Trials & New Databases

Trials & New Databases

New Databases 2007-08

Oxford Islamic Studies Center
Encompasses A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur’anic materials, primary sources, images, and timelines.
Early American Imprints II
Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. The continuation of Early American Imprints: Series I, it is based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker and supplemented by thousands of new items.
Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980
A compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. Based on the "Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project," a national research effort directed by Professor Nicolás Kanellos.
Oxford African American Studies Center
Includes: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition; Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass (and forthcoming companion volume, 1896-present; Black Women in America, Second Edition; African American National Biography; other Oxford reference sources, image s, maps, charts, and tables.
CQ Almanac
Coverage of the people, elections, legislation, and controversies in the U.S. Congress from 1945- . Original narrative accounts of every major piece of legislation that lawmakers considered during a congressional session. Includes all of the content from the print version of the Almanac. Updated annually. For more recent coverage, see CQ Weekly.
Art Index Retrospective
Indexing of hundreds of publications. Includes citations to peer-reviewed articles, interviews and books reviews. Covers fine, decorative, and commercial art. International in scope. Coverage is 1929-1984.
Gallup Brain
Searchable database of the thousands of Gallup Polls conducted from 1935 to today. Users can search questions, results, specific surveys, and associated articles. Also houses Gallup Poll and Gallup Management Journal articles that feature in-depth public opinion and management data analyses.
British Periodicals
British Periodicals provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century.
Oxford Scholarship Online
The complete text of over 1,800 Oxford books in core areas of Biology, Business and Management, Classical Studies, History, Mathematics, Linguistics, Literature, Physics and Psychology - in addition to Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science and Religion.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Notes English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800. A variety of materials is included?from books and broadsides, Bibles, tract books and sermons to printed ephemera. Spans many disciplines. Based on The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private, and public libraries worldwide.
FBIS Full Text - Africa, Middle East, & S. Asia, 1974 - 1996
Full text of Daily Reports from the CIA?s Foreign Broadcast Information Service, from 1974-1996. Individual reports include speeches, broadcasts, news articles from countries in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. Texts are translated into English by the CIA.
Handbook of Child Psychology
Vol. 1: Theoretical Models of Human Development. Vol. 2: Cognition, Perception, and Language. Vol. 3: Social, Emotional, and Personality Development. Vol. 4: Child Psychology in Practice. This sixth edition contains new chapters on such topics as spirituality, social understanding, and non-verbal communication. You can browse or search the contents of this e-book.
PrimateLit
The PrimateLit database provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage of the database spans 1940 to present and includes all publication categories (articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc.)
Forest Science
Forest Science Database indexes and abstracts international and domestic forest, wood science, and agroforestry research articles, books, and conferences, with content from 1939 to present. It is an ideal source for foresters, scientists, environmental consultants, policy makers and others actively involved in research or decision-making in agroforestry, forestry, wood science, and the forest and timber industries.
Mergent Online
Domestic and international company information. Includes company financials, equity prices, SEC filings, subsidiaries, and more.
AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics
Collects, indexes, and electronically distributes full text copies of scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural economics.
Women and Social Movements in the United States
Revolves around projects that interpret and present documents on the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. Each document project poses an interpretive question and provides a collection of documents that address the question. Projects provide the full text of documents, images, and links to websites. Includes a dictionary of social movements and organizations, a chronology of U.S. Women's History, teaching tools with lesson ideas, and quarterly news from the archives about U.S. Women's History.
Chicago Manual of Style
Browse or search the "bible of the publishing and research community."
Play Index
Find citations to plays written from Antiquity to the present and published from 1949 to the present.
Periodical Archives Online
Backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences available electronically, access to the full text of periodicals that have been indexed in its sister database, Periodicals Index Online.
Boston Globe Archive (1872-1923)
Full-text and full-image articles. Complete cover-to-cover with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF.