- Le Catalogue collectif de France, a union
catalog of French libraries based on three major catalogs: le
Catalogue des fonds des bibliothèques municipales
rétrospectives, BN-OPAL PLUS and le catalogue du
Système universitaire de documentation. No subject
access. Can be searched by author, title and year of
publication or combination of these three. Includes over 14
million titles held at BN, 55 public libraries and 110
university libraries. (12/13/01)
- Design and Applied Arts Index, citations and
abstracts from over 450 international design and craft
journals. Includes citations to articles, reviews, obituaries,
conference reports and data on designers, craftspeople, firms,
and workshops. Also includes four design and craft directories.
(12/11/01)
- Digital Sanborn Maps 1867-1970 [New York/New
Jersey], a collection of large-scale landbook maps which
includes information such as the outline of each building, the
size and shape and construction materials, heights, and
function of structures, location of windows and doors. The maps
also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property
boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. Textual
information includes construction details, ownership and
building use. (12/11/01)
- UNSTATS Database, statistical tables covering
many topics for countries worldwide. More than 300 statistical
time series for countries from around the world covering a wide
range of economic and socio-demographic topics. Descriptions of
the international sources and definitions used in compiling the
data are included. Sources include UN, FAO, ILO, IMF, ITU,
OECD, UNESCO, WHO, WIPO, World Bank (WB) and World Tourism
Organization, plus other international agencies.
(12/10/01)
- TableBase, business statistics and
accompanying full-text articles. TableBase indexes business
statistics found in over 1000 sources including business
periodicals, statistical annuals, brokerage reports, trade
association publications, and government reports. It is an
excellent resource for finding information on companies,
industries, products, markets and demographics. Tables are easy
to find in TableBase because the statistical tables themselves
are indexed, not the source. (12/8/01)
- The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries,
full-text letters, diaries, and memoirs from the American Civil
War. Includes published and previously unpublished materials.
(11/26/01)
- Libdex, the Library Index, a directory of
library websites, an index to over 17,000 web-based online
public access catalogs (OPACs), websites for friends of the
library organizations, library electronic commerce sites, live
reference and more. (11/16/01)
- CQ.com on Congress, a legislative tracking
and news service from Congressional Quarterly. Includes
full-text access to CQ Weekly, Congressional Record, and the
Federal Register; as well as bills, committee reports, markups,
testimony, and transcripts; member profiles. (11/1/01)
- Orbis Latinus Online, a full-text dictionary
of Latin placenames with their vernacular equivalents, based on
the 2nd edition of Graesse's Orbis Latinus (1909).
(10/31/01)
- Alt-PressWatch, a full-text database of
newspapers, magazines, journals and newsletters of the
alternative and independent press, from 1995 to the present.
Includes alternative press titles such as Anarcho-Syndicalist
Review, Chicago Reader, Dissent, Off Our Backs, Poverty and
Race. (10/25/01)
- Infoshare Online, a database of statistics
about New York City, including official statistical data from
U.S., New York State and New York City agencies, from 1980 to
the present. (10/24/01)
- Netto de Hyakka, the full-text of
Heibonsha's World Encyclopedia (Sekai daihyakka jiten) with
approximately 83,000 articles and 10,000 illustrations.
(10/23/01)
- Index to Theses, British, citations for all
doctoral and masters theses accepted by British and Irish
Universities since 1970. Arrangement is by subject. Since 1989,
abstracts are included for dissertations. (10/18/01)
- The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry,
This expanded version of Granger's poetry index includes
13,000 poems in full-text and 250,000 poem citations. New
features include commentaries, biographies, bibliographies, and
a glossary of terms. Anthologies of poetry are indexed, with
highly recommended volumes noted. (10/11/01)
- KoreaA2Z, a full-text collection of Korean
classical texts including annals of the Choson dynasty, the
King Kojong and Sunjong dynasties, and Kyongguk Taejong, Sama
Pangmok, etc. Coverage varies by source but is mainly the 14th
through the early 20th centuries. (10/9/01)
- The Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online, a
geographic database of over 165,000 entries including
place-names, physical characteristics, political properties,
and natural and agricultural resources. (10/8/01)
- GenderWatch, full-text and abstracts of a
wide variety of feminist and gender studies periodicals.
Publications include scholarly journals (among them Critical
Matrix, Hypatia, Columbia Journal of Gender & Law),
magazines (the Advocate, Hurricane Alice, Lillith), newspapers
(off our backs), newsletters, regional publications, books,
booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government,
n-g-o and special reports. (9/11/01)
- Dictionary of Old English Corpus, a
searchable collection of 3037 texts, representing a complete
record of surviving Old English except for some variant
manuscripts of individual texts. Search results are displayed
with three lines of context only. (8/22/01)
- World Atlas On-line, over 500 full-color,
reproducible maps of over 200 countries, territories, regions,
continents, states, and provinces, with recent demographic,
economic, and geographic statistics. (8/15/01)
- Maps on File On-line, over 500 reproducible
maps of continents, countries, states of the U.S., and Canadian
provinces, plus selected topical and statistical maps.
(8/15/01)
- Guide to Microforms (History Universe),
descriptions and listings of the contents of microform sets in
American history, foreign relations, and women's studies
published by University Publications of America.
(8/14/01)
- African-American Studies (History Universe),
full-text resources for African-American studies, including
selected primary sources (autobiographies, speeches,
legislation, Supreme Court decisions) and secondary sources
(articles from reference books and scholarly journals).
Includes prints and photographs. (8/8/01)
- BioOne, full-text journals focused on the
biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. The
journals are published by a variety of biological societies,
primarily scholarly societies affiliated with American
Institute of Biological Sciences. (8/8/01)
- The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
containing over 2,000 full-text articles, covering the broadest
range of topics in the philosophical canon, as well as
philosophy from all continents and all periods. (7/31/01)
- APIS: Advanced Papyrological Information
System, a full-text and image database of primary source
material. APIS links together in a single environment various
sources of information about texts written on papyrus and the
society that produced them. It contains descriptions of the
papyri and other written materials in the collections of
Columbia University, University of California-Berkeley, Duke
University, University of Michigan, Princeton University, and
Yale University, including digital images of many of these
texts and connections to databases with the texts themselves in
their original languages and with bibliography about the texts.
Regions covered are Egypt, Italy, and the Middle East, in
Arabic, Aramaic, Coptic, Demotic (Egyptian), Greek, Hebrew,
Hieratic (Egyptian), Italian, Latin, Middle Persian, Parthian,
and Syriac languages. (7/25/01)
- Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) Collection for
Archaeology, a collection of full-text information (e.g.,
books, journal articles, and dissertations) on archaeological
traditions from around the world. The eHRAF Collection of
Archaeology is unique in that the text is subject-indexed for
quick retrieval of information. Every year more archaeological
traditions are added to the eHRAF Collection of Archaeology.
(7/18/01)
- Medieval Feminist Index, citations for
journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about
women, sexuality and gender in the Middle Ages. Covers Europe,
North Africa, and the Middle East, in English, French, German,
and Spanish. Has links to some full-text journal articles.
(7/9/01)
- African American Biographical Database,
biographies of African Americans living between 1790 and 1950.
This full-text resource contains page images from more than 300
biographical dictionaries. (6/26/01)
- African Studies, citations and abstracts for
African studies materials: publications and unpublished
manuscripts about and from Africa in history, literature,
music, archaeology, fine arts, business, and the other social
sciences. African Studies is a composite of 17 databases
including African Studies Abstracts, Documentatieblad, Ibiscus,
and the UCLA Bibliography on Contemporary Africa.
(6/15/01)
- Market Research Monitor, proprietary market
research from Euromonitor: full-text reports on consumer
markets around the globe, with profiles of major markets and
consumer goods companies. (5/25/01)
- Reuters Business Insight, a full-text
database of market research reports in consumer goods, energy,
finance, health care and technology. (5/25/01)
- PsycARTICLES, full-text articles from 42
journals published by the American Psychological Association.
Subject coverage includes animal behavior, clinical and
counseling psychology, cognition, memory, neuroscience,
perception, physiological psychology, psycholinguistics,
psychometrics, and social and personality psychology. Most
journals offer full-text for recent years only; some journals
offer up to 10 years of full-text. (5/22/01)
- Social Services Abstracts, citations and
abstracts for research in social work, human services, and
related areas, including social welfare, social policy and
community development. (5/10/01)
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts,
citations and abstracts for all aspects of the study of
language, covering various fields of linguistics, including
descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and
geographical linguistics. (5/10/01)
- National Journal Group's Policy Central,
a collection of full-text resources on U.S. politics and
policy, including the National Journal, The Hotline,
CongressDaily, Technology Daily, Poll Track, and The Almanac of
American Politics. (5/9/01)
- Jake: Jointly Administered Knowledge
Environment, a service for identifying full-text and
indexed electronic journals available in large databases, e.g.,
ProQuest, JSTOR, Project Muse, Science Direct. Use Jake to
search journal titles; Jake will return a list of databases
that provide full-text or indexing of the journal. Jake
provides some direct linking--click on ISSUE LIST to link
directly to EBSCO Online, Elsevier, JSTOR, and other databases.
For ProQuest and other databases, you need to search Jake, and
then enter the cited database via LibraryWeb. (4/20/01)
- Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents
(LAPTOC), a searchable database of tables of contents of
over 500 journals published in Latin America. Contents may also
be browsed by country of publication or journal title. Most of
these journals are not indexed in HAPI, the Handbook of Latin
American Studies, or other major indices. (4/18/01)
- North American Women's Letters &
Diaries, full-text diaries, journals, and letters written
by women visiting or living in North America, 1700-1950. This
resource can be searched by word or date; search results can be
limited by age, marital status, age at marriage, number of
children, race, occupation, religion, and much more.
(4/17/01)
- World Biographical Index 7, the electronic
version of the World Biographical Index, containing 2.8 million
short biographical entries arranged by nationality, from the
17th century to the present. This is the online index to the
microfiche collections of biographical archives located in the
Butler Library Reference Department; the microfiche sets
contain the full texts of the biographies. (4/16/01)
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development, full-text of all OECD serial and monographic
publications, including time series databases and numeric data.
This resource covers agriculture, business, development,
economics, education, environment, finance, governance,
investment, social sciences, and statistics. (4/16/01)
- ABIA: South & Southeast Asian Art and
Archaeology Index, a bibliographic index of books and
articles on South & Southeast Asian art and archaeology,
compiled in a project of The International Institute for Asian
Studies (IIAS). ABIA Index continues the old Annual
Bibliography of Indian Archaeology (ABIA). Main subject
coverage includes Pre- and protohistory, historical
archaeology, art history (ancient & modern), material
culture, epigraphy, palaeography, numismatics, seals.
(4/10/01)
- American National Biography, a full-text
biographical dictionary of about 17,500 notable American men
and women from all eras of American history who are no longer
alive, including illustrations and hypertext links to other Web
resources. (4/9/01)
- Materials Science Collection with METADEX,
citations and abstracts for publications related to the science
and technology of materials from nine leading materials science
databases; a comprehensive source for information on metals,
polymers, ceramics and composites: their properties,
manufacturing, applications, and development, including links
to full-text articles in electronic journals published by
Elsevier (ScienceDirect), Springer Verlag (Springer LINK),
Kluwer, and Academic Press (IDEAL). (4/3/01)
- ACM Digital Library, full-text conference
papers from ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
conference proceedings and articles from journals and magazines
published by ACM and ACM-affiliated organizations. Topics
covered include applied mathematics, biomedical engineering,
computer science, electrical and electronics engineering,
industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, and operations
research. (4/3/01)
- CLIO: Archival Materials Database, contains
records for archives, oral history transcripts, architectural
drawings and archives, and manuscript collections in the
Columbia University Libraries, including records for personal
papers, corporate archives, collections of prints and drawings
and oral history transcripts located in the Avery Architectural
& Fine Arts Library, the Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
the Oral History Research Office, and the Lehman Suite.
(03/23/01)
- Integrum World Wide, an interdisciplinary,
full-text database of articles from several hundred wire
services, newspapers, journals, magazines from central and
provincial cities within the Russian Federation and the near
abroad; bibliographic indexes, biographical and statistical
publications. (3/20/01)
- Annual Reviews, full-text reviews of topics
in biomedical, physical and social sciences published as annual
journals. (3/14/01)
- Acta Sanctorum, a key full-text resource for
the study of Medieval hagiography and the study of Medieval
culture and society in general, the database represents the
most comprehensive collection of Latin literature on saints.
(3/2/01)
- Past Masters, several searchable full-text
collections of writings by key philosophers and thinkers from
ancient times to the present, including Anselm, Aristotle,
Augustine, Bentham, Berkeley, Calvin, Descartes, John Dewey,
Hegel, Hobbes, Hume, Leibniz, Locke, Luther, Mill, Nietzche,
Peirce, Plato, Ricardo, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Thomas Aquinas,
Wittgenstein and many others. (3/2/01)
- CountryWatch, encyclopedic background
articles, maps, selective up-to-date news, statistical data,
financial data, and analysis covering 191 countries of the
world. Organized for quick reference by region and country, and
with full-text indexing for keyword searching. Service includes
CountryReviews, Country NewsWire, wire service newsfeeds,
Country Forums, currency converters, and other quick-reference
resources for each country. (2/28/01)
- The New Grove Dictionary of Music and
Musicians, full-text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music
and Musicians, 2nd ed. (29,499 articles) with linked sound
sources, linked images, and links to other sites.
(2/26/01)
- FIRST (Facts on International Relations and
Security Trends), country profiles of military &
defense information. FIRST draws upon the factual databases
maintained by its project partners to create country profiles,
including: membership, agreements & events, conflicts &
peace keeping activities, arms production & trade, military
expenditure, weapons of mass destruction, armed forces &
conventional weapon holdings, political system & country
indicators, and other reference data. (2/16/01)
- RIBA Architectural Publications Index,
citations for articles in architecture periodicals. Topics
covered include architecture, conservation and urban history,
construction technology, design, environmental studies,
landscape, and planning. (2/8/01)
- Poole's Plus, a collection of several
19th-century periodical indexes including Poole's Index to
Periodical Literature (1802-1906), Stead's Index to
Periodicals (1890-1906), Cumulative Index to Selected List of
Periodicals (1896-1899), New York Daily Tribune Index
(1875-1906), New York Times Index (1863-1905), Harper's
Magazine Index (1850-1892), and Library Journal Index
(1876-1897). (2/6/01)
- Harvard University Libraries Catalog: Hollis,
the online library catalog for Harvard University Libraries.
(2/5/01)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art Library Catalog:
Watsonline, the online library catalog for the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library. (2/5/01)
- Museum of Modern Art Library Catalog:
Dadabase, the online library catalog for the library of the
Museum of Modern Art, New York. (2/5/01)
- New York Academy of Medicine Library Catalog,
the online library catalog for New York Academy of Medicine.
(2/5/01)
- University of Pennsylvania Library Catalog:
Franklin, the online library catalog for University of
Pennsylvania. (2/5/01)
- Index to Current Urban Documents: Region I, New
England, citations and full-text for municipal publications
from New England. Major cities in Connecticut, Maine,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode
Island, and Vermont are covered. (1/31/01)
- The Gerritsen Collection: Women's History
Online, 1543-1945, full-text primary sources relating to
the history of women. The Collection is not yet complete but is
being updated regularly. Although the scope is international
and the coverage is 1543-1945, the Collection focuses primarily
on the U.S., British Isles, and Western Europe, and material
covering 1880-1920. (1/25/01)
- AccessUN: Index to United Nations Documents and
Publications: citations to UN publications, with some
full-text links. Indexes current and retrospective UN documents
and publications and documents, including articles appearing in
UN periodicals. Full-text resolutions from the General
Assembly, Security Council and Economic and Social Council are
appended to their respective bibliographic citations.
(1/9/2001)
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