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  • The CAT - The Penn State Libraries Catalog
    The online catalog of materials owned by Penn State Libraries. All formats (books, journals, audiovisuals, maps, recordings, etc.) are included. Circulation status for individual items also provided.
    Coverage: Presently contains about 2 million titles. Updates: Continuous up-to-the-minute as new records are added.
    Go to CAT - PSU Libraries Web Catalog

  • ABI/INFORM (business)
    A business-oriented article database for subjects such as advertising, marketing, company information, industry trends, human resources, economic policy, health care, consumer products and services.
    Coverage: 1986- Present Updates: Monthly Coverage: indexes 1400 trade, research, popular journals. Many of these include FULL TEXT ARTICLES.
    Go to ABI/INFORM (business)

  • ABSEES Online: American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
    ABSEES Online is the online version of The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies. ABSEES Online covers North American (U.S. and Canadian) scholarship on East-Central Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. It contains bibliographic records for journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications. The database covers materials from 1990-present.
    Go to ABSEES Online: American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies

  • Academic IDEAL (full text journal articles)
    The International Digital Electronic Access Library (IDEAL) delivers WWW full-text, full-image access to the approximately 150 Academic Press journals that Penn State owns in print subscriptions. The discipline coverage is broad and includes applied and biomedical sciences, social and behavioral sciences, engineering and materials sciences, and business and economics.

    Coverage: Current issues and volumes back to 1996.
    Go to Academic Ideal, a division of Elsevier (full text journal articles)


  • Academic Universe (now LexisNexis Academic)
    Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Covers many news sources for 20 years. Court cases and statutes from all federal and state jurisdictions are included. Most resources can be searched in full text.
    Go to Academic Universe (now LexisNexis Academic)

  • Access Science (McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology)
    The world's leading science encyclopedia in online form. The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology delivers full-text high-quality encyclopedia articles in all areas of science.
    Go to Access Science (McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology)

  • Accessible Archives
    Accessible Archives provides access to the full texts of articles from a selection of 18th & 19th century American newspapers (more than 175,000 articles). The newspapers selected are especially useful for researching African American, women’s studies, and Pennsylvania topics but can also help with many other types of historical research.

    Coverage: Monthly, or as noted
    Go to Accessible Archives (18th- and 19th-century news)


  • AccessUN
    AccessUN is an index to United Nations documents and publications, from 1966-to date.  The database is used to access the microfiche collection held in the Social Sciences Library, Second Floor, West Pattee.

    Indexes:

    • Working documents of the main UN bodies including the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, commissions, UN conferences, and  regional bodies
    • Sales publications
    • Articles in UN periodicals

    Full text:

    • Resolutions from the General Assembly (1981-), the Security Council (1974-), and the Economic and Social Council (1982-).
    • Selected meetings containing voting records
    Go to AccessUN

  • ACM digital library (computer science)
    The Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Digital Library includes the full text of all its current (19) journals magazines, (5) co-distributed journals, and (44) conference proceedings. It features searching capabilities and printing.
    Coverage: 1991 onwards
    Go to ACM digital library (computer science)

  • ACS E-Journals (chemistry)
    Provides full text access to over twenty American Chemical Society journals.
    Go to ACS E-Journals (chemistry)
    Check here for a complete list of Journals

  • Advertising Law Guide (CCH)
    Includes full-text reports of state and federal laws and regulations, industry self-regulating guidelines, and new developments. Also includes explanatory notes to help interpret the law and and explanations by authors with expertise in advertising, marketing, and intellectual property issues.
    Go to Advertising Law Guide (CCH)

  • Aerospace Database
    This database provides bibliographic coverage of journal articles, conferences, and technical reports in aeronautics, astronautics, and space sciences.
    Coverage: 1986-present
    Go to Aerospace Database
    Check here for a complete list of Journals

  • African American Biographical Database, 1790-1950
    The AABD is comprised of the 290+ sources that make up the Series: Black Biographical Dictionaries, 1790-1950, and substitutes electronically for their index: Black Biography, 1790-1950, A Cumulative Index. As such, the AABD is an historical database, covering narratives on leading African-Americans who lived and worked prior to 1950.

    The database can be searched through any combination of nine different fields for biographical profiles or full text. It is indexed to provide full text searches, and provides the full text and illustrations through “pdf” image files. The Adobe Acrobat Reader is required for access to all full text. Remote users not at a public LIAS workstations can download this reader directly while logged onto AABD. Printing from the full text “pdf” files can be done in a CAC lab or from personal workstations equipped with laser printers.
    Updates: Continuous.
    Go to African American Biographical Database, 1790-1950
    Check here for a complete list of Journals


  • African American Poetry, 1760-1900
    Covers the works of 54 African-American poets writing in the 18th and 19th centuries. Searchable collection of poems and individual volumes from all of the major movements and schools of Twentieth Century African American poetry from 1902 to the present day.
    Go to African American Poetry, 1760-1900

  • AGRICOLA (agriculture & related sciences)
    Covers agriculture and related subjects including animal and plant science, entomology, agronomy, horticulture, rural sociology, agricultural economics, family living, food and nutrition.
    Coverage: 1970 - present (some older materials). Updates: Monthly Coverage: indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, USDA, State Experiment Station, State Extension service publications.
    Go to AGRICOLA (agriculture and related sciences)

  • Agropedia (agriculture encyclopedias)
    A collection of agriculture encyclopedias, including: Encyclopedia of Animal Science; Encyclopedia of Plant & Crop Science; Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, & Biological Engineering; Encyclopedia of Water Science; Encyclopedia of Soil Science; and Encyclopedia of Pest Management.
    Go to Agropedia (agriculture encyclopedias)

  • AIAA Online Publications (aerospace engineering)
    This resource provides access to the full text of all articles and technical papers published since 2001 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
    Go to AIAA Online Publications (aerospace engineering)

  • AIDSearch
    AIDSearch (MEDLINE AIDS/HIV Subset, AIDSTRIALS & AIDSDRUGS) A combination of three database files providing information about Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and related topics. All records must be identified as being derived from NLM databases. ---AIDSDRUGS is a dictionary of chemical and biological agents currently being evaluated in the AIDS clinical trials covered in companion AIDSTRIALS database. ---MEDLINE AIDS/HIV Subset includes citations from journal articles, government reports, letters, technical reports, meeting abstracts/papers, monographs, special publications, theses, books and audiovisuals covering research, clinical aspects and health policy issues related to AIDS. ---AIDSTRIALS includes information about the clinical trials of substances being tested for use against AIDS, HIV infection, and AIDS-related opportunistic diseases.
    Go to AIDSearch

  • AIP & APS E-Journals (physics)
    Full text access to American Institute of Physics and American Physical Society electronic journals.  See also IOP E-Journals (physics) for more full text physics journals.
    Go to AIP and APS E-Journals (physics)

  • Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals
    A subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals. The Index contains citations since 1988 and is updated continuously.
    Go to Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals

  • Aluminum Industry Abstracts
    This resource provides comprehensive coverage of the world's technical literature on aluminum, production processes, products, applications, and business developments. Coverage is from 1972 to date.
    Go to Aluminum Industry Abstracts

  • America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922
    America's Historical Newspapers allows researchers to search more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states. Created by Readex through partnerships with the American Antiquarian Society, Library of Congress, Wisconsin Historical Society and others, America's Historical Newspapers enables researchers to explore virtually every aspect of America during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries.
    America's Historical Newspapers can be cross-searched with the Archive of Americana click here to access Archive of Americana
    Go to America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922 [Digital Archive]

  • America's News Magazines (Newsbank)
    America's News Magazines (NewsBank) provides full-text articles from leading magazines that provide coverage and analysis of current events in a range of categories including: news, business, entertainment, lifestyle, science and technology, and sports. One easy-to-search interface is used for all titles. Paid advertisements are excluded.
    Go to America's News Magazines (Newsbank)

  • America's Newspapers (Newsbank)
    Complete full-text content of many Knight-Ridder and other newspapers. This includes a wide range of local and regional newspapers, including the Centre Daily Times. Use this database to locate newspaper articles related to community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.
    Go to America's Newspapers (Newsbank)

  • America: History and Life
    America: History and Life includes about 400,000 annotated or abstracted references to American and Canadian history.  Published since 1964, the database includes over 2,000 journals worldwide, including state and local historical journals as well as historical articles from hundreds of major humanities and social science journals.  It also includes thousands of book and media reviews, citations to published books, and dissertations.
    Go to America: History and Life
    Check here for a complete list of Journals

  • American Broadsides and Ephemera
    Based on the American Antiquarian Society's 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. Broadsides range from contemporary accounts of the Civil War, unusual occurrences and natural disasters to official government proclamations, tax bills and town meeting reports. Ephemera include early trade cards, theater playbills, stock certificates, menus and invitations, popular songs and music, and poetry. American Broadsides and Ephemera can be searched as a single collection, or combined with other resources in the Archive of Americana.
    Go to American Broadsides and Ephemera

  • American Drama (1714-1915)
    Provides searchable full texts of more than 1,100 plays from the colonial period to the beginning of the twentieth century
    Go to American Drama (1714-1915)

  • American Film Institute Catalog
    The online American Film Institute (AFI) Catalog draws its content from six printed volumes that document every American film from 1893 to 1970, currently excluding 1951-1960, which are currently in production. Search records by keywords; film titles; cast, crew, and character names; subject; genre; release year and more. Most records include extensive plot summaries.
    Go to American Film Institute Catalog

  • American Geophysical Union e-journals
    The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is devoted to the scientific study of Earth and its environment. The AGU focuses its research in four fundamental areas: atmospheric and ocean sciences; solid-Earth sciences; hydrologic sciences; and space sciences. This resource provides access to the fulltext of six AGU journals: the Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR), Geophysical Research Letters, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, G-Cubed (Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems), Paleoceaonography, Reviews of Geophysics, Tectonics, and Water Resources Research. Coverage is from 1994 to date.
    Go to American Geophysical Union e-journals

  • American Mathematical Society Journals

    The AMS is devoted to publishing research mathematics of high quality and significance in all areas of pure and applied mathematics. For journals that appear in dual electronic and print formats, articles are posted individually on the Web soon after proof is returned from authors and before appearing in issues for the print product. The AMS also publishes refereed electronic-only journals that receive the same timely posting that dual-format journals receive. Items in article bibliographies are linked to their reviews on MathSciNet when available.
    Go to American Mathematical Society (full text journal articles)


  • American National Biography Online
    The American National Biography Online offers portraits of more than 17,000 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation. The online version reproduces the full-text of the original 24 volume set published in 1999, with new and updated entries added regularly. The online edition features thousands of illustrations, hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities.
    Go to American National Biography Online

  • American Periodicals Series, 1740-1900
    Contains full-text of American magazines and journals that originated between 1741 and 1900. APS Online features over 1,100 periodicals spanning nearly 200 years. Digitized page images reproduce the publications as they appeared when originally published.
    Go to American Periodicals Series, 1740-1900

  • American Poetry Database
    Contains the works of over 200 American poets from 1600 to 1900, with an emphasis on the actual text of the poems and the poet's own notes.
    Go to American Poetry Database

  • AMS E-Journals (meteorology)
    Full text access to the American Meteorological Society Journals Online. Coverage is from 1997 to the present. Search capabilities include simple (full-text) and advanced (field) searching.
    Go to AMS E-Journals (meteorology)
    Check here for a complete list of Journals

  • Année philologique
    L'Annee Philologique is an exhaustive index of periodicals, books and essays in classics and classical studies. It covers Greek and Latin linguistics and literature and Greek and Roman archaeology, history, mythology, religion, epigraphy, numismatics and palaeography. The database indexes over 1,500 journals from 1969 to the present.
    Go to Annee-philologique

  • Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
    Coverage of monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays, and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards. Includes links to the full text of 120 journals.
    Go to Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature

  • Annual Reviews
    Annual Reviews is a collection of comprehensive critical reviews of the literature in 30 disciplines in the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. The reviews are written by leading scientists in the fields, and are heavily cited and highly ranked in terms of impact factors. Coverage is back to 1996, and is updated yearly.
    Go to Annual Reviews

  • Anthropology Plus
    Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals.
    Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.
    Go to Anthropology Plus

  • AnthroSource
    AnthroSource is an online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists. Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource brings 100 years of anthropological material online to scholars and the public, including: * A complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003 * Seamless access to archival content housed at JSTOR for key AAA publications including American Anthropologist (for AAA members and subscribing institutions) * Current issues for 11 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Anthropology and Humanism, Archaeological Publications of the American Anthropological Association, Cultural Anthropology, Ethos, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, NAPA Bulletin and PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review.
    Go to AnthroSource

  • Applied Science and Technology Abstracts
    This abstract covers over 350 key, international English-language periodicals in the applied sciences and technology.  It is a good source of information on management, careers and employment, and financial trends in the scientific and technological fields.  It abstracts interviews, meetings, conferences, exhibitions, discussions, new product reviews, and conference proceedings; it also cites book reviews.
      Coverage: From October 1983 to the present, with Abstracts included from March 1993 to the present.  New records are added monthly.
    Go to Applied Science and Technology Abstracts

  • Aquatic Sciences Fisheries Abstracts
    The Aquatic Sciences Collection provides comprehensive information on the science and technology of marine, freshwater, and brackish water organisms and environments from 1978 to the present. The collection contains five files which can be searched individually:
    (1) Biological Sciences and Living Resources
    (2) Ocean Technology, Policy & Non-Living Resources
    (3) Aquatic pollution & Environmental Quality
    (4) Marine Biotechnology Abstracts
    (5) Aquaculture Abstracts.
    Oceanic Abstracts is also available from this selection.
    Access is provided via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.
    Coverage: Current edition. Updates: Monthly.
    Go to Aquatic Science and Fisheries Abstracts
    Check here for a complete list of Journals

  • Archive of Americana
    A family of primary source historical collections covering nearly three centuries of American History. The resources can be searched together or separately. Currently includes: American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I Broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints from the disnguished bibliography created by Charles Evans. Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 Bbooks, pamphlets, broadsides and other imprints listed in the distinguished bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker. America's Historical Newspapers Early American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 present states.
    Go to Archive of Americana

  • ArchiveGrid
    An index produced by the Research Libraries Group to finding aids and other descriptive information about the holdings of manuscript and archival collections in libraries and research institutions throughout the world.
    Go to ArchiveGrid

  • Archives USA (manuscript collections)
    This resource provides access to an integrated database of three major information resources (NUCMC--National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, NIDS--National Inventory of Documentary Resources in the United States, and DAMRUS--Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States). ArchivesUSA gives access to holdings and contact information of more than 4,400 repositories, and indexes to nearly 100,000 special collections.
    Coverage: Current edition. Updates: Continuous.
    Go to ArchivesUSA (manuscript collections)

  • Armed Conflict Database
    Covers international and internal conflicts, as well as terrorism. It provides an interactive source of information on 70 armed conflicts including terrorism, refugees, and returnees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), weapons used and their flows, fatalities, costs ($US), historical backgrounds, annual updates and timelines. Users can generate reports and download data as well as browse through year-by-year analyses and fact sheets online.
    Go to Armed Conflict Database

  • Art Abstracts
    Art Abstracts indexes articles in recent visual arts magazines, roughly 1984 to present. It is an electronic equivalent of the paper publication Art Index (vols. 33 to the present) -- the most commonly used periodical index for the visual arts (painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, decorative arts, crafts) and, to a lesser degree, related disciplines (including some architecture, design, cinema, scenic design, museology, cultural criticism, and critical theory). Most of the journals indexed are published in English, but a selection of French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch titles are included. In addition to articles and reviews, individual works on art unaccompanied by text (often gallery ads) are indexed. Indexing from 1929 to 1984 is also available electronically through a separate database: Art Index Retrospective
    Coverage: 1984-present
    Go to Art Abstracts

  • Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts
    AATA Online is a comprehensive database of more than 100,000 abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage.
    Go to Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts

  • Art Index Retrospective
    This database indexes articles from visual arts magazines. Use it to search for older articles, published between 1929 and 1984. It is the electronic equivalent of the paper publication Art Index (vols. 1-32) -- the most commonly used periodical index for the visual arts (painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, decorative arts, crafts) and, to a lesser degree, related disciplines (including some architecture, design, cinema, scenic design, museology, cultural criticism, and critical theory). Most of the journals indexed were published in English, but a selection of French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch titles are included. In addition to articles and reviews, individual works on art unaccompanied by text (often gallery ads) are indexed.

    Note: Indexing from 1984 to the present is also available electronically through a separate database: Art Index.
    Coverage: Indexing published between 1929 and 1984 for nearly 600 journals.
    Go to Art Index Retrospective


  • Art, Architecture, and Landscape Pictures
    This database provides access to digital images from four of Penn State’s collections: • Art History Department Visual Resource Selections: a group of more than 5,000 images documenting the history of painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts. • Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures: Images documenting the history of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban development. • The O'Connor/Yeager Collection: 19th- and early 20th-century prints depicting Pennsylvania from the Palmer Museum of Art. • University Park Campus History Collection: Photos, drawings, and documents from the University Archives chronicling the growth of Penn State's Largest Campus.
    Go to Art, Architecture, and Landscape Pictures

  • ARTbibliographies Modern
    ARTbibliographies Modern helps you locate literature about the modern and contemporary visual arts beginning with Impressionism in the late 19th-century, up to the most recent works and trends in the late 20th century. Photography is covered from its invention in 1839 to the present. A particular emphasis is placed upon adding new and lesser-known artists and on the coverage of foreign-language literature. This database provides indexing and abstracts of journal articles, exhibition reviews, and selected books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews.

    Coverage: Begins in 1974 and approximately 13,000 new entries are added each year.
    Go to ARTbibliographies Modern


  • ARTFL (French literature)
    Full text database ranging from classic works in French literature to nonfiction prose and technical writings.
    Mostly 18th-20th century texts.
    Coverage: about 2000 texts in the French language.
    Go to ARTFL (French literature)

  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index
    This is an index covering arts and humanities journals. It also provides users with the ability to track known citations in the literature.
    Coverage: 1975 - present
    Go to Arts and Humanities Citation Index

  • ARTstor (pictures of art, architecture, and visual culture)
    ARTstor is a database of digital images of works of art and of artifacts of visual culture, intended to support teaching, research and learning in visual culture and related fields. The database contains hundreds of thousands of good-quality images and is growing rapidly. It is comprised of six major collections that may be searched separately or simultaneously: • The Image Gallery: a broad collection intended to support courses in art and architectural history. • The Carnegie Arts and the United States Collection: a collection intended to support teaching of American art and architectural history. • The Museum of Modern Art Architecture and Design Collection: drawings, models, photographs, graphic design materials, and three-dimensional objects documenting 20th-century design. • The Illustrated Bartsch: Old Master European prints from the 15th to the early 19th Centuries. • The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive (MIDA): mural paintings and related art and texts associated with the several hundred Buddhist cave shrines in Dunhuang, China. Access to this new project, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is currently provided as a test to a limited number of institutions. Please send your comments or questions about this new service to Henry Pisciotta (henryp@psu.edu).
    Go to ARTstor (pictures of art, architecture, and visual culture)

  • ASAE Technical Library
    All of the recent technical documents published by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers including full text access to journals, standards, technical reports, conference proceedings, and monographs.
    Go to ASAE Tech Library

  • ASCE Research Library
    These are the online versions of the journals published by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
    Go to ASCE Research Library

  • ASM Handbooks Online
    This resource features extensive engineering and property data for materials of all types. It contains the fulltext of several ASM handbooks including the Metals Handbook and the Engineered Materials Handbook.
    Go to ASM Handbooks Online

  • ASME Online Journals (mechanical engineering)

    Full text access to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers online journals.
    Go to ASME Online Journals (mechanical engineering)


  • Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA)
    The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) strives to democratize access to the best data on religion. The targeted audience and the data collection have both greatly expanded since 1998, now including American and international collections and developing features for educators, journalists, religious congregations, and researchers.
    Go to Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA)

  • Associations Unlimited
    This reference database has information and locations on nearly 144,000 nonprofit membership organizations worldwide: International and U.S. National, Regional, State, and Local. It covers everything from local Chambers of Commerce to the American Medical Association, and beyond.

    Note: In January 1998, the name was changed from Encyclopedia of Associations to Associations Unlimited.
    Current edition. Updates: Continuous.
    Go to Associations Unlimited


  • ASTM Standards
    This database provides access to the full text versions of all current ASTM standards. ASTM is the American Society for Testing and Materials.
    Go to ASTM Standards

  • ATLA Religion Database
    ATLA Religion Database provides information on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues. ATLA Religion Database contains more than 1.4 million bibliographic records covering the research literature of religion in over 60 languages. It includes more than 488,000 article citations from more than 1,500 journals (506 currently indexed), more than 215,000 essay citations from over 15,700 multi-author works, more than 446,000 book review citations. Coverage spans from 1949 to the present. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association.
    Go to ATLA Religion Database

  • Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
    Contains descriptions of articles on the history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, historic preservation, furniture, and interior design and decoration in more than 700 international magazines. Most indexing began with 1934, but some titles are indexed to dates as early as 1741. Updated weekly.
    Go to Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

  • Beilstein/Gmelin (Chemistry)
    Beilstein and Gmelin are handbooks that cover organic chemistry and inorganic/organometallic chemistry respectively back to the late 1700s. They are searchable by property values or by chemical structures using CrossFire software. You must install the software on your workstation in order to access the databases. To obtain the information needed to download the software, please contact njb2@psu.edu and request it. Please use your PSU e-mail account. The contact information will not be sent to a non-PSU e-mail account.
    Go to Beilstein/Gmelin (Chemistry)

  • The Bible in English
    The Bible in English contains twenty versions of the Bible, from Old English, through the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and into the twentieth century. In addition to the twelve complete Bibles, there are five New Testament works, two Gospel works and William Tyndale's New Testament, Pentateuch and Jonah translations.
    Go to Bible in English

  • Bibliography of Asian Studies
    The online bibliography of Asian Studies is produced by the Association for Asian Studies, a major association for scholars interested in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. This online index replaces the printed Bibliography of Asian Studies volumes for the years 1971-1991, and supplements the earlier printed cumulations dating back to 1941.  While the BAS covers all fields, its primary strengths are its coverage of the humanities and the social sciences. Fields such as history, geography, literature, anthropology, politics, the arts, and many others are well covered in the Bibliography.
    Contents: It includes references to over 400,000 scholarly journal articles, monographs, and chapters from books published in Western languages from 1971 to 1991. Additional references from more recent years will be added to the database as soon as possible.
    Go to Bibliography of Asian Studies

  • Bibliography of the History of Art
    Indexing for articles and some books on European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present. In addition to coverage of 1400 periodicals, selected books, conference proceedings, essays, exhibition catalogues, and some art dealer's catalogues, doctoral dissertations, and microform publications are indexed. Indexing begins with 1973 and is updated 4 times each year.
    Go to Bibliography of the History of Art

  • Big Ten Library Catalogs
    Links to individual Big Ten catalogs that you can search: Indiana University, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Purdue University, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Champaign, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin.
    Go to Big Ten Library Catalogs

  • Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI)
    An index (not full text resource) to biographical information about influential people worldwide, both living and historical. Lists the contents of readily available current reference books as well as major reference works from the past. It currently has over 10 million references, with about 450,000 new ones added annually. See the Gale Web site for additional information and copyright statement.
    Coverage: Current edition. Updates: Continuous.
    Go to Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI)

  • Biological Abstracts
    Biological Abstracts is the premier database for the biological sciences and includes information on biochemistry, microbiology, human biology, physiology, botany and zoology.
    Go to Biological Abstracts

  • Biological and Agricultural Index
    This index cites articles from more than 240 English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere.  Periodical coverage includes a wide range of scientific journals, from popular to professional that pertain to biology and agriculture.
      Coverage: 1985 to the present; new records are added weekly.
    Go to Biological and Agricultural Index

  • Black Drama
    Includes full texts of plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. The plays are fully searchable and extensively indexed.
    Go to Black Drama

  • Blackwell Science/Blackwell Journals (full text journal articles)
    This database full-text, full-image access to the Blackwell journals that Penn State owns in print subscriptions.
    Go to Blackwell Science/Blackwell Publishing Journals

  • BNA Criminal Law Reporter
    Selected BNA databases are now available to all Penn State students, faculty, and staff. The BNA Criminal Law Reporter provide in-depth news and analysis of criminal law along with applicable statutes and court cases. Updated weekly.
    Go to BNA Criminal Law Reporter

  • BNA Electronic Web Subscriptions
    BNA electronic titles provide news and analysis in many areas of law such as antitrust, banking, corporate, employee benefits, employment and labor, environment and safety, ethics, homeland security, intellectual property, litigation, securities and corporate responsibility, tax, trade and commerce, and international law. Text of relevant statutes, regulations, and court opinions are included.
    Go to BNA Electronic Web Subscriptions

  • BNA Environment Reporter
    Selected BNA databases are now available to all Penn State students, faculty, and staff. The BNA Environment Reporter provides in-depth news and analysis of environmental law along with applicable statutes and court cases. Updated weekly.
    Go to BNA Environment Reporter

  • BNA Family Law Reporter
    Selected BNA databases are now available to all Penn State students, faculty, and staff. The BNA Family Law Reporter provide in-depth news and analysis of family law along with applicable statutes and court cases. Updated weekly.
    Go to BNA Family Law Reporter

  • BNA Health Law Reporter
    Selected BNA databases are now available to all Penn State students, faculty, and staff. The BNA Health Law Reporter provides in-depth news and analysis of health law along with applicable statutes and court cases. Updated weekly.
    Go to BNA Health Law Reporter

  • BNA Labor and Employment Library
    Selected BNA databases are now available to all Penn State students, faculty, and staff. The BNA Labor and Employment Library provides in-depth news and analysis of labor law along with applicable statutes and court cases. Updated weekly.
    Go to BNA Labor and Employment Library

  • BNA Law resources
    A collection of more than 200 law related news, analysis, and reference products, providing intensive coverage of legal and regulatory developments and case law covering a wide range of topics including Antitrust, Banking, Bankruptcy, Corporate, Criminal Law, Employee Benefits, Employment and Labor, Environment and Safety, Ethics, Family Law, Health Care, Homeland Security, Intellectual Property, International, International Tax, Litigation, Product Liability, Securities, Tax law, Trade, and Commerce.
    Go to BNA Law resources

  • Book Review Index
    Provides quick access to reviews of books and other media appearing in more than 600 publications. Includes reviews published from 1965 to present. To locate the text of a review select the "Penn State Search" link.
    Go to Book Review Index

  • British Periodicals
    Full texts of hundreds of journals from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. Includes some of the major magazines as well as specialized titles in literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences.
    Go to British Periodicals

  • Brown University Women Writers Project
    The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. Our goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers (pre 1830 in England) out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader. We support research on women's writing, text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and scholarship.
    Go to Brown Women Writers Project

  • Business Cycle Indicators - U.S. Indicators
    The Business Cycle Indicators - U.S. Indicators database provides economic indicators that have proven to be most useful in determining current conditions and predicting the future direction of the United States economy. A common spreadsheet-type format is used, allowing the BCI series to be easily imported into numerous software programs (including EXCEL, LOTUS-123, FREELANCE, EVIEWS, TSP, and SAS). More than 250 economic series are in the U.S. BCI dataset, with many series beginning in 1945.
    Go to Business Cycle Indicators - U.S. Indicators

  • CAB DIRECT
    CAB DIRECT incorporates two leading bibliographic databases from CABI Publishing: CAB Abstracts and Global Health. CAB Abstracts covers research and development literature in the fields of agriculture, forestry, aspects of human health, human nutrition and food science, animal health and the management and conservation of natural resources. Global Health covers all aspects of international and public health, including parasitology, tropical diseases and human nutrition.
    Coverage: 1973- present. Updates: Weekly.
    Go to CAB Abstracts (Agriculture, nutrition and global health)

  • Cabell's Directory (Business; Education; Psychology).
    Cabell's Directories helps identify journals that are most likely to publish a manuscript, by giving the topic areas emphasized, the type of review process, number of external reviewers, acceptance rate, time required for review, availability of reviewers' comments, and if fees charged to review or publish the manuscript. Directories are available for Accounting; Economics and Finance; Management; Marketing; Educational Curriculum and Methods; Educational Psychology and Administration; and Psychology.
    Go to Cabell's Directory (Business; Education; Psychology)

  • Cambridge University Press - Electronic Journals
    Access to electronic editions of journals to which the Penn State University Libraries subscribe. Cambridge University Press is the publisher.
    Go to Cambridge University Press - Electronic Journals

  • CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online)
    CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) offers rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources
    Authorized uses of these images include: 1. Classroom instruction and related activities; 2. student assignments; 3. public display or public performance in a university museum, gallery or similar facility including use in exhibit labels and other components of the exhibit; 4. public display or public performance as part of a professional presentation at a seminar, conference, or workshop, 5. use in a student or faculty portfolio, including non-public display thereof, and 6. use in a dissertation, including reproductions of the dissertation for personal use and library deposit.
    Coverage: Updated annually.
    Go to CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online)

  • Canadian Poetry
    Includes the texts of more than 12,000 poems by some 142 English-language authors from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century.
    Go to Canadian Poetry

  • Capitolwire.Com
    Capitolwire.com provides current news related to policy and government in the state of Pennsylvania. Besides information on key issues it also provides: online Calendar of Record for public affairs in the capitol and around the state; briefing on the day’s political and economic headlines; access to many of the latest memos, press releases, speeches, position papers, legislative committee testimony and correspondence to and from executive agencies, lawmakers, lobbyists and interest groups ; and various tools to follow changes in regulation and legislation.
    Go to Capitolwire.Com

  • The CAT - The Penn State Libraries Catalog
    The online catalog of materials owned by Penn State Libraries. All formats (books, journals, audiovisuals, maps, recordings, etc.) are included. Circulation status for individual items also provided.
    Coverage: Presently contains about 2 million titles. Updates: Continuous up-to-the-minute as new records are added.
    Go to CAT - PSU Libraries Web Catalog

  • Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
    The Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) is the finding tool for electronic and print publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government. These publications make up the National Bibliography of U.S. Government Publications. The CGP contains descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online. The CGP is the online counterpart of the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, which dates from the passage of the Printing Act of 1895. At present the Monthly Catalog should be consulted for pre-1976 indexing. The Monthly Catalog and many of the publications indexed in it were distributed through the Federal Depository Library Program.
    Go to Catalog of U.S. Government Publications

  • CCH Business and Finance Network
    CCH Business and Finance Network provides primary research materials on mergers and acquisitions, product liability and safety, corporate governance, banking, international business, securities, intellectual property, and antitrust and trade regulation. Full text materials include statutes, judicial opinions, regulations, newsletters, foreign laws and rules, and forms.
    Go to CCH Business and Finance Network

  • CCH Health and Human Resources Network
    CCH Health and Human Resources Network provides federal and state research materials on topics such as labor and employment, pensions, benefits, health care compliance and reimbursement, and safety compliance. Full-text materials include statutes, regulations, agency directives and letters, judicial opinions, and forms.
    Go to CCH Health and Human Resources Network

  • CCH Tax
    Comprehensive tax service providing federal, state, and international tax research source materials, including full-text statutes, regulations, administrative and judicial opinions, commentary, and citations.
    Go to CCH Tax Research Network

  • CenStats
    CenStats is a Web-based subscription service that provides interactive search-and-display access to the following databases:
    • Annual Survey of Manufactures
    • Building Permit Data
    • Census Tract Street Locator
    • Consolidated Federal Funds Report
    • County Business Patterns
    • International Trade Data
    • Occupation by Race and Sex
    • USA Counties
    • Zip Business Patterns

    Note: This database is available to all users; it is not restricted to Penn State users only.
    Go to CenStats

  • Center for Research Libraries
    The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international not-for-profit consortium of colleges, universities and libraries that makes available scholarly research resources to users at member institutions. CRL's outstanding collections include more than five million volumes of research materials rarely held in North American libraries.
    Note: An online catalogue is available at this site.
    Go to Center for Research Libraries

  • Centre Daily Times (1995 - present)
    The Centre Daily Times, four years straight winner of the top newspaper in its circulation category, is committed to providing the best local news coverage in the area. The Daily Times covers many businesses headquartered in the region such as AccuWeather, Ratheon, Uni-Marts Inc. and Corning Asahi. Particular emphasis is placed on Penn State University as a result of its proximity. Coverage: 1995 - present

    Go to Centre Daily Times (1996 - present)


  • Centre Daily Times Index
    This selective database, created at Penn State, primarily indexes local news articles. National and state news items are not indexed unless they are relevant to local persons, places or events. The Sports section is not indexed unless an article relates to another larger issue such as Title IX, gender equity, medicine, etc. Friday's Weekender section is not indexed either.

    The following topics are indexed:

    • Local news articles
    • Selected Editorials
    • Theater
    • Music
    • Visual arts
    • Book reviews
    • Obituaries (beginning in 1990)
    Coverage: 1981-2002.

    Go to Centre Daily Times Index (1981-2002)


  • Ceramic Abstracts
    This is a database for the ceramics industry, providing international coverage on the manufacture, processing, applications, properties and testing of traditional and advanced ceramics. Source materials include over 300 journals, conference proceedings, books, patents, standards and company product literature.
    Coverage: 1975-date
    Go to Ceramic Abstracts
    Check here for a complete list of Journals

  • CHANT
    Chinese Ancient Text (CHANT) is a comprehensive full-text database of ancient Chinese texts. The database contains five components: pre-220 AD (the Pre-Han and Han period) traditional texts; 220-581 AD (the Weijin period) traditional texts; excavated texts on wood/bamboo strips and silk (Jianbo); excavated oracular inscriptions on tortoise shells and bones (Jiaguwen); traditional as well as excavated bronze inscriptions (Jinwen).
    Go to CHANT

  • Chemical Abstracts
    Chemical Abstracts is available online through SciFinder Scholar. It is a bibliographic database that covers the literature of chemistry from 1907 to present. Chemical Abstracts is one of the databases available through SciFinder Scholar. To access Chemical Abstracts you must download the SciFinder Scholar client software to your workstation.
    Go to Chemical Abstracts

  • CHEMnetBASE(chemistry, physics, polymers)
    A collection of dictionaries and handbooks providing information on chemical compounds, polymers, and physics data.
    Go to CHEMnetBASE(chemistry, physics, polymers)

  • Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption
    The Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption Database covers all aspects of child abuse and neglect, foster care, dispute resolution, adoption, including Identification, treatment, and prevention programs and strategies, legal issues, research projects, training programs, search and reunion, etc. Include books, journals, multimedia, government reports, conference papers, research projects, state annual reports, legislation, curricula, and unpublished papers. Includes a thesaurus to construct precise searches.
    Go to Child Abuse, Child Welfare and Adoption

  • Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database
    The Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database offers information about children’s books, videos, and audio books ranging from baby board books to novels and nonfiction for young adults. Of the more than 500,000 MARC format records, about 10% include full text book reviews from well-respected sources such as KIRKUS Reviews, Science Books & Films, andVoice of Youth Advocates(VOYA).
    Go to Children's Literature Comprehensive Database

  • China Academic Journals (Full text Chinese journal articles)

    China Academic Journal (CAJ) series on Literature/History/Philosophy offers access to over 1 million full-text articles from more than 300 journals published in China. CAJ articles can be downloaded and viewed as Adobe Acrobat .pdf files. Input in Chinese characters is recommended to achieve better search result.
    Coverage: 1994-present.
    Go to China Academic Journals (Full text Chinese journal articles)


  • ChoiceReviews online
    Provides electronic access to all Choice reviews published since September 1988. The database is updated monthly, in the middle of the month, adding reviews schedule for publication in the next print issue.
    Go to ChoiceReviews online

  • CIAO (International Affairs)
    CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) is a comprehensive source for research in international affairs. It includes full text of selected books on international affairs, working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. It also, contains abstracts and some full text of selected journal articles.
    Go to CIAO (International Affairs)

  • CINAHL (nursing & allied health)
    Besides comprehensive coverage of journals, also includes references to relevant books, chapters, nursing dissertations, association publications, educational software, research instruments, and selected conference proceedings. Database is pronounced "sin-all:"
    Coverage: 1982 - Present. Updates: Monthly. Coverage: indexes English language journal literature.
    Go to CINAHL (nursing and allied health)

  • Civil War Letters and Diaries (U.S. Civil War)
    Contains searchable full-text from the writings of over 400 authors. When complete, the collection will include more than 100,000 pages of primary materials, as well as author biographies and a Civil War chronology.
    Go to Civil War Letters and Diaries (U.S.Civil War)

  • Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
    A compilation of the Columbia Granger.s indexes to poetry along with full texts of 190,000 poems taken from British and North American anthologies. Though the emphasis is on poems written in or translated into English, works in a number of other languages are included. Poems may be searched by authors, subjects, titles, first lines, last lines, or full texts.
    Go to Columbia Granger's World of Poetry

  • Communication Abstracts
    Communication Abstracts provides coverage of recent literature in all areas of communication studies (mass, interpersonal and new communication technologies)."
    Coverage: 1998-Present.
    Go to Communication Abstracts

  • Communications & Mass Media Complete
    Communication & Mass Media Complete provides access to research in communication and mass media. This database contains: 1. All detailed bibliographic records from CommSearch, formerly produced by the National Communication Association 2. All detailed bibliographic records from Mass Media Articles Index, formerly produced by Penn State University Libraries 3. Indexing, abstracts and detailed bibliographic records for all major communication and/or mass media journals that were not previously covered by CommSearch or Mass Media Articles Index. More than 285 “core” journals are indexed and abstracted cover-to-cover in CMMI. Approximately 100 journals will be indexed selectively for those articles which are relevant to study of communications and mass media research. Selective" coverage of a large number of quality publications which occasionally contain papers related to the discipline will also be included. In addition, CMMI contains full text for more than 160 communication and mass media journals, including most of the top journals in the field. This database will include PDF images of some journals going back to the first published issue including: • Communication Education • Communication Monographs • Critical Studies in Media Communication • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics • Journal of Applied Communication Research • Journal of the Association for Communication Administration Philosophy & Rhetoric Quarterly Journal of Speech Sign Language & Linguistics Text & Performance Quarterly
    Go to Communication and Mass Media Complete

  • Community Health Database (Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Survey)
    The Community Health Data Base (CHDB) is provided by the Philadelphia Health Management Corporation (PHMC). The CHDB contains statistical information from the Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Survey, which is administered every two years. The CHDB also maintains U.S. Census and vital statistics data. The Community Health Data Base has become a unique, critical resource for area health and social service agencies. It provides: • Local data, not extrapolations based on national or state data • Data that are community-based rather than resource-based • Data that can be examined by different levels of geography, including census tract, health district, Minor Civil Division, and ZIP code, as well as by county and region • Longitudinal data that can be used as a baseline to measure changes in health, social status and access to care over time
    Go to Community Health Database (Southeastern Pennsylvania Household Health Survey)

  • Community of Science
    The Community of Science (COS) home page, a venture funded by Johns Hopkins University, contains multiple resources which members of Penn State can access. Databases we have access to are:
    • GeoRef
    • U.S. Patents
    • Scientific Journals
    • Federally Funded Research in the U.S. (the full grants database of the NIH, NSF, USDA, SBIR, and Advanced Technology Program)
    The are additional choices on the COS home page which, are not available to Penn State users. They are:
    MEDLINE, Compendex, Federal Register and Commerce Business Daily.
    However, you can access MEDLINE and Compendex from the LIAS Fast Track.
    Go to Community of Science

  • Compendex (engineering)
    Indexes journal articles, conference proceedings and selected technical reports in all areas of engineering.
    Coverage:1970 - Present. Updates: Weekly.
    Go to Compendex (engineering)

  • Computer Manuals On-line (Safari)
    Safari provides electronic access to computer manuals from a number of publishers including O'Reilly, Microsoft, Peach Pit Press, New Rider Press, Sams, Que and Cisco. This product allows the user to search across a number of different manuals simultaneously.
    Go to Computer Manuals On-line (Safari)

  • The Conference Board's Research Online Collection (business, economics)
    Full-text research reports (from 1998 on) on recent issues in business and economics. Subscription also incudes access to "Straight Talk" (brief analyses of economic issues), "Across the Board" (the Board's magazine), the "Executive Action Series" (brief reports addressing topics of interest to senior executives), and the Board's economic working papers.
    Go to Conference Board's Research Online Collection (business, economics)

  • Conference Papers Index
    Conference Papers provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world.
    Coverage: 1982-date
    Go to Conference Papers Index
    Check here for a complete list of Journals

  • Congress Collection (CQ)
    Includes history and current developments of federal legislation, congressional member information, voting analysis, and interest group ratings on congress.
    Go to Congress Collection (CQ)

  • Congressional Research Service Reports (Gallerywatch)
    Research papers written by the Library of Congress for the use of Congress. Provide objective, non-partisan analysis of public policy issues before the legislature. Full text PDF of reports.
    Go to Congressional Research Service Reports (Gallerywatch)

  • Congressional Universe LexisNexis
    Congressional Universe LexisNexis provides access to the best web resources for congressional and legislative information. This includes services available only to Penn State Users only, such as Congressional Universe (1789-to date) as well as other free services that provide similar or related information such as Thomas (1993-to date) and GPO Access (1993-to date).

    The Guided Tour provides a step-by-step approach to congressional and legislative information for users who have never done research of this type before.
    Updates: Continuous.
    Go to Congressional Universe LexisNexis


  • Congressional/Legislative Resources (1789-to date)
    Congressional/Legislative Resources (1789-to date) provides access to the best web resources for congressional and legislative information. This includes services available only to Penn State Users only, such as Congressional Universe (1789-to date) as well as other free services that provide similar or related information such as Thomas (1993-to date) and GPO Access (1993-to date).

    The Guided Tour provides a step-by-step approach to congressional and legislative information for users who have never done research of this type before.
    Updates: Continuous.
    Go to Congressional/Legislative Resources (1789-to date)


  • Constitutions of the Countries of the World
    Covers the constitutions of 192 nations. Features the full text in the original language and English translations that have been carefully prepared by expert linguists familiar with judicial terminology. Includes notes that examine recent amendments and highlight pertinent historical, legal, political and economic information not found in other sources.
    Go to Constitutions of the Countries of the World

  • CONSUMER HEALTH Medlineplus
    The National Library of Medicine's MEDLINEplus information pages are designed to direct you to resources containing information that will help you research your health questions. They are designed for educational use only and are not intended to replace advice from a health professional. These pages provide a carefully selected list of resources. They are not meant to be comprehensive.

    Coverage: Includes English language journal articles, monographs, analytics, newspaper articles, court decisions, bills, laws, audiovisual materials and unpublished documents from 1973 to the present.
    Updates are completed bi-monthly.
    Go to Consumer Health (Medline plus)


  • Contemporary Authors
    Provides brief biographical information and lists of publications by and about over 90,000 current authors of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, media, etc., active in the U. S. and internationally.
    Coverage: Current edition. Updates: Continuous.
    Go to Contemporary Authors

  • Contemporary Women's Issues
    This database provides access to full text sources covering global information on women.  The sources include periodicals, newsletters, reports, fact sheets, and pamphlets. Topics covered range from human rights to health and reproductive issues to legal information.
    Coverage: 1992 to date. Includes nearly 1500 titles. Updates: Weekly 
    Go to Contemporary Women's Issues

  • Copper Data Center Database
    The Copper Data Center Database is a bibliographic database of the world's literature on copper, copper alloys and copper technology since 1965.
    Go to Copper Data Center Database

  • Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
    This is a collection of Middle English texts assembled from works contributed by University of Michigan faculty and from the Oxford Text Archive.
    Go to Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

  • Corrosion Abstracts
    Corrosion Abstracts is a source of bibliographic information in the area of corrosion science and engineering.
    Coverage: 1980-date
    Go to Corrosion Abstracts
    Check here for a complete list of Journals

  • CQ Electronic Library
    A referece source for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. The suite includes the online version of --CQ Weekly --CQ Researcher --CQ Congress Collection, --CQ Voting and Elections Collection --CQ Historic Documents Online
    Go to CQ Electronic Library

  • CQ Researcher (contemporary issues)
    Weekly "magazine" that explores in-depth a single "hot issue" currently being discussed in the news. Topics include social issues, politics, economics, the environment, education, science, and more. Each issue includes an essay outlining the issue, a pro-con feature, a chronology, and a bibliography.
    Go to CQ Researcher (contemporary issues)

  • CQ Supreme Court Collection
    CQ Supreme Court Collection contains summaries and analysis of more than four thousand major decisions, historical and contemporary, including all cases in which the Burger and Rehnquist Courts (October 1969 to the present) issued a written opinion. Includes links to the full text of the cases. The collection can be searched by topic, justice, and case name. Includes tools to research justices' voting records and opinion alignments.
    Go to CQ Supreme Court Collection

  • CQ Voting and Elections Collection
    CQ Voting and Elections Collection integrates data and analyses with explanatory and historical on the American voter, major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships. Data sets can be downloaded for further manipulation.
    Go to CQ Voting and Elections Collection

  • CQ Weekly Reports (Congressional Quarterly)
    A weekly news magazine reporting on the activities in the U.S. Congress including the status of bills, committee and floor activity, debates, roll-call votes, and congressional-executive branch relations.
    Go to CQ Weekly Reports (Congressional Quarterly)

  • Criminal Justice Abstracts
    Provides abstracts of articles from the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, as well as books and reports from government and nongovernmental agencies. For each document, an informative summary of the findings, methodology, and conclusions is provided. Topics include crime trends, prevention projects, corrections, juvenile delinquency, police, courts, offenders, victims, and sentencing.
    Go to Criminal Justice Abstracts

  • National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
    The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 150,000 publications on criminal justice, including Federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Subject areas include corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, and victims of crime.
    Coverage: The time period covered is from the early 1970's to the present.
    For information about locating items found in the the NCJRS Abstracts Database, see: Availability of Resources
    Go to Criminal Justice:National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)

  • CumInCAD (Computer-Aided Architectural Design)
    CumInCAD is a cumulative index of publications about computer aided architectural design. It provides abstracts to thousands of papers in journals and conferences and it provides the full text and illustrations for more than half of the papers. When asked to logon, create your own ID and password.
    Go to CumInCAD (Computer-Aided Architectural Design)

  • Current Index to (mathematical) Statistics
    The Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in mathematical statistics and related fields. The CIS Extended Database includes cover-to-cover coverage of 100 "core journals", selected articles from 900 additional related journals, and about 8,000 books since 1974.
    Go to Current Index to (mathematical) Statistics

  • Daily Collegian (1887-1955)
    The Daily Collegian and its predecessors, serve as an important source for documenting student life at the Pennsylvania State University. Newspapers, and specifically, student-run newspapers, such as the Daily Collegian, often document university life better than any other source—through their pictures, their editorials, and their reports on student activities and interests. The Daily Collegian as we know it today was preceded by: • Free Lance (monthly) - April 1887 to April 1904 • State Collegian (weekly) - September 28, 1904 to June 10, 1911 • Penn State Collegian (weekly) - September 28, 1911 to August 2, 1955 (also had Summer Collegian issues for some dates during this time period). The Historical Digital Collegian provides access to all words, photographs, and advertisements as well as an exact page image of the newspaper page containing the article. For those readers who prefer to see the newspaper intact, each issue can be browsed page-by-page. Thus, the Historical Digital Collegian allows researchers greater flexibility in locating articles of interest and in allowing greater access for those researchers not able to visit The University Libraries.
    Go to Daily Collegian (1887-1976) (Digital Archive)

  • Daily Collegian (1988-present)
    Daily Collegian Back Issues are provided for browsing archives of this site by issue date. Clicking an issue date will link you to an index of all articles posted on that date. Coverage: 1988-present

    Go to Daily Collegian (1988 - present)


  • Database of Twentieth Century African American Poetry
    This full-text database of modern and contemporary African American poetry includes collected poems and individual volumes from all the major movements and schools of twentieth century African American poetry from 1902 to the present day.
    Go to Database of Twentieth Century African American Poetry

  • Datasets for Research
    This web site is primarily intended to function as a guide to the acquisition and use of secondary datasets which are available for research. In addition, it also contains information on sources for locating summary statistics.

    At this time, the resources on this web site pertain primarily to the health, social sciences, maps/ geography disciplines. Other disciplines will be added in the future.
    Go to Datasets for Research


  • Declassified Documents Reference System
    The Declassified Documents Reference System provides online access to over 500,000 pages of previously classified government documents. Covering major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond, this single source enables users to locate key information underpinning studies in international relations, American studies, United States foreign and domestic policy studies, journalism and more.
    Go to Declassified Documents Reference System

  • The Dictionary of Art
    The Dictionary of Art is the world’s foremost encyclopedia of the history of the visual arts in all media: architecture, ceramics, decorative arts, design, drawing, sculpture, and others. All cultures from prehistory to the 1990s are included. 41,000 articles on people, places, civilizations, religions, media, and other specific topics were initially written by recognized scholars for the 1996 paper publication. These are updated continuously and illustrated with drawings and diagrams and links to web sites with color pictures.
    Go to Dictionary of Art (an illustrated encyclopedia of Art)

  • Dictionary of Literary Biography
    This new and growing database covers authors from all genres and time periods.  Entries provide a good starting point for students by providing a general essay and biographical information.  In addition to the essay there are references to primary and further critical information. All entries are written by scholars and academic specialists.
    Go to Dictionary of Literary Biography

  • Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts
    The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts is an exhaustive resource for historians, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries. DLCPT gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras. With new content uploads occurring on a weekly basis, the database offers a constantly growing treasury of theological writings, biblical commentaries, confessional documents, and polemical treatises written by more than 300 Protestant authors.
    Go to Digital Library Classic Protestant Texts

  • Digital library of the Catholic reformation
    Transcriptions and facsimiles of documents, including papal and synodal decrees, catechisms and inquisitorial manuals, biblical commentaries, theological treatises and systems, liturgical writings, saints' lives, and devotional works by Catholic authors of the 16th and 17th centuries.
    Go to Digital library of the Catholic reformation

  • DigiZeitschriften: The German Digital Journal Archive
    DigiZeitschriften is a research service giving scholars access the core German research journals. Coverage includes over one hundred full-text international journals in Arts, Economics, Education, Geology, History, Language, Law, Librarianship, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Philology, Religion, Sciences, and Sociology.
    Go to DigiZeitschriften: The German Digital Journal Archive

  • Directory of Open Access Journals
    The goal of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and accessibility of open access scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system.
    Go to Directory of Open Access Journals

  • Directory of Published Proceedings
    Contains material from 280,000+ conferences, congresses, meetings & symposia in the areas of Science/Engineering/Technology Medical / Life Sciences Pollution Control / Ecology Social Sciences / Humanities
    Go to Directory of Published Proceedings

  • Dissertation Abstracts
    Dissertation Abstracts is the primary source for 1.4 million doctoral dissertations (and selected master's theses) from over 1000 North American and European universities. Includes a link to the UMI full text dissertation pilot project.
    Coverage: 1851 to date. Abstracts are available for dissertations since 1980, abstracts for theses since 1988.
    Updates: monthly (usually between the 20th and 25th day)
    Go to Dissertation Abstracts

  • DOE Information Bridge (technical reports)
    Includes the full text and bibliographic records of DOE (Department of Energy)-sponsored technical reports published since 1996.
    Coverage: DOE technical reports issued since 1996
    Go to DOE Information Bridge (technical reports)

  • DYABOLA
    DYABOLA contains electronic subject catalogs of publications on the history of art and the ancient world. It includes the subject catalogs of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome, the Bibliography of Iberian Archaeology from the German Archaeological Institute in Madrid, and the Archaeology of Roman Provinces from RGK Frankfurt.
    Go to DYABOLA

  • E-Journal Title Search
    This database provides title and volume information for over 10,000 full text e-journals available in the Libraries' collection. Search by full title or browse by first letter in the title
    Coverage: 1998-Present.
    Go to E-Journal Title Search

  • E-STAT (Canadian Statistics)
    E-STAT is Statistics Canada's dynamic interactive teaching and learning tool available on the Internet. It is designed to bring an enormous warehouse of timely, reliable and accurate data about Canada and its ever-changing people to educational institutions, using current Canadian Socio-economic Information Management System(CANSIM) multidimensional tables, and the most recent census data, as well as historical data. E-STAT lets you bring the columns of data to life by presenting them as colourful graphs and maps, which immediately reveal the trends.
    Go to E-STAT (Canadian Statistics)

  • E-ZBorrow (PALCI)
    PALCI stands for the Pennsylvania Academic Libraries Connection Initiative. In addition, to Penn State, other participating libraries include: Indiana University of Pennsylvania (currently search only), Lafayette College, Lehigh University, and University of Pittsburgh. A full implementation of the system will provide access to the catalogs of 38 academic libraries in Pennsylvania.

    Access to this system is guaranteed through the fall semester. Continued availability will depend on the purchasing decision of the consortium.
    Go to E-ZBorrow(PALCI)


  • Early American Fiction 1789-1875
    Includes both images and text of early editions of more than 750 novels and short stories by more than 130 authors.
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  • Early American Imprints II: Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819
    Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to some 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early nineteenth century. The works cover all aspects of American life, including scientific thought, religion, politics, arts and literature, economics, Indian relations, military affairs, Westward expansion and more. The database is based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker, supplemented by thousands of newly identified items. The database continues the Early American Imprints: Series I, 1639-1800.