19th Century U.S. Newspapers, a searchable database containing digital facsimile images of newspapers; presented as full page layout as well as single articles; advertisements and illustrations included. This collection includes numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.; and it encompasses the entire 19th century. (2006-12-19)
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories, providing a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. Composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives, the series provides a rich source for scholars in a wide range of disciplines. In selected cases, users will be able to hear the actual audio voices of the immigrants. (2006-12-14)
Sur, one of the most important literary journals in Latin America, published between 1931 and 1992. Founded in Argentina by Victoria Ocampo, Sur featured writers from around the world. Contents included literature, film, theater, art, music, history, and politics. The electronic version offers all pages and images of the 364 issues, including covers and advertisements. (2006-11-08)
Life and Times of Jorge Luis Borges, a database based on the Jorge Luis Borges Collection and Documentation Center of the Fundación San Telmo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The database contains an extensive primary bibliography of Borges' works, and a bibliography of articles about his writings including those that are rare or appeared in unindexed national and provincial newspapers and journals. (2006-11-08)
AIDA - articoli italiani di periodici accademici, a citation database containing journal articles from Italian academic journals covering the humanities and social sciences, classified using the Basis Classification in German and Italian. (2006-10-30)
Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL), is an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from humanities and social science journals, electronic books and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics. (2006-10-30)
China Data Online, comprehensive online database focusing on economic statistics of China,
arranged by regions and categories. Includes monthly and yearly reports on China's macroeconomic development, statistical databases about China's population and economy at the
provincial, county, and city level, and financial indicators of more than 568 industrial branches. Also includes statistical yearbooks, census data, industrial and marketing surveys, and an atlas of China. (2006-10-25)
Analecta hymnica medii aevi digitalia, originally published in 55 volumes from
1886 to 1926. Contains texts of hymns of the Catholic Church, 500-1400. This complete digital edition allows for
searching the full text of the hymns, including the bibliographic
references to manuscripts and prints. The user may also search by author and title, and browse by volume. (2006-10-25)
PBRC manual, a guide to government benefit programs in NYC. This manual contains comprehensive information on government benefit programs including Public Assistance, Medicaid, Medicare, Food Stamps, SSI, Social Security, public housing, Section 8, eviction prevention, HEAP, child care, Medicaid Buy-In, Family Health Plus, emergency assistance grants, EPIC, HASA, and much more. For each benefit program, you will find information on benefits available, eligibility guidelines, application and recertification procedures, the appeals process, local government offices and valuable resource information. (2006-10-25)
Poiesis, an online subscription service. The full text of hundreds of issues of participating philosophy journals may be searched. Every word (unique character string) is fully indexed and search results find every paragraph containing the search term. Search results are restricted to only the paragraphs containing the search terms.
(2006-10-25)
Pidgeon Digital, online version of the Pidgeon Audiovisual collection of illustrated talks
by architects and related designers. This continuing archive, to which new
talks are being added regularly, is a unique library of contemporary
attitudes. Started in 1979 by Monica Pidgeon. (2006-09-29)
Bankruptcy Insider, a database of proprietary bankruptcy data, as well as news on who is
providing financing, details about rehabilitations and liquidations around
the world, bankruptcy trends and much more. Drill down into data on DIPs,
filings, advisers, investment banks and M&A bankruptcy. (2006-09-12)
Deal Focus, a research database providing details of merger & acquisition transactions
from 1999 to the present. (2006-09-12)
TheDeal.com, includes access to the weekly Deal magazine which includes articles on a
range of financial transactions as well scoreboard charts and tables. (2006-09-12)
SRDS (Standard Rate & Data Service) Media Solutions, including advertising rates, deadline dates and contact data for the print and broadcast media. Includes the Direct Marketing List Source and Out of Home Advertising Source. (2006-08-30)
Historical Statistics of the U.S., the online version of the new five-volume printed "millennial" edition entitled Historical Statistics of the United States : Earliest Times to the Present [published by Cambridge University Press]. Many data series in these volumes are continued on a regular basis with periodic updates and
revisions by the agency, group, or individual responsible for the original
data. (2006-08-28)
Comprehensive Organic Functional Group Transformations II (COFGT-II), designed for specialist and nonspecialist chemists, active in academic,
industrial, and government laboratories, now updates the developments of
functional group transformations since the publication of the COFGT 1995.
COFGT-II is structured in precisely the same manner as the original COFGT
work, allowing comprehensive coverage of all organic functional group
transformations. (2006-08-11)
Comprehensive Organic Functional Group Transformations (COFGT), aims to present organic synthesis in terms of the introduction and interconversion
of functional groups. All known functional groups fit a logical and
comprehensive pattern and this forms the basis for the detailed list of
contents. The format of the COFGT was designed to cover systematically all
the possible arrangements of atoms around a carbon, including those which
are quite unfamiliar. COFGT also considers the possibility of as yet
unknown functional groups which may be constructed in the future and so
points the way to new research areas. (2006-08-11)
Encyclopedia of Analytical Science, covers all facets of modern analytical science, with
articles from an international authorship of experts in their specialist
fields. The articles cover three broad areas: analytical techniques (e.g.,
mass spectrometry, liquid chromatography, atomic spectrometry); areas of
application (e.g., forensic, environmental, clinical); and analytes (e.g.,
arsenic, nucleic acids, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons). (2006-08-10)
AMADEUS, a comprehensive, pan-European database containing financial
information on over 7 million public and private companies in 38 European
countries. Standardised annual accounts (for up to 10 years), consolidated
and unconsolidated, financial ratios, activities and
ownership for over 7 million companies throughout Europe, including
Eastern Europe. (2006-08-07)
Social Science Research Network (SSRN), composed of a number of
specialized research networks in the social sciences. Topics covered by
networks include accounting, economics, financial economics, legal
scholarship, and management (including negotiation and marketing). The
SSRN eLibrary consists of abstracts of scholarly working papers and
forthcoming papers and an electronic paper collection of downloadable full
text documents in pdf format. (2006-08-07)
Shakespeare Collection, an extensive collection of authoritative materials supporting literary, textual,
historical, and performance studies. Resources include the most recent
Arden Shakespeare editions of the complete works, as well as editions and
adaptations of Shakespeare's works, other works published during
Shakespeare's time, prompt books, the Gordon Crosse Theatrical Diaries,
criticism, reviews, images, and reference.
(2006-08-04)
Sabin Americana, 1500-1926, based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection contains
works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the
early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents
that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more. With over 6 million pages from 29,000 works, this
collection is a cornerstone in the study of the western hemisphere. (2006-08-04)
Archive of Americana, provides access, in one cross-searchable
interface, to wide-ranging historical collections of items printed in
America. Each collection is also searchable through its own interface.
The Archive of Americana contains books, pamphlets, broadsides,
newspapers, government documents, and ephemera. (2006-08-04)
American Broadsides and Ephemera, based on the American Antiquarian Society's landmark collection - the
most extensive in existence - American Broadsides and Ephemera offers
fully searchable facsimile images of approximately 15,000 broadsides
printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed
between 1760 and 1900. The remarkably diverse subjects of these
broadsides range from contemporary accounts of the Civil War, unusual
occurrences and natural disasters to official government proclamations,
tax bills and town meeting reports. Featuring many rare items, the pieces
of ephemera include clipper ship sailing cards, early trade cards, bill
heads, theater and music programs, stock certificates, menus and
invitations documenting civic, political and private celebrations.
American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I consists of more than 29,000
broadsides and pieces of ephemera. (2006-08-04)
America's Historical Newspapers, more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers
published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states.
Created by Readex through partnerships with the American Antiquarian
Society, Library of Congress, Wisconsin Historical Society and others,
America's Historical Newspapers enables researchers to explore virtually
every aspect of America during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. (2006-08-04)
Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900, a directory to the largest single body of historical documents
arising out of nineteenth century England at the height of the British
Empire. It is a subject-inclusive, language-inclusive bibliography of
50,000 publications, 48,000 personal names, 4,572 issuing bodies and 756
subjects. (2006-07-25)
New York Review of Books, full text of the New York Review of Books beginning with its first issue, in 1963, and up through the
current issue. (2006-07-10)
Black Studies Center, consists of three components, which
may be searched independently or in combination: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience
includes commissioned essays and other related materials; The International Index to Black Periodicals
covers scholarly and popular Black Studies journals,
including full text for many titles;
The Chicago Defender
consists of the full-text and full-page-image backfile of
the influential Black newspaper from 1935-1975. (2006-07-10)
Victorian Database Online, over 100,000 records listing books, articles, and dissertation
abstracts published from 1945 to 2004 on every field of nineteenth-
century British studies. (2006-07-07)
Foundation Grants to Individuals, including scholarships, student loans, fellowships, program development,
internships, professorships, arts and cultural projects, research,
awards/grants by nomination only and general welfare. It is intended to be
both a grantseeker's guide and a reference tool for those interested in
foundation giving to the individual. (2006-07-07)
Gender Studies Database, combines NISC's popular Women's Studies
International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual
diversity issues. GSD covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged
scholarship inside and outside academia. Several thousand links to freely
available and indexed full-text articles and documents on the web are
available. Source documents include professional journals, conference
papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working
papers, theses & dissertations and other sources. Several hundred links
provide access to carefully selected and important websites. (2006-07-07)
Naxos Music Library: Jazz, one of the most comprehensive collection of Jazz music available online. It includes thousands of titles of the Fantasy catalogue and Naxos Jazz. Works may be searched by featured artist(s), disc / song title and
catalogue number. (2006-07-06)
Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry, covers the following subject areas: Main Group Elements; Transition Metals
and Coordination Chemistry; Organometallic Chemistry; Bioinorganic
Chemistry; Solid State, Materials, Nanomaterials and Catalysis; and
General Inorganic Chemistry, Theoretical and Computational Methods. (2006-07-06)
RGE Monitor, The Roubini Global Economics monitor is an aggregator of current
information on global economic and geostrategic issues, offering editorial
perspective of global economic information to the workflow process of
business strategists, investors, researchers, academics, policy makers and
regulators, with coverage of the most relevant news, commentary, research,
analysis, blogs and data. (2006-06-29)
Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral Science, provides complete coverage of current statistical methods ranging through
confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling, random
effect/multilevel modeling, generalized linear models, computationally
intensive methods such as the bootstrap, and many more. An essential
reference work for researchers, educators and students in the fields of
applied psychology, sociology, market research, consumer behavior,
management science, decision making and human resource management. (2006-06-29)
Book Review Digest Retrospective, reflecting eight decades of H.W. Wilson's Book Review Digest, this
database provides excerpts from and citations to book reviews from 1905 to
1982 to fiction and nonfiction, reference works, textbooks, and children's
books in the areas of art, biography, business, education, general
interest, history, humanities, literature, library and information
science, music, religion, science and technology, and social sciences. (2006-03-29)
Twentieth Century Drama, when complete, this database will contain 2,500 published plays from
throughout the English-speaking world, covering the history of modern
drama from the 1890s to the present day. The full range of dramatic
styles, genres and traditions will be represented, from widely studied and
frequently performed plays to important examples of radical theatre,
regional theatre, postcolonial theatre, women's theatre and popular forms
such as farce and thriller that are often under-represented in surveys of
the period. (2006-03-29)
Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, provides an internet version of an important bibliography of
German literature. The site currently includes titles published from
1985-2005, approx. 280,000 in total. The range of years will be revised in
the future.
(2006-03-28)
Play Index, an index to more than 30,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present
and published from 1949 to the present; includes mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama. All Play master records contain a link to the results of an Internet metasearch of specially selected Web sites to link to full text, criticism, and other useful information. (2006-03-28)
African American Song, the first online resource to document the history of African American
music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a
diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs,
and narratives, among others.
(2006-03-28)
Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online, a collection of digitized editions of texts concerning economic,
political, legal, and ecclesiastical history, such as treasury accounts,
chronicles, papal registers, etc. Most are from England, Ireland, and
Scotland, although some are from Milan and the New World.
(2006-03-23)
DigitalCommons@Columbia, a Columbia-specific interface to ProQuest Digital Dissertations, with full-text access to over 5,500 Columbia dissertations. DigitalCommons@Columbia is a pilot project for building a Columbia University institutional repository and is a service of Columbia University Libraries. (2006-01-27)
Roper Center Catalog of Holdings, lists all surveys archived at the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, including surveys of national adult, state, foreign, and special sub-populations. (2006-01-18)
International Financial Statistics, economic and financial data from the International Monetary Fund. Contains data from 1947 to present, including approximately 32,000 time series for over 200 countries and areas, all series appearing on the IFS country pages, exchange rate series for all Fund member countries, and major Fund account series. (2006-01-18)
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance, covers current scholarship in theatre and dance, including all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for over 100 journal titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more. (2006-01-17)
Making of the Modern Economy (MOME), digital facsimiles of literature on economics and business published from the mid 1500's to the mid 1800's
from the collections of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature (University of London), and the Kress Collection of Business and Economics (Harvard Business School). Supplementary materials from the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at Columbia University and from Sterling Library at Yale University. Covers commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport and documents the dynamics of Western trade and wealth. (2006-01-11)
Database of Latin Dictionaries, integrates several types of Latin dictionaries--including modern, medieval and early-modern--into a single, searchable database. Includes dictionaries to assist translation from Latin into modern languages, dictionaries providing semantic and etymological explanations in Latin of Latin words, and historical Latin dictionaries. (2006-01-05)
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