Databases by Title
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| Academic OneFile (formerly Expanded Academic Index) | Interdisciplinary index of major academic periodicals. ![]() |
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| Academic Search Premier | Interdisciplinary index to academic journals; provides full-content for over 3400 titles. ![]() |
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| Access Science | The online version of the Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, also contains biographies, news features, suggested research topics, bibliographies and links to related web sites. | ||
| Access UN | Indexes documents produced by the United Nations | ||
| Accounting Literature | Accounting Literature | ||
| ACM (Association of Computing Machinery Journals) | Full text and citations from ACM journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings. | ||
| ACS (American Chemical Society Journals) | Index and text of ACS journals - Chemistry | ||
| AGRICOLA | Index to the agriculture literature | ||
| AIP & APS (American Institute of Physics Journals & American Physical Society Journals) (Scitation) | Index and text of some of the AIP & APS journals in physics | ||
| Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals | The Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals is a subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals. The Index contains citations since 1988 and is updated continuously. | ||
| Alt-Press Watch | Full text from alternative and independent publications. | ||
| Alternative Press Index | Indexes 250 alternative, radical, and left publications. ![]() |
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| America: History and Life (EBSCO) | Index to articles on United States and Canadian history. ![]() |
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| American Factfinder | Data from 1990 and 2000 censuses, American Community Surveys, and Economic Census 1997 | ||
| American Periodicals Series (APS) | Full-text articles from selected American periodicals printed between 1741 - 1900. | ||
| American Poetry Database | Colonial period to early 20th century | ||
| Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL) | The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature contains 880,000 records, covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards. ![]() |
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| Annual Reviews | Full-text access to selected Annual Review titles | ||
| Anthropology Plus | Indexes articles in anthropology, archaeology and related disciplines.
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| AnthroSource | Online fulltext journals and other serial publications of the American Anthropology Association | ||
| Art Full Text | Indexes and provides abstracts for articles in a wide range of journals in fine arts, art history, architecture, graphic design,
photography, and other art-related fields.
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| Arts and Humanities Citation Index | Index to articles in arts and humanities fields.
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| ARTstor | ARTstor contains curated collections of art images and associated data. There are approximately 300,000 images in the database at the present time. Special features include the ability to create sets of images and contextual information to use and share and access to a special off-line image viewer/organizer. | ||
| ASM (American Society for Microbiology Journals) | Full-text access to journals in microbiology from 1992 to last year. Only citations and abstracts are available for the current year. | ||
| ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Journals | Full-text access to 18 ASME titles from 2000 - present. | ||
| Bibliography of the History of Art | An art bibliography covering European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present.![]() |
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| Bio-One | Online access to approximately 72 bioscience research journals | ||
| Biological Abstracts | Covers the life sciences journal literature. ![]() |
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| BIOSIS Previews | Index to journal articles in the life sciences including agriculture, biochemistry, biology, ecology, environmental science and medicine, as well as reports, reviews and meetings. ![]() |
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| Books in Print | List of books currently available from American publishers. | ||
| Books24X7 (ITPro & EngineeringPro) | Full text and index of almost 6000 full text books focused on computing and engineering. | ||
| Britannica Online (see Encyclopedia Britannica Online) | Full-text of the Encyclopedia Britannica, a general information source for all age groups. | ||
| Business & Industry | General business, company information, marketing | ||
| Business & Management Practices | General business, management | ||
| Business and Company Resource Center | Provides business and industry information via articles, investment reports, chronologies and company histories, brand and product information, rankings and more | ||
| Business News | Current articles on business and industry | ||
| Business Reference Suite | Search 3 business databases at one time: Business and Industry, Business and Management Practices and Tablebase | ||
| Business Source Premier | Provides full text for scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more. ![]() |
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| Business Source Premier (BSI Interface) | NEW Interface ![]() |
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| Canadian Music Periodical Index | Index of over 30,000 articles dating from the late-19th century to the present day from Canadian music journals, newsletters and magazines. | ||
| CCH Health and Human Resources Network | Access to CCH information products covering health law, regulations, food & drug law, etc. | ||
| Census | Information on how to find data from Census 2000 and earlier censuses | ||
| Chemical Abstracts (See SciFinder Scholar) (Index QD 1 .A51) | Provides comprehensive coverage of the chemical literature: international in scope: includes books, journals, patents, and dissertations | ||
| CHEMLIBnetBASE | Full text and index of over 250 chemistry and chemical engineering books. | ||
| ChoiceReviews.online | Concise, full-text reviews of academic books, media, databases, software, and websites, covering September 1988-present. | ||
| Chronicle of Higher Education (Online) | The most-read source of news, information, and job listings for college and university faculty members and administrators. | ||
| CIOS (Communication Institute for Online Scholarship) | Index to citations (no abstracts) to 30 titles. ![]() |
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| Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) | Codified version of United States regulatory laws, executive orders and proclamations, and selected presidential documents | ||
| Columbia Granger's World of Poetry | Definitive source in English for locating a poem in anthologies. | ||
| ComAbstracts | ComAbstracts contains abstracts of articles and books published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field. ![]() |
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| Compendex | Index to engineering and technical literature. The Full Text button is keyed to the Twin Cities Campus. Use the UMD Library E-Journal Locator to find out if you have access to the article. | ||
| Contemporary Authors | Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on approximately 100,000 U.S. and international authors | ||
| Contemporary Women's Issues | Access to journals, newsletters, reports, pamphlets, bibliographies, fact sheets, and other material on a broad array of women and gender-related issues around the world | ||
| CQ Researcher | CQ Research report offers in-depth non-biased coverage of political and social issues. | ||
| CQ Weekly | CQ weekly reports nonpartisan news and analysis from Congress. | ||
| CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics | A core reference database for chemical and physical data with interactive tables. | ||
| Criminal Justice Abstracts (Proquest CSA) | Indexes and abstracts articles on criminal justice topics.
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| CRSP | Provides historical stock market data. | ||
| Curriculum Resource Center | Provides printable teacher-handout material for middle, high school, and junior college curriculum. | ||
| Curriculum Resource Center (Junior Edition) | Provides printable teacher-handout material for elementary school curriculum. | ||
| Database of African-American Poetry | Works of 54 poets from 1760-1900 | ||
| DATANET (Minnesota) | Statistical data on Minnesota, population, land use, crime, education, health, substance abuse, and retail sales | ||
| Dictionary of Literary Biography | Provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. | ||
| Dictionary of National Biography | Includes over 50,000 biographies of individuals who contributed to British history and culture | ||
| Digital Content Library | The Digital Content Library is a database of images, sound, and video files based at the Twin Cities campus, with content added by academic departments in the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Design at the Twin Cities, and the School of Fine Arts at UMD. There are presently over 150,000 items in the database, the majority being art and architecture images. UMD faculty, staff, and students have access to the database. | ||
| Digital Corporate Manuals (see Mergent/Moody'sŪ Manual Collection) | Corporate Manuals, ranging back to the early 1900s, possess a richness of corporate history and business descriptions and in-depth financial statements. The collection is all searchable by company name, year or manual type. | ||
| Digital National Security Archives | Created in collaboration with the National Security Archive, this database is the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. | ||
| DIPPR | Physical and thermodynamic properties of pure chemicals - searchable by chemical name, formula or property. | ||
| Discovering Authors | Biographical and bibliographical information and references on 380 authors in North American curricula | ||
| Dissertations & Theses | Doctoral dissertations, including full-text of Big Ten universities from 1997 to present. Formerly Digital Dissertations. | ||
| Duluth News Tribune | Text of the Duluth newspaper, indexed | ||
| Early American Imprints | Full text collection of books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in the British American Colonies/United States from 1639 through 1800; based on Charles Evans American Bibliography | ||
| Early English Books Online (EEBO) | Provides digital access to more than one hundred thousand literary and historical classics. | ||
| EconLit | Economic theory, financial economics, international economics, economic history. ![]() |
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| Economic Report of the President | Economic report of the President | ||
| Education Fulltext | Index to articles on all aspects of education.
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| eHRAF Archaeology | Cross-cultural database focusing on the world's prehistory This old interface will be discontinued and replaced with a new interface on 2/1/2008. | ||
| eHRAF Archaeology (NEW INTERFACE) | Cross-cultural database focusing on the world's prehistory | ||
| eHRAF Ethnography | Cross-cultural database with full text of books, articles, and dissertations. This old interface will be discontinued and replaced with a new interface on 2/1/2008. | ||
| eHRAF World Cultures (New interface for eHRAF Ethnography) | Cross-cultural database with full text of books, articles, and dissertations | ||
| Eighteenth Century Collections Online | Use Eighteenth Century Collections Online to access the digital images of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. The product allows access to information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. | ||
| Elsevier Science Direct | Full text of selected journals and selected reference books published by Elsevier. Full text indexing available for all Elsevier journals from v. 1, issue 1. | ||
| Emerald Online | Full-text access to 130 management, applied science, and library and information science titles. | ||
| Encyclopedia Britannica Online | Full-text of the Encyclopedia Britannica, a general information source for all age groups. | ||
| Encyclopedia of Islam | Scholarly encyclopedia covering all aspects of Islam. Information about Fonts for Encyclopedia of Islam | ||
| EngineeringPro (Books 24X7) | EngineeringPro delivers the full contents of hundreds of the best and latest engineering books in a fully searchable, web-based environment. This professional information tool is packed with reference material covering a wide range of engineering disciplines, plus general reference topics important to all engineering professionals. | ||
| English Poetry Database | Works of 1,350 poets from 600-1900 | ||
| English Verse Drama | 2,000 works by 650 authors, 13th-19th centuries | ||
| ENGnetBASE | Full text of over 675 books from various engineering and science disciplines. | ||
| Entrez | The ENTREZ Cross-Database Search allows you to search simultaneously across multiple biomedical/life science databases. The databases include PubMed; PubMed Central; books; as nucleotide, protein, structure, taxonomy, genome, expression, and chemical databases. | ||
| ENVIROnetBASE | Full text and index of over 250 books that deal with various aspects of the environment. | ||
| Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management | Articles and reports in all areas of terrestrial study, including pollution and ecosystems, industrial hygiene and safety science. ![]() |
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| ERIC (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) | Index to educational materials. ![]() |
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| ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) | Full-text for many ERIC (ED) documents, 1996 - present | ||
| Ethnic News Watch | Full-text newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native presses. | ||
| Euromonitor GMID (see GMID (Euromonitor)) | Euromonitor GMID (Global Market Information Database) featuring business intelligence, company profiles, and strategic and statistical market analysis | ||
| Expanded Academic Index (see Academic OneFile) | Interdisciplinary index of major academic periodicals. ![]() |
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| Family and Society Studies Worldwide | This database covers research in the fields of family science, human
ecology, human development and social welfare. This databases includes
journal articles, conference papers, books, government reports, dissertations, statistical sources.
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| Federal Register | Daily official publication of Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of Federal agencies and of Executive Orders and other presidential documents | ||
| FEDSTATS | Statistics from over 70 federal agencies on demographics, business, taxation, environment, politics, crime, employment, military, climate, health, and education | ||
| FindLaw | Federal and state legal resources including court decisions and codes | ||
| FIS Online (Mergent Online) | Current corporate and financial reports on 11,000 U.S. public companies and 17,000 non-U.S. public companies | ||
| Freedonia Focus Market Reports | The Freedonia Group's focus collection of industry market research - over 250 reports covering 18 industry sectors. | ||
| Gallup Brain | Public opinion results to more than 136,000 questions, and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed by The Gallup Poll since 1935. | ||
| GEOBASE | Comprehensive index to articles in geography and ecology. ![]() |
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| GEOREF | Comprehensive index to articles, reports, and maps in geology. ![]() |
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| GMID (Euromonitor) | Euromonitor GMID (Global Market Information Database) featuring business intelligence, company profiles, and strategic and statistical market analysis | ||
| Google Scholar -- Public Version | Locate and access peer-reviewed journal articles and other scholarly sources. This version ONLY provides full text access to e-journals subscribed to by UMD Library WHEN ON CAMPUS. | ||
| Google Scholar -- UMD Students, Faculty & Staff | Locate and access peer-reviewed journal articles and other scholarly sources. This campus version provides full text access to e-journals subscribed to by the UMD Library using .
For access to FindIt off campus or on campus using wireless Change Google Scholar Preferences on your computer. |
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| Government Information Resources | Links to federal, state and local government web sites and databases | ||
| Government Publications Catalog | Catalog of federal government publications | ||
| GPO Access | Several databases providing access to major publications of the U.S. government | ||
| Granger's World of Poetry | Definitive source in English for locating a poem in anthologies. | ||
| Grants & Awards available to American Writers | Database of domestic and foreign grants, awards, and residencies for use by American writers. ONCE USERS ARE AT THE DATABASE WEBPAGE, THEY MUST ENTER IN THE FOLLOWING TO LOGIN: E-mail address = umnd; Password = umnd2007 | ||
| Grove Art Online | Encyclopedia of visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present | ||
| Grove Music Online | Full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. | ||
| Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia | Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia is the searchable, online version of the seventeen-volume encyclopedia (2nd ed.) covering information about animals everywhere in the world. | ||
| Higher Education Abstracts | ![]() |
Paper Index LB 2343 .C64x; covers all aspects of higher education | |
| Historical Abstracts (EBSCO) | Index to articles on world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada). ![]() |
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| Historical Census Data Browser | Demographic, economic, and social data from the U.S. Census, 1790-1960 | ||
| Historical New York Times Digital Archive | Full page images of the New York Times, from its first issue in 1851 to 2000. Includes digital images of every page from every issue, cover to cover, including the New York Times Book Review. | ||
| History Cooperative | Full-text of the American Historical Review and Journal of American History | ||
| Hoover's Online | News and financials from U.S. public corporations with some industry analysis. Good for finding major competitors. | ||
| ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) | Data sets for social sciences. | ||
| IEEE Xplore | Full text and index of IEEE and IEE periodicals, conference proceedings and standards from 1998 to present. IEE journals and conference proceedings available from 1988. | ||
| IIMP | IIMP is a music journal resource with more than half a million indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1874 to the present, covering the scholarly to the popular. ![]() |
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| Industry and Market News | Business news focused on specific industries and markets | ||
| Informe | A collection of Spanish-language magazines with full text. Covers business, health, technology, culture, current topics and other subjects | ||
| International Index to the Performing Arts | Index to articles covering dance, film, television, drama, theatre, stagecraft, musical theatre, broadcast arts, and more. | ||
| ITER Bibliography | Index to articles, monographs, essays, and dissertations on the Middle Ages and Renaissance. | ||
| ITER Italicum | Finding list of previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections all over the world. | ||
| ITPro (Books24x7) | Full text and index of almost 6000 full text books about computers and computer related topics in a variety of settings: hardware, databases, software engineering, networks & protocols, certification & compliance, desktop and office applications, graphic design & multimedia, business and far more. | ||
| Journal Citation Reports | This resource covers science and social sciences disciplines. It provides statistical data on journals and indicates the most frequently cited journals in a field, the highest impact journals in a field, and immediacy of citations. | ||
| JSTOR | Full text and index of over 706 scholarly journals from various disciplines. | ||
| Junior Reference Collection | Biographies, literature, science, the arts, culture and general reference for a middle school audience | ||
| Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology | Full text and index of the encyclopedia. This is THE basic reference for chemical engineering and related fields. | ||
| Knovel Interactive Library | Full text and index of over 1000 engineering and science titles. Some databases are included as well as interactive tables and graphs. | ||
| Kraus Curriculum Development Library (Online) | The Kraus Curriculum Development Library (kcdlonline) is a searchable database of curricula, frameworks, and standards covering educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in PreK-12 and Adult Basic Education. | ||
| Law Reviews | Law | ||
| Legal Information Institute | Federal and legal resources including court opinions and the U.S. Code | ||
| Lexis Nexis Legal News | Legal news | ||
| LexisNexis Academic | Business, law, medical, news | ||
| LexisNexis Academic -- Legal Research | The complete combination of Federal and State caselaw provides all available caselaw in one stop, with the ability to search other legal source. | ||
| LexisNexis Congressional | Guide to locating congressional publications, bills, testimony, etc | ||
| LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index | Index to articles located in U.S. Government Periodicals | ||
| LexisNexis Statistical | Indexes statistical publications from federal and state governments and international agencies | ||
| Library Literature Full Text | Indexes and provides partial full-text to library and information science literature.![]() |
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| Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) | Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Community users can use the free version of LISTA at http://www.libraryresearch.com ![]() |
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| Literature Online (LION) | Searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 175 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. | ||
| LLBA (Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts) | Index to citations and abstracts about the nature and use of language. ![]() |
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| Los Angeles Times (NewsStand) | Access articles from the LA Times, 1988 - present. | ||
| MasterFILE Premier | Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFILE Premier contains
full text for 2,053 periodicals covering general reference, business,
health, education, general science, multicultural issues and more. ![]() |
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| MathSciNet | Comprehensive index to articles in mathematics and statistics. ![]() |
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| Mediamark (University Internet Reporter) | ![]() |
Mediamark University Internet Reporter offers comprehensive lifestyle, demographic, and product usage data about all forms of advertising media. | |
| MEDLINE (OVID) | Index to articles in the medical literature. The FindIt button in this database is keyed to the Twin Cities Campus. Use the UMD Library E-Journal Locator to find out if you have access to the article. | ||
| MEDLINE (see PubMed) | Index to articles on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care | ||
| Mergent Online | Current corporate and financial reports on 11,000 U.S. public companies and 17,000 non-U.S. public companies. | ||
| Mergent/Moody'sŪ Manual Collection | Corporate Manuals, ranging back to the early 1900s, possess a richness of corporate history and business descriptions and in-depth financial statements. The collection is all searchable by company name, year or manual type. | ||
| Minnesota Magazine Index | Index to articles about Minnesota - mainly the Twin Cities metro area | ||
| Minnesota Northstar | Official web site for the state of Minnesota | ||
| Mintel Reports | ![]() |
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| MLA Directory of Periodicals (Proquest CSA) | Master list of periodicals from the MLA International Bibliography. | ||
| MLA International Bibliography (Proquest CSA) | Index to articles on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. ![]() |
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| MorningStar Library Edition | Comprehensive Morningstar Reports on more than 8,000 stocks and 12,000 mutual funds. | ||
| Music Index (see IIMP) | UMD now subscribes to IIMP, the International Index to Music Periodicals. | ||
| Nature Online | Complete article coverage from the journal Nature and 60 research and review titles | ||
| Naxos Music Library | Streaming audio of primarily classical music, but some world music, folk music, and jazz are also included. | ||
| Naxos Music Library Jazz | Streaming audio of recordings from the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz. Naxos Jazz, along with Prophone and Proprius recordings. | ||
| NCJRS Abstracts (National Criminal Justice Reference Service) | Indexes articles and book chapters on criminal justice | ||
| NetAdvantage | Comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering on-line access to Standard & Poor's independent research, data and commentary on stocks, and industries | ||
| netLibrary | Full text and index of over 12,000 electronic books covering a wide range of topics and intellectual levels. | ||
| New York Times (Historical Online Archive) | Full page images of the New York Times, from its first issue in 1851 to 2000. Includes digital images of every page from every issue, cover to cover, including the New York Times Book Review. | ||
| New York Times (NewsStand) | Access articles from the New York Times, 1999 - present. | ||
| NewsStand | Online access to over 250 national and international newspapers. | ||
| OECD Publications (also known as SourceOECD) | Online full-text of all publications and serials from the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development from 1998 to present; also contains a large collection of data sets | ||
| Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | Includes over 50,000 biographies of individuals who contributed to British history and culture | ||
| Oxford English Dictionary Online | The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), containing more than 2.5 million quotations illustrates how words are used and their origins | ||
| Oxford Reference Online | Access to 100 languages and subject dictionaries and reference works published by Oxford Univ. Press | ||
| PAIS International | Indexes articles on public affairs.
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| Patrologia Latina Online | Texts on Medieval philosophy, theology, history, and literature | ||
| Philosopher's Index | Index to articles on aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and more. ![]() |
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| Physical Education Index | Covers citations and abstracts for all aspects of physical education curricula including sports medicine; kinesiology; motor learning; recreation; health education; coaching and training; and sport sociology/psychology. ![]() |
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| Poiesis | POIESIS provides the full text to an increasing number of philosophy journals subscribed to by the library, and tables of contents to a larger number. | ||
| Political Science Abstracts (Worldwide) | Index to articles in political science, international relations, law, and public administration/ policy.
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| Popline | Index with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues. | ||
| Professional Collection (Education) | Includes more than 300 full text journals for educators.![]() |
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