The AAPG Digital Library contains full text content from publications of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and many publications of regional geological surveys. This online subscription is provided through the AAPG Foundation Digital Products Fund, by an endowment established by Kansas alumni William L. Fisher, M.S. 1958, Ph.D. 1961, and Marilee B. Fisher, B.S. 1958.

Contains editorially-reviewed abstracts of the international literature of conservation and heritage management.

Provides abstracts of articles on business and management from U.S. and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines, and regional business publications. Full-text articles are available for a significant portion of journals indexed. The subscription includes access to ABI/INFORM Dateline, Global, Trade & Industry, and Archive.

Indexes essential areas related to social gerontology, including the psychology of aging, elder abuse, society and the elderly

Academic OneFile provides access to peer-reviewed, full-text articles in the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. If you wish to power search Academic OneFile along with General OneFile and Custom Newspapers, please click here.

Featuring 8,750 of full-text journals, this scholarly collection offers coverage of information spanning a broad range of important areas of academic study including: anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology, and many other fields.

See: Alexander Street video

AccessPharmacy is an online curricular resource for pharmacy education. The source includes curriculum topics, organ systems, textbooks, drug monographs, lab tests, calculators, videos, case studies, and more. Mobile access requires a personal profile username and password.

AccessScience features fully searchable content from McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 10th Edition which provides authoritative articles in all major areas of science and technology. Its continuously updated content also includes definitions of scientific and technical terms, illustrations and graphics, bibliographies, biographies, news, and videos. (Restricted to 2 simultaneous users.)

See AP images.

ACLS humanities e-book is no longer available. For research assistance, consult Ask a Librarian

Contains bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings.

Provides online full-text access to journals published by the American Chemical Society contained in two databases: ACS Web editions; and ACS Journal archives.

See: RedBooks.com

This database is no longer available. Alternative sources are ARC: Aerospace Research Central and SAE Digital Library.

Aerospace Research Central provides a searchable interface to the publications of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), covering all aspects of aerospace. Full-text access from 1997 to present is available through a subscription from the KU Libraries to most of the journals and meeting papers.

NOTE: This collection of databases has not been updated since 2010. For access to more recently published resources on Africa, the user is strongly advised to search African Studies Abstracts online. Includes an aggregation of nearly 50 databases, pertaining chiefly to Africa continentally, as well as more specialized bibliographic resources on southern Africa. Included are African Index Medicus, the Index of South African Periodicals, and NAMLIT, which is compiled by the National Library of Namibia. With over 3.5 million citations dating back to the 16th century, this resources is essential for African studies research.

A free online source that includes two databases: African Women Bibliographic Database and Africana Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database. The former has citations on English language articles, monographs, conference papers, theses, etc. published since 1986. The latter provides access to nearly 50,000 English language citations to articles published in 450 journals since the mid-19th century. Both databases are searchable by region, country, pre-determined subject categories, and by keyword.

Contains a wealth of information about African American cultural life and history during the 19th century, and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and Congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. Also contains large numbers of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements.

African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 provides online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers.

African Development Indicators (ADI) is the most detailed collection of data on Africa, containing over 1,600 indicators, covering 53 African countries and spanning the period 1961 to 2008. Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources, infrastructure, governance, partnership, and environmental indicators. It also brings an essay on a key topic for Africa, and this year's theme is the long term growth challenges of the continent. For additional World Bank resources, please click here.

See: ASA online.

Includes citations to material acquired by the National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions. It also abstracts articles, audiovisual materials, books, book chapters, computer databases and software, maps, manuscripts, serials, and sound recordings. It is the most comprehensive source of bibliographic citations covering U.S. agricultural and life sciences information.

See the later title: Aerospace Research Central.

Alexander Street video searches across all Alexander Street Press video collections. The KU Libraries provides access to the video content in: VAST, World History in Video, and American History in Video. Faculty and students will find content to meet their learning, teaching, and research interest in the following areas and more: art, architecture, business, counseling and therapy, dance, economics, education, ethnic studies, ethnography, gay and lesbian studies, health, history, humanities, law and public safety, literature, opera, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, science, theatre, and women’s studies.

Reproduces in electronic format the 14 volumes of the All-Russia Population Census--the first census in the Russian Federation--which took place on October 9-16, 2002. Census data and text is available in both Russian and in English translation.

Indexes the alternative press in North America, with citations drawn from alternative, radical, and leftist publications. These publications cover cultural, economic, political & social change.

Indexes the alternative press in North America, with citations drawn from alternative, radical, and leftist publications. These publications cover cultural, economic, political & social change.

This database provides access to two collections of newspapers: Kansas titles from African American newspapers, 1827-1998 and another collection of thirteen of the state’s papers published from 1851 to 1909. Among those included in the later collection are: Emporia Gazette, Leavenworth Bulletin, Topeka Weekly Capital, and Sedan Lance.

America's News, formerly America's Newspapers, is a dynamic collection of full-text online local and national newspapers from all 50 states. Coverage of each newspaper varies. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded. Selective access is included to Lawrence Journal World and the Kansas City Star.

Indexes and abstracts the world's scholarly literature in the history of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. Includes journals of state and local historical societies, the social sciences and humanities generally, and leading journals in related fields of knowledge.

Covers North American scholarship on East-Central Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. Contains bibliographic records for journal articles, books and book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications.

The American Civil War Research Database is the definitive online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War. Originally created by Historical Data Systems, Inc., the database contains indexed, searchable information on over 4 million soldiers and thousands of battles, together with 15,000 photographs. With thousands of regimental rosters and officer profiles, the database will continue to grow as new information is loaded semiannually.

Presents a collection of American Civil War (1861-1865) letters, diaries, memoirs and biographies written between 1855 and 1875, including material that is previously unpublished. Covers the military, social, economic, and political aspects of the war.

Contains American companies that have a substantial investment in overseas operations--wholly or partially owned subsidiary, affiliate or branch.

The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. System requirements to view video: Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher, and Firefox 3.0 or higher, and Adobe Flash Player 9 or higher. To search American History in Video and World History in Video together, please click here.

American Men & Women of Science provides biographical profiles of living scientists in the United States and Canada as well as cross-references to earlier editions for deceased scientists. Entries include birth/death dates and places, citizenship, spouse's/children's names, fields of specialty, educational background, honors and awards, professional experience, research/publication information, and contact information.

American National Biography contains over 17,000 biographies of deceased Americans whose lives have shaped the nation. (Restricted to 5 simultaneous users.)

American Periodicals Series Online includes digitized and images of the pages of over 1,100 American magazines and journals published from 1741 through 1940.

see Literature Online.

Search or browse U.S. congressional materials originating from 1789 and covering through 1838, including 1st Congress, 1st Session through 25th Congress, 2nd Session.

American West provides electronic access to the Everett D Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library, Chicago. This digital collection contains over 300 manuscripts, broadsides, maps, and rare printed works. Material in the collection ranges from 1722 to 1939, with the majority covering 1830 to 1839.

Updated annually. Corresponds to the printed L'Annee Philologique, the international critical and analytical bibliography of ancient Greek and Latin languages and literatures and classical studies. Provides 350,000 bibliographic records for the years 1969 to 1999, with 12,500 new records added each year. The international offices analyze 1,500 periodicals each year as well as 500 articles in collections and conference papers.

Provides searchable abstracts and full-text access to articles in the biomedical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences in the Annual Reviews publications.

Combines Anthropological literature from Harvard University with the Anthropological Index, from the Royal Anthropological Institute in the United Kingdom. Anthropology Plus provides 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 coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. (Restricted to 10 simultaneous users.)

AnthroSource offers access to over 29 journals and articles from the American Anthropological Association (AAA) journals, newsletters, bulletins, and monographs. AnthroSource has centralized access to a wealth of other key anthropological resources, including text, sound, and video; and interactive services to foster communities of interest and practice throughout the discipline.

Contains the archives of the Associated Press. New content is added constantly to news photographs, audio sound bites, and graphics spanning 180 years of history. (Restricted to 5 simultaneous users.) Formerly called AccuNet/AP multimedia archive.

Includes Chinese ebooks and eReference databases covering over 2000 titles. More titles will be added on an on-going basis. Apabi ebook viewer is required; the introduction guide with the Viewer information can be accessed from the main page top right corner "Help" link. (Note: this database can only be properly viewed by Internet Explorer. When using other browsers such as Firefox or Chrome, some of the Chinese characters may not be displayed correctly.)

Contains indexing and abstracts for nearly 800 core English-language, scientific and technical publications. Content includes coverage of a wide variety of applied science specialties. Dates of coverage: 1983 to present.

Chronicles the Arab-Israeli conflict from 1917-1970. This resource contains primary source documents that chronicle the politics, wars, administration and diplomacy surrounding the Palestine Mandate and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Covers 18 magazines between 1982 and the present. You may search by building type, architect/designer, location of building, or a combination of the above. You may also search by subject. Updated annually.

Archive Finder is a directory that describes over 206,200 collections of primary source material housed in thousands of repositories across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.

This full text database contains more 450 texts from Celtic Europe from the 4th through the 13th centuries. Based on Lapidge and Sharpe, Bibliography of Celtic-Latin Literature, 400-1200. (Restricted to 3 simultaneous users.)

ArchiveGrid provides access to detailed archival collection descriptions, making information available about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and other archival materials.

This database contains the complete corpus of medieval translations of the works of Aristotle and is fully searchable by keyword or phrase.

Contains indexing and abstracting dating from 1984 for more than 600 periodicals and 13,000 dissertations on the subjects of art, architecture, urban planning, & design; journals are primarily but not exclusively English-language; full-text articles from over 300 journals dating from 1995; also indexes nearly 200,000 art reproductions that appear as illustrations for articles or advertisements. Can be combined with Art Index Retrospective to extend coverage to 1929.

Access to this collection is available through the Art & Cultural Heritage collection.

Art Index Retrospective provides citation indexing of fine art, decorative art, and commercial art journals, yearbooks and museum publications from 1929-1984. Uses English-language searching to cover periodicals published in English, French, Italian, German, Dutch, and Swedish. References artwork that illustrates articles or appears in advertisements, listing the works under the artists' names with full bibliographic citations. Includes citations to 25,000 book reviews. Database is searchable by keyword, subject heading, personal name, article title word, organization, publication, and year. Users also have the option of saving, printing, or e-mailing the results of each search. Art Full Text extends coverage to the present.

ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides citations with abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art. Although some entries date back to the late 1960s, ABM's coverage generally begins in 1974 and includes art topics from the late 19th century onwards and photography since its invention in 1839. It includes abstracts of English and foreign-language material on famous and lesser-known artists, movements, and trends. ABM covers all aspects of modern and contemporary art, including performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theater arts, crafts, jewelry, illustration, as well as the traditional fine arts of painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing.

Consists of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy.

This database is no longer available. An alternative source is Academic Search Complete.

The online version of Arts and Humanities Citation Index has been incorporated into the Web of Science database.

Provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Available features include: searching, browsing, & organizing images; adding images; presenting images; and integrating with courseware. For detailed information about content and usage, see ARTstor Help and Tutorials. For professor account details, contact Library EAID eaid@ku.edu.

Collection of electronic pre-prints, and e-print service, in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science and computer science.

A free database that succeeds the printed abstracts journal of the African Studies Centre, Leiden, since 1968 first as Documentatieblad, then as African Studies Abstracts (Z3501 .L37 Watson Library Reference). Indexes approximately 350 journals in African studies. Abstracts are 1-2 paragraphs in length and very useful for subject analysis.

Indexes the large body of technical literature published by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The Libraries’ subscription provides full text access to the ASCE journals.

AskART is an online database listing over 52,000 American artists from the early 16th-century through the present. Criteria for artist inclusion are that the artist was born in the United States, spent a significant part of his/her career here, or, although briefly in residence, created work of ongoing historical interest to Americans. Includes extensive biographical information about American artists as well as book and periodical references, auction records and images. Over 5,000 Museums and dealers that specialize in American artists are also referenced.

The ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Digital Collection indexes the large body of technical literature published by the Society. Full text content is available in ASME Transaction Journals from 2000 to the present and ASME Conference Proceedings 2008 to the present.

Provides access to ASTM Standards, a basic subscription to active standards, and ASTM Digital Library, full-text access to symposia and special technical publications. Click on “Yes, I agree with the License” to access the database.

Indexes religious studies periodicals, essays in multi-author works, reviews in religion, research in ministry, and includes the Methodist Reviews Index.

Atlanta Daily World provides access to the South's largest African American newspaper.

AustLit is a non-profit collaboration between ten Australian Universities and the National Library of Australia providing authoritative information on hundreds of thousands of creative and critical Australian literature works relating to more than 75,000 Australian authors and literary organizations. Its coverage spans 1780 to the present day. AustLit indexes and describes Australian literature published in a range of print and electronic information sources. It also makes available selected critical articles and creative writing in full text.

The most important bibliographical research tool available for architecture, urban design, historic preservation, and urban planning history. Surveys more than 700 U.S. and foreign journals. Citations and abstracts are provided for 550,000 records covering journal articles published from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1741) to the present. The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals is updated weekly. Also includes indexing of over 13,000 citations for obituaries for architects and the first online representation of the Burnham Index to Architectural Literature from the Art Institute of Chicago. The audience includes anyone interested in the subjects of Archaeology, Architecture, Architectural design, City planning, Furniture and decoration, Historic preservation, History of architecture, Interior design, Landscape architecture, and Urban planning.

The Baltimore Afro-American was one of the most widely circulated African-American newspapers on the Atlantic Coast. Dates of coverage: 1893 to 1988.

Berg Fashion Library is an online portal to sources covering the history of fashion across the world. Among the resources included are countless images, journals, electronic books, and the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion.

Provides full-feature, one-query searches of the world micropaleontological literature. Intelligent searches can be narrowed according to fossil groups, range of dates, types of publications, GeoRef keywords, singly or in combination. Matched citations and groups of citations can be downloaded as plain text files for reference lists.

The major part of Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) is from the print version, which covers records from 1971 to 1991 of all subjects on the humanities and the social sciences pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia. BAS includes citations to Western-language periodical articles, monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc. Monographs published since 1992 have not been included in the database. Some journals indexed may have early published date from 1791.

The Royal Historical Society's online bibliography provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, and with the British empire and commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available - from 55BC to the present. As well as providing details of publications, the bibliography provides links to online catalogues to help you find the items that it lists in research libraries in Britain, Ireland and the USA, and it provides links to online text where available. The bibliography is a guide to the work of historians - it does not contain original sources, unless they have been edited and republished by historians (except for a selection of key sources published before 1901 derived from the printed bibliographies published for the Royal Historical Society and the American Historical Association by Oxford University Press). The bibliography aims to be as comprehensive as is practical for publications since 1900.

Indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs, and periodical articles. Also includes the contents of two predecessor art indexes: Répertoire d'art et d'archéolgie (1973-1989) and International Repertory of the Literature of Art (1975-1989).

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), the digitization component of the Encyclopedia of Life, is a consortium of 12 major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions organized to digitize, serve, and preserve the legacy literature of biodiversity.

Indexes more than 12.7 million biographical sketches in more than 3,400 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.

This resource contains biographical entries integrated with reference, periodical and multimedia content.

See: Biography in context.

Abstracts and indexes reference publications for life science information. Includes bibliographical references with abstracts in English from life sciences research journals published worldwide, representing virtually every life science discipline, including agriculture, biochemistry, biotechnology, ecology, immunology, microbiology, neuroscience, pharmacology, public health, and toxicology.

Provides immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research.

Contains the full texts of various research journals focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Includes BioOne and BioOne 2.

Black Thought and Culture includes approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major African American leaders , teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers and other figures covering 250 years of history. In addition to the most familiar works, Black Thought and Culture presents a great deal of previously inaccessible material, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, and trial transcripts. Included electronically for the first time is a full run of Artist and Influence, including interviews, oral histories, photos, original art, poetry, and other firsthand perspectives tracking African American cultural trends in the 20th century.

Bloomberg BNA (formerly BNA Premier) provides case reporting, expert analysis, and current developments in health care, business, labor relations, law, economics, taxation, environmental protection, safety, and other public policy and regulatory issues.

This database is no longer available. An alternative source is Choice reviews online.

Provides coverage and integrated searching of the following encyclopedias and multiple reference tools: Encyclopaedia Britannica; Britannica Student Encyclopedia; Britannica Internet Guide; Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary; Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus; and World Atlas.

Britannica’s Spanish Reference Center is available through a State Library of Kansas contract. Spanish Reference Center delivers a reference collection for ages 6-12 through college, making it the only online Spanish-language database that offers age-appropriate content for everyone. Enciclopedia Moderna includes over 50,000 articles plus 4,200 images. Complete with a dictionary, atlas, and timelines, it's the perfect resource for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish. Britannica Escolar Online provides a Spanish elementary encyclopedia with 2,000 articles, images, videos, an atlas, and learning materials specifically designed for younger students.

BuildingGreen Suite offers articles, case studies and links to information on sustainable design issues, strategies, green building products, and current projects.

Business Insights: Essentials (formerly Business and Company Resource Center) provides business and industry content in the following areas: periodical articles, news articles, and press releases; detailed information for domestic and international companies and associations, including information on corporate hierarchical structures; investment reports; corporate chronologies and company histories; brands and product information; industry and company rankings; financial overviews; industry overviews; HR Law Case Digests.

Providing indexing and abstracting to business related, peer reviewed journals, BSC also indexes more than 1000 books, 5000 case studies, and more than a million company profiles, industry reports, and country economic reports.

The video archive includes all programming from the three C-SPAN's networks. Programming includes coverage for Congressional session 1987-present and has special indexing by person with full text transcripts. The C-SPAN Congressional Chronicle is an index to the C-SPAN video recordings of the House and Senate floor proceedings. The video recordings are matched with the text of the Congressional Record as soon as the Record is available. Other access points include: subject, speaker names, titles, affiliations, sponsors, committees, categories, formats, policy groups, keywords, location, congressional calendar and programming date/time.

C19 Index includes entries from Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, Poole's Index, Periodicals Index Online and American Periodicals Series Online to create integrated bibliographic coverage of over 1.5 million books and official publications, 71,000 archival collections and 18.9 million articles published in over 2,500 journals, magazines and newspapers.

Cabell Publishing has compiled directories to help professors, graduate students and researchers publish their manuscripts. To achieve this goal, the company strives to maintain current information on the addresses, phone, e-mail and websites for a large number of journals in Education and Management. Also, the company seeks to provide information on publication guidelines and review information.

Full-text electronic versions of Chinese academic periodicals in Series F: literature/history/philosophy (1915- ) and Series G: Politics/military affairs/law (2005- ). Except for those journals in the Century Journal Project, most journals coverage is limited to the above subscription starting year to present. Please note that searches may bring up articles outside KU's full-text coverage which you will not be able to download. Please use Interlibrary Loan service to request these materials. To access the English interface to the database, please click here. Technical Requirements: Full text may be downloaded using Acrobat Reader with Simplified Chinese font pack for Adobe Acrobat Reader (please click here).

Cambridge Companions to Music provide information on composers, instruments or musical topics.

Contains over 250 volumes published since 1960, equating to around 196,000 pages of scholarship on 15 different academic subjects.

The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) covers electronic and print publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the United States Federal Government. As of Februrary 2007, the catalog contains approximately 500,000 records for materials published primarily since 1976. The Government Printing Office (GPO) will be adding records for older materials as they can, and will be continually adding records for newly published materials as released. Records for electronic (Internet accessible) materials will contain links to those files.

CCH IntelliConnect is no longer available.

See: ASCE research library.

This very elaborate multi-tiered database has more than 20,000 Renaissance Documents (inventories, guide books, lives of artists, archival documents, etc.) related to more than 10,000 Antique Monuments (sculptures, architecture, vases, etc.) that are accompanied by 30,000 photographs or illustrations. The collection of images includes: drawings, sketchbooks, paintings, engravings, sculpture, medals, applied arts, etc. The database can be utilized for its collection of images, but more extensive information is provided in the database. Monuments, their preservation history, provenance history, and other relevant information are accompanied by bibliographic citations.

Consists of the online public access catalog (OPAC) of the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago, Illinois, which collects research materials not targeted by other North American research institutions. Materials from CRL are available via Interlibrary Loan.

C.E.E.O.L. is an online archive which provides access to articles, scholarly journals, and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central and Eastern Europe.

Provides searchable access to current statutes, administrative regulations, case law, forms, practice guides, journals, newsletters, and legislation in the areas of tax and finance. Coverage includes international taxation, United States federal, state and local taxation, as well as estate planning, pension and benefits, payroll, accounting, auditing, and corporate finance. This link supports 35 concurrent users, but does not allow users to save research trails and search results. Individual password access that allows users to save research trails and search results can be requested at the Wheat Law Library Reference Desk. Law students and faculty have priority for individual passwords. Requests from other members of the University are considered on a case by case basis.

The Chicago Defender (1905-1975) was the largest and most influential African American newspaper by World War I, with more than two thirds of its readership outside of Chicago. Promoting the Great Migration in the in the early 1900's and desegragation after World War II, the Chicago Defender attracted the writing talents of Gwendolyn Brooks, Walter White, and Langston Hughes. With over six decades of searchable full-text coverage, the Chicago Defender is a good resource for tracking the history of African American issues during the early to mid 20th century.

Access the online version of the 16th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style.

Provides access to full page and article images with searchable full-text back to the first issue. Years covered are from 1849 to 20 years ago.

China Data Online offers comprehensive statistics and economic information of China. Database includes 1) Yearly Macroeconomy Statistics 2) Monthly Macroeconomy Statistics 3) Monthly Reports on Economy Development 4) City Statistics 5) County Statistics 6) Industrial Statistics 7) and 40 plus Statistical Yearbooks. Includes 2000 China county/district population census data assemblies.

Chinalawinfo.com is a Chinese language legal information database covering laws and regulations, cases, and law journals from the People's Republic of China. "In the database you could find all the laws and administrative regulations, ministerial rules, judicial interpretations of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate, judgments, local regulations and rules, Chinese-foreign treaties and pacts, economic statutes of Hong Kong and Taiwan, legal documentations, as well as the protocols of China's accession to the WTO and the annexes thereof, reports of the Working Committee, Chinese and English texts of the legal documents of the WTO and the amendments to Chinese laws and regulations after China's accession to the WTO." For the English language version, please click here . The English version does not include all of the content from the Chinese language version, but the coverage is very extensive. System requirements: Internet Explorer browser.

Full-text Chinese e-books and reprint journals covering a variety of subject areas published since 1900 with the majority after 1949. The database has an access to "Duxiu," a meta search engine with limited access to full-text of Chinese e-books, periodicals, dissertation/thesis, and patents. Please note that Duxiu searches may bring up contents outside KU's full-text coverage which you will not be able to download. Please use Interlibrary Loan service to request these materials. Technical Requirements: This database is compatible with PCs and IE browser only. Page image and its full text (with provided OCR tool to convert image to text) can be printed one page at a time. Simple and Advanced Search methods are provided, all searches use Simplified Chinese characters. Users Guide can be found online with English and Chinese user interfaces. KU collection has over 1100 volumes in 2009 new selections will be added twice a year.

Choice Reviews Online is the premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education. Each issue of Choice contains approximately 600 reviews of recent books and electronic resources, a bibliographic essay, and a list of significant forthcoming titles. Each year Choice publishes more than 7,000 reviews. (Restricted to 1 simultaneous user.)

Published weekly, The Chronicle is the academic world's top source of news and information. The online version features daily reports on developments in higher education, information technology, and distance education. The full text of the current issue of The Chronicle is available every Monday morning, following the Friday print publication. The site features an archive of more than 12 years of The Chronicle. You can access the Chronicle via your smart phone by setting up a free Chronicle account using your KU email address.

Columbia International Affairs Online is a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It accesses a wide range of scholarship that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.

CIS & Baltic Periodicals (UDB-CIS) includes authoritative periodicals published in the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union. Sources are in Russian and in English and cover various issues of domestic and international importance. AP-Blitz, an information agency, offers its daily news line Tajikistan News in Brief. Another important publication from the same region is The Times of Central Asia, a business weekly published in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan). Kazakhstan, Belarus and Turkmenistan are represented with official newspapers while Ukraine, Moldova and Latvia are represented with the most popular business titles. There are also newspapers from Lithuania, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, and the database continues to expand.

Contains full text of major articles gleaned from the New York Herald, the Charleston Mercury, and the Richmond Enquirer.

Classic Mexican Cinema Online contains a collection of popular movie periodicals from the archives of Filmoteca de la UNAM in Mexico City. It includes chief magazines such as Cinema Reporter (1943-1965) and Cine Mundial (1954-1955). It also features extremely rare copies of El Cine Grafico from 1935 and of the weekly El Mundo Ilustrado (1902-1910). The true extent of the popularity of Mexican film is illustrated by Cinelandia (1931-1947), which was published in Hollywood both in Spanish and in English. This collection also includes dozens of film flyers, which were distributed on the streets to lure people into the cinema. Finally, this collection gives access to the personal scrap books of Fernando de Fuentes (1894-1958), one of the leading Latin-American filmmakers to this day.

This database is no longer available. An alternative source is Naxos Music Library.

When completed, Classical Scores Library will include 400,000 pages of scores for classical music, both copyrighted and public-domain, from all time periods. Complete editions will be included for such composers as J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, and many others.

This important Midwest African American newspaper is particularly important for its coverage of the Scottsboro Trial. Dates of coverage: 1934 to 1991.

Includes clinically oriented monographs on all U.S. drugs; off-label drug uses and dosages; thorough coverage of new and investigational drugs; hard-to-find drug information on IV admixtures and nutritional products; nutraceuticals, such as herbal products and trace elements. Features include extensive indexing, cross-referencing, and linking for optimum searching; printable OBRA compliant patient information; product identification feature with life-size color photos of dosage forms; unique patient profile identifying potential drug interactions, adverse reactions, allergy and contraindication precautions; therapeutic duplication; and medical condition/drug therapy mismatches.

See CAJ full-text database. Literature, history, philosophy.

The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high quality evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Contents include systematic reviews, technology assessments, economic evaluations and individual clinical trials.

Provides up-to-date notices of upcoming conferences, deadlines, awards, and other professional information. CogNet also provides a library of searchable electronic texts for cognitive and brain sciences. Contains works from the MIT Press, as well as content and links to resources from other publishers, professional associations and institutions. In addition, provides publisher information about new and important books from publishers like Bradford Books, Cambridge University Press, Kluwer, and the MIT Press.

Indexes poetry in anthologies, including full-text and excerpts of some poems. Also has short biographies of some poets, comments on poems and poets by well-respected scholars, and a poetry glossary.

Communication & Mass Media Complete offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 600 titles, nearly 300 of which are also available in full text. Also provides a Communication Thesaurus, comprehensive reference browsing (i.e. searchable cited references for peer-reviewed journals covered as "core"), and over 3,000 Author Profiles with biographical data and bibliographic information.

This database is no longer available. An alternative source is Communication & Mass Media Complete.

Compendex is a comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database referencing engineering journals and conference materials.

Provides a combination of indexing, abstracts and full text for leading business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications and electronic industries.

Features nearly 300 full-text periodicals covering topics such as telecommunications, electronics, and the Internet. It provides a balance of full-text technical journals and consumer computer titles.

The Conference Board Business and Economics Portfolio provides access to historical data for our economic indicators used by governments, CEOs, economists, risk and portfolio managers, and others who track economies and markets. The Conference Board is making this dataset available in Excel spreadsheets and proprietary charts. The datasets include: Leading economic indicators; Consumer Confidence Indices; Employment Trends Indices; Measure of CEO confidence indices; Total Economy database; and other research reports on economics and markets, leadership, and high-performing organizations. Dates of coverage: Some series 1959-present; others less extensive.

Provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to complementary, holistic, and integrated medicine. Full text content available to reference books, images, videos, and consumer health related periodicals.

Provides full-text access to global information on women, including journals, newsletters, and research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies. (Restricted to 4 simultaneous users.)

This database allows the user to research corporate hierarchies ("who owns whom") to the seventh level of reporting relationships, starting with as little information as a brand name. The Directory of Corporate Affiliations(tm) database covers more than 200,000 of the most prominent U.S. and international public and private businesses and includes information about parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, and divisions worldwide to help you research corporate ownership. (Restricted to 2 simultaneous users.)

A research and reference tool that provides an analytical survey of the history and development; powers; personalities; current developments; and legislation considered and passed by the United States Congress. Data is organized under four sections: public policy legislation; members of Congress; key votes; and legislative branch.

The CQ (Congressional Quarterly) Electronic Library is an integrated search environment providing access to 8 separate CQ resources for research on American Government, history, politics, public policy, and current events. Provides access to research and reference articles, opinion and news coverage, data, and contact directories. Congressional Quarterly is renowned for non-partisan coverage of U.S. Government issues and activity. CQ EL also provides the ability to create an individual profile (housed at CQ), for book-marking favorite materials, saving search strategies for future use, and viewing histories (your 25 most recently viewed items in CQ EL). Individual resources in CQ EL include: CQ Congress; CollectionCQ Encyclopedia of American Government; Washington information directory; CQ Public Affairs Collection; CQ Researcher; CQ Supreme Court Collection; CQ Voting and Elections Collection; and, CQ Weekly.

This resource is no longer available. Similar content is available via the CQ Press Electronic Library. Earlier print editions of CQ’s Encyclopedia of American Government series: Congress A to Z, Elections A to Z, The Presidency A to Z, and The Supreme Court A to Z are available in the KU Libraries collections.

Provides current affairs content in a fully integrated reference tool. Some subjects are advocacy and public service, education, energy, the environment, health, and transportation. Provides in-depth reporting on vital issues, statistical and historical analyses, historic documents and primary source materials, as well as a directory of key government, nonprofit, and private organizations in each of the major policy areas.

Founded in 1923 as Editorial Research Reports, CQ Researcher is a complete source for in-depth, analytical reporting on the most current and controversial issues. Published by Congressional Quarterly, it gives the reader a broad overview of the subject, including the historical background and a discussion of the current controversies and initiatives.

CQ Supreme Court Collection blends historical analysis with timely updates and expert commentary of Supreme Court decisions, biographies of Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court institutional history, and the U.S. Constitution.

Integrates data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations, and historical material to provide a research and reference tool on voting and elections in America. From the American voter, to major and minor political parties, to actual races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships, the collection provides context-driven intelligence on the state of elections in America. The KU Libraries' subscription includes access to the data sets.

Politics in America is an essential resource for any collection that serves readers who want authoritative information on the members of the 111th Congress. The profiles of the 535 members plus the delegates offer concise and candid analysis of personalities, political styles, legislative agendas, political ambitions, and reputations of members at home and on Capitol Hill. Detailed state and district information plus a wealth of information and data on campaign finance, partisan caucuses, standing committees, and other member facts round out the book.

Online, digital version of the print handbook of the same title. Searchable across tables and chapters, this resource provides access to physical science data, and physical property data of common compounds, both inorganic and organic. (Restricted to 2 simultaneous users.)

Credo Reference is an online collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other ready-reference books covering a range of subject matters, such as art, business, literature, and science. By searching over three million entries at once, Credo Reference provides accurate information quickly and across disciplines. Credo also includes maps, images, and sound files.

Database of citations to major international journals in criminology and related disciplines; extensive coverage of books, dissertations, and unpublished papers; and access to reports from government and nongovernmental agencies. Covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing.

Current Digest of the Russian Press (UDB-CD) provides weekly selections of Russian-language press materials, carefully translated into English. Translations are intended for use in teaching and research. They are therefore presented as documentary materials without elaboration or comment, and state the opinions and views of the original authors, not of the publisher of the journal.

See Dissertations & theses @ University of Kansas.

Custom Newspapers is no longer available. An alternative source is Infotrac Newstand

Ming shi lu is the collective name for the official annals of the emperors of Ming China (1368-1644). Each “shi lu” is the account of one emperor's reign and was compiled after the emperor's death from a number of sources created during his reign. The entire collection is available as a full-text searchable database.

This database provides fully searchable access to the standard dictionaries of medieval Latin, including: Blaise, Albert. Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs chrétiens -- Blaise, Albert. Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs du moyen age -- Du Cange, Charles. Glossarium ad scriptores mediae et infirmae latinitatis -- Firmini verris dictionarius -- Forcellini, Egidio. Lexicon Totius Latinitatis -- Forcellini, Egidio. Onomasticon totius latinitatis -- Lewis & Short Latin dictionary -- Souter, Alexander. Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D. (Access restricted to 3 simultaneous users.)

This is a full text database of more than 580 Korean scholarly journals in various disciplines. All journals are covered from the first issue.

See: designinform

The Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) contains over 130,000 annotated references from more than 500 design and craft journals and newspapers published from 1973 onwards, and data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms etc. Research articles are covered, along with topical news items, conference and seminar reports, and book, video and exhibition reviews. Each reference includes full bibliographic details and a brief abstract. Updated monthly.

See: designinform.

designinform consists of three databases: Design Abstracts Retrospective (DAR), Design ProFILES, and ReVIEW. Design Abstracts Retrospective is a new ongoing abstracting and indexing service that aims to cover many of the most important design and applied arts journals and annuals published during the twentieth century. Design ProFILES is a dictionary of design and designers. It includes profiles of every single designer, architect, craftsperson, studio, workshop, etc. whose work is discussed or illustrated in the journals and yearbooks covered by DAR. ReVIEW is an ongoing project to digitize many of the most important decorative and fine arts journals published in Europe and the USA during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The Dictionary of Irish Biography is a collaborative project between Cambridge University Press and the Royal Irish Academy, available in print and online, involving 700 contributors and spanning 9,000 lives. The Dictionary is the indispensable reference work for Ireland. It includes the lives of Irish men and women who made a significant contribution in Ireland and abroad, as well as those born overseas who had noteworthy careers in Ireland from James Ussher to James Joyce, St Patrick to Patrick Pearse, Edward Carson to Bobby Sands.

Muller's Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (DDB) is a compilation of Buddhist terms and texts--as well as names of temples, schools, and people--found in East Asian Buddhist canonical sources. The dictionary project, which began in 1986, is thought to be the most comprehensive compilation of Buddhist terms available in English today.

The Digital Scriptorium is a growing image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. It bridges the gap between a diverse user community and the limited resources of libraries by means of sample imaging and extensive rather than intensive cataloguing. KU's Kenneth Spencer Research Library is a contributing partner to the Digital Scriptorium, and images from and entries for the majority (though not all) of the Spencer Research Library's medieval manuscripts may be found at the Digital Scriptorium.

Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Aims to cover all subjects and languages.

Dissertation Abstracts International has been replaced by ProQuest Dissertations and Theses.

Contains citations and abstracts of dissertations and theses submitted by the University of Kansas and published in UMI's Dissertations Abstracts database, and full text of KU dissertations published after 1996 and KU theses published after 2005.

DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) is a streaming audio database, based on the music available on the New World Records and CRI labels. Music available on other smaller, independent American labels are also available on DRAM

See: PsychiatryOnline.

DuXiu is a Chinese database with a discovery search system of more than 3 million Chinese bibliographic entries and 2 million scholarly resources in all subjects and formats (books, journal articles, newspapers, theses, conference proceedings, videos, and webpages).

e-Korean studies includes 9 databases with an integrated search function. Databases included are: 1) KISS (Koreanstudies Information Service System): a fulltext database of approx. 6,000 Korean academic journals. It covers various subjects in languages, history, philosophy, literature, education, business, economics, law, science, mathematics, arts, music & etc.; 2)Kdatabase(한국학전자도서관): Fulltext resources on Korean modern and contemporary history; 3)KSI e-book: e-books published by Korean Studies Information; 4) Digital Culture Art Course(디지털문화예술강좌): e-lectures contains 70 courses, over 900 lectures in 8 subjects on art and culture for continuing education; 5) KoreaA2Z-Korean Studies DB Contents: fulltext reference, primary, and secondary sources; 6)Korean History & Culture Research Database(한국역사문6 868; 조사자료 데이터베이스): fulltext collection of excavation reports of 76 organizations of historical sites in Korea. It is operated by national and academic museums, private research institutions, societies and associations since 1910; 7)KPjournal(북한학술지 통합데이타베이스): articles of North Korean journals on science and technology; 8)Kdatabase(한국학전자도서관): An essential resource for history on modern and contemporary Korea. it has fulltext and image files; 9)LawnB Legal Information: The largest collection of Korean legal materials online. It is a portal service for all law information, index in 50 categories such as statues, precedents, commentaries, administrative documents and statistics, academic articles, law journals, and law related news.

The Evans collection covers virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over a 160-year period. Digitized from one of the most important collections ever produced on microform, Early American Imprints, Series I is based on Charles Evans' renowned American Bibliography and Roger Bristol's supplement. Including more than 36,000 printed works and 2.3 million pages, Series I also offers new imprints not available in microform editions. This link also includes access to Early American Imprints, Series I: Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1670-1800. To search Early American imprints Series 1 and 2 together, see America's historical imprints.

Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 provides a comprehensive set of American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early part of the 19th century. It is based on the noted -American Bibliography, 1801-1819 by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker. With more than four million pages from over 36,000 items, including 1,000 catalogued new items unavailable in previous microform editions. This link also includes access to Early American Imprints, Series II: Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1801-1819. To search Early American imprints Series 1 and 2 together, see America's historical imprints.

The Early Encounters database documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. It makes available a collection of published and unpublished accounts, including narratives, diaries, journals, and letters that document the first impressions of North America by Europeans and of Europeans by native people. The collection includes primary materials, images, environmental studies and maps that researchers and students would otherwise struggle to obtain. Indexing makes it possible to compare original descriptions of an area with the observations by individuals who followed.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. The TCP addition allows for full-text searching for legible and searchable encoded texts that link to corresponding page images from ProQuest's EEBO product.

Earthquake Engineering Abstracts (EEA) provides comprehensive coverage of earthquake engineering and earthquake hazard mitigation. EEA is currently comprised of full citations and abstracts from 1971 forward, plus several hundred earlier classic papers and reports. EEA includes journal articles of all major journals that publish significant earthquake engineering research; proceedings abstracts of conferences and major meetings in earthquake engineering research, and abstracts of research monographs and technical reports including Earthquake Engineering Research Center Reports and Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center Reports.

Contains a searchable collection of electronic books on the EBSCO platform which can be viewed or read online. All titles are also accessible from the KU Online Catalog. (Access to each book is restricted to one simultaneous user.)

Ebrary Academic Complete provides access to more than 70,000 e-books from 500 of the most trusted publishers. Covering broad subject areas including business and economics, computing, education, engineering, history, political science, humanities, area studies, literature, linguistics, law, life sciences, psychology, social work, sociology, religion, classics, and philosophy, this is the most comprehensive collection of e-books. This e-book database is a subscription based service. Some titles may be removed based on publishers' agreements with the vendor.

A comprehensive, indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature, produced by the American Economic Association. Includes coverage of the major journals as well as articles in collective volumes of essays and proceedings, books, books reviews, dissertations, and working papers licensed from the Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics. (Restricted to 4 simultaneous users.)

Provides indexing and abstracts for hundreds of periodicals, books and yearbooks. Education Abstracts covers adult education, continuing education, literacy standards, teaching methods and much more. Dates of coverage: 1983 to present.

This collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports is a resource for any educator. Content included in the database is almost entirely full-text. This database covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty -- such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. Educator's Reference Complete also focuses on issues in administration, funding and policy.

The Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), a non-profit consortium of universities and colleges, seeks to encourage and facilitate comparative studies of human behavior, society, and culture. eHRAF World Cultures is a cross-cultural database that contains pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), Parts I and II, comprises over 200,000 printed volumes. It includes every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas produced in the 18th century.

See E-Korean studies.

Offers full content access to journals published by Emerald in the EMX 125 and Engineering collections. Subjects covered include management, HRM, marketing, librarianship, mechanical and electrical engineering.

Includes full-text primary news sources, financial data, statistics, and legal information. A multilingual collection of news and information sources about the emerging markets of selected countries in Latin America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. KU Libraries subscription includes access to the EMIS (Emerging Markets Information Service) product only.

The Encyclopaedia Iranica is a multi-disciplinary reference work and research tool designed to record the facts of Iranian history and civilization. It focuses on the land, life, culture and history of all Iranian peoples and their interaction with other societies. From the biographies of notable men and women in every field of endeavor to descriptions of all Iranian cities and monuments (ancient and modern), from Zoroastrian scriptures to Jewish shrines and Islamic rituals, from Persian classics to modern novels, from Iranian flora and fauna to Persian music and folklore, all aspect of life in Iranian and related cultural areas are studied and described in articles presenting the current state of research in their texts and appended bibliographies.

Updated edition of this lauded work on Judaism features more than 21,000 entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists.

The Encyclopaedia of Islam provides access to over 13,000 articles covering nearly all aspects of Islam. Access to this resource includes an index of subjects and proper names. To access the Historical Atlas of Islam, please click here. To access the 3rd edition of the Encyclopaedia which is in development, please click here.

The Encyclopedia of American Studies provides an integrated approach to the history and culture of the United States by focusing on problems, themes, and issues that cut across disciplines. It features broad synthetic articles and bibliographies covering areas such as history, literature, art, photography, film, urban studies, ethnicity, race, gender economics, politics, wars, consumer culture, and global America. As a comprehensive reference, it offers research and study support for a wide range of disciplines.

The second edition of this encyclopedia covers the latest research on the biology, psychology, and sociology of aging as well as how aging is depicted in the humanities.

Electronic equivalent of the 20th Edition of the Encyclopedia of Social Work. The 400 articles in this 4-volume set cover all aspects of social work from practice and interventions, social environments, social conditions and challenges, to social policy and history. Each article is written and signed by a top academic or social work practitioner and includes a bibliography for further reading.

E & E Publishing provides comprehensive, daily coverage of domestic and foreign environmental and energy politics and policy with electronic newsletters, journals, and webcasts. Publications include: Environmental and Energy Daily, OnPoint, Greenwire, E & E News P.M., E & E TV News, and Land Letter. E-mail alerts and extensive searchable archives are available for each publication.

Provides indexing and abstracts to the journal literature in the area of environmental policy and studies. The database covers applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, environmental law, geography, marine & freshwater resources, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Formerly called: Environmental issues & policy index.

Provides indexing and abstracts to the education literature. ERIC consists of two files: Resources in Education, covering the document literature, and Current Index to Journals in Education, covering the published journal literature. Many of the documents, identified by the ED number, are available full text.

Provides access to worldwide patent information. Patents by member states of the European Patent Office and the World Intellectual Property Organization are included. Years of coverage and availability of full text and images vary by country.

Provides full text access to articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in America from 1959 to present.

Europa World Plus is the online version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Regional Surveys of the World series. First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.

EBSEES is a free citation database for research on the USSR and the Communist countries of Eastern Europe. It indexes research publications in a fast-changing geopolitical area which consisted of 9 states in 1989 and now, after the break-up of the USSR, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, comprises 27 independent countries.

This bibliographic database is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. Based the authoritative bibliography European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed in Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750, created at John Carter Brown Library, it covers the history of European exploration, Native American peoples, and a wide range of subject areas from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery.

Provides a combination of indexing, abstracts, images, and full text for scholarly and general interest journals embracing all academic disciplines.

Provides selected worldwide full text coverage of local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, business-rich Web sites, investment analyst reports, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles, historical market data. Some publisher content is not available to academic institutions. Includes current full text access to Wall Street Journal. (Restricted to 6 simultaneous users.)

Faculty of 1000 identifies and evaluates the most important articles in biology and medical research publications. The selection process comprises a peer-nominated global "Faculty" of the world's leading scientists and clinicians who rate the best of the articles they read and explain their importance.

FDsys is a digital content management system managed by the Government Printing Office (GPO), which collects and authenticates government information. Information is gathered through three methods: Files submitted by Congress and Federal agencies; Information gathered from Federal agencies web sites; and, Digital files created by scanning previously printed publications. Collections in FDsys include: Compilation of Presidential Documents ; Congressional Bills; Congressional Documents; Congressional Hearings; Congressional Record; Congressional Reports; Federal Register; Public and Private Laws; Statutes at Large; GAO Reports; and more. All content is indexed with specialized record metadata and full-text keyword searchable.

The FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals indexes 300 academic and popular film journals, from 1972 to the present.

Film & Television Literature Index is an index to film and television literature that provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications, and selected coverage of 300 more.

Film Indexes Online provides access to the catalogs of the American Film Institute (AFI Catalog), and the British Film Institute (Film Index International). The AFI Catalog indexes films released from 1893-1958 and 1961-1970. The Film Index International indexes films released from 1900 to the present. Records include information detailing the director, full cast and crew lists, year of release and production information. Credits, awards and a synopsis are also included. Person records include complete biographical information, a list of awards received, plus a complete list of the films the subject featured in.

Films on Demand is a web-based digital video delivery service that allows users to view streaming videos from Films Media Group 24/7. Choose from more than 5,500 educational titles in dozens of subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to organize and bookmark clips, share playlists, personalize folders and manage their entire collection through an administrative reporting system.

The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Report has been the United States' principal historical record of political open source intelligence for nearly 70 years. The original mission of the FBIS was to monitor, record, transcribe and translate intercepted radio broadcasts from foreign governments, official news services, and clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories. The dates of coverage for the daily reports are 1941-1974 and annexes from 1974-1996.

The online source indexes the Foreign Broadcast Information Services (FBIS) Daily Reports --English translations of news media (broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government statements) from around the world. Countries were assigned to reporting areas: Asia & Pacific; Central Eurasia; China; East Asia; East Europe (Eastern Europe); Latin America; Middle East & Africa; Near East & South Asia; Soviet Union; Sub-Saharan Africa; West Europe (Western Europe). The FBIS Daily Reports were issued in either paper or microfiche format and are shelved in the Government Documents Collection in the Anschutz Library. Dates of coverage: 1975-1996. For later coverage use the World News Connection database.

Foreign firms listed have a substantial investment in American operations--wholly or partially owned subsidiary, affiliate or branch.

FRANCIS is a multilingual, multidisciplinary database covering the humanities and social sciences. Its broad subject areas and international scope make it an ideal stand-alone social science database, as well as a suitable complement for more specialised databases. FRANCIS is strong in areas such as archaeology, geography, linguistics, philosophy, religion, and sociology. The database contains more than 1 million records, with abstracts in French or English, and descriptors in both languages, and includes coverage of journals, books, conference papers and other documents.

Fuente académica is a collection of full-text scholarly journals from Latin America, Portugal and Spain. Topics include history, literature, politics, business, current events, economics, biological sciences, philosophy, psychology, public administration, religion, sociology and more. Coverage for most titles begins in the 2000s. Content is updated on a weekly basis and currently offers the full text for more than 500 publications from 18 countries.

Gale Virtual Reference Library provides access to a wide variety of reference materials. The collection includes publications covering a wide variety of subject matters, such as, history, biography, literature, medicine, health, sociology, and education.

Full text collection of journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings and governmental n-g-o and special reports devoted to women's and gender issues. Contains materials dating back to the 1970's. Incorporates the publication Women "R".

A collection of nearly 600 genealogy research and reference publications in searchable PDF format. Provided by the State Library of Kansas.

General OneFile indexes newspapers, newswires and a collection of refereed academic journals, business publications, technology periodicals, general interest magazines as well as specialty titles in law, health care and computers. General OneFile includes more than 4,200 full-text titles; five newspaper indexes -- a total of nearly 8,000 titles in all with more than 20 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present. If you wish to power search General OneFile along with Academic OneFile and Custom Newspapers, please click here.

See: GeoScienceWorld.

A comprehensive Internet resource for research and communications in the geosciences, built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals indexed, linked, and inter-operable with GeoRef.

The collection was begun by Aletta Jacobs Gerritsen in the late 1800s. The online resource delivers images exactly as they appeared in the original printed works on the evolution of feminist consciousness and women's rights. It includes monographs, periodicals and pamphlets in fifteen languages.

GEM is the World Bank's portal for analysis of current economic trends, and economic and financial indicators. GEM features up-to-date analysis on global economic conditions, including a daily brief and event-driven focus reports, direct access to high-frequency datasets via Quick Query, forecasts for commodity prices and main macroeconomic indicators for over 130 countries. For additional World Bank resources, please click here.

The largest, most comprehensive resource for K-12 math and science educators. GoENC.com provides thousands of online lesson plans and activities to support standards-based teaching with a searchable catalog of math and science curriculum resources and online articles.

Google Book Search is a discovery tool for books. Click a book title and you'll see the Snippet View which, like a card catalog, shows information about the book plus a few snippets - a few sentences of your search term in context. You may also see the Sample Pages View if the publisher or author has given Google permission or the Full Book View if the book is out of copyright. Links are also provided to book reviews, synopses, sources to purchase the book, and to libraries that hold the books.

Google News is a computer-generated news site that aggregates headlines from news sources worldwide and groups similar stories together.

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, patents, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

Russian Government and Parliamentary Publications (UDB-GOV) monitors mainly the events in the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. It includes stenographic records of the hearings of both its houses, the Duma and Federation Council, and provides vote results, resolutions and legislative drafts as well as auxiliary information such as the schedule and agenda of legislative work. The Database includes Biulleten' Schetnoi palaty published by the State Audit Chamber subordinate to the Duma and the Vestnik Tsentrizbirkoma, or The Herald of the Central Electoral Committee responsible for all types of elections in Russia. Texts of laws, presidential decrees, government's resolutions and the Constitutional Court's decisions are also available as well as comments on current Russian legislation published by popular legal journals Zakon and Gosudarstvo i pravo.

A freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.

Focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues. This resource provides news, video, primary source documents and more through topic, organization, and country portals.

An encyclopedia of art based on The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with ongoing additions of new material and updates to the text. Includes over 45,000 articles, cross references within the text, and over 40,000 links to art images in galleries and museums around the world. Articles are written and signed by scholars and include bibliographic references. Users looking for information on archaeology, architecture, art, design, costume, landscape design, and photography from all world cultures and all time periods will find this an invaluable resource. Easy to use for the novice but with in-depth searching options for the more experienced researcher. Issued as part of: Oxford art online.

Grove Music Online offers the full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd Edition (2001), as well as all subsequent updates and emendations. It includes 50,000 signed articles and 28,000 biographies. It is the most comprehensive source of information on all aspects of music in English.

Guide to Reference is a selective guide to the best reference sources, organized by academic discipline. An editorial team of reference librarians and subject experts have selected and annotated some 16,000 entries, both print and web-based, free and subscription. Users in libraries subscribing to Guide to Reference can set up a profile to create and save lists and notes to use in their reference and research work. This subscription database, published by the American Library Association, is updated on an ongoing basis.

Full-text scholarly monographs covering all areas of history, available originally and exclusively as digital books, presented by Columbia University Press and the American Historical Association.

CHANT is an on-going project of collections of all Chinese ancient texts, containing 6 databases: 1. Oracular Inscriptions on Tortoise Shells and Bones (Jiaguwen); 2. Excavated Wood/Bamboo and Silk Scripts (Zhu jian bo shu); 3. Database of Bronze Inscriptions (Jin wen); 4. Database of Traditional Chinese Texts: Xian Qin Liang Han (pre-220AD); 5. Database of Traditional Chinese Texts of Weijin, Northern and Southern Dynasties (220-589AD); and 6. Database of the Entire Body of Extant Chinese Encyclopedias (Leishu). Click on “For IP User Only” to access.

The Scripta Sinica is one of the largest Chinese full text databases which encompass all core materials of Chinese history and Chinese classics. The database has been compiled since 1984, by the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Please click on 授權使用 (Authorized users) to access the source.

Contains bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in social science and humanities journals published throughout the world that regularly contain information on Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Many of the citations are linked to full text.

HarpWeek provides electronic access to Harper's Weekly, the illustrated 19th and early 20th century "national newspaper," an important resource for examining America on a cumulative week-to-week basis from 1857-1912. Through this database one can discover news stories, illustrations, cartoons, editorials, biographies, literature, and advertisements that shaped and reflected public opinion of the times. This is an important primary resource for the study of the U.S. Civil War, and the era of reconstruction. (At the "Web Access Agreement" screen, click "I Accept"). Partially funded by the KU Parents' Campaign, an annual giving opportunity for parents of KU students to support KU Libraries. The Parents' Campaign supports projects and initiatives that directly benefit students.

A digital repository of collections (books and journals) of some of the major research libraries in the United States. More than 30% of the content is in the public domain or Creative Commons licensed and is freely available to view, download and print. Items designated with “Full view” are available for download. Please login to HathiTrust in order to download and print content. After you click on login, select University of Kansas as the partner institution, then enter your KU online ID and password. To print pages, first download content to PDF and print from Adobe (or similar) software. See the Libraries’ HathiTrust Help & Tutorials for more information.See the Libraries’ HathiTrust Help & Tutorials for more information.

Provides citations, abstracts, and full-text material to topics in health and medicine, medications, and wellness. Sources include encyclopedias, directories, medical dictionaries, magazines, journals, and newspapers.

Provides nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong.

HeinOnline has law-related subject and title collections that are image-based and fully searchable, meaning that they provide exact page images and enable the researcher to view all pages as they originally appeared in hardcopy--including all charts, graphs, and photographs. The constantly growing collections include the Congressional Documents, Law Journal Library, Intellectual Property Library, Foreign & International Law Resources Database, Treaties and Agreements Library, U.S. Presidential Library, U.S. Supreme Court Library, Session Laws, Legal Classics, and World Trials. Individual titles with numerous volumes are also included, such as Congressional Record, Federal Register, U.S. Attorney General Opinions, U.S. Statutes at Large, Code of Federal Regulations, and English Reports. The Law Journal Library, as well as many other collections, provides comprehensive coverage from the inception of each publication.

A resource for census data, family records and local histories. This collection assembles every extant U.S. federal census, banking and military records, genealogies, primary source materials, and genealogical and local history serials.

A bibliographic database to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in the database, America: History and Life). Indexes the journal and book literature.

Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition contains over 37,000 different time-series statistics providing a quantitative view into American history, Colonial Times to the present. Data series address many different topics of the United States, including Colonial, Revolutionary, and Confederate States aspects of American History. The Millennial Edition includes dozens of new topics including slavery, American Indians, and poverty not present in the Bicentennial (1975) Edition. Topics are placed in historical context by accompanying essays written by expert researchers. Data is available for export in Excel or CSV formats for analysis. Standard tables and graphs are available, as well as ability to create custom tables and datasets. Major sections include: Population; Work and Welfare; Economic Structure and Performance; Economic Sectors; and, Governance and International Relations

Access to current content for History Cooperative journals now accessible via JSTOR and America, history and life.

A full text history reference database featuring content from reference books.

A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities.

The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is a database containing documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management, non-classified Presidential directives and policy and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources related to Homeland Security. The Homeland Security Digital Library is composed of homeland security related documents collected from a wide variety of sources. These include federal, state, tribal, and local government agencies, professional organizations, think tanks, academic institutions, and international governing bodies. Restricted access to the KU community and walk-in users provided through an official partnership agreement with HSDL and GPO.

Hoover's covers public, private, and international companies. It includes company overviews, major industry trends, industry links, and IPO information.

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Indexes the most important journals in the humanities and social sciences published in North America and Europe from 1907 to 1984. (Restricted to 2 simultaneous users.)

IBISWorld's team of expert analysts covers 700 different market segments. Each industry report presents market research and industry information, and each market report is available online in HTML and PDF format. IBISWorld Industry Reports are used for understanding market size, competitors, drafting business plans, pitch books, benchmarking, forecasting, business valuations, litigation support, due diligence and more.

IEEE Explore provides access to IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL). The database contains almost a third of the world's current electrical engineering and computer science literature, featuring high-quality content from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). A subscription to IEL includes: Full-text access to nearly 2 million documents; IEEE and IET journals, magazines, transactions, and conference proceedings; all approved and published IEEE standards; complete backfile to 1988 and select content back to 1913; INSPEC abstract/citation records; full-text PDF images of all articles, papers, and standards. Unlimited article printing is permitted. KU's subscription does not include full text access to Continuing Education courses (multi-media), IEEE books (bibliographic information only) and draft standards. This resource is being funded through collaborative efforts between the KU Libraries and the School of Engineering. (Restricted to 15 simultaneous users.)

Content is now available in IEEE Xplore.

Provides comprehensive details of all civil and military gas-turbine engines (turbofans, turbojets, turboprops and turboshafts) currently in use worldwide for the propulsion of manned aircraft. Also includes precise diagrams and illustrations, detailed specifications of each engine, descriptions of the background to each engine type, plus manufacturers' details. Restricted to 5 simultaneous users.

Provides details of over 180 UAVs, 120 aerial targets and 240 subsystems. Includes a full vehicle and target listing with information on development, mission payloads, guidance and control, operational status, specifications, customers, and contractors together with photographs. Each entry details the manufacturer, complete with contact information and the civil and military organizations using the aircraft. Restricted to 5 simultaneous users.

Provides technical detail on over 950 civil and military aircraft currently being produced or under development by more than 550 companies. Includes photographs and line drawings, key specifications for any aircraft including dimensions, performance, structure, landing gear, power plants, and armaments. Also, has details of the world's aircraft manufacturers and their programs, for identification of key contracts and customers. Restricted to 5 simultaneous users.

Subscribers to IMF Data can use this new tool to access authoritative, harmonized global statistical databases, including the following: International Financial Statistics: All aspects of international and domestic finance, with history to 1948. -- Direction of Trade: Value of exports and imports between countries and their trading partners, with history to 1980. -- Balance of Payments: International economic transactions data and International Investment Position, with history to 1960. -- Government Finance Statistics: Budgetary and extra-budgetary financial operations data of governments, with history to 1990.-- Coordinated Portfolio Investment Statistics: Countries' year-end holdings of portfolio investment securities. Users will be prompted to download a plugin entitled Microsoft Silverlight to use these products.

Find publications of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which is an intergovernmental organization focused on global economic security.

Indexes materials on Islam, the Middle East, and the entire Muslim world from periodicals, monographs, and other collections in European languages. Includes coverage arts & humanities, history and social sciences topics.

The Index of Christian Art database presently contains over 20,000 work of art records which are accompanied by over sixty thousand images in color and black and white. Many of these images have never before been digitized and are published here for the first time. The Index records works of art produced without geographical limitations from early apostolic times up to A.D. 1400 (extended in the case of the Morgan and Princeton Library projects to include this manuscript holdings up to the end of the sixteenth century). There is a particular emphasis and focus on art of the western world. Seventeen different media are represented in the archive, and these include manuscripts, metalwork, sculpture, painting, glass, and so forth. Access to the database is possible on a predetermined number of levels from Browse to Simple Find to Advanced Find Level catering to the inexperienced to the expert user. The database is periodically updated as works of art are catalogued.

This database provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs. Titles include Contemporary Jewry, Holy Land Studies, Jewish Culture & History, Journal of Palestine Studies, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and many more. Most references are not found in standard periodical literature guides. Index to Jewish Periodicals is intended for students of Jewish thought and others interested in contemporary Jewish and Middle Eastern affairs.

A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716.

Informe! is the first reference database to provide indexing, full text, and images of the most popular Spanish language magazines and bilingual periodicals. Aimed at the needs of both serious researchers and casual browsers, Informe! provides single-search access to the full text of more than 140 Spanish language and bilingual products, covering a wide range of subject matter from current events to academic interests. Informe!'s Spanish thesaurus and interface were created especially for Spanish speakers, based on InfoTrac's well known user interface. Informe! also features bilingual citations to help non-Spanish speaking staff, or students of Spanish, navigate easily through the database.

Contains full text content from thousands of national, international, state and local newspapers. Dates of coverage: 1980 to present.

InSPIRE is a particle physics database of journal articles, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers, and theses. It has been indexed and maintained by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and collaborating physics institutions since the late 1960’s. When possible each record links to full text, related experiments, references, reaction data, and conference information.

Provides access to the world's largest archive of computer-based research and instructional data for the social sciences. Anyone may search the database, however, only KU affiliates may set-up the necessary account to download data. Contact the ICPSR liaison (data@ku.edu) for more information.

The International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance represents the most comprehensive multicultural and inter-disciplinary research tool available to theatre students, educators and professionals. Initiated by the American Society for Theatre Research, IBT becomes a valuable component to EBSCO's list of subject-specific secondary databases covering the humanities. Since 1984, the Theatre Research Data Center has published 14 volumes of the IBT. These volumes comprise a fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated databank of over 60,000 journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance. International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre, as well as full text for journals such as Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, and many more. Additional full text available includes more than 50 books & monographs.

See: IMF e-Library Data.

Provides indexing, abstracts, and selected full-text from many periodicals, covering the scholarly to the popular. Full-text ranges from 1874 to the present. (Restricted to 4 simultaneous users.)

Provides indexing, abstracts, and selected full-text from many sources, covering film, theatre, dance, stagecraft, television, and more. Full-text ranges from 1864 to the present. (Restricted to 4 simultaneous users.)

Indexes articles on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the period 450-1500 for Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. (Restricted to 3 simultaneous users.)

Provides indexing and abstracts to the journal literature in the areas of clinical and technical drug information, pharmacy practice, pharmaceutical education, and legal aspects of pharmacy and drugs. Produced by the American Society of Health- System Pharmacists.

IOPscience is an online service for journal content published by the Institute of Physics. It contains more than 300,000 articles, from 1874 to the present day. As well as regular peer-reviewed content from IOP Publishing journals, users can also find pre-prints from eprintweb.org (based on the arXiv.org at Cornell University), and editorials and news from IOP community websites, alongside their search results.

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) Source database contains the texts of over 6000 opera arias and art songs rendered in IPA notation.

Part of the Roper Center Public Opinion Archives, the iPOLL databank provides access to over 500,000 public opinion questions from 1930 onward. User registration is required to download datasests via RoperExpress.

Contains documents from the National Archives at Kew, UK. Selected by Dr. Charles Tripp, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, these documents cover the political and administrative history of the modern state which has emerged from the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia.

See: Emerging Markets Information Service (EMIS)

Provides access to an online bibliography for articles, essays, books, and reviews for the study of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (400-1700). Also includes online access to Iter Italicum, a finding list of Renaissance humanistic manuscripts, and the International Directory of Scholars, a listing of scholars in the field.

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See: IHS Jane's all the world's aircraft. Development and production.

See: IHS Jane's All the world's aircraft. Unmanned

Consists of fully searchable and browsable databases including English-Japanese and Japanese-English dictionaries, Encyclopedia Nipponica and Encyclopedia of Japan, articles published in a weekly magazine Ekonomisuto, collection of Tōyō bunko series and other visual and sound databases. (Restricted to 8 simultaneous users.)

A full-text searchable database of articles on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical periods. It also treats related persons and fields that have been shaped by or have themselves shaped literary theory and criticism.

The Journal Citation Reports on the Web is a unique multidisciplinary research tool that provides a systematic, objective way to determine the relative importance of journals within their subject categories. JCR(r) Web is available in two editions: the Science Edition covers over 6,100 leading international science journals from the ISI database. The Social Sciences Edition covers approximately 1,800 leading international social sciences journals from the ISI database. It includes what subject matter each journal covers (Scope Notes), what journals are related by citation or subject, what each journal issue contains and where the journal can be found. Coverage is 2004 to present. Please consult the library catalog for data available from previous years.

Provides image and full-text online access of core academic journals in a variety of disciplines in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. The following collections are accessible: Arts and Sciences Collections I-X; Life Sciences Collection; and Public Health Reports.

The Kansas City Business Journal gives access to local business news in Kansas City and 39 other cities around the U.S. with a focus on small and medium-sized businesses. The integrated archival files contain more than 750,000 business news articles published since 1996 in all 40 city business journals. This database provides an exact replica of the weekly newspaper, as well as special publications produced by this company including "Best Places to Work" and the popular "Book of Lists" for each city. Users can download PDFs, or search and print individual articles or pages. Please note that each individual business journal title contained in this database may be searched in the ejournals catalog. Each record contains a URL linking users to that specific journal.

Created to celebrate Kansas' Sesquicentennial, this database contains digitized and fully searchable primary sources, including personal narratives, memoirs, political speeches, sermons, and more from the Sabin Americana Collection and other Gale sources. Provided by the State Library of Kansas.

The Kansas Periodical Index online includes varied coverage for the years 2002-2012. Other years are covered in the print edition with the same title. Among the titles indexed are: Kansas!, Kansas History, Southeast Kansas Living.

Provides access to state, county, local and other public and business information for Kansas citizens. Also provides links to a number of "premium" or "subscriber" online services. Official website of the State of Kansas.

Distributed by Asahi Shinbun, a distinguished newspaper company in Japan, KIKUZO II database provides all articles published by the company since 1984, including Asahi Shinbun and its regional editions, weekly magazines AREA (May 1988-) and Shukan Asahi (April 2000-). More than 1,000 news articles are added to this database on a daily basis. It also contains searchable image database of actually published newspapers between 1945 and 1984, and as of Jan. 2009, the database contains approx. 8 million articles.

This encyclopedia presents articles on chemical substances including their properties, manufacturing, and uses. It focuses on industrial processes and unit operations in chemical engineering, and also covers fundamentals and scientific subjects related to the field. Environmental and health issues concerning chemical technology are also addressed.

A digitized version of the print edition of Kokushi daijiten, one of the largest encyclopedias of Japanese history. Including approx. 54,000 entries, it encompasses every aspect of Japan's history and includes entries in related fields such as archaeology, folklore, religion, art, Japanese language, Japanese literature and geography. (Restricted to 1 simultaneous user.)

A collection of 91 Korean studies databases in full-text and image files of various disciplines including Korean history, classics, literature, arts, and medicine.

Contains records for items in the Dykes, Clendening, and Farha medical libraries at the University of Kansas.

KU ScholarWorks is a digital repository for scholarly work created by the faculty and staff of the University of Kansas. KU ScholarWorks makes important research available to a wider audience and helps assure its long-term preservation.

An information service which includes an online searchable archive of articles on politics, economics, human rights, the environment, drugs, guerillas, military and other stories on Latin America, including Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. News reports are synthesized from regional and international sources, mostly from newspaper reports and journal articles. Also includes back issues of Latin American economic journals in Spanish and RETAnet: Resources for teaching about the Americas.

Latin American Newsstand provides full-text information in Spanish and Portuguese from 41 newspapers from 11 Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

LawInfoChina.com is an English language legal information database covering laws and regulations, cases, and law journals from the People's Republic of China. "In the database you could find all the laws and administrative regulations, ministerial rules, judicial interpretations of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate, judgments, local regulations and rules, Chinese-foreign treaties and pacts, economic statutes of Hong Kong and Taiwan, legal documentations, as well as the protocols of China's accession to the WTO and the annexes thereof, reports of the Working Committee, Chinese and English texts of the legal documents of the WTO and the amendments to Chinese laws and regulations after China's accession to the WTO." For the Chinese language version, which has additional content coverage, please click here . System requirements: Internet Explorer browser.

Indexes the diverse literature of the left, with an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship both inside and outside of academia. (Restricted to 1 simultaneous user.)

Contains full text for more than 300 of the world's scholarly law journals.

Provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Dates of coverage: 1980 to present.

Provides access to: full-text of current news and up to the last 20 years; full-text company news & financial information; full-text federal, state & international legal materials; full-text and abstracted medical & health information; general reference sources.

See: Proquest Congressional.

See: ProQuest statistical insight

LGBT Life with Full Text contains all of the content available in LGBT Life, the definitive index to the world's literature regarding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues, as well as full text for 55 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as more than 100 full-text monographs/books including Classics in Lesbian Studies, Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research, etc. The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT Thesaurus containing over 6,400 terms. Full text content available in LGBT Life with Full Text includes The Advocate, Gay Parent Magazine, Girlfriends, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies, James White Review, ISNA News, Ladder, Lesbian Tide, New York Blade, and many more.

Liberty: A Weekly for Everybody was founded in 1924 by Joseph Patterson, publisher of the New York Daily News and Robert McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune and often regarded as the world's greatest publisher. From its inception, they set out to make the magazine more topical, daring and exciting than any competitors. Information was presented in a style heavily influenced by the emerging motion picture industry and focused on the most sensational and popular issues. Dates of coverage: 1924-1950.

Contains records for the majority of items in the KU Libraries, including the Regents Center Library and the Law Library.

Provides indexing of nearly 400 journals, including key library and information science periodicals.

The Library of Latin Texts-Series A database contains more than 3100 Latin texts from classical antiquity (all Teubner texts), late antiquity (including patristic authors),and the Middle Ages (including the authors in the Corpus Christianorum). (Restricted to 3 simultaneous users.)

The Library of Latin Texts-Series B database supplements Series A and contains texts from late Antiquity (including grammatical and medical texts), texts from the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance as well as texts in Neo-Latin. It will include travel narratives, legal texts, and theological, philosophical and scientific treatises from the medieval and early modern periods. (Restricted to 3 simultaneous users.)

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) is provided as a free resource from EBSCO Publishing. This bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, cataloging, bibliometrics, information literacy, and digital libraries.

The Lily, the first newspaper for women, was issued from 1849 until 1853 under the editorship of Amelia Bloomer.

Indexes and abstracts articles in the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Also the study of descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.

Provides a broad spectrum of full-text information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. The Reference Center includes plot summaries, synopses, articles, author biographies, books reviews, poems, short stories and more.

Provides searchable full-text of more than 350,000 literary works in the English language-poetry, drama, and prose; 175 full-text literary journals; the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature; and reference sources including American Poetry and other bibliographies, biographies, and dictionaries. Individual units run from Anglo-Saxon literature, through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the 18th and 19th centuries right up to the late 20th Century. The geographical span includes England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the West Indies, Africa, and South Asia. LION also offers comprehensive cross-searching of EEBO - Early English Books Online, thus bringing together the two leading textual resources for scholars of Early Modern literature. Results from the Quick Search and Search Texts options within Literature Online will include full results from the entire set of EEBO citation data (125,000 titles).

Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. Covers novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of the most-studied authors. Includes essays on the history of specific publishing companies.

Full text image-based searchable database of legal publications.

Provides access to two collections of legal treatises: the Missouri Bar Association CLE Library which contains Missouri legal practice materials covering almost 50 topic areas, and the All Treatise Library which contains selected Aspen legal treatises. Topics include bankruptcy, real estate, estate planning and probate, business practice, construction law, elder law, employment discrimination, evidence law, family law, litigation, personal injury, product liability.

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Search the pages of the most important Western African American newspaper. Dates of coverage: 1934 to 2005.

The Los Angeles Times provides historical analysis of the development of California and the Pacific Rim with a focus on immigration issues and the development of the American West, coverage of the early days of the film industry, and coverage of Native American culture and society.

Electronic full-text of journals and books on the Earth sciences that have been published by the Geological Society of London. Specifically, the Journal of the Geological Society, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis Online, Geological Society Special Publication series, Engineering Geology Special Publication series, and Geological Society Memoirs.

The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 provides full-text searching and digital images of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. These legal history resources cover many topics of interest to general researchers.

Making of Modern Law. Primary Sources (1620-1926 and 1763-1970) is based primarily on holdings of the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale University and offers online access to early state codes, city charters, documents relating to constitutional conventions, and other resources in American legal history. Dates of coverage range from 1620-1970.

"The Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926" provides full-text searching and digital images of thousands of books and pamphlets covering major and minor trials of English-speaking jurisdictions and English-language trials in other jurisdictions. Materials include unofficially published accounts of trials, as well as briefs, arguments and other trial documents where these were printed as separate publications. These legal history resources are also useful in the social sciences and reveal elements of the lives of ordinary people. Topics covered include: adultery, commercial law, conspiracy, constitutional law, crimes against persons, domestic relations, dueling, elections, impeachment, international law, land, libel, military offenses, murder, slavery, theft, torts, treason and wills, among many other subjects.

Mango Languages is an online language learning service. Two versions per language are offered: Mango Complete, a 100 lesson course designed to provide an understanding of a language and its culture and Mango Basic, which teaches everyday phrases and greetings. More than 40 foreign language courses are available and 16 English as a Second Language courses. Mango is offered through the State Library of Kansas. You will be required to set up a personal profile and log in to Mango.

Market Share Reporter presents comparative business statistics in a clear, straightforward manner, providing a detailed overview of international companies, products and services. Market Share Reporter includes more than 2,000 entries on a wide range of topics, from global positioning systems to laboratory equipment. Entries typically include: a description (e.g., “Best Selling Digital Music Genres”); a summary of the size of the market; a breakdown of market share by percentage; complete source citation; subject categories; SIC and NAICS code(s). Historical data allows researchers to quickly track market trends over time, providing invaluable insight into virtually any industry. Dates of coverage: 1991 to present.

Marquis Biographies Online includes biographies of leaders and achievers from around the world in the areas of business, law, science, medicine, the arts, government, and entertainment and is updated daily. Five of the most popular collections can be searched separately: Who’s Who in America; Who’s Who in the World; Who’s Who in American History; Who’s Who in American Art; and Who’s Who in American Politics.

With information about more than 3000 materials and processes, the online database is searchable by keyword, material type, manufacturer name, and manufacturer location. Entries for the materials include technical information such as properties and applications along with high quality photographs.

MathSciNet consists of reviews and citations to the world's research literature in mathematics and related areas compiled from Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. It is produced by the American Mathematical Society and includes over 2 million items and over 700,000 direct links to original articles. It provides citation data for journals, authors, articles and reviews based on the reference lists from over 300 journals.

Contains records for items in the Max Kade Center for German-American Studies at the University of Kansas.

The MD Consult core collection is a comprehensive medical information source with access to full-text articles from over 80 medical journals, 50 major medical reference books, drug information, and patient education sources.

A collection of medical research and investigatory journals from Latin American and Spanish publishers. This Spanish language database contains the table of contents and full text for 130 peer-reviewed medical journals.

Provides indexing and abstracts to the biomedical and life sciences literature. MEDLINE can also be searched through the Web of Knowledge platform. MEDLINE is also the largest component of PubMed. Dates of coverage: 1949 to present.

MedlinePlus is an authoritative source of general information on health topics provided from the National Library of Medline, the National Institutes of Health and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Both health professionals and consumers can depend on it for authoritative and up to date information. It includes information on diseases and conditions, lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia, a medical dictionary, information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, and the latest health news.

Contains descriptive information and critical reviews of commercially-available standardized English-language educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement and intelligence tests. Contains the text of the Buros Institute'sYearbooks. Tests in Print includes current information about test purpose, publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date, and test authors. (Restricted to 8 simultaneous users.)

Meteorological & geoastrophysical abstracts (MGA) contains records drawn from the World's literature on meteorology, climatology, atmospheric chemistry and physics, astrophysics, hydrology, glaciology, physical oceanography and environmental sciences. Summaries from over 600 journal titles, as well as conference proceedings, books, technical reports and other monographs, are included.

A systematic, and non-evaluative bibliographic index of research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. Over 12,000 records of recently published & "grey" literature are added annually. Coverage includes the following fields: political affairs & law, international relations, economic affairs: business & industry, cultural heritage, arts & humanities, society & social welfare, ethnic diversity & anthropology, significant religious events & movements, and recent history (1900 - present) & archaeology.

Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and U.S. government. Includes full text for nearly 300 journals.

Russian Military and Security Periodicals (UDB-MIL) includes several dozen publications covering military and security developments in Russia from both official and independent sources. All branches of the armed forces are covered by this database, including the Russian Air Force, Army and Navy. Equally important, the database includes a trove of English-language sources. In addition to journals and newspapers published in Moscow, the database presents imprints from military districts and some armies and divisions. It is the only resource of its kind.

Mintel provides users access to market research reports in the US, UK and European markets. Reports span a variety of topics, and include automotive, consumer lifestyles, electrical products, foods and food service, health and leisure time, retail, technology, and more. You must create a personal profile using your KU e-mail address.

The MLA International Bibliography provides a classified listing and subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Coverage includes literature from all over the world--Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America. The Chadwyck-Healey version also enables one to cross-search ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature), an enumerative bibliography which aims to list all scholarly books and articles concerning both the English language and literature written in English.

The MLA International Bibliography provides a classified listing and subject index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. Coverage includes literature from all over the world--Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America. To directly access the MLA Directory of Periodicals, please click here.

Digitized searchable version of the catalog produced by the Government Printing Office covering the years 1895-1976. This database provides indexing to the plethora of government publications and the SuDoc (Superintendant of Documents classification number) assigned to each title. The Federal Depository collection here at KU is shelved by SuDoc number. Note: Please use the KU Catalog or the database Catalog of U.S. Government publications for items published and cataloged by the Government Printing Office 1976-present and this ProQuest database for cataloging from 1895-1976.

This full text database contains many of the critical editions of medieval Latin texts published since 1819 in the MGH.

Contains records for items in the Moore Reading Room at the University of Kansas Dept. of Religious Studies.

Indexes journal articles covering classical, popular, and world music.

The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project which maintains four bibliographic databases containing more than 4.0 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics, and preprints in Astronomy. The main body of data in the ADS consists of bibliographic records and abstracts of articles and monographs which are searchable and full-text scans of much of the astronomical literature which can be browsed. The databases cover all the major journals, many minor journals, conference proceedings, several observatory reports and newsletters, many NASA reports, and PhD theses. In addition to its databases, the ADS provides access to scanned images of articles from most of the major and most smaller astronomical journals, as well as several conference proceedings series and points to a wealth of external resources, including electronic articles, data catalogs and archives.

Find names, departmental affiliations and institutional addresses of professionals at more than 4,600 American colleges and universities--and at 240 Canadian institutions that use instructional materials primarily in English. Each Supplement updates approximately 60,000 new entries.

A comprehensive online resource on politics and policy. Policy Central includes selective full-text access to several distinct journals, including: National Journal online & CongressDaily.

Naxos Music Library is a streaming audio source for classical music. It includes all the music issued on Naxos, Marco Polo, Da Capo, plus selections from 100+ other labels. Currently, there are 550,000+ tracks of music from 39,000 discs. (Restricted to 10 simultaneous users.) For professor account details, contact George Gibbs or Jim Smith in the Music Library.

Naxos Music Library Jazz is a streaming audio database of 30,000+ tracks of jazz from 3,000+ albums. Includes music from Naxos, Fantasy, Prestige, Pablo, and other labels. (Restricted to 5 simultaneous users.) For professor account details, contact George Gibbs or Jim Smith in the Music Library.

Naxos Sheet Music library is a database of over 45,000 works for consultation or downloading. A plug-in is required for transposing, listening, and optimized printing. For instructions on loading and using the software please click here. This software is installed on public computers in Gorton Music and Dance Library only. For professor account details, contact George Gibbs or Jim Smith in the Music Library.

Naxos Video Library provides an extensive streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries. (Restricted to 5 simultaneous users.)

NBER Working Papers is a collection of economists' papers in progress, presenting intitial research with intent to receive feedback and comment from the professional community.

See: Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage

See: eBook Collection.

The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations. This union catalog serves as a repository of graduate educational material contributed by a number of member institutions worldwide. The University of Kansas will be contributing records to NDLTD.

Online resource with over 1,850 topical articles contributed by 1,500 economists. Resource will be updated and enhanced on a quarterly basis. System capabilities include active links between articles, printing, mathematical equations viewing (MathML), and Open URL.

New York Amsterdam News documents the past of New York's African American community, including the Harlem Renaissance, the desegregation of the U.S. Military and the Civil Rights Movement.

Provides access to full page and article images with searchable full-text from 1851 to 4 years ago.

One of the most influential newspapers of its time, the New York Tribune reported on events, arts, sports, business and finance, and New York society from pre-Civil War until the early 20th century. Dates of coverage: 1841-1922.

Newspaper Source Plus provides cover-to-cover full text for 149 national & international newspapers and selective full text for 410 U.S newspapers. The database also contains full-text television & radio news transcripts.

Online database version of the 50 volumes of Japanese historical gazetteer, published by Heibonsha. Includes 200,000 headings with detailed explanation of the place name. Continously updated.

See: 19th century U.S. newspapers.

Under the leadership of P.B. Young, the "Dean of the Negro Press," The Norfolk Journal and Guide became one of the best researched and written newspapers of its era, with a circulation of more than 80,000 by the 1940s. It argued against restrictive covenants, rallied against lynching, encouraged blacks to vote, supported improvements to city streets and water systems, and more.

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories provides a personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. Included are approximately 100,000 pages of primary sources (much previously unpublished),such as letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, political cartoons, and oral histories. Materials included cover a period from approximately 1840 to the present, with most of the focus on the period from 1890 to 1920. People from many countries are represented, including more recent waves of immigrants from Latin America and Asia. Several thousand pages of Ellis Island oral history interviews are indexed and searchable as well.

Describes both fiction and nonfiction book titles for all ages. NoveList includes book lists, discussion guides, award lists, and feature articles.

Provides indexing and abstracts to technical reports from both U.S. and non-U.S. sponsored research. Compiled by the U.S. National Technical Information Service, the database covers topics in the sciences, engineering, business, and social sciences. Reports received since 1997 are available as downloadable PDF files. Publications under 20 pages are free.

OAIster contains records of open archive digital resources that lead to digitized books, articles, audio & video files, data sets, theses and more. Freely available material accessible through institutional respositories like KU ScholarWorks are searched through OAIster.

Provides indexing, abstracting and full-text content to journal articles in a variety of disciplines.

OnePetro (expands SPE eLibrary significantly): This database provides access to technical literature on oil and gas exploration and production produced by nine or more organizations, including the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and the American Petroleum Institute (API). Some content from some of the organizations covers other topics, including energy, corrosion, and road and subway tunnels. SPE manages the database. Content from at least one participating organization goes back as far as 1927.

Online Geographical Bibliography (GEOBIB) is a database containing the accumulated entries published in the journal Current Geographical Publications. This database continues the Research Catalogue of the American Geographical Society.

OnTheBoards.tv provides streaming video access to full-length performances by some of today's artists working in dance, theater, music and other forms.

Oral History Online contains an index and links to editorially vetted, Web-based oral histories in English in archives and libraries around the world, with links to full text, audio, and video when available. It also contains tens of thousands of in-copyright, full-text interviews from proprietary collections.

The AASC provides students, scholars and librarians with online access to reference resources in African American studies. At its core, AASC features the three-volume Encyclopedia of African American History 1619-1895, the three-volume Black Women in America, Second Edition, edited by Darlene Clark Hine and the highly acclaimed Africana, a five-volume history of the African American experience. The Center also includes content from print publications including the African American National Biography project, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the Encyclopedia of African American Art and Architecture. In addition to these major reference works, AASC offers other key resources from Oxford's reference program, including the Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature and selected articles from other reference works(Restricted to 5 simultaneous users.)

Allows simultaneous searching of Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Content includes biographies, subject entries, images and learning resources.

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography contains a collection of 55,000 specially written and illustrated biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2003. (Restricted to 3 simultaneous users.)

The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. As the OED is a historical dictionary, its entry structure is very different from that of a dictionary of current English, in which the focus is on present-day meanings. For each word in the OED, the various groupings of senses are dealt with in chronological order according to the quotation evidence, i.e. the senses with the earliest quotations appear first, and the senses which have developed more recently appear further down the entry. The Historical Thesaurus is a taxonomic arrangement of the contents of the OED.

Oxford Islamic Studies Online features reference content and commentary by renowned scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture. (Restricted to 3 simultaneous users)

Provides full-text online access to most of the electronic journals published by the Oxford University Press. Disciplines covered are humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.

Provides authoritative, up-to-date translations in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Chinese with native speaker audio pronunciation. Limited to 1 simultaneous user.

Oxford Music Online allows the simultaneous searching of The New Grove Dictionary of Music, 2nd edition; The Oxford Dictionary of Music; and The Oxford Companion to Music.

Cross-searchable online database of Oxford University Press subject dictionaries and reference works. The KU Libraries subscribe to the Quick Reference titles (previously the Premium collection) and a number of additional titles. Each topical division contains the searchable version of the latest edition of published dictionaries and encyclopedias. (Restricted to 5 simultaneous users.)

Oxford University Press is the world's leading philosophy publisher, publishing outstanding original work across all areas of contemporary philosophy and the history of philosophy. The list of famous philosophy books stretches back through the twentieth century and beyond and includes work by eminent philosophers and leading scholars including: J. L. Austin, Donald Davidson, Michael Dummett, Jerry A. Fodor, Philippa Foot, Thomas Nagel, Joseph Raz, P. F. Strawson, Richard Swinburne and Christopher Peacocke. Restricted to 5 simultaneous users.

The PAIS International database contains references to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more about public policy and work affairs. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. The PAIS archive provides a historical perspective on many of the 20th century's public and social policies. It contains references to monographs, periodical articles, notes and announcements, and analytics.

The Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge contains 538 Old English and medieval manuscripts. This database provides full digital copies of each ms. along with thousands of citations to the relevant secondary literature on the mss.

Databases of U.S. patents, including patent grants (full text since 1976, full-page images since 1790) and patent applications (published since 15 March 2001). To view the patent images, a plug-in is required. For links to free TIFF plug-ins, please click here.

Provides full-text access to the newspaper in Philadelphia and is a valuable resource to views of colonial America.

See: Ren min ri bao.

Use Peterson's to research undergraduate and graduate programs at colleges and universities.

PharmacyLibrary features content from the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) textbooks, an interactive NAPLEX review, case studies, and news sources. Funded by KU’s School of Pharmacy.

The oldest continuously published daily black newspaper in the U.S., The Philadelphia Tribune was founded by Christopher James Perry. His paper conveyed ideas and opinions about local and national issues affecting blacks in the post-emancipation period, and today continues to serve the country's fourth-largest African- American community.

A bibliographic database with author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all fields of philosophy, published in journals and books.

Database of illustrated interviews with prominent international architects which is searchable online and is being added to regularly. The collection allows users to hear the actual voices of the designers of buildings and listen to their ideas. Dates of coverage: 1977 to present.

The PILOTS bibliographic database, covering the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress, is produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. PILOTS is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of traumatic events. It is not limited to literature on PTSD among veterans.

Urging African Americans to actively participate in their political destinies, and often shaping the charge, the Pittsburgh Courier was once the most widely circulated black newspaper in the U.S. in the early 20th century. Through the decades, writers and intellectuals such as D.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, and others wrote columns and reported for the newspaper.

Find citations to some 30,000 plays published individually or in collections from 1949 to the present in the convenient electronic form. This is an invaluable aid to finding the perfect plays to match your production resources. A descriptive annotation summarizes the plot and indicates any musical requirements: chorus, singing, dancing etc., and indicates number of sets, noting whether scenery requirements are interior or exterior. Covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including one-act plays, pageants, plays in verse, radio and television plays, and classic drama. (Restricted to 1 simultaneous user.)

Plunkett Research Online provides industry analysis, company profiles and market research information for over 30 industries.

Provides online access to abstracts and if available, links to full-text articles on public policy research and analysis from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers.

Captures the breadth of the subject with both a national and international perspective, drawing from scholarly, professional and peer-reviewed sources, and offering considerable full-text content

A compilation of questions and responses from national, state, local and special surveys, conducted by polling organizations in the United States and other countries. Each record in the database consists of one poll question and the participants' responses. Records are indexed by subject matter, publication year, general and specific location, and survey method. Other information provided includes: source name and contact information, sample size, and notes on the sample population. (Restricted to 1 simultaneous user.)

See 19th century masterfile.

Pop Culture Universe (PCU) is an authoritative, digital library of information on American and world popular culture, past and present--in a package as dynamic as the topic it covers. Built on hundreds of award-winning titles for all levels of researchers, PCU provides a safe haven for investigating topics that appeal to students--without the bias, advertising, suggestive content, or questionable authorship of commercial or fan sites. Combining the best of traditional scholarship with the convenience of Web technology and the fun inherent in the subject, PCU advances the study of pop culture and pop history, and promotes information literacy.

PRISMA is a comprehensive reference resource providing 165 full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America and the Caribbean Basin. Articles are in English, Spanish and Portuguese, and examine all aspects of Hispanic Studies—from research on indigenous cultures past and present to current economic indicators to politics and society to Hispanic theatre. Coverage of subject areas is comprehensive and includes Anthropology, Business & Economics, History, Literature, Political Science and Sociology. PRISMA works together and complements HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) by using HAPI’s in-depth indexing and integrating it directly into PRISMA. PRISMA also offers full-text key titles indexed by HAPI. PRISMA features Spanish, Portuguese, and English language content.

Includes full text for more than 500 education journals.

A searchable database that provides online access to current issues of selected scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. A list of the journals contained in this database can be found at the Project Muse homepage.

PROLA is the American Physical Society's Physical Review Online Archives. The complete archive consists of all of Physical Review back to 1893, all of Physical Review Letters back to 1958, and all of Reviews of Modern Physics back to 1929. The majority of the collection consists of scanned images of the printed journals available as either GIF images or as PDF files.

Provides comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information, including congressional publications and documents, statistics, current members of Congress and congressional committees, and regulatory and statutory information.

PQDT provides online access to over 2 million dissertations and master's theses, many of which are available in full text for immediate downloading. Citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861 and full text online from 1997 for over 1,000 schools submitting to the ProQuest UMI database. More than 55,000 new citations are added to the database every year.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers provides searchable access to full-text and full-images from some of America's most important newspapers.

The second module of the ProQuest history vault consists of personal papers of African Americans and records of civil rights organizations. Among the collections in the second module are: Papers of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM); Mary McLeod Bethune Papers; Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC); Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Bayard Rustin Papers; Claude A. Barnett Papers.

ProQuest Newsstand contains over 850 newspapers with access to 575 full-text titles. With titles like the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune, users can also find access to international, national, and regional news. Coverage: 1980's to present

A full-text collection of nursing and allied health periodicals.

Research Library is a comprehensive database available through the ProQuest online system. It indexes and abstracts general interest magazines and scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines and newspapers in the social sciences, humanities and sciences. The database includes more than 3820 titles -- over 2550 in full text -- from 1971 forward. Topics covered include arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international studies, law, military, multicultural studies, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.

Includes statistical data produced by the U.S. government; international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, business organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities. The KU Libraries subscribe to the Tables collection, the American Statistics Index (ASI), and Index to International Statistics (IIS) modules. ASI abstracts and indexes federal statistical publications dating back to 1973. IIS abstracts and indexes key statistical titles from international organizations dating back to 1983. Among these organizations are the United Nations, the European Union, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the World Bank.

PsychiatryOnline is a web-based portal that features DSM-IV-TR and the American Journal of Psychiatry from American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. Full text access is available to classic resources such as DSM-IV-TR, DSM-IV-TR Handbook of Differential Diagnosis, and DSM-IV-TR Casebook and other psychiatric textbooks and journals.

Includes full text for nearly 400 psychology journals.

Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines. The journal literature spans 1887 to the present. PsycINFO indexes journal content published by the American Psychological Association that is available through PsycARTICLES. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987-present.

Indexes essential areas related to public administration, including public administration research, public administration theory.

A comprehensive electronic guide to federal, state, local and international public documents, spanning over 200 years of publication, in a single searchable database.

PubMed is a database of mainly journal citations and abstracts collected from the life sciences literature from 1947 to the present. Over 4,800 journals are indexed in the areas of clinical medicine, biomedicine, and health care. To only search PubMed Central (PMC), a freely accessible repository of biomedical and life science journal literature, please click here.

Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies.

Provides indexing to the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.

RedBooks.com provides competitive intelligence and prospecting data to media companies, advertising agencies, manufacturers, advertising services and suppliers about the advertising industry. Within this product, the Advertiser Database contains information on nearly 18,000 U.S. and international advertisers who each spend more than $200,000 annually on advertising. The Agency Database provides profiles of nearly 14,000 U.S. and international agencies, including accounts represented by each agency, fields of specialization, and more. (Restricted to 1 simultaneous user.) Please click on SIGN OFF when done searching.

Regional business news incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for these regional business publications.

Includes full text for more than 300 journals covering world religions, biblical studies, history, political philosophy and more.

This is the online version of the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. It is a full-text database with original images, including advertisements, searchable and printable both in text format and in PDF format. Adobe Reader 8 is recommended. People's Daily editorials deal with such subjects as politics and culture, communist theory and philosophy, and Marxist and social economics. To see current issues, please click here. Note: this database can only be properly viewed by Internet Explorer. When using other browsers such as Firefox or Chrome, some of the Chinese characters may not be displayed correctly.

Superseded by: Checkpoint.

This online catalog from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) consists of: a) an index beginning in 1980 to over 300 architectural periodicals held in the RIBA Library; b) a catalog of the books and a/v materials acquired by the RIBA Library; c) a catalog of the RIBA Library Photographs Collection; d) a catalog of drawings and other materials acquired by the RIBA Library Drawings Collection since 1986, with brief entries for all earlier acquisitions; e) a catalog of the RIBA Library Manuscripts Collection; f) a biographical database of architects. The RIBA Library was established in 1834. Architecture.com is searchable by keyword, author, title, subject, and series, and results can be printed, saved to disk or e-mailed.

Provides indexing and abstracts to articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, conference proceedings, discographies, dissertations, ethnographic recordings, Festschriften, films, iconographies, and videos covered by the Repertoire International de Literature Musicale.

Roper Center Public Opinion Archives provides access to the iPOLL Databank, with over 500,000 public opinion questions from 1930 onward, as well as access to RoperExpress, providing access and download of datasets. User registration is required.

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (REP) Online contains the full content of the classic print encyclopedia 10-volume set, and is also a living, growing resource designed to grow along with the discipline itself. As well as regular additions of new articles, REP Online also provides editorially reviewed links to other sites and resources on the web, revisions and updates of key entries, and periodic upgrades of the user environment. (Restricted to 4 simultaneous users.)

Covers the social sciences and humanities with topics as diverse as archaeology, economics, history, law, linguistics, literary criticism, philosophy, political science, and religious studies. Includes citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, manuscripts, and dissertations published primarily in Russia, the republics of the former Soviet Union, and countries in Eastern Europe. Original script display is available for journals published in Cyrillic. (Restricted to 4 simultaneous users.)

Russian Central Newspapers (UDB-COM) provides comprehensive coverage of national news, current events, economic developments and cultural events in Russia. Official sources (Rossiiskaia gazeta, Krasnaia zvezda, ITAR-TASS), independent media and partisan publications are all represented on this database, thus offering a wide array of opinions and perspectives. Several English-language newspapers including the notable Moscow Times, widely read by the international community in the Russian capital, constitute an important part of the database.

Identifies materials published in Russia. The paper version of the bibliography is published under 9 different titles: 1. Knizhnaia letopis' (Books) 2. Letopis' gazetnykh statei (Newspaper articles) 3. Letopis' zhurnal'nykh statei (Journal articles) 4. Letopis' avtoreferatov dissertatsii (Dissertations) 5. Letopis' retsenzii (Reviews) 6. Kartograficheskaia letopis' (Maps) 7. Notnaia letopis' (Music) 8. Letopis' izoizdanii (Miscellaneous publications) 9. Letopis' periodicheskikh i prodolzhaiushchikhsia izdanii (Irregular publications).

Russian Regional Newspapers (UDB-REG) provides close-up coverage of developments throughout Russia. This database currently includes about 80 regional newspapers plus newspapers dealing with local issues of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Researchers can use this database to quickly access a variety of local news, as well as trace local reactions to national and international events.

See: Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage.

Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana : A Dictionary of Books Relating to America From its Discovery to the Present Time, Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 is an online collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana covers a span of 400 years in North, Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean

Produced by SAE International, this database indexes technical papers, standards, and conference proceedings relating to mobility systems engineering in the aerospace, automotive, and commercial vehicle industries back to the early 1900s. Full text content is only available for technical reports from 1998 to the present. SAE International was previously the Society of Automotive Engineers.

Safari Books Online includes a variety of computing, programming, and information technology subjects, digitized and made available by Safari Books Online in conjunction with the original publishers. KU has access to all the titles in the database published in the current year + 2 previous years. When you have completed your search session, please click on "log out." (Restricted to 3 simultaneous users).

Indexes SAGE publications in business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine and includes full-text access to some of the content. To only search SAGE Open, a freely accessible publication from Sage, please click here.

Previously Sage Reference, this source contains a selection of encyclopedias and other ready-reference books covering a range of subjects in the social sciences disciplines.

The Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) is an electronic virtual library covering a selected collection of scientific journals of Latin America, the Caribbean countries and Spain. As the project develops, new journal titles will be added in the library collection. The full-text content is in English, Portuguese and/or Spanish. To access electronic books in SciELO, please click here.

The online version of Science Citation Index has been incorporated into the Web of Science database.

Provides citation access to books and over 2,000 journals published by Elsevier in the following disciplines: science, technology, medicine, and social sciences. Full-text content is available to most of the journal titles 1995 to the present.

SciFinder provides access to CAplus, MedLine, CASREACT, and the Registry database from Chemical Abstracts Service. Registration is required to access SciFinder. The database includes journal articles, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, substance database and dissertations covered in Chemical Abstracts. The license includes the substructure search module. For guides and tutorials, please click here.

See: United States Congressional serial set.

Provides access to the more than 50,000 maps published within the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980. The maps illuminate a wide variety of topics in U.S. and World history.

Serials Directory provides bibliographic information and current pricing of popular magazines, journals and other periodicals. It contains a listing of over 178,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers. Historical data is included for an additional 20,000 titles. Pertinent information for over 85,000 serial publishers worldwide is available, including in some cases email and web addresses.

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances. The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs. Shakespeare Survey Online makes all issues of the Survey, including over 90% of the original images, available online for the first time.

Provides access to the electronic editions of the research journals published by the Society. Includes recently posted articles scheduled to appear in SIAM's print journals over the next one to two years.

Much of the content in The Sixties is previously unpublished, ephemeral, or hard to access. Through letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral histories; accounts from official, radical, and alternative organizations; posters, broadsides, pamphlets, advertisements, and rare materials; and Universal newsreel footage of the times—150,000 pages total at completion—the collection tells the story of the Sixties.

Provides up-to-date information on topics related to starting a company, operations management, sales, and growing or rescuing a business.

This streaming audio service provides access to the complete library of Smithsonian Folkways ethnomusicology recordings. (Restricted to 3 simultaneous users.)

An online research tool designed to provide easy access to current and historical census data and demographic information. Contains over 15,000 thematic and interactive maps, the entire U.S. Census from 1790 to 2000, plus the first 2010 data release. Also includes the American Community Survey through the most current release, and the Religious Congregations and Membership Study (RCMS) from 1980 to 2000 with the addition of 2010 and other recent data planned. The RCMS is the most complete census available on religion in the U.S. Restricted to 5 simultaneous users.

Social Science Research Network (SSRN), established in 1994, provides early access to scholarship by publishing article abstracts (256,000+) and the full-text access to preprints/working papers (211,000+) for leading scholarly journals. The SSRN includes author contact information to facilitate scholarly communication. The social science networks that make up the SSRN include: Accounting; cognitive science; corporate; economics; entrepreneurship; financial; health; information; leadership; legal; management; marketing; negotiations; political; social insurance; classics; English and American literature; philosophy.

Russian Social Sciences and Humanities [periodicals] (UDB-EDU) provides researchers with a unique opportunity to cross-search the contents of major Russian periodicals on social sciences and humanities. It is comprised of all 31 journals of the Russian Academy of Sciences ranging from archeology to linguistics, as well as popular literary editions, and independent scholarly publications. New titles are added on a regular basis. This Universal Database grows retroactively. Full-text and full-image content of print editions is reproduced with original pagination.

The online version of Social Sciences Citation Index has been incorporated into the Web of Science database.

Indexes and abstracts articles in the fields of community development; crisis intervention; evaluation research; the family and social welfare; gerontology; policy, planning and forecasting; poverty and homelessness; professional issues in social work; social development; social work education; support groups/networks; violence, abuse and neglect; and welfare services.

Indexes and abstracts journal articles in the fields of social work including homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more. (Restricted to 12 simultaneous users.)

Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 350 journals dating back to 1985. The SPORTDiscus database also contains full-text and citation information on the following sports-related topics: exercise physiology, biomechanics, psychology, training techniques, coaching, physical education, physical fitness, active living, recreation, history, facilities and equipment. Includes citations to books, conference proceedings, dissertations, reports, journal articles; and an extensive microform collection, the bulk of which is from the University of Oregon microfiche collection of North American Dissertations on Sport and Physical Education, dating back to 1949. (Restricted to 4 simultaneous users.)

Contains molecular biology and biomedical protocols from 1980-2012, many from the series, Methods in Molecular Biology, and other methods series from Humana Press. Protocols are documents that provide predefined written procedural methods in the design and implementation of experiments.

SpringerLink provides online full-text access to over 1400 journal titles from 1997 to the present and to books published from 2005 to 2011. Published content is predominantly in the sciences, medicine, technology, business and economics. Published content is predominantly in the sciences, medicine, technology, business and economics and includes Springer Online First articles.

NetAdvantage is a comprehensive source of business and investment information that offers online access to Standard & Poor's research-related products such as industry surveys, stock reports, corporation records, The Outlook, mutual fund reports and more. NetAdvantage offers screening tools, private company information, and the ability to download data into spreadsheet programs for further analysis. Dates of coverage: Current with some older information (back to 4 years).

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a dynamic reference work and is a publishing project of the Metaphysics Research Lab at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) at Stanford University. The concept of a dynamic reference work was implemented in the design of the Encyclopedia by Edward N. Zalta (Director of the Metaphysics Research Lab). The project began when John Perry was the Director of the Center for the Study of Language and Information.

The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Issues after 2012 are published by Proquest. Issues before 1900 are available from HeinOnline.

The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. For statistics prior to 2013, please click here.

Contains digitized images, with links to full text, of printed items selected from the Kansas Collection of the University of Kansas Libraries.

Completely separate from the Times of London, the Sunday times is known for their investigative journalism, providing commentary and analysis of the week's news. To search Times Digital Archive, Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, and Sunday Times Digital Archive together, please click here.

Sur is a literary journal with writers from around the world founded by Victoria Ocampo in 1931. Contents include literature, film, theatre, art, music, history, and politics. The electronic version offers all pages and images of the 364 issues, including covers and advertisements. It is fully searchable and has a 6300-entry searchable index.

Provides access to e-journals and books published by Taylor & Francis and its imprints including Routledge. Full text access is only available to a limited number (15%) of journal titles through KU subscriptions.

Provides indexing and abstracts for 280 periodicals in assessment, continuing education, curriculum development, elementary education, school administration and more.

Contains hundreds of personal letters, diaries, photos, and maps from the collections of the Kansas State Historical Society and the Kansas Collection of the Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas. Includes a tutorial for Territorial Kansas history, with lesson plans.

See Mental measurements yearbook, with Tests in print.

See: Sixties, primary documents and personal narratives 1960-1974.

The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae is a database created at the University of California, Irvine. Founded in 1972, the TLG has collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek from Homer to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. Its goal is to create a comprehensive digital library of Greek literature from antiquity to the present era.

Full-text and full-image articles from the Times of London for the years 1785-2006. It is a digital reproduction, cover to cover, of the paper in PDF files. To search Times Digital Archive, Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, and Sunday Times Digital Archive together, please click here.

Enables users to full-text search every page of every issue of the TLS from 1902 to 5 years ago, discovering a wealth of material in 300,000 book reviews, film reviews, play reviews and more. To search Times Digital Archive, Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, and Sunday Times Digital Archive together, please click here.

Contains full text for articles from diverse sources exploring current events in social, political & economic issues.

This database contains nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978. The collection is derived from two essential reference sources. For the period 1832 (when printed Court records began) through 1915, the documents are based primarily on the holdings of the Jenkins Memorial Law Library, America's first law library, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For 1915-1978 the source is the Library of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, a nationally recognized research facility and the single largest member supported law library in the United States.

Ukrainian Publications (UDB-UKR) includes publications in Russian, Ukrainian, and English. They cover a broad range of political, economic, and cultural affairs of Ukraine. Topics include Ukraine's progress along the reform path, the view and positions of various political forces, changes in legislation, ethnic relations, and organizational trends in development of the armed forces. The database also includes news wire reports and other products of Ukrainian news agencies. An integral and unique part of this database is the Ukrainian Book Chamber's editions, which list everything published in Ukraine with detailed bibliographic description. It is the world's first database of newspapers and magazines of Ukraine.

Ulrichsweb is a bibliographic database providing detailed information on print and electronic serials published throughout the world in all subjects. It includes publications that are published regularly or irregularly, open access or by paid subscription. Ulrichs includes daily and weekly newspapers, as well as serial cessations since 1979.

A portal that retrieves data series from the United Nations System and other international organizations. Sources include FAO, ILO, WHO, and the Human Development Report. Country profiles and glossaries are also provided.

Database of texts from the bound, sequentially numbered volumes of all the reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Texts constitute a rich source of primary source material, including maps, on all aspects of American history. Upon completion, the digital version of the Serial set will consist of over 12 million pages. Database searchable by subject, publication category, standing committee author, and other parameters. If you want to search the maps serial set directly, please click here.

The Value Line Research Center includes on-line access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks. This service includes full subscriptions to: The Value Line Investment Survey; The Value Line Investment Survey - Small and Mid-Cap Edition; The Value Line Mutual Fund Survey; The Value Line Daily Options Survey; The Value Line Special Situations Service; The Value Line Convertibles Survey; and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). In addition, please note the Historical Report Lookup function can access previous Selection & Opinion and both Standard and Expanded Summary & Index reports by symbol or Issue for the period January 1997 to the present.

See: Alexander Street video.

This resource describes popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930 and will be of interest to students of English, History, Drama and Cultural Studies. The KU Libraries’ subscription includes Sensation, Magic & Spiritualism which leads to rare printed sources from the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature, University of London, and the history of magic scrapbooks from the Houdini Collection with related material from the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.

Provides full text coverage for more than 330 trade and industry related periodicals.

The Vogue Archive contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition) from 1892 to the present day. Vogue is a unique record of American and international popular culture that extends beyond fashion.

The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news. Coverage extends from 1984 to 24 hours ago.

The Wall Street Journal is the definitive source of business news, with in-depth financial analysis and insightful business profiles. Dates of coverage: 1889 to 17 years ago.

Includes all the articles published since the first issue of the paper in 1877 up to 16 years ago. Provides full text and full image articles with digital reproductions of every page, every article and every issue in PDF format. In addition to news stories, includes editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, photos, and advertisements.

See: World development indicators & Global development finance

Indexes and abstracts citations in research journals across the disciplinary spectrum. Online version of: Arts and humanities citation index (1975-present); Science citation index (1900-present); and Social sciences citation index (1956-present).

Includes the records of books and journals held in university libraries throughout Japan.

Currently Siku Quanshu is only available on campus, or with a KU IP address (beginning with 129.237). Siku Quanshu is the largest Chinese encyclopedia, compiled during the Qing dynasty (1773-1782) under Emperor Qianlong. This full-text and full image version of the Wenyuange edition, produced and developed by Digital Heritage Publishing Ltd., Hong Kong, contains 3460 titles in over 4000 volumes with more than 800 million characters. To access to Siku Quanshu you must first download the Siku Quanshu Client Reader (Siku Reader). Note: this database can only be properly viewed by Internet Explorer. When using other browsers such as Firefox or Chrome, some of the Chinese characters may not be displayed correctly.

See Marquis biographies online.

Who's Who is published annually and contains short, biographical information on over 33,000 people. It was first published in 1849 and is recognized world-wide as a key source of information on influential people, and people who are leaders in their field. Who Was Who contains the entries from all the previous annual publications, for those who have died. Restricted to 1 simultaneous user.

Provides citation access to books and journals published by Wiley in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Full-text content is available to most of the journal titles 1997 to the present.

See: OmniFile full text select.

Brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities, organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. This full-text resource also provides learning modules in the form of document projects, each of which is organized around a specific question about a single social movement.

This resource is a product of Brown University's Women Writers Project, a long term project devoted to making the texts of pre-Victorian writers available online. Includes the texts in the Renaissance Women Online site.

Portal for the World Bank Development Data Development Group that coordinates statistical and data work and maintains a number of macro, financial and sector databases. Topics include: agriculture, environment, financial sector, health, poverty, and many more. For additional World Bank resources, please click here.

The World Development Indicators (WDI) and Global Development Finance (GDF) provide a comprehensive selection of economic, social and environmental indicators, drawing on data from the World Bank and more than 30 partner agencies. The database covers more than 900 indicators for 210 economies with data back to 1960. It is also the sole repository for statistics on the external debt of developing countries derived from loan-by-loan records. For additional World Bank resources, please click here.

This online collection of streaming video will give faculty, students, and history lovers access to more than 1,750 important, critically acclaimed documentaries from filmmakers worldwide. World History in Video is truly global in scope, covering Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania. To search American History in Video and World History in Video together, please click here.

Provides timely and pertinent open-source material from non-U.S. media sources. Material provided to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) by analysts from the Open Source Center's (OSC) domestic and overseas bureaus. Successor to the daily reports from the Foreign Broadcasting Information Service (FBIS) and reports from the Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) . Content focuses primarily on military, political, environmental, scientific, technical, and socioeconomic issues and is compiled from non-U.S. media sources. WNC is the only news service that allows you to take advantage of the intelligence gathering experience of OSC.

World Newspaper Archive is the largest fully searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the globe--and includes historical newspapers published in Africa, Latin America, Slavic and East Europe, South Asia and other regions. Providing exact digital replicas of newspapers published in English and a variety of other languages, the World Newspaper Archive chronicles the history and politics of diverse peoples and cultures during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Initially the World Newspaper Archive will focus on news from Latin America and the Caribbean, but will eventually encompass the news output of other major regions, including Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Eastern and Central Europe.

A directory and reference to academic institutions and associated staff across the globe. Includes universities and colleges as well as details on international cultural, scientific, and educational organizations. (Restricted to 1 simultaneous user.)

Combines historical and contemporary reference and archival materials with current events. It provides primary sources, academic journals, news feeds, reference articles, maps, statistics, etc. Subjects include: area studies, history, political science, international relations, anthropology, sociology, economics, environmental studies, cultural studies, literature, music, the arts and religion.

Includes annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare. The goal is to add material published or produced since 1900. Each year, coverage will move forward one year and backwards at least three years. Access to this database is provided by KU Libraries through a private gift from Kirk and Jeannie McClure.

World Who's Who brings together current and hard-to-find biographical information on almost 60,000 of the most gifted, famous and influential men and women in all fields.

Includes millions of records describing items owned by OCLC member libraries, including the KU Libraries.

Abstracts and indexes journals in political science, international relations, law, public administration and policy, including the merged backfile of Political Science Abstracts and ABC POL SCI. Some full-text linking. Coverage 1975 - .

The National Yiddish Book Center offers online access to the full texts of nearly 11,000 out-of-print Yiddish titles. You can browse, read, download or print any or all of these books, free of charge. These titles were scanned under the auspices of the Steven Spielberg Digital Yiddish Library, and have been made available online through the Internet Archive.

Index database for Japanese magazines and scholarly journals published from the Meiji era to the present. Pre-1945 records include publications in former colonial areas of Japan. (Restricted to 32 simultaneous users (shared with Japanese Studies consortium)).

Indexes and abstracts journals, monographs, books and reports in all major areas of zoology.

19th Century U.S. Newspapers provides access to approximately 1.7 million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. The collection encompasses the entire 19th century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and Antebellum-era life among other subjects.

Indexes 19th century newspapers, periodicals, books, and government documents; some full-text. Contains Poole's Index to Periodical Literature.