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ABSEES American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (1990–present)
Academic Search Premier
Fulltext articles from over 3,600 journals in the social sciences, arts
and humanities, and sciences. Also includes about 1,000 titles that are
indexed but not fulltext . Dates of journals vary, some go back to the
1920's, others are current issues only.
AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive Database of Associated Press photographs and text dating back to 1826, extensive graphics files, and audio files dating back to the 1920s.
African American Newspapers the 19th century via Accessible Archives.
African Writers Series Over 210 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose, including works by Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Steve Biko, Buchi Emecheta, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Nelson Mandela and more.
AGRICOLA (1970-present) via FirstSearch
AGRICOLA (1979-present) via the National Agriculture Library
AllAfrica.com
Content from newspapers, news agencies and publications (over 100 media
organizations) from the African continent. Government and opposition-controlled
papers are included,as well as the growing number of independent, professional
news publications across the continent. AllAfrica also publishes original
reporting by their own editorial team.
Alt
Press Watch (1995–present)
Full text database of about 90 newspapers, magazines and journals of the
alternative and independent press.
Alternative Press Index (1991-present) via FirstSearch
America: History & Life (1982–present)
American
National Biography
Information on over 17,400 men and women. Updated quarterly.
American Periodicals Series online, 1740-1900
Digitized reproductions of more than 1,100 eighteenth and nineteenth century
newspapers and periodicals. Via ProQuest.
America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1900 (Early American Newspapers, Series I and II) :
Fully searchable archive of American newspapers.
AncestryLibrary
Access to more than 1.2 billion names, more than 3,000 databases, primary
source documents and images and a variety of genealogical and historical
research features – with new databases added daily. AncestryPlus
also includes digital images of the census records from the U.S. Federal
Census between the years 1790 and 1920 and Gale's Passenger &
Immigration Lists Index.
L'Année
philologique
Index to articles and books about ancient authors, texts, history, art,
and archeology. Cover from 1959 on.
Anthropological Index Online (1970–present)
AnthroSource
Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource brings 100 years of anthropological material online to scholars and the public.
Art
Abstracts (1984-present)
Comprehensive indexing and abstracts for 378 leading international art
publications. Covers a broad range of art topics such as advertising,
archaeology, crafts, folk art, graphic arts, interior design, video, film,
architecture and art history.
Art
Index Retrospective (1929-1984)
Indexes articles in international arts publications, yearbooks, museum
bulletins, exhibitions lists, interviews, film reviews, etc. from Nov.
1971- 1984.
ARTFL
Textual database of French texts from the 13th to the 20th century.
Arts & Humanities Search (1980–present) via FirstSearch
ArtSTOR
An image database collectively compiled by educational and cultural institutions
around the world. The so-called Charter Collection, which currently contains
approximately 300,000 images and by 2006 is expected to contain 500,000,
documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces
architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design
as well as many other forms of visual culture.
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) (1502–present)
Abstracting service funded by NASA. It incorporates Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts, Instrumentation Abstracts, and Physics and Geophysics Abstracts. Includes full text of many astronomy journals.
ATLA Religion Database (Religion Index) (Spans over 50 years with selected records going back to 1818)
Avery
Index to Architectural Periodicals
The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals indexes more than 2,000 periodicals
published worldwide on archaeology, city planning, interior design, and
historic preservation, as well as architecture. Coverage is from the 1930s
(with selective coverage dating back to the1860s) to the present. Produced
by Columbia University.
BHA
(Bibliography of the History of Art/Bibliographie d'Histoire de l'Art)
(1973 - present)
A bilingual bibliographic database on the history of post-classical western
art. Also includes RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie) from 1973 to
1989 and RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) from
1975 to 1989.
Bibliography of Asian Studies Index to articles and books in Asian Studies, including humanities and social sciences.
Biography Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who's Who®
BioOne (2000-present) Collection of full text life sciences journals.
Books in Print (over 4 million records, updated weekly) via FirstSearch
Britannica Online - Academic Edition
access from Amherst College campus network
access from off-campus for patrons affiliated with Amherst College only.
Cambridge Companions Complete Collection Contains over 2,200 downloadable essays, taken from 237 Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics; and Philosophy, Religion and Culture.
Chemical
Abstracts (1907-present)
Access to the literature of chemistry. Via SciFinder Scholar (AC
only). Available from public computers in Keefe Science Library and Frost
Library. Try the SciFinder
Tutorial
Clase and Periodica (1975-present) Index to Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.
Classical Music Library provides streaming audio of a wide variety of classical music composers. It is possible to browse by genre, composer, period, instrument, performer, or label. It also has a Boolean search screen.
Columbia
International Affairs Online (CIAO), 1991 --
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is designed to be the most
comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.
It publishes a wide range of scholarship that includes working papers
from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs,
foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.
Congressional Serial Set Eventually will include all House and Senate documents, journals, and reports from the 19th century.
Contemporary Authors Included in a database titled Biography Resource Center.
Contemporary Literary Criticism via IAC
Contemporary Women's Issues via FirstSearch
Database of Classical Bibliography
(1974–1989)
Featuring l'Annee Philologique, volumes 45-60. Index to the international
literature in Greek and Roman studies. More recent dates indexed in paper
volumes in Reference Z7016.A5. CD-ROM access in Reference.
Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM)
Digital Congressional Serial Set Eventually will include all House and Senate documents, journals, and reports from the 19th century.
Dissertation Abstracts via FirstSearch
Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800)
Early American imprints. Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)
Covers American history and literature thru the colonial period up through 1819, this database is a full-text digitization of the microform set Early American Imprints.
Early American Newspapers: America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1900
Ebrary Thousand of searchable fulltext books from academic publishers.
EEBO:
Early English Books Online
Full image database under construction containing titles published in
England listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640),
Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661).
EconLit with Full-text (1969–present)
Encyclopedia Britannica Online - Academic Edition
access from Amherst College campus network
access from off-campusfor patrons affiliated with Amherst College only.
Encyclopedia of Social Measurement (AC)
Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
Multidisciplinary database, providing access to the international literature in environmental science.
ERIC (1966-present)
Expanded Academic ASAP (1980–present) via IAC
FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Information Service) Daily Reports (1974-1996).
News in translation (by the CIA) from radio, television, and newspapers around the world, continued by World News Connection. (AC only)
FIAF Index to Film Periodicals in-depth indexing of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals from 1972 to the present.
Film Literature Index From Indiana University. Indexes articles in film journals from 1976 -2001 with no updates.
GenderWatch
(some back to 1970's–present)
GenderWatch is a full text database of publications that focus on the
impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas.
General BusinessFile ASAP (1980–present) via IAC
General Reference Center Gold (1980–present) via IAC
GEOBASE (1980–present) via FirstSearch
Handbook of Latin American Studies via Library of Congress
HAPI
(Hispanic American Periodicals Index) (1970-present)
Contains citations to articles in American and European scholarly journals
treating Latin American and U.S. Hispanic topics.
Hein
Online
Fulltext database of over 200 law reviews going back to the first volume
of each title. Searchable by keyword, author, citation, etc.
Health Reference Center Academic via IAC
Historical Abstracts (1972–present)
IBSS :: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (1951-present)
Includes nearly two million bibliographic references to journal articles
and books. Abstracts are provided for half of all current journal articles
and full text availability is increasing.
ICPSR :: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
Abstracts, data sets and publications in the world's largest archive of computerized social science data. ICPSR is part of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.
Index
Islamicus Some coverage from 1906 to present.
Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It
is produced by the Islamic Bibliography Unit at Cambridge University Library.
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.
INSPEC (1969–present) via EBSCO
Institute of Physics (IOP) Journal Archive (coverage varies; 1874 to present) full-text archive of 57 IOP journals.
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
International Index to Music Periodicals (1874–present) via IIMP
ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance AC only.
JSTOR provides fulltext backfiles of more than 100 titles in a variety of subject areas.
Latin American Newsletters Daily news from Latin America translated and with analysis.
Left
Index (1990–present)
Provides access to the diversity of literature on the left with a primary
emphasis on politics and culture, and a secondary emphasis on significant
but littleknown sources on news and ideas. In paper only from 1982 - 1989.
MathSciNet (1940–present) via MathSciNet
Medline/PubMed (1966–present) via NCBI
MinABS
(1982-present)
Online version of Mineralogical Abstracts,
covering the fields of mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, petrology, and environmental mineralogy
MLA International Bibliography (1926–present)
Naxos Music Library provides access to all the titles listed in its catalog plus the Marco Polo and Dacapo labels. It includes classical, world/folk and jazz.
NetLibrary An online library consisting of a broad range of reference, scholarly and professional works. Full text searching is available. Books can be downloaded for a limited time period, or printed out one page at a time.
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics -- not just a dictionary, short essays included as well.
New York Times backfile (1851 to 3 years before current date)
New
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Comprises the full text of the printed edition, it also includes advanced
search capabilities, which enable you to make concept, pattern and "Boolean"
searches to pinpoint precise queries, a ‘browse’ option inviting
you to browse entries at will and over 3000 links to related sites, including
sound archives and illustrations. Updated quarterly, it now includes the
complete New Grove Dictionary of Opera.
Newspaper
Abstracts Indexes "significant" items from over 50 U.S.
national and regional newspapers including the Wall Street Journal,
Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and New York Times. Includes
news, reviews, editorials and cartoons. Not full text, but concise abstracts.
From 1989 to current.
OED Online, electronic Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography aims to provide full, accurate, concise, and readable articles on noteworthy people in all walks of life. No living person is included: the Dictionary's articles are confined to people who died before 31 December 2000.
Oxford
Reference Online
Online versions of Oxford University Press multidisciplinary reference
titles, dictionaries, and encyclopedias. This set does not include the
Oxford English Dictionary which is available online separately.
Philosopher's Index (1940–present)
Political Science Abstracts (1975–present) via CSA
POPLINE®(POPulation information onLINE) Reproductive health, fertility, demographics, environmental health, women in development, and HIV/AIDS. Abstracts are included, and many include free fulltext articles.
Project CORK The CORK database includes over 69,000 items on substance abuse, indexed by over 400 terms. The database is updated quarterly.
Project Muse is a collection of full-text current online journals in a variety of disciplines.
PsycArticles (1894-present) Full text articles from American Psychological Association and allied organizations' journals.
PsycInfo (1887-present) via EBSCO
PubMed/Medline (1966–present) via NCBI
Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1984)
ATLA Religion Database (Religion Index) (1949–present)
RILA/BHA
(Bibliography of the History of Art/Bibliographie d'Histoire de l'Art
(1990–present)
A bilingual bibliographic database on the history of post-classical western
art. Also includes RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie) from 1973 to
1989 and RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) from
1975 to 1989.
RILM - Abstracts of Music Literature (1969–present) (AC campus only)
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
ScienceDirect (1995-present) Collection of more than 500 electronic journals in all science disciplines and some social sciences. Full text coverage goes back to 1995 for most titles.
Science Citation Index (on campus only) (1984-present) Interdisciplinary database of journal articles in the sciences. Tracks cited references to locate more recent articles. For cited reference searching for older articles, please contact us.
SciFinder Scholar (1907-present) Access to the literature of chemistry (AC only). Available from public computers in Keefe Science Library and Frost Library.
Social Sciences Citation Index (on campus only) (1984-present) Interdisciplinary database of journal articles in the social sciences. Tracks cited references to locate more recent articles. For cited reference searching for older articles, please contact us.
Sociological Abstracts (1963-present) via CSA
Statistical
Universe
Index to over 100,000 U.S., International, and Intergovernmental statistical
publications. Some are also available fulltext. (AC only)
Ulrich's Periodical Directory Current information about journals and their publishers. Phone, fax etc. as well as where indexed.
United States Government Documents via GPO Access
U.S. Congressional Serial Set Eventually will include all House and Senate documents, journals, and reports from the 19th century.
WDI
Online
Database of World Development Indicators providing international social
and economic indicators and statistics from the World Bank.
Wall Street Journal (1982-present)
The Washington Post (from 1877 to 1988, with one year's content added every year)
Web of Science (on campus only) (1984-present) Online version of the Social Sciences Citation Index and the Science Citation Index, an interdisciplinary database to journal articles in the sciences. Tracks cited references to locate more recent articles. For cited reference searching for older articles, please contact us.
Westlaw Campus Full text access to federal and state law, law reviews, and the legal encyclopedia American Jurisprudence. Also contains American Law Reports and the European Union Library. NOTE: you must accept the agreement by clicking at the bottom of the screen to enter the database.
Women's Studies International (1972- present)
Covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies and the latest scholarship in feminist research. Includes sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented.
World Development Indicators (WDI): Iinternational social and economic indicators and statistics from the World Bank.
World News Connection (1994–present). Fulltext news in translation from around the world. Includes newspapers, radio and television broadcasts.
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
WorldCat (over 48,000,000 records describing materials in over 400 languages dating from before 1000 B.C. to present) via FirstSearch
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (1975–present) via CSA
Zasshi kiji sakuin (online Japanese-language periodical citation index)
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