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Index of basic journals across the disciplines and general interest magazines. Includes full text for many publications.

"Full text of every article ever published by ACM and bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing."

The premier index for agricultural literature. Produced by the National Agricultural Library.

Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada. Subjects include area studies, folklore, government, historiography, political science, popular culture, and urban history.

Collection of primary sources relating to the history and culture of the United States from the Library of Congress.

Digitized images from American magazines and journals that originated between 1741 and 1900. Includes general interest magazines, children's publications, women's magazines, and literary and professional journals.

Abstracts of literature on analytical chemistry from journals, technical reports, and books. From the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Index of books, articles, and other publications on literature in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. Covers more British publications than MLA International Bibliography. Includes links to some full text. From the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA).

Index of journal articles and essays in the fields of anthropology and archaeology. A combination of the Royal Anthropological Institute's Anthropological Index and Harvard University's Anthropological Literature.

Indexes core periodicals in engineering and other technical fields.

Database for locating archival materials (manuscripts, personal papers, historical documents) available at libraries, museums, and archives.

Index of journals, magazines, and other publications covering art, architecture, archaeology, and related fields. Coverage dates vary. Earliest indexing goes back to 1914; earliest full text back to 1930; majority of coverage begins in 1980s.

Tool that allows you to see if the full-text of an article is available in the Lafayette Libraries' print or electronic collections. Use when you already have a reference to an article.

Searchable image collection covering the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences. Includes access to the Archivision collections and Lafayette's own collection of images. Capabilities include: user-created image groups that can be easily shared with others, export to Powerpoint and OIV (Offline Image Viewer) presentation tools, image citation export, and mobile device accessibility.

Full-text of journals and conference proceedings from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Journal coverage goes back to 1995; conference proceedings to 1999. For an index of ASCE publications back to 1970 use the ASCE CE Database.

Indexes general-interest and scholarly articles, book reviews, book chapters, and theses relating to religious concepts. Emphasis is on Christianity.

Index of Western-language publications on topics relating to Asia.

Database of peer-reviewed research articles in biology and medicine.

Scholarly encyclopedia covering all aspects of the Hindu tradition.

Digital library containing some of the core primary and secondary sources for the study of medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Includes government documents, most notably the domestic Calendar of State Papers for 1547-1704 and the foreign Calendar of State Papers for 1547-1589.

Digital collection of early English news media from the 17th and 18th centuries. Includes pamphlets, broadsides, periodicals, and an extensive collection of London newspapers.

A guide to styles for writing, editing, and publishing.

Brief reviews of books and electronic resources for academic libraries. Also includes all editorial content from Choice magazine.

A combination of two databases indexing articles from Latin American journals. Clase covers humanities and social science journals from 1975 to the present; indexing is in Spanish only. Periódica covers science and technology journals from 1978 to the present; indexing is in English and Spanish.

Index of papers from conferences, meetings, symposia, etc. in the sciences and social sciences. Includes a feature allowing you to search for publications that cite a known paper.

Legislative information and analysis of "key votes" in the U.S. Congress. Biographical, political, and electoral data about members of Congress, plus information and data on the structure of the legislative branch.

Summaries and analysis of major U.S. Supreme Court decisions with links to full text of cases. Also includes biographies of justices plus tools for analyzing voting records and opinion alignments.

News and analysis of the U.S. Congress. Includes status of major legislation and a record of votes.

Biographical information on the men and women who shaped Africa's history from earliest times to the present.

Online edition of Huguet's dictionary of Renaissance French.

An online edition of four directories: Directory of poetry publishers, Directory of small press/magazine editors & publishers, International directory of little magazines & small presses, and Small press record of books in print.

Searchable, cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of U.S. historic newspapers. The publisher's web site includes a description of some of the key titles within this database.

The East Asia Image Collection is an open-access archive of digitized photographs, negatives, postcards, and slides of imperial Japan (1868-1945), its Asian empire (1895-1945) and occupied Japan (1947-52). Images of Taiwan, Japan, China, Korea, Manchuria, and Indonesia are included.

Indexes articles in more than 600 economics journals as well as working papers, books, and dissertations.

List of electronic journals available via the Lafayette College Libraries. This information is also available in the Library Catalog.

Encyclopedia covering Christianity through its 2000-year history within a global context. Originally published 1999-2005.

Database covering the journal literature of environmental sciences, including applicable areas of ecology, energy, geography, pollution & waste management, law, public policy, and urban planning.

The most comprehensive index to books, articles, conference papers, posters, pamphlets, etc. in the field of education.

Collection of ethnographic films for the study of human culture and behavior. "Covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century."

Up-to-date profiles of countries of the world. Includes political histories, economic statistics, and directory-style information on politics, media, and business. A "comparative statistics" section can be used to generate tables of comparative data on countries in formats suitable for exporting into Excel or SPSS.

Index of journal articles and books on film and media studies. Includes some full text.

Bibliothèque nationale de France digital library of texts and images from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century. Although the emphasis is on Francophone culture, classic works from other countries are also available, in their original language or in translation. Choose the Recherche button to search the collection by title, author, subject or keyword.

Indexes the literature of geology, including journals, books, conference proceedings, maps, and USGS reports.

Index of U.S. government documents published by the Government Printing Office.

Database of scholarly, governmental, and general-interest articles and books covering all aspects of human impact on the environment.

A searchable annotated bibliography of articles, books and reports on Latin America. Produced by the Library of Congress.

Digital repository of books and other materials from research libraries across the country. Full text of works in the public domain can be searched and viewed. The full text of works still in copyright can be searched but not be viewed.

Digitized collection of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes many titles published bilingually in Spanish and English.

Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations on the history of the world, except the United States and Canada. Subjects include diplomatic history, economics, international relations, and political science.

Profiles of public and private companies in the U.S. and other countries. Also includes financial and corporate directory information, business news, and stock quotes.

Social science datasets available for download and analysis in statistical software. Datasets are made available through the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. Note: ICPSR data downloads from off-campus are currently not possible. If you would like to access ICPSR from off-campus for searching only, use this link instead of the one above.

Index to law journals and other legal periodicals published from 1908-1981. (For access to more recent legal periodicals use LexisNexis Academic.)

Full text of journals published by the Institute of Physics. Includes current issues, a ten-year backfile, and an archive with older issues.

Time series data on the financial and monetary conditions of countries around the world. From the International Monetary Fund.

Audio collection covering all types of jazz.

Handbook describing the chemical and engineering principles underlying the chemical process industry; chapters cover specific segments of the industry.

Searchable full-text database of Lafayette's college newspaper.

Database of books, periodicals, films, and other materials in Skillman and Kirby Libraries.

Full text of newspapers, business and popular magazines, law reviews and legislative sources.

Searchable archive of literary texts and complementary reference resources.

Electronic edition of The Times of London.

The premier index to medical literature for health researchers and professionals. Subject searchers may wish to consult the directory of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), available at the National Library of Medicine's website. A free search interface for MEDLINE, PubMed, with links to select full-text articles is also available.

Collection of 50- to 100-page electronic books that synthesize a research or development topic in engineering or related disciplines. Lafayette users have access to all titles in the General Engerineering, Technology, and Mathematics Collection One and Collection Two.

Interface for simultaneously searching four of Skillman's music listening databases: American Song, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, and Jazz Music Library.

Searchable, full-text database of working papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Scholarly encyclopedia articles covering all aspects of economics.

Full image contents of The New York Times. Note that this version of the text is not searchable; you must already know the date of the issue you wish to see.

Extensive macroeconomic time series data for OECD countries and non-OECD zones. Includes historical statistics as well as projections extending two years beyond the current date.

Searchable version of the Oxford English Dictionary, which traces the origins and usage of English words.

Authoritative reference works on art, including Grove Art Online and Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Also includes images of major works important to the study of art history as well as artists' signatures and monograms.

Collection of works on Islam and the Islamic world. Includes scholarly encyclopedia articles, Qur'anic materials, and primary sources.

Authoritative reference works on music, including Grove Music Online.

Index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.

Index of books and journals in philosophy and related fields. Includes records for book reviews.

Index of journal articles, books, and conference papers in political science and related fields. Includes a substantial amount of full text.

Searchable collection of full-text articles from journals published by academic and scholarly presses.

Database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group.

Database of psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive information about the test and its development and administration.

Database of biomedical and life sciences journal articles. From the National Institutes of Health.

Web-based application that enables you to create a database of bibliographic references and automatically format the references into a bibliography. References can be imported from many online databases.

Rock reviews, articles and interviews from the 1960s to the present.

Maps of towns or cities in Pennsylvania originally created for use by fire insurance companies. Maps are drawn to a scale of 50 feet to an inch, list street blocks and building numbers, and are coded for building materials used. Digitized color versions of some of the Pennsylvania maps are available from Penn State's map library.

Electronic version of Chemical Abstracts, an index of articles, patents, technical reports, and other materials covering chemistry, biochemistry, and chemical engineering. Includes feature that allows users to search by drawing chemical structures.

Music from the Smithsonian Folkways collection and from other music archives around the world. Strong in American folk and other "roots" music. Includes spoken word recordings, such as poets reading their works.

Indexes journal articles, books, and conference papers in sociology. Includes a substantial amount of full text.

Collection of scientific, technical, and medical journals and books published by Springer. Lafayette users have access to the full text of journals in this collection from 1997 to the present and the full text of books from 2005 through 2012.

Collection of historical and current state-level data covering health care, crime, education and more.

Index and full text of the Times Literary Supplement (London), an important source of reviews of books, plays, and films.

References to books, technical reports, conference proceedings, journal articles and on-going research in the field of transportation. Combines information from the national Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD's International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database.

Contains information on currently published as well as discontinued periodicals. Includes searchable tables of contents for over 24,000 academic journals, plus reviews of periodicals from Magazines for Libraries and Library Journal.

Full image contents of The Wall Street Journal. Note that this version of the text is not searchable; you must already know the date of the issue you wish to see.

Directory and profiles of 100,000 U.S. companies. Can be searched by total sales, location, NAICS code, and more.

Index covering the journal literature of science, technology, and the social sciences. Allows you to search for a topic, an author, or for articles that cite a known author or work. (Help using Web of Science for cited reference searching)

Reference work with detailed articles on electrical and electronics engineering.

Full-text editions of texts by English and American women published between 1400 and 1850.

Country-level, time series data from the World Bank. Topics covered include demographics, the economy, the environment, health, and education. Data may be saved as Excel or ASCII files.

Searchable bibliography with annotated entries for books, articles, reviews, and other materials related to Shakespeare.