Databases by Title
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ABI/INFORM Global
An index of over 1,800 publications with abstracts, and full text from over 700 of these titles, selected from newspapers, trade publications, and journals on business including, for example, administration, economics, computers, finance, human resources, management, and marketing. Full-text of Wall Street Journal articles available from 1984. Otherwise coverage is from 1971 to the present with some older material available. Updated daily.
Abstracts in Anthropology
Abstracts of books, articles and conference papers in cultural and physical anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics. International coverage 2003 - date.
Print: Z 5112 .A2x (Ref)1970-date
Academic OneFile
Academic Onefile from InfoTrac contains full text articles from several thousand peer reviewed journals which cover a wide range of subjects including the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In addition it contains several hundred audio files and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and CBC. It also contains a number of national and international newspapers. Updated daily.
Access to Archival Databases (AAD)
AAD is a useful genealogical tool that searches archival resources for specific persons, geographical areas, organizations, or dates. AAD facilitates the search and retrieval of specific data files from the Internet, permitting display and printing of these records. It does not support statistical analysis of data.
Access World News
Access World News features the vast majority of the top U.S. newspapers by circulation, along with hundreds of hard-to-find local and regional titles. Additionally, Access World News offers hundreds of international news sources from scores of countries on six continents, translated into English when written in other languages.
AccessMedicine
McGraw-Hill provides this set of online medical books that are both searchable and browsable for students and professionals.
AccessScience
The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, online.
AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive
This archive is composed of photos, graphics, text, and audio clips from the Associated Press (AP). The photo archive contains photographs from the current year's collection and a selection of images of negatives and prints dating back to the 1840s. Most of the coverage is from 1995. The graphics archive includes graphics, maps, illustrations, and logos prepared by AP artists since 1999. The audio database has more than half a million audio clips from the 1920s to the present. The text database contains over 700,000 full-text AP articles. All are updated daily.
ACLS Humanities E-books
A collection of over 1,500 books in the humanities from the early 20th century up to the present selected by the American Council of Learned Societies and made available electronically.
ACM Digital Library
Full text of every article ever published by the Association of Computing Machinery. Material included as part of our subscription includes journals, magazines, newsletters and proceedings.
ACM Guide to Computing Literature
Indexes, abstracts, and accesses full text journals, books, proceedings and theses from key publishers in computing.
ACS Web Editions
Searchable collection of more than 30 peer-reviewed journals and magazines published by the American Chemical Society.
Acta Sanctorum
Contains the complete texts, which were published between 1656 and 1940, of all the lives of the ancient, medieval and modern saints. Serves as an electronic index for 68 volumes of saints' lives.
African American Biographical Database
Biographical profiles, full-text sketches and photographs of prominent African Americans from all walks of life between 1790-1950.
African American Music Reference
Contains more than 12,000 pages of text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. Covers blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. AAMR links to the online listening database African American Song, so users may listen to associated music that accompanies the liner notes and album information in the database.
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
Eventually this database will contain the full-text of major 19th century African-American newspapers providing first-hand stories by way of biographies as well as statistics, essays, editorials, and advertisements serving as primary source historical documentation. Search individual newspapers or group together.
African American Poetry
The early history of African American poetry, from the first recorded poem by an African American (Lucy Terry's 'Bars Fights', c.1746) to the major poets of the nineteenth century, including Paul Laurence Dunbar and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
African American Song
More than 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds. Documents the history of African American music. Contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others.
AgeLine
Index to articles on aging available through the AARP. AgeLine will show information about an article, book or report on aging for free, but you have to pay to see an abstract. You will have to use the WMU Library Catalog and Journal Finder to get the actual article or book, if we have it, otherwise use Interlibrary Loan. Coverage from 1978 to present.
AGRICOLA
Extensive index to articles and other information sources that concern agriculture, forestry and animal science. Includes food science and nutrition. Coverage 1970 - present. Updated monthly.
RefWorks Info: For Import filter, choose "OCLC FirstSearch". For Database: choose, "AGRICOLA".
AIAA Electronic Library
The AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Electronic Library enables you to do keyword searches in selected AIAA journals, meeting papers, books, and standards. Full text is not available. However, Waldo Library will order any materials that you need through InterLibrary Loan.
AIDSinfo
A site from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services providing information on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention and research, including clinical trials.
allAfrica.com
This African news site posts over 800 stories daily in English and French and offers multi-lingual streaming programming as well as over 900,000 articles in the archive, including the Africa News Service from 1997.
Alternative Press Index
Indexes and selectively abstracts international and interdisciplinary alternative (mostly radical and left) periodicals, newspapers, and magazines covering cultural, economic, political, and social change. Coverage 1991-present. For earlier years, see the Alternative Press Index Archive. Updated quarterly.
Print: Z 7164 .S66 A4x (Ref) 1969-present.
Alternative Press Index Archive
Indexes about 300 alternative, radical and left journals, newspapers, and magazines covering cultural, economic, political, and social change. Coverage 1960-1990.
America's Historical Newspapers 1690-1922
Full text images of articles from early American newspapers for over 700 newspapers from 24 Eastern states (not Michigan).
America: History and Life
Indexes and abstracts 2,100 journals, book and media reviews, and dissertations about the history and culture of the US and Canada. Searches by subject, author, title, time period, or document type. Coverage from 1964 to the present. Updated monthly.
American Civil War Research Database
This database contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers, regimental rosters, officer profiles, thousands of battles, and 15,000 photographs of the American Civil War.
American Civil War: Letters & Diaries
This full text database includes more than 100,000 pages written by over 2,000 persons, primarily letters and diaries from the Civil War. Also includes biographies and an extensive bibliography.
American Drama (1714-1915)
Containing more than 1,500 dramatic works from the early eighteenth century up to the beginning of the twentieth, American Drama reflects American dramatic writing in all its richness and diversity: plays in verse, farces, melodramas, minstrel shows, realist plays, frontier plays, temperance dialogues and a range of other genres are represented. Major dramatists featured include Clyde Fitch, Augustin Daly, David Belasco, James Herne and Joaquin Miller.
American Film Scripts Online
When complete, this will include more than 1,000 film scripts as well as detailed information about the scenes, characters, and people related to the scripts. Searches can be restricted quite precisely - to criminal characters or interior urban settings in the 1950s, for example. You can also sometimes compare different versions of a film script.
American Mathematical Society Journals
The University Libraries subscribes to journals published by the American Mathematical Society. Online access varies from title to title.
American Memory
Multimedia collections from the Library of Congress of digitized documents, photographs, sound recordings, motion pictures, and texts. Over 100 collections, including, for example, African-American pamphlets, Chautauqua flyers, Depression photographs, Coca-Cola advertising, and the papers of Alexander Graham Bell, to name just a few.
American National Biography
Authoritative biographical essays on more than 17,400 deceased Americans from all eras and walks of life published by Oxford University Press. Some of these entries are for literary figures.
American News Magazines
Search or browse the most popular magazines such as Fortune, Newsweek, People, Real Simple, Sports Illustrated, and Time. Coverage start dates vary from 1991 to 2003.
American Newspapers
This NewsBank database is a subset of the larger Access World News collection and consists of over 800 American newspapers. They are listed by state and searchable individually, by region or nationally.
American Poetry (1600-1900)
Over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century.
American Song
Contains 50,000 tracks, including songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Also includes Civil Rights songs, songs of political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more.
Ancestry.com
See HeritageQuest Online
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
A sometimes useful additional bibliography to search besides the MLA Bibliography for scholarship about English language and literature, but use the MLA first. Searching works best if you know the author's name and search by it rather than by subject matter. However, this resource also indexes research by broad subject, by chronological period, and by scholars' names.
Print: Z 2011 .M69 (1920-date)
Anthropology Plus
Anthropology Plus 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. The index offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. Coverage is from the late 19th century to
the present.
Anthropology Plus combines into one resource, Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and the Anthropology Library at the British Museum.
AnthroSource
AnthroSource is a single database of newsletters, bulletins, and 11 peer-reviewed journals from the American Anthropological Association. 31 publications are represented in this searchable archive. Much of the material is full-text. Coverage varies for the past 100 years up to current journal issues.
Applied Science and Technology Abstracts
Basic undergraduate engineering database. It covers only English-language journals, no conferences. WMU libraries own about 60% of the titles indexed. Good first choice for engineering/technology. Coverage: 1983-present. Tutorial
ArchivesUSA
Includes three major resources: a directory of manuscript repositories; records from the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections from the 1950s to the present covering 93,000 collections; and detailed subject indexing for over 58,000 collections in the microfiche series, the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS).
Art Abstracts
Indexes more than 400 of the leading journals in the arts, including areas such as archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, crafts, film, folk art, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, musicology, painting, photography, sculpture, television, textiles, and video. Coverage is from 1984 with abstracts since 1994. Updated monthly.
Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984
This index covers back issues of Art Index and includes citations from over 420 periodicals in English and other languages. Covering fine, decorative and commercial art, it also indexes reproductions of art works appearing in these periodicals.
Print: Z 5937 .A78 (Ref.) 1929-2001.
ARTFL Project
A database produced by the American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (University of Chicago) of nearly 2000 texts ranging from classic French literature to nonfiction and technical writing. Includes medieval and Renaissance as well as 18th, 19th, and 20th century works in many genres, such as fiction, poetry, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy.
ArticleFirst
Indexes from the table of contents pages over 16,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, humanities, and popular culture. No abstracts. Coverage from 1990 to the present. Updated daily.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
(Web of Science) The Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database that indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. Coverage is from 1975 to the present.
Arts and Humanities Search
(FirstSearch) Indexes articles from over 1,300 arts and humanities journals and selectively covers relevant articles from over 5,800 social science and science journals. Coverage is from 1980 to the present. Updated weekly. See also the Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
ARTstor
ARTstor is a digital image database containing more than 300,000 art images and descriptive information for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use. Among the collections represented in ARTStor at the John C. and Susan L Huntinton Archive of Buddhist Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Uffizi Gallery, the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography at the Cooper Union School of Art, and the National History Museum, London. ARTStor also provides the tools to create presentations using ARTStor images combined with images from users personal collections.
ASCE Research Library (American Society of Civil Engineers)
This digital library provides full text access to ASCE Conference Proceedings beginning in 2003, and all 30 ASCE Journal and Periodical volumes published since 1995. (Some journals are available going back a little further.)
Asian American Drama
This edition contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. When complete, the collection will include more than 250 plays, of which some 50% have never been published before. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
ASTA
See Applied Science and Technology Abstracts
ATLA Religion
Index to thousands of citations to journals and edited books as well as book reviews in the field of religious studies. Coverage from 1949 to the present, with selected records back to 1818. Updated twice a year.
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