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Multi-disciplinary database containing full text of hundreds of scholarly publications.

ACLS Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of hundreds of full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twenty learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan's Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited multi-user access.

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 90of 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)

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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.

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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

The Bibliographie de Civilisation Medievale aims to provide a comprehensive, current bibliography of monographs worldwide and listings of miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften). It currently comprises 50,000 titles from 1958 to 2009; i.e. the whole of the relevant elements from the famous bibliography in the Cahiers de civilisation médiévale. Every reference has been fully classified by date, subject and location, and provides full bibliographical records.

Over 2 million images from providers such as Dorling Kindersley, National Geographic, and Getty. All images are rights-cleared for educational use.

Cambridge Histories Online contains scores of volumes from the various well-known Cambridge Histories published since 1960, including the Cambridge Modern History, Cambridge History of English Literature, the Cambridge Medieval History, the Cambridge Ancient History and the Histories of India and the British Empire, and others.

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 Periodica 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.

Credo Reference 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.

Contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery. The original bibliography was co-developed by John Alden and Dennis Landis, Curator of European Books at The John Carter Brown Library.

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

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)

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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.

Index to a wide range of important journals in the humanities and social sciences from 1907 to 1984.

International Historical Statistics; 1750-2010 3-volume set is the latest edition of the most authoritative collection of statistics available. Updated to 2010 wherever possible, it provides key economic and social indicators for the last 260 years, serving as an essential reference source.

Iter, meaning a journey or a path in Latin, is a not-for-profit partnership dedicated to the advancement of learning in the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) through the development and distribution of online resources. Resources include:

Iter Bibliography
More than 1 million citations for secondary source material about the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400-1700.

Iter Italicum
The most comprehensive finding list available of previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts in libraries and collections all over the world.

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)

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.

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.

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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 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 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)

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.

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.

Popular Culture explores the dynamic period of social, political and cultural change between 1950 and 1975. The resource offers thousands of colour images of manuscript and rare printed material as well as photographs, ephemera and memorabilia from this exciting period in our recent history.

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.

Full-text of major reference works published by Sage Publications.

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. Simplymap also utilizes current Mediamark Research (MRI) estimates of usage and consumption (propensity) for thousands of specific consumer products, including brand data, details of frequency of usage, and more.

Census data back to the year 1980 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

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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.

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.