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17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection, that helps chart the development of the concept of 'news' and 'newspapers' and the "free press", totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles. Many of the Burney newspapers are well known, but many pamphlets and broadsides also included have remained largely hidden. Newly digitized, all Burney treasures are now fully text-searchable in Gale Digital Collection.
19th Century British Library Newspapers
Unparalleled in depth and scope, British Library Newspapers consists of two major collections from the British Library which span three hundred years of newspaper publishing in the U.K.—17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers and 19th Century Newspapers.
19th CENTURY MASTERFILE
19th Century Masterfile is a vast "Index of Indexes", and is the largest resource for historical research prior to 1925. 19th Century Masterfile brings together over 60 subject indexes to: Periodicals; Newspapers; Books; US Congressional Record; US and UK Government Documents;US Patents. You can query over 11 million citations in 19th Century Masterfile in a single search.
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20th Century African-American Poetry
A database of modern and contemporary African-American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. This is a broad representative collection that reflects the diversity of modern African American literary traditions, including, subject to the granting of electronic rights by the print publishers, major figures alongside historically important writers and younger emergent poets.
20th Century American Poetry
This unparalleled collection includes 52,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song.

Part of the Literature Online collection.

20th Century English Poetry
A collection of 598 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Graves, A. E. Housman, John Betjeman, Fleur Adcock, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy, and incorporating the poets in The Faber Poetry Library.

Part of the Literature Online collection.

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A to Z Maps Online
AtoZMapsOnline.com is the worlds largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. New maps are added to the collection every month.
AAPG Foundation Digital Products
This resource is provided by an endowment. It includes a variety of geological society publications, generally from volume 1 of the publication, as well as publications from the AAPG itself covering a broad scope of earth science topics.
AATA Online
Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts includes abstracts of over 100,000 articles from about 400 journals as well as book chapters, conference proceedings, and reports on the analysis, examination, excavation, preservation, and restoration of artifacts and monuments; site information.
Abbreviationes
Abbreviationes currently comprises over 70,000 entries containing a total of 80,098 references to manuscripts. It is based on a large number of manuscripts from all fields, held at a wide variety of libraries throughout Europe and the U.S. Entries cover the period from the 8th century up to and including the 15th century. It is a tool for deciphering and transcribing medieval Latin manuscripts. Individuals may use the Personal Edition.
ABI/INFORM Global
Articles from leading business journals, magazines, trade publications and newspapers including the Wall Street Journal. Available through ProQuest
Abstracts in Social Gerontology
Abstracts in Social Gerontology includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to social gerontology, including the psychology of aging, elder abuse, society and the elderly, and other key areas of relevance to the discipline. The index contains 70,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources.
Academic OneFile ((formerly Expanded Academic)
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.
Access World News
The electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources -- all in one easy-to-search database with a world map. Over 4,500 news sources are included. Each provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community, as well as a distinctive focus offering a variety of viewpoints on local and world issues. Paid ads are excluded.
Accessible Archives Complete
Accessible Archives USC currently holds two Accessible Archives collections: One is African American Newspapers: The 19th Century, a collection that contains a wealth of information about the cultural life and history during the 1800s, including first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day; Presidential and congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts; early biographies; vital statistics; essays and editorials; poetry and prose; advertisements; and information about business and commodity markets; the humanities; world travel; and religion. The other is Civil War 1860-1865: A Newspaper Perspective, a database that contains the full text of major articles gleaned from over 2,500 issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865
AccessMedicine
AccessMedicine is an eBook collection which also features fully integrated links to Gold Standard's Clinical Pharmacology drug database, with full length drug monographs. It offers self-assessment and other online learning tools to help study for the boards or prepare for re-certification, using Grand Rounds lectures, a self-assessment module included with Harrison's Online, and USMLEasy, and a student diagnostic and self-assessment tool with USMLE-type questions which is linked to a Customized Reading List from texts within AccessMedicine. The resource also includes Diagnosaurus, a diagnostic tool covering over 1000 differential diagnoses. It also includes 20,000 downloadable images, videos, and audio.
AccessPharmacy
An online curricular resource designed to meet the changing demands of pharmacy education. AccessPharmacy allows students to select a core curriculum topic, browse by organ system, review textbooks, or search across leading pharmacy online references. Includes lab tests, calculators, and curricular and organ system quizzes. Users must sign up for a FREE personal account to use the assessment module.
AccessScience
Offers full access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of research updates in all areas of science and technology, including medicine. Updated daily. Also has over 2000 biographies of leading scientists, weekly updates on breakthroughs and discoveries, and links to Web sites for further research.
AccessSurgery
McGraw-Hill's AccessSurgery.com is an integrated online resource that provides medical students, surgical residents, and practicing surgeons with quick answers to surgical inquiries from trusted sources. Organized around the ACGME's (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education) mandate for a Core Curriculum, AccessSurgery delivers content in context.
AccessUN
AccessUN indexes the majority of United Nations documents and publications. Articles appearing in UN periodicals are individually indexed as well as bilateral and multilateral treaties in the UN Treaty Series.

Documents from the six main bodies of the United Nations - General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, Secretariat and International Court of Justice - are indexed. Masthead documents (formerly referred to as mimeographed documents), Official Records, sales publications, limited and restricted documents, and documents emanating from sessional and standing committees, functional commissions, conferences and regional bodies are the basis of the Index.

Full-text resolutions from the General Assembly, Security Council and the Economic and Social Council are appended to their respective bibliographic citations.

ACLS Humanities E-Book
Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of 2,200 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with nineteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars.
ACM Digital Library
A half century of pioneering concepts and fundamental research have been digitized and indexed in a variety of ways in this special collection of works published by ACM since its inception. The ACM Digital Library includes bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and full texts.
ACP Medicine
This medical textbook, which continues WebMD Scientific American Medicine, is a publication of the American College of Physicians. It is continuously updated by leading physicians, and includes guidelines, evidence reviews, CME information, and patient information. Also issued in looseleaf and annual hardbound formats.
ACP PIER
Evidence-based clinical guidance presented electronically in a layered and telegraphic format, and designed for rapid access to clinical information at the point of care. Produced by the American College of Physicians

PDA version also available.
Acronym Finder
With more than 750,000 human-edited definitions, Acronym Finder is the world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms. Combined with the Acronym Attic, Acronym Finder contains more than 4 million acronyms and abbreviations. You can also search for more than 850,000 US and Canadian postal codes.
ACS Surgery
Sponsored by the American College of Surgeons, this surgical information system offers an online, continuously updated general surgical reference. Updated monthly.
ACS Symposium Series Archive 1974-2008
The ACS Symposium Series contains high-quality, peer-reviewed books developed from the ACS technical divisions' symposia. Each chapter is carefully authored by an expert in the field, and the collection of chapters edited by an internationally recognized leader in the field. The series covers a broad range of topics including agricultural and food chemistry, cellulose and renewable materials, chemical education, organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, materials, and many others.
Acta Sanctorum
This is an electronic version of the complete texts of the sixty-eight printed volumes, from the two January volumes published in 1643 to the Propylaeum to December published in 1940. It includes all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes. Biblioteca Hagiographica Latina reference numbers are included.
AdisOnline
Gateway to the Wolters Kluwer Health online journals and newsletters. Provides up-to-date information on all aspects of drug development, clinical pharmacology, medical biotechnology, pharmacoeconomics and disease management.
Advances in Chemistry Series Archive 1950-1998
Founded by the American Chemical Society in 1949, the Advances in Chemistry series was the predecessor to the ACS Symposium Series. This high-quality, peer-reviewed book series was instituted to provide the research community with an avenue to publish content and special topics that was beyond the scope of the Society’s existing journals.
Advanstar Publication Lists
Gateway to the Advanstar publications, covering all aspects of the product pipeline - from drug discovery and clinical trials, to manufacturing, marketing and brand development, through doctors, dentists and veterinarians and other allied health professionals.
AdViews: A Digital Archive of Vintage Television Commercials
AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s. These commercials were created or collected by the ad agency Benton & Bowles or its successor, D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B). Founded in 1929, Benton & Bowles was a New York advertising agency that merged with D'Arcy Masius McManus in 1985 to form DMB&B. Major clients included are Procter & Gamble, Kraft, Schick, Vicks, and Post, among others. Commercials will be added in phased batches over several months in 2009.
Aerospace & High Technology Database (Full archive)
AHTD indexes basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, and space sciences and related fields, especially communications and electronics. It also includes coverage of reports issued by NASA, other U.S. government agencies, international institutions, universities, and private firms.

AHTD notes that "sources covered include over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases." Coverage goes back to about 1982 for most titles, and some go back much further.

The print equivalent of AHTD is International Aerospace Abstracts (IAA), though AHTD's coverage is broader.

African American Music Reference
African American Music Reference will contain 50,000 pages that offers the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 provides online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. This unique collection features papers from more than 35 states—including many rare and historically significant 19th century titles. Newly digitized, these newspapers published by African Americans can now be browsed and searched as never before
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
This enormous collection of African-American newspapers contains a wealth of information about the cultural life and history during the 1800s, and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. They also contain large numbers of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience. Starting with the Freedom
African-American Biographical Database
The African American Biographical Database is a resource of first resort when you are looking for biographical information, including photographs and illustrations, for African Americans. From the famous to the everyday person, AABD includes profiles and full-text sketches providing both biographical detail and illuminating narratives chronicling the lives of Black Americans.
African-American Poetry (1750-1900)
Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Part of the Literature Online collection. The contents are based upon the bibliography of William French et al, Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760–1975: A Guide to Information Sources (Gale Research, 1979).

AgeLine (EBSCO)
Trial access will expire on June 1, 2010.
Ageline( Ovid )
The AGELINE database is produced by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). AGELINE provides bibliographic coverage of social gerontology, which is the study of aging in psychological, health-related, social, and economic contexts. The delivery of health care to the older population and its associated costs and policies is particularly well covered, as are consumer, employment, and public policy issues. Literature covered is of interest to researchers, health professionals, service planners, policymakers, employers, older adults and their families, and consumer advocates.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Sponsored by the U.S. government, this site provides clinical information including clinical practice guidelines for patients and health professionals, grant funding opportunities, research findings and consumer health information. Links to related Web sites are included.
AGRICOLA
Materials relating to all aspects of agriculture, forestry, and animal science. Describes materials acquired by the National Agriculture Library and cooperating institutions. Includes records of books, serials, audiovisual and other materials.
AHFS Drug Information
Database of comparative and evidence-based drug information, monographs, and final determinations for drug therapy. Full text of AHFS Drug Information Current edition is part of Stat!Ref collection.
AHRQ Evidence Reports and Summaries
A collection of over 50 evidence reports and technology assessments based on rigorous, comprehensive syntheses and analyses of relevant scientific literature, emphasizing explicit and detailed documentation of methods, rationale, and assumptions. The publications are organized in three categories: Evidence Reports/Technology Assessments;Evidence Reports/Technology Assessment Summaries;Technical Reviews and Summaries. They are produced by Evidence Practice Centers for the US Agency for Heathcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Alt-HealthWatch
Alt-HealthWatch is a full-text and image database focusing on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to healthcare and wellness. It offers nearly 50,000 articles from 160 international peer-reviewed journals, academic and professional publications, magazines, reports, proceedings, association and consumer newsletters, plus hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, original research and book excerpts. The database provides in-depth coverage on both professional and consumer levels across the full spectrum of more than two hundred therapies, modalities and perspectives addressed by integrated medicine and covered by "Alternative Medicine." Subject areas covered include: Acupuncture, Mind-Body Medicine, Chinese Medicine, Creative Therapies, Chiropractic, Naturopathy, Homeopathy, Osteopathy, Energy Medicine, Body Work, Herbalism, Aromatherapy, Nutrition, Childbirth, Cross-Cultural Therapies, and Veterinary Medicine. Updated quarterly.
Alternative Press Index
Indexes alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. A highly recommended comprehensive guide to alternative sources of information. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary. Provides in-depth coverage in the humanities and social sciences. Includes selected abstracts from research journals.
America: History & Life (EBSCO)
This bibliographic database covers the history of the United States and Canada. It includes key English-language historic journals, selected historic journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and selected relevant journals in the social sciences and humanities.
American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760-1900
Broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900.
American Civil War Research Database
The American Civil War Research Database™ is the definitive online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War. Originally created by Historical Data Systems, Inc., the database contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with over 16,000 photographs. With thousands of regimental rosters and officer profiles, the database will continue to grow as new information is loaded semiannually.
American Drama
When complete, this collection will contain more than 2,000 plays by American dramatists that chronicle the history and culture of America through its dramatic writing. At present, American Drama includes 711 plays by dramatists such as Thomas Paine, Edward Hitchcock, and James Lawson.

Part of the Literature Online collection.

American FactFinder (2000 Census)
You can use American FactFinder to view, print, and download statistics about population, housing, industry, and business. Using FactFinder, you can also find U.S. Census Bureau products; create reference and thematic maps; and search for specific data.
American Film Institute Catalog
The online AFI Catalog documents every American feature film from 1893 to 1970. Each film record has been meticulously compiled by the experienced editors and filmographers at the American Film Institute (AFI). All films still in existence have been viewed wherever possible. Search records by keywords; film titles; cast, crew, and character names; subject; genre; release year and more. All records include extensive plot summaries and when possible a production history.
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Over 90,000 entries feature 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixes.
American Hospital Directory
Free information available; no paid subscription
American Institute of Physics (AIP) Publications
Links to nine regularly updated lab manuals in various disciplines
American Memory
The American Memory project from the Library of Congress provides at least 261 discrete digital collections in 18 broad topical areas: Advertising; African American History; Architecture, Landscape; Cities, Towns; Culture, Folklife; Environment, Conservation; Government, Law; Immigration, American Expansion; Literature; Maps; Native American History; Performing Arts, Music; Presidents; Religion; Sports, Recreation; Technology, Industry; War, Military; and Women's History. The content is primarily based on the collections of the Library of Congress, but also draws from the University of Michigan's Making of America project. This free resource is an extraordinarily rich documentary source for American history and culture.
American Memory: Photos, Prints
The Photos, Prints section of the American Memory Project, from the Library of Congress, presents 66 digitized collections on a broad array of American historical and cultural topics, ranging from Ansel Adams to baseball cards, the Civil War to flutes, the Great Plains to the Ohio River Valley, the Western U.S. to the Wright Brothers. The material includes photographs, posters, pamphlets, manuscripts, essays and printed texts from the collections of L.C.'s Manuscripts Division and its Prints & Photographs Division, as well as contributions from selected other American libraries, museums, archives and historical societies.
American Museum of Natural History Research Library
This collection includes full text of current and back issues of the five AMNH scientific series in the areas of zoological systematics, paleontology, geology, evolution, and anthropology conducted by museum scientists and their colleagues. Subjects: (under Science & Engineering) Biology and Ecology and Environmental Sciences.
American National Biography Online
The landmark American National Biography offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation. More than a decade in preparation, the American National Biography is the first biographical resource of this scope to be published in more than sixty years.
American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries
This collection, which spans the 19th century through the dawn of the 20th century, contains full text and full-color scans of journal content that can be cross-searched with American Periodicals Series Online, ProQuest Historical Newspapers, and other leading historical collections from ProQuest. The collection contains special interest and general magazines, labor and trade publications, scientific and literary journals, and photographic periodicals, as well as other historically significant titles.
American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900
American Periodicals Series Online (APS Online) includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's.
American Poetry (1600-1900)
Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.

Part of the Literature Online collection.

American Presidency Project
Established in 1999, this site is valuable for its extensive coverage ofboth historical and current information on United States presidenciesand is easy to navigate. It provides a searchable database of over85,000 documents, such as speeches, official papers, executive orders,proclamations, news conferences, and press briefings. Various retrievaloptions are available, including by keywords, dates, document type, andpresidents. Additional in depth analyses are offered on topics that maybe challenging to locate by other means, such as presidential relationswith Congress. Lastly, Quick Time Player videos of importantpresidential election moments, addresses, and speeches are provided.
American Song
American Song is a history database that allows people to hear and feelthe music from America's past. The database includes songs by and aboutAmerican Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, andcowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, politicalcampaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-warprotests, and more.
American State Papers
Archive of Americana, United States Government Papers, 1789-1838
American State Papers, 1789-1838
Part of the Archive of Americana, this collection contains legislative and executive documents, many originating from the important period between 1789 and the beginning of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set in 1817. The collection enables students and scholars to easily search and browse every legislative and executive document of the first fourteen U.S. Congresses, and more.
American West
The American West, produced by Adam Matthew Publications, is an extraordinary documentary compilation of original and unique source materials on the development of the American West. It is selected from the holdings of the Graff Collection on the American West from the Newberry Library in Chicago. The material is selected from a wide range of documents, ranging from manuscripts, rare books, pamphlets, periodicals, broadsides, ephemera to maps and illustrative material, for each of the following major themes: Native Americans; Pioneers, Hunters and Explorers; Mining and the Gold Rush; The Mormon Exodus; Homesteaders, Overland Travel and Early Settlements; Cattle Ranchers; The Railroads, Transportation and Urban History; Outlaws, Vigilantes and the Law; Agricultural Development and the Environment; The Imagined West: Wild West Shows and Fiction; Borderlands: Canada and the Pacific Northwest; and Borderlands: Texas, Mexico and the South.
Anatomy Atlases
Collection of atlases covering general anatomy, anatomy in cross-section, microscopic anatomy, anatomy of first aid, and human anatomic variation. The site is written for and intended primarily for use by medical students, residents, fellows, or attending physicians studying anatomy.
Anatomy of the Human Body
The Bartleby.com edition of Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 vibrant engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn.
Annee Philologique, L'
Article and book review database dealing with all aspects of classical philology. Also covers philosophy, history, religion, science, and social theory of the Greek and Roman world.
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
ABELL contains over 783,000 records covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards.
Anthropological Index Online
Index of current periodicals in the Museum of Mankind Library. Covers physical and cultural anthropology, archeology and linguistics from 1970-present.
Anthropology Plus
  • Brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK.
  • Offers worldwide indexing of all core periodicals, in addition to lesser known journals, from the early 19th century to today.
  • Provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture and interdisciplinary studies.
    • AnthroSource
    Anthropology index for many of the American Antropological Association's most critical peer-reviewed publications, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Anthropology and Humanism, Archaeological Publications of the American Anthropological Association, Cultural Anthropology, and Ethos.
    AP Multimedia Archive
    The AccuWeather Educational Division and the AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive are dedicated to providing teachers, students, faculty and library patrons with access to reliable and trustworthy online information for learning.
    APA PsycArticles
    PsycArticles is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals. Most of the 72 APA journals included in PsycArticles now go back to volume 1, issue 1. The earliest journal is Psychological Review, which was started in 1894. The database also contains journals that are no longer published. Articles published from 1985 forward are in both PDF and HTML format.
    Applied Science & Technology Full Text
    The complete contents of approximately 200 full-text journals indexed in this database are included in OmniFile Full Text.Topics include chemistry, engineering, geology, physics, math, robotics, and neural networks.
    Access is through WilsonWeb (choose OmniFile Full Text, then "Applied Science & Technology" under the subject area to specifically search this database).
    Approaches To Differential Diagnosis In Musculoskeletal Imaging
    Approaches To Differential Diagnosis In Musculoskeletal Imaging: an introductory syllabus on musculoskeletal radiology, concentrating on approaches to differential diagnosis, going from the findings to the diagnosis.
    ArchiveGrid
    Online access to nearly a million descriptions of archival collections owned by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide. ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching for historical documents, personal papers and family histories held in archives.
    ArchivesUSA
    The ArchivesUSA database provides information about primary source materials from nearly 4,800 US manuscript repositories. ArchivesUSA includes records, complete with detailed indexes, about nearly 109,000 manuscript and other special collections.
    Three major information resources are integrated in ArchivesUSA:
    • Resource 1: A newly compiled directory of manuscript repositories, giving full addresses, including e-mail addresses and URLs, opening hours, and details of holdings and areas of special interest. This directory updates and supersedes the Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States (DAMRUS)last published in 1988.
    • Resource 2: Collection records from the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC).Information gathered and compiled by the Library of Congress from the 1950s to the end of 1995, covering some 75,000 collections. Each record also includes the LCUs subject and name indexing of the collection. Only ArchivesUSA( makes all of NUCMC fully searchable in electronic form.
    • Resource 3: Names and detailed subject indexing of over 42,000 collections whose finding aids have been published separately in the major microfiche series, National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS).
    Archivo Virtual de la Edad de Plata, 1868-1936
    Provides access to books and archival collections of the "Silver Age" in eight institutions, including one in Mexico.
    Art Index and Art Index Retrospective
    This is an index to over 400 journals and museum bulletins in arts-related fields. Art Index Retrospective is from 1929-1984, Art Index continues from 1984 to the present. Some of the articles are available in full text.
    Access is through WilsonWeb(click on the radio button to specifically search this database).
    ARTbibliographies Modern

    Provides access to abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews. The scope of ARTbibliographies Modern extends from artists and movements beginning with Impressionism in the late 19th century, up to the most recent works and trends in the late 20th century. Photography is covered from its invention in 1839 to the present. Covers all aspects of modern and contemporary art, including performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theater arts, crafts, jewelry, illustration, and more, as well as the traditional fine arts of painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing.

    Artes e Historia Mexico
    Information database, full text reviews, bibliography and images, with links to reference sources and electronic journals on the Internet related to Mexican history and arts.
    ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language)
    A compendium of French texts, mostly from the Renaissance-20th century.
    ArticleFirst
    Contains the table of contents pages and holdings information from more than 13,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Although most of the journals are published in English, journals in other languages are also included. Updated daily.
    Arts & Humanities Citation Index
    The Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

    This database is part of USC's subscription to the Web of Science.

    The AHCI is also available in print in the Doheny Reference Center.

    Arts and Humanities Search
    Records referencing many of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.
    ARTstor
    Provides access to almost a million high quality images of art and photography, with descriptions and provenance. Also includes images in the fields of anthropology and architecture.
    arXiv Computer Science
    ARX (Algorithmic Research) is a global provider of cost-efficient digital signature (standard electronic signature) solutions for government, and engineering industries. It is a computer Science database.
    ASCE Research Library
    ASCE Research Digital Library is a comprehensive online tool for locating articles across all disciplines of civil engineering. It provides unprecedented access to more than 40,000 full-text papers and published proceedings.
    ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts*
    The ASFA database provides citations and abstracts of the world's literature dealing with the science, technology and management of marine, freshwater and brackish water environments and organisms

    ASFA Search Tutorials (three levels -- quick, advanced, command) are here:http://md1.csa.com/help/tutorials.html

    Atlanta Daily World (1932-2003)
    Atlanta Daily World: 1931-2003 offers full page and article images with searchable full text. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue, beginning March 18, 1932.
    ATLAReligion
    An essential tool for the study of religion. It is the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. Many articles in full text.
    ATLAS
    Contains the full text of thousands of journal articles and book reviews from international titles and multi-author works in the field of religion.
    Atlas of the Body from the AMA
    Anatomy and medical illustrations of the human body from the American Medical Association's web site.
    Audit Analytics (WRDS)
    Detailed audit information on over 1,200 accounting firms and 15,000 publicly registered companies. Know who is auditing whom and how much they are paying for what services.
    Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
    The Avery Index is the only comprehensive American index to the literature of architecture and architectural design. It surveys more than 700 U.S. and foreign journals, 75% of which are not indexed in any other source. It covers not only the international scholarly and popular periodical literature, but also the publications of professional associations, U.S. state and regional periodicals, and major serial publications in the architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Coverage of the literature goes back to the 1930s, with selected coverage going back to the 1860s. The Avery also includes the Burnham Index, which covers 214 serial publication from the 1830s to the mid-1960s.
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    Baltimore Sun
    The Baltimore Sun (1837-1985) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue
    Bank Regulatory (WRDS)
    Audit and regulatory data for bank holding companies, commercial banks, savings banks, and savings and loans institutions gathered from regulatory filings.
    Bartleby.com
    A comprehensive public reference library containing a searchable database of reference, verse, and classic literature. The site is divided into four sections: Reference, Verse, Fiction and Nonfiction. Recently added were the 1914 Oxford Edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare and the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition. With the release of five preeminent contemporary reference works, Bartleby.com becomes the most comprehensive reference publisher on the web. Coupled with a completely redesigned web site, Bartleby.com meets the needs of students, educators, and the intellectually curious and forms the preeminent electronic publishing enterprise of the twenty-first century.

    See also: Project Bartleby Arhive

    Basque Database
    The database provides access to information about Basque topics written or produced after 1994. Core journals are indexed completely while other journal articles appear in the database when they fit the scope of the database. Formats included are articles, books, chapters of edited books, dissertations, and other publications. Also included are Basque-related videos and DVDs, musical recordings, maps, and other media. The database currently contains more than 18,000 records.
    BBC Country Profiles
    This site supplies information on the history, economy, and politics ofcountries and territories. Each profile includes an overview, map,facts, and current leaders. A media overview provides information on thepress, television, radio, news agencies, and number of Internet users.Links provided on the side of the profile connect to the latest news andkey stories, BBC links, background articles, related Internet sites andvideo and audio clips from the BBC archives. Additional features includetimelines, recent news links, background articles, Internet sites, andBBC archive video and audio clips. Information on over 20 keyinternational organizations is also included.
    Beilstein Crossfire
    Organic chemistry database from Beilstein, allowing structure and substructure searches.Contact chemistry subject librarian Norah Xiao (nxiao@usc.edu) for the username and password that you will need to access Beilstein.
    Bertolt Brecht Werke
    Bertolt Brecht's work has always provoked heated discussion, though today he is viewed as principally a classicist and a rationalist. Bertolt Brechts Werke im World Wide Web is an ideal instrument for research and will revolutionise the academic study of Brecht's oeuvre. All texts follow the Grosse kommentierte Berliner und Frankfurter Ausgabe. The notes provide information on the background to each work, its textual history and reception, and give details of Brecht's collaborators, sources and models, as well as comments on individual points.
    Bible In English
    20 different versions of the English Bible from the tenth to the twentieth century, including 12 full Bibles, 5 New Testament texts, 2 versions of the Gospels only, and William Tyndale's translations of the Pentateuch, Jonah and the New Testament.

    Part of the Literature Online collection.

    Biblical Archaeology Society
    This site provides an full-text online archive of past issues of the journal Biblical Archaeology Review (1975 to present), Bible Review (1985 to 2005 complete) and Archaeology Odyssey (1998 to 2006 complete), Special Collections assembles articles from BAR on each of several topics (e.g., Dead Sea Scrolls, Temple Mount). Clicking on the BAS icon in the upper right brings up news, online-only features, and several e-books published by the Society.
    Bibliografía de la Literatura Española
    Bibliographic database of Spanish literature.
    Bibliographie de Civilisation Medievale Online: International
    Bibliographie de Civilisation Médiévale (BCM) is a bibliography of books that can be searched together with or separately from the IMB (Brepols International Directory of Medievalists.
    Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)
    The Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains over 737,175 records (as of July 9, 2009) on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present. Through the 1991 printed version, the BAS included citations to Western-language periodical articles, monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc. Monographs published since 1992 have not been added to the database, and users seeking such monographs are urged to consult other general resources and databases (RLIN, OCLC, etc.). The online BAS offers users various methods for seeking citations. A separate screen allows users to set their preferences for displaying and downloading data in different formats and character encodings. The BAS is updated regularly, with batch posting of thousands of new entries in each upload.
    Bibliography of Native North Americans
    From the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), this is an electronic publication that contains the citations from the cumulative eight volumes of the Ethnographic Bibliography of North America as well as additional new citations. The Bibliography of Native North Americans contains citations to literature about native peoples of North America published from the sixteenth century to the present. Native North Americans include Aleuts; Eskimos or Inuit of Greenland, northern Canada, Alaska, and eastern Siberia; and other native peoples (i.e. "Indians") of Alaska, Canada, the United States, and Mexico north of the northern boundary of Mesoamerica. All citations are to published materials: books, journal articles, essays, conference papers, and US and Canadian government documents.
    Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
    BHA is the most comprehensive art history bibliography available worldwide, covering European and American art and material culture from late antiquity (4th century A.D.) to the present. It indexes and abstracts art-related books, bibliographies, conference proceedings, dissertations, corpora, festschriften, exhibition and dealers' catalogues, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. Abstracts are in English or French. BHA includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie) from 1973 to 1989 and RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) from 1975 to 1989. Updated quarterly.
    Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliográfico
    This database contains digital facsimiles of rare manuscript collections and early printed books which are part of Spain's historical patrimony. It includes more than 900,000 pages and 3218 titles preserved in Spanish public libraries. The project is produced by Spain's Ministerio de Cultura and the Comunidades Autonomas.
    Big Picture Book of Viruses
    The Big Picture Book of Viruses is intended to serve as both a catalog of virus pictures on the Internet and as an educational resource to those seeking more information about viruses.
    Biographical Dictionary
    S9.com is a Wikipedia type system and everyone can edit biographies or even create their own. S9.com was established in 1997 and since then has grown into one of the largest biography sites on the planet.
    Biographical Memoirs
    Published since 1877, Biographical Memoirs are brief biographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members, written by those who knew them or their work. These biographies provide a personal and scholarly view of the lives and work of America's most distinguished scientists and a biographical history of science in the United States.
    Biography Index 1984-Present
    Search biographical material from all WilsonWeb periodical databases (e.g., OmniFile Full-Text Mega) dating back to 1984. Covers over 3,000 periodicals as well as 2,000 books of individual and collective biography annually. Includes citations to interviews, obituaries, letters, memoirs, book reviews, etc.Biographees represent all subjects and nationalities, from antiquity to the present.
    Access is through WilsonWeb(click on the radio button to specifically search this database).
    Biography Resource Center
    The Biography Resource Center combines over 450,000 biographies on more than 380,000 people from over 1,000 volumes of more than 135 respected (reference book publisher) Gale sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Newsmakers, Contemporary Theatre, Film, and Television, Contemporary Musicians, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, and Writers Directory, with full-text articles from more than 300 magazines and newspapers including American History, The Christian Century, Saturday Night, U.S. News & World Report, The New York Times, and USA Today. Search for current or historic figures based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as by broad subject categories (i.e. the Obama administration; LGBT figures, etc.), keyword and full text.
    Biological & Agricultural Index Plus
    The complete contents of approximately 90 full-text journals indexed in this database are included in OmniFile Full Text. Many are peer-reviewed.Topics include biochemistry, ecology, genetics, physiology, and marine biology.
    Access is through WilsonWeb (choose OmniFile Full Text, then "Biological & Agricultural" under the subject area to specifically search this database).
    Biology Digest
    BioDigest provides detailed abstracts written in a nontechnical style for students and interested nonscientists from over 600 periodicals. The scope includes botany, zoology, ecology, environmental science, health, and medicine.
    BioMedCentral
    Original peer-reviewed research articles from over 200 science, technology, and medicine titles made freely and permanently accessible online.
    BioMedCentral Open Access
    Original peer-reviewed research articles from over 200 science, technology, and medicine titles made freely and permanently accessible online.
    BioOne.1
    BioOne is a full-text online aggregation of over 80 high-impact, peer-reviewed bioscience research journals, covering the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. The titles are published by scientific societies and other nonprofit organizations, and most have, until now, been available only in print.
    Biosis Previews
    BIOSIS Previews is the world's most comprehensive reference database for life science research. It covers original research reports and reviews in biological and biomedical areas. Coverage includes traditional areas of biology, such as botany, zoology and microbiology, as well as related fields such as biomedical, agriculture, pharmacology and ecology. Interdiscplinary fields such as medicine, biochemistry, biophysics, bioengineering and biotechnology are also included.
    Black Studies Center
    The Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to African American Studies that includes scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and more. It combines several resources for research and teaching in Black Studies, including Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), key historical African American newspapers, and the Black Literature Index.
    Blockholders (WRDS)
    Standardized data for blockholders of 1,913 companies for the period 1996-2001.
    Bloomberg
    Specialized financial workstation. Please contact the Crocker Business Library for access.
    Blue Letter Bible
    Containing 14 searchable versions of the Holy Bible, Blue Letter Bibleoffers an extensive insight into one of the world’s most popular books.Passages can be changed from version to version for easy comparison andvarious tools (an encyclopedia, a dictionary, 23 text commentaries, and30 audio/video commentaries) help users explore chapter and verse.Additional resources include charts, outlines, timelines, and maps, plusfour streaming audio versions, are available from each passage’s page.When appropriate for the passage, over 2,700 hymns are also available(lyrics are shown with link to a MIDI file to play music). This webresource is useful for anyone interested in biblical study andespecially notable for comparing Bible versions.
    BoardEx
    Detailed information on board members of publicly-listed firms. Please contact the Crocker Business Library for access.
    Boardview
    Economic statistics and other indicators. Please contact the Crocker Business Library for access.
    Book Review Digest Plus
    With coverage from 1983 onward Book Review Digest Plus retrieves book summaries, bibliographic data, full-text reviews, review excerpts, or basic citations. Entries currently encompass some 1,300,000 reviews covering over 660,000 books and grows with daily updates. Presently includes more than 115,000 full text reviews and provides descriptive annotations of more than 150,000 books. Every book in Book Review Digest Plus appears with all its reviews together. A single book can have as little as one review citation and as much as a descriptive summary and many reviews with excerpts and full text, depending upon the coverage the book received in the reviewing literature. Reviews must meet a length requirement to be cited, but no attempt is made to control the critical opinion they express. Books in all languages and from all countries qualify to be included if they are reviewed in one of the review sources indexed.
    Book Review Digest Retrospective
    Book Review Digest Retrospective supplements Book Review Digest Plus with retrospective indexing of book reviews from 1905-1982. Covers 300,000 books with virtually every book having at least one substantial review excerpt (up to 500 words), most have at least two, and many books have several review excerpts for a complete picture of how the book was received at the time it was published. Cites over 1.5 million book reviews.
    Access is through WilsonWeb (click on the radio button to specifically search this database).
    Books in Print
    Books in Print provides records of in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books from over 44,000 North American publishers. Includes entries for fiction and non-fiction books on all topics; and information on publishers, distributors, and wholesalers in the United States. Updated weekly.
    Boston Globe (1872-1926)
    The Boston Globe (1872-1926) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue (March 4, 1872). The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
    Brepols International Directory of Medievalists
    The International Directory of Medievalists will contain the names and addresses of specialists from over 70 different countries for the majority of their fields of study. It was compiled by means of international collaboration in the context of the work undertaken by the Fé́dération Internationale des Instituts d'Etudes Médiévales (F.I.D.E.M.) under the auspices of UNESCO.
    Brill Dictionary of Religion
    The Brill Dictionary of Religion addresses religion as an element of daily life and public discourse in over 500 entries. It is a richly illustrated, multi-media reference source on the many and various forms of religious commitment. It is unusual in that it not only addresses the different theologies and doctrinal declarations of the official institutionalized religions but it also gives equal weight and consideration to a multiplicity of other religious phenomena.
    Britannica Online Academic Edition
    Britannica Online consists of a fully searchable and browsable collection of authoritative references, including Britannica's latest article database, hundreds of articles not found in the print Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Tenth Edition), the Britannica Book of the Year, and thousands of links to other World Wide Web sites selected by Britannica editors. The online version of Britannica Online is continuously updated and enhanced on a daily basis with new articles, revisions, and related Internet sites.
    British History Online
    Access to freely-accessible information and "Calendar of State Papers".
    British Library Holocaust recordings
    The testimonies now available are drawn from a major oral history programme - The Living Memory of the Jewish Community - which between 1987 and 2000 gathered 186 audio life story interviews with Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and their children. It was initiated by National Life Stories based in the BL's oral history section and funded by a number of organisations including the Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation, the John S Cohen Foundation and the Porjes Charitable Trust.
    Bureau van Dijk (WRDS)
    Four datasets of company information including: (1) AMADEUS covering over 5,000,000 European private and public companies, (2) BankScope providng financial data on 13,000 banks worldwide, (3) ISIS covering insurance companies and (4) OSIRIS with data on over 38,000 globally listed companies.
    Business & Company Resource Center
    The Business & Company Resource Center provides company and industry information, articles, analyst reports, rankings and market research. From Gale Cengage.
    Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
    This site is one of the fastest ways to find information about the exploitive practices of 4000 businesses worldwide, which would be difficult to locate by other means. Users can begin searching by company name, issue, country, or topic. Balanced coverage is provided via news, announcements, and special resources while providing responses from the accused companies. By making negative enterprise behavior more transparent, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre may help stop companies’ human rights abuses.
    Business and Management Practices
    Articles from a wide range of sources focusing on the practical aspects and approaches to business management.
    Business Periodicals Index Retrospective
    This HW Wilson database provides Indexing of more than 1,000 periodicals, with citations to over 2.5 million articles, including book reviews, from a wide range of historic business journals, trade publications and magazines from 1913 to 1982. Updated subject headings make finding information on business developments easy. Original subject headings are also provided, for insight into the evolution of methods and technology.
    Access is through WilsonWeb(click on the radio button to specifically search this database).
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    C19: Nineteenth Century Index
    C19 Index draws on the strength of established indexes such as the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, Poole's Index and Periodicals Index Online to create integrated bibliographic coverage of over 1.4 million books and official publications, 64,891 archival collections and 15.6 million articles published in over 2,500 journals, magazines and newspapers. C19 Index now provides integrated access to 10 bibliographic indexes, including over 300,000 records from the ongoing digitization of British Periodicals Collection.
    CAIRSS (Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval Service System)
    CAIRSS is a bibliographic database of music research literature in musiceducation, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine. Citationshave been taken from 1,354 different journal titles; 18 of which are primaryjournals, meaning that every article ever to appear is included.
    Calendar of Close Rolls complete
    The 62 volumes of this key series are now live. Covering three centuries from Henry III to Henry VII, they are a fundamental source for the history of medieval government.
    Calendars of State Papers
    Included within the larger electronic resource British History Online,is the Calendar of State Papers, a fundamental finding aid for the study of British history. The Calendar is essentially on index to the content of the collected State Papers _which the Libraries are in the process of acquiring in digital form upon its release. British History Online is a digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, its aim is to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research. Approximately 80% of the documents included in British History Online are available at not cost. Access under British History Online and then select State Papers from the top menu bar.
    California Libraries Catalog
    Sponsored by the California State Library, the California Libraries Catalog is a unique database that shows the holdings of books, videos, audio, maps, and other materials held by libraries in California. It is based on the records listed in OCLC World Cat, but limited to libraries in California.
    California Newspaper Project (CNP)
    The California Newspaper Project is an 18 year effort by the CBSR to identify, describe and preserve California newspapers. Close to 9,000 California newspapers were inventoried in over 14,000 repositories throughout the state, 1.5 million pages of California newspapers were preserved and made available on microfilm, and 100,000 rolls of negative microfilm rolls are being processed for permanent storage at the UC Regional Library Storage Facilities.
    Calisphere Digital Archive
    Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items, including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts, reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history. Calisphere's content has been selected from the libraries and museums of the UC campuses, and from a variety of cultural heritage organizations across California. Calisphere is also a single point of access to over 300 UC web sites covering subjects ranging from history, math, literature, and anthropology to film, contemporary art, marine sciences, medical and health issues, and much more.
    Cambridge Histories Online
    With access to the most up to date and authoritative scholarly content, /Cambridge Histories Online/ allows instant access to the renowned texts of the renowned texts of the Cambridge Histories series. The volumes are grouped into topics, making it quick and easy to search and browse through an array of historical subject areas. Offering vastly improved accessibility to the print editions published since the 1960s, it is being continually updated with new volumes taken from the print series shortly after they are published. The extensive bibliographic referencing and other leading functionality, enhances usability and makes this resource ideal for any type of historical research.
    CAMIO: Catalog for Art Images Online
    A premier resource of high-quality art images from around the world contributed and described by leading museums, all rights-cleared for educational use. Every work in CAMIO is represented by at least one high-resolution image and a description. Many have additional views of the work, sound, video and curatorial notes. CAMIO art images span the following categories:
  • Photographs
  • Prints
  • Sculptures
  • Paintings
  • Decorative arts
  • Posters
  • Costumes
  • Utilitarian objects
  • Jewelry
    • Canadian Poetry
    Full text of more than 12,000 poems by Canadian poets
    Cancer Mortality Maps & Graphs
    Provides interactive maps, graphs (which are accessible to the blind and visually-impaired), text, tables and figures showing geographic patterns and time trends of cancer death rates for the time period 1950-1994 for more than 40 cancers.
    CareerOneStop
    CareerOneStop is a U.S. Department of Labor-sponsored portal that provides career resources and workforce information. With its occupation and industry information, salary data, self-assessment tools, and career exploration assistance, this rich resource will help those exploring career opportunities to make informed choices. It also has useful information for job seekers, students, and career counselors, such as where to file unemployment insurance, locations of career centers, resume advice, and relocating options. This thorough site even has a special section devoted to military transition. Fulfilling its promise to be a one-stop shop, CareerOneStop includes links to state job banks, the online version of Occupational Outlook Handbook, and other useful resources.
    Carlyle Letters Online
    A digital archive based on the Duke-Edinburgh edition of The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, providing a perspective on the 19th century. Browse over 10,000 of their collected letters by date, by recipient, by subject, and by volume. Their correspondence with over 600 British, Americans, and Europeans, features some of the most influential artistic, philosophic, and literary personalities of the day.
    Catalog of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
    The Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts offers a simple and straightforward means to discover medieval manuscripts available on the web.
    CBOE Indexes (WRDS)
    The CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange) Volatility Index (VIX) is a key measure of market expectations of near-term volatility conveyed by S&P 500 stock index option prices.
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Journals
    This CDC publication gateway site provides free access to numerous government infectious disease publications such as Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
    ChemWeb
    This chemistry information specialized website provides selective access to abstracts of papers, journals, and books. It is owned by ChemIndustry.com, a web-based specialized search services for worldwide chemical and closely related industries. Its services include a Jobs Search in association with sciencejobs.com, conference and event center, bookstore and the online magazine, /the alchemist/. Please note that to access actual full-text of papers, journals, and books depends on USC Libraries’ subscription and your affiliation to USC Libraries.
    Chicago Defender (1909-1975)
    Robert Sengstacke Abbott founded the Defender in May 1905, and by the outbreak of the First World War it had become the most widely-read African American newspaper in the country, with more than two thirds of its readership based outside Chicago. When Abbott died in 1940, his nephew John Sengstacke became editor and publisher of the Defender, which began publishing on a daily basis in 1956. Full text of this newspaper is available in both the Black Studies Center and ProQuest Historical Newspapers databases.
    Chicago Manual of Style Online
    Fully searchable version of the standard Chicago Manual of Style, including a Quick Guide for sample citations. Chicago Style Q&A as well as examples of style sheets, letters, and forms are also available on the site.The 15th print edition (2003) is available at the Doheny Reference Desk, Leavey Information Commons Desk, and Architecture and Fine Arts Reference. Other editions can be found through Homer.
    Chicago Tribune (1849-1986)
    The Chicago Tribune (1849-1986) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue (April 23, 1849). The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
    Chicano Database
    A major bibliographic database for topics in the humanities and social and behavioral sciences on Mexican-Americans and Chicano and Latino Studies
    China Academic Journals - Education/Social Sciences (Series H)
    Full-text articles from 1244 Chinese journal titles (a limited number in English) in the areas of education and general social sciences and dating from 1994 to the present. Retrospective articles, dating back as far as 1915, are included for 27 journal titles.
    China Academic Journals - Literature/History/Philosophy (Series F)
    Full-text articles from 444 Chinese journal titles (a limited number in English) in the areas of history, literature, and philosophy and dating from 1994 to the present. Retrospective articles, dating back as far as 1915, are included for 36 journal titles.
    China Academic Journals - Politics/Military Affairs/Law (Series G)
    Full-text articles from 1208 Chinese journal titles (a limited number in English) in the areas of economics, politics, and law and dating from 1994 to the present. Retrospective articles, dating back as far as 1915, are included for 27 journal titles.
    China Data Online
    Chinese statistical sources, including China-wide, provincial and city statistical yearbooks, census data, economic development indicators, and some mapped data.

    Please note that USC does not have access to DemographicsNowChina and DemographicsNowUS.

    Chinese Studies Online
    Full-text Chinese journal articles (2035 titles), conference papers (775,450 titles), dissertations (360,552 dissertations), legislation and law from PRC (282,662 records), in a wide range of subject areas and dating from 1997 to the present.
    ChoiceReviews.online
    CHOICE reviews significant current books and electronic resources of interest to those in higher education. Each year CHOICE publishes more than 6,500 reviews by subject experts. ChoiceReviews.online provides Web access to the entire database of CHOICE reviews published since September 1988. The database is updated monthly, generally at mid-month, with reviews that will be printed in the next monthly issue of CHOICE. The newest reviews appear, arranged by academic discipline and broad cross-disciplinary topic, in Current Issue. They also are searchable by using Advanced Search, selecting by CHOICE Issue Date, and combining with various other criteria.
    Christian Science Monitor (1908-1986)
    The Christian Science Monitor (1908-1996) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue (Nov. 25, 1908). The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
    Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
    This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
    CINAHL
    An authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for 2,928 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health.
    Civil War 1860-1865: A Newspaper Perspective
    This database contains the full text of major articles gleaned from over 2,500 issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865. The text begins with the events preceding the outbreak of war at Fort Sumter, continues through the surrender at Appomattox, and concludes with the assassination and funeral of Abraham Lincoln. Included are descriptive news articles, eye-witness accounts and official reports of battles and events, editorials, advertisements and biographies. A great effort has been made also to include articles which describe other than military concerns of the day. These include such topics as travel, arts and leisure, geographical descriptions, sports and sporting, social events, etc. Since the major events are described in detail by both Union and Confederate papers, their opposing perspectives are readily available for comparative evaluation.
    Clase and Periódica
    An index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities from 1975 to the present which combines two databases. CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Offers access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages. Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, monographs, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues. Produced by the Department of Latin American Bibliography of UNAM, the National University of Mexico.
    Classical Music Library
    Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. The growing collection of 50,000-plus tracks includes recordings from the world's greatest labels including Hyperion, Bridge Records, Sanctuary Classics, Artemis-Vanguard, Hänssler Classic, Vox and many more. Coverage includes music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.
    Classical Scores Library
    Classical Scores Library will contain 400,000 pages of classical scoresfrom both in-copyright and public domain editions. The major composersoutput is represented, as well as many lesser known composers and works.Content in the database includes in-copyright material from Boosey andHawkes and selected material from the University Music Editions microfilmseries. The collection includes works spanning time periods from theRenaissance to the 21st century. Coverage of score types is comprehensive,with full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and pianoreductions.
    Cochrane Library
    The Cochrane Library consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases. The databases are:
    Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Cochrane Reviews),
    Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE),
    Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL),
    Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews (Methodology Reviews),
    Cochrane Methodology Register (Methodology Register),
    Health Technology Assessment Database (HTA),
    NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED)
    Code of Federal Regulations
    The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government. It is divided into 50 titles that represent broad areas subject to Federal regulation. Each volume of the CFR is updated once each calendar year and is issued on a quarterly basis.
    Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
    This resource includes access to all six of their journals; their Protocols; and the Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. This is especially strong for molecular biology topics.
    CollegeSource Online Web site
    CollegeSource Online features over 14,000 full text college catalogs representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools.

    Other resources include:

    • Links (and some catalogs) to international universities
    • financial aid information and assistance
    • career planning links
    • college entrance exam information
    Colonial State Papers
    Colonial State Papers provides access to thousands of papers concerning English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries as found in the British National Archives. Also included is a digitized version of The Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: North America and the West Indies 1574-1739, which contains bibliographic records and extracts for thousands of additional documents. Issued by ProQuest Chadwyck-Healey.
    Columbia Gazetteer of the World
    Essentially an encyclopedia of geographical places and features, the Gazetteer contains the names, descriptions, and characteristics of over 170,000 places in the world. Entries includes information on many of the following: Demographics; physical geography; political boundaries; industry, trade, and service activities; agriculture; cultural, historical, and archeological points of interest; transportation lines; longitude, latitude, and elevations; distance to relevant places; pronunciations; official local government place-names and changed or variant names and spellings. Length varies from a brief notation on a small village to an essay on a country or region.Includes a glossary of geographical and geological terms.Use it to gather basic socio-demographic information about cities, towns, regions worldwide; look up geographical information; check the spelling of a place name.
    Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
    This is a source for locating a poem in anthologies on library shelves, including a series of related print and electronic titles. It includes public-domain poems in full text (250,000); excerpts from in-copyright poems; 450,000 poem citations indexed by title, first line, last line, author, subject; and searchable also by keyword, commentaries, biographies, bibliographies, and author category (Asian-American, Irish, Polish, etc.). Poems date back to the ancient world. It includes poetry published in such journals as Poetry Magazine, The Southern Review, and Poetry Northwest.
    Columbia International Affairs Online Journals
    Comprehensive source for research in international affairs.
    Communication & Mass Media Complete
    Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. It incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (“core”) indexing and abstracts for more than 500 journals, and selected (“priority”) coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 690 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for over 380 journals.
    Communication Abstracts
    Communication Abstracts is a comprehensive source of information about communication-related publications on a world-wide scale. Communication Abstracts covers communication-related articles, reports, papers, and books from a variety of publishers, research institutions, and information sources.Coverage includes not only communication literature but also literature in other disciplines that is relevant to communication researchers. Communication Abstracts also covers the international literature in film studies, the role of technology in human communications, risk communication, crisis communication and public opinions.
    Community of Science (COS)
    COS is a global resource, which aggregates information for scientific research and other projects across all disciplines. This also serves as a gateway to the rest of the COS resources.
    Company of Biologists
    The Company of Biologists is a non-profit organization whose objectives are the advancement and promotion of research in, and the study of, all branches of biology. The site provides access to their four journals, plus information for traveling fellowships for biology graduate students and grant information for scientists and organizations.
    Compendex
    CompendexWeb is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research literature, containing references to over 5000 engineering journals and conferences. It covers literature that makes a definite contribution to knowledge in the subject areas of engineering and applied science. About half the citations (from 2600 journals and conferences) include abstracts and indexing in the records. Online coverage is from 1884 to the present, and files are updated weekly. The highest percentages of journal literature are in the fields of chemical and process engineering (15%), computers and data processing (12%), applied physics (11%), and electronics and communication (12%) In addition Compendex includes civil engineering (6%) and mechanical engineering (6%).
    Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online
    This website provides Darwin's complete publications, many handwritten manuscripts and the largest Darwin bibliography and manuscript catalog every published. Most of these materials are online for the first time, such as the 1st editions of the Voyage of the Beagle, Descent of Man, Zoology of the Beagle and all six editions of Origin of Species.
    Compustat Global & EMDB (WRDS)
    Data covering publicly traded companies in more than 80 countries, representing over 90% of the world's market capitalization, including coverage of over 96% of European market capitalization and 88% of Asian market capitalization. S&P's EMDB covers 53 markets and more than 2,200 stocks in developing countries.
    Compustat North America (WRDS)
    Provides more than 300 annual and 100 quarterly Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows, and supplemental data items on more than 24,000 publicly held companies.
    Conference Board
    The Conference Board's research Database TCB research is a searchable database of full-text research reports on the latest issues in business management and US and global economics. Proprietary, nonbiased research includes studies of F500 companies on business trends, leadership decisions, performance excellence, corporate governance, HR, productivity, CRM and more. Full-text coverage from 1998 to date. Economics material includes topline US and global economic indicators and analysis and forecasts of regional, national, and international economic conditions.
    Congressional Record (2004-2007)
    The official transcript of debates of the House and the Senate, printed and distributed by GPO and available on Congressional Universe in the daily edition.

    The Record is divided into four parts and paginated as follows in the daily edition.

    • The debate and other floor action of the House and of the Senate are paginated separately, with page numbers beginning "H" (as in H8793) for House debate and "S" (as in S3987) for Senate debate.
    • Material not spoken on the floor may appear in the Extension of Remarks (paged as in E2347) section that appears in the Record after the Senate and House floor debate sections. If a member speaking on the floor requests permission "to revise and extend my remarks," those revisions appear in the Extension of Remarks portion of the Record.
    • The fourth portion of the Record, known as the Daily Digest (paged as in D739), contains a brief synopsis of floor action in both the House and Senate and in all the committees that met on that day. The Daily Digest is especially useful for identifying each day's floor amendments and their disposition.

    Updated daily (available same day as printed version is released).

    Public access to this material is also available at Thomas, a service of The Library of Congress.

    Congressional Research Digital Collection
    Congressional Research Service Catalog
    The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is the non-partisan public policy research arm of the United States Congress that provides congressional members and committees with in-depth, non-partisan analysis of legislative issues. This database, from commercial publisher Penny Hill Press, provides access to all numbered Congressional Research Service Documents from 2003 to the present. The reports are available for searching, browsing, viewing and printing. Individual Congressional Research Service Documents from earlier years, indexed but not contained within that year, provide a link to Penny Hill Press for ordering. The link enables subscribers to order individual reports by e-mail.
    Contemporary Authors
    Now available online as part of the Literature Resource Center.

    For more than 30 years, Contemporary Authors has been the primary resource for information on modern authors, including those who were active prior to 1960 and whose works continue to influence contemporary literature. The database covers more than 100,000 current writers in a wide range of media, including:

    • current writers of fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, and drama whose works have been issued by commercial publishers, risk publishers, or university presses
    • prominent print and broadcast journalists, editors, photojournalists, syndicated cartoonists, screenwriters, television scriptwriters, and other media people
    • authors who write in languages other than English, provided their works have been published in the United States or translated into English literary greats of the early twentieth century whose works are popular in today's high school and college curriculums and continue to elicit critical attention
    Contemporary Women's Issues
    Information about women from over 150 countries.
    Contemporary World Music
    Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database will contain 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.
    Corporate Library (WRDS)
    The Corporate Library is an independent investment research firm providing corporate governance data, analysis & risk assessment tools. It provides one complete online solution for analyzing, modeling and assessing governance, compensation and performance practices.
    Corpus de la Literature Francophone d'Afrique noire des Origines aux Independances
    This collection contains the complete text of written and oral literary works from the origins to the independence of French-speaking Black Africa (end 18th century - 1960). F
    Corpus de la littérature médiévale des origines au 15e siècle
    Almost 900 complete works constitute this perfect first library for the period of the Middle Ages, here defined as going from the 9th to the 15th century. The four literary fields concerned and specific to that period are : narrative prose fiction, chanson de geste, poetry and theatre (religious and profane). The editions chosen for the Corpus of medieval literature are, following Classiques Garnier Numérique principles of electronic editing, those of the best editors : Honoré Champion, Droz, Société des Anciens Textes français, etc.
    Corpus de la littérature narrative du Moyen Âge au 20e siècle
    The Corpus of narrative literature gives online access to more than 1,000 narrative works (novels, tales, short stories).From Chrétien de Troyes to Alain-Fournier and Marcel Proust, the Corpus de la littérature narrative brings together the greatest authors and the greatest works of the last eight centuries and offers the possibility to cross-search them in simple and complex ways.It is both a basic and a specialised library that covers all French study-programs from the High school to University (ordinary and competitive examinations). Moreover, specialists and researchers will find texts with appropriate bibliographical references edited according to the rules of scientific publishing.
    Corpus de la première littérature francophone de l'Océan Indien, écrite et orale, des origines aux Indépendances
    This Corpus gives access, as completely as possible, to the whole of Francophone written and oral literature from the Indian Ocean, from the origins (18th century) to Independence (1960, or death of authors).The literary production of the countries of the Indian Ocean was considerable as early as the 18th century in Reunion Island and Mauritius, and the 20th century was particularly rich for Madagascan literature. In the 18th and 19th centuries a number of these works were published on local printing presses by local editors and their distribution was limited. Some editions are now known only by rare copies in a few libraries, in private collections or in family archives in the native country.
    COS Expertise Database
    COS Expertise allows searching among 500,000 profiles of researchers throughout the world. This includes current research activity, funding received, publications, patents, new positions and more.
    COS Funding Opportunities
    This searches the world's most comprehensive funding resource, with more than 25,000 records representing nearly 400,000 opportunities, worth over $33 billion.
    COS Scholar Universe
    COS Scholar Universe is a database of 2.1 million scholars, authors and active faculty that is searched by thousands of faculty, universities, research institutions, funding agencies, corporations and others seeking collaborators, consultants, potential grantees, tech transfer opportunities, mentors, and peer reviewers. Promote your work, expand your network, and further your career by keeping an updated profile in COS Expertise.
    COS Workbench
    Every researcher who registers for a COS account automatically receives a personalized COS Workbench from which to access and manage their COS services, including their personal listing in Scholar Universe, a quick form for an online CV and a home page for that information, and allows tracking your funding opportunities.
    Country Studies
    The Country Studies/Area Handbook Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world. The series examines the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. Studies included here were published between 1988 and 1998. Information on some countries may no longer be up to date. See the "Research Completed" date at the beginning of each study or the "Data as of" date at the end of each section of text. Older studies, including some on countries that no longer exist in the same form, such as East Germany and the Soviet Union, may be retained because they continue to offer historical information of value to researchers.
    County and City Data Book: 2000
    A statistical database offering demographic, economic and government information. The data presented here was obtained from the 2000 County and City Data Book, published by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, and made available to over 1400 depository libraries across the country. Data from both the Federal government and private agencies are presented for the purpose of multi-area comparisons or single area profiles. Current estimates and benchmark census results are included. State and county data include the following general subjects: area and population, households, vital statistics, health, Social Security, Supplemental Security income, crime, education, money income, housing, labor force, personal income, agriculture, manufactures building permits, wholesale and retail trade, service industries, banking, government employment and finances, and elections. In addition to most of the county data, city data include climate and residential electric bills.
    CQ Almanac
    The CQ Almanac Online Edition brings together over sixty years of authoritative congressional reporting in one, easy-to-use resource. The site pairs all of the content from the print volumes with a number of electronic features and functions that make navigating the content fast and easy. with efforts have been made to create a uniform interface that facilitates searching and browsing of all content. With the online edition users can navigate with ease through 60 years of congressional coverage; access tables, graphs, and charts that help explain the issues; browse by subject, decade, or by a particular year's table of contents; use Policy Tracker to explore a specific policy topic and see how it has changed over the years; save useful documents or frequent searches for future consultation; and, automatically generate citations in four styles with CQ Press's CiteNow! Feature.
    CQ Historic Documents
    In the Historic Documents Series: Online Edition you can find the entire collection of the acclaimed Historic Documents collection. The online edition is clearly organized and easy to use. The series—containing more than 32,000 print pages—provides rich depth of content and an ever-expanding area of coverage. Historic Documents Series: Online Edition also provides you with many of the same features you would find in other CQ Electronic Library products, such as Citenow!, Email this Document, and Print this Document. Like other CQ Electronic Library products, the CQ Online Editions: Historic Documents Series includes the Your Profile function where you can permanently save your favorite documents.
    CQ Researcher Plus Archive
    CQ Researcher is noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published weekly 44 times a year. Each single-themed, 12,000-word report is researched and written by a seasoned journalist, each providing researchers with an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources. The CQ Researcher Plus Archive adds more than 3,000 reports, published between 1923 and 1990 to CQ Researcher Online.
    CQ Weekly
    CQ Weekly Online includes an archive dating back to 1983 of the CQ Weekly magazine, which provides congressional news and analysis, bill tracking, member profiles, committee coverage, government documents and transcripts. Search by topic, page number, committee, "exact phrases or words," bill number, byline or reporter and by Boolean full-text and date searches. Detailed floor votes dating back to August 1983 are easily retrieved.
    CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
    This is on-line version of CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (89^th Taylor and Francis Group), the Bible of chemical and physical data that are widely used for chemistry, physics, chemical physics, physical chemistry, biochemistry, geophysics, astronomy, acoustics, polymer, molecular structure, spectroscopy, nuclear physics, particle physics, atomic physics, molecular physics, optical physics, analytical chemistry, fluids, solids, electrochemistry, thermo chemistry, kinetics, nomenclature, mathematical tables. All sections and appendix are searchable with full-text images. USC Libraries currently subscribe it with limited concurrent seats for eligible USC users.
    Credo Reference
    Credo Reference is a digital reference library that places a world of factual information at your fingertips. Containing a selection from 240 high-quality reference books from the world's leading publishers, Credo Reference is the ideal place to start any research.
    Credo Reference: Medicine
    Credo Medicine is a subset of Credo Reference that allows the user to search 28 medical dictionaries and glossaries, including /Black's Medical Dictionary/,/ Mosby's Dental Dictionary/, and the /New Harvard Guide to Women's Health/, as well as on topics such as homeopathy, toxicology, herbs, and alternative medicine.
    CRL Catalog
    The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of North American universities, colleges and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching. These resources are then made available to member institutions cooperatively, through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery. USC is a member institution. Bibliographic access to more than 600,000 titles held at CRL is available through its online catalog.
    CRSP - Center for Research in Security Prices (WRDS)
    The most comprehensive collection of security price, return, and volume data for the NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq stock markets. Additional CRSP files provide stock indices, beta- and cap-based portfolio, treasury bond and risk-free rates, and mutual fund databases.
    CUMINCAD
    CumInCAD (Cumulative Index of Computer-Aided Architectural Design) is a cumulative index of publications about computer aided architectural design. It includes bibliographic information about over 8,700 ** from journals and conferences such as ACADIA , CAADRIA , eCAADe , SiGraDi , CAAD future , DDSS and others. Content begins in 1998, with selective coverage dating back to as early as 1960. All papers include full abstracts. Full texts, in PDF, of some 6,000 papers are also available.Users need to create a free account (where you may save items as your favorites, etc) with your own login and password: http://cumincad.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/LoginForm
    Current Contents Connect
    Part of Web of Knowledge, Current Contents is a multidisciplinary current awareness Web resource providing access to complete bibliographic information from over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books. Users can also search a premium collection of evaluated scholarly Web sites and access evaluated, full-text Web documents in three general resource types: preprints, funding information and research activities.

    Seach tutorial is here:http://scientific.thomson.com/tutorials/ccc3/

    Current Index to Statistics
    The Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. The CIS Extended Database (CIS-ED) includes coverage, in most cases from 1974 (or first issue if later) to the present (currently, volumes published in 1997) from 106 "core journals" (and pre-1974 coverage for a number of them), selected articles since 1974 from about 900 additional journals, and about 8000 books in statistics published since 1974. Each year, the Extended Database is updated with an additional year of coverage. A Print Volume is also produced annually containing listings for the most recent year. CIS is a joint venture of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

    Further information about CIS is available at its web site, http://www.statindex.org/, including information about coverage (PDF or html format).

    Current Research at University of Southern California: USC Disserations
    Current Research @, a listing of dissertations and theses from thisinstitution (USC). Through this site, you can: search citations andabstracts of dissertations and theses submitted by this institution andpublished in UMI's Dissertation Abstracts database, view 24 pagepreviews of dissertations and theses published after 1996, and downloadthe full text of dissertations and theses published after 1996 (if youare an authorized user from this institution then the downloaded copiesare free).
    CUSIP Master File (WRDS)
    The CUSIP Master Files provide CUSIP numbers, standardized descriptions and additional data attributes for over 5 million corporate, municipal and government securities offered in North America.
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    D&B Million Dollar Database
    Directory of public and private companies with over $1 million in sales located in the United States.
    Dance in Video
    Contains 250 dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. Included are classic performances from top ballet companies; experimental works from up-and-coming dance troupes; documentaries by and about leading choreographers; videos on dance training; and other items covering a wide range of 20th century dance styles.
    Dartmouth Atlases of Health Care
    Several atlases are available at this site that provide descriptions and statistics for the United States health care system. The reports are compiled by the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School.
    Darwin Correspondence Project
    The Darwin Correspondence Project was founded in 1974. To date, the project has located a total of around 14,500 letters exchanged by Darwin and nearly 2000 correspondents around the world between 1821 and his death in 1882. New letters continue to be discovered, and the Project is now engaged in an active hunt for others so that the corpus will be as comprehensive as possible.
    Datastream
    Financial statistical database. Please contact the Crocker Business Library for access.
    David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
    The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 20,000 maps and images online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa are also represented. Collection categories include antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, childrens, and manuscript maps. Some examples are United States map, maps New York, California map, Arizona map, America map, New York City map, Chicago map, and Colorado map. The collection can be used to study history, genealogy and family history.
    Declassified Documents Reference System
    Declassified Documents Index provides full text access to formerly U.S. government classified documents that Primary Source Media obtains as they are declassified. The documents emanate from a wide variety of government agencies including the CIA, Department of State, National Security Council, Department of Defense, FBI, etc. It is possible to search by subject, title words, issue date, and documents source. Help in searching is available on-line or ask a librarian in VKC Library for assistance.

    The full text of the documents are available online as well as on microfiche in VKC Library. The call number of the microfiche collection is no.427 and it is located in the microfiche cabinets on the east side of the library. It is necessary to have the Fiche Issue Date, the Fiche Number and the Document Number to locate a document in the fiche collection.

    Defining Gender, 1450-1910
    With each image chosen for its clarity, relevance and quality, this new online project brings together approximately 60,000 images of original manuscript and printed material, including a strong core of documents from the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Ephemeral material such as ballads, cartoons and pamphlets is featured alongside diaries, advice literature, medical journals, conduct books and periodicals. Structured into five sections, Defining Gender, 1450-1910, Online addresses Conduct and Politeness (Section I), Domesticity and the Family (Section II), Consumption and Leisure (Section III), Education and Sensibility (Section IV) and The Body (Section V).
    Dekker Encyclopedias
    Encyclopedia of Clinical Pharmacy
    Dermatology
    Medical reference on eMedicine
    Dermatology Image Atlas : Dermatlas
    The purpose of this site is to enable health care professionals, parents, and patients to access high quality dermatology images for teaching purposes.
    Dialnet
    This is a virtual library of Spanish academic journals, hosted by the University de la Rioja in Spain. Primarily a bibliographic index with tables of contents, it covers more than 5,000 journals and 2.1 million documents. There are a growing number of fulltext articles available as content is continuously updated. Subjects covered include the sciences, social sciences and the humanities and arts. It is particularly useful for subjects related to Spain, such as history and Islamic studies, not well covered by other popular databases. English language search is available. Coverage is 1980 to ther present.
    Dictionary of Literary Biography
    Now available online as part of the Literature Resource Center.

    The essays in Dictionary of Literary Biography outline the lives and careers of authors from all eras and genres, summarizing critical response to their work and their role within literary movements. Author entries include birth/death dates, nationality/ethnicity, and portrait. A bibliography of the author's works with original dates of publication, as well as information about additional writings and published interviews, is included at the beginning of each entry. Additional biographical and critical resources on the author are also listed.

    Dictionnaire historique de l'ancien langage français depuis son origine jusqu'au siècle de Louis XIV
    The Historical dictionary of old French langage by Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye is "an incomparable tool for the in-depth study of ancient French vocabulary" (Gilles Roussineau, wordly recognized specialist in Ancient french studies). The Historical dictionary by La Curne de Sainte-Palaye, with its 60 000 entries, is an irreplaceable instrument for studies on Ancient French vocabulary. The exceptional intuitions of La Curne and his elucidation of meanings, the classification of the different connotations of a word, his constant attention to rare words and to locutions, adverbs, proverbs of Ancient and Middle French, make this dictionary an irreplaceable work of reference.
    Digital Anatomist Project Interactive Atlases
    2-D and 3-D views of various body parts from cadaver sections, MRI scans, and computer reconstructions.
    Digital Dictionary of Buddhism
    This e-dictionary is the most comprehensive English language reference works for Buddhist technical terminology--Buddhist terms, texts, temple, schools, persons, etc. found in Buddhist canonical sources, currently available. It is useful to from beginners to professional scholars of Buddhism.
    Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)
    The Digital Library of the Caribbean was established by a committee of librarians, scholars, and archivists at a meeting held in San Juan, Puerto Rico on July 17, 2004. The goal of dLOC is to build a cooperative digital library among partners within the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean, thus providing scholars, students, and citizens around the world with open on-line access to Caribbean cultural, historical and scientific materials.
    Digital Microfilm Newspaper
    Provides access to 2009-2010 Los Angeles Times, Record Edition; Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition; Washington post, Final edition; New York Times. Provides access to 2009-2010 Los Angeles Times, Record Edition; Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition; Washington post, Final edition; New York Times.
    Digital National Security Archive
    Full text of twelve collections of primary U.S. government documents which detail its foreign relations and chronicle policy decisions. Most documents were originally classified. The collections are:
    Afghanistan, the Making of U.S. Policy, 1973-1990
    Berlin Crisis 1958-1962
    Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
    El Salvador, the Making of U.S. Policy, 1977-1984
    Iran: the Making of U.S. Policy, 1977-1980
    Iran-Contra Affair: The Making of a Scandal, 1983-1988,
    Nicaragua: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1978-1990,
    Philippines: U.S. Policy During the Marcos Years, 1965-1986,
    South Africa: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1962-1989
    U.S.Intelligence Community: Organization, Operations and Management, 1947-1989
    U.S. Military Uses of Space, 1945-1991
    U.S. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy, 1945-1991

    New collections will be added yearly.

    All collections are searchable by keyword, person, and date. Each collection may be searched separately or in combination with other collections.

    Digital Sanborn Maps (California)
    Sanborn fire insurance maps are the most frequently consulted maps in both public and academic libraries. Sanborn maps are valuable historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods. They are large-scale plans containing data that can be used to estimate the potential risk for urban structures. This includes information such as the outline of each building, the size, 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. Seven or eight different editions represent some areas. The USC Libraries have currently purchased access only to the set of Sanborn maps for California.
    Digital Scholarship
    Digital Scholarship is a web portal to information on open access publishing since 1989. It is created and maintained by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. It provides ready access to Digital Koans, a weblog on digital information issues; the periodically updated Open Access Bibliography; The Open Access Webliography; the periodically updated Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography; and the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog.
    Directory of Open Access Journals
    The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact.

    The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. All subject areas and languages will be covered.

    Disease Management Project
    This resource was developed by The Cleveland Clinic Center for Continuing Education and Unitech Communications. It is authored entirely by physicians from The Cleveland Clinic. Treatment recommendations are tied to national practice guidelines, wherever possible. The guide includes numerous helpful tables and graphics. Citations within the chapter are hyperlinked to a list of references.
    Dissertation Abstracts Online
    Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. Updated monthly.
    DMEF - Direct Marketing Educational Foundation (WRDS)
    Four individual data sets, each containing customer buying history for about 100,000 customers of nationally known catalog and non-profit database marketing businesses are available through DMEF.
    Dolley Madison Digital Edition
    This collection, produced by Rotunda/University of Virginia Press, will be the first-ever complete edition of all of her known correspondence. It is currently complete through 1838, with over 1100 documents, and is searchable by keyword; person or organization; time period; document type; topic; or place. Along with letters, the DMDE includes summaries and a glossary providing identifications of names, literary references, and places mentioned in the letters.
    Dow Jones (WRDS)
    Covers the Dow Jones Averages and the Dow Jones Total Return Indexes.
    DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music)
    DRAM is a not-for-profit resource providing educational communitieswith on-demand streaming access to CD-quality audio, complete original linernotes and essays from independent record labels and sound archives.Continuing in the tradition of DRAM's sister company New World Records, oneof DRAM's primary focuses is the preservation and dissemination of importantrecordings that have been neglected by the commercial marketplace,recordings that may otherwise become lost or forgotten.
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    e-Duke Scholarly Journals Collection
    A web portal to providing full-text online access to twenty-nine Duke University Press humanities and social science journals. All of the journals are also accessible by title through the USC Libraries e-journals pages.
    Early American Fiction 1789 - 1850
    Provides both images and text for a well-defined and comprehensive collection of early American fiction. Presently includes 78 titles by 19 authors, including first printings of works by James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Published jointly with the University of Virginia Library.

    Part of the Literature Online collection.

    Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800
    Resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America
    Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
    Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 provides a comprehensive set of American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early part of the 19th century. It is based on the noted American Bibliography, 1801-1819 by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker. With more than four million pages from over 36,000 items including 1,000 catalogued new items unavailable in previous microform editions. This digital edition from Readex is an essential complement to Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800, the definitive resource for researching 17th- and 18th-century America.
    Early American Newspapers, Series I
    Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876 offers 350,000 fully searchable issues from over 710 historical American newspapers. Focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries, this online collection is based on Clarence S. Brigham’s “History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820” and other authoritative bibliographies. Providing unprecedented access to the nation’s early periods, Early American Newspapers, Series 1 enables researchers to explore essential newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia.
    Early Encounters in North America
    The collection has been compiled by consulting a number of bibliographies, including:A Biobibliography of Native American Writers, 1772-1924 by Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr. and James W. Parins Sources for the ethnography of northeastern North America to 1611, by David B. Quinn. The French image of America: a chronological and subject bibliography of French books printed before 1816 relating to the British North American colonies and the United States by Durand Echeverria and Everett C. Wilkie, Jr. Wagner & Camp's The Plains and the Rockies, a critical bibliography of exploration, adventure and travel in the American West, 1800-1865 Robert Rogers Hubach's Early Midwestern Travel Narratives, An Annotated Bibliography, 1634-1850. Candiana.org, (www.canadiana.org), a full-text online collection that contains documents about Canada's history from the first European contact to the nineteenth century. Bibliography of Native North Americans, Human Relations Area Files, 1976. When complete it will include more than 1,000 published and unpublished items from a variety of sources, including online resources and microform. Subscribers to the collection are encouraged to participate in the maintenance of this bibliography by calling our attention to omissions, suggesting additions, and notifying us of newly discovered materials.
    Early English Books Online (EEBO)
    Early English Books Online (EEBO) a digital library of works from STC I (Pollard & Redgrave), STC II (Wing), and the Thomason Tracts - over 125,000 individual titles. Through EEBO, you can:
  • Search the bibliographic citations
  • Browse online the digital images of every page
  • Download the digital images in PDF format for more extensive viewing and printing.
    From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this incomparable collection now contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement.
    • Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership
    Early English Books Online (EEBO) a digital library of works from STC I (Pollard & Redgrave), STC II (Wing), and the Thomason Tracts - over 125,000 individual titles. Through EEBO, you can:
  • Search the bibliographic citations
  • Browse online the digital images of every page
  • Download the digital images in PDF format for more extensive viewing and printing.
    From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this incomparable collection now contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement.
    • Early English Prose Fiction
    Over 200 complete works in fictional prose from the period 1500-1700. The collection excludes non-fictional prose and medieval ?survivals? (works pre-dating the period in question but printed within it). Works of fiction translated from other languages are excluded, with one exception (Barclay?s romance Argenis, translated from Latin by Kingsmill Long
    Earthquake Engineering Abstracts
    Earthquake Engineering Abstracts provides over 75,000 abstracts and citations on earthquake engineering and earthquake hazards mitigation. The National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering (NISEE), a public service project sponsored by the National Science Foundation, maintains the database at the Earthquake Engineering Research Center (EERC), University of California at Berkeley. Also included are another 17,300 citations to reports, monographs, serials, conference proceedings, slides, and videotapes from the EERC Library. Coverage on the 1989 Loma Prieta, California earthquake is particularly strong. About 6,500 records are added each year.

    EEA Search Tutorials (three levels -- quick, advanced, command) are here:http://md1.csa.com/help/tutorials.html

    Ebooks
    Ebooks is a catalog portal to the substantial sub-set of electronic books, in all subject areas, included in OCLC WorldCat. As such is is the most comprehensive catalog of electronic books, from all vendors and publishers, in the world.
    Ebrary Academic Complete Subscription Collection
    The USC Libraries subscribes to Academic Complete, ebrary's collection.
    EconLit
    An index of economic literature. Subject indexing and abstracts of journals and over 500 collective volumes per year, plus books, dissertations, and working papers.
    Economics Working Papers in Oxford
    As the home of one of the world's strongest economics departments, it stands to reason that the working paper series at Oxford University would also be quite impressive. The papers are arranged chronologically and are drawn from a number of series, including the Oxford Financial Research Centre Economics Series andthe Global Poverty Research Group.
    Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003
    The EHA is the fully searchable complete facsimile edition of /The Economist/ from 1843 through 2003, the British weekly publication on politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide.In 8,000 issues and more than 600,0000 pages, EHA offers full-color images, multiple search indexes, topic and area supplements and surveys, together with a gallery of front covers and a selection of exportable financial tables. It includes news, analysis, commentary, editorials, statistics, demographics, letters to the editor, obituaries, and historical photographs, special surveys and the supplements on Countries and Industries, renowned sections including "Science and Technology," and classified and display ads profiling major companies, job opportunities, and the like.
    Editions & Adaptations of Shakespeare
    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 one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

    Part of the Literature Online collection.

    Education Full Text
    Education Full Text provides comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks provided by WilsonWeb. Includes full text of articles, with indexing cover to cover, from hundreds of journals. Coverage includes about 79 journals (37 with full text) not covered by ERIC.
    Coverage dates: Indexing 1983+, Abstracting 1994+, “select” Full Text 1996+
    Access is through WilsonWeb(click on the radio button to specifically search this database). Complete contents included in Wilson OmniFile Full Text.
    Education Index Retrospective
    Education Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database of more than half a century of indexing from an international range of English-language education periodicals. Provided by WilsonWeb, coverage includes indexing of over 500 publications.
    Dates covered: 1929 – 1983.
    Access is through WilsonWeb(click on the radio button to specifically search this database).
    Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
    ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences and the U.S. Department of Education. It indexes education journals and education-related materials from scholarly organizations, professional associations, research centers, policy organizations, university presses, the U.S. Department of Education and other federal agencies, and state and local agencies. Individual contributors submit conference papers, research papers, dissertations, and theses. This version of the ERIC database is free on the Internet and includes a link to the Thesaurus of ERIC.
    Educational Administration Abstracts
    Provides indexing and abstracting for articles in more than 100 journals related to the administration of primary, secondary and post-secondary educational facilities and programs. Subjects covered include: personnel, curriculum, school-community relations, supervision, minority group relations, and professional education. Educational levels include: early childhood education, K-12, community colleges, and higher education.
    Coverage: 2003 to present
    eHRAF Archaeology
    Part of the full text library historically provided by the Human Relations Area Files. Published materials (books, journal articles, and dissertations) in the field of Archaeology. Uses subject terms developed in the Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM).
    eHRAF World Cultures
    HRAF is an acronym for Human Relations Area Files, a non-profit institution founded in 1949 at Yale University. HRAF is a consortium of educational, research, and cultural organizations, and government agencies; its mission is to encourage and facilitate the study of human culture, society, and behavior. This mission is accomplished mainly through the compilation, indexing, and distribution of a collection of ethnographic and other texts that are indexed by culture and subject.
    Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
    One of the largest resources of rare materials ever collected in microfilm or electronic formats. The collection is an ongoing project based on The English Short Title Catalogue, a union list of the holdings of the British Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private and public libraries worldwide. This collection captures the essence of the Enlightement in Great Britain in multiple academic disciplines, including history, literature, geography, social sciences, fine arts, religion, philosophy, and law.
    Eighteenth Century Journals
    The purpose of Eighteenth Century Journals: A Portal for Newspapers and Periodicals, c1685-1815 is to make available digitally for the first time unique or extremely rare eighteenth century periodicals. The primary aim of the portal is to promote a truly broad representation of the culture of print journalism in the eighteenth century, illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. Many are ephemeral, lasting only for a handful of issues, others run for several years. Topics covered are extremely wide-ranging and include: colonial life; provincial and rural affairs; the French and American revolutions; reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe; political debates; and London coffee house gossip and discussion.
    Eighteenth-Century Fiction
    96 complete works in English prose from the period 1700-1780, by writers from the British Isles. Includes a scanned version of Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and two different editions of Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela and of Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

    Part of the Literature Online collection.

    EIU Country Commerce
    A practical reference guide to the specific operating conditions, commercial laws and business regulations in more than 55 countries. It offers guidance on issues such as obtaining proper permits and registrations, protecting intellectual property and complying with local tax laws-including e-commerce rules. Provided by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
    EIU Country Report
    Provides detailed political, economic and business information on 180 countries.
    Electronic Enlightenment
    Unrivaled online access to 18th century primary sources is provided with Electronic Enlightenment. It is updated twice yearly with new materials. It currently includes cross-searchable letters from nearly 6,000 correspondents as published in the best critical editions. Over 53,000 letters and documents are included. Includes letters in French, German and Italian as well as English. Over 230,000 scholarly annotations are also cross-searchable. An expanding network of external links to other online resources, from Chambers' Cyclopaediato the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography are provided.
    Electronic Textbook of Dermatology
    This textbook is targeted to an audience of trained clinical dermatologists. Treatments and techniques described herein should only be done under the supervision of a physician experienced in their proper application. The chief editor is Rhett Drugge, M.D., New York University and the managing editor is Heather A. Dunn, Internet Dermatology Society.
    Elements of Style
    This is the digital version of the classic writing manual from 1918 written by William Strunk. The focus is on rules of usage and most commonly violated composition principles. It is often referred to as Strunk and White. Part of Bartleby.com.Several print copies of the 4th ed. (1999/2000) are available at Doheny Reference and Leavey Library.
    Emergency Medicine
    Nearly 10,000 physician authors and editors contribute to the eMedicine Clinical Knowledge Base with coverage of 7,000 diseases and disorders. All of eMedicine's original content undergoes four levels of physician peer review plus an additional review by a PharmD.
    Emergency War Surgery
    Full text of Emergency War Surgery (2004) 3rd US revision Produced by the Borden Institute, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 2004.Although called the 3rd US Revision, this edition of Emergency War Surgery represents an entirely new Handbook. All material is new and revised to reflect lessons learned from ongoing American involvement in Southwest Asia. The Handbook takes a bulleted manual style in order to optimize its use as a rapid reference. Drafted by subspecialty experts, it was then updated by surgeons returned from yearlong deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. A collaborative effort of the Borden Institute and the AMEDD Center & School, this Handbook is an essential tool for the management of forward combat trauma.
    Empire Online
    This project is being published in five sections between 2003 and 2007 offering over 60,000 images of original documents linked to essays by leading scholars in the field. These are:Section I: Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969 (March 2003); Section II: Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire (March 2004); Section III: The Visible Empire (Winter 2004/5); Section IV: Religion and Empire (Winter 2005/6); and Section V: Race, Class and Colonialism, c1783-1969 (Winter 2006/7).
    Encyclopaedia of Islam
    The Encyclopaedia Islamica consists of an abridged and edited translation of the Persian Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif-i Buzurg-i Islāmī, one of the most comprehensive sources on Islam and the Muslim world. One unique feature of this work of reference lies in the attention it gives to Shiʿi Islam and its rich and diverse heritage, which makes it complementary to other encyclopaedias. In addition to providing entries on important themes, subjects and personages in Islam generally, it offers the western reader an opportunity to appreciate the various dimensions of Shiʿi Islam, the Persian contribution to Islamic civilisation, and the spiritual dimensions of the Islamic tradition.
    Encyclopedia of Astronomy & Astrophysics
    On-line version of Encyclopedia of Astronomy & Astrophysics (2007 by Taylor and Francis Group). It covers “the entire field of astronomy and astrophysics and includes the full text of over 2,750 articles, plus sophisticated search and retrieval functionality, links to the primary literature, and is frequently updated with new material”. It is essential for “undergraduates, graduate students, researchers and seasoned professionals, as well as for committed amateurs, librarians and lay people wishing to consult the definitive astronomy and astrophysics reference work”.
    Encyclopedia of Bioprocess Technology
    Encyclopedia of Bio Process Technology provides an up-to-date, comprehensive reference to the theories on which the industry is based. Included here is the latest in information on genetic manufacturing, chemical applications, and up-to-date information on biotechnology. This online reference contains the equivalent of a five-volume print reference.
    Encyclopedia of Catalysis
    This e-reference from Wiley covers “the most significant aspects of homogeneous, heterogeneous, asymmetric, biomimetic, and biological catalysis. The principles of catalysis, the scope of catalytic reactions, the preparation, characterization, and use of catalysts including catalytic technology, the modeling of catalytic processes, and related reaction engineering techniques are included”. Users can access its rich content by A-Z list or subject area or searches for special topic with its search engine by Phrase, Author, Article, Title, or Keyword.
    Encyclopedia of chromatography
    This is 2^nd edition (from CRC of by Taylor and Francis Group, published in June 6, 2005; on-line version) of this reference work. It provides “specific chromatographic techniques and principles- providing a basic introduction to the science and technology of the method, as well as additional references on the theory and methodology for analysis of specific chemicals and applications in a range of industries”.
    Encyclopedia of Environmental Microbiology
    A single, comprehensive resource for researchers, scientists, and students in environmental microbiology
    Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
    The first edition of ELL (1993, Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation". Now the all-new second edition matches ELL's comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics. The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive and international reference source in its field. An entirely new work, with new editors, new authors, new topics and newly commissioned articles with a handful of classic articles The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics through the online edition Ground-breaking and International in scope and approach Alphabetically arranged with extensive cross-referencing Available in print and online, priced separately. The online version will include updates as subjects develop ELL2 includes: c. 7,500,000 words, c. 11,000 pages, c. 3,000 articles, c. 1,500 figures: 130 halftones and 150 colour.
    Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
    Over 4,300 specially commissioned articles explaining key concepts in the life sciences.
    Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
    A collaborative work of over 600 scholars from more than forty countries, the Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages provides 3,000 concise and detailed articles on all aspects of the period from the fifth to the fifteenth century. It explores art, architecture, religion, law, science, language, philosophy, and theology, as well as cultural, religious, intellectual, social and political history. With a focus on focus on Europe and Christendom, the Encyclopedia also covers the rise of Islam and people of other cultures with whom Europeans came into contact.
    Engineering Village 2
    Ei CompendexWeb is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research literature, containing references to over 5000 engineering journals and conferences. Ei covers literature that makes a definite contribution to knowledge in the subject areas of engineering and applied science. About half the citations (from 2600 journals and conferences) include abstracts and indexing in the records. Online coverage is from 1884 to the present, and files are updated weekly. The highest percentages of journal literature are in the fields of chemical and process engineering (15%), computers and data processing (12%), applied physics (11%), and electronics and communication (12%) In addition Compendex includes civil engineering (6%) and mechanical engineering (6%). USC's subscription to the Engineering Village 2 (EV2) platform includes access to the Compendex and Inspec databases.
    English Drama
    A combination of Chadwyck-Healey's English Verse Drama and English Prose Drama full-text databases
    English Poetry (600-1900)
    Essentially the complete English poetic canon from the 8th century to the early 20th. Over 160,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.

    Part of the Literature Online collection.

    English Poetry, Second Edition
    More than 183,000 poems by over 2,700 poets, the most comprehensive archive of English verse from the 8th century to the early 20th now offers incomparable representation both of the literary heritages of Commonwealth and ex-colonial countries and of the poetic legacies of English writers who have only been brought back to scholarly attention during the last thirty years.

    Part of the Literature Online collection.

    English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)
    The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) lists over 460,000 items published between 1473 and 1800 mainly, but not exclusively, in English published mainly in the British Isles and North America from the collections of the British Library and over 2,000 other libraries
    ENGnetBASE
    One of the most comprehensive databases of engineering research
    Environment Index
    A comprehensive database to journal articles covering all aspects of environmental policy and politics.
    Environmental Health Information Service
    Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) is a monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news on the impact of the environment on human health. EHP is published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and its content is free online. Also includes special reports.
    Eol
    Trial access will expire on June 30, 2009.
    ePodunk (TM)
    Detailed, easily browsable profiles of cities and counties across theU.S. are the specialty of ePodunk, which has grown to include data onairports, cemeteries, museums, and other institutions as well. Profilesinclude historical postcard images from the Making of America projectand all imaginable statistics at the city and county level: income,educational level, economic, crime. Not only does the site link touseful municipal/county government and chamber of commerce sites, but italso displays or links to harder-to-find information like local mediaoutlets, community organizations, political reports, historical weatherinformation, support for libraries, a “gay index” based on the Gay andLesbian Atlas, films shot in the area, and celebrity residents.
    Era of Progress and Promise: African American History Online
    This website is comprised of profiles of early African-American schools, churches, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other institutions from the pages of "An Era of Progress and Promise." Written in 1910 by W.N. Hartshorn, the 444-page book is a seminal work that was referenced by influential figures including W.E. B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington.
    ERIC (CSA)
    The ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to education literature to augment American education by increasing and facilitating the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. Included is the ERIC Thesaurus under the Search Tools tab.
    Coverage: 1966 to present
    ERIC (OCLC)
    The ERIC database is an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education covering journal articles and reports including published and unpublished sources on education with some documents being full-text. Over 600 journals and other materials are indexed. Allows searching in 3 FirstSearch databases simultaneously.
    Coverage: 1966 to present
    ERIC (Wilson)
    WilsonWeb’s ERIC database (The Education Resources Information Center) provides access to education literature and resources listing citations and abstracts for over 1,000 comprehensively indexed educational and education-related journals. The ERIC collection includes annotated bibliographic records, including journal articles, books, research syntheses, conference papers, technical reports, policy papers, and other education-related materials. The WilsonWeb’s ERIC database is unique in that it can be searched simultaneously with other Wilson databases like Education Full Text.
    Coverage: 1966 to present.
    Access is through WilsonWeb(click on the radio button to specifically search this database).
    Essay & General Literature Retrospective
    Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cites essays, articles and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. It covers 8 Centuries of essays, annuals and serial publications from the 20th Century. Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective also provides full bibliographic information on collective titles indexed. Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective focuses on the humanities and social sciences, with subject coverage ranging from Archaeology through Women’s Studies. Over 108 years of unparalleled coverage are combined when searching Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective along with Essay and General Literature Index, which the Library already owns. Dates Covered: 1900 to 1984.
    Access is through WilsonWeb(click on the radio button to specifically search this database).
    Essay and General Literature
    Essay and General LiteratureProvides citations to nearly 86,000 essays published in some 7,000 anthologies and collections from 1985 to the present. Approximately 300 single and multi-author collections are indexed annually, plus another 20 selected annuals and serials.Covers the entire range of the humanities and social sciences, including literary works, art history, drama, and film.
    Access is through WilsonWeb(click on the radio button to specifically search this database).
    Essential Evidence Plus
    Essential Evidence Plus is a powerful new one-stop resource for the evidence you need to make critical patient care decisions. This new state-of-the-art e-reference will include not only the great content, calculators, and tools that you have come to rely on, but additionally, two completely new databases: e-Essential Evidence and Evidence-Based Medicine Guidelines brought to you by the Finnish Medical Society.
    Essential Science Indicators (ESI)
    Essential Science Indicators (ESI) is one of ISI/Thomson's Web of Knowledge databases that provides more aggregate citation analysis than do the citation indices. "Types of data featured in ESI include most cited author rankings, institutional (university, corporate, government research lab) rankings, national rankings, and journal rankings....The data in ESI are limited to ISI-indexed journal articles only." ESI is updated bimontly (every other month).
    ETANA
    ETANA is envisioned to include the permanent archiving, dissemination and generation of both front- and back-end stages of scholarly knowledge (such as archaeological excavation reports, editions of ancient and modern texts, core early monographs, dictionaries, journals, and reports in the public domain), a portal to ANE Web resources, an electronic commons where scholars in the field can share data and images, and eventually an electronic publishing effort for "born digital" publications. ETANA will also collect and/or develop software required for the production of the Internet site in core areas identified by the planning committees and outlined herewith. Vanderbilt's library will serve as the host technical site and grant administrator.
    Ethnic NewsWatch
    Ethnic NewsWatch is a comprehensive full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. A rich collection of articles, editorials, columns, reviews, etc. provide a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints -- the other sides of the stories. With over 500,000 articles from more than 200 publications, the titles in Ethnic NewsWatch represent the diversity of the American population in ways that are not seen in the mainstream media. Topics addressed include the arts, business, education, the environment, history, journalism, political science, and sociology. Updated monthly.
    Ethnic NewsWatch: History
    Ethnic NewsWatch: History provides the historical foreground to the ethnic, minority, and native press content in Ethnic NewsWatch, with over 300,000 full-text articles dating from 1959-1989. Pivotal events in these decades are covered, including the civil rights struggle, Vietnam War protests, dramatic changes in immigration law, trickledown economics, and the status of migrant workers.
    ETOH (Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Database)
    The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) has created this portal to support researchers and practitioners searching for information related to alcohol research. This page includes links to a number of databases, journals, and Web sites focused on alcohol research and related topics. Also included is a link to the archived ETOH database, the premier Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database, produced by NIAAA from 1972 through December 2003.
    European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES)
    This is a bibliography on European scholarship on Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. It contains bibliographic records for journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications. The coverage is from 1991-2007 and includes over 85,000 titles.
    Europeana Virtual Library
    Descartes, Michelangelo, and other notable European figures are all presented and accounted for within the Europeana archive. This prodigious site includes over 4.6 million digital items culled from over 100 institutions, including the National Archives of Finland, the European Archive, the Louvre, and the Slovak National Gallery. To get acquainted with this collection, users should browse on over to the "About Us" area via the homepage. Here one can take advantage of a short introductory film, read a list of all the contributing organizations, and learn how to use "My Europeana" to save searches or bookmark items. Those persons with a historical bent can use the "Timeline navigator" to peruse items from the archive chronologically. There's also a place for visitor feedback and a very advanced search engine.
    EVENTUS (WRDS)
    Performs event studies that compute abnormal returns for specific corporate actions or events using data directly from the CRSP stock database.
    Everyday Life and Women in America Online, c.1820-1900
    This new online collection documents in compelling detail the social and cultural forces that shaped the everyday lives of men and women in America from 1800 to 1920, addressing 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home life, health and popular pastimes.
    Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) Reviews - ACP Journal Club (Ovid)
    Consists of two journals ACP Journal Club, a publication of the American College of Physicians, and Evidence-Based Medicine, a joint publication with the British Medical Journal Group. Editors of Best Evidence screen the top clinical journals on a regular basis and identify studies that are both methodologically sound and clinically relevant. They write an enhanced abstract of the chosen articles and provide a commentary on the value of the article for clinical practice. Using this source, clinicians can quickly understand and apply to their practice important changes in medical knowledge, without having to read and synthesize for themselves thousands of journal articles.
    Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) Reviews - Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Ovid)
    The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (COCH) is part of Ovid's Evidence Based Medicine Reviews collection, and includes the full text of the regularly updated systematic reviews of the effects of health care prepared by The Cochrane Collaboration.
    Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) Reviews- DARE (Ovid)
    Critical assessments of systematic reviews from a variety of medical journals.
    Execcomp (WRDS)
    Executive Compensation data. It is one of the links available within Compustat under Other Products.
    Expanded Academic ASAP (Now AcademicOne)
    Expanded Academic ASAP includes abstracts or references for articles from more than 1,500 scholarly, trade and general-interest publications, as well as references for The New York Times. Many articles are available in full-text and in some cases also contain the graphics and images that appeared in the article. The database integrates core titles in every major academic concentration; area- and issue-specific journals; academic journals with application in the professions; and publications with national news coverage and commentary. ge includes the current year to date and the previous three years; coverage of individual titles may vary. The database is updated daily.
    Expert Reviews
    Expert Reviews publishes articles from opinion leaders to form clinical practice via emerging trends in healthcare and key advances in the major therapeutic areas.
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    Faber Poetry Library
    A collection of some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century. The Faber list spans the seventy year history of this major publishing house, and includes the poetry of James Joyce, Siegfried Sassoon, T.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney. In total The Faber Poetry Library contains 124 volumes by 42 poets.

    Part of the Literature Online collection.

    Factiva
    Articles from leading business journals, magazines, trade publications and newspapers with a broad selection of international content plus company and market data. Only three concurrent users allowed
    Facts On File World News Digest
    World News Digest brings together and enhances nearly seven decades of news from the renowned Facts On File World News Digest in print. This archival record of domestic and international news is updated weekly and contains more than 1 million internal hyperlinks and convenient new features such as tabbed search results. It covers all major political, social, and economic events since November 1940.
    Faculty of 1000 Biology
    Faculty of 1000 Biology highlights and reviews the most interesting recent papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 1000 selected leading researchers.
    Faculty of 1000 Medicine
    "Run by a team of almost 2500 of the world's leading researchers and clinicians, Faculty of 1000 Medicine provides a consensus view of important articles and trends across medicine. The functionality and organization of the database is similar to that of its sister service, Faculty of 1000 Biology. A new feature exclusive to Faculty of 1000 Medicine is the Clinical Impact label highlighting research findings that Faculty Members think will have an immediate effect on clinical practice. "
    Fama French Momentum and Liquidity (WRDS)
    Web queries for the Fama-French factors and portfolios, momentum factors, as well as Pastor-Stambaugh Liquidity Factors.
    Familiar Quotations Compiled by John Bartlett 10th Edition
    Usually known as Bartlett's Quotations, this edition was published in 1919. It contains over 11,000 searchable quotations.The 2002 print edition is available at Leavey Info Commons and Doheny Reference.Oxford Reference Online contains several online dictionaries of quotations published since 2002.
    Family & Society Studies Worldwide
    Family Studies Database is the world's most comprehensive, systematic, and non-evaluative resource of research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, and Human Development. FSD, including FAMILY, provides over 198,000 abstracts and bibliographic records drawn from over a thousand professional journals, books, popular literature, conference papers, government reports, and other sources, many of which are indexed exclusively in FSD. About 9,000 abstracts are added each year.
    Family Studies Abstracts
    Family Studies Abstracts (available through EBSCOhost) includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains over 45,000 records.
    FAMSI Research Materials: Explore Mesoamerica
    This database covers Mesoamerica, a cradle of early civilization and a geographical area covering parts of Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. It was occupied by ancient cultures with shared religious beliefs, art, architecture and technology from about 1500 B.C. to A.D. 1519--the time of European contact. With one search it is possible to retrieve information from all the FAMSI collections at once including the bibliographic and image collections. The collections include the Bibliografia Mesoamericana (an ongoing project) the Bibliography of Prehistoric and Early Historic Maya Human Osteology; the Catalogue of Zapotec Effigy Vessels; the Kerr Portfolio; the Mayavase Database; the Schele drawing and photo collections, the Tikal Digital Access Project and more. It is produced by the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI).
    FastWeb: Scholarships, Financial Aid, and Colleges
    Students fill out a detailed questionnaire about academic achievement,future plans, interests, and awards and then receive information onscholarships and internships for which they are eligible. The beauty ofthis site rests in its organizational features. Students can set upe-mail reminders about application due dates, mark favorites or deleteentries from their lists, e-mail descriptions to friends, and addpersonal notes about a scholarship. The site also contains advice ontest preparation, navigating the admissions process, and transitioningto college. FastWeb boasts that their database searches “1.3 millionscholarships worth over $3 billion,” making this a valuable resource forbusy students.
    FDIC (WRDS)
    The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation dataset contains financial data and history of all entities filing the Report Of Condition and Income (Call Report) and some savings institutions filing the OTS Thrift Financial Report (TFR). These entities include commercial banks, savings banks, or savings and loans.
    Federal Register (2003-2007)
    The Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders, meeting notices, and other presidential documents. Searchable by Code of Federal Regulations citation.
    Federal Reserve Bank Reports (WRDS)
    The Federal Reserve Bank Reports contains three databases collected from Federal Reserve Banks. Two of them (Foreign Exchanges and Interest Rates) come from reports published for the Federal Reserve Board (H.10 and H.15 reports). The other one contains the Coincident State Indexes from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
    Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
    Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
    FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus
    This essential tool for film studies, created by the International Federation of Film Archives, indexes more than 300,000 articles from 300 of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals, dating from 1972 onward. The database also incorporates the International Index to TV Periodicals (1979 - 1998); Treasures from the Film Archives, which identifies silent film holdings in archives around the world, and the International Directory of Film/TV Documentation Collections.
    Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text
    Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text is the definitive online tool for film and television research. It is a comprehensive bibliographic and full-text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews. The database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for 350 publications (and selected coverage of nearly 300), as well as full text for more than 100 journals and nearly 100 books
    FishBase
    Allows searching in multiple languages by both common and scientific name. It is produced by an international consortium of institutions led by the WorldFish Center. It includes environment, distribution, morphology, family, order, and class for economically important species, as well as photographs and maps. It is updated continually.
    Flu-Related Information
    Influenza Evidence-Based Information contains the latest information on the H1N1 flu and seasonal influenza for physicians, nurses, and patients. It will be updated throughout the flue season.
    Food and Drug Administration Publications
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration site provides information as befits its consumer protection role in regards to foods, cosmetics, drugs and medical devices. Information is linked under such categories as FDA News, Foods, Human Drugs, Biologics, Medical Devices/Radiological Health, Animal Drugs, Cosmetics, Field Operations/Imports, and Toxicology. The Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) provides the FDA Drug Approvals List and regulatory guidelines.
    Foreign Broadcast Information Service Electronic Index
    Index to FBIS Daily Reports issued from 1975-1996.
    Forrester
    Technology and market research from Forrester Research, Inc. focusing on the business implications of technology change.
    FRANCIS
    Multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (63%), social sciences (33%), and economics (4%)
    FreeBooks4Doctors
    FreeBooks4Doctors! is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical books over the Internet. Listing of over 600 free online books. Search by specialty or title. Subscribe to their Book Alert to be informed about new free books.
    Future Medicine
    a gateway to objective and authoritative information on medical advances in the post-genomic era, delivering concise, forward-looking perspectives on the scientific, clinical, economic and policy issues in modern healthcare. Future Medicine is part of the Future Science Group, an expanding group of independent companies active in the field of scientific information and endeavor.
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    Gale Virtual Reference Library
    Contains encyclopedias and reference books in a variety of subjects.
    Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
    The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is the first comprehensiveonline resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. Thisdatabase integrates text, images, as well as musical examples within theMusic Online interface.
    Gartner
    Research from Gartner, Inc., an information technology research and advisory company. Gartner works with clients to research, analyze and interpret the business of IT.Not all documents are available in full-text form. Use the "Advanced Search" feature to locate full-text articles available to USC users.
    GE Healthcare's Clinical Window
    Virtual Anesthesia Textbook, sponsored by GE Healthcare’s Clinical Window, has the goal of organizing all internet resources on anesthesia into one concise, textbook style website.
    GenderWatch
    GenderWatch is a full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. Subjects covered include: business, education, literature and the arts, health sciences, history, political science, public policy, sociology, gender and women's studies and more. The database provides in-depth coverage of the subjects that are uniquely central to women's lives. It includes content on the impact of gender and gender roles on areas such as: the arts, popular culture and media, business and work, crime and criminology, education, research and scholarship, family, health care and medicine, politics, policy and legislation, pornography, religion, sexuality and sexology, sports and leisure.
    Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, n-g-o and special reports. GenderWatch also contains archival material making it a repository of an important historical perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles and understandings over the last fifteen to twenty years.
    General Business File ASAP
    General BusinessFile ASAP Web provides a combination of indexing, abstracts and full text for business andtrade publications. Includes directory listings for companies as well as investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries.
    General Science Full Text
    Provides non-specialist and entry level coverage for a broad range of scientific fields in both general interest periodicals and specialized journals. Approximately 300 periodicals (many peer-reviewed) are indexed with in-depth abstracts, as far back as 1984.
    Access is through WilsonWeb(click on the radio button to specifically search this database). Complete contents included in Wilson OmniFile Full Text.
    GEOBASE
    Records covering the worldwide literature on geology, geography, and ecology.
    GeoRefS
    GeoRefS is an index of articles from over 25,0000 journals addressing geology and earth science. Updated twice a month.
    GeoScienceWorld
    This includes about fifty titles in the broad scope of earth sciences, including environmental geology, mineralogy, paleontology, seismology, etc., from a number of geologic societies around the world. It also includes links to open access journals and U.S. state governmental survey publications in earth sciences.
    Geriatrics at Your Fingertips
    Geriatrics At Your Fingertips is a comprehensive pocket-sized reference to clinical geriatrics that provides up-to-date, practical information on the evaluation and management of diseases and disorders most common to elderly people. Updated annually. The complete content is available on the GAYF web site, where versions for Pocket PC- and Palm-based PDAs are also available for download. Sponsored by the American Geriatrics Society (AGS), access is free, but you must register.
    Gerritsen Collection
    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.
    Global Financial Data
    Historical stock market, financial, and economic data. The GFD Database includes over 20,000 current and historical data series covering over 200 countries that have been collected from original sources.
    Global Legal Information Network
    Provided by the Law Library of the Library of Congress, the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) is a public database of official texts of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations. These GLIN members contribute the full texts of their published documents to the database in their original languages. Each document is accompanied by a summary in English and, in many cases in additional languages, plus subject terms selected from the multilingual index to GLIN. All summaries are available to the public, and public access to full texts is also available for most jurisdictions.
    Global Market Information Database
    International company, country, industry and market information. Search options include industries, countries, consumers, companies and geographies. User has ability to download reports in Word, Excel or PDF.
    Global Road Warrior
    Global Road Warrior, which sub-titles itself as 'the ultimate guide to the world' or 'the ultimate business travel guide" provides a broad range of practical information, available in twenty broad subject categories, for over 175 countries. Includes numerous maps and images.
    Gmelin Crossfire
    The CrossFire Gmelin database is the world's most comprehensive data collection in organometallic and inorganic chemistry, covering literature from the year 1772 to today. The database contains over 2.2 million compounds, more than 1.6 million reactions, and 1.1 million citations, including titles and abstracts from 1995. CrossFire Gmelin is fully searchable by structures, substructures, and reactions. The data are indexed from 62 journals (PDF: 129 KB). With simple queries, more than 800 chemical and physical data fields, including electric, magnetic, thermal, crystal, and physiological data can be accessed to provide relevant answer sets. CrossFire Gmelin answers informatics needs in the material science, catalyst, and semiconductor industries. CrossFire Gmelin also complements CrossFire Beilstein 's organic chemistry content. The Gmelin database is updated quarterly.Special Instructions:This database requires the MDL Commander software to run. The software can be downloaded from the Beilstein/Gmelin Help site.The Crossfire Beilstein (and Gmelin) databases are now available on two workstations in the Science & Engineering Library.Contact chemistry subject librarian Norah Xiao (nxiao@usc.edu) for the username and password that you will need to access Gmelin.
    Gnomon Online
    A database for ancient history, classical philology, and archeology, Gnomon is an international bibliographical index to monographs, journal articles, conference papers, essays in collections and dissertations in many languages. It can be searched from 1990-present by subject, author, keyword, and/or publication. Words within the citation are linked to additional articles.Includes a thesaurus that bridges the gap between English and German terms common to classical studies. In English, French, and German.Produced by the publisher of the journal Gnomon (Doheny Journal Stacks, PA3.G6).
    Goethes Werke
    The electronic version of "Goethes Weke" includes complete texts of the 143 volumes known as the definitive Weimar Edition. The database contains Goethe's entire literary and scientific work as well as personal letters and diaries, along with all illustrations, notes, exisitng literary variants and indexes included in the definitive Weimar Edition.The present e-edition also includes "Goethes Gesprache (Goethe's Coversations), edited by Woldemar Freiherr von Biedermann (Leipzig, 1889-1896) as well as Goethe's works edited by Paul Raabe (Munich, 1990). The extensive supplement includes all Goethe's letters discovered after the publication of the Weimar Edition.
    Google Maps
    Ah, finally - a map system that does it all. This free service offersdetailed street and terrain maps, robust locator tools to findaddresses/businesses/places, and a route planner for traveling by car,public transport, or walking. Live traffic conditions for several citiesare available as well. For those who need visual cues, Google Mapsprovides that too. Its fascinating "Street View" shows 360° panoramicstreet-level views, inviting users to virtually walk and explore thearea. This is available in many U.S. cities and in several countriesabroad. There is also a feature for those wanting to create their ownmaps. No more fumbling with folding paper maps, just click on this greatsite.
    Google Scholar
    Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

    Once you set your institutional preferences, links to fulltext, if available at USC, should appear.

    To set preferences, click on Scholar Preferences. Next enter USC into the search box, and click Find Library. Select University of Southern California, then click Save Preferences.
    GovSearch
    GovSearch provides searchable contact information for the Federal, State, Municipal and County government levels including Department of Defense and the top government and defense contractors. Provides access to biographies with photos, PDF and dynamic organization charts, maps, and government news.
    GPO Access
    GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted. GPO Access provides free online use of over 1,500 databases of Federal information in over 80 applications. A general search page provides the opportunity for searching one or multiple GPO Access databases from a single page, while specialized search pages allow you to perform more detailed searches. GPO Access databases include: Popular regulatory materials such as the Federal Register and The Code of Federal Regulations Critical Congressional products such as the Congressional Record and Congressional Bills.
    GPO Monthly Catalog
    GPO Monthly Catalog (available through FirstSearch) covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.).
    Grand Corpus des littératures française et francophone, du Moyen Âge au 20e siècle
    In total, more than 14,000 texts can be searched simultaneously; about 300 authors’ complete works are represented in this corpus.
    Graphic Novels Core Collections
    Trial access will expire on October 31, 2009.
    GreenFILE
    GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.
    Guardian (1821-2003) and Observer (1791-2003)
    The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
    Guide to Grammar and Writing
    A collection of advice on writing and usage containing definitions, suggestions, rules for spelling, information on diagramming sentences, etc. Includes numerous computer-graded quizzes. Capital Community College in Hartford, CT provides this site which has won numerous awards.
    Guoxuebaodian (Treasures of Chinese Classics)
    Several thousand Full-text Chinese classics covering literature, arts, drama, history, philosophy, military, medicine, etc.
    gutenberg-e
    The Gutenberg-e prize winning books represent the most distinguished and innovative scholarship delivered with creative and thoughtful use of digital technology. These books have undergone a rigorous academic review process by distinguished historians brought together by the American Historical Association and produced through a close collaboration between the authors and the electronic publishing staff at Columbia University Press. The books represent a range of historical subjects.
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    Hand Press Book Database
    The Hand Press Book file includes records for European printing of the hand-press period (c. 1455-1830) from the Consortium of European Research Libraries, whose 51 members represent national and university libraries in 25 countries. The Hand Press Book file currently includes nearly 800,000 records from the: Bavarian State Library (Bayerisches Staatsbibliothek, Munich) he British Library 17th Century German Catalogue (K17) The British Library Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue (ISTC) Institute for Union Catalogue of Italian Bibliographies (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico, Rome) National and University Library of Croatia (Nacionalna i Sveucilisna Knjiznica, Zagreb) National and University Library of Slovenia (Narodna in univerzitetna knjinica, Ljubljana) National Library of France (Biblioth
    HarpWeek 1857-1912
    The HarpWeek Database contains scanned images of Harper's Weekly, a prominent 19th- and 20th-century American magazine that began publication in 1857. Harper's was aimed at the middle and upper socio-economic classes, and tried not to print anything that it considered unfit for the entire family to read. In addition to the importance of illustrations and cartoons by artists like Winslow Homer and Thomas Nast, the paper's editorials played a significant role in shaping and reflecting public opinion from the start of the Civil War to the end of the century. The database currently has all issues from 1857-1912, covering the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age periods.
    Hartford Courant (1764 - 1984)
    The Hartford Courant (1764 - 1984) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue (May 24, 1764). The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
    Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online (HPSSS)
    HPSSS Online is a web resource that makes the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System accessible to researchers and students worldwide for the first time.The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System is a collection of some 700 interview transcripts conducted with refugees from the USSR during the early years of the Cold War. A unique source for the study of Soviet society between 1917 and the mid-1940s, it boasts vast amounts of one-of-a-kind data on political, economic, social and cultural conditions. Access to the HPSSS Online resource is unrestricted. A guide to using the project has also been posted on the site that details the methodological limitations and possibilities of this online resource at some length: http://hcl.harvard.edu/collections/hpsss/working_with_hpsss.pdf
    HathiTrust
    Health & Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)( Ovid )
    Provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the fields of health, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.
    Health Resources and Services Administration
    Includes information about grants available from HRSA's Bureau of Primary Health Care, the Bureau of Health Professions, Bureau of Maternal and Child Health, and the HIV/AIDS Bureau.
    HEALTHMap
    An interactive world map noting current diseases, as well as breaking reports of infectious diseases.
    HealthSTAR( Ovid )
    HealthSTAR contains citations to the published literature on health services, technology, administration, and research. It focuses on both the clinical and non-clinical aspects of health care delivery. The following topics are included: evaluation of patient outcomes; effectiveness of procedures, programs, products, services and processes; administration and planning of health facilities, services and manpower; health insurance; health policy; health services research; health economics and financial management; laws and regulation; personnel administration; quality assurance; licensure; and accreditation.
    HeinOnline Law Journal Library
    HeinOnline is an ever-expanding, comprehensive, image-based collection of legal periodicals. This online database offers a number of search and browse features that make it a very useful tool for the legal researcher.
    Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980
    USC's holdings of the American ethnic press are significantly enhanced with the addition of this collection from Readex Newsbank covering Hispanic American newspapers from 22 U.S. states published in the period 1808-1980. Searchable by dates and "eras", article types, languages, place of publication, and newspaper title.
    Hispanic-American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
    Locate articles in the humanities and social sciences from and about Latin America and related to Chicano and Latino studies from the Hispanic American Periodicals Index. Some fulltext available.
    Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)
    Covers history of the world, 1450-. Excludes the U.S. and Canada. Includes key history journals from major countries, as well as relevant selected journals from the social sciences and humanities. All abstracts are in English. Includes book reviews and dissertations.
    Historical Newspapers Online
    Historical Newspapers contains four major historical resources:
    • Palmer's Index to the Times which covers the period from 1790 to 1905 in The Times
    • The Official Index to the Times which takes the coverage forward from 1906 to 1980
    • The Historical Index to the New York Times which covers The New York Times from 1851 to September 1922
    • Palmer's Full Text Online, 1785-1870, providing access to the full articles referenced in Palmer's index to the Times
    Historical Statistics of the United States
    Historical Statistics of the United States has long been the standard source for quantitative indicators of American history.This is the fourth edition of Historical Statistics of the United States. The U.S. Bureau of the Census published the prior editions in 1949, 1960, and 1975, the last known as the Bicentennial Edition. Cambridge University Press publishes this, the Millennial Edition, with the permission of the Census Bureau. Some of the data and table documentation presented here are used without explicit quotation, but with permission, from the earlier editions. The Census Bureau takes no responsibility for the design of this edition or the accuracy of its content, which rests solely with the contributors, the editors, and Cambridge University Press.
    History Cooperative
    History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
    Access indexes on all resources about the history of science and technology.
    History Resource Center U.S.
    History Resource Center: U.S. provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journals covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes citations from over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index, as well as the entire "American Journey Online" series.
    History Resource Center World
    History Resource Center: World is a comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, an array of primary sources, and images, maps and charts which provide expansive geographic and chronlogic research materials for the study of world history. From ancient Europe to Latin America and from the Far East to the Renaissance, world history curricula is supported with over 1,800 primary sources, over 27 reference titles and more than 110 journals.
    Access expires 06/30/2010
    HIV InSite Knowledge Base
    An outstanding and comprehensive site providing in-depth information about HIV/AIDS. The site is produced by the University of California, San Francisco and all information found on the site has been selected by UCSF faculty and staff. Provides thorough coverage of research and clinical information, related social issues, prevention and education, Spanish language resources, statistics and status of the epidemic throughout the world. A comprehensive annotated list of related links is included.
    HLAS Online
    HLAS Online, the Handbook of Latin American Studies, is the major bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1935, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources.
    Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL)
    The Homeland Security Digital Library is composed of homeland security documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management collected from a wide variety of sources. These include federal, state, tribal, and local government agencies, professional organizations, think tanks, academic institutions, and international governing bodies. Resources are carefully selected and evaluated by a team of librarians and subject-matter specialists.
    Hoovers Online
    In-depth coverage of the world's top enterprises is at the core of our business tools and service that customers find vital to their operations. Hoover's editorial staff of editors and researchers brings business information and knowledge to its coverage, updating the site daily to bring subscribers up-to-date business information.
    House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
    Includes over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688. Page images are provided, with full text searching for each paper.
    Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective: 1907-1984
    Predecessor to Humanities Index Full-TextDatabase of 1,300,00 article citations (including over 240,000 book reviews) provides the ability to search nearly 1,200 journals from 1907 to 1984; many are peer-reviewed. Use it to find articles on events and topics at the time they occurred. In addition to coverage of the entire range of the humanities and social sciences for over 75 years, it also includes many important scientific journals through the 1950s. Combine with Humanities Full Text and/or Social Sciences Full Text to find articles over a 100+ year period.
    Access is through WilsonWeb(click on the radio button to specifically search this database).
    Humanities Full Text
    A bibliographic database that cites articles (many also with abstracts) in more than 550 journals from 1984 on (with links to other USC full-text resources), and full-text of articles from 200 publications as far back as 1995. Nearly 400 journals are peer-reviewed. Includes original works of fiction, drama, and poetry; book reviews; bibliographies; obituaries, etc. as well as reviews of dance, films, theatre, TV programs. Covers all humanities disciplines, including archaeology, communications, folklore, history, linguistics, performing and visual arts, and philosophy. Preceded by Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective, 1907-1984.
    Access is through WilsonWeb(click on the radio button to specifically search this database). Complete contents included in Wilson OmniFile Full Text.
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    I/B/E/S International (WRDS)
    The Institutional Brokers Estimates System provides consensus and detail forecasts from security analysts, including earnings per share, revenue, cash flow, long-term growth projections and stock recommendations.
    IBIDS Database
    The International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) is a database of published, international, scientific literature on dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals. IBIDS is produced by the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health to assist the public, health care providers, educators, and researchers in locating credible, scientific information on dietary supplements.
    IBISWorld
    America's largest business collection of regularly updated industry market research reports containing key statistics and analysis.
    IEEE Xplore
    A comprehensive database deliving full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics.
    Illustrata: Natural Sciences (CSA)
    Illustrata: Natural Sciences is the first in a series of CSA Illustrata databases of searchable tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from the scholarly research and technical literature," as noted by the publisher. The illustrations are indexed by subject, regardless of the subject of the articles in which they appear, so this database opens up never-before-retrievable resources.
    Images of the American Civil War
    This database, which currently holds over 1400 images, provides a vivid visual history of a nation in crisis. The images, which are drawn from the fields of battle, politics, and general society, allow students and researchers to experience the events, both monumental and mundane, of this critical war.
    images.MD
    Images.MD compiles over 45,000 images relating to clinical medicine, all derived from Current Medicine's series of illustrated atlases. Each image is accompanied by informative text written by over 2,000 contributing experts. Images can be saved in PowerPoint format and downloaded.

    Take the iMD Tour (requires Macromedia Flash Player).

    In the First Person
    In the First Person is a landmark index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. Future updates will contain full-text sources and hundreds of thousands of bibliographic records. The index will allow users perform in-depth field and keyword searches across all letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within Alexander Street Press databases, more than one million pages of editorially selected materials spanning 400 years.
    Index Islamicus
    The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It is produced by an editorial team working at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, established to transmit knowledge about Islamic and Middle East studies, which have traditionally been part of the curriculum of SOAS. Records included in the database cover almost 100 years of publications on the world of Islam. Material cited in the Index Islamicus includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level.
    Index of Christian Art
    The Index provides access to descriptive and bibliographic information on approximately 200,000 photographic reproductions of Christian art in the east and west from early apostolic times up to A.D. 1400. Many records include images. There is a particular emphasis and focus on art of the western world. Seventeen different media are represented in the archive, such as manuscripts, metalwork, sculpture, painting, glass, etc. Continues the work of Charles Rufus Morey
    Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals
    Indexes 42 art journals published in the US during the 19th century.
    Index to Legal Periodicals
    The complete contents of over 325 full-text journals indexed in this database are included in OmniFile Full Text. Many are peer-reviewed.Topics include banking, internet law, politics, sports law, and labor law.
    Access is through WilsonWeb(choose OmniFile Full Text, then "Legal" under the subject area to specifically search this database).
    Index to Printed Music (IPM)
    The Index to Printed Music (IPM) is an invaluable resource for musicresearchers and students. IPM is the only online resource for findingindividual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions, with over307,000 index records of individual music works. IPM records with detailedindexing include, but are not limited to: composers, formats, genres,librettists, performing forces (medium), and poets. A separate collectionauthority link makes it possible to search for titles of music collections,as well as individual compositions.
    Infoplease
    Online version of the Information Please Almanac.
    Informa Pharmaceutical Science
    Gateway to Informa Pharmaceutical Science journals online.
    Informe!
    Informe! This is a database with fulltext articles published from 1994 to the present on contemporary issues in Latin American studies. The sources include mostly Spanish language scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers from Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean.
    Informed Librarian Online
    THE INFORMED LIBRARIAN is a monthly compilation of the most recent tables of contents from over 250 valuable domestic and foreign library and information-related journals, e-journals, magazines, e-magazines, newsletters and e-newsletters.
    InscriptiFact
    The InscriptiFact Project is a database designed to allow access via the Internet to high-resolution images of ancient inscriptions from the Near Eastern and Mediterranean Worlds. The target inscriptions are some of the earliest written records in the world from an array of international museums and libraries and field projects where inscriptions still remain in situ. Included are, for example, Dead Sea Scrolls; cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia and Canaan; papyri from Egypt; inscriptions on stone from Jordan, Lebanon and Cyprus; Hebrew, Aramaic, Ammonite and Edomite inscriptions on a variety of hard media (e.g., clay sherds, copper, semi-precious stones, jar handles); and Egyptian scarabs. These ancient texts represent religious and historical documents that serve as a foundation and historical point of reference for Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the cultures out of which they emerged.
    Inside Radio
    INSPEC
    Scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing and control, and information technology. Produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) Information Division, the database is updated weekly.
    Institute of Physics
    This is the webpage of all IOP e-journals. Users can browse this list and find interested journals. To find out USC subscription, please go to the top right corner, and find “your subscription link” that has information of all IOP e-journals subscribed by USC Libraries.
    Integrated Database of Trade Disputes for Latin American and the Caribbean
    The Integrated Database of Trade Disputes for Latin American and the Caribbean provides information on the trade dispute systems in which Latin American and Caribbean countries participate. Integrated search option allows the user to specify complainant, respondent, subject, or object of the dispute. Database is made available online by the Division of International Trade and Integration of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
    Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
    The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), established in 1962, is an integral part of the infrastructure of social science research. ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction.
    International Civil Engineering Abstracts (ICEA)
    International Civil Engineering Abstracts provides online access to over 142,000 abstracts dating back to 1976 from the 150 most prominent journals in civil engineering. The ICEA accredited journal coverage list is compiled from the library holdings of civil engineering centres of excellence worldwide, such as the Institute of Civil Engineers and Imperial College, London.
    International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM)
    The international standard diagnostic classification for epidemiological and many health management purposes. Includes general analysis of population groups and monitoring of incidence and prevalence of diseases and other health issues relating to other variables. Used in classifying diseases recorded on health documents, including death certificates and hospital records, that provide the basis for the national mortality and morbidity statistics by WHO Member States.
    International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages
    The International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages-Online (IEMA),an entirely new supplement to the Lexikon des Mittelalters (LexMA), is being produced under the joint auspices of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Brepols Publishers; it will be made available at Brepolis, the Brepols site for online medieval encyclopedias, bibliographies, and databases. The chronological range of IEMA is 300-1500 CE, and it will cover all of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. IEMA will complement and fill in gaps in the coverage of the present Lexikon des Mittelalters (LexMA).
    International Financial Statistics Online
    The International Monetary Fund's International Financial Statistics provides, for most countries of the world, current and historic data on a wide range of economic and financial indicators.
    International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text
    IMP draws its current content from more than 370 international music periodicals from over 20 countries, and also indexes feature music articles and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post. IIMP covers nearly all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes.
    International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text
    IPA draws its current content from more than 100 international performing arts periodicals from 9 countries, and also indexes feature performing arts articles and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post. IIPA covers nearly all aspects of the world of the performing arts, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes. Most IIPA records in the current coverage (1998 forward) contain an abstract.
    International Medieval Bibliography
    The International Medieval Bibliography was founded in 1967 with the support of the Medieval Academy of America, with the aim of providing a comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) worldwide.
    International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (Ovid)
    Provides worldwide coverage of pharmaceutical science and health-related literature. Comprehensive information is included for drug therapy, toxicity, and pharmacy practice as well as legislation, regulation, technology, utilization, biopharmaceutics, information processing, education, economics, and ethics as related to pharmaceutical science and practice. Updated monthly.
    Internet Acronym Server
    The Internet Acronym Server is, as its name implies, a database of acronyms collected from the Internet for the best part of two decades. An acronym is a kind of abbreviation. Acronyms are usually made from the capitalized initials of the words it represents, for example FBI is an acronym for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Contrary to what some sources say, acronyms do not have to be pronounceable words.
    Internet Library of Early Journals
    ILEJ is a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, conducted under the auspice of the eLib (Electronic Libraries) Programme.

    The project has digitized selected twenty-year runs of three eighteenth- and three nineteenth-century journals and placed the images online at the site. Journals include: Annual Register (1758-78), Gentleman's Magazine (1731-50), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1757-77), Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843-52), Notes and Queries (1849-69), and The Builder (1843-9).

    Investext
    Reports and forecasts prepared by top Wall Street and international brokerage firms More than 11,000 U.S. and international companies and 53 industries are covered.
    IRI - Information Resources Inc. (WRDS)
    Point-of-sale information from more than 11,300 grocery stores, as well as 7,500 drug stores covering the period 1983-1997.
    ISI Emerging Markets
    Provides coverage of emerging economies in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America including articles, financial statements, industry analyses, equity quotes, macroeconomic statistics, and market-specific information.
    Issues & Controversies
    Explores more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture.
    ITER - Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).
    Bibliography of articles on medieval and renaissance topics.
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    J-STAGE (Japan Science & Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic) Freely Available Titles - English
    J-STAGE is an electronic journal site operated by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and it makes electronic journals issued by Japanese academic institutions available to the public via the Internet.
    JapanKnowledge
    JapanKnowledge is a portal to Japanese encyclopedias, dictionaries and databases.
    Jazz Music Library
    Jazz Music Library plans to be the largest and most comprehensive collectionof jazz available online-with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums,and genres. At launch, the collection includes works licensed from legendaryrecord labels, including Audiophile, Concord Jazz, Contemporary Records,Fantasy, Jazzology, Milestone, Nessa Records, Original Jazz Classics, Pablo,and Prestige. More tracks are added.
    Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
    This guide lists alphabetically key critics and dominant "schools" of critical thought from antiquity to modern times. Descriptive entries include bibliographies and hyperlinked cross references.
    Jorge Luis Borges Collection Digital Archive
    Provides bibliographic, textual, chronological and ilustrated matter from the Jorge Luis Borges Collection and Documentation Center of the Fundacion San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the world's largest colletion of materials related to this notable Latin America writer's life and works, which were created between 1913 and 1985. The database allows a variety of searches. Subjects covered are all those of interest to Borges: literature, culture, history,politics, philosophy, linguistics and art.
    Journal Citation Reports
    Allows evaluation and comparison of scholarly journals.
    Journals@Ovid LWW Legacy Archive
    Ovid provides access to biomedical databases and full-text journals. Databases include MEDLINE, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts, EBM Reviews, AIDSLINE, CancerLit, BioEthicsLine, Health and Psychosocial Instruments, HealthSTAR and Journals@Ovid.
    JSTOR
    A growing full text collection of core social science, humanities, and science journals. Some backfiles date back to the early 1800s. Fields covered include: anthropology, ecology, economics, education, finance, mathematics, philosophy, political science, sociology, literature, biology.

    For a complete list of periodicals available in full text, see http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.usc.edu/action/showJournals?browseType=title.

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    Karger Online
    Gateway to Karger Online medical journals.
    Kikuzo II Visual for Libraries
    Kikuzo II Visual for Libraries is a web-based news retrieval service from the publisher of Japan’s largest newspaper, Asahi Shimbun. Coverage includes over 7,650,000 articles from 1945 to present.
    Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
    An important reference work for chemical engineering, material science, and chemistry (copyright 2001; Wiley). It “presents a wide scope of articles on chemical substances—including their properties, manufacturing, and uses. It also focuses on industrial processes and unit operations in chemical engineering, as well as covering fundamentals and scientific subjects related to the field. Additionally, environmental and health issues concerning chemical technology are also addressed”.
    Knovel Library
    Subject Area - Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
    Knowledge Weavers
    Multimedia health sciences education resources from the University of Utah includes animations, tutorials, and image banks.
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    LA as Subject
    Hosted by the USC Libraries, L.A. as Subject is an alliance of research archives, libraries, and collections dedicated to preserving the rich history of the Los Angeles region. L.A. as Subject is working to increase the visibility of local archives and improve access to them for students, researchers, K-12 educators, and everyone else with a stake in Southern California history. L.A. as Subject promotes tools and mentoring to help its members with everything from preserving and cataloging materials in their collections to fundraising and public outreach.
    Landolt-Börnstein - Group I Elementary Particles, Nuclei and Atoms
    This is on-line version of Landolt-Börnstein, a systematic and extensive data collection in all areas of physical sciences and engineering. Subject areas are ranged in 8 groups, and within this online e-books collection, everything is searchable, and accessed as PDF format.Find the top-quality physical data easily via: Substance and Property Index and Subject Index A-Z
    Landolt-Börnstein - Group II Molecules and Radicals
    This is on-line version of Landolt-Börnstein, a systematic and extensive data collection in all areas of physical sciences and engineering. Subject areas are ranged in 8 groups, and within this online e-books collection, everything is searchable, and accessed as PDF format.Find the top-quality physical data easily via: Substance and Property Index and Subject Index A-Z
    Landolt-Börnstein - Group III Condensed Matter
    This is on-line version of Landolt-Börnstein, a systematic and extensive data collection in all areas of physical sciences and engineering. Subject areas are ranged in 8 groups, and within this online e-books collection, everything is searchable, and accessed as PDF format.Find the top-quality physical data easily via: Substance and Property Index and Subject Index A-Z
    Landolt-Börnstein - Group IV Physical Chemistry
    This is on-line version of Landolt-Börnstein, a systematic and extensive data collection in all areas of physical sciences and engineering. Subject areas are ranged in 8 groups, and within this online e-books collection, everything is searchable, and accessed as PDF format.Find the top-quality physical data easily via: Substance and Property Index and Subject Index A-Z
    Landolt-Börnstein - Group V Geophysics
    This is on-line version of Landolt-Börnstein, a systematic and extensive data collection in all areas of physical sciences and engineering. Subject areas are ranged in 8 groups, and within this online e-books collection, everything is searchable, and accessed as PDF format.Find the top-quality physical data easily via: Substance and Property Index and Subject Index A-Z
    Landolt-Börnstein - Group VI Astronomy and Astrophysics
    This is on-line version of Landolt-Börnstein, a systematic and extensive data collection in all areas of physical sciences and engineering. Subject areas are ranged in 8 groups, and within this online e-books collection, everything is searchable, and accessed as PDF format.Find the top-quality physical data easily via: Substance and Property Index and Subject Index A-Z
    Landolt-Börnstein - Group VII Biophysics
    This is on-line version of Landolt-Börnstein, a systematic and extensive data collection in all areas of physical sciences and engineering. Subject areas are ranged in 8 groups, and within this online e-books collection, everything is searchable, and accessed as PDF format.Find the top-quality physical data easily via: Substance and Property Index and Subject Index A-Z
    Landolt-Börnstein - Group VIII Advanced Materials and Technologies
    This is on-line version of Landolt-Börnstein, a systematic and extensive data collection in all areas of physical sciences and engineering. Subject areas are ranged in 8 groups, and within this online e-books collection, everything is searchable, and accessed as PDF format.Find the top-quality physical data easily via: Substance and Property Index and Subject Index A-Z
    LANIC: Hispanic/Latino Resources
    Meta site, Latin American Network Information Center, at the University of Texas, provides links to a wide range of country and subject information available on the internet and related to Latin America and US Hispanics.
    Latin America Data Base
    The LADB is a news analysis and information service in English from Latin American sources and related to Latin American topics in the social sciences. Particular coverage of Mexico and Central America.
    Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)
    The Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)is a searchable Web database that provides access to the tables of contents of more than 950 journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America. The participating libraries of the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project have accepted institutional collecting responsibilities for the journals included in the database. The database currently contains citations for over 325,000 articles. Request LAPTOC articles from USC's interlibrary loan service.
    Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP)
    LAPOP is hosted by Vanderbilt University. It began with the study of democratic values in Costa Rica when much of the rest of Latin America prohibited studies of public opinion (and systematically violated human rights). Today such studies can be carried out openly in virtually all countries in the region. The AmericasBarometer, one of the many and growing activities of LAPOP, is the only survey of democratic public opinion and behavior that covers the Americas. It is an effort by LAPOP to measure democratic values and behaviors in the Americas using national probability samples of voting-age adults. In 2004, the first round of AmericasBarometer surveys was implemented with eleven participating countries; the second took place in 2006 and incorporated 22 countries throughout the hemisphere. In 2008, which marks the latest round of surveys, 23 countries throughout the Americas were again included, and over 36,000 individual.
    Latino Literature: Poetry, Drama, and Fiction
    This is the most comprehensive database in this field, with more than 100,000 pages of fiction and poetry representing Chicano and Latin American writers working in the United States. The drama section will soon include over 450 plays, with 500 photographs on the Hispanic Theater. The majority of works are from the 20th c., from the Chicano Renaissance to the present day. The groups represented are Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Argentineans, Dominicans, and Central Americans. Supplementary items included are playbills and performance material, poetry readings, book presentation flyers, book covers, and photographs. All items are indexed and linked to the texts. Texts are in English or Spanish.
    Left Index
    Focused on the political, social, economic and cultural issues of the Left, the Left Index has been under production since 1982 and contains nearly 60,000 records (many with abstracts since the year 2000). The database indexes more than 150 journals focused on the political, social, economic and cultural issues of the Left. The journals are thoroughly reviewed for relevant scholarship and research. The Left Index has been under production since 1982 and contains nearly 60,000 records (many with abstracts since the year 2000). The database indexes more than 150 journals focused on the political, social, economic and cultural issues of the Left. The journals are thoroughly reviewed for relevant scholarship and research.
    Lexicons of Early Modern English
    LEME searches and displays word-entries from monolingual English dictionaries, bilingual lexicons, technical vocabularies, and other encyclopedic-lexical works, 1480-1702.
    Lexicool
    This web site provides a searchable directory to over 6000 freelyavailable online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries.Searches may be entered by language(s), subject, or title/keyword.Search results provide the number of entries and links to the onlinedictionaries. The site also provides a directory of translation andinterpreting courses, a listing of translator and interpreterassociations worldwide, language resources, freeware to download andlinks to sites for currency conversion, text analysis and languageidentification. Language-related software and products may be purchasedat the website.
    Lexikon des Mittelalters Online
    is an indispensable research tool for medievalists of all disciplines. Based upon the most important encyclopaedia in the world for medievalists (published in German between 1977 and 1999), LexMA’s 36,700 signed articles written by 3,000 authors covers all aspects of medieval studies within the period 300 to 1500. Its geographical scope covers the whole of Europe, part of the Middle East, and parts of North Africa to document the roots of Western culture and those of its neighbours in the Byzantine, Arab and Jewish worlds.
    LexisNexis Academic
    Database of full text online news, business, financial, legal, medical, biographical, government and domestic and international newspaper resources.

    For a complete list of periodicals available in full text, see http://cisweb.lexis-nexis.com/marketsource/productTitles.asp

    Notice:
    Please check all license agreements posted on the Lexis/Nexis Website at http://www.lexisnexis.com/terms/general. Failure to follow the Terms & Conditions may result in revocation of the Lexis/Nexis license for the University of Southern California. Furthermore it is expressedly forbidden to write search scripts to search this databases.

    LexisNexis Congressional
    This database indexes and abstracts a broad spectrum of Congressional publications, including hearings (testimony), committee prints, reports, documents, and full text of bills and public laws. It also includes the full text and status of bills, the full text of the Code of Federal Regulations, the Federal Register, the Congressional Record, selected hearing testimony, and two periodicals, the National Journal and the Congress Daily. Additional features include directories of Congressional members, their biographies, and data about campaign financial disclosure information and contributions. There is also a guide to creating citations.

    For a complete list of resources available in full text, see http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/form/cong/h_contch.html

    LexisNexis State Capital
    CIS State Capital Universe is the world's most comprehensive access to state government information from Congressional Information Service, Inc. The service provides access to:
    • state bills and laws
    • constitutions
    • proposed and enacted regulations
    • newspapers of record
    • articles about legislative issues affecting the states
    • legislature membership

    Users can search for information about one state, any combination of states, or all 50 states from a single source.

    LexisNexis Statistical
    Statistical Universe abstracts include a detailed description of a publication's statistical contents and primary bibliographic information like title, date, collation, agency report number (if any), and periodicity. Whenever possible, the Superintendent of Documents classification number, the Library of Congress card number, the Government Printing Office (GPO) Monthly Catalog entry number, the GPO stock number, and the depository item number are also included. The abstract may also contain two hypertext links - one to the agency's World Wide Web site where the full text of the publication may be viewed and downloaded; the other to the full text on Statistical Universe, where the publication can be viewed, downloaded and accessed section by section or table by table.
    LGBT Life
    LGBT Life is the premier resource to the world's literature regarding Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Transsexual issues. Comprehensive coverage includes traditional academic, lifestyle, and regional publications, as well as non-periodical content such as non-fiction books, bibliographies and dissertations. Disciplines include athletics, health, law, sociology, family, religion, civil liberties, employment and entertainment.
    LibDex
    LibDex is a website which serves as a directory of libraries of all types (though it appears not to be comprehensive in its coverage) in dozens of countries around the world. Access is first by country and then by city. Information fields, not all of which are completed, are provided for a library's web pages, hours, contact information, web catalog, systems vendor, and descriptive information.
    Library Literature and Information Science
    The complete contents of over 155 full-text journals indexed in this database are included in OmniFile Full Text. Many are peer-reviewed.Topics include preservation, copyright, library conferences, publishing, and censorship.
    Access is through WilsonWeb (choose OmniFile Full Text, then "Library & Information Science" under the subject area to specifically search this database).
    Library of Congress Classification Outline
    The Library of Congress Classification Outline presents in broad outline form the Library of Congress Classification Schedule, broken down by letter and combination of letters and then by numerical divisions within each letter or combination of letters, i.e., J, JC, JC49, etc.
    Library of Congress Web site
    The Library of Congress's home page, linking to an extraordinary wealth of information including the Library's atalogs and its very significant digital collections.
    Library of Latin Texts (LLT-A)
    A major database for Latin texts, the LLT-A (formerly the CLCLT) contains texts from the beginning of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus, 240 BCE) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). It contains over 60 million Latin words drawn from more than 3100 works that are attributed to about 950 authors. It covers all the works from the classical period (texts come from the /Bibliotheca scriptorium Romanorum Teubneriana/Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina I )/, the most important patristic works as well as non-Christian literature from ca. 200 C.E to 735; an extensive corpus of medieval literature from 735 to 1500 (taken from the /Corpus Christianorum/); and Neo-Latin literature (1501-1965), including 16th century translations into Latin of important medieval works.Currently containing over 2 million words, additions will continue to be made.
    LibriVox
    LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain (no longer subject to copyright restrictions). LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. The goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.
    Life Magazine
    The entire run of the preeminent U.S. photojournal, /Life /Magazine, has now been ditigized and indexed. It was published weekly from 1936 to 1972, and covered all aspects of American life, as well as important overseas events. Many important photographers, such as Margaret Bourke-White, Karsh, and Gordon Parks, contributed images, some of which have since become icons. Search is by keyword only.
    Life Science Dictionary
    Searchable and browsable glossary contains terms associated with genetics, biochemistry, general biology, chemistry, pharmacology, toxicology and medicine.
    Linda Hall Library's Digital Collections: Science, Engineering and Technology
    The Library has a very strong engineering and technology collection, made even stronger by the acquisition of the Engineering Societies Libraries in 1995. The Library’s major emphasis in engineering is on collecting important current research material. In addition to civil engineering, applied mechanics and related disciplines are the most extensively covered subjects in the Library’s collection. The collection includes meeting papers from many engineering societies including the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME).Acquisition of the collection of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) broadened an already strong collection in Aerospace engineering and history. This collection includes an extensive collection of individual papers collected by AIAA as well as NASA papers.
    Linguistics Abstracts Online
    Database that abstracts over 55,000 articles in linguistics from over 600 journals since 1985.
    Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
    LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts) provides non-evaluative abstracts of articles from approximately 2,000 serials published worldwide, coverage of monographs, recent books, technical reports, occasional papers, enhanced dissertation listings from Dissertation Abstracts International, and bibliographic citations for book reviews that appear in journals abstracted for LLBA.
    Linscott's Directory of Immunological and Biological Reagents
    LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts
    Index to over 550 periodicals in the areas of librarianship and information science.
    Literature Criticism Online
    LCO is comprised of 10 collections of English-language scholarly and popular commentary on literary works in most languages ranging from the classical to Shakespeare to contemporary publications. Covers not only novels but also poetry, short stories, and drama. Entries are in-depth and include bibliographies. Search by key words, author, title, or browse by works, authors, and topics.
    Literature Online (LION)
    A fully searchable library of over 300,000 works of English and American literature, overseen by an academic Advisory Board. Broken into 4 parts: the Master Index, Literary Database, Reference Works, and Web Resources.

    The databases USC has subscribed to within LION are as follows:

    • African-American Poetry (1750-1900)
    • American Poetry (1600-1900)
    • American Poetry 2 (1901-1997)
    • The Bible In English (990-1970)
    • Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare (1591-1911)
    • English Drama (1280-1915)
    • English Poetry (600-1900)
    • Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1700-1780)
    • Modern Poetry
    • Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia
    • Cambridge Encyclopedia
    • King James Bible
    • Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged
    Literature Resource Center
    Biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers. Integrating the Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, and Children's Literature Review, this database is augmented with full-text critical material. Biographical information is also included for screenwriters, journalists, and nonfiction writers. For copyright reasons, some material from the print resources listed above may not be available in full-text.

    The Literature Resource center includes the full text of Merriam-Webster

    Litfinder
    International in scope, LitFinder covers all time periods and contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 125,000 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, and thousands of full-text short stories, essays, speeches and plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs and a glossary. A subject navigator provides more than 10,000 subject headings, and basic and advanced search modes allow users to search by keyword, author, subject, work title, work date, nationality, gender, timeline and more. International in scope, LitFinder covers all time periods and contains a wealth of primary literature content, including more than 125,000 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts, and thousands of full-text short stories, essays, speeches and plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs and a glossary.
    LLMC-Digital
    LLMC is a non-profit cooperative of libraries dedicated to the twin goals of, preserving legal titles and government documents on film, while making copies inexpensively available either in microfiche format or digitally through its on-line service /LLMC-Digital. /Currently 1,786legal titles for U.S. federal law and the law of U.S. states, U.S. territories,Anglo-American collections, foreign jurisdictions, international law and organizations, and multi-jurisdiction subject collections are available.
    Local and Regional History Online
    Local and Regional History Online: A History of American Life in Images and Texts is a unique new resource cultivated from Arcadia Publishing's award-winning series of local history books. At completion, it will include over 1 million historical images and texts, celebrating the places and faces that give America its spirit and life. All of the images and texts have been indexed to provide an unprecedented level of access into the contents, enabling users to explore the depth of a town's history or to compare the histories of various towns, cultures, ethnic groups, architectural features, and more.
    Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005)
    The Historic Los Angeles Sentinel provides full-text access to THE most important African-American newspaper published in Los Angeles, from its founding in 1946 through 2005.
    Los Angeles Times (1881-1986)
    The Los Angeles Times (1881-1986) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue (Dec. 4, 19981). The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue
    Los Angeles Times (1985-)
    Full-text major daily newspaper from Los Angeles. With the nation's largest editorial department, it offers extensive coverage of national, international, and local news. Coverage: 1985-current.
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    MagazinePlus
    MagazinePlus is the largest multi-disciplinary indexing database of academic periodicals and articles in Japan.
    Making of Modern Law
    Thomson Gale has digitized two entire legal treatise collections to make The Making of Modern Law possible. By digitizing the primary documents contained within Primary Source Microfilm's Nineteenth Century Legal Treatises and Twentieth Century Legal Treatises collections and adding the power of full-text searching, The Making of Modern Law brings nearly 10 million pages of legal history from America and Britain to researchers around the world in a matter of minutes. This archive, from one of the most important periods of legal development, is the world's most comprehensive full-text collection of Anglo-American legal treatises anywhere. It allows for full text searching of more than 21,000 works from casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more - all separated into 99 subject areas.
    Making of Modern World
    The Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850" provides digital facsimile images on every page of 61,000 works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. Full-text searching on more than 12 million pages provides researchers unparalleled access to this vast collection of material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.
    MarketResearch.com Academic
    Market research reports from several sources covering a wide range of industries, services and products. Content includes industry interviews, competitive analysis, market trends, product innovations, buyer behavior, and market share.
    MathSciNet
    MathSciNet is the searchable Web database providing access to over 55 years of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications.

    MathSciNet covers Mathematical Reviews (in full-text) from 1940 to the present. Mathematical Reviews provides timely reviews or summaries of articles and books that contain new contributions to mathematical research. Items listed in the annual indexes of Mathematical Reviews but not given an individual review are also included. The approximately 1600 current serials and journals indexed and reviewed in whole or in part by MathSciNet are listed in the Abbreviations of Names of Serials which may be viewed in PDF format or as a browsable listing.

    Search tips are here: http://www.ams.org/msnhtml/index_help.html

    MD Consult Dental Collection
    Gateway to Dental e-books available from MD Consult.
    MD Consult Expanded Clinics Series
    Gateway to 63 Elsevier Clinics series on a broad array of clinical topics.
    Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts
    Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the serials literature in mechanical and transportation engineering and their complementary fields, including forensic engineering, management and marketing of engineering services, engineering education, theoretical mechanics and dynamics, and mathematics and computation. This database provides in depth, comprehensive coverage of the international engineering literature as well as numerous non-serial publications. Sources covered include over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases. USC Libraries access this abstracts from CSA, with coverage from approximately 1966-current and update on monthly basis.
    Media Newswire
    Media Newswire is a press release distribution service. Small, medium and corporate communications use the service to distribute their latest press releases to journalists, editors, news portals and also news search engines.
    Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO)
    An essential resource for the study of Britain and its place in the world during the medieval and early modern period (c. 1100-1800). Combines the key printed sources for English, Irish, Scottish and Colonial history with original manuscripts. The printed sources contain a large repository of state papers, chronicles, accounts and correspondence from the archives of Britain, Ireland and continental Europe. Original manuscript images are taken from the English State Papers held at the National Archives in London, United Kingdom.
    MEDLINE (FirstSearch)
    MEDLINE search engine that enables search over 39 medical databases
    MEDLINE (Ovid)
    The database, produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is most frequently utilized for health sciences topics. It contains citations from more than 3,900 English and foreign language journals in the basic and clinical sciences and encompasses the printed Index Medicus, the Index to Dental Literature, and the International Nursing Index. Includes full-text articles from approximately 1400 journals.
    MEDLINEPlus Health Information from the National Library of Medicine
    National Library of Medicine-selected Web sites covering diseases, conditions, and wellness issues. Oriented towards consumers.
    MedReviews Journals
    Gateway to MedReviews journals, including: Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, Reviews in Gastroenterological Disorders, Reviews in Neurological Diseases, and Reviews in Urology.
    MedTerms Medical Dictionary
    Created by MedicineNet.com, this dictionary has over 9000 medical terms. Written by board certified physicians and scientists, the definitions are frequently more detailed than those in other resources.
    MedTrack
    Database of private and public biomedical and pharmaceutical companies. Pipeline, financial, competitive product, deals, mechanism of action, partnering and patent information on biomedical companies and products worldwide. Information can be filtered by disease, competitive products, clinical trials, partnering status, financials and more.
    Merck Manuals
    Free online medical information guides for patients, caregivers, healthcare professionals and chemists.
    Mergent Online
    U.S. Company Data. An Internet-accessible subscription service covering 10,000 public companies and their SEC filings
    International Company Data. More companies from more countries than any other international database, with global searching across databases.
    Mergent WebReports
    The Mergent WebReports provides online access to the Moody's/Mergent manuals. These manuals provide corporate histories, business descriptions, and information on properties, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt, financial statements and municipal debt. The database covers the following manuals: Industrial Manual (1920-present) Public Utility Manual (1914-present) OTC Industrial Manual (1970-present) OTC Unlisted Manual (1986-present) Transportation Manual (1909-present) International Manual (1981-present) Bank and Finance Manual (1928-present), Municipal & Government (2005-present).
    METADEX
    METADEX is the only comprehensive source for information on metals and alloys. Begun in 1966, METADEX contains over 1 million references and is the database equivalent of Metals Abstracts and Index.
    Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts
    Contains records drawn from the World's literature on meteorology, climatology, atmospheric chemistry and physics, astrophysics, hydrology, glaciology, physical oceanography and environmental sciences. Summaries from over 600 journal titles, as well as conference proceedings, books, technical reports and other monographs are included. MGA is produced by the American Meteorological Society and is published by CSA, with coverage from 1974 – current and update on monthly basis.
    Middle English Compendium
    The Middle English Compendium offers access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, based on the MED bibliographies, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, as well as links to an associated network of electronic resources.
    Mideastwire.com
    An Internet-based service of translated news briefs covering key political, cultural, economic, and opinion pieces appearing in the Arab media.While there are now more than 500 Arabic and Persian news outlets reporting stories from and about the Middle East, there is currently no affordable means for English speakers to gain access to much of this content. Mideastwire.com aims to close this gap by offering daily translated briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing in the Arab media. Currently, the service covers news from all twenty-two Arab countries, Iran, and the Arab diaspora generally, with coverage that extends across the North Africa region as well as including the United Kingdom and other countries that host Pan-Arab media. The site includes a fully searchable archive containing thousands of briefs coded by subject categories (women, judicial, energy etc), specific news sources (Al Hayat, Al Jazeera, Al Quds Al Arabi etc), countries, general topics (opinion, business etc.), and keywords.
    Mint Global
    US and international company information from Bureau van Dijk including Datamonitor market research and company reports (same content as Orbis with a different interface).
    MIT CogNet
    The Brain and Cognitive Sciences Community Online featuring MIT Press journals and books, job postings, library resources, graduate studies information, seminar announcements and calls for papers.
    MLA Bibliography
    Index to scholarly publication in literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from over 4000 journals and series published worldwide. Indexing only: no full text.
    Modernist Journals Project
    The MJP is a multi-faceted resource for the study of modernism, with periodical literature as its central concern. The historical scope of the project has a chronological range of 1890 to 1922, and a geographical range that extends to wherever English language periodicals were published. With magazines at its core, the MJP also offers a range of genres that extends to the digital publication of books directly connected to modernist periodicals and other supporting materials for periodical study.
    Monastic Matrix
    A scholarly resource for the study of women's religious communities from 400 to 1600 CE.
    Morningstar Direct
    Global investment database and analytics. Please contact the Crocker Business Library for access.
    Music Index Online
    The editor-librarians at Harmonie Park Press survey data from more than 640 international music periodicals and review new journals for possible inclusion. Topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music are carefully categorized and organized according to the framework of an internal Subject Heading List. A broad range of subjects are indexed, covering musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries.
    Music Online
    With Music Online, Alexander Street Press aims to provide the mostcomprehensive database in streaming audio, video, reference, and scores onthe web. Music Online allows users cross search all of the music databasespublished by Alexander Street Press. Music Online can cross-search anycombination of these databases: African American Music Reference, AmericanSong, Classical Music Library, Classical Scores Library, Contemporary WorldMusic, Dance in Video, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online, JazzMusic Library, and Opera in Video.
    Musical America
    An international directory of the performing arts. The site includes music industry news, upcoming events, press releases, on-line polls, articles and a directory of artists and management.
    Mutopia Project
    Mutopia is a growing collection of sheet music editions of classical music for free download.
    Mutual Funds Links (MFLINKS) (WRDS)
    Provides a reliable means to join CRSP Mutual Fund (MFDB) data that covers mutual fund performance, expenses, and related information to equity holdings data in the TFN/CDA S12 datasets.
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    NARIC Knowledgebase
    NARIC's databases and directories cover a wide range of disability and rehabilitation issues. This site includes: NARIC Knowledgebase which contains agencies, organizations, publications, and Internet resources; REHABDATA, an extensive database of disability and rehabilitation literature abstracts; the NIDRR Program Directory which lists disability and rehabilitation research projects; and Calendar of Events which lists national and international events with a disability or rehabilitation focus.
    NASA Astrophysics Data System Journals
    The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project which maintains four bibliographic databases containing more than 3.6 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics, and preprints in Astronomy. The main body of data in the ADS consists of bibliographic records, which are searchable through the Abstract Service query forms, and full-text scans of much of the astronomical literature which can be browsed though the Browse interface. Please note that all abstracts and articles in the ADS are copyrighted by the publisher, and their use is free for personal use only. For more information, please read ADS' page detailing the Terms and Conditions regulating the use of the resources. In addition to its databases, the ADS provides access and pointers to a wealth of external resources, including electronic articles, data catalogs and archives, and currently have links to over 4.6 million records maintained by the collaborators.
    NASA Images
    Created through a partnership between NASA and the Internet Archive, NASA imagines offers public access to NASA's image, video, and audio collections in a single, searchable resource. “The site contains everything from classic photos to educational programming and HD video, and is growing all the time as we continue to gain both new and archived media from all of NASA's centers. Through the development of nasaimages.org we hope to promote education and facilitate scholarship in the math and sciences at all levels, and to build general interest and excitement around space exploration, aeronautics, and astronomy”.
    National Geographic.com
    A web portal from the publisher of the National Geographic Magazine. Provides access to reprints of articles from various National Geographic Society publications, accessible by subject, as well as photographs and science and environmental news.
    National Institutes of Health Resources
    Free online health information from the US Government’s medical research agency.
    National Journal Group's Policy Central
    the National Journal Group is a leading source of nonpartisan reporting on the current political environment and emerging policy trends. Their Policy Central web site allows you to track the development of public policy with archives dating back to 1977; get forward-looking, twice-daily insight on the key players, behind-the-scenes deals, and political strategies and alliances in Congress; obtain coverage of the media's coverage of important developments from hundreds of print, online and broadcast sources; research the largest database of over 5,000 public opinion surveys on political races, important issues and national figures; and, track political and issue campaigns with streaming video of 3,500 television advertisements.
    National Newspaper Abstracts
    Abstracts and indexing for New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal.
    National Ocean Service
    The National Ocean Service (NOS) studies, monitors, and protects coastaland marine areas in the United States. The NOS web site offers detailedinformation about the agency’s activities, including access toeducational videos and weekly podcasts on various coastal sciencetopics. The site also hosts more than 1,000 up-to-date nautical charts,tide level data updated every 10 minutes, and beautiful photography inan image gallery. Teachers will find games, activity suggestions, andlesson plan ideas for students in grades 3-12. This site is an excellentresource for students, teachers, mariners, and anyone interested inAmerica’s coastal ecology.
    National Palace Museum Online
    Free trial from April 8th to June 6th 2009
    National Sea Grant Library
    The National Sea Grant Library, NSGL, (formerly known as the National Sea Grant Depository) was established in 1970 as an archive and lending library for Sea Grant funded documents. These documents cover a wide variety of subjects, including oceanography, marine education, aquaculture, fisheries, limnology, coastal zone management, marine recreation and law.
    National Service Center for Environmental Publications
    This site was designed to provide easy access to EPA’s publications and simple navigation to other services which may help in locating environmental information. Frequently asked questions are divided into two sections, those questions directly relating to the site and services and those which are typically asked by the general public relating to a myriad of environmental issues. Includes more than 26,000 digital publications available free of charge.
    NationMaster.com
    NationMaster is a freely available website compiling data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. Allows users to quickly generate maps and graphs.
    Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database
    Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database allows the user to search or browse for a wide variety of names of products, as well as interactions, effectiveness, and diseases and conditions.Each product monograph in the Database and its associated Safety Ratings, Effectiveness Ratings, and Interaction Ratings are supported by the best available scientific evidence. This evidence is systematically identified, critically evaluated, and applied using the same standards used to evaluate evidence related to other therapies. Evidence that is highly relevant and valid is given greater weight than evidence that is less relevant or reliable. When evidence does not exist or is severely deficient, which is often the case, this deficiency is clearly acknowledged in the Database with a statement indicating a lack of data.
    Naxos Music Library
    Naxos Music Library is the world's largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 35,540 CDs with more than 506,700 tracks. The library offers the catalogs of more than 50 classical, jazz and world music labels with more labels joining every month. The aim of NML is to eventually offer access to every work of classical music ever recorded and to become the ultimate resource in the classical music field. In future, users will also be able to view the instrumentation of all orchestral and chamber music works and to access comprehensive analyses of all the most important works.
    Naxos Music Library – Sheet Music
    The Naxos Music Library offers over 45,000 sheet music titles in all classical genres, spanning music from Medieval to the 21st century and composers from Bach to Arvo Part. You can download the music easily and print using the FreeHand Solero viewer, available for download on the site.
    Naxos Musical Library Jazz
    Naxos Music Library Jazz is one of the most comprehensive collections ofjazz music available online. It offers over 20,000 tracks of jazz from over2,000 albums. Hundreds of jazz, blues, and R&B artists - from the U.S. andaround the world - are represented.
    NBER Working Papers
    Research from the National Bureau of Economic Research, founded in 1920, is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. The NBER is committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community.
    NCBI Bookshelf
    NetAdvantage
    A comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering on-line access to Standard & Poor's independent research, data and commentary on stocks, bonds, funds, and industries. Content includes detailed tock reports, company profiles, bond reports, corporation records, mutual fund reports, security dealers directory and industry surveys.
    NetLibrary eBooks
    This web site provides access to the full-text content of 4,274 e-books purchased by the USC Libraries from netLibrary. The books are searchable by both author and title. In addition, all books included in this collection are accessible through Homer.
    New Jacoby online
    Brill's New Jacoby (BNJ)/ is a new edition of the 856 fragmentary historians that comprise F. Jacoby's monumental /Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker Parts I-III/, but with significant additions. Each author has a Greek text (updated from that of Jacoby where relevant); facing English translation; new, critical commentary (for the first time for authors 608-856, on which Jacoby did not write commentaries); a brief encyclopedia-style entry about his life, works, importance, etc.; and a select bibliography. /BNJ/ will also include several new authors and many fragments of existing authors that were either unknown to Jacoby or excluded by him. (Depending on the topic they deal with, new authors will be given the same number as the preceding one followed by an A or B in order to distinguish them.) Jacoby's numbering system has been retained so that readers may also consult /FGrH/ without having to refer to a concordance.
    New Pauly online
    The online equivalent of the print edition of both New Pauly and Neue Pauly (available in Doheny Reference/Classics, Call No. DE5.N4813 2002).This work provides authoritative coverage of the ancient world, from the prehistory of the Aegean (2d millennium BCE) to late antiquity, with a special section devoted to the history of the classical tradition and the history of classical scholarship. Scholarly articles, many illustrated with maps, site plans, genealogical tables, and photos.It is automatically updated whenever a new print volume is published.If you need to make extensive use of this database, you should read "Fonts, special characters, and appearance of the text," on the Welcome page.
    New York Times (1851-2006)
    The New York Times (1851-2006) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue (September 18, 1851). The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
    New York Times (1980-)
    Full-text coverage of the US newspaper of record. Offers superb coverage of national and international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions, and presidential press conference transcripts.
    New York Tribune (1841-1922)
    The New York Tribune (1841-1922) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue April 10, 1841). The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
    NewsBank Retrospective
    NewsBank Retrospective is a full-text, newspaper information resource with news articles from 1970-1991. The database covers major issues and events from contemporary American history including firsthand reports and varying regional perspectives. Coverage is from dozens of U.S. local newspapers, including twenty-two titles from California alone.
    Newspaper Abstracts
    Items abstracted include news articles, reviews, editorials, editorial cartoons, and commentaries. Covers national and regional U.S. newspapers including the Atlanta Constitution, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Washington Post. Updated weekly.
    Nineteenth-Century Fiction
    250 novels from the period 1782 to 1903, including works by all the major Victorian novelists such as Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes, Eliot and Hardy, as well as the landmarks of Gothic and other fiction from the Romantic period.

    Part of the Literature Online collection.

    NLM Gateway
    The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, MEDLINEplus, DIRLINE, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, Space Life Sciences Meetings, and HSRProj
    NOAA Central Library Publications
    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration site resources available include government documents, photographs, maps, and rare and archival materials. Disciplines covered include weather and atmospheric sciences, oceanography, ocean engineering, nautical charting, marine ecology, marine resources, ecosystems, coastal studies, aeronomy, geodesy, cartography, mathematics and statistics.
    North American Women's Letters and Diaries
    This is a primary full-text digital collection of over 150,000 pages of diaries and letters related to the experiences of 1,325 women. It covers women in North America from Colonial times to around 1950.
    NYSE TAQ (WRDS)
    The Trade and Quote database contains intraday transactions data (trades and quotes) for all securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and American Stock Exchange (AMEX), as well as Nasdaq National Market System (NMS) and Small Cap issues.
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    Oceanic Abstracts (Full archive)
    Oceanic Abstracts is focused exclusively on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment. This includes physical oceanography, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics. Updated monthly.
    OncoLink
    Cancer information for patients, physicians, and academic oncologists from the University of Pennsylvania. Search either by disease or medical specialty. Includes clinical trials, conferences and meetings, and information on financial issues for patients.
    Online Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease (OMMBID)
    Comprehensive text on genetic disorders and the molecular and metabolic underpinnings of diseases as well as updates on pathophysiology and treatment. Includes chapters on the history of the inborn errors of metabolism, their impact on health, and their response to treatment. Covers genetic perspectives, basic concepts, how inherited diseases occur, diagnostic approaches, and the effects of hormones, as well as coverage of specific syndromes and specific body systems affected by disease.
    OnlineConversion.com
    This site boasts that one can “convert just about anything to anythingelse.” And with 50,000 conversions and 5,000 units, it has an impressiverange. Sure, it has the popular conversions: length, temperature, speed,volume, weight, cooking, area, fuel economy, and currency. But it alsocontains measurements for women’s clothing sizes between countries,light-years, density, torque, horse height, meeting room size needed forattendees, gauge and much more. There is even a “Fun Stuff” categorythat is practically addictive where users can find their age in dogyears, convert their names into Morse code, determine their weight onMars, and verify how many days until retirement! Indispensible.
    Open J-Gate
    Open J-Gate is a web portal to 5,693 Open Access Journals, 3,296 of which are peer-reviewed. The journals are searchable by title, publisher, and subject.
    Opera in Video
    Opera in Video will contain 250 of the most important operaperformances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, anddocumentaries. Selections represent the world's best performers, conductors,and opera houses and are based on a work's importance to the operatic canon.The collection presents an overview of the most commonly studied operas inmusic history, opera literature, and performance classes. Multipleperformances and stagings worldwide of the major operas allow for analysisof stage design, vocal techniques, roles, and musical interpretation acrosstime periods, opera houses, and conductors.
    OpticsInfoBase
    Optical Society of America (OSA)'s online library for OSA flagship journals and for partnered and co-published journals. It contains recent proceedings from OSA and has a variety of simple and advanced search and browse features for locating articles. Good for users in engineering and physics science fields.
    Orbis
    US and international company information from Bureau van Dijk including Datamonitor market research and company reports (same content as Mint Global with a different interface).
    Orchestral Music Online
    Orchestral Music Online is the online version of David Daniels's classicrepertoire reference work used by conductors, orchestras, musicians, andmusicologists. The database provides access to information on more than 6700works by some 900 composers, and allows searching by duration,instrumentation, chorus type, and soloists.
    OSIRIS
    US and international public company information from Bureau van Dijk.
    OSIRIS DVD’s
    Historical data on public companies from Bureau van Dijk. Please contact the Crocker Business Library for access.
    OTSeeker
    This database contains abstracts of systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials relevant to occupational therapy. Trials have been critically appraised and rated to assist in evaluation of their validity and interpretability. These ratings will help in judging the quality and usefulness of trials for informing clinical interventions.
    Oxford Art Online
    Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with annual additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links and all the sophisticated search advantages possible with an online reference source.
    Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
    Subtitled "The people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond," the Oxford DNB covers noteworthy people in any walk of life who were connected with the British Isles and British history worldwide (/e.g.,/ Benjamin Franklin Empress Eugenie of France, Mahatma Gandhi). Contains signed, scholarly articles, many with extensive bibliographies, of 57,000 individuals, 6,000 of whom are women, who died in 2005 or earlier. Includes thematic interactive maps (e.g., British gardeners) and over 450 theme articles (reference lists, groups, and feature essays). Updated 3 times/year
    Oxford Digital Reference Shelf
    This is a portal into the individual major Oxford reference titles, to most of which USC subscribes. Click on the link to each title to search within that particular resource.
    Oxford encyclopedia of Latinos & Latinas in the United States
    This landmark scholarly work offers comprehensive, reliable, and accessible information about the fastest growing minority population in the United States. With an unprecedented scope and cutting-edge scholarship, the Encyclopedia draws together the diverse historical and contemporary experiences in the United States of Latinos and Latinas from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Central America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Over 900 A-to-Z articles written by academics, scholars, writers, artists, and journalists, address such broad topics as identity, art, politics, religion, education, health, and history. The Encyclopedia fills a void in the historical scholarship of an underserved population.
    Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
    This scholarly work offers comprehensive, reliable, and accessible information about the fastest growing minority population in the United States. The Encyclopedia draws together the diverse historical and contemporary experiences in the United States of Latinos and Latinas from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Central America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Over 900 A-to-Z articles written by academics, scholars, writers, artists, and journalists, address such broad topics as identity, art, politics, religion, education, health, and history.
    Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation
    A definitive source of 1,200 entries pertaining to the entire range of religious and social changes that altered the face of Europe in the sixteenth century, encompassing not only issues of church polity and theology but also developments in politics, economics, demographics, art and literature.
    Oxford English Dictionary
    "The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3). Updated quarterly

    The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

    The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet."

    Oxford Islamic Studies Online
    This authoritative, dynamic resource brings together the best current scholarship in the field for students, scholars, government officials, community groups, and librarians to foster a more accurate and informed understanding of the Islamic world. Oxford Islamic Studies Online features reference content and commentary by renowned scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture, and is regularly updated as new content is commissioned and approved. Encompassing over 3,500 A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur'anic materials, primary sources, images, maps, and timelines, Oxford Islamic Studies Online offers a multi-layered reference experience designed to provide a first stop for anyone needing information and context on Islam.
    Oxford Journals Science Archive
    Provides access to a search interface that retrieves articles across all Oxford titles; searches can be limited to specific subject categories. The USC Libraries subscribe to all of the “Science Archive” titles and to many, but not all other Oxford titles.
    Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
    OLDO provides fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials. It features over 4 million words, phrases, and translations. Includes Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish into and out of English with pronounciation software.
    Oxford Latin American Economic History Database (OxLAD)
    It contains statistical series for a wide range of economic and social indicators covering twenty countries in the region for the period 1900-2000. Its purpose is to provide economic and social historians with a systematic recompilation of available statistical information in a single on-line source. The data presented provides comprehensive coverage while ensuring consistency and intercountry comparability as possible. Produced by the Latin American Centre of Oxford University.
    Oxford Music Online
    Grove Music Online is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition; 29 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition; 3 volumes). Grove Music Online will be updated annually to ensure it remains the most up to date music reference work on the Internet.
    Oxford Reference Online: Premium
    The Core Collection brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource. For more information on features go to:

    http://www.oxfordreference.com/pub/views/intro.html

    Oxford Scholarship Online
    Access is for OSO Economics and Finance', 'OSO Religion and Theology', 'OSO Philosophy' and 'OSO Political Science'.
    Oxford Text Archive
    The Oxford Text Archive (OTA) collects, catalogues, preserves and distributes high-quality digital electronic texts and other literary and language resources for research and teaching. It currently holds thousands of texts in more than 25 different language (e.g., Middle High German, Ancient Greek, and Sanskrit).
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    PAHO Publications
    The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is an international public health agency working to improve health and living standards of the countries of the Americas. The site includes free full-text articles on a number of public health topics and provides relevant data and statistics.
    PAIS Archive
    • Provides selective subject and bibliographical access to periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, and other English-language materials published around the world.
    • Contains more than 700,000 records, originally published in the PAIS Bulletin, 1915-1976.
    • Complements the contemporary coverage of the PAIS International database, also available on FirstSearch.
    • Links to external resources (JSTOR, NYPL Express)
    PAIS International
    A selective list of the latest books, periodical articles, government documents, pamphlets, microfiche, and reports of public and private agencies relating to business, economic and social conditions, public policy and administration, and international relations. The system provides selective subjects and bibliographic access to periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, Internet resources, and other publications from 120 countries. Materials are in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish with English language abstracts and subject headings. The database contains more than 480,000 records, each with bibliographic information and brief, descriptive abstracts.
    Papers of George Washington Digital Edition
    This collection, produced by Rotunda/University of Virginia Press, encompasses five separate series and the complete diaries, providing access to the complete Papers released through 2007 in one online publication. You may search on full text and by date, author, or recipient across all volumes and series. The indexing of the individual print volumes is combined here into a single master index, and all internal document cross-references are linked.
    PapersFirst
    Published information received by The British Library Document Supply Center.
    PapersInvited
    The database consists of detailed information and deadlines about calls for papers for forthcoming conferences and special issues of scholarly journals. These calls for papers are issued by professional bodies, journal editors and other conference organizers in all disciplines and from all over the world. Thus, the database serves as an alerting service for researchers, scholars and students that are seeking opportunities to present and publish their research. Approximately 10,000 conferences are listed each year along with 1,200-1,500 special issues. These are fully searchable by name, acronym, organizer, location, publisher, topic and other fields. Important dates such as Last Day for Submission of Abstracts or Manuscripts are clearly labeled and are provided well in advance of the event or proposed publication date.
    PARES: Portal de archivos espanoles
    A portal and database created by Spain's Ministerio de Cultura containing more than twenty million documents and digital images from the principal Spanish archives, including the Archive of the Indies and Archive of the Spanish Civil War.
    Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
    The rolls of parliament were the official records of the meetings of the English parliament from the reign of Edward I (1272 - 1307) until the reign of Henry VII (1485 - 1509), after which they were superseded by the journals of the lords and, somewhat later, of the commons. The rolls, which amount in total to over four million words, were first edited in the eighteenth century and published in 1783 in six folio volumes. This new edition reproduces the rolls in their entirety, plus those subsequently published by Cole, Maitland, and Richardson and Sayles as well as a substantial amount of material never previously published, together with a full translation of all the texts from the three languages used by the medieval clerks It also includes an introduction to every parliament known to have been held by an English king (or in his name) between 1275 and 1504.
    Patrologia Graecae
    The Patrologia Graecae Database contains 161 volumes plus index and represents a complete electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Graecae (1857-1856). Includes all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes, and Migne's column numbers.
    Patrologia Latina Database
    The Patrologia Latina Database contains 221 volumes and represents a complete electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina (1844-1855 and 1862-1865). Includes all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes, and Migne's column numbers,
    PEDro
    PEDro, the Physiotherapy Evidence Database, has been developed to give rapid access to bibliographic details and abstracts of randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. Most trials on the database have been rated for quality to help quickly discriminate between trials which are likely to be valid and interpretable.
    Penn World Tables (WRDS)
    Provides national income accounts-type of variables converted to international prices. The homogenization of national accounts to a common numeraire allows valid comparisons of income among countries.
    Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers, 1500-1700
    This collection contains digital images of about 400 manuscripts from the 16th and 17th centuries compiled by women in the British Isles. The texts consist of poetry, religious writing, autobiographical material, cookery and medical recipes, and accounts.
    Periodical Abstracts
    Abstracts of general and academic journals in a variety of subjects.
    Periodicals Index Online
    Periodicals Index Online is an electronic index to millions of articles published in over 5,500 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. Periodicals Index Online is unique in combining a broad subject base with deep chronological coverage going back over 300 years. It covers 37 key subject areas in the humanities and social sciences and offers vast variety within these subject areas. Periodicals Index Online currently indexes over 18 million articles going as far back as 1665 and every article in each journal is indexed, from volume 1 issue 1 to recent times. Cataloging in Periodicals Index Online is not limited by language or by date. Over three centuries of scholarly publication in 40 languages and dialects are indexed, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages.
    PERSEE - Portail de revues scientifiques en sciences humaines et sociales
    Established by the French Ministry of State Education, Higher Education and Research, Persée is a portal for 60 full-text French scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities. The journals begin with vol.1, and a number of them date from the 19th century.
    Perseus Digital Library
    A library of materials pertaining to Ancient Greece, which is expanding to include resources on Ancient Rome. Includes lexica, a morphological database, catalog of hundreds of vases, sculptures, coins, buildings, and architectural sites, an atlas of Greece with satellite maps, a historical encyclopedia, works of literature, and many other resources.
    Philosopher's Index
    Indexes and abstracts articles from over 500 English and foreign language philosophy journals.
    PHLX (WRDS)
    The Philadelphia Stock Exchange's United Currency Options Market (UCOM) offers choice of expiration date, strike (exercise) price, premium payment and any combination of 10 currencies currently available for a total of 100 possible currency pairs.
    PILOTS (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress)
    The PILOTS bibliographic database covers the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress. Produced at the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, its goal is to include citations to all literature on PTSD and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage from 1871 to present day, updated monthly.
    Play Index
    Indexes over 31,000 plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949. An invaluable aid to finding the perfect plays to match any group's production resources, Play Index covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including mysteries, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio and television plays, and classic drama. Search for plays by title; author; subject (sisters, culture conflict, marriage); style (symbolism, experimental theater); genre (comedy, melodrama, musical); cast type. Play Index provides the full publication details needed to locate the play in its published manifestations. For plays published separately, the publisher, date, pagination, ISBN, and LC number are given. Plays in collections link to full bibliographic information.
    Access is through WilsonWeb(click on the radio button to specifically search this database).
    Poem Finder
    Poem Finder indexes 600,000 poems and includes over 50,000 poems in full-text. Covering poetry from antiquity to the present from around the world from 3,000 anthologies, 4,500 single-author works, and periodicals such as The New Yorker. Poems are available only in English translation. Includes full bibliographic information for poem sources. The database is continually updated
    PolicyFile
    PolicyFile includes information addressing virtually all aspects of public policy. Specific themes listed include: Arms Control, the Commonwealth of Independent States, Democratization, the Department of Defense, Economic Policy, Education Policy, the European Union, Global Economics and International Trade, Health Policy and Health Care Reform, Human Rights, Immigration, Intelligence, Latin America, Science and Technology Policy, State and Local Issues, Terrorism, and Urban Policy. The database can be browsed by primary contributor or thematically and all abstracts have been linked to Home Pages, electronic mail addresses and full text documents, where available.
    Polling the Nations
    Database of public opinion polls taken on a variety of subjects. Although the database contains polls from all over the world, the majority were conducted in the United States. Each record in the database consists of one poll question and the participants' responses. Also includes source of poll, contact information, sample size, and notes on the sample population. Records are searchable by subject, publication year, general and specific location of poll and survey method.
    Pollution Abstracts
    This CSA database covers both research and governmental sources. Topics include: Air Pollution; Marine Pollution; Freshwater Pollution; Sewage and Wastewater Treatment; Waste Management; Land Pollution; Toxicology and Health; Noise; Radiation, and Environmental Action.
    Primal Pictures
    Primal Pictures Interactive Anatomy ia a dynamic interactive multimedia overview of human anatomy featuring three-dimensional animations that illustrate function, biomechanics, and surgical procedures. Clinical videos and textual descriptions by leading specialists supplement the animations and models.
    ProceedingsFirst
    Citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library. Updated 24 times a year.
    Project Gutenberg Online Catalog
    Project Gutenberg was the first producer of free electronic books (ebooks). This is their catalog of what they have digitized and made available. There are presently nearly 30,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog. In addition, a grand total of over 100,000 titles are available at Project Gutenberg Partners, Affiliates and Resources.
    Project MUSE - Premium Collection
    Full text of Johns Hopkins journals in the humanities and social sciences.
    Projekt DYABOLA
    DYABOLA provides access to subject catalogs of publications on the history of art and the ancient world. The most important is the Realkatalog des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Rom, the most comprehensive database for classical archaeology, dating back to 1956. Indexes books, festschrift, journals, and collected works on antiquities, art, and archaeology in the Mediterranean world from antiquity through the early Medieval period.
    Check the box that says "IP-Access," then click "Start" button. You will see a list of the databases to which USC subscribes; click the flag for the language you want.
    PROLA - Physical Review Online Archive
    The American Physical Society's online archive for /Physical Review Letters/, /Reviews of Modern Physics/, and /Physical Review A–E/. It contains all APS journal articles published from 1893–2005. Each January, another year is added to the archive. Searching and browsing abstracts are free; and full-texts are available to USC Libraries’ eligible users.
    ProQuest Civil War Era
    This database provides access to the full runs of eight newspapers from 1840-1865 and nearly 2000 pamphlets focusing on the entire Civil War era, from Manifest Destiny through the end of the Civil War. Materials were specifically selected for regional and diverse perspectives they offer; newspapers include /Richmond Dispatch/, /Charleston Mercury/, /New Orleans Times Picayune/, /Boston Herald, New York Herald, Columbus State Journal/, /The Kentucky Daily Journal,/ and the /Memphis Daily Appeal./ Pamphlets come from two important collections: Slavery and Anti-Slavery Pamphlets from the Libraries of Salmon P. Chase & John P. Hale and Civil War Pamphlets 1861-1865.
    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses-Full Text
    Included are approximately 650,000 titles, with around 55,000 titles added each year.
    ProQuest Historical Annual Reports
    The corporate annual reports of the past are a rich source of information for scholars in business, economics, and history. ProQuest Historical Annual Reports offer historical information on companies, including financial performance, key officers, competitors, and market trends.
    ProQuest Latin American Newsstand
    Full-text coverage is available for 41 titles from all over Latin America, commencing in most instances with either 2004 or 2005.
    ProQuest Religion
    An article database, mainly full-text, pertaining to all aspects of the study of religion, dealing with historical foundations to contemporary issues.
    ProQuest Research Library
    ProQuest Research Library is a multi-disciplinary index suitable for both undergraduates and graduate students. It covers dozens of subject areas and indexes thousands of general and scholarly titles and provides full-text for a significant number of the articles included. It is an excellent starting place for research for a paper, particularly if one isn't sure where to begin their research.
    Psychiatry eBooks Online
    PsychiatryOnline is a web-based portal that features DSM-IV-TR— the most widely used psychiatric reference in the world—and The American Journal of Psychiatry among other electronic psychiatric references from American Psychiatric Publishing.
    Psychiatry Legacy Collection Online Journals 1844-1997
    The journal backfiles project of American Psychiatric Publishing. Covers more than a century of psychiatry through six peer-reviewed psychiatry dating back to 1844 and includes The American Journal of Psychiatry, the oldest continuously published medical specialty journal in the United States. Fully searchable, high-resolution scans were created from the original printed pages for easy online reading and printing.
    Psychiatry Online
    PsychiatryOnline is a web-based portal that features DSM-IV-TR—the most widely used psychiatric reference in the world—and The American Journal of Psychiatry among other electronic psychiatric references from American Psychiatric Publishing.
    PsycINFO
    Journal articles, chapters, books, dissertations and reports on psychology and related fields.
    • Includes international material selected from periodicals written in over 25 languages since 1887
    • Includes current chapter and book coverage with worldwide English-language material published from 1987-present
    • Adds over 55,000 references annually through monthly updates

    PsycINFO Search Tutorials (three levels -- quick, advanced, command) are here:http://md1.csa.com/help/tutorials.html

    PubChem
    PubChem is a search tool for chemical information, divided into threeareas: Compounds, Substances, and BioAssays. Full entries providedetailed information with the most basic information—a generaldescription, the molecular weight and formula, the structure, plus aTable of Contents (ToC) for the full entry—all easily found “above thefold.” Use the ToC or scroll down to retrieve more advanced information,such as bioactivity results, synonyms, chemical actions, detailedproperties, and more. Each module is fully interlinked with the othersections of PubChem as well as resources in ToxNet and PubMed, providingfull access to toxicology resources and the medical literature, andallowing users access to as much or as little of the chemicalinformation as they need.
    Public Administration Abstracts
    Provides the most current information on public administration-related publications worldwide. Organized in one convenient resource, this service presents concise, descriptive summaries of the most relevant journal articles and books in the public administration field today. Each abstract gives complete bibliographic data in a format that lets you easily select the material you need. Approximately 1,200 abstracted articles are provided annually covering such areas as administration and economy, administration and politics, administration and society, administrative structures and organization, public and social services, public service personnel, and theory and method.
    Public Library of Science (PLoS)
    PLoS publishes a peer-reviewed open-access scientific and medical journal in each of the following areas: Biology, Computational Biology, Genetics, Medicine, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Pathogens and PLoS One, cutting across all areas of science and medicine. Articles may be read, downloaded, copied, distributed, and used (with attribution) any way you wish.
    Public Life In Contemporary Argentina
    A resource for Latin American studies, comparative politics, sociology, gender studies, media in political organizing, political and social groups, social anthropology and history, it presents an extensive grass roots view of Argentina and the recent social and political changes that have taken place from 1997 through 2003. Users are able to access the voices of citizens at the neighborhood-level. Search is by author, keyword, type of movement, geographic area, date, source and type of document. The sources of information go beyond standard press coverage and government declarations to emphasize the words of participants in social and political movements changing Argentina. Groups documented include civic associations of social protest, neighborhood work, confrontations with authorities and staged events; bartering networks created to enhance counter-trade of goods and services among the unemployed; political parties; and more.
    PubList
    Requires registration
    PubMed Central
    PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
    PubMed@USC
    Provides access to the MEDLINE database, customized for USC users
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    R2 Digital Library
    R2 is a web-based application that aggregates health sciences book content from leading publishers in a single platform. Collections include medical, nursing and allied health e-books.
    RAND California
    RAND California provides a variety of information about the state of California.
    • California Statistics: statistical tables on business and economics, population and demographics, education, health, government finance, and politics and public opinion.
    • Online Library: information and links to publications from leading California public policy and research institutions.
    • California Policy Bulletins: summaries of state government news, published twice monthly (generally on the second and fourth Mondays) when the state legislature is in session and occasionally during other periods.
    Rarebooks.info
    Rarebooks.info was founded a little over two years ago with the aim of providing a comprehensive bibliography of books on rare books available for consultation on the internet. Rarebooks.info so far comprises over 600,000 pages of key out-of-print bibliographies that can be browsed and searched transversally online. Important reference books available on line include Goff, Brunet, Sabin, and Lipperheide, among many others. These are not e-texts; they are scanned facsimiles of the actual books. It also offers a Reference Gateway, which provides bibliographic resources to books on books in more than 100 subject categories. Both the online facsimiles and the Reference Gateway are updated on an ongoing basis.
    RCL web
    RCL is the successor to the third edition (1988) of Books for College Libraries. A core list of hand-selected print and electronic titles, RCL benefits from the expertise of more than 300 subject editors and contributors covering 58 curriculum-specific subject areas.
    Readers Guide Retrospective
    This database is comprised of over 3 million article citations from approximately 375 magazines. It provides original coverage of now-historical events from the perspective of when they occurred, as well as contemporaneous criticism of literature and the visual and performing arts. Contains primarily articles in popular magazines, providing articles relating to popular culture, including sports, health & medicine, gardening, fiction, etc.Combine with Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective for coverage of all subjects dating to 1890, or with Wilson OmniFile Full Text to search for articles to the present.
    Access is through WilsonWeb(click on the radio button to specifically search this database).
    Readers' Guide Full Text Select
    A bibliographic database that provides the full text of articles in over 200 magazines as far back as 1994. Includes links to websites cited by articles for broader research. This is a database of popular magazines, providing articles relating to popular culture, including fashion, crafts, literature, music, travel, current events, etc.
    Access is through WilsonWeb (click on the radio button to specifically search this database). Complete contents included in Wilson OmniFile Full Text.
    Reaxys
    Web-based Beilstein and Gmelin
    Reference Universe
    Reference Universe provides online access to more than 20,000,000 authoritative citations in almost 20,000 electronic and print reference resources, including Gale Virtual Reference Library and Oxford Reference Online.
    ReferenceUSA Business Database
    Provides in-depth information on public and private US businesses. Especially useful for finding lists of smaller or regional companies. Data Includes:
    • Company Name
    • Address
    • Phone Number
    • Fax Number
    • Estimated Sales Volume
    • Number of Employees
    • Type of Business (SIC Code or Yellow Page Heading)
    • Key Contact Names, Titles and Gender
    • Credit Rating Code
    • Geo Codes
    • Size of Company
    • Year Established
    Refworks
    "RefWorks is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows users to create their own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. They can use these references in writing their papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds. First time users should sign up for an individual account and select a username and password. From USC computers and for those using USC dial-up or VPN, no group code is required. The group code is needed when logging in remotely to your account from non-USC connections.The group code is RWUSC."
    REHABDATA
    REHABDATA, produced by the National Rehabilitation Information Center, describes over 70,000 documents covering physical, mental, and psychiatric disabilities, independent living, vocational rehabilitation, special education, assistive technology, law, employment, and other issues as they relate to people with disabilities. The collection spans 1956 to the present.
    Rekishi Chimei Taikei
    ResearchNow
    This is the web portal for journals published by the Berkeley Electronic Press (BEP) and subscribed to by USC. BEP publishes high quality peer-reviewed journals in the fields of economics, business and marketing, law, political science and international studies, health and medicine, and science and technology. In addition the web site provides access to a collection of open access working papers and pre-prints as well as showcasing the scholarship of contributing faculty members in their "Selected Works" section
    Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (RIPM)
    The Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals is one of four international cooperative bibliographic undertakings in music, alongside Le Repertoire international des sources musicales (RISM), Le Repertoire international de litterature musicale (RILM), and Le Repertoire international d'iconographie musicale (RIdIM). "These are, without doubt, the most important current bibliographic documentation projects in the field of music research."1 Of the four "Rs" RIPM alone focuses on nineteenth-century music and musical life. RIPM was established to provide access to eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century periodical literature dealing with music. While the importance of this monumental documentary resource has long been recognized by the musicological community, RIPM represents the first effort to undertake and to coordinate retrospective periodical indexing on an international scale.
    RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
    International bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines.
    RISM (International Inventory of Musical Sources)
    The International Inventory of Musical Sources (RISM) is an international, non-profit joint venture which aims to comprehensively document the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory and libretti stored in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections. Fifty years of careful research and joint initiatives sponsored by RISM brings together among others more than 380,000 works by over 18,000 composers into one database which can be easily searched. The manuscripts are found in over 595 libraries and archives in 31 countries including: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, Uruguay and USA.
    Roman de la Rose Digital Library
    A joint project of the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.The goal of the Roman de la Rose Digital Library is to create a digital library of all extant manuscript copies of the Roman de la Rose, of which at least 270 are known to exist. We expect to have full digital surrogates of about 150 of these manuscripts available here by the end of 2009.
    Roper Center iPOLL
    The first time you log in you will have to answer a couple of general questions and agree to User Terms, but after that you will just need your email address.
    Roper Center Public Opinion Archives (with iPOLL)
    The Roper Center maintains an archive of public opinion survey data. And allows users to search a database of survey questions (iPoll) or download data files directly (RoperExpress). Users will need to enter their USC email address to access data. For quick polling statistics by subject, check out the link to “Topics at a glance”.
    Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
    Articles cover all major subject areas within philosophy. All schools and traditions in both western and non-western philosophy are examined. Current bibliographies are provided after each article.
    Royal College of Psychiatrists
    Gateway for access to Royal College of Psychiatrists historical publications Asylum Journal of Mental Science (1855-1857) and Journal of Mental Science (1857-1962), which is now the British Journal of Psychiatry.
    Royal Historical Society Bibliography
    The Royal Historical Society bibliography is an authoritative guide to what has been written about British and Irish history from the Roman period to the present day. The Bibliography is hosted by the Institute of Historical Research, which is part of the University of London.Over 420,000 entries Updated three times a year (last data upgrade: 31 October 2006) Separate records for articles in journals and in collective volumes, as well as for books; 580 journals are searched for relevant material.
    Royal Society of Chemistry Journals Archive
    The Royal Society of Chemistry's online archive of all RSC journal articles published from 1841 to 5 years from present. Each January, another year is added to the archive. Searching and browsing abstracts are free; and full-texts are available to USC Libraries’ eligible users.
    RSS4Lib
    The ticTOCs service aggregates the tables of contents (TOCs) from 11,470 scholarly journals from 422 publishers, for a total of 296,186 full-text articles. (You or your institution must have access to the full text of these journals to view them; the table of contents, though, is free.)
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    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.
    Safari Technical Books
    Safari Techbooks Online provides e-books from the publishers specializing in computer application user and training manuals. These publishers imprints include such well-known names as Addison-Wesley, Alpha, Financial Times Prentice Hall, Cisco Press, New Riders, O'Reilly, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall PTR, Que and Sams. The Safari collection also includes some business and management texts.Users of this database can search, browse and read e-books online right from a browser, no additional software is needed.
    SAGE eReference
    Salem Health
    Virtually all of the content in Magill’s Medical Guide and Salem Health: Cancer is available online, including illustrations and sidebars, indexes, appendixes and other back matter. Cross-references in the form of “See Also” boxes will link directly to appropriate articles. Key terms, used in the body of articles, will link to a complete “Glossary.” “Further Information” citations are extensive and authoritative. Article citation information is included with every article.
    Salem History
    This resource provides online access to the complete content of Salem Press’s printed reference series owned by USC. These include The Decades (Salem’s critically acclaimed American History series); Great Lives from History (a worldwide biographical resource); Great Events from History (covering worldwide events); and more. Users can browse by curricular area (American History; Western Civilization/European History; Women’s History; and World History) or use Basic and Advanced Search features (to search by time period, gender, geographical area, keyword, curriculum, and more).
    San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922)
    Historical full-text backfiles of The San Francisco Chronicle from ProQuest supplement USC's already rich holdings of historical newspapers. Not earthquakes, not fires, not even the murder of one of its owners by a minister could stop the independent and often irreverent presses of the San Francisco Chronicle. Founded by two teenage brothers in 1865 when the West was still wild, this newspaper lets researchers travel back in time to experience the completion of the transcontinental railroad, the Klondike gold rush, the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906, America's entry into World War I, and many other events that shaped both the City by the Bay and the United States. As part of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers(TM) program, the San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922) has been digitized from cover to cover. It can be cross-searched with the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and other important historical newspaper titles, letting researchers track the news as it travelled across the country and around the globe.
    SBRnet (Sports Business Research Network)
    Sports Business Research Network provides market research and industry news for the sports industry. SBRnet's site combines market research from the largest single research supplier to the industry, the National Sporting Goods Association; the U.S. Department of Commerce; various sports governing bodies; and full-text articles from 14 magazines and newsletters published by VNU, the world's largest sporting goods trade publisher, and newsletters provided by leading independent industry experts.
    SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online
    A model for cooperative electronic publishing of scientific journals on the Internet, conceived to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countries, particularly Latin America and the Caribbean countries, it provides an efficient way to assure universal visibility and accessibility to their scientific and other scholarly literature. The SciELO collection is continually updated and currently includes 630 scholarly peer reviewed journals, from Spain, Portugal, several South American countries and Cuba, which predominantly publish the results of original research, and other original works, and contribute significantly to knowledge in the area covered by the journal. Subjects include Agricultural, biological, health and earth sciences, chemistry, engineering, geosciences, mathematics, social sciences, humanities, linguistics, and the arts. Coverage is from 1997, or from its first issue in the case of journals founded after that year.
    Science Citation Index Expanded
    The Science Citation Index, a part of the Web of Science, is a multidisciplinary database of bibliographic information indexed so that you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work.

    The Science Citation Index (SCI) indexes 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,100 more journals than its print and CD-ROM counterparts, with all cited references captured.

    Science of Aging Knowledge Environment (SAGE KE)
    From October 2001 to June 2006, Science's SAGE KE provided news, reviews, commentaries, disease case studies, databases, and other resources pertaining to aging-related research. Although SAGE KE has now ceased publication, you can still search and browse the article content on this archive site.
    ScienceDirect Journals
    Access over 1,800 peer reviewed academic journals.
    Scientific American Archive Online
    Search back files of Scientific American from 1993 to the present.
    SciFinder
    SciFinder (SFS) and its web-version of SciFinder (SF):
    • Provide access to Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Registry of more than 22 million chemical substances
    • CA databases with references to more than 15 million articles and patents (one of USC's best patent resources)
    • CHEMCATS database of nearly 400,000 commercially available chemicals from more than 300 suppliers
    • CHEMLIST, a database of key domestic and international regulatory information.

    Available from Sunday 2:00 am until Saturday 6:00 pm (U.S. Eastern Time) and is limited to 8 simultaneous users.

    If you would like access to Scifinder, please contact Norah Xiao at nxiao@usc.edu

    Please include the following information:

    • Faculty and Staff: USC email address, contact information (department or school information, research field, building and room number)
    • Students: USC email address, name of advisor, contact information (department or school information, research field, building and room number)

    Scirus
    Scirus searches an international collection of institutional repositories and other resources, so it can be a good way to find technical reports, preprints, and other less common publications. Scirus includes basic and advanced search functions, and sorts results into journals vs. web sites. Elsevier ScienceDirect journals are prominently featured in the journal results, with direct links. USC subscribes to the majority of ScienceDirect titles, so Scirus is a good way to search those online journals. For more detailed information, see this electronic resources review in the online peer-reviewed journal Issues in Science and Technology Libraries
    Scripta Sinca
    Scripta Sinica, Academia Sinica’s full text database covering the breadth of historical materials necessary for traditional Sinology, contains more than 460 titles and 358,000,000 characters of materials pertaining to the traditional Chinese classics. The Scripta Sinica database contains almost all of the important Chinese classics, especially those related to Chinese history.
    SDC Platinum
    Data on mergers and acquisitions, IPO's and venture capital funding. Please contact the Crocker Business Library for access.
    SEC Disclosure of Order Execution (WRDS)
    As a result of Rule 11Ac1-5, market centers that trade national market system securities must make monthly, electronic disclosures of basic information concerning their quality of executions on a stock-by-stock basis.
    Shakespeare Collection
    Use The Shakespeare Collection to access and study 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.
    Access expires 06/30/2010
    Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive
    Presents nearly 52,000 testimonies of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust, representing individuals from 56 countries, speaking in 32 languages. While the majority of the interviews are with Jewish Holocaust survivors (around 49,000), the archive also includes the testimonies of political prisoners, Sinti and Roma (Gypsy) survivors, Jehovah's Witness survivors, survivors of eugenics policies, and homosexual survivors as well as rescuers, liberators, and participants in war crimes trials.
    Short Story Index
    Find over 96,000 stories written since 1984, including the full-text of more than 4,000 (published since 1994) from 4,200 collections and anthologies, as well as stories that appear in 150 periodicals covered in Readers’ Guide and Humanities Index.4,000 records added annually.
    Access is through WilsonWeb(click on the radio button to specifically search this database).
    SIAM Journals Online
    This links to the society's e-journal portal, listing their fourteen journals. The date range for online volumes is from 1997 to present. The actual Home Page for the society is www.siam.org
    Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment (STKE)
    The Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment is from the AAAS Science and is both a Web site and an online journal devoted to the topic of cell signaling. Signal transduction refers to the biochemical processes by which cells respond to cues in their internal or external environment.
    Siku Quanshu
    Siku Quanshu (Wenyuange Edition)Siku Quanshu Online is undisputed as the single largest collection of literary works in the world. Compiled by edict of China's Emperor Qianlong during the period from 1773 - 1782 its title translates to Complete Library in Four Branches of Literature. True to its name it includes 3,460 works with a total of more than 36,000 volumes.
    SIMBAD Astronomical Database
    Maintained by the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), France, it provides basic data, cross-identifications, bibliography and measurements for astronomical objects outside the solar system. Simbad on the Web is the WWW interface to the Simbad database with full search function of its content.
    SimplyMap
    Web-based mapping application enables non-technical users to quickly create thematic maps and reports/tables using extensive demographic, social, business and marketing data.
    SIRS Researcher
    Social, scientific, economic, and political issues worldwide. Contains records for articles selected from domestic and international newspapers, magazines, journals, and government publications.
    Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
    Trial access will expire on Nov 19, 2009
    Smithsonian Global Sound
    Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.
    Social Sciences Citation Index
    The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.

    This database is part of USC's subscription to the Web of Knowledge (also sometimes called Web of Science).

    The SSCI is also available on CD-ROM (1981-) and print (1969-) in the Doheny Reference Center.

    Social Sciences Full Text
    Provides access to citations from over 625 journals published since 1982, as well as full-text articles and page images (1994 to present), and article abstracts (since 1984). Nearly 400 journals are peer-reviewed. Social Sciences Full Text covers the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences. Includes book reviews. Among the topics covered are communications, environmental studies, gerontology, international relations, social work, and urban studies.Preceded by Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective, 1907-1984.
    Access is through WilsonWeb(click on the radio button to specifically search this database). Complete contents included in Wilson OmniFile Full Text.
    Social Services Abstracts
    CSA Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,600 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.

    Updated monthly.

    Social Work Abstracts
    The Social Work Abstracts database, produced by the National Association of Social Workers, Inc., contains more than 35,000 records, spanning 1977 to the present, from social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse,legislation, community organization, and more.
    Societa Italiana di Ortodonzia Journals
    Gateway to the Italian orthodontics journals, Ortognatodonzia Italiana and Progress in Orthodontics.
    Sociological Abstracts
    CSA Sociological Abstracts Database is a primary resource for accessing the latest research sponsored in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database draws information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.

    Updated monthly.

    SourceOECD
    publications portal of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and consists of three sections that include books and reports by theme, periodicals, and statistics. These online services include access to OECD textual publications as well as publications of the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), the International Transport Forum (ITF) in PDF form and access to OECD statistical databases in which data can be selected and downloaded as .xls, .csv, or .ivt files. Access is available for titles published from January 1998 onwards.
    SPIE Digital Library
    SPIE Reviews is a fully open-access journal publishing covering the state of the art of emerging and rapidly evolving optics and photonics technologies and their applications. Literature on the latest and upcoming nanotechnology and on nanophotonics are of special interest, as well as articles on biomedical optics. Covered are journal articles and proceedings.
    SPINPlus
    SPINPlus is comprised of SPIN, a funding opportunities database designed to provide up-to-date information on over 5,000 current federal, non-federal, & international funding sources; GENIUS, which provides a searchable resource for locating academic investigators/research partners for potential collaborations; and SMARTS, an electronic matching and funding opportunity notification system which provides a direct link to comprehensive & available national and international research funding information. Includes a Quick Reference Guide (under help) and a tutorial.
    SPORTDiscus with Full Text
    SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 440 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus. Full-text coverage dates back to 1985.
    Springer Protocols
    Step-by-step presentation of protocols with coverage including cell and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, protein science, and imaging.
    SRDS - Standard Rate and Data Service
    SRDS is produced by Standard Rate and Data Service, which compiles contact information and ad rates for a variety of media sources. The print versions are useful when you have specific publications in mind, but our online access allows you to search across publications using keywords.
    Stat!Ref
    USC-Norris Medical Library Subscription
    STAT-USA
    STAT-USA/Internet, a service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is the site for the U.S. business, economic and trade community, providing authoritative information from the Federal government.
    State Papers Online: The Tudors 1509-1603 Digital Archive
    State Papers Online, 1509-1714 ('SPO') offers a completely novel working environment to researchers, teachers and students of Early Modern Britain. Whether they are used for original research, for teaching, or for student project work, State Papers Online offers original historical materials across the widest range of government concern, from high level international politics and diplomacy to the charges against a steward for poisoning a dozen or more people. The correspondence, reports, memoranda, and parliamentary drafts from ambassadors, civil servants and provincial administrators, present a full picture of Tudor and Stuart Britain. This major resource overcomes the fragmented experience of much historical research by re-uniting the Domestic, Foreign, Borders, Scotland, and Ireland State Papers of Britain with the Registers of the Privy Council and other State Papers now housed in the Cotton, Harley and Lansdowne collections in the British Library.
    Statesman’s Yearbook Online
    "The Statesman's Yearbook was conceived of by Robert Carlyle and brought into being with the help of William Gladstone. Their vision for the book was an authoritative and accessible volume containing information essential for diplomats, politicians and all statesmen involved with international affairs. It quickly gained recognition as an indispensable reference tool and has been published continuously since 1864, through two world wars, without missing an edition. It was ranked by Library Journal as one of the top 20 best reference resources of the millennium. Today, international affairs concern almost every one of us and the scope of the book has become correspondingly broader, with expanded coverage of history, politics, economics, trade and infrastructure for each country, all thoroughly researched and verified by a dedicated editorial team. It also provides extensive further reading lists and web links for further research. In a world where opinion, propaganda and inaccuracy are frequently put forward as fact, The Statesman's Yearbook remains the first point of reference for anyone needing reliable, concise information on any country in the world. "
    Statistical Abstract of the United States
    The Statistical Abstract of the United States is an annual summary publication of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
    Sur
    SUR, one of the most important and influential literary magazines published in Latin America in the twentieth century, is now available in an easy-to-use electronic format. This edition includes images of the complete magazine, including covers, photographs and advertisements (50,000 pages); a comprehensive electronic index of 6,300 entries, which corrects mistakes and inconsistencies found in the index published in the magazine and provides access to all contributions, even those of less than a page. The collection features several search capabilities, allowing users to search by author, title, genre, keyword and full-text; and a user-friendly interface in Spanish or English. Additional material included in this online edition of SUR is a set of images of manuscripts from the first issue as well as an unpublished set of letters by Victoria Ocampo.
    Surveys & Data
    Synthesis Collection
    Synthesis is an engineering and applied science e-books collection from Morgan & Claypool, which synthesizes important engineering research or development topics in lecture series format.
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    TableBase (RDS)
    A database of statistics and tables drawn from a wide range of trade publications and business news sources. In many cases the full text of the source article is included with the statistics.
    Taipei Veterans General Hospital Journals
    Gateway to Chinese language journals of the Taipei Veterans General Hospital, including Chinese Medical Journal and Journal of the Chinese Medical Association.
    Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services
    Free trial from April 8th to June 6th 2009
    Teatro Español del Siglo de Oro
    Database of Spanish Golden Age drama.
    Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL)
    TRAIL-Technical Report Archive and Image Library: a collaborative project to digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975.
    The Political Database of the Americas (PDBA)
    The PDBA is a non-governmental project of the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at Georgetown University in collaboration with the OAS, FLACSO-Chile, and other organizations in the region. It offers information about institutions and political processes, national constitutions, branches of government, elections, political constitutional studies and other subjects related to democracy in the Americas. With more than 1,500 pages of information, it is an important source of relevant to the 35 countries of the region including U.S., Canada, Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. Information is classified according to the themes: Political Constitutions and Comparative Constitutional Studies; Executive Branch; Legislative Branch ; Judicial Branch; Electoral Data and Systems; Political Parties; Decentralization and Local Governance; Democracy and Citizen Security; Indigenous Peoples, Democracy and Political Participation; Civil Society.
    Theatre in Video
    Contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all. Represented are hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. Included are landmark performances such as The Iceman Cometh, Awake and Sing, Dom Juan, Krapp's Last Tape, and the complete works of Shakespeare as produced by the BBC and other theatrical companies. Notable actors Claire Bloom, Laurence Olivier, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Dreyfuss, Walter Mathau, Meryl Streep, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren and more. Students, instructors and researchers can bookmark specific scenes, monologues and staging.
    Themefinder
    Themefinder is a non-profit collaborative project of the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH) at Stanford University and the Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory at the Ohio State University. It includes about 35,000musical incipits from three sets: classical, folksong, and Renaissance.Themes can be searched by pitch, interval, scale degree, and contour, and can be located at the beginning or anywhere within the incipit. Information about the piece and composer, other themes within the work, and Midi files accompany each incipit.
    Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
    The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG®) is a research center at the University of California, Irvine. Founded in 1972 the TLG has already collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era.
    Thieme ElectronicBook Library
    The Thieme ElectronicBook Library launches with the popular Flexibook Atlases and Textbooks Series, the review and reference collection trusted by students and professionals worldwide for more than 40 years.
    THOMAS
    An official source of United States Federal Legislative information. Includes:
    • House Floor This Week
    • House Floor Now
    • Quick Search of Text of Bills
    • Bill Summary & Status
    • BillText
    • Public Laws
    • Votes (House and Senate)
    • Congressional Record
    • Committee Information
    Thomas Congressional Record Text Search
    provides access to the Congressional Record, the official record of the proceedings and debates of the U.S. Congress which has been published by the Government Printing Office (GPO) since 1873. GPO publishes new issues of the record daily and transmits each new issue to the Library of Congress overnight. A new issue becomes available on THOMAS the following morning. Issues are available online from 1989 (the 101st Congress) to the present.
    Thomas Legislation Bill & Summary Status Search
    The Bill Summary & Status (BSS) feature of THOMAS allows you to find information about specific legislation – including bill summary – latest major actions, all actions, titles, sponsor, cosponsors, committees, related bill details and amendments. Legislation includes bills (public and private), amendments, simple resolutions, concurrent resolutions and joint resolutions. BSS data begins with the 93rd Congress (1973-74), except for amendment data, which begins with the 95th Congress (1977).
    Thomas Legislation Bill Text Search
    The Bill Text Search feature of THOMAS allows you to search the full-text of legislation introduced in a Congress. Allows search by specific Congress or by multiple Congresses. Coverage is from the 101st Congress to the present.
    Thomson Reuters (WRDS)
    The Thomson Reuters databases cover Mutual Funds Holdings (CDA/Spectrum s12) and 13f Institutional Holdings (CDA/Spectrum s34). The Insiders Filings database contains transaction and holdings information filed with the SEC.
    Times Digital Archive (1785-1985)
    Researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching. Coverage is from 1785-1985 and contains over 7.6 million articles.
    TRACE (WRDS)
    TRACE consolidates transaction data for all eligible corporate bonds - investment grade, high yield and convertible debt.
    Transportation Libraries group catalog (TLCat)
    OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
    Transportation Research Board
    TRB is a searchable index of the Transportation Research Board. The TRB Publications Index contains over 21,000 annotated citations for all TRB and Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP) publications from the mid 1970s until present. All NCHRP and TCRP publications, Special Reports, Circulars, TR News, Conference Proceedings, and Records are included. Each individual paper in the Transportation Research Records, Conference Proceedings, Circulars, and TR News is indexed. Links are provided from citations in the index directly to TRB's Electronic Bookstore, a form for ordering out of print publications, or the full text electronic documents.
    TRB Research in Progress (RIP) Database
    The Transportation Research Board's Research in Progress (RiP) website contains the Research In Progress (RiP) Database and a data-entry system to allow users in State Departments of Transportation, the U.S. Department of Transportation, and University Transportation Centers to add, modify and delete information on their current research projects. The RiP database now contains over 12100 current or recently completed transportation research projects. Most of the RiP records are projects funded by Federal and State Departments of Transportation. University transportation research is also included. The RiP Database now serves as a clearinghouse of University Transportation Centers ongoing research.
    TRISOnline
    TRIS Online is a public-domain, web-based version of the Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) bibliographic database. The TRIS Online database contains over half a million records of published transportation research including technical reports, books, conference proceedings and journal articles. Currently there are almost 24,000 TRIS records with links to electronic copies of the full-text. The time span covers literature from the 1960s to the present, with some coverage of prior years. Highway Research Board publications are covered back to 1923. TRIS coverage includes the disciplines of planning, finance, design and construction, materials, environmental issues, safety and human factors and operations for the modes of highways, transit, railroads, maritime and aviation. TRIS does not contain information on vehicle standards and specifications, patent information, market research, military transport or news articles. TRIS focuses on transportation research.
    Twayne Authors Series
    Comprises 600 full-text titles from the Twayne Literary Masters series, 200 each from Twayne World, US, and English Authors.
    Access expires 06/30/2010.
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    U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
    Full text of Medical Management Of Biological Casualties Handbook 4th Edition (February 2001). The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) conducts research to develop strategies, products, information, procedures, and training programs for medical defense against biological warfare threats and naturally occurring infectious diseases that require special containment.
    U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980
    The U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980 is a full-text database of key publications of the United States Congress. It documents the official activities of the committees of the House and the Senate, including the journals, reports, and documents. In addition, through the nineteenth century the Serial Set also included publications of the executive departments relating to important public issues. It contains, for example, reports on education, public health, and agriculture, as well as maps and color plates. When complete, the database will offer approximately 13,800 volumes and over 12 million pages in searchable full-text.
    uCentral
    Unbound Medicine’s point of care product which allows institutions to deliver information at the point of care and communicate with mobile users. uCentral can be used online over the Web, downloaded to a personal digital assistant (PDA), or wirelessly via a smartphone,BlackBerry, iPhone or other wireless device
    ulrichsweb.com

    Provides users with essential serials bibliographic and access information that ranges from subscription rates to the latest web sites updated monthly. Nearly a quarter of a million consumer and trade magazines, academic and scholarly publications, monographic series, newsletters, newspapers, electronic publications, 'zines, and many other types of serial publications and services published throughout the world on all subjects, are profiled.

    Useful features:

    • comprehensive database
    • subject classifications
    • complete contact information
    • abstracting and indexing
    • reviews
    • refereed publications information
    • document delivery options
    United Nations Official Document System
    This is the official repository for documents published by the United Nations. The full text of parliamentary documents and official records from 1992 to present are accessible in Portable Document Format (PDF) in all official languages of the United Nations. Full text of resolutions from all UN bodies are available from 1946 to present.

    The database can be searched by date, document symbol, full text words or by a combination.

    United States Commission on Civil Rights
    Historical Publications of the USCCR from its inception in 1957 A partnership of the United States Government Printing Office , The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Thurgood Marshall Law Library , University of Maryland.
    United States Environmental Protection Agency
    Well organized, very interactive, and full of information for all, theEPA site offers news, local information, teacher resources, multimedia(videos, photos, audios), resources, and even a trivia quiz, allaccessible from the homepage. The “For Youth” section includes tabs forelementary, middle, and high school students while “Work with Us” offerscareer, grant, and contract information. The site shows lots of depth,too, with navigation tabs for “Learn the Issues”, “Science &Technology”, “Laws & Regulations”, “Newsroom”, and “About EPA”; each isa treasure trove of information in itself, adding to the usefulness andcomprehensiveness of the site.
    Universal Database of Russian Social Sciences and Humanities Journals
    This full text Russian language collection covers current academic journals in the social sciences and humanities. It also includes Vestnik Evropy, an important 19th century Russian literary and political journal
    UpToDate
    UpToDate is a collaborative effort of thousands of physician educators. For each clinical issue, an expert in the field reviews the topic, synthesizes information, summarizes key findings, and provides detailed, practical recommendations for patient care.

    All of the material in UpToDate is fully referenced and most topic reviews have links to related topics. The medical literature is monitored and relevant topic reviews are updated with new medical findings. UpToDate also includes hundreds of patient information handouts; these topics go through peer review and constant updating as with professional-level topics. It also includes drug information from Lexi-Comp.

    Urban Studies Abstracts
    The database contains 40,000 records gathered from legislative groups, research institutions, public research agencies, universities, and scholars from around the world covering essential areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Coverage is from 1973 to the present.
    UrbanRail.Net
    This site is a resource that has grown over the course of 15 years froma site focusing on the metro system in Barcelona to a site called“metroPlanet” to its current incarnation with an international scope andconvenient, easy-to-use maps of urban railway systems in the world’slargest cities on 6 continents. Users will mainly appreciateUrbanRail.Net for its quick, simple maps, but the site put together by aBerlin public transportation enthusiast and historian also featurespractical information such as transit pricing, links, and timelines oftransportation history for each rail service or line.
    USA Trade Online
    Collects detailed statistics on imports and exports for the U.S. These can be broken down by point of origin and point of entry into the U.S.
    USC Center on Public Diplomacy Library
    This expanding library will soon be a dynamic, searchable database of all things public diplomacy. It will contain a cross-section of books, legislation, news articles, government reports, academic studies, experts, courses, organizations, websites, as well as some unique documents that will not be available anywhere else on the Web.
    USPTO Issued Patents
    US Patent and trademark office database of issued patents. Include U.S. Patent Full Text Database (1976 - ) and U.S. Patent Bibliographic Database (1976 - ).
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    Value Line
    Provides online access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks.
    Vanderbilt Television News Archive
    This TV news archive provides access to broadcasts of the national networks since August 5, 1968. The core collection is comprised of evening news broadcasts from ABC, CBS, and NBC (since 1968), an hour per day of CNN (since 1995) and Fox News (since 2004). Special news broadcasts found in the Archive include political conventions, presidential speeches and press conferences, Watergate hearings, coverage of the Persian Gulf War, the events of September 11, 2001, the War in Afghanistan, and the War in Iraq.
    Victorian Database Online
    Interdisciplinary in coverage, Victorian Database contains information on publications from 500+ journals on Painting, Architecture and Music; Philosophy and Religion; Histories of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and the British Colonial Empire; Sociology, Women
    Vincent van Gogh's letters (digital edition)
    The edition, based on fifteen years of research, was edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker of the Van Gogh Museum, in association with the Huygens Institute. For each of the 902 letters the edition gives a transcription of the original Dutch or French text, a translation into English, a full(zoomable) facsimile, comprehensive annotation, and illustrations (about2000 in all) of the works of art discussed in the letters.
    Violence & Abuse Abstracts
    Violence & Abuse Abstracts (available through EBSCOhost) includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to violence and abuse, including family violence, sexual assault, emotional abuse, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains 35,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.
    Virginia Company Archives
    This collection of the Ferrar Papers, 1590-1790, from Magdalene College, Cambridge, is an essential source for the study of the Atlantic World and Early Colonial Period. It documents the founding and economic development of Virginia as seen through the papers of the Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624; the continuing interest of the Ferrar family in the settlement of North America from Jamestown to the Bermudas; trade between Britain and America; the ethnic and gender composition of early Virginia; and tensions among the colonists and of early relations with Native Americans. It is also a crucial source for London's economic history in the Early Modern era, and will be of interest to social and religious historians.
    Virtual Hospital Multimedia Textbooks
    Virtual Hospital is a digital health sciences library created in 1992 at the University of Iowa to help meet the information needs of health care providers and patients. The goal of the Virtual Hospital digital library is to make the Internet a useful medical reference and health promotion tool for health care providers and patients. The Virtual Hospital digital library contains thousands of textbooks and booklets for health care providers and patients.

    Note: After 13 years of service, on January 1, 2006, Virtual Hospital / Virtual Children's Hospital, the Internet's first medical Web sites, ceased operations after serving over 80 million users, due to a lack of funding. However, much of Virtual Hospital / Virtual Children's Hospital content remains available online.
    Virtual Journals in Science and Technology
    The Virtual Journals in the Physical Sciences series has been jointly developed by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the American Physical Society (APS). Each Virtual Journal presents an online collection of relevant papers from a broad range of source journals in the physical sciences. Participating source journals include all journals published by APS and AIP, as well as a significant number of journals from other participating publishers.
    Visual Dictionary Online
    With Merriam-Webster's Visual Dictionary Online /either search ideas within organized subject fields to quickly locate more than 20,000 terms with full definitions or consult over 6,000 illustrations of a wide variety of objects from all aspects of life. 15 major themes offer a variety of engaging, browsable topics. Please note this site includes advertisements.
    VisualDx
    VisualDx is a diagnostic decision support system designed by clinicians to aid medical professionals in the diagnosis of visually identifiable diseases. It provides instant access to specialist knowledge at the point of care, merging medical images with concise clinical text. As the clinician enters actual patient findings, VisualDx creates a visual differential diagnosis. The software includes more than 16,000 images representing over 900 visually identifiable diseases, drug reactions, and infections. VisualDx is a multi-use tool designed for day-to-day clinical diagnosis, emergency preparedness, and medical education.
    ViVa
    A current bibliography of women's and gender history in historical and women's studies journals, covering articles in English, French, German, Dutch, Scandinavian languages, and, occasionally Spanish.
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    Wall Street Journal (1889-1992)
    The Wall Street Journal (1889-1992) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue (July 8, 1889). The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
    Washington Post (1877-1993)
    The Washington Post (1877-1993) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue (Dec. 12, 1877). The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
    Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800 - 1900, Series 2
    Here is a directory to the largest single body of historical documents arising out of nineteenth century England at the height of the British Empire. The Directory provides a more comprehensive, detailed and useful bibliographical record (including Locations and facsimile Title Pages) than we yet have for printed books, government publications or manuscripts of the century. It is subject- comprehensive, intending to include every periodical and newspaper published on a regular basis, from daily to annually, in every language, within England: a goldmine for cultural historians, genealogists and all subject specialists.
    Web of Science
    Web of Science (a.k.a. Web of Knowledge): Provides citations covering over 10,000 high-impact journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as international proceedings coverage for over 120,000 conferences. Includes:Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-Expanded); Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI); Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI); Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S); Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Sciences & Humanities (CPCI-SSH); Index Chemicus (IC); and Current Chemical Reactions (CCR-Expanded). Powerful tools include cited reference searching, Citation Maps, and the Analyze Tool.
    Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)
    Collection of databases designed for quantitative analysis of financial data
    White House
    With prominent links to the President’s Weekly Address, the NationalBudget, and the economic recovery plan, the searchable site alsoprovides links for both current news (“The Briefing Room”), theadministration’s “Agenda” (nicely narrowed by topic), and ways to learnabout “Our Government”, especially the Executive Branch. “TheAdministration” lists the President, First Lady, Cabinet members, WhiteHouse Staff and even the Vice-President and his wife; “About the WhiteHouse” tours the building itself and its former residents, Air ForceOne, and Camp David.
    Whole Brain Atlas
    Good resource for CNS imaging combining clinical data with MR, CT, and nuclear medicine images. Includes information on the normal brain as well as cerebrovascular, neoplastic, degenerative, inflammatory, and infectious diseases.
    Wilson Business Full Text
    Provides complete and accurate indexing and abstracting of leading business magazines. Offers 50-to-150-word abstracts written by subject experts for each article and gives citations (but not abstracts) for book reviews. Includes links to many full-text articles. Updated monthly.
    Access is through WilsonWeb(click on the radio button to specifically search this database). Complete contents also included in Wilson OmniFile Full Text.
    Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition
    Provides access to citations from over 4,000 journals published since 1982, as well as full-text articles and page images (1994 to present), and article abstracts (since 1984).Includes the complete content of 6 individual full-text databases: Education, General Science, Humanities, Readers’ Guide, Social Sciences, and Wilson Business.Also provides limited coverage for an additional 5 databases for which Wilson has full-text rights only (Applied Science & Technology, Art, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals, and Library Literature and Information Science).
    Access is through WilsonWeb(click on the radio button to specifically search this database).
    Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
    Women and Social Movements in the United States brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's activism in public life.
    Women's Studies International
    This is an index to the core disciplines in women’s studies and feminist research. Coverage includes more than 586,600 records and spans from 1972 to present. Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented.
    World Almanac
    World Almanac is the cover name for a suite of resources included with OCLC First Search: Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia; The World Almanac and Book of Facts; The World Almanac of the U.S.A.; The World Almanac of U.S. Politics; and The World Almanac for Kids.
    World Bank Worldwide Development Indicators
    WDI Online is the premiere data source on the global economy. It contains statistical data for over 550 development indicators and time series data from 1960 to the present for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. Data selection screens are intuitive and easy to use. Results can be scaled, indexed against a particular year, viewed by percentage change, and charted. Finally, the database allows for orientation of data by country or series. While presentation of the data is only available in chart format, exporting to Excel or ASCII is simple so that the data can be converted easily into a graph. These features plus data export options in standard formats like Excel make WDI Online the most useful tool yet for researching developmental data. Minor updates to the database are made periodically, with updates to GNI and population data in September.
    World Digital Library
    The World Digital Library is a cooperative project of the Library of Congress, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and partner libraries, archives, and educational and cultural institutions from the United States and around the world. The project brings together on a single website rare and unique documents – books, journals, manuscripts, maps, prints and photographs, films, and sound recordings – that tell the story of the world’s cultures. The site is intended for general users, students, teachers, and scholars. The WDL interface operates in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The actual documents on the site are presented in their original languages
    World Factbook
    World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities. The Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map.
    World Fine Arts Database
    Free trial from April 8th to June 6th 2009. No English version for ART.
    World Health Organization Publications
    WHO's web site provides a wealth of information on health-related matters for both researchers and general readers. Available are world health reports, weekly epidemiological records, WHO statistical information service and more.
    World News Connection
    Research tool for anyone who needs to monitor non-U.S. media sources, the material in WNC is provided to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS). Analysts from FBIS domestic and overseas bureaus monitor timely and pertinent open-source materials. WNC is the only news service that allows you to take advantage of the intelligence gathering experience of FBIS.
    World Newspaper Archive: Latin American Newspapers
    More than 35 nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American newspapers. Featuring titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and elsewhere. Published by Readex in cooperation with the Center for Research Libraries.
    WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch)
    WorldCat is an online union catalog of materials held by OCLC member libraries. OCLC, Online Computer Library Center, is a nonprofit, membership, library computer service and research organization.
    WorldCat contains millions of bibliographic records describing items owned by libraries around the world. Item records provide information about individual library holdings. Types of materials include books, journals, musical scores, computer data files, magazines, newspapers, computer programs, sound recordings, films and slides, maps, videotapes, and manuscripts written as early as the 12th century. Updated daily.
    WorldScope / Compact D
    US and international financial data from company filings, last update July 2006. Please contact the Crocker Business Library for access.
    Wright American Fiction (1851-1875)
    This is a full text digital collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 2,887 volumes included (1,763 unedited, 1,124 fully edited and encoded) by 1,456 authors.
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    Yale Heart Book
    An online textbook covering the entire spectrum of cardiovascular disease, written in clear and simple language.Twenty-nine chapters are included, beginning with the basics of how the heart and circulatory system work, leading to chapters devoted to major cardiovascular disorders and methods of treatment. An encyclopedia of common heart disorders is also included.
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    Zentralblatt MATH
    The ZMATH Database contains about 2.8 million entries drawn from about 3500 journals and 1100 serials. The date range is from 1868 to present. The database is edited by the European Mathematical Society, FIZ Karlsruhe, and Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften.
    Zephyr
    International merger and acquisition (M&A), initial public offering (IPO) and venture capital (VC) data with links to company information. Provided by Bureau van Dijk.
    Zoological Record
    Zoological Record indexes more than 5,000 serials, as well as books, conferences, and reports. It includes all aspects of animal research, including ecology, biodiversity, evolution, physiology, taxonomy, etc.
     
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