A-Z E-Resources List
Online Resources (❦ denotes a resource that may only be available in building)
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AATA Online: Abstracts of International Conservation Literature
A comprehensive database of over 136,000 abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage. AATA now includes selected subject-specific bibliographies produced as part of the Getty Conservation Institute's own conservation and scientific research projects.
AGRICOLA: National Agricultural Library Catalog
Provides information on materials acquired by the National Agricultural Library including books, journals, government documents, audiovisual and other materials. Areas include agricultural economics, chemistry and rural sociology. Covers 1970-present.
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Search US public TV and radio programs from 1940s-2018. Includes TV and radio programs from 100+ public broadcasting stations across the county. (68,000 items are available to watch/listen.)
Freely available source for population, housing, economic and geographic information, from the United States Census Bureau.
Provides information from the Library of Congress on, and access to, digitized versions of primary-source collections on American history and culture, including photographs, documents, sound recordings, and motion pictures.
American Historical Periodicals
Provides access to "nearly a million collection descriptions" from "thousands of libraries, museums, and archives. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact [information from] archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies."
Searches for descriptions of archival material at more than 220 academic and cultural institutions in the United Kingdom.
Archives Unbound: Global Missions and Theology
arXiv from Cornell University is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Note: Materials may not be peer-reviewed!
Provides information and assistance regarding the cultural, economic, social, historical and political dimensions of Asia. Includes a daily digest of Asia-related news reported in the international press; thousands of annotated links; country profiles including maps and statistical information; a database of specialists on Asia; a searchable glossary; a guide to business protocol in 12 of Asia's major markets; an up-to-date directory of government leaders and cabinet ministers; an international events calendar from the Asia Society and other organizations.
Discover the most accurate, authoritative and up-to-date service and repair information for thousands of domestic and imported vehicles. All content comes from the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) and includes step-by-step repair information, diagrams, maintenance schedules, parts and labor estimates, service bulletins and recalls.
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Bibliography of the History of Art & RILA (1975 to 2007)
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and Répertoire international de la littérature de l'art (RILA). Abstracts of journal articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations and exhibition and dealers' catalogs. Includes European and American art from late antiquity to the present. Covers material published between 1975-2007.
BHL operates as a worldwide consortium of natural history, botanical, research, and national libraries working together to digitize the natural history literature held in their collections and make it freely available for open access as part of a global "biodiversity community."
Provides free access to biomedical research publications including biology, medicine journal articles, current reports, and meeting abstracts. Offers information about current controlled trials, as well as topics in modern biology. Coverage varies.
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States: A Selection of Primary Sources
Select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. By centering on the experiences and perspectives of African Americans, it is hoped that this collection imbues the study of Black history with a deeper understanding of the humanity of people who have pursued the quest for freedom, and the significance of movements like Black Lives Matter.
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Since 1983, the award-winning magazine published by the American Chemical Society's Education Division has helped high school students connect chemistry to the real world. This site contains magazine articles from the past decade. See the librarian for complete back issues.
ChemMatters Teacher’s Guides provide connections to chemistry concepts and science standards, teaching strategies and tips, student worksheets, and suggestions for additional resources to incorporate into your lessons. This is a value-added resource that accompanies ongoing TFI’s print and electronic subscription. See the librarian for back issues.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
A free resource to help you find scholarly journal articles, books, evaluation reports, grantee final reports, and program reports relating to child welfare, including child abuse prevention, child abuse and neglect, out-of-home care, adoption, and other topics.
A news source, in print and online, for charity leaders, fund raisers, grant makers, and other people involved in the philanthropic enterprise. Full-text coverage May 18, 2000 – Current. See Librarian for login to read some content.
Provides full-text access to newspaper pages from 1900 to 1910 and abstracts about American newspapers published between 1690 to the present.
Provides detailed profiles of all of the countries of the world. Offers information on each country's geography, people, government, economy, communications, military, and transnational issues, as well as maps and flag images. Covers 2000 - present in PDF; current interactive edition is continually updated.
Provides a single stop search for full text, vetted, quality Open Access articles, eTextbooks, and eBooks.
An electronic archive of papers related to the study of cognition, including such areas as psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, many areas of computer science, philosophy, biology, medicine, and anthropology.
Discover biographical and bibliographical information on more than 160,000 of today's most influential authors
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D-PLACE: Database of Places, Language, Culture, and Environment
D-Place is an attempt to bring together the dispersed corpus of information describing human cultural diversity, cultural, linguistic, environmental and geographic information for over 1400 human ‘societies’, enabling users to visualize cross-cultural data as lists, on a global map, or as a linguistic tree. The cultural descriptions are based on ethnographic work carried out in the 19th and early-20th centuries (to 1950). Data files can be downloaded.
Find 18th and 19th century historical maps at the city, country, and continent levels for North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
The DPLA allows you to search millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States. Each record links to the original object on the library or other content provider's website.
The purpose of the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is to increase the accessibility of transgender history by providing an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Aims to cover all subjects and languages.
From the University of Leeds, Center for Disability Studies: "The aim of the Disability Archive UK is to provide disabled people, students and scholars with an interest in this and related fields, access to the writings of those disability activists, writers and allies whose work may no longer be easily accessible in the public domain."
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Ebony Magazine Archive: 1945-2014❦
Ebony Magazine covers civil rights, education, entrepreneurship and other social topics with an Aftrican-American focus. It includes more than 800 issues providing a broad view of African-American culture from its fist issue in 1945 through 2014. This fully searchable full-text archive provides an analysis of African American business, history, polictics, entertainment, fashion, and culture.
EBSCO E-Books❦Select from over 16,000 eBooks from the world's leading publishers across all major subject areas. Perform full-text searches of a single eBook, search thousands of volumes simultaneously, browse topic categories, or read eBooks directly online.
Ebsco Open Dissertations (previously “American Doctoral Dissertations”) is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses from around the world.
EDGAR Open AccessData and Statistics
Alternate Name(s): Securities and Exchange Commission's Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system
Users can research a public company’s financial information and operations by reviewing the filings the company makes with the SEC. Users can also research information provided by mutual funds (including money market funds), exchange-traded funds (ETFs), variable annuities, and individuals.
Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia is a civic project to increase understanding of one of America’s greatest cities. The Encyclopedia as a digital resource and print volume will offer the most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region.
The Energy Citations Database (ECD) contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related STI from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The database provides access to DOE publicly available citations from 1948 through the present.
ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center)
ERIC is a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable, Internet-based bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information. It is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences within the U.S. Department of Education.
Use Europeana to search through millions of digitized books, art, newspapers, and other sources from European museums, galleries and national libraries.
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Provides links to key statistics available from more than 100 U.S. government agencies. Also contains contact and other information for these agencies and links to map statistics.
Provides abstracts and/or citation information to journal articles, book reviews and essays about women, sexuality and gender in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, from 450 C.E. to 1500 C.E. Covers materials published since 1990.
Franklin Open is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal from the publishers of the Journal of The Franklin Institute that focuses on the fields of engineering and applied mathematics. This e-journal contains original manuscripts and special topic issue as well as multidisciplinary topics or application-oriented articles, reviews, surveys, and educational articles.
FRED Open AccessData and Statistics
Alternate Name(s): Federal Reserve Economic Data
An online database consisting of thousands of economic data time series from national, international, public, and private sources.
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Explore encyclopedias and specialized reference sources on a variety of topics from history, government, environment, math, and more!
Comprehensive online science reference database containing hundreds of science topics through overviews, journals, news, interactive experiments, and more.
Gallica is a digital library of French and francophone culture maintained by the Bibliothque nationale de France. Contains numerous electronic texts, images, maps, animation, and sound files of French and other publications in history, literature, science, philosophy, law, economics, and political science. Covers the Middle Ages to the present.
Global Invasive Species Database
Provides global information on invasive alien species. The focus is on invasive species that threaten biodiversity and covers all taxonomic groups from micro-organisms to animals and plants. Species information includes species' biology, ecology, native and alien range, references, contacts, links, and images.
Global Nonviolent Action Database
The Global Nonviolent Action Database is a repository of case studies on nonviolent action around the globe, from 1170 BCE to the present day. The GNAD can be searched or browsed by date, country, "wave" of campaigns, methods of nonviolent action, and more, and each case study includes details about the campaign's goals, participants, opponents, and success.
Online library of more than a million books digitized from the collections of Harvard, Stanford, Michigan, and many other university libraries. The complete texts are available for books in the public domain - principally books printed before 1923. A potential source of published travel accounts from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Provides a timeline and full text or snippets of thousands of historical newspapers and other documents. Use the Advanced Search screen to limit your search by location and or dates.
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Alternate Name(s): Formerly FDsys: Federal Digital System
Provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government. Includes Congressional Hearings, Bills and Statutes, Presidential and regulatory materials, and more.
Disseminates official information from all three branches of the United States federal government including a comprehensive list of federal resources available online and links to other government agencies.
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The HathiTrust Digital Library is home to millions of digitized books and publications for reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. and international copyright law, text and data mining tools for the entire corpus, and other emerging services based on the combined collection.
Historic American Buildings Survey
Begun in 1933, this Library of Congress collection documents America's built environment in multiformat surveys comprising more than 556,900 measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 38,600 historic structures and sites dating from Pre-Columbian times to the twentieth century.
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ILOSTAT: International Labour Organization Statistics
The database contains over 100 indicators covering more than 230 countries and economies.
Provides an assessment by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the outlook for international energy markets. Includes projections of energy consumption, demand for different types of energy, and carbon dioxide emissions. Covers present-2050.
The Internet Archive is a non-profit organization that is building an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes more than 300,000 texts, as well as audio, moving images, software and archived web pages. A good source for books printed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including many travel accounts. Also home of the Wayback Machine.
Contains filmography listings for films, actors, producers, directors, and others associated with filmmaking. Provides plot summaries, years of release, production companies, distributors, Academy Award information, and reviews for more than 300,000 movies. Covers 1888-present.
International Financial Statistics
Alternate Name(s): International Monetary Fund
Contains time series data for most IMF members (over 200 countries) including data on a country's exchange rates, international liquidity, money and banking accounts, interest rates, production, prices, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts as well as commodity and trade statistics. Also contains area and world tables for selected series.
Introduction to U.S. History: The American Revolution❦
This resource documents the revolution and war that created the United States of America, from the Paris peace treaty in 1763 through the early protests in 1785 to the Paris peace treaty of 1783. The collection examines the political, social, and intellectual upheaval of the age, as well as the actual war for American independence through its eight long years of conflict. The archive tells the experiences of commanders and common soldiers, women, slaves, Native Americans and Loyalists through a variety of primary source documents - personal narratives, policitcal pamplaets and speechs, sermons and poems, legislative journals and popular magazines, maps, and more.
Introduction to U.S. History: The Civil War❦
This resource documents the war that transformed America, ended slavery, and unified the nation around the principles of freedom. The collection examines the war and all its complexity – its causes and consequences and its leaders and common soldiers, the home front, and the military campground, and more. Included are a variety of primary source documents - personal narratives, pamplets and political speeches, sermons and songs, regimental histories and photograph albums, legal treatises and children's books. Every aspect is covered: military, diplomatic, cultural, and legal, as well as special studies in African American history, Southern history, medical history, techological history, and more.
Introduction to U.S. History: Slavery in America❦
This resource provides a significant account of the issue of slavery and its impact on American society and culture. It documents key aspects of the history of slavery in the United States, from its origins in Africa to its abolition, including materials on the slave trade, plantation life, emancipation, pro-slavery and anti-slavery arguments, religions views on slavery, and other related topics. This digital archive provides access to personal narratives, poltiical speeches, sermons, plays songs,poetic and fictional works published from the time of the transatlantic slave trade to the post-Civil War period.
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Journal of the Franklin Institute❦
As the second oldest continuously published American journal devoted to science and technology, the Journal has an established reputation for publishing high quality papers in the field of engineering and applied mathematics.
Includes nearly all 2,800+ academic journals on JSTOR that span more than 60 disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, along with millions of primary sources across the Arts and Sciences collections.
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Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database (LitMed)
An annotated multimedia listing of prose, poetry, film, video and art that was developed to be a dynamic, accessible, comprehensive resource for teaching and research in medical humanities, and for use in health/pre-health, graduate and undergraduate liberal arts and social science settings.
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Making of America-Cornell University
Making of America-University of Michigan
Provides access to approximately 10,000 books and over 50,000 journal articles in the University of Michigan and Cornell University Libraries from the antebellum through reconstruction periods. Covers American social history focusing especially on education, psychology, religion, science, and technology.
This resource from the American Mathematical Society indexes reviews of topics devoted to mathematics from about 1700 serials since 1940. Besides journals, conference proceedings and books are also reviewed. Updated daily.
Track how stories and ideas spread through media. Search through millions of news stories published online, visualize trends, and identify patterns in your results. Includes stories from 2011-present. Excellent tool for comparing news coverage across different sources. Filter sources by partisan leaning, publication history (legacy, digital-only), and other criteria.
Middle Eastern & North African Newspapers
Find articles from 80+ Middle Eastern and North African newspapers published between 1900-1970. Content is predominantly in Arabic. Also includes a few English-language newspapers (Iraq, Morocco) and French-language (Algeria).
An index to the online textbooks in MIT OpenCourseWare. Each link below goes to a course or resource page that contains the textbook files. Some of these online textbooks are open-licensed electronic versions of print books. Others are self-published online books, or course notes.
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A NASA-funded project that provides abstracts and/or citations to journals in fields that include astronomy, astrophysics; containing 524,304 abstracts, instrumentation, physics, geophysics, and the Los Alamos preprint server. Some full-text.
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Provides an enormous list of statistical publications relating to education; includes datasets and published reports. Covers all areas of education including early childhood, secondary and postsecondary education. Coverage varies.
National Geographic Magazine Archive 1888-2020❦
This iconic monthly publication provides unparalleled, in-depth coverage of society, cultures, nature, science, technology, travel, geography, and more -- making it an essential resource for educators and students as well as general readers. This resource include complete, unlimited access to the magazine main content through 2020 -- every article from every issue, each fully searchable through an intuitive interface.
NDLTD: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
Provides links for dissertation collections around the world including the United Kingdom, Canada, and South Africa.
Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship (NINES)
Provides access to a peer-reviewed collection of digital projects on the long 19th-century (1770-1920), British and American. Useful for identifying primary sources.
Search for archival articles from American mainstream and minority newspapers and other periodicals.
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Serves as a search portal to open access digital collections and resources such as electronic books, online journals, audio files, images, and movies from a wide variety of research, library, and scholarly institutions.
OMIM: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM®) is a continuously updated catalog of human genes and genetic disorders and traits, with particular focus on the molecular relationship between genetic variation and phenotypic expression. It is thus considered to be a phenotypic companion to the Human Genome Project. OMIM is a continuation of Dr. Victor A. McKusick's Mendelian Inheritance in Man, which was published through 12 editions, the last in 1998. OMIM is currently biocurated at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Digitized books from the Internet Archive.
OSTI from the Department of Energy (DOE)
Alternate Name(s): Search tool for reports about science, technology, and engineering research information funded by DOE
Site provides access to full-text DOE research and development in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental cleanup, energy technologies, and other topics. Covers primarily 1991 to present.
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Explore millions of digitized photographs, documents, and newspapers from Pennsylvania's rich and varied history. The collections are provided by libraries and other organizations across the Commonwealth.
Lists publications of the Governor's Office, State Agencies, Boards and Commissions, Other State Related Agencies, plus the State Constitution, Budget, and Regulations.
Philadelphia Architects & Buildings
Free registration required for searching. Brings together the collections, data, images and professional expertise of The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania Architectural Archives, the Philadelphia Historical Commission, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, and several local cultural institutions, enabling free access to information on the built environment of the five-county Philadelphia area.
Provides online access to over 50,000 photographs from the collections of the Philadelphia Department of Records. Also provides digital access to the Philadelphia historical streets index and the Philadelphia historical photograph index.
Database for public policy. Includes millions of reports, working papers, policy briefs, data sources, and media drawn from a directory of thousands of international nonprofits, NGOs, think tanks, and research centers. Create free login to use site.
ProQuest’s STEM Database delivers a wide-ranging collection of more than 500 magazines and journals designed to support studies in science, tech, engineering and math subject areas. Disciplines covered include earth, life, physical, medical, mathematics and applied sciences, such as engineering. Coverage is front-to-back full text, as well as full-page image and Text+Graphics to reproduce images and diagrams exactly as they appear in the original publication.
This resource provides information on the chemical structures and biological activities of small organic molecules. Includes substance information, compound structures, and bioactivity data in three primary databases, PCSubstance, PCCompound, and PCBioAssay, respectively. Provides a search engine, compound neighboring, sub/superstructure, similarity structure, bioactivity data, and other searching features.
Includes citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE indexed journals, life science journals, and online books.
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RAMBI: Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
Offers citations to articles in the field of Jewish Studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Material comes mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library. Covers 1966-present.
Reading Experience Database (RED), 1450–1945
An open-access database and research project with more than 30,000 records of reading experiences of British subjects, both at home and abroad, and of visitors to the British Isles, between 1450 and 1945.
A for-profit site, ResearchGate claims to be the professional network for researchers. Researchers use the site to share and discover research, build their networks, and advance their careers. Note: Materials may not be peer-reviewed, and may also be found free or low-cost elsewhere! Individual logins only. Please contact the librarian with any questions.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database is an on-line, searchable compilation and extension of Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index 1878-1985, Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index 1985-1991, and Science Fiction and Fantasy Reference Index 1992-1995, including material located since publication of the last printed volume.
Scientific American Archive Online❦
For over 160 years, Scientific American has been the source for understandable, authoritative reporting on developments in every field of science. Access the entire editorial content of Scientific American, Scientific American Mind, and all special issues from January 1993 to the present.
SCOAP3 Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics
SCOAP3 is a one-of-its-kind partnership of over three thousand libraries, key funding agencies and research centers in 44 countries, regions or territories and three intergovernmental organizations that has converted key journals in the field of High-Energy Physics to Open Access.
Find detailed repair guides for all types of small engines. Offers assistance in providing routine maintenance (tune-ups, brake service) as well as extensive repairs such as engine and transmission disassembly. Search by product type, brand, model/engine type, specific area of model/engine type and model numbers.
Alternate Name(s): Socopen
An open archive for scholarship in the social sciences. This is a platform for social scientists to upload working papers, preprints, and published papers, with the option to link data and code.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
SSRN is an open access repository that collects conference papers, journal article pre-prints and working papers in the social sciences. This is a good place to find very recent material.
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Alternate Name(s): ETS TestLink
A free database of information about tests and other kinds of standardized measurements. Provides citations and contact information for procuring the full instrument.
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
Provides detailed information on companies, products and service categories. Also offers online suppliers catalogs.
Time Magazine Archive 1923-2000❦
This archive presents an extensive collection of the prominent weekly news magazine dating back to its first issue in March 1923 through December 2000, presented in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format. The 4,000 issues include reports of national and international current events, politics, sports, and entertainment.
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The U.S. Geological Survey provides the Nation with reliable, impartial information to describe and understand the Earth. This information is used to: minimize loss of life and property from natural disasters; manage water, biological, energy, and mineral resources; enhance and protect the quality of life; and contribute to wise economic and physical development.
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Publications Warehouse
Searchable database of USGS reports and thematic maps. Contains more than 69,000 USGS bibliographic citations, including USGS numbered series begun as early as 1880. Many recent documents are available full text.
U.S. News & World Report Magazine Archive: 1926-1984❦
This magazine features a broad variety of topics in news events, policitc and business, and is well known for its ranked lists of businesses and institutions. With 4,900 issues included, the Archive is valuable to researchers of 20th-century current events, poltiics and business, as well as those interested in the history of journalism, marketing/advertising, education, sociology and popular culture.
Umbra Search African American History
Umbra Search African American History makes African American history more broadly accessible through digitization of African American materials across hundreds of thousands digitized materials from over 1,000 libraries and archives across the country, and support of students, educators, artists, and the public through residencies, workshops, and events locally and around the country.
Provides access to documents and publications issued by the United Nations, including reports, resolutions, meeting records, sales publications, and press releases. Features full-text recent materials from the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Secretariat, International Court of Justice, and Trusteeship Council, as well as online catalogs for finding older materials. Updated continuously.
A single-entry portal for UN databases. Find data series by searching or browsing by theme. Includes Country Profiles, Advanced Search and Glossaries to aid research. All countries and a wide range of themes are covered.
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Provides links to booksellers' catalogs, union catalogs, and some catalogs of national, research and university libraries, as well as to web sites on many aspects of bibliography.
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World Development Indicators (WDI) Online
World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized international sources. It includes more than 1100 indicators on population, income, social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environment, covering 210 countries and 18 regional and income groups. Also includes the International Debt Statistics (IDS) database. Data ranges from 1960-present.
WorldCat searches the collections of libraries worldwide.
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Alternate Name(s): 18th Connect, XVIII Connect
A web portal and research environment devoted to digital projects concerning the 18th century. Many primary texts and images are accessible by subject, author, and other categories. Use the Advanced Search to refine by format, discipline, genre, and so on. Only some content will be available full text.
