Databases
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- ABES: annotated bibliography of English studies
NO NAME AND PASSWORD ARE REQUIRED, JUST CLICK ON "LOGIN". Contains fully annotated bibliographic citations to books, essays, and journal articles, including topics such as: literary studies, language and linguistics, women's studies, film and media studies, art history, cultural studies, philosophy, and major historical works.
Refworks instructions for this database - ABI Inform Complete
Mostly full-text database of local and regional business news coverage, worldwide business periodicals, and trade and industry information.
Refworks instructions for this database - ABSEES Online
American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies, a searchable database of journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union published in the United States and Canada from 1990 to the present.
Refworks instructions for this database - Academic One File
Article Finder has changed its name to Academic OneFile. It is our primary undergraduate journal article database, containing full text and citations to journal, magazine, newspaper articles, and podcasts on a variety of subjects.
Refworks instructions for this database - Accessible Archives
Access to the Pennsylvania Gazette (1728-1800); Civil War newspapers; African American newspapers (19th century); Godey’s Ladys Book (1830-1880); Delaware County, PA newspapers (1819-1870); and Chester County, PA Genealogical Catalogue (1809-1870).
Refworks instructions for this database - ACM Digital Library
The ACM Digital Library is a vast collection of citations and full text from ACM journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings.
- AfricaBib.org
This English language database indexes over 33,000 articles from over 280 English language and multi-lingual journals and periodicals that specialize in African Studies or consistently cover the African continent.
- African American Song/ American Song
African American Song is included in American Song. African American Song contains some 16,000 tracks of great historical recordings from Document Records. This collection features recordings from the first half of the 20th century including jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others. Registration is only required if you want to save a playlist of recordings.
Refworks instructions for this database - AGRICOLA
Indexes journal articles and government publication related to all aspects of Agriculture published from 1970 to the present.
Refworks instructions for this database - Alternative Press Index (FS)
Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines covering cultural, economic, political & social change.
Refworks instructions for this database - America History and Life
Provides bibliographic references to articles published since 1964 that deal with the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
Refworks instructions for this database - American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications
The American Chemical Society is the leading publisher of peer-reviewed research journals in the chemical and related sciences, serving scientific communities worldwide through an unparalleled commitment to quality, reliability, and innovation.
Refworks instructions for this database - American Institute of Physics (AIP)
AIP Digital Archive provides access to all AIP journal content older than five years.
Refworks instructions for this database - American Periodical Series I (APSI) 1741-1800
Full-text American periodicals from the eighteenth-century.
Refworks instructions for this database - American Physical Society (PROLA)
APS Journals APS publishes leading international physics research journals, including Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, and the Physical Review series. The Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) provides access to articles in these journals all the way back to the founding of the Physical Review in 1893.
Refworks instructions for this database - American Song
American Song is a history database 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. Registration is only required if you want to save a playlist of recordings.
Refworks instructions for this database - America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1876
Includes cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic (1690-1876) newspapers, providing more than one million pages as fully text-searchable facsimile images.
Refworks instructions for this database - Ancestry Library Edition
Find census, birth, marriage, death records, newspaper articles, historical stories, photos, historical maps and more. (May only be accessed while on campus)
Refworks instructions for this database - Année Philologique
Index to periodical articles, articles in collections, and conference papers published in the field of classics from 1969 to 1999. Indexed literature covers Greek and Latin linguistics, literature, archaeology, history, mythology and other topics related to classical studies.
Refworks instructions for this database - Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL)
ABELL is part of the LION database and contains records of literary criticisms from books, periodical articles, and dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards. Full text links are available to articles from 70 literature journals.
Refworks instructions for this database - Anthropological Index
Index of articles from 1957 to the present based on the journal holdings of the Anthropology Library at the British Museum (Museum of Mankind), which receives periodicals in all branches of anthropology from publishers worldwide.
- AnthroSource
A complete electronic archive of all American Anthropological Association (AAA) journals through 2003. Also contains the current issues of 11 of AAA's most critical peer reviewed journals.
Refworks instructions for this database - APImages
Downloadable images from the Associated Press archive, from 1840 to the present.
Refworks instructions for this database - Applied Science Index
Indexes various materials published from 1983 to the present in the fields of chemistry, computer technology, data processing, engineering, mathematics, physics, and energy-related disciplines.
Refworks instructions for this database - Art Bibliographies Modern
Indexes art journals, books, and exhibition catalogs published from 1965 to the present concerning all aspects of modern and contemporary art from the late 19th century to the present.
Refworks instructions for this database - Art Index
Indexes major art journals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins published from 1984 to the present.
Refworks instructions for this database - Art Index Retrospective 1929-1984
Index to art journals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins published from 1929 to 1984.
Refworks instructions for this database - ARTFL Projects (Diderot)
A research tool for scholars and students in all areas of French Studies
Refworks instructions for this database - Article 1st
Index of articles from over 12,000 journals from 1990 to the present in the fields of business, humanities, medicine, popular culture, science, social science, and technology. Updated daily.
Refworks instructions for this database - ArticleFinder (Academic OneFile)
Article Finder has changed its name to Academic OneFile. It is our primary undergraduate journal article database, conatining full text and citations to journal, magazine, newspaper articles, and podcasts on a variety of subjects.
Refworks instructions for this database - Arts & Humanities Citation Index
A multidisciplinary index covering 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals. In addition, this database provides cited reference searching which enables you to find articles that cite a previously published work.
Refworks instructions for this database - ARTstor
"ARTstor includes approximately 500,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's software tools support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline."
- ATLA Religion
Religion and Theology Index
Refworks instructions for this database - Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
A comprehensive index of journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design and historic preservation. Offers access to 2,500 international journals, most of which are not indexed elsewhere, and nearly 600,000 citations dating to the mid-18th century.
Refworks instructions for this database - BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art
Indexes art publications and exhibition catalogs published from 1973 to the present. Subject coverage includes European art from late Antiquity to the present, American art from the European arrival to the present, and Christian and European art in Africa, Asia, and Australia.
Refworks instructions for this database - Bibliography of Asian Studies
Citations of journal articles from 1971 to the present and books from 1971 to 1992 about all aspects of Asia.
Refworks instructions for this database - Biography and Genealogy Master Index
Index of current and retrospective works about individuals worldwide in various fields.
Refworks instructions for this database - Biography Resource Center
This database contains biographies from reference sources as well as full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender.
Refworks instructions for this database - Biological Abstracts
Biological Abstracts(1998-present) An expansive index to the world’s life sciences journal literature, with topics ranging from botany to microbiology to pharmacology.
Refworks instructions for this database - Biological and Agricultural Index Plus
Citations of popular and professional periodical articles about biology, agriculture, forestry, and ecology from 1983 to the present.
Refworks instructions for this database - BioOne
A full-text database of research journals in the biosciences, ecology, environmental science and paleontology.
Refworks instructions for this database - Birds of North America
The Birds of North America (BNA) is only the fourth comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North American birds. Following in the footsteps of Wilson, Audubon, and Bent, BNA makes a quantum leap in information beyond what these historic figures were able to provide.
Refworks instructions for this database - Black Historical Newspapers - Chicago Defender
The Chicago Defender (1910-1975) 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
Refworks instructions for this database - Black Historical Newspapers - NY Amsterdam News
New York Amsterdam News: 1922-1993 offers full page and article images with searchable full text. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Refworks instructions for this database - Black Historical Newspapers - Pittsburgh Courier
Pittsburgh Courier: 1911-2002 offers full page and article images with searchable full text. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Refworks instructions for this database - Blackwell Reference Online
A collection of online encyclopedias and other reference material from Blackwell Publishing.
- Book Review Digest Plus
Cites and excerpts reviews of English-language fiction and non-fiction books for adults and children, excluding textbooks, government publications, and technical books. Covers periodicals published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain from 1983 to the present.
Refworks instructions for this database - British Library Public Catalogue
Provides access to the online bibliographic databases of the British Library
Refworks instructions for this database - British Newspapers 1600-1900
The British Newspapers 1600-1900 is the most significant digital collection of British historic newspapers. New conservation and imaging techniques and a new cross-searchable platform adopted by the British Library offers unparalleled access and discoverability to this valuable historical and cultural archive. In addition one will find specially commissioned essays and contextual materials written by expert scholars intended to help non-specialist users with perspective and analysis.
Refworks instructions for this database - British Periodicals Online
British Periodicals Online consists of more than 160 journals that comprise the UMI microfilm collection Early British Periodicals. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences.
Refworks instructions for this database - Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities
Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities helps professors, graduate students and researchers publish their manuscripts. Cabell’s provides such information as topic(s) of articles, manuscript guidelines, acceptance rate, type of reader, and the review process. Cabell's helps an author determine which journal will most likely accept his/her manuscript. The Bertrand library subscribes to the education directories.
Refworks instructions for this database - CancerLit
Bibliographic database that contains cancer literature citations and abstracts from over 4000 sources including biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports, and doctoral theses published from the 1960s to the present, from the larger PubMed database.
Refworks instructions for this database - CCH Internet Tax Research Network
Searchable comprehensive database of tax news, legislation, and other information on federal, state, and international tax issues. Available only on campus to Bucknell students, faculty and staff. (Users must register in order to use this database)
Refworks instructions for this database - Central and Eastern European Library (C.E.E.O.L.)
C.E.E.O.L. is an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from 406 humanities and social science journals and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics.
Refworks instructions for this database - Choice Reviews Online
Current Reviews for Academic Libraries is the premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education. More than 35,000 librarians, faculty, and key decision makers rely on Choice magazine and ChoiceReviews.online for collection development and scholarly research. Choice reaches almost every undergraduate college and university library in the United States.
Refworks instructions for this database - Civil Engineering Database
Searchable database providing bibliographic access to all American Society of Civil Engineers publications since 1972, including journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newspapers.
Refworks instructions for this database - ClasePeriodica
Information about journal articles, technical reports, books and other materials published in Latin America. All fields of study are included.
Refworks instructions for this database - Classical Music Library
Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. The growing collection of 50,000-plus tracks includes recordings from the world's greatest labels including Hyperion, Bridge Records, Sanctuary Classics, Artemis-Vanguard, Hänssler Classic, Vox and many more. Coverage includes music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera. Registration is only required if you want to save a playlist of recordings.
Refworks instructions for this database - Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward 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.
Refworks instructions for this database - Contemporary Women's Issues (FS)
Includes information about books, journals, newsletters, research reports, and fact sheets providing global information on women. Citations cover 1992 to the present, and many include links to full text articles.
Refworks instructions for this database - Contemporary World Music
Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database will contain important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more. This release includes 1,868 albums, equalling 25,322 tracks, growing regularly. Registration is only required if you want to save a playlist of recordings.
Refworks instructions for this database - COS - Funding Opportunities
COS Funding Opportunities is the leading global resource for hard-to-find information critical to scientific research and other projects across all disciplines. Search the world's most comprehensive funding resource, with more than 25,000 records representing nearly 400,000 opportunities, worth over $33 billion. Funding for many purposes, such as research, collaborations, travel, curriculum development, conferences, fellowships, postdoctoral positions, equipment acquisitions, capital or operating expenses. Updated daily.
Refworks instructions for this database - CQ Political Reference Suite
A collection of reference material from CQ Press including: Congress and the Nation, The Historical Document Series, Politics in America, Vital Statistics on American Politics, and the Political Handbook of the World.
- CQ Researcher
Contains reports written by CQ's journalists that provide in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues.
- Credo Reference
Search the full-text of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, and other full-text reference books. Access to individual reference titles is also available from the Bertrand Library catalog.
Refworks instructions for this database - Defining Gender, 1450-1910
A wide range of original sources including ephemera, pamphlets, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, manuscript journals, poetry, receipt books and conduct and advice literature. All of the material has been indexed to provide ready accessibility for students by person and subject.
Refworks instructions for this database - Department of Commerce: National Technical Information Service
Containing over 2.0 million bibliographic records, the NTIS Database is the preeminent resource for accessing the latest research sponsored by the United States and select foreign governments. The Database represents billions of dollars in research. Contents include research reports, computer products, software, video cassettes, audio cassettes and more. The complete electronic file dates back to 1964. On average, NTIS has added over 60,000 new records per year to the Database over the past ten years. Most records include abstracts.
Refworks instructions for this database - Department of Defense: Defense Technical Information Center
DTIC: Defense Technical Information Center provids the warfighter and researchers, scientists, engineers, laboratories, and universities timely access to over 2 million publications covering over 250 subject areas.
Refworks instructions for this database - Department of Energy: The Information Bridge
The Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information provides free public access to full-text documents and bibliographic citations of the Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature. Documents are primarily from 1991 forward. Contains documents and citations in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics of interest related to DOE's mission.
Refworks instructions for this database - Diderot ( ARTFL Project)
Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de lettres was published under the direction of Diderot and d'Alembert, with 17 volumes of text and 11 volumes of plates between 1751 and 1772. Containing 72,000 articles written by more than 140 contributors, the Encyclopédie was a massive reference work for the arts and sciences, as well as a machine de guerre which served to propagate the ideas of the French Enlightenment. The impact of the Encyclopédie was enormous.
Refworks instructions for this database - Dissertations Abstracts (FS)
Indexes doctoral dissertations and some masters thesis from the U.S., Canada, the UK and Europe pulblished from 1861 through the present.
Refworks instructions for this database - Early English Books Online (EEBO)
From the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War, Early English Books Online contains titles listed in Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661), and the Early English Tract Supplement - all in full digital facsimile from the Early English Books microfilm collection. This database contains over 100,000 titles published from 1474-1800 in many subject areas, including: English literature, history, philosophy, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.
Refworks instructions for this database - EconLit
Index and abstracts of journal articles, books, and working papers on economics.
Refworks instructions for this database - Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003
The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003 ('EHA') is the fully searchable complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper which is essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. In 8,000 issues and more than 600,0000 pages, EHA offers full-colour images, multiple search indexes, topic and area supplements and surveys, together with a gallery of front covers and a selection of exportable financial tables. Altogether this is a unrivalled multidisciplinary primary source for researching and teaching the 19th and 20th centuries.
Refworks instructions for this database - EDGAR
EDGAR is the Securities and Exchange Commission's database for searching for SEC filing documents including real-time filings.
Refworks instructions for this database - Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO)
Full-text of 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800. Includes most titles published in the United Kingdom during this period as well as a number of items published in the Amerias.
Refworks instructions for this database - Electronic Collections Online
Full text access is limited to selected journals. Search the online catalog to see if the library provides electronic access to the journal you want.
Refworks instructions for this database - Encyclopaedia of Islam
The Encyclopaedia of Islam Online Edition combines a familiar look with fast and effective research facilities. The entire text of volumes I to XI and Supplement (Volume XII) of the monumental, printed edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam is now easily available on your computer screen. Additional search facilities and the Supplement enable the user to efficiently search and combine data from a vast corpus of over 12,000 printed pages— within seconds.
Refworks instructions for this database - Encyclopedia Britannica
Search the Encyclopedia Britannica
- Engineering Village
Engineering Village (Compendex) is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research available, covering all engineering disciplines. It includes millions of bibliographic citations and abstracts from thousands of engineering journals and conference proceedings. Engineering Village (Compendex) includes the Engineering Index from 1884-present.
Refworks instructions for this database - ERIC (CSA)
Annotated references to educational materials indexed in Resources in Education and to journal articles indexed in the Current Index to Journals in Education. Covers materials from 1966 to the present. Many citations offer links to downloadable full-text documents.
Refworks instructions for this database - ERIC (FS)
Annotated references to educational materials indexed in Resources in Education and to journal articles indexed in the Current Index to Journals in Education. Covers materials from 1966 to the present. Many citations offer links to downloadable full-text documents.
Refworks instructions for this database - Ethnic News Watch
Comprehensive full-text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press from 1991 to the present. Searches are available in English and Spanish, as well as by article type and ethnic group.
Refworks instructions for this database - Evans Digital Edition (1639-1800)
A full-text, multidisciplinary image collection of every extant document published in the United States from 1639-1800. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images. Consists of the same materials as the Early American Imprint Series.
Refworks instructions for this database - FactSearch (FS)
Database of full-text statistical statements on current social, economic, political, health and environmental issues and public policy topics, excerpted from more than 1100 mainstream and alternative serial sources from 1984 to the present.
- FASB - Financial Accounting Standards Board
Available to accounting faculty and students only. Please see Professor David Jensen, Stephen Willits, Robert Needham, Mark Bettner, Dot Thompson or the ASK desk in the Bertrand Library for the password to access this database.
Refworks instructions for this database - FedStats: One Stop Shopping for Federal Statistics
Subject guide to the websites of 70 federal agencies that produce statistical data
- Film Literature Index
The Film Literature Index Online contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001.
Refworks instructions for this database - FindLaw
Comprehensive guide to legal information, including full-text web search engine for legal research; daily updated case law, including United States Supreme Court law from 1893 to the present; legal news; searchable directory of lawyers and law firms; career center; court forms; guide to congress and state legislatures; and legal information specific to such fields as sports, entertainment, business, finance, and the Internet.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
An online collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference sources.
Refworks instructions for this database - Gallup Brain
he Gallup Brain is a searchable, living record of more than 70 years of public opinion.
Refworks instructions for this database - Gartner, Inc.
Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company. We deliver the technology-related insight necessary for our clients to make the right decisions, every day. From CIOs and senior IT leaders in corporations and government agencies, to business leaders in high-tech and telecom enterprises and professional services firms, to technology investors, we are the indispensable partner to 60,000 clients in 10,000 distinct organizations.
Refworks instructions for this database - Gender Watch
Database of abstracts and full texts of periodicals, books, conference proceedings, and other publications that focus on how gender impacts on a broad spectrum of subject areas. Coverage spans 1970 to the present.
Refworks instructions for this database - GEOBASE (FS)
Indexes worldwide literature on geography, geology, and ecology, including journals, books, reports, and conference proceedings published from 1980 through the present.
Refworks instructions for this database - GeoRefS
Indexes and abstracts the geology and earth sciences literature of the world, including journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses. Coverage for North American publications is 1785 to the present; for other publications, coverage is 1933 to the present.
Refworks instructions for this database - Getty Provenance Index
Database from the Getty Research Institute about the history of collecting and the provenance of individual works of art.
Refworks instructions for this database - Google Scholar
"Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research."
- GPO Access
Full text government publications such as the U.S. Code Federal Register and CFR.
Refworks instructions for this database - GPO: U.S. Government Publications
Search for information about U.S. Government Publications
Refworks instructions for this database - GreenFILE
GreenFILE, a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE will serve as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet.
Refworks instructions for this database - Grove Art Online
A comprehensive encyclopedia covering all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the present
- Grove Music Online
Searchable, full-text, online versions of Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians II , Grove Dictionary of Jazz, and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, with links to related sites, sound archives, and illustrations.
Refworks instructions for this database - Handbook of Latin American Studies
Bibliography of social sciences and humanities works from 1936 to the present about Latin America.
Refworks instructions for this database - HAPI
Hispanic American Periodicals Index, a searchable index of information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Includes citations from more than 400 social sciences and humanities journals published from 1970 to the present.
Refworks instructions for this database - HarpWeek
searchable Harper's Weekly issues from pre Civil War through Reconstruction (1857 - 1874)
Refworks instructions for this database - Historical Abstracts
Historical Abstracts provides bibliographic references to material published since 1954 dealing with the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the US and Canada which are covered in America History and Life.
Refworks instructions for this database - Historical Newspaper Databases
Search the New York Times (1851 - 2001), Wall Street Journal (1889 - 1987), Washington Post (1877 - 1988) and the L.A. Times (1881 - 1985) Historical Newspaper databases all at once.
Refworks instructions for this database - Historical Newspapers - Chicago Defender
The Chicago Defender (1910-1975) 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
Refworks instructions for this database - Historical Newspapers - L.A. Times
"The Los Angeles Times (1881-1985) 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."
Refworks instructions for this database - Historical Newspapers - New York Times
Full-image access to back issues (1851-1999) of the New York Times. Some issues or articles may be missing due to copyright or licensing restrictions.
Refworks instructions for this database - Historical Newspapers - NY Amsterdam News
New York Amsterdam News: 1922-1993 offers full page and article images with searchable full text. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Refworks instructions for this database - Historical Newspapers - Pittsburgh Courier
Pittsburgh Courier: 1911-2002 offers full page and article images with searchable full text. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Refworks instructions for this database - Historical Newspapers - Wall Street Journal
Full-image of the back issues (1889-1985) of the Wall Street Journal. Some issues or articles may be missing due to copyright or licensing restrictions
Refworks instructions for this database - Historical Newspapers - Washington Post
"The Washington Post (1877-1988) 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."
Refworks instructions for this database - Hoover's Online: the Business Network
Updated information on public and private companies worldwide, including access to comprehensive profiles, in-depth financials, full lists of key people and competitors, competitive analysis, advanced searching, and downloadable contact information.
- ICPSR
ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction. These data sources cover a broad range of disciplines including political science, sociology, demography, economics, history, education, gerontology, criminal justice, public health, foreign policy, and law.
- IEEE Xplore
Searchable database with access to abstracts and full text of IEEE journals, transactions, and magazines published since 1998. Bucknell has access to some full-text conference proceedings.
Refworks instructions for this database - InfoNation
Statistics about countries that are members of the United Nations.
- Ingenta
Tables of contents of journals
Refworks instructions for this database - International Financial Statistics
Published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the IFS contains time series covering more than 200 countries and areas and includes all series appearing on the IFS Country Pages; exchange rate series for all Fund member countries; major Fund accounts series; and most other world, area, and country series from the IFS World Tables.
- International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA)
IPA Full Text provides indexing and abstracts for more than 240 international periodicals, plus full text for 84 journals. Subjects covered include dance, film, drama, opera, stagecraft, comedy, pantomime, puppetry, magic and television.
Refworks instructions for this database - International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA)
Indexes materials published from 1975 to 1989 about all aspects of European art and architecture from Late Antiquity (4th century) to the present. American art is covered from the European arrival (16th century) to the present.
Refworks instructions for this database - Iter
Bibliographic database of interdisciplinary journal literature, books, reviews, and reference works pertaining to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (400-1700).
Refworks instructions for this database - Jazz Music Library
Jazz Music Library will be the largest and most comprehensive collection of jazz available online — with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres. Registration is only required if you want to save a playlist of recordings.
Refworks instructions for this database - Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of literary theory and discourse. Revised extensively in 2004 to reflect a decade of rapidly changing scholarship, the Guide currently features 52 new entries and subentries.
Refworks instructions for this database - Journal Citation Reports
Using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from the Sciences and the Social Sciences, Journal Citation Reports can show you the most frequently cited journals in a field, the highest impact journals in a field and the largest journals in a field.
Refworks instructions for this database - JSTOR
An archive of core, scholarly journals from a variety of subject areas. Coverage begins with the very first issue through all but recent years.
Refworks instructions for this database - Knovel
Knovel is a collection of over 800 essential reference books and databases from the world's leading publishers and professional societies in science and engineering.
- Latin America Database
Access to three weekly electronic publications: Sourcemex (economic and political news and analysis of Mexico), NotiSur (South American political and economic affairs), and NotiCen (Central American and Caribbean political and economic affairs). Also provides a searchable online database of articles from these publications and from Latin American journals.
Refworks instructions for this database - Lexis-Nexis Academic
Full-text access to legal, news, business, medical, and reference information.
Refworks instructions for this database - Lexis-Nexis Congressional
Searchable index of congressional publications and CIS Legislative Histories for public laws from 1970 to the present. Site also allows users to find testimony from congressional hearings; track bills as they move through the House and Senate; search the Congressional Record and Federal Register; and locate information about congressional members and committees.
Refworks instructions for this database - Lexis-Nexis State Capital
Provides access to state bills and laws, constitutions, proposed and enacted regulations, newspapers of record, articles about legislative issues affecting the states, and legislature membership. Users can search for information about one state, any combination of states, or all 50 states.
Refworks instructions for this database - Lexis-Nexis Statistical
Abstracts and indexes statistical information from the federal and state government, private sources and international organizations.
Refworks instructions for this database - Library of Congress Catalog
"The Library of Congress Online Catalog contains approximately 14 million records representing books, serials, computer files, manuscripts, cartographic materials, music, sound recordings, and visual materials."
- Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Refworks instructions for this database - Literature Online (LION)
Full-text of English and American fiction, poetry and selected reference works.
Refworks instructions for this database - Literature Resource Center
Literature reference database rich with biographical, bibliographical, and critical content about authors from all time periods and genres.
Refworks instructions for this database - Making of the Modern World
"The Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850" provides digital facsimile images on every page of 61,000 works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. Full-text searching on more than 12 million pages provides researchers unparalleled access to this vast collection of material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.
Refworks instructions for this database - MathSciNet
Comprehensive database of bibliographic data and reviews for mathematical research literature worldwide from 1940 to the present.
Refworks instructions for this database - MEDLINE
Indexes and provides abstracts for internation journal literature in the medical sciences. Coverage is from 1966 through the present.
Refworks instructions for this database - Mergent Online
A rich database covering over 27,000 global companies and providing financial information, company history, comparative data for companies and industry, and much more.
- MLA Bibliography
Indexes monographs, periodical articles, and dissertations published from 1963 to the present concerning literature, folklore, linguistics, modern languages, and the dramatic arts.
Refworks instructions for this database - National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database
Contains summaries of criminal justice publications, including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research from 1970 to the present.
Refworks instructions for this database - National Journal Group's Policy Central
Welcome to National Journal Group's Policy Central -- the comprehensive resource on politics and policy for the academic community. Click on any database or feature below, or use the standard NationalJournal.com navigation bars at the top and right side of each page.
Refworks instructions for this database - National Newspapers
Full-text articles from 27 newspapers, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, plus other important United States, international, and minority-interest papers.
Refworks instructions for this database - Net Advantage
Information on markets, industries, stocks, bonds, and more.
- NetLibrary
Collection of electronic books.
Refworks instructions for this database - New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics contains the full text of the 8 volume print edition. In addition, the online Dictionary is a dynamic resource for economists. It reflects the current state of the discipline and features contributions from today’s leading economists.
Refworks instructions for this database - Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers
19th Century British Library Newspapers contains full runs of 48 influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society.
Refworks instructions for this database - Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.
Refworks instructions for this database - Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals
19th Century UK Periodicals is a major multi-part series which covers the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th century world. It is mainly based on the repositories of the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, the National Library of South Africa, the National Library of Australia, and many others.
Refworks instructions for this database - OAIster
"OAIster serves as a search portal for digital collections of electronic books, online journals, audio and image files, and movies provided by the research library community. Users can search by keyword, title, creator, subject or resource type, and searches yield a detailed and well-organized description of the resource and a link to the resource itself. Indexed content includes the Library of Congress' American Memory Project, various pre-print and e-print servers, and digital thesis and dissertation collections. Currently OAIster contains over a 1.7 million records harvested from over 200 institutions."
Refworks instructions for this database - OECD
OECD's Online Library of Statistical Databases, Books and Periodicals
Refworks instructions for this database - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
An illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women from around the world who shaped all aspects of Britain's past. The online version contains the complete text of the Oxford DNB: 56,000 lives in 63 million words, with 10,300 portrait illustrations and all the supplements.
Refworks instructions for this database - Oxford English Dictionary
Provides etymological histories.
- Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
The innovative Oxford Language Dictionaries Online offers essential language resources never before available online: fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages.
Refworks instructions for this database - PAIS International (FS)
Bibliography of periodicals, books, and government publications from 1972 to the present covering global public policy and social issues. Also indexes pertinent web resources.
Refworks instructions for this database - PapersFirst
An Index of Papers Presented at Conferences
Refworks instructions for this database - Perry Castenada Library Map Collection
Online maps via the University of Texas
- Perseus Digital Project
An evolving digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world and beyond.
Refworks instructions for this database - Philosopher's Index
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. Covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social psychology, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic, including the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education and language.
Refworks instructions for this database - Proceedings
Index of Conference Proceedings
Refworks instructions for this database - Project Muse
Provides full text to nearly 200 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Refworks instructions for this database - PsycArticles
Full text of recent articles from over 50 journals published by the APA and related organizations.
Refworks instructions for this database - PsycINFO
PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, the database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 to the present are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms
Refworks instructions for this database - PubMed
The National Library of Medicine connection to the MEDLINE database, which indexes the worldwide literature of medicine and life science from 1965 to the present.
Refworks instructions for this database - RAMBI
RAMBI is a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Material listed in Rambi is compiled from thousands of periodicals and from collections of articles - in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages- mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library, a world center for research on the Jewish people and Eretz Israel.
Refworks instructions for this database - Readers' Guide Retrospective
Provides historical access to citations from over 100 leading U.S. magazines
Refworks instructions for this database - Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie 1973-1989
Abstracts and indexes art publications and exhibition catalogs covering all aspects of European (4th century to 1939) and American (16th century to 1939) art and architecture.
Refworks instructions for this database - Research Library Complete
Citations of newspaper and periodical articles covering a broad range of subjects, including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Refworks instructions for this database - Resources for College Libraries (RCL)
RCL lists the essential titles of more than 68 academic subject areas as choosen by more than 300 subject-expert editors and contributors.
Refworks instructions for this database - RILM
RILM indexes and abstracts current literature about music including periodical articles, festscriften, books, reviews and disseratations from around the world.
Refworks instructions for this database - RLG Union Catalog
"A major union catalog of records describing books, serials, archival collections, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, sound recordings, films, photographs, posters, computer files, electronic resources and more. The RLG Union Catalog reflects the collections of major research libraries; academic, public, corporate and national libraries; archives and museums; historical societies and international book vendors." Requires a user ID and password. Ask the Reference Desk to log you in.
Refworks instructions for this database - Rock's Backpages
The ultimate library of rock music writing and journalism.
Refworks instructions for this database - Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Entires include a wide variety of subject matter including Anglo-American, ethical and political, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, continental and contemporary philosophy.
- SAE Digital Library
Full Text SAE publications available from 1998 to present. Searchable database of bibliographical information on and summaries of Society of Automotive Engineers’ technical publications dating from 1906, as well as magazine articles, books, ground vehicle and aerospace standards, specifications, and research reports. Bertrand Library maintains a complete collection of the SAE Technical Papers on microfiche from 1970 to the present, and the database provides identification numbers for easy location of these papers.
Refworks instructions for this database - Safari Tech Books Online
A searchable collection of basic and advanced computing books.
Refworks instructions for this database - Sage E-Reference
SAGE eReference proviced access to more than 80 of SAGE’s authoritative and award-winning encyclopedias available online.
Refworks instructions for this database - Sage Premier
SAGE publishes more than 500 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. The SAGE Full-Text Collections, SAGE's award-winning, discipline-specific research databases, are also available on SAGE Journals Online.
Refworks instructions for this database - Science Citation Index
A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. It fully indexes 5,900 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines. In addition, this database provides cited reference searching which enables you to find articles that cite a previously published work.
Refworks instructions for this database - Science Direct
ScienceDirect is the database of journals published by Elsevier, in engineering, medicine, science, and the social sciences. Bucknell has access to over 800 journal titles full-text from 1995 to present. Look for the green "full-text" icon when searching for articles.
Refworks instructions for this database - SciFinder Scholar Web
SciFinder Scholar Search Chemical Abstracts on the web; by author, title, keyword, institution, chemical name or formula, or by drawing chemical structures or reactions. NOTE: Bucknell University faculty, staff and students using SciFinder Scholar Web for the first time must Register for a user name and password using SciFinder Scholar Registration.
Refworks instructions for this database - SciFinder Scholar Web Registration
Create a username and password to access SciFinder Scholar Web. NOTE: Only faculty, staff, and students with a Bucknell email address can create a user name and password.
Refworks instructions for this database - Scirus - for scientific information only
A web search engine and database of scientific information resources, from websites to journal articles.
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Collection
The newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media. The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.
Refworks instructions for this database - Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
"Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, the Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition (Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819)) provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century."
Refworks instructions for this database - SIRS Researcher (FS)
General Reference Database includes interdisciplinary articles from domestic and international periodicals.
Refworks instructions for this database - Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
Slavery and Anti-Slavery includes documents from the United States and Europe, as well as other parts of the world. In addition to newspaper collections and books published in the antebellum era, Slavery and Anti-Slavery contains documents from several archives originally available only on microfilm.
Refworks instructions for this database - Smithsonian Global Sound
An online database of music recordings from the Smithsonian's collection. The available genres include: American Folk, Blues, Bluegrass, American Indian, World, Jazz, Spoken Word and more. Registration is only required if you want to save a playlist of recordings.
- Smithsonian Global Sound
The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms. It includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
Refworks instructions for this database - Social Sciences Citation Index
A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. It fully indexes more than 1,725 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines. In addition, this database provides cited reference searching which enables you to find articles that cite a previously published work.
Refworks instructions for this database - Social Services Abstracts
Provides coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
Refworks instructions for this database - Sociological Abstracts
Database of materials on sociology and related disciplines, both theoretical and applied. Includes abstracts of journal articles, conference papers, dissertations, books, and book reviews.
Refworks instructions for this database - Source OECD
The SourceOECD books, periodicals and statistics package includes all 15 of our journals, 27 interactive databases and every monograph we've published since 1998.
Refworks instructions for this database - SPINPlus Grants database
A searchable database of grant funding opportunities.
- SpringerLink
SpringerLink is one of the world's leading interactive databases for high-quality STM journals, book series, books, reference works and the Online Archives Collection. SpringerLink is a powerful central access point for researchers and scientists.
Refworks instructions for this database - Stat USA
U.S. Business
Refworks instructions for this database - Studies in Irish Literature
Includes the full-text of reference sources related to Irish writers and their writings.
Refworks instructions for this database - THOMAS: legislative information on the internet
Find the full-text of bills, public laws, committee reports and other related congressional information.
- Times (London) Digital Archives
The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985, is Gale's online historical archive, delivering every page as published from 200 years of The Times (London) to your library. The Times is the "world's newspaper of record" and covers all major international historical events from the French Revolution to the Falkland War.
Refworks instructions for this database - TOCS-IN
Provides the tables of contents of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals.
Refworks instructions for this database - TRIS Online
Transportation Research Information Services searchable bibliographic database, providing more than 420,000 records of transportation research published in books, journal articles, technical reports, government publications, and conference proceedings from 1967 to the present.
Refworks instructions for this database - Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Contains listings of currently published journals, newsletters, and annuals, as well as discontinued publications. Coverage spans 1932 to the present, and records also contain URL and email links to journals and publishers.
- United States Patent and Trademark Office
Patent full-text and full-page image databases, 1976 -- present.
- Web of Knowledge
Provides access to Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present) and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present).
Refworks instructions for this database - WilsonWeb
H.W. Wilson reference databases meet today’s research needs. A powerful internet-based information retrieval system, offering a user-friendly interface, multiple search modes, interactive help messages. WilsonWeb’s ease-of-use makes for successful searching even for beginners, while its versatility (including advanced features) allows in-depth, highly-targeted searches for more experienced researchers.
Refworks instructions for this database - Women Writers Online
Collection of searchable online texts from 1400 to 1850 compiled by the Women Writers Project at Brown University.
Refworks instructions for this database - Women's Studies Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia about women and women's issues, written from a feminist perspective.
- WorldAlmanac
The World Almanac and Book of Facts
- WorldCat
Searchable database containing all the records of books, web resources, and other materials catalogued by libraries worldwide.
Refworks instructions for this database - WorldCat Local
Use this for Interlibrary Loan (ILL). WorldCat Local delivers the resources of your library and libraries around the world in a single search. As the first step toward cooperative, Web-scale library management services, it connects your users' search experience with other library systems. Today, that means WorldCat, your catalog, local availability and resource sharing.
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