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The Complete Database for Japanese Magazines and Periodicals from the Meiji Era to the Present, index to periodical articles published in Japanese, including those in former Japanese colonies, and including local periodicals not present in many other indexes. Coverage is from 1868 onwards. Merges data from various composite periodical indexes by Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan. (2009-11-09)

Value Line, provides investment research on stocks, mutual funds, options and convertibles, and offers a family of no-load mutual funds. (2009-11-09)

American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries, a full-text electronic resource containing full-color scans of original print documents archived at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) and spanning the nineteenth century through the dawn of the twentieth century. (2009-11-09)

Value Line Investment Survey Historical Reports, contain backfiles with information on industries, the stock market, and the economy. The reports date back to 1998 and are made accessible in PDF format. (2009-11-09)

Social Explorer, helps to visually analyze and understand the demography of the U.S. through the use of interactive maps and data reports. (2009-09-30)

Zhongguo wen shi zi liao ji cui: Chinamaxx digital library of Chinese e-books, contains full texts of about 20,000 volumes of publications, which are mostly first-person narratives on history, culture, politics, economy, literature and ethnicity, etc. (2009-08-27)

19th Century British Pamphlets, preserves and provides online access to [over 25,000] of the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries. Selected by RLUK, the pamphlets provide users with a wide focus on the political, social, and economic issues of 19th century Britain. Includes seven individual collections held at universities within the UK, many of which are whole collections that belonged to individual politicians or political families. These are: Bristol Selected pamphlets, Cowen Tracts, Earl Grey Pamphlets collection, Foreign and Commonwealth Office collection, Hume Tracts, Knowsley Pamphlet collection, and LSE Selected pamphlets. (2009-07-23)

Yearbook of the Imperial Theaters, annual periodical, published during the period 1890-1915, offers an incredible wealth of exciting material concerning the late imperial stage in Russia. Its pages include repertoires, critical essays and reviews of theatrical performances, chronicles of metropolitan theater life, articles discussing a wide range of topics as well as information about the actors. The journals are richly illustrated, many drawings are made by famous artists, such as Somov, Bakst, Lansere. (2009-07-16)

Manuscript women's letters and diaries, brings together 100,000 pages of the personal writings of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, displayed as high-quality images of the original manuscripts, extensively indexed and online for the first time. The collection is drawn entirely from the holdings of the American Antiquarian Society. (2009-07-07)

Duxiu: duxiu.com, an aggregated search engine that searches journals, newspapers, conference proceedings and books, and yields relevant pages for reading. (2009-07-06)

Japan Knowledge Plus, Chishiki kensaku saito, Japan narejji purasu, collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries, JK Who’s Who, full-text “Shukan Ekonomisuto,” NNA world news, bibliographic citations of 800,000 titles, maps of Japan and the world, links and lots more. With one search, you can search all the databases. Includes “Jitsu”, an extensive kanji dictionary with definitions for 9500 characters, and the online version of “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”. (2009-06-26)

Kindlers Literatur Lexikon Online, newly complete edition of "Kindlers Literatur Lexikon" is now available as an online version of the German language encyclopedia of world literature, offering a comprehensive presentation of the most significant literary works of all times from the earliest writings of mankind to the present. (2009-06-19)

Who's who & Who was who, contains short biographies, continually updated, of noteworthy and influential individuals, from all walks of life, worldwide. (2009-06-12)

NIST/TRC Web Thermo Tables: WTT, a web version of the TRC Thermodynamic Tables (Hydrocarbons and Non-Hydrocarbons) representing a complete collection of critically evaluated thermodynamic property data primarily for pure organic compounds. (2009-06-12)

State papers online: the government of Britain, 1509-1714, a collection of English government documents originating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This collection contains information on every facet of English government, including social and economic affairs, law and order, religious policy, crown possessions and intelligence gathering as well as Britain's international relations and foreign policy. (2009-06-02)

Counseling and Therapy in Video, provides the largest and richest online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling—400 hours and more than 330 videos on completion. (2009-06-02)

CAMIO: Catalog of Art Museum Images Online, fills the gap left by the end of operations of the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO). This new database not only supports art history, studio art, and design departments, it also provides rich context for history, religion, and other humanities programs. (2009-05-19)

Global Financial Data, a collection of financial and economic data, including: long-term historical indices on stock markets; Total Return data on stocks, bonds, and bills; interest rates; exchange rates; inflation rates; bond indices; commodity indices and prices; consumer price indices; gross domestic product; individual stocks; sector indices; treasury bill yields; wholesale price indices; and unemployment rates covering over 200 countries. (2009-05-05)

Digitalia, with an interface in English and Spanish Digitalia offers a large catalog of e-book titles from Spanish publishers and selected magazines in digital format. (2009-04-15)

China: Trade, politics & culture, 1793-1980, English-language sources relating to China and the West, 1793-1980. It comprises: A large body of maps, color paintings, photographs and drawings depicting people, places, customs and events. (2009-04-15)

ReVIEW, a service that aims to digitize many of the most important decorative and fine arts journals published in Europe and the USA during the nineteenth and early years twentieth centuries. (2009-04-09)

Kikuzo II Visual for Libraries (The Asahi Shinbun Newspaper), a newspaper database for Asahi shinbun containing 8 million articles (as of January, 2009) published from 1945 to present. (2009-04-08)

Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique. Bibliographie, international bibliography on religious history covering among other topics: institutions, orders, congregations, people, hagiography, relations with Islam and Judaism, art history, music and architecture. (2009-03-27)

Dictionnaire d'histoire et de geographie ecclesiastiques, comprises extensive articles on the history of the Church. It is the online version of the reference work published by Letouzey et Ane. (2009-03-27)

Online Library of Liberty, classic books about individual liberty going back 4,000 years and covering economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, political theory, religion, war and peace. (2009-03-04)

Credo Reference, provides access to a collection of aggregated and integrated reference books from high-quality publishers (2009-03-04)

ASTM Digital Library, provides over 30,000 papers and chapters and more than 400,000 pages of information. (2009-02-25)

ASTM International Standards Worldwide, includes catalogs of standards and of other publications of ASTM International, as well as information about its members and activities. (2009-02-25)

The Adams Papers Digital Edition, comprises John Adams's complete diaries, selected legal papers, and the ongoing series of family correspondence and state papers. This XML edition presents in a searchable online environment all 30 volumes of The Adams Papers from the founding generation that have so far appeared in print. The contents are fully annotated, feature linked cross-references, and may be accessed by date, series, author, or recipient. (2009-02-10)

Emily Dickinson's Correspondences, brings together seventy-four poems and letters from Emily's correspondence with her sister-in-law and primary confidante, Susan Dickinson. (2009-02-10)

19th-Century Literature and Culture Collection, offers scholars and students at all levels an invaluable source of primary and secondary materials by some of the era's most enduring figures: William Wells Brown, Herman Melville, Matthew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, and Emily Shore. (2009-02-10)

American Founding Era Collection, offers scholars and students at all levels an invaluable source of primary and secondary materials by some of the era's most enduring figures, including George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton. (2009-02-10)

American Song, a history database that will contain 50,000 tracks that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database will include 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 and more. (2009-02-05)

Global Development Finance Online, provides access to more than 200 debt and financial flows indicators for the 129 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System. These data run from 1970 to 2016, where available. (2009-02-05)

Latin American Newspapers, searchable collection of historical Latin American newspapers. Once completed this collection will include 35 newspapers published in the 19th and early 20th century in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. (2009-02-05)

Contemporary World Music, contains 50,000 tracks that delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. Contains important 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. This database is a complementary database to Smithsonian global sound for libraries - it includes a blend of contemporary and traditional world music recordings from many labels throughout the world. (2009-02-05)

World Bank e-Library, an online, fully cross-searchable portal of over 5,000 World Bank documents. The collection consists of over 2,000 World Bank publications and over 3,200 Policy Research Working Papers, plus each new book and paper as they are published. Searchable by region and topic; documents available as downloadable PDFs. (2009-02-05)

World Newspaper Archive, searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the world. Begins with Latin American newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries. Forthcoming are African, European, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Southeast Asian newspapers. Can be cross-searched with collection: America's historical newspapers. (2009-02-05)


 
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