Trials & New Databases

Trials & New Databases

New Databases 2008-09

HeinOnline
The bound and daily versions of Congressional Record (1873-present), its three predecessor titles: Annals of Congress (1789-1824), Register of Debates (1824-1837) and Congressional Globe (1833-1873); and other important congressional material.
China Data Online
From the University of Michigan's China Data Center, covers China's economic development at national, provincial, city, county, and industrial levels.
Index of Christian Art
The Index records works of art produced without geographical limitations from early apostolic times up to A.D. 1550. Seventeen different media are represented in the archive, and these include manuscripts, metalwork, sculpture, painting, glass, and so forth. The database has both text and images, although some works of art may not have an accompanying image.
Roper Center
The Roper Center archives datasets from thousands of surveys with national adult, state, foreign, and special subpopulation samples. These datasets are listed in the Catalog of Holdings. Online access to many datasets are provided through the Roper Express service. US nationwide public opinion polls since 1935 are available through the iPoll service. A full-text retrieval system, the iPOLL online database is organized at the question-level.
Aluka
Aluka is an international, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. It includes a wide variety of scholarly materials contributed by Aluka's partners, ranging from archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides.
Index Islamicus
Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Records included in the database cover almost 100 years of publications on the world of Islam.
Rambi (Index of Articles on Jewish Studies)
Rambi is a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel and the State of Israel. The Index is based to a large extent on the collections of the Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem. Material indexed in Rambi is compiled from thousands of periodicals, in print and electronic format, and from collections of articles.