditions, important events, medical history, biographical data, etc.

Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County 1819-1870: This database documents the industrialization of predominantly agrarian culture established by Quaker farmers in the 18th century. This collection contains full-text transcriptions of articles, advertisements, and vital statistics, providing insight into technology, business activity and material culture in a down-river milling and manufacturing community at the height of the Industrial Revolution. It includes material from the following newspapers:
Delaware County American, Media, Pennsylvania
Delaware County Republican, Darby & Chester, Pennsylvania
The Upland Union, Chester, Pennsylvania
Delaware County Democrat, Chester, Pennsylvania
The Post Boy, Chester, Pennsylvania

Periodical Abstracts: More than 800,000 records describing significant articles from more than 1,500 top general and academic journals. Contains records for transcripts of significant segments of more than 80 news and lifestyle oriented television and radio programs. Covers January 1987 to the present. Adds new records weekly.

Periodicals Archive Online: Periodicals Archive Online is a major online periodical archive that makes the backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the full text of a growing number of digitized periodicals that have been indexed in its sister database, Periodicals Index Online. As of early 2007, Periodicals Archive Online contains over 450 journals, providing access to over 11.8 million article pages - representing over 1.8 million articles.

Periodicals Index Online: Periodicals Index Online is an electronic index to millions of articles published in over 5,000 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. It is unique in combining a broad subject base with deep chronological coverage going back over 300 years. As of early 2007, over 16 million articles going as far back as 1665 are currently indexed. Every article in each journal covered is indexed, from volume 1 issue 1 to recent times.
PGM Database: The PGM Database is a collection of published data and internal Johnson Matthey data defining the physical properties and characteristics of the six platinum group metals and their alloys. The database can display a datasheet of material properties, giving a comprehensive picture of a material and its capabilities. Also available at this site is the quarterly Platinum Metals Review E-journal, supporting the science and technology of the platinum group metals (see "PMR Home").
Philosopher's Index: Philosopher's index contains 213,000 bibliographic citations with author abstracts covering scholarly research in the fifteen fields of philosophy. It offers complete coverage of all major articles from anthologies and books written in English, Spanish, German, Italian, and French -- over 480 journals from 38 countries published since 1940. Topics include all major fields of philosophy, including Aesthetics, Epistemology, Ethics, Logic (including mathematics), Metaphysics (including philosophy of mind, existentialism, and phenomenology), Political philosophy (including philosophy of law), Social philosophy, and the Philosophy of Education, History, Language, Science and Religion. Does not include book reviews. (Updated quarterly)
PhilSci Archive: Electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science. (Updated daily)

Physical Education Index: Since 1970 Physical Education Index has been covering peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications relevant to the field of physical education. Physical Education Index provides citation information and abstracts to journal articles about physical education and related disciplines (sports, sports medicine, dance, coaching, fitness, motor learning, etc.) from 303 core scholarly journals and numerous other publications. (Updated monthly)
PILOTS Database: Interdisciplinary bibliographical database produced by the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder that covers the Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress (PILOTS). Although sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the PILOTS database is not limited to literature on PTSD among veterans. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on PTSD and other mental-health after-effects of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations. The database includes citations and abstracts to journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and government documents.


POIESIS: POIESIS is a searchable and browseable database of over 40 important scholarly philosophy journals. Full text access is available for most of the journals.

Policy Central

Includes the following resources from the National Journal Group:

--National Journal - Read the leading nonpartisan weekly on politics, policy and government.

--The Hotline - Track American politics and campaigns with coverage of each day's political news.

--CongressDaily - Follow the key players and legislative process on Capitol Hill.

--TechnologyDaily - Monitor important news and trends in information technology politics and policy.

--Almanac of American Politics - Get analysis and data on every member of Congress and their states and districts.

--Markup Reports & Bill Status - Get complete coverage of every congressional markup session, as well as constantly updated reports on key legislation.

--Ad Spotlight - Explore political and issue television ads with streaming audio or video.

--Poll Track - Start your research with a database of public opinion surveys from across the country.

Polling the Nations

Compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries from 1986 to the present. Each of the nearly 350,000 records reports a question asked and the responses given. Also included in each record is the polling organization responsible for the work, the date the information was released, the sample size, and universe. All the surveys reported here were conducted using scientifically selected random samples.

Pollution Abstracts

This database provides fast access to the environmental information necessary to resolve day-to-day problems, ensure ongoing compliance, and handle emergency situations more effectively. Pollution Abstracts combines information on scientific research and government policies in a single resource. Topics of growing concern are extensively covered from the standpoints of atmosphere, emissions, mathematical models, effects on people and animals, and environmental action in response to global pollution issues. To ensure comprehensive coverage, material from conference proceedings and hard-to-find documents has been summarized along with information from primary journals in the field. (Updated monthly)

POPLINE

Provides more than 300,000 citations covering reproductive health with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues. Includes links to free, fulltext documents, the ability to limit your search to peer-reviewed journal articles, and many abstracts in French and Spanish. It is updated twice each month, and has content from 1827 to the present. POPLINE is maintained by the INFO Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs and is funded primarily by the United States Agency for International Development.

Population Index

Population Index, published since 1935, is the primary reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other material on population topics.The entire published database for 1986-1998 (Volumes 52-64) is available on-line and can be searched by author, subject matter, geographical region, and year of publication. We are happy to announce that we have added a free-text search capacity to our Web pages. Free-text search is now available for all issues from 1986 to 1998. It enables you to search for text anywhere in a citation, including the title, series, and abstract. (Updated monthly)

Primal Pictures: Primal Pictures provides a dynamic interactive multimedia overview of human anatomy. It features three-dimensional animations that illustrate function, biomechanics, and surgical procedures. Clinical videos and textual descriptions by leading specialists supplement the animations and models. Interactive learning modules covering basic human anatomy focus on one or more areas of the body, from a generalist’s or specialist’s perspective, so that students, physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals can uncover the information they want quickly and easily. Primal Pictures has created the world’s first complete 3D model of human anatomy.

Primary Search: "Designed specifically for elementary school libraries and public library children's rooms, contains full text for more than 60 popular, elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 100 magazines. Full text is also available for over 100 student pamphlets. Examples of publications covered in Primary Search include: Appleseeds, Boys' Life, Cobblestone, Cricket, Highlights for Children, Hopscotch, Jack & Jill, Ladybug, Ranger Rick, Science World, Spider, SuperScience, Time for Kids, Turtle, and many more. This database also provides the American Heritage Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection of 107,000 photos, maps and flags. Many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text backfiles go as far back as 1989, while indexing and abstract backfiles go as far back as 1984." (Ebsco description)
PrimateLit: "The PrimateLit database provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. It covers a wide range of publication types (articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc.) and subject categories (behavior, ecology, physiology, pharmacology, evolution, developmental and molecular biology, genetics, etc.)."
ProceedingsFirst: Over 19,000 citations of publications from worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses, and symposia. Covers 1993 to the present. (Updated twice weekly)
Professional Development Collection: Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 600 full text journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles.
Project Muse: Project MUSE is a joint venture of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. This initiative makes possible worldwide networked access to the full text of the Press's scholarly journals. Coverage is from 1995 to the present. (Updated monthly)

Proquest Dissertations & Theses: Previously known as Digital Dissertations, this is the definitive guide to more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Proquest Disseretations & Theses helps you identify more than 90 percent of the doctoral dissertations accepted each year in North America. The database also covers thousands of dissertations and theses from around the globe.

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 1861, and more than 55,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Full-text Temple University dissertations from as far back as the 1950's are included along with 24-page previews of thousands of other dissertations.

Proquest Dissertations & Theses @ Temple University is a subset of the larger database, including only dissertations and theses from Temple University.

PsycARTICLES: PsycARTICLES is a full-text ejournal collection from the American Psychological Association, Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber Publishers.
PsychiatryOnline: Online access to the full-text of the DSM-IV TR as well as five journals from American Psychiatric Publishing, including the American Journal of Psychiatry.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection: The Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, one of the separately searchable database sub-sets of EBSCOhost, is a database with more than 500 peer-reviewed full-text journals. It covers topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.


PsycINFO (1887-present): PsycINFO(1887-present) PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. Journal coverage, spanning 1887-present, includes international material selected from more than 1300 periodicals written in over 25 languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987-present. Over 55,000 references are added annually through monthly updates. --American Psychological Association

PubMed: PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. It provides coverage of biomedical journals from the United States and 80 other countries, dating back to the mid-1950’s.

Race Relations Abstracts: Race Relations Abstracts assesses more than 300 publications providing the latest information and research findings in race relations. Issues covered include discrimination, education, employment, health, politics, law, and legislation.

RAMBI: Selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Covers thousands of periodicals and collections of articles - in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages--mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library.

RDS Business Reference Suite: Comprised of Business & Industry, Business & Management Practices, and TableBase

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature (4 concurrent user limit): Provides bibliographic information for articles from over 400 periodicals in the popular press with full text available from over 200. Indexing goes back to 1890.

Reference Resources: Includes recommended electronic and print resources covering materials in all subject areas. These sources have been specifically selected and evaluated by Temple Librarians before being added.
Reference Universe: Covers back-of-the-book indexes and article titles to subject encyclopedias and reference works. As of March 4, 2004 there are more than 2,900 titles online. Additional titles are added weekly.
Regional Business News: Fulltext newswires that incorporates news information from all over the world including A&G Information, Africa News Service, Inter Press Service, Resource News International, South American Business, M2 Communications, PR Newswire, Business Newswire, Canadian Corporate News, News Bytes News Network and Phillips Business Information Highlights. Information provided by these sources covers business, political, economic and other diverse, international news events. In order to maintain the most current collection of news, this database contains the most recent 30 days of information from each of these wire sources. Several hundred articles are added to Regional Business News database each day.

Religion and Philosophy Collection
: The Religion & Philosophy Collection provides access to over 300 full text journals. Coverage includes world religions, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy, and the history of philosophy.

RILM Abstracts of Musical Literature
: Contains over 200,000 citations on international music corresponding to the printed RILM Abstracts of Musical Literature. The file is produced by the Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale. Covers the period 1969 to the present. (Updated quarterly)
RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (5 concurrent user limt)
: RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals is an international annotated bibliography of writings on musical history and culture, found in music periodicals published in seventeen countries between approximately 1800 and 1950. Treating primary source material, RIPM indexes the content of complete runs of journals, including articles, reviews, news columns, miscellaneous items, surveys of the press, bibliographies, iconography and advertising. In addition, this database offers access to an immense bibliography of music and to thousands of English-language translations of foreign documents. Approximately 20,000 records are added annually. RIPM is produced under the auspices of the International Musicological Society (IMS) and the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML).

Risk Abstracts: Published in association with the Institute for Risk Research at the University of Waterloo, Risk Abstracts encompasses risk arising from industrial, technological, environmental, and other sources, with an emphasis on assessment and management of risk. The journal includes occasional articles on topics of significant interest. (Updated quarterly)


RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources (Repertoire International des Sources Musicales) (5 concurrent user limit): The International Inventory of Musical Sources (RISM) is an international, non-profit joint venture which aims to comprehensively document the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory and libretti stored in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections. The organization, founded in Paris in 1952, is the largest and the only global operation that registers written musical sources. RISM documents what exists and where it is stored.

Among the different series of RISM only series A/II: "Music manuscripts after 1600" is available online.

RISM series A/II: "Music manuscripts after 1600" is the most comprehensive annotated index and guide to music manuscripts produced after 1600. Fifty years of careful research and joint initiatives sponsored by RISM brings together among others more than 551,000 records by over 19,500 composers into one database which can be easily searched. The manuscripts are found in over 750 libraries and archives in 31 countries including: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, Uruguay and USA.

The Music manuscript database is linked to three other databases providing additional information to specific content: Composer, Library Sigla and Bibliographic Citations. (occasionally, these databases include information from other RISM series too.) The database can be searched from hyperlinks in the Music manuscript database, or directly from a database search menu.

The 4 RISM databases include more than 551,000 records with at least 20,000 new records added each year. The music manuscript database contains over 730,000 searchable music incipits which can be viewed as musical scores. 1.8 million music manuscripts are estimated to exist for which RISM provides the most extensive cataloguing to-date.

Each manuscript is described in detail with up to 100 fields of information available. The most important of these fields are:

· Name of the composer, arranger etc., with biographical dates

· Title of work in standardized form

· Music incipit (opening of musical text in musical notation)

· Provenance /Institution

· Source form (score, voice etc.)

· Location of manuscript and shelf mark

Roll Call: One of the leading publications for Congressional news and information, Roll Call provides up-to-the-minute news of the legislative and political maneuvers that happen every day on Capitol Hill. Coverage extends back to 2003.

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Journal Archive

Contains all articles published by the RSC (and its forerunner societies) from 1841 to 2004. The backfile contains approximately 238,000 articles in 1,400,000 pages.
RLG Union Catalog (5 concurrent user limit): RLIN is a comprehensive database that serves as a major catalog of records describing books, serials, archival collections, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, sound recordings, films, photographs, posters, computer files, electronic resources and more. The RLG Union Catalog reflects the collections of major research libraries; academic, public, corporate and national libraries; archives and museums; historical societies and international book vendors. The RLG Union Catalog includes 42 million titles-50% for non-English materials (the only database that includes records with Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Japanese, and Korean scripts), four million items represent 19th-century imprints, 1.4 million titles represent 15th to 18th century imprints. 2.3 million records are for microform masters. (Updated daily)

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online (4 concurrent user limit): Built upon the foundation of the highly regarded 1998 print version, the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online includes over 2000 entries from over 1,300 scholars, with new and updated entries continually added. Coverage includes Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental and contemporary philosophy.


Safari Tech Books Online (4 concurrent user limit): Full-text library of over 800 information technology books from publishers including O'Reilly, Que, New Riders, Addison-Wesley, and Sams.

SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers)Publications and Standards Database: SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers): Covers the SAE's tech publications and its standards. Detailed Tech info published by SAE including SAE Tech Papers since 1906, all magazine articles since 1990, all Cooperative Research Program reports, and all current and cancelled SAE Standards (Ground Vehicle Standards, Aerospace Standards & Aerospace Materials Specs). It provides info on engineering tech for automobiles, aircraft, trucks, buses, and other self-propelled vehicles, as well as engines, electronics, fuels and lubricants, materials, components, safety, emissions, transmissions, emissions & instrumentation. This database is available at the Engineering Library only.

Sage eReference: Full-text of 40+ major reference works published by Sage Publications.

Sage Journals Online: Online access to over 400 journals in the social sciences, humanities, medicine, engineering, and physical and life sciences from Sage Publications. Dates of coverage generally extend back to 1999.

Science Citation Index Expanded (1900 - present)

The Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,100 more journals than its SCI print and CD-ROM counterparts, with all cited references captured. SCI Expanded: Provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1900 forward. Averages 17,750 new articles per week. Includes approximately 362,000 new cited references per week. Includes approximately 775 new cited references to patents per week. Contains a current total of over 17 million articles. Contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 70% of the articles in the database. (Updated daily)

Science of Synthesis

Provides online access to one of the most in-depth authoritative information sources available on synthetic methodology. Information is available on 18,000 generally applicable experimental procedures, including 180,000 reactions and 800,000 structures. Also included is the searchable full-text of the various editions of the higley esteemed, almost 200 year-old Houben-Weyl. [Technical Requirements]

Science Online

Online access to the prestigious journal Science from the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 1996 to the present. Also includes Science Express - electronic publication of selected Science papers in advance of print and ScienceNOW - daily science news from Science journalists.

Science.gov

A gateway to science information resources of the U.S. government. Users can search both government web sites and government databases. Full-text available.

ScienceDirect

Hundreds of scientific, technical, social science, and medical journals published by Elsevier. (Updated daily)

SciFinder Scholar (4 concurrent user limit)

SciFinder Scholar is an interface to the Chemical Abstracts (CA) database which includes early 16 million abstracts of journal articles, patents and other documents. Sources for Chemical Abstracts include more than 8,000 journals, patents, technical reports, books, conference proceedings, and dissertations from around the world. About 14,000 records are added every week, with much of the information added to the database on a daily basis. CA also covers 29 national patent offices and two international bodies. About 16% of the CA database, approximately 2.5 million records, are from the patent literature. (Updated weekly)

SciFinder Scholar enables you to:

do substructure searching of the literature. By using your mouse to draw a structure, you can easily define rings, chains, substituents, and R-Groups of interest
get reactions, starting with structures of interest
and also search by topic, author name, chemical name, formulas, and CAS registry numbers.

SimplyMap (5 concurrent user limit)

SimplyMap is a web-based mapping application with a user-friendly interface that permits users to quickly and easily create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing variables. Maps can be exported as high-resolution images to word processing or presentation software; data can be selected, sorted, and compared across multiple locations to build custom reports that can be exported to a spreadsheet. Available data include:

Demographic Variables: population, age, race, income, ancestry, marital status, housing, employment, transportation, families, and more

Business Variables: detailed consumer expenditure, business & employee counts by industry (by NAICS Code), Consumer Price Index, quality of life & consumer profiles, and market segments

2000 census data is available along with current year estimates and 5 year projections. Data is available by census block-groups, census tracts, ZIP codes, cities, counties, states, and the entire United States.

Note: SimplyMap requires users to create a personal workspace using an email address


Smithsonian Global Sound: Includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. It also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies.

Recordings can be streamed (requires Macromedia Flash Player and Windows Media Player [PC] or Macromedia Flash Player [Mac]) at either 22kbps (default) or 64kbps. Users can create their own playlists after free registration.


Social Sciences Index (4 concurrent user limit): Indexing for more than 600 publications, with full text for over 200, covering a wide range of interdisciplinary fields such as addiction studies, anthropology, corrections, economics, gender studies, gerontology, minority studies, political sciences, psychology, sociology, etc. Indexing goes back to 1907 and abstracts start in 1994. (Updated monthly)
Social Sciences Citation Index (1956 - present): The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. SSCI: Provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1956 forward. Averages 2,700 new articles per week. Includes approximately 50,500 new cited references per week. Includes approximately 138 new cited references to patents each year. Contains a current total of over 3.15 million articles. Contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 60% of the articles in the database. (Updated daily)
Social Science Research Network: Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a world wide collaborative of leading scholars that is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research. It is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. Each of SSRN's networks encourages the early distribution of research results by reviewing and publishing submitted abstracts and by soliciting abstracts of top quality research papers around the world. The Networks encourage readers to communicate directly with other subscribers concerning their own and other's research. Through our email abstracting journals we currently reach over 35,000 people in approximately 70 different countries.

SSRN's email abstracting journals cover 100 different subject areas. The Abstract Database contains information on over 76,100 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers. The Electronic Paper collection currently contains over 52,000 downloadable electronic documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format."
Social Services Abstracts: Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,406 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews. (Updated monthly)
Social Work Abstracts (8 concurrent user limit): Social Work Abstracts offers extensive coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1977. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the database provides citations and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems.
Sociological Abstracts: Provides comprehensive coverage of the world's literature on sociology and applied aspects of sociology. Over 1,800 journals are indexed along with relevant dissertations. Citation andabstract included for each record. (Updated quarterly)
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics: "The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics brings together data about all aspects of criminal justice in the United States presented in over 600 tables from more than 100 sources." (Updated yearly)
SourceOECD: From the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Covers Agriculture & Food, Development, Education, Energy, Environment, Finance and Investment, Social Issues, Transport and more. SourceOECD comprises three sections: Studies (books and reports) by Theme, Periodicals and Statistics. Studies by Theme is where you will find the OECD’s monographs and annual reports. There are 19 Themes; you’ll find the list in the left hand column of the homepage. All printed periodicals are moving online to this channel. The Statistics channel delivers access to the OECD’s statistical databases allowing users real-time access to the latest data. (Updated daily)
Sports Business Research Network: SBRnet is focused on the sporting goods and sports marketing industry. It provides a continuously updated resource featuring market research and industry news covering all facets of the industry…sports equipment sales, sports participation, sports broadcasting, sports sponsorship and sports marketing. Some full-text articles are included. (Updated daily)
SportDiscus with Full Text (8 concurrent user limit): The only international sports database. Covers the fields of exercise, medicine, biomechanics, coaching and sports medicine. Includes approximately 350 full text journals. (Updated quarterly)
SpringerLINK (Journals and series): SpringerLINK provides online access to the full text of over 1100 scholarly interdisciplinary journals and series. Building on its Springer Publishing base in science, technology, and medicine, SpringerLink has merged with Kluwer Academic and other premiere academic publishers to provide expanded coverage in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Law. SpringerLINK is organized in 11 online subject libraries": Behavioral Science, Medicine, Life Sciences, Economics, Chemical Sciences, Computer Science, Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy. Each library is fully indexed and searchable. Users may also browse and search for journals over the entire collection. (Updated daily)

Standard Rate & Data Service (SRDS): SRDS provides media rates and data for more than 100,000 U.S and international media properties, including both traditional and alternative marketing media. Advertising rates, personnel contact information, as well as circulation figures for radio, TV, cable, business publications, consumer magazines, and newspapers are included. Demographic information is also provided.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: A dynamic reference work on philosophy maintained by Stanford University. Each encyclopedia entry is authored and updated by an expert or group of experts in their field.

STAT!Ref: STAT!Ref® online is a cross-searchable resource that integrates 100+ core healthcare reference titles with evidence-based resources and innovative tools in one site.

STAT-USA: STAT-USA includes three major sections. 1) State of the Nation provides various financial and economic data from throughout the federal government and other related entities. 2) Global Business Opportunitiesoffers daily trade leads from the Trade opportunities Program (TOPS), as well as the Department of Agriculture. Global Business Opportunities also offers daily procurement activity from the Defense Logistics Agency and the Commerce Business Daily. Beginning October 1, 1997, United Nations trade leads will also be posted. Historical trade leads are available for up to three months. Historical TOPS leads are provided for up to two years. 3) International Trade Resourcesprovide access to the information available from the National Trade Data Bank. Country Commercial Guides, Market Research reports, and International Marketing Insight (IMI) reports are just a few of the topic areas covered. Imports and exports by commodity and/or country are provided, as well as international and domestic contacts. The International Trade library is a comprehensive collection of over 40,000 documents related to international trade. All are full text searchable, as well as key word searchable by country or product. (Updated daily)

Only available within Temple Libraries. See librarian for logon information. Alternatively, use LexisNexis Statistical for off-campus access to the same or similar data

Statistical Abstract of the US: As the National Data Book it contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Selected international data are also included. The Abstract is also your guide to sources of other data from the Census Bureau, other Federal agencies, and private organizations.
Sustainability Science Abstracts: Covers the management of human use and conservation of the natural resource base. Abstracts of relevant papers, reports, books and reviews from standard peer-reviewed scientific journals are included. To ensure comprehensive coverage, material from conference proceedings and hard-to-find gray literature has also been summarized.

U.S. Supreme Court Records & Briefs, 1832-1978

Supreme Court Records and Briefs (SCRB) comprises over 150,000 cases from the generation before the American Civil War to the decade of the Vietnam War and Watergate. It covers every aspect of law: civil rights law; constitutional law; corporate law; environmental law; gender law; labor law; legal history and legal theory; property law; taxation; trademark and intellectual property law, among other subjects. Document types include Appellant's Brief; Appellee's Brief; Application for Review; Application for Writ; Brief in Opposition; Brief of Real Party; Intervenor’s Brief; Jurisdictional Statement; Letter Brief; Opposition for Review; Oral Transcript; Petition; Petition for Rehearing; Petitioner’s Brief; Petition for Writ of Certiorari; Relator’s Brief; Supplement to Petition; Transcript; among other sources.

Famous briefs include those written by leading attorneys, future associates of the Court, institutions, corporations, and advocacy groups: N.A.A.C.P.; ACLU; The New York Times; Louis D. Brandeis; Abe Fortas; Thurgood Marshall; Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The collection is of interest to scholars and patrons interested in all aspects of American constitutional, political, legal, social, economical, cultural, and intellectual history.

SCRB is derived from two essential reference sources. For the period 1832 (when printed Court records began) through 1915, the documents are based primarily on the holdings of the Jenkins Memorial Law Library, America’s first law library, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For 1915-1978 the source is the Library of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, a nationally recognized research facility and the single largest member supported law library in the United States.

SCRB features a fully searchable database of approximately 11 million pages and more than 350,000 separate documents. Approximately 150,000 Supreme Court cases are featured, the majority consisting of those for which the Court did not give a full opinion.

TableBase

Contains tables drawn from over 900 titles in the Business & Industry database and privately-published statistical annuals. Coverage includes:

Company and brand rankings
Imports and exports
Industry and product forecasts
Market share
Number of users/outlets
Production and consumption statistics
Trends and demographics
Usage and capacity

Tax Analysts Web Services

Includes the following components:

Tax Notes Today
Tax Notes Today (TTN) provides practitioners with daily federal news and tax-related documents dating back to 1993. The news stories encompass events in Congress, the IRS, the courts, bar associations, and any other tax development at the U.S. federal level; supporting documents include legislation, court opinions, IRS rulings, press releases, regulations, and more.

TNT also includes a federal Commentary & Analysis feature that contains news analysis and expert commentary from private practitioners, government officials, academics, and tax and economic experts on the Tax Analysts staff.

Federal Research Library
Comprehensive federal tax resource that includes the Basic Federal Research, Chief Counsel Advice, and Court Opinions libraries.

The Basic Federal Research Library provides essential source materials from the IRS and Treasury, including the Internal Revenue Code, regulations, publications, Circular 230, and much more. The library also includes Tax Analysts' popular Federal Tax Baedeker, a plain-English explanation of federal tax law.

You can gain insight into the IRS's practices and procedures through the Chief Counsel Advice Library, which offers letter rulings, technical advice and assistance, field service advice, legal memorandums, and other forms of guidance the IRS provides to taxpayers, practitioners, and its own employees.

Refer to the Court Opinions Library for more than 35,000 full texts and summaries of tax cases from the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, Tax Court, federal appellate courts, and federal district courts.

State Tax Today
State Tax Today (STT) provides practitioners with daily news and tax-related documents that affect the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. Coverage includes events from state governments, revenue departments, courts, and legislative bodies, as well as activities by multistate organizations and tax conferences and any federal or international news and documents that affect state tax policy.

STT also includes a state Commentary & Analysis feature that contains news analysis and expert commentary from private practitioners, government officials, academics, and tax and economic experts on the Tax Analysts staff.

STT news coverage and supporting documents date back to 1993.

Worldwide Tax Daily
Worldwide Tax Daily (WTD) provides practitioners with daily news and tax-related documents from over 180 countries and multinational organizations, including U.S. federal information concerning international tax issues.

WTD also includes an international Commentary & Analysis feature, which contains news analysis and expert commentary from private practitioners, government officials, academics, and tax and economic experts on the Tax Analysts staff.

Worldwide Tax Treaties
Includes over 3,500 tax treaties, amending protocols, and similar documents from over 181 jurisdictions. In addition to comprehensive treaties concerning taxes on income and capital, the collection also includes estate and gift tax treaties, limited agreements, model tax treaties, and more.

Television News Archives-- Vanderbilt University

The Vanderbilt University Television News Archive is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC (since 1968), and CNN (since 1995). The archive also includes more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989, presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and significant national and international events.

Title and text descriptions for each news broadcast permit sophisticated searching of all material in the archive. The archive's search interface, the TV-NewsSearch database, includes over 705,000 records describing items of news content which can be searched using keyword or boolean techniques. Detailed searching instructions are contained in the TV-NewsSearch database, along with instruction for downloading the free RealOne media player required for viewing the collection video. (Requires downloading free RealOne media player from Real Networks.)

Terrorism Information Center

Database of eDocuments including reports, articles, fact sheets, and links to websites with terrorism-related information. Also provides access to selected ebooks and ejournals upon registration. Includes access to the International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center (ISCTRC) which contains hundreds of full text journals and periodicals, hundreds of thousands of selected articles, news feeds, reports, summaries, books, blogs, FAQs, and proprietary Background Information Summaries that pertain to terrorism and security. ISCTRC also combines deep background from scholarly writings with expert commentary from a variety of organizations, agencies and publisher and timely reviews of recent developments across the international political, military, economic, social and technical spectrum.

The Terrorism Information Center requires users to provide an email address as part of a free registration process in order to access the database.

Testing & Education Reference Center

Powered by Peterson's and brought to you by Gale, the Testing & Education Reference Center provides in-depth information on colleges and universities, graduate and professional programs, distance learning, corporate training, available scholarships and awards, preparatory entrance tests and more. Available online practice tests include entrance exams and certification and licensing tests.

The Career Module consists of the Career Key, the Resume Builder and the Virtual Careers Library. The Career Key helps map a career path through a multiple-choice assessment that determines Holland Type, and matches answers to suitable job categories, industries, and occupations. The Resume Builder helps build resumes based on career stage and type of position. It also includes help tools specific to the user including high school students, those transitioning out of the military, and those looking for internships. The Virtual Careers Library provides resume, cover letter, and interviewing tips for users starting out in high school to the seasoned professional that is changing careers.

Finally, the Testing & Education Reference Center includes PDF versions of respected college and career handbooks.

Description adapted from Gale website.

Theatre in Video (3 concurrent user limit)

When completed, Theatre in Video will provide over 250 plays (including the BBC Shakespeare series) and 100 documentaries in an online streaming format. Users have the ability to bookmark scenes and create film clips along with the option of sharing them with other users of Theatre in Video.

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) contains virtually all Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century B.C.) and A.D. 600 and the majority of surviving works up the fall of Byzantium in A.D. 1453.

Note: A polytonic Greek font must be installed on your computer in order to view some texts. With some browsers, you may also be able to input your search in Greek; with others, you may have to input Beta Code or Latin Transliteration. Extensive information about font requirements is available at the TLG website at: http://www.tlg.uci.edu/help/Help.fonts.html.

THOMAS: The Federal Government's gateway to legislative information, self-described as follows: "Acting under the directive of the leadership of the 104th Congress to make Federal legislative information freely available to the Internet public, a Library of Congress team brought the THOMAS World Wide Web system online in January 1995, at the inception of the 104th Congress. Searching capabilities in THOMAS were built on the InQuery information retrieval system, developed by the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval based at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

"The first database made available was Bill Text, followed shortly by Congressional Record Text, Bill Summary & Status, Hot Bills (now called "Congress This Week" and "Major Legislation"), the Congressional Record Index, and the Constitution (now found, along with other historical Congressional documents, under the "Historical Documents" category on the THOMAS home page). Enhancements in the types of legislative data available, as well as in search and display capabilities, have been continuously added." (Updated daily)
TLS Centenary archive(Times Literary Supplement): "The back numbers of The Times Literary Supplement are amongthe prime sources of twentieth-century British cultural history but two main obstacles have deterred anyone who wanted to make use of them. One is bulk: the text of the now more than 5,000 weekly issues runs to about 250 million words. The other, anonymity. For the first seventy-two years of the journal's existence up to 1974, contributions were almost always published without their authors' names. With the electronic publication of the TLS Centenary Archive, both barriers are being removed. Subscribers seeking references to a particular name or concept mentioned in articles (or even advertisements), from Proust to proportional representation or political correctness, will be able to find them within a range of dates—or, if they are patient, throughout the paper's whole history. Who contributed what reviews, what else they wrote for the paper, and a biographical sketch of each contributor, is all new information now available for the first time. This current release of the archive covers the period 1902-1939; subsequent releases will expand complete coverage to 1945 by the end of this year. At that point, the complete run of the TLS to 1980 will be searchable, with remaining additions to the Contributor’s database being completed by the end of 2000. Work is also currently underway to permit full-text searching, to be introduced during the same period."
Toxicology Abstracts: Covers issues from social poisons and substance abuse to natural toxins, from legislation and recommended standards to environmental issues. Surveying the literature for toxicology studies of industrial and agricultural chemicals, household products, pharmaceuticals, and myriad other substances, each issue publishes information concerning the in vivo effects of toxic substances. Topics of current concern such as the effects of alcohol and smoking, drug abuse, hydrocarbon studies, nitrosamines, radiation and radioactive materials, and much more are extensively examined. Toxicity testing methodology and analytical procedures for toxic substances are also covered. (Updated monthly)

TRIS (Transportation Research Information Services): * The Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database is the world's largest and most comprehensive bibliographic resource on transportation information. TRIS is produced and maintained by the Transportation Research Board at the National Academy of Sciences.
* TRIS contains over 600,000 records of published and ongoing research.
* TRIS covers all modes and disciplines of transportation. Efforts have been to increase coverage on the various modes and in the areas of planning, environment, and human factors.
* Each year over 25,000 records are added to TRIS.
* TRIS is sponsored by the State Departments of Transportation, the various administrations in the U.S. Department of Transportation, and other sponsors of TRB's core technical activities.
(adapted from the TRIS website)

20th Century American Poetry

This collection includes 52,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song.

20th Century English Poetry

A collection of 594 volumes of poetry by 282 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Graves, A. E. Housman, John Betjeman, Fleur Adcock, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy, and incorporating the poets in The Faber Poetry Library.

20th Century North American Drama

The current edition of Twentieth Century North American Drama contains the full text of 319 plays by 53 playwrights. Each play is itself richly indexed, allowing both keyword and multi-fielded searching. Some 25 of the plays are published here for the first time, including a number by major authors. The structure of this database is unique; it has been built around the core elements of drama - not just the authors, but the performers, the productions, the companies, the theaters as well as the plays themselves. The database indexes information on related productions, theaters, and production companies, as well as selected playbills, production photographs and other related ephemera. This database allows users to examine and understand North American Theatre of the past century in ways that have never been possible before.

Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory

Ulrich's provides users with essential serials bibliographic and access information that ranges from subscription rates to the latest web sites. Nearly a quarter of a million consumer and trade magazines, academic and scholarly publications, monographic series, newsletters, newspapers, electronic publications, 'zines, and many other types of serial publications and services published throughout the world on all subjects, are profiled. Updated monthly. Covers over 240,000 serials, including details on almost 55,000 ceased titles. Includes ISSN, former ISSN(s) and former title(s) history, variant titles, editorial and classification data, start year, and frequency. Also pricing, subscription, and distribution details key publisher, editor, rights & permissions and advertising contact. Access options including document delivery, indexing services, online vendors are described. Includes:

Listings of 80,000 publishers and distributors with full contact detail
59,034 e-mail addresses hotlinked
54,036 URLs hotlinked
Nearly 8,000 reviews from Magazines for Libraries and Library Journal
18,422 refereed serials noted and searchable
15 document type indicators (e.g. A&I service, academic/scholarly publication, newspaper, newsletter, consumer publication, trade publication, etc.) to refine searching

Over 50,000 titles are available for document delivery flagged for 19 Document Delivery Services, including the British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC), UnCover, Ask IEEE, CINDOC, CISTI, Infotrieve, CatchWord, and the German National Library of Medicine.

United Nations Treaty Collection

The United Nations Treaty Collection consists of multiple collections of treaty-related data including: full-text multilateral treaties deposited with the UN Secretary-General; cumulative indices and full text of the League of Nations and United Nations Treaty series; a treaty status database; and a large collection of treaty reference material. The United Nations Treaty Collection is published by the Treaty Section of the Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations.

Urban Studies Abstracts: Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas of key relevance. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Studies, and Canadian Journal of Urban Research.

Urban Studies & Planning: A SAGE Full-Text Collection: Urban Studies & Planning: A Sage Full-Text Collection is a searchable collection of bibliographic records with links to the full text in PDF format of 12 journals published by Sage. Seven of the journals are available in their totality, from volume one to the present. The collection covers subjects such as Anthropology, Economic Development, Economics, Education, Environmental Science, Planning Pedagogy, Planning Practice, Planning Theory, Policy Analysis, Political Science, Public Administration, Regional Geography, Regional Science, Residential and Community Development, Social, Spatial, and Cultural Dynamics, Sociology, Urban and Regional Planning, Urban Culture, Urban Geography, Urban Policy, Urban Politics, and Welfare Economics.

USA Counties: USA Counties, from the Census Bureau, compiles useful demographic, economic, and governmental information spanning several years and sources for county comparisons and profiles.
Visual Collections: Digital image collection portal that includes more than 300,000 works from museums, universities and private collections throughout the world. Combined, the collected works create an unparalleled online resource in the arts and humanities that is available for free, public access. Fine art, photography, maps, architecture and other collections of culture are represented within Visual Collections, which is made possible through the contributions of dozens of institutions. At its launch, more than 30 collections are represented in Visual Collections, ranging from the fine art of Museums & the Online Archive of California (MOAC) to early maps of Scotland from the University of Edinburgh's Charting the Nation collection.
Water Resources Abstracts: Provides summaries of the world's technical and scientific literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources. Abstracts are drawn from journals, books, conference proceedings, and technical reports in the physical and life sciences, as well as from engineering, legal and government publications.

Until 1994, the database was produced by the United States Geological Survey, when it was generally known as Selected Water Resources Abstracts. Since that time, Water Resources Abstracts has been produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, which broadened the scope by including more material published outside the U.S.A. This database, which concentrates on water supply and water treatment, complements the Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts database, ASFA, where there is greater coverage of the marine environment and biological material. (Updated monthly)
Web Gallery of Art: Virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1800), currently containing over 11,600 reproductions. Commentaries on pictures, biographies of artists are available.
Web of Science: Includes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), 1900-present; Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), 1956-present; Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A & HCI), 1975-present.
Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged: America's premier lexicographical work, the 1993 edition is published here in electronic form for the first time. A dictionary of the English language containing 450,000 vocabulary entries.

Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals: The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals indexes major 19th century British periodicals on Victorian thought and opinion. Subjects covered include: literature, religion, politics, social science, women’s studies, science and the arts. The Index also identifies authorship of unsigned articles and includes a table of contents for every periodical indexed.
Who's Who in American Art (1 concurrent user limit, shared between the four Who's Who databases): Who's Who in American Art includes 14,000 of today's most notable artists, including notable artists from the 20th century.
Who's Who in American History (1 concurrent user limit, shared between the four Who's Who databases): Who's Who in American History contains over 36,000 biographies of the men and women who helped shape America over its 400-year history.
Who's Who in American Politics (1 concurrent user limit, shared between the four Who's Who databases): Who's Who in American Politics includes 36,000 of today's political leaders, including important figures from the past decade.

Who's Who on the Web (Marquis) (1 concurrent user limit, shared between the four Who's Who databases): Marquis Who's Who on the Web provides biographies of over 1.3 million people of note, in the United States and around the world. Individuals profiled come from all fields, including: government, business, science & technology, the arts, entertainment and sports. Search by name, gender, occupation, geography, hobbies and interests, religion and much more.

Wiley Interscience: Full-text of over 400 current journals published by Wiley. The great majority of journals found in Interscience (but not all) are available to the Temple community online. When available, access generally extends back to 1996/1997.

Wilson OmniFile (4 concurrent user limt): Contains indexed and abstracted articles from Applied Science & Technology Index, Art Index, Biological & Agricultural Index, Business Index, Education Index, General Science Index, Humanities Index, Legal Periodicals Index, Library Literature & Information Science, Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, and Social Sciences Index. Once in OmniFile, additional Wilson resources may be selected for searching simultaneously with OmniFile.
Wired.MD streaMed Patient Portal Consumer Health Information Library: Includes over 200 multimedia videos, some of which are available in 8 languages, 1385 associated text handouts, as well as numerous anatomical animations and peer-reviewed health websites. Through this comprehensive database, you will have access to consumer health and patient education videos that are developed by physicians and educators throughout the country. These videos present important information regarding the most common health conditions, diagnoses, procedures, and treatments you may encounter in an educational and entertaining video format. (courtesy of Access PA)

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000: Brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women’s reform activities and examines perspectives on women’s social movements from Colonial times to the present. WSM was developed by Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar of the State University of New York at Binghamton. They are assisted by a scholarly editorial board of fourteen historians.
Women Writers Online (1400-1850): Hundreds of texts written by women between 1400 to 1850. All of these texts can be browsed, searched, and analysed using tools which provide access to the full SGML encoding.

Women's Resources International (1972-present): A women's studies resource that includes over 204,000 records drawn from a variety of essential women's studies databases.

"Because this is primarily an index of the feminist press, it is an excellent resource for finding articles from a feminist perspective (drug testing for pregnant women, for example, or reviews of Kate Roiphe's The Morning After or articles about body image)... The search software is very flexible, with novice, advanced, and expert search systems including features one would expect: boolean searching, truncation, the ability to limit by fields, and a variety of printing and downloading options....." College & Research Libraries, Vol.57, number 5, p.469
World Almanacs: The World Almanac database includes the contents of:
- The World Almanac and Bookof Facts 1998
- The World Almanac of the U.S.A.
- The World Almanac of U.S. Politics
- The World Almanac for Kids
(Updated annually)
World Development Indicators Online: Provides direct access to more than 600 development indicators, with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 onward.

World News Connection: World News Connection is a full-text database produced by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Technical Information Service. WNC indexes English translations of thousands of foreign media sources, including political speeches, television programs, radio broadcasts and articles from newspapers, periodicals, and books.

Coverage begins with July, 1994 and sources are translated and added to the database within 72 hours of their publication. Regional categories covered include: Central Eurasia, East Europe, East Asia, West Europe, Near East & South Asia, Latin America, China, and Sub-Saharan Africa. (Updated daily)
The World of Learning: Profiles some 30,000 academic institutions and over 200,000 staff and officials, covering the whole of the international higher education and learning spectrum.

WorldCat: More than 32 million records describing items owned by libraries around the world. Each record contains library holdings. Coverage/update frequency: from about 1000 A.D. to the present; adds new records daily. Includes holdings of 6,700 OCLC Member Libraries & Institutions.

World History Collection: Offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. World History Collection contains cover-to-cover full text for nearly 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964. These hand-selected information sources cover a wide range of historical topics including anthropology, art, culture, economics, government, heritage, military, politics, regional issues, and more.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts: Worldwide Political Science Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. It currently monitors approximately 1,500+ titles for coverage, of which 67% are published outside the United States.

The references cited in the bibliography of the source article have been included for citations to core journals in political science added to the database since 2001, and for all journals added since 2004. Each individual reference may also have links to an abstract and/or to other papers that cite that reference; these references are linked both within Worldwide Political Science Abstracts and across other social science databases available on CSA Illumina. All records added since 2000 are indexed using a thesaurus of over 3,000 terms. (Updated monthly)



Zentralblatt MATH: Abstracting and reviewing service in pure and applied mathematics. The MATH Database contains more than 1.8 million entries drawn from more than 2300 serials and journals. The entries are classified according to the Mathematics Subject Classification Scheme (MSC 2000). Covers: pure mathematics (e.g. algebra, logic, topology, geometry, analysis), probability theory, statistics, mathematical physics, classical, solid and fluid mechanics, numerical mathematics, mathematical programming, theoretical computer science and automata theory, systems theory, control, operations research, economics, information and communication, circuits, coding, cryptography, applications in biology, chemistry, sociology, psychology.
Zimmerman's Research Guide: Online legal encyclopedia covering various areas of law, organizations, companies, and states/countries. Includes definitions, links, and print sources.