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.

Academic Search Premier (ASP) contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. Academic Search Premier contains unmatched full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, education, English literature, etc.

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 1 simultaneous user.)

See AP images.

A collection of major scholarly books from all areas of history, including online versions of printed works as well as original electronic publications. Formerly issued as: History e-book project.

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.

The Advertising Red Books provide 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.)

Provides bibliographic coverage of basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, and space sciences; also covers technology development and applications in supporting fields such as chemistry, geosciences, physics, communications, and electronics. Includes journal literature, reports issued by NASA and other U.S. government agencies, international institutions, universities, and private firms.

A free online source that includes two databases: Africa Women's Bibliographic Database and African 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.

See: American Song.

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. Click on the 'Library' tab, then place the cursor over "catalogue search' and choose 'English.: This will bring up a search screen with multiple field search capability.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

see Literature Online.

American Song is a history database containing almost 60,000 tracks that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past.The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. Content from African American Music is now a part of American Song. (Restricted to 3 simultaneous users.) If you wish to search American Song along with Classical Music Library and Classical Scores Library, search Music 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.

Contains abstracts of papers relevant to animal behavior, with subjects ranging from neurophysiology to behavioral ecology, from genetics to applied ethology.

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.

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.)

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

Contains over 10,000 works of art and architecture. Some works have one image, others have more, usually showing different views (e.g., of a sculpture or a building) or one or more details.

Comprehensive indexing of 377 art, architecture, urban planning & design publications, including English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, and Swedish. Art Index also references paintings that appear as illustrations for articles or advertisements, listing the works under the artists' names with full bibliographic citations. Can be combined with Art Index Retrospective to extend coverage to 1929. (Restricted to 4 simultaneous users.)

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 Index extends coverage to the present. (Restricted to 4 simultaneous users.)

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.

Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of more than 13,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Offers the full text of some articles.

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

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

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.

Access includes a basic subscription to active standards and to the Digital Library which provides full text access to symposia papers and to special technical publications.

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

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. Researchers, bibliographers and librarians, working around the country, gather information about Australian writers and writing, providing authoritative information on and facilitating access to Australian literature.

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 CSA platform allows a quick search, advanced search, and federated searching with other CSA databases.

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.

Provides citations to western-language periodical articles, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, Festschriften, etc. pertaining to east, southeast, and south Asia. It encompasses the full content of the annual printed volumes of the BAS from the 1971 to the 1991 editions. In addition, there are many references to publications after 1991, including citations to all articles from the 100 most-used journals in Asian studies and a substantial number from earlier years in South Asian studies.

The most comprehensive art bibliography available, covering Western art from late antiquity to the present. This database indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs, and articles from over 4,800 periodicals. The citations encompass fine arts-painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, architecture-as well as decorative and applied arts-crafts, graphic arts, and folk and popular art. The database includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: Rpertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie (RAA) from 1973 to 1989 and International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RIBA) from 1975 to 1989. Records feature detailed abstracts in English or French. Special subject indexing covers persons, places, institutions, buildings, works of art, and topical subjects, with most subject terms in both English and French.

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.

Indexes biographical articles from periodicals and books, including autobiographies, bibliographies, biographies, critical studies, fiction and drama, pictorial works, poetry, juvenile literature, obituaries, journals, collections of letters, book reviews and interviews. (Restricted to 4 simultaneous users.)

This resource contains biographical entries on more than 380,000 individuals. Much of the information is from Gale resources such as Contemporary Authors and Encyclopedia of World Biography. Entries in Biographical Resource center are updated often so it is not only authoritative, but current.

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.

Available via the Wiley InterScience Journals platform.

Indexes and abstracts reviews of English language adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction titles. Reviews are selected from journals in the humanities, sciences, social sciences and library review media. Includes only reviews that have appeared within 18 months of the book's publication. (Restricted to 4 simultaneous users.)

Books in Print provides bibliographic information on over 5 million in-print, out-of-print (since 1979), and forthcoming book, audio, and video titles and features over 30,000 full-text previews, 140,000 tables of contents, and over 700,000 reviews of titles by over 200,000 publishers. It is the only complete record of in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books published or distributed in the U.S.

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.

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

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.

This database provides full text from more than 7,400 scholarly business journals (over 1,100 are peer-reviewed) and periodicals covering management economics, finance, accounting, international business and more. Business Source Premier contains full text from the world's top business journals and is particularly strong in both management and marketing, including Harvard Business Review and California Management Review. The database also holds country economic reports from the EIU, DRI-WEFA, ICON Group and CountryWatch. Business Source Premier contains expanded indexing and abstract backfiles for 300 top scholarly business journals dating back to 1965, or the first issue published (whichever is more recent). Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports from Datamonitor, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

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. The databases include current issues (1994- ) as well as archives of back issues of journals in the Century journal project, first phase (CJP). 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 see a list of titles included, 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) or with the CAJ Viewer (please click here.)

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.

Provides access to legal news and current awareness; state and federal statutes, regulations, and cases; explanations, treatises, and guidebooks; practice tools; and indexes for Health Care, Human Resources, Labor and Employment, Business, Accounting, Tax, and Financial Services law. Users can set individualized preferences, sign up for email newsletter alerts, and save search results from session to session. A login and password must be created to access this site. The resource is available through arrangement with Wheat Law Library and the School of Business.

Contains citations and abstracts to ASCE journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newsletter.

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, electronic books and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central and Eastern Europe.

See the individual products contained in ChemNetBase: Properties of organic compounds, and CRC Handbook of chemistry and physics.

Provides citations and abstracts relating to the neurobiology, chemistry, and physiology of taste, smell, internal chemoreception, and chemotaxis, including signal transduction, receptors, channels and neurogenetics; also practical areas as standardization and legislative aspects, apparatus and methodology, new products, patents, and marketing. Major areas of subject coverage include animal behavior studies, aroma studies of food, chemistry of odorous materials, chemosensory aspects of food, chemotaxis, human physiology and pathology, molecular structure and taste qualities, pest control, pheromone application, standardization and legislative aspects, taste perception and aversion learning.

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.

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.

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 for 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.

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, distance education, as well as regularly updated databases of grant opportunities, job announcements, and links to Internet resources for higher education. The full text of the current issue of The Chronicle is available every Monday morning, following the Friday print publication. The current issue and the archive are both fully searchable, and the site also features an archive of more than 12 years of The Chronicle.

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.

Combines CLASE (Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades), which indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities (over 1,200 sources) and PERIODICA, which covers journals specializing in science and technology (over 1,400 sources).

Classical Music Library allows users to listen to 50,000+ tracks of classical music. A reference section is freely accessible and contains detailed information on hundreds of classical music composers. Also includes images, samples of music, information on historical periods and a beginner's guide. (Restricted to 6 simultaneous users.) If you wish to search Classical Music Library along with African American Song and Classical Scores Library, please click here.

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. If you wish to search Classical Scores Library along with African American Song and Classical Music Library, please click here.

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.

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.

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols is a definitive, interactive source of new and classic research techniques and methodologies in molecular and cellular biology. Its coverage includes cell and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, protein science, and imaging. Research protocols presented are continuously expanded, updated, and annotated by the originators and users of the techniques.

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.

Coverage includes not only communication literature but also literature in other disciplines that is relevant to communication researchers. Communication Abstracts Online also covers the international literature in film studies, the role of technology in human communications, risk communication, crisis communication, and public opinions. Coverage is from 1977 to present.

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.

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.)

A collection of selected monographs with expired copyrights chosen from the mathematics field. These were monographs that were brittle and decaying and in need of rescue. Also known as: Cornell Digital Library math collection.

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 1 simultaneous user.) Please click on LOGOUT when done searching.

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.

Provides information on the institutions of U.S. government including the presidency, Supreme Court, Congress, and elections from the American Revolution to the present.

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.

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.

See: Worldwide political science abstracts.

Current Digest of the Post-Soviet 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.

Database of over 150 newspapers primarily from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Korea and Australia. If you wish to power search Custom Newspapers along with General OneFile and Academic OneFile, please click here.

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.)

Serves as a retrospective complement to Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI), covering design journals and yearbooks published between 1900 and 1987. The project is ongoing, with journals being indexed in their entirety from first issue, on a title-by-title basis. When complete, the index will cover at least 68 titles.

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.

Consists of more than 11,000 profiles of designers, architects, craftspeople, photographers, studios and other institutions. The largest and most comprehensive dictionary of design and designers available, and the publishers expect to add a further 5,000 profiles per year.

Contains the most comprehensive collection of primary documents available. The database includes more than 43,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions.

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. Previously known as Current research @ University of Kansas.

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. Early American Imprints, Series I is comprised of a vast range of publications, including advertisements, almanacs, bibles, broadsides, catalogs, charters and by-laws, contracts, cookbooks, elegies, eulogies, laws, maps, narratives, novels, operas, pamphlets, plays, poems, primers, sermons, songs, speeches, textbooks, tracts, travelogues, treaties and more.

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. Researchers can find primary sources on westward expansion, the development of American arts (literature, music, painting, etc.), the progression of American political thought and much more. In addition to books, broadsides and pamphlets, the collection includes published reports and the works of many European authors reprinted for the American public. Additionally, a large number of state papers and early government materials (including presidential letters and congressional, state and territorial resolutions) chronicle the political and geographic growth of the developing American nation.

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.

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.

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.)

Indexes publications covering every age and sector of the educational community from preschool through college. Includes the journal literature, yearbooks, selected series, supplements and book review citations. (Restricted to 4 simultaneous users.)

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) comprises over 150,000 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. It has full-text search capabilities across all 26 million pages.

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.

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 Encyclopedia of Islam Online 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.

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.

Allows simultaneous searching of more than 20 life sciences sequencing, full-text, and abstracts databases.

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.

See: Environment index.

Ergonomics Abstracts, an international abstracting service spanning the world of ergonomics and human factors, covers the literature of mainstream ergonomics as well as related material from psychology, physiology, biomechanics, job design, human-computer interaction, safety science, human engineering, medicine, occupational health, sport and transport. Includes over 119,500 records dating from 1997-present.

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.

Cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and other works published in the United States, Great Britain and Canada. Focuses on humanities and social sciences literature. (Restricted to 4 simultaneous users.)

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

Provides full text access to articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in America from 1959 to 1989.

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.

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

Provides 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. Includes current full text access to Wall Street Journal. (Restricted to 6 simultaneous users.)

Faculty of 1000 Biology provides research scientists with a continuously updated guide to the most important papers within a specified biological field. This awareness tool highlights papers on the basis of their scientific merit rather than the journal in which they appear. Merit determination is based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 1000 selected leading researchers.

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.

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.

Library of Russian Literature and Folklore was instituted in 1995 by the Gorky Institute of World Literature and the Informregister Center at the Russian Ministry for Communications, and has been online since July 2002. FEB-web is a repository of Russian verbal art and the scholarly and other texts vital to understanding it. FEB-web makes the canon of Russian verbal art available free of charge to anyone with internet access. FEB-web is also a unique analytical tool with functional capabilities that allow researchers to approach Russian verbal art in a fundamentally new way.

Gale Virtual Reference Library provides a platform for searching Gale reference titles simultaneously. Individual reference titles included are: College blue book (32nd ed.); Encyclopedia of aging; Encyclopedia of bioethics; Gale encyclopedia of science (3rd ed.); Scholarships, fellowships, and loans (21st ed.); World Press encyclopedia; Beacham's guide to the endangered species of North America); Biology (1st edition); Encyclopedia of popular culture; Gale encyclopedia of alternative medicine; Gale encyclopedia of cancer; Gale encyclopedia of genetic disorders, Gale encyclopedia of medicine, Gale encyclopedia of multicultural America (2nd ed.); Encyclopedia of small business (2nd ed.); Gale encyclopedia of U.S. economic history; Encyclopedia of survey research methods; Encyclopedia of major marketing campaigns; and, World of earth science. Additional titles may be added in the future.

An integrated resource that incorporates Gale's general reference databases: Directories in Print; Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers; Encyclopedia of American Religions; Encyclopedia of Associations; National Organizations of the U.S.; Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory Organizations; Gale Directory of Databases; Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media; Newsletters in Print; Publishers Directory; Research Centers Directory; International Research Centers Directory; and Government Research Centers Directory. Users can access entries for associations, research centers, publishers, publications (ranging from newspapers and newsletters to periodicals and directories), databases, television and radio stations.

Gartner, Inc., provides this online resource focused on research and analysis of the global information technology industry. The database includes reports, analyses, overviews, trends, best practices, and other information on existing and emerging information technologies. This site is restricted to KU users and is currently accessed through the Kyou Portal. Once in the portal, click on "Services" at the top followed by "Technology Resources." Gartner will be listed on this screen. Most of the content is available for viewing but some restrictions apply.

GDF is the electronic version of the World Bank's statistical directory of developmental country finance. It provides current data on the debt and financial flows for the 138 countries that report public and publically-guaranteed debt to the World Bank's debtor reporting system. Focus is on country investment data as well as the credit valuation of a country, necessary to assess investment prospects.

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".

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.

Provides indexing and abstracts to the journal literature, books, conference proceedings and reports on geography, geology, ecology, and related disciplines.

Indexes and abstracts the world's literature in geology and the geosciences. GeoRef covers the geology of North America since 1785 and the geology of the rest of the world since 1933. Indexes journals, books, maps, reports, most U.S. Geological Survey publications, and U.S. and Canadian master's theses and doctoral dissertations. A database of the American Geological Institute.

Full text of association and society journals in geology and related geosciences beginning with the year 2000. The journals may be searched individually or in sets of particular interest, and the GeoRef database may also be included in a search if desired.

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.

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 Archive Search searches across a large collection of historical archives of major newspapers, magazines, news archives and legal archives. Results include both content that accessible to all users (such as BBC News, Time Magazine and Guardian) and content that requires a fee (such as Washington Post Archives, Newspaper Archive, and New York Times Archives). Some of these resources are available through KU's Articles and Databases website.

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.

Source is no longer available from OCLC. Please access Catalog.of U.S. government publications (CGP).

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).

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.

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.

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

The History Cooperative web site provides access to approximately twenty scholarly history ejournals, as well as other historical resources. History Cooperative is sponsored by the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the University of Illinois Press, and National Academies Press. Please note that the KU Libraries may not necessarily have access to all History Cooperative journals.

See the later title: ACLS humanities e-book.

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. The HSDL is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security. Restricted access to the KU community and walk-in users provided through an official partnership agreement with HSDL and GPO.

See eHRAF world cultures

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.

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.

See General OneFile.

Due to budget constraints, dwindling usage, and recent information from the vendor the KU Libraries have decided to cancel its subscription to Ingenta Table of Contents/Keyword Alerts. For help on finding alternative sources for alerts, please click here, or to consult your KU Libraries subject librarian, please click here.

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 (TRDC) at Brooklyn College 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 in 126 countries. 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, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more. Additional full text available includes more than 50 books & monographs such as Art and the Performance of Memory, Avant Garde Theatre, British Realist Theatre, Community Theatre, History of European Drama and Theatre, Learning Through Theatre, Opera, Performance Theory, Popular Theatres of Nineteenth Century France, Shakespeare, Theory and Performance, Sourcebook on Feminist Theatre and Performance, Theatre and the World, Twentieth-Century Actor Training, Who's Who in Contemporary World Theatre, World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre and many more.

Provides indexing, abstracts, and selected full-text from many periodicals, covering the scholarly to the popular. Full-text ranges from 1874 to the present. If you wish to search International Index to the Performing Arts along with International Index to Music Periodicals, please click here. (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. If you wish to search International Index to Music Periodicals along with International Index to the Performing Arts, please click here. (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.

International Tables for Crystallography is a definitive resource and reference work for crystallography. Each volume in the series contains articles and tables of data relevant to crystallographic research and to applications of crystallographic methods in all sciences concerned with the structure and properties of materials. Emphasis is given to symmetry, diffraction methods and techniques of crystal structure determination, and the physical and chemical properties of crystals. The data are accompanied by discussions of theory, practical explanations and examples. Volumes A-G are included. If using Internet Explorer as a browser, you must use IE 7.0 and higher.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ジャパンナレッジプラス 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. Enhanced data display provides more tools for analysis, including a display of key citation data and a graphical display of cited or citing journal data. 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-VII; 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.

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics (KWPL) is a regular publication of the Linguistics Graduate Student Association, Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 66045. KWPL is intended as a forum for the presentation, in print, of the latest original research by the faculty and students of the Department of Linguistics and other related departments at the University of Kansas.

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. The Historical Photo Archive which offers approx. The Historical Photo Archive, which offers approx. 10,000 photographs taken between the 1930s and 1945, is available to database subscribers gratis until March 2010.

The Kraus Curriculum Development Library is a fully searchable database that brings together in one place: Curricula, frameworks, and standards from all across the English-speaking world; lessons and learning activities; educational objectives; educational content; instructional strategies; evaluative techniques. You can search kcdlonline for specific curricula by subject, keywords, forms of educational content, grades covered, and geographic locale. You may also download PDF files of all curriculum documents from the 20th edition forward. Additionally, over 250 documents from previous editions (i.e., prior to the 20th) are now available in a PDF format.

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, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Puerto Rico and 11 Latin American countries, including Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil.

Contains records for the children's and general collections in the Learning Resource Center.

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.)

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.

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.

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 Power Tables Base Edition and to 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.

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, Handbook of Research with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Populations, Queer Theory & Social Change, 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, ONE, Tangents, Washington Blade, and many more. Additionally, LGBT Life with Full Text will soon contain all relevant data from NISC's Sexual Diversity Studies.

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

Indexes library and information science periodicals and selectively indexes state library journals, books, conference proceedings, theses, and pamphlets. (Restricted to 4 simultaneous users.)

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.

Database originates from the Jorge Luis Borges Collection and Documentation Center of the Fundación San Telmo, which contains the world's largest collection of materials related to Borges' life and works. The collection was begun in 1886 and includes manuscripts and letters, books, periodicals, photographs, audio and video recordings, newspaper and magazine clippings, and other objects and documents.

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 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.

LitFinder provides the opportunity for appreciation and study of great literary works by offering access to more than 135,000 full-text poems, stories, plays and more. As a complement to Gale's Literature Resource Center, LitFinder puts complete works--and additional information sources such as biographies, essays and explanations-- into the hands and minds of students and researchers for further study, evaluation and enjoyment.

Full text image-based searchable database of legal publications.

See Times (London, England)

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.

A Japanese language citation database that indexes journals, faculty papers and annual reports of academic institutions published in Japan. The resource combines two other databases, Zasshi Kiji Sakuin File and Journal Index. All subjects are covered. (Restricted to 1 simultaneous user.)

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.

"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.

Marquis Who's Who on the Web allows users to locate biographical information about more than one million individuals in more than 800 occupations using a single search and is updated daily. The database includes biographical data from the following Marquis Who's Who titles:. Who's who in America; Who's who in American politics; Who's Who in the East; Who's who in the world; Who's who in the Midwest; Who's who of American women; Who's who in the South and Southwest; Who's who in science and engineering; Who's who in the West; Who's who in American law; Who's who in the media and communications; Who's who in medicine and healthcare; Who's who in entertainment; Who's who in finance and business; Who's who in American education; Who's who in American nursing; Who's who in 20th century America; Who's who in religion; Who's who of emerging leaders in America; Who's who among human services professionals; Who's who in American history; Who's who in American art; and, Who was who in America.

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.

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. (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.

Provides access to the Foraminifera and Ostracoda databases. Reproduces the complete type descriptions for genus- and species-level taxa, including full-size reproduction of original figures and charts. Diagnoses in western European languages are given verbatim, while those in Russian, Chinese, and other non-western languages are translated by professional micropaleontologists. The stratigraphic level, locality and depository of the type material are given for each taxon, and bibliographic references and taxonomic terms are expanded and verified against the Ellis and Messina database.

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.

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. At the initial Mintel Academic Access screen, click "I agree." 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. To access the MLA Directory of Periodicals, please click here.

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 access the MLA Directory of Periodicals, please click here.

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.

The NCJRS: National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database is published by the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice's National Criminal Justice Reference Service, an information clearinghouse for people involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control. The NCJRS Abstracts Database contains summaries of over 174,000 U.S. and international publications, including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, audiovisual presentations, and unpublished research.

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.

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.

Contains a searchable collection of electronic books 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.)

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet. As the OED is a historical dictionary, its entry structure is very different from that of a dictionary of current English, in which only present-day senses are covered, and in which the most common meanings or senses are described ! first. 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. In a complex entry with many strands, the development over time can be seen in a structure with several "branches."

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.

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 in the Premium Collection. 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.

Indexes papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses, and symposia received by the British Library Document Supply Center.

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.

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

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.

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.

Indexes papers presented at worldwide meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses, and symposia received by the British Library Document Supply Center.

The Professional Development Collection provides a highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers. This collection offers information on everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice.

The Euclid Project hosts a growing aggregation of peer-reviewed journals in theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics published by small or society publishers. Full-text searching and reference linking are included.

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.

Online, searchable database which provides access to information on tens of thousands of commonly sought organic compounds, featuring physical data, spectral data, and structures. Helps identify unknown compounds and can be used to locate additional data and references for a known compound. (Restricted to 2 simultaneous users.)

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. This access point provides searchable access to the following papers: New York Times (1851 to 3 years ago), Washington Post (1877 to 16 years ago), Los Angeles Times (1881 -1986), Chicago Defender (1910-1975), Chicago Tribune (1849-1986), Wall Street Journal (1889 to 16 years ago), and Pittsburg Courier (1911-2002). These titles are also available individually on the A to Z database list.

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.

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, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. The journal literature spans 1887 to the present. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987-present. Produced by the American Psychological Association.

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.

Includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

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.

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.

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.

Research Insight contains financial, statistical, and market data for U.S. and Canadian corporations, banks, savings and loans, ADR's/ADS's, business segments, geographic areas, industry composites and indexes. Includes coverage of annual and quarterly income statements, balance sheets, cash flow and supplemental data on publicly held companies. Research Insight on the Web is updated on a daily basis and requires a special plugin to run through Excel. Please note that RI Web is only available on campus, or with a KU IP address, (beginning with 129.237).

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.

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. (Restricted to 1 simultaneous user.)

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. In keeping with the 1998 print set's tradition of first class editorial work and unparalleled breadth of subject matter, all new and revised entries are carefully integrated into the REP style and format and are connected to earlier material by the same kind and level of cross-referencing. (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 7 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.

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, information technology, and business 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).

Provides access to SAGE publications in business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine. Also includes four journal collections in communication studies, criminology, politics and international relations, and sociology.

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.

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 a limited number of these journal titles (around 25%) through KU subscriptions.

SciFinder Scholar is a downloadable client that provides access to CAplus, MedLine, CASREACT, and the Registry database from Chemical Abstracts Service. Includes journal articles, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, substance database and dissertations covered in Chemical Abstracts. Includes the substructure search module. SciFinder Scholar is available on several workstations in the Anschutz Library and Spahr Engineering Library reference areas. Please ask at a service desk in those libraries for the location of the workstations loaded with the SciFinder client. SciFinder can also be downloaded and installed on any networked PC or Macintosh computer located on campus, or that has a KU network address. For guides and tutorials, please click here. (Restricted to 6 simultaneous users.)

Scitopia is a search portal which provides the means to simultaneously search the entire electronic libraries of 21 leading science and technology societies as well as patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, European Patent Office, and Japan Patent Office. Societies included are Acoustical Society of America, American Geophysical Union, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Institute of Physics, American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, The Electrochemical Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Institute of Physics Publishing, International Union of Crystallography, Optical Society of America, The Royal Society, Society of Automotive Engineers, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, SPIE. Peer-reviewed journal content and technical conference papers, spanning 350 years of science and technology can be searched through the site.

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.

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

Provides tables and information on worldwide financial and economic statistics/indicators. Contains full-text content of the OECD monographs and reports, selected loose-leaf reference titles; selected periodicals; and the OECD and IEA statistical databases. Includes access to OECD Health Data and OECD Statistical Compendium. Produced by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

The SPIRES HEP database provides more than 500,000 high-energy physics related articles, including journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers and theses, comprehensively indexed by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron libraries since 1974. Where applicable each record links to the full text, related experiments, references of the paper, reaction data, and conference information.

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.)

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

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.

Provides the most recent economic, business, and international trade information produced by the U.S. Government and is a service of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.

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

TERMIUM is a trilingual data bank and a writing assistance tool that gives the precise English, French or Spanish equivalent to designate anything from a simple tool or a complex machine, to a disease or plant, association or committee. It is also a unilingual data bank that can be used to check the meaning of a specialized term or find the meaning of a term in a leading-edge field. It contains 3,900,000 terms and names, with definitions, contexts, examples of usage, observations and phraseological units.

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.

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. The database also provides a score index allowing users to identify the subcomponents being measured by each test. (Restricted to 8 simultaneous users.)

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 1785-1985. It is a digital reproduction, cover to cover, of the paper in PDF files.

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.--Publisher's web site.

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.

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory is a bibliographic database providing detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world. It covers all subjects, and includes publications that are published regularly or irregularly and are circulated free of charge or by paid subscription. Ulrich's was first published in 1932. Ulrich's includes over 7,000 daily and weekly U.S. newspapers and nearly 3,000 newspapers published outside of the U.S., as well as over 47,000 cessations since 1979. The database, updated weekly, also provides contact information for over 80,000 publishers worldwide.

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.

Provides electronic access to those journal titles for which the University of Kansas Libraries subscribes to in print.

A growing library of books selected from the University of Michigan mathematics collection that have been digitized to improve access and to preserve the content of these books. All of the books in this collection were published in the 19th or early 20th century.

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.

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 first set of materials added to the database deals with Sensation, Magic & Spiritualism, and includes rare printed sources from the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature at Senate House, University of London, and the history of magic scrapbooks from the Houdini Collection with related material from the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.

Public Life in Contemporary Argentina presents an extensive grassroots view of Argentina and the recent social and political changes that have taken place there. This database offers fast access to material on Argentine society and politics beginning with the year 1996 and running to the present. It includes multiple search capabilities that enable users to find information quickly. Material from formal organizations, participants in social movements, and reporting sources presents perspectives that challenge conventional wisdom and official interpretation released by Argentina's traditional power brokers. Users will be able to access the voices of citizens who are rarely heard. Neighborhood-level coverage, which includes major sections of the Federal Capital, provides valuable insight on contemporary Argentina and the transformation of Argentine society. The sources of information go beyond standard press coverage and government declarations to emphasize the words of participants in movements that are changing Argentina. The bulk of this information is from primary sources and currently 390 different social/political movements are included. It will also be extremely useful to those interested in how neighborhoods, political parties, social movements, and protest groups organize and operate.

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.

Contains information on federal government offices, regulatory agencies, congressional committees, judicial offices, public interest groups, nonprofits, international organizations, and state government offices in a fully integrated database. Provides verified and updated mailing addresses, phone and fax numbers, e-mail and Web site addresses, contact names, and descriptions for thousands of organizations.

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.

WDI provides current data on global social and economic conditions and developments, both on a national country level and aggregated on a global basis. Data includes over 200 indicators on 575 countries, with regional and income groups for more than 40 years where data is available.

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: You must use Internet Explorer as your browser (Mozilla Firefox will not work).

See Marquis who's who on the web.

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.

Provides full-text access to the journal titles published by Wiley in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Blackwell Synergy titles are now available on the Wiley platform.

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

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.

World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts is an online bibliographic and abstracts database of internationally published research on rural socioeconomic research. This database covers such diverse topics as agricultural policy and development, biotechnology and genetic resources, food policy, food industry, international trade, natural resource economics, and rural sociology.

The World Bank E-Library is a portal site providing web based access to the full text collection of World Bank publications, including serials, books, and other documents.

Includes all articles from the print encyclopedia, a searchable dictionary and atlas. The online edition also features maps, pictures, sounds, and videos.

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.)

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.

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. (Restricted to 25 simultaneous users.)

Comprises financial information on the world's largest companies. Coverage includes industrials, utilities, transportation, banks, insurance, and others. Produced by Thomson Financial.

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 - .

This resource is a collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography, American Fiction, 1851-1875. The online collection attempts to include every novel published in the U.S. from 1851-1875.

Primary reference work of the United Nations. It contains overviews of the UN's activities and texts of major resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, and the Economic and Social Council. Index and references to UN documents included.

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.

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

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

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.