AAPG Datapages/Archives 
Provides full-text access to the publications of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, as well as material published by other global and regional professional societies. It includes access to the AAPG Bulletin, AAPG Special Volumes, Journal of Petroleum Geology, and the Journal of Sedimentary Research. Subjects include geology, geophysics, earth science, engineering and related fields.
Abstracts in Anthropology Covers a broad spectrum of significant, current anthropological topics from a vast number of periodicals. Several thousand abstracts, selected and classified, fully indexed by author and subject, provide a thorough coverage of anthropological scholarship in all its subfields.
Academic Video Online: Premium Academic Video Online: Premium is Alexander Street’s most comprehensive video collection, an ever-growing resource that comprises content from 32 full video collections and eight bonus discipline clusters. This resource brings together on a single cross-searchable platform a completely integrated online repository of Alexander Street Press video titles. Note: non-video content can also be searched using the link above.
Accessible Archives 
Full text of 18th and 19th century American newspapers and books. Access eyewitness accounts of historical events, descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and genealogical records.
AccessMedicine Online medical resource that provides a spectrum of knowledge in medicine. Resource offers access to thousands of photos and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, diagnostic tools, a comprehensive search platform, and the ability to download content to a mobile device.
Note: Self-assessment and Case Files require users to set up a personal MyAccess login/password. Accounting Research Manager Database contains expert-written analytical accounting, auditing, governmental, internal controls and SEC information as well as primary source data. Updated daily.
ACLS Humanities E-Books A fully searchable collection of scholarly books in the humanities including monographs, collected essays and some primary sources. New titles are added annually. These titles are offered by the ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) in collaboration with thirty-one learned societies, over 100 contributing publishers, and the Michigan Publishing division at the University of Michigan Library.
ACS Publications see
American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications 
Includes full-text access to journals published by ACS. The collection also includes the Legacy Archives which covers access to all titles, volumes, issues, and articles published by the ACS from 1879 to 1995.
AdForum Creative Network This resource is a source of information on the advertising industry. The AdForum interactive database services provides information for the agency review process; agencies' profiles and creative work. It also provides a searchable library of creative work, including video spots.
Africa Bibliography Contains references to journal articles, book and book chapters related to African studies.
DISCLAIMER:The forward linking functionally in this database is not reliable. Users should search the libraries' E-Journal Finder or Catalog for access to full-text or library holdings of references found in this database.
African American Biographical Database (AABD) Provides biographical information of African Americans, both famous and everyday persons, from various time periods. It draws its content from Chadwyck-Healey's Black Biographical Dictionaries 1790-1950.
African American Music Reference see
Music Online: African American Music Reference Collection brings together text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the history and culture of the African American experience through music. Database expands to include 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 This collection of African American newspapers contains information about cultural life and history during the 1800s; includes 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.
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 Database provides online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. This collection features papers from more than 35 states, including many rare and historically significant 19th century titles.
African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 Resource features more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans. Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, annual reports and other genres.
African American Studies Center see
Oxford African American Studies Center Provides access to reference works that focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. Content includes primary source documents, biographies, images, maps, film clips, sound recordings, and thematic timelines. Database is searchable by subject category and era.
African Blue Books, 1821-1953 Collection of annual reports on British colonies that provide detailed accounts of the day-to-day concerns and policies of colonial administrators. Materials include texts, statistics, maps, and illustrations and cover such topics as taxes and duties, military expenditure, civil establishment, legislation and proclamations, population data, import and export statistics, prisons, and meteorological observations.
AgeLine 
References and original abstracts for materials related to aging and middle age, from an interdisciplinary perspective of psychology, economics, sociology, gerontology, public policy, business, health and health care services, and consumer issues.
AGRICOLA This bibliographic database, produced by the National Agricultural Library, consists of literature citations for journal articles, monographs, proceedings, theses, patents, translations, audiovisual materials, computer software, and technical reports pertaining to all aspects of agriculture and related fields.
AIDS and Cancer Research Abstracts see
Virology and AIDS Abstracts Provides access to the literature on virology in humans, animals, and plants with topics ranging from replication cycles to oncology to AIDS.
Al Manhal eBook Collection Collection provides access to hundreds of eBooks in Arabic. The collection is full-text searchable in English and in Arabic, and browsable by subject, title or publisher. Documents can be read online, listened to, downloaded in PDF, or printed. Subjects include arts, business and economics, history, Islamic studies, language and literature, law, and political science and international relations.
Alexander III and the Policy of "Russification," 1883-1886 This collection, as seen through the eyes of the British diplomatic corps in Russia, provides a unique analysis of "retro-reform" policy, including the increase of revolutionary agitation, deepening of conservatism and changes from agrarian to industrial society, and spread of pan-Slavism, both in the Russian Empire and Eastern Europe.
Alloy Phase Diagram Database
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Alt-PressWatch Database provides full-text articles for over 210 publications of the alternative and independent presses, from 1970 to current.
Aluka Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa see
Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa Digitized collection of thousands of documents and other primary sources focused on the independence movements of southern African nations, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Sources include periodicals, nationalist publications, records of colonial government commissions, local newspaper reports, personal papers, correspondence, UN documents, out-of-print and other particularly relevant books, oral histories, and speeches.
Aluka World Heritage Sites: Africa see
World Heritage Sites: Africa Database focused on the archaeology, history and culture of Africa as seen through its heritage sites and landscapes. Variety of spacial and contextual data, including photographs, 3D models, GIS data, site plans, aerial and satellite photography, images of rock art, excavation reports, manuscripts, traveler's accounts, historical and antiquarian maps, books, articles, and other scholarly research.
AMA Manual of Style Online This guide supports authors, editors, researchers, and others involved in medical and scientific publishing.
Ambrose Video Collection A collection of streaming video titles covering a wide range of subjects: American and European History; the cultures and achievements of American Indian, Black, Chinese, Hispanic, and Jewish peoples; Women's achievements; Religion; and the Arts. Also included are the BBC Shakespeare plays.
America's Historical Imprints Broad range of books, pamphlets and broadsides printed during a century and a half of American life, spanning the early colonial, the formation of the new nation and the Early Republic. Rare and unique items from 17th, 18th, and early 19th century include sermons, religious tracts, political arguments, reports of organized bodies, doggerel ballads, advertisements, official decrees, news extras, and amateur elegies.
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1 Collection of digitized American periodicals published from 1691 through 1820 with subject strengths in Afro-Americana, agriculture, children’s literature, education, eighteenth-century imprints, leisure and hobbies, Masonic works, medicine, religion, science, technology, trade, and women’s literature.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Datapages/Archives see
AAPG Datapages/Archives Provides full-text access to the publications of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, as well as material published by other global and regional professional societies. It includes access to the AAPG Bulletin, AAPG Special Volumes, Journal of Petroleum Geology, and the Journal of Sedimentary Research. Subjects include geology, geophysics, earth science, engineering and related fields.
American Book Prices Current Contains annual records of books, manuscripts, autographs, maps and broadsides sold at auction. Regions covered include North America and the UK, with sales from such other countries as Switzerland, Germany, Monaco, the Netherlands, Australia and France.
American City Business Journals Provides coverage of local business news and information from major metropolitan cities across the country, including access to the Washington Business Journal and the Book of Lists.
Note: This resource is best accessed via Firefox or Google Chrome.
American Factfinder Decennial Census data (1990, 2000, 2010), Economic Census (1997, 2002, 2007), Annual American Community Survey Data (2000-present) and more. Provides a tool to create tables, reports, and reference maps.
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American Film Scripts Online American Film Scripts Online contains 1,009 scripts by 1,062 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. In addition, the database includes facsimile images for more than 500 of these screenplays.
American Founding Era Gateway to the prepared digital editions of the papers of many of the major figures of the early republic, such as John Adams, John Jay, Dolley Madison and George Washington; as well as scholarship tracing the Constitution’s progress through each of the thirteen states’ conventions.
American History in Video Video collection provides early newsreels, including the complete series of United Newsreel and Universal Newsreel that capture US history as it was made and reported to viewers of the time. The collection also contains award-winning documentaries and analysis from prominent scholars and experts.
American Indian Histories and Cultures Supports the study of American Indian history from the early colonial period to the civil rights movement of the twentieth century. Features a wide range of materials including manuscripts, artwork, American Indian newspapers covering the 1960s to 1990s, rare printed books, photographs, and maps.
American Music see
Music Online: American Music History database that includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and anti-war protests.
American National Biography Provides biographical information for over 18,000 people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. Most entries include photos, bibliographies, and links to selected websites.
American Physical Society (APS) Journals Provides browsable and searchable full-text access to the APS journal collection dating from the first volume of each journal onward. Titles include the Physical Review (Parts A-E), Physical Review Letters, and Reviews of Modern Physics.
American Poetry This resource is no longer available.
American Presidency Project Comprehensive resources on the US presidency; over 100,000 documents to date, covering all 44 presidencies and including public papers, executive orders, proclamations, addresses, and press conferences from many of the presidencies. Users will also find summary data for presidential elections, approval ratings, public appearances, executive branch growth, and congressional activity.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers Conference Proceedings (Current) see
ASME Conference Proceedings (Current) ASME sponsors approximately 30 conferences per year and publishes about 100 proceedings volumes annually, encompassing the entire spectrum of topics of interest to mechanical engineers and associated industries. These current individual conference papers are published from 2002 to the present.
American West Original manuscripts, maps, ephemeral material, and rare printed sources from the Graff Collection about the American West, including tales of frontier life, Native Americans, vigilantes, and outlaws, and the growth of urban centers and environmental impact of westward expansion and of life in the borderlands.
Analytical Abstracts Database from the Royal Society of Chemistry that indexes current analytical science literature, including more than 100 journals. Covers 1980 to present; updated daily.
Anatomy.TV 3D computer-generated models of human anatomy. Users may manipulate the images by rotating, zooming, and peeling away layers, while viewing accompanying text.
For best results, use Google Chrome. Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) Indexes monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays, and doctoral dissertations published around the world. See
Literature Online (LION), and select ABELL at the Criticism tab.
Annual Reviews Includes the Biological and Medical Sciences Suite, the Physical Sciences Suite, and the Social Sciences Suite.
Année Philologique see
L'Année Philologique Primary database for classical studies and information on ancient classical languages, literature, history, archaeology, art, religion, law, philosophy, and science. Provides access to citations from all known scholarly work published in any language.
Anthropology Online Brings together a wide range of written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies, covering human behavior the world over.
Anthropology Plus Index of bibliographic materials combining Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index from the Royal Anthropological Institute. It provides worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and related interdisciplinary research.
AnthroSource Serves the research, teaching and practicing needs of anthropologists. Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource offers access to content from AAA's portfolio of 32 anthropological publications which includes journals, books, monographs, bulletins and newsletters. Subjects covered include archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, linguistics.
Antique Map Price Record Search for pricing of rare and antique maps. The price record now has approximately 200,000 pricing records from dealers and auction houses.
AnyWare see
KnowItAll U Spectroscopy resource that provides access to 1.4 million spectra (IR, NMR, MS, Raman, UV-Vis) plus chemical structures and properties. Search KnowItAll U via the web interface (KnowItAll Anyware) or download the client software (KnowItAll Informatics Systems) to have access to a number of chemistry, spectroscopy, and chemometrics tools.
AP Images A collection of historical and contemporary imagery, with a 50 million image print and negative archive. Included are graphics and audio clips.
Apolitical News, analysis, and networking for practitioners in policy & administration. Apolitical is a non-partisan, for-profit organization, with funding and/or support from the EU Commission, the UK Cabinet Office, the World Economic Forum, and others.
Applied Science and Business Periodicals Retrospective: 1913-1983 Contains citations to more than 4.5 million articles from nearly 1,700 periodicals. From the rise and fall of drugs to the business of oil to the emergence of the global economy, this resource offers a rich account of technological advances, business strategies, company profiles, iconic executives and scientists.
APS Journals Archive see
American Physical Society (APS) Journals Provides browsable and searchable full-text access to the APS journal collection dating from the first volume of each journal onward. Titles include the Physical Review (Parts A-E), Physical Review Letters, and Reviews of Modern Physics.
Arcadian Library Online Provides access to online reproductions of rare books and manuscripts held at the Arcadian Library. Materials in the collection focus on the shared cultural heritage in the Middle East and Europe. Texts cover such topics as travel accounts, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, natural history, and philosophy.
Archive Finder Archive Finder is a current directory which describes over 220,000 collections of primary source material housed in thousands of repositories across the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Archives Unbound Topically-focused digital collections of historical documents. Collections in Archives Unbound cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history.
Armed Conflict Database The IISS Armed Conflict Database is an authoritative online source of data and provides independent analysis on current and recent conflicts. You can generate reports and download data as well as browse through the yearly analyses and fact sheets online.
Art & Design Video Collection The collection includes over 1,000 videos on subjects in art and architecture and fashion studies. It provides documentaries, interviews and programs which aim to enhance the understanding and significance of the visual arts.
Art and Architecture Source Database covers a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. It provides full text access to journals and books; an image collection, art reproduction records, and includes periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish and Dutch.
Art Index Retrospective This resource provides users access to over half a century of art literature covering fine, decorative, and commercial art. Content includes high-quality indexing of nearly 600 publications, many of which are peer-reviewed, and citations of over 25,000 book reviews.
ARTbibliographies Modern Specialist bibliography available for the study of modern and contemporary art covering all art forms, including fine art, digital art, crafts, design and photography. Features full abstracts and indexing from art journals published from the late 1960s onwards. Also incorporates book records, including those drawn from the collections of the Tate Library and the Bibliothèque Dominique Bozo, Musée LAM.
Artefacts Canada Contains over 3 million records and images from Canadian museums collections. Includes humanities and natural sciences.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index A multidisciplinary database indexing more than 1,700 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals and selected items from over 250 scientific and social sciences journals; covers 1975 to the present. Part of Web of Science.
Arts Databases Provides access to various art databases, including Alt-Press Watch, ARTbibliographies Modern, and Design and Applied Arts Index.
ARTstor Contains over a million images documenting artistic traditions across many cultures and time periods. Updated frequently, please check back often for updated searches & collections.
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ArXiv.org Open access to 1,000, 000+ e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics. Mason is a member institution.
ASCE Digital Library-Civil Engineering Database This database provides immediate access to full-text electronic articles from ASCE journals and proceedings. Journal articles are from 1983-Present and Proceeding Papers are from 2000-Present.
Asian American Drama Asian American Drama brings together more than 250 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information. The collection begins with the works of Sadakichi Hartmann in the late nineteenth century and progresses to the writings of contemporary playwrights, such as Philip Kan Gotanda, Elizabeth Wong, and Jeannie Barroga.
Asian Film Online Online streaming video collection of narrative feature films, documentaries, and shorts. With Asian voices addressing Asian issues, and through works selected by Asian film experts, the collection offers relevant perspectives and insights.
Associates Programs Source Covers journals on subjects commonly taught in community colleges, including Accounting, Agriculture, Child Care, Cosmetology, Culinary Arts and Food Service, Forestry, Graphic Arts, Hospitality Management, Interior Design, Journalism, Plumbing, Heating & Air Conditioning, Veterinary Technology and Welding.
Association of Religion Data Archives The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) strives to democratize access to the best data on religion and includes American and international collections for researchers.
Associations Unlimited Encyclopedia of Associations series contains information on international, national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields. Provides description, contact information, IRS data, SIC codes, as well as meetings and publications information. Updates: International, National, Regional, State & Local sections: 4 times/year. Association Materials: Semiannual. IRS Nonprofit Data: Annual Directory.
ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library A collection of industry-leading standards and technical engineering information. The Library provides standards, symposia papers, STPs, manuals, monographs, data series, and journals from a broad range of engineering disciplines. It also includes access to AASHTO's (American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials) technical documents.
Atlas of North American English The Atlas of North American English provides the first overall view of the pronunciation and vowel systems of the dialects of the U.S. and Canada. The Atlas redefines the regional dialects of American English on the basis of sound changes active in the 1990s and draws new boundaries reflecting those changes. It is based on a telephone survey of 762 local speakers, representing all the urbanized areas of North America. It has been developed by Bill Labov, one of the world’s leading sociolinguists, together with his colleagues Sharon Ash and Charles Boberg.
Atomic Learning Short, show-and-tell video tutorials that enable educators and students to use and apply assistive technology. Tutorials focus on software accessibility training, special education software and assistive technology devices.
Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection Contains 300 dramatic works in streaming audio from the L.A. Theatre Works. The plays—which include significant dramatic literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries—are performed by leading actors from around the world and recorded specifically for online listening.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Database is a comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture since 1934, covering the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation and interior design and decoration.
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