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DAAI: Design and Applied Arts Index
Contains annotated references from over 500 design and craft journals about all aspects of design (interior, fashion, retail, theater, and others). Also indexes newspapers, conference reports, and reviews of books, videos, and exhibitions. Separate directories list college and university craft and design courses as well as journals in these fields. Coverage from 1973 to present.

Dance in Video
Video streaming of over 150 dance productions and documentaries. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. Make your own playlists and save clips.

Dateline
Provides full text information on local and regional business news including information on corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. Contains business information not typically found in national news sources with news and analysis, information on local markets, major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and area business publications. Coverage: 1985 to date.

Davidson Data Center and Network (DDCN)
This is a free index to data on transition and emerging markets from other free web sites.

DemographicsNow
This database provides comprehensive market information analysis. Including access to current and past U.S. Census data, including data collected from the 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2006 with 2011 projections. Also provides the ability to create unlimited custom reports using thousands of variables, advanced features such as: demographic maps and reports for all U.S. geographies and addresses, market and site location analysis based on custom radii, custom drive times, counties, census tracts, block groups, U.S. places, DMAs, MSAs, CBSAs, ZIPs and more; also includes over 40 summary, comparison, and ranking reports.

Dictionary of Literary Biography
Now available online, the print consists of hundreds of volumes, each covering a distinct literary period, genre, or theme, with extensive essays, frequently illustrated with images of the author and his/her works, which link biography with interpretations of the literary work. Included are literary authors, journalists, historians, screenwriters, scholars, critics, and publishers. Though international is scope, emphasis is on those authors writing in English. Some authors appear in more than one volume.
PS 129 .D5x (Ref)1978-present
Use the online index or the index in the latest published volume to find all the previous volumes.

Dictionary of Old English
Covers the vocabulary of the first centuries (600-1150 A.D.) of the English language (A-G is currently available). The DOE complements the Middle English Dictionary (which covers the period 1100-1500 A.D.) and the Oxford English Dictionary, the three together providing a full description of English vocabulary.

Dictionary of Old English Corpus
This database gathers 3037 individual texts comprising a complete record of Old English. Arranged as a contextual dictionary, words or word fragment searches lead to hits everywhere these appear in an OE text.
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Digital Corporate Manuals
Searchable archive of corporate and industry related documents. Contains more than 180,000 documents covering over 100 countries. Includes data from 1909 to 2007.

Digital Sanborn Maps 1867-1970
Maps of 300 Michigan towns and cities drawn at a scale of 50 feet to the inch, including street blocks and building numbers.

Digitale Bibliothek deutscher Klassiker
An electronic edition of the Bibliothek deutscher Klassiker which contains the highpoints of German literature, as well as editions of works by writers and philosophers such as Herder, Kleist, Kant, and Fichte. Various historical, philosophical theological, political and art history texts are included among the digitized works. The overall range is 800 to 1914.

Directories Online
See Gale Directory Library

Dissertation Abstracts
See Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest)

Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest)
Indexes virtually all doctoral dissertations and many masters theses produced in the U.S. since 1860 and many from foreign schools as well. Abstracts available from 1980. Full text for most dissertations available from 1997. Some authors choose to not make their dissertations available. Print and microfilm copies are offered for a fee, but check out Interlibrary Loan before paying for a copy.

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