Database List

1963-1975. Abstracts of articles from journals in folklore. Published for the American Folklore Society by the University of Texas Press

Mostly 2000-present online resource that provides full-text information from over 40 Spanish-language newspapers and news services based mostly in the United States, Mexico, and some countries in Central and South America.

Mostly 1990's-present online resource that provides full-text information from over 3,900 United States and international newspapers, news services, magazines, blogs, transcripts, and more.

The online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and Yearbooks and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, and more.

The full text of every article ever published by ACM (in journals, transactions, magazines, newsletters, SIGs, and conference proceedings) plus bibliographic citations from other major publishers in computing.

African American Music Reference when complete will include 50,000 pages of text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies, which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. Musical genres represented are blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.It can also be searched through Music Online: Reference

The electronic editions of record for local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers compiled in a single database. Paid ads are excluded. Covers 1690-1922.

1789-1838. Full-text database of U.S. Congressional materials.

A bibliography covering the Roman period in Great Britain up the 20th century.  

1957-. Indexes journal articles in physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics.

1888-. Full-text online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists. Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA).

Online bibliographical database providing full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onwards.

This is a collection of primary source texts from 17th century French including Diderot's <i>Encyclopédie.</i> Founded in 1982 as a result of a collaboration between the French government and the University of Chicago, the <a href="http://artfl-project.uchicago.edu/">ARTFL Project</a> is a consortium-based service that provides its members with access to North America's largest collection of digitized French resources.

An international specialized meta-catalogue allowing the retrieval of bibliographic records of distinctive art historical databases, giving access to more than 8 million records (as of June 2008), including records for articles in periodicals, conference papers, festschriften, exhibition catalogues and exhibition books, etc., and an increasing percentage of records for archival and photographic materials as well as for online resources.

3-primary 1991-present; an e-print service which presents papers in physics and related disciplines, mathematics, nonlinear science, computer science, and quantitative biology.

Serving in part as both a directory and a calendar, this site is designed for anyone seeking live classical concerts and opera performances worldwide. Any company performing worldwide can upload schedules to the central database, with the focus being the major U.S. and British orchestras and opera houses. The Bachtrack team maintains maintains schedules for major venues as well. Search by category first and then narrow by who, what, where, and when.

        Bean beetles (seed beetles; Callosobruchus maculatus)

Includes citations and abstracts of books (but not articles) in philosophy.

A comprehensive bibliography of Western-language materials about French literature and the French language. It is issued annually and dvided into time periods, literary movements, and author.

Indexes the scholarly literature on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide.

Index and abstracts (in French or English) of the current literature of European and American art from late antiquity to the present. Freely available from the Getty Museum.

Access to the full text of 87+ scholarly Biology journals from many different publishers.  Coverage varies by title but is generally the current 5 to 10 years of issues.  Access to the content is also available from other databases via the "Journal Finder" and the "Search for full text" links.

Covering the period 1830-1865, the collection presents the massive, international impact of African American activism against slavery, in the writings and publications of the activists themselves. The approximately 15,000 articles, documents, correspondence, proceedings, manuscripts, and literary works of almost 300 Black abolitionists show the full range of their activities in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, France and Germany. (from the website)

Book reviews in digest form

Provides the electronic edition of record for this Iowa newspaper, excluding paid advertisements. Access is through the NewsBank database.

Description; provides the most in-depth coverage available of the scholarly research literature published internationally in all areas of chemistry, biochemistry, and chemical engineering. Click the link for more information.

A full-text database of Chinese-language journals in the areas of literature, history, and philosophy from 1994-present. Articles are in Chinese and may be downloaded as PDFs. Searching can be done in English and some abstracts are available in English as well.

A scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science.

Classical Music Reference Library brings together reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music. Included are Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (also available in print in Burling Reference), and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music providing coverage of all classical genres, spanning music from the Medieval period to the 21st century, including definitions of musical terms and biographical information on the major classical composers and artists. This can also be searched through Music Online: Reference

Provides the full text of college catalogs from 2-year, 4-year, and graduate schools. The database is searchable by major, tuition, state, enrollment, degrees, and affiliation. It also has links to financial aid information and college home pages.

External trade data for the European Union. This site is designed for downloading data for analysis rather than for quick access to individual statistics.

See description of Literature Resource Center below. Search authors by time period, nation of origin, ethnicity, and name.

Full text database of the writings of Descartes, Benedict de Spinoza, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz through Intelex Past Masters

"... Provides bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings." 

Web portal maintained by the Universidad de La Rioja (Spain) offering a table of contents alerting service and some full text of Spanish-language journal articles and dissertations.  Note: Grinnell College does not have a subscription to Dialnet; full text access is limited to the small percentage of the portal's free content.   

This digital collection overs works of major German language authors spanning eleven centuries and includes historical, philosophical, theological, political and art history texts. Collections of essays, speeches and other non-literary material add context and background material. Each text has been carefully edited and prepared.

1861-current. Covers the complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at most accredited institutions in the U.S. and some in Canada and other countries.

1690-1922. Full text of hundreds Early American newspapers including titles from all 50 present states.

EEBP-TCP is a partnership with ProQuest and with more than 150 libraries to generate highly accurate, fully-searchable, SGML/XML-encoded texts corresponding to books from the Early English Books Online Database .

OCLC catalog of online electronic books available through libraries worldwide.

Current. Provides encyclopedia entries, a dictionary, and magazine articles aimed at children and young people up to high school level.

1995-current. A collection of thousands of scholarly journals covering a wide range of subjects in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

Provides ethnographic studies of cultures within the United States and around the world.

1492-present. A collection of original primary documents relating to cultural contacts, including aspects of religion, race, class, and imperialism.

A multidisciplinary database providing coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from nearly 6,000 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.

Europa World Plus is the online version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Europa Regional Surveys of the World series. First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories.

Covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.

Provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. 

A gateway to searching the many databases offered through the FirstSearch interface. The databases cover a wide range of subjects in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

Building a national preserve of documentary films about American folk or roots culture. Produced by independent filmmakers, these hard-to-find films give voice to the arts and experience of diverse American groups.

The Frick Collection invites you to make use of its art history databases including The Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America; The Montias Database of 17th Century Dutch Art Inventories; and Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century: A Critical Dictionary. Images are not included.

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is a comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples.Each volume contains an overview of the region, a survey of its musical heritage, traditions and themes; and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Articles include detailed photographs that show musicians, musical instrument, and the cultural context of dances, rituals, and ceremonies. Sound files are included with the online version. This can also be searched through Music Online: Reference. A print version with CDs for each volume is also available in Burling Reference.

Japanese academic portal providing services about academic paper information, book information, etc. and connecting CiNii (citation information by NII), Webcat Plus, KAKEN, NII-DBR (Academic research database repository).

The Gerritsen curators gathered more than 4,700 publications from continental Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand, dating from 1543-1945. The anti-feminist case is presented as well as the pro-feminist; many other titles present a purely objective record of the condition of women at a given time.

The broad scope of the collection allows scholars to trace the evolution of feminism within a single country, as well as the impact of one country's movement on those of the others. In many cases, it also provides easy access to primary sources otherwise available only in a few rare book rooms.

The Gerritsen Collection consists of two segments: the Periodical Series and the Monograph Language Series.

Accesses the scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.  Includes links to resources subscribed to by Grinnell College.

1976-current. Indexes all types of U.S. Government documents including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and other documents issued by Federal Government agencies.

Also available in print in the Reference Collection. Ref. N6847 .G758 2000

A bibliography on Latin America edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Access to future, current, and retrospective volumes of the Handbook.

A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free, full-text, peer-reviewed content, with 919 journals in the Biological , Physical, Medical and Social Sciences currently included.

 

The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) maintains and provides access to the world's largest archive of raw data sets in the social sciences. Before downloading data, you will be prompted to create a MyData account. You must be on campus to create this account. As long as you log in to your MyData account from an on-campus computer at least every 6 months, you will also be able to download data while you are off campus.

1920-1967. Indexes small press magazines.

An electronic table of contents and search service. Users can set up a personal account and receive e-mail alerts of recently published articles of interest and/or the table of contents of new issues of journals of interest.

Contact Kevin Engel for access to INSPEC. Covers over 4,100 journals, book reviews, conference proceedings, and dissertations in the areas of physics, electronics, and computer science.

Contains numerical data on inorganic and organic compounds, and pure substances. Covers physics, chemistry, and technology. The 1000-page index is hyperlinked to each entry's appropriate page.

Index to journals in the social sciences and humanities

The Internet Archive is a non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages and provides specialized services for adaptive reading and information access for the blind and other persons with disabilities.

Coverage varies. Some full text. Resources for the study and teaching of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) citations in journals(1784-), books, reviews; a finding list of Renaissance humanistic manuscripts; etc.

Provides indexing and abstracts to economic literature, including journal articles and book reviews. Published by the American Economic Association. Available online through JSTOR. 1963-1968.

Contains tables of physical, solvent, and thermodynamic properties for organic and inorganic compounds.

Full-text access to over thirty Spanish- and English-language newspapers from throughout Latin America printed between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 

Online guide to test preparation in basic skills and career advancement. Includes practice tests for: academic, advanced placement, basic skills success, civil service, college preparation, cosmotology, EMS, ESL (Spanish) skills improvment courses, firefighter, GED, graduate school entrance, law enforment, military, real estate, skills improvment courses, teacher certification, technical and career college, and US citizenship.

Coverage varies. Full text. Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information and is strong in legislative, government, company, financial and demographic information, market research, and industry reports.

Covers Library and Information Science including records from library journals, books, conference proceedings, library school theses, pamphlets, and book reviews.

Subjects covered include the nature, use, and teaching of language as well as linguistics, phonetics, speech, communication, sociolinguistics, philosophy of language, hearing and speech physiology, and related topics.

The Literary Encyclopedia is an authoritative collection of specially commissioned articles written by scholars expert in their fields. It addresses literary works, writers, cultural movements and historical events around the world. Its interactive features enable the user to place literature within its historical context in innovative ways.

Provides the full text of biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses for authors of every age, nation, and literary discipline. Includes the MLA Bibliography which sometimes links to full-text.

1953-current; FirstSearch interface. One of the premier sources for bibliographic coverage of medicine, medical research, health care, molecular biology, physiological psychology, and more.

Current and historical information about U.S. and foreign companies. Includes financial information, stock prices, annual reports, and more.

PDF version of the Monthly Energy Review published by the U.S. Department of Energy. Contains data on the production, consumption, trade, and prices of various sources of energy. Time-series data extends back to the 1970s. Data tables can also be downloaded in Excel format.

Data from more than 655 international music periodicals covering a broad range of subjects incuding musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries. This print index is available for the years 1949-1993 and is in offsite storage.

Indexes a variety of types of sheet music including sacred choral, secular choral, organ, classical vocal, orchestral, string, guitar, woodwind, piano, band, brass, percussion, recorder, handbell, etc.

Provides digital images of artwork and descriptive articles about the materials in the U.S. National Gallery of Art.

Includes the following newspapers: Christian Science Monitor, 1988-present; Los Angeles Times, 1985-present; New York Times, 1980-present; Wall Street Journal, 1984-present; Washington Post, 1987-present.

Naxos Video Library is a streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries. It includes 300 full-length videos from which you can create custom clips to add to individual playlists. This international collection makes subtitles available in over 5 languages. Search by by category, role, composer, artist, production personnel, work, venue or festival.

Search these 3 databases at the same time; a good way to start searching for primary literature about almost any topic in Neuroscience. The latest 10 years of MEDLINE is included in this search.

Complete online access (including advertisements) to the full text of the New York Times from 1851 up to the last three years.  For current access, see National Newspapers, LexisNexis Academic, and other sources.

The Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers (NewspaperCat) is a tool that facilitates the discovery of online digitized historical newspaper content from newspapers published in the United States and the Caribbean. NewspaperCat was funded by a grant from the George A. Smathers Libraries.

Indexes 51 titles from 1890-1899. Also indexes 14 of the 51 beyond 1899. Includes a "Poems" section, listing over 13,000 poems.

Provides excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, philosophers and other creative writers who died between 1800 and 1899. Online version is selective and available through Literature Resource Center. Print version is available in the reference collection: Ref PN761 .N56

Out of copyright materials. Full text. An index of thousands of on-line books on the Internet. Pointers to significant directories and archives of on-line texts.

Contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3).

Provides full text of a wealth of facts, figures, definitions, and translations from 175+ Oxford reference titles, many of which are in-depth, scholarly entries.

Collections of images including Art of the Prairie Region, the Grinnell College Art Image Database, the Grinnell College Physics Historical Museum, the Paul Wilson Plant Image Database, Historic Iowa Postcards, and more.

1940-current. Indexes books and journals of philosophy: ethics, aesthetics, social and political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic, philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.

A digital archive of over 13,500 reports, briefs, white papers and other documents from think tanks, research centers, government agencies and foundations.

An index to dozens of popular and scholarly periodicals of the 19th century.

Access to the full-text of over 350 scholarly electronic journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.

1789-. Provides access to the CIS Index—the most comprehensive index/abstract to Congressional publications—plus the full text of some hearings, reports, and other Congressional documents. (Formerly LexisNexis Congressional.) Also includes the full text of the Congressional Record, 1789-present.

Search all of our ProQuest databases simultaneously ...

Covers psychology and related disciplines including sociology, education, and sport. Worldwide coverage includes references to over 1300 journals, dissertations, and book chapters.

Provides indexing of general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature™. This important resource offers a wide range of researchers access to information about history, culture and seminal developments across nearly a century.

Some full text. Reference Universe helps you find the right article--the authoritative article--to begin your research, whether it's on your shelves in a reference work or in an online reference database.

Research Pro is a tool for searching multiple databases at the same time. Rather than searching each database individually, you will be able to search up to 40 database at once and view results from a single page. For more information on Research Pro see http://www.grinnell.edu/node/50602.

50 years and growing of rock journalism from the major popular music sources such as Rolling Stone, Creem, New Musical Express, Melody Maker, Sounds, Mojo and Uncut and more.

The Scarlet & Black newspaper is published by students of Grinnell College. Beginning in 1894, it was the first college newspaper published west of the Mississippi River. Images of the S&B are available online from 2007 to date.  Some older issues are also available. An index to the S&B up to 1941 is available  in the card catalog of the Iowa Room. Between 1941 and 1975 indexes are bound in the volumes of the S&B which are also in the Iowa Room. An list of articles covering the years 1976 to 2000 is available in the library catalog.

Contact Kevin Engel (<strong>engelk@grinnell.edu</strong>)for access to the Science Citation Index. A unique database that allows you to discover who has cited (referred to) a particular article or book since it was originally published.

Search for slides in the Grinnell College Slide Collection.

Easily visualize data on a map. Limited to U.S. data; available datasets include the Census (1790-present), American Community Survey, Religious Congregations and Membership Study (1980-2000), and Carbon Emissions Data (2002).

Indexes and abstracts articles in the fields of community development; crisis intervention; evaluation research; the family and social welfare; gerontology; policy, planning and forecasting; poverty and homelessness.

A scientific reference linking system developed for members of the scientific community that supports electronic publishing such as databases, multi-media applications and online-magazines.

National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine.

<em>A free access peer-reviewed serial publication that is supported by the American Society of Plant Biologists. It was launched in 2002 under the direction of Chris Somerville and Elliot Meyerowitz as a new model for communicating up-to-date and comprehensive information about a broad range of topics in research on Arabidopsis thaliana and related species.</em>

1989-. Congressional information, including bills and resolutions. The best official government source for information on bills currently being considered in Congress.

An independent, online news source from the Czech Republic. TOL covers news, politics, culture, and analysis from central and eastern Europe, and the Balkans. In English.

Online access to the reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, from 1817 to 1994; contains many images. Also available in approximately 13,800 bound volumes. Please see a librarian if you would like to request the bound volumes from storage.

The central Web site for finding government documents 1976-present. Replaces the former GPO Access.

Search statistical data gathered by 15 UN agencies, including the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the United Nations Development Program, and the Food and Agriculture Organization.

Extremely detailed import and export data for over 20,000 commodities. You must see a librarian and get a password to use this database.

A bibliography of major periodicals published between 1824 and 1900, primarily in Great Britain.

Women Working, 1800 - 1930 focuses on the women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections.

Formerly the World Development Indicators and Global Development Finance. Hundreds of economic and social indicators, with 40 years of data for some series, for every country in the world.

Before 1000 B.C. to the present. The OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other materials held in libraries worldwide. Contains millions of records. This is the best way to identify resources beyond our collections.

Indexes the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, public policy, and public administration.

A bibliography of books and articles published during a given span of years on the history of Great Britain from about 400 A.D. to 1939. Includes an appendix containing a select list of publications on British history since 1939.  

1868-current. Comprehensive coverage of international mathematical research. Try MathSciNet instead for most searches. Grinnell College does not subscribe to this resource, but you can retrieve three results for any search using the free version.