Full text access to American Association of Petroleum Geologists publications, including AAPG Bulletin, AAPG Special Volumes, Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, Journal of Petroleum Geology, Journal of Sedimentary Research. Coverage varies from 1917 to present. Also includes publications by several regional groups. Gift established by alumni Kevin Biddle (B.Sc., Earth Sciences, 1973)
Full-text electronic access to encyclopedias, handbooks, and biographical works in all academic subjects. Individual titles are searchable, though the collection is not cross-searchable.
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature indexes monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published worldwide from 1920 onwards with links to the full text of 61 journals.
Provides comprehensive abstracting coverage of international anthropological literature. Focus is on the fields of archaeology, physical anthropology, linguistics, and cultural anthropology. Entries are fully indexed by author and subject and a twice-annual volume provides cumulative indexing.
Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers more than 62,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. Curated for the educational experience, the massive depth of content and breadth of content-types (such as documentaries, films, demonstrations, etc.) in Academic Video Online makes it a useful resource for all types of patrons, giving libraries a high return on investment.
This news collection provides full text content for local, regional, national and international news sources. Include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, and broadcast transcripts. Provides a map-based interface to search and sort. Coverage date vary, 1978 - Current.
This is a digital collection of over 5,400 seminal books (ebooks) in the humanities and related social sciences. These titles are presented in collaboration with more than 120 publishers and Michigan Publishing. Books in the HEB collection have been recommended and reviewed by scholars and constituent learned societies of the American Council of Learned Societies. HEB is now hosted on the Fulcrum platform.
Searchable database contains bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full text for articles published in Association for Computing Machinery periodicals and proceedings since 1947
Database of complete printed text of Acta Sanctorum, from the sixty-eight-volume publication by the Société des Bollandistes in Antwerp and Brussels. Contains documents examining the lives of saints, organized according to each saint's feast day.
Covers American cinema from 1893 to the present. Provides plot summaries, cast and crew info, awards and prizes, and references to critical articles and reviews of films and actors for most records. Every commercial feature film produced on American soil or by American production companies is indexed from the birth of cinema to the present day.
Database covering all aspects of Africa dating back to the 16th century, from 40 different worldwide databases. Includes African HealthLine, South African Studies and African Studies. Formerly: Africa-Wide NiPAD
Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St Louis, Brooklyn, and towns and cities in North Carolina this resource presents multiple aspects of the African American community through pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records and in-depth oral histories, revealing the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and a unique African American culture and identity. Covers early 19th century - beginning of the 21st century.
Full text of African American 19th-century newspapers: The Christian Recorder, The Colored American, Frederick Douglass' Paper, Freedom's Journal, The National Era, The North Star, Provincial Freeman, and Weekly Advocate. Part of the Coherent Digital History Commons, formerly Accessible Archives database.
More than 40 nineteenth- and twentieth-century African newspapers. Featuring titles from Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Published by Readex, a division of NewsBank, inc., in cooperation with the Center for Research Libraries.
Full-text works, published in Heinemann's African Writers Series, of prose fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and drama by writers across sub-Saharan Africa, 1946–2003
AGRICultural OnLine Access serves as the catalog and index to the collections of the National Agricultural Library, as well as a primary public source for world-wide access to information on all aspects of agriculture
Alternative Press Index (API) is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. API coverage is both international and interdisciplinary. Coverage begins in 1991. AKA AltPressIndex
Alternative Press Index Archive (APIA) is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 700 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals that cover the period of 1969 through 1990. API coverage is both international and interdisciplinary.
This database provides citation and abstracts of journal articles and book reviews in History, covering the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. For all other geographic areas, see Historical Abstracts database.
EBSCO partners with American Antiquarian Society (AAS), the premier library documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction, to provide digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.
This database contains over 2,000 authors and approximately 100,000 pages of diaries, letters and memoirs, including previously unpublished manuscripts. This 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.
Video collection on American history, including commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.
Database of periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special-interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically significant periodicals.
From ProQuest.
Searchable, browsable collection of over 40,000 poems by more than 200 poets, covering the colonial period to the early twentieth century, and drawn from over 1,200 printed sources
Offers comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 46 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences including Economics.
This databases indexes journals and monographs produced by the Department of Anthropology at UC Berkeley together with searchable citations and links to anthropological works in all formats created by and about UC Berkeley anthropologists. Full text is available for many of these. Dates covered include 1896-present.
Compilation of the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Anthropological Index and Harvard University's Anthropological Literature databases, covering the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and related interdisciplinary research. Provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, and interdisciplinary studies. Excellent coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals.
A database of genetic and molecular biology data for the model higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Includes the complete genome sequence along with gene structure, gene product information, gene expression, DNA and seed stocks, genome maps, genetic and physical markers, publications, and information about the Arabidopsis research community. Also provides extensive linkouts from our data pages to other Arabidopsis resources.
Collectively searches: Early American Imprints, Series I (Evans, 1639–1800) and Series II (Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801–1819); America's Historical Newspapers (Early American Newspapers, Series 1 (1690–1876) and Series 2 (1758–1900); Hispanic American Newspapers (1808–1980); Caribbean Newspapers, Series 1 (1718–1876)); American State Papers, 1789–1838; U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817–1980)
Includes nearly a million collection descriptions of historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives from thousands of libraries, museums, and archives from around the world
A rich collection of primary source documents about Latin America and the Caribbean; academic journals and news feeds covering the region; reference articles and commentary; maps and statistics; and more. Formerly World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean
Includes parts 1-3. Collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. Material date back to the sixteenth century and include sexual norms over time, health and hygiene, the development of sex education, the rise of sexology, changing gender roles, social movements and activism, erotica, and many other interesting topical areas.
This database is made up of small, discrete archival collections. UCSC owns selected titles from the full Archives Unbound Collection. Tutorials on using Archives Unbound are available here.
Covers a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. Providing over 600 full-text journals, more than 220 full-text books, and a collection of over 63,0000 images. Incorporates Art Full Text and Art Index Retrospective databases.
Articles listed in Art Index volumes 1-32. Also known as Art Index Retrospective. Covers: Advertising, archaeology, architecture, art history, crafts, design, folk art, landscape architecture, motion pictures, museology, photography, television, textiles, and more
Digital collection of historical content pertaining to Hispanic history, literature, political commentary, and culture in the United States. This collection conveys the creative life of U.S. Latinos and Hispanics – shedding new light on the intellectual vigor and traditional values that have characterized them from the earliest moments of this country’s history through contemporary times. Focuses exclusively on the Latino-Hispanic history in the U.S.
Presents thematic content focusing on the evolution of Hispanic civil rights, religious thought, and the growing presence of women writers from the late 19th and 20th centuries. Rare and relevant books and newspapers – including rare anarchist newspapers – are presented in their original form. Extensive manuscript collections of both organizations and individuals are included for viewing, and are indexed for ease of search and maximum discovery. Focusing exclusively on the Latino-Hispanic history of the United States.
The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) consists of nearly 3000 French-language texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts.
The backfile of Artforum (later Artforum International), the magazine for coverage of international contemporary art, from its launch in 1962 to 2020. Spanning six decades of reporting on art in all media, Artforum offers features, reviews, and interviews relating to artists, exhibitions, publications, and other art world events / trends.
The ArticleFirst database from OCLC FirstSearch provides citations from the table-of-contents pages of journals in the areas of science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.
Contains citations to 1,100 arts and humanities journals. Search by subject, author, and journal title. Cited Reference Search finds articles that cite a specified author or article.
The contents from Artstor has migrated to JSTOR. Moving forward use JSTOR to access this content.
JSTOR now includes images of art from leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists. All images include metadata and are rights-cleared for educational use.
Asahi Shimbun Cross-Search, formerly Kikuzo II Visual, is one of the largest on-line newspaper database in Japan, containing over 8,000,000 articles. The database includes four sections:
Asahi Shinbun newspaper: 1945-present
AERA weekly magazine: May 1988-present
Shukan Asahi weekly magazine (news section only): April 2000-present
Chinese-language full-text database for hundreds of works in history (including history of Taiwan), classics, religion, medicine, literature, and law, etc. Note: Chinese input software required to search.
Full-text searchable and browsable database of plays written by Asian American authors. Contains character and bibliographic information for each play, plus production details for selected plays.
From the first commercial trade through modern times, people of Asian heritage have shaped the geography, arts, culture, and civil discourse of the United States in immeasurable ways. This primary source collection offers an expansive window into centuries of Asian American history and daily life – as well as the ways popular culture has portrayed and perceived people of Asian descent.
Photographs of the Associated Press Archive. Also includes a small collection of radio broadcast files, text of wire stories, and infographics. Covers: 1844-present.
Database of journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all scholarly fields of religion. Subjects include church history, theology, the Bible, and world religions.
Citations to articles on the following topics: architecture, architectural design, city planning, furniture and decoration, interior design, historic preservation, history of architecture, and urban planning
Citations to materials on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide. Records added between 1971 and 1991 include citations to western-language periodical articles, individually authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, Festschriften etc.
Articles, citations, and abstracts from more than 2,500 periodicals, art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, exhibitions, and dealers' catalogs of American and European art, published 1975–2007. Provided by the Getty Research Institute (from CSA prior to April 2010).
Collection of 14,500+ pathway/genome databases for thousands of organisms, plus a suite of software tools for analysis and visualization. Searchable by genes, proteins, enzymes, reactions, metabolic pathways, etc. E. coli is the default organism search (EcoCyc), but you can easily switch over to one of the other databases.
Citations and abstracts to journal articles in the life sciences. Very interdisciplinary within biology, including biochemistry, ecology, genetics, microbiology, ocean sciences, plant biology, and zoology. Can sort by citation count.
Full-text searchable and browsable database of plays written by African, African American, Caribbean, and Diaspora authors, 1850 to present. Contains character and bibliographic information for each play, plus production details and images for selected plays.
An Archives Unbound collection. Sourced from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Library, Black Liberation Army and the Program of Armed Struggle consists of a wide range of materials, including FBI surveillance and informant reports and correspondence from a variety of offices including, New York City, Baltimore, New Haven, San Francisco, Detroit, Miami, Atlanta, Newark, Kansas City, and Cleveland; and more.
Access hundreds of historic newspapers from all over Britain and Ireland dating from the 1700s. The site is free to search, register to view the first three pages. Read about the digitization project here.
Provides access to the searchable full text of over 160 periodicals from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the social sciences, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture.
The newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney represent the largest single collection of 17th- and 18th-century English news media available from the British Library
Searchable database of articles from scholarly business journals and other sources. Subjects include management, economics, finance, accounting, and international business.
Contains historical California newspapers published from 1846-present, including the first California newspaper, the Californian, and the first daily California newspaper, the Daily Alta California. It also contains issues of several current California newspapers that are part of a project to preserve and provide access to contemporary papers.
This database includes digital collections from California's libraries, archives, and museums and contains photographs, documents, letters, artwork, diaries, oral histories, media, and more. All ten University of California campuses, and other libraries, archives, and museums throughout the state, have digitized and contributed collections.
The CSD records bibliographic, chemical and crystallographic information for small organic molecules and metal-organic compounds. WebCSD has a built-in editor for structure/similarity searching, plus JMol and AstexViewer. WebCSD is not a complete substitute for the locally installed version of the database that UCSC researchers can download from the CSD page at UCLA (https://software.chem.ucla.edu/csd/). Power users should consider downloading and installing CSD on their own computers.
To access the “advanced WebCSD searching options, such as structure search and unit cell search,” users will need to be IP-authenticated, or they can create their own CCDC account (which they may already have if they deposit structures), and in their profile they can add the customer number/activation key. The basic WebCSD interface going forward should be free for basic searching, but the advanced searching and access to the CSD software system will require a license.
Download of the Cambridge Structural Database for local installation. Check the link next to UCSC to make sure you can access the activation keys. Access is restricted by IP. Use VPN or Online Access if off campus (see more at https://guides.library.ucsc.edu/offcampusaccess).
The license can be activated during the installation or after - the recommendation is to activate the license during the installation.
A collection of over 130 18th- and 19th-century newspapers from twenty-two Caribbean islands. Most newspapers were published in the English language. For researching colonial history, the Atlantic slave trade, international commerce and relations, New World slavery, and related topics.
Scholars and researchers from CRL member institutions have free and unlimited use of the CRL collections through interlibrary loan. For Reference assistance from CRL go here.
Dictionary-style entries for over 350,000 chemical names, over 58,000 of which are enhanced with chemical structures. One of the U.S. National Library of Medicine's group of databases.
Collection of CRC chemistry handbooks, including Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, Properties of Organic Compounds, Combined Chemical Dictionary (CCD), Dictionary of Drugs, Dictionary of Marine Natural Products, Dictionary of Natural Products, Dictionary of Organic Compounds, Polymers: A Property Database.
Citations to articles in art, language, sociology, economics, history, literature, and politics of Mexican-American and Latino cultures. Abstracts not available. Use Get it at UC to search for full text.
Alternate Name(s)
Zhongguo zhi shi ji chu she shi gong cheng - 中国知识基础设施工程
China Academic Journals Full-text Database collects over 7000 academic journals published in China and the content covers natural science, engineering and technology, agriculture, philosophy, medicine, social science and so on.
Technical note: The site displays Chinese characters and can only be viewed in newer browsers. In order to view full text, users must download a Windows-only application (CAJViewer). Windows stations in the library have the application installed.
This is a collection of Chinese language ebooks covering a wide variety of subject areas. The Library has access to selected collections of ebooks within this database. To read an Apabi ebook you will first need to download the Apabi Reader. The Apabi Reader software is available from the link on the menu bar within the database.
Off campus users will need to use the VPN for access.
A wide variety of primary source material detailing China’s interaction with the West from Macartney’s first Embassy to China in 1793, through to the Nixon/Heath visits to China in 1972-74. It provides multiple perspectives – from politicians, diplomats, missionaries, business people and tourists – and documents many of the key events that happened in this period.
An Archives Unbound collection. Comprehensive documentation examines the political background of the civil war, the failed efforts of American mediation, and the ramifications of Communist victory.
From Proquest Historical Newspapers, a collection containing the content of 22 Chinese newspapers. Date coverage varies by individual newspaper title, approximately 1832 - 1953.
An Archives Unbound collection. During its long run, The Chinese Recorder (published in English in China) covered the beginnings of mission schools, the crusade against opium, the Boxer Rebellion, ecumenical missionary conferences, the 1911 Revolution, the growth of the Chinese church and the rise of communism in China.
Founded in 1966 as Campus News and briefly titled Fulcrum, City on a Hill Press is the weekly student newspaper of the University of California, Santa Cruz. The student-run newspaper is the newspaper of record for the campus. The newspaper operates independently of campus administration and covers a variety of issues of direct concern to the student body, ranging from UCSC specific issues to local politics and international topics.
Full text of major articles from over 2,500 issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury, and the Richmond Enquirer. 1860 - 1865. Part of the Coherent Digital History Commons, formerly Accessible Archives database.
CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Scholarly journals published in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English.
Search over 30,000 ancient Egyptian objects from multiple international collections by text, image, and location in Dutch and English. Note UCSC does not subscribe to this resource. Create a free account for limited use (50 queries each month).
An Archives Unbound collection. This collection was formed by members of the Historical Research Commission of the Mexican Revolution and covers and reproduces many files under the guard of the General Archive of the Nation.
UCSC has only Module 1: Early Settlement, Expansion and Rivalries:
Documents the early history of the colonies, and includes founding charters, material on the effects of 1688’s Glorious Revolution in North America, records of piracy and seaborne rivalry with the French and Spanish, and copious military material from the French and Indian War of 1756-63.
An Archives Unbound collection. This collection is a mixture of issues and papers from Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and Alabama ranging from 1861-1865.
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.
Contains bill tracking services, congressional publications, congressional committee reports and testimony, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, Congressional Record, National Journal.
Global information about women. Includes full-text journal articles, newsletters, and research reports. Topics include sociology, psychology, health, education, and human rights.
An Archives Unbound collection. First compiled and produced by publishers and subscriptions agents for area residents and patrons, these original histories represent difficult-to-find materials. Included in this collection of 97 titles are tables and lists of vital statistics, military service records, municipal and county officers, chronologies, portraits of individuals and views of urban and rural life not found anywhere else. The atlases provide additional information on land use and settlement patterns and scarce early town and city plans.
Historical analysis, with updates and commentary, of Supreme Court decisions, biographies of Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court institutional history, and the U.S. Constitution. From publishers of CQ Weekly.
CQ (Congressional Quarterly) Researcher is written by seasoned journalists and provides comprehensive reporting and analysis of issues in the news. Reports include introductory overviews, topic backgrounds and chronologies, an assessment of the current situation, pro-con debates, tables and maps, and bibliographies of key sources.
Searchable, browsable, full-text reports of issues currently under debate before the Senate and House of Representatives. Includes status of bills, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates and roll-call votes. Also known as Congressional Quarterly Weekly.
Library of Congress digital collection of books, maps, ephemera, music, spoken word, that "document the American experience." Covers approximately 16th-20th century. (Formerly American Memory)
The Moving Image Research Center continues to digitize moving image materials to present items from the Library of Congress's extensive holdings. It offers a broad range of historical and cultural documents as a contribution to education and lifelong learning.
Portal to freely available resources from America’s libraries, archives, and museums. Content ranges from the written word and works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage and the efforts and data of science.
Alternate Name(s)
Digital Theatre +,
Digital Theater Plus
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From the latest contemporary works to classic stagings, includes productions from the recognized theatre companies. Additional content includes accompanying interviews, essays, and expert insights from artists, technicians, and scholars, who address the theatre-making process.
Online directory that indexes and provides access to high-quality, peer-reviewed articles from more than 10,000 open-access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities
The Data Management Planning (DMP) Tool provides an easy-to-use interface for University of California researchers that:
• Helps users create ready-to-use data management plans for specific funding agencies
• Meets funder requirements for data management plans
• Provides step-by-step instructions and guidance for how to manage data.
From University of California Curation Center (UC3).
This collection includes (news)papers promoting and opposing white supremacy, published mainly in the 1920s. It brings together for the first time local, regional, and national newspapers published by Klan organizations and by sympathetic publishers from across the US. It also includes key anti-Klan voices from newspapers published by American Black, Catholic, and Jewish communities.
This audio collection includes the diverse catalogue of American music represented by the New World Records and CRI label(s), covering folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond, plus contemporary American composition and restored to circulation recordings formerly out of print. DRAM also includes music from a growing number of recording labels and archives.
E&E (Environment & Energy) News is composed of five daily publications that track energy, environmental, and climate policy, including ClimateWire, E&E Daily, E&ENews PM, and Greenwire. Also includes E&ETV and topical reports. Subscription does Not include EnergyWire.
Books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in America during the 17th and 18th centuries.Topics range from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and more.
Covering the first 19 years of the19th century, this collection includes books, pamphlets and broadsides as well as state papers and government materials, including published reports; presidential letters and messages; congressional, state and territorial resolutions. It chronicles the people, ideas and events behind the early political, social, cultural and geographic growth of the United States and is based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker and is supplemented by new items
Full-text digital copies of newspapers published in the U.S. Includes 700+ newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia printed between 1690 and 1876.
Primary documents from early recorded history of North America. Includes transcriptions of letters, diaries, memoirs, and accounts of early encounters between Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans.
Contains digitized copies of most every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
Global population database that shows geographical distribution of population at one-kilometer resolution over an average 24-hour period. The LandScan algorithm uses spatial data and imagery analysis technologies and the most up-to-date census data within an administrative boundary.
Full text of country profiles, providing analysis and forecasts of the political, economic, social, and business environment of more than 180 countries.
Eleven major editions from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of 1863-6, twenty-four separate contemporary printings of individual plays, selected apocrypha and related works and more than 100 adaptations, sequels, and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
Video collection developed specifically for training and developing teachers. Includes teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms.
Searchable database of citations and some full-text articles on education from academic journals, magazines, and trade publications. Published by H.W. Wilson.
Covers all levels of education—from early childhood to higher education—as well as all educational specializations, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Full text and abstracts for journals, books, and conference papers.
eHRAF (electronic Human Relations Area Files) is a cross-cultural resource containing ethnographic collections covering all aspects of cultural and social life
Full text of 96 works of English prose from the period 1700–1780 by writers from the British Isles. Includes scanned versions of Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela, and of Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
An interactive collection of primary source documents, sourced from leading archives around the world. Cover all continents and includes primary documents and secondary resources from the period which relate the story of the Empire from the French, Spanish, Portuguese, and German points of view, as well as that of indigenous peoples from Africa, India and North America.
The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World Online (EJIW) is the first cohesive and discreet reference work which covers the Jews of Muslim lands particularly in the late medieval, early modern and modern periods. The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World Online is updated with newly commissioned articles, illustrations, multimedia, and primary source material.
University- and professional-level compendium of chemistry, physics, earth sciences, geology, environmental and atmospheric sciences, computers and telecommunications, electronics, optics, and lasers, molecular biology, mathematics, engineering, astronomy, astrophysics and space technology.
Lists over 480,000 items from the British Library and over 2000 other libraries published between 1473 and 1800, mainly, but not exclusively, in English, and mainly in the British Isles and North America
Full text of over 2300 handbooks in civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering, many of which contain substantial tables of data. Part of CRC Press's CRCnetBASE suite.
Research on pollution reduction, emissions, and environmental contamination, providing full-text access to references on methods for site assessment, remediation, and soil and water quality monitoring. The Environmental Science Collection describes new tools and technologies for remote sensing, GIS, and photogrammetric environmental monitoring. Part of CRC Press's CRCnetBASE suite.
Includes Open Access journals, working papers, previously published works, conferences, and books from departments, research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars associated with the University of California. eScholarship is also serves as a platform for affiliates to have direct control over the creation and dissemination of the full range of their scholarship.
Ethnic NewsWatch™ covers 1990 to present and includes newspapers, magazines, and academic journals of the ethnic and minority press. The publications offer both national and regional coverage. Presents multi-ethnic and multi-cultural publications in one resource.
Video collection including ethnographic films, documentaries, select feature films, and previously unpublished fieldwork. Includes Vol IV: Festivals and Archives.
This resource contains materials from cultural studies of music from across the globe. Produced in collaboration with the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive and the Ethnomusicology Archive at the University of Washington, the material in this collection includes thousands of audio field recordings and interviews, educational recordings, film footage, field notebooks, slides, correspondence and ephemera from over 60 fields of study
Online full-text version of the Europa World Year Book and the Regional Surveys of the World series. Covers political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories.
This resource is for the study of American social, cultural and popular history, providing access to rare primary source material from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History, Duke University and The New York Public Library.
A unique post-publication peer review service that highlights and recommends the most interesting articles published in the biomedical sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of more than 8,000 leading experts in Biology and Medicine.
DOW JONES FACTIVA is a current international news database produced by Dow Jones, a global provider of economic and financial information. The database includes a wide range of information from newspapers, newswires, industry publications, websites, company reports, and more.
An Archives Unbound collection. This collection contains information and documents from Fannie Lou Hamer, a voting rights activist and civil rights leader.
An Archives Unbound collection. This collection includes information and documents from the FBI investigations of James Forman through the years of 1961-1976.
Full-text government information available from Federal agencies, the Executive branch, Congress, and the Judicial branch. Includes the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, Congressional Record, as well as Congressional hearings, reports and bills, the U.S. Code and Supreme Court decisions. Replaces former GPO Access.
An Archives Unbound collection. This collection, compiled from Cuban sources, spans the period from Cuban independence to the end of the Batista regime (1898-1958). The collection sheds light on Cuban feminism, women in politics, literature by Cuban women and the legal status of Cuban women.
The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) brings together institutions dedicated to rescuing and preserving films. FIAF's editorial staff, along with its Affiliates, produces the International Index to Film Periodicals which offers in-depth coverage of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals. This database contains FIAF's "Treasures from Film Archives"; a detailed index of the silent-era film holdings of archives from around the world. Coverage: 1972 - current
This resource contains brief plot summaries, cast and crew info, awards and prizes, and references to critical articles and reviews of films and actors. Produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute. Provides international coverage, indexing films from over 170 countries from the very first silent movies, to art house classics or the latest blockbusters. Coverage: 1900 - current
Film Literature Index
Film Literature Index, 1976-2001 has been retired by Indiana University Libraries and is no longer accessible.
Video collection of documentaries with relevance across the curriculum, presenting points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide.
Collection of current and historical financial and economic data covering more than 200 countries extending back to 1265 depending on data series. Includes Eurostat and WorldBank data, and aggregate stock market performance. Current subscription does NOT include Real Estate, U.K. Stock Market, or U.S. Stock Market databases.
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Alternate Name(s)
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, FIMO
Contains high resolution downloadable full color detailed maps of selected California cities and towns from 1880-1960. Maps show building structures, building construction details, property ownership, property uses and other useful information. Database is searchable by address, geographic coordinates, or a clickable map interface.
Provides access to a digital collection of historical color fire insurance maps, real estate atlases, and similar land use maps for North America. High definition, color and gray-scale images display important historical details not visible on black and white map scans. Includes map research tools and search tips to make finding maps for a specific location easy. Maps include publications by Sanborn, Perris, Hexamer, Whipple, Baist, Bromley, Hopkins and others. Content and functionality will continue to be added.
Databases available through the OCLC FirstSearch system: WorldCat, ArticleFirst, GPO Monthly Catalog (government publications), PapersFirst, Proceedings, ECO collection of scholarly journals, AltPressIndexCombined, OAIster union catalog of digital resources, and SCIPIO art and rare-book auction catalogs
Access to all Daily Reports except Western Europe. Date range: 1941–1996
FBIS Daily Reports issued by the U.S. Government. Translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world . "The United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence"—Readex
An Archives Unbound collection. Organized by country, this collection covers a wide range of viewpoints on political, social and economic issues. It sheds light on the foreign relations interactions between Central American and South American countries — with coverage of the Caribbean, Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Users will find memoranda, cables, correspondence, reports and analyzes, and treaties.
Searchable database of handbooks in criminology, crisis management and negotiation methods, arson and homicide investigation, expert witnessing, and forensic pathology. Part of CRC Press's CRCnetBASE suite.
Citations to works on religion, the history of art, social sciences, economics, and literature. Searchable in French and English. Abstracts are in the same language as the cited resource. 1972 to 2015.
Search across the Library's Gale Primary Source Databases. Types of sources include newspapers, archival documents and manuscripts, books, magazines. Some collections go as far back as 1450.
Coverage dates back to 1970 and includes academic, gray, and popular literature titles. Subject focus is gender roles; GLBT, family, and women's studies with interdisciplinary approach.
Covers the geology of North America from 1693 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. Describes materials in geology and geophysics, in particular: energy sources, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, groundwater pollution, erosion, nuclear reactor sites, the structure of the earth, and geostatistics. Includes abstracts.
An Archives Unbound collection. This collection documents the broad range of nineteenth century religious missionary activities, practices and thought in the United States by reproducing pivotal personal narratives, organizational records and biographies of the essential leaders, simple missionaries and churches. This collection includes materials on missionary activities among Native Americans and African Americans, both slaves and freed men. In addition, it highlights activities in far-flung regions and countries, such as Africa, Fiji and the Sandwich Islands, India, China, Southeast Asia, Japan and Hawaii. Covers 1800-1899.
Full text of this nineteenth-century magazine, intended to entertain, inform, and educate the women of America. In addition to extensive fashion descriptions and plates, early issues included biographical sketches, articles about handcrafts, female costume, the dance, equestrienne procedures, health & hygiene for ladies, recipes & remedies, etc.
Google Patents includes over 87 million patent publications from 17 patent offices around the world, as well as many more technical documents and books indexed in Google Scholar and Google Books. Non-English patents are translated, so you can search for them with English keywords.
Database covering many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, and online repositories. Sign into your library account to see items to which we subscribe.
The UC Santa Cruz library collects U.S. Federal and California State government information. We receive depository materials in print, electronic, online, and microform formats and provide free public access to all materials received through the Federal Depository Library Program and the California State Document Depository Library Program. Most government publications are available for checkout in accordance with the library's general borrowing and renewal policies.
All aspects of human impact on the environment from scholarly, governmental, and general-interest sources. Content includes climate-change science and policy, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
Scanned, full-text images of complete Classics Collection of Ancient China, from ancient China to Qing Dynasty. Covers astronomy, geography, history, philosophy, literature, politics, economics, art, education, agriculture, medicine, and more. In Chinese.
Here you'll find over 50,000 pages about old Hong Kong to explore, including over 30,000 photos. The content is added by a friendly community of people who enjoy sharing what we know about Hong Kong's history, and you are very welcome to join us.
Reference handbooks on various branches of economics, providing a survey of the current issues by leading specialists in the field. From ScienceDirect.
Database of citations to scholarly articles and documents covering Central and South America, Latin America, Mexico, the Caribbean, U.S.-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Topics include political, economic, and social issues as well as arts and humanities.
This is digital preservation repository and access platform. It provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives, including UCSC.
Supports large-scale computational analysis of the works in the HathiTrust Digital Library to facilitate non-profit and educational research. Sign up for a free account.
Primary archive for NASA's (and other space agencies') missions studying electromagnetic radiation from extremely energetic cosmic phenomena, from black holes to the Big Bang. Having merged with the Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis (LAMBDA), it includes data obtained by NASA's high-energy astronomy missions observing in the extreme-ultraviolet (EUV), X-ray, and gamma-ray bands, as well as data from space missions, balloons, and ground-based facilities that have studied relic cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation.
Database featuring government document and legal research. It contains comprehensive coverage from inception of both U.S. statutory materials, U.S. Congressional Documents and more than 2,500 scholarly journals, all of the world's constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, and access to the full text of state and federal case law. Offers special collections on Criminal Justice, Religion and the Law and Women and the Law among others.
E-publishing platform providing selected full-text journals from independent scholarly publishers, societies, associations, and university presses in biological, medical, physical, and social sciences, and in the humanities.
Note: UCSC does not have subscriptions to all HighWire journals.
Data on all aspects of American history from Colonial times to present. Divided into five sections: population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, economic sectors, and governance and international relations.
This databases integrates four bibliographies (Click move for details). Topics covered: the role of scientific discovery in society and culture, as well as the historiography of scientific disciplines from prehistory to the present. It includes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations, serials, maps and other related materials.
Bibliographies include: Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.
Proquest’s History Vault modules include Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle, Southern Life, Slavery, and the Civil War, Women's Studies, Workers, Labor Unions, Progressives, and Radicals, American Indians and the American West, American Politics and Society, International Relations and Military Conflicts, Latinx History and Revolutionary War and Early America (45 titles including NAACP papers, Plantation Records, American Indians and the American West).
This collection includes paper records, filmed oral history interviews and photographs, amongst other audio-visual recordings on Kadoorie business history as well as the wider social and economic development of Hong Kong and Shanghai from 1884 to 1980.
ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) maintains an archive of hundreds of thousands of files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. ICPSR is a unit within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan and maintains its office in Ann Arbor.
To download data, create a personal account using your ucsc.edu email address. Files may require specialized software. Check with Campus ITS for software access.
Contains an almost exhaustive list of known inorganic crystal structures published since 1913, including their atomic coordinates. Provides information on: structural data of pure elements, minerals, metals, and intermetallic compounds; structural descriptors (Pearson symbol, ANX formula, Wyckoff sequences); bibliographic data; synthesis conditions. Search by article citation information , chemical/mineral name, crystal system, space group, minimum distance, cell size/mass, and Pearson Symbol.
Full-text access to IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE standards
An Archives Unbound collection. Briefing books, hearing and meeting transcripts, reports, and press clippings document the activities of the National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (NCAIDS). Covers 1983-1994.
Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Includes journals articles, proceedings, monographs, book chapters, and book reviews, 1906 to present.
Among the collections are historical photographs that document key European and Eastern monuments and notable works of art from Classical, Byzantine, and Gothic stylistic periods. The collections include images and descriptive data related to the iconography of works of art produced between late Antiquity and the sixteenth century. Although the Index of Medieval Art was formerly known as the Index of Christian Art, it now includes secular subjects as well as a growing number of subjects from medieval Jewish and Islamic culture.
Indexes 42 art journals published in the US during the nineteenth century. Includes information on popular culture and industry, artists and illustrators, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture and design, exhibitions and sales, decorations, and collecting.
Searchable database of handbooks in information and computer security, including system analysis, server set-up, cryptography, cyber-crime, and other modern risks. Part of CRC Press's CRCnetBASE suite.
Comprehensive collections of full-text academic and professional research articles—some 5 million articles from 10,000 publications. From Ingenta. Formerly: CatchWord Online Journals.
Search inorganic structures, including elements, minerals, metals, and intermetallic compounds. Search by article citation information , chemical/mineral name, crystal system, space group, minimum distance, cell size/mass, and Pearson Symbol.
Index of citations for articles and conference papers on physics, electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information technology. Contains abstracts.
Resource for scholarly literature on Western art, covering at least 500 core journals (with an emphasis on specialist and rare titles not covered by other indexes), monographs, essay collections, conference proceedings, and exhibition catalogues. Successor to Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA).
The International Medieval Bibliography comprises more than 546,000 records, all of which are fully classified by date, subject and location, and provide full bibliographical records.
Provides full text content from the world's top news resources for current news coverage. International news sources. Date coverage varies, 1977 - present.
International Newsstream includes the following databases:
Asian Newsstream - Publications include The Wall Street Journal Asia, China News and The Bangkok Post Australia and New Zealand Newsstream - Combines content from Fairfax Australia and Fairfax New Zealand, News Limited, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and APP newswires European Newsstream Latin American Newsstream - Includes Spanish and Portuguese language titles from Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Costa Rica, Peru, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela Middle East and African Newsstream - Sources include The Jerusalem Post, the Gulf Daily News, Kuwait Times, Cape Times, and Yemen Times, among many others
Database of citations and abstracts to journal articles and grey literature with scientific and technical information on peaceful uses of atomic energy. From the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
An Archives Unbound collection. The Pan Pacific and Southeast Asia Women's Association strengthened international understanding and friendship among the women of Asia and the Pacific and women of the U.S.A. Includes brochures, reports, correspondence, event programs, financial materials, conference programs and more. Covers 1950-1985 (a few materials from 1938-1949 and 1986-2006).
Searchable publications and journals for the study, design, development, implementation, support, and management of computer-based information systems. Part of CRC Press's CRCnetBASE suite.
Online edition of Iter Italicum, the most comprehensive finding list available of previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Middle Ages and Renaissance (400–1700) humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections all over the world
An Archives Unbound collection. Japan’s progression toward a democratic system faced economic and political pressures, during which expansionism and militarization became increasingly influential. Covers 1930-1949.
This resource explores the history of Jewish communities in America bringing to life the communal and social aspects of Jewish identity and culture, whilst tracing Jewish involvement in the political life of American society as a whole. Includes collections from organizations, personal collections, and rare materials.
This journal provides videos of protocols and methods in a variety of disciplines. A portion of the database titled "Education" can be used for instructional purposes. "Research" videos are used to explain experimental methods for reproducibility.
This database includes the full text of journals starting with their very first issue and eBooks and eChapters. Note, current issues are not available in JSTOR. Consult the journals list for information on years of coverage. For wider coverage of a topic, consult the database best suited to your discipline.
Published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique, a specialized bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations.
L’Année philologique, published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique, is a specialized bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. The bibliography is published in print and online. The online database includes all volumes of the annual index, beginning with Volume I published in 1928.
The Full Text Database of the Late Qing Period (1833-1911) contains over 300 journals published from 1833 to 1911, covering almost all the journals published at that time. It reproduces the towering thought stirring in the late Qing dynasty years: there are women's periodicals that promote women's emancipation and enlightenment; the four novel periodicals that emerged during the period of the late Qing fiction boom; the vernacular periodicals that opened up the wisdom and spread the new knowledge; and the journals in science and technology that introduced advanced technology and disseminated scientific knowledge. More than 270000 full-text articles to retrieve, browse, and download.
List of openly accessible digitized primary sources that relate to Latin America and the Caribbean. Compiled by SALALM (Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials)
Daily dispatch of news from Latin America and the Caribbean -- a mix of stories from the international and local press, as well as analysis from think tanks, academics and other commentators. It receives support from the Open Society Foundations (OSF), but the selection of news, and the views expressed in the posts, are those of the moderator, and do not necessarily reflect OSF’s institutional positions.
Full text of prose, poetry, essays, and drama composed by women writing in Mexico, Central America, and South America. Also includes essays by Latin American feminists and about the feminist movement. In Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, and English.
Collection of poetry, fiction, and drama written in English and Spanish by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latinx authors working in the United States.
Citations and abstracts to academic journal, magazine, and newspaper articles from the diverse literature of the left. Emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship.
Citations and abstracts to literature in the field of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues from academic journals, books, reference works, newsletters, magazines, and case studies
An Archives Unbound collection. Composed of FBI surveillance files on the activities of the African Liberation Support Committee and All African People's Revolutionary Party, this collection provides two unique views on African American support for liberation struggles in Africa, the issue of Pan-Africanism, and the role of African independence movements as political leverage for domestic Black struggles. Covers 1970-1985.
LISTA indexes core, priority, and other selected journals, plus books, research reports, and proceedings in librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, and more. Coverage extends back as far as the mid-1960s. Available FREE to any library.
Full text of several multidisciplinary series representing a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras, and genres.
Searches:
Contemporary Literary Criticism
Children's Literature ReviewClassical and Medieval Literature Criticism
Full-text articles from scholarly journals and literary magazines, combined with critical essays, work and topic overviews, full-text works, biographies, and more on authors, their works, and literary movements. Covers novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers.
This database provides original text and English translation of Greek and Latin literature and includes: epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians.
MarinLit is a database devoted to marine natural products literature. It is searchable by bibliographic information, taxonomy, location, chemical structure and physical property data.
MathSciNet is one of the most comprehensive resource for the international literature of mathematics and statistics. Covers approximately 1800 mathematical journals. [1940 - present] Also hosts the Current Index of Statistics (CIS) [1975-2017]
An encyclopedia of chemicals and drugs. Good place to look for chemical and property information. Note: this resource needs the ChemDraw plugin in order to work. You will be asked to create a free account in order to download this free plugin the first time you use the resource.
Online collection of detailed protocols and descriptions of biochemical and biophysical techniques contained in over 400 volumes. You can search across the collection by title, author, abstract and keyword, or browse by individual volume.
Middle East and African Newsstream offers full text access to newspapers, news wires, websites and blogs from leading publishers throughout the region. The database includes backfiles as far back as 1988. Current, full text news sources in English and French from across the Arab World, Southwest Asia and surrounding countries. Several of the sources have been translated from Arabic to English by the publisher. Sources include The Jerusalem Post, the Gulf Daily News, Kuwait Times, Cape Times, and Yemen Times, among many others.
Full text for popular middle school magazines, biographies, primary source documents, photos, mags, flags, and historical essays. All full-text articles are assigned Lexile reading level indicators. Site includes audio reading of text
Directory of information on journals and book series that cover literature, literary theory, dramatic arts, folklore, language, linguistics, pedagogy, rhetoric and composition, and the history of printing and publishing.
Database contains citations for articles, books, and book chapters in literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Compiled by the Modern Language Association.
An independent publisher of digital-first scholarly eBooks ('Lectures') for the Engineering, Computer Science, Life Science, and Physics research communities.
Citations from 640+ international music periodicals. Includes classical and popular music topics, book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries.
Audio collection of 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, anti-war protests, popular music, and more.
This databases comprises Volume 1 of the collection of Alexander Street Press Classical Scores. It covers the classical canon, lesser-known contemporary works, and encompasses all major classical musical genres and time periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. It includes full, study, piano, and vocal scores.
Audio collection of contemporary sounds of all regions from every continent, including genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music: Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
Online version of the 1997 print encyclopedia and accompanying CD recordings. Each volume includes overviews of geographic regions, surveys of regional musical heritage, and descriptions of specific musical genres, practices, and audio performances.
Collection of audiovisual content that touches on curriculum needs of across academic department. Includes content from over 500 producers and distributors around the world.
Audio collection of a wide range of popular music from around the world, including hundreds of thousands of tracks from major genres in pop music, including alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks and many more.
Audio collection of the world's musical and aural traditions--essentially unlimited, full-length streaming of the entire Smithsonian Folkways collection. Produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
Includes abstracts (and full text of many) articles from 1874 to current, covering from the scholarly to the popular of music periodicals. Coverage is international and includes a broad spectrum of topics including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition on a diverse array of musical genres.
Established in 1968 by the Muslim Religious Board for Central Asia and Kazakhstan, Muslims of the Soviet East was the only Islamic periodical carrying the official seal of approval of the Soviet government. East View offers the English edition only. The periodical contains a mix of sermons exhorting Islamic piety from notable Central Asian clerics, discussions of regional Islamic history, and the role of Soviet Muslims in the cultural and political life of the USSR. Covers 1974-1990. For purchase consideration, share your feedback with us here.
NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) is a database of extragalactic objects. It includes detailed photometry, position, redshift, and other data, as well as bibliographic references, abstracts of the literature, calculation tools, and images.
National Index to Chinese Newspapers & Periodicals covers information for over one and half centuries, since 1833. It contains over 25 million entries from about 15 thousand newspapers and periodicals, with a yearly update of 3.5 million entries. In Chinese. 1833 to current.
Full-text and data archive of major national population censuses held in 2010, 2000, and 1990, with data back to 1982 and categorized by geographic or administrative divisions
System requirements: Web browser with IE 6.0 or above; CAJViewer needed for browsing the images of the original publications from cover to cover
The Library of Congress provides a gateway for searching OCLC WorldCat (Manuscript materials) -- nearly 1.5 million catalog records describing archival and manuscript collections and individual manuscripts in public, college and university, and special libraries located throughout North America and around the world. Access to this gateway is made available courtesy of OCLC, Inc. Some content is available online. For information on visiting the Library of Congress go here.
Audio collection of over 640 record labels devoted to classical music. New recordings are added monthly. Includes liner notes and other textual information, and options to create playlists.
Simultaneously search multiple life sciences databases at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), including PubMed and GenBank. The results list the number of records in each database that match your query, and provides links to those records. The Global Query search page also acts as a short Entrez database directory since each database is briefly described (select the question mark icon next to each database).
Full text of reference books in the areas of neurology and psychiatry. Part of CRC Press's CRCnetBASE suite.
Note: Mac users should use the Safari Web browser for best results.
This database provides current and historical newspapers from across UCSC's collection of Proquest databases, including Historical Newspapers, Black Newspapers, Ethnic NewsWatch, International Newsstream and others. Access to these databases is ongoing.
NewspaperARCHIVE is the world's best resource for historical and genealogical information. The unique archive spans more than 400 years of family history, small-town events, world news, and more. For purchase consideration, share your feedback with us here.
Contains full text U.S. regional, national, and international newspapers. In addition, full text television and radio news transcripts are also included. From EBSCOhost.
This database features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. Formerly LexisNexis Academic
A multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary
source collections of the long nineteenth century, presented in a modular,
topic-specific format including:
British Politics and Society
Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange
European Literature, 1790–1840: The Corvey Collection
British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture
Digitized copies of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.
Nkoda is digital library of sheet music and scores. Users can view, annotate, and share music. Search content, browse curated playlists, and discover new music using unique smart technology.
Registration is required. Click the red button "Get Started," followed by "Sign up with an institution." Select "University of California, Santa Cruz Library."
Sign in with your CruzID. Create your nkoda account details or log in to link them up, using your institutional email address.
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Includes historical newspapers and magazines. The contents cover historical events, descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, advertisements, and genealogical records.
Covers information on Canadian and American Theatre. Includes full text of a number of theater reference books, which provide records of plays, people, theatres, productions, and production companies. Limited ephemera included (see Resources).
The Full-text database which contains six historical English Newspapers published in China between 1850-1951. The database includes over 550,000 pages, and its titles are as below:
The North-China Herald（1850~1941）
The North-China Daily News（1865~1951）
The North-China Desk Hong List（1872~1941）
The Chinese Shipping List & Advertiser(1862~1872)
Hu Bao (1882~1908)
Han Bao (1894~1900)
Xiao Xian Bao (1898~1906)
O’Reilly for Higher Education (OHE) is a collection of full-text books and other resources specializing in computer programming and information technology. The database includes more than 35,000 book titles, plus 30,000+ hours of video, learning paths, case studies, expert playlists, audio books, and more. Access with your Gold password after choosing University of California Santa Cruz from the list of institutions. Replaces our Safari subscription.
A resource that provides free public access to detailed descriptions of primary source collections (artwork, manuscripts, papers, historic photographs, and so on) maintained by more than 200 libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California — including collections maintained by the 10 University of California (UC) campuses.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) online library - Ebooks and reports covering both OECD member and non-member countries. Topics include social services, migration, economic outlook, food situation, and many other economic indicators. For more statistical tables see OECDiLibrary Statistical Tables portion of this site.
This Collection is a selective collection of major old Hong Kong Newspapers published from early Hong Kong to nowadays, aiming at preserving historical news reporting of Hong Kong for reference and research.
The UCSC Library has purchased several field guides in online formats, some for use on computers, and some for use on the library's iPads, that UCSC students, faculty and staff can borrow from the McHenry Library.
OBP books are published in hardback, paperback and ebook editions, but also publish free online editions of every title in PDF, HTML and XML formats that can be read via the website, downloaded, reused or embedded anywhere. UC Santa Cruz University Library is supporting Open Book Publishers and provides you with free ebook downloads and discounted prices for all OBP titles.
Provides an ecclectic mix of digitized collections that are browseable. This resource is available to the public freely. Contributors include a variety of institutions and content includes newspapers that are local, regional, or school newspapers among other types of information.
Is dedicated to publishing open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs). Several OA journals are hosted here. UCSC is a supporting member of this organization.
An Archives Unbound collection. Comprised of title selections (printed materials) from the microfilm collections "Travels in the West and Southwest" and the "Plains & Rockies," this digital collection provides a unique window on American western history. Covers 1800-1880.
Over 10,000 full-text articles from key reference resources on African American and African history and culture. Includes over 2500 images, more than 450 primary sources with specially written commentaries, nearly 200 maps, and more than 150 charts and tables.
Includes the Grove Dictionary of Art, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2nd edition), The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
Provides high-level overviews of scholarship to navigate new areas of study and selectively-curated, highly-credible sources offer the advanced resources needed for continued research in various area of expertise. UCSC access includes the following subject areas: African American Studies, African Studies, Anthropology, Art History, Chinese Studies, Cinema And Media Studies, Classics, Ecology, Environmental Science, Evolutionary Biology, Geography, History, Latin American & Latino Studies, Music, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Urban Studies, among others.
Over 900 A to Z articles ranging in length from 500 words to 7,500 words written by academics, scholars, writers, artists, and journalists, address such broad topics as identity, art, politics, religion, education, health, and history. Each entry has its own bibliography and cross-references and is signed by its author.
Organized alphabetically, the articles range from 500-word biographies to 7,000-word entries on geography and history to the legacy of the arts, writings, architecture, and religious rituals. Includes annotated bibliographies .
Is a historical dictionary. It includes present-day meanings and also the history of individual words, and of the language—traced through quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
Reference books online. UCSC provides access to the collections for: Archaeology, Business & Management, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion.
A survey of the traditions of western music by the musicologists Richard Taruskin, this book illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age.
Read the full encyclopedia entries for the following resources: Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, and The Oxford Companion to Music.
Full-text database of over 200+ dictionaries, language reference works (including thesauruses), and encyclopedias in all subject areas published by Oxford University Press
This database is concerned with current public policy issues and emphasizes factual and statistical information across the social sciences and government. It provides citations and abstractions for journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more.
Contains citations of papers presented worldwide at meetings, conferences workshops, congresses, expositions, and symposia. From the British Library Document Supply Center.
An Archives Unbound collection. As a young man in the 1960s, Baraka (then known as LeRoi Jones) galvanized a second Black Renaissance, the Black Arts movement. The ideological and political transformations of Amiri Baraka from a Beat poet in Greenwich Village into a militant political activist in Harlem and Newark was paradigmatic for the Black Revolt of the 1960s. Covers 1960-1988.
An electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. Comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.
Full text of this newspaper, 1728-1815, considered the US newspaper of record for the 18th century. Part of the Coherent Digital History Commons, formerly Accessible Archives database.
Database of citations, abstracts, and full text for articles in both scholarly and popular performing-arts periodicals. Covers dance, theater, film, mime, opera, puppetry, radio, television, video, storytelling, and performance art.
PhilArchive is the largest open access e-print archive in philosophy. It is built on and integrated with the PhilPapers database. Access to items on PhilArchive is free without a user account. PhilArchive is a non-profit project supported by the PhilPapers Foundation.
A comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers, monitoring all sources of research content in philosophy.
This is a preprint server sponsored by the Philosophy of Science Association. A preprint server is used by scholars to circulate new work. A preprint is an early version of new work often in preliminary form.
This is a comprehensive global source of fundingand grant opportunities. Provided by the UCSC Office of Research. All UCSC affiliated researchers, students, and research staff do have access to Pivot-RP. Log in using your UCSC credentials.
From UCSC office of research. Previously database was GrantForward. Current database is Pivot-RP
OoR contact is
Heather Bell, Ph.D.
Director of Research Development
University of California, Santa Cruz
(808) 268-1296 | hmbell@ucsc.edu
Database of information about plays, searchable by title, author, subject, style, genre, and cast type. Does not include full text but provides links for finding plays in collections via UC Library Search.
An Archives Unbound collection. These files represent a large portion of the archives of the British-run municipal police force based in Shanghai's former international settlement; an opportunity to explore a unique period in China’s struggle toward a modern existence through these settlements. Covers 1894-1945.
(Note: online version of American Public Opinion Index). Compilation of 14,000+ surveys and polls conducted in the U.S. and 80+ other countries from 1986 to the present. Each record includes question, responses given, and sources.
Music, Politics, Fashion, Youth Culture – the period from 1950 to 1975 witnessed dramatic changes in society. There was the onset of Rock & Roll; the introduction of computers and credit cards; the boom of radio and television; and campaigns for black power, civil rights and women’s liberation. All around the world there were challenges to authority.
Scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Subject areas: behavior, colony management, ecology, reproduction, field studies, disease models, veterinary science, genetics and zoogeography and more. This was formerly an online database, which was deaccessioned and archived in December 2018. XML files are available for download.
The NCBI Probe Database is a public registry of nucleic acid reagents designed for use in a wide variety of biomedical research applications, together with information on reagent distributors, probe effectiveness, and computed sequence similarities.
Searches across 48 different Proquest Databases. Includes citations and abstracts for academic sources and more. Full text of newspapers. Select a subject area or search across all subjects.
Citations and abstracts for peer-reviewed journal articles, books, chapters and essays, dissertations, and more. Select a subject area or search across all subjects.
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Includes historical coverage of over 50 major U.S. newspapers. Some newspapers and dates of coverage include: Chicago Defender (1909-2010), Chicago Tribune (1849-1999), San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922), Los Angeles Times (1881-2000), The New York Times (1851-2020), Wall Street Journal (1889-2013), Washington Post (1877-2008).
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The Protocol Exchange is an open repository for sharing scientific research protocols. These protocols are posted directly on the Protocol Exchange by authors and are made freely available to the scientific community for use and comment. From Springer Nature
Full-text articles from 66 journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber.
This database covers behavioral and social sciences. Use it to locate scholarly research findings in psychology and related fields. Includes document types, such as journal articles, book chapters, book reviews, and editorials.
For medical articles - this is the place to go. For the most up-to-date access to peer-reviewed articles on an incredible variety of biomedical topics, including medical research, genetics, bioinformatics, physiology, oncology, nursing and more. If you don't see the Get it at UC button in the Abstract display, you are not in the customized UC version!
Reaxys is the successor to the Crossfire Beilstein/Gmelin system, and provides organic, inorganic and organometallic chemical structures, reactions, and properties contained in the Beilstein and Gmelin databases plus selective journal and patent literature. Reaxys is a tool for investigating synthesis methods for chemical compounds, characterizing synthesized compounds, or searching for critically evaluated data on physical, chemical, spectral, bioactivity, or toxicological properties.
The full-text periodical database of the Republic of China (1911-1949), contains more than 20,000 kinds of periodicals and over 15 million articles published in the Republic of China (1911-1949). The contents reflect the political, military, diplomacy, economy, education, ideological, cultural, religious, and other aspects as an important part of the history file. At present, 1-7 series have been published, and readers can search, browse and download the full text using the title, author, title, classification number, year and period. At the same time, readers can also use the periodical navigation features to browse and download the original journal directly.
An Archives Unbound collection. This collection provides documentation collected by the FBI through intelligence activities, informants, surveillance, and cooperation with local police departments and chronicle the activities of Republic of New Afrika national and local leaders, power struggles within the organization, its growing militancy, and its affiliations with other Black militant organizations. Covers 1968-1980.
Provides citations for content from the late 18th century to the present. Coverage is international and multilingual. Offers broad and detailed coverage of music literature, from hip hop to Händel, ethnomusicology to music therapy, elementary music education to advanced music theory.
The Repertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) is an index and guide to music manuscripts produced 1600 -1850. Also contains the Bibliographic Citations Database, referring to thematic catalogs and other secondary sources cited in RISM Series A/II.
Searchable union catalog from the Research Libraries Group (RLG) with records for books, periodical titles, and media in research libraries around the world. (Formerly known as RCAT). Does not contain journal articles.
Primary-source material for the study of popular music, featuring full text of 20,000+ articles from nearly 50 years of American and British popular-music journalism, spanning popular, niche, and industry publications. Includes audio collection of interviews with popular music personalities
Public Opinion Research Archive. Includes iPOLL databank and Gallup public opinion surveys conducted in the U.S. since the 1930s. Topics include politics, science, religion, current events, etc.
Provides access to information and databases about environmental effects of specific factories and related communities. Also contains links to TRI (Toxic Release Inventory) data.
Through published pamphlets, tracts, memoirs, congressional legislation, correspondence, broadsides, biographies, histories, fiction and poetry, eulogies, sermons and innumerable other genres, Sabin opens a window onto the Americas through which few get to glimpse.
Full text of journals published by Sage on subjects including: Health Sciences, Social Sciences & Humanities, Materials Sciences & Engineering, Life & Biomedical Sciences.
Searchable online encyclopedias and handbooks in the social sciences from SAGE Publications -- Encyclopedia of African American Education, Encyclopedia of Perception, Encyclopedia of Case Study Research, Encyclopedia of Drug Policy, 21st Century Political Science: A Reference Handbook ...
Identify or learn more about appropriate methods to design and conduct research and analyze results in Social Sciences and Health fields. Provides project planning support, case studies outlining research methods, downloadable teaching datasets, and full-text ebooks detailing specific methodologies. Includes practical information about research design, writing literature reviews, and grant writing. Access to video content is not included.
Contains abstracts and citations for materials in astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, physics and geophysics, Los Alamos preprints, and many archives. From Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, under a NASA grant.
Full text journal articles available to all users through Open Access. This database includes all the major disciplines. Represents Spanish, Portuguese, or English languages and Latin America and Spain.
This is a reference work of "the most reliable and effective synthetic methods from the chemical literature": 26,000 methods with more than 250,000 reactions for 2,700 different types of organic compounds. Accompanied by reaction schemes, examples and experimental procedures. The Electronic Backfile, also included, provides access to product specific experimental procedures, structures, and references dating back to the early 1800s.
SciFinder is the most comprehensive bibliographic database for scholarly research in the field of chemistry. It contains over 52 million citations and indexes over 50,000 journals, covering all aspects of chemistry, including chemical aspects of: biology and life sciences, engineering and materials science, food science, geology, medicine, physics, and polymer science. SciFinder also allows searching of chemical substances, chemical reactions, and includes some property data and spectra. It is the online version of Chemical Abstracts.
[Coverage: 1907-present, with selected pre-1907 material]
[Cited Reference Searching: 1996 - present, allows you to identify who is citing an article]
Alternative Names: SciFinder, Sci Finder, Chemical Abstracts, Chem Abstracts, Chem Abs, CAS
Includes scientific and technical research results in disciplines of interest to the Department of Energy (DOE) such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science, and related disciplines. Contains all full-text documents and citations previously found in Information Bridge (IB) and Energy Citations Database (ECD), including report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents.
The Shanghai Library has made available the Quan Guo Bao Kan Suo Yin (CNBKSY) databases on a temporary basis. Make use of the following collections:
Chinese Periodical of Modern China - Literature Collection 中国近代中文期刊全文数据库-文学专题 1872~1949
Chinese Periodical Full-text Database 中文期刊全文数据库 1911~1949
Chinese Serial Full-text Database 《遐迩贯珍》 1853~1856
Dian-shi-zhai Pictorial Full-text Database 《点石斋画报》 1884~1898
Sin Wan Pao 《新闻报》 1893~1949
The Eastern Times 《时报》 1904~1939
The China Press 《大陆报》 1911~1949
The Tabloids 《小报》 1897~1949
The Shanghai Times 《上海泰晤士报》 1925~1943
The Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury 《大美晚报》 1929~1949
The Shanghai Evening Courier 《上海晚邮》 1869～1874
Shanghai Courier & China Gazette 《中华快报》 1876～1878
Shanghai Courier 《上海差报》 1876～1878
The Republican Daily《民国日报》 1916~1949
Central Daily News 《中央日报》 1928~1949
Yi Shih Pao 《益世报》 1915~1949
Ta Kung Pao 《大公报》 1902~1949/1952
Siku Quanshu, literally translated as “Complete Library of the Four Treasuries”, is the complete collection of the Qing Dynasty imperial library. The collection includes 3461 books in 36381 volumes. It is compiled by 361 scholars from 1773-1782 in the Qianlong period of the Qing dynasty. It was the largest collection of texts in pre-modern China and has an important historical place in the histories of cultural texts and academic thought in China.
The Wenjin ge edition is a manuscript written during the Qianlong reign -- it includes a total of 36,304 volumes in 6,144 boxes placed on 128 bookshelves. They comprise 79,309 juan (sections) and were originally kept in the Wenjin Pavilion at the Summer Palace in Rehe (Jehol, now Chengde). In 1914, they became part of the holdings of the Capital Library (now the National Library of China). The complete collection is divided into four sections: classics, histories, masters, and belles-lettres.
This database, which was created in conjunction with the report "The Survival of American Silent Feature Films: 1912-1929," contains searchable information for nearly 11,000 U.S. feature films, including which U.S. and international archives hold materials on the 3,300 titles for which film elements are known to exist. This is a cooperative project of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF)
Key events and movements in 1960s America as documented in diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary.
This resource brings together documents and collections from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Close attention has been given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today. Covers 1490 - 2007.
Tool to visualize data and create thematic and interactive maps with raw data contained in this database. Includes current and historical census data and demographic information from:
Entire US census (1790-latest available)
American Community Survey (ACS) (2005-2018)
Religious Congregations and Membership Study (RCMS) (1980-2010) - Census on religion in the US
Part of Web of Knowledge, indexes over 1,725 journals with subject, author, journal title searching. Use Cited Reference Search to find articles that cite or are cited by an author.
Provides a one-search experience across the Proquest Social Sciences-related databases. In addition to citations and abstracts to journal articles and other secondary scholarship, this also includes archival material and early era periodicals.
Social Services Abstracts provides citations (with abstracts) on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
Full text of proceedings for Design Automation Conference (DAC), International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), European Design Automation Conference (EDAC), Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, SIGDA Newsletter and more. From ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Library.
Years available:1980-2011. Includes protocols from Humana's series Methods in Molecular Biology, Methods in Molecular Medicine, Methods in Biotechnology, Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Neuromethods, as well as from a number of other laboratory handbooks.
The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. Use the Abstract as a convenient volume for statistical reference, and as a guide to statistical sources on the Web. Coverage: Annual volumes can be searched by individual year from 1878 to 2012.
Full text of reference books on statistics and probability. Organized into categories including biostatistics, statistics for psychology, social science and law, statistical theories and methods, and statistics for biological sciences. Part of CRC Press's CRCnetBASE suite.
Through materials from various archives and libraries throughout the world, documents colonial rule, dispersion of exiles, international intervention, and the worldwide networks that supported successive generations of resistance within the region.
Consists of 76 different collections including images, periodicals, nationalist publications, records of colonial government commissions, local newspaper reports, personal papers, correspondence, UN documents, out-of-print and other particularly relevant books, pamphlets, speeches, and interviews with those who participated in the struggles.
The library consists of a 50- to 100-page "Lecture"; a self-contained electronic book that synthesizes an important research or development topic, authored by an expert contributor to the field.
The library and its lectures are organized by series. New series and lectures will be added continuously and existing lectures will be revised as needed. Published by Morgan & Claypool.
An Archives Unbound collection. Testaments to the Holocaust is the online publication of the archives of the Wiener Library, London, the first archive to collect evidence of the Holocaust and the anti-semitic activities of the German Nazi Party. In German. Covers 1889-1965.
Full directory details for universities and colleges, libraries and archives, learned societies, research institutes, and museums and art galleries in countries and territories throughout the world.
In the late 1800's, Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen began collecting books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights. The Gerritsen Collection has since become the greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world.
Video collection, including documentaries and definitive performances of important plays. From Shakespeare to Samuel Beckett, the collection covers 20th century theatre / theater history. Includes interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors, along with excerpts of live performances.
Digital Library of Greek Literature. Founded in 1972 the TLG has collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. [Register for an account on the site to view full text] Off-campus users must be authenticated. Off-Campus Access Help
An Archives Unbound collection. This collection covers U.S.-China relations in the post-Cold War Era, and includes documents related to the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, China’s human rights issues, and resumption of World Bank loans to China in July 1990. Covers 1989-1993.
Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC) Digital Library. The Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center is dedicated to the preservation, organization and dissemination of Tibetan literature. Includes digital Tibetan texts; searchable database of people, places, and teachings.
TOXLINE was the National Library of Medicine (NLM) bibliographic database for toxicology, providing bibliographic information covering the biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals. TOXLINE references were drawn from various sources organized into component subfiles.
TOXLINE records not provided by PubMed are no longer updated. The dataset is available for download.
This link searches Treasures from the Film Archives through the FIAF database. Treasures contains unique information about silent-era film holdings in international film archives.
The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is a publicly available EPA database that contains information on toxic chemical releases and waste management activities reported annually by certain industries as well as federal facilities.
Plays and playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. Includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
Searchable text of plays by authors from Britain, Ireland, and Australia, chiefly from the period of 1890 to 1920. Includes supplementary matter such as dramatis personae and relevant illustrations.
This database provides complete online coverage of the sessional papers of the British House of Commons and the 19th Century House of Lords. It includes detailed primary source for the history of Britain, its colonies, and the wider world.
Searchable, full text database of House and Senate committee reports, documents, maps, and journals (1817-1980). Primary documents ordered printed by Congress such as reports of executive departments, and special investigations of Congress. Covers a wide range of topics such as the Armed Forces, Education, Health, and Economics.
Includes a broad range of previously classified federal records spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The collection brings together documents from all the presidential libraries and numerous executive agencies in a single database.
This searches across all 10 UC Library collections and beyond. Sign in using your CruzID Gold in order to find: books, e-books, articles, journals, films, maps, and more.
Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry is a reference work encompassing all the disciplines and current practice of industrial chemistry and chemical engineering around the world. Its 1000 major articles by 3,000 leaders from research and industrial organizations are well-illustrated with charts and figures and extensive bibliographies.
Title and publishing information for nearly 250,0000 consumer and trade magazines, academic and scholarly journals, monographic series, newsletters, newspapers, electronic publications, conference proceedings, and 'zines.
Searchable and browsable site, with full-text access to nearly 2000 books and more than 60 journals published by UC Press. Formerly: Caliber. Provided by JSTOR.
Provides access to five of the country’s most respected national and regional newspapers offering researchers complete and current coverage of local, national, and world events in Chicago Tribune; Los Angeles Times; New York Times; Wall Street Journal; The Washington Post. Covers approximately 1980-present.
Includes news sources from across the United States. Content covers print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, and broadcast transcripts. Uses a map-based interface for searching and sorting. 1978 - Current.
In-Library use only. Access requires login by library staff at McHenry library. Inquire at Reference desk. Access current and cumulative U.S. export and import data (trade statistics) for over 18,000 export commodities and 24,000 import commodities. Annual data from 1992. Monthly data from 2002 (port-level data is only available from 2003 - present)
Search across the Video and Music Online Collections from Alexander Street Press. To search individual collections, click the My Collections drop down menu and make your selection.
An Archives Unbound collection. Rare primary sources chronicle the unique, often controversial, relationship between the U.S. government and Native American nations. Covers 1800-1824.
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.
Access to water-resources data collected at approximately 1.5 million sites in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Topics include: Real-Time; Site Information; Surface Water; Ground Water; and Water Quality (includes temperature, specific conductance, pH, nutrients, pesticides, and volatile organic compounds). Current and historical data.
World development indicators (WDI) is the World Bank's annual compilation of data about development. Provides direct access to development indicators, with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 to 2001.
An Archives Unbound collection. This collection includes surveillance reports, chronologies, witness statements and more. These materials provide unique (and in some cases recently declassified) insight into the Freedom Rides, the Kennedy administration and the segregated South.
Multidisciplinary database of scholarly articles. Searches citation indexes in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, and Science. Includes "cited by" feature and allows sorting by citation count.
Database for finding case law, statutes, regulations, and research law-related issues. Find U.S. Supreme Court and Federal court cases, court cases from California and other states appellate and supreme courts and law review articles and other secondary sources.
A resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.
An archival research resource comprising the backfiles of leading women's interest consumer magazines. Issues are scanned in high-resolution color and feature detailed article-level indexing. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century through to 2005 and these key primary sources permit the examination of the events, trends, and attitudes of this period. Among the research fields served by this material are gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture.
30 primary source collections covering civil rights, peace and pacifism, suffrage, reproductive health care, grassroots feminist organizations, trade unions and labor, legal issues, periodicals, and more.
Includes 20 sub-collections and more than 57,000 objects. Selected sub-collections include the Heinz Rüther Collection from the University of Cape Town, the Kilwa Archive from the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA), and the Smithsonian Heritage Collection.
The collection is comprised of two interlinked and unique types of data: spatial and contextual data. More info here
Formerly Aluka.
Video collection of documentaries on human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century. Global in scope, covering Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania.
Provides annotated entries for scholarly and popular materials in variety of formats related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1960-present. The scope is international and multilingual.
This is the FirstSearch version: A union catalog, it enables you to search the holdings of libraries across the country and internationally.
Catalogs generally contain: books, journal titles, sound recordings, movies, newspapers and so on.
The database provides citations and abstracts for journal articles in political science, international relations, law, and public administration / policy.
Video collection of the popular news magazine television program covering American issues. CBS News correspondents contributed segments to each hour-long episode. Topics range from news coverage to politics, lifestyle, pop culture, business, health, and science.
The backfile of Artforum (later Artforum International), the magazine for coverage of international contemporary art, from its launch in 1962 to 2020. Spanning six decades of reporting on art in all media, Artforum offers features, reviews, and interviews relating to artists, exhibitions, publications, and other art world events / trends.
Founded in 1966 as Campus News and briefly titled Fulcrum, City on a Hill Press is the weekly student newspaper of the University of California, Santa Cruz. The student-run newspaper is the newspaper of record for the campus. The newspaper operates independently of campus administration and covers a variety of issues of direct concern to the student body, ranging from UCSC specific issues to local politics and international topics.
Provides high-level overviews of scholarship to navigate new areas of study and selectively-curated, highly-credible sources offer the advanced resources needed for continued research in various area of expertise. UCSC access includes the following subject areas: African American Studies, African Studies, Anthropology, Art History, Chinese Studies, Cinema And Media Studies, Classics, Ecology, Environmental Science, Evolutionary Biology, Geography, History, Latin American & Latino Studies, Music, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Urban Studies, among others.
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