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Resources by Alphabetical List
Resources by Subject
General & Multidisciplinary
Fine Arts and Music: Art, Art History, Music, Theatre
Humanities: English, Foreign Languages, History, Philosophy, Religious Studies
Sciences: Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics, Physics
Social Sciences: Anthropology, Economics, Education, Government, Psychology
Reference Resources: dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, etc.
- ABSEES. The online version of The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies. Articles, books, and more, from 1990-present.
- Academic OneFile. General periodical index with many full-text titles.
- Academic Search Premier. A multi-disciplinary database which offers full text for more than 4,650 journals, including full text for more than 3,900 peer-reviewed titles.
- Alternative Press Index. Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change.
- ArticleFirst. Index of articles from the contents pages of journals.
- Books in Print. "The first place to find books, audios, and videos."
- CollegeSource Online. "18,608 College Catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format."
- Contemporary Women's Issues. Contemporary women's issues on health and human rights.
- Credo Reference. Over 200 reference titles covering a wide range of subjects. Includes full text, images, sound files, maps and more.
- Early American Imprints. Documents covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States.
Series I: Evans (1639-1800)
Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819) - Early American Newspapers. More than 4.3 million pages from 1690-1922.
- Early English Books Online. 125,000 titles dated from 1475-1700.
- EbscoHost. Several databases, some of which include full text.
- Expanded Academic ASAP. General periodical index with many full-text titles.
- FirstSearch. Many databases covering a wide range of subjects.
- JSTOR. Online full-text journals in several academic subjects.
- LexisNexis Academic. Current news and full-text periodicals.
- NetLibrary. Online full-text books.
- New York Times (1851-2006). Offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
- Newspapers from Ebsco. Indexing and some full text for national and regional newspapers.
- Project Muse. Online full-text journals in the humanities and social sciences.
- Times of London Digital Archive, 1785-1985
- Union List of Periodicals. Lists of periodicals held by OCLC member libraries.
- Who's Who. Provides information from many versions of Who's Who, including Who’s Who in American Politics, Who’s Who in American Art, and Who’s Who in American History
- Who's Who (Great Britain)
- WorldCat: Books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
- Art Abstracts. Leading publications in the world of the arts.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index. A citation index to arts and humanities journals.
- ARTstor. Thousands of images from major collections of art, sculpture, architecture, and other visual media.
- Bibliography of the History of Art. "Covers visual arts in all media including traditional fine arts (painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, architecture); decorative and applied arts; material culture; photography and contemporary new media; visual arts aspects of performing arts."
- DRAM: Database of Recorded American Music. "A scholarly collection of recordings, including CD quality audio, liner notes and essays from New World, Composers Recordings and other important labels."
- Film Literature Online. Indexes film and television periodicals.
- Grove Music Online. The full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition.
- Music Index. "A Subject Author Guide to Music Periodical Literature."
- Music Necrology. Index to obituaries in the world of music.
- Music Online Streaming recordings and biographies from Alexander Street Press.
- Musical America. The business source for the performing arts.
- Oxford Music Online. Includes Grove Music and other resources.
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. International index to the literature of music.
- Smithsonian Global Sound. A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions complete with sound recordings. *Available On Campus Only
- America: History and Life. Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
- American Broadsides and Ephemera. "Broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900."
- American History in Video. A collection of (at present) nearly 1500 videos with searchable transcripts synchronized to video, chronicling American history from the 1890s to the 1980s
- American National Biography. Biographical entries on more than 17,400 American men and women from all eras and walks of life.
- American Civil War: Letters & Diaries. Full-text of "approximately 32,000 pages of letters, diaries and memoirs" from the American Civil War.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index . A citation index to arts and humanities journals.
- ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials. The primary scholarly database for Religious Studies. Includes some full text.
- Contemporary Literary Criticism (CLC)
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online. 150,000 books published during the 18th Century including these areas: history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
- Historical Abstracts. Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present.
- Iter. Index to journals and books "pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700)."
- Literature Resource Center. An extensive collection of biographical and critical information on authors and works.
- LitFinder. Source for poems, essays, plays, stories, speeches -- many available in full-text.
- MLA Bibliography. Literature, language, linguistics, folklore.
- Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (NCLC)
- North American Women's Letters & Diaries. Full-text of "approximately 50,000 pages of diaries and letters" from the Colonial era to 1950.
- Oxford English Dictionary. The world's leading authority on the history and development of the English language since 1150
- Oxford Language Dictionaries Online OLDO currently features over 1.2 million words and phrases, and over 2 million translations, to offer unrivalled coverage of French, German, Spanish, and Italian, into and out of English.
- Perseus Project. An evolving digital library of resources for studying the ancient world.
- Philosophers Index. A bibliographic database with informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. Coverage is from 1940 to present.
- Women Writer's Project. Fulltext collection of writing by women covering a period from 1400 to 1850.
- AGRICOLA. Materials relating to all aspects of agriculture.
- arXiv.org e-Print archive. An e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science and computer science. From Cornell University.
- Biological Abstracts. Information from core life-science journals.
- BioOne. Full-text collection of 36 "high-impact" bioscience journals. Browse or search. (Help)
- GeoRef. The most comprehensive database in the geosciences.
- GreenFILE "GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment."
- HighWire Press. "The largest repository of free full-text life science articles in the world, with more than 600,000 free, full-text articles online."
- MathSciNet. Access to 50 years of mathematics articles.
- Medline. All areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing.
- PubMed. Access to over 11 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases.
- Science Citations Index Expanded . A multi-disciplinary citation index in the sciences.
- SciFinder (Chemical Abstracts) . SciFinder is a web-based interface for searching the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases. SciFinder is only available for current Lawrence faculty, students, and staff.
- STNEasy. Available 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. and weekends, except from Saturday night to Sunday, early afternoon during database update hours. Click on "GO" to log in from the Lawrence campus.
- Anthropological Index Online. Based on the journal holdings of The Library of the Department of Ethnography of the The British Museum.
- AnthroSource. Searchable archive of anthropology content from the American Anthropological Association.
- Economic Literature Index. Journals, books, and working papers on economics.
- eHRAF Collection of Archaeology.
- eHRAF World Cultures. (formerly eHRAF Collection of Ethnography)
- ERIC. Journal articles and reports in education.
- GPO. Catalog of U.S. Government publications from 1976 - current.
- Population Index. An annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics.
- PsycArticles. Search the full text of journals published by the American Psychological Association.
- PsycInfo. Searches all PsycINFO journal, book and chapter records from 1887 to present.
- Social Science Citation Index . A multi-disciplinary citation index in the social sciences.
- Sociological Abstracts. Articles on all aspects of sociology.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. Covers over 1000 journals from 1975- .
