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ABI INFORM (1971-present)
Description: Indexes and abstracts U.S. and “international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines” providing coverage of business and management practices. Subjects include accounting, advertising, banking, economics, finance, international trade and foreign investment, taxation and others.
Abstracts in Anthropology (1998-present)
Description: The electronic version of this standard reference tool covers all fields of anthropological scholarship including the subfields of cultural and physical anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics.
Academic OneFile (1980-present)
Description: Indexes nearly 11,000 academic journals that cover the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature, and other subjects.
Academic Search Premier (coverage varies)
Description: A multi-disciplinary database that offers indexing and abstracts for 7,100 journals and includes "full text for more than 4,500 scholarly publications." Fields of research include: the "social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more."
AccessScience (Boston Public Library)
Description: Full-text access to the "combined content of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 9th Edition and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th Edition."
To access Boston Public Library resources,
users must register for a free BPL eCard. |
AccuNet/AP Multimedia (Boston Public Library)
Description: "An electronic library containing over 750,000 Associated Press images mostly made since 1995, though some dating to the 1840s, featuring International and Euro/Asian photo archives."
To access Boston Public Library resources,
users must register for a free BPL eCard. |
ACLS Humanities E-Books (Full Text)
Description: Produced by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the ACLS Humanities E-books Project provides full-text access to “nearly 1,400 titles” and is “a collaboration of eight learned societies, nearly 75 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan ’s Scholarly Publishing Office.”
ACM Digital Library (free online)
Description: Paragraph-sized summaries and article information from the publications of the Association for Computing Machinery, the leading organization in computing.
Ad* Access (free online)
Description: "An image database of over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Covering five categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II - Brief histories of the industries and timelines of world and national events help put the ads in the context of their times." Provided by Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
Africa Focus (free online)
Description: A collection of "more than 3000 slides, 500 photographs, and 50 hours of sound from forty-five different [African] countries" The contents of this site are contributed by the African Studies Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and maintained by the University Libraries.
African American Song (Boston Public Library)
Description: An "online music listening service" that "contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others."
To access Boston Public Library resources,
users must register for a free BPL eCard. |
African American Studies Center (Boston Public Library)
Description: "Contains over 7,500 articles on the African American experience including biographies, history, art, music, and literature. Also provides timelines and Learning Center to help navigate the content."
To access Boston Public Library resources,
users must register for a free BPL eCard. |
African American Women Writers (free online)
Description: African American Women Writers of the 19th Century is a "digital collection of some 52 published works" written by black women writers prior to 1920. Created by the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center.
Ageline (1978-present)
Description: Database produced by the AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons) and indexes the literature on social gerontology (the study of aging in psychological, health-related, social, and economic contexts).
AGRICOLA (free online)
Description: AGRICultural OnLine Access indexes all aspects of "agriculture and allied disciplines," from "animal and veterinarian sciences" to "aquaculture and fisheries." AGRICOLA is two databases: the NAL Catalog (books, audiovisual material, and more) and the Article Citation Database. Produced by the National Agricultural Library for the US Department of Agriculture. Coverage varies
Agripedia (free online)
Description: Agripedia is a "general encyclopedia" of agriculture with a glossary of words and pictures and videos.
AltPressIndex (1991-present)
Description: Alternative Press Index covers nearly 300 "radical and left" sources of information "covering cultural, economic, political & social change."
AltPressIndexArchive (1969-1990)
Description: Alternative Press Index Archives covers over 700 "radical and left" sources of information "covering cultural, economic, political & social change."
AMDOCS (free online)
Description: Documents for the Study of American History, 1400 to the Present is provided by the University of Kansas.
America: History and Life (1964-present)
Description: Indexes more than 2000 journals worldwide in US and Canadian history. Includes articles, book reviews, dissertations, and chapters of books. The historical period covered is from prehistory to the present.
American Astronomical Society (free online)
Description: "The major organization of professional astronomers in North America" serves "to promote the advancement of astronomy and closely related branches of science."
American Ballroom Companion (free online)
Description: The American Ballroom Companion, Dance Instruction Manuals, 1490-1920, provides full-text access to a wealth of information on dance, "antidance manuals, histories, treatises on etiquette, and items from other conceptual categories." Provided by the Library of Congress.
American Broadsides & Ephemera, Series I (Boston Public Library)
Description: "Based on the American Antiquarian Society's landmark collection, this database offers fully searchable facsimile images of approximately 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900."
To access Boston Public Library resources,
users must register for a free BPL eCard. |
American FactFinder (free online)
Description: Provides data from the "nearly one hundred other surveys and censuses every year." Information is "summarized by geographic area" and includes "Annual Economic Surveys" as well as an "Economic Census" of the U.S. economy for every five years.
American Heritage Dictionary (free online)
Description:The electronic edition of this standard reference tool provides full-text access to “over 90,000 entries” and is published by one of the Internet’s oldest electronic publishers, Bartleby.com.
American Historical Association (free online)
Description: "Founded in 1884 and incorporated by Congress in 1889," the AHA "encompasses every historical period and geographical area and serves professional historians in all areas of employment."
American Journeys (free online)
Description: Provides "more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD 1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later." Produced by the Wisconsin Historical Society.
American Mathematical Society (free online)
Description: The mission of the AMS is to "promote mathematical research and its uses, strengthen mathematical education, and foster awareness and appreciation of mathematics and its connections to other disciplines and to everyday life."
American Memory (free online)
Description: Provides "more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections." The collection includes such diverse works as the Abraham Lincoln Papers and Frederick Douglass to a set of historical baseball cards. Provided by the Library of Congress.
American National Biography (Pre-Colonial to the present)
Description: Offers short portraits of more than 17,400 deceased men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation. Includes more recent articles, in quarterly updates, than the print version.
American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 (free online)
Description: Presents “253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about 1750 to 1920.”
American Physical Society (free online)
Description: The APS serves "to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics" in "public and governmental affairs, and in the international physics community."
American Presidency Project (free online)
Description: Provides full-text access to the Public Papers of the Presidents (1929-present), the Annual Messages to Congress on the State of the Union (1790-present), Inaugural Addresses (1789--present), the Saturday Radio Addresses (1982-present), Fireside Chats, Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speeches (1960-2004), and the Presidential Candidates Debates (1960-2004). Also includes the National Political Party Platforms (parties receiving electoral votes, 1840 - 2004), and more. Established by John Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
American State Papers, 1789-1838 (Boston Public Library)
Description: "Approximately two-thirds of the publications cover the first 14 Congresses (1789-1817), whereas the remaining third chronologically overlap with the U.S. Congressional Serial Set from 1817-1838." For the House and Senate journals and more, see Century of Lawmaking.
To access Boston Public Library resources,
users must register for a free BPL eCard. |
American Time Capsule (free online)
Description: The American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera provides access to "more than 28,000 primary-source items dating from the seventeenth century to the present." Produced by the Library of Congress' American Memory project.
America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922 (Boston Public Library)
Description: "Includes 'Early American Newspapers, Series I, II & III' and features cover-to-cover fully text-searchable facsimile images of over 1,000 historical newspapers from all 50 states, enabling researchers to explore virtually every aspect of America during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries."
To access Boston Public Library resources,
users must register for a free BPL eCard. |
Annee Philologique (1949-2004)
Description: A database published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique with the American Philological Association and the Database of Classical Bibliography. Serves as the primary source for bibliographical information in classical studies and contains 350,000 bibliographic records with 12,500 new records added each year.
Annual Reviews of the Literature
Description: Synthesizes “the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in your field. . . . Annual Reviews publications are among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute for Scientific Information.”
Anthropological Index Online (1957-present)
Description: The index covers more than 750 journals held at the Museum of Mankind Library in London. Published by the Royal Anthropological Institute.
AnthroSource
Description: Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource indexes 32 AAA publications and provides many full-text links to the library’s JSTOR collection.
ArchiveGrid, RLG (Boston Public Library)
Description: "Contains over a million collection descriptions from thousands of libraries, museums, and archives. Searches can be done by keyword, title, subject, date, personal, organization, or geographic name, genre, and repository."
To access Boston Public Library resources,
users must register for a free BPL eCard. |
Archive of Americana, 1639-1980 (Boston Public Library)
Description: Cross-searches American Broadsides & Ephemera, Early American Imprints I and II, America’s Historical Newspapers, American State Papers, and the U.S. Congressional Serial Set."
To access Boston Public Library resources,
users must register for a free BPL eCard. |
Archive of European Integration (free online)
Description: This site serves as "an electronic repository and archive" of "independently-produced research materials and official European Community/European Union documents" that report on "the topic of European integration and unification." Produced by the University of Pittsburgh Libraries.
Archives USA (Boston Public Library)
Description: "A current directory which describes over 160,000 collections of primary source material housed in thousands of repositories across the United States."
To access Boston Public Library resources,
users must register for a free BPL eCard. |
ARK (free online)
Description: A joint project of two Northern Ireland universities, ARK (the Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive) has a single goal: to make social science information on Northern Ireland available to the widest possible audience.
Art Bibliographies Modern (Boston Public Library)
Description: Indexes "the current literature, articles, books, dissertations, and exhibition catalogs on art and design, from Impressionism onward." Coverage: 1974-present.
To access Boston Public Library resources,
users must register for a free BPL eCard. |
Art Full Text (Boston Public Library)
Description: Provides full text access to "an international array of peer-selected publications” and has been expanded to cover “Latin American, Canadian, Asian, and other non-Western art.” Includes “reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals." Coverage: indexing from 1984-present, abstracting from 1994-present.
To access Boston Public Library resources,
users must register for a free BPL eCard. |
Art Images for College Teaching (free online)
Description: AICT is a personal, non-profit project of its author, art historian and visual resources curator, Allan T. Kohl, and is maintained and distributed by the Minneapolis College of Art & Design (MCAD). The online collection provides access to over 2000 images of art and is organized into five primary chronological and cultural groupings: Ancient, Medieval Era, Renaissance & Baroque, 18th - 20th Century, and Non-Western.
Art Index Retrospective (Boston Public Library)
Description: Users can research leading English-language sources, and others published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. Besides periodicals, users have access to data from important yearbooks and select museum bulletins.Coverage: 1929-1984.
To access Boston Public Library resources,
users must register for a free BPL eCard. |
Art Museum Image Gallery (Boston Public Library)
Description: "Over 96,000 high-quality art images with full descriptions gathered from the collections of distinguished museums around the world. Many include curatorial text, provenance data, and related multimedia."
To access Boston Public Library resources,
users must register for a free BPL eCard. |
ARTFL (coverage varies)
Description: Covers nearly 2000 texts ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of nonfiction prose and technical writing from the 16th to the 19th century.
ArticleFirst (1990-present)
Description: Indexes over 15,000 sources from all types of scholarly publications.
ARTstor
Description: The Charter Collection provides access to over 300,000 digital images from the fields of "architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design."
ATLA Religion Database (coverage varies)
Description: Religion Index One: 1949-present, Religion Index Two: Multi-author Works, 1960-present, Research in Ministry, 1981-present, Index to Book Reviews in Religion, 1949-present, Methodist Reviews Index, 1818-present.
Atomic Spectra Database (free online)
Description: "Contains critically evaluated NIST data for radiative transitions and energy levels in atoms and atomic ions. Data are included for observed transitions of 99 elements and energy levels of 57 elements. ASD contains data on about 950 spectra from about 0.4 Å to 500 µm, with about 75,000 energy levels and 110,000 lines, 44,000 of which have transition probabilities."
Auralog (Boston Public Library)
Description: This language learning method and program runs only on Internet Explorer 5 or later. Programs provided for German, American English, Dutch, Spanish, French, Italian, and Spanish (Latin American).
To access Boston Public Library resources,
users must register for a free BPL eCard. |
Avalon Project (free online)
Description: A collection of "digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government." Provided by the Yale Law School.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (Boston Public Library)
Description: "Information on archaeology, architecture, furniture, urban design, historic preservation, landscape architecture, and urban planning history. Coverage: 1930s-present, selective coverage dating to 1860s."
To access Boston Public Library resources,
users must register for a free BPL eCard. |
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Babelfish Web Translator (free online)
Description: Translates short passages of text or entire Web pages in ten languages.
Barnstable (MA) Patriot, 1830-1930 (free online)
Description: This full-text newspaper archive currently covers the first 100 years of the “seventh oldest newspaper in the United States” and is produced by the Sturgis Library, Barnstable, Massachusetts.
Bartleby.com (free online)
Description: Full-text access to a selection of literature, reference, verse, fiction and nonfiction books.
BHA - Bibliography of the History of Art (1973-present)
Description: Indexes and abstracts articles, art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and art exhibition and dealer's catalogs. Covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present. Includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie) and RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art).
Bible, King James (free online)
Description: The culmination of English translations of the Bible, the American Bible Society’s King James Version modernizes the first edition of 1611.
Biblioteca Miguel Cervantes (free online)
Description: The Biblioteca Miguel Cervantes de las Culturas Hispanicas provides full-text access to the works of major Spanish and Latin American Authors and is provided by the Universidad de Alicante, Spain.
Bibliographic Style Guides (free online)
Description: Provides examples and instructions for all four citation styles, MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE.
Biography & Genealogy Master Index (Boston Public Library)
Description: "Indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world."
To access Boston Public Library resources,
users must register for a free BPL | | | |
